The main characters of the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm "Hansel and Gretel" (another name is "The Gingerbread House") are brother and sister. Their father was a woodcutter, the children's mother died and her stepmother lived in the house instead. When hard times came and there was absolutely nothing to eat in the house, the stepmother began to persuade her husband to take the children to the forest and leave them there. The father did not agree for a long time, he loved his children, but the stepmother managed to persuade him.

The children heard this conversation, and Hansel came up with a solution for how to get them back from the forest. He secretly collected pockets full of pebbles, and when the adults led them into the forest, he threw stones so that later he would find his way through them.

In the forest, the woodcutter and his wife made a fire, left their children near it, and quietly left. The children ate bread by the fire and fell asleep. They only woke up when it got dark. Gretel began to cry, but her brother comforted her. He said in the light of the moon you can clearly see the pebbles that he sketched, they will bring them home.

And so it happened, the children returned to the house by pebbles. The parents pretended to be waiting for the children and began to reproach them for staying in the forest.

After some time, there was again nothing to eat in the house, and again the brother and sister were taken to the forest. But it was not possible to collect pebbles, because at night the stepmother locked the door. Hansel had to throw bread crumbs instead of pebbles.

When the children tried to return home, they saw that all the crumbs had been eaten by the inhabitants of the forest. Trying to find the way, the children got lost. For three days they wandered through the forest until they came to an unusual house. Its walls were made of bread, the roof was made of gingerbread, and candies were inserted in the windows instead of glass. Hungry children jumped on the gingerbread house and began to break it into pieces in order to get enough.

An old woman came out of the house and persuaded her brother and sister to go inside. She fed and watered them, and then put them to bed. This old woman was a witch, and she planned to eat the children. In the morning, she put Hansel under lock and key, and Gretel made him cook food so that the boy would become plump.

One day the witch told Gretel that she would bake bread. She told the girl to get into the oven to check how well it was heated. But Gretel realized that she was in danger and pretended not to understand how to get into the oven. The displeased witch began to show her how to do it, and then the girl pushed her into the blazing furnace and closed the damper. The witch died in the fire.

Gretel freed her brother, after which they found many treasures in the witch's house. The children took as many precious stones as they could carry and went in search of their home.

On the way, they met a large lake, through which a duck helped them cross. They managed to find their way to their home. At home, they learned that the evil stepmother had died. And the father, who grieved for the missing children, welcomed them with joy. The treasures brought by the children made the family rich, and they lived happily ever after.

This is the summary of the story.

The main meaning of the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm "Hansel and Gretel" is that in difficult situations one should not panic and lose one's head. It is necessary to look for a solution to the problem and achieve the goal.

The fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm teaches not to trust strangers and not to fall for their cunning tricks, to show ingenuity and ingenuity.

In the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel" ("Gingerbread House"), I liked the main characters, Hansel and Gretel. Hansel came up with a way to find the way home with the help of pebbles, and Gretel managed to cope with the evil witch and free her brother from captivity.

What proverbs are suitable for the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel"?

A small mistake leads to big trouble.
Trust everyone - you can be deceived.
You can't take a resourceful person by surprise.

Once upon a time there lived a brother and sister, Jean and Marie. Their parents were very poor, and they lived in an old house on the edge of the forest. Children from morning till night worked, helping their father, a lumberjack. Often they returned home so tired that they did not even have the strength to eat dinner. However, it often happened that they did not have dinner at all, and the whole family went to bed hungry.

“Marie,” Jean sometimes said when, hungry, they lay in a dark room and could not sleep, “I really want a chocolate gingerbread.

“Sleep, Jean,” replied Marie, who was older and smarter than her brother.

- Oh, how I want to eat a big chocolate gingerbread with raisins! Jean sighed loudly.

But chocolate raisin cookies didn't grow on trees, and Marie and Jean's parents didn't have the money to go to town and buy them for their children. Only Sundays were joyful for children. Then Jean and Marie took baskets and went to the forest to pick mushrooms and berries.

“Don’t go too far,” my mother always reminded me.

