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1. PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT POST SPOILERS.
2. Don't be rude toward the artists, their work, or other readers.
3. Disagreements are fine, insults are not.
4. Joking at the fairy tales silly nature is fine, crude jokes and comments are not. This is an all-ages site. Let's keep it that way.
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Wait, suitor?
I know, right? Oh the Grimms, where children have suitors, and seven year olds wear corsets and are hunted for being more beautiful than their wicked stepmothers (the other Snow White, the one with the seven dwarfs).
In the original tales her name was snow drop, not snow white. I don’t know why they changed it in the disney version CX
Because she was Snow White, with skin as white as snow, hair as black as ebony (or iron), and lips/cheeks as red as blood. That’s the wish her mother made before she was born and it came true, they just called her Snow White for short.
This is not the Snow White that you think it is. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (and the evil stepmother, and the poison apple) is a different story entirely. The only thing they have in common is that one of the main characters is called “Snow White.”
He’s way too nice for a bear. XD
When I read the story it came across as more joking — the girls were less of a menace. Then, interpretation is all.
In the original text, their rough-housing was described as such: “The children soon grew quite at their ease with him, and led their helpless guest a fearful life. They tugged his fur with their hands, put their small feet on his back, and rolled him about here and there, or took a hazel wand and beat him with it; and if he growled they only laughed. The bear submitted to everything with the best possible good- nature, only when they went too far he cried: “Oh! children, spare my life!”
Gee, he’s a bit forward, isn’t he? “Wanna marry a bear, girls?”
I kind of read it as he was saying, “And would you *also* beat your suitor to death?” versus calling himself a suitor. You know, to make a point?
I never did get if he was asking if they’d go so far as to beat their suitor or if it were meant to be… How do I make it clear what I’m trying to say without being a potential spoiler?
I decided to interpret it that way. “would you girls beat a suitor to death too? You really need to learn to be a bit more lady-like.”
I agree with Audrey. More along the lines of “you roughnecks will never get a man if you treat him like this. Be nicer.”
“Let me live, childen!”
The battlecry of new babysitters everywhere. =)
Ah! Where’s the “like” button on this thing? Lol.
haha I know right?
“Dear Bear. you’re welcome to lie down by the hearth.”
Why do I get a vision of the bear flopping down on the floor, legs out to either side so he looks like a large furry rug?
Thank you,
Typhon Grey
The bear is so cute.
Those girls play really rough if they can discommode a bear…!
It’s all in good fun though. I hope…
I always thought the “suitor” bit was basically a little rhyme–something to alert the girls to the fact that they were playing a bit too rough–I.E. You’re hurting me, would you treat a future husband or someone you loved in the same manner?
I love the “Sorry, Mr. Bear.” bit.
They say that there are moral lessons to be learned from such fairy tales.
In this one we learn that saying an apology will stop a bear from mauling you.
Only gentle, talking bears. Non-talking bears would not understand you and thus would not forgive you and continue mauling.
Mum seems to be very genre savvy. That’s all I’m saying.
She does. I’d say that it’s a good thing. Genre savvy people tend to survive.