She prepares the oven, but decided she was hungry enough to eat Gretel too. She coaxes Gretel to open the oven and prodded her to lean over in front of it to see if the fire is hot enough. Sensing the witch's intent, Gretel pretended she did not understand her instructions. Infuriated, the witch demonstrates and instantly Gretel shoved the witch into the hot oven.' From a series of postcards publiehsd in Germany