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PROMPT May 15th Many fairy tales are often based in truth. Research the true story behind your favorite fairy tale and share it with your readers. What lesson or warning was the tale trying to impart? Hansel and Gretel The tale of Hansel and Gretel could have been told to keep children from wandering off. But during the great famine of 1315-1317 A. D. that crushed most of continental Europe and England, disease, mass death, infanticide and cannibalism increased exponentially. Seeking relief, some desperate parents deserted their children and slaughtered their draft animals. Or Hansel and Gretel might have stumbled upon the home of the successful baker, Katharina Schraderin. In the 1600s, she concocted such a scrumptious ginger bread cookie that a jealous male baker accused her of being a witch. After being driven from town, a posse of angry neighbors hunted her down, brought her back to her home, and burned her to death in her own oven. from; https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fairy-tale-true-story_b_6102602 Hansel and Gretel was always one of my favorite fairy tales. The fact that these two children would go wandering away from home and leave themselves a trail made of breadcrumbs that the birds would eat so they couldn't get back home always made me stick close to home. I picture these two as well-fed rotund German children ambling through the forest and stumbling upon a house made of sweets. Licorice fences and lollypop posts, the house made of gingerbread with spun sugar windows; it would have been an obese child's dream. Then I picture the witch, seeing these plump little souls eating her house! Oh! The plans she would have for them! Dinner plans! Then I read the above snippet and the story lost the cuteness. Cannibalism and infanticide, jealous bakers! Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. |
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