Rumpelstiltskin is probably the strangest fairy tale I was told as a kid. It goes like so:
So there is this poor miller with this really gorgeous daughter. He needed to go to the king to talk with him, i guess about miller things. To sound more impressive to the king the miller told him his daughter could spin straw into gold. The king said this sounds totally cool (aka I want your daughter's never-ending gold). So the daughter is brought in and put into a room halfway full with straw and a spinning wheel. The king said, "If you spin all of this straw into gold by morning, I'll spare your life" and locked the door.
The girl was extremely distraught, I mean she was sold into slavery for by her father and now she had to do the impossible task of making gold appear. So to say the least, she was crying. A little man who heard her crys said, "Why do you cry, girl?". The girl responded, "Because I have to turn this straw into gold". So the little man asked, "What will you give me if I spin this into gold for you?" She gave him her necklace and he got to work.
The next morning the king saw the gold and rejoiced. He put her into another room with double the straw that was in the other and said, "Turn this into gold, or you'll die" and locked the door. She again scared started crying and the little man appeared. He asked what she had and she gave him a ring. He spinned the straw into gold and left.
The king arrived amazed in the morning. He put her in a room with impossible amounts of gold and said, "Spin this into gold and you'll be my wife." His thought being that he could marry no richer a woman. So again at night, the little man showed up and asked what she could give him. She said she had nothing. He responded, " Well, when you get married to the king, give me your first child." She agreed not thinking that would ever happen so he spinned the straw.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
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