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| title = Snow White
| original title = Sneewittchen
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| author = The Brothers Grimm
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| genre = Fairy tale
| publication date = 1812
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▲{{quote|''23. I will never buy an apple from peddlers plying their craft in remote places where the customer base could not possibly support a full-time merchant.''|'''[[
Once upon a time, a little girl was born that was exceptionally beautiful. Due to jealousy, a wicked witch wanted her dead. She ended up being raised in fosterage in the forest by magical midgets, but eventually the queen found a way to poison her and put her in a coma resistant to aging. Eventually, Prince Charming showed up, kissed the girl and woke her up, and slew the evil witch.
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* [[Happily Ever After]]
* [[Historical Fiction]]: Gregory Maguire's version called Mirror Mirror takes place in Italy, with Lucrezia Borgia as the wicked witch.
** A number of scholars have theorised that the Snow White tale, or at least the one by the Brothers Grimm, was at least in part based on the lives of either [[wikipedia:Margaretha von Waldeck|Margaretha von Waldeck]] or Maria Sophia von Erthal.
* [[How Do You Like Them Apples?]]: Poisonous!
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: The queen eats what she thinks is Snow White's heart. Not her fault it was a cheap knockoff.
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* [[Rule of Three]]: The queen makes three assassination attempts in person before they pay off.
* [[Vain Sorceress]]: The queen.
* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: As mentioned above, scholars [[wikipedia:Origin of the Snow White tale|propose]] that the Grimms may have based their version of the tale on either Margaretha von Waldeck, daughter of Philip IV, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen (1493–1574) and his first wife, Margaret Cirksena (1500–1537), daughter of Edzard I, Count of East Frisia, or Maria Sophia von Erthal, daughter of 18th-century landowner, Prince Philipp Christoph von Erthal and his wife, Baroness von Bettendorff. Both von Waldeck and von Erthal's lives drew several parallels to the fairy tale, including a vanity mirror, diminutive people working in mines (in this case, children being pressed into labour at the nearby copper mines), and the mysterious circumstances of their deaths.
* [[Wicked Stepmother]]: Was added in the Brothers Grimm version. In first editions, it was averted since the queen in those version's was actually Snow White's mother.
* [[World's Most Beautiful Woman]]: The queen, and then Snow White.
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