When he returns, she makes a salad out of it and eats it, but she longs for more so her husband returns to the garden to retrieve some more. Her husband fears for her life and one night he breaks into the garden to get some for her. She refuses to eat anything else and begins to waste away. The wife, experiencing pregnancy cravings, longs for the rapunzel that she sees growing in the garden (rapunzel is either the root vegetable Campanula rapunculus, or the salad green Valerianella locusta).
Plot Illustration by Johnny Gruelle Illustration by Paul Hey Ī lonely couple, who long for a child, live next to a large, extensive, high-walled subsistence garden, belonging to a sorceress. Its best known line is, 'Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair'. Its plot has been used and parodied in various media. The tale is classified as Aarne–Thompson type 310 ('The Maiden in The Tower'). The Brothers Grimm's story was developed from the French literary fairy tale of Persinette by Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force (1698), which itself is an alternative version of the Italian fairy tale Petrosinella by Giambattista Basile. ' Rapunzel' ( / r ə ˈ p ʌ n z əl/ rə- PUN-zəl, German: ⓘ French: Persinette) is a European fairy tale most notably recorded by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 as part of Children's and Household Tales (KHM 12). Illustration of Rapunzel and the witch on a 1978 East German stamp
