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It's "weird" if you compare it with modern-day "child-safe" stories/comics/movies. It's definitely not weirder or more shocking than its contemporaries or prede
by rob74 5mo ago
It's "weird" if you compare it with modern-day "child-safe" stories/comics/movies. It's definitely not weirder or more shocking than its contemporaries or predecessors. Here in Germany, the most well-known ones from that era are probably Grimms' Fairy Tales (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimms%27_Fairy_Tales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimms%27_Fairy_Tales), Struwwelpeter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struwwelpeter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struwwelpeter) and Wilhelm Busch's Max und Moritz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_and_Moritz#Final_Trick:_The_Farmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_and_Moritz#Final_Trick:_Th...).
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- ahartmetz 5mo agoWihelm Busch stories are the only ones that I remember really scaring me. They were cruel as hell. Heads cut off with scissors, a nose twisted off, kids thrown into the mill (Max und Moritz, well that was presented in a light-hearted way compared to many others), various limbs removed, cursed to live under water by / with a cruel and ugly (male) mermaid-type thing https://www.zootier-lexikon.org/images/Amphibienprogramm/Lehrmaterialien/Geschichten/vzp_Busch_die_beiden_schwestern.pdf https://www.zootier-lexikon.org/images/Amphibienprogramm/Leh... , etc...