This story is beyond messed-up. This guy brags to the king that his daughter can turn straw into gold, so the king takes his daughter and tells her to prove it or else he'll have her killed. She can't do it, of course, but this weird little guy comes out of nowhere to do it for her in exchange for jewelry. When she has none of that left, he asks for her first baby, and she's like, "Yeah, OK, sounds fair." So then she marries the king, and when their baby is born, the girl doesn't want to give it up. The little guy toys with her, saying that she can keep her baby if she guesses his name. Luckily, when the little guy thinks nobody is listening, he likes to sing to himself about what a weird name he has, so she's able to guess it. He gets so mad he tears himself apart.
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Bite-Size Fairy Tales
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