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"Hansel and Gretel", written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in 1895, is about two children who left in the woods to survive on their own. The store takes place in the forest, where a brother and sister live with their father and their stepmother. The children come from a poor family that can no longer provide food, because of a great famine that has struck their land. When the families started run low on their daily bread, the children step mother insisted that the father abandon his children in the wood, do that the parents could eat and the children would get lost in the woods and perish from hunger, or be eaten by animals. Reluctant to leave his children in the woods, the father endured constant nagging until he did so.

The first attempt was foiled by Hansel who collected stones the night before which he used to place on the ground to find his way back home. The second attempted was successful as the children where led father out, and couldn't find their way home. Lost in the woods, exhausted, and starving, the children spots a snow white colored bird on branch above them. The two children memorized by the color the bird, so they follow it. The bird flies to a house that is made of bread, with a roof made of cake. The kids begin to eat the fixtures of the home, without a care in the world. Not paying attention to their surrounding they were startled by an old women who turned out be a witch, led them into the house, to fatten them up. The witch had plans to fatten up the children, and eat them, but her plan was foiled when Gretel pushed her into the fired and killed, her. The children they went back in to the house were they found jewels, which they stuffed their pockets with. The left the witches house, and found a way back home, where they were greeted by the overjoyed father. There step mother had died, and the jewel that the collected made it were they had food, and they lived happily ever after