The husband goes back but this time he’s caught. Now she wants three times as much rampion. He brings it home and his wife eats it but isn’t satisfied.
The wife declares one day that if she cannot eat any rampion she shall die (very melodramatic). Her neighbour is a powerful enchantress and is dreaded by all so they can’t possibly ask her for any.īecause he loves her (and because you don’t argue with a pregnant lady), the husband sneaks into the garden and steals some rampion. Whilst pregnant, the wife has a craving for rampion (or rapunzel in German) that taunts her every day in her neighbour’s walled garden. Rapunzel’s story starts off with a couple. Published: 1857 in Kinder und Hausmärchen ( Children’s and Household Tales)įairy tale tropes featured: evil enchantress, exchange of newborn child, magical tearsĪarne-Thompson folklore index folktale type: 310 Rapunzel I’ve recently read Cress from the Lunar Chronicles (which will definitely be a FTF feature once I finally finish the series…) which inspired me to return to the original version. Rapunzel is an odd one – it’s one of those stories that you think you know but the original is a little bit more interesting and in true Grimm fashion, a little bit more terrible. (If I backdate this to the start of September, will people notice I’m severely late on this and that I completely missed August?)
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