The short story of ‘The Snow Child’ by Angela Carter, a seemingly graphic narrator, is a tale about how a count wishes he had a child ‘as white as snow’, ‘as red as blood, and ‘as black as that birds feather’. He subsequently gets his wish and a child with white skin, red lips and black hair appears at the side of the road naked. The jealous countess who is with the count plots on how she can be rid of the girl. After trying to get the girl to freeze in the snow to pick up her purposely dropped glove, she then throws a diamond brooch into a frozen pond, hoping the worth of the brooch will force the count to send the girl to a certain death but, he does not do so. However, when the countess asks for a rose, the Count says ‘I cannot deny you that’ and allows the girl to pick one. The result is that she is pricked on a thorn and dies. The Count then rapes her dead body and takes the rose to his wife; she drops it proclaiming ‘it bites!’