Scary German Fairy Tales, must read.

[Cherrytini]

Anyone know of any scary old germanic fairy tales? LOL
There is one book of them I read a long time ago called "der struwwelpeter" by heinrich hoffman, a german childrens author and it was pretty interesting!

The story that stood out to me the most was about a little girl who played with matches and burned herself to death. The book is very er...morbid considering it is for children but Id reccomend it to any fairy tale lover. Does anyone know of any similar books?

For anyone interested in struwwelpeter, here is the wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struwwelpeter

[Ichigo Okumura]

scary

[The Real Hellboyyy]

I remember that book. I read an english translation of it. It was called "Slovenly Peter" and my name's Peter xd

[David2074]

Wow. Girl getting burned to death, Santa traumatizing kids, cute little bunnies death hunting humans. What a charming kids' book! smile
Cuz nothing makes a kid behave like scaring the bejezus out of him! LOL!

[IZfan4life]

woah

[Xenokrates]

The original Grimm Brothers fairytales are pretty gory.

[NoNo Nope]

I like The Little Match Girl. It sound somewhat similar.

[Vampirate Kitsune]

I remember that book. I drove my grade school teachers crazy because I knew all the unsanitized versions of fairy tales and told them to the other kids.

[PrsnlVendeta]

that story is very, er.. interesting. lol

[robot evil face]

Harvestine

Anyone know of any scary old germanic fairy tales? LOL
There is one book of them I read a long time ago called "der struwwelpeter" by heinrich hoffman, a german childrens author and it was pretty interesting!

The story that stood out to me the most was about a little girl who played with matches and burned herself to death. The book is very er...morbid considering it is for children but Id reccomend it to any fairy tale lover. Does anyone know of any similar books?

For anyone interested in struwwelpeter, here is the wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struwwelpeter

A tale dark and grim very good

[fairy-phoenix]

I actually wouldn't mind reading some of those stories... the only one I have read a grim version fairy tale was Cinderella.

[SinOfInsanity]

We claim that we can see the truth.

Der Struwwelpeter!!!! I loved that book even though I have never read it in English.
and the only one that I can remember most of Is Suppen-Kasper,

»Ich esse keine Suppe! nein!
Ich esse meine Suppe nicht!
Nein, meine Suppe eß ich nicht!«

here is a link to read the book but it is in german, I must warn you.
Der Struwwelpeter

But is the truth that we see really the truth or what we want it to be?

[Bluedragonpixie]

In the original Little Mermaid the little mermaid killed herself at the end... I think that was by Hans Christian Anderson
http://hca.gilead.org.il/li_merma.html

[iiPurpleAndBlackMonster]

Xx_Ichigo_metal64_xX

scary

OOO