by Josef Baudis in The Key of Gold
(Image Source: Picryl)
Major Plot Points
- Mother asks three daughters what gifts they would like from town
- Oldest two ask for many and extravagant gifts
- Youngest asks for nothing but three simple roses
- Mother goes to town and buys all the gifts but forgets the roses
- On return trip home through countryside she remembers
- She finds roses in the garden of a country estate
- She is confronted by a fearsome basilisk who demands the mother's daughter as a price for the roses
- Distraught, the mother returns home and tells her daughter the price for the roses
- Surprisingly, the daughter agrees to go to the basilisk's home
- Once there she is told that she must hold the basilisk in her lap for three nights or the beast will kill her
- Confused she agrees to this
- On the third night the basilisk demands she take a nearby sword and cut the beasts head off
- She refuses on account of her kind heart
- The basilisk issues a new round of threats which result in convincing the girl to kill the beast
- Out of the decapitated beast's body slithers a snake which the girl also cuts the head off of
- From this body comes a richly adorned prince who proceeds to ask the daughter for her hand in marriage as she had freed him form a curse
Themes
- Wicked sisters
- Pact with the beast
- Ransomed daughter
- Held hostage by the beast
- Break the beast's curse
No comments:
Post a Comment