Snow white

Prepared by: Reo Paolo M. Uri

The queen sat by the window of one the castle towers. She was sewing clothes for the little daughter she hoped to have. Now and then she watched the snow falling outside.

As her needle more in and out of the material. The queen accidentally pricked nectinger and a drop of blood on the big garment in her hands.

"when my baby is born, "she said," I should like her to have her lips as red as blood; hair as black as ebony window frame; and skin as white a snow, And I shall all her snow white.

When the spring came, the young queen gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. The king was over joyed with the child.

"What shall we call her?" the king asked.

The queen answered, "In winter, when I was waiting for her, I wished for a daughter with lips as red as blood, hair as black as ebony; and skin as white as snow.. and how I have her, I said I would call her snow white." The king said,"snow white she shall be." And that is how snow white got her name."

 

A popular fairy tale

 

Proteus was an old man with prophetic powers. He look care of the herd of seals belonging to posiedon, the greek god of the sea. This herdsman was famous ability to assume at will any form or shape. Proteus could change himself  into a roaring fire or a rushing flood. At time, he became a Ferocious beast an angry lion, a mystical tiger, a bird of prey, or a scaly dragon. Like many others mythical characters, preoteus has enriched our language. The adjective protean is taken from the name of this old man of the sea who could transform himself into any shape or form..

 

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