Friday, October 15, 2010

QUESTION 363 b: Nope. I'm not Rattled!

IF YOU CRACK THE THEME NOW, 30 POINTS.
wrong guess = -5


ID THE LEGEND.
In order to make himself appear more important, a miller lied and said that his daughter could spin straw into gold. The King heard of this and called for the girl, shut her in a tower room with straw and a wheel, and demanded that she spin the straw into gold by morning, for three nights, or be executed. She had given up all hope, when a -------------------------------------------------------------------- in return for her necklace, then again the following night for her ring. On the third night, when she had nothing with which to reward him, the --------------------------------------------- for a promise that the girl's first-born child----.





To-day do I bake, to-morrow I brew,
The day after that the queen's child comes in;
And oh! I am glad that nobody knew
That the name I am called is -------