The Bad Stepmother (La mala madrastra) comes from Sepúlveda, Segovia, and also has instead of seven dwarfs the robbers that live in a cave deep in the forest, that can open and close at command. [69] In another Albanian version, titled Fatimé and collected by French folklorist Auguste Dozon, the antagonists are also the heroine's two elder sisters, as in Myrsina. Here the words to make it happen are "Open, parsley!" One of her hunters brings a boar's insides to her, and she boils them and eats them, thinking that they are Snow White's. Marvels & Tales 21, no. Finally, the last bed is comfortable enough for her, and she falls asleep. 10.1515/FABL.2008.023. To save his daughter's life, the king marries her off to a prince, and serves his wife a goat's heart and liver. In this last version, the role of both the mirror and the dwarfs is played by the Moon, which tells the elder sisters that the youngest, called Ziricochel, is the prettiest, and later hides her in his palace. 49. [citation needed], This article is about the fairy tale. The second wife then tricks the queen into drinking the poison that was meant for Gold-Tree. Instead of a mirror, the queen asks the Sun, who tells her that her daughter will surpass her in beauty. As she sewed she looked up at the snow and pricked [44], A Flemish version from Antwerp collected by Victor de Meyere is quite similar to the version collected by the brothers Grimm. The role of the dwarfs is played by Korrigans, dwarf-like creatures from the Breton folklore. [42] Louis Morin collected a version from Troyes in northeastern France, where like in the Grimm's version the mother questions a magic mirror. After disenchanting the twelve princes with her singing, the princess returns to the court, where she's finally restored to her human form, and her mother is punished. [1][5], This gives the queen a great shock. 'There's an end to all thy beauty,' said the spiteful queen, and went away home. The first one is titled Blancanieves, is from Medina del Campo, Valladolid, and follows the plot of the Grimm's version fairly closely with barely any significant differences. The queen orders her servants to behead her daughter bring back his tongue as proof, but they instead spare her and bring the queen a dog's tongue. [21] The tale is also said to be found in the Middle East, in China, in India and in the Americas. Snow-white It was the middle of winter, and the snow-flakes were falling like feathers from the sky, and a queen sat at her window working, and her embroidery-frame was of ebony. This may be a reference to old Slavic mythology which includes tales of witches eating human hearts. According to Sander, the character of Snow White was based on the life of Margaretha von Waldeck, a German countess born to Philip IV in 1533. [43] A version from Corsica titled Anghjulina was collected by Geneviève Massignon, where the roles of both the huntsman and the dwarfs are instead a group of bandits whom Anghjulina's mother asks to kill her daughter, but they instead take her away to live with them in the woods. Wicked Queen does not want Snow White's heart. 49. A Study of Sixteen Romance Language Versions of ATU 709. [63] Evald Tang Kristensen collected a version titled The Pretty Girl and the Crystal Bowls (Den Kjønne Pige og de Klare Skåle), which, like some Italian variants, combines the tale type 709 with the type 410. Snow White is hesitant to accept it, so the queen cuts the apple in half, eating the white (harmless) half and giving the red poisoned half to Snow White; the girl eagerly takes a bite and then falls into a coma or appearing to be dead, causing the Queen to think she has finally triumphed. 10.1515/FABL.2008.022. [24], This geographical distribution seemed to be confirmed by scholarly studies of the 20th century. [60] In another Scottish version, Lasair Gheug, the King of Ireland's Daughter, the heroine's stepmother frames the princess for the murder of the queen's firstborn and manages to make her swear she'll never tell the truth to anybody. Gonzenbach collected two variants from Sicily, the first one called Maruzzedda and the second Beautiful Anna; and Vittorio Imbriani collected a version titled La Bella Ostessina. 