"O wicked child," cried the witch, "what is this I hear! I thought I had hidden thee from all the world, and thou hast betrayed me!" In her anger she seized Rapunzel by her beautiful hair, struck her several times with her left hand, and then grasping a pair of shears in her right - snip, snap - the beautiful locks lay on the ground. And she was so hard-hearted that she took Rapunzel and put her in a waste and desert place, where she lived in great woe and misery.
The same day on which she took Rapunzel away she went back to the tower in the evening and made fast the severed locks of hair to the window-hasp, and the King's son came and cried,

"Rapunzel, Rapunzel!
Let down your hair."

Then she let the hair down, and the King's son climbed up, but instead of his dearest Rapunzel he found the witch looking at him with wicked glittering eyes.

"啊！你这坏孩子！"女巫嚷道，"你在说什么？我还以为你与世隔绝了呢，却不想你竟然骗了我！"她怒气冲冲地一把抓住莴苣姑娘漂亮的辫子，在左手上缠了两道，又用右手操起一把剪刀，喳喳喳几下，美丽的辫子便落在了地上。 然后，她又狠心地把莴苣姑娘送到一片荒野中，让她凄惨痛苦地生活在那里。
莴苣姑娘被送走的当天，女巫把剪下来的辫子绑在塔顶的窗钩上。 王子走来喊道：
"莴苣，莴苣，
把你的头发垂下来。 "
女巫放下头发，王子便顺着爬了上去。然而，他没有见到心爱的莴苣姑娘，却看到女巫正恶狠狠地瞪着他。