Story Telling Rapunzel

Once upon a time there lived a man and a woman in a tiny cottage in the woods. They were very poor and could barely grow enough food to eat. The husband and wife's garden was small and the soil was rocky.

“my husband we have no food for eat today what should we do? There’s nothing can we eat from our garden. The plants don’t grow well. It doesn’t produce any fruits.” Wife said

“I have hunted in the forest, but I can’t find any animals too. I’ve been searching all the rivers to got fish, but my fishtrap still empty.” Husband said

“So, we’ll be very hungry all this remaining days? How can we live like this?” wife said

“hmm… on my way home, I see an enchanted garden with the most beautiful flowers, plants and vegetables but The garden was surrounded by a high wall and no one dared to go in because it belonged to an evil witch.” Husband said

“it doesn’t matter . we’re hungry now. Go to that witch’s garden take some foods. Don’t let us died of starvation” wife said

“Ok I’ll try to take it before the dawn breaking. So that evil witch can’t see me.” Husband said

            So before the sun rises the husband climbed over the wall  into the garden to gather some vegetables and fruits to bring back his wife. But one day, when he climbed over the wall, he became very frightened. The evil witch was standing there right in front of him.
"How dare you come into my enchanted garden and steal my food!" she said angrily. The man's voice trembled

 "I am sorry, but my wife and I were very hungry and saw that your garden had so much food to offer. My wife would have died if she did not have something to eat. Please, if you let me go, I promise not to take anymore." The evil witch spoke in a nicer voice,

 "Ok, well if you are speaking the truth, then I will allow you to take all the food your wife and you can eat, but on one condition. When you have a child, you must give her to me. I will raise her like I were her mother and she will be very well taken care of." The man was still terrified of the evil witch and since he knew his wife must have food to eat he agreed to give his first child to the witch.

A few years passed and the man and his wife had a baby girl.

“I’m so scared now. How if that evil witch come? I don’t want my beautiful daughter take by her” wife said

“it will not happen. Just keep hiding in the cottage so that the evil witch did not see her and would not take her away.” Husband said

The man and woman sang their baby daughter lullabies and read her stories. They loved their girl very much. The man and woman did not know that the evil witch could see them from her castle. She watched them each day play with their daughter.

Finally one day the evil witch came to their cottage and knocked on the door. “This little child belongs to me now! I shall now take her to live with me in my castle and I will name her Rapunzel.” the witch said in a snarling voice

“please don’t! give us mercy don’t take my baby. I will pay as much as you want but freed my family” husband said

“ohh… the kindness witch. She still a baby give us more time to live with her” wife said

“NO!!! you must keep your promise. Give your baby or I will kill you all” the evil witch said

“Oke oke I give my baby but I beg you, please take care of her” wife said

“don’t worry, I will treat her like my own daughter” the evil witch said

Years went by and Rapunzel was well taken care of as the evil witch said she would be. She had grown up to become one of the most beautiful little girls ever seen. Rapunzel had lovely long hair and a fair complexion with eyes of blue that reflected the color of the sky.

But when Rapunzel turned 12 years old, the evil witch locked her up in the top of a castle tower.

“ohh… I feel so lonely here. There’s no one to speak with. Look at this castle, it isn’t has door and no way to the top, only a small window that allowed me to see the world outside. Beside that my mother never tell me how to escape from here and no one know how to get in this tower. Except my mother of course. When she want to go inside the tower she yell out Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair. And then my mother climb up my hair and go inside the castle tower.”

But one day when she was alone in the castle tower, a Prince rode by on a beautiful white horse and heard a radiant voice coming from the tower.

‘all those days watching from the windows

all those years outside looking in

all that time never even knowing just how blind I’ve been

now I’m here blinking in the starlight

now I’m here suddenly I see

standing here it’s all so clear I’m where I’m meant to be’ Rapunzel singing.

“wow, what a beautiful voice. I believe her face is as beautiful as her voice. But, how do I get in that castle tower? Ahh… I will think it later the sun is already gone. It’s better if I rode back to my castle. It so interest to hear her delightfull singing voice everyday. I will go to that castle every afternoon to listen her sing” the prince said

One day as he was resting against a tree outside of the castle tower, he saw the evil witch ride up and yell out to Rapunzel, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair." Curious, the Prince kept watching and saw Rapunzel let her long flowing hair down for the witch to climb up.

So, the very next day, the Prince went back to the castle tower and decided to call out to Rapunzel the same way the evil witch had. "Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your hair" he shouted.

“Okey… wait mom!”

After climbed the prince said “hi I heard your voice from down. That’s so wonderful. But why a very beautiful and talented girl like you live in this gloomy castle tower?” the prince said

“who are you?”

At first Rapunzel did not know what to say to the Prince as she only saw the witch each day. But once he began to talk to her and tell her how much he loved her beautiful singing voice, she became very comfortable and told him of her life in the castle tower. The Prince was in love and asked Rapunzel to marry him.

“Rapunzel … I’m falling in love with you at the first sight will you marry me?”

“I love you and know you will care for me much more than the evil witch do and so I say yes.”

Rapunzel and the Prince decided the best way for Rapunzel to get down from the tower was for the Prince to bring her a bit of silk thread everyday which she would weave into a ladder for her to climb down. But one day as Rapunzel was weaving the ladder the witch came and yelled, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your hair."

When the evil witch came inside Rapunzel's room, she saw the ladder and became very angry. "You have betrayed me!" she said. With that, the evil witch took a pair of scissors and cut off Rapunzel's lovely hair. The next day when the Prince came with more silk thread, the evil witch tricked him by throwing the hair out the window for him to climb up.

When he got inside the castle tower he did not see his darling Rapunzel but instead the evil witch.

“where is Rapunzel?”

“You will never see your Rapunzel again I am taking her to a desert where you will never find her.” the witch cackled.

“what did you said? Bring her back! Bring her back!”

The Prince was so upset that he jumped out of the castle tower and fell onto some thorns which made him blind. He feared the witch was telling the truth and that he had lost his darling Rapunzel forever.

Now he is blind, he stayed in the forest eating just roots and berries. But one day he walked and walked and stumbled upon a beautiful lake.

“wait a second, I ever heard this voice before, yaah … it’s like the Rapunzel’s.” He walked towards the voice and it was indeed Rapunzel.

“prince … what happen to you. Where have been you gone all the day? And your eyes? They are blind? Oh … god, why you let this dreadful thing happen to him?” Rapunzel said

Two of her tears landed on the Prince's eyes and he could see again. The Prince and Rapunzel hugged each other and went to the Prince's castle. At that moment Rapunzel and the Prince knew they would live happily ever after.