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What (who) is hansel - definition

FAIRY TALE COLLECTED BY THE BROTHERS GRIMM

Hansel & Gretel; Hansel und Gretel; Hansel and gretel; Hansel and gratel; Hänsel and Gretel; Haensel and Gretel; Hänsel und Gretel; Haensel und Gretel; Hansal and Gretal; Hansal and Gretel; Hansel and Gretal; Hanzel ang Gretel; Trail of breadcrumbs; Gretel (Hansel and Gretel); Hansel (Hansel and Gretel); Gingerbread Witch; Hansel

Hansel

·noun & ·v ·see Handsel.

hansel

['hans(?)l]

(also handsel) archaic or US

¦ noun a gift given at the beginning of the year or the start of an enterprise, supposedly to bring good luck.

¦ verb (hansels, hanselling, hanselled; US hansels, hanseling, hanseled) give a hansel to.

?inaugurate.

Origin

ME (denoting luck): appar. related to OE handselen 'giving into a person's hands', and ON handsal 'giving of the hand to seal a promise', from hand + an element related to sell.

Hansel (disambiguation)

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE

Hansel is one of the main characters in the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel. The German name Hänsel (meaning "little Hans") is a diminutive of the given name Hans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansel_(disambiguation)

Wikipedia

Hansel and Gretel

"Hansel and Gretel" (; German: Hänsel und Gretel [ˈhɛnzl̩ ʔʊnt ˈɡʁeːtl̩]) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 as part of Grimm's Fairy Tales (KHM 15). It is also known as Little Step Brother and Little Step Sister.

Hansel and Gretel are siblings who are abandoned in a forest and fall into the hands of a witch who lives in a gingerbread, cake, and candy house. The witch, who has cannibalistic intentions, intends to fatten Hansel before eventually eating him. However, Gretel saves her brother by pushing the witch into her own oven, killing her, and escaping with the witch's treasure.

Set in medieval Germany, "Hansel and Gretel" has been adapted into various media, including the opera Hänsel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck, which was first performed in 1893.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansel and Gretel

Examples of use of hansel

1. She‘s going to eat you." In the real Hansel and Gretel story the boy and girl just go in the house, but this is stranger safety.

2. It typically featured a cottage or a house of such insistent cosiness as to seem actually sinister, suggestive of a trap designed to attract Hansel and Gretel.

3. When they got to Chapter Two, I could tell that was the Hansel and Gretel story because the witch lived in some kind of gingerbread house and she says, "Come in, eat my candy.

4. There‘s a lovely, old–fashioned appeal to the ground, with traditional turnstiles leading into the 100–year–old Stevenage Road stand and a cottage straight from Hansel and Gretel in one corner of the stadium.

5. Different forms of the recipe soon sprang up around Europe and Russia, and the baking of gingerbread houses, popularized by the German folktale "Hansel and Gretel," became a Christmas tradition.