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A poor miller had a beautiful daughter
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The miller somehow manages to talk to the king,
and he tells him that his daughter can spin straw into gold
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The king comments that he is interested in her
skill, and if he speaks true, then to bring her to his castle tomorrow
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The miller takes his daughter, and the king locks
her in a room filled with straw
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He says if by morning she has not spun all the
straw into gold, then she will have to die
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The poor miller’s daughter did not know how to
spin straw into gold, and she began to cry out of fear
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The door opened and a little man stepped inside
and asked her why she was crying
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The girl tells him of her situation
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The little man asked the girl what she would
give him if he spun it for her, and she told him that she would give him her
necklace
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the little man spins the straw into gold, but
the king was greedy and took the daughter to a larger room and ordered her to
do the same if she valued her life
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The girl cried again, and the man appeared again
o
she offered him her ring this time, and he spun
for her
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The king was overjoyed to see the room filled
with gold, and in his greed, he took the daughter to an even larger room and
demanded the same
o
This time, he told her that if she was successful,
he would marry her
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The man appeared again when the girl was alone,
and asked her what she would give him
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The girl tells him she has nothing more, but he
requests her first child after she is queen
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She did not know what would happen and so she
agreed
o
The man spun the straw into gold again
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The king came and found the gold, and he married
the girl
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A year later, she gave birth and forgot about
the man
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But the man appeared and requested that which he
was promised
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The queen offered him anything other than the
child, but the man treasured the living thing more than all the other treasures
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The queen began crying again, and the man took
pity on her and gave her three days to figure out his name so she can keep her child
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The queen did everything she could to find all
the names in the country, but none were his name
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On the third
day, the messenger returned with no new names, but he did tell the queen about a
little house he saw where a little man was jumping around a fire hopping on one
leg and calling out
o
“Today I'll bake; tomorrow I'll
brew,
Then I'll fetch the queen's new child;
It is good that no one knows,
Rumpelstiltskin is my name.”
Then I'll fetch the queen's new child;
It is good that no one knows,
Rumpelstiltskin is my name.”
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The queen was delighted, and the man appeared
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She asked him if his name was Rumpelstiltskin,
and he shouted, “the devil told you that!”, and he stomped his right foot so
hard into the ground that he fell up to his waist
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He then took his left food and ripped himself up
the middle in two
Illustration by Walter Crane
Bibliography: This story can be found here. Story source: The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales translated by D. L. Ashliman (1998-2013).
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