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.
The brothers Lionheart? My sister read the German translation in 4th, 5th or 6th grade
So you’re saying that Irish fairytales are funny parodies that are better than the German originals?
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.
So, yes. Got it.
Kind of.yes.
Really, they’re worse? What the fuck - how?!
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.
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.
Well the Christianity was just a layer painted on top. Peel it back and it was all there, just barely under the surface.
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.
I love Weird Al Yankovic so much!!
Okay so what is worse than “woodland creatures devour still living children”?
It’s a European tradition to traumatize kids.
But at least they don’t risk getting shot at school, or anywhere else.
Weak. Balkan kids don’t need no tales
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.
German/Irish... American:
$160pp to fairytale.