“Nothing will happen to them,” her father reassured her. They know every tree in the forest.

One Sunday, the children, picking mushrooms and berries, were so carried away that they did not notice how the evening had come.

The sun quickly disappeared behind dark clouds, and the fir branches rustled ominously. Marie and Jean looked around fearfully. The forest no longer seemed so familiar to them.

“Marie, I’m scared,” Jean said in a whisper.

“Me too,” Marie replied. “Looks like we got lost.

The large, unfamiliar trees looked like mute giants with broad shoulders. Here and there, in the thicket, lights sparkled - someone's predatory eyes.

“Marie, I'm afraid,” Jean whispered again.

It got quite dark. The children, shivering from the cold, clung to each other. Somewhere nearby, an owl hooted, and from afar came the howl of a hungry wolf. The terrible night lasted endlessly. The children, listening to the ominous voices, never closed their eyes. Finally, the sun shone between the dense crowns of trees, and gradually the forest ceased to seem gloomy and scary. Jean and Marie got up and went to look for their way home.

They walked, walked through unfamiliar places. Huge mushrooms grew all around, much larger than what they usually collected. In general, everything was somehow unusual and strange. When the sun was already high, Marie and Jean went out into a clearing in the middle of which stood a house. Unusual house. It had a roof of chocolate gingerbread, walls of pink marzipan, and a fence of large almonds. There was a garden around it, and colorful candies grew in it, and large raisins hung on small trees. Jean couldn't believe his own eyes. He looked at Marie, swallowing his saliva.

- Gingerbread house! he exclaimed happily.

- Candy garden! Marie echoed him.

Without wasting a minute, the hungry children rushed to the wonderful house. Jean broke off a piece of gingerbread from the roof and began to gobble it up. Marie went into the garden and began to feast on marzipan carrots, then almonds from the fence, then raisins from the tree.

What a delicious roof! Jean rejoiced.

“Try a piece of the fence, Jean,” Marie suggested to him.

When the children ate the unusual delicacies, they became thirsty. Fortunately, there was a fountain in the middle of the garden, in which water gurgled, shimmering with all colors. Jean took a sip from the fountain and exclaimed in surprise:

Yes, it's lemonade!

The delighted children were drinking lemonade greedily, when suddenly a hunched old woman appeared from around the corner of the gingerbread house. She had a stick in her hand and very thick glasses on her nose.

- A delicious house, isn't it, children? she asked.

The children were silent. Frightened Marie murmured:

– We were lost in the forest... we were so hungry...

The old woman did not seem to be angry at all.

- What are you, do not be afraid, guys. Enter the house. I'll give you better treats than these.

As soon as the door of the house slammed behind Marie and Jean, the old woman changed beyond recognition. From kind and friendly, she turned into an evil witch.

- So you got it! she croaked, shaking her stick. - Is it good to have someone else's house? You pay me for this!

The children trembled and clung to each other in fear.

“What are you going to do with us for this?” Perhaps you will tell our parents everything? Marie asked scared.

The witch laughed.

- Well, it's not just that! I like children very much. Highly!

And before Marie could come to her senses, the witch grabbed Jean, pushed him into a dark closet and closed the heavy oak door behind him.

Marie, Marie! The boy's cries were heard. - I'm scared!

"Sit still, you bastard!" the witch shouted. You ate my house, now I'll eat you! But first I need to fatten you up a little, otherwise you are too thin.

Jean and Marie wept loudly. Now they were ready to give all the gingerbread in the world in order to find themselves again in a poor, but familiar house. But both the house and the parents were far away, and no one could come to their aid.

Then the evil mistress of the gingerbread house went up to the closet.

“Hey, boy, put your finger through the crack in the door,” she ordered.

Jean obediently pushed his thinnest finger through the crack. The witch touched him and said displeasedly:

Yes, just bones. Nothing, in a week you will be plump, fat.

And the witch began to intensively feed Jean. Every day she cooked delicious meals for him, brought whole armfuls of marzipan, chocolate and honey delicacies from the garden. And in the evening she ordered him to put his finger through the crack and felt it.

