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For the Enchanted Forest characters, see Snow White and Red Riding Hood respectively.

"Snow-White and Rose-Red", also known as "Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot", is a fairytale featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by the German authors Jacob and Wilhelm of the Brothers Grimm and incorporated into the book Grimms' Fairy Tales in 1812.



Traditional Plot

Snow-White and Rose-Red are two little girls living with their mother, a poor widow, in a small cottage. They are very good little girls, they love each other dearly, and their mother is very fond of them. Rose-Red is outspoken and cheerful and loves to play outside. Snow-White is quiet and shy and prefers doing housework and reading. One winter night, there is a knock at the door. Rose Red opens the door to find a bear. At first, she is terrified, but the bear tells her not to be afraid. "I'm half frozen and I merely want to warm up a little at your place," he says. They let the bear in, and he lies down in front of the fire. Snow-White and Rose-Red beat the snow off the bear, and they quickly become quite friendly with him. They play with the bear and roll him around playfully. They let the bear spend the night in front of the fire. In the morning, he leaves trotting out into the woods. The bear comes back every night for the rest of that winter and the family grows used to him. When summer comes, the bear tells them that he must go away for a while to guard his treasure from a wicked dwarf. During the summer, when the girls are walking through the forest, they find a dwarf whose beard is stuck in a tree. The girls rescue him by cutting his beard free, but the dwarf is ungrateful and yells at them for cutting his beautiful beard. The girls encounter the dwarf several times that summer, rescue him from some peril each time and the dwarf is ungrateful each time. Then one day, they meet the dwarf once again. This time, he is terrified because the bear is about to kill him. The dwarf pleads with the bear and begs it to eat the girls. Instead, the bear pays no heed and kills the dwarf with one swipe of his paw. Instantly, the bear turns into a prince. The dwarf had previously put a spell on the prince by stealing his precious stones and turning him into a bear, but the curse is broken with the death of the dwarf. Snow-White marries the prince and Rose-Red marries the prince's brother.

Show Adaptations

Trivia


As soon as the dwarf felt himself free he laid hold of a
bag which lay amongst the roots of the tree, and which
was full of gold, and lifted it up, grumbling to
himself: ‘Uncouth people, to cut off a piece of my fine
beard. Bad luck to you!’ and then he swung the bag
upon his back, and went off without even once looking
at the children.
Some time afterwards Snow-white and Rose-red went
to catch a dish of fish. As they came near the brook
they saw something like a large grasshopper jumping
towards the water, as if it were going to leap in. They
ran to it and found it was the dwarf. ‘Where are you
going?’ said Rose-red; ‘you surely don’t want to go
 into the water?’ ‘I am not such a fool!’ cried the
 dwarf; ‘don’t you see that the accursed fish wants to
pull me in?’ The little man had been sitting there fish-
ing, and unluckily the wind had tangled up his beard
with the fishing-line; a moment later a big fish made a
bite and the feeble creature had not strength to pull it
out; the fish kept the upper hand and pulled the dwarf
towards him. He held on to all the reeds and rushes,
but it was of little good, for he was forced to follow
the movements of the fish, and was in urgent danger

of being dragged into the water. The girls came just in
time; they held him fast and tried to free his beard from
the line, but all in vain, beard and line were entangled
fast together. There was nothing to do but to bring out
the scissors and cut the beard, whereby a small part of it
was lost. When the dwarf saw that he screamed out: ‘Is
that civil, you toadstool, to disfigure a man’s face? Was
it not enough to clip off the end of my beard? Now you
have cut off the best part of it. I cannot let myself be
seen by my people. I wish you had been made to run
the soles off your shoes!’ Then he took out a sack of pearls
which lay in the rushes, and without another word he
dragged it away and disappeared behind a stone.
It happened that soon afterwards the mother sent the
two children to the town to buy needles and thread, and
laces and ribbons. The road led them across a heath upon
which huge pieces of rock lay strewn about. There they
noticed a large bird hovering in the air, flying slowly
round and round above them; it sank lower and lower,
and at last settled near a rock not far away. Immediately
they heard a loud, piteous cry. They ran up and saw
with horror that the eagle had seized their old acquaint-
tance the dwarf, and was going to carry him off.


Characters Featured

Original Character Adapted as First Featured in
Snow-White Snow White "Red-Handed"
Rose-Red Red Riding Hood "Red-Handed"
The dwarf Witch (The Bear King) (allusion) "The Bear King"
The bear Red Riding Hood (allusion) "The Bear King"
Widow Granny "Red-Handed"

Locations Featured

Original Location Adapted as First Featured in
Widow's cottage Granny's cottage "Red-Handed"

References

  1. File:102EvilQueenStorybook.png
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  2. File:103WereSeparated.png
    The micro-excerpt from "Snow-White and Rose-Red" reads (the text seen on-screen is set in bold):

    The girls came just in time; they held him fast and
    tried to free his beard from the line, but all in vain,
    beard and line were entangled fast together. There was
    nothing to do but to bring out the scissors and cut the
    beard, whereby a small part of it was lost. (...)

  3. The excerpt from "Snow-White and Rose-Red" is the third section on page two, next to two different illustrations; in both instances, it appears beneath the scene from "Pilot":
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