The Brothers Grimm’s "Rapunzel:" Tears Wash Away Grief
A man and a woman long for a child. The woman looks out of her back window into the walled garden of an enchantress and desperately desires the Rampion (Rapunzel) plant. Her husband goes to get it for her, but is confronted by the intense gaze of the enchantress. He reasons with her, and she negotiates: he can leave with it if they give her their firstborn. The wife consumes the wonderful salad and when the child is born, the enchantress takes it to a tall tower.
Rapunzel lets down her golden hair for the daily visits from the old dame, and her singing attracts a prince wandering the woods…
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