Rumpelstiltskin
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A year later, the queen gave birth to a child. She had completely forgotten about the little man. But one day, he came into her room again.
“I have come to take what you promised me, remember?” he said.
The queen offered him all the riches in the world, hoping she could keep her baby, but he just wouldn’t hear.

“Something alive is more precious to me than all the riches of this world,” he said.
Then, the little man proposed her a strange game:
“I give you three days to guess my name. If you guess, you can keep your baby.”