With the magical realism of her three critically acclaimed novels (The Return of the Goddess, The Wild Mother, and Daughter of the Shining Isles), Elizabeth Cunningham again brings great archetypes into our lives with historical poignancy and a modern psychological bite -- here it's the Wise Woman, invoked through an enthralling transformation of Rumpelstiltskin and spinning straw into gold. This is the first paperback edition of a tale destined to become a classic of women's archetypally oriented fiction.