So you’re saying that Irish fairytales are funny parodies that are better than the German originals?
One Irish one I remember is where a man with a hump on his back meets some of the other folk and they tke his hump and throw it onto the horizon where it becomes a hill. He thanks them and they become annoyed with his gratitude and pick up a bigger hill and give him a bigger hump than ever.
They’re the definitive sign that the German originals have truly made it
Most known swedish film: brother tries to save dying(sick) brother from fire and dies. Sick brother die. They go to the magic land Nagiala where they have to fight a bad person and they die.
Applause 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Edit: a film for children/kids of course.
Title?
Bröderna Lejonhjärta. I’m guessing the English title is the lionhart brothers. Can’t remember the book or the movie to be that traumatizing though. The Groke from moomin gave me much more scars as a kid.
Really, they’re worse? What the fuck - how?!
For starters, Irish faeries are not like tinkerbell. They like to play pranks. Like kidnapping babies and replacing them with mimics. The creature we’d recognize as the Headless Horseman is Irish folklore, as well as the whole concept of Halloween. Bram Stoker, an Irishman need not have borrowed from Eastern European traditions, because the Irish had a bloodsucking undead monster too.
For starters, Irish faeries are not like tinkerbell. They like to play pranks
So… exactly like Tinkerbell? She was constantly “pranking” (read: trying to murder) Wendy throughout the story.
It was fun growing up in the countryside and things like banshees and fairies being taken as a fact of life. I had a childhood friend that would come in to school saying she heard the banshees howling during the night and then woke up to find out a relative had died.
There was a news report that resurfaced a few years back, accessible here, about the Housing Executive in Newry trying to get a fairy tree chopped down to build houses, and even after trying to bribe the workers with £200 no one would touch it and they had to build around it instead. And another where some builders halted work in the Mournes once they realised they were inside a fairy ring, 3 of them went on to suffer accidents that they attributed to revenge by the fairies, the foreman apologised to the fairies, and even the reporter was too worried to step inside the ring. We were told the legends too, like Tír na nÓg or Finn McCool, but I think it’s amazing how much of the superstition and old mythology has persisted through the years, even after the country becoming Christian and even now as it becomes more secular.
As a German person I say, challenge accepted. Give me the Irish Struwwelpeter!
I looked this up, and honestly pretty tame.
one of the stories:
Struwwelpeter describes a lazy, dirty boy who does not groom himself properly and is consequently unpopular.
Devastating. In Irish lore, ghosts appear to be phantasmagorical dancers in the forest and if you join in, YOU JOIN IN. As I mentioned elsewhere, a trespass unto the wrong part of the forest or even stepping in a fairy circle might provoke the faeries to kidnap your infant.
The Irish stuff is less cautionary tale and more explaining why terrible shit happens for no reason.
EDIT: another story from Struwwelpeter
Die Geschichte von den schwarzen Buben (“The Story of the Inky Boys”): Nikolas (or “Agrippa” in some translations)[7] catches three boys teasing a dark-skinned boy. To teach them a lesson, he dips them in black ink.
Based.
Okay so what is worse than “woodland creatures devour still living children”?
Yes, the woodland creature is Margaret Thatcher.
German/Irish... American:
$160pp to fairytale.
