A symbolic world and the children who played at slaughtering

Gold guilder of Mainz elector archbishop John II of Nassau
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A rather  peculiar post in honor of Shrove Tuesday

For various reasons--most of them deadlines--I have not been reading as much as usual this year. One thing I have been slowly reading is the Jack Zipes translation of the original collection by the Brothers Grimm. Many of these stories would