The Robber Bridegroom This tale by the Brother's Grimm starts with a marriage if the beautiful miller's daughter and a suitor. She had never visited her suitor before so he arranged for her to meet him by laying ashes down as for a path for him to get to her. When she saw the trail of ashes, she didn't quite trust it so she marked the path with her own peas and lentils. She arrived at the house with a very eerie feeling. Voices inside the house were telling her to turn back and that the house was full of murderers. She searched the house long and hard for the bridegroom but he was no where to be found. She arrived in the basement and found a very old woman. She asked the old woman where she could find her bridegroom and the old woman told her that her bridegroom was a murderer and he was going to chop her up into little pieces. The old woman told her she would hide her and get her out later after the murderers had gone to sleep. She hid her behind a barrel as the m...
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Similar?... the Brother's Grimm tale and MGM's film of "Hansel and Gretal" incorporate two young siblings, one boy and one girl, who are very connected to each other and are very good friends. In both, the siblings are coerced into the woods and then later get lost in the nighttime after their bread trail had been eaten by animals. They come across the a gingerbread house that is covered in edible, delicious candy. They begin to eat the house and get invited in by the witch who lives in it. The witch has very poor eyesight, so she is easily tricked. The kids are then in immediate danger because the witch intends to cook them and eat them. The witch chooses Hansel to eat first and cages him, in order to fatten him up for a nice meal. Hansel tricks her into thinking he is not getting any fatter, by sticking a chicken bone out of the cage when she wants to feel his finger. This upsets the witch and she decides to eat Gretal first. However, Gretal tricks her into look...