One day the woman stood at the window overlooking the garden, and saw there a bed full of the finest rampion: the leaves looked so fresh and green that she longed to eat them. The desire grew day by day, and just because she knew she couldn't possibly get any, she pined away and became quite pale and wretched. Then her husband grew alarmed and said: “What ails you, dear wife?” she answered, “If I don’t get some rampion to eat out of the garden behind the house, I know I shall die.
The man who loved her dearly, thought to himself, rather than let my wife die I will fetch her some rampion, no matter what the cost. So at dusk he climbed over the wall into the witch garden, and, hastily gathering a handful of rampion leaves, he returned with them to his wife. She made them into salad, which tasted good that her longing for the forbidden food was greater than ever. If she were to know her husband should climb over the garden wall again, and fetch her some more. So at dusk he went over the wall but when he reached the other side he drew back in terror, for there, standing before him, was the old witch.
"How dare you!” she shrieked, “climb into my garden and steal my rampion like a common thief? You shall suffer for your foolhardiness.”
“Oh!” He implored, “Forgive me but I was desperate. My wife saw your rampion from her window and longs for some so badly that she will surely die if she does not have some.
Then the witch grew calmer and said: as you say, you may take as much as rampion as you like, but one condition only -- that you give me the child your wife will shortly bring into the world” said the witch but she feels uncomfortable with her decision she just wanted to have a baby but he can’t. But the man agreed to what the witch asked.
The child was born and the witch appeared, and gave it the name of Rapunzel. She is the most beautiful girl under the sun but when she was twelve years old the witch shut her up in a tower without a stair or a door, for the reason that witch didn’t want Rapunzel leave her and find her true parents, she didn’t want to be alone again.
But after a year a prince came into the woods and passed by the tower he heard Rapunzel singing so sweetly. Everything changed so the witch decided to cut the hair of Rapunzel because she thinks that she deceived him while she was gone and cried harder. The prince came back after a year and saved Rapunzel. The witch's left alone in a desert and guilty about what she done and promise her that she will not do the same again and change herself as a good grandmother in town.
-Hydrogenx
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