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The Gingerbread House is an Enchanted Forest location featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It first appears in the ninth episode of the first season.
The gingerbread house is based on the house of bread, cake and sugar from the fairy tale of "Hansel and Gretel."
History
TBA ("Regina Rising")
In the land of the Enchanted Forest, the gingerbread house is the home to the Blind Witch. Of the witch's many possessions, she has a poisoned apple. Wishing to acquire the item, the Evil Queen sends siblings Hansel and Gretel to fetch it for her since the house is under a spell that keeps adults away, however, children can enter. This is because the Blind Witch is a cannibal, and she prefers to eat little boys, and normally uses the little girls as cooks or maid-servants. The house, decorated with cakes and candies, contains even more treats inside. After Hansel and Gretel go in, they see the Blind Witch asleep in a chair. Little do they know, she only awakens after a child takes a bite of one of the goodies on the table. Tempted, Hansel eats a pastry and causes the Blind Witch to stir from her sleep. Due to Gretel's intervention, the witch is locked in the oven. From her palace, the Evil Queen watches the event play out, and then sends a fireball through her magic mirror to burn the Blind Witch. Leaving the house, Hansel and Gretel take the poisoned apple and later deliver it to the queen. ("True North")
Trivia
Production Notes
- The gingerbread house's exterior was a computer generated-image based on show production designer Michael Joy's concept sketches. The interior, however, was a real-life "inside-out cake" constructed by Michael Joy and set decorator Mark Lane.[1] ("True North")
Props Notes
- When Hansel and Gretel arrive at the gingerbread house, no smoke is coming from the chimney. In the illustration of the kids escaping the gingerbread house in Henry's storybook, the chimney is smoking, a subtle reference to the Blind Witch being burned in her own oven. ("True North," "The Stable Boy," "Selfless, Brave and True," "The New Neverland")
- The round cookies that Ava and Nicholas eat in Mary Margaret's loft also decorate the walls of the gingerbread house.[1] ("True North")
Appearances
Once Upon a Time: Season One | ||||||||||
"Pilot": | "The Thing You Love Most": | "Snow Falls": | "The Price of Gold": | "That Still Small Voice": | "The Shepherd": | "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter": | "Desperate Souls": | "True North": | "7:15 A.M.": | "Fruit of the Poisonous Tree": |
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"Skin Deep": | "What Happened to Frederick": | "Dreamy": | "Red-Handed": | "Heart of Darkness": | "Hat Trick": | "The Stable Boy": | "The Return": | "The Stranger": | "An Apple Red as Blood": | "A Land Without Magic": |
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Once Upon a Time: Specials | ||||||||||
"Magic is Coming": |
"The Price of Magic": | "Journey to Neverland": | "Wicked is Coming": | "Storybrooke Has Frozen Over": | ||||||
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"Secrets of Storybrooke": | "Dark Swan Rises": | "Evil Reigns Once More": | "The Final Battle Begins": | |||||||
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Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.
References
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