The following tales are similar to the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale, AT-327A. I have included the English language tales of this type which have been gathered by title by D. L. Ashliman in his A Guide to Folktales in the English Language. Sometimes I include tales of other classifications when I deem them relevant to the theme. The tales come from many cultures and are similar to the Hansel and Gretel story in various ways. I have placed the tales in alphabetical order with bibliographic information and links to texts of the stories if a text is available on the internet.

Also see the tales of AT-327B: The Small Boy Defeats the Ogre on SurLaLune at Tales Similar to Hop O' My Thumb. Of special interest is Mutsmag.

Baba Yaga *
The Babes in the Woods *
Chick
The Deserted Children
Finette Cendron *
The Grumbling Old Woman
Hansel and Gretel *
Johnnie and Grizzle *
Kadar and Cannibals
Little Thumb *
The Lost Children
Molly Whuppie *
The Oni and the Three Children
Le Petit Poucet *
The Rose Tree *
The Story of the Bird That Made Milk (Africa) *
The Two Children and the Witch *
The Two Lost Babes

* Full text of tale is available online.

Baba Yaga

A web version of this tale is available at Baba Yaga.

Read about other Baba Yaga tales, some similar to AT-327A on The Tales of Baba Yaga.

This tale is AT-327A.

An English language version is available in:

Blumenthal, Verra Xenophontovna Kalamatiano de. Folk Tales from the Russian. New York: Rand McNally & Co., 1903.

A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-327A.

An English language version is available in:

Calvino, Italo. Italian Folktales. George Martin, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-327A.

An English language version is available in:

Cole, Joanna, ed. Best-Loved Folktales of the World. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1982.
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Text available at Finette Cendron.

This tale is not AT-327A, but contains similar themes of abandonment as mentioned on the History of Hansel and Gretel page. The tale comes from France.

This tale is AT-510A.

An English language version is available in:

D'Aulnoy, Marie Catherine Baronne. The Fairy Tales of Madame D'Aulnoy. Miss Annie Macdonell and Miss Lee, translators. Cllinton Peters, illustrator. London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1892.
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Zipes, Jack.  Beauties, Beasts and Enchantments: Classic French Fairy Tales. New York: New American Library, 1989.
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Zipes, Jack, ed. The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-327A.

An English language version is available in:

Afanasyev, Aleksandr. Russian Fairy Tales. Norbert Guterman, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1945.
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A web version of this tale is the one annotated on this website at Hansel and Gretel.

This tale is AT-327A.

An English language version is available in:

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, translator. New York: Bantam, 1987.
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Opie, Iona and Peter. The Classic Fairy Tales. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
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Thompson, Stith, ed. One Hundred Favorite Folktales. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974.
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Lang, Andrew, ed. "Hansel and Gretel." The Blue Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1965. (Original published 1889.)
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A web version of this tale can be found at Johnnie and Grizzle.

This tale is AT-327A.

An English language version is available in:

Jacobs, Joseph, ed. European Folk and Fairy Tales. New York: G. P Putnam's Sons, 1916.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-327A.

An English language version is available in:

Thundy, Zacharias P., ed. South Indian Folktales of Kadar. Meerut, India: Folklore Institute, 1983.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-327A.

An English language version is available in:

Delarue, Paul, ed. The Borzoi Book of French Folk Tales. Austin E. Fife, translator. New York: Alfred E. Knopf, 1956.
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A web version of this tale can be found at Molly Whuppie.

This tale is AT-327.

An English language version is available in:

Jacobs, Joseph. English Fairy Tales. London: David Nutt, 1890.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-327A.

An English language version is available in:

Seki, Keigo. Folktales of Japan. Robert J. Adams, translator. Folktales of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963.

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Text available at Little Thumb from Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book.

This tale is not AT-327A, but contains similar themes of abandonment as mentioned on the History of Hansel and Gretel page. The tale comes from France.

An English language version is available in:

Lang, Andrew, ed. "Little Thumb." The Blue Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1965. (Original published 1889.)
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Text available at The Rose Tree from Joseph Jacob's English Fairy Tales.

An English language version is available in:

Jacobs, Joseph. English Fairy Tales. London: David Nutt, 1890.
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Text available at The Story of the Bird That Made Milk from Theal's Kaffir Folk-Lore.

An English language version is available in:

Theal, Georg McCall. Kaffir Folk-Lore. London: S. Sonnenschein, Le Bas & Lowrey, 1886.
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Text available at The Two Children and the Witch from Consiglieri Pedroso's Portuguese Folk-Tales.

An English language version is available in:

Pedroso, Consiglieri. Portuguese Folk-Tales. Folk Lore Society Publications, Vol. 9. Miss Henrietta Monteiro, translator. New York: Folk Lore Society Publications, 1882.
[Reprinted: New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1969.]
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-327A.

An English language version is available in:

Chase, Richard, ed. Grandfather Tales: American-English Folk Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948.
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