The moral of Rumplestiltskin is clear enough: Always look for loopholes in your contracts, and exploit them without shame.

The best version of Rumplestiltskin is the one from Once Upon a Time

The lesson is “don’t write a check your ass can’t cash”.

I think the moral in the grim version was to avoid arrogance. The father's bragging almost doomed his daughter and rumple's gloating in the forest allowed the messenger to learn his name.

The dark one has always been my favorite character dearie...."All magic comes with a price dearie"

I remember asking my sister what was the moral of the story and she told me "Probably don't make deals you can't keep".

Oh another moral: don’t sing your name if someone needs to know your name

Once Upon a Time is an amazing TV series, and Rumplestiltskin is the best actor and character in the whole series. The way he say "Because we all know, every magic comes at a price!" has been imprinted forever in my mind. Absolutely stunning performance

"Ach wie gut, dass niemand weiß, dass Ich Rumpelstilzchen heiß!" I never realised that the song only works in german (edit: works in dutch and other northern european languages too!) and people who read the translated version missed out on an iconic rhyme.

The moral of the story: instead of marrying the king, marry a little man that can TURN STRAW INTO GOLD! STRAW into GOLD!!

German here. In German it kinda rhymes. Also I’ve grown up with the “creepy origins” . So in the version I grew up with the father was drunk and kinda flexing on the people in this tavern . So this rumor gets to the king who in this type of time is really in need of money. They also say they cut the fathers head of for lying or his daughter or both . He keeps lying cause at this point he knows he’ll die . He rather sacrifices his daughter. Then as you told I just know the detail that all the artefacts she gave Rumpelstilzchen We’re from her mother that died. also in the german Version i know the father after is really bitter cause he and his relatives are really poor and his daughter now married the kings son. Also pretty creepy: in German the rhyme includes Rumpelstilzchen actually singing that he is planning to eat this child . Good research I just guess in Germany they added more details or maybe some got lost in translation.

"I'd rather just steer clear of the topic than spread potentially false information" OMFG thank you for actually being a decent person!! 🤣 I really wish more KZfaqrs would hold themselves to that standard.

Rumplestiltskin, "hello dearie"

The moral is dont brag The father “brags” about his daughter And then rumple “brags” about getting her kid

I think the adult version his name is actually “Rinkledforeskin”

"The Rumpelstiltskin Problem" by Vivian Vande Velde is perhaps the most entertaining collection of retellings (from the hilarious to the heartbreaking) of this fairytale. She does well to point out, "Why the heck would a guy who can spin a whole room full of straw into gold do it in exchange for a tiny ring?" The short "Straw into Gold" was worth the whole book itself.

I think the father or the King is the real Villain of this story than Rumpelstilskin.

“And who knew he was a big Rihanna fan” Omg 😂😂

*"I WOULDN'T EVEN TALK TO LUCIFER IN PUBLIC!"*

I think not having loose lips is the actual moral. The father, daughter & Rumplestiltskin (also another trio) each had to face some consequence/regret for shooting their mouth off to/around the wrong person.

Me: sees Once Upon A Time Rumplstiltskin *internally screams* ❤️

Moral of the story: Know every single living being's name in the world.

