Rumpelstiltskin

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Rumpelstiltskin
Illustration from Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book (1889)
Folk tale
Name	Rumpelstiltskin
Also known as	Tom Tit Tot Päronskaft Repelsteeltje Cvilidreta Rampelník Tűzmanócska Eiman
Country	Germany United Kingdom Netherlands Czech Republic Hungary
Published in	Grimm's Fairy Tales English Fairy Tales

"Rumpelstiltskin" (/ˌrʌmpəlˈstɪltskɪn/ RUMP-əl-STILT-skin;^[1] German: Rumpelstilzchen pronounced [ʁʊmpl̩ʃtiːltsçn̩]) is a German fairy tale^[2] collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales.^[2] The story is about an imp who spins straw into gold in exchange for a woman's firstborn child.^[2]