What happens if rumpelstiltskin says his own name

Rumplestiltskin started out as the meek and innocent father of Baelfire, who wanted nothing more than to protect his young son from having to fight in a war. He meets an old beggar, who informs him about the Dark One's dagger and the magical things it could do.

Once Zoso dies, Rumple transforms into the Dark One. Rumpelstiltskin is a musical fantasy film , based on the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. When a famine settles over the land, the woodcutter's wife stepmother to Hansel and Gretel decides to take the children into the woods and leave them there to fend for themselves so she and her husband will not starve to death. How did Rumpelstiltskin get his name? Category: movies fantasy movies. The name Rumpelstilzchen in German means literally "little rattle stilt", a stilt being a post or pole that provides support for a structure.

A rumpelstilt or rumpelstilz was consequently the name of a type of goblin, also called a pophart or poppart, that makes noises by rattling posts and rapping on planks.

Did Rumpelstiltskin eat babies? When you give someone or something a name, you cut them out of the realm of commonness. As in Exupery: if you name a star, it's no longer an ordinary star, it's your star. It's what allows us make what's absent become present. This is the closest thing to magic that I can imagine. What lovely comments! I'd forgotten that Chihiro needs to keep her name - and agree it's a wondeful film. And yes, Marcos, naming must be essential to the origins of language.

The little man took the necklace, sat down at the wheel, and whirr, whirr, whirr, three times the thread was drawn — and the bobbin was full. Then he put on another, and whirr, whirr, whirr, three times the thread was drawn — and the second one was full; and so it went on until morning, and there was all the straw spun and all the bobbins were full of gold. As soon as the sun rose the king came, and when he saw the gold he was astonished and delighted, but his heart grew still more gluttonous for gold.

He had the miller's daughter taken to another room full of straw — one that was much bigger — and he commanded her to spin that overnight as well, if her life was dear to her.

The girl didn't know what to do and began to cry; then the door opened again and the little manikin appeared, saying: "What will you give me if I spin the straw into gold for you?

Ask Question. Asked 2 years, 5 months ago. Active 1 year, 2 months ago. Viewed times. Improve this question. Samantha Samantha 61 2 2 bronze badges. Usually in fairy tales, knowing someones true name gives you power over them. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. He wanted to know her name so this would trigger for him as answered by the directors in this YouTube video : Did Mr. It's when Emma came to town. When he heard her name in the pilot.

Improve this answer. And it happens again in 6x17 - Awake, which makes it clear Gold doesn't even have to be hearing Emma say her own name. In that episode a prematurely awake David who remembers who he is mentions her name to Gold which awakens Rumple as well.

Kinda makes you wonder though, wether anyone randomly mentioning the name Emma to Gold would trigger a wake up - or just Emma herself and her close family her Dad in the other instance. If it's anyone Snow and Charming got lucky in choosing such a non-fairytaly name for their daughter and normal people called Emma don't live in Storybrook Also a lot of the characters don't really have fairytale names "Prince James" is Charming, for example.