Congratulations to OP’s new life as a bratwurst.
Chat, am I cooked?
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samus12345@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The vast majority of the original versions of fairy tales are gruesome. It’s not the author, but the time they were written down/spoken that matters.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 months ago
samus12345@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Since the witch was shoved in there by the kids to prevent her from cooking and eating them rather than to try and cleanse the world of witches, I’d say it wasn’t fairy tales’ fault. Something like Der Giftpilz would be more to blame.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Don’t make me get out my giant pair of scissors! I’m not just going to cut off your thumbs!
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Nice. Schubert was Austrian but I think it counts.
Also, it just occurred to me that Rammstein’s “Dalai Lama”) is an adaptation of the same story (originally a poem by J.W. Goethe).
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
thanks, saving those for after work
Kwdg@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Nice. Literally the same story.
English lyrics for those who can’t German.
nifty@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The underlying thematic elements of fairytales, as evident in Tolkien’s and Lewis’s works, contribute to ideas about the nature of human will, which can overcome obstacles via its intrinsically good, innocent and resilient nature. That’s the portrayal of the ideal human will.
It’s also why you often see fairly tales across cultures carrying some message of hope and optimism, regardless of how they “end”.
But actually, in essence a fairy tale never ends because those who read it or hear are supposed to be changed by having done so, and they carry what they take from it with them. Here is where you often get a connection between fairy tales, folk tales, traditions and cultural myths.
nebulaone@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Damn, that shit fire. I mean, diese Scheisse ist Feuer.
yesman@lemmy.world 3 months ago
German fairy tales are good for soothing children traumatized by Irish fairy tales.
samus12345@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You know this image is from something fictional because the cats appear to give a shit that she’s burning.
froh42@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Tbh, it’s not a fairy tale but an illustrated children’s book written in 1845 by Heinrich Hoffman for his three year old kid. It was one of the first illustrated books, so it is considered to be one of the first comic books. Each story has a morale but is way over the top.
Interestingly a lot of the descibed behavior is known to be with ADHD or anorexia, today.
Growing up in Germany I always find Struwelpeter a quite horrible book (yes, I too had it a kid).
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 months ago
I guess it’s also kinda “woke” by today’s standards, because there’s a story in which a couple of boys make fun of a black kid and get punished by a giant wizard who dips them in ink so they’re black, too.
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samus12345@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That one’s awful because their “punishment” is to be made black, making the moral more like, “Don’t make fun of the poor wretch that was born that way.”
sfxrlz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Struwelpeter was kinda gruesome. Image
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Ah yes, homemade Christmas presents, WCGW?