rumpelstiltskin

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A fairy tale collected by the brothers Grimm about a dwarf who saves the miller’s daughter by spinning straw into gold in exchange for her first-born child, and whose name is critical to the conclusion
The fictional dwarf who is the protagonist and title character of that story
A fairy tale collected by the brothers Grimm
the main character in a story called Rumpelstiltskin by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Rumpelstiltskin is an ugly dwarf (=a creature like a very small man) who teaches a young girl how to make straw into gold thread by using a spinning wheel. As a reward for teaching her this, he says she must give him her first child. She becomes queen and has a child, but Rumpelstiltskin says he will not take her child if she can discover what his name is within three days. By chance a servant hears him saying his name, and when the girl tells him what it is, he gets so angry that he dies
{i} dwarf of German folklore who spins flax into gold
A fictional character in that story, a dwarf who saves the miller's daughter by spinning straw into gold in exchange for her first-born child, and whose name is critical to the conclusion
a dwarf in one of the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm; tells a woman he will not hold her to a promise if she can guess his name and when she discovers it he is so furious that he destroys himself
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