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[Paul Mackin]

The tale has a happy ending: Gretel outwits the witch and pushes her into
the oven. Then, the children take her large hoards of money, find their way
home, find that the step mother has died, and everyone lives happily ever
after. At least that's the way I remember it from bedtime story time.

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> I am not quite sure what you all are getting at but, yes, Winnetou is most
> certainly a hero. He is also the epitome of the noble savage in German
> literature/culture. Old Shatterhand represents the good German abroad. They
> are blood brothers.
>
> Didn't remember the bit about Shatterhand being an engineer, though. Nice.
>
> As for GR and the section at hand: This is, of course, about "Hänsel und
> Gretel", the well-known fairy tale (or horror story) by the Grimm brothers.
> Note that the Grimm brothers turned the wicked mother of the original
> version of the tale into a step-mother, presumably because otherwise it
> would have been just too, err, grim.
>
>
>
> Am 22.06.2016 um 11:19 schrieb János Széky:
>
>> And don't forget about Winnetou's best friend the German (!) engineer
>> (!) Old Shatterhand.
>>
>> 2016-06-22 11:07 GMT+02:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
>> <mailto:mark.kohut at gmail.com>>:
>>
>>
>>           Winnetou III - Winnetou Trilogy Volume Three - Page 336
>>           <
>> https://books.google.com/books?id=6ywkcf1YsfAC&pg=PA336&dq=winnetou+as+hero&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjI5-HatrnNAhXFbB4KHeO2AVwQ6AEILjAD
>> >
>>
>>     <
>> https://books.google.com/books?id=6ywkcf1YsfAC&pg=PA336&dq=winnetou+as+hero&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjI5-HatrnNAhXFbB4KHeO2AVwQ6wEILzAD
>> >
>>     https://books.google.com/books?id=6ywkcf1YsfAC
>>     Preview
>>     <
>> https://books.google.com/books?id=6ywkcf1YsfAC&pg=PA336&dq=winnetou+as+hero&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjI5-HatrnNAhXFbB4KHeO2AVwQuwUIMDAD
>> >
>>     “Yes, you're a hero; I know that, and I can hear it again now,
>>     because only a hero can say such words. We all bemoan that you're
>>     not a Kiowa!” He left and I was considerate enough not to tell him
>>     that his lament found no echo in my unfeeling  ...
>>
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