The Messed Up Origins of Rumpelstiltskin | Fables Explained - Jon Solo

I love how once upon a time portrayed this and they had Rose McGowan played a young evil queen. Seriously anyone who hasn't seen it had GOTTO watch it!! I was so sad when the seasons came to an end!!!

A pretty good version is Sister’s Grimm by Michael Buckley

ATU a way of classifying folklore

Started re watching once upon a time lol

Tom Tit Tot. Nick :-)

I recognize Rumpelstiltskin from The Hollow it’s a show on Netflix

Moral of the story, don’t trust short people

Rumpelstiltskin - when capitalism become a myth.

I remember the little song he was singing so well...
had a record of Grimms fairytales as a child "🎶🎶 Today I brew, tomorrow I bake-and then the queen's child I will take...🎶
For no one knows my little game -
Rumplestilskin is my name!"🎶

See! That sounds much better and his truly creepy and has stuck with me for 50 years!

I think, of all the versions you've mentioned in this video (VERY late to the party; sorry), was Duffy and the Devil. I like that the Devil didn't throw a temper tantrum and Duffy got what she deserved (all "her" work turning to ash) in addition to a promise that she was ending up in hell anyway. Now that? That is a good life lesson. Don't be a lying braggart and steal someone's credit for their work. Big thumbs way up for this version. (As I steal a line from Disney Hades, lol.) The other versions of Rumplestiltskin, as you mentioned, don't really seem to have a strong message morally speaking. But this one? Pure poetry.

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Lol

She has my hair

My daughter has beautiful hair. What is wrong with that??

The way I know the story of Rumpelstiltskin is the girl goes out herself and find a little man not a soldier the girl does I like that way better

One version I remember has three ugly old women instead of an ugly old man. They only ask to be invited to her wedding. She tells her new husband(at the wedding), the prince, that spinning straw into gold made them ugly. Not wanting his new wife to become ugly, he forbade her from ever spinning straw into gold.

I love the way you give old nursery rhymes the elaboration it needs. You bring these stories life and I'm a happy subscriber! 🫶🥰🫶. Greetings from Corpus Christi , Texas.

Read 'The Croning' by Laird Barron. Very creepy cosmic horror version of the fairy tale that goes way off the rails.

You should really look for the "Faerie Tale Theatre" show from the 80's.
Lots of these stories, using at-the-time big name actor. It's how I first heard the Rumpelstiltskin tale.

I knew it from a book but also the parody in courage the cowardly dog

Dirty cow, make's a deal then break's it cause some bloke turns up.
I always, even as a kid thought she was bang out of order 😡

Once Upon a Time is also my absolute favorite, too!!! Love what he did with that character!

The idea of the moral(s) is in the background. People can use loopholes in any agreement. This story allows the reader to look at themselves. Would you honor the barter that was made? Keep your word? Even if that means you will have to give up something precious? Or? Would you turn away from your obligation? Another moral is opening our mouths in regard to bragging. The father puts the daughter in a bad position. Another moral is not to enter into any agreement unless you can pay the price. The troll suffered the worst by being ripped apart by his schemes. Also, pride is a part of this. The troll rips himself apart because he is full of pride. Thinking that he couldn't lose. A lot of these stories should allow a person to look at their morals and values. How far are we willing to go. Hansel and Grettle are willing to kill instead of running away, even when the witch warned them of her intentions to eat them. Something is too good to be true. It's better to walk away. I would rather starve to death than commit murder.

When the names seem nonsensical, it's because they are translations from an old German from a time when the technology and daily culture were very different from today. This is why people have to get creative when they retell the stories. If you hear a translation of a fairy tale there will be a lot of things you can get wrong.

Long before ONCE UPON A TIME, there wS SHIRLEY TEMPLE'S STORYBOOK. That was quite a dramatization the impact of live actors not the imaginings in your mind or the CHILDREN'S CLASSIC COMIC BOOK version. Oh the vanished delights of the past.

Wow this reminded me of the live action movie Rumpelstiltskin 1987. That was how I was first introduced to this story. In it though a bird delivers the name if I remember correctly. Also the ground opens up and he falls in a fire pit basically.

