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

Расстановка переносов

Rum·pel·stilts·kin

Синонимы

tom tit tot

Этимология

() German Rumpelstilzchen