What is the legend of the gingerbread man?
“The Gingerbread Man” is a popular, traditional fairy tale. The story features a gingerbread man who comes to life and runs away.StoryThe story begins with an old woman baking a gingerbread man. When he runs away, the old woman, her husband and farm animals try to chase him, but he can run faster.EndingThe Gingerbread Man meets his end when a fox catches and eats him. In some versions, the fox offers the Gingerbread Man safe passage over a river by riding on the fox’s head, then gobbles him up.PublicationThe tale of the Gingerbread Man was first published in “St. Nicholas” magazine in 1875.StyleThe original published version of “The Gingerbread Man” is a cumulative tale, with each line of the Gingerbread Man’s rhyme adding a line about who he ran away from. In some other versions, his rhyme is simpler: “Run, run as fast as you can. You can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man!”Classification”The Gingerbread Man” is type AT 2025: The Fleeing Pancake under the Aarne-Thompson classificatio
