tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post5897317446523029474..comments2023-07-17T23:10:02.228+10:00Comments on Discombobula: Grimm PickingsSuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01122659239039900398noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-90387313151711478862009-08-25T10:57:46.132+10:002009-08-25T10:57:46.132+10:00I started reading "Running With Wolves" ...I started reading "Running With Wolves" but lost it...or something...I need to find it and read it!Barbara aka Laylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11100008292699584336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-26793398147904683312009-08-25T15:11:40.797+10:002009-08-25T15:11:40.797+10:00Mr X and his siblings were not allowed to have fai...Mr X and his siblings were not allowed to have fairytale stories in their childhood home, or even stories where the animals talked, as that was not true . . .<br><br>no wonder i struggle so much with my in-laws!<br><br>and if what religious people have done to fairytales rankles you, lets not go into what they have done to the bible storiesKelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425317942978557478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-20610800465860294752009-08-26T02:22:53.458+10:002009-08-26T02:22:53.458+10:00A long time ago, when my ex (a Hamburger) and I we...A long time ago, when my ex (a Hamburger) and I were going together, I visited him in Germany. To help me improve my German, we read German versions of fairytales together. They were really brutal, blood-thirsty stories! Uppity children got their comeuppance, for sure. I commented on that and my ex assured me that in Germany bad children did indeed get ground up and made into bread. [Lest anyone think my ex an ogre, I must add that he had a playful sense of humour. He once told me that Germans had to live in trees, which they worshipped, until they learned how to read! And that German philosophers come in six-packs. You learn to take him with a large grain of Salz.] In any case, we certainly get a sanitized version of German fairytales.Barbarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078914306329037697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-60997274858152978792009-08-26T09:08:25.682+10:002009-08-26T09:08:25.682+10:00Barbara - it's worth a read. Especially the c...Barbara - it's worth a read. Especially the chapter on Bluebeard, the sabotage element of our souls. Interesating stuff. Do share, if you end up reading it again.<br><br>Kel - ahhh, ye olde stupid Christian mindset. You know what, with Christianity in that sort of state, it deserves every criticism levelled at it, from inside and outside. I empathise with your in-lawian struggle ;) And LOL yes, what they've done with teh bible stories. <br><br>Barbara - that's hilarious. He sounds like he had that dry German sense of humour :) I think there is such a place for the brutality of fairytales. It's weird. Overzealous parents will not let tales like this stalk their children's dreams, but probably letting them play X-Box for 3 hours. I find the times we live in slightly incomprehensible.Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01122659239039900398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-34992963832098134692009-08-27T21:54:21.420+10:002009-08-27T21:54:21.420+10:00I have always wondered about the origin of the wor...I have always wondered about the origin of the word "fairytale". As in a tale told by a fairy? Or a tale told about a fairy? Either way it doesn't really seem to fit.Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067954787472463337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-67437762020590785942009-08-27T21:54:21.419+10:002009-08-27T21:54:21.419+10:00I have always wondered about the origin of the wor...I have always wondered about the origin of the word "fairytale". As in a tale told by a fairy? Or a tale told about a fairy? Either way it doesn't really seem to fit.Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067954787472463337noreply@blogger.com