The History of Rapunzel | Fairy Tales with Jen

[@jenvcampbell]

I hope you like the latest episode in my Fairy Tales with Jen series! If you enjoy these videos and would like to help support them, it would mean a lot if you would consider supporting me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/jenvcampbell. x

[@lookgoodinred]

13:57 was not expecting this wholesomeness

[@makeupboss3568]

I absolutely love these . I never thought about the darker side of Rapunzel … I found it fascinating. Thank you , Jen .

[@pamelas.hunter4014]

Hi, Jen, I also love fairy tales and love your research. I wanted to give you an additional little tidbit that comes from the weaving and spinning community out here in the Pacific Northwest. In the last Italian version of Rapunzel, the young woman and her suitor take three balls of yarn...and use them to stop the witch. So... in an age where all cloth was handmade and all thread and yarn hand dyed, the soap would scour the wool, the iron nails would mordent the yarn so it would both receive the dye and determine the color, and the yarn would be soaked in water containing the dye where the yarn would be colored. The two young lovers were using the tools of the witch/weaver against her!

[@Luis-ej4ei]

It doesn't really seem that the king wanted to retire, but with three sons you need to be careful of patricide, dethroning and stuff, you know. Best to keep them busy. Truly a happy ending for him when everyone got a kingdom in the end. Thanks for another great video, Jen!

[@ameerahalgohary]

I'm Egyptian, and it's my first time to hear the Egyptian version of Rapunzel! :D Thanks a lot for the interesting entertaining video.

[@Wintersheim]

This is so interesting, Jen! I hope you will do more of these. Throughly enjoyed this. Thank you.

[@jemajoy8839]

Very inspiring video 😍 Love this series. Just like you said there are many versions of this story. Rapunzel remind me of a historical event record in our country. We have a tale of a princess held captive in a tall tower and fall in love with a man and later give birth to a prince in year 474 BC. He became King Pandukabaya after defeating his many uncles expect one who supported him and his mother. This was reported in historical source "Mahavansha" and there is a city named called 'Paduwas Nuwara'. If I remember correctly there is a foundation of building which known as the tower where she was held in captivity. This ruin has an outer circular empty space which filled when it rains. And the city is not near by the sea. We have lots of ancient ruins here in Sri Lanka and this peculiar ruin has a circular building foundation. However by looking at the history why most of them thought they could keep girls locked up in towers? I love this series ❤

[@lemonmiranda4233]

I didn’t know the version of Rapunzel in the musical Into The Woods was so accurate to the original Grimm fairy tale, though I suppose I should have guessed given that the whole point of the show is to retell the original tales in all their dark glory. Also I love all these different versions! Great video

[@SotiriaPlaga]

The way you narrate things is so fascinating! Children must a d o r e you! Great video! Rapunzel was never one of my favourite fairytales but now the white cat version is probably one of my favourite things in the world!

[@krisbishop4716]

I am having so much fun watching your videos.

[@sandysand269]

Thanks so much Jen this video was so wonderful . I could listen to you for days you are so eloquent and an enchanting story teller . xx

[@shanicedisney4ever696]

Could you do a video on the red shoes?

[@twentysth]

Great video, Jen! I love your fairy tales series. What I think is really interesting is that the German word "Rapunzel" is not really a term for a kind of flower, but a kind of lettuce (corn salad is the English name, or so Google tells me). I wonder if whoever translated the tale into English either felt the need to romanticise this, or simply wasn't aware that it's not a flower. I assume the latter may be the case, because it isn't a very common word for that kind of lettuce, which has many names in different German-speaking areas, and I believe calling it Rapunzel might have been even less common at the time.

[@jenvcampbell]

In the Jack Zipes translation it’s cabbage; then that’s changed to cabbage flower and then to flower. I do think there’s romanticisation involved ☺️

[@Whitetomato27]

Since i was a child i loved the tale of the white cat so much! It was so interesting to hear it's history! Thank you for these videos i love them so much!

[@MatthewSciarappa]

Oh, you know, a tiny dog, some super silk, and a bride sprung from the body of a decapitated cat. Happy Retirement! 🎉✨👑

[@jenvcampbell]

PART-AY!

[@jenvcampbell]

MY KINGDOM FOR A CHIHUAHUA!

[@ThePopopotatoes]

Parsley was a well known abortative, that makes the Italian version more interesting.

[@jenvcampbell]

That is interesting!