2 (2007): 240–52. "Snow White in West and South Slavic Tradition". When the customers tell her that her daughter is prettier than her, she gets jealous. [35][36], In some versions, the antagonists are not the heroine's mother or stepmother, but her two elder sisters, as in a version from Trentino collected by Christian Schneller,[37] or a version from Bologne collected by Carolina Coronedi-Berti. "Het grootste bezwaar is dat ‘Grimm’s Snow White’ zo ontiegelijk saai is. The Queen discovers and confronts Snow White at her wedding, Many scholars have theorized about the possible origins of the tale. See more ideas about grimm's snow white, snow white, grimm. Though she loved Charming, White left him at the wedding altar, determined to prove that she could take care o… [64][65], A Swedish version titled The Daughter of the Sun and the Twelve Bewitched Princes (Solens dotter och de tolv förtrollade prinsarna) starts pretty similarly to the Grimm's version, with a queen wishing to have a child as white as snow and as red as blood, but that child turned out to be not the heroine but the villain, her own biological mother. The mother sends two servants to kill her, bringing as proof a lock of her hair, a bottle with her blood, a piece of her tongue and a piece of her clothes. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection Grimms' Fairy Tales and numbered as Tale 53. [87], The Brothers Grimm story of "Snow White" takes an unusual turn from its other fairy-tale counterparts in that it can be interpreted as a story with a lesson centered around desirable qualities for women. In the original, the queen is forced to dance to death.[20]. [59] Zófimo Consiglieri Pedroso collected another version, titled The Vain Queen, in which the titular queen questions her maids of honor and servants who's the most beautiful. Jane March as the Evil Queen Gwendolyn, Snow White's evil stepmother. (2008). Loibl, Werner (2016). "Snow White" is a 19th-century German fairy tale that is today known widely across the Western world. She then dies by falling down a cliff and being crushed by a boulder, after the dwarfs had chased her through the forest. When the mother discovers her daughter is still alive, she sends a witch to kill her, who gives the daughter an enchanted silk shirt. Then, she says to herself, "How I wish that I had a daughter that had skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair as black as ebony." (Snow White: Fairy Tale or Truth? As I went through I was actually surprised by how closely the 1937 classic Disney film followed the fairy tale. Instead of being the daughter of a king, she is the daughter of a merchant, who’s left with her uncle while her father and brothers travel. [45] Another Flemish variant, this one from Hamme, differs more from Grimm’s story. After seeing the tears in the princess's eyes, the huntsman reluctantly agrees to spare Snow White and brings the queen the heart of a wild animal instead. The queen decides to visit the wedding and investigate. The heroine is called Sneeuwwitje (Snow White in Dutch), she's the queen's stepdaughter, and the stepmother questions a mirror. Kay Stone, "Three Transformations of Snow White", in. "Grimm's Snow White" is a classic tale for those who enjoy good versus evil stories. The fairy tale features such elements as the magic mirror, the poisoned apple, the glass coffin, and the characters of the Evil Queen and the Seven Dwarfs. Italo Calvino included the version from Bologne collected by Coronedi Berti, retitling it Giricoccola, and the Abruzzian version collected by De Nino in Italian Folktales. For other uses, see. And she is discovered by the dwarfs after cleaning the house, not vandalizing it. [46][47], One of the first versions from Spain, titled The Beautiful Stepdaughter (La hermosa hijastra), was collected by Manuel Milá y Fontanals, in which a demon tells the stepmother that her stepdaughter is prettier than she is when she's looking at herself in the mirror. Bäcker, Jörg. (2008). Snow White did not dream of any mischief; so she stood before the old woman; but she set to work so nimbly, and pulled the lace so tight, that Snow White's breath was stopped, and she fell down as if she were dead. Purists will not enjoy this, but if you keep an open mind, you might find that the movie is fun. Eberhard Wagner as the King, Snow White's father. Since no one is at home, she eats some of the tiny meals, drinks some of their wine, and then tests all the beds. (2008). Furthermore, in the Disney movie the evil queen tries only once to kill Snow White (by a poisoned apple) and fails (this was likely to save time). After a year had gone by the king took another wife, a beautiful woman, but proud and overbearing, and she could not bear to be surpassed in beauty by any one. In this version, the stepmother questions a pair of crystal bowls instead of a