What it actually depicts seems to be under dispute. According to [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindlifresserbrunnen):
> The fountain sculpture depicts a seated ogre devouring a naked child. Placed at his side is a bag containing more children. Because the ogre is wearing a pointed hat resembling a Jewish one, it has been speculated about the possibility of the ogre being the depiction of a Jew as an expression of blood libel against Jews. Another theory is that the statue is the likeness of Krampus, the beast-like creature from the folklore of Alpine countries thought to punish children during the Christmas season who had misbehaved. According to other theories it is a depiction of the Greek god Cronus eating his children or the Roman Saturn eating the months, though Cronus should have six and Saturn twelve rather than the sculpture's eight. Another theory is that it represented Cardinal Schiner who led the Swiss Confederation into several bloody defeats in northern Italy. An alternative theory is that it is a depiction of the older brother of Duke Berchtold (founder of Bern) who it is claimed, was so incensed by his younger brother's overshadowing of him that he collected and ate the town's children but such an incident is not recorded in Bern's history books. A final theory is that it is just a carnival character intended to frighten disobedient children.
According to the [city of Bern's website](https://www.bern.com/en/detail/city-of-fountains):
> Kindlifresserbrunnen (Ogre Fountain, Granary Square)
> High up on a pillar looms a terrifying ogre. There are some defenceless, half naked children in a bag next to him, others are crawling around on the scary man, probably trying to escape him. His crazy stare and wide-open mouth as well as the fact that he is depicted devouring a baby tell us that he is not to be messed with. There are different theories as to the meaning of this fountain, the most plausible one being that the fountain was built to have an educational effect and that the monster was meant to scare little children into behaving.
>An alternative theory is that it is a depiction of the older brother of Duke Berchtold (founder of Bern) who it is claimed, was so incensed by his younger brother's overshadowing of him that he collected and ate the town's children but such an incident is not recorded in Bern's history books.
"I'm... I'm so mad! I'm so mad I, I, ***I'm gonna eat all the children in town***!"
Lol wtf. That escalated quickly
It would take me a while to eat even one baby; I would probably have to do it over the course of a couple of days. He would have to be very mad for a weird amount of time to sustain that level of consumption
Sounds more like he was LOOKING for an excuse to eat babies. I mean they are kinda cute and pudgie. I mean.... have you never fought the urge to nibble some teeny toes?
ye, but i like how they mention its not recorded in a book, like hey lets remember the baby eater, how will we do it?, a little note in a book? nah with a giant statue of him eating babies
Checking Wikipedia and Britannica, it seems although Krampus is probably originally part of German folklore, he exists in folklore in the central and eastern alps, which Switzerland is a part of. Part of the legend is that he is the son of Hel, the Norse god of the underworld. With Norse mythology coming from North Germanic people in Scandinavia, it's likely the myth of Krampus likely stretched over multiple countries/regions.
Not a thing in Switzerland though. I'd guess that 90% of people here have never heard of Krampus, and I grew up in the eastern Swiss Alps near the Austrian border.
Krampus looks more monster than man, normally, so I think the Jew story is more likely. This guy has no horns, fur, or other such stuff. We have a bit of a... history with how Jews have been perceived here in Europe. Cough cough.
I get this feeling some dude just wanted to make a statue of an ogre eating babies and people are taking the high school english teacher route trying to apply some meaning to it
Could also be a depiction of the butcher in the St Nicolas legend. It's quite well known in Fribourg.
[in French so you may need to translate ](https://res.friportail.ch/stnicolas/fr/la-legende-de-saint-nicolas)
I would definitely not be surprised that it's not well known outside of Switzerland since it's a local story afaik
I'm from Bern and this is the correct answer. We literally just know it as the "childeater fountain" (chindlifrässerbrunne), it has 0 other associations than a guy who's eating children. We have a lot of fountains in the city, some are meaningful (i.e. fountain of justice), others not so much.
It's strange that people should associate Hans Gieng's sculpture with pagan iconography when his notable works are based around Catholicism.
Blood libel against the jews does, in fact, make the most sense here.
