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Overview

In “The Rose-Beauty,” three damsels identified as Peris enter through the opening walls of a cold, impoverished house while its owner is away seeking a midwife. They prepare a comfortable bed and assist the labouring princess. Each names her newborn daughter Rosa and gives a different gift: pearl tears, roses when she smiles, and fresh greenery beneath her steps. The subsequent narrative demonstrates these gifts rather than leaving them as unfulfilled predictions.

The Peris later show Rosa to a prince in dreams. After a rival has caused her death by killing the fawn linked to her life, the prince discovers the coral talisman hidden beneath his stairs. When his little daughter touches it, the three Peris carry the child to Rosa’s tomb. The child places the coral in the dead woman’s mouth, and Rosa revives. The prince then opens the tomb and finds mother and child together. The fairies’ birth attendance and this final intervention are distinct from Rosa’s earlier recovery of her stolen eyes through her own actions and prayer.

The text supplies no names for the three Peris and does not identify them with the three Orange-Peris of the preceding tale. Rosa expressly calls herself human when asked whether she is a spirit; the gifts do not by themselves make her a Peri.

Three birth attendantsDistinct supernatural giftsDream appearancesTransportation to a tomb
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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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