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SableSlate OP t1_ixzgswv wrote

Reply to comment by Godmodex2 in I couldn't find anywhere else to post this. This book traumatized me as a child! by SableSlate

You should laugh it is hilarious. The book is about an alien who steals children's belly buttons while they're sleeping. There's no moral to the story it's just sci-fi horror for kids. I had one of my friends read it and tell me what it was about.

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Godmodex2 t1_ixzhwuw wrote

I had a similar trauma but it was food related. We eat Liver paste where I'm from and when I was around seven I was told a horror story about a kid who made it from his grandmother's liver. She returned at night to take it back by gutting the boy. I didn't eat the stuff for -years-. And to think no adult considered the risk of telling kids the story.

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SableSlate OP t1_ixzkyup wrote

Wtfffffff haha oh my goodness - was it someone around your age who told you that?

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Godmodex2 t1_ixzlw24 wrote

It's hard to remember exactly who told me but I think it was a kid who was a few years older! The stories from Northern Europe are sometimes a special kind of dark. As a kid you respect and fear the forest because of all the stories. As an adult you kind of feel nostalgic when it comes to the folklore so you may downplay how frightening it actually is to children with a vivid imagination

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