This one always creeped me out !! I had all three of these book collections as a child. The "new mother" with the glass eyes and wooden thumping tail reminds me of Coraline's "other mother"; maybe the author was inspired by this tale.
Me too!! If you think of it, this is about abandonment of a mother for her two daughters!!! I know it well because I was removed from my biological mother's care after the let me be abused physically & sexually and my brother and I were extremely malnourished!!! This story scared the crap out of me as a child!!!
This was one of my favorites out of the whole series! It fucked me up lol. And I swear to god when I first saw the trailer for coraline this story is what I thought of
I think the New Mother was a caretaker, nursemaid, or nanny that was blind or had glass eyes and her wooden tail was a stick she used to discipline children. The girl's mother hired this woman to take care of the house and care for/discipline her daughters while her and Arthur went away because of the stress and pain caused by the sisters was too much for the mother and the baby. Or the New Mother was a witch or monster that was connected to the Gypsy Girl somehow, who knows? The ambiguous ending just adds to the creepiness of this scary story.
I never thought of it that way. That's pretty interesting. But I do remember hearing that the author originally was going to make the gypsy girl be the devil in disguise.
@@Paladin_Green Maybe? I do not know if Baba Yaga is a gypsy legend because I know her as a witch or creature from Russian folklore. Maybe she is or maybe she is not. Either way, if I was still a kid, I would not want to be raised by a woman described like this.
Nahh, it's canon that the girls ran out of the house when the new mother tried to break in. They were on the run for the rest of their lives living off of berries in the woods and looking for their family. I think this was mentioned in the original publication of this story back in the Victorian times.
Fun fact: In another version of the story, Blue-Eyes & Turkey are the names of the 2 girls (whereas here, they’re named Sandra & Dolores). Also, in another version, the gypsy girl actually placed a curse on their mother & granted them their “new mother.” Side note: Sandra & Dolores were easily tempted. They pretty much gave in to the Devil, since the gypsy girl never really followed up on her promise to give the drum to them. And now, their mother’s gone because they chose not to let it go & behave themselves.
This was one of my favorites out of the whole series! It fucked me up as a kid lol. When I first saw the trailer for Coraline this story is what I thought of. I thought they were making a movie out of this
I told this story to my two daughters, about the same age as those in the story, who themselves had a baby brother. They were terrified and cried and couldn't sleep. Probably wasn't very nice of me tell them the story.
@@kenhollis6197 Yeah, it takes two to tango, or three as the case may be. Nobody twisted those girls' arms to make them misbehave like that, they did it of their own volition.
@@thenoneone1027 They were not tricked. It was their selfish want for the drum that made them act up. They could have just walked away and not done anything bad. Additionally, they saw how upset their mom was and still acted up.
I created a version of the tale where they prevent their mother and baby brother from leaving them by killing them with a gun, and they forcefully take the drum from the gypsy girl and throw her in the river to drown, only for them to take it home and for the drum to not work, and for the stick creature to arrive in order to punish them.
See, I always thought the "new stepmother" was a demon. I've been around one or two women in my life, but not of them had tails, let alone wooden ones.
It's open to interpretation. You could think one of two things, in my opinion. But of course, there are many possibilities. 1. The mother is dressed up as this creature to scare her kids into behaving from now on. 2. Their mom actually left and the new mother is a boogeyman type entity who takes bad children.
Oof, I forgot this story actually used the G-slur. Then again SSTTITD was published in like the 80s and we were still decades away from even acknowledging it was a slur. Still haven't in a lot of places around the world.
@@Kid_Charlemagne76 see I rather doubt your friend is cool with you using a slur constantly to describe her and then using hurtful stereotypes. Which leads me to decide you are full of crap.
@@kenhollis6197 because it's a slur. The Romani were mistreated because they had dark skin, and different customs, and because people thought they came from Egypt...
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This one always creeped me out !! I had all three of these book collections as a child. The "new mother" with the glass eyes and wooden thumping tail reminds me of Coraline's "other mother"; maybe the author was inspired by this tale.
KL Yeah, apparently the guy who created coraline was inspired by this story believe it or not
Me too!! If you think of it, this is about abandonment of a mother for her two daughters!!! I know it well because I was removed from my biological mother's care after the let me be abused physically & sexually and my brother and I were extremely malnourished!!! This story scared the crap out of me as a child!!!
This was one of my favorites out of the whole series! It fucked me up lol. And I swear to god when I first saw the trailer for coraline this story is what I thought of
I think the New Mother was a caretaker, nursemaid, or nanny that was blind or had glass eyes and her wooden tail was a stick she used to discipline children. The girl's mother hired this woman to take care of the house and care for/discipline her daughters while her and Arthur went away because of the stress and pain caused by the sisters was too much for the mother and the baby. Or the New Mother was a witch or monster that was connected to the Gypsy Girl somehow, who knows? The ambiguous ending just adds to the creepiness of this scary story.
I never thought of it that way. That's pretty interesting.
