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Charles2822 wrote: Anubis16 wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maid_Maleen

I wonder if the writers were inspired by this story? It's a story similar to Rapunzel where a princess wishes to marry a prince, but her father disapproves and locks her away in a tower. Years late she escapes, but discovers the prince is engaged to another woman. She then found work in the prince's kitchen. This sounds a lot like Lady Tremaine's backstory. That sound somewhat but hardly anything like what we saw she lost her love because she gave it up to save them so no I doubt that’s where this was inspired from -A.D.

I will also admit the way Gothel gave Rapunzel the mushroom reminded me of how in the original Little Mermaid tale the mermaid was given a knife to kill the prince which would allow her to return to the ocean (I wonder if Lady Tremaine was meant to be Ariel and Gothel Ursula)