At last she escapes her own disintegrating body in the shape of a bird, and spends a winter collecting and giving away to other birds enough crumbs to equal the weight of the loaf. But she sticks to the loaf and sinks down below the mud, is taken into Hell, stiffens into a statue, and goes through all sorts of horrific torments (flies, slime, bugs crawling across her eyes, hunger) while listening to her mother’s tears and people saying what a horrible person she was. When sent to visit her poverty-stricken mother, she dropped the loaf of bread that she’d been given for her family into the mud so she could step on it instead of getting her shoes dirty.
This one concerns a poor girl who was raised up to live in better surroundings and became very conceited. “Hans Christian Andersen had a thing for writing stories about naughty girls and the punishments meted out to them. If you have a children’s story from your part of the world that still give you the creeps, head over to our new Community forums and tell us about it! Dugald Stewart Walker/Public Domain “The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf” Take a look through some of our favorite submissions below, and try not to freak yourself out. And many of you wrote to us about specific books that gave you nightmares, such as the eerie favorite The Water-Babies. There were folktales, too, such as the monster-under-the-bed known as “Soap Sally,” who turns kids’ fingers into soap.
You told us about classic fairy tales that left you feeling uneasy. Recently we asked Atlas Obscura readers to tell us about the kids’ books and stories that still creep them out. Sometimes it’s because they successfully impart important lessons, but often times it’s because they scared the wits out of our childhood selves. The stories and books we consume as children can stick with us our entire lives. Innocent kids’ stories can be horror stories too.
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