Why did Rapunzel's father steal the plant?

To be fair, it is not always the father who steals the plant; it is just as often the mother herself, or even her mother. read more

To be fair, it is not always the father who steals the plant; it is just as often the mother herself, or even her mother. Apparently there are versions where the woman already has had the child and in fact it’s the child who demands the food, but these are outliers and it changes the ultimate message. read more

As Rapunzel did in the first edition of the Brothers Grimm, Persinette becomes pregnant during the course of the prince's visits. Adaptations Literary adaptations. Anne Sexton wrote an adaptation as a poem called "Rapunzel" in her collection Transformations (1971), a book in which she re-envisions sixteen of the Grimm's Fairy tales. read more