KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -Because they were poor, the family didn’t have enough money for food. So, the stepmom wanted to get rid of Hansel and Gretel to save money. One day the stepmom led Hansel and Gretel into the dark forest.

Detailed explanation-2: -The mother wanted to get rid of her children, Hansel and Gretel, because they were becoming a burden. They did not have enough food to feed themselves and the children, so the mother decided that they would abandon Hansel and Gretel in the woods. The father did not like this idea, but went along with it.

Detailed explanation-3: -In some later versions, the mother died from unknown causes, left the family, or remained with the husband at the end of the story. In the 1810 pre-publication manuscript, the children were called “Little Brother” and “Little Sister", then named Hänsel and Gretel in the first edition (1812).

Detailed explanation-4: -Hansel and Gretel, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, also known as the Brothers Grimm, tells the story of siblings, Hansel and Gretel, in Medieval Germany who are abandoned by their parents. Hansel and Gretel’s parents take them to the forest, where they plan to leave them.

Detailed explanation-5: -It is about a king who marries a beautiful princess. His faithful servant, Johannes, turns to stone for saving them. However, that’s not the whole story because then they have children and they cut off their heads so that Johannes will come back to life.