It’s a little-known fact that, in the original Brother’s Grimm story of Hansel and Gretel, Hansel and Gretel do not get lost in the woods. In fact, they are led into the woods and abandoned by a father that could no longer feed them and was tired of his wife’s nagging to rid their home of the two children. The kiddos then meet the devil and his wife in the woods, and end up tricking the devil’s wife into-no, not being pushed into the oven-but to being tied to a sawhorse which was meant for Hansel. The children then [REDACTED] and take all the devil’s money and return home to the father who abandoned them with wealth the family never dreamed of possessing.
Illegal Notion: Hansel and Gretel
