Sauce: [url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/05/five-hundred-fairytales-discovered-germany[/url]
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[h=1]Five hundred new fairytales discovered in Germany[/h]
[URL="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/pictures/2012/3/5/1330952608272/King-Golden-Hair-001.jpg"] [IMG]http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/pictures/2012/3/5/1330957893670/King-Golden-Hair-008.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://static.guim.co.uk/static/b05b48a62321634f4c0395bffea3cb2437e98040/common/images/magnifying-glass-mask.png[/IMG] [/URL] Spinning a yarn … King Golden Hair, one of the newly-discovered fairytales. Illustration: Barbara Stefan
A whole new world of magic animals, brave young princes and evil witches has come to light with the discovery of 500 new [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/fairytales"]fairytales[/URL], which were locked away in an archive in Regensburg, [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/germany"]Germany[/URL] for over 150 years. The tales are part of a collection of myths, legends and fairytales, gathered by the local historian [URL="http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Xaver_Sch%25C3%25B6nwerth&ei=zqRUT8-mItG08QOfzL2YDA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3DFranz%2BXaver%2Bvon%2BSch%25C3%25B6nwerth%2B%281810%25E2%2580%25931886%29%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D0IX%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26prmd%3Dimvns"]Franz Xaver von Schönwerth (1810–1886)[/URL] in the Bavarian region of Oberpfalz at about the same time as[URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/data/author/jacob-grimm"] the Grimm brothers[/URL] were collecting the fairytales that have since charmed adults and children around the world.
Last year, the Oberpfalz cultural curator Erika Eichenseer [URL="http://www.amazon.de/M%C3%A4rchen-Oberpfalz-Herausgegeben-Eichenseer-Sch%C3%B6nwerth-Gesellschaft/dp/3936721351/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330679409&sr=8-1"]published a selection of fairytales from Von Schönwerth's collection[/URL], calling the book Prinz Roßzwifl. This is local dialect for "scarab beetle". The scarab, also known as the "dung beetle", buries its most valuable possession, its eggs, in dung, which it then rolls into a ball using its back legs. Eichenseer sees this as symbolic for fairytales, which she says hold the most valuable treasure known to man: ancient knowledge and wisdom to do with human development, testing our limits and salvation.
Von Schönwerth spent decades asking country folk, labourers and servants about local habits, traditions, customs and history, and putting down on paper what had only been passed on by word of mouth. In 1885, Jacob Grimm said this about him: "Nowhere in the whole of Germany is anyone collecting [folklore] so accurately, thoroughly and with such a sensitive ear." Grimm went so far as to tell King Maximilian II of Bavaria that the only person who could replace him in his and his brother's work was Von Schönwerth.
Von Schönwerth compiled his research into a book called Aus der Oberpfalz – Sitten und Sagen, which came out in three volumes in 1857, 1858 and 1859. The book never gained prominence and faded into obscurity.
While sifting through Von Schönwerth's work, Eichenseer found 500 fairytales, many of which do not appear in other European fairytale collections. For example, there is the tale of a maiden who escapes a witch by transforming herself into a pond. The witch then lies on her stomach and drinks all the water, swallowing the young girl, who uses a knife to cut her way out of the witch. However, the collection also includes local versions of the tales children all over the world have grown up with including Cinderella and Rumpelstiltskin, and which appear in many different versions across Europe.
Von Schönwerth was a historian and recorded what he heard faithfully, making no attempt to put a literary gloss on it, which is where he differs from the Grimm brothers. However, says Eichenseer, this factual recording adds to the charm and authenticity of the material. What delights her most about the tales is that they are unpolished. "There is no romanticising or attempt by Schönwerth to interpret or develop his own style," she says.
Eichenseer says the fairytales are not for children alone. "Their main purpose was to help young adults on their path to adulthood, showing them that dangers and challenges can be overcome through virtue, prudence and courage."
In 2008, Eichenseer helped to found the Franz Xaver von Schönwerth Society, an interdisciplinary committee devoted to analysing his work and publicising it. She is keen to see the tales available in English, and a Munich-based English translator, Dan Szabo, has already begun work on stories ranging from a miserly farmer and a money-mill to a turnip princess.
"Schönwerth's legacy counts as the most significant collection in the German-speaking world in the 19th century," says Daniel Drascek, a member of the society and a professor in the faculty of language, literature and cultural sciences at the University of Regensburg.[/quote]
One of the rediscovered fairy tales can be read here: [url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/05/turnip-princess-discovered-fairytale[/url]
That's actually really cool, I'd love to read them.
Holy shit.
I enjoyed the one about elf rape.
Looks like Hollywood got themselves a new movie material
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I seriously can't be the only one here who thinks this photo would make some hilariously fucked up flash animation
[QUOTE=gamefreek76;36165395]I enjoyed the one about elf rape.[/QUOTE]
nah man my personal favorite is the one where Ben makes a girl drink blended body parts. That came very close to getting me aroused, to be honest.
