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A woodcutter's wife talks her husband into abandoning their children in the forest twice. The second time the children find a house made of bread and sugar - and inside it, a witch who fattens children to eat them.
Hansel
A hungry child who tries to make the forest readable with stones, crumbs, and courage.
The Forest
Leave home, step under the trees, and every voice and house becomes a test you can fail.
A single marvel ignites the king's greed, and now nothing less will satisfy him.
Read →The King Wants The Bird
As the clock struck twelve he heard a rustling noise in the air, and a bird came flying that was of pure gold; and as it was snapping at one of the apples with its beak, the gardener’s son jumped up and shot an arrow at it. But the arrow did the bird no harm; only it dropped a golden feather from its tail, and then flew away.
The golden feather was brought to the king in the morning, and all the council was called together. Everyone agreed that it was worth more than all the wealth of the kingdom: but the king said, ‘One feather is of no use to me, I must have the whole bird.’
The king cannot enjoy what he actually has. His whole council agrees the single feather outshines everything else he owns, and instead of being satisfied he is made greedy by it: one dazzling piece only sharpens his hunger for the creature that dropped it. This is the engine of the whole tale in one line, the demand that sends others off on an impossible errand while the king stays home and waits.
Hansel and Gretel are abandoned - find the witch's house - Gretel kills the witch
A woodcutter's wife talks her husband into abandoning their children in the forest twice. The second time the children find a house made of bread and sugar - and inside it, a witch who fattens children to eat them.
White Pebbles
A boy's pocketful of stones outwits the parents who meant to lose him.
Gretel
The frightened sister who becomes the rescuer at the oven door.
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