
How Grimm's Fairy Tales Work
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How Children Played Butcher With Each Other
The Grimm brothers would embellish this stuff tremendously. They often double it from a few paragraphs to a couple of pages. Pawnee took an open blade and thrust it into his brother's neck. The mother who was upstairs in a room bathing the youngest child in a tub heard the cries of her other child quickly ran downstairs. She then rushed back to see what her other child was doing in the tub, but in the meantime, it had drowned in the bath.
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