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Download as PDF Printable version. Hansel and Gretel by The Brothers Grimm. The girl knew what her intentions were so she pushed her inside the oven and she burned to death.

Gretel freed Hansel and before they went home they gathered all of the gold and took it with them. They decided to go home to their father.

He was thrilled about their arrival and they lived happily ever after. The stepmom died while the kids were held captive. Hansel is shown as a sensible, careful and good boy who comforts his sister in times of need.

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Zipes, Jack Hackett Publishing. At the very moment they were holding their daggers to his throat he saw me, and begged me to come and tell you the condition he is in.

You should give me everything he has of value, without keeping back anything at all, for otherwise they will kill him without mercy. Because his case is so very urgent, he lent me his boots you see I have them on , that I might make the more haste and to show you that he himself has sent me to you.

Thus Little Thumb got all the ogre' s money. He returned with it to his father's house, where he was received with great joy.

There are many people who do not agree with this last detail. They claim that Little Thumb never robbed the ogre at all, that he only made off with the seven-league boots, and that with a good conscience, because the ogre's only use of them was to pursue little children.

These folks affirm that they are quite sure of this, because they have often drunk and eaten at the woodcutter's house.

These people claim that after taking off the ogre's boots, Little Thumb went to court, where he learned that there was much concern about the outcome of a certain battle and the condition of a certain army, which was two hundred leagues off.

They say that he went to the king, and told him that, if he desired it, he would bring him news from the army before night.

The king promised him a great sum of money if he could do so. Little Thumb was as good as his word, and returned that very same night with the news.

This first feat brought him great fame, and he could then name his own price. Not only did the king pay him very well for carrying his orders to the army, but the ladies of the court paid him handsomely to bring them information about their lovers.

Occasionally wives gave him letters for their husbands, but they paid so poorly, that he did not even bother to keep track of the money he made in this branch of his business.

After serving as a messenger for some time and thus acquiring great wealth, he went home to his father, where he was received with inexpressible joy.

He made the whole family very comfortable, bought positions for his father and brothers, all the while handsomely looking after himself as well.

Moral: It is no affliction to have many children, if they all are good looking, courteous, and strong, but if one is sickly or slow-witted, he will be scorned, ridiculed, and despised.

However, it is often the little urchin who brings good fortune to the entire family. Edited by D. Links to related sites: Little Thumb.

The above tale in a single file. The above tale in the original French. Charles Perrault's Mother Goose Tales. Les contes de Perrault.

A French-language site featuring Perrault's tales. Molly Whuppie England Once upon a time there was a man and a wife had too many children, and they could not get meat for them, so they took the three youngest and left them in a wood.

They traveled and traveled and could never see a house. It began to be dark, and they were hungry. At last they saw a light and made for it; it turned out to be a house.

They knocked at the door, and a woman came to it, who said, "What do you want? Ye won't touch, 'em, man. Now he had three lassies of his own, and they were to sleep in the same bed with the three strangers.

The youngest of the three strange lassies was called Molly Whuppie, and she was very clever. She noticed that before they went to bed the giant put straw ropes round her neck and her sisters', and round his own lassies' necks, he put gold chains.

So Molly took care and did not fall asleep, but waited till she was sure everyone was sleeping sound. Then she slipped out of bed, and took the straw ropes off her own and her sisters' necks, and took the gold chains off the giant's lassies.

She then put the straw ropes on the giant's lassies and the gold on herself and her sisters, and lay down. And in the middle of the night up rose the giant, armed with a great club, and felt for the necks with the straw.

It was dark. He took his own lassies out of the bed on to the floor, and battered them until they were dead, and then lay down again, thinking he had managed finely.

Molly thought it time she and her sisters were off and away, so she wakened them and told them to be quiet, and they slipped out of the house.

They all got out safe, and they ran and ran, and never stopped until morning, when they saw a grand house before them. It turned out to be a king's house; so Molly went in, and told her story to the king.

He said, "Well, Molly, you are a clever girl, and you have managed well; but, if you would manage better, and go back, and steal the giant's sword that hangs on the back of his bed, I would give your eldest sister my eldest son to marry.

So she went back, and managed to slip into the giant's house, and crept in below the bed. The giant came home, and ate up a great supper, and went to bed.

Molly waited until he was snoring, and she crept out, and reached over the giant and got down the sword; but just as she got it out over the bed it gave a rattle, and up jumped the giant, and Molly ran out at the door and the sword with her; and she ran, and he ran, till they came to the "Bridge of one hair"; and she got over, but he couldn't and he says, "Woe worth ye, Molly Whuppie!

