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Rumpelstiltskin

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Ein mit roter Jacke und roter Mütze bekleideter Mann, der im Wald um eine Feuerstelle tanzt.

Today I bake, tomorrow I brew, the day after tomorrow I'll fetch the queen her child; oh, how good that no one knows that my name is Rumpelstiltskin!

Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich
Katze und Maus in Gesellschaft
Marienkind
Von einem, der auszog, das Fürchten zu lernen
Der Wolf und die sieben jungen Geißlein
Der treue Johannes
Der gute Handel
Der wunderliche Spielmann
Die zwölf Brüder
Das Lumpengesindel
Brüderchen und Schwesterchen
Rapunzel
Die drei Männlein im Walde
Die drei Spinnerinnen
Hänsel und Gretel
Die drei Schlangenblätter
Die weiße Schlange
Strohhalm, Kohle und Bohne
Von dem Fischer und seiner Frau
Das tapfere Schneiderlein
Aschenputtel
Das Rätsel
Von dem Mäuschen, Vögelchen und der Bratwurst
Frau Holle
Die sieben Raben
Rotkäppchen
Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten
Der singende Knochen
Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren
Läuschen und Flöhchen
Das Mädchen ohne Hände
Der gescheite Hans
Die drei Sprachen
Die kluge Else
Der Schneider im Himmel
Tischchen deck dich, Goldesel und Knüppel aus dem Sack
Daumesdick
Die Hochzeit der Frau Füchsin
Die Wichtelmänner
Der Räuberbräutigam
Herr Korbes
Der Herr Gevatter
Frau Trude
Der Gevatter Tod
Daumerlings Wanderschaft
Fitchers Vogel
Von dem Machandelboom
Der alte Sultan
Die sechs Schwäne
Dornröschen
Fundevogel
König Drosselbart
Schneewittchen
Der Ranzen, das Hütlein und das Hörnlein
Rumpelstilzchen
Der liebste Roland
Der goldene Vogel
Der Hund und der Sperling
Der Frieder und das Katherlieschen
Die zwei Brüder
Das Bürle
Die Bienenkönigin
Die drei Federn
Die goldene Gans
Allerleirauh
Häsichenbraut
Die zwölf Jäger
Von dem Sommer- und Wintergarten
Jorinde und Joringel
Die drei Glückskinder
Sechse kommen durch die ganze Welt
Der Wolf und der Mensch
Der Wolf und der Fuchs
Der Fuchs und die Frau Gevatterin
Der Fuchs und die Katze
Die Nelke
Das kluge Gretel
Der alte Großvater und der Enkel
Die Wassernixe
Von dem Tode des Hühnchens
Bruder Lustig
Der Spielhansl
Hans im Glück
Hans heiratet
Die Goldkinder
Der Fuchs und die Gänse
Der Arme und der Reiche
Das singende, springende Löweneckerchen
Die Gänsemagd
Der junge Riese
Das Erdmännchen
Der König vom goldenen Berg
Die Rabe
Die kluge Bauerntochter
Der alte Hildebrand
Die drei Vögelchen
Das Wasser des Lebens
Doktor Allwissend
Der Geist im Glas
Des Teufels rußiger Bruder
Der Bärenhäuter
Der Zaunkönig und der Bär
Der süße Brei
Die klugen Leute
Märchen von der Unke
Der arme Müllerbursch und das Kätzchen
Die beiden Wanderer
Hans mein Igel
Das Totenhemdchen
Der Jude im Dorn
Der gelernte Jäger
Der Dreschflegel vom Himmel
Die beiden Königskinder
Vom klugen Schneiderlein
Die klare Sonne bringts an den Tag
Das blaue Licht
Das eigensinnige Kind
Die drei Feldscherer
Die sieben Schwaben
Die drei Handwerksburschen
Der Königssohn, der sich vor nichts fürchtet
Der Krautesel
Die Alte im Wald
Die drei Brüder
Der Teufel und seine Großmutter
Ferdinand getreu und Ferdinand ungetreu
Der Eisenofen
Die faule Spinnerin
Die vier kunstreichen Brüder
Einäuglein, Zweiäuglein und Dreiäuglein
Die schöne Katrinelje und Pif Paf Poltrie
Der Fuchs und das Pferd
Die zertanzten Schuhe
Die sechs Diener
Die weiße und die schwarze Braut
Der Eisenhans
Die drei schwarzen Prinzessinnen
Knoist und seine drei Söhne
Das Mädchen von Brakel
Das Hausgesinde
Das Lämmchen und Fischchen
Simeliberg
Auf Reisen gehen
Das Eselein
Der undankbare Sohn
Die Rübe
Das junggeglühte Männlein
Des Herrn und des Teufels Getier
Der Hahnenbalken
Die alte Bettelfrau
Die drei Faulen
Das Hirtenbüblein
Die Sterntaler
Der gestohlene Heller
Die Brautschau
Die Schlickerlinge
Der Sperling und seine vier Kinder
Das Märchen vom Schlaraffenland
Das Dietmarsische Lügenmärchen
Rätselmärchen
Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot
Der kluge Knecht
Der gläserne Sarg
Der faule Heinz
Der Vogel Greif
Der starke Hans
Das Bürle im Himmel
Die hagere Liese
Das Waldhaus
Lieb und Leid teilen
Der Zaunkönig
Die Scholle
Rohrdommel und Wiedehopf
Die Eule
Der Mond
Die Lebenszeit
Die Boten des Todes
Meister Pfriem
Die Gänsehirtin am Brunnen
Die ungleichen Kinder Evas
Die Nixe im Teich
Die Geschenke des kleinen Volkes
Der Riese und der Schneider
Der Nagel
Der arme Junge im Grab
Die wahre Braut
Der Hase und der Igel
Spindel, Weberschiffchen und Nadel
Der Bauer und der Teufel
Die Brosamen auf dem Tisch
Das Meerhäschen
Der Meisterdieb
Der Trommler
Die Kornähre
Der Grabhügel
Oll Rinkrank
Die Kristallkugel
Jungfrau Maleen
Die Stiefel von Büffelleder
Der goldene Schlüssel

