Rapunzel

Brüder Grimm : Kinder- und Hausmärchen

 

„Rapunzel, Rapunzel, lass dein Haar herunter!“

 

"Rapunzel, Rapunzel! Let down your hair."

 

A sorceress locks Rapunzel in a remote doorless tower. The only way to get into it is for Rapunzel to let down her long hair from the skylight when called, so that the enchantress can climb up it and provide her with food.

 

A king's son, attracted by Rapunzel's beautiful singing, overhears her, imitates the sorceress's calling formula ("Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let me down your hair!"), pulls himself up to the beautiful girl and wins her love. When Rapunzel then blabs to the enchantress, she cuts off her hair and banishes her to a desert. Then the sorceress hides in the tower, waits for the king's son, lets him climb up to her by Rapunzel's braid, and frightens and mocks the prince to such an extent that in his despair he jumps from the tower, injures both his eyes in a thorny bush and goes blind. Lamenting, he now wanders through the world, until by chance he reaches Rapunzel's whereabouts and recognizes the girl by her singing. When her tears wet his eyes, he is cured of his blindness and leads Rapunzel happily home to his kingdom.

 

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