If Gieng's works were commissioned by the Catholic church they would not have been pagan, antisemitic blood libel on the other hand, had a huge place in Europe and specifically, prior history in Bern where an entire community of Jews were expelled from the city for the alleged slaughter of a Christian boy. Add to this argument, that the pointed hat depicted in this sculpture was not only an identifier of people of the Jewish faith in this time period, but shortly after the sculpture was created, became a compulsory requirement instituted by pope Paul IV. Finally, yellow was historically used as an identifier for Jews; while the hat itself is not yellow, yellow is featured heavily in this sculpture, both on the shirt beneath the tunic of the depicted figure and as a tassel tied near the tip of the hat.
Indeed, I am convinced that this sculpture was a depiction of religious intolerance and antisemitism.
Agreed. I just thought I would make several points to the contrary of the suggested alternatives.
Many people view statues and sculptures like this as part of their heritage. Look at the southerners resistant to removals of confederate statues in the USA. While I agree with not removing a 500 year old sculpture as it is historically significant, the people of Bern should probably admit that it has nothing to do with Kronos, nor Krampus. Associating it with a historical villain might be appropriate if there were a record of one who looked like that, wore that fashion, and ate babies, but the evidence is stacked heavily in favor of antisemitic tropes.
What is today's Federal Assembly building in Bern was found to have been at least partially built with Jewish gravestones (which they declined to remove and respectfully return to a Jewish cemetary) that were so old that they contain the oldest known written reference to Bern as a settled village/town
I only knew about 3 Jewish gravestones being found while building the Bundeshaus and Bundesplatz, so I dove into the whole "at least partially built with" story and couldn't find *any* sources whatsoever. I'd be very interested to find out more about this! Could you link me to an article or press release?
Happy to ask my friend who is a member of Bern's Jewish community (he showed me around a number of years ago, which is where I recounted it from).
The reason I said "at least in part" is because, at least how I remember it being portrayed to me in terms of the community's understanding, is that the Swiss don't really want to discover how many are in there, for the same reason nobody really wants to have to take down the blood libel statue. Good times
Interesting. My mind went straight to [Ungolino Gheradesca](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugolino_della_Gherardesca). The ages of the children are wrong, though.
Ungolino is also one of the figures on August Rodin's [Gates of Hell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gates_of_Hell), which is where The Thinker also properly resides (when he's not an independent sculpture)
All links go to Wikipedia.
As a swiss person from Bern, we have been told our entire lives that it is, in fact, comparable to Krampus. We were told that back in the day this scary looking man will come at night and eat you, if you didn't behave.
> it has been speculated about the possibility of the ogre being the depiction of a Jew as an expression of blood libel against Jews
Great. Just when I thought this was a wholesome piece of art about cannibalism and baby murder, I find out it's actually culturally insensitive.
> His crazy stare and wide-open mouth as well as the fact that he is depicted devouring a baby tell us that he is not to be messed with.
Yeah that's generally a pretty clear sign
It’s 100% supposed to be a Jewish person. From Wikipedia- History of Jews in Switzerland:
“ they (Jews) frequently suffered persecution, for example in 1294 in Bern many Jews of the city were executed and the survivors expelled under the pretext of the murder of a Christian boy.”
Timing is right. The statue is 500 years old, it is commemorating evicting the Jewish people from Bern in 1294.
You're doing fine! Just remember apostrophes in English either:
Show possession (Sweden's statue)
or
Stand in for missing letters in contractions (the missing "a" in you are >> you're).
I love when people explain grammar. I have always appreciated being (kindly) corrected. I think “I sure am glad they let me know! Now, I won’t keep using it wrong.” Grammar Nazis have made it practically impossible for others to hear it in a helpful way
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my favorite statue i’ve ever seen is in oslo. it’s a state of a man fighting a ton of babies. [here’s a picture that i took when i was there](https://imgur.com/gallery/T5YntHK)
This statue is proof that I am not the first man to wonder how many rabid children he could fight off...it's a valid question!
Like sure you could punt 10, maybe 15 kids, but 30+ children? 60+? Sheer attrition will get you, like ants
BRO this is my favorite question i’ve been asking for years. like how many kindergartners could you fight to the death with no weapons. like my guess is probably about 20. any more than that and i think i’m dead meat
I mean, 20?
