The red-legged scissorman from “Struwwelpeter”, a famous german children’s book that is, while of undisputed literary value, just completely fucking terrifying. I think it was my granny who read it to me when I was like five years old, and earlier today the memory crept back… so, a drawing happened.
If you’re interested and if you don’t know it already anyways, you can read the poem about the scissorman here (in english) —> Little Suck-a-Thumb
I don’t have the book anymore, which is a shame : ( I assume my parents hid it in the darkest corner of the basement or gave it away ages ago, along with “Max und Moritz” and “Allerhand Kurzweil” and the original “Grimm’s Märchen” and all the other cute books for kids.
Oh jesus.
I know this guy. My German Mennonite grandmother told my cousin that he would cut her thumb off.
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Ahhh, childhood. This pretty much explains why I am fucked up as no one else.
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German kids, brought up by stories that should be rated NC17, yep, that’s how we do it…. And my elementary teachers...
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Best description of German fairy tales ever.
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German fairy tales in the late 19th century: little more than an excuse for parents to terrify the fuck out of their...
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I had ALL of these books. Struwwelpeter I had in Hebrew ‘יהושוע פרוע’ and I read again in my German class. The rest in...
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