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Posted by Margot on Thursday, June 21, 2007 4:17 PM ADTDoes anyone remember the story of the bleeding heart? I know the stamen is a prince's sword and there are a princess' slippers. All very tragic and interesting, so if anyone remembers the story I'd love to hear it again.
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Posted by Frann on Thursday, July 5, 2007 11:33 PM ADTThe story of the bleeding heart: It is said that a prince loved a princess who took no notice of him. To try to get the princess's attention and prove his love, he brought her exquisite and amazing gifts from far and wide. One day he came across two magical pink bunnies and offered them both to the princess. At this point, the story teller pulls off the two outer pink petals and sets each on it sides to show the animals. The princess was unmoved by the rabbits so, he tried again and presented her with beautiful dangly earrings. The next two inner white petals are separated and held up next to the narrator's ears for display. Still, the princess paid him no attention. The prince was so distraught over being spurned that he took a dagger and stabbed himself. The remaining centre of the flower is shaped like an outline of a heart with a line down the centre. The heart is held up, the dagger-like line is removed, and the story teller plunges the "knife" through the heart's centre. The princess, realizing too late that she did love the prince, cried out, "My heart shall bleed for my prince forever more!" and her heart bleeds to this day. Cheers,
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Posted by Rena B. on Saturday, July 7, 2007 4:17 PM ADTThank-you I had forgotten this childhood tale which I remember having enjoyed so much but could not recall the details. I have a beautiful Bleeding heart just outside my front door and hope to share this story with anyone who'll listen. Thanks again ...............
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Posted by Margot on Monday, July 9, 2007 5:27 PM ADTThank you so much for forwarding the story to me. I am looking forward to telling it to my granddaughter.
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Posted by Hannah on Saturday, June 14, 2008 6:46 PM ADTvery nice story and bleeding hearts are beautiful, I had forgotten this story
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Posted by sandra on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 1:09 AM ADTI never realized there was a story about the bleeding heart plant, I really like this story & it makes me look at my plants a lot differently now. thanks for the story.
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Posted by Michael Hannen on Sunday, February 28, 2010 10:42 AM ASTHi I have totally different version of this story, Which I learned on a third grade field trip to a farm in pennsylvania. 20 + years ago. This is how it was told to me was. Take the flower which is hanging down and upright it, pull the pink part off and hold it up. This is cinderella in her ball gown, Now it is time to get dirty, We are going to strip her"you pull the pink petals off carefully, then you hold the flower back up, This is cinderella in her bloomers. Now that is the end of the dirty, Next you pull the cris crossing middle part off of the heart, it breaks into 2 and that is the 2 glass slippers with high heels, for the fancy dress ball, next you take the heart part that is left, each side has 3 seperations, if you carefully seperate all 3 parts, you have the crown with the gold top, then you take the seed pod with the stem and hold it it up and that is the fairy godmothers wand with the gold fairy dust at the end. The final part is disconnect the stem from the seed pod and hold it up, it is shaped perfectly like a champagne bottle, with the cork to celebrate the wedding.
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Posted by Mickey Allen Smith on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 10:10 PM ADTThanks!
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Posted by Melissa on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 7:03 PM ADTThank you for sharing this story. My Grandma used to tell it to us as kids. I was gardening the other day and planted bleeding hearts and couldn't remember the story. Thanks!
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Posted by Joanne Tuchscherer on Sunday, May 23, 2010 5:58 AM ADTThe second story is the story that I was told when I was a your girl by my mother and would like to pass it on to my grandchildren.Thank you
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Posted by Blackie on Monday, May 30, 2011 10:36 PM ADTThe first story is the one I heard, with a couple of slight variations ; There were the 2 pink rabbits, and the dangly earrings, but instead of a "dagger thru a heart", those portions come apart once more to reveal a pair of fancy slippers (which again the princess snubbed her nose at), and the final center piece is the magic wand which the prince uses to cast a love spell and make the princess fall in love with him.
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Posted by james on Monday, June 6, 2011 3:43 PM ADTvery sweet
