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"Snow White" is a 19th-century German " (in German "Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot"), another fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm.

In the ".

Story[]

(1872)

At the beginning of the story, a 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. Then, 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 night." Some time later, the queen gives birth to a baby daughter whom she names Snow White, but the queen dies in childbirth a short while later. The prince is overjoyed, and declares his love for Snow White. Snow White agrees to marry him.

Snow White and the prince invite everyone to their wedding party, including Snow White's stepmother.

The queen, still believing that Snow White is dead, again asks her magic mirror who is the fairest in the land. The mirror says that the prince's bride is the fairest. Not knowing that the bride is her stepdaughter, the queen arrives at the wedding to investigate. Frozen with rage and fear, she tries to sow chaos but the prince recognizes her as a threat. He orders that she wear a pair of red-hot iron slippers and dance in them until she drops dead for the attempted murder of Snow White.

• Franz Jüttner's illustrations from Sneewittchen (1905)

• 2. Snow White in the forest

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  3. The dwarfs find Snow White asleep

• 5. The Queen visits Snow White

• 6. The Queen has poisoned Snow White

• 8. The Queen arrives at the wedding

Inspiration[]

Many scholars have theorized about the possible origins of the tale. In 1994, a German historian named Eckhard Sander published Schneewittchen: Märchen oder Wahrheit? (Snow White: Fairy Tale or Truth?), claiming he had uncovered an account that may have inspired the story that first appeared in

Variations[]

The principal studies of traditional Snow White variants are Ernst Böklen's, Schneewittchen Studien of 1910, which (re)prints fifty Snow White variants,^.

In other traditions[]

Many other variations of the story exist across and outside Europe. In some of these variations the dwarfs are robbers, while the magic mirror is a dialogue with the sun or moon.^[]

• In a version from Albania, collected by the main character lives with 40 dragons, and her sleep is caused by a ring. The beginning of the story has a twist, in that a teacher urges the heroine to kill her evil stepmother so that she would take her place. The origin of this tale is debated; it is likely no older than the Middle Ages. In fact, there are possibly two Albanian versions of Snow White: one in which her stepmother tries to kill her, and another in which her two jealous sisters try to kill her.
• "The Jealous Sisters" is another Albanian fairy tale. In both fairy tales the death is caused by a ring.
• is a Malay tale written around 1750 which tells the story of a witch queen who asks her magic mirror about the prettiest lady in the kingdom.
• In parallel to the stepmother's question of her magic mirror, the Indian epic poem (1540) includes the line: "Who is more beautiful, I or Padmavati?, Queen Nagamati asks her new parrot, and it gives a displeasing reply...";
• The story in Russian writer ]

  " sequence from the 1937 adaption

In film[]

• .
• .
• as the voice of Snow White.
• ) (1951), an Italian film based on the fairy tale.
• (1955), a German live-action adaptation of the fairy tale.
• Snow White and the Seven Fellows (1955), a Hong Kong film as Chow Sze-luk, Lo Yu-kei Dirs
• as the Evil Queen.
• (1962), an East German fairy tale film directed by Gottfried Kolditz.
• Pamuk Prenses ve 7 Cüceler (1970), a Turkish live-action remake of the 1937 Disney film.
• both as Snow White.
• characters in different fairy tales.
• Schneewittchen und das Geheimnis der Zwerge (1992), a German adaptation of the fairy tale.
• "Snow White" (1994), a short story written by .
• as Snow White.
• as Queen Elspeth.
• .
• Schneewittchen (2009), a German made-for-television film starring Laura Berlin as Snow White.
• (2012), a silent Spanish film based on the fairy tale.
• as the Evil Queen Gwendolyn.
• .
• (2016), which features Snow White as a minor character.
• .
• Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs (2019), a Korean-American animated film based on the fairy tale, featuring the voice of ]
  • as the Magic Mirror.
  • A 1984 episode of as Snow White.
  • (2000) is a TV miniseries featuring Snow White as a major character.
  • ]
    • which describes the lives of Snow White and the dwarfs.
    • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1971), a poem by
    • Snow White in New York (1986), a picture book by Fiona French set in 1920s New York.
    • " tastes.
    • , an adaptation of Snow White.
    • Boy, Snow, Bird (2014), a novel by
    • loosely based on the story of Snow White.
    • Sadie: An Amish Retelling of Snow White (2018) by Sarah Price
    • Shattered Snow (2019), a time travel novel by Rachel Huffmire, ties together the life of Margaretha von Waldeck and the Grimm Brothers’ rendition of Snow White.

