The Grimm Reader by Maria Tatar

Author:Maria Tatar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2011-06-30T04:00:00+00:00

THE JUNIPER TREE

long time ago, as many as two thousand years ago, there lived a rich man with a wife who was both beautiful and good. They loved each other dearly, but they had no children, even though they longed for them. Day and night the wife prayed for a child, but still they had none.

In front of the house there was a garden, and in the garden there grew a juniper tree. Once, in the wintertime, the wife was peeling an apple under the tree, and while she was peeling it, she cut her finger. Blood dripped on the snow. “Ah,” said the woman, and she sighed deeply. “If only I had a child as red as blood and as white as snow!” After she had spoken those words, she was happy, for she had a feeling that something would come of it. And she went back into the house.

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