There once lived a man and a woman who always wished for a child. They had a little window at the back of their house where they could see a wonderful garden. The garden was surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an witch who everyone said was a nut.
She had great power and was feared by everyone since a
nut
with power was to be feared.
One day the woman was standing by the window and looking down into the garden
and she saw a bed which was planted with the most tasty rapunzel. She really
wished to eat some. This wish got stronger every day. The woman
grew more pale and miserable each day
just sitting with a
blank
look on her face.
Her husband was worried and asked "
What is wrong my
dear?"
She replied, "if I can't eat some of the rapunzel I think I shall die."
The man, who loved her, thought, "
I will not let my lovely wife die, I will bring her some of the rapunzel
myself, and the rapunzel is just over the wall and almost
at my finger tips.
That night, he climbed over the wall into the garden , quickly grabbed a
handful of rapunzel and took it to his wife. She made herself a salad and ate
it happily. She liked it so much"
that the next day she wanted more of it.
Her husband once more went into the garden. When he climbed over the wall he was terribly afraid, for he saw the witch
was watching him.
"How dare you," she said with angry look, "sneak into my garden and steal my rapunzel? You shall suffer for this!"
"Ah," the frightened husband answered, "please have mercy, I
mean well.
My
wife saw it from the window and felt such a
desire for it that she would have died if she didn't get some.
In the
crunch,
I could not let that happen to my wife."
The witch's anger
eased up, and said to him, "I will allow you to take as much as you like,
but you must give me the baby daughter your wife will give birth to."
I will care for the child like I was her mother." The man in his fear
agreed and when the baby was born the witch appeared and took the baby away with her,
naming her Rapunzel.
Rapunzel grew into the most beautiful child but when she was twelve years old, the witch shut her into a tower. The tower had no stairs or doors, but only a little window at the very top.
It wasn't what some people call a
walk up.
This tower didn't even have a
loo!
Rapunzel grew her hair long and it looked like gold.
When the witch wanted to go visit, she stood beneath the window and cried,
"
"Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Let down your hair.
"
When Rapunzel heard the voice of the witch she wound her braids round one of the hooks of the window, and then the hair fell down the side of the tower and the witch climbed up on it.
After a year or two Rapunzel felt that she was living in
nut house.
Rapunzel passed her time singing to keep herself from becoming a
nut.
One day the Prince rode through the forest and went by the tower. He heard a song
which was so lovely that it
put a hex on
on him.
The Prince wanted to climb up but couldn't find a door. He rode home, but the singing had so
put a hex
on him, that every day he went out into the forest and listened to it.
He asked his youger brother if he could
pick
his brain
over how he would enter the tower but the brother did not know. Once when he was standing behind a tree listening to Rapunzel's song,
when the witch
cropped up
and cried,
"Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Let down your hair."
Then Rapunzel let down the braids of her hair, and the witch climbed up to her.
The Prince didn't have to
pick
his brain
any more and the next day when it began to grow dark, he went to the tower and
fudging
the witches voice cried,
"Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Let down your hair."
The Prince climbed up and at first Rapunzel was terribly frightened because she
didn't know who this
jerk
was, but the Prince began to talk to her quite like a friend and told her that his
she
put a hex on
on him with her singing. Then Rapunzel lost her fear, and when he asked her if
she would marry him , she said yes.
She said, "I will go away with you, but I do not know how to get down. Bring a bit of silk with you every time you come and
when we
build up
a
holy pile
of silk. 
I will weave a ladder with it and I will climb down and we can
pull the pin
and escape together." They agreed that until they could
line up 
the silk that he would come to her every evening.
The witch knew nothing of this because she only came during the day. Once Rapunzel
accidentally said to the witch, "Oh my
heavens, you are so much
heavier than the young Prince." 
" Ah! you wicked child you are a caution," cried the witch "What have you been doing!
I thought I had kept you from the world but you have tricked me.
"
Rapunzel said, "
Don't
take my head off
I was going
nuts
living in this
nut house
all by myself."
In her anger the witch cracked,
seized a pair of scissors cut all of Rapunzel's lovely braids.
They lay on the ground
like
damaged goods. She was so angry that she took poor Rapunzel
to live in desert where she would suffer great misery.
The witch rushed back to the tower and fastened the braids of hair which were
now just
damaged goods to the hook of the window, and when the Prince came and cried,
"Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Let down your hair,"
she let the hair down.
The Prince climbed to the window, but he did not find Rapunzel,
but the witch, who gazed at him with a wicked
look.
"I would grill you
but I already know what you are doing.
"
You've come for Rapunzel and were
going to
pull up stakes.
Aha!
take my Rapunzel
my eye! Rapunzel is banished and you will never see her again!"
In his fear, the Prince fell down from the tower. 
He escaped with his life, but he
fell into a bunch of thorns which scratched his eyes. Then he wandered quite
blind about the forest.
He
ate nothing but roots and berries and did nothing but cry over
Rapunzel.
In this way, the Prince roamed in misery for some months.
Eventually all
of his fine
rags
actually became rags. He finally wandered into the desert where the witch had
sent Rapunzel. He heard a voice singing and it seemed so familiar to him that he went towards it. When he approached, Rapunzel knew him and fell into his arms and wept.
Two of her tears fell into his eyes and the Prince could see again. He led her
to his kingdom where they lived happily ever after.
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