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Hansel and Gretel | The Lang Fairy Tales: The Blue Fairy Book (1889)
Come inside, children!
We present an all-time Hall of Fame fairytale: Hansel and Gretel.
If you listened to Little Thumb last week, note how this time it's the father who is sympathetic instead of the mother; also, while 'Little Thumb' encountered a masculine flesh-eating other, this week it's a feminine one. They're partner tales - but not the same one. Why?
If you are unfamiliar with the Lang Fairy Tales, these seminal collections were assembled between 1889 and 1913 by a married couple, folklorists and translators Nora and Andrew Lang, with most of the work done to compile them completed…
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