Talk:Tale of Abandonment on a Moonlit Night/@comment-9410476-20130519174546/@comment-6986530-20130519184943

I think it's a situation similar to what happened to Eve in her PV. Somewhere deep down, they knew that the witch was their mother and came to their senses soon after killing her, just as deep down Eve knew the apples were the loved ones of the bear and realized what was done when Adam pointed it out. But like Eve, they had been blinded by some tangible force, likely related to the moon (judging by its influence here,) that gave them delusions. I don't think it's entirely metaphorical.

My other theory without support is that someone found them while lost and told them to do it, telling them that Eve was a witch and Adam her henchman. After all, Project MA shows that it's true if you want to get into semantics. Hansel and Gretel since then have always been doing terrible things under orders from a mother figure.