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{{Infobox book
| title = Hansel and Gretel
| original title =
| image = H_and_G_7046.jpg
| caption = Hansel and Gretel meet the [[Wicked Witch]]. Image by Arthur Rackham, 1909.
| author = The Brothers Grimm
| 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
| source page exists = yes
| wiki URL =
| wiki name =
}}
A [[Fairy Tale]] originally recorded by [[The Brothers Grimm (creator)|The Brothers Grimm]] in 1812. It's in the [[Public Domain]], so here goes:
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* [[Baba Yaga]]: The witch has many similarities with the Baba Yaga of Russian fairy tales.
* [[Brother-Sister Team]]: Our heroes.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The ''[[Newgrounds]]'' series [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/515322 Gretel] [[Gretel and Hansel|and Hansel]] is [[Nightmare Fuel|very, very creepy]].
** Another popular subversion, notably used by [[Sound Horizon]] and a [[vocaloid]] video, is to have the Witch be perfectly innocent, and Hansel and Gretel simply too [[Genre Savvy]] for their own good.
* [[Dude in Distress]]: Hansel is locked up in a cage and fattened up to be eaten, and it's left to his sister to bail him out.
* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]
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* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]
* [[Kill It with Fire]]
* [[Level Ate]]: The witch's house
* [[The Lost Woods]]
* [[Murder by Cremation]]
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: In the stop-motion ''Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy'', the kids hear [[Ominous Latin Chanting]], then they see something moving through the trees, then they see eyes on the trees, a tree stump smiling at them, the light of a lantern
** In the ''Cannon Movie Tales'' version, as Hansel and Gretel got lost deep into the woods, they hear mock laughter and then an eerie shriek. They hear their names whisper in the dark as they sit near a camp fire.
* [[No Name Given]]: The parents and the witch. Though in Humperdinck's opera, the parents are Peter and Gertrud and the witch is Rosine Leckermaul (literally, "Rosina Tastymuzzle").
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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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