Lost in the Rabbit Hole

PART TWO: Getting Lost, Being Found

Kat Kiefer-Newman Season 1 Episode 3

Are you ready for PART TWO, where we continue the tale of the abandoned children, "Little Brother and Little Sister", aka Hansel and Gretel?

"Tale Types: Abandoned Children
What’s always so fun about these tales is to see how they are often mash-ups of other sorts of tales, but with a core narrative running through. For many of these abandoned children tales, we have three recurrent patterns:  

  1. the children are lost in some manner in a forest, 
  2. they meet an ogre, 
  3. there’s a “show me how” moment within the tale, and 
  4. the children return home."


Versions Referenced in this episode:

Reference Materials
The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales: From the Brothers Grimm to Andrew Lang  by Jack Zipes
The Classic Fairytales, Iona and Peter Opie
The Third Horseman A STORY OF WEATHER, WAR, AND THE FAMINE HISTORY FORGOT By William Rosen