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The next night, again at twilight, he snuck into the garden again. But as he was climbing back, he saw all at once the witch standing before him. He was terribly frightened, as she cried with angry eyes,

"How dare you climb over into my garden like a thief, and steal my rampion! It shall be the worse for you!"

"Oh!" answered he, "Be merciful, I have only done it through necessity, for my wife saw your rampion and became possessed with so great a longing that she would have died if she could not eat some."

The witch replied, "If it is all as you say you may have as much rampion as you like, on one condition–the child that will come into the world must be given to me. It shall go well with the child, and I will care for it like a mother."

And in his distress of mind, the man promised everything she asked for.

Time went by, and a child was born to Henry and Hazel. But their joy was short-lived, for soon the witch appeared and, holding Henry to his desperate promise, took the child away. She named the child Rapunzel which, being translated, means "Rampion."

Witch, Mother Gothel

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