Ferrante then provides a most abbreviated version of the events found in the Grimms’ original tale before having a lonely Rumpelstiltskin decide “it was time to go home.” The response Rumpelstiltskin receives from the villagers is not the one he expects for he is lauded as a hero by the now apologetic villagers who have realized that Rumpelstiltskin actually rescued Tommy, an orphan. It is during Rumpelstiltskin’s “wilderness” time that he encounters the young woman who needs assistance in spinning straw into gold for a prince. A frightened Rumpelstiltskin flees the village and begins a period of wandering. When Rumpelstiltskin takes the unconscious boy to town, the villagers assume the child is dead and label Rumpelstiltskin as a murderer. However, one day, while fishing from a river bank, Rumpelstiltskin sees a boy fall into the river, and he jumps in and pulls him to shore. Rumpelstiltskin’s response to this verbal abuse was to isolate himself from the villagers.
As the excerpt above indicates, Rumpelstiltskin’s village neighbours mocked his physical appearance and even called him names. As characters from fairy tales are in the public domain, they can be used by contemporary authors in “new” stories, and that’s what Ferrante has done in Rumpelstiltskin’s Child where she tells of Rumpelstiltskin’s life both before and after the core incidents of the Grimms’ original “Rumpelstiltskin”.
“Rumpelstiltskin” was one of the stories collected by the Brothers Grimm and included in their 1812 Children’s and Household Tales. Rumpelstiltskin felt as lonely as the last button in the sewing box. Rumpelstiltskin felt as gloomy as rain on a festival day.Įven though he could use magic to grow perfect vegetables, Thunder Bay, ON: Single Drop Publishing, 2014.Įven though he could use magic to mine the best gems,
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