Rumpelstiltskin

by Lucy Kincaid · 1980

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When a little man reappears to claim the first-born child promised him by the Queen in exchange for his help in spinning straw to gold, he gives her a chance to keep the child if she guesses his name.

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fairy talefairy taleMore like thisLess of thisfolklorefolkloreMore like thisLess of thismyths and folkloremyths and folkloreMore like thisLess of this
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Setting
1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisGermanyGermanyMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrens
Length
short · 23 pages

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