Never Take Candy From Stranger

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a room in the vivid imagery. The stepmother "often ill-treated the children" and "she kept on trying to persuade her husband to abandon his children�" This is a key indicator of the abuse that Hansel and Gretel suffered under their cruel stepmother. During the times the author lived in, child abuse was common in society. The anonymous author uses the character of the wicked stepmother to convey the abuse a child would suffer during those times. The wife of the woodcutter "was forever nagging" him to "abandon" the "two brats". This is only one of the levels of child abuse children had to suffer.
Parents often abused their children. Just like today, children had to be aware of predators that searched for children to prey on back in the times of the author. The unknown author has his characters, Hansel and Gretel, encounter an old witch in a candy cottage. "Unluckily for Hansel and Gretel, however, the sugar candy cottage belonged to an old witch, her trap for catching ...

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