Folklore Forensics
The Hansel & Gretel Witch-Killing : The Crime Behind the Fairy Tale
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Two starving children walked out of a forest carrying a dead woman's food, money, and wedding ring. The story says they escaped a witch. The evidence is much less certain.
You've heard the story. Now hear the case.
This week, Folklore Forensics reopens one of the most famous cases in European folklore. Two children are abandoned in a German forest. Days later, they emerge barefoot and burned,…