"Snow-White-Fire-Red" is an Italian FairyTale, collected by Thomas Crane.

A small prince breaks a pitcher wherein an ogress had carefully caught the last of an oil fountain (built in honor of his birth). She {{curse}}s him to be unable to marry anyone but Snow-White-Fire-Red.

When he grows up, he remembers this and goes in search of her. He finds a tower, where an ogress arrives and calls Snow-White-Fire-Red to let down her hair. As soon as the ogress leaves, he does the same, and woos the girl. She hides him and when the ogress, whom she calls her mother, returns, asks her how she could escape if she ever wanted to. The ogress, believing her just curious, explains.

The girl enchants all the furniture to answer for her, and she and the prince run off. The ogress keeps calling up the tower and the furniture answers until finally she figures it out and chases after them. The girl throws down the balls of yarn she had taken, each of which transform into an obstacle until the last one drowns the ogress -- but not before she curses Snow White Fire Red, to have the prince forget her as soon as his mother kisses him.

The prince goes to fetch proper clothes for her to appear in, his mother kisses him, and Snow-White-Fire-Red had to enchant two doves to go to the prince and jog his memory loose.

This is not a form of "Literature/SnowWhite" (or "Literature/SnowWhiteAndRoseRed", either), of course, but related to "Literature/{{Rapunzel}}". It appears to be an older form, still more closely related to the fairy tale types "The girl helps the hero flee" (such as "Literature/TheWhiteDove") and "the forsaken fiancee" (such as the ending of "Literature/TheLoveOfThreeOranges"). While in "Rapunzel" the heroine is kidnapped young, and in "the girl helps the hero flee", the heroine often is actually the witch/ogress/other villain's child, here it is ambiguous. Compare to the Literature/{{Child Ballad|s}} "Literature/YoungBeichan" and "Literature/{{Prunella}}".

Full text [[https://fairytalez.com/snow-white-fire-red/ here]] and [[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23634/23634-h/23634-h.htm#Page_72 here]].

Not to be confused with ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokemon FireRed.]]''

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!!Tropes included

* {{Curse}}: Both the ogresses cast them.
* CurseEscapeClause: Finding her for the first curse, and the use of the doves for the second.
* DamselInDistress: Snow-White-Fire-Red
* DistressedDude: Cursed to lose his memory
* EvilTowerOfOminousness: Where she is kept
* {{Geas}}: The prince is cursed so that he will be unable to marry until he finds the title character. It's not mentioned what will happen if he tries; he just goes looking for her once his parents start talking about him getting married.
* GirlInTheTower: Snow-White-Fire-Red
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Before dying, the ogress casts another curse, so that the prince forgets his bride as soon as his mother kisses him.
* LoveAtFirstSight: She runs off very easily with him.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: In the older, magical form.
* MageTower: The ogress has magical abilities.
* RescueRomance: Rescues from both the tower and the curse.

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