Fairy Tale: Beauty and the Basilisk by Josef Baudis
Plot: Mother goes to store to buy things for the house and is asked to buy roses for daughter. On her way she stumbles upon a palace garden and takes three roses. As payment the mother must give up her daughter. There is a plot twist at the end when the daughter is asked by the basilisk to cut off its head. When she does this he has her do it again and again. Eventually he springs forth into a beautiful youth and says he must marry her. So what was considered this scary vile thing turns into a man that will marry her.
Characters: Mother, Daughter, Basilisk.
Setting: Palace
Basilisk by Friedrich Johann Justin Bertuch
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