How old is the rapunzel story

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Skip to content Home Sociology How old is the story of Rapunzel? She lowered a basket down the side of the tower, and they would place the goods that she needed inside. One day, someone left her a book that explained what Christianity was. At the time, Christianity was the religious cult that the Romans were trying to prevent from taking over. Considering how little love and affection her father showed her, and the fact that she was so alone and isolated up in the tower, it is not surprising that she would be impressed by the Christian messages about God.

When the men came to do renovations on the tower, the men felt pity for her and would let her climb down to speak to them.

While they were working on the tower, Barbara asked them to make three windows, instead of two. These windows represented the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

One day, she even convinced the workers to send her a priest, who came to her under the guise of being a doctor to treat an illness. He baptized her, and she officially became a Christian. Today, a teenager wanting to become a Christian would make her seem like a goody-two-shoes, but at the time, it was the most rebellious thing a teenager could possibly do. Dioscorus eventually returned home from his journey, he expected that his plan to shelter his daughter from the outside world had gone off without a hitch.

Instead, he saw that Barbara had climbed out of the tower and destroyed all of his stuff, and she had joined an illegal religion. He was absolutely furious. At the time, practicing Christianity was a crime that was punishable by torture and death. Considering that someone must have given her the Christian books, the workers knew the intention behind the three windows, and her Baptism may have become public knowledge around town.

At this point, Dioscorus was harboring a fugitive in his tower. Even though Barbara was his daughter, Dioscorus handed her in to the authorities.

We will never know if he truly was that heartless and cruel, or if he was given no choice but to obey the law and hand her in.

He grabbed her by her long hair and dragged her to the Roman courts. When the judge asked her about her crimes, she shouted that she only answered to her Lord Jesus Christ. It was clear that she was guilty of being a Christian and evident that no matter what her father did to try to control her, she was not going to stop fighting for her free will. The people began to torture her. They cut her skin with knives, and threw salt in the wounds.

They also burned her skin. After her death, Barbara became a martyr in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and she was canonized as a saint. She was so angry that she took poor Rapunzel into a desert where she had to live in great grief and misery.

The witch rushed back to the tower and fastened the braids of hair which she had cut off, to the hook of the window, and when the Prince came and cried,.

Rapunzel is banished and you will never see her again! The Prince was beside himself and in his despair he fell down from the tower. He escaped with his life, but the thorns into which he fell pierced his eyes. Then he wandered quite blind about the forest, ate nothing but roots and berries and did nothing but weep over the loss of his dearest Rapunzel. In this way, the Prince roamed in misery for some months and at length came to the desert where the witch had banished Rapunzel.

He heard a voice singing and it seemed so familiar to him that he went towards it. When he approached, Rapunzel knew him and fell into his arms and wept. Two of her tears fell on his eyes and the Prince could see again.

He led her to his kingdom where he was joyfully received, and they lived for a long time afterwards, happy and contented. Printable version of this story. Alphabet Buddies. Book Breaks. Color Buddies. Cuddle Buddies. Number Buddies. Nursery Rhymes. Shapes Buddies. When the witch wanted to go in, she stood beneath the window and cried, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your hair.