Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31883133-20180114001435/@comment-34633327-20180114225412

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote:After all, the tale of Hansel and Gretel involves them sometimes being cooked and eaten, and we know Grimm eat people. I've heard many people saying they're Hansel and Gretel. Honestly, is there anything to assume that? The only think I can see is their names, and their names are not even that close, neither written nor pronounced.

Gretel and Gretchen sound completely different past the 1st syllable. And Hansel and Hazel are pronounced completely different before the 2nd syllable. I'm not certain if this is the case, but one version I heard is that in the original Hansel and Gretel, Hansel was being fattened up by the witch and Gretel was more a slave, and the witch succeeds in killing Hansel while Gretchen gets revenge and kills the witch. So the idea I heard is that the roles are reversed: Hazel is being "fattened up" with lies from Salem, and Gretchen was the one who died.

Personally, I don't know whether to believe the allusion to Hansel, seeing as for a long time everyone called Qrow the Scarcrow yet now he's Munnin.