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Susan Bigelow 🏳️⚧️@08MiKowitsch15 @histodons @historikerinnen @Disney I've enjoyed horrifying kids with Cinderella's sisters cutting off their heels and getting their eyes pecked out
Christian Thomas@08MiKowitsch15 @histodons @historikerinnen @Disney
🤩 Still one of my favourite Grimm Märchen, in the category "shocking and pointless violence, absolutely no appearent lesson for the readers, young or old": *Wie Kinder Schlachtens mit einander geſpielt haben*, available in the German Text Archive at https://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/grimm_maerchen01_1812/135.
Published only in the first edition, 1812, didn't make it into the following 7 or 8 editions.
Cornelia Östreich@dta_cthomas @08MiKowitsch15 @histodons @historikerinnen @Disney I think the "lesson" was innocence 1): The young killer was let free because he didn't yet know the value of money.
1) "Innocence" as the inability to understand the harm one has done - nothing sweet or lovely here.
1) "Innocence" as the inability to understand the harm one has done - nothing sweet or lovely here.
@dta_cthomas @08MiKowitsch15 @histodons @historikerinnen @Disney There used to be also a tale in my collection where a fairy, living under a hill, would hand out gifts to a child, until an envious person (the evil stepmother? will have to look that up) chops off the benefactor's hand.
What revolted me even more than the cruelty of this act was the "fact" that a fairy could be bodily harmed.
(I had already learned about Easter back then and didn't find it hard to accept that story. Go figure ..)
What revolted me even more than the cruelty of this act was the "fact" that a fairy could be bodily harmed.
(I had already learned about Easter back then and didn't find it hard to accept that story. Go figure ..)
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