Cracked shows you how to traumatise children

[Lace Neil Singer]

With books:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/10-great...heir-children/

And animated movies:

http://www.cracked.com/article_15070...zing-kids.html


Sad thing is; Watership Down was one of my fave movies as a kid; then again, I'd read the book beforehand so I knew that dead rabbits would be involved. XD I also owned a copy of "Cautionary Tales For Children" and wasn't traumatised. XD

[Dreamstalker]

I loved Outside Over There and Cautionary Tales (hmm, maybe that explains a lot actually ).

[Lace Neil Singer]

Also, that German book with the unpronouncable name that has such tender bedtime-esq stories as the one about the thumbsucker who got both his thumbs cut off by some shear wielding psycho... yeah, guess that could be considered traumatising. XD

[Dreamstalker]

Grimm's Fairy Tales were heavily sanitized, so I hear.

[fireheart]

Also, that German book with the unpronouncable name that has such tender bedtime-esq stories as the one about the thumbsucker who got both his thumbs cut off by some shear wielding psycho... yeah, guess that could be considered traumatising. XD

There's a story called "The Red Shoes" which is just as bad. A girl buys a pair of red shoes instead of the boots she's meant to wear to church and ends up being forced to dance until a woodcutter chops her legs off.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Also, that German book with the unpronouncable name that has such tender bedtime-esq stories as the one about the thumbsucker who got both his thumbs cut off by some shear wielding psycho... yeah, guess that could be considered traumatising. XD

Struwwelpeter. Now in internet form!

I love it.

Like I need some stupid magazine to tell me how to traumatize children.

[Dreamstalker]

I could swear we had a copy of that roaming around somewhere...for all we know grandma found the thing and not knowing exactly what it was mailed it to her cousins.

[lordlundar]

Grimm's Fairy Tales were heavily sanitized, so I hear.

Well in the Grimm version of Cinderella, the stepmother and stepsisters actually were the poor bums who once the stepmother married Cinderella's father, proceeded to murder him (well, finish the job, he was near death as it was), then assault and beat the titular character so badly it would make even the most lax CPS agent faint. Near the end, in an effort to trick the prince, the step sisters cut off their heels to get the gold (not glass in this version) slipper to fit. It worked for a bit but the blood gave them away. After Cinderella married the prince, pigeons plucked out the eyes of the step sisters.

So yeah, a fair bit more than the Disney version. And I seriously doubt it is even the most brutal (there's about 30 different stories of varying lengths that can be tied as Cinderella)

[Kheldarson]

There's a couple of versions where Cinderella has to perform impossible tasks through which she's aided by the soul of her dead mother that's reincarnated in a tree. So what does the stepmother do? Chop it down and burn it.

[fireheart]

Struwwelpeter. Now in internet form!

I love it.

Like I need some stupid magazine to tell me how to traumatize children.

If anyone cares, it's "The Thumb Sucker".

They're creepy.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Lol, creepy but entertaining! XXD

Btw, as a kid I had the original Grimm fairytales along with Charles Perrault's fairytales... and believe me, those are not sanitised. XD Example; in the original version of Red Riding Hood, there is no woodcutter; Red Riding Hood pays the ultimate price for her inability to tell the difference between her grandmother and a wolf in drag. And there are even versions which have her dragged into bed with the wolf. O_o