Wie Kinder Schlachtens miteinander gespielt haben
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Wie Kinder Schlachtens miteinander gespielt haben (How children of slaughtering played together) is a story from Grimm's Fairy Tales. It was removed from the book after the second edition.
[edit] Synopsis
- Part One
- In a town somewhere in the Netherlands, a group of young children (around 5 or 6 years of age) played at being a butcher and killed the child who played as "the pig". The child who played as "the butcher" was arrested and charged for murder. One of the judges came up with a special method to decide if the child was guilty or not. He brought an apple and some gold coins in court. If "the butcher" chose the apple, then he was an innocent, and would be free to go; if he choose the gold coins, the child was no innocent, and would be guilty. "The Butcher" chose the apple without any hesitation. Therefore, "the butcher" was released.
- Part Two
- One day, two brother saw their father killing off a pig. They imitated what they saw and the older brother killed his younger brother. Their mother, who was giving the baby a bath, heard her child scream and abandoned the baby in the bath. When she saw what her eldest child had done, she took the knife out of her younger son's throat, and in her rage stabbed, her older son in the heart. When the mother found out that the baby was drowned in the tub, she felt guilty and committed suicide.
- After a long day of work in the field, the father came home. Finding out that his whole family was dead, he soon also died from sadness.
