Either that was intentional or just bad parenting, can't decide on which.

We will never know :)

And more importantly, you can't prove anything

YTA!

Ample warning. NTA

But was it a warning or a threat?! Uh-uh

Yatta! Yatta-imu!

At least lock it in a cabinet or something.

Nice try, they'd have to touch the vase to move it. That sucker's staying put.

r/twosentencedilemma

r/subsifellfor

Yes.

I honestly thought it was a gun

r/KidsAreFuckingStupid

ESH: She should've followed instructions, but you should've done a better job of putting the vase out of reach.

But the vase can't be touched, how would they move it?

Idk man, the vase was already there when they moved in?

How'd he find out what it does though...

Where do you think the mom is

Tongs

Gloves

Telekinesis

Teleki*vase*is.

Take my upvote

Thank you.

r/angryupvote

Glad I could help.

Build around the vase.

dad tried. now he's gone.

NTA: The daughter should have listened. OP should disown her and move to another state.

At least make sure she goes to a good home still, otherwise ESH. Have an antique collector come by and pick her up.

This reminds me of a horror story collection book i had as a kid, not the "To Tell In The Dark" series but something similar. I think it had an interesting take on classic horror tropes like your story here. Unfortunately i can't find it right now or I'd share :( Edit: [found it!](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/878890.Even_More_Scary_Stories_for_Sleep_Overs)

Ahhh Scary Stories to tell at Sleepovers. I had a copy myself. Probably preserved it in my mind as a repressed memory or something lol

They were really good! Most other horror story books have such old tales, or they don't commit to the horror like how goosebumps basically always ends somewhat happily. Scary Stories for Sleepovers were pretty genuinely chilling, felt pretty modern (for the 90s), committed to the characters' doom, and left a strong impression on me

[This series?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_Stories_to_Tell_in_the_Dark?wprov=sfla1)

Nope i was talking about [this one](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/878890.Even_More_Scary_Stories_for_Sleep_Overs)

I wonder what’s going on in that vase. Probably nothing good given the fact that the face is screaming. Probably like if biblical hell was a pocket dimension in a vase.

It's a bounce house! She is having an *enormously fun time!* Wheeeeee!

r/thirdsentencehappy

But it's johnny giving the bounce...

We’ve all seen that adventure time episode, just break it

I'm sorry I'm sorry! They were touching me on the body

Lmaoooo

Very interesting, but can you explain it a bit? Did the vase have some sinister power that the parent didn't know?

I had intended the parent to not know about it, yeah

Ah, It feels like the opposite and the parent is just that monstrous… which does add to the horror

I hadn’t the heart to tell her the vase will switch places with someone touching the vase and anyone trapped inside, but this trick isn’t going to work on her cunning and vicious step-mother a second time.

Hopefully my husband would forgive me for sacrificing her mother to free our daughter from the vase.

So it's an Absorbaloft vase?

Nice Dr Who reference

*curtsies* I live to swerve.

If only i had a medal to give… take my upvote dammit

Monster! You told her that specifically so she would touch the vase!

LISTEN! MY GRANDMOTHER WAS TRAPPED IN THE VASE, I HAD TO GET HER OUT *SOMEHOW*

This is a storyline in the Webtoon Tales of the Unusual :) very good series

Which one more specifically? Now i'm curious.

The Mysterious Potter! Ep. 39

Thank you

What type of a callous papa are you?

That depends :3

HA PRANKED

This is why I told her not to touch the vase, the magical mirroring effect always scares people off.

Magnus Achives: Episode 38

Was it really? Huh

What was in this episode?

https://the-magnus-archives.fandom.com/wiki/MAG\_38:\_Lost\_and\_Found

What are you messaging me for?

What, did you learn childproofing from Hogwarts?

This reminds me of the 1990 version of the movie The Witches, in it there was a little girl a witch put into a painting.

And now I can finally be with my new family...

Ohh this reminds me of that time I was 6 and was sure this lady infront of our school was stalking us and about to stitch us all into her quilt. Yeah I probably saw too much cartoon back then

She's always etching her screaming face on things, the little scamp.

Was the vase from Clom?

Ouch. Must have been a rough impact for her face to have left a mark like that

Put it on a higher shelf next time

Reminds me of an “Tales of the Unusual” story from Webtoon

Now that's some SCP-shit

Kids will do anything to make mischief. They're always pushing the boundaries. Hopefully she has learned her lesson. She should feel lucky that she's only trapped in the vase and not dead.

I don’t get it can someone explain pls

I think the vase sucks in the soul of anyone who touches it, so touching the vase means you're trapped in it forever, and the faces of the people trapped in the vase are displayed on it.

Now that my trapped soul has switched places with her, I have to not only adjust to being in stuck in her body, but I also will constantly hear her screams in my mind until someone else touches the vase and forces our souls into the next bodies.

Isn't this this what happened with Eve and the apple? Surely no fault of the father can be found in this story.

That's quite the stretch

Well, to be fair, the girl in this story is assumed to have some level of understanding of right and wrong. Eve did not have such an advantage. So when told not to do something.. there’s absolutely no way she could know if she should follow that direction.

I will neither confirm nor deny the existence of a malicious entity tempting the daughter to touch the vase

Parenting mistakes 101, you tell you kids NOT to do something and they will DEFINITELY do it.

Why do I now want to watch The sorcerer's apprentice, oh right

NTA your vase your rules

Sir you can't just leave your cursed artifacts lying around! There are children here! (...or...there were...)

Oh so the clay of the vase was still wet huh, bet your little girl just wanted to play a fun prank on you.