At last she began to run over the sharp stones and through the thorns, and though the wild beasts sprang out before her, they did her no harm. To satisfy the queen, he took part of the inside of a young fawn, which the wicked woman thought was poor little Snow-white, and was overjoyed to think she was dead.īut the poor little motherless child, when she found herself alone in the wood, and saw nothing but trees and leaves, was dreadfully frightened, and knew not what to do. But the thought that he had not killed her was as if a stone-weight had been lifted from his heart. 'She will be devoured by wild beasts,' he said to himself. Snow-white thanked him so sweetly, and was out of sight in a few moments.

She looked so innocent and beautiful as she knelt, that the hunter's heart was moved with compassion: 'Run away, then, thou poor child,' he cried 'I cannot harm thee.' So the hunter enticed the child into the wood but when he took out his hunting-knife to thrust into Snow-white's innocent heart, she fell on her knees and wept, and said, 'Ah, dear hunter, leave me my life I will run away into the wild wood, and never, never come home any more.' Never let her appear before my eyes again.' Take her out into the wood, and if you bring me some proofs that she is dead, I will reward you handsomely. If she had caught sight of Snow-white at that moment, she would have been ready to tear her heart out of her body, she hated the maiden so fiercely.Īnd this jealousy and envy grew every day stronger and stronger in her heart, like a disease, till she had no rest day or night.Īt last she sent for a hunter, who lived near a forest, and said to him, 'Hunter, I want to get rid of that child. Then the queen was terrified, and turned green and yellow with jealousy. So the proud woman went to her magic looking-glass, and asked:Ī thousand times more beautiful than thee.' Years went by, and as Snow-white grew up, she became day after day more beautiful, till she reached the age of seven years, and then people began to talk about her, and say that she would be more lovely even than the queen herself. Then she would go away quite contented, for she knew the magic mirror could speak only the truth. She possessed a wonderful mirror, and when she stood before it to look at herself she would say: She was very handsome, but so proud and vain that she could not endure that anyone should surpass her in beauty.

When Snow-white was a year old, the king took another wife. But at the birth of the little child the queen died. Very soon after this the queen had a little daughter who was very fair, had rosy cheeks, and hair as black as ebony and they gave her the name of Snow-white. The red spots looked so beautiful in the white snow that the queen thought to herself: 'Oh, if I only had a little child, I should like it to be as fair as snow, as rosy as the red blood, and with hair and eyes as black as ebony.' Her netting-needle was of black ebony, and as she worked, and the snow glittered, she pricked her finger, and three drops of blood fell into the snow. One day in the middle of winter, when the snowflakes fell from the sky like feathers, a queen sat at a window netting.

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