Rumpelstiltskin
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"Rumpelstiltskin" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales. The story is about an imp who spins straw into gold in exchange for a wo
Illustration from Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book (1889)
Illustration by Anne Anderson from Grimm's Fairy Tales (London and Glasgow 1922)
Grimms' fairytale stamp series of Rumpelstilzchen stamp set from the Deutsche Post of the BRD by artist Michael Kunter, 2022
Grimms' fairytale stamp series of Rumpelstilzchen stamp set front cover from the Deutsche Post of the BRD by artist Michael Kunter, 2022
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An imp is a European mythological being similar to a fairy or demon, frequently described in folklore and superstition. The word may perhaps derive from the term ympe, used to denote a young grafted t
Rumpelstiltskin
…Rumpelstilzchen ) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales. The story is about an imp who spins straw into gold in exchange for a woman's firstborn child. A miller, in audience with his king, boasts that his daughter can spin straw into…
French illustration of imps (c. 1838)
Old woodcut depicting a woman feeding imps
A statue of the Lincoln Imp inside the medieval Lincoln Cathedral in Lincoln, England. It has now become a symbol of the city.