![]() She keeps thinking about how to get rid of Snow White, then she disguises herself as an old peddler. The Queen is horrified to learn that the huntsman has betrayed her and that Snow White is still alive. But Snow White beyond the mountains at the seven dwarfs is a thousand times more beautiful than you". Meanwhile, the Queen asks her mirror once again: "Magic mirror in my hand, who is the fairest in the land?" The mirror replies: "My queen, you are the fairest here so true. The girl wakes up and explains to them what happened and the dwarfs take pity on her, saying "If you will keep house for us, and cook, make beds, wash, sew, and knit, and keep everything clean and orderly, then you can stay with us, and you shall have everything that you want." They warn her to be careful when alone at home and to let no one in when they are away delving in the mountains. During their loud discussion about who sneaked in, they discover the sleeping Snow White. When the seven dwarfs return home, they immediately become aware that someone sneaked in secretly, because everything in their home is in disorder. Finally the last bed is comfortable enough for her and she falls asleep. ![]() Since no one is at home, she eats some of the tiny meals, drinks some of their wine and then tests all the beds. He instead brings the Queen the lungs and liver of a young boar, which is prepared by the cook and eaten by the Queen.Īfter wandering through the forest for days, Snow White discovers a tiny cottage belonging to a group of Seven Dwarfs. After raising his knife, he finds himself unable to kill her as she sobs heavily and begs him: "Oh, dear huntsman, don't kill me! Leave me with my life I will run into the forest and never come back!" The huntsman leaves her behind alive, convinced that the girl would be eaten by some wild animal. The huntsman takes Snow White into the forest. As proof that Snow White is dead, the Queen demands that he returns with her lungs and liver. Eventually, the Queen orders a huntsman to take Snow White into the deepest woods to be killed. Envy and pride, like ill weeds, grow in her heart taller every day, until she has no peace day or night. She becomes yellow and green with envy, and from that hour on, her heart turns against Snow White, and the Queen hates the girl more and more. But Snow White is a thousand times more beautiful than you." But as Snow White grows up, she becomes more beautiful each day and even more beautiful than the Queen, and when the Queen asks her mirror, it says "My Queen, you are the fairest here so true. The new queen, Snow White's evil stepmother, possesses a magic mirror, which she asks every morning, "Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" The mirror always replies: "My Queen, you are the fairest one of all." The Queen is always pleased with that, because the magic mirror never lies. She is named 'Snow White.' Sadly, the Good Queen, Snow White's mother, dies during childbirth.Īfter a year has passed, Snow White's father, the King, takes a new and second wife, who is very beautiful, but a wicked and vain woman. Admiring the beauty of the resulting color combination, she says to herself, "How I wish that I had a daughter that had skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony." Soon after that, the Good Queen gives birth to a baby daughter, a girl with skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony. The Grimm story, which is commonly referred to as "Snow White".Īt the beginning of the story, a beautiful young queen sits sewing at an open window during a winter snowfall when she pricks her finger with her needle, causing three drops of red blood to drip onto the freshly fallen white snow on the black windowsill. ![]() The seven dwarfs were first given individual names in the 1912 Broadway play Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and then given different names in Walt Disney's 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. ![]() The fairy tale features such elements as the magic mirror, the poisoned apple, the glass coffin, matricide, filicide, and the characters of the Evil Queen, Snow White's evil stepmother, the huntsman, a beautiful girl named Snow White into a sleeping enchantment, a handsome prince and the seven dwarfs. ![]() The Grimms completed their final revision of the story in 1854. It was published in 1812 in the first edition of their collection Grimms' Fairy Tales. "Snow White" is nineteenth-century German fairy tale which is today known widely across the Western world. ![]()
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