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| image = H_and_G_7046.jpg
| caption = Hansel and Gretel meet the [[Wicked Witch]]. Image by Arthur Rackham, 1909.
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| central theme = Abandonment of children by their parents, the triumph of youthful ingenuity over evil,
| elevator pitch = Two siblings are abandoned in a forest, and end imprisoned by a witch who intends to eat them; kids eventually defeat the witch by outsmarting her.
| genre = Folk tale
| publication date = 1812
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* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]
* [[Kill It with Fire]]
* [[Level Ate]]: The witch's house
* [[The Lost Woods]]
* [[Murder by Cremation]]
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* [[Trail of Bread Crumbs]]: [[Trope Namer]], [[Trope Maker]] ''and'' [[Trope Codifier]], and possible [[Ur Example]], together with ''[[Hop-o'-My-Thumb]]''.
* [[Wealthy Ever After]]: They return with the witch's treasure.
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: In at least one version, Hansel and Gretel are escorted home by a magic duck... who the father then kills and cooks for dinner.
* [[Wicked Stepmother]]: In most versions of the tale. It's worth mentioning however that in the first version recorded by the Grimm brothers, it's the kids' actual biological mother. Apparently some people found that too shocking, [[Bowdlerise|so they changed it]].
** Averted in Humperdinck's opera.
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