Family members would often go to great lengths to secure such cravings. Folkloric beliefs often regarded it as dangerous to deny a pregnant woman any food she craved. 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. The seemingly uneven bargain with which “Rapunzel” opens is a common trope in fairy tales.
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