Variations on Rapunzel
Variation #1
Once upon a time, there lived a poor blacksmith and his wife. They had no children, but greatly desired one. They tried and tried and they just couldn't have a child. So they died childless and miserable.
Just kidding.
After years of problems, the blacksmith's wife finally became pregnant. During her pregnancy, she developed a craving for lettuce. But not just any kind of lettuce, rapunzel lettuce. Unfortunately, that was the only kind of lettuce that they didn't have growing in their garden. However, the witch next door had a garden. A huge garden. Full of lettuce, but specifically, rapunzel lettuce. The blacksmith's wife convinced him to hop the wall that separated their properties and steal some rapunzel. The witch was on vacation, so the blacksmith was pretty okay with that.
So he hops the wall and steals a huge sack full of lettuce then thinks, “Wait a minute! Instead of risking my hide a few times a week for nine months, why don't I take a cutting of this lovely lettuce and plant it in my own garden?” And that is exactly what he did.
The witch returned a couple of months later and never noticed the lost lettuce because her garden grew like it was bewitched or something. The cutting the blacksmith had taken flourished in their garden and his wife had as much rapunzel as she wanted. When their first child was born they named her Rapunzel after the food her mother craved (wouldn't you love that? hey ice cream! get over here!). The witch didn't notice or care, and everybody lived without horrible things happening in their life that they would need therapy for. Happily ever after includes bad stuff cuz would you be truly happy if nothing ever happened? And besides, Rapunzel had to grow up, and heaven knows it isn't pleasant when children become teenagers.
Variation #2
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