Rumpelstiltskin

  1. Proper noun.  A fairy tale collected by the brothers Grimm about a dwarf who saves the miller’s daughter by spinning straw into gold in exchange for her first-born child, and whose name is critical to the conclusion.
  2. Proper noun.  The fictional dwarf who is the protagonist and title character of that story.

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