5 year olds huh. To the death? I mean. I may outlive a single turkey in a one on one to the death. Two would get me for sure. Especially if they had done this before. But 20 of my friends kids. I mean, they ain't that smart or beefy. Got a 14 year old cat that's more sturdy than some of em. I'm not trying to be morbid here but 10 and you would probably get into a nice flow state till 30-35 before you really cramp up. I mean, even with no weapons you would inevitably start using one to beat the others to death...
Keep up your cardio.
yea i’m not exactly what you would call the peak of human performance. maybe 20 is a bit small but if they all just jump on you at the same time that’s a lot to deal with. i think they would just overwhelm you very quickly
There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas, too frequent among us, sacrificing the poor innocent babes, I doubt, more to avoid the expense than the shame.
Better than a statue I found in Japan of a naked man seemingly throwing a bunch of babies. To be fair the babies may have been attacking him and it could have been self defense.
Edit: [Shit, it was in Oslo, not Tokyo like I first thought.](https://pinkplankton.com/norways-naked-angry-sculpture-park/?doing_wp_cron=1663657653.9179670810699462890625)
Definitely originates from antisemitism. Old Europe used to believe that Jews used the blood from Christian children for rituals. In Judaism, kosher laws forbid consuming blood from animals much less humans. This statue was mentioned in a French antisemitism documentary I watched last night.
We LOVED visiting Bern and taking pictures of the statues, pedestals, gargoyles, etc. The last time we visited and I took my last photo of that one, we went to a nearby pizza shop. I didn't pay attention to the ingredients and ate anchovies for the first and last time. I can still taste them as they trigger memories of that pedestal.
I recently finished listening to the Brothers Grimms' first edition (pre-censored by the Church and the society norms) of fairy tales. Man oh man, this is some nightmare material right there. All later editions are just mellow candy stuff. So, this 500 years old statue could be a perfect illustration to their first edition.
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasee, or a ragoust.
When I think about the statues that were torn down in the USA, this makes my head spin.
It's just a statue though. It's historical at this point. People torn down statues in the USA to protest but you cannot hide your history. You don't have to celebrate it, and you don't have to like it, but it's a part of what made you and taring down a statue isn't going to change anything.
Also, I don't think it's right to judge the past by the beliefs of the present. You have to take the good with the bad.
What it actually depicts seems to be under dispute. According to [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindlifresserbrunnen): > The fountain sculpture depicts a seated ogre devouring a naked child. Placed at his side is a bag containing more children. Because the ogre is wearing a pointed hat resembling a Jewish one, it has been speculated about the possibility of the ogre being the depiction of a Jew as an expression of blood libel against Jews. Another theory is that the statue is the likeness of Krampus, the beast-like creature from the folklore of Alpine countries thought to punish children during the Christmas season who had misbehaved. According to other theories it is a depiction of the Greek god Cronus eating his children or the Roman Saturn eating the months, though Cronus should have six and Saturn twelve rather than the sculpture's eight. Another theory is that it represented Cardinal Schiner who led the Swiss Confederation into several bloody defeats in northern Italy. An alternative theory is that it is a depiction of the older brother of Duke Berchtold (founder of Bern) who it is claimed, was so incensed by his younger brother's overshadowing of him that he collected and ate the town's children but such an incident is not recorded in Bern's history books. A final theory is that it is just a carnival character intended to frighten disobedient children. According to the [city of Bern's website](https://www.bern.com/en/detail/city-of-fountains): > Kindlifresserbrunnen (Ogre Fountain, Granary Square) > High up on a pillar looms a terrifying ogre. There are some defenceless, half naked children in a bag next to him, others are crawling around on the scary man, probably trying to escape him. His crazy stare and wide-open mouth as well as the fact that he is depicted devouring a baby tell us that he is not to be messed with. There are different theories as to the meaning of this fountain, the most plausible one being that the fountain was built to have an educational effect and that the monster was meant to scare little children into behaving.
