The Rose-Tree

The Rose-Tree is an English fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in English Fairy Tales.

It is also included within A Book Of British Fairytales by Alan Garner.

It is Aarne–Thompson type 720, my mother slew me; my father ate me. Another of this type is "The Juniper Tree", where the dead child is a boy; The Rose Tree is an unusual variant of this tale in that the main character is a girl.

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