- Oh, my golden, you are getting fat right before our eyes.

Indeed, Jean quickly grew fat. But one day Marie came up with this.

“Jean, next time, show her this wand,” she said, and slipped a thin wand into the closet.

In the evening, the witch, as usual, turned to Jean:

- Come on, show your finger, my sweetie.

Jean slipped the wand his sister had given him. The old woman touched it and jumped back as if scalded:

- Again, only bones! Not for this I feed you, parasite, so that you are thin as a stick!

The next day, when Jean put his wand in again, the witch was seriously angry.

"You can't be still so skinny!" Show me your finger again.

And Jean put his wand in again. The old woman touched it and suddenly pulled with all her might. The wand remained in her hand.

- What is it? What is it? she shouted in rage. - Stick! Oh, you worthless deceiver! Well, now your song is sung!

She opened the closet and pulled out a frightened Jean, who had grown fat and became like a barrel.

“Well, my dear,” the old woman gloated. “I see you make a great roast!”

The children were numb with fear. And the witch lit the stove, and in a minute it was already flaring up. From there, the heat went on.

Do you see this apple? asked the old woman Jean. She took a ripe juicy apple from the table and threw it into the stove. The apple hissed in the fire, wrinkled, and then completely disappeared. The same will happen to you!

The witch grabbed a large wooden shovel, on which they usually put bread in the oven, put chubby Jean on it and put it into it. However, the boy was so fat that he could not crawl into the stove, no matter how the witch tried to shove him there.

- Well, get down! the old woman ordered. - Let's try differently. Lie down on a shovel.

“But I don’t know how to lie down,” Jean whimpered.

- What a fool! the witch muttered. - I'll show you!

And she lay down on the shovel. Marie needed just that. At that moment, she grabbed a shovel and shoved the witch right into the oven. Then she quickly closed the iron door and, grabbing her frightened brother by the hand, shouted:

- Let's run, quickly!

The children ran out of the gingerbread house and rushed without looking back towards the dark forest.

Without considering the road, they ran for a long time through the forest and slowed down only when the first stars appeared in the sky, and the forest gradually began to thin out.

Suddenly, in the distance, they noticed a faint flickering light.

- This is our house! Jean shouted out of breath.

Indeed, it was their old, rickety house. Concerned parents stood at his doorstep and peered into the darkness with anxiety and hope. How happy they were when they saw the children running towards them - Marie and Jean! And about the evil witch that lived in the deep forest, no one else heard. She probably burned down in her stove, and her fabulous house fell apart into thousands of gingerbread and marzipan crumbs, which were devoured by forest birds.

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fairy tale gingerbread house

Charles Perrault

Fairy tale Gingerbread House summary:

The tale "The Gingerbread House" is about how once children from a very poor family got lost in the forest and came across a gingerbread house with a candy garden and a lemonade fountain. Hungry children began to eat sweets and did not notice the witch. She grabbed the children, but before eating, she decided to fatten the skinny Jean. At first they were able to deceive the witch with a thin stick, which Jean put in at the request of the witch to show his finger; when the deception was revealed, the old woman decided to immediately cook the fat boy in the oven, but she could not put him in the oven. Then the witch sat down on a shovel to show how to sit on it, and Marie thrust the old woman into the fire. They immediately ran away from the gingerbread house to their home, where their beloved parents were waiting for them.

The fairy tale teaches to strive to overcome difficulties, to be smart, not to be afraid of failures and to believe in oneself; can teach to distinguish between evil and good.

Fairy tale gingerbread house read:

Once upon a time there lived a brother and sister, Jean and Marie. Their parents were very poor, and they lived in an old house on the edge of the forest. Children from morning till night worked, helping their father, a lumberjack. Often they returned home so tired that they did not even have the strength to eat dinner. However, it often happened that they did not have dinner at all, and the whole family went to bed hungry.

“Marie,” Jean sometimes said when, hungry, they lay in a dark room and could not sleep, “I really want a chocolate gingerbread.

