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Overview

Rosa in “The Rose-Beauty” tells her foster-father that the gifts she received from three Peris depend on a living talisman: a little deer on a hill. If it dies, she will die too. The foster-father discloses this after being deceived into thinking her a witch. Her rival persuades the prince to obtain the animal’s heart, and Rosa falls dead at the moment his men kill the fawn.

A small red object called a coral eye is found in the heart and falls unnoticed beneath the palace stairs while the rival eats. Later Rosa appears in the prince’s dream and identifies the coral as her talisman. With the Peris’ help, a child places it in Rosa’s mouth and restores her to life. The fawn itself is not revived or identified as Rosa in animal form. Its personal name, species and physical appearance beyond being a small deer are unstated; the story’s unusual term for the coral is not silently converted into a literal anatomical eye.

Life-linked animal talismanSimultaneous deathCoral in the heartNo narrated animal resurrection
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Origins & earliest records

Turkish storytelling collected in Anatolia, through Hungarian and English publication

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Records & interpretation

Complete English tale, title and full preface read.

Selected bibliography

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    Turkish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales

    Ignácz Kúnos (collector); R. Nisbet Bain (translator from Hungarian) · 1901

    “The Rose-Beauty,” pp. 30–41. London: A. H. Bullen. Preface dated July 1896 identifies the first Hungarian edition, 1889, as Bain’s source.

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Primary records and illustrations

Complete English tale and edition frame read

Turkish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales

Ignácz Kúnos / R. Nisbet Bain; London: A. H. Bullen, 1901. The Rose-Beauty, pp. 30–41

Complete cache kunos-bain-3.txt (15297 characters). Full three-gift birth, eye exchange/restoration, deer death/coral, child dream attribution, tomb revival and final reunion read. Three Peris not merged with Orange-Peris; heroine expressly human. Final wrongdoers punished without specific method. No original-language or illustration collation claimed.

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  1. Historical English folktale translation through HungarianKúnos/Bain 1901, The Rose-BeautyResearch access: 2026-10-05

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