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With two Snow White movies coming out in theaters next year, it seems like an appropriate time to explore the original story itself. As it turns out, there are two true inspirations for the tale, both covered in detail over on Mental Floss. A lot of the details you recognize are included, for example:
Born in 1729, Maria grew up in a castle in Lohr, Germany. The castle is a museum today, and if you visit, you’ll be able to look into a certain famous mirror. It’s believed that Maria’s father, Prince Philipp Christoph von Erthal, gave the looking glass to his second wife as a gift.
That’s right, the mirror, the dwarves and the poison (although not served in an apple) are all here in these two fascinating stories.
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Belle does look into that mirror an awful lot, doesn’t she? Artist Chris Hill noticed now nicely the princesses seem to match up with the Seven Deadly Sins. Ariel as Greed? Nailed it. His non-Disney Rapunzel is awesome as well.
Link via Flavorwire
The whole Snow White story — well, the Disney version, anyway — is told in this lovely back tattoo. I’m not completely sure who’s responsible, but it’s been attributed to an artist named Ping who lives in Taiwan.
via Caramel, Carmel
How cute is this? The Snow White Teapot ($41.95) from the NeatoShop is perfect for a cup of tea while waiting for your Prince Charming to come and sweep you off your feet.
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Food artist Prudence Staite, previously featured on Neatorama, recently recreated scenes from the movie Snow White using fourteen different types of apples to express different colors, shapes, and textures. The works were commissioned by Disney to promote the film. You can view three more at the link.
Link via Urlesque | Artist’s Website
We all grew up with the beloved Disney versions of fairy tales and stories, which have wonderful "all’s well that ends well" happy endings. What you may not know is that Disney left out a few horrifying details from the original version in order to keep its customers happy.
Here’s a post about 10 original fairy tales in their full and gruesome glories. Take, for example, Snow White:
In the tale of snow white that we are all familiar with, the Queen asks a huntsman to kill her and bring her heart back as proof. Instead, the huntsman can’t bring himself to do it and returns with the heart of a boar.
Now, fortunately disney hasn’t done too much damage to this tale, but they did leave out one important original element: in the original tale, the Queen actually asks for Snow White’s liver and lungs – which are to be served for dinner that night!
Also in the original, Snow White wakes up when she is jostled by the prince’s horse as he carries her back to his castle – not from a magical kiss. What the prince wanted to do with a dead girl’s body I will leave to your imagination.
Oh – in the Grimm version, the tale ends with the Queen being forced to dance to death in red hot iron shoes!
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In 2007, we saw the Daft Hands: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger video clip swept through the InterWeb. Fast forward two years later and we get this little beaut: Dwarfed Punk, Daft Punk’s epic song set to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
An instant classic: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via Look At This
Alex posted the new world record for domino toppling not too long ago. I don’t think this one breaks any records, but it is quite original – it tells the story of Snow White in domino form.