magic mirror, and when they tell her that her stepdaughter is prettier, she sends her to a witch's hut where she's tricked to eat a porridge that makes her pregnant. As in Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree the prince takes a second wife afterwards, and the second wife is the one who revives the heroine. [1][5], Ten years later, Snow White grows into an absolutely lovely, fair and beautiful young maiden. [28] In Maria, her Evil Stepmother and the Seven Robbers (Maria, die böse Stiefmutter und die sieben Räuber), a Sicilian version collected by Laura Gonzenbach the heroine also lives with robbers, but the antagonist is her stepmother and she's not an innkeeper. [72], Arthur and Albert Schott collected a Romanian version titled The Magic Mirror (Deutsch: Der Zauberspiegel Romanian: Oglinda fermecată), in which the villain is the heroine’s biological mother. [41] In another version from Brittany, this one collected by François Cadic, the heroine is called Rose-Neige (Eng: Snow-Rose) because her mother pricked her finger with a rose in a snowy day and wished to have a child as beautiful as the rose. The prince invites everyone in the land to their wedding, except for Snow White's stepmother. The plan fails and Mauricia recovers her human form, so the mother tries to kill her using a magic ring the demon gave her. Fortunately thanks to her prayers to the Virgin the daughter survives and gets out the rock, and she's later taken in by twelve robbers living in a castle. One day, one answers that her daughter is prettier. But already, Jacob and Wilhelm had made many revisions to the tale. After killing the infant, she’s stopped before she can kill the heroine. His new wife is very beautiful, but she is a vain and wicked woman who practices witchcraft. Most overlook, however, the psychological development of the main character, Snow White. She tries to kill her beautiful stepdaughter Snow, but she escapes into the enchanted forest. In: De Cock, Alfons & De Mont, Charles Polydore, Espinosa, Aurelio Macedonio Cuentos populares de Castilla y León Volumen 1 Madrid: CSIC 1987 pp. The first she gives the daughter a ring, the second earrings, and the third poisoned flowers. [13] Her gravestone was found in 2019. When she was awoken by Prince Charming, Snow vowed she would never let herself be "victimized" again. The rest of the tale is quite different from most versions, with the titular queen completely disappeared from the story, and the story focusing instead of a prince that falls in love with the princess. After the Queen’s death, her father married a woman who was vain and wicked, and who would stand in front of a magic mirror asking who was the fairest woman in the land. [32] Pitré also collected a variant from Palermo titled Child Margarita (La 'Nfanti Margarita) where the heroine stays in a haunted castle. Instead of dwarfs, the princess is taken in by seven kabouters, and instead of going to kill Snow White herself the queen twice sends the witch who had sold her the magic mirror to kill Sneeuwwitje, first with a comb and the second time with an apple. The mirror always replied “My Queen, you are the fairest one of all”, until one day an answer came that threw her into a … When the Sun answers Marietta is more beautiful, she realises her stepdaughter is still alive, and, disguised as a peddler, goes to the giants' castle to kill her. Fabula. Others of this kind include "Bella Venezia", "Myrsina", "Nourie Hadig", "Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree",[4] "The Young Slave", and "La petite Toute-Belle", At the beginning of the story, a 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. This dislodges the piece of the poisoned apple from Snow White's throat, magically reviving her. [54] Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa Jr. collected four versions. In: Schmidt, Sigrid. [39][40] In the second, titled La petite Toute-Belle, a servant accuses the heroine of stealing the things she stole and then throws her in a well. Soon after she marries Marietta's father, the new stepmother orders her husband to get rid of his daughter. Instead of a male protector, Caterina takes refuge in a house by the seashore where an old woman lives. GAMES • In the frozen winter wonderland, build and dress up a snowman • Find the seven dwarfs hiding in the forest • Guide Snow White to safety through a spooky maze • Play with a magic mirror Bäcker, Jörg. The original German title was Sneewittchen, a Low German form, but the first version gave the High German