Grimm Tales- Rapunzel

Rapunzel
By: the Grimm Brothers
from the Grimms’ Kinder und Hausmärchen
by Edgar Taylor and Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes

and
The Frog King or Iron Henry
The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids
Little Red-Cap

This fairy tale is a common one, but had a few details I never caught before. Its a story of a happy couple, who can't have a child. They try and they try with no success. Then one day the wife is looking out her window and sees some delicious rampion (or Rapunzel) but its in the witches garden. However she wants it so badly that her husband climbs over the wall and gets her some. She happily eats it right up, and wants more the next time. So her husband climbs over for a second time and gets caught by the witch. He explains his situation and she agrees to let him live, if they give her there first child. So they do.
The witch keeps Rapunzel, which is what they name the first baby girl, in a very high tower. However she is nice and comes and visits her every day, and says
"Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Let down your hair to me."
And each day Rapunzel lets down her hair, and the witch climbs up.
A handsome Prince happens to walk by one day, hearing Rapunzel's singing he stops, and wants to meet her. He sees how the witch climbs up and decides to try it for himself the next day. They fall in love. Then one day Rapunzel accidentally says to the witch, you are much heavier than the Prince, and the witch become furious. She cuts of Rapunzel's hair, ships her off, and waits in the tower for the Prince. He comes and as usually calls up to her, as he reaches the top, he is overcome with surprise that it is the witch and not Rapunzel. The Prince leaps of the tower and pricks out his eyes in a rose bush. The Prince roams around blind and eventually finds Rapunzel and the twins she gave birth to. Rapunzel's tears cure the Princes eyes, and they live Happily Ever After.

Recommended to: Older children, but I think both genders would like the story since it has romance and violence.
Problems: Slightly violent, and some parents might be offended by how easily the parents were able to give up there only child.
My Reaction: I liked this fairy tale, its almost to fast pace though. But most fairy tales are. I liked it because not only the Rapunzel has to overcome a problem, but the Prince also becomes blind and wanders around the desert searching for her. That's dedication.