    In theatre[]

    • The story of Snow White is a popular theme for British .
    • ]
      • (1953) was a horror comic which featured a gruesome re-imaging of Snow White.
      • , where the band are dwarfs mining gold for Snow White.
      • , features Snow White as a major character in the series.
      • is a manga (2006) and anime (2015) which open with a loose adaptation of the fairy tale, with a wicked prince pursuing a girl with strikingly red hair.
      • Charmed (2008), an album by Sarah Pinsker, features a song called "Twice the Prince" in which Snow White realizes that she prefers a dwarf to Prince Charming.
      • The Pucca Spring/Summer 2011 fashion show was inspired by Snow White and her wicked step mother, the Queen. The opening model,
      • inspired by Snow White.
      • ) in 2012. She interpreted Snow White during the first part of the event.
      • (2013) is a web series which features characters called "Weiss Schnee" and "Klein Sieben", German for "White Snow" and "Small Seven" (grammatically incorrect, though, since it would be "Weisser Schnee" and "Kleine Sieben").
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      • In the ]

        In 2013, the

        Religious interpretation[]

        Erin Heys'

        Other interpretations[]

        The Brothers Grimm story of "Snow White" takes an unusual turn from its other fairy-tale counterparts in that it can be interpreted as a story with a lesson centered around desirable qualities for women. The Queen's—Snow White's step-mother—defining characteristic is her cunning, or intelligence, whereas Snow White's is her beauty. Snow White consistently foils the Queen's jealous attempts to kill her because strangers pity and help her due to her childlike innocence and beauty. For example, the huntsman, who was ordered to kill Snow White, describes her as a "pretty child" and lets her go, which carries over to when the seven dwarfs decide not to cast her out when they find Snow White in their home. Even when the Queen devises the poison apple and kills Snow White, she is saved by the Prince because he finds her to be "the fairest of them all." The Queen dies at the end of the story while Snow White lives happily ever after with the Prince, implying that the Queen's cunning was not enough to counter the power of Snow White's elegance. This suggests that the moral of the story is that beauty is more desirable than intelligence. Despite the modern connotations of this concept, one must consider the time period at which the story was written; Snow White as told by the Brothers Grimm was first published in 1812, where at the time, it was arguably common place for people to live according to traditional gender roles.

        See also[]

        • , a Slavic female name meaning "snow woman" with a similar connotation to "Snow White"
        • "", an Italian fairy tale
        • ""
        • ""
        • ""

        References[]

        1. ^ Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm: Kinder- und Hausmärchen; Band 1, 7. Ausgabe (children's and households fairy tales, volume 1, 7th edition). Dietrich, Göttingen 1857, page 264–273.
        2. . Retrieved 2016-04-05.
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        6. ., I pp. 184-85.
        7. Sander, Eckhard (1994). Schneewittchen: Marchen oder Wahrheit? : ein lokaler Bezug zum Kellerwald.
        8. , Metamorphoses, Book XI, 289
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        15. Ernst Böklen, Schneewittchenstudien: Erster Teil, Fünfundsiebzig Varianten im ergen Sinn (Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1910).
        16. ’, Fabula, 24 (1983), 56–71, reprinted and slightly expanded in Fairy Tales and Society: Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm, ed. by Ruth B. Bottigheimer (Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 1986), pp. 165–84. The material is also repeated in a different context in his The New Comparative Method: Structural and Symbolic Analysis of the Allomotifs of Snow White (Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1990).
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        20. Hahn, Johann Georg von (1864). Griechische und albanesische Märchen,, Volume 2, "Schneewittchen". W. Engelmann, Leipzig. pp. 134–143.
        21. . Albanian Literature. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
        22. . Retrieved 28 January 2015.
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        24. Pushkin, Alexander (1974). The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights. Raduga Publishers.
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        27. . Repelis (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-12-19.
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        Further reading[]

        • Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm & Applebaum, Stanley (Editor and Translator) (2003-01-01). Selected Folktales/Ausgewählte Märchen: A Dual-Language Book. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc. )
        • Jones, Steven Swann (1990). The New Comparative Method: Structural and Symbolic Analysis of the allomotifs of 'Snow White'. Helsinki: FFC., N 247.
        • Walt Disney's Snow White and the seven dwarfs : an art in its making featuring the collection of Stephen H. Ison (1st ed.). Indianapolis Museum of Art. ]