[quote]The tales are part of a collection of myths, legends and fairytales, gathered by the local historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth (1810–1886) in the [b][i]Bavarian region[/i][/b] of Oberpfalz at about the same time as the Grimm brothers were collecting the fairytales that have since charmed adults and children around the world.[/quote]
Oh- well they're sure to be absolutely fucking terrifying then. I mean, the Bavarians celebrate Christmas traditionally with the [i]Krampus[/i] for God's sake:
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(For those who don't know what this is, the Krampus is an accomplice of St. Nicholas who follows him around on Christmas Eve and helps him present gifts to good children. He stuffs the naughty children, on the otherhand, into the basket he carries around on his back. Then he takes them home, kills them, cooks them, and eats them for dinner.)
[QUOTE=LunchboxOfDoom;36165463]Oh- well they're sure to be absolutely fucking terrifying then. I mean, the Bavarians celebrate Christmas traditionally with the [i]Krampus[/i] for God's sake:
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Krampus-Postkarte_um_1900.jpg[/img]
(For those who don't know what this is, the Krampus is an accomplice of St. Nicholas who follows him around on Christmas Eve and helps him present gifts to good children. He stuffs the naughty children, on the otherhand, into the basket he carries around on his back. Then he takes them home, kills them, cooks them, and eats them for dinner.)[/QUOTE]
Given one of the stories mentioned in the article involves a princess cutting her way out of a witch that's swallowed her alive, I wouldn't be surprised.
Quick disney crank out some movies of them and claim copyright on them for the next 50,000,000 years.
Welp looks like Disney has an excuse to make some traditional animated features again.
Best German fairy tale.
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[QUOTE=gamefreek76;36165395]I enjoyed the one about elf rape.[/QUOTE]
Ryu-Gi confirmed 150+ years old.
I'd love to see the do-good brigade try to make these politically correct and non-violent :v:
[QUOTE=Ryu-Gi;36165484]Given one of the stories mentioned in the article involves a princess cutting her way out of a witch that's swallowed her alive, I wouldn't be surprised.[/QUOTE]
so even those periods they had vore
[QUOTE=booster;36165869]Best German fairy tale.
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what's that even about.?
I hope they'll be properly preserved for us to read. Instead of you know... being destroyed like a lot of old texts.
[QUOTE=booster;36165869]Best German fairy tale.
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clocktower
These are surprisingly disturbing and creepy for being fairy tales.
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;36166082]what's that even about.?[/QUOTE]
The story is about some kid who sucks his thumb even though his mother tells him not to. So a rogue tailor comes into his house and cuts his thumbs off.
[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;36166137]These are surprisingly disturbing and creepy for being fairy tales.[/QUOTE]
Might wanna do some research then. Plenty of fairy tales originally were all sorts of fucked up.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;36166284]Might wanna do some research then. Plenty of fairy tales originally were all sorts of fucked up.[/QUOTE]
Like bible :v:
[QUOTE=booster;36165869]Best German fairy tale.
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I enjoy reading fairytales. When wil any of this get published? Years? Decades?
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;36166082]what's that even about.?[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;FUOf_GRUVAE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUOf_GRUVAE[/video]
[QUOTE=booster;36165869]Best German fairy tale.
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My parents got me a book containing this (and many more similar stories) when I was still in elementary school. Only years later I noticed that nearly all of the stories ended in the children getting horribly mutilated or even killed. In one story they were grinded into little chunks of meat and fed to the ducks. WTF.
Also they didn't let me play GTA 3 because it was too "violent". :v:
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[TD="class: poem, align: left"]Augustus was a chubby lad;
Fat ruddy cheeks Augustus had:
And everybody saw with joy
The plump and hearty, healthy boy.
He ate and drank as he was told,
And never let his soup get cold.
But one day, one cold winter's day,
He screamed out "Take the soup away!
O take the nasty soup away!
I won't have any soup today."
Next day, now look, the picture shows
How lank and lean Augustus grows!
Yet, though he feels so weak and ill,
The naughty fellow cries out still
"Not any soup for me, I say:
O take the nasty soup away!
I [I]won't[/I] have any soup today."
The third day comes: Oh what a sin!
To make himself so pale and thin.
Yet, when the soup is put on table,
He screams, as loud as he is able,
"Not any soup for me, I say:
O take the nasty soup away!
I WON'T have any soup today."
Look at him, now the fourth day's come!
He scarcely weighs a sugar-plum;
He's like a little bit of thread,
And, on the fifth day, he was—dead!
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Now that's just disturbing.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;36167051][video=youtube;FUOf_GRUVAE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUOf_GRUVAE[/video][/QUOTE]
It is a rare day when I laugh from Family Guy.
I always enjoyed fairy tales despite their violence.
Like "The Cold Heart" where a boy sells his heart to a forest-ghost in exchange for wishes.
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Also old movies about these fairy tales are awesome:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgH54eVyLVk[/media]
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The Russian fairy tale movies are awesome too.
Guess that's what you get for being born in the UdssR
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