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What is the Grimm brothers' impact on the story of Hansel and Gretel?
The story of Hansel and Gretel, in which two children
outsmart a witch who is about to destroy them, was
passed down to us from the brothers Jacob and
Wilhelm Grimm. They began recording various folk tales
told to them by villagers and farmers near the town of
Kassel, Germany, in about 1807. Hansel and Gretel was
told to the brothers by a young girl, Doretchen Wild, who
years later became Wilhelm Grimm's wife. The fairy
tale gained wide popularity after German composer
Engelbert Humperdinck made it the basis of a children's
opera, first introduced in Munich in 1893. However, the
opera, as well as subsequent versions of the story,
omits the most traumatising aspect of the traditional
tale: the parents’ deliberate abandonment of their
children to the wild beasts of the forest. Another
important feature of Hansel and Gretel is that it was not
only known through German oral tradition. A version
circulating in France as early as the late 17th century
had a house made not of gingerbread but of gold and
jewels, in which a young girl is held by a giant whom she
eventually pushes into his own fire. However, it was the
Grimm brothers who immortalised the tale for future
generations – an excellent story that every child
throughout the world should come across.