Re: I'm such A tease
Posted: Sun, 08Sep14 02:08
Rumplestilskin is a farytale common in America too. Here is the story as I remember it, incompletely:
The girl is taught to spin straw into gold by a gnome, but she needs to promise her first-born son to him to learn the magic.
She marries the king and has a son. The gnome shows up and asks for his payment, the child. She argues, and he says that if she can guess his name she need not hand over the child.
She goes walking in the forest trying to think what his name could be. In the forest she spies the gnome dancing and singing something like "Rumplestilskin is my name... (I don't remember the rest)." And now she knows his name.
The next day he shows up and she tells him that his name is Rumplestilskin. He is so angry at losing the baby that he stamps his foot very hard onto the ground and falls into the center of the earth. The girl and her husband, the king, and their son live happily ever after.
The story may be related to the practice of people having secret names for pruposes of magic and religion in ancient times.
The girl is taught to spin straw into gold by a gnome, but she needs to promise her first-born son to him to learn the magic.
She marries the king and has a son. The gnome shows up and asks for his payment, the child. She argues, and he says that if she can guess his name she need not hand over the child.
She goes walking in the forest trying to think what his name could be. In the forest she spies the gnome dancing and singing something like "Rumplestilskin is my name... (I don't remember the rest)." And now she knows his name.
The next day he shows up and she tells him that his name is Rumplestilskin. He is so angry at losing the baby that he stamps his foot very hard onto the ground and falls into the center of the earth. The girl and her husband, the king, and their son live happily ever after.
The story may be related to the practice of people having secret names for pruposes of magic and religion in ancient times.