A young woman named Esmerelda wants to marry the King so she can become Queen. Before she can marry the King, she finds out that she must first spin straw into gold. A funny trickster (Rumpelstiltskin) agrees to do it, only if she promises her first born child. She agrees and he spins the gold. Then she marries the King. When she gives birth to a child, Rumpelstiltskin comes back and demands the child for payment. She does not want to give up the child, so he says that since she never knew his name, they can play a game; the Queen may keep the child, if she can guess his name in three days. He will come back three times to ask her his name. In the meantime, the King just happens to discover the man in the woods shouting out his name. The King rushes home to tell the Queen. When Rumpelstiltskin returns the third time, she says his name and he disappears forever.