Rose White

Once upon a time, an evil witch named Vlodwen, picking a white rose from her garden, turned the flower into a daughter called Rose White and forbid her ever to fall in love, giving her an everblooming white rose to wear that would turn red if romantic love ever entered the girls heart.
But one day, when she was out in the forest she met a young man named Robin Red who she fell instantly in love with and when, after promising to meet him again the next day, she returned to her mother, although she didn't tell her about the man, her mother knew she had fallen in love because her everblooming white rose had become bright scarlet.
And so her mother locked the girl up in her room and turning herself into her daughters image, the next day she went out and met Robin Red in the forest and, painting her lips with a poisonous rouge, she gave him a poisoned kiss that put him into a death like slumber.
Fortunately, in the forest also lived the evil witches good half-sister Goldina who also happened to be a witch and, finding Robin Red lying on the ground and realising that he was not dead but merely in a trance, she gave him a potion that reawakened him and then took him to her cottage.
And after Robin Red told her about the girl he had met in the forest, Goldina rang a magic talking and all knowing bell that, in a sombre chime like voice, told her all about Rose White and who her mother was and how Vlodwen had poisoned Robin Red and locked Rose White up in her room.
And when she heard this Goldina gave Robin Red a magic  golden ladder to rescue Rose White from her room and, though the ladder was tiny enough to fit in his pocket; at a wish, it grew longer and longer until finally it reached her window, then he climbed to the top of it.
However, while Robin Red was standing upon the ladder, the witch came out and, seeing him at the top of the ladder, she took hold of an axe and started to chop the ladder down.
Fortunately, because the ladder was magic it didn't fall down. Infact it became a flying ladder with a tiny, golden pair of wings for every rung and, sitting upon it, Rose White and Robin Red flew back to the little cottage of Goldina.
But then Vlodwen, stoking the flames in her magical fireplace, summoned up a giant firebird with feathers of blue, red and yellow flame and a beak and talons of red hot iron that, flying up out of her chimney with a screech like steam escaping, flapped off to find and kill both Vlodwen's daughter and Robin Red.
Fortunately, there was a big, silver lake nearby and, seeing the firebird overhead, Goldina raised up her wand and cast a spell upon it that made it fall in love with its own bright reflection and plunge into the lake putting its flames, including the green flame of life in its heart, out.
But Vlodwen was not ready to give up because she hated her daughter deeply for betraying her and, one day, when Goldina was out in the forest collecting magic herbs and flowers, Vlodwen turned herself into Goldinas image and went to Goldinas house, pretending to be her and carrying a basket of poisoned apples and pears.
Then, smiling, she offered an apple to Rose White and a pear to Robin Red.
Fortunately, just as they were about to eat the fruit, Vlodwen bumped into Goldinas magic bell that, toppling off of a shelf and onto the floor started to ring and told Rose White and Robin Red,
"Stop, don't eat that fruit. That isn't Goldina. Its her sister Vlodwen in disguise and the fruit is poisoned".
But then, angrily, realising that her plan had been foiled, Vlodwen turned herself into a giant dragon and, opening its scaly mouth wide, was going to swallow up both Rose White and Robin Red.
But then, remembering the basket of poisoned apples and pears, Robin Red picked it up and hurled it into the dragons wide open mouth and when the dragon ate the poisoned fruit, it rolled over onto its back and, choking and gasping, it died.
After that Rose White and Robin Red were married in a ceremony attended by all the creatures of the forest; conducted by Goldina and witnessed by the stars and then they lived happily ever after.