Gonna be honest, if I had to guess what that name meant out of the clear blue sky with no resources whatsoever, this would still have been my first and immediate guess. It is phonetically indicative in a way I can't quite explain 😅
So Rumpelstiltskin is a story about a wealthy impotent man who buys future babies off of desperate women in need of gold and then torments them when payment comes due?
Honestly, it surprises me that more retellings don't emphasize the opportunity to blatantly insult the asshole.
Call him the most inventive offensive names in the book and if he gets mad, well you're just being thorough. Just trying to not lose your baby after all, Mr. Dickless McGee.
Why? It seems perfect: imho, anyone who would trap a desperate person into a deal in which they mean to take that person’s child from them should be described exactly like that.
I always thought rumpled was like wrinkled. Like a rumpled shirt would need ironing, a rumpled bed is unmade. Or to rumple something being to mess it up, to make it wrinkled, to cause chaos or damage. Never heard it having anything to do with shrinking. Until now.... ignorance was bliss.
Not to worry. In Judaism, I've been told, the only value of the body is to carry the brain to school. So as long as you can file this under "education," you're set. I know how relieved that makes me at times.
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Rumpel = Noise
SCHrumpfen = shrinking
It's a noisy little imp, is all.
The idea that the most stuck up prudes to ever write down fairy tales would go _there_ seems implausible to me.
Truly, some tales are evergreen.
Call him the most inventive offensive names in the book and if he gets mad, well you're just being thorough. Just trying to not lose your baby after all, Mr. Dickless McGee.