2013+RAPUNZEL


 * Tangled: Disney's Version of Rapunzel** []

**Summary** The King and Queen were about to have their first child when the Queen became ill. The Queen drank a medicine that contained a magical flower. The healing powers of the flower were able to save the Queen’s life, but it also passed along its healing powers to the unborn baby Princess Rapunzel. Rapunzel was born with long golden hair that had healing powers when she sang a specific song. Mother Gothel knew of the magical powers of the flower and had used its powers to keep her young. But now that the magical healing powers resided inside of the young princess, Mother Gothel kidnapped Rapunzel and kept her locked inside of a 70-foot tower. Rapunzel had never been outside before, but every year on her birthday every year she would see floating lights in the sky. Rapunzel begged Mother Gothel to take her to see the floating lights for her birthday, this year but she refuses to let Rapunzel leave. Flynn Ryder is a thief who is on the run after he stole the missing Princess’s’ tiara. Flynn ran through the woods and came upon the tower and scaled the side of the tower and climbed inside the window. Rapunzel who is now a teenager has only every seen Mother Gothel so the sight of Flynn frightened her and she tied him up and began questioning him. After questioning Flynn she agrees to let him go and give him back the tiara if he takes her to see the floating lights. Flynn agrees and tells Rapunzel that the floating lights are lanterns that the King and queen release every year on the anniversary of their missing daughters’ birthday. Their adventure begins with Flynn scaling down the side of the tower and Rapunzel letting down her long hair and swinging out of the tower for the first time. As they are making their way to the kingdom to see the lights, Mother Gothel is chasing Rapunzel and the royal guards and the two bandits that he double-crossed are chasing Flynn. That night while setting up camp Rapunzel tells Flynn that her hair does not only glow, but also when she sings it has healing powers. She wraps her hair around his injured hand and begins to sing and his hand is healed. While Flynn is away collecting firewood Mother Gothel appears and tells Rapunzel that Flynn does not love her back and that if she gave him the tiara now he would leave her. The next day they travel through the town enjoying all of the festivities and then when it begins to grow dark Flynn and Rapunzel get on a boat to watch the lanterns be released. Rapunzel gave Flynn the tiara and instead of leaving like Mother Gothel said he would Flynn took Rapunzel’s hand and leaned forward to kiss her, but at that moment Flynn sees the two bandits that he had double-crossed on the shores. So he rowed to shore and told Rapunzel to wait for him as he ran off to find the bandits. Flynn found the bandits to give over the tiara because he said that he did not need it anymore. Instead of letting him leave they tied him up and put him on a boat and pushed the boat into the sea. The two bandits approach Rapunzel and tell her that Flynn had run off with the tiara and right as were about to grab Rapunzel. Mother Gothel appears and saves Rapunzel at the last second. Rapunzel promises to go back to the tower with her and never leave again, but as they are walking back to the tower Rapunzel sees pictures of the missing baby princess and of the King and Queen. Then Rapunzel remembers seeing her parent’s faces when she was a baby and realizes that she is the missing princess. Flynn is captured by the royal guards and is sentenced to be death, but on the way to his execution friends that he and Rapunzel had made along the way help rescue him. Flynn goes to the tower to save Rapunzel, but when he climbs to the top he finds that Rapunzel has been tied up and then Mother Gothel comes up behind Flynn and stabs him in the side. Flynn falls backwards and breaks the mirror behind him. Rapunzel tells Mother Gothel that if she is allowed to save Flynn she will go with her willingly. Mother Gothel allows Rapunzel to save him, but right as she begins to sing Flynn cuts her hair with a shard of glass. Instantly Rapunzel’s hair turns brown and Mother Gothel beings to age, she trips and falls out of the window, but by the time she reaches the ground her body has turned to ash. With his last breath of life Flynn tells Rapunzel that she was his new dream and Rapunzel says the same. Rapunzel recites the song while crying over Flynn. The tear that falls from her eye has the last bit of magic and is able to bring him back to life. The two kiss and go back to the castle together to reunite Rapunzel with her true parents. They are both welcomed back and soon to be and live happily ever after!

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This clip from Tangled shows how in this version Rapunzel's hair has healing powers and she using them to heal his injured hand. And later on in the movie Flynn is stabbed and when Rapunzel cries her tears heal his wound. In the Brother's Grimm version After the Prince is blinded by the thorns. He finds Rapunzel and her tears are able to heal his eyes so he can see again.

