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Rumpelstiltskin
Category: Arts
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Publish Date: 2016-11-16 02:58:04
Description: Illustration by Edward Gorey

Illustration by Edward Gorey

Rumpelstiltskin is a story about spinning and names. We look at the traditions in making of yarn in fairy tales and how the history of the textile trade is woven into an older story of breaking a bargain with a devil, or a goblin, a man that has no name but who can fix any problem in the world. 

 

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