Week 14 Storytelling: Witchy Woman

Gruntilda finally had some peace and quiet since she moved away from the hubbub of the city, but all of that changed.  You see, Gruntilda was getting up in years, so she decided that it would be best for her health to move to the seclusion and fresh air of the forest.  She had saved her money over the years and used it to contract Wonka Sweets Construction to build the house of her dreams, a home completely made of candy that she had wanted since her youth.  The house was lovely:  wrought black licorice fence, graham cracker siding outlined with pure white icing, and peppermint shingles on the roof.

Candy House.  Web source

Gruntilda loved her new setup, it was everything a retired witch could want.  As she sat in her candy cane rocking chair reading over some old spells sipping her brew, a small noise made its way to Gruntilda's ears.  Nibble, nibble, nibble.   She tried to ignore the noise and continue reading but it wouldn't go away.  Nibble, nibble, nibble.  Too distracted to keep reading, Gruntilda looked high and low for the source.  Giving up, she went to return to her book when all of a sudden, the sugar glass window was smashed and the chocolate windowsill ripped off by two pudgy hands.

Rushing to the window, she found a fat little girl with chocolate smeared all over.  Another crash came from the peanut brittle porch and the roof was gone, and laying among the peanut wreckage was an obese little boy.  Gruntilda broke down and began to weep, her poor dream house had been wrecked by these two unhealthy children.  With anger in her old witch's heart, she spryly grabbed the two immobile children and threw them in her big cooking pot.  She grabbed some potatoes, carrots, celery, and made a nice child stew.

Author's Note:  For this storytelling, I retold the story of Hansel and Grethel from the witch's perspective and made her the protagonist.  I added back story and a reason for why she would be randomly in the middle of the woods.  I also made Hansel and Grethel chubby and inconsiderate because who would eat somebody's house instead of knocking on the door and asking for food.  I decided to end the story with the kids getting eaten, because why not?

Bibliography:  Household Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm by Margaret Hunt (1884). Web Source