Reading Notes: Week 2 Anthology



Fairy Tales: Beuty and the Basilisk 

Three Roses

Story Source:
The Key of Gold by Josef Baudis (1922)


  • First two daughters want everything
  • The third daughter wants nothing besides three roses
    • Doesn't specially ask-- says if you like, you can bring me the roses
  • Mom wanders into the castle -- exhausted from carrying all of the stuff for other sisters
  • Palace has beautiful roses outside -- mistakenly picks them
    • Daughter wants nothing which costs her her life -- but didn’t care?
  • Basilisk wanted her to give him life and kill him
  • 3 roses- 3 hours of nursing a day - 3 days
  • Hesitated to kill the beast but easily killed the serpent inside
  • She ends up Marrying the attractive male and having a big wedding


The Three Roses are a focal point in the story. 
Taken from Poem Hunter


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