[@roxanvasilik]

The White cat version is my favorite probably because it is crazy 😝 Love your fairytale videos, you are a great story teller

[@ghanshyamsingh3653]

Believe it... So I just binged this series while eating tiffin for dinner. Awesome storytelling and WOW...to the insane imagination that goes in bringing on kid stories! But here is a true story I wanna tell... Once upon a time...I used to visit my grandmother on vacations and get together with cousins and extended family. Every night with large numbers, we indulged in rooftop sleepovers. While gossiping helped adults find drowsiness until midnight...us kids participated in storytelling. Here, everyone told some they had heard or studied at school but I was a bit off with tales, never got the hang of memorising storylines so I began...and kept going until someone pointed that my chance was over or we started falling to nightmares(I had a lot of those during that time). My brother (cousin) later started to catch me off guard when I won't be able to repeat the story that anyone missed on account of water or whatever. So I normally would start with a king...then a beggar walking around a well seven times only to fall in it...then waking up as a nurse to kill a fish abandoned in a temple. Like I went till I could weave it no longer but unfortunately my imagination was way kinder on me than my memorisation. Also I didn't find stories at school that appealing. They were way too refined...too foreign...too small to ever peak my interest to retain them. I always enjoyed reading stories but I still can't retain a lot of what I read. I'm sorry about that...Just not me to remember the "exact" storyline unless I've studied it. I learned today that the insanity of making up stories has been the foundation for today's popular Stories. And that it always was that way. A very amazing storytelling on part of Jen. I had questions that seem answered in so many ways. The questions that came up in my mind as I came across these stories again and again overtime...hoping to find a version where Mother asked to the mirror...got told her son is most beautiful...kills with a mango or banana...dead boy gets kissed by a prince and they live happily ever after. Dissapointed to this day...plz recommend books that might help. I get the point of apple, not my favourite tho😘😇💕😼😅👍👍👍👌

[@KeepCalmwithBooksandCoffee]

These are always so interesting Jen! Thank you for making them!

[@HolySisterrr]

WOW! You truly are an incredible story teller. I will now proceed to not do my readings for Uni and binge on your history of fairy tales playlist instead. Thank you Jen, you're phenomenal.

[@MaryAmongStories]

I absolutely adore these videos 💗 thank you so much for making them x

[@krissyn.3366]

Great job Jen! These videos are so interesting and I appreciate all of the research and time you put into them. 💗📚📖

[@taylorgold543]

I missed these so much!!! Thank you for uploading this! It was great! Love the white cat the most!

[@clarinha1226]

I can't believe it took me this long in life to watch one of your fairy tales video!

[@lacieelizabethlange7149]

I love watching your videos!! Im always in awe of your bookshelves. I cant wait till my collection is that big! Id love to just come borrow a book. Your collection's almost as big as a library!

[@WhatVictoriaRead]

This was so interesting, I really enjoyed it! Thanks for sharing!

[@Makreads]

As always a great video !! Love this series ❤

[@jenvcampbell]

I'm glad to hear that. Thank you!

[@TheOtherMoof]

I love this whole series of yours. Keep up the good work! ❤️

[@hollyisblue]

Yaaaay, it's back! Love this series 💕

[@albireadingromance]

This is my favorite Series you do.

[@jenvcampbell]

Thank you x

[@raquellois9443]

I missed these videos 😊

[@AuburnAfterglow]

Excellent video as always. So interesting and so much fun! :DDD

[@Nyledam89]

This was so insightful as always. Super late in watching this but really enjoyed it. I only knew the Grimm's version but without the twins. :)

[@laurav.d.5513]

I've heard about Saint Barbara somewhere, I vaguely think it was from a Dutch history series or something. Can't be sure. But I absolutely adore this series, thank you so much for making it. And of course thanks to the Patreons for helping to get these videos made :)

[@twentysth]

There's a custom in Austria where girls are supposed to cut a tree branch (most commonly from cherry trees) on the 4th of December and put it in a vase. If it blooms by Christmas Eve, it is supposed to mean that said girl is ready to marry. The version of the story I know doesn't really explain why, I only vaguely recall something about a cherry branch blooming the day her father coming to kill her and that it was supposed to signify God being with her or something. I'll have to look it up, but I think there are lots of variations of Saint Barbara's story...

[@laurav.d.5513]

@@twentysth Ah, That might be why then. I'm not that knowledgeable about Dutch folkore, but she sounded familiar.