“Sleep, Jean,” replied Marie, who was older and smarter than her brother.

- Oh, how I want to eat a big chocolate gingerbread with raisins! Jean sighed loudly.

But chocolate raisin cookies didn't grow on trees, and Marie and Jean's parents didn't have the money to go to town and buy them for their children. Only Sundays were joyful for children. Then Jean and Marie took baskets and went to the forest to pick mushrooms and berries.

“Don’t go too far,” my mother always reminded me.

“Nothing will happen to them,” her father reassured her. They know every tree in the forest.

One Sunday, the children, picking mushrooms and berries, were so carried away that they did not notice how the evening had come.

The sun quickly disappeared behind dark clouds, and the fir branches rustled ominously. Marie and Jean looked around fearfully. The forest no longer seemed so familiar to them.

“I'm scared, Marie,” Jean said in a whisper.

"Me too," Marie replied. “Looks like we got lost.

The large, unfamiliar trees looked like mute giants with broad shoulders. Here and there, in the thicket, lights sparkled - someone's predatory eyes.

“Marie, I'm afraid,” Jean whispered again.

It got quite dark. The children, shivering from the cold, clung to each other. Somewhere nearby, an owl hooted, and from afar came the howl of a hungry wolf.

The terrible night lasted endlessly. The children, listening to the ominous voices, never closed their eyes. Finally, the sun shone between the dense crowns of trees, and gradually the forest ceased to seem gloomy and scary. Jean and Marie got up and went to look for their way home.

They walked, walked through unfamiliar places. Huge mushrooms grew all around, much larger than what they usually collected. In general, everything was somehow unusual and strange.

When the sun was already high, Marie and Jean went out into a clearing in the middle of which stood a house. Unusual house. It had a roof of chocolate gingerbread, walls of pink marzipan, and a fence of large almonds. There was a garden around it, and colorful candies grew in it, and large raisins hung on small trees. Jean couldn't believe his own eyes. He looked at Marie, swallowing his saliva.

- Gingerbread house! he exclaimed happily.

- Candy garden! Marie echoed him.

Without wasting a minute, the hungry children rushed to the wonderful house. Jean broke off a piece of gingerbread from the roof and began to gobble it up. Marie went into the garden and began to feast on marzipan carrots, then almonds from the fence, then raisins from the tree.

What a delicious roof! Jean rejoiced.

“Try a piece of the fence, Jean,” Marie suggested to him.

When the children ate the unusual delicacies, they became thirsty. Fortunately, there was a fountain in the middle of the garden, in which water gurgled, shimmering with all colors. Jean took a sip from the fountain and exclaimed in surprise:

Yes, it's lemonade!

The delighted children were drinking lemonade greedily, when suddenly a hunched old woman appeared from around the corner of the gingerbread house. She had a stick in her hand and very thick glasses on her nose.

- A delicious house, isn't it, children? she asked.

The children were silent. Frightened Marie murmured:

“We…we got lost in the woods…we were so hungry…”

The old woman did not seem to be angry at all.

- Don't be afraid, guys. Enter the house. I'll give you better treats than these.

As soon as the door of the house slammed behind Marie and Jean, the old woman changed beyond recognition. From kind and friendly, she turned into an evil witch.

- So you got it! she croaked, shaking her stick. - Is it good to have someone else's house? You pay me for this!

The children trembled and clung to each other in fear.

“What are you going to do with us for this?” Perhaps you will tell our parents everything? Marie asked scared.

The witch laughed.

- Well, it's not just that! I like children very much. Highly!

And before Marie could come to her senses, the witch grabbed Jean, pushed him into a dark closet and closed the heavy oak door behind him.

- Marie! The boy's cries were heard. - I'm scared!

"Sit still, you bastard!" the witch shouted. You ate my house, now I'll eat you! But first I need to fatten you up a little, otherwise you are too thin.

Jean and Marie wept loudly. Now they were ready to give all the gingerbread in the world in order to find themselves again in a poor, but familiar house. But the house and parents were far away, and no one could come to their aid.

