O Crime por trás do Conto

The witch in the gingerbread house always seemed like fiction. Until you discover that she really existed — and that the cookies were real. In this video, I tell the true origin of the Hansel and Gretel story: the great famine of 1315, and how it all leads to 1939 in Italy, in the case of Leonarda Cianciulli — the "Soapmaker of Correggio," who took the lives of three women and turned their bodies into soap and cake, served to her own friends. Reputation of a kind neighbor. Letters written before the "trip." Drugged wine. And a recipe that no one should have written in a confession book.