She secretly learns his name is Rumpelstiltskin and when she tells it to him, he gets angry and leaves, never to be seen again. He gives her three days to guess his name and if she does, he will forfeit his claim on her baby. The king marries her and later, when she has a baby, the little man comes to collect and she doesn’t want to give up her child, so he makes another deal. When the king gives her more straw, she offers the little man her ring and when the king gives her even more, she has nothing left to offer so he asks her to promise him her firstborn child. A strange little man shows up and spins the straw into gold for her in exchange for her necklace. Basic Plot Summary: A king hears a miller bragging that his daughter can spin straw into gold so he locks her in a tower with piles of straw and commands her to turn it to gold for him or she will have to die.
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