Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

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As you should know Tuesdays is book blog day were we talk about one particular book and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on the well known fairy tale Snow white and the seven dwarves.

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.

A year later, Snow White's father, the King, marries again. His new wife is very beautiful, but she is a vain and wicked woman who practices witchcraft. The new queen possesses a Magic Mirror, which she asks every morning, "Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" The mirror always tells the queen that she is the fairest. The queen is always pleased with that, because the magic mirror never lies. But as Snow White grows up, she becomes more beautiful each day and even more beautiful than her stepmother. When the queen asks her mirror, it tells her that Snow White is the fairest.

This gives the queen a great shock. She becomes envious, and from that moment on, her heart turns against Snow White, whom the queen grows to hate increasingly with time. Eventually, the angry queen orders A Huntsman to take Snow White into the forest to be killed. As proof that Snow White is dead, the queen demands that he returns with her lungs and liver, which she will consume in order to become as beautiful as Snow White. The huntsman takes Snow White into the forest, but after raising his knife he finds himself unable to kill her. When Snow White finds out about her stepmother's plan, she tearfully begs, "Spare me this mockery of justice! I will run away into the forest and never come home again!" The huntsman reluctantly agrees to spare Snow White and brings the queen the lungs and liver of a boar instead.

After wandering through the forest for hours, Snow White discovers a tiny cottage belonging to a group of seven dwarves. Since no one is at home, she eats some of the tiny meals, drinks some of their wine, and then tests all the beds. Finally, the last bed is comfortable enough for her and she falls asleep. When the dwarfs return home, they immediately become aware that there is a burglar in their house, because everything in their home is in disorder. Prowling about frantically, they head upstairs and discover the sleeping Snow White. She wakes up and explains to them what happened, and the dwarfs take pity on her and let her stay with them in exchange for housekeeping. They warn her to be careful when alone at home and to let no one in while they are working in the mountains.

Meanwhile, the queen, believing that Snow White is dead, asks her mirror once again: "Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" The mirror tells her that Snow White is still the fairest in the land. The queen is furious when she learns that Snow White is still alive, and decides to kill the girl herself. She appears at the dwarfs' cottage, disguised as an old peddler, and offers Snow White colourful, silky Laced Bodices as a present; the queen laces her up so tightly that Snow White faints. The dwarfs return just in time, and Snow White revives when the dwarfs loosen the laces. Upon hearing from her Magic Mirror that Snow White still lives, the queen dresses as a comb seller and convinces Snow White to take a beautiful comb as a present; she brushes Snow White's hair with the poisoned comb. The girl faints again, but she is again revived by the dwarfs when they remove the comb from her hair. The Magic Mirror informs the queen that her plan has failed again and Snow White is not dead, so the queen disguises herself as a farmer's wife and offers Snow White a poisoned apple. Snow White is hesitant to accept it, so the queen cuts the apple in half, eating the white (harmless) half and giving the red poisoned half to Snow White. The girl eagerly takes a bite and falls down unconscious. This time, the dwarfs are unable to revive Snow White. Assuming that she is dead, they place her in a glass casket.

Three days later, a prince stumbles upon Snow White lying in her glass coffin during a hunting trip. After hearing her story from the seven dwarfs, the prince is allowed to take Snow White to her proper resting place. While Snow White is being transported, one of the prince's servants trips and loses his balance. This dislodges the piece of poisoned apple from Snow White's throat, reviving her. In the first edition, Snow White is carried to the palace without mishap, but later a servant, frustrated by the inconvenience caused by the prince's fawning over her, hits the body and dislodges the apple. 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.

- Snow White Wiki

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves is a 19^th Century German fairy tale which is widely known across the western world. It was published in 1812 by The Brothers Grimm amongst their first edition of The Grimm's Fairy Tales. Whilst known in short hand as Snow White the story shouldn't be mistaken for another Grimm's fairy tale Snow White and Rose Red.

Many scholars have theorised the origins of the Snow White fairytale with a German historian Eckhard Sander Publishing Schneewittchen: Marchen Oder Wahrheit? (Snow White: Fairytale or Truth?) in 1994. Sander claims to have uncovered the account which would have inspired the brothers Grimm story, that of Margaretha von Waldeck a German countess born to Phillip IV. Margaretha was moved to brussels due to her stepmother Katharina of Hatzfeld, Margaretha fell in love with Phillip of Spain (Later Phillip the 2^nd), supposedly Margaretha's parents disproved to the relationship and Margaretha died due to poisoning at 21.

Scholar Graham Anderson promotes the Roman Legend of Chione, recorded in Ovid's Metamorphoses as another possible origin. In this version Chione was a beautiful woman who attracted the attention of the Gods Mercury and Apollo. Both gods raped her after putting her out with a Caduceus (Mercury) and approaching her as an old crone (Apollo), Chione interpreted this as being more beautiful than the goddess Diana and boasted about it. Diana, in turn shot her on the mouth with an arrow.

Bavarian Pharmasist and Scholar Karlheinz Bartels found and put forth the evidence that Maria Sophia Margarethe Catharina, Baroness Von Un Zu Erthal who was born in Lohr, June 25^th 1725 could be the original Snow White. Maria's father had remarried in 1743 and the stepmother Claudia Elisabeth Von Reichenstein was domineering and always put her children first.

There have been several versions of the Snow White tale in Movies, With the most well known/popular of these being the 1937 Disney animation adaption, the 1997 Snow White: A Tale of Terror, the 2001 Snow White: The Fairest of Them all and the 2012 versions of Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman. On Stage various adaptions of Snow White are shown around the world with many Christmas Pantomimes showing a version. On TV popular TV show Once Upon A Time includes Snow White as one of the main characters.

The Moral of Snow White seams to be based on beauty rather than brains. Whilst both the evil queen and snow white are considered beautiful. The evil queens defining characteristic has been her cunning/Intelligence whilst Snow whites has just been her beauty. Traditional gender roles at the time the Brothers Grimm wrote and published the story were definitely more prominent than they are today with today's values being geared towards intelligence rather than all out beauty.

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