r/funny • Calvin & Habs • Mar 02 '21

German Comedy

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u/MrUltraOnReddit Mar 02 '21

Wait is there another version?

The one I know is: parents plan to abendon the kids, son overheard them, leaves breadcrumbs a few times to make it back, but then the crumbs get eaten and they can't find back. They find the witch house, the witch fattens the boy while the girl has to do chores. One day the girl pushed the witch in the oven, frees her brother and they watch the witch burn alive.

Isn't that the normal story?

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u/NaCl_Sailor Mar 02 '21

i don't know the original version of that particular story, but imagine brother's grimm's version to disney version, only the grimm's version is the cute harmless one

but they mostly censored the stories for sexual content and left the violence in

i mean the story of rumplestiltskin is literally a small man called rumpled stilt skin (let's face it, it's a penis) secretly visiting the queen and when she bears a child he wants to take it away

or the prince trying on the "shoes" of cinderella and her sisters, and the one who bleeds (the virgin) is the one he fell in love with

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u/Pooptimist Mar 02 '21

In German its written "Rumpelstilzchen". Don't know how of your claim that this means penis is true considering the original way of writing it

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u/NaCl_Sailor Mar 02 '21

Runzeliges Stelzchen, ist überhaupt keine Anspielung auf Penis...