Rumpelstiltskin is a fairytale popularly associated with Germany. The tale was one collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales. According to researchers at Durham University and the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the story originated around...
A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.
A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.
A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.
In this adaptation of the Grimms' story, children are discovered playing "Ladder words', changing one world to another, a letter at a time, retaining an actual word during each change. Grettle says she can change "flax" into "gold". Unfortunately, the King, whose gold has been...