German good night stories be like:
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Classic fairy tales were horror shows meant to teach important life lessons for their times. They say a lot about the cultures that told them. Like just how insanely many are about teaching women about the importance of being a "good wife" or marrying up the socio-economic ladder. At least the rest of them are about why you shouldn't trust hobos living under bridges or some shit.
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The Icelanders can beat that; a traditional Icelandic lullaby translates as “sleep, you black-eyed pig, and fall into a deep pit full of ghosts”
I remember that German lullaby which goes
"Tomorrow, if god allows it, you will awake again."
Way to give me existential dread as a child
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The Icelanders can beat that; a traditional Icelandic lullaby translates as “sleep, you black-eyed pig, and fall into a deep pit full of ghosts”
As a father of two, I get the sentiment
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I just woke up and had this post open on my phone, what happe..zZZ zZz
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As a German: 🥱
Gute Nacht!
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Gute Nacht!
Danke, Bruh
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Some nursery rhymes:
Bet', Kindchen, bet'. Morgen kommt der Schwed'.
(Pray, child, pray, tomorrow the Swede will come [from the 30 year war])
and
Eya popeya popole, Unser Herrgottche wird dich bald hole, Kömmt er mit dem gulderne Lädche, Legt dich hinunter ins Gräbche: Über mich, Über dich, Kummer mitnander ins Himmelrich!
(Eya popeya popole,
Our Lord God will soon come for you,
He comes with the golden cart,
Lays you down in the little grave:
Over me,
Over you,
Together we'll go into the Kingdom of Heaven!)Lullabies that are pretty grim seem to be a thing in a lot of cultures. I read an article from the university of Oslo about that recently.
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Classic fairy tales were horror shows meant to teach important life lessons for their times. They say a lot about the cultures that told them. Like just how insanely many are about teaching women about the importance of being a "good wife" or marrying up the socio-economic ladder. At least the rest of them are about why you shouldn't trust hobos living under bridges or some shit.
Buddy, read better fairytales, damn.
The ones I grew up with emphasized the power of sorceress', and made the "hobos under the bridge" just people, as they are.
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I never realized that this would shape my childhood so hard and be from the 19th century.
God, my childhood was so nice and without Smartphones
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In case anybody is wondering.
holy shit
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Who says Germans don’t have a sense of humor
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My parents never read them to the end.
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The book is called Struwwelpeter and it is from 1844. The stories are intended for children and are all cautionary tales about how bad behaviour can have disastrous consequences. I loved them as a child and I probably could recite the whole book from memory. There is an English translation available at Project Gutenberg.
Why would I not eat my soup? I don't need a cautionary tale about that.
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Classic fairy tales were horror shows meant to teach important life lessons for their times. They say a lot about the cultures that told them. Like just how insanely many are about teaching women about the importance of being a "good wife" or marrying up the socio-economic ladder. At least the rest of them are about why you shouldn't trust hobos living under bridges or some shit.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]There's nuance to this.
Fairy tales, as we know them, are a fairly recent (18th century) invention. The traditional European folktales they were based off of, didn't include morals, weren't aimed at children, nor were they intended to be used as teaching tools. More likely, they were stories to be told around campfires or at hearths while sewing, weaving or whatever, and mostly were told amongst adults to amuse each other. Thus the very mature topics and dark humor tone of many traditional tales, specially those that didn't include children or animal characters.
Stories with morals where usually of the tradition of Aesop's fables, and more common on academic or philosophy circles as study material. It was Perrault and Grimm's innovation, popularizing these folk stories by adapting them and mixing in a fable structure and aiming the stories to an audience of the high class, first the high royal courts, then the Victorian aristocracy. This audience were the one's who emphasized moral rectitude and using the folk stories as teaching aids for children.
Then the 20th century saw the commercialization of fairy tales as stories aimed at children through the rise of bedtime stories literature and Disney's animated film tradition.
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I never realized that this would shape my childhood so hard and be from the 19th century.
God, my childhood was so nice and without Smartphones️Man... This one has lived rent free in my mind for almost thirty years. I had to read this and other German tales in German class.
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My parents never read them to the end.
I wonder why.
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Is that M&M?
Maks ja Moorits, an Estonian company