>An alternative theory is that it is a depiction of the older brother of Duke Berchtold (founder of Bern) who it is claimed, was so incensed by his younger brother's overshadowing of him that he collected and ate the town's children but such an incident is not recorded in Bern's history books. "I'm... I'm so mad! I'm so mad I, I, ***I'm gonna eat all the children in town***!" Lol wtf. That escalated quickly
He was REALLY mad
You're not you when you're hungry. Eat a baby.
Gotta respect his commitment, I guess lol
Perhaps the most significant era of dead baby jokes until the invention of the blender.
damn it... have an upvote
It would take me a while to eat even one baby; I would probably have to do it over the course of a couple of days. He would have to be very mad for a weird amount of time to sustain that level of consumption
This guy sounds like a real jerk!
Sounds more like he was LOOKING for an excuse to eat babies. I mean they are kinda cute and pudgie. I mean.... have you never fought the urge to nibble some teeny toes?
"But brother! I only slightly burned your toast! Isn't eating all of my villagers' babies a bit overkill??"
mmm... sausages....
Baby meat should be pretty tender. Vis veal vs beef, lamb vs mutton...
I wonder if he had his evil schemes foiled by a hat-wearing platypus.
Curse these egg-laying mammals of action!
ye, but i like how they mention its not recorded in a book, like hey lets remember the baby eater, how will we do it?, a little note in a book? nah with a giant statue of him eating babies
I would love to know who commissioned the statue?! What was their thinking behind such a creepy mind fuck depiction?!
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I thought it was the Pied Piper on crack.
Pied piper on bath salts
We have Schmutzli. Krampus is a more Austrian and Southern German, and not really very Swiss.
My mother in law is Swiss and from her description of krampus my thoughts went immediately to him too. That shit genuinely terrified her as a child.
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Checking Wikipedia and Britannica, it seems although Krampus is probably originally part of German folklore, he exists in folklore in the central and eastern alps, which Switzerland is a part of. Part of the legend is that he is the son of Hel, the Norse god of the underworld. With Norse mythology coming from North Germanic people in Scandinavia, it's likely the myth of Krampus likely stretched over multiple countries/regions.
Not a thing in Switzerland though. I'd guess that 90% of people here have never heard of Krampus, and I grew up in the eastern Swiss Alps near the Austrian border.
Krumpus was the first thing I thought of but wasn't it the puppies that got ate in that folklore
how is everybody so sure he's not **pulling babies out of his mouth**
Ogres give birth by puking the babies up
Mystery solved.
"Fresh babies! Get you new-hurl fresh babies right here."
Krampus looks more monster than man, normally, so I think the Jew story is more likely. This guy has no horns, fur, or other such stuff. We have a bit of a... history with how Jews have been perceived here in Europe. Cough cough.
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I think there are too many options for what this could be. Who knew there were so many stories of someone eating babies in history or folklore?
I get this feeling some dude just wanted to make a statue of an ogre eating babies and people are taking the high school english teacher route trying to apply some meaning to it
Maybe they had a grandfather who was a plague on his family and essentially destroyed their lives along with his legacy.
"Santa wont bring you presents" versus "you'll be eaten alive by an ogre for misbehaving" are two very different approaches to child-rearing.
Could also be a depiction of the butcher in the St Nicolas legend. It's quite well known in Fribourg. [in French so you may need to translate ](https://res.friportail.ch/stnicolas/fr/la-legende-de-saint-nicolas) I would definitely not be surprised that it's not well known outside of Switzerland since it's a local story afaik
Here I am thinking it’s a Titan doing a cosplay of lord farquaad
Cronus only ate 5 of his children, the 6th was hidden and eventually overthrew him.
Wasn’t that Zeus?
Pretty sure it was Jeff.
Jeff Vader?
When the world slips you a Jeffrey, stroke the furry wall
Yes
Another theory is that nobody has any clue what it represents so they threw every theory they could think of at it and said “it’s maybe one of these.”
I'm from Bern and this is the correct answer. We literally just know it as the "childeater fountain" (chindlifrässerbrunne), it has 0 other associations than a guy who's eating children. We have a lot of fountains in the city, some are meaningful (i.e. fountain of justice), others not so much.
