What is the original text of the Grimm fairy tale "The Candy House in the Forest"?

"Throw the children into the forest! Otherwise, we will all starve to death!" said the new mother. "No, that's too cruel." "Okay, then go find food."

Because he was too poor, his father had no choice but to agree.

Bangir and Kelanti were very sad to hear this. Clever Benjir sneaked into the yard after his parents went to bed, picked up a lot of pebbles and put them in his pocket.

The next day, the couple took them to the forest as expected, and Bangier dropped many pebbles along the way as signposts to identify the way home.

"You wait here, let's go chop wood."

The brother and sister sat on the grass and played, and fell asleep without knowing it. When I woke up, it was already dark.

Coranti was so frightened that she cried. Benjir held his crying sister and walked home, following the marks of the pebbles.

The two finally returned home. Dad was very happy, but mother was sullen.

Just a few days later, Banjier heard his mother say to his father again: "This time, we must make it impossible for them to come back."

In the evening, Banjier wanted to pick it up. Pebbles, but the door is locked.

The next day, it was the same situation. Benjir had to use bread instead of pebbles and scatter them along the road. Unexpectedly, all the bread was eaten by the birds.

The brother and sister slept until midnight before waking up. Banjier comforted his sister and said: "It doesn't matter, the breadcrumbs will tell us the way home.

" However, no matter how hard we look for it, we can't find it. Breadcrumbs not found.

"Ah! What should I do?"

"I'm so hungry!"

The two of them wandered in the forest hungry, and Coranti couldn't help it. Started crying again.

"Sister, don't cry. When it gets dark, my brother will take you home."

The night went deeper, and the brother and sister were so tired that they fell asleep again unconsciously.

Soon, it was dawn.

As soon as the brother and sister woke up, they tried hard to find a way out, walking and walking. Suddenly, Benjir's eyes lit up and he shouted: "Look! There is a house over there!"

They happily took a closer look and said, "Wow! This house is all made of candies and biscuits!"

The brother and sister were so hungry that they couldn't help but rush over. I tore down the house and started eating without emotion.

"Ah! It's so delicious!"

At this time, a kind voice came from behind and said: "Who is eating my house?" A noble lady came from Come out of the house.

"Sorry, we are children lost in the forest."

The lady said gently: "Oh! Poor child, come in and eat! There are many more in the house Delicious food."

After eating, the lady let them sleep on the beautiful and comfortable bed. The brother and sister were so happy that they fell asleep soon.

"Hey hey hey... it worked!"

In fact, the lady was transformed into a cannibal witch. "Well! The man is fatter, so let's eat him first."

The next day, Benjir was put in a big box.

"Give this to your brother to eat. He will make some fat so that I can eat him. Go!"

Coranti was so frightened that she sobbed and cried, but crying was Useless. The witch ordered her to do various tasks again, and cursed her endlessly when she took a break.

The witch would come to see Benjir every day and touch his fingers to see if he was fatter; but Benjir was very smart and would hold out the chicken bones he had eaten for him to touch every time.

Alas! Why haven't you gained any weight despite eating so much?

The witch loudly ordered Corandi, and she also hurriedly moved a big pot.

"Ah! Is my brother going to be eaten like this?" Coranti looked at a large pot of water and thought sadly, "If I had known this, it would have been better to die together in the forest. .

"

Coranti was extremely anxious, but didn't know what to do.

"Why are you still standing there? Go and light a fire! "The witch shouted angrily.

Coranti was crying and lighting a fire.

After a while, the witch called her again: "See if the water is boiling? "

At this time, Coranti suddenly had an idea and thought of a good way, which might be able to save her brother and her.

So, she asked the witch: "What do you want? How do you know if the water is boiling? I can't! See for yourself. "

"What! A girl can't even see when the water is boiling. Have you never cooked anything at home? ”

“No! "

"Okay! I'll see for myself. "

The witch approached the pot and looked at the water carefully.

At this moment, Corandi used all her strength to slam into the pot from behind.

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The witch was completely unprepared and fell into the hot pot.

“Oh! It burned me to death. "

The witch lingered for a few breaths and then died.

Coranti happily ran to open the box and rescued Benjir.

"Brother ,elder brother! The witch is dead! "

"Ah! Really? ”

“Well! real. "Corandi told her brother what happened.

The brother and sister hugged happily. Benjir was moved and said: "Sister, you are so brave! "

"No," Coranti said: "Brother, you are the smart one! "

The two ran around happily. In the basement, they found a big box and opened it to take a look.

"Wow! So beautiful! "

It turns out that the box is full of jewelry and gold coins.

Bangir said: "Let's take some home as gifts. "

The two of them stuffed jewelry and gold coins into their pockets, "Okay, let's go home. Find a way out before it gets dark! "Benjir held his sister's hand tightly and walked out of the witch's house.

Wow! After a lot of effort, they finally walked out of the forest, but a deep and wide river lay in front of them. What’s even more distressing is that there is no bridge on the river and no boats on the shore.

“It’s terrible! How to cross the river? "

"Wow! look! A large mallard duck. "

On the other side of the river, there was a big mallard swimming leisurely.

