german version
You mean original.
Not really. Usually its just the Grimm version. There’s no such thing as an “original” version to a folk tale. Or i suppose once there was but it was gone the second it was retold. That’s the nature of oral tradition. There were countless retellings of the various fairy tales with different endings than the ones The Grimm Brothers went with in their books.
Well the stories wouldn’t be as grim if they hadn’t
That’s from “Struwwelpeter”. She played with fire.
Talk about Grim.
(Sighh)
Miau! Mio! Miau! Mio!
Das Kind brennt lichterloh.
Props to Minz und Maunz. Got to be my favourite characters.
Fairy Tales were gruesome and brutal and meant to scare children into doing what they were told.
“…Und ze cats feasted on her body for days.”
You mean on her ashes?
And they smoldered happily ever after
Struwwelpeter is absolutely not a fairy tale though. Fairy tales can be gruesome in their own way, but nothing to do with this story - it’s by a single author.
