Rapunzel

Rapunzel:

Rapunzel is the 12th story in the Gremm Brothers collection. This story tells the story of a peasant couple who lived next to a garden pruned with flowers that belonged to a witch who were expecting a daughter.

 One day the peasant woman saw a flower that she wanted in the witch's garden and her husband went in search of it.  In this adventure the witch discovered him and after a talk she reached an agreement with the peasant.  She would give him the flower on the condition that she would stay with her daughter, the farmer accepted.

 When the girl is born, the witch takes her and names her Rapunzel.  When she was 12 years old, he locked her in a high tower with no exit or entrance and went to visit her every day, asking her to let her long blonde and golden hair fall to climb up to her.

 One day, the King's son hears Rapunzel sing, Look for a door but, without finding any way to enter, he decides to wait.  He often returns to listen to her, until one day he can hear the witch singing to Rapunzel: "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let your hair fall, so I can climb the golden ladder", and, in this way, the prince discovers how to get to her. .  He asks her to let her hair fall, and after seeing her he falls in love with her and proposes marriage.  She sings and accepts.

 They plan a way to get her out of the tower: he will go every night, avoiding the witch who visits her during the day, and he will bring silk, with which Rapunzel will weave until it forms a kind of rope.  But the witch discovers them and cuts Rapunzel's hair, then abandons her in the swamp.

 When the prince visits Rapunzel again, the witch takes care of her and makes the prince climb by her hair, which she had cut off Rapunzel.

 When the prince goes up he meets the witch in the tower, she tells him that she will never see Rapunzel again.  He, desperate, falls from the tower onto some thorns and is blinded. He ends up giving up because he will no longer see the young woman.

 Shortly after, while wandering through the swamp, the prince met Rapunzel, who upon seeing him, decided to take him to his house.

 Rapunzel cries sad and frustrated with pain;  Rapunzel's tears fall into the handsome prince's eyes and he regains his sight.  So, the prince and Rapunzel return to the kingdom, get married, and live happily ever after.

Lamoglia Maitena