Gotta love the old books for being just as scary as modern stuff. I've been reading a lot of old nursery rhymes of late and some are particularly gruesome. Like Rose Red, where they kill the dwarf to steal back the treasure!
a cold iron, thats soothing. I started reading an old copy of Grims tales illustrated by Maurice Sendak to some wee uns and had to stop myself at the point in a story when the heroine goes into the banned room to find .Every one else who'd ever looked in there carved up and put in baskets. she prevails but i thought why spend 15 minutes reading and 45 talking about it at bed time.
I did think a cold iron might be soothing... but what was the injury? I didn't read the book to find out... but I thought it was an interesting part to illustrate...!
Awesome. I've read a few of the Grims in their original form and man, are they ever so slightly twisted. Enough to send a few of the modern day wrapped in cotton wool lot straight to the therapists.
Speaking of a warped childhood, I've started to watch the old Warner Brothers cartoons again. Ahhh, bliss...
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Gotta love the old books for being just as scary as modern stuff. I've been reading a lot of old nursery rhymes of late and some are particularly gruesome. Like Rose Red, where they kill the dwarf to steal back the treasure!
a cold iron, thats soothing. I started reading an old copy of Grims tales illustrated by Maurice Sendak to some wee uns and had to stop myself at the point in a story when the heroine goes into the banned room to find .Every one else who'd ever looked in there carved up and put in baskets. she prevails but i thought why spend 15 minutes reading and 45 talking about it at bed time.
Ha!
So gruesom!
I did think a cold iron might be soothing... but what was the injury? I didn't read the book to find out... but I thought it was an interesting part to illustrate...!
Awesome. I've read a few of the Grims in their original form and man, are they ever so slightly twisted. Enough to send a few of the modern day wrapped in cotton wool lot straight to the therapists.
Speaking of a warped childhood, I've started to watch the old Warner Brothers cartoons again. Ahhh, bliss...
My favourites are the crows. I love those guys!
Oh! And the singing cricket... that was in the workmans lunchbox... you know! The cricket!
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