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.) — Mythoi

Motif

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.)

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Other formulistic motifs. · view the constellation · filed as Z65.1

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 11: The Golden Tripod (Basil Valentine, The Twelve Keys)
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

Italian Basile Pentamerone V No. 9.
general Types 516, 709, 720
general BP I 166, 450, *461, IV 245 n. 1
general Rösch FFC LXXVII 100
general *Böklen 62ff.
general **Cosquin Contes indiens 218ff.

Within the index

Filed under Color formulas.

1 finer motif beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Series: white cock, red cock, black cock. These crow at dawn and scatter ghosts. (Cf. E452.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Successful suitor must have cheeks like blood, skin like snow and hair like a raven. (Cf. Z65.1.)

Carried in tale types

Snow White · ATU 709 64 recorded variants

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