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It's a European tradition to traumatize kids. (lemmy.world)
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[–] FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As a German person I say, challenge accepted. Give me the Irish Struwwelpeter!

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I looked this up, and honestly pretty tame.

one of the stories:

Struwwelpeter describes a lazy, dirty boy who does not groom himself properly and is consequently unpopular.

Devastating. In Irish lore, ghosts appear to be phantasmagorical dancers in the forest and if you join in, YOU JOIN IN. As I mentioned elsewhere, a trespass unto the wrong part of the forest or even stepping in a fairy circle might provoke the faeries to kidnap your infant.

The Irish stuff is less cautionary tale and more explaining why terrible shit happens for no reason.

EDIT: another story from Struwwelpeter

Die Geschichte von den schwarzen Buben ("The Story of the Inky Boys"): Nikolas (or "Agrippa" in some translations)[7] catches three boys teasing a dark-skinned boy. To teach them a lesson, he dips them in black ink.

Based.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

Struwwelpeter is a mixed bag.

There's the story about the boy who starves to death because he refuses to eat soup. Or the girl who plays with matches and burns to death while her cats helplessly watch. Or the boy who sucks his thumbs so a tailor randomly shows up and cuts them off.

And those are mixed in with the guy whose extremely bad grooming habits make him unpopular or the guy who doesn't watch where he's going and falls in a river. Not quite as traumatizing.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Isn’t a better translation The Story of the Black Boys?

[–] arin@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Too racist

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 23 hours ago

But ink is tinte, so maybe that would be tintig buben?