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what the hell was the moral of Rumpelstiltskin anyway
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>The strange creature suggests she pay him with her first child. She reluctantly agrees, and he sets about spinning the straw into gold
What was he planning on doing with that child?
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>The ending was revised in an 1857 edition to a more gruesome ending wherein Rumpelstiltskin "in his rage drove his right foot so far into the ground that it sank in up to his waist; then in a passion he seized the left foot with both hands and tore himself in two".
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@augustus they steal children because the fae races were dying out, that's why they don't exist anymore
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@YTFoidLover1488 >The value and power of using personal names and titles is well established in psychology, management, teaching and trial law. It is often referred to as the "Rumpelstiltskin principle". It derives from a very ancient belief that to give or know the true name of a being is to have power over it.
But call him Rumpelstiltskin and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: "I've been found out"."
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>In the oral version originally collected by the Brothers Grimm, Rumpelstiltskin flies out of the window on a cooking ladle.
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@augustus they tried to warn us