Reading Notes Part A: Italian Popular Tales

In this section I read one story in particular that sounded very familiar. The name of the story is Zelinda and the Monster. In the story, there are three daughters who ask their father for certain gifts as he goes off to the market. One asks only for a rose. The father, unable to find any wild roses, carefully enters a well-kept garden and picks a rose from a rose bush. A terrible monster appears and tells him that he must bring his daughter to the castle. It was at this point that I recognized the connection to one of my favorite Disney movies growing up, Beauty and the Beast. 

Source

From Zelinda and the Monster, a part of Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane. Link to story