Rumpelstiltskin Fairy Tales and Bedtime Stories for Kids in English

Rumpelstiltskin cartoon. Bedtime stories for kids and animation Rumpelstiltskin is a fairytale popularly associated with Germany (where he is known as Rumpelstilzchen). Plot In order to appear superior, a miller lies to the king, telling him that his daughter can spin straw into gold (some versions make the miller&daughter blonde and describe the "straw-into-gold" claim as a careless boast the miller makes about the way his daughter&straw-like blond hair takes on a gold-like lustre when sunshine strikes it). The king calls for the girl, shuts her in a tower room filled with straw and a spinning wheel, and demands she spin the straw into gold by morning or he will cut off her head (other versions have the king threatening to lock her up in a dungeon forever). When she has given up all hope, an imp-like creature appears in the room and spins the straw into gold in return for her necklace (since he only comes to people seeking a deal/trade). When next morning the king takes the girl to a larger room filled with straw to repeat the feat, the imp once again spins, in return for the girl&ring. On the third day, when the girl has been taken to an even larger room filled with straw and told by the king that he will marry her if she can fill this room with gold or execute her if she cannot, the girl has nothing left with which to pay the strange creature. He extracts from her a promise that she will give him her firstborn child and so he spins the straw into gold a final time (In...