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Re: CHAT: Rapunzel (was: Rumpelstiltskin (was: milimpulaktasin))

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Thursday, May 3, 2001, 17:26
Muke Tever wrote:

>Yup. That's the story where there was a poor couple who lived near the
walled
>garden of a witch
(snip most of this delicious version; which strikes me as _possibly_ another case of BFTCS, but I'm not accusing...:-). It's been a good 60 years at least since I heard this stuff at granny's knee......
>Anyway, the prince came in yon window, and Rapunzel was most surprised by
the
>sight of a strange man who was certainly not the witch. And they got to
know
>each other, and everything was wonderful, except that it was of course
pretty
>much impossible to get her out of the tower. He visited her several times.
And as I grew older and more sophisticated (at least for a South Dakotan), it became clear in my feverish imagination that there was some hanky-panky going on.....