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I have been obsessed with the story of the lindworm prince and with my fariy tail fix it felt perfect!! For those who don’t know the story of the lindworm prince or the bride of the rose beast is a Norwegian tale of a queen and king who where unable to have children, but one day, a witch decided to help the queen, by telling her to place a cup at the corner of her garden, upside down and then to remove it in the morning, and when the queen did there was a red and white rose, if she ate the white one, she would get a daughter if she had the red she would have a son, but the queen could not decide which to choose and ate both of the roses and nine months later she gave birth to a healthy, baby boy and a dragon, the lindworm prince. the firstborn the dragon was thrown out the window by one of the midwives but years later, the younger prince encounters, his older brother, who tells him “a bride for me before a bride for you”, and since the dragon was older, it made sense. the king proceeded to marry two princesses to his dragon son who his son ate, and when he demanded a third, the king sent a shepherd girl, who, with the help of the witch, was able to turn the dragon back into a normal prince by having him shade 10 layers of his skin, and then hitting him with a lye covered whip, and then splashing milk in his face and giving him a hug and then they got married. It’s a silly story, and I love it so much I might actually recreate this story with my oc cryo and Erik hence the art work above.
The Snake Labor - by ME