‘I wish I had a girl as white as snow, as red as blood and as black as that birds feather’- The count wishes the girl into existence from what he has seen. His desire is a mixture of coldness, bloodthirstiness and fatality. As soon as the count has completed his wish she stands before him completely naked and the Countess hates her.
‘The Countess through her diamond brooch through the ice of a frozen pond’- The Countess’s envious attempts to abandon the girl, and then drown her are thwarted by the Count. Each time she attempts to kill the child, she loses an item of clothing. And eventually the Countess is only left with the Counts pity.
‘Pick me one’- They have come to a bush of rose’s fully in bloom and the Count can’t deny his wife this. This is the typical deception that was practised by the step-mother and witch in ‘Snow White’, a seemingly harmless gesture or an act of kindness concealing murderess intent.
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