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"Rumpelstiltskin" (/ ˌ r ʌ m p ə l ˈ s t ɪ l t s k ɪ n / RUMP-əl-STILT-skin; [1] German: Rumpelstilzchen, IPA: [ʁʊmpl̩ʃtiːltsçn̩]) is a German fairy tale [2] collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales. [2] The story is about an imp who spins straw into gold in exchange for a woman's ...
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm lived in this house in Steinau from 1791 to 1796.. Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm and Wilhelm Carl Grimm were born on 4 January 1785 and 24 February 1786, respectively, in Hanau in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, within the Holy Roman Empire (present-day Germany), to Philipp Wilhelm Grimm, a jurist, and Dorothea Grimm (née Zimmer), daughter of a Kassel city councilman. [1]
Articles relating to Rumpelstiltskin (1812), a German fairy tale. It was collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales . The story is about a little imp who spins straw into gold in exchange for a girl's firstborn child.
Died: April 4, 1863 (aged 73): Known for: Painter, art professor, etcher and copper engraver Notable work: Farmer's wife from Egern with her daughters (1813), Frontispiece to Grimm's Fairy Tales (1819), The Johannisfriedhof in Nuremberg (1828), Double portrait of Jacob and Wilhelm (1843), Marstaellerplatz in Kassel (1844)
The tale was published by the Brothers Grimm in the second edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen in 1819. Their principal source was Paul Wigand (1786–1866), completed by the versions of Jeanette Hassenpflug (1791–1860) and Johannes Prätorius (1630–1680).
Wratislaw himself wrote that the Czech tale "[bore] an advantageous comparison with Grimm’s tale of the ‘Four Accomplished Brothers". [12] Yolando Pino-Saavedra included a variant, "The Five Brothers," in Folktales of Chile. [13] Italian author Giambattista Basile wrote a literary version, The Five Sons. [14]
Here's what we do know for sure: until they were collected by early catalogers Giambattista Basile, Charles Perrault, and The Brothers Grimm, fairy tales were shared orally. And, a look at the sources cited in these first collections reveals that the tellers of these tales — at least during the Grimms' heydey — were women.
The original story is the first of three fairy tales contained as entry 39 in the German Grimm's Fairy Tales under the common title "Die Wichtelmänner". In her translation of 1884 Margaret Hunt chose The Elves as title for these three stories.