Rumpelstiltskin
Movie Description
In order to make himself appear more important, a miller lies
to a king, telling him that his daughter can spin straw into
gold. (Some versions make the miller's daughter blonde and describe
the "straw-into-gold" claim as a careless boast the miller makes
about the way his daughter's strawlike blonde hair takes on a goldlike luster
when sunshine strikes it.) The king calls for the girl, shuts her in a tower
room filled with straw and a spinning wheel, and demands that she spin the
straw into gold by morning or he will cut off her head (other
versions have the king threatening to lock her up in a dungeon forever).
Part 2
She
has given up all hope until like creature appears in the room and spins the
straw into gold for her in return for her necklace. When the king takes the
girl, on the next morning, to a larger room filled with straw to repeat the
feat, the imp spins in return for the girl's ring. On the third day,
when the girl has been taken to an even larger room with straw and told by the
king that he will marry her if she can fill this room with gold or kill her if
she cannot, the girl has nothing left with which to pay the strange creature.
He extracts from her a promise that her firstborn child will be given to him,
and spins the room full of gold a final time.