A tricky troll promises help and the love of a handsome prince to Katie, a miller's daughter who has been ordered to spin straw into gold, but if she cannot determine the troll's strange name, he will take her firstborn child.
"The story of the miller's daughter who was so clever and so beautiful that her father made a foolish boast about her-he claimed she could spin gold out of straw....When the king asked that she make good her father's claim, she was in despair until a funny little man offered to do the spinning for her. But at what a price!".