Noooo, not what you think. 😁 But let’s start at the beginning. Some years ago I developed some sleeping issues. First it was falling asleep and then it was waking up and then not being able to fall back asleep. I’m sure a lot of you know exactly what I’m talking about. After some time I figured that audio books can be a big help with that. The trick is that the book is more on the boring/slightly entertaining side (a really good book would be rather counterproductive since you would want to keep listening instead of dosing just off to lala land) and a pleasant voice.

So a few weeks back I was looking for a new audio book and stumbled about Brothers Grimm complete collection. 30 hours filled with 200 fairy and folk tales. What could go wrong, right? I mean, when you think of Brothers Grimm you automatically think of the Disney versions. Cute stuff you can read to your kids as bedtime stories that always have a happy end. Right? Well, no, wrong! 😮 These where the original versions as written down by the brothers. In that funny ancient German, but that wasn’t even the worse of it. 30 hours of bloody murder, chopped off heads, hands and legs, extortion, abduction, rape, assault and battery, fraud, theft and even two cases of racism. I swear, there is no difference between this and the crime statistic of Detroit city.

I knew that the original versions of those stories where darker then what we tell our children today, but not to that extend. Honestly, I was shocked. It’s even worse than the modern creepy pasta you can find on the internet. And there people keep saying that everything was better in the past. I’m not so sure about that anymore.