Snow-White-Fire-Red is an Italian fairy tale collected by Thomas Frederick Crane in Italian Popular Tales. A fairy tale or fairy story is a fictional Story that may feature folkloric characters (such as fairies, enchantments]] often involving Thomas Frederick Crane ( July 12, 1844 in New York - December 10 1927 was an American Folklorist, Academic and Lawyer.
Synopsis
A king and queen made a vow that, if they had a child, they would make one fountain run with oil and another with wine. The queen gave birth to a son, and they set up the fountains so that everyone could take oil and wine. At the end of the seven years, the fountains were running dry, and an ogress came to take the last with a sponge and pitcher. An ogre (feminine ogress) is a large cruel and hideous Humanoid Monster, featured in mythology folklore and fiction Once she had labored to collect it all, the prince threw a ball, breaking the pitcher. She cursed him to be unable to marry until he found Snow-White-Fire-Red.
When he grew up, he remembered this and set out. One night he slept in a great plain where there was a large house. In the morning, he saw an ogress come and call to Snow-White-Fire-Red to let down her hair. When the ogress left, he called to her, and she, thinking it was her mother (as she called the ogress), let down her hair. He climbed it and told her his tale. She told him the ogress would eat him, and so she hid him and asked the ogress how she could escape, if she wanted to. The ogress told her that she would have to enchant all furniture to answer in her own voice, but that ogress would climb and find out in time, and so she would have to take seven balls of yarn and throw them down as the ogress caught up.
Snow-White-Fire-Red enchanted all the furniture, took the yarn, and fled with the prince. The ogress called to the furniture, and it answered until finally she climbed and discovered that the girl was gone. She chased after, calling to Snow-White-Fire-Red to turn around, which would have let her enchant her. Snow-White-Fire-Red threw down the yarn, and each ball impeded and injured her until she cursed the prince to forget Snow-White-Fire-Red as soon as his mother kissed him, and the orgress died.
The lovers went on, and the prince told Snow-White-Fire-Red that he would get her suitable clothing to appear at court. He forbade his mother to kiss him, but she came into his bedroom at night and kissed him while he slept, and he forgot Snow-White-Fire-Red.
An old woman took pity on Snow-White-Fire-Red and took her home. Snow-White-Fire-Red made marvelous things, and the old woman sold them. One day she told the old woman to get her scraps of cloth from the palace, and she dressed two doves that the old woman owned. The two birds flew to the palace, where everyone admired them, and the doves told the story of how the prince had won Snow-White-Fire-Red. He remembered and ordered the birds to be followed, and soon he and Snow-White-Fire-Red were married.
See also
- The Dove
- Anthousa, Xanthousa, Chrisomalousa
- Rapunzel
- The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body
- The Master Maid
- The Silent Princess
- The Prince Who Wanted to See the World
- Geirlug The King's Daughter
- The Two Kings' Children
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The Dove is an Italian literary Fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work the Pentamerone. Anthousa Xanthousa Chrisomalousa or Anthousa the Fair with Golden Hair is a Greek Fairy tale collected by Georgios A " Rapunzel " is a German Fairy tale in the collection assembled by the Brothers Grimm, and first published in 1812 as part of Children's The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body is a Norwegian Fairy tale collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe. The Master Maid is a Norwegian Fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their Norske Folkeeventyr. The Silent Princess is a Turkish Fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in The Olive Fairy Book. The Prince who wanted to see the World is a Portuguese Fairy tale. Geirlug The King's Daughter is an Icelandic Fairy tale collected in Neuisländischen Volksmärchen. The Two Kings' Children is a German Fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales, tale number 113Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic