Scary German Fairy Tales, must read.

[R a i n b o o h]

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?

I'm not German but is Die Geschichte vom Daumenlutscher about a boy who kept on sucking his thumb and then meets a witch later on and gets his thumb cut off?
(thankgod for the pictures emotion_awesome )

[SinOfInsanity]

R a i n b o o h

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?

I'm not German but is Die Geschichte vom Daumenlutscher about a boy who kept on sucking his thumb and then meets a witch later on and gets his thumb cut off?
(thankgod for the pictures emotion_awesome )

You once told me I was one in a million...

The basics of the story is that his mother tells him not to suck his thumbs or the tailor will come and chop them off. His mother leaves, Konrad sucks his thumbs, the tailor skips on in and off comes Konrad's thumbs. Very straight forward with the punishment.

the author of the book, Heinrich Hoffmann, was a child psychologist and he wanted his kids to behave but he could not find any story that fit his kids to scare them into behaving so he wrote his own.

...Did you take into acount that there are Seven Billion people?

[0-Ratt-0]

I don't know any good books but I kinda remember one a friend told me one.
It was about this little orphan boy who had no friends, so he befriended the rats. The story had two endings, in one the boy was getting picked on so the rats killed the bullies to try and protect him, and in the other version the boy starts to make friends with some other kinds and then the king of the rats gets jealous and murders the boys new friends, so that the boy can never befriend anyone else and will never leave the rat king.
It was pretty ******** up.

[Chokiitaah]

biggrin

[Raeanna666]

Lol wow, a kid's story of a little girl burning to death cat_xd Way to go German book writers, u r gonna emotionally scar little children for life -Thumbs up-

[Rei Akira-Chan]

My master is everything to me...

Children's stories originated from adult's bonfire stories. xd So I understand why it's so...violent..?

...I hope I am everything for him too.

[Persistent Ambivalence]

I don't remember the name of it, but my grandfather used to tell me about a child who sucked on his thumb, and his mother told him to stop... because he didn't, someone came and cut his thumbs off. >.<

And then there is the Elf King. It's a really powerful poem. You should look it up.

[Reaper_Virus]

there the real ones!!!

[PururinEleven]

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

I've never heard of it, but the match story sounds like a variation of Hans Christian Andersen's story "the Little Match Girl", which was originally a Dutch story. It's one of my favorites.
Other famous Andersen stories include "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Ugly Duckling", and "The Emperor's New Clothes".

[demon eevee ghost]