Strangest Children's Books Tales You Won't Believe Are Real

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  @Nvmmybuisness · 5 years ago (edited)

  Fun fact: I live in germany and a few of this tales were made to movies and are in television and I even have the book of the little mermaid. Allmost all were original. Last Sunday I saw Rapunzel, I can say the OG story is not as funny and relaxing as the Disney version.

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  @ahub87 · 5 years ago

  The little match girl was interesting to me as a child. I was sad that she died but happy that she was with her loved ones and no longer struggling to sell matches on the cold and harsh streets

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  @lesliethrasher3755 · 5 years ago (edited)

  My grandma had an old book in her attic called "more tales to tremble by" I can't remember if it was one or many authors but one tale in particular gave me nightmares.  It was called "Thurnley Abby". Very much like the last story you mentioned. Another in the book was about a couple who moved into a new (to them) house. The husband worked nights and the woman began hearing a baby cry at night. She swallowed her fear after weeks of hearing the baby and followed the sounds to the attic stairs but couldn't bring herself to go any further. Telling her husband the next day, they both went up into the attic. They found a roughly patched part of wall and after breaking it open, the tiny skeleton of an infant....the story was chilling....

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  @eclectic_savant · 2 years ago

  "The Little Match Girl" broke my heart as a kid. I found the book a few months ago and once again, sat there crying like a fool.

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  @Myszkia · 5 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgViyeOWBUI&amp;t=384">6:24</a> there is &quot;The Little Match Girl&quot; reference within Osomatsu-San

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• NE

  @nerrissarich · 5 years ago

  19th century authors: Trauma is the best teacher!

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  @ddiwa_ · 4 years ago (edited)

  I remember reading &quot;The Little Match Girl&quot; while in a hospital where my cousin&apos;s uncle was dying. I literally felt pain in my chest as a child. The story was just too heartbreaking.

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  @Phoebe-fh4jw · 2 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgViyeOWBUI&amp;t=874">14:34</a>M-m-my name is Phoebe💀

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• WA

  @warpey12 · 5 years ago

  Writers now: We need to make our stories as non-violent as possible so we can teach the value of friendship.<br><br>Writers in the 19th century: <i>Everyone knows the best way to learn is in life threatening situations.</i>

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  @LadyCoyKoi · 5 years ago

  &quot;Outside Over There&quot; has the script similar to the movie Labyrinth starting Davie Bowie.

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  @jewelhenson3034 · 4 years ago

  Interesting theory going in the medical field: books are often a representation of how people see the world around them. The story Alice in Wonderland is about a girl who has a distorted world she thinks is real. Things seem to be larger or smaller, and even she grows and shrinks. Since then, a mental disorder has been discovered that causes the human brain to interpret things as being a different size. One person reported feeling taller than she actually was. It is now believed that Lewis Carroll (author of Alice In Wonderland) suffered from this disorder. Another famous person believed to suffer from this is Picasso. <br><br>And for a weird tale, I was read a story in 4th grade about a lying frog. The lying frog was so bad that when the mother frog was sick and dying she told him to bury her in the opposite location of what she wanted. She wanted a beautiful meadow or something to be buried in. Instead she said in a bog where her body would eventually wash away. She thought her son wouldn&apos;t listen and do the opposite of what she asked because that was part of his usual attitude. Instead, he chose to honor his mother&apos;s wishes and buries her exactly where she asked. Super creepy

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  @adoniahageraats1690 · 2 years ago

  My teacher in elementary school read one of &quot;the scary stories to tell in the dark&quot; to the entire class on Halloween month and it gave all of us chills. And I remember almost every detail about the stories.<br><br>This is the story from what I remember: It is about a guy who gets invited to a party at a supposed haunted mansion that his friend to have fun. &nbsp;And when the guy goes to the party he has a good time at first but then needs to use the restroom which is downstairs in the basement. &nbsp;As he makes his way to take the stares he notices some people entering a elevator together and he notices a person with a creepy smile spotted him. &nbsp;The creepy man ask the guy if he wants to come on the elevator with them to go down but the guy refuses, and the creepy person keeps persisting for the guy to get on the elevator with them bit the guy keeps refusing. &nbsp;Eventually the Creepy guy stopped persisting and just press the elevator button to go down with everyone else while waiving goodbye as he continues to smile at the guy while the doors close. &nbsp;And so the guy walks down the stairs and he has a long way down since the house has multiple basement do to it being a abandoned wine seller house. &nbsp;But as he goes down he heard the sound of the elevator going down through the thin walls but the elevator wasn&apos;t going down slowly. &nbsp;The elevator was actually falling down incredibly fast and everyone in there was screaming in fear all the way down until the last thing the guy heard was the sound of a giant crash at the bottom. &nbsp;The guy then immediately bolted back upstairs and left the party in a panic, but as he was running he saw the same creepy guy bringing more people into the elevator with him and the creepy guy spotted him again and just waved a friendly goodbye as the guy continues to run away. &nbsp;The guy then realized that if he did go on that elevator with the creepy person along with everyone else he too would have entered the same fate as all those other people did.

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