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The Witch - The Village Piaski (pp.1-65)

- The following version of this book was used to create this Study Guide: Murphy, Louise. The True Story of Hansel and Gretel. Penguin Books, 2003.

- The opening of the novel begins with the narrator asks the reader to follow along with the true story about to be told.

- In "Once Upon a Time" we meet a man, a woman and two children who are fleeing the Nazi Germans on a motorbike; but to ensure they all escape the two children are left to hide in the woods. Their names will be Hansel and Gretel.

- Hansel and Gretel soon meet Magda, the witch, who saves Hansel's luck.

- In "The Forest," the stepmother and father escape the Germans and run into a band of Russian partisans.

- Magda discourages the children from getting comfortable in her cabin while...

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