According to the Bible, Salome requested the head of John the Baptist on a platter, after her mother Herodias prompted her.
In the Gospel accounts, Herodias’s daughter danced at Herod Antipas’s birthday celebration. Pleased by the performance, Herod promised to grant her whatever she asked.
The girl consulted her mother, who instructed her to request John the Baptist’s head. She then returned to Herod and asked for it on a platter. Herod reluctantly honored his oath and ordered John’s execution.
Matthew and Mark do not name the girl directly; they describe her as Herodias’s daughter. The name Salome comes from historical identification, particularly Josephus, and is the conventional answer in religious and general-knowledge quizzes.