The Brothers Grimm's Black As Night: A Fairy Tale
The Original Fairy Tale
The inspiration for Black as Night: A Fairy Tale Retold was one of the most well-known of the classic fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Most people know the story of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" thanks to the Disney animated version, but few are familiar with the original version, with its three encounters between the disguised queen and Snow White. Those who would like to compare my work with the original tale find it below.
Little Snow White by the Brothers Grimm from the version published by Andrew Lang in his Blue Fairy Tale Book
ONCE upon a time, in the middle of winter when the snow-flakes were falling like feathers on the earth, a Queen sat at a window framed in black ebony …show more content…
You must kill her, and bring me back her lungs and liver, that I may know for certain she is dead.' The Huntsman did as he was told and led Snow White out into the wood, but as he was in the act of drawing out his knife to slay her, she began to cry, and said: `Oh, dear Huntsman, spare my life, and I will promise to fly forth into the wide wood and never to return home again.' And because she was so young and pretty the Huntsman had pity on her, and said: `Well, run along, poor child.' For he thought to himself: `The wild beasts will soon eat her up.' And his heart felt lighter because he hadn't had to do the deed himself. And as he turned away a young boar came running past, so he shot it, and brought its lungs and liver home to the Queen as a proof that Snow White was really dead. And the wicked woman had them stewed in salt, and ate them up, thinking she had made an end of Snow White for …show more content…
But during the day the girl was left quite alone, so the good Dwarfs warned her, saying: `Beware of your step-mother. She will soon find out you are here, and whatever you do don't let anyone into the house.'
Now the Queen, after she thought she had eaten Snow White's lungs and liver, never dreamed but that she was once more the most beautiful woman in the world; so stepping before her mirror one day she said: `Mirror, mirror, hanging there, Who in all the land's most fair?' and the mirror replied: `My Lady Queen, you are fair, 'tis true, But Snow White is fairer far than you. Snow White, who dwells with the seven little men, Is as fair as you, as fair again.'
When the Queen heard these words she was nearly struck dumb with horror, for the mirror always spoke the truth, and she knew now that the Huntsman must have deceived her, and that Snow White was still alive. She pondered day and night how she might destroy her, for as long as she felt she had a rival in the land her jealous heart left her no rest. At last she hit upon a
The inspiration for Black as Night: A Fairy Tale Retold was one of the most well-known of the classic fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Most people know the story of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" thanks to the Disney animated version, but few are familiar with the original version, with its three encounters between the disguised queen and Snow White. Those who would like to compare my work with the original tale find it below.
Little Snow White by the Brothers Grimm from the version published by Andrew Lang in his Blue Fairy Tale Book
ONCE upon a time, in the middle of winter when the snow-flakes were falling like feathers on the earth, a Queen sat at a window framed in black ebony …show more content…
You must kill her, and bring me back her lungs and liver, that I may know for certain she is dead.' The Huntsman did as he was told and led Snow White out into the wood, but as he was in the act of drawing out his knife to slay her, she began to cry, and said: `Oh, dear Huntsman, spare my life, and I will promise to fly forth into the wide wood and never to return home again.' And because she was so young and pretty the Huntsman had pity on her, and said: `Well, run along, poor child.' For he thought to himself: `The wild beasts will soon eat her up.' And his heart felt lighter because he hadn't had to do the deed himself. And as he turned away a young boar came running past, so he shot it, and brought its lungs and liver home to the Queen as a proof that Snow White was really dead. And the wicked woman had them stewed in salt, and ate them up, thinking she had made an end of Snow White for …show more content…
But during the day the girl was left quite alone, so the good Dwarfs warned her, saying: `Beware of your step-mother. She will soon find out you are here, and whatever you do don't let anyone into the house.'
Now the Queen, after she thought she had eaten Snow White's lungs and liver, never dreamed but that she was once more the most beautiful woman in the world; so stepping before her mirror one day she said: `Mirror, mirror, hanging there, Who in all the land's most fair?' and the mirror replied: `My Lady Queen, you are fair, 'tis true, But Snow White is fairer far than you. Snow White, who dwells with the seven little men, Is as fair as you, as fair again.'
When the Queen heard these words she was nearly struck dumb with horror, for the mirror always spoke the truth, and she knew now that the Huntsman must have deceived her, and that Snow White was still alive. She pondered day and night how she might destroy her, for as long as she felt she had a rival in the land her jealous heart left her no rest. At last she hit upon a