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Another fractured fairy tale
And What of Rapunzel?
by Tom Horonzy
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I never would have guessed how that story really ended, save for the fact my sister egged me on, when asked, what shall I write next folowing my Snow White release? She replied, "How about Rapunzel?" My mind went into overdrive and here I am with my take of the ins and outs of the Grimm's Brothers fairy tale.
Facts I discovered, was for one, the girl's name came to be through a pact made between Frederic, her birth father, and the heinous sorcerer, Dame Gothel, proprietor of the hidden garden. His pregnant wife had becoming quite malnourished until he found a taste to her liking in said garden.
Fearing for his wife's life and their unborn child, the soon-to-be father began fleecing greens, named rapunzels, until he got caught. After he explained his plight to the witch for his larcenous act, she agreed to let him have all he wanted in exchange for their forthcoming daughter.
The dope agreed to the dupe and, shortly after, Dame Gothel became a Mother. She named the kid Rapunzel because of her birth mother's insane appetite for named herb. (If this happened today, her name, more likely, would have been Mary Jane for our insatiable desire for marijuana.)
Anyhow, the lass, at twelve, was confined in a wooded sixty-foot tower with neither stairs nor a door, and only one room and one window. As you may recall, a prince meanders along and becomes entranced with Rapunzel's songful voice. He also, while secreted behind some scrubby bushes, finds how Gothel gained access to the tower by calling Rapunzel's to drop her locks, (not her drawers), which I say for a reason that shall follow.
With the passage of time, the prince trills the chant learnt from the pythoness. He gained access to Rappie as she let down her hair, and sometime later her drawers. (They were secretly wed, I read.) She was eventually deflowered. (I don't recall that being in my elementary reader, nor how she thought his voice was her custodian's, unless he sang in a falsetto voice, like Frankie Valle, or the witch's tone was akin to John Cash.)
To continue, after a while the bitchy witch catches on, She shreds her adopted daughter's dreads, and then tosses the kid out the window onto her burgeoning rump. She wanders away pregnant to take refuge further in the forest. (Here I become bamboozled, for if she tossed the child off the tower, how did she, the sorceress, get down. Furthermore, how did the prince return to end up being tossed low into a briar where thorns punctured his eyes causing blindness?)
Nevertheless, in the edition I recently read, the prince wandered about for a very long while, bouncing off trees, and falling into ravines, until he heard a distant, melodic voice, which you should surmise, was his orphaned wife. She leaped for joy into his arms, crying all the while, whereby two tears fell from her eyes onto his pupils and miraculously, he was healed. She introduced him (whose name I never uncovered) to a pair of pre-pubescent aged children.
Given time, a saw, and some logs to plane, the Prince constructed a cart, packed their belongings and ventured back to his sovereign province where he introduced his son and daughter to their granddad and his queen to, of course, live happily everafter.
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