There’s this version I read in Arabic when I was younger that was kind of similar to this and it goes like: Once upon a time there was a widow that lived alone with her beautiful young daughter, but this daughter was very lazy. One day, the old widow baked 5 kaaks (some sort of bread) and left them by the chimney to cool off. Her daughter was walking through the house when she saw them chilling by the chimney so she decided to take a piece and eat it. And after 10 minutes she came by for another piece, and so on until all the 5 whole breads were gone. When the old widow finished working, she called on her daughter to bring the bread so they would eat together, and that’s when the girl confessed what she had done. Her mother, furious, went out and continued working all the while singing this song whining about her daughter’s laziness (I don’t remember the song but it was something like “my daughter ate 5 full loafs of bread” or something like that). After a while, an expensive carriage passed by, and in it was the king of the land they lived in. The young man heard the old widow singing this beautiful song but couldn’t make out the words. So he came closer and asked the lady about those lyrics. The widow, ashamed of her daughter’s laziness changed the lyrics to something like “my daughter made 5 golden like, those weaving things idk what they’re called in one day”. The king, amazed, asked the old lady to send her daughter to the palace and told her that he’s marry her daughter if she could make him 5 of those golden weaving things for one year. Skip to when the girl finally arrives to the King’s castle. The king locks her in a room and tell her to make him give of those things for tomorrow or else he’d kill her (romantic much). Night came and the girl gave up on finding a way to make those things so she started crying. From her window came a little, ugly man that asked her why she was crying and she told him her story, so he made a deal with her. Everyday he’s being her 5 of those gold thingies and she’s have three chances to guess his name, if one year passes and she couldn’t guess his name, he’s take her firstborn child. And so one for months, every morning he’d bring her the 5 golden weaved things and she’s try to guess his name, but to no avail. By the time she was near the end of her one year sentence, she married the king and was pregnant with their child. One day before the end of the one year, the young woman was growing worried because she still couldn’t figure out the name of that little man. And that night, the king invited her to a dinner in the grand ball for pre-celebration of her release. They talked and talked, but the king could see that his wife was worried, he’d asked what was wrong but she’d say nothing. She asked him about his day and he told her about that funny thing that happened to him today while coming back from his hunting trip. He told her that he saw a funny young man dancing by the fire and singing an odd song “No one can guess my name it’s _-insert odd name here-_ “. The woman was elated. She finally figured out that little man’s name. That night, which was the last night of her weaving things for the king, she told the little man his name. The odd man, shocked by how she knew his name, fell on the floor and in a fit of anger, ripped himself to shreds. And the girl and her king (and their little baby girl) lived happily ever after... God I loved that book. Also if you made it this far, you’re the best! P.S: sorry if there is any typos I’m NOT proofreading that I’m too lazy to do so. Also, if he already talked about this in the video, I’m sorry I’m still in the beginning of the video and I’m NOT deleting that comment ever, it took way too long to write! Have a good day/ night ❤️

I grew up with two different versions, this version is one of them. In the other version, she was told the king's proposition when he arrived home, plus the deal was for her to marry the king's son instead and, when Rumplestiltskin gave her the three days to learn his name, she went straight to her husband (he was the baby's father after all) fearing to be put to death but, the prince loved her very much and he was the one who sent out the man to learn the name, which upon learning, he told his wife. What I don't understand is, upon hearing the miller's lie, why didn't the king suspect anything amiss? .... I mean really, a miller has a daughter that can spin straw into gold yet the miller remains poor and doesn't have her spin any gold for neither themselves nor any of their neighbors or friends, yet he'll lie to the king.....Just sounds odd to me. It's always been one of my favorite fairy tales though. Nice video.

I think the tales moral is, that words have power. to know the name of something that scares you, to call it out, that gives you power over it and reduces it's impact on you, for what we really fear most is the unknown.

I think the moral of Rumplestilskin is to not lie or brag about something that isn't true because you never know who will get hurt.

Totally agree with you Jon, Robert Carlyle's version of Rumpelstiltskin is definitely my favourite :) The writing on that show was so good at interweaving him into every fairytale as the REAL villain, behind the wicked stepmothers and evil queens, and dastardly pirates...(and then season 7 happened, but we don' talk about season 7) :)

Remember dearie, all magic comes with a price

In German he sings: "Heute back ich morgen brau ich Übermorgen hol ich mir der Königin ihr Kind. Ach wie gut das niemand weiß, das ich Rumpelstilzchen heiß." The last part is rhyming in german. Also the germans see the moral of Rumpelstiltsken, that you shouldn't make deals with the devil! It doesn't pay out well, because the queen can't find the solution on her own. ^^

Rumpelstiltskin -- *Top 10 Strongest Characters Who Can Defeat Thanos (Even In Infinity Gauntlet)*

