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

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

Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 47 47.— THE JUNIPER-TREE.*
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 53 53.— LITTLE SNOW-WHITE.
Hermetic / Alchemical The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged , Tract 1: The Golden Tract Concerning the Stone of the Philosophers
Literary Crystallization Four 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

Filed across the traditions

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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