Well, the king he says, "Ye've managed well, Molly; but if ye would manage better, and steal the purse that lies below the giant's pillow, I would marry your second sister to my second son.

So she set out for the giant's house, and slipped in, and hid again below the bed, and waited till the giant had eaten his supper, and was snoring sound asleep.

She slipped out and slipped her hand below the pillow, and got out the purse; but just as she was going out the giant wakened, and ran after her; and she ran, and he ran, till they came to the "Bridge of one hair," and she got over, but he couldn't, and he said, "Woe worth ye, Molly Whuppie!

After that the king says to Molly, "Molly, you are a clever girl, but if you would do better yet, and steal the giant's ring that he wears on his finger, I will give you my youngest son for yourself.

So back she goes to the giant's house, and hides herself below the bed. The giant wasn't long ere he came home, and, after he had eaten a great big supper, he went to his bed, and shortly was snoring loud.

Molly crept out and reached over the bed, and got hold of the giant's hand, and she pulled and she pulled until she got off the ring; but just as she got it off the giant got up, and gripped her by the hand and he says, "Now I have caught you, Molly Whuppie; and, if I done as much ill to you as ye have done to me, what would ye do to me?

So he gets a sack, and puts Molly into it, and the cat and the dog beside her, and a needle and thread and shears, and hangs her up upon the wall, and goes to the wood to choose a stick.

Molly she sings out, "Oh, if ye saw what I see. So Molly took the shears and cut a hole in the sack, and took out the needle and thread with her, and jumped down and helped the giants wife up into the sack, and sewed up the hole.

The giant's wife saw nothing, and began to ask to get down again; but Molly never minded, but hid herself at the back of the door. Home came the giant, and a great big tree in his hand, and he took down the sack, and began to batter it.

His wife cried, "It's me, man"; but the dog barked and the cat mewed, and he did not know his wife's voice. But Molly came out from the back of the door, and the giant saw her and he ran after her; and he ran, and she ran, till they came to the "Bridge of one hair," and she got over, but he couldn't; and he said, "Woe worth you, Mollie Whuppie!

Jacobs' source: W. Gregor's source: "The following folk-tales have been communicated to me by Mr. Moir, Rector of the Grammar School, Aberdeen.

Jacobs' revisions to Gregor's text consist primarily of changing the name Mally Whuppy to Molly Whuppy , and substituting standard English terms for the various Scottish dialect expressions used in the original.

The tale "Molly Whuppie" combines elements from several traditional folktale types: Type , "The Children and the Ogre" a generic heading.

Type A, "Hansel and Gretel" children abandoned by their parents. Type B, "The Brothers [here sisters] and the Ogre" an ogre tricked into killing his own children.

Jan and Hanna Poland Now once upon a time there were a father and a mother who had a large flock of children. The father went to town and bought a scoopful of peas and gave each child one pea, but Jan and Hanna did not get any.

This made them cry. The father said, "Be quiet and don't cry. I am going into the forest to chop wood.

You can come along and look for berries. The father took a breadboard and a rolling pin with him and hung them on a tree. He said to Jan and Hanna, "Just go and pick berries.

You can pick berries as long as I am chopping wood. The wind blew the breadboard and the rolling pin against each other, and they thought their father was still chopping wood, so they continued to pick berries.

After they had eaten until they were full and had filled their little buckets as well, they went and looked for their father.

They came to the place where the breadboard and the rolling pin were hanging, but no father was there. They cried, then ran about in the woods shouting, but they did not find anyone.

Suddenly they came to a little gingerbread house. They began to crumble off some little pieces: crumble, crumble from Old Vera's little house! They quickly hid themselves so she could not find them.

But they continued to crumble little pieces off the little house: crumble, crumble from Old Vera's little house. Then she ran out very fast and caught them.

She took them inside and said, "Now I am going to fatten you up," and she locked them into a little stall and gave them nothing but bread and milk to eat.

After a while she wanted to see if they were fattened up enough. Are you fattened up yet? But he stuck out the little whistle he had brought from home.

They have to journey through the dark forest without clothes and supplies. And just as they are starving, they come upon a house with good-smelling food, and decide to temporarily stay there in a care of an old woman.

However, as they recover from fatigue and hunger in the house, they uncover suspicious things which might prevent them from getting to their destination at all.

Written by heyitsnuel. Leakey are left by their mother and they must cross a dark wood seeking out work and food. They stumble upon a house with a feast on the table and Hansel opens the door to get some food.

Out of the blue, an old woman Alice Krige surprises the little boy and offers a job to the siblings. But soon the smart Gretel feels that something evil lives in the house.

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