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yesman@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

It's a European tradition to traumatize kids.

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It's a European tradition to traumatize kids.

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yesman@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 2 months ago
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  • 𝔄 𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔭𝔦𝔢𝔠𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔢𝔰𝔢@lemmy.world
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    Really, they’re worse? What the fuck - how?!

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      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.

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    So you’re saying that Irish fairytales are funny parodies that are better than the German originals?

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      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.

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    I love Weird Al Yankovic so much!!

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    Weak. Balkan kids don’t need no tales

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    German/Irish... American:

    $160pp to fairytale.

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