The Bird, the Mouse, and the Sausage – 11
on January 27, 2012 at 12:01 amPosted In: The Bird, the Mouse, and the Sausage
And thus ends The Bird, the Mouse, and the Sausage. Such a messed up little story, but with a powerful message about greed and being content with what you have when what you have is good.
I had hoped for a happier ending than the one in the tale. Aww! ;__;
Also, is there a special meaning as to why the clothes of the three remain (Sausage’s apron, Mouse’s shoes and the hat and monocle from Bird)? It seems too much of a coincidence.
;_; FANART IS NEEDED TO ERASE THIS SAD ENDING.
Okay… hoping the next story ends much more happily!
Fanart is always welcome =D
…That was dark. May we please have a happy story now now? Just to lighten things up a little?
You’re not familiar with most Grimm tales, are you. Besides, as dark as it may be it’s hardly any different than most Disney children movies these days. This story has such a deep moral impact that you really shouldn’t be left with a dark feeling but a feeling of enlightenment.
I am familiar with the tales, and I know that most of them end in a similarly grotesque fashion (I’ll also admit to looking up the story on Wednesday, so I knew how this one was going down), but that doesn’t keep me from wanting the cute little animals/food items to not die. I’m not really sure where you’re getting the “feeling of enlightenment” from. If we weren’t left feeling horrified, wouldn’t we forget the lesson?
A happy ending, however, is quiite common.
You know, I read this when I got the big book of grimm fairy tales cause I didn’t want to wait to know the ending. I was kinda shocked and a little off put at first, but then I realized that it to teach and not to scare. They weren’t just happy doing what they were doing, they were Well suited for their tasks. The bird could fly and gather wood easily, the sausage had a protective casing to keep from becoming dinner, and the mouse hand fingers for gathering water, setting the table, etc. None could do what the others did as well as the others did it.
Alas, the grass is always greener on the other side.
… until you find out it’s astroturf.
With the house now empty, I wonder how long it’ll take that conniving crow and that ravening dog to move in…
Actually considering that Bird drowned trying to get water for putting out the fire in the house… it’d probably be burned down by the time either of them would even get an inkling.
Well you get my kudos for illustrating such a dark and disturbing morality tale in such a cutesy and cheerful manner.
So what’s coming up Monday?
Does anyone else think that bucket is unusually heavy?
It IS full of water- and birds are incredibly light, since they have hollow bones. So… it seems fairly believable to me.
As believable as can be relevant in a story about a mouse, a sausage and a bird living in a house together, anyway!
Grimms tales and even alot of fairy tales always have a lesson learned. This just happens to be one of the darker ones. Kudos to the artist for the cover art was all happy and one would never think it would end like this based on that. Great irony.
Yay! a proper fairy story without a hideous schmaltzy Disney ending tacked on.
Bravo bravo bravo
Encore!
I read ahead a day before you posted the end. Mouse had a terrible end! Bird did too! D: I still can’t forget the sexy sausage!!!
Wow, most dissatisfying ending EVER. Though it definitely is a powerful message about not messing up a good thing and being happy with your lot in life.
Thanks for bringing this to us! Very well done! :D
WTF?!?!?! Not what I expected guys. Dang, I just feel so sad right now…
Next princess fairy tale please!!
Yeah, I feel bad too. It’s the pictures that do it.
I mean, just look at the bird’s face the whole way! So distraught and then he gets pulled underwater and you can logically guess his expression is now filled with fear…
If you think this had a bad ending, wait till they do Cinderella and the wicked stepmother has to dance in red hot iron shoes till she dies. Well, at least Ella finds good husbands for her step sisters.
I don’t remember that ending to Cinderella. I remember the sisters cutting off parts of their feet to fit in the shoe, and then birds pecking out their eyes as they enter and leave the church for Cinderella’s wedding
Actually, the mother being forced to dance in red hot iron shoes until she dies is from Snow White. That’s what they do to the evil queen. And yeah, in Cinderella the sisters cut off parts of their feet and then get their eyes pecked out by birds–and the wicked stepmother gets her eyes pecked out too. Cheerful stuff.
The funny thing is that the folk stories with gruesome endings for the villians today wouldn’t be considered appropriate for children. However, back in the time they were conceived, those were probably the ones most meant for children because the stories were being used to scare kids into being good. Not all of them were like that, though. The European folk narrative is as diverse and varied an artform as any other.
Greetings! I have read these stories and, sadly, they end just as our friend has illustrated them…. :_ -< The real tragedy is that the stories were intended to remind folk that sometimes we just need to be happy with our station. The bird actually was the most well suited for wood gathering as the sausage was for cookin'. They all died in their foolishness!!!
It’s also about giving people jobs that suit them and planning around that.
This has got to be the most morbid story ever. Not for a Grimm story, but for a story with a sausage character in it.
accidental suicide, what an awful way to go, he had lost everything, all of his friends and now himself. The fool should have just kept his peace and never let jealousy take him. May we learn something from this?
I can only hope, for there are plenty who would not learn.
What a horrible story! It scares children into being content and “to know their place!” What a horrible lesson to be teaching those with SO much potential. :(
I’m glad to see this one not being circulated so much anymore.
I think the lesson is more about not being greedy. They three friends had it good. Everyone was doing a job they were good at and living in harmony. One of them got greedy/jealous and thought his friends were being lazy. This contamination of their friendship brought on the end of that friendship. I’m not saying I don’t think you should strive to succeed.
However, there are a LOT of Grimm tales that try to teach the women characters to “know their place” and obey the male figures (father or husband/potential husband). It’s really just a reflection of the times in which they were written. Which is what led me to choose Farmer’s Clever Daughter as our first tale since it was so completely opposite of those types of stories. ^_^
Well I suppose people in the 18th century actually found this tale quite funny… The meaning of funny has changed over time. While we nowadays laugh about puns and jokes need to be short and have a strong, surprising pointe, that has not always been so. Our time span of alertness has incredibly shortened over the course of the 20th century. Before then, people had a good laugh over quite long stories with a grotesque scenario, even when the end was obvious. Think Monty Python scetches. This story fulfills every criteria of a good joke in those times, I am sure, people were rolling on the floor imagining a bird, a sausage and a mouse would live as communards, and their end was inevitable and just for them not fulfilling their god-given role in the world.