I was particularily fond of the one where two boys play pranks on adults. Until they get ground to crumbs while alive and then fed to the geese in the end, that is…
Max und Moritz! Always admired Wilhelm Busch’s drawing style.
Here in Estonia we have a meat comp named after them. Wonder what they make their sausage out of…
Loved the book as a child
they made a children’s book out of the allied firebombings?
The book is older than airplanes
Miau! Mio! Miau! Mio!
Wo sind die Eltern wo?
Zu Hilf’! Das Kind brennt lichterloh!
Oh man: Look up the Korean version of cindarella (Wikipedia has a brief on the cindarella page): The evil step sister (only one in that version) gets butchered and made into a korean dish and send to the evil step motger as a gift. after she ate it, she gets told that she just ate part of her daughter before also getting executed.
I had this book when I was a child.
The illustrations are permanently burned to my mind’s eye.
Fun fact: the monikers used for these children in the book are used in coloquial speech to describe children that misbehave or exhibit behavioral discrepencies:
- shock headed Peter: an unkempt, filthy child
- fidgety Philip: ADHS or hyperactive child
- Johnny-Head-in-the-Air: daydreaming, absent mindedness
- wicked Frederick: cruelty to animals (sociopathy, lack of empathy often reveal themselves this way early on)
- Soup Caspar: eating disorder, perhaps
- etc
The original book was written by a medical doctor dealing with children, go figure!
Ah yes, the girl that was burned alive for not using ze proper sewing technique, an all time German classic Gutenachtgeschichte.
She was burned alive because she played with matches.
wasn’t she burned alive for playing with fire?
This book didn’t traumatise me but I remember it was really dark and maybe too dark for kids.
Remembering the guy with the long legs cutting fingers off, this is horror movie material how I remember it… maybe traumatise it did
Yes, but now you aren’t a thumb sucker anymore, right? By the help of that skillful guy.
I still remember the soup standing ontop of the grave of the boy that didnt want to eat and so he just died. Also how thin he was in the last drawing of him. It was haunting.
After 4 days he was “as thin as a thread”.
