"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair! So, that I may climb thy golden stair."
Where did the long tresses of the Rapunzel fairy tale come from? Most people argue that the long hair was borrowed from a Persian epic, The Shahnameh, written around the year 1000 CE. In the story, the beautiful Rudaba catches the eye of a young hero named Zal. In ord...
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