Was my first time reading that story, my cultural background is rusty xD My better memories from infance are an old ladie giving me soup near the stairs of an old house and telling me stories like this, from the Brothers Grimm and others, but it is the first time that I hear this one, neither in cartoons in child saw it, maybe in here it is not so much popular has the others from the Grimm Brothers. But I liked it, we are a little like them in the story :)