Hansel and Gretel story for children | Bedtime Stories and Fairy Tales for Kids — Transcript
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- 0:00once upon a time there lived a brother
- 0:02and sister named Hansel and gratt their
- 0:05mother had passed away when they were
- 0:07babies they lived with their dad in a
- 0:09Hut in the forest their dad was trying
- 0:12to earn their living by working as a
- 0:14Woodcutter and was looking after the
- 0:16kids at the same
- 0:18time couple of years passed and
- 0:20struggling to juggle work and two kids
- 0:22at the same time their dad decided to
- 0:25get married again the woodcutter's wife
- 0:28was from a wealthy family and she hated
- 0:30the fact that they were poor and she had
- 0:32to live in a small ruined Hut deep into
- 0:36the forest plus she did not like her
- 0:39stepchildren at
- 0:41[Music]
- 0:43all on a cold winter night as they were
- 0:46getting ready for bed Hansel and grle
- 0:49heard their stepmother talking to their
- 0:53dad how are you going to get through
- 0:56this winter we don't have enough food if
- 0:59you didn't don't get rid of these kids
- 1:01we will all starve to
- 1:03death their dad opposed furiously no
- 1:07need to
- 1:08argue I made up my mind tomorrow we'll
- 1:11take them to the woods and leave them
- 1:14there hearing all that grle started to
- 1:27cry her brother Hansel comforted her
- 1:31please don't worry gretto somehow we'll
- 1:33find our way back
- 1:36home later that night Hansel snuck out
- 1:40and collected as many Pebbles as he
- 1:42could in his
- 1:44[Music]
- 1:48pockets in the morning they all started
- 1:51to walk towards the forest their father
- 1:54told them that they were going for a
- 1:56family hike as they were walking without
- 2:00anyone noticing Hansel dropped the
- 2:03Pebbles to Mark the way
- 2:05[Music]
- 2:08back in the afternoon their dad and
- 2:11stepmother lit a fire and told them that
- 2:14they will be back soon they walked off
- 2:17and vanished in the
- 2:20woods of course they did not come back
- 2:28[Music]
- 2:31when the night fell the horrible sounds
- 2:34of all the wild animals in the forest
- 2:36started to Echo around
- 2:38them shivering with the horrifying
- 2:41sounds of the Wolves Hansel and gretto
- 2:43did not leave the Fireside until the
- 2:46moonrise then they started to follow the
- 2:48Pebbles shining in the Moonlight and
- 2:50walk towards home well done anel this
- 2:52was very clever of you when the kids
- 2:55came back home their dad was very happy
- 2:58and surprised at the same
- 3:00time their stepmother also acted as if
- 3:03she was happy but deep inside her
- 3:06decision was still the
- 3:08same she was very upset that they were
- 3:11[Music]
- 3:13back after 3 days the stepmother tried
- 3:16to get rid of them again this time at
- 3:18night she locked Hansel and gretel's
- 3:22door and did not allow Hansel to collect
- 3:25Pebbles
- 3:27again but Hansel was a CL boy when they
- 3:31were walking to the forest in the
- 3:32morning this time he dropped the bread
- 3:35crumbs that he had put in his pocket the
- 3:37night before and again made a trail the
- 3:40way back
- 3:44home around noon their father and
- 3:46stepmother made up an excuse and went
- 3:48off leaving them all alone in the forest
- 3:52again realizing that they were not
- 3:54coming back Hansel and grle wanted to
- 3:56start walking back home before it got
- 3:58dark but this time they could not find
- 4:02the trail they left because all the
- 4:04breadcrumbs were eaten by the
- 4:09birds grle started crying for the first
- 4:13time Hansel also felt
- 4:16hopeless this time the kids were really
- 4:18lost with no food and scared to death
- 4:21they wandered around the forest for 3
- 4:25Days on the third day they saw a bird
- 4:29one as snow the bird chirped songs with
- 4:33its beautiful voice for
- 4:42them they forgot their hunger for a
- 4:45moment and started to follow the
- 4:47bird the bird brought them in front of a
- 4:50funny looking
- 4:52house this house had walls of bread a
- 4:55roof made out of cake and windows of
- 4:58candy and was covered with colorful
- 5:00Cream All Around Hansel and grle could
- 5:04not believe their eyes the house looked
- 5:06incredibly
- 5:08delicious the kids forgot all about how
- 5:11tired they were and started to run to
- 5:13the
- 5:16house just as they were both going to
- 5:18have a bite from the house they heard a
- 5:20voice from
- 5:22[Music]
- 5:25inside now who is nibbling on my house
