Эта добрейшая детская сказка обнаружилась в дискуссии, где обсуждались сказки из "Монстра". Вешаю ее и еще несколько комментариев.
— Hahaha, aren't most old fairy tales like that? Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretal, The Gingerman, Baba Yaga, Bluebeard, etc...
— Well there's disturbed, and then there's DISTURBED. Hansel and Gretel is creepy, but it doesn't measure up to this level of creepiness. This is the level of creepy of "The Willful Child." Have you ever heard that one? This is it, in its entirety:
Once upon a time there was a child who was willful and did not do what his mother wanted. For this reason God was displeased with him and caused him to become ill, and no doctor could help him, and in a short time he lay on his deathbed. He was lowered into a grave and covered with earth, but his little arm suddenly came forth and reached up, and it didn't help when they put it back in and put fresh earth over it, for the little arm always came out again. So the mother herself had to go to the grave and beat the little arm with a switch, and as soon as she had done that, it withdrew, and the child finally came to rest beneath the earth.
I read that in an annotated Grimm anthology, and was like, "...Holy schlamoley."
— I love how obvious the morals of fairytales are.
— Yeah, like "OBEY YOUR MOTHER OR GOD WILL KILL YOU." I mean, you can't fault the orthodoxy of it from a medieval point of view, but in modern context? Yikes.