Snow White

One day in the middle of winter, when snowflakes fell from the sky like feathers, a queen sat sewing at a window with a frame of black ebony. As she sewed, she looked out at the snow until she pricked her finger with the needle. Three drops of blood fell onto the snow. And because the red looked so lovely against the white snow, she thought, I wish I had a child as white as this snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood of this frame.

Soon she gave birth to a little daughter, white as snow, with lips red as blood and hair like ebony wood. That is why she was named Snow White. When the child was born, the queen died…