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"Rumpelstiltskin" (/ ˌ r ʌ m p əl ˈ s t ɪ l t s k ɪ n / RUMP-əl-STILT-skin; [1] German: Rumpelstilzchen [ˌʁʊmpl̩ˈʃtiːltsçn̩] ⓘ) is a German fairy tale [2] collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales. [2] The story is about an imp who spins straw into gold in exchange for a woman's ...
She sneaks into a ball that is intended to find the prince a wife, but the king sees through her disguise and threatens her until she says that she can spin straw into gold. She’s locked in the tower, setting the stage for Rumplestiltskin to appear and give Cora a taste of the power that will drive her over the edge."
Articles relating to Rumpelstiltskin (1812), a German fairy tale. It was collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales. The story is about a little imp who spins straw into gold in exchange for a girl's firstborn child.
Somewhere in 15th century Europe, Rumpelstiltskin, a mystical, deformed hunchback is pursued by mob to a nearby cliffside after kidnapping the baby promised to him of a local village woman in exchange for spinning straw into gold.
The daughter who, her father claimed, could spin straw into gold and was forced to demonstrate her talent, aided by the dangerous earth-daemon Rumpelstiltskin was an old tale when the Brothers Grimm collected it. Similarly, the unwilling spinner of the tale The Three Spinners is aided by three mysterious old women.
Rumpelstiltskin, one of the tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, revolves around a woman who is imprisoned under threat of execution unless she can spin straw into gold. Rumpelstiltskin helps her with this task, ultimately at the cost of her first-born child; however, she makes a new bargain with him and is able to keep her child after ...
Now this king was very fond of money; and when he heard the miller's boast his greediness was raised, and he sent for the girl to be brought before him. Then he led her to a chamber in his palace where there was a great heap of straw, and gave her a spinning-wheel, and said, 'All this must be spun into gold before morning, as you love your life.'
Rumpelstiltskin is a 1985 Canadian animated television special depicting the famous Brothers Grimm story of a miller's daughter and a little man who can spin straw into gold. . Premiering on CTV in Canada and in the United States in syndication on December 14, 1985, Rumpelstiltskin was released onto home video in 1986, on V