Once there was a man and a woman who wished for a child for a very long time. The place where they lived had a small window at the back of their house from which they could see a beautiful garden, which was full of beautiful flowers and herbs.  It was, however, surrounded by a high walls and no one dared to enter into the garden because the house and garden belonged to a witch.

Finally, the good luck shone upon them and they were expecting their first baby. During pregnancy, one fine day the woman was continuously looking down into the garden, where she saw rampion salad leaves. They looked fresh and green, so she wanted to eat them. When the man saw his wife gazing out from the window, he asked, “What are you looking at?”

She replied, “I want to eat those rampion salad leaves which are in the garden behind and if I don’t get some of those, I will surely die.”

The man loved her more than anything in this world, so he decided to risk his life to get some rampion leaves for her. At midnight, he went to witch’s garden and  plucked some rampion leaves and came back to his place. His wife prepared a great salad with it and ate it all greedily. But eating it made her want more of the same salad and she pleaded her husband to bring her some more rampions.

Next day, in the evening husband went again to the garden to pluck more rampions. But as he was climbing the wall to come back he heard the witch’s voice behind him, “How dare you to steal my rampions?” She was quite angry and said “You will now have to pay for your sins”

Man cried, “Please forgive me, I have done all this under pressure of my wife who is expecting our first child. If she had not got some rampions to eat, she would have died.”

Witch was very cleaver, “You have only one option. I will let you go if you give me your child  which your wife will bring into the world , and I will take care of her as a mother.” The man agreed and went back to his wife and narrated the whole story. 

After few months wife gave birth to a beautiful girl. Same day the witch visited them, named her Rapunzel and took her away from the poor parents.

Rapunzel grew into the most beautiful child in the world. When she was twelve years old, the witch shut her into a tower in the middle of a forest. There were neither stairs nor doors, but only a small window at the top of the wall. Whenever she wanted to come in, she used to call her like “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your hair for me.”

Rapunzel had beautiful and long golden hairs, and whenever she would hear her mother’s voice, she would throw her thick long hair down using which the witch would climb up to the tower. And if ever Repunzel expressed desire to see the outside world, the witch would shoot down her request suggesting that world is a very bad place and she is keeping her safe inside the tower.