Red as blood, white as snow, (and black as a raven). Usually applied to the cheeks, skin, and hair of a girl's lover

Motif

Red as blood, white as snow, (and black as a raven). Usually applied to the cheeks, skin, and hair of a girl's lover.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Other formulistic motifs. · view the constellation · filed as Z65.1.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 4747.— THE JUNIPER-TREE.*
GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 5353.— LITTLE SNOW-WHITE.
Hermetic / AlchemicalThe Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged, Tract 11: The Golden Tripod (Basil Valentine, The Twelve Keys)
Hermetic / AlchemicalThe Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged, Tract 1: The Golden Tract Concerning the Stone of the Philosophers
Literary CrystallizationFour Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee, The Winter's Tale Act 4

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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Irish myth*Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Red as blood, white as snow. Often from blood on snow as a suggestion, a wish is made for a child (wife) with skin like snow and cheeks like blood, etc. (Sometimes black as a raven.)

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