Snow White is a princess, and the "fairest of them all". As the Seven Dwarfs dance with joy, Snow White and the Prince go off to live together happily ever after. Saddened by her apparent death, he kisses her, causing her to awaken. ![]() Time passes and the Prince comes across Snow White. Believing her dead too, the dwarfs build an open grave for Snow White to rest on. Upon discovering what had happened, the dwarfs track down the Queen a short fight ensues and the Queen is killed. Snow White bites into the apple and falls into a coma. When the dwarfs are away the hag arrives at the dwarfs’ cottage and offers Snow White the poisoned apple, unbeknownst to her that it is the Queen in disguise. The Queen discovers that Snow White has survived, so she uses magic to disguise herself as an old hag and creates a poisoned apple that will put anyone who eats it into a “Sleeping Death" from which only the kiss of true love will revive. Snow White stumbles upon the home of the Seven Dwarfs, who happily aid her. But when he is unable to bring himself to do so, the huntsman helps Snow White escape into the forest. After many years, the Queen's Magic Mirror confirms Snow White as being the "fairest of them all", which causes the Queen to cast Snow White out and send a huntsman to kill her. In the film, Snow White is initially depicted as living under her wicked, vain stepmother, the Evil Queen, who forces Snow White to engage in menial labor, fearing that one day Snow White's beauty might become greater than her own. The Queen has magical power only over her own domain, which is the castle. She regularly asks the mirror who is the fairest in the realm ("Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" which is often misquoted as "Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all"), and the mirror would always reply that she is. The Magic Mirror shows a haunted, smokey face of her familiar demon which replies to the Queen's requests. ![]() "From that time on the cruel Queen ruled all alone, her every word was law, and all trembled in mortal fear of her anger." The vain Queen owned a magical mirror with which she could look upon whatever she wished. In "another land, far away," "many, many years ago," about the time of fairy tales of castles, knights, fair maidens, romance, magic and witches," a mysterious and icily beautiful woman with magical powers (a 1938 promotional brochure suggests that she is able to work her witchcraft having sold "herself body and soul to the bad spirits" of Germany's Harz mountains) has gained her royal position by marrying the widowed King, giving her rule over his kingdom before he died. Snow White first appears in the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Main page: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)
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