Editing Struwwelpeter (section)

==The stories==
[[File:H Hoffmann Struwwel 10.jpg|thumb|upright|Nikolas, as he is about to dunk three boys in his inkstand. Illustration from a 1917 edition.]]

#''Struwwelpeter'' describes a lazy, dirty boy who does not groom himself properly and is consequently unpopular.
#''Die Geschichte vom bösen Friederich'' ("The Story of Wicked Frederick"): A violent boy terrorizes animals and people. Eventually he is bitten by a dog, who goes on to eat the boy's food while Frederick is bedridden.
#''Die gar traurige Geschichte mit dem Feuerzeug'' ("The Very Sad Tale with the Matches"): A girl plays with matches, accidentally ignites herself and burns to death. Only her cats mourn her.
#''Die Geschichte von den schwarzen Buben'' ("The Story of the Inky Boys"): Nikolas (or "Agrippa" in some translations)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12116/12116-h/12116-h.htm#The_Story_of_the_Inky_Boys|title=Project Gutenberg eBook of Struwwelpeter, Merry Stories and Funny Pictures, by Heinrich Hoffman|website=www.gutenberg.org}}</ref> catches three boys teasing a dark-skinned boy. To teach them a lesson, he dips them in black ink.
#''Die Geschichte von dem wilden Jäger'' ("The Story of the Wild Huntsman") is the only story not primarily focused on children. In it, a hare steals a hunter's musket and eyeglasses and begins to hunt the hunter. In the ensuing chaos, the hare's child is burned by hot coffee and the hunter jumps into a well.
#''Die Geschichte vom Daumenlutscher'' ("The Story of the Thumb-Sucker"): A mother warns her son Konrad not to [[thumb sucking|suck his thumbs]]. However, when she goes out of the house he resumes his thumb-sucking, until a roving tailor appears and cuts off his thumbs with giant scissors.
#''Die Geschichte vom Suppen-Kaspar'' ("The Story of Soup-Kaspar") begins as Kaspar (or "Augustus" in some translations), a healthy, strong boy, proclaims that he will no longer eat his soup. Over the next five days, he becomes skinny, wastes away, and dies. The last illustration shown is of his grave, which has a soup tureen atop it.
#''Die Geschichte vom Zappel-Philipp'' ("The Story of Fidgety Philip"): A boy who won't sit still at dinner accidentally knocks all of the food onto the floor, to his parents' great displeasure.
#''Die Geschichte von Hans Guck-in-die-Luft'' ("The Story of Johnny Look-In-The-Air") concerns a boy who habitually fails to watch where he is walking. One day he walks into a river; he is soon rescued, but his briefcase drifts away.
#''Die Geschichte vom fliegenden Robert'' ("The Story of Flying Robert"): A boy goes outside during a storm. The wind catches his umbrella and lifts him high into the air, with the boy sailing into the distance.