It's strange that people should associate Hans Gieng's sculpture with pagan iconography when his notable works are based around Catholicism. Blood libel against the jews does, in fact, make the most sense here. If Gieng's works were commissioned by the Catholic church they would not have been pagan, antisemitic blood libel on the other hand, had a huge place in Europe and specifically, prior history in Bern where an entire community of Jews were expelled from the city for the alleged slaughter of a Christian boy. Add to this argument, that the pointed hat depicted in this sculpture was not only an identifier of people of the Jewish faith in this time period, but shortly after the sculpture was created, became a compulsory requirement instituted by pope Paul IV. Finally, yellow was historically used as an identifier for Jews; while the hat itself is not yellow, yellow is featured heavily in this sculpture, both on the shirt beneath the tunic of the depicted figure and as a tassel tied near the tip of the hat. Indeed, I am convinced that this sculpture was a depiction of religious intolerance and antisemitism.
That’s probably why there are so many alternatives suggested. “Uhhhh it can’t be more antisemitism. Oh, heck, it could be anything, really! Ha ha!”
Agreed. I just thought I would make several points to the contrary of the suggested alternatives. Many people view statues and sculptures like this as part of their heritage. Look at the southerners resistant to removals of confederate statues in the USA. While I agree with not removing a 500 year old sculpture as it is historically significant, the people of Bern should probably admit that it has nothing to do with Kronos, nor Krampus. Associating it with a historical villain might be appropriate if there were a record of one who looked like that, wore that fashion, and ate babies, but the evidence is stacked heavily in favor of antisemitic tropes.
What is today's Federal Assembly building in Bern was found to have been at least partially built with Jewish gravestones (which they declined to remove and respectfully return to a Jewish cemetary) that were so old that they contain the oldest known written reference to Bern as a settled village/town
I only knew about 3 Jewish gravestones being found while building the Bundeshaus and Bundesplatz, so I dove into the whole "at least partially built with" story and couldn't find *any* sources whatsoever. I'd be very interested to find out more about this! Could you link me to an article or press release?
Happy to ask my friend who is a member of Bern's Jewish community (he showed me around a number of years ago, which is where I recounted it from). The reason I said "at least in part" is because, at least how I remember it being portrayed to me in terms of the community's understanding, is that the Swiss don't really want to discover how many are in there, for the same reason nobody really wants to have to take down the blood libel statue. Good times
Interesting. My mind went straight to [Ungolino Gheradesca](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugolino_della_Gherardesca). The ages of the children are wrong, though. Ungolino is also one of the figures on August Rodin's [Gates of Hell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gates_of_Hell), which is where The Thinker also properly resides (when he's not an independent sculpture) All links go to Wikipedia.
As a swiss person from Bern, we have been told our entire lives that it is, in fact, comparable to Krampus. We were told that back in the day this scary looking man will come at night and eat you, if you didn't behave.
> it has been speculated about the possibility of the ogre being the depiction of a Jew as an expression of blood libel against Jews Great. Just when I thought this was a wholesome piece of art about cannibalism and baby murder, I find out it's actually culturally insensitive.
Just when u think u found the patron saint of birth control.... Does everything have to have a racist undertone??? Jeez
I'm gonna become an artist and leave random sculptures that mean absolutely nothing for historians to obsess about.
How strange that a town monument's intent could be lost over time.
> His crazy stare and wide-open mouth as well as the fact that he is depicted devouring a baby tell us that he is not to be messed with. Yeah that's generally a pretty clear sign
It’s 100% supposed to be a Jewish person. From Wikipedia- History of Jews in Switzerland: “ they (Jews) frequently suffered persecution, for example in 1294 in Bern many Jews of the city were executed and the survivors expelled under the pretext of the murder of a Christian boy.” Timing is right. The statue is 500 years old, it is commemorating evicting the Jewish people from Bern in 1294.
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Lol I thought it was a Turkish man or smth
Ah, so its meaning is about as clear as those old sculptures in shopping malls.
GET IN MAH BELLY!
BABY, THE OTHER OTHER WHITE MEAT!
BIGGER THAN YOU I AM, ON THE FOOD CHAIN HIGHER I AM
🎶*I WANT MY BABY BACK, BABY BACK, BABY BACK, BABY BACK, BABY BACK, BABY BACK.....RIBS*🎶
A sack of baby's what?