In Once upon a time Rumpelstiltskin was just a simple man, a coward actually, and then he became "The Dark One" by stabbing the last Dark One with the Kris dagger (which is a half of Excalibur, and the perso who has it can control The Dark One), because he wanted to protect his son, Baelfire, from the ogres war, but then the power and the darkness overwhelmed him so he become evil, and later he lost his son through a portal in our world, and than after some years he went to a kingdom to make a deal with the king, that he'll make the king win the ogres war in exchange for his daughter, Belle (yes, from The Beauty and The Beast), so he can make her his maid forever, but after some time they fell in love! That's pretty much his story, and now the thing about him the girl who had to spin straw into gold: it happened long before he met Belle, and as this girl was locked in a tower, and told that if she doesn't turn the all the straw into gold by morning she'll be killed, and than, as Rumple has a weakness for deals, he appeared in the tower and told her that he'll do the job for her in exchange for her first born child, but she told him that she wants to learn how to do it, not just he to do it, so they made the deal, he kept visiting her on the castle, and after a while they fell for each other, so he asked her if she wanted to change the deal, so she wouldn't have to give her first born child to him anymore, she had to make a child with him, she agreed, but after some time she ripped her own heart out and put it in a box so she could not be able to feel again (there, the people with magic could've ripped hearts out without killing the respective people or themselves b as long as they keep the heart they could control the person), so she tricked him and married with the king, so she was the only one who broke a deal with him, oh and also the girl was named Cora, The Queen of Hearts which is also Regina's/The Evil Queen's mother, (the one from the Snow White fairy tale), if ye'd like to watch the series, know that there is a half of season about The Dark One! I recommend it! (P.S. Idk who needed to know that but I felt like had to explain it when I got the chance :)))))

Once Upon A Time (minus the last season) is an amazing show. The Rumplestiltskin interpretation was amazing.

Moral of story nothing is free

In the book I used to have the rhyme went something like..."Today I bake, tomorrow I'll clean. I'm going to take the child from the queen. She'll never win this little game, for Rumpelstiltskin is my name!"

When I hear Rumple the first thought of mine is Once Upon a time

I've always thought it was terrible that she would have to marry a man who would kill her for such a frivolous reason--king or not.

I'm a simple person. I see Once Upon a Time... I click, dearie.

I sometimes find it difficult to see Rumplestiltskin as the _bad_ guy in all this. I feel like the king and the miller are the ones that screwed the poor girl over! Anywho, my favorite adaptation of the tale is the Britannica one.

And as my friend would say: "All magic comes with a price, dearie" I love the story tale and the character in Once Upon A Time

Off the top I agree: Robert Carlyle made me excited about the depths a fantasy can go in a way that I hadn't felt since childhood reading the classics (at least not with something other than Anime). His version added SO much depth to the character in the first few seasons!

Hansel and Gretel next?

Don't brag/lie or you get left out of the rest of your daughter's story.

And that millers daughter ended up being the queen of hearts. And the evil queens mother

So she married a king but didn’t marry someone who can turn Straw to gold

Rumpelstiltskin aka The Dark One aka Beast is the most awesome OUAT character.

In a creative writing class many years ago, we were asked to reimagine a well known story from a different point of view. I chose this one, and in mine, Rumplestiltskin was a sympathetic character who wanted the child to raise as his own and teach his craft to. ( I don't think I've read a version that says why he wants the child). I made the princess as a greedy and spoiled child who was prone to manipulation. It was fun to look at it from a different perspective.

I think the most interesting modern retelling and my personal favorite: in elementary school I read a book called ‘Rumplestiltskin’s Daughter’. Basically in this version, when Rumple asks for her first born when she becomes queen, the Miller’s Daughter is like ‘nah, I don’t want to marry this jerk who locked me away and forced me to spin gold. But I like you, how about we get married?’ And they do and the rest of the story is about their daughter teaching the same king to not be greedy. Weird, but I always thought it was kind of sweet.

It is said that only children have eyesight good enough to spin the finest of gold wires in the ancient style. I think the spinning part in the stories comes from some factual piece of history, maybe harkening back to a time when child labor was used (forced) to manufacture that wire.

Your channel is so underrated, so much research has gone into all your videos, and your videos never fail to entertain me!

and remember ... magic _always_ comes with a price dearie !

