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pocketramblr · 3 years

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I think the dead kids in german fairy tales/ballads/ect. is partly due to them being cautionary tales. Also, many of them are from times when child mortality was pretty high so it was something that just kinda happened and so slipped into stories easily.

Oh sure, there's plenty of factors to lead to the response of dead children all over the place in those tales. The real question is why Germany specially is known for it, when at that point in history it wasn't exactly exceptional as far as dead children goes

#or to put it another way: what factors led to Germany keeping up these dead children folk tales while many other areas try to not do that/#downplay the amount of death/ just don't find it as popular to tell those stories #i suppose i could look into some interchristianity issues and see if specific denomination played a notable part #or i could look into the book industry #sensation sells #and if Germany took an approach comparable to how Japan tends to market itself to a western audience #(not the same marketing but more the same idea to market different stereotypes)#perhaps even just pride comes into it #when casually looking at those earlier tales from nura i found publishers who'd been printing the same children tale for longer than there's #even been a Germany #compare that to countries like France that are older and already had stereotypes by the time the printing of children's books would have #really kicked off in the same way and....#you can see multiple factors in why that may be the case #uh there's probably a good heaping of random luck that that's what got picked up tbh #anyway i think i have ruined your fun with my history teacher mode long enough sorry #i tend to ramble when tired #sweet dreams #hopefully full of fun stories and not dead children #pocket talks to people #anon

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