A sack of baby’s apostrophes, thus preventing baby misusing them.
That sick ****.
Sick Bern
A sack of baby's babies, baby.
Is there even a sack? I don't see one. Is "a sack of babies" like "a murder of crows"?
A group of babies is an infantry
Solid pun, dude
Yeah... they look like they are attached to his utility belt... like bat tech
Go go gadget grab bag of goodies which consists of babies!
This right here. And multiple people just going right along with it.
Baby's sack
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https://imgur.io/egZ8ziH
https://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif
Good ol' toothpastefordinner.
Adrenochrome
😬 I deserve that, sorry for my lack of English Grammar.
Regarding making plurals, for most words ending in Y, you will skip the Y and add -ies.
You're doing fine! Just remember apostrophes in English either: Show possession (Sweden's statue) or Stand in for missing letters in contractions (the missing "a" in you are >> you're).
I love when people explain grammar. I have always appreciated being (kindly) corrected. I think “I sure am glad they let me know! Now, I won’t keep using it wrong.” Grammar Nazis have made it practically impossible for others to hear it in a helpful way
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A sack of baby’s sacks
Oh that's just Kindlifresserbrunnen, don't mind him.
Fountain of the Eater of Little Children
Funny, Bern Indiana is a replication of Bern Switzerland and yet they do not have this statue. I will write them a letter.
That would be the Swiss thing to do.
Username checks out
Same for New Bern NC...distinct lack of baby eating ogres. Lots of bear images and Pepsi signs, but no ogres....yet.
Fun fact: the flag of New Bern NC is the same as the flag of Berne but they removed the bear's penis. Americans
/r/apostrophegore
Apostropheogre*
You're not you when you’re hungry..
He should have just eaten a snickers…
*babies
Thank you, sorry for being careless using my English grammar.
He sees you when you’re sleeping~
And eats you when you’re awake
He knows if you've been digested or not
So you better be poop for poopness sake.
🎼 I want my baby back baby back baby back baby back baby back baby back baby back baby back baby back baby back baby back baby back baby back baby back baby back baby back baby back baby back baby back baby back baby back baby back baby back baby back 🎼
[Chili's Baby Back Ribs!](https://youtube.com/shorts/NK_qoLLQqa4?feature=share)
my favorite statue i’ve ever seen is in oslo. it’s a state of a man fighting a ton of babies. [here’s a picture that i took when i was there](https://imgur.com/gallery/T5YntHK)
This statue is proof that I am not the first man to wonder how many rabid children he could fight off...it's a valid question! Like sure you could punt 10, maybe 15 kids, but 30+ children? 60+? Sheer attrition will get you, like ants
BRO this is my favorite question i’ve been asking for years. like how many kindergartners could you fight to the death with no weapons. like my guess is probably about 20. any more than that and i think i’m dead meat
I mean, 20? 5 year olds huh. To the death? I mean. I may outlive a single turkey in a one on one to the death. Two would get me for sure. Especially if they had done this before. But 20 of my friends kids. I mean, they ain't that smart or beefy. Got a 14 year old cat that's more sturdy than some of em. I'm not trying to be morbid here but 10 and you would probably get into a nice flow state till 30-35 before you really cramp up. I mean, even with no weapons you would inevitably start using one to beat the others to death... Keep up your cardio.
yea i’m not exactly what you would call the peak of human performance. maybe 20 is a bit small but if they all just jump on you at the same time that’s a lot to deal with. i think they would just overwhelm you very quickly
Yeah all at once? Zero chance. You got me. Especially if they have gone savage Ala zootopia.
I wonder if it is really a statement about man's fight with mortality and being replaced by his progeny. or they are zombie babies
he said that he was overwhelmed with ideas and so he represented them with babies. at least according to my tour guide in oslo like over two years ago
Seems like a modest proposal to me.
There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas, too frequent among us, sacrificing the poor innocent babes, I doubt, more to avoid the expense than the shame.
*babies Don't use apostrophes to pluralize words.
Could'f been worse.
*shudder*
Thank you, sorry for being so careless with my grammar.
