Grimm’s “The Three Snake-Leaves:” Bewitched by Beauty
A poor man’s son leaves his large family with great sorrow so he will not be a burden. He joins the army of an emperor and turns the tide of a large battle and is given treasures and the chance to marry the princess.
She has a strange requirement, however: whoever marries her must agree to be buried with her if she dies first. He agrees because she is so beautiful.
She gets ill and passes away, and he is put in the tomb with her. He survives by rationing bread and wine set out, and he kills a snake that slithers in. But another enters and heals it with leaves, and he revives the princess with…
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