And then there's that fearsome line in the "Now I lay me down to sleep" prayer: If I should die before I wake.

But sometimes I wonder if kids really "get" some of these as horrible. I absolutely loved Grimm's Fairy tales, and my mother hated some of them--she used to say that it seemed that the more savage they were, the better I liked them! Now, thinking back on some of them, I too am horrified. I remember one, Falada, where the old horse's head was nailed up on the wall...[shudder].