This week we’re reading:
13: The Three Little Men in the Woods
14: The Three Spinning Women
15: Hansel and Grethel
16. The Three Snake-Leaves
13: The Three Little Men in the Woods
14: The Three Spinning Women
15: Hansel and Grethel
16. The Three Snake-Leaves
The thing that is most distressing about Hansel and Grethel is not the witch or even the child shoving her in the oven, but the mother who rather than protecting her children is willing to let them die of hunger or worse in the woods! The father seems a weak character, not standing up and looking after his children. I suppose there is realism in the story in the sense that similar things do happen in life!