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  2. Child cannibalism - Wikipedia

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    In other cases, children were kidnapped and eaten, and desperate parents sometimes killed and consumed their own children, both during the Great Chinese Famine and in various earlier famines. [ 28 ] [ 33 ] [ 34 ] Children whose parents had died or abandoned them were particularly at risk.

  3. Griselda (folklore) - Wikipedia

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    One of Griselda's children is taken away from her in an illustration from Eliza Haweis' 1882 book Chaucer for Children. In the most famous version of the Griselda tale, written by Giovanni Boccaccio c. 1350, [1] [2] [3] Griselda marries Gualtieri, the Marquis of Saluzzo, who tests her by declaring that their two children—a son and a daughter—must both be put to death.

  4. The Juniper Tree (fairy tale) - Wikipedia

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    Critic Walter Scherf in a study of the introductions of children's literature, noted that out of 176 texts, 169 of them started with a basic family conflict. [5] Similar to the plot in Juniper Tree, in Grimm's " Hansel and Gretel ", the children live with their stepmother who does not like them, and makes a plan to get rid of them.

  5. Here's what we do know for sure: until they were collected by early catalogers Giambattista Basile, Charles Perrault, and The Brothers Grimm, fairy tales were shared orally. And, a look at the sources cited in these first collections reveals that the tellers of these tales — at least during the Grimms' heydey — were women.

  6. Cautionary tale - Wikipedia

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    A cautionary tale or moral tale [1] is a tale told in folklore to warn its listener of a danger. There are three essential parts to a cautionary tale, though they can be introduced in a large variety of ways. First, a taboo or prohibition is stated: some act, location, or thing is said to be dangerous.

  7. Changeling - Wikipedia

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    In Scottish folklore, the children might be replacements for fairy children in the tithe to Hell; [9] this is best known from the ballad of Tam Lin. [10] According to common Scottish myths, a child born with a caul (part of the amniotic membrane) across their face is a changeling and will soon die (is "of fey birth").

  8. Fairy tale - Wikipedia

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    Literary fairy tales appeared in works intended for adults, but in the 19th and 20th centuries the fairy tale became associated with children's literature. The précieuses, including Madame d'Aulnoy, intended their works for adults, but regarded their source as the tales that servants, or other women of lower class, would tell to children. [77]

  9. How Some Children Played at Slaughtering - Wikipedia

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    In a city named Franecker, located in West Friesland, a group of young children (around 5 or 6 years of age) once played at being a butcher, a cook, a cook's assistant, etc., and killed the child who played as "the pig". The child who played as "the butcher" was arrested and charged for murder, but the town council (which also functioned as a ...