Story · A household shelf · 1812
Pass it on
Rumpelstiltskin
59Watch it awake.
A name breaks a bad bargain. The child was never his to trade.
The review
A miller tells a king that his daughter can spin straw into gold. She cannot. A strange man does it for her, and the last price is her first child. The tale is not cute once you say that sentence plainly.
She is saved by learning his name. A boast, a king who will kill her if she fails, and a bargain for a baby: the story knows these are wrong because the ending breaks them. It does not spend much time on the father who started it.
Journal
Keep Rumpelstiltskin in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 59. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety and Republic are the thin ones.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Three Little Pigs
66 instead of 59
The Three Little Pigs is still a fairy tale film, and it scores 66 instead of 59. What you gain is industry: The whole tale is how well the house was built.
The eight
- 7Industry
Straw into gold is a lie about work. The real work is getting out of a bargain.
- 6Household
A father boasts his daughter into danger. The baby is the stake.
- 4Piety
No conscience until the mother is about to lose the child.
- 6Courage
She has to learn the name. Nobody else will do it.
- 4Republic
A mill and a king. The king is a threat, not a law.
- 5Temperance
The little man wants a child the way other tales want gold.
- 8Truth
The father's lie starts it. The true name ends it.
- 7Stewardship
What must not be handed over is the child.
Where to read
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Rumpelstiltskin · 59IMDb
