This Year: 1316 English--Hansel and Gretel and The Great Famine

Hello and Welcome to This Year, a YouTube and Blog series with interesting information about each year between 1300 and 2020.

1316

In 1316, the Great Famine of 1315-1317

 was at its peak.  

With reports of child abandonment

and cannibalism, 

 it may have been the origin of Hansel and Gretel 

and other stories.

This has been This Year: 1316.

Credits:

Brueghel, Pieter the Elder, The Triumph of Death, 1562

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Triumph_of_Death_-_WGA3389.jpg

Chocolat Felix Poitin La Famine Au Moyen Age, 19th Century

https://img.thedailybeast.com/image/upload/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k/dpr_1.5/c_limit,w_690/fl_lossy,q_auto/v1/articles/2014/06/11/when-the-weather-went-all-medieval-climate-change-famine-and-mass-death/140610-smith-medieval-tease_swusii

Hans et Grietje, https://i.pinimg.com/564x/02/1c/4a/021c4a776fe4d0f1b27f521f4a13a32c.jpg

Johnstone, Janet and Anne Graham Hansel and Gretel

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Kubel, N. The Witch testing Hansel's finger

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9d/47/74/9d4774f63febc43cf66cd7c0f69379e9.jpg

Mattana, "Lincoln, Lincoln cathedral 12," 2011

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lincoln,_Lincoln_cathedral_12.JPG

Schola Antiqua, Gradual Chant "Universi qui te expectant," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gradual_chant_-_Universi_qui_te_expectant.ogg.

Thomson, Peter G. The Babes in the Wood, 1890

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Babes_in_the_Wood_pg_10.png