Then the evil mistress of the gingerbread house went up to the closet.

“Hey, boy, put your finger through the crack in the door,” she ordered.

Jean obediently pushed his thinnest finger through the crack. The witch touched him and said displeasedly:

- Just bones. Nothing, in a week you will be plump, fat.

And the witch began to intensively feed Jean. Every day she cooked delicious meals for him, brought whole armfuls of marzipan, chocolate and honey delicacies from the garden. And in the evening she ordered him to put his finger through the crack and felt it.

- My golden, you are getting fat right before our eyes.

Indeed, Jean quickly grew fat. But one day Marie came up with this.

“Jean, next time, show her this wand,” she said, and slipped a thin wand into the closet.

In the evening, the witch, as usual, turned to Jean:

- Well, show me your finger, my sweetie.

Jean slipped the wand his sister had given him. The old woman touched it and jumped back as if scalded:

- Again, only bones! Not for this I feed you, parasite, so that you are thin as a stick!

The next day, when Jean put his wand in again, the witch was seriously angry.

"You can't be still so skinny!" Show your finger again.

And Jean put his wand in again. The old woman touched it and suddenly pulled with all her might. The wand remained in her hand.

- What is it? she shouted in rage. - Stick! Oh, you wicked deceiver! Well, now your song is sung!

She opened the closet and pulled out a frightened Jean, who had grown fat and became like a barrel.

“Well, my dear,” the old woman gloated. “I see you make a great roast!”

The children were numb with fear. And the witch lit the stove, and in a minute it was already flaring up. The heat was coming from her.

Do you see this apple? asked the old woman Jean. She took a ripe juicy apple from the table and threw it into the stove. The apple hissed in the fire, wrinkled, and then completely disappeared. The same will happen to you!

The witch grabbed a large wooden shovel, on which they usually put bread in the oven, put chubby Jean on it and put it into it. However, the boy was so fat that he could not crawl into the stove, no matter how the witch tried to shove him there.

- Well, get down! the old woman ordered. - Let's try differently. Lie down on a shovel.

“But I don’t know how to lie down,” Jean whimpered.

- What a fool! the witch muttered. - I'll show you!

And she lay down on the shovel. Marie needed just that. At that moment, she grabbed a shovel and shoved the witch right into the oven. Then she quickly closed the iron door and, grabbing her frightened brother by the hand, shouted:

- Let's run, quickly!

The children ran out of the gingerbread house and rushed without looking back towards the dark forest.

Without considering the road, they ran for a long time through the forest and slowed down only when the first stars appeared in the sky, and the forest gradually began to thin out.

Suddenly, in the distance, they noticed a faint flickering light.

- This is our house! Jean shouted out of breath.

Indeed, it was their old, rickety house. Concerned parents stood at his doorstep and peered into the darkness with anxiety and hope.

How happy they were when they saw the children running towards them - Marie and Jean!

And about the evil witch that lived in the deep forest, no one else heard. She probably burned down in her stove, and her fabulous house fell apart into thousands of gingerbread and marzipan crumbs, which were devoured by forest birds.

Gingerbread house - a fairy tale about brother and sister Jean and Marie. The parents of the children were very poor, and they and the children worked all day to the point of exhaustion. Sometimes even for dinner there was not enough strength, and even if there was enough, there was often nothing to eat. Children dreamed of something sweet at night, especially the youngest Jean. Somehow they went into the forest for mushrooms and berries, got lost and wandered into the very thicket, and there - a miracle. The children could not believe their eyes. Gingerbread house and candy garden, lemonade stream and other sweets. The children ate, but then the mistress of the house returned - an evil witch ...

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Gingerbread house: summary

Sunday is Jean and Marie's favorite day of the week. It is on this day that you can walk through the forest, pick mushrooms and berries, take a break from the exhausting daily work, because the family of children is very poor. One Sunday the children got lost in the woods and had to spend the night in the middle of nowhere. They did not sleep all night, they barely endured a terrible fear, because in the forest at night it is very, very scary for small children.

