To: Pharmboy
Apparently Hansel and Gretel is a far older story than I realized.
13 posted on
09/10/2012 7:06:39 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: cripplecreek
Indeed...the same thought occurred to me; the fear of our children being taken and eaten by strangers is probably as old as our species...and even—as illustrated here—older.
17 posted on
09/10/2012 7:32:17 PM PDT by
Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must.)
To: cripplecreek
Apparently Hansel and Gretel is a far older story than I realized.Famine and the accompanying cannibalism were not uncommon in pre-industrial Europe.
20 posted on
09/10/2012 8:29:53 PM PDT by
fso301
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