![]() ![]() Thienemann said it made the changes with the consent of the Preußler family, but the publisher has nonetheless been attacked in the German press. The children had a half-holiday from school because of the carnival, and they were romping about the village square in fancy dress." No – it was carnival time in the village. The Chinese women, the cannibal, the Eskimo girl, the desert sheikh and the Hottentot chief were not part of the show either. ![]() "The two little Negro boys didn't come from the circus," writes the award-winning translator Anthea Bell in an English edition. The word "Neger", seen as politically incorrect in Germany today, is used during a section of the story when the witch and her raven Abraxas see a group of children in fancy dress for a carnival. ![]()
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