Rumpelstiltskin's Brutal Ending

In the original 1812 version of Grimms' "Rumpelstiltskin," when the imp's name was revealed, he surrendered and vanished. However, in the 1857 edition, the Grimms wrote a new, more brutal ending. In this version, the defeated imp, in an act of despair, tears his own body in half after planting one foot in the ground and grasping the other.