Rapunzel

The story begins with a couple who desperately wanted a child. When the wife finally became pregnant she spied just over the wall behind their home the most succulent rampion (an herb). She pined for it day and night to the point where she made herself sick. As all good husbands do when tending to their pregnant wives and their strange cravings he scaled the wall and tried to steal the rampion.

The property that he was trespassing on was that of a hermit witch, she of course caught the husband in the act. He pleaded for his life so hard that the witch gave him an ultimatum; either leave now with out the rampion or take it to his wife but when his child was born she would be taken from them and put into the custody of the witch. The husband more worried about his wife’s well being chose to take the rampion. When the child was born the witch appeared in the room and confiscated the child, placing her in a tower with no way in except for one lone window at the very top.


The actual story of Rapunzel told in full is not necessarily a story that would comfort a child before sleep, let alone pass the censorship rules for children’s stories.
The child was named Rapunzel and she grew very beautiful. Her hair was something that would make any woman jealous, it was long and the color of spun gold. Everyday the witch came to visit Rapunzel. She would come to the tower and call up “Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your hair!” Rapunzel would do what as the witch requested. As luck would have it a prince was riding his horse through the forest and heard what had occurred and watched as the witch climbed up the mane of hair to a beautiful girl who resided at the top of the tower. After the witch had left the prince decided to try and climb up to see this beautiful girl.

After climbing up the two began to talk, building a friendship. The prince came to see her everyday after the witch had left. Rapunzel grew closer to the prince, eventually loosing her virginity to him. The witch knew nothing of these rendezvous until one day during her visit with Rapunzel she was asked very innocently “Why don’t my cloths fit me anymore?” it was then that the witch realized what Rapunzel had been doing so she cut off all of Rapunzel’s hair and sent her to a different tower in the dessert far from any civilization.


The prince not knowing the danger that was laid before him went to the tower to see his beloved but found the witch there waiting for him. After a struggle the prince fell out of the tower into a bed of thorns that gouged out his eyes so that he could no longer see. He wondered the forest for years blind.

In the meantime Rapunzel lived in the desert, her hair grew back and she gave birth to a set of twins. The prince eventually made his way out of the forest and into the desert. While there he heard Rapunzel singing and went towards the voice. When he found her she fell on him weeping tears of grief, these tears healed his eyes and allowed him to see again. He rescued his family and brought them back to his castle to live happily ever after.

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