Do you know the story of Rumpelstiltskin? I don’t know if it’s as popular as some others. Disney never made a movie about it. Probably because its all about greed.

Here’s an abbreviation of the story according to my book of nursery rhymes.

There was once a miller who was poor, but he had a beautiful daughter. It happened he had an audience with the king and to make himself look important he told the king that he had a daughter who could spin gold out of straw.

The king ordered the miller to bring his daughter to the castle and then brought the girl to a room filled with straw and a spinning wheel. If she did not do what had been promised she was threatened with death.

When the girl cried, a fully little man appeared and said, what will you give me if I spin the straw into gold. The girl gave him her necklace and he went to work.

The next day, king was very happy but greedy and brought the girl to a bigger room filled with even more straw. He issued the same threat and command. When the girl cried the little man appeared again and this time the girl gave him her ring to spin all the straw into gold.

On the third day the king brought her to still a bigger room with more straw and told her if she

accomplished the task this time, he would marry her. When the little man appeared, the girl had nothing else to give so the little man asked for her first child after she became queen. With little choice, she agreed. He spun the gold.

As he said he would, the king married her and a year later they had a child. Of course, the little man reappeared demanding payment. The queen cried and cried, and the man made her a deal. If in 3 days time she could give his name, he would leave her and her child alone.

Each day the little man would arrived and the queen would recite every name she could think of, but none were correct. She sent out her army to find every name ever heard and on the last day one guard came back and reported that he had seen an odd little man dancing around a fire outside his cabin in the woods. He sang:

“Today do I bake, tomorrow I brew,

The day after that the queen’s child come in;

And oh! I am glad that nobody knew

That the name I am called

Rumpelstilskin.”

Not much of a rhyme. LOL. So the guard reported back to the queen and on the final day, she knew Rumpelstilskin’s name.

He was so mad that he pounded his foot on the floor breaking through and getting stuck. He seized his foot with both hands in such a fury that he split in two, and there was an end of him.

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I swear that is what it says. LOL. So in this book the greedy king gets his gold, the queen keeps her child and Rumplestilskin dies of rage and a badly constructed castle floor.

Don’t you just love Children’s stories?

What do you thin the lesson is supposed to be?

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