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RAPUNZUEL

                  WHO IS RAPUNZEL?
                  Rapunzel is a German fairy tale about a young woman named Rapunzel with impossibly long
                  hair and who lives alone in a tower, held captive by a witch.
                  It's also the German name of a vegetable commonly used in salads



                  WHERE DOES RAPUNZEL COME FROM?
                  Originating from an old oral tradition, the story of Rapunzel was published in Friedrich Schultz's
                  Kleine Romane in 1790, then more famously in Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's 1812 collection,
                  Children's and Household Tales.


                                                                      SUMMARY
                                                                      At  the  beginning  of  the  fairy  tale,
                                                                      Rapunzel's mother has major pregnancy
                                                                      cravings for a vegetable, called rapunzel,
                                                                      that she
                                                                      happens to see in the neighbor's garden.
                                                                      She  starts  to  feel  ill  from  wanting  it  so
                                                                      badly,  so  her  husband  breaks  into  the
                                                                      garden to steal it. The neighbor, a witch,
                                                                      catches him. The two make a deal that he
                                                                      can have some rapunzel in exchange for
                                                                      the baby once it's born. When the baby
                                                                      arrives,  the  witch  takes  her  away  and
                                                                      names  her  after  that  vegetable  the
                                                                      mother wanted so badly: Rapunzel.







                   Rapunzel (the girl) grows up in a remote tower, which has neither a staircase nor ladder so she
                   can't get away. The witch (who's a kind of mother figure for her) visits the tower regularly and
                   calls out, “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair,” at which Rapunzel throws down her
                   ridiculously long hair for the witch to climb up like a rope.

                   One day, a prince comes across the tower, hears the witch say the words, and sees her climb
                   up. After the witch leaves, he tries it himself and meets Rapunzel. The two fall in love and he
                   starts visiting her regularly. The witch eventually catches on, cuts off Rapunzel's hair, and kicks
                   her out of the tower to fend for herself. She uses the severed hair-rope to catch the prince the
                   next time he visits, then throws him out of the tower (literally). Luckily, he survives, Rapunzel
                   finds him, and they live happily ever after.
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