Snow White
ONCE UPON A TIME, in the heart of winter, a Queen sat sewing at a window with an ebony frame. As she worked, she gazed out at the falling snow, and pricked her finger with her needle. Three drops of blood fell upon the snow, and the red looked so beautiful against the white that she thought to herself: 'How I wish that I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood of the embroidery frame.'
Soon after, the Queen had a little daughter, who was as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony wood; and therefore she was called Little Snow White. But as soon as the child was born, the Queen died.
After a year had passed, the King took another wife. She was a beautiful woman, but proud and haughty, and she could not bear that anyone should surpass her in beauty. She possessed a wonderful Mirror, and when she stood before it and looked at herself she said: 'Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?'
The Mirror would reply: 'Queen, thou art the fairest that I can see.' And then she was satisfied, for she knew that the Mirror spoke the truth.
ONCE UPON A TIME, in the heart of winter, a Queen sat sewing at a window with an ebony frame. As she worked, she gazed out at the falling snow, and pricked her finger with her needle. Three drops of blood fell upon the snow, and the red looked so beautiful against the white that she thought to herself: 'How I wish that I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood of the embroidery frame.'
Soon after, the Queen had a little daughter, who was as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony wood; and therefore she was called Little Snow White. But as soon as the child was born, the Queen died.
After a year had passed, the King took another wife. She was a beautiful woman, but proud and haughty, and she could not bear that anyone should surpass her in beauty. She possessed a wonderful Mirror, and when she stood before it and looked at herself she said: 'Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?'
The Mirror would reply: 'Queen, thou art the fairest that I can see.' And then she was satisfied, for she knew that the Mirror spoke the truth.
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