Rapunzel

One couple lived next door to the witch . Once, a pregnant wife saw that a neighbor was growing rapunzel and asked her husband to get her this treat. The husband decided to steal the leaves for his wife, but the sorceress caught him and allowed her to take any rapunzel from her as much as possible in exchange for a promise to give her her first child. When the wife of the girl was born, the sorceress took her to her stepdaughter and named her Rapunzel.

When Rapunzel reached the age of twelve and turned out to be a very beautiful girl, her stepmother locked her in a tower in the forest. There were no doors in the tower , only one window on the top, and to get to the stepdaughter, the witch called:

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, wake up,
Get your braids down.

Then Rapunzel hung down her long golden hair , and the witch climbed them. Once, a prince found a tower, climbed up to the girl and invited her to become his wife ^{[approx. 1]} . Rapunzel agreed, but her stepmother, learning about this, cut her braids and drove her out of the tower into the thicket of the forest, and blinded the prince. But a blind prince wandering through the woods accidentally stumbled upon the children whom Rapunzel had given birth to far from him. So the lovers met again. Tears of Rapunzel returned the prince's vision, and he took his wife and children to his kingdom.

It was first translated into Russian as “Bell” by Pyotr Nikolayevich Polev , later, as “Rapunzel” by Grigory Nikolayevich Petnikov .

Modern scholars of the tale suggest that the history of Rapunzel is the story of the isolation of a child by a mercenary and tyrannical parent. The story of suggesting to the child that the world is dangerous, and without the unhealthy parent, the child will disappear.

Tolkien researcher Tom Shippey ( Eng. Tom Shippey ) indicates that the image of Lúthien was influenced by including “Rapunzel”. Lúthien was also imprisoned in the tower, and her hair was long enough to cover her like a cloak. The fact that Lúthien’s hair was black and not golden is a biographical detail relating to the writer’s wife, Edith ^[3] .

There are at least four different plants , popularly known as rapunzel. Two of them are edible: bell rapunzel and field salad (also valerianella, valerianica) ^[4] . Judging by the fact that the sorceress grew rapunzel in the garden and the mother of the main character wanted to feast on them, it was a field salad, very popular in Europe and bearing the name "rapunzel" in Germany. However, this type of salad is little known in Russia.

In German, this type of bell is called Rapunzel-Glockenblume , and one of the names of the valerian is Rapunzel . The tale mentions that the sorceress’s rapunzel was “so fresh and so green” ( German so frisch und grün ), the gourmet husband “rushed in a hurry a whole handful of green rapunzel”, after which she “made herself a salad” ( German Sie machte sich sogleich Salat daraus ). Peter Polevoy considered that the first plant was meant, and gave the heroine the name "Bell".

The root of the bell is edible, and the leaves are only young; there are no cultural forms of this plant. Leaves are edible in valerian, and in Germany the cultural forms of this plant are very popular as a basis for salads ^[5] . Apparently, in the original, the name of the heroine was given by Valerianella.

There were curious versions of the name. In the Russian translation of Grigory Petnikov there is a link that this plant is from the genus colza . Some French and Italian paraphrases mention parsley ^[6] , which has an abortive effect and is contraindicated for pregnant women ^[7] .

The psychiatric term “Rapunzel Syndrome” (ED Vaughan, JL Sawyers, HW Scott, 1968) means intestinal obstruction due to the pathological tendency of children to swallow their hair with some mental disorders, which causes trichobesoars to form in the intestine. The term was introduced with reference to the Grimm brothers, but at the same time Rapunzel was mentioned in the masculine gender ^{[8] [9]} .

In the book of psychologist Donald Kalsched ( Donald Kalsched ) “Inner world of trauma: the archetypal defenses of the personal spirit” there is a chapter “Rapunzel and the system of self-preservation”, in which the fairy tale is examined in detail as a metaphor for the condition of patients who survived a strong shock in childhood and as a result fenced off from the world ^[10] .

Rapunzel in music

• The song of the Mill group Rapunzel to the words of Tatyana Lavrova ^{[11] was} written on behalf of this heroine. The motives for imprisonment in the tower and fabulously long hair, however, are not in the song ^[12] .
• Amanda Somerville has the song Puzzling Rapunzel .
• Emily Autumn has a Rapunzel song.
• The Dave Matthews Band has a Rapunzel song.
• The Straw raccoons group has a song Song against sleep .
• Megaherz has a song called Rapunzel .
• Letzte Instanz has a Rapunzel song.
• The soloist of the Estonian band Vanilla Ninja, Lenna Kuurmaa, as a solo performer, took part in the national competition Eesti Laul 2010 with the song Rapunzel . The song took second place.
• The Ministry of Wolves project contains the song Rapunzel (as Isadora Duncan) performed by Mick Harvey.

Movie Rapunzel

• In 2009, the television movie Rapunzel was shot in Germany.
• In November 2010, the animated film " Rapunzel: A Tangled Story " by Walt Disney based on the Rapunzel fairy tale was released. Unlike a fairy tale, Rapunzel is a nee princess , and her fiancé is not a prince. The girl’s hair is not only long, but also has magical properties. The English name of the cartoon was replaced by “gender-neutral” Tangled , so as not to scare away the male part of the audience ^{[13] [14]} . This is the 50th anniversary of Disney's animated feature film.
• In the cartoon " Shrek 2 " there is an episode where the characters drive past the house of Rapunzel, intertwined with golden braids. In “ Shrek the Third ”, Rapunzel herself participates as a negative character.
• In the series The Simpsons for the Halloween issue, Homer finds Rapunzel in the forest, who asks to save her.

Computer Games Rapunzel

• In 2008, a computer game for young children “Barbie: Princess Rapunzel” from 1C was released ^[15] .

• Tales of the Brothers Grimm

• The text of a fairy tale translated by G. N. Petnikov