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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I guess we use "Making gold from straw" (German).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Isn't there literally a German fairy tale about someone able to make straw into gold?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Rumpelstiltskin.

Naomi Novik wrote a lovely book inspired by it called “Spinning Silver.”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Yes, that's where it's from.