Final Portfolio (Revised Assignments 1-3, and Introduction) Folklore

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Folktale Variant

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A long time ago, a farmer, his wife, and two children named Hansel and Gretel lived. The family had very little to feed, and their father would advise the woman to take the kids to the nearby forest and leave them there. The clever Hansel brought them back home twice, but luck was not on their side the third time, and the two children got lost in the forest. Finally, they came around an abandoned hut where an old witch stayed who welcomed them in with the motive of eating the children after feeding them well for several days, but the kids outsmarted her, killed her, and took her treasures back to their mother. The reader should look out for the meaning and variation of the story. The variant falls under things we believe in, as it mentions a witch with unnatural power. The text is a variant of Hansel and Gretel by the Grimm Brothers variant 327, and they share the motif of family, greed, and hardships.