In the morning they began to look for the way home, and came across someone's house. And here is the surprise! A gingerbread house, an almond fence, raisins on the trees, and a lemonade brook. The children ate sweets, but then the mistress of the house returned. At first, she seemed to them a kind old woman, but as soon as they entered the house at her invitation, the old woman turned into a witch. She locked Jean and decided to fatten him up and eat him. Every day I cooked all sorts of goodies for him, and the boy got fat right before his eyes.

Marie decided to deceive the old woman, gave her brother a thin wand so that he would show it instead of his thickened finger to the witch. But the old woman could not be deceived, she decided that same day to eat the boy. Then Marie organized everything so that the witch herself sat on the shovel, showed exactly how she would cook the boy, and then she took it and put it in the oven. The children fled. For a long time they wandered through the forest and then they saw the light of their home. Their parents were already there.

For two centuries now, the treasury of the world author's fairy tale has included the works of Jacob and the Brothers. More than two hundred folklore works of European peoples have been collected and processed, among which are the rather popular Cinderella, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, The Bremen Town Musicians, Little Red Riding Hood " and many others. Despite the fact that the authors are often accused of describing excessive cruelty, they remain loved by many generations of children, as they teach resilience and the ability to withstand adversity, kindness and mutual support, and the pursuit of justice.

Features of artistic processing

The contribution of the Grimm brothers to the development of the world, and in particular the German, literary fairy tale is truly invaluable. The main advantage of their works is that the authors, borrowing the plot from folklore, almost completely retained the content, ideological intent, composition, character traits and speech of the characters. This is confirmed, for example, by "Hansel and Gretel" - a fairy tale in German, which is distinguished by its maximum proximity to the original source. The authors only slightly changed the language form, making the work more exciting and accessible for reading. Such an approach was fundamental in the processing of folk tales, as it made it possible to convey the features of the way of life of Europeans, mainly in the Middle Ages.

The basis of the plot of the gingerbread house

According to the surviving information, the Grimm brothers heard the tale of two children named Hansel and Gretel from Dorothea Wilt - she later became Wilhelm's wife. The folklore work differs from the author's version known to us in that the little heroes were sent to the forest, dooming their mother and father to inevitable death. The Brothers Grimm somewhat softened the plot of the fundamental principle by introducing the image of a stepmother who put pressure on a weak-willed husband. By the way, a work with a similar plot can also be found in the collection of another German storyteller, L. Bechstein, as well as in folk poems and songs, which indicates the great popularity of the story of the gingerbread house among the people.

As for the cruel act of the parents, then, most likely, it has quite real circumstances under it. In 1315-17, a terrible famine broke out in Europe, including in Germany, the consequences of which were felt for another five years. Historians note that at that time there were quite possible cases of cannibalism, which are mentioned in the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel" - meaning the episode with the witch. In addition, similar plots can be found in some European stories about children who, by chance, ended up in the hands of terrible cannibals and, as a result, managed to defeat them thanks to their fearlessness and ingenuity.

The story about the gingerbread house was included in the first collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, published in 1812, and translated into many languages. The best Russian transcription was the text edited by P. Polev.

Getting to know the characters

Hansel and Gretel, brother and sister, were the children of a poor lumberjack. They lived on with their father and unkind stepmother. But hard times came when there was nothing to buy bread. And one night they heard the conversation of their parents. In response to the father's complaint that there was no food left at all, the stepmother suggested taking the brother and sister to the forest and leaving them alone. The woodcutter was indignant at first: after all, the heart is not made of stone - dooming your own children to inevitable death. Then everyone will have to die - that was the answer of the woman. Still, the evil stepmother of her husband convinced that it was impossible to do otherwise.

The sister wept bitterly when she learned about the fate that awaited them, and the brother began to calm her down and promised to come up with something. This is how the famous fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm “Hansel and Gretel” begins.

First trip to the forest

The boy waited until his father and stepmother fell asleep, dressed and went out into the street, where he collected stones that glittered in the moonlight.

