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Fairy Tales with Granny MacDuff

Rapunzel

Fairy Tales with Granny MacDuff

Little Ears Media

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family

4.4788 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

A wife so longs for the lovely rampion she can see from her window, but it belongs to the sorceress and no one dares take any. Until one day, when his wife's longing was so great, that her husband took a bit of it. When the sorceress catches him, she gives him no choice but to agree in exchange for letting him go that he give them the child that will soon be born to them. When Rapunzel is born, the sorceress takes her to a great tower where she locks her away from the rest of the world. How will she ever escape?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Did you know Granny McDuff now has a Patreon?

0:04.2

You can get all episodes ad-free, games, puzzles, calendars, and more.

0:09.8

You can even get discounts off Granny merch.

0:12.8

Sign up now on Patreon.

0:14.6

Go to Granny Macduff-E-N-T-com for more information. Good evening, Good evening, children.

0:28.3

It's Granny Macduff, ready with a story.

0:31.0

So make yourselves comfy, and I'll begin.

0:40.8

Once upon a time, there was a husband and wife who longed for a child of their own.

0:46.4

They hoped and prayed, but no child came.

0:50.8

At the back of the house, they had a small window from which they could see a garden that was surrounded by a high wall.

0:57.7

It was one of the most beautiful gardens in all the land, but it belonged to a sorceress named Madame Gothel.

1:07.7

No one ever dared go into the garden for fear of her great power,

1:12.6

but the woman could admire it from her window.

1:16.4

She loved the rose bed, the lettuce patch, the peach trees.

1:22.0

But most of all she loved the Rampian,

1:24.9

a vegetable that looked almost like white carrots, complete with green grassy

1:29.7

tops. It was also called Rapunzel. This rampion was unlike any the woman had ever seen,

1:38.0

and with each day her desire for the vegetable grew. All she could think of was to have some of it to eat. And each day

1:47.0

that she could not have any, she grew more and more miserable. Her husband became worried

1:54.0

and asked, dear wife, what troubles you?

1:58.0

Oh, husband, she replied.

2:04.6

If I cannot have some of that rampion from the garden behind our house,

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