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Title: the Cutting Monster
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 17, 2016, 11:07:24 PM

A weird little tale and pictures


http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_cutting_monster_bizarre_18th_century_illustrations

Title: Re: the Cutting Monster
Post by: Brownie on October 17, 2016, 11:13:54 PM

Looks like the stuff of childhood nightmares!  Not intended for kids of course but sometimes they glimpse things and the picture stays in their mind.  The pictures are horrible!  If I was a kid and saw that, I would be tempted to read the story ..... then not sleep for weeks.

Now I'm an adult (very much so, chronologically), doesn't scare me.  Well drawn and well written nasty story.  Thank you.

Title: Re: the Cutting Monster
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 17, 2016, 11:26:58 PM

In terms of such drawings for children I am reminded of StruwwelPeter

Title: Re: the Cutting Monster
Post by: Brownie on October 17, 2016, 11:36:26 PM

Yes there is a similarity.

Title: Re: the Cutting Monster
Post by: floo on October 18, 2016, 09:10:16 AM

I don't remember kid's fairy tales giving me nightmares as a child, it was the fairy tales in the  Bible which did that! :o

Title: Re: the Cutting Monster
Post by: Brownie on October 18, 2016, 09:41:24 AM

Things with vivid illustrations affected me most, didn't matter from where.   I would lie awake in terror, seeing them.

Title: Re: the Cutting Monster
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 18, 2016, 09:44:13 AM

Just to avoid any confusion, while I referred to the link in the OP as a tale. It is actually true, as much as we know of it.

Title: Re: the Cutting Monster
Post by: Hope on October 18, 2016, 05:15:49 PM

Quote from: Floo on October 18, 2016, 09:10:16 AM

I don't remember kid's fairy tales giving me nightmares as a child, it was the fairy tales in the  Bible which did that! :o

Clearly you weren't reading the same Bible as I was, Floo.  Possibly because I didn't read the AV after I was about 3 years old, but also possibly because I don't recall ever being frightened by stuff from the Brothers Grimm or others.  It wasn't until Dr Who arrived that I had any relationship with the back of a sofa!!

Title: Re: the Cutting Monster
Post by: floo on October 18, 2016, 05:57:56 PM

Quote from: Hope on October 18, 2016, 05:15:49 PM

Clearly you weren't reading the same Bible as I was, Floo.  Possibly because I didn't read the AV after I was about 3 years old, but also possibly because I don't recall ever being frightened by stuff from the Brothers Grimm or others.  It wasn't until Dr Who arrived that I had any relationship with the back of a sofa!!

There is a lot which isn't nice in the Bible, in particular god.

Title: Re: the Cutting Monster
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 18, 2016, 06:01:29 PM

Quote from: Floo on October 18, 2016, 05:57:56 PM

There is a lot which isn't nice in the Bible, in particular god.

I would suggest the Bible is a derail here. To get somewhere close to being back, these sort of cases are not that unusual but the facts are difficult to know - see Spring Heeled Jack


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring-heeled_Jack