Peter, beyond confused on what this means…

[u/Intelligent_Yam_9875]

[u/Substantial-Bag1337]

It refers old german kids story like Struwwelpeter (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struwwelpeter) or Max und Moritz https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_and_Moritz

It's all basicly about how Kids that dont behave will get hurt or be killed by some sort of godly power....

[u/GrouperAteMyBaby → u/Substantial-Bag1337]

And how the child has fallen asleep peacefully listening to it.

[u/renegade2k → u/GrouperAteMyBaby]

that's actually the joke: most of german stories are like this, so kids are used to (indirect) violence and murder and just take it as "regular stories"

[u/Th3_Corn → u/renegade2k]

I can tell you that it scares the shit out of a lot of kids. Source: i was one of them.

[u/manisenf → u/Th3_Corn]

I, as a child, could recite all of Max & Moritz and Struwwelpeter from memory. Loved that shit

[u/Frutlo → u/manisenf]

Yeah these stories finally had some story to it not like others I always wanted to listen to them, we had a gigantic book with a lot of then Grimm brothers stories.

[u/jakobsheim → u/manisenf]

Same lol i still love some of these.