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Updated: May 26, 2025
When the people, attracted by the noise, hurried to the spot, they saw the Snow-daughter melting into water and the Fire-son burn to a cinder. And so ended the unhappy brother and sister. From the Russian. There was once upon a time a peasant-woman who had a daughter and a step-daughter.
The parents called the boy simply 'Our Fire-son, a name which stuck to him all his life. They had a great deal of trouble and worry with him too; but he throve and grew very quickly, and before he was a year old he could run about and talk.
The Fire-son said, 'I love you with all my heart, but at the same time I always freeze if you are near me, and you nearly die of heat if I approach you! How shall we travel about together without being odious the one to the other? 'Don't worry about that, replied the girl, 'for I've thought it all over, and have settled on a plan which will make us each able to bear with the other!
For a long time the Fire-son and the Snow-daughter wandered through the world, and when at the beginning of winter they came to a big wood they determined to stay there till spring. The Fire-son built himself a hut where he always kept up a huge fire, while his sister with very few clothes on stayed outside night and day.
Then the King was very angry and said, 'If I had known what a lot of trouble you would have been, I would never have taken you into my house. Then the Fire-son replied with a laugh, 'Don't be angry, dear brother! I love heat and my sister loves cold come here and let me embrace you, and then I'll go home at once. And before the King had time to reply, the Fire-son seized him in a tight embrace.
The Fire-son was delighted, but the perpetual heat in which he lived made his body so hot, that it was dangerous to go too close to him. One day the King gave a great feast, and asked his brother-in-law among the other guests. The Fire-son did not appear till everyone had assembled, and when he did, everyone fled outside to the open air, so intense was the heat he gave forth.
Then the Fire-son, who had grown up in the meantime into a fine, strong young man, said to his sister, 'I am going out into the world, for what is the use of remaining on here? 'I shall go with you, she answered, 'for, except you, I have no one in the world, and I have a feeling that if we set out together we shall be lucky.
The woman sighed deeply and said, 'I wish I had given birth to a Fire-son! As she said these words, a spark from the big wood fire flew into the woman's lap, and she said with a laugh, 'Now perhaps I shall give birth to a Fire-son! The man laughed at his wife's words, and thought it was a good joke.
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