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297 - Rumpelstiltskin: Credit and Resurrection

The Symbolic World

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The Strange Fairy Tale of Rumpelstilgen

"I really love the strange fairy tales and also the strange verses and the strange parts of the Bible," he says. "Despite the fact that it looks completely off the wall and weird, the structure of the story is actually quite coherent." The king marries a woman who can thread straw into gold but has no jewelry to give him. When she gets pregnant with Rumpelstilgen's child, what do you think happens? He shows up and demands the child be given away or there must be something else.

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