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Hänsel und Gretel

Hansel and Gretel

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1Die weißen SteineThe white stonesFree0:00
2Der Weg nach HauseThe way home5:00
3Das Haus aus BrotThe house of bread8:59
4Die HexeThe witch13:59
5Der OfenThe oven18:36

In a famine a poor woodcutter's wife persuades him to leave his children, Hänsel and Gretel, in the forest. The first time Hänsel's white pebbles lead them home; the second time birds eat his breadcrumbs and they are lost. A white bird leads them to a house of bread, cake and sugar, where an old witch takes them in, cages Hänsel to fatten him and makes Gretel her servant. When the witch wants to bake Gretel, Gretel pushes her into the oven, frees her brother, and the children carry the witch's pearls and jewels home across a great water on a white duck's back, to their father; the stepmother has died.

Retold from Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, Band 1, 7. Auflage (Ausgabe letzter Hand, 1857), KHM 15 by Brüder Grimm (public domain).

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