**Rapunzel by Grimm's Brothers** [] A pregnant woman sends her husband to a witch’s garden to pick up some rampion because she was craving for it, if she doesn’t have it she said she would die. The witch catches him picking her rampion. She lets him take it in exchange for their baby when it’s born. He agrees and takes the rampion back to his wife. When the child was born the witch raised her like her own and names her Rapunzel and she let her hair grow very long. She grew to be a beautiful child; at the age of 12 the witch locked her away in a tower with no exit. The only way to get in is to have Rapunzel throw down her hair so that the witch can climb it. One day a prince was near the tower, he heard a beautiful voice singing. It was Rapunzel, he heard the witch call out “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair” then she climbed up her hair into the tower. After the witch leaves the prince calls out “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down you hair.” She lowers her hair and is in shock when he sets her eyes on him. She has never seen a man before. They fall in love and the prince visits her every night. The witch finds out that the prince got Rapunzel pregnant, She chops off all her hair and sends her into a desert were she would live in grief. The witch ties Rapunzel’s hair up and waits for the prince to call out her name. She lets the hair down; he climbs up expecting his Rapunzel. Instead it’s the witch. He jumps out of the tower and lads into thorns. They pierced his eyes and he became blinded. He roams the land in search of the Rapunzel. Eventually he finds her and their twins. Rapunzel cried in happiness, the tears fell into the prince's eyes and he could see again. They go back to the kingdom and live happily ever after with their children. **The Fair Angiola (The Italian Version of Rapunzel) by Thomas Fredrick Crane** http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/rapunzel/stories/fairang.html **Summary :** Seven women lived together, their neighbor, a witch, owned a garden of jujubes. The witch owned a donkey that would watch over her garden to make sure none of the jujubes were stolen. These seven women had such a desire for the jujubes that they filled their aprons with grass to give to the donkey as a distraction as they take the jujubes. The women were able to to do this several times before the witch noticed that someone had taken her jujubes. When the witch asked her donkey who stole the jujubes, he did not know. The next time the seven women came to get jujubes the witch waited in the garden watching them. One of the seven thought that the witches ear was a mushroom and when to pick it. The which showed her self scaring away six of the seven, the seventh begged for the witch to spare her life, giving away her unborn child in the process. When the woman gave birth she named her daughter Angiola. Seven years passed and when the child would go to school she would pass the house of the witch. After many tries the witch was finally able to take Angiola for herself. The witch took Angiola and locked her in a tower, but treated her very kindly, as if she was her own daughter. Many years pass and one day a prince was hunting in the woods where Angiola's tower was. He saw how the witch was able to get inside by calling "Angiola, fair Angiola, let down your beautiful tresses and pull me up." When he got into the tower, he begged Angiola to marry him. When she finally agreed she fed all the objects (chairs, tables etc...) in the tower because they were alive and would tell the witch what had happened. But the broom was in the corner and she forgot to feed him. She then went into the witch's room and took three magic balls of yarn, finally she and her prince escaped. The witch had a dog that was very fond of Angiola, the dog left with them. When the witch returned and could not find Angiola, she asked the object where she had gone, none told except for the broom. The witch ran after Angiola and her prince, almost catching, but Angiola threw a ball of yarn each time the witch came close. After the third time the witch cursed Angiola with the face of a dog. The witch's dog ran back to the witch begging that she lift the curse, claiming that Angiola has learned her lesson. The witch then gave the dog the antidote which Angiola drank, and they all lived happily ever after. The End! **Fragmented Fairytales: Rapunzel** media type="youtube" key="_rTqMrNFNC4" width="425" height="350" This video is of a fragmented version of Rapunzel. It has a bit of a twist from the original Brother's Grimm version. [] Taylor Swift posed as Rapunzel for Disney's Dream Portrait series. All of the photos in this series have been photographed by photographer Annie Leibovitz. [] The SurLaLune Fairy Tales website has a collection of all different versions of Rapunzel. These versions are from different countries, authors and other ethnicities. **Real Life Rapunzel** [] Terelynn Russel is a real-life Rapunzel her hair has grown to be over six feet long. She also has three daughters who are growing out their hair as well. media type="youtube" key="Nf5Rk2mwpfE" width="425" height="350" **A Simpson's Parody of Rapunzel** media type="youtube" key="6kA_IMYdfmk" height="315" width="420" **Rapunzel's Revenge** This is a fragmented version of the Rapunzel story. Taken place in the Old West, shows what happens when Rapunzel takes her hair down.
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