Witch: Why did you want Rapunzel so badly? You could've asked for anything, but you wanted her.

-CheshireGirl0913

CheshireGirl0913-

You are right, I could have asked for anything, yet I chose to ask for my neighbor's unborn child the night he stole my rampion and beans. I told him that if he let me have the baby that his wife would bear, we would call it square. I can honestly say I was being more than reasonable, given the circumstances. Contrary to what many may think, the reason I made this request has little to do with my greens. The reason I asked for the child who would become my Rapunzel was my neighbor himself.

I cannot think why I'm telling you this, but many years before he stole my beans, my neighbor was a young baker living in the village near my house. He had apparently heard all the rumors perpetuated by the villagers about my mother and I, and had doubted they were true. At first I was distant, but eventually he became my one friend in a world that continually blames the witch for its problems. I even, much to my surprise, let myself fall in love with him. He had told me many times that he didn't care what the world thought of me, and we were actually betrothed for a time, when my fiancé began to notice that he was being ostracized by the other villagers. Eventually he abandoned me, leaving me with child. What was I to expect, really? I'm the Witch, they're the World. When I finally gave birth, my child was stillborn. A few years later, adding insult to injury, he brought his young wife and son to the cottage right next door to mine. The woman was pregnant. This, I believe, is what mostly led to my decision to take away their baby. Every day I would go into my garden and over the wall I would see that dimwitted peasant girl with hair as yellow as corn playing with her baby boy, her pregnancy slowing her down, and I would look to the end of my property where under a tree rests a polished stone marking the grave of what would have been my child. I began to wonder, how dare this woman have one healthy child and another on the way when mine sleeps in the ground? Not to mention, I was betrothed to her husband- those children should have been mine! That being said, when I caught my neighbor in my garden one night and he told me he needed the rampion he was stealing to satisfy his pregnant wife's unusual appetite, I could only wonder, where was he when I was carrying his child? Envy, anger, and hurt took over as I listened to him jabber on about the starving state of his precious wife, and soon all I wanted was to hurt the both of them as deeply as I possibly could. I wanted to avenge myself on my former lover; I wanted the child from him that I should have had. Most of all, however, I wanted his thieving wife to feel my pain, and the only way she could understand my misery would be if she were to lose a child herself. So, although I could have taken anything, I took their child when it was born. The theft of my greens really had little to do with the matter. It was a personal revenge, truth be told.

-The Witch

PS: Don't ever never EVER mess around with my greens… especially the beans.