Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-108.52.15.234-20130216011420/@comment-6195464-20130218172301

122.58.24.98 wrote: There is so much more to the fairytale of Rapunzel than the Mother almost dying, '''which in no way shape or form happened in the original. ''' >_> Um...

''A lonely couple, who want a child, live next to a walled garden belonging to an enchantress. The wife, experiencing the cravings associated with the arrival of her long-awaited pregnancy, notices a rapunzel plant, growing in the garden and longs for it, desperate to the point of death.''

The implication in the original story is that the Rapunzel (enchanted by the witch) saved the mother from dying, during pregnancy complications. So, yeah... she was definitely almost dying.