#Snow white fairytale skin#

When the Seven Dwarves return home, they immediately become aware that someone has entered their home secretly and soon discover the sleeping Snow White. Finally, the last bed is comfortable enough for her and she falls asleep. Since no one is at home, she eats from their tiny meals, drinks of their wine and then tests all their beds. He instead brings the lungs and liver on a wild boar, which is prepared by the cook and eaten by the Evil Queen.Īfter wandering through the forest for days, Snow White discovers a tiny cottage belonging to a group of Seven Dwarves. Frightened by the Huntsman's actions, Snow White escapes into the forest, promising never to return, and convinced that she will be eaten by some wild animal, the Huntsman lets her go. After raising his knife, he finds himself unable to kill the fair, innocent child. The Huntsman takes Snow White into the forest. As proof that Snow White is dead, the Evil Queen demands that he return with her lungs and liver. Eventually, the Evil Queen orders her Huntsman to take her stepdaughter Snow White into the deepest woods to be killed. Anger and pride, like ill weeds, grow in her heart taller every day, until she has no peace in her heart day or night.

She becomes yellow and green with envy and from that hour on, her heart turns against her stepdaughter Snow White, and the Evil Queen hates the girl more and more.

When the Evil Queen asks her Magic Mirror, it says 'My Queen, you are the fairest here so true, but your stepdaughter Snow White is a thousand times more beautiful than you.' But as Snow White grows up, she becomes more beautiful each day, and by her seventh year, she is even more beautiful than the Evil Queen. The new queen, Snow White's wicked stepmother, possesses a Magic Mirror, which she asks every morning 'Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?' The Mirror always replies with 'My Queen, you are the fairest of them all.' The Evil Queen is always pleased with that, because the Magic Mirror never lies. Sadly, the Good Queen, Snow White's mother, dies during childbirth.Īfter a year has passed, Snow White's father, the Good King, takes a new and second wife, who is very beautiful but a wicked and vain woman.

#Snow white fairytale skin#

Admiring the beauty of the of the resulting colour combination, she says to herself 'How I wish that I had a daughter that had skin White as Snow, lips Red as Blood, and hair Black as Ebony.' Soon after that, the Good Queen gives birth to a baby daughter, a girl with White as Snow, lips Red as Blood, and hair Black as Ebony. In the Aarne-Thompson folklore classification, tales of this kind are grouped together as type 709, 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 Grimm story, which is commonly referred to simply as 'Snow White' in English, should not be confused with the story ' Snow-White and Rose-Red ' (in German ' Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot'), another fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm which features a completely different character (named Snow-White in English) who also encounters a Dwarf. The fairy tale features such elements as the Magic Mirror, the poisoned apple, the sleeping enchantment, the glass coffin, and the characters of the beautiful princess and titular character Snow White, the Evil Queen (Snow White's wicked stepmother), the Huntsman, a handsome prince, and Seven Dwarves. The Grimms completed their final revision of the story in 1854. It was titled in German: Sneewittchen (in modern orthography Schneewittchen) and numbered as Tale 53. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first addition of their collection Grimms' Fairy Tales. ' Snow White' is a German fairy tale known across much of Europe and is today one of the most famous fairy tales worldwide.