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In Hans Christian Andersen's The Princess and the Pea, a prince is looking for a bride and a rain-soaked girl shows up claiming to be a princess. To test her, the prince's mother places a single pea beneath 20 mattresses and 20 eiderdown beds.
🎨 Edmund Dulac. #FairyTaleTuesday
In the Serbian fairy tale "The Nine Peahens", a king's golden apple tree is plundered every night. When the youngest prince stays up to find who is stealing the apples, nine peahens appear — with the ninth turning into a beautiful maiden. #FairyTaleTuesday
🎨 Catherine Rowe.
The fairy tale Snow White and Rose Red has no connection to the Grimm Brothers' other fairy tale Snow White.
In this story, two kind sisters help a prince who has been turned into a bear and an ungrateful dwarf—with mixed results.
🎨 Artist unknown, 1883. #FairyTaleTuesday
"Many a winter's night she flies through the streets and peeps in at the windows, and then the ice freezes on the panes into wonderful patterns like flowers." —Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Queen
🎨 by Bill Bell. #FairyTaleTuesday