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They wander around for a while, and then they find a [[Gingerbread House]]. They are very hungry, so they eat from it. The owner of the house, a [[Wicked Witch]], calls out that she knows ''someone'' is eating her house; Hansel and Gretel don't reply. [[Rule of Three|The third time,]] the witch goes out to meet them. She seems surprisingly friendly, and gives them a huge feast.
The next day, Hansel is in a fattening pen, and Gretel is a servant. It seems that the witch [[I'm a Humanitarian|eats children, once they are properly prepared.]] There is a [[Happy Ending]] for Hansel and Gretel, of course... the witch asks Gretel to light the oven and Gretel pretends she can't. When the witch bends over to do it, Gretel [[Hoist
There are television versions of this tale, but few film versions [[Family-Unfriendly Violence|for reasons that should be clear.]]
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The 19th century composer Engelbert Humperdinck adapted the fairy tale into an [[Opera]] (premiered 1893). The opera in turn was adapted into a 1954 stop-motion animation film.
Garrison Keillor [[Deconstruction|deconstructs]] this one, as well as "[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (
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=== "Hansel and Gretel" contains the following tropes: ===
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* [[Gingerbread House]]
* [[Happily Ever After]]
* [[Hoist
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]
* [[Kill It
* [[Level Ate]]
* [[The Lost Woods]]
* [[Murder
* [[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 scurying through the woods, and then Gretel sees ghosts coming towards them.
** 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.
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* [[Offing the Offspring]]
* [[Parental Abandonment]]
* [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]]: The ''[[Super Why!]]'' version consisted of the kids eating the witch's roof, the witch going "how dare you eat my roof!", the heroes helping H&G say sorry, and the witch accepting the apology and giving them house-shaped cookies.
* [[Rule of Three]]
* [[Sugary Malice]]: The witch.
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