#otesanek

The Incredible Genre of Darker Horror Adaptations of Fairytales That Dive Deep of The Gothic Side Beneath Their Story's Origin Roots.

Day 30 of Inktober, a Foreign Folklore Character by the name, "Otesanek".

Mostly likely from Czech Folklore.

The story goes behind Otesanek was that an Infertile Couple really wanted a Child so bad but they couldn't. So one day, the Husband finds a Log Stump shaped like a Child as he gives it to his own Wife but surprisingly, when the Wooded-Shaped Baby was now alive, he ordered his Adopted Mother to feed him (the Wife did everything she could to feed her own Adopted Son with some food) but as the Baby kept on growing, he ate both of his Parents which caused him to go on a Glutton rampage, making him even more bigger when he ate his Next Victims (who were also both Humans and Animals). Unfortunately, things don't really last for Otesanek as an Elderly Farmer cuts up his Stomach (after when he was eating her cabbages), causing the Wooden Child's belly to split up as all of his Human victims escape (even his own Parents, who never really wished to have a child again).

Little Otik or, as I like to call him, Logchamp 

video stills from Otesanek (2000) Jan Švankmajer

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