[@CharlesHeathcote]

I do enjoy these videos. :)

[@peteg475]

I'm a big JRR Tolkien fan, and one of the conceits of his stories is that they are actual discovered ancient histories, and his versions of what happen to his characters are the originals, and many of our later myths and stories are later corruptions of his discovered originals (like his Numenor becomes our Atlantis, for example). His version that correlates to Rapunzel, is part of the Tale of Beren and Luthien. Luthien wishes to follow her love Beren to help complete a task that her father, King Thingol, has ordered him to perform in order to agree to Beren's desire to marry Luthien. But Thingol wishes Beren to fail, and to keep Luthien from helping him, he confines her in a treehouse in the middle of a large field, surrounded on all sides by guards. Luthien is desperate to escape, so she sings a song of great magical power, which puts the guards into a deep sleep, and also causes her hair to grow quickly to great length. She weaves this hair into a braided rope, and escapes in that manner.

[@Liba_Elena]

What a great video!😊 But I'm more impressed by Jean and her willpower not to laugh because I was laughing at the ridiculous turns of events all along.😂😂

[@jenvcampbell]

😂

[@JeansThoughts]

I am impressive ;)

[@Clara-nm9im]

My favorite videos!

[@lizzie_scribhneoir7]

Hi Jen! I love all your videos but as a former folklore student and now folklore nerd, I love these ones the most. How do you do your research/find all the different versions around the world? Do you use the Aarne Thompson index? Would love to go to one of your talks about fairy tales some day! =)

[@jenvcampbell]

I use that but as a jumping off point; I find it a bit reductive on its own. Then cross reference with other research and fairy tales I’ve read myself over the years in various different books/collections.

[@lizzie_scribhneoir7]

@@jenvcampbell Cool! Any recommendations for research?

[@jenvcampbell]

You can search for my fairy tale collection to see some of the nonfiction books I own.

[@lizzie_scribhneoir7]

@@jenvcampbell Brilliant! Thanks, Jen! =)

[@inessamaria2428]

Loved it

[@lottajarvi2907]

I love these videos

[@amisha25211]

Wow....the first version you narrate is so similar to Disney's Tangled!!:) Probably it was the inspiration.. Anyways loved the video and I was wondering if you could do an episode on The Snow Queen...I am really fascinated by the fairytale:)))

[@jenvcampbell]

Yes, Tangled is based on Rapunzel.

[@amisha25211]

@@jenvcampbell Ohh...I absolutely know that..I was talking about the specific version that you talked about in the starting of the video with the flower ...it just immediately reminded me of Tangled:) But please make one on The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson! xx

[@26snoopy82]

Where can I find all these older versions? I have the Grime brother's version. It's one of my favorite fairytales. I want to make a KZbin channel about fantasy, fairytales, etc.

[@ElizabethHopkinson]

Have you read Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth? Based around the Pentamerone version and the version/life of Charlotte-Rose de la Force. Also, have you ever noticed the Rapunzel ending to Jane Eyre? Great to meet you in Bradford last week!

[@jenvcampbell]

I have the Kate Forsyth on my TBR ☺️ and yes Jane Eyre has that Rapunzel element but I think is mainly Bluebeard ☺️

[@yvesforbesfloresiii461]

Please do the following fairy tales for future episodes: The Frog Prince The Twelve Dancing Princesses Rumpelstiltskin Little Red Riding Hood Beauty and the Beast (Part 2) Mother Holle East of the Sun and West of the Moon The Six Swans Bearskin The Blue Light The Emperor's New Clothes All-Kinds-of-Fur (Allerleirauh) The Girl Without Hands The Himphamp Jack and the Beanstalk Melusina (Mélusine, Melusine) The Mermaid Wife Puss in Boots The Robber Bridegroom Love Like Salt The Snow Maiden The Swan Maidens

[@Sailorsega]

The likes on this video is now 777. That's three sevens. Even your reviews of fairy tales feature the numbers three and seven.

[@bluemoon5766]

I read a version where it was a witch and the mother craved cabbage

[@stephgreis705]

Rapunzel is lamb's lettuce/feldsalat. :)

[@BrandiNicoleable]

I want to grow my hair out as long as hers.Loved the story as a little girl.

[@NicoleFoti]

That was legit my goal when I was little

[@BrandiNicoleable]

Nicole Foti me too

[@gabriellapagan7380]

You should do the history of Alice in Wonderland.

[@jenvcampbell]

That’s not a fairy tale; it’s a novel written by one person.

[@NicoleFoti]

Oh! I guess I never realized Rapunzel got pregnant.

[@daniyalasarfraz4842]

I like you

[@micaylab1]

Disney's Tangled isn't that different from the original fairy tale.

[@surajquantum4681]

What about the story of lot and his daughters, do you teach that

[@Omegavoid000]

All fairytales are born from this Arabic book alif laila please do read it

[@singer2be256]

hmm... throwing something at your enemy that turns into soap an adventurous queen I see what you did there Sonnenburg. I see what you did there...