all 39 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (11 children)

Most known swedish film: brother tries to save dying(sick) brother from fire and dies. Sick brother die. They go to the magic land Nagiala where they have to fight a bad person and they die.

Applause 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Edit: a film for children/kids of course.

  • source
  • hideshow 11 child comments
  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    After you die, you go to a magic land, where you have to die again? That sounds… annoying.
    Like, once it’s over, let’s just be done with it. Don’t want to have to do that again.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 10 points 6 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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 5 points 6 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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 5 points 6 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.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    Really, they're worse? What the fuck - how?!

  • source
  • hideshow 9 child comments
  • [–] [S] 44 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [–] 36 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It was fun growing up in the countryside and things like banshees and fairies being taken as a fact of life. I had a childhood friend that would come in to school saying she heard the banshees howling during the night and then woke up to find out a relative had died.

    There was a news report that resurfaced a few years back, accessible here, about the Housing Executive in Newry trying to get a fairy tree chopped down to build houses, and even after trying to bribe the workers with £200 no one would touch it and they had to build around it instead. And another where some builders halted work in the Mournes once they realised they were inside a fairy ring, 3 of them went on to suffer accidents that they attributed to revenge by the fairies, the foreman apologised to the fairies, and even the reporter was too worried to step inside the ring. We were told the legends too, like Tír na nÓg or Finn McCool, but I think it's amazing how much of the superstition and old mythology has persisted through the years, even after the country becoming Christian and even now as it becomes more secular.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    For starters, Irish faeries are not like tinkerbell. They like to play pranks

    So... exactly like Tinkerbell? She was constantly "pranking" (read: trying to murder) Wendy throughout the story.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    For example:

    The Leanhaun Shee (fairy mistress) seeks the love of mortals. If they refuse, she must be their slave; if they consent, they are hers, and can only escape by finding another to take their place. The fairy lives on their life, and they waste away. Death is no escape from her.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago (5 children)

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

  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 33 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    There's a Japanese one where an old man with a wen dances for some drunk ogres and they take his wen to make him come back the next day (because wens are a sign of luck for them). The next day another old man in the village sees that the first guy has gotten rid of his wen so he makes him explain how, so the second old man goes and tries to entertain the ogres but he sucks at dancing, so the ogres have had enough of him and tell him to get lost and give him the wen back, so that guy ends up with two wens.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobutori_Jiisan

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago

    I love Weird Al Yankovic so much!!

  • source
  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Okay so what is worse than "woodland creatures devour still living children"?

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    It's a European tradition to traumatize kids.

    But at least they don't risk getting shot at school, or anywhere else.

  • source
  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Ham on. Ham on. Ham on whole wheat, alright!

  • source
  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Here in Estonia we have a meat company called Maks ja Moorits which is pretty dark when you think about it. Don't wanna know how their sausages are made.

  • source
  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Weak. Balkan kids don't need no tales

  • source
  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    German/Irish... American:$160pp to fairytale.

  • source
  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Malgré leurs prétentions capricieuses d'être les arbitres du goût et du plaisir épicuriens, la sauvagerie impitoyable des Européens ressurgit toujours au premier plan, même après un examen superficiel de leur passé de dépravation sanguinaire qu'ils présentent comme leur folklore et leur histoire.

  • source