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There once lived a couple who longed to have a child. 

Finally, their wish came true.

As the wife waited for the child to be born, she sometimes 

stared out the window at the garden next door. In it grew 

some delicious-looking rapunzel lettuce.

But the garden belonged to a witch, and no one dared to go 

into it.

Soon, the wife could think of nothing but that lettuce. She 

grew paler and paler. Finally, her worried husband decided 

to sneak into the garden after dark and pick some.

His wife ate it all, but it only made her want more. So the 

husband went back to the garden. But this time, the witch 

caught him.

“How dare you steal my rapunzel!” she screeched.

The terrified husband told her of his wife’s craving.

“Take all the lettuce you want, then,” said the witch. “But in 

return, you must give me the child.”

The poor man agreed.

As soon as the child was born, the witch took it away to 

raise as her own. She called the baby girl Rapunzel. Rapunzel 

grew to be so beautiful that the witch decided no one else 

must ever see her.

So when the child reached the age of twelve, the witch shut 

her in a tower deep in the forest. The tower was very tall, 

and had no door. Poor Rapunzel had no way of escaping.

When the witch came to visit, she called, “Rapunzel, 

Rapunzel, let down your hair.” Then the girl threw her long 

braid out the window, and the witch climbed it to the top of 

the tower.

 A few years later, a prince happened to be riding through 

the forest. From a distance he heard Rapunzel singing to 

amuse herself. He was immediately drawn to the beautiful 

voice, but once he found the tower, he could find no way in. 

The prince could not stop thinking about the voice in the 

tower. Every day he would go back to listen and every night 

he would leave brokenhearted. He still could find no way in.

Until one day from his hiding place, he saw the witch and 

heard her call.

“Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair.” Then a long braid 

fell from the window all the way down to the ground.

If that’s the rope to climb, I’ll try it,” the young prince 

thought to himself.

As Soon as the witch had gone, the prince repeated her call.

“Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair.”

Then he climbed the long braid to the top.

At first Rapunzel was frightened, as she had never before 

seen a man. But the prince told her how he had been drawn to 

her sweet voice and asked her to marry him. Rapunzel liked 

him better than the witch and agreed.

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