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Noun: Rumpelstiltskin
  1. A dwarf in one of the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm; tells a woman he will not hold her to a promise if she can guess his name and when she discovers it he is so furious that he destroys himself

Type of: character, fictional character, fictitious character

Encyclopedia: Rumpelstiltskin

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