Coranti shouted: "By the way, you can ask Mr. Mallard! ”

So, the two of them shouted together: “Mr. Wild Duck, please take us to the other side, okay?” ”

The wild duck seemed to understand their words, and indeed swam over and carried them across the river.

In the distance, they saw their home.

Unexpectedly, the cruel mother died of illness

After that, they lived happily together with their father!

Introduction:

Hansel and Gretel are the children of a poor lumberjack. Fearing that there will be no food, the carpenter's wife, the children's stepmother, persuades the carpenter to take the children to the forest and abandon them.

Hansel and Gretel heard about their plan, so they collected small stones in advance and threw them on the ground so that they could find their way home along the small stones.

After them. Upon their return, their stepmother once again convinces the carpenter to leave them in the forest; this time, they lay out bread crumbs along the way. Unfortunately, the bread crumbs are eaten by forest animals, so Hansel and Gretel end up in the forest. Lost in the forest.

In the forest, they found a house made of bread with windows made of candy. The owner of the house was an old woman who invited them inside and entertained them with a feast.

However, the old woman was actually a bad witch. She built this house to lure children so that she could fatten them up and kill them to eat.

She locked up Hansel and asked Gretel to serve her, and asked her to feed Hansel a lot of food to fatten him up. The witch would come to Hansel's cell to call him every time. Put your finger out.

To see if he had gained weight, Hansel would deliberately take out small bones secretly. Because the witch was old and had poor eyesight, she thought those small bones were Hansel’s fingers and had eaten them. Even though he didn't get fat after so much weight, the witch couldn't wait any longer and decided to cook Hansel and eat it directly.

When she was preparing to cook Hansel, she asked Gretel to climb into the furnace to confirm. However, Gretel guessed that the witch was going to roast her, so she tricked the witch into crawling in. He burned the witch to death in the furnace.

After the children find and take away all the jewels in the witch's house, they find their way home and are reunited with their father. By this time the children's stepmother has died and they live happily ever after. Happy life.

Extended information:

1. Origin of the story:

There is a European legend similar to the story of the candy house. In such legends, a child falls into the wrong hands and later deceives them. They often get into trouble unintentionally. This is different from some hero-themed legends.

In that type of legend, heroes take the initiative to challenge monsters or bad guys in order to obtain treasures, participate in bloody sports, or seek glory. The Brothers Grimm obtained this story from Dortchen Wild, a young lady near Kassel (who later became Wilhelm Grimm's wife), but the elements that make up this story are found almost throughout the world, making this story The origin is difficult to discern.

This Brothers Grimm version of the fairy tale became a light-hearted tale for 19th-century readers. However, many critics believe that its original version may have originated from the widespread abandonment caused by famine in the hard life of the Middle Ages, and served as a lesson to children.

In the first version of the Brothers Grimm, there was no stepmother, and it was the child's biological mother who persuaded the father to abandon the two children. The later version was modified to include a stepmother, presumably taking into account the social impact, similar to the modification of Snow White.

In the story, the children's mother or stepmother happens to die after the children kill the witch. This seems to imply that the mother or stepmother and the witch were originally the same character.

In a Russian variant of this story, the child's devilish stepmother (the carpenter's wife) asks her stepdaughter to go into the forest to borrow light for her biological daughter, who is Babaya Ga, a kind of cannibal witch. The story also deals with food, hunger, and having children eat the house so that the witch can eat the children.

2. Characters

The characters in "Grimm's Fairy Tales" have distinctive characteristics and obvious value orientations, showing the pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty, sympathizing with the weak, praising kindness and bravery, and satirizing hypocrisy and stupidity. It is in line with the consistent moral values ??of human society. This view of good and evil is shown through intuitive and vivid images, which is in line with children's psychological characteristics and understanding ability.

The ethics and morals promoted in Grimm's fairy tales are conducive to cultivating children's concepts of right and wrong, good and evil, truth and falsehood, morality and even life experience. "Grimm's Fairy Tales" entrusts the most beautiful goodness in the world, and also reveals the hidden evil in people themselves.

It guides children to make correct ethical choices and form a correct view of good and evil. The perfect ending of the story builds a utopia full of hope and ideals for children.

Some scholars believe that “in fairy tales, although falsehood, evil, and ugliness often coexist with good, beautiful, and conflict with each other, the final outcome is basically positive.

On the whole, fairy tales show a process from conflict to harmony, from which we can see the pursuit of a harmonious ethics in real society. The three types of animal images and human ethical images represent the three stages of children's rational maturity.

3. Introduction to the author:

The Brothers Grimm (German: Brüder Grimm or Die Gebrüder Grimm) is Jacob Grimm (January 4, 1785 - September 20, 1863) The collective name of the brothers William Green (February 24, 1786 - December 16, 1859).

They were famous historians, linguists, and collectors of folktales and ancient legends in Germany in the 19th century. Because the two had similar experiences and similar interests, they collaborated on linguistics, collecting and organizing folk fairy tales and legends, so they were called the "Brothers Grimm".

They jointly compiled "The Grimm's Fairy Tales", the "best-selling German work" second only to the Bible.

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