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Rumpelstiltskin
One day a Prince rode by a baker's house and asked the baker:
"Is it true that your daughter is very pretty?"
The baker said:
"She is very pretty sir!"
"Is she clever, as well?" The Prince asked. "Clever?" Replied the baker, "She is so clever she can spin straw into gold!"
"Gold!" The Prince's eyes nearly popped out of his head, "Then send her to my castle in the morning and she can spin my straw into gold! If not, you will both be thrown into my prison!"
The Prince rode off just as the baker's daughter came out of their house and asked:
"What is the matter father?"
The baker told his daughter what he had said to the Prince.
His daughter was cross, but when she saw that her father was very upset, she said:
"I will go to the castle tomorrow and tell the Prince that no one can spin straw into gold!"
The next day the baker's daughter went to the castle but the Prince would not listen to her but said:
"There is the spinning wheel and the straw.
Do not forget, if you do not spin the straw into gold, you and your father will be thrown into my prison!"
The baker's daughter tried to spin the straw but it just fell to pieces in her hands.
Then she heard a strange laughing noise:
"Ha, ha, ha! Ha, ha, ha!"
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