Did anyone else get told the story of how St Nicholas saved some kids who had been cut up and put in a barrel by restoring their form, and then take it as true without questioning it?
Looking back on it I really should've asked "How?" a lot more when I was younger. Anyone else feel somewhat embarrassed about how naive and gullible you are as a kid?
2007-12-06 22:12:35 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
JC: Ahem, this was a story told during a Church of England primary school assembly. Although tbh my parents weren't exactly the best but that's not exactly your call now is it.
2007-12-06 22:20:17 · update #1
I knew I wasn't making it up. From the Internets:
"Another legend tells how a terrible famine struck the island and a malicious butcher lured three little children into his house, and killed and slaughtered them and put their remains in a barrel to cure, planning to sell them off as ham. Saint Nicholas, visiting the region to care for the hungry, not only saw through the butcher's horrific crime but also managed to resurrect the three boys from the barrel."
2007-12-06 22:22:10 · update #2
It's brain-washing from birth, it is a form of child abuse as far as I am concerned, and the scariest part of all ; there are people who really believe it all to be true..
Blessings.. )O(
2007-12-06 22:24:51 · answer #1 · answered by Bunge 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No more than how naive and gullible adults are. You are expected to be naive and gullible as a Kid. I had never heard the story by the way.
2007-12-07 06:24:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. But as a kid I totally fell for the one about an invisible man creating everything with the power of his thoughts and then sending his kid to earth, who proceeded to walk on water, raise the dead, was killed and came back to life again 3 days later.
Then I grew up and found out it was all rubbish.
2007-12-07 06:16:36 · answer #3 · answered by penster_x 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Childhood and gullibility go hand in hand. Embarrassment enters the picture only when this same gullibility is carried over into adulthood.
I never heard that particular story, Leopold. Thanks for sharing .
2007-12-07 06:17:02 · answer #4 · answered by iamnoone 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God, you have some screwed up parents.
EDIT: Okay, so it wasn't your parents. Still, a story about kids being cut up and put in a barrel is kind of a disturbing image to put into a child's mind.
2007-12-07 06:17:44 · answer #5 · answered by JC 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I remember that story. Scared bloody hell out of me.
2007-12-07 07:32:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