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It's a European tradition to traumatize kids. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I remember reading that. It was 30 years ago so I may be remembering it wrong... We had this as a assigned reading in school but only the first chapter or something. It was in our textbook kind of as a short story. So we read only the part about the kid dying without knowing the story continues. I later found the entire book somewhere and kept reading and hey, the brothers met again in the magic world. I don't remember them dying at the end or anything else for that matter. It was one of the least traumatizing books they assigned us. In most Polish books and novels some kid dies, or some animal dies, or there's war, or concentration camps or some other torture.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    In the end the older brother is mortally wounded by the dragon. This leads to the younger brother carrying him on his back and jumping from a larger waterfall, mirroring how the older brother saved him in the beginning.

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