Margaret, a baker's daughter, and Prince Henry are deeply in love but face a royal obstacle. Because the King mishears a compliment about Margaret's hair, he mistakenly believes she can spin hay into gold and demands she perform this miracle or face banishment. In their desperation, Henry finds a mysterious little man with a pungent onion smell who performs the magic, but his price is their firstborn child. Years later, the creature returns to claim their son, Rufus. He grants them three nights to guess his name to keep the child. While Margaret fails to find the name on her own using a long scroll of possibilities, Henry discovers the truth while speaking to a family of ogres in the woods. When Margaret finally reveals the name "Rumpelstiltskin," the man stomps a hole in the floor in a rage and disappears forever. The family is reunited, and the couple eventually rules as a kind King and Queen who ensure no one else must make such desperate bargains for love.

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