Prologue
800 years ago
The entire was kingdom was rejoicing that day for the princess had been born. The king in celebration had invited the entire kingdom in to celebrate. He had invited everyone except one. It was when the three guardians of the land were placing their gifts on her. The first was of beauty, the second was of kindness, and before the third gift could be bestowed the one who was not invited stormed in without preamble and yelled out for all to hear,
"The king's daughter shall in her fifteenth year prick herself with a spindle, and fall down dead!" then vanished. The Queen and King of this land began to cry for their little Briar Rose when suddenly the last guardian stepped forward and said, " I have not yet bestowed my gift to her small lady. While I can stop this curse I can soften it. In her fifteenth year she will not fall dead but asleep until true loves kiss can wake her."
On the third night the king took the millers daughter into an even larger room filled with straw and said she spin all of it into gold if she valued her life. The girl began to weep as the little man appeared once again and asked "What will you give me if I spin this into gold for you?" and the girl said, "I have nothing left to give!" she cried out. The little man grinned and said "Then promise me, if you should become queen, to give me your first child." And the girl valuing her life promised.
The beautiful child who had snow-white creamy pale skin, blood red lips, and hair as dark as a ravens was born but the mother had died in childbirth, and soon later the King had remarried. This woman was beautiful as well but proud and vain. Everyday she asked her mirror "Mirror Mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all?" and the mirror would always answer, "Thou art fairest of them all." One day as she asked the mirror responded, "While you are fair oh queen, snow white is fairer yet." In a rage the queen called a hunter to snow white into the woods and kill her then bring her a lung and her heart as proof.
As the man was dying he called his only blood daughter to his bedside and said "Dear child, be good and pious, and then the good God will always protect you, and I will look down on you from heaven and be near you." Then the man lay down and died. From then on the girls stepmother and daughters took her nice things and made her cook and clean for them and if she dared to refuse be thrown out in the streets. So she did as told all day everyday when one-day a royal messenger appeared at the door saying all eligible maidens must attend a ball being held for the prince. Listening in the servant girl asked her stepmother if she may go and her stepmother said, "If you can finish all the chores and find something nice enough." The stepmother then handed her one of the longest list of chores the girl had gotten in years.
When the child was born the horrible enchantress from whom the man stole from to keep his alive appeared at the door and took the child and named her Rapunzel in repayment. As she grew up she was one of the most beautiful children yet as she turned her twelfth year the witch locked the beautiful girl up in a tower with no entrance or stairs. The girl having known nothing except the tower took up singing and all the birds would listen. To bring her food the old witch would call up "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair so that I may climb the golden stair", then her fair hair as fine as spun gold would tumble down and the witch would climb up but little did either of them know one day a man was watching from the forest.