rump the true story of rumpelstiltskin movie

Rump? No, there must be more to this guileless self-deprecating boy. Rump must discover his full name-and with it, his destiny. The pixies are attracted to Rump because they love gold and they sense that Rump has a way with straw (in that he can spin it into gold) long before Rump knows of his talents. But unlike most insects, pixies have garish colored hair and spectacular wings. What a great way to send and receive messages.Īs for the pixies, usually Rump is just swatting them away like we might swat at insects. Gnomes pop out of holes in the road, take messages, and deliver them to individuals throughout the Kingdom. Not true, but the trolls keep humans at bay by letting them think this because, one says, “Humans take one look at any living creature and think only how they can use it.” The sludge-slurping trolls are known to eat human flesh.

In this romp with Rump, Shurtliff offers some sly turns of wisdom. Now what? They need Rump who can spin straw to gold. The greedy king takes the miller’s daughter as his bride. As is true in the Grimm version, the Miller tells the King that his daughter can spin straw into gold. The Mountain was once full of gold and it is the villagers’ unfortunate task to mine what little remains and pay it as a tax to the greedy Miller who in turn hands it over to the gold-loving King. With a name like Rump, of course he’s teased relentlessly. His mother came from Yonder or maybe Beyond. The animals don’t even have names, but Rump identifies his goat as Milk and his donkey as Nothing. They live in the Village at the base of the Mountain in the Kingdom. The naming of babies is so important that people name nothing else. He can only remember “Rump.” In his world, his name is his destiny. After whispering the name of her newborn in his ear, his mother dies. The painful bites swell and disfigure the boy, so he probably looked like an imp. Why in the past did they think he was an imp? Rump mistakenly steps on a pixie nest and they retaliate by biting his face, arms, legs, and yes, his rump. In Shurtliff’s story Rump is not an imp, but a smallish boy. In “Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin” (Knopf 2013), Liesl Shurtliff retells the story that the Brothers Grimm collected in Germany and first published in 1812.

Rump the true story of rumpelstiltskin movie