Rumpelstiltskin from “Once Upon a Time” - The Real Story

By Sara Bellum On July 26, 2016 In Sara Bellum No Comments

Once Upon a Time intertwines the lives of many childhood fairy tales into one story.

Rumpelstiltskin evolves throughout the series as he interacts with other fairy tale characters. What’s his real story?

Dear Sara –

I really enjoy the TV series ONCE UPON A TIME, but I can’t remember – in the original Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale, did he fall in love with the woman who had to spin straw into gold?

Best wishes,

Jolene D.

Dear Jolene –

You’re not forgetting anything. ONCE UPON A TIME married the Rumpelstiltskin myth with the Beauty and the Beast story. In the original Rumpelstiltskin story, the character is just a cranky, magic-wielding imp who wants the heroine’s child for his own. He’s not the “Dark One”, he doesn’t have his own family, he doesn’t give instruction in magic, and nobody named Belle brings out his better side.

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The name's Sara Bellum, and I'm the editor-at-large here at BuzzyMag - the hostess with the mostess, if you will. I like to think that my first calling is fighting crime and delivering a heaping dose of sweet, sweet justice to all manner of thugs, miscreants, hoodlums, ruffians, and ne'er-do-wells, but unfortunately, violent vigilantism doesn't exactly pay big bucks these days.

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