The biggest plot twist in Once Upon a Time is when we found out that Peter Pan is Rumpilstiltskin’s (probably didn’t spell that right) dad and that the girl who had to spin straw into gold was the evil queen’s mom

If I were to explain rumpelstiltskin’s relationship to every character in OUAT we would be here all day. Husband to belle, father to baelfire, grandfather to Henry Mills (who is the grandson of Snow White and Prince Charming, great grandson/adoptive son to Regina mills aka the evil queen), SON OF PETER PAN (who is evil) AND THE BLACK FAIRY, former lover of the queen of hearts (who is also the evil queen’s mother), and the list goes on. Love that you mentioned that version of the character

As soon as I saw rumple I clicked fast then you can say “hey” 😂😂 “all magic comes with a price”

“He turned into a bird and started singing around his own name, as one does” 😂😂

There's also another Grimm brothers' spinning gold tale, one of my favorites, where three deformed women help the girl with the condition to invite them to the wedding and call them "aunties", she goes through the deal, should read it

Firstly, I completely agree with you about " Once Upon A Time". One of my favorite shows, and Rumpel, or "The Dark One" is a character that is constantly changing. Secondly, my favorite rendition of the story has to be Terry top. Great job!

Sir Robert Carlyle is amazing as Rumple!

Moral of the story, dont do a deal with the devil

one of my favorite authors wrote a rumplestiltskin re-telling and it's so good. Instead of a human king, the MC lies to the Erl King (as in leader of The Wild Hunt) and tells him she can spin straw into gold as a way to distract him to protect two nymphs he was hunting. I love this version because it gives so much more life to all of the characters and makes the story really good (also, the character meant to be rumplestiltskin is literally the best version of him to exist ever.) The book series is the Gilded and Cursed duology by Marissa Meyer

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.

Magic comes with a price, dearie! My favorite character on "Once Upon A Time" was Mr. Gold. When my sister first got into it she freaked out that I said that. Now she loves my impression of him.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh dude i have been waiting for a rumpelstiltskin i never think i would saw those words

Rumplestiltskin and Captain Hook's Alligator from the original Grimm's Fairytales were combined into one amazing character for Once Upon a Time's Robert Carlyle to play with. He was brilliant.

Props to ya, Jon, for caring about spreading and sharing information that can be referenced or validated!

Please do an episode on the rule of 3, and please start including the Aarne-Thompson index numbers for the tales you discuss.

On the third day she's starting with Hinz and Kunz which is basically the German version of Tom, Dick and Harry. "Hinz und Kunz" are as far as I know only used in that saying, I never ever heard someone being called by these names. Btw they stand for Heinrich or short Heinz and Konrad. About Rumpelstilzchen name: rumpeln = to rumble Stelzen = stilts Stilzchen = small or short stilts (referring to his legs) Stelzen is also linked to the German verb "stolzieren" which means to walk proudly. The story deals with narcissistic characters that use one another. The father wants to fool the king to get his daughter married to him, the daughter makes promises of giving her child away to save herself and the king is in for the gold. The most narcissistic character however is Rumpelstiltskin and he pays a price - dies by rumbling his short stilts (er rumpelt die Stilzchen).

“All magic comes with a price, Dearie.”

I agree with you about Once Upon a Time. I LOVE the Rumplestiltskin character as portrayed. And that series was amazing

The song did get messed up in translation, I'm German and in the original he sings: Heute back ich, Morgen brau ich, Übermorgen stehle ich der Königin ihr Kind. Ach wie gut, dass niemand weiß, Dass ich Rumpelstilzchen heiß. Still not the best song but at least it rhymed in the end.

To quote Lisa Simpson; "There is no moral! It's just a bunch of stuff that happens."

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for every child, literally the best version of Rumplstiltskin it has a Caribbean twist, it’s rather creepy ☠️

Wow been waiting for this one!!

as a german, attending english classes, I really admire ur vocabulary

Dude Once Upon a Time is the most craziest, amazing show I have ever seen. I recommend it

I know the rumple stiltskin story where rumple stiltskin helps a girl spin staw into gold and tries to take her baby but she guesses his name and he dies of anger

The fact, that the little man stomps his feet in the ground and ripping himself apart is because he is a demon and it was told that the name of the demons was their kryptonite to Superman. So if someone says the demons name he is defeated by this person. I don't know if they died or just went to hell again, but this is all i know about the end of Rumpelstiltskin or in german Rumpelstieltchen.

