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Originally Posted by RobertDDL
(And I'm long past toddler age but Struwwelpeter still scares me.)
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As an off-topic comment, I recently came across the word "Struwwelpeter" in a book I was reading:
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As Grant cocked his head the better to listen, he became aware that over the banister of the floor above hung an inverted human head, grotesque and horrible, its hair spread round it by the force of gravity into a Struwwelpeter effect.
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I had no idea what this meant, and the Kindle's dictionary was no help. Your post prompted me to do a Google search and I am now enlightened
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struwwelpeter