Reading Notes: The Three Roses
The notes below were taken as I read through The Three Roses, a fairy tale collected in our reading anthology this week. You can find a link to the story and a bibliography included.
The Three Roses
-a woman had 3 daughters; one day the woman has to go to the market, so she asks her daughters what she should bring them back; 2 of the daughters give her a huge list of things, and 1 daughter said she didn't want anything, but if her mother wanted to, she could bring her 3 roses
-the woman went to the market, bought all she could and started for home with it all on her back; at night, she got lost, and she wandered around until she came upon a castle with a garden full of roses; she had forgotten to get roses for her last daughter at the market, so she decided to take some from the garden
-once she had taken the roses, a basilisk appeared and demanded her daughter in exchange for the roses she had stolen; there was nothing she could do, so she went home and told her daughter (Mary) that she had to go to the castle to pay for the roses she had gotten
-Mary goes to the castle and sees the basilisk, who tells her she has to nurse him in her lap for 3 hours a day, every day; on the third day, he brought a sword and told her to cut his head off with it; she didn't want to, but he threatened her, so eventually she complied; from the headless basilisk's body, a new snake emerged, demanding that she cut his head off again
-the second headless snake turned into a young man; the man states that he owns the castle, and since Mary did as he asked, he decided to marry her; they all lived happily ever after
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Baudis, Josef. 1922. The Key of Gold: The Three Roses.
The Three Roses
-a woman had 3 daughters; one day the woman has to go to the market, so she asks her daughters what she should bring them back; 2 of the daughters give her a huge list of things, and 1 daughter said she didn't want anything, but if her mother wanted to, she could bring her 3 roses
-the woman went to the market, bought all she could and started for home with it all on her back; at night, she got lost, and she wandered around until she came upon a castle with a garden full of roses; she had forgotten to get roses for her last daughter at the market, so she decided to take some from the garden
-once she had taken the roses, a basilisk appeared and demanded her daughter in exchange for the roses she had stolen; there was nothing she could do, so she went home and told her daughter (Mary) that she had to go to the castle to pay for the roses she had gotten
-Mary goes to the castle and sees the basilisk, who tells her she has to nurse him in her lap for 3 hours a day, every day; on the third day, he brought a sword and told her to cut his head off with it; she didn't want to, but he threatened her, so eventually she complied; from the headless basilisk's body, a new snake emerged, demanding that she cut his head off again
-the second headless snake turned into a young man; the man states that he owns the castle, and since Mary did as he asked, he decided to marry her; they all lived happily ever after
Basilisk by Friedrish Johann Bertuch (1747-1822). Source: Wikimedia Commons.
I thought that this story was interesting, because, as someone who grew up watching Beauty and the Beast, I already knew the story, but I knew the Disney version. It was interesting to see the story told in a new way, but still have the same fundamental points (i.e. the parent is the one who gets the woman in trouble with the beast, among others).
Baudis, Josef. 1922. The Key of Gold: The Three Roses.
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