Rumpelstiltskin why does he want kids

I forgot about the deal he made with Emma in exchange of the Alexandra thing. So basically Rumple made the deal with Cinderella so that Emma would help him find his son xD. The seer who gave Rumple his future seeing powers had told him while dying, that in order to find his son, a little boy would have to lead him to him. My theory is that Rumple had hoped that the baby might be the child that would lead to his son.

Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? What was Rapunzel based on? Who plays Rumpelstiltskin? Robert Carlyle Once Upon a Time.

Is there a Rumpelstiltskin movie? Rumpelstiltskin film Rumpelstiltskin is a musical fantasy film, based on the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.

Does Belle die in Once Upon a Time? If you haven't watched it yet, prepare yourself. On Belle's deathbed, she reveals she purposefully misinterpreted the prophecy — it's her death that will show Rumple the path that will lead him back to her. The leverage could not have been specifically to help him find his son, as that would contradict earlier events of season 2.

That was the deal in the original fairytale, which was more or less illustrated in the season 2 episode 'The Miller's Daughter'. The Cinderella one was more or less between the two fairytales coz Rumple absolutely has to meddle with everything the deal and Cinderella eventually fooling Rumple was a reference from the "Rumplestiltskin" fairytale. As far as I know it wasn't exactly clarified why he wanted it. But that's just one in a long list of deals, honestly, I didn't understand the motive behind most of his season 1 deals, except for stocking his shop.

Lol this one's a good explanation. Make a deal with one person, take their child, then make a deal with another person and give them the child. And I guess he figure there's gotta be something more interesting to do than collecting rents Rumple wanted to do something to get caught so he could be in the jail and make his deal for Emma's name.

Explore Wikis Community Central. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. The story of Rumpelstiltskin is quite well known, but I can't recall what his motivation for wanting the human child. The question can be extended to Goblins in general. Although in the case of the Tengu, who sometimes would eat the babies, hunger for delicacies seems a sufficient motivation; But for faeries in general who don't eat the infants, what is the impetus for baby stealing?

In most tales, as in Rumpelstiltskin, there is no reason given for fairies or goblins wanting to take human children. I would like to note, though, that in some tales similar to Rumpelstiltskin, the goblin actually wants the girl herself.

In the English "Duffy and the Devil" the Devil wants to carry a girl off presumably to Hell and in the German "Doubleturk" the goblin wants to marry the girl. Other Rumpelstiltskin variants are here. In a lot of changeling myths, it's suggested that fairies look for beautiful children, perhaps because they want good breeding stock. See " The changeling of Spornitz. The Brothers Grimm mentioned nixies who were originally stolen human children " Nixie Changelings from the Saal River.

The idea of fairies stealing away humans was very much a danger in European folklore. Fairies found humans to be desirable, whether for labor, or beauty, or another reason. I believe it was a way to explain sudden deaths and illnesses. It was not something to be explained so much as something to be avoided - by protecting pregnant women and newborns, by not angering the fairies, not intruding on their domain like mushroom circles and warding them off from your own home by hanging horseshoes over doors or other practices.

So says the little man when offered treasures by the Queen in return for not taking her child as she'd previously agreed. But when she laments and weeps because she can't bear to be separated from her baby he pities her, and gives her the riddle of his unknown name to find. Because he's a "little man", a manikin, he can't find love and marriage. It seems that he has no need of wealth because of his knack of creating gold out of straw but he can't make a life with his magic.

So he's desperately lonely and craves companionship, a baby to care for, someone to be grateful to him and so take care of him in return, like children and parents' love for eachother.