In the original version of Grimm’s fairy tales, the story of Snow White goes like this:

A long time ago, a queen of a certain country gave birth to a girl in winter. She had pure white skin. She was as beautiful as snow, with lips as red as blood and hair as black as ebony, so she was named Snow White. The queen died shortly after giving birth to the princess, and the king married another beautiful, proud, vicious and evil woman as the queen.

At the same time, she also became Snow White's stepmother (the first draft was Snow White's biological mother). At the beginning, the new queen also loved Snow White very much.

The new queen has a magic mirror. She often asks the magic mirror: "Mirror, mirror, who is the most beautiful woman in the world?" The magic mirror always replies: "Queen, of course it is you. < /p>

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But Snow White grew bigger and bigger, and became more and more beautiful.

When she was seven years old, she was more beautiful than the queen. One day, the magic mirror answered the queen: "Snow White."

From then on, the new queen began to look at Snow White. The princess was a thorn in his side, so he wanted to get rid of her.

The Queen was very jealous of Snow White's beauty, so she ordered a hunter to take Snow White into the forest and kill her.

In order to confirm that Snow White is dead, the queen asks the hunter to come back with Snow White's lungs and liver as proof.

The hunter took Snow White to the forest, but found that he could not kill the girl. The hunter let Snow White go, hunted the wild boar, and took the lungs and liver of the wild boar to the queen.

In the forest, Snow White found a small farmhouse that belonged to the seven dwarfs, and she lived in this farmhouse.

At this time, the queen asked the magic mirror again: "Mirror, mirror, who is the most beautiful woman in the world?" The magic mirror replied: "Snow White."

So The Queen disguised herself as a peasant woman, visited Snow White in the forest, and gave her a poisoned apple (in some versions, the Queen pretended to be a businesswoman selling ribbons and combs to murder Snow White, but both ended in failure). When Snow White bit into the apple, she immediately passed out.

When the Seven Dwarves found her, they could only mourn and put her in a glass coffin.

As time passed, a prince from a country passed by this forest and found Snow White lying in a glass coffin.

The prince was attracted by Snow White's beauty and fell in love with her.

He asked the dwarves to let him take away the glass coffin.

While the prince and his entourage were carrying it, someone accidentally tripped. The shaking caused the piece of poisonous apple to spit out from Snow White's mouth, and Snow White woke up.

The prince expressed his love to Snow White, decided to get married, and set a wedding date.

The vain and willful queen thought Snow White was dead. She asked the magic mirror again who was the most beautiful woman in the world. The magic mirror's answer made her very angry: "You are the most beautiful person here; But the more beautiful person is the one who will become the new queen."

At this time, the invitation to the prince's wedding banquet arrived. The queen who did not know that the new queen was Snow White was invited to the banquet and found that her stepdaughter was still alive.

The fearful and angry queen tried to cause chaos at the wedding banquet. As a result, the prince ordered that she be forced to wear red-hot iron shoes and dance until she died so that the wedding could go smoothly.

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Historical prototype

In 1986, Dr. Karlheinz Bartels, a historian in Lohr, compiled the version of the fairy tale "Snow White" Many real-life archetypes and associations are convincingly linked to Lore and the surrounding areas.

It is said that the historical prototype of Snow White is Maria Sophia Margaretha Catharina von Erthal (Maria Sophia Margaretha Catharina von Erthal) who was born in Lohr am Main in 1725.

Her father, Philipp Christoph von Erthal, served as the governor of the Electorate of Mainz in Lohr from 1719 to 1748.

Due to his diplomatic skills, he traveled frequently as a bishop's envoy and "foreign minister".

During his tenure in this position, he traveled between many royal families throughout Europe, so von Erthal's reputation in Lohr can be considered as "royal".

Lore Castle is the residence of this family.

After Maria Sophia's biological mother died in 1741, her father married Claudia Elisabeth Maria von Weningen on May 15, 1743. Venningen, an imperial countess whose maiden name was Reichsgr?fin von Reichenstein.

She is documented as domineering, using her position—Christopher Philippe almost never stayed in Lore—to favor the children she had with her first husband.

The father's frequent absence may explain the "unusual passivity" Theodor Ruf detected in the role of the king in fairy tales.

Possibly the most important piece of evidence that Snow White is a Lore is the "Talking Mirror."

In the former Castle of Lohr and today’s Spessart Museum, people can see this 1.6-meter-high ornately decorated mirror.

It is well documented that it is a product produced by the mirror factory of the Electorate of Mainz, which is famous in Europe. This factory was founded by Elector Lothar Franz von Sch?n. Lothar Franz von Sch?nborn was built in 1698 under the supervision of Philipp Christoph von Erthal.

This mirror was probably a gift to his second wife Claudia. Like many mirrors produced in Lore, this mirror has the ability to "speak" because of the mottos engraved on it.

The upper right corner of the mirror clearly indicates "Amour Propre".

Places related to fairy tales can also be found near Lore. The "wild wood" where Snow White was exiled may be the site of the "Wild Woods" written by Wilhelm Hauff (1802-1827) in "Spessart" in the future. The place called the "terrible woods" in Das Wirtshaus im Spessart.

The "seven mountains" through which Snow White escaped may be the ancient hiking mountain road mentioned as early as the 14th century - the "Wieser Stra?e" (Wieser Stra?e). The road leads from Lohr via the Spessart Mountains to the mines of Biberbergmünde.

In 1750 there were about 500 miners working there mining silver and copper.

The "seven dwarfs who dug and mined the ore" may have been the diminutive miners or children in the mines.

Bibergmünde is not within the borders of the Elector of Mainz, but is located "abroad" - in the Grafschaft Hanau.

The stepmother cannot continue to legally capture Snow White there.

Therefore, it is conceivable that even so, she still disguised herself as a "merchant", an "old woman" and a "peasant woman" to go to the adjacent earldom in order to deal with her competitors.

Bartels also found relevant documents describing the materials that the evil stepmother might have used to process the "poison apples."

According to this version, the stepmother dipped half of the apple into belladonna juice.

This plant also grows in Spessat, and its berries contain the anesthetic atropine alkaloids, which may have caused Snow White's rigor mortis.

The "crystal coffin" and the "iron shoes" that were made to punish the stepmother by making her "dance until she died of exhaustion" were undoubtedly produced in Spessat's glass factory and blacksmith shop.

Because of Maria Sophia's valuable character, the local people in Lore beautified her as a fairy tale character.

M.B. Kittel, the chronicler of the Eltar family, described Maria Sophia as a noble girl, a "relief for the poor", " An angel of mercy and kindness,” he attested to her “amiable and loving personality.”

·For the national spirit of the people of Lore and Spessart, the daughter of the Eltar family seems to represent a model for the royal family's heirs.

Maria Sophia died in 1796 at the age of 71.

A few years after her death, the Brothers Grimm wrote the fairy tale "Snow White" and published it in 1812.