Rapunzel Let Down Your Secret

I just stumbled on this one when I was looking for something to read. I didn't know that Rapunzel, being a delicate-looking-character, in truth is..... anyway, Here it is. The french version is the best one for me. :D

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The Brothers Grimm are known for altering their fairy tales for the sake of children audiences obliterating any references to pregnancy and premarital sex. The Rapunzel story is no exception. According to Tatar's Annotated Grimms there are different versions to the Grimms' Rapunzel story both in the development of the plot and the characters of the story:

• Rapunzel is Persinette in the French version and invites the prince up the tower so she can make love to him. When her pet parrot threatens to tell her secret, she sews up his rear end. Persinette's nose is turned into an ass nose by the evil fairy but eventually restored to its former beauty.

• Rapunzel is Petrosinella in the Italian version. She and the prince do not seek each other for years as in the Grimms story. Instead they escape the ogress and use magic acorns to defeat her.

• The enchantress who keeps Rapunzel in the tower was initially a fairy in the Grimms original story. In the French and Italian versions, she is a fairy, a witch or an ogress.

• In the first version of the Rapunzel story of the Grimms' Children Stories, Rapunzel wonders why her clothes are getting tight alluding that her daily meetings with the prince in the tower have resulted to pregnancy. This was deemed inappropriate for children and was removed from the later version. Similarly, Rapunzel is referred to as the "wife" of the prince to rule out any suspicion that her twins were born out of wedlock.

To the question who invented the fairy tale of Rapunzel the answer would be that the Rapunzel story is, as Tatar notes, "a composite form, drawing elements from different cultures and milieu".

(http://www.suite101.com/content/the-rapunzel-story-origins-and-versions-a159871)