![]() ![]() The girl is helped by various maltreated pets and gates. ![]() She captures a girl and makes her get herself ready to be cooked/eaten. “It’s a Baba Yaga story (house on chicken feet, razor sharp teeth, eating small children). ![]() Paving her walkway with teeth! It’s just not right.” - Amanda Walz, Detroit, Michigan And the reason she loves teeth so much is because she doesn’t have any of her own!Īlthough it’s meant to be a sweet, goofy story describing The Tooth Fairy, I found it creepy as a kid because she doesn’t have teeth in her mouth, and feels the need to hoard them, using them as decorations and giving them as gifts. She has a party for all the fairies once a year and they all get gifts of teeth. She uses teeth to decorate her fish bowl, in a jar on the kitchen shelf, the path to her house is paved with teeth, she has garlands of teeth outside the house. She loves teeth and has bucket loads of them that she sorts into boxes of girl’s teeth, boy’s teeth, top teeth, bottom teeth, EXTRAS, etc. “The Tooth Fairy is this cute little twiggy waif girl who works harder than the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus because she has to work all year round. I’m pretty sure all of the children in the story are dead, including the little boy.” - Courtney Downs, Denver, Colorado “It’s about a little chimney sweep who was chased out of town, and he finds himself living underwater with a group of other children. LOC/ppmsc-05899/Public Domain The Water-Babies By Charles Kingsley Walking in the garden to see the blossom flowerĪlthough I depend on the functions of psychology and linguistic anthropomorphism to explain why the doll cries out ‘Mama’ and the bird giggles, I still feel scared of this ballad for children.” - Bin, Taiwan ‘The little sister carries the doll on her back Ripping the kernels off and popping them and eating them, that is a horror story.” - Linda, New Mexico Pop Corn running, kernels popping, all around the text. The children ate happily and had their fill. Pop Corn, and sheared off his kernels, then put the kernels in a big pot, and made popcorn. The neighborhood children snuck up and assaulted Mr. Pop Corn was illustrated as a dapper ear of corn with a top hat, like the famous Mr. One of the books had very short stories, like poems, no longer than two-to-three pages. “When I was young, my mother purchased several antique children’s books from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. This story was in a primary school reader! Gave me nightmares.” - Jessie Shaw, Virginia ![]() No blood! And all because the dog is trying to defend his owners. The illustrations of dismembered dog body parts casually placed inside the hut on a shelf. The creature returns, demanding the return of its ‘tailypo.’ It kills the three dogs over the course of three nights and ends its reign of terror by killing the farmer. “A hungry farmer and his three dogs eat the tail of a strange creature (it’s black with yellow eyes). It’s pretty strong.” - Suzanne Barnes, Tucson, Arizona I guess it says something about me and my fear of being helpless. It’s an incredibly hopeless situation and she KNOWS it’s all her fault, and there’s such a slim chance that she can ever make things better. I couldn’t get past the idea of being stuck inside your own body, utterly helpless. And at last, she flies away (presumably to Heaven.) At last she escapes her own disintegrating body in the shape of a bird, and spends a winter collecting and giving away to other birds enough crumbs to equal the weight of the loaf. But she sticks to the loaf and sinks down below the mud, is taken into Hell, stiffens into a statue, and goes through all sorts of horrific torments (flies, slime, bugs crawling across her eyes, hunger) while listening to her mother’s tears and people saying what a horrible person she was. When sent to visit her poverty-stricken mother, she dropped the loaf of bread that she’d been given for her family into the mud so she could step on it instead of getting her shoes dirty. This one concerns a poor girl who was raised up to live in better surroundings and became very conceited. “Hans Christian Andersen had a thing for writing stories about naughty girls and the punishments meted out to them. If you have a children’s story from your part of the world that still give you the creeps, head over to our new Community forums and tell us about it! Dugald Stewart Walker/Public Domain “The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf” Take a look through some of our favorite submissions below, and try not to freak yourself out. And many of you wrote to us about specific books that gave you nightmares, such as the eerie favorite The Water-Babies. There were folktales, too, such as the monster-under-the-bed known as “Soap Sally,” who turns kids’ fingers into soap. You told us about classic fairy tales that left you feeling uneasy. ![]()
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