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Fun Fact:

Disney's Tangled is nowhere near as dark and twisted as the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale that inspired it, but you'd be shocked as to how much they have in common.

In Tangled, old Mother Gothel uses the Sundrop Flower's healing magic to keep herself young, until the flower is used by the royal family to heal the pregnant queen. In the original Rapunzel story, her mother wasn't a gravely ill queen. But she was having pregnancy cravings for a plant called a "rampion", which their next-door neighbor, the witch, had a garden full of. The witch caught the husband when he tried to steal the plant and made him swear to give her his baby as repayment. While in the movie, Gothel outright abducted Rapunzel because the healing powers had been transferred to her hair.