The Lost Children is a French fairy tale collected by Antoinette Bon in Revue des traditions populaires.
Their children – Jean, who was twelve, and his sister Jeanette, who was eight – suffered because of this, and finally they decided to lose them in the forest.
He beat his wife and put Jean into the barn to fatten him up before eating him, making Jeanette bring him food.
The Devil's wife showed them, and Jean tied her on and cut her throat.
On the way, he met various people – a laborer, a shepherd, a beadle, some laundresses – and asked whether they had seen the children.