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A wealthy and pious couple pray every day for God to grant them a child. One winter, under the juniper tree in the courtyard, the wife peels an apple. She cuts her finger and drops of blood fall onto the snow. This leads her to wish for a child to be as white as snow and as red as blood.
Junipers are coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus Juniperus ( / dʒuːˈnɪpərəs / joo-NIP-ər-əs) [1] of the cypress family Cupressaceae.
The juniper-tree. Fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm. Long, long ago, some two thousand years or so, there lived a rich man with a good and beautiful wife. They loved each other dearly, but sorrowed much that they had no children. So greatly did they desire to have one, that the wife prayed for it day and night, but still they remained childless.
A woman prays for a child as red as blood and as white as snow, and gets one under a juniper-tree. She kills her son and makes him into black-puddings, but he is restored by his sister's tears.
May 17, 2024 · Juniper is a genus of about 60 to 70 species of evergreen trees or shrubs in the cypress family. It has nothing to do with the fairy tale The Juniper Tree, which is about a mother who kills her son and cooks him in a stew.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dec 31, 2014 · After the birth of a son and the mother's death, a stepmother with a daughter of her own arrives, and out of spite causes the boy's death...but tricks her daughter into believing that the girl killed her brother and in a typically gruesome fairy tale manner disposes of the boy's body.
then the fifth month passed away and she stood under the juniper. tree, which smelt so sweetly that her heart leapt, and she fell. on her knees and was beside herself with joy, and when the...
