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STORY The tale tells the story of Snow-White and Rose-Red, two Girl s born to a poor Widow living in a small Cottage . Both sisters are very good little girls, and both love each other dearly. Their mother is very fond of them. One Winter evening, there is a knock at the door. Rose-Red opens the door to find a Bear . At first she is terrified, but the bear tells her not to be afraid. "I'm half frozen and I merely want to warm up a little at your place," he says. They let the bear in and it lies down in front of the fire. Snow-White and Rose-Red beat the snow off the bear, and quickly become quite friendly with it. They play with the bear and roll him around until the bear warns them, "''Don't kill me, children: Snow-White and Rose-Red, do you want your suitor dead?''" They let the bear spend the night in front of the fire, and in the morning, he leaves, trotting out into the woods. The bear comes back every night for the rest of that winter and the family grows used to him. When Summer comes, the bear tells them that he must go away for a while to guard his Treasure from a wicked Dwarf . During the summer the girls are walking through the forest, when they find a dwarf who has his Beard stuck in a Tree . The girls rescue him by cutting his beard free, but the dwarf is ungrateful, and yells at the girls for cutting his beautiful beard. The girls encounter the dwarf several times that summer, rescue him from some peril, and each time the dwarf is ungrateful. Then one day they meet the dwarf once again, who is as always trapped in some peril. This time he is terrified because the bear is about to kill him. The dwarf pleads with the bear, begs it to eat the girls instead of him, but the bear pays no heed and kills the dwarf with one swipe of his Paw . Then the bear turns into a prince; the dwarf had bewitched the prince by stealing his Gold and turning him into a bear, but the curse is broken with the death of the dwarf. Snow-White marries the prince and Rose-Red marries his brother. SNOW WHITE This tale has nothing to do with the more familiar Grimm fairy tale of Snow White , which the famous Walt Disney Movie , Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs is based on. Both stories include a character called Snow White, but these are completely different characters. In the original German , these two different Snow Whites are spelled differently. The Snow White of Snow White is ''Schneewittchen'' in German, while the Snow-White of '''Snow-White and Rose-Red''' is ''Schneeweißchen''. Interestingly enough, many Americans are most likely to know of the tale of Snow-White and Rose-Red through a Japanese anime adaptation of the story. Nippon Animation Co., Ltd. adapted ''Snow-White and Rose-Red'' for one episode in its 1987 anime TV series ''Grimm Meisaku Gekijo'' (shown as ''Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics'' on Nickelodeon in the U.S.). To further compound the confusion between the two stories, the same TV series included a three-episode-long telling of the more familiar story of ''Snow White''. OTHER VERSIONS Patricia Wrede retold this fairy tale in a book of the same title, setting the story in Elizabethean England, making the bear-prince the son of the Queen of Faerie by Thomas The Rhymer , and introducing Dr. John Dee and a historical colleague of his to fill the villainous role played the dwarf in the original tale. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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