I found it!

[Homicidalheathen]

This book my mother in law would read to the man, and it scared the shit out of him.

I found it! I am getting this for him for Yule this year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struwwelpeter

written in 1917

[Homicidalheathen]

http://www.fln.vcu.edu/struwwel/struwwel.html

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-538011027440158787

omg now I am traumatized lol actual images were used to recreate

there is a museum in Germany dedicated to this book

that video was like a baaad acid trip (she used to read him these stories before bed lol I am making her honorary goth of the week)

http://www.struwwelpeter-museum.de/museum.htm

Stories

Nikolas, as he is about to dunk three boys in his inkstand. Illustration from a 1917 edition."Struwwelpeter" (Shock-headed Peter) describes a boy who does not groom himself properly and is consequently unpopular.

In "Die Geschichte vom bösen Friederich" (The Story of Cruel Frederick), a violent boy terrorizes animals and people. Eventually he is bitten by a dog, who goes on to eat the boy's sausages while he is bedridden.

In "Die gar traurige Geschichte mit dem Feuerzeug" (The Dreadful Story of Pauline and the Matches), a girl plays with matches and burns to death.

In "Die Geschichte von den schwarzen Buben" (The Story of the Inky Boys), Nikolas (that is, Saint Nicholas[2]) catches three boys teasing a dark-skinned boy. To teach them a lesson, he dips the three boys in black ink, to make them even darker-skinned than the boy they'd teased.

"Die Geschichte von dem wilden Jäger" (The Story of the Wild Huntsman) is the only story not primarily focused on children. In it, a hare steals a hunter's rifle and eyeglasses and begins to hunt the hunter. In the ensuing chaos the hare's child is burned by hot coffee.

In "Die Geschichte vom Daumenlutscher" (The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb), a mother warns her son not to suck his thumbs. However, when she goes out of the house he resumes his thumb sucking, until a roving tailor appears and cuts off his thumbs with giant scissors.

"Die Geschichte vom Suppen-Kaspar" (The Story of Kaspar who did not have any Soup) begins as Kaspar, a healthy, strong boy, proclaims that he will no longer eat his soup. Over the next five days he wastes away and dies.

In "Die Geschichte vom Zappel-Philipp" (The Story of Fidgety Philip), a boy who won't sit still at dinner accidentally knocks all of the food onto the floor, to his parents' great displeasure.

"Die Geschichte von Hans Guck-in-die-Luft" (The Story of Johnny Head-in-Air) concerns a boy who habitually fails to watch where he's walking. One day he walks into a river; he is soon rescued, but his portfolio drifts away.

In "Die Geschichte vom fliegenden Robert" (The Story of Flying Robert), a boy goes outside during a storm. The wind catches his umbrella and sends him to places unknown, and presumably to his doom.

Edited May 30, 2009 by Homicidalheathen

[Joey Deadcat]

Gotta love pre-Disney fairy tales.

[Homicidalheathen]

http://www.bobstaake.com/struwwelpeter/tease4.shtml

new version, keep clicking

[pomba gira]

Love Struwwelpeter. My favorites are the Scissor Man and Pauline (the two kittens are priceless).

[Homicidalheathen]

scissor guy looks like johnny depp as either edward or sweeney to me

I hope it is NOT true that everything great has been done before...