Early in the morning, the parents gathered in the forest for firewood, woke up the children and took them with them. On the way, Hansel imperceptibly threw a pebble - he scored a pocket full of them. So we got to the very thicket. The woodcutter made a fire, and the stepmother ordered the children to go to bed and promised to come back for them in the evening. Hansel and Gretel - the tale here repeats the motif of the cruelty of the stepmother, popular in European folklore - remained alone by the fire. All day long they heard thumps in the forest, and they hoped that it was their father chopping wood. In fact, the bough was knocking, tied by parents to a tree.

At lunch, the children ate a piece of bread given to them in the morning and soon, tired, fell asleep. When they opened their eyes, it was already dark night. The sister burst into tears again, and the brother began to calm her down: “The moon will rise, and we will find the way home.” And indeed, in the moonlight, the pebbles shone, and by morning Hansel and Gretel were already at their own door.

Meeting with parents

The stepmother, who let the children in, scolded them for walking too long in the forest. The father was glad that they returned alive.

But soon the situation became even worse. And again, the brother and sister heard the already familiar argument of their parents. The woodcutter resisted for a long time, but, having yielded once, he succumbed to persuasion this time as well. Hansel and Gretel again thought about their future. thus, like any other of the magical group, it is built on the repetition of the same event. But this time the brother failed to collect the pebbles - the prudent stepmother closed the door for the night, and he could not go out. His sister was even more frightened, but the boy promised to come up with something. And in the morning, when the stepmother again gave them a piece of bread and ordered them to go with her and their father into the forest, he broke his portion in his pocket and began to sprinkle crumbs on the road.

got lost

For a long time the woodcutter and the stepmother walked through the forest, until they got into such a wilderness, where they had not been before. And again, the parents left the children alone by the fire, while they themselves went home. But at night, when the moon rose, Hansel and Gretel could not find their way, as the birds ate all the bread crumbs. Morning came, and then evening, and they all wandered through the forest. Only at lunchtime the next day, tired and hungry, the children saw a snow-white bird on a tree. She sang so well that the children listened, and then followed her. And suddenly a hut appeared ahead, past which the hungry Hansel and Gretel could not pass.

The fairy tale, the summary of which you are reading, is built according to all the laws of the genre. The walls of the wonderful house that suddenly appeared before the eyes of the children were made of bread, the roof was made of delicious gingerbread, and the windows were made of sugar. Thus, a sweet house from a fabulous land of abundance called Kokan is mentioned here. She was often mentioned in folk legends and attracted by the fact that she did not have to do anything herself, since all the food grew right on the trees.

History of gingerbread houses

Although the plot of a tasty hut at the beginning of the 19th century could not be considered unusual, it was after the publication of the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel" in Germany and in several other European countries that a new tradition appeared. For two hundred years, housewives have been baking gingerbread houses for Christmas and decorating them with colorful icing, candied fruit, berries, and so on. Sweets are put on the festive table, sent to various exhibitions and competitions, and, of course, distributed to children. The main thing is that you can first admire such a gingerbread, and then enjoy the great taste.

Encounter with a witch

But back to the fairy tale, which was recorded by the Brothers Grimm. Hansel and Gretel - a summary gives a general picture of what was happening at that moment - having seen such an abundance, they decided to feast. The brother broke off a piece from the roof, and the sister decided to try the window. They ate sweets with pleasure, when suddenly they heard a rather pleasant voice from the hut. A little later, a very ancient old woman appeared on the threshold. The children were frightened at first, but she immediately calmed them down, then led them into the house, generously treated them and put them to sleep on a soft bed under a snow-white blanket. It seemed to the tired and exhausted children that they were in a real paradise. Hansel and Gretel did not yet know that they were visiting an evil witch. Her dream and favorite delicacy was some child. And although this old woman saw very poorly, she perfectly felt the human smell. And the bread house, decorated with sweets, became a bait for children like Hansel and Gretel. The fairy tale, therefore, largely repeats the plots of the famous cycle "Children and the Cannibal", which is included in the international index of folklore works of this genre.

