Talk:Disney Princess/@comment-5634526-20130319101330/@comment-4911992-20130419122953

@ Chaos Empress: No, the fairytale with white as snow and red as blood was the juniper tree. However, as much as I'd like to see it, Disney won't be making that fairytale anytime soon.

For those of you who don't know, in The  Juniper Tree, a married couple wants a child. The wife is peeling apples under her juniper tree and she cuts herself and blood falls on the snow. She wishes for a child white as snow and red as blood, which sounds kinda creepy to me. Anyway, she has a baby, and she is so happy to see he is white as snow and red as blood that she has a heart attack of joy and dies. The father remarries and has a daughter with his second wife, a girl named Marleen (the only one with a name). Marleen is a strange fairytale character- she has a name, she loves her step-brother and she gets emotionally scarred. So anyway, the boy's stepmother hates him. One day he asks her if he can have an apple from their apple chest. She says he has to get it himself. While he is doing so she closes the lid on his neck and his head gets cut off. She then sets him up by the window with an apple to look like he's daydreaming. Marleen comes and asks the stepmother for an apple. She says to ask her brother if Marleen can have hers. Marleen does, but the boy does not respond because he is dead. Marleen goes back to stepmother and says, "Mother, he won't give me his apple." The stepmother tells her, "ask him again, and if he does not respond slap him across the face." Marleen does so and his head goes flying. Thinking she killed her brother, Marleen runs to stepmother and cries. So, in front of her beautiful, crying, only daughter, the stepmother cuts the boy into pieces and bakes him into pies. (See why disney aint gonna make this anytime soon?) Marleen takes his bones in her hankercheif and buries him underneath the Juniper tree. Suddenly a ring of fire circles the tree and a bird comes out of the ground. It sings this song in English:

My mother killed her little son,

My father grieved while I was gone,

My sister loved me most of all,

She laid her kerchief over me,

So I may lie beneath the Juniper tree.

Hi-kee, Hi-kee, what a pretty bird am I.

The bird flies to a jewler and the jewler says, "Oh, what a pretty bird you are," and gives him a gold necklace for his gory little song. The bird flies to a cobbler and sings his gory little song, says, "Oh what a pretty bird you are," and the cobbler gives him shoes. Appearentally adults like to give stuff to birds. So then the bird flies to a little boy. He sings his song, and the boy says, "Oh, what a stupid-looking bird you are. Here, have a rock!" and throws a rock at him. The bird catches it and flies back to his house. He sings out the window, and the father looks out the window. The bird drapes the chain around his neck. Why the guy wants a gold chain I don't know. He goes back in and tells the story, and Marleen goes outside. The bird gives her the shoes. Marleen goes back in kind of happy. The stepmother goes outside and the bird throws a rock at her head and she dies. Then the bird turns back into the boy and the family is happy, and not emotionally scarred at all of the events.