The roseself is a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, it appeared in 1842. The story Reading Warning: The following text contains details about the content and / or the end of the story.

In the most beautiful rose in a rose bush an eleven lives, he is entertained in the sunshine. One day he comes home late, the rose is already closed. He flies to the honeysuckle and sees two people. They are sitting next to each other and hope never to be divorced. However, the woman's brother sent the man on a journey and kissed each other. She kisses a rose and it opens, after which the elf flies in. The woman gives the rose the man and he puts the rose on his chest. The man kisses the rose, but the woman's brother is killing him. He cuts off his head and buries them under the linden tree.

The man goes home, but the eleven is in a lint sheet that has come in his hair when he graves the grave. The magazine ends on the woman's bed and the elf crawls in her ear and tells what has happened. In her dream she hears that as a proof, a leaf of blooming linden tree will lie on her bed as she awakes. The elf is going to live in a bush with moon roses. He sees the woman's brother coming to the bedroom, but she does not say what she knows. One night she goes to the linden tree and finds her lover. She also pleads God to let her die.

The woman takes her lover's head and picks a jasmine twig. She heads in a flowerpot and plant the branch of the jasmine. The eleven flies the window and goes to the rose, but there is only a rosebottel hanging. He goes to another rose and flies to the window of the girl every morning. She cries silent tears at the jasmine branch and she becomes paler. The jasmine wins with freshness and flower buds come. The elf tells the sleeping girl about a gazebo where the roses smell and the love of the elves blooms. The girl dies and is in love with her loved one.

The brother holds the jasmine and puts him in his bedroom. The roseself goes along and flies from flower to flower. Each flower has a soul and the elf tells about the dead man and the poor sister. The flowers are grown from the eyes and lips of the dead and know it. The eleven goes to the bees and the queen orders the killer to kill the next day. When the brother is sleeping, the poisonous traces of the flower souls emerge. They whisper the man awful dreams and sweep over his lips.

The next morning comes the bijz warm, but the man is already dead. The people around the bed blame the smell of the jasmine. The bees fly around the flowerpot and a man is stabbed, after which he drops the pot. The head of death is discovered and it is now known that the brother was a killer. Also see

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