This document appears to be excerpts from a dark retelling of Grimm fairy tales involving Hansel and Gretel. The passages describe various violent, dangerous or disturbing situations including chopping off heads, turning sons into birds, slicing off fingers, hunting animals until turning into an animal, hiding from a lover who boils people, and a tale leaving half a town dead. It advertises the book "A Tale Dark & Grimm" which provides the full context of these grim reimaginings.
7. SLICE off my finger
and we’ll use it to
release the swallows
from the Crystal
Mountain!
8. IF you take
MORE than
you NEED from
Laybenwald
Wood, you will
REGRET it!
9. Hansel, you KILLED so many
animals that you turned into an
ANIMAL! Now, the huntsman will
KILL YOU and I will be ALONE!
10. Gretel tried to HIDE as the young man
she THOUGHT she was in love with, threw
a girl in his mom’s boiling dinner pot!
11. Folks down here say that,
“the Devil can have no
power over one who has 3
of his golden hairs!”
12. WHY did we
let Hansel &
Gretel talk us
into this?!
Now, half the
town is DEAD!
13. Will Hansel & Gretel live “Happily Ever
After?”
Somehow, I doubt it…however, you will have to read
the book, “A Tale Dark & Grimm” by Adam Gidwitz,
to find out!
Editor's Notes
Background Photograph & Photograph of front cover of book taken by T.Davis