translation Schneeweißchen, and the tale has become known in German by the mixed form Schneewittchen. Grimm's Snow White ( 2012) Grimm's Snow White. [31] A similar version from Siena was collected by Sicilian folklorist Giuseppe Pitrè, in which the heroine, called Ermellina, runs away from home riding an eagle who takes her away to a palace inhabited by fairies. Later a crow lets a ring fall on the huts' floor, and, when the heroine puts it on, she falls in a death-like state. [67] Georgios A. Megas collected another Greek version, titled Myrsina, in which the antagonists are the heroine's two elder sisters, and the role of the seven dwarfs is fulfilled by the Twelve Months. In a version sent to another folklorist prior to the first edition, additionally, she does not order a servant to take her to the woods, but takes her there herself to gather flowers and abandons her; in the first edition, this task was transferred to a servant. (2008). [17] It is believed that the change to a stepmother in later editions was to tone down the story for children. Otto Jankovich as Advisor Hugh. Instead of a shirt, here the role of the apple is fulfilled by enchanted shoes. The stepmother orders her servants to take her stepdaughter to the forest and kill her, bringing a bottle with her blood as proof. [73], In 2013, the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a trademark to Disney Enterprises, Inc. for the name "Snow White" that covers all live and recorded movie, television, radio, stage, computer, Internet, news, and photographic entertainment uses, excluding literary works of fiction and nonfiction. ↑ Schneewittchen, which literally means "Little Snow White" and was written as Sneewittchen in the Brothers Grimm's time, is a Low German name. "Red, White, and Black in Symbolic Thought: The Tricolour Folk Motif, Colour Naming, and Trichromatic Vision." Instead of her lungs and liver, as written in the original, the huntsman is asked by the queen to bring back Snow White's heart. She wants Snow White's lungs and liver. Sounds like the Wicked Queen is turning into Hannibal Lecture. The princess is taken in by a man, who gives her two options, to live with him as either his wife or his daughter, and the princess chooses the second. 1h 30m. The second one manages to catch the girl, and they agree to let the girl live with them. This suggests that the moral of the story is that beauty is more desirable than intelligence. The first one, titled Blanca Flor, is from Villaluenga de la Sagra, in Toledo. After discovering her daughter is still alive, the mother sends an old woman to the thieves’ house three times. As part of an assignment for a screenwriting class I went through the Grimm fairy tale “Little Snow White," line by line to translate it into a screenplay. The new queen possesses a magic mirror, which she asks every morning, "Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" Snow White by the Grimm Brothers Once upon a time in the middle of winter, when the flakes of snow were falling like feathers from the sky, a queen sat at a window sewing, and the frame of the window was made of black ebony. [88] The Queen's—Snow White's step-mother—defining characteristic is her cunning, or intelligence, whereas Snow White's is her beauty. "Red as Blood, White as Snow, Black as Crow: Chromatic Symbolism of Womanhood in Fairy Tales." [1] The queen is furious when she learns that Snow White used her wits to fake her death by tricking the huntsman, and decides to kill the girl herself. With the evil Queen finally defeated and dead, Snow White has taken her revenge, so her wedding to the prince peacefully continues. These affections led Chione to openly boast that she was more beautiful than the goddess Diana herself, resulting in Diana shooting her through the tongue with an arrow. Like in the Grimm's version the queen asks her mirror who's the most beautiful. [26], Another study points to a wide distribution in Western Europe, specially in Ireland, Iceland and Scandinavia. The personality of the princess in “Snow White” demonstrated her personality as feminine, who is naive, timid and affectionate (England, et al. When the dwarfs return home, they immediately become aware that there has been a burglar in their house, because everything in their home is in disorder. [12] After the death of Maria Sophia's birth mother in 1738, her father remarried in 1743. Snow-white was quite sorry at his departure, and as she unbolted the door for him, and the bear was hurrying out, he caught against the bolt