- 5:30they looked around and they saw a cute
- 5:32and sweet old lady at the
- 5:34door when they told her all about what
- 5:37had happened to them she felt very bad
- 5:39for them and so she let them
- 5:45in the inside of the house was very
- 5:48different from the outside it was dark
- 5:51scary and it didn't feel
- 5:54right but because they were so tired and
- 5:57hungry the kids did not care
- 6:00much the old lady brought all kinds of
- 6:03food and desserts for them and the kids
- 6:05ate food that they hadn't had
- 6:09before that night they slept on the
- 6:12softest bed they had ever
- 6:16seen when they woke up in the morning
- 6:18the old lady wasn't there they started
- 6:21to look
- 6:23around at the end of the
- 6:26corridor they saw a small door when they
- 6:30opened the door they found cases full of
- 6:33gold and treasure inside they were very
- 6:36surprised of course Hansel wanted to get
- 6:39in and take a closer look right at that
- 6:41moment they heard her voice again and
- 6:44what do you think you are
- 6:47doing when they turned around the kids
- 6:50faced the witch standing right there in
- 6:52front of
- 6:54them apparently the old lady was a witch
- 6:57leading the kids to a dungeon with a
- 6:59house covered with Cake and Candy the
- 7:03kids tried to run away but the door was
- 7:04locked the witch pulled Hansel by the
- 7:07hair and locked him in a
- 7:10cage then she dragged gredle to the
- 7:16[Music]
- 7:21kitchen your brother is too skinny cook
- 7:25some food for him and make him fat when
- 7:27he's in good shape he'll be a delicious
- 7:30meal for me but don't you dare eat
- 7:33anything all the food is only for
- 7:41him having no choice grle did what she
- 7:45asked
- 7:46for fortunately Hansel was a clever and
- 7:49wise boy he decided to trick the
- 7:52evil-hearted
- 7:54witch every night when the witch was
- 7:57asleep he was digging a hole in the
- 7:59ground of the
- 8:01cage the witch was controlling Hansel
- 8:03every morning to see if he gained weight
- 8:06or
- 8:08not but Hansel wasn't eating anything
- 8:11his sister cooked instead he was burying
- 8:14them in the hall that he
- 8:17digged in the meantime the witch was
- 8:20telling Gretel to cook
- 8:22more this went on for days until finally
- 8:25the witch had enough fat skinny I don't
- 8:29don't care anymore today I will make
- 8:32Hansel pie she turned to grle look in
- 8:35the oven to see if the dough is baked
- 8:38enough although she was in fear grle was
- 8:41also a wise girl just like her brother
- 8:43she understood that the witch was going
- 8:45to push her in the oven I can't get my
- 8:48head in there and see the
- 8:51dough whed grle the witch pushed her
- 8:55aside and stuck her head
- 8:58inside grle gathered all her strength
- 9:01and pushed the old witch into the oven
- 9:04and closed the oven
- 9:15door griddle knew where the witch was
- 9:17hiding the keys she ran straight away
- 9:21and saved Hansel from the cage the
- 9:24Flames from the oven covered the whole
- 9:26house Hansel and grle ran away from the
- 9:28burning house in into the woods but they
- 9:31did not know where to
- 9:34go a while later they came across a
- 9:37river a giant Swan took them one by one
- 9:40to the other side of the
- 9:43river the kids looked around and
- 9:45suddenly they realized where they
- 9:48were they ran home as fast as they
- 9:52could seeing his kids father was full of
- 9:56joy with tears of joy he explained to
- 10:00them how their stepmother had gone back
- 10:02to her parents' house soon after they
- 10:05had left them in the
- 10:07forest and how sorry he was for all that
- 10:10he did and no matter how hard he had
- 10:12surged for them they were nowhere to be
- 10:15found the kids loved their father very
- 10:18much so they forgave him but another
- 10:21surprise was waiting for their
- 10:24father they both reached their pockets
- 10:27and brought out gold and diamonds they
- 10:29had found in the witch's
- 10:32home their father could not believe his
- 10:39eyes all the problems that their family
- 10:43had ever had went
- 10:45away and they lived happily ever after
- 10:53[Music]
- 11:03a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t
- 11:15u v w x y and z now why know my
- 11:26abc next time won't you sing with
- 11:33[Music]
- 11:45me a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s
- 11:58t u
- 11:59v w x y and z now I know my
- 12:09abc next time won't you sing with me
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