Rumpelstiltskin
The dwarf's gleeful song by the fire: 'To-day I bake, to-morrow brew, the next I'll have the young queen's child. Ha, glad am I that no one knew that Rumpelstiltskin I am styled.'
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From Grimms' Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm
A miller's daughter is forced to spin straw into gold for a king with the help of a strange dwarf who demands her firstborn unless she guesses his name.
Rumpelstiltskin
The finale: the dwarf in rage tearing himself in two — a famous image of self-destructive wrath.
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