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Hansel and Gretel

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  • proper noun A German fairy tale, recorded by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812, about the siblings named Hansel and Gretel who are threatened by a cannibalistic witch who lives in a house made of cake and bread.

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  • Murphy's book pays particular attention to some of the best-known of the tales such as Hansel and Gretel, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Donna Farley 2007

  • Murphy's book pays particular attention to some of the best-known of the tales such as Hansel and Gretel, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White.

    Tales of Grimm Beauty Donna Farley 2007

  • Basic story could be compared to rapunzel, sleeping beauty, and Hansel and Gretel

    Avatar Finally Passes Titanic as Highest Grossing Movie Ever « FirstShowing.net 2010

  • Those children aren't named Hansel and Gretel are they?

    The Next Morning Café. Ann Althouse 2009

  • Stories like Hansel and Gretel, Three Blind Mice or even the Dr. Seuss story of The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins are surprisingly dark and grim.

    Hollywood Will Lure You In With an Adaptation of The Piper « FirstShowing.net 2009

  • For what is THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE but an expansion of Hansel and Gretel, with Franklin and Sally Hardesty standing in for the eponymous siblings and the witch's hut supplanted by the charnal Sawyer house; and who is THE EXORCIST's Regan O'Neil but a modern take on the supine, bedridden heroines of both Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, and the not-quite-dead Cossak's daughter who torments the maladroit seminarian Khoma Brut in Gogol's Viy?

    Grievous battily harm Arbogast 2009

  • I think a great sequel would be to see Little Red Riding becoming an official werewolf hunter joining forces with Hansel and Gretel destroying the forces of evil.

    Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters Film? 15 Years Later and Fairy Tale Kids Are Supernatural Hunters? | Fused Film 2009

  • A bit like Hansel and Gretel dropping gingerbread so they knew where they'd been and could get back again.

    Archive 2006-04-01 2006

  • A bit like Hansel and Gretel dropping gingerbread so they knew where they'd been and could get back again.

    What I cooked last night. 2006

  • Au Paracou is one of my boyfriend's favorite restaurants, I love the lunch specials at Le Temps de Cerise, that Hansel and Gretel shop is the cutest, I always get strawberry honey at Les Abeilles to bring home, and Place d'Italie is where I do a lot of shopping.

    About Etienne 2005

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