Week 14 Storytelling: Rumpelstiltskin
Long ago, there lived farmer. He had a very beautiful daughter and he wanted to give her a better life than he had. So, one day while delivering his goods to the king’s market he noticed the king walking through the market. The farmer then began to tell those around him about how his beautiful daughter was able to spin straw into gold. Making sure to talk loud enough for the king to hear, the farmer told everyone how one day soon, he would no longer need to grow his crops because of her gift. The king over heard the farmers boasts and approached him and said that if it was indeed true that the daughter could spin straw into gold he would marry her to his son. That night, the king sent for the farmers daughter and brought her to the castle and locked her in a room filled with straw. He said to spin all the straw in the room into gold by morning and if she did, so he would marry her to his son the prince. However, if she could not, her and her father will be put to death for lying to hi