![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "'People say that there are unusual things about her house, and there are also strange things inside,'" the heroine reflects. She is determined to visit a woman named Frau Trude. The case of the headstrong young girl in the passage cited above is typical. Well, how could things possibly go well for her?" The answer is that they could not, for this girl happens to be caught between the pages of the Grimms' Nursery and Household Tales, where stubbornness and curiosity invite persecution and virtually guarantee a violation of the rule that all ends well for fairy-tale heroes. Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland O NCE UPON A TIME there was a girl who was stubborn and I curious, and whenever her parents told her to do something, she would not obey them. "Teaching Them a Lesson": The Pedagogy of Fear in Fairy Tales She had read several nice little stories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts, and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules theirfriends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long and that, if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds and she had neverforgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked "poison," it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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