Wait a minute, did the original story have NO CANDY HOUSE? No gingerbread, no candy canes, just bread and cakes? What happened?!

It's things like this that have always made me so interested in learning about the origin of stories. Things change and are updated in ways that deviate so drastically from the original that most of the time we just never know about the original at all! It helps you appreciate how things are to know their past, as well as keeping you from the assumptions that things have always been as they are now.

The witch is killed in this one, but it's not too overdone. I do think it's funny the Grimm Brothers decided to call her a "godless witch," as if being a witch were not bad enough! There is also a throwaway line about how the mother died, no preamble or fanfare, just "oh yeah, she's dead" in case you were wondering and the story doesn't even skip a beat bringing it up.

I hope you enjoyed hearing the original version of the tale!

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