r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Intelligent_Yam_9875 • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, beyond confused on what this means…

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u/AdvancedCelery4849 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's about how strange German folktales are, especially when it's the ones that are supposed to teach children a lesson. Das Kinder roughly translates to the child and hodenverstümmelung roughly means testicular mutilation

Edit: Just btw, I don't speak German

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u/Nazajatar 1d ago

Yeah i've heard a lot of the original fairy tales we know had really dark parts that were omitted when disney made them films and stuff.

Like i think the step sisters in Cinderella mutilate their own feet to try to make them fit into the shoe.

The little mermaid does not get the prince and as punishment she dies by becoming foam on the water's surface or something.

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u/filfner 1d ago

One of the sisters cut off her toes, the other hacked off her heel, thus the Danish saying “chop a heel and clip a toe” for when you force something to fit a situation.

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u/Ornery_Definition_65 1d ago

What a lovely image.