Classic Stories: Hansel and Gretel

经典故事:汉塞尔与格雷特尔

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2025-06-13

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  • Hello, my name is Mariam.

  • Today's story is one that you may have last heard when you were very young.

  • It involves two children who head off into a forest where things take a turn for the worse.

  • These children are a girl and boy called Hansel and Gretel.

  • When they were very young, their mother died, but their father remarried.

  • Of course, as is always the way in fairy tales,

  • the children's new stepmother turns out to be cruel and evil.

  • This is how cruel she is.

  • One day, she leads the children deep into the forest.

  • The children are scared, especially as their father has told them never to go there.

  • But she turns a blind eye.

  • and leads them deeper and deeper into the forest, turning this way and that.

  • And then she leaves them there alone,

  • apart from the birds and the squirrels and some other wildlife.

  • But that smart-thinking Hansel has used some breadcrumbs that he found in his pocket to lay a trail so they can find their way home.

  • Simple!

  • Unfortunately...

  • When they turn back to follow the trail,

  • they realise that those birds that I just mentioned have eaten all the breadcrumbs.

  • So the children are stranded in the deep, dark forest.