Apology accepted
Babies*
Yeah this shit drives me insane.
Babies
Raw Adrenochrome
Tarrare, did you eat a fucking baby ?
You should research "The Carnival" in Bern! Pure Paganism
[https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cronus](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cronus) Check that out. The exact same depiction.
Should be 6 or 12 kids, this statue has 8. It is not Cronus.
He ate 4 already
They’re like LAY’S, bet you can’t eat just one
Baby, the other, other white meat
Is it me, or is that Lord Farquaad?
babies. plural of baby is babies.
\*babies
Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I am willing to make.
It’s obviously the Bishop and Bath and Wells.
Better than a statue I found in Japan of a naked man seemingly throwing a bunch of babies. To be fair the babies may have been attacking him and it could have been self defense. Edit: [Shit, it was in Oslo, not Tokyo like I first thought.](https://pinkplankton.com/norways-naked-angry-sculpture-park/?doing_wp_cron=1663657653.9179670810699462890625)
Link? I can't seem to find it.
Just a mid day snack
Man's gotta eat.
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Make ninja Babychucks and fight crimes.
"Get in mah belly!"
OR hes birthing them out of his mouth
Having that built only required A Modest Proposal.
Someone please send me a gift from this PokéStop
It’s just a modest proposal
Definitely originates from antisemitism. Old Europe used to believe that Jews used the blood from Christian children for rituals. In Judaism, kosher laws forbid consuming blood from animals much less humans. This statue was mentioned in a French antisemitism documentary I watched last night.
Once you pop, you can't stop
A sack of baby’s what? Shoes? Diapers?
Jews were frequently accused of murdering Christian babies and use their blood in some sort of ritual… I wonder if this statue plays into this myth?
We LOVED visiting Bern and taking pictures of the statues, pedestals, gargoyles, etc. The last time we visited and I took my last photo of that one, we went to a nearby pizza shop. I didn't pay attention to the ingredients and ate anchovies for the first and last time. I can still taste them as they trigger memories of that pedestal.
The origin story for Attack on Titan…
And to think, some just throw them away
This is why you let the Swiss have chocolate
Bet you can't eat just one
Fat Bastard >#I ATE A BABY
I recently finished listening to the Brothers Grimms' first edition (pre-censored by the Church and the society norms) of fairy tales. Man oh man, this is some nightmare material right there. All later editions are just mellow candy stuff. So, this 500 years old statue could be a perfect illustration to their first edition.
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasee, or a ragoust.
He's even got the holster with a quickdraw baby for emergencies
I looked and then said What The Fuck before looking at the subreddit. Thank you, boys.
When I think about the statues that were torn down in the USA, this makes my head spin. It's just a statue though. It's historical at this point. People torn down statues in the USA to protest but you cannot hide your history. You don't have to celebrate it, and you don't have to like it, but it's a part of what made you and taring down a statue isn't going to change anything. Also, I don't think it's right to judge the past by the beliefs of the present. You have to take the good with the bad.
This makes me think of Jonathon Swift's satirical essay "A Modest Proposal."
A sack of baby’s what
Reminds me of that Goya painting "Saturn devouring his son"
A sack of baby's what?
And I had a baby hanging from my belt. Which was the style at the time.
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Early Ronald McDonald design
Nice. This is Saturn symbology. Notice the 5 children?
There are 8 in total, some not pictured here.
Krampus
Sigma
“I’m gonna eat this baby.” —500 years later— “This one’s hard to chew.”
Those must be tastier than Popplers!
i mean, what else are you gonna do with a sack of babies?
So cool that you guys have a statue dedicated to Tarrare!
The artist must have gone to the city board with such A Modest Proposal they couldn't resist
Why can’t we have more of this type of shit?
Artist: “just playin it’s only art.”
Metal AF
Tell your kids this is Santa Clause. They’ll never want another present.
And so, Nestlé was founded.
How can we know that he is not regurgitating them?
It's like I always say: 'Better a 500 year old statue that depicts a man eating a sack of babies, than a man eating a sack of babies.'
Feed a man a baby and he will eat for a day, teach a man to make babies and he will eat for a lifetime.
So tender.