But I do remember hearing that the author originally was going to make the gypsy girl be the devil in disguise.
It's probably a gypsy witch. Like babayaga
@@Paladin_Green Maybe? I do not know if Baba Yaga is a gypsy legend because I know her as a witch or creature from Russian folklore. Maybe she is or maybe she is not. Either way, if I was still a kid, I would not want to be raised by a woman described like this.
Nahh, it's canon that the girls ran out of the house when the new mother tried to break in. They were on the run for the rest of their lives living off of berries in the woods and looking for their family. I think this was mentioned in the original publication of this story back in the Victorian times.
who else thought the gypsy was going to transform them into little mechanical people and imprison them in the drum?
I guess you are a Snarled fan
@@rolosilver3256 yep
This story pretty much tells you that everything has consequences and just ain't worth the trouble
I love scary stories
I love watching them when it's raining and thundering with the lights off
Fun fact: In another version of the story, Blue-Eyes & Turkey are the names of the 2 girls (whereas here, they’re named Sandra & Dolores). Also, in another version, the gypsy girl actually placed a curse on their mother & granted them their “new mother.”
Side note: Sandra & Dolores were easily tempted. They pretty much gave in to the Devil, since the gypsy girl never really followed up on her promise to give the drum to them. And now, their mother’s gone because they chose not to let it go & behave themselves.
This was one of my favorites out of the whole series! It fucked me up as a kid lol. When I first saw the trailer for Coraline this story is what I thought of. I thought they were making a movie out of this
This story was an inspiration for Coraline. Bravo. 🙂 If you look up Lucy Clifford "The New Mother" you find out all about it. 😁👍
Wow, that gave me chills!
I told this story to my two daughters, about the same age as those in the story, who themselves had a baby brother. They were terrified and cried and couldn't sleep. Probably wasn't very nice of me tell them the story.
Probably would've kept them in line for a while.
Ya think
One of my favorite stories from the book!!🩷❤️🩷
As a kid, I never saw this as scary. I saw it as cruel and sad because the lady made those girls run out their mother. I hated that
moral of story: if you want to act like little monsters then you may as well be raised by one
No it's not! They were fooled for god's sake!
@@thenoneone1027 So? They still hurt their brother and made their mother miserable just because they wanted a toy.
@@kenhollis6197 Yeah, it takes two to tango, or three as the case may be. Nobody twisted those girls' arms to make them misbehave like that, they did it of their own volition.
@@thenoneone1027 They were not tricked. It was their selfish want for the drum that made them act up. They could have just walked away and not done anything bad. Additionally, they saw how upset their mom was and still acted up.
you are taking too much into it@@andyc4295
The question remains: Did the father ever return home?
There’s something about this story that I like
The step-mother that their mother threatened to leave them with.
It kills me that the origin of the glass eye/wooden tail mother is lost forever.
I believe that this is part of the reason why so many people are so bad today. That and bad parenting or no parenting at all.
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I created a version of the tale where they prevent their mother and baby brother from leaving them by killing them with a gun, and they forcefully take the drum from the gypsy girl and throw her in the river to drown, only for them to take it home and for the drum to not work, and for the stick creature to arrive in order to punish them.
🤘👹🤘
Creepy
What was that creature at the end with the thumping tail?
Infinite Sky Their new *step-mother*
Infinite Sky I think it was either their mother disguised as the creature
I never thought of that. You may have a point. She could have pretended to be the new one.
I remember these books when I was a kid, my 8 year old loves these stories he says "MOMMIES CAN YOU GET ME ALL3 BOOKS"
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How the hell does a woman have a wooden tail?!
Classic
See, I always thought the "new stepmother" was a demon. I've been around one or two women in my life, but not of them had tails, let alone wooden ones.
A semen 😂 tee hee
I don't understand
nobody does. thats what makes it so scary. it defies sense.
It's open to interpretation. You could think one of two things, in my opinion. But of course, there are many possibilities.
1. The mother is dressed up as this creature to scare her kids into behaving from now on.
2. Their mom actually left and the new mother is a boogeyman type entity who takes bad children.
@@andyc4295 I refuse to believe it could possibly be the mother just dressing up, that's simply too tame. Not enough terror.
Oof, I forgot this story actually used the G-slur. Then again SSTTITD was published in like the 80s and we were still decades away from even acknowledging it was a slur. Still haven't in a lot of places around the world.
Gypsy isn't an offensive thing to say. Get over yourself
@@Kid_Charlemagne76 you've never talked to a Romani person about that, have you?
@@christopherwall2121 i have, actually. She wasn't offended by it at all. However, what's really offensive is when a gypsy steals your wallet
@@Kid_Charlemagne76 see I rather doubt your friend is cool with you using a slur constantly to describe her and then using hurtful stereotypes. Which leads me to decide you are full of crap.
@@kenhollis6197 because it's a slur. The Romani were mistreated because they had dark skin, and different customs, and because people thought they came from Egypt...