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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.)

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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  • ItalianBasile 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.
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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
Successful suitor must have cheeks like blood, skin like snow and hair like a raven. (Cf. Z65.1.)
Carried in tale types

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