Rumpelstiltskin
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Once there was a very poor miller, who could not even pay his taxes to the kingdom. Because of this, the king ordered that he should be sent to prison. The miller was afraid, so he tried to trick the king:
“Forgive me,” he beseeched, “and I will give you my daughter who can spin straw into gold.”
”Then bring her to me and I will forgive you,” the king said.