Once upon a time there was a miller who was poor, but he had a beautiful daughter. Now it happened that he came to speak with the king, and to impress him he said to him, "I have a daughter who can spin straw into gold." The king, who was fond of gold, thought, "that is an art well pleasing to me," and said to the miller, "if your daughter is so skillful, bring her to my castle tomorrow, and I will put her to the test." And when the girl came, he led her into a chamber all full of straw, gave her a wheel and reel, and said, "Now set to work, and if you have not spun this straw into gold through this night until tomorrow morning, you must die." Then he closed the chamber himself, and she remained alone in it.

There sat the poor miller's daughter and knew nothing for her life, for she understood nothing at all about spinning straw into gold, and her fear grew and grew, so that at last she began to cry. Then suddenly the door opened, and a little man came in and said, "Good evening, spinster miller, why is she crying so much?" "Oh," replied the girl, "I am supposed to be spinning straw into gold and I don't understand it." Said the little man, "what will you give me if I spin it for you?" "My necklace," said the girl. The little man took the collar, sat down in front of the wheel, and purr, purr, purr, three times pulled, the bobbin was full. Then he put on another, and purr, purr, purr, three times pulled, the second was also full: and so it went on until morning, when all the straw was spun, and all the bobbins were full of gold. At sunrise the king came and when he saw the gold, he was amazed and rejoiced. But his heart became only more greedy for money. He had the miller's daughter taken to another chamber full of straw, which was much larger, and ordered her to spin it in one night, too, if her life were dear to her. The girl did not know how to help herself and cried, then the door opened again and the little man appeared and said: "what will you give me if I spin the straw into gold? "My ring from the finger," replied the girl. The little man took the ring, began to purr again with the wheel, and by morning had spun all the straw into shining gold. The king rejoiced exceedingly at the sight, but was still not satisfied with gold, but had the miller's daughter brought to an even larger chamber full of straw and said, "You must spin this this very night. But if you succeed in this, you shall become my wife." "For," thought he, "a richer wife thou canst not have in the world." When the girl was alone, the little man came again for the third time and said, "what will you give me if I spin the straw for you this time?" "I have nothing more to give," replied the girl. "So promise me, when you become queen, your first child." "Who knows what else this will lead to," thought the miller's daughter, and she did not know any other way to help herself, even in the face of adversity. So she promised the male what he asked for, and in return the male once again spun the straw into gold. And when the king came in the morning and found everything as he had wished, he married her, and the beautiful miller's daughter became a queen.

For more than a year she gave birth to a beautiful child and no longer thought about the male. Suddenly he entered her chamber and said, "Now give me what you promised. The queen was frightened and offered the male all the riches of the kingdom if he would let her have the child. But the male said, "no, I would rather have something alive than all the treasures of the world." Then the queen began to wail and cry so much that the male felt sorry for her and said, "I will give you three days. If you know my name by then, you shall keep your child."
Now the queen thought all night long of all the names she had ever heard and sent a messenger across the country to inquire far and wide about new names. When the little man came the next day, she began with Caspar, Melchior, Balzer, and said all the names she knew in order, but at each one the little man said: "That's not my name. The second day she asked all the people and told the man the most unusual and strange names, Rippenbiest, Hammelswade, Schnürbein, but he still said: "That's not my name. The third day the messenger came back and told: "I couldn't find any new names, but as I came to a high mountain around the corner of the forest, where fox and hare say good night to each other, I saw a small house there. And in front of the house a fire was burning, and around the fire jumped a very ridiculous little man, hopping on one leg and shouting:

"today I bake, tomorrow I brew,
The day after tomorrow I'll fetch the queen her child;
oh, how good that no one knows
that my name is Rumpelstiltskin!"

Then the queen was quite glad that she knew the name, and when soon after the little man came and asked, "well, Madam Queen, what is my name?" she first asked, "is your name Kunz?" "No." "Is your name Heinz?" "No."

"Is your name Rumpelstiltskin?"

"That's what the devil told you, that's what the devil told you," cried the little man, and with his right foot he pushed so deeply into the earth in anger that it went in as far as his body. Then, in his rage, he grabbed the left foot with both hands and tore himself in half.

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