“Ah,” she replied, “if I can’t eat some of the rapunzel from the garden behind our house I think I shall die.” Her husband was worried about her and asked, “What is wrong my dear?” The woman knew that she could not get any of it and grew more pale and miserable each day. It looked so fresh and green that she longed for it and had the greatest desire to eat some. One day the woman was standing by the window and looking down into the garden, when she saw a bed which was planted with the most tasty rapunzel. It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to a witch, who had great power and was feared by all the world.
The garden was full of the most beautiful flowers and herbs. These people had a little window at the back of their house from which a splendid garden could be seen.
There once lived a man and a woman who always wished for a child, but could not have one. This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC Grimm’s Fairy Tale version – translated by Margaret Hunt – language modernized a bit by Leanne Guenther Note: Rapunzel is an old nickname for an herb with leaves like lettuce and roots like a radish - it is also called rampion. Read All About It: Rapunzel, The Middle Ages: Medieval Castles, & Neuschwanstein A Fairy Tale Castle Rapunzel