Story source: Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1892).
Gold-tree and Silver-tree - A snow white type story. Instead of just the heart, the liver is requested as well.
No magic mirror - the mother, Silver-tree, talks to the river to find out about beauty/who is fairest.
Once Gold-tree escapes death the first time, the mother sails across the sea to commit murder - shades of sleeping beauty as well with poison thorn type item left in finger keeping victim in an enchanted death like sleep.
Prince/husband remarries. Happy bluebeard ending in that he keeps only key for room where sleeping corpse of first wife is kept - new wife finds it, gets in, wakes her up. Husband is like hey cool, two wives!
Then they shove the bad mom in the ocean when she comes back AGAIN to kill the daughter and they all lived happily enough I guess.
What does the dad of Gold-tree/husband of Silver-tree think of all this? Maybe he got eaten too...
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