I loved Robert Carlyle's version of Rumple his is my favorite version of Rumplestillkin.

legstring... Legstring... LEGSTRING... *LEG STRING*

As usual jon.Exellent work !

"All magic comes with a price Dearie" - The dark one

Did anyone else only click on this because of the once upon a time with ouat. Im slightly obsessed with robert carlyle now. 😅😅. Also cuz jon solo. But i am obsessed with ouat

Love your presentations

I found your page the other day and I am really enjoying your videos!!! Thank you! You are a lot of fun to listen to and you clearly bring the stories to life. I look forward to moving through all your videos. Cheers!

Moral of the story, don’t make any deals. Nothing is worth losing something precious.

Robert Carlyle deserved an Emmy for his portrayal of Rumpelstiltskin

I had to write a play for a children's development class based on Rumpelstiltskin last year. The morals of the story that I saw were fairly obvious, "don't lie" and "don't make deals with the devil"

For me, the most important element is this: "Here is a room full of straw. Turn all this straw to gold, or I'll have you executed in the morning." It's important for a number of reasons. First, it can be representative of a skeptical, rational authority confronting superstition and perhaps the imagined fantasies of intellectuals having the authority to create consequences for believers in superstition. Second, it can represent the unreasonable tyranny of an authority that can summarily order executions for any reason, personal or political. Third, it can represent the tyranny over women by a patriarchical order that demands unreasonable outcomes according to conditions over which they have no power. Fourth, it can represent the merciless greed and magickal thinking of tyrannical ruling classes. ********************** Having said that, what do we make of the ugly little man who somehow finds the girl and offers to help her? First, this is superstition itself, offering an impossible answer to an impossible problem. Second, if the ugly little man represents superstition, then how do we account for the gold? Must be real! The tyrant is convinced, or fooled. Perhaps this represents the ability of the common folk to ward off summary execution with trickery and appeasement. If the magic is real, then this is appeasement. But if it isn't, then it's trickery. The story doesn't tell us which one! Third, the ugly little man can represent the only thing women have in a mysogynist tyranny: their own wits. I could suggest a rewrite! Fourth, the ugly little man can represent the wisdom of the common folk, who rely on their folk knowledge to profit themselves.

Whenever someone or something read “dearie” I swear to you I read it in the dark ones accent

That later version, when everything that he spun turns into ash, made me think about something not really being "yours" unless you work for it.

Wouldn't even speak to Lucifer in public lmao

I remember reading a story in one of those school books where someone wrote a sort of story where these parents don’t know what to name their child and as he grows they begin to form the name Rumpelstiltskin. Eventually , the kid comes up with the name himself

guys but we can't forget about kugerl and his no pants policy

My mum's not deaf, but she was learning sign language for a while, and my first experience of this story was watching a video cassette compilation as a child called "Story Time in Sign" where various stories were verbally narrated, as well as having a person on the screen signing the story and standing in front of (presumably) a green screen, where images to do with the story were shown. I don't know why, I just really enjoyed listening to the story and watching it in sign language as well. That's a particularly fond childhood memory of mine.

I’m rewatching this and I’ve been watching your channel since you first posted the little mermaid one and wow this was posted 4 years ago, that’s crazy

Great idea for a channel bro, way to Go Solo!

12:02 “England” *show a picture of the uk* *proceeds to show Wales*

You should definitely read “Rump the true story of Rumpelstiltskin” in my opinion it is a very good and very magical book. it talks about how he discovered his full name and the power it has✨

I love the Terrytop story!! You did a great job wrapping that up!

You are brilliant at how you inject your humor into each video and story lol just awesome!!!! Thank you for all you do!!!🧡

In German the song he sings accually rimes :) "Ach wie gut, dass niemand weiß, dass ich Rumpelstilzchen heiß'" "Oh so good that nobody knows, that my name is Rumpelstilzchen"