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In fact, what happened to the Giant was karma
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* LaserGuidedKarma: The giant tries to kill the boys in their sleep, just so he can eat them. What happens? He accidently kills his own daughters instead, and the boys escape with their lives. Afterwards, he has his boots and wealth stolen by the very boys he tried to killed.
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Why is the wife listed here? You literally said she was innocent, but was made to suffer. That makes her the opposite of a Karma Hoidini. Also, the gaint himslef isn't realy a karma houdini just because he didn't die. He lost his daughters as punishment for trying to eat the boys.
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** The giant's wife, who was very friendly to the children, loses both her children and her husbands' wealth. One might imagine that the giant would not be very happy when he returns home to her...
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** The giant is unusually not killed at the end of the story, although he did lose all his wealth.
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The set-up is similar to that of ''Literature/HanselAndGretel''. A poor woodchooper and his wife decide to abandon their children in the forest because they are no longer able to provide food for them. They have seven sons, one of them, the youngest, not bigger than a thumb and therefore called "Hop-o'-My-Thumb". Despite being tiny the boy is very smart and he hears about his parents' plans. In the middle of the night he goes outside and collects pebbles which he puts inside his pocket. When the parents take their children into the woods Hop-o'-My-Thumb throws a trail of pebbles, which causes them to find their way back. This scenario is repeated again the second time the parents try to leave their children behind in the forest. But the third time the door is locked and Hop-o'-My Thumb is unable to collect pebbles. Instead he uses a TrailOfBreadCrumbs, but later it turns out that the birds have eaten everything.
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The set-up is similar to that of ''Literature/HanselAndGretel''. [[note]]In folkloristics, both tales are classified under the umbrella typing ATU 327, "The Children and the Ogre". ''Hansel and Gretel'' has its own type, ATU 327A, "Hansel and Gretel", while ''Hop o' My Thumb'' is indexed as ATU 327B, "The Brothers and the Ogre".[[/note]] A poor woodchooper and his wife decide to abandon their children in the forest because they are no longer able to provide food for them. They have seven sons, one of them, the youngest, not bigger than a thumb and therefore called "Hop-o'-My-Thumb". Despite being tiny the boy is very smart and he hears about his parents' plans. In the middle of the night he goes outside and collects pebbles which he puts inside his pocket. When the parents take their children into the woods Hop-o'-My-Thumb throws a trail of pebbles, which causes them to find their way back. This scenario is repeated again the second time the parents try to leave their children behind in the forest. But the third time the door is locked and Hop-o'-My Thumb is unable to collect pebbles. Instead he uses a TrailOfBreadCrumbs, but later it turns out that the birds have eaten everything.
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* EatsBabies: The giant
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* EnchantedForest: Hop-o'-My-Thumb's family lives next to a dense, huge forest inhabited by strange, hostile creatures.
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* TheLostWoods: Hop-o'-My-Thumb's family lives next to a dense, huge forest inhabited by strange, hostile creatures.
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** The giant is unusually not killed at the end of the story, although he did lose all his wealth.
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[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/hopomythumb/index.html "Hop-o'-My-Thumb"]] is a traditional fairy tale, first written down by Creator/CharlesPerrault in 1697.
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* DontGoInTheWoods: Hop-o'-My-Thumb and his brothers get lost in a huge wood, where they risk starvation. Walking around they find a hut which happens to be a man-eating ogre's home.
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** Hop-O-My-Thumb himself, due to ValuesDissonance. Takes a woman's kindness for granted, condemns seven sleeping girls to death, steals, lies, steals some more, leaves the poor old lady to explain things when her murderous giant husband gets home. [[DesignatedHero What a hero]].
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** Hop-O-My-Thumb himself, due to ValuesDissonance. Takes himself takes a woman's kindness for granted, condemns seven sleeping girls to death, steals, lies, steals some more, leaves the poor old lady to explain things when her murderous giant husband gets home. [[DesignatedHero What home.
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* NoNameGiven: We only know Hop-o'-My-Thumb's name, not any of the other characters.
** Perrault gives two names: Guillaume (the father) and Pierrot (the eldest son).
** Perrault gives two names: Guillaume (the father) and Pierrot (the eldest son).
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* NoNameGiven: We only know Hop-o'-My-Thumb's name, not any of the other characters.
**characters. Perrault gives two names: Guillaume (the father) and Pierrot (the eldest son).
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