19.9.09

And she held a cold iron to his poor dear eye.

And they say kids these days are exposed to too much violence in their entertainment... what the hell is going on here?

5 comments:

Jadehouse said...

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!

byrd said...

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.

kris said...

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...!

Dave ~ said...

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...

kris said...

My favourites are the crows. I love those guys!

Oh! And the singing cricket... that was in the workmans lunchbox... you know! The cricket!