#biancabella

[whotooklortan]

Fairytale Life Advice: Biancabella

Listen to your snake sister and discuss every life choice you make with her. She's smarter than you, and will abandon you if you don't. Is that emotional blackmail? Oh absolutely. So don't make her leave you.

[nueiart]

Drawing for the charity artbook "Into the Dark" <3 All proceeds of the artbook will go to the Malaria Consortium.

@intothedarkzine (also same @ at twitter) https://www.malariaconsortium.org/

To see the finished piece you can buy the artbook online (when it’s out) and check out many other awesome dark artistists! <3

But here's sketches of the process! :D

[wormwoodandhoney]

lesser known fairy tales: biancabella & the snake

biancabella is born with a snake around her neck. when she’s older, biancabella meets the snake, who introduces herself as her sister samaritana. she blesses her sister biancabella with hair that sheds jewels and hands that shed flowers. biancabella falls in love with a prince with a wicked stepmother. the stepmother takes biancabella’s hands and eyes and casts her out. biancabella is saved by a kindly family. samaritana arrives and restores biancabella’s eyes and hands. she turns herself into a woman and builds biancabella and the kind family a magical house. the prince finds them and samaritana tells him what his stepmother has done. // 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

[kekkalollipop2000]

#passeggiataacavallo#cavallinabella#pomeriggiocaldo#fiume#natura#biancabella

[rockybloo]

It would definitely hurt to get slapped by her.

[rockybloo]

Redrew Biancabella and made a human form for Samaritana. She act as a seeing eye snake as well as someone to watch over her sister. Samaritana is probably watching some drama go down in amusement as Biancabella is trying to figure out what is happening.

[ridvec]

Sketch for an illustration of Biancabella e la biscia sua sorella, italian literary fairy tale written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola and published in Le piacevoli notti (1550-1555).

Liquid ink pens over paper, 2012?.  © Ricardo Daniel Velásquez Casas

[survivingasawoman]

Biancabella and the Snake - 1634

Features: Bestiality, unnatural pregnancy, dismemberment/bodily mutilation, death by being burned alive.

While a woman sleeps in the garden, a snake crawls under her skirts and makes its way ‘into her body’ where it comes to rest in her womb. The woman falls pregnant, and when the baby (Biancabella) is born, she has a tiny snake coiled around her neck. The snake quickly slithers away into the garden.

When Biancabella is 10, she discovers the snake in the garden. The snake reveals itself to be her own sister, and gifts her with great beauty. With her new beauty, she is quickly married off to a king.

The king’s evil step-mother hatches a plan to be rid of Biancabella, and when the king is away at war, she pays a group of men to take the new queen into the forest and kill her. The men are unable to go through with the murder, so instead they cut off Biancabellas hands and tear out her eyes, which they give to the step-mother as proof of the queen’s demise. The step-mother then places her own hideously ugly and deformed daughter in Biancabella’s bed, and when the king returns home, she tells him that his precious Biancabella miscarried a child, and has become hideous with grief.

Meanwhile, Biancabella decides to kill herself – but as soon as she attempts to do so, her sister appears in human form and magically heals Biancabella’s horrible wounds. They return to the kingdom where the false queen now reigns: the evil plot is revealed, and the step-mother and her two daughters are burned alive in a furnace.