My personal interpretation, is that if you think about it – from a common-person's perspective in history (which is where a lot of these fairytales would originate), the miller would be one of the only kinds of peasants who wouldn't have to extend as much effort or manual labor as many others, and instead would use the water to work for them. The water mill, in a sense, is the technical trick by which the work is eased; one of the early technologies – not intrinsically bad or good, but a common association might be that of a person who relies on the easy way, or who has made the sacrifice of nature for machinery. And essentially, in this tale, he sells his daughter to the king, either by being boastful or through misinterpretation, who starts to use her to accumulate wealth on her own peril.

An impossible (or improbable) task set to be completed in a day on risk of death, Hell, or punishment, is not too uncommon in fairytales, and receiving help to get out of it is common too – but in more positive tales, the person might be helped by an animal, or another helpful figure in the story, who will normally instruct them on what to do, to either relinquish control to them and follow their instincts. By handing off this alchemical task of turning straw to gold to the dwarf (which can often be seen as creative figures that come up, either destructively, helpfully, or both) – there is already a price, of the necklace and the ring – but it is not too destructive, as the impossible task is done, saving her from death, and making her Queen, but eventually, on the third time, the dwarf has moved beyond material price, and demands her first-born – not unlike how the miller, who was also already, by my interpretation, a symbol for relying on the easy way to get by – sold her off to her death.

It resolves by the destructive nature of the dwarf destroying itself, tripping itself up and boasting where it could be heard. There is nothing done to it externally for it to have been caught, which I would interpret as it not being necessary to combat or make a move against it for it to resolve – that being able to name it, and know when the creative, helpful side of yourself has turned into something harmful – that not too much is taken in exchange when there are corners cut, is enough for it to be destroyed. The "happy ending" or feeling of a perfect resolution is missing, but then again – the couple is already married, and they have a baby that was not eaten by a bad dwarf, so I wouldn't call it a bad ending, by fairytale standards.

The number 3 is also a religious and magic significance as well.

Your doing good ❤Jonson yah you just keep hitting it but don't steal too much are you going to be sick

My first introduction to Rumpelstiltskin was in Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre.

A Marxist twist , dwarfs may be are poor labourers who r underpaid and promised the moon

i love the last one

I know a lot of ppl, over the years have felt sorry for Rumpelstiltskin, but remember he tried to take a baby; why, it's never revealed, maybe eat him for all we know, so f*** him.





I wonder if Once Upon a Time ever explained the intentions of it's "hero".

A version of Rumpelstiltzskin that I liked was the English version, Tom Tit Tot. It followed the same formula, with the innocent girl and a helper who is really out for himself. Only in this version, he threatened to carry her off with him if she didn't guess his name.

Don't ask Danny Devito for favors

I wanna here more about the drama on Terrypop Beelzebub and Lucifer!

3 has always been a mystic number in religious and mythological history throughout time.

Is it ever explained why Rumplestiltskin wants the queen’s infant child? What does he need a baby for?

I heard a few versions where the miller learned the name and told his daughter. Probably him repenting for risking her life with his big mouth.

The song rhymes in the German version.

Rumpelstiltskin 😏 I do remember that animated version. In that version the king is older looking and unattractive. In another animated version; Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales For Every Child, the king was young, robust and attractive.... It was called Happily Ever After 😁💖😏🎶👑💐🤗 sigh Memories 😊

No....... I am half german and the Song is still bad....... it's basically exactly the same😂

Ach wie gut dass niemand weiß dass ich Rumpelstilzchen heiß =Oh how good that no one knows that my name is Rumpelstiltskin

Hi Jon Solo! The story reminds me of a true story that happened in the 18th century when Johann Friedrich Bottger pretended he could turn worthless materials into gold. King Augustus II of Poland put Bother into protective custody and requested he start making gold. For years he was unsuccessful. However, he was supervised by Walther von Tschimhaus who had been working on glass production as well as porcelain. Within one week of Tschimhaus' death, Bottger informed the King that he could make hard paste porcelain. This was a product only made in China and Japan at the time. This discovery made Meissen the first European porcelain house to discover the secret of making hard paste porcelain. It was white gold. Meissen is still open and creating new works of art today and is the oldest porcelain house in Europe. Anyhootle, that story sounds like a real life fairy tail. Bottger sounds like a pretty shady jerk.

Wow, honest magical beings. I would just lie (since I am only one who can confirm it).

Rumpelstiltskin or Wrinkled-foreskin?

Rumplestiltskin performed the split form technique bot forgot both parts needed both arms and legs

Rump didn’t do anything wrong tho. 😂 free my boy rump