Children's and Household Tales
Title: “Hansel and Gretel”
Feature: Hansel und Gretel
Medium: prose text story
Cover date: 1812
Publisher: Realschulbuchhandlung
3 characters in this story:
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[1st app: Children's and Household Tales (1812)] | Realschulbuchhandlung | 121 | ||||||
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[1st app: Children's and Household Tales (1812)] | Realschulbuchhandlung | 119 | ||||||
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[tried to cook Hansel and Gretel] | Realschulbuchhandlung | 13 |
Children's and Household Tales is also known as: "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" or Kinder- und Hausmarchen or Grimm's Fairy Tales. Children's and Household Tales (or Kinder- und Hausmarchen) is commonly known simply as "Grimm's Fairy Tales."
This is the first published version of the classic Grimm fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel." Although the Grimms were responsible for popularizing the tale considerably and probably codified it and modified it, the tale did not originate with them. In The Classic Fairy Tales (1974), Iona and Peter Opie state that the Grimms heard the story from Dortchen Wild. The Opies identify earlier stories which share similarities to "Hansel and Gretel," but which feature characters of different names and plots which are are sufficiently different that the "first published appearance" of the Hansel and Gretel can best be identified as the 1812 Grimm publication.
