Snow White

On December 20, 1812, the Brothers Grimm released Children's and Household Tales, placing "Sneewittchen" as Tale 53 in the collection. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm spent forty-five years refining this oral tradition through six editions before the final version appeared in 1857. Their editorial choices shifted the narrative from a raw folk story into a moral fable that balanced innocence with harsh consequences.

The princess possesses skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony. Her stepmother, a vain Queen, consults a magic mirror that eventually declares Snow White the fairest of them all. This revelation triggers a hunt where a huntsman spares the girl and leads her to a cottage occupied by seven dwarfs. The Queen discovers her location and attempts three murders using a tight-laced bodice, a poisoned comb, and finally a poisoned apple.

A prince finds the sleeping girl and removes the fruit from her throat during a carriage ride. In the original 1812 text, the wedding feast ends with the Queen forced to dance in red-hot iron shoes until she dies. While the Grimms did not name the dwarfs, later adaptations like the 1912 Broadway play and Disney's 1937 film assigned identities such as Doc, Grumpy, and Dopey to the characters. [편집]