"Here's a tasty morsel"

In the morning, the witch examined the sleeping children and decided that a boy with ruddy and plump cheeks would be very good for dinner. You just need to feed him a little more. She locked the awakened Hansel in a barn behind a barred door, and Gretel ordered her brother to be fattened so that he would become fatter. This went on for four weeks, during which the sister prepared the most delicious dishes for her brother, and she herself ate leftovers. The resourceful Hansel all this time managed to deceive the badly seen witch. When she came to check how her “future dinner” had recovered, he slipped a bone into her hand instead of his finger, and she still could not understand why the boy was still as thin. But one day the old woman's patience ended, and she decided to certainly eat Hansel, the way was not even fat enough, the very next day. And the girl had to apply water, in which her own brother would then be cooked. “It would be better if we were torn to pieces by wild animals in the forest, then we would die together,” she sobbed.

The witch was tricked

The next morning, the old woman decided to deal with Gretel, and then proceed to her brother. She fired up the stove and ordered the girl to climb into it to see if the heat was ready for baking bread. Gretel began to comply with the witch's request, when she suddenly realized what the old woman really wanted from her. And she was not mistaken: she really was just preparing to close the damper and fry the girl. "I don't know how to get up there," said the sister. The angry witch scolded her and began to show how to get into the oven. At that moment, Gretel pushed her forward and then immediately closed the shutter. So she saved both herself and her brother from inevitable death. And the old woman, who ended up in the furnace, howled terribly and burned to the ground. Thus, Hansel and Gretel become the winners in this confrontation with the cannibal witch.

The tale of a brother and sister, apparently, also has a connection with the ancient traditions of European peoples and some tribes. Thus, many linguists often associate the episode of burning a witch with a fairly common rite of initiation, the essence of which was the transition of a teenager into adulthood, the entry of a person into a secret society or initiation into the number of shamans, leaders. This is also not a new motif for the Brothers Grimm, as it is found in many other folk and author's tales, including, for example, Ch.

The freed children examined the hut and found many precious stones and pearls in it. They took them with them and went to look for a way out of this witch forest.

So thanks to ingenuity and resourcefulness, Hansel and Gretel were able to get rid of the hated cannibal witch. The tale ends with a description of their journey home.

happy return

A couple of hours later, the children went out to an unknown lake, but they did not see either a bridge or a boat nearby. Only the duck swam. The girl turned to her with a request to transport them to the other side, and very soon the brother and sister found themselves in a familiar forest. And here it was easy for them to find their way to the woodcutter's house. They rushed, happy, to their father and threw themselves on his neck. The woodcutter was very happy when he saw that his children were alive and unharmed, because he did not know a minute of peace and joy after parting with them.

It turned out that his wife died unexpectedly - this fact makes it possible for many linguists to identify the images of an evil stepmother and a witch who decided to take revenge on the hated children. And from that time on, the woodcutter and his children lived happily and well. And the family was saved from want by pearls and precious stones that Hansel and Gretel brought from the forest hut.

A story about the adventures of a brother and sister in art

Today Hansel and Gretel are known all over the world. The tale about them is included in the collected works of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and has been translated into many languages. In addition, her characters have repeatedly become the heroes of works of other types of art. So, in 1893, an opera by E. Humperdinck appeared, written especially for Christmas. Theatrical performances of the fairy tale were repeatedly prepared. Did not remain indifferent to the work and many

With the advent of cinema, screenwriters also turned to the well-known plot. Among the films that are quite popular today is the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel" in English, filmed in 1988. The authors slightly changed the original version: at the request of their mother, the children went into the forest for berries and got lost, after which they ended up in the gingerbread house of the sorceress Griselda. Another option is the 2012 American film, based on the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, in which the father, tormented by remorse, goes in search of children himself.

In 2013, an action movie appeared, telling about what happened to the heroes after they returned home. And although the plot of the film has little in common with the fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm, he emphasizes that interest in the plot remains in our time.