Passage: The seemingly uneven bargain with which "Rapunzel" opens is a common trope in fairy tales which is replicated in "Jack and the Beanstalk", Jack trades a cow for beans, and in "Beauty and the Beast", Beauty comes to the Beast in return for a rose. Folkloric beliefs often regarded it as quite dangerous to deny a pregnant woman any food she craved. Family members would often go to great lengths to secure such cravings. Such desires for lettuce and like vegetables may indicate a need on her part for vitamins. An influence on Grimm's Rapunzel was Petrosinella or Parsley, written by Giambattista Basile in his collection of fairy tales in 1634, Lo de liti (The Story of the litoamer), published by Madeley or Penton? Hadithi hii ya mfalme anayeuza ng'ombe kwa maharagwe, na katika "Uzuri na Mnyama", uzuri huja kwa Mnyama kwa mwanamke mjamzito kwa malipo ya waridi.
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