Grimm Brothers...
Jun. 29th, 2002 01:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silversolitaireHmm... I just took a quiz that tested how well I knew Hansl and Gretl and I realized two things.
One: I don't know the fairytale as well as I thought I did, even though I have read the original version and not the cutesified children's version.
Two: The Grimm fairytales are really brutal. Okay, yeah, I knew that, but just thinking about it now, in detail, really makes my blood curl. I mean, imagine! The mother say "Oh, we're out of money, let's dump the kids!" o.o The kids reach the witch's house after a night of being scared and hungry and freezing. And then the witch locks them into a cage and stuffs them with food, testing how fat they've become yet in order to eat them! Holy shit! I mean, think about it! How sick is that! O.O;;; I'm trying to think... was this fairytale ever cutesified? I wonder how... did they make the mother less evil? I doubt they could change much regarding the witch wanting to eat them... hm...
Gosh... I remember when I was a kid I had this cassette with the Frog King that was true to the original source as well. The frog gave this terrible loud scream when the princess slammed him into the wall... ó_ò I was so scared. Heh, and in the cutesified version she just gives him a kiss. Never mind the fact that she's rather shoot herself than kissing that slimy bastard.
Heh... it's strange. No wonder kids in the past were so terrified... LOL
One: I don't know the fairytale as well as I thought I did, even though I have read the original version and not the cutesified children's version.
Two: The Grimm fairytales are really brutal. Okay, yeah, I knew that, but just thinking about it now, in detail, really makes my blood curl. I mean, imagine! The mother say "Oh, we're out of money, let's dump the kids!" o.o The kids reach the witch's house after a night of being scared and hungry and freezing. And then the witch locks them into a cage and stuffs them with food, testing how fat they've become yet in order to eat them! Holy shit! I mean, think about it! How sick is that! O.O;;; I'm trying to think... was this fairytale ever cutesified? I wonder how... did they make the mother less evil? I doubt they could change much regarding the witch wanting to eat them... hm...
Gosh... I remember when I was a kid I had this cassette with the Frog King that was true to the original source as well. The frog gave this terrible loud scream when the princess slammed him into the wall... ó_ò I was so scared. Heh, and in the cutesified version she just gives him a kiss. Never mind the fact that she's rather shoot herself than kissing that slimy bastard.
Heh... it's strange. No wonder kids in the past were so terrified... LOL
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Date: 2002-06-29 06:43 pm (UTC)hm...
Date: 2002-06-29 09:34 pm (UTC)Darn.. I need to find the old versions of these fairytales and keep me a copy. *sigh*
Btw, they _are_ gruesome, Silver. -_- And I think that was the whole point. The scare lil kids into being good and obedient. Those Grimm brothers and Andersoon were prolly mean old men who took delight in scaring little ones. -_-
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Date: 2002-07-01 01:07 am (UTC)