Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm ‘The Little Brother and the Little Sister’ an English translation of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, deals with the same story of Hansel and Gretel . This story all about the account of “Hansel and Gretel” in a different way. The children are not identified by their names but by their relation. So, the title is not “Hansel and Gretel” but “The Little Brother and The Little Sister”. In this fairy tale, a poor woodcutter lives by a great forest. He lives very difficult life with his second-wife and two children. The writer sincerely included all the essential points of the original story to make it complete and harmonious. The brother and sister flee their home because their stepmother is very cruel to them. The Stepmother though is a witch and has bewitched all the springs in the forest. There are a number of themes in this story that seem common among the Grimm's tales. One of them is the wicked stepmother. This is something that seem
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