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Scenes from the View-Master packet THREE FAIRY TALES (B314)
featuring
Hansel and Gretel
Packet Cover
From the packet cover:
Lost in the woods, Hansel and Gretel were very hungry when they found the witch’s gingerbread house. When they began to eat, though, the mean old witch was angry and made preparations to eat Hansel.
Booklet Cover
Scene 1
“We’ll lose them in the woods,” said the cruel stepmother.
From the 16-page booklet:
Once upon a time a poor woodcutter lived near a great forest with his two children, Hansel and Gretel, and their cruel, selfish stepmother. A famine came, and the woodcutter could no longer earn their daily bread.
One night the children woke to hear their stepmother’s shrill voice. “This half a loaf of bread is all we have. I will not starve for the sake of those children. We must give them each a scrap of bread, take them deep into the forest and lose them.” She left the poor man no peace until he agreed.
Hansel comforted his sister, saying, “Don’t cry. I have a plan that will enable us to find our way home.”
Scene 2
Hansel left a trail of crumbs but birds ate them.
From the 16-page booklet:
As the wicked woman proposed, the children were led deep into the woods at daybreak. Hansel’s plan was to leave a trail of bread crumbs by which they would find their way back.
But, looking back, he found to his dismay that the birds of the forest were eating the crumbs as fast as he threw them down.
Scene 3
Hansel and Gretel were lost in the dark forest.
From the 16-page booklet:
In the very middle of the forest the children were left by a fire and told to stay. They ate what bread they had left, and at last lay down and slept in each other’s arms.
When they awoke, it was dark. The beasts of the forest were prowling all around them, and they did not know which way to turn.
Scene 4
“Who’s nibbling at my house?” asked the Witch.
From the 16-page booklet:
For two days and nights they wandered through the forest, frightened and alone. They had nothing to eat but wild berries and nothing to drink but water from the brooks.
On the third day they came upon a clearing in the middle of which stood a little house. For a moment they couldn’t believe their eyes. The house was made of cake and gingerbread and cookies and candy!
With cries of joy, the starving children rushed to the house and began to eat as they had never eaten before. Suddenly they stopped, for a harsh, shrill voice had cried out:
“Who’s that nibbling at my house?”.
Scene 5
“When he’s fat enough I’ll cook and eat him.”
From the 16-page booklet:
The owner of the voice appeared. It was a hideous old witch who had built the gingerbread house to lure little boys and girls.
Seizing Hansel in her clawlike hands, she cackled wickedly as she shoved him into a little stable and locked it.
“Now, lazybones,” she said to Gretel, “heat some water and cook food for your brother. When he is fat enough, I will eat him!”
Scene 6
Gretel pushed the Witch into the oven.
From the 16-page booklet:
For three weeks Hansel was fed the best of everything, while Gretel got nothing but crab shells.
Each day the witch asked him to stick out his finger so she could feel how fat he was getting. Hansel fooled her over and over again by sticking out a chicken bone, but at last she could wait no longer.
“Gretel, light the oven,” she commanded. “Today I will feast.”
When the greedy witch poked her head in the oven to see if it was hot enough, Gretel gave her a mighty shove and banged the iron door behind her, then turned the handle to lock her in.
Scene 7
“Father! Father!” cried Hansel and Gretel.
From the 16-page booklet:
At that moment the witch’s spell ended. All of the gingerbread boys and girls who had formed the fence around the house came to life, laughing and shouting for joy.
Suddenly the oven exploded, and out popped the witch. She had been baked into gingerbread herself.
At the noise, the woodcutter came rushing up. Their stepmother had died, he told them, and he had been searching for them ever since.
He led Hansel and Gretel and all the other children back to their homes, where they lived happily ever after.
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