...When I was in year 2 (6/7 years old) my teacher used to tell us a story/poem about a big scary man who would come round to kids houses and chop little children's thumbs off if they sucked them. I can't remember what it's called or who wrote it. I'm hoping one of you fine people will have a clue? Please help, it's driving me mad. Cheers x
2007-06-23 11:48:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The long red legged scissor man who snipped off the kiddies' thumbs????? Cant remember the author, Edward Lear?
"The door flew open, in he ran / The great long red legged scissor man. ... there said Mama I knew he'd come to naughty little suck-a-thumb. I remember a eally nasty frightening cartoon picture that went with it
I remember now Steuwelpeter
Heinrich Hoffman (1809 - 1894
2007-06-23 11:57:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sue the school for allowing a teacher to intimidate children like that. Get checked out by a shrink, and let them know you have been damaged by this foolishness.
Statistically, thumb sucking is/was undertaken by children who are now in the top ten percent of the population intellectually.
2007-06-23 11:58:09 · answer #2 · answered by wonkyfella 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What a horrible story to tell children who suck their thumbs! I remember when I was a child, my grandfather told me plant stalks would grow out of my thumb if I sucked it. That was bad enough.
2007-06-23 18:36:17 · answer #3 · answered by missyshell05 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's actually Struwwelpeter, the name of the book; means 'shock-headed Peter'; there was a pic of this Peter on the front, with crazy hair like the guy in Eraserhead. It had Little Johnny Head-in -Air, and Harriet and the Matches, what else..
2007-06-23 12:49:14 · answer #4 · answered by Louise L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
confident i do and it wasn't little white lie the two! They took me to boarding college (As a boarder) while i grow to be 7 years previous. i did no longer desire to flow, grow to be crying i did no longer desire to stay, needed to flow to college with my friends (no longer at boarding college). They advised me it grow to be for me! They needed me to do relatively properly and in boarding college i'd and that i'd make great friends, additionally that the nuns would be greater useful than my treachers have been. i did no longer make many friends, nuns have been not greater useful than instructors, in fact they have been nasty! And it became out that they weren't looking forward to my excelling in school yet only keeping me out of how on an analogous time as they have been given on with the nitty gritty of divorce. They not at all advised me approximately that the two! It grow to be a nun who defined i could no longer flow abode on the week-end through fact my dad and mom have been getting a divorce! I felt completely crushed, deserted and so scared! To make it worse i realised then that even dad and mom advised lies! That grow to be yet another downer!
2016-10-03 00:48:10 · answer #5 · answered by raffone 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I remember this one (in fact it scared me a hell of a lot when I was a kid). Louise L's answer is right.
You should try reading the new Jasper Fford book - he features in it and is defeated! Yippeee!!
2007-06-27 01:48:38 · answer #6 · answered by SG 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shel Silverstein has a Thumbsuckers poem, but I don't think that's what you are looking for.
2007-06-24 09:57:17 · answer #7 · answered by ♥Instantkarma♥♫ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I evidently sucked an Elephants trunk instead.
2007-06-23 13:00:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I truly remember something about that, but I have no idea where it is from, sorry I can't be of any help.
2007-06-23 12:09:24 · answer #9 · answered by immie123 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
erm no i dont.......
2007-06-23 11:57:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