and a piece of his hairy coat was torn off, and it seemed to Snow-white as if she had seen gold shining through it, but she was not sure about it. 3 (2012): 310–29. Snow White is much more mature (an adolescent). [1][5], A year later, Snow White's father, the king, marries again. The Queen dies at the end of the story while Snow White lives happily ever after with the Prince, implying that the Queen's cunning was not enough to counter the power of Snow White's elegance. In the Aarne–Thompson folklore classification, tales of this kind are grouped together as type 709, Snow White. She becomes envious, and from that moment on, her heart turns against Snow White, whom the queen grows to hate increasingly with time. Meanwhile Marietta's stepmother, believing her stepdaughter is dead, asks the Sun who's the most beautiful. She had a magic looking-glass, and she used to stand before it, and look in it, and say, Снегурочка (Белоснежка) (Russian), Bạch Tuyết và bảy chú lùn (Vietnamese). Sometime later, the queen gives birth to a baby daughter whom she names Snow White, but the queen dies in childbirth a short while later. Prowling about frantically, they head upstairs and discover the sleeping Snow White. During their absence, the heroine’s uncle attempts to assault her, but she frustrates his plans. And as she worked, gazing at times out on the snow, she pricked her finger, and there fell from it Margaretha mysteriously died at the age of 21, apparently having been poisoned. The daughter takes refugee with a group of robbers who live in the forest, and the role of the apple is fulfilled by the titular enchanted shoes. Snow White in Africa. In this one the villain is the heroine's own biological mother, and like in Na Magraneta she questions a mirror if there's a woman more beautiful than she is. Then Apollo, disguised as an old crone, approached her and raped her again. The Innkeeper's Beautiful Daughter. [53] Aurelio de Llano Roza de Ampudia collected an Asturian version from Teverga titled The Envious Stepmother (La madrastra envidiosa), in which the stepmother locks her stepdaughter in a room with the hope that none will see her and think she's more beautiful. This wonderfully illustrated book comes alive through interactive popup games that let you play along and take part in the story yourself. The Brothers Grimm, finally wrote it down (under the title “Schneewittchen” or “Little Snow White”) in 1812. Marigo finds a castle inhabited by forty dragons instead of giants, that take her in as their surrogate sister. But the servants spare her life and instead kill a dog. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection Grimms' Fairy Tales and numbered as Tale 53. [71] In another Russian version the heroine is the daughter of a Tsar, and her stepmother decides to kill her after asking three different mirrors and all of them told her her stepdaughters is more beautiful than she is. [66], French folklorist Henri Carnoy collected a Greek version, titled Marietta and the Witch her Stepmother (Marietta et la Sorcière, sa Marâtre), in which the heroine is manipulated by her governess to kill her own mother, so the governess could marry her father. After Marietta is awoken and marries the prince, the stepmother goes to the prince's castle pretending to be a midwife, sticks a fork on Marietta's head to turn her into a pigeon, and then takes her place. A queen is left to rule after her husband is slain by beasts and she tries to have her beautiful stepdaughter killed, but she escapes into an enchanted forest. Believing she's dead the shepherd kills himself and the heroine is later revived when she gives birth to twins, each one of them with a star on the forehead, and one of them sucks the ring off her finger. The standard German version of the name is Schneeweißchen. Author: Brothers Grimm “Snow White” is one of the classics between fairytales that got its screen adaption in the Walt Disney Studio. Ermellina's stepmother sends a witch disguised as her stepdaughter's servants to the fairies' palace to try to kill her twice, first with poisoned sweetmeats and the second time with an enchanted dress. Paul Sébillot collected two variants from Brittany in northwestern France. This tale type is widespread in Europe, in America, in Africa and "in some Turkic traditions". Sci-Fi & Fantasy 2012. “Snow White” is a first feature-length animated film from USA. 325-342. 10.1515/FABL.2008.021. When the sisters discover Ziricochel is still alive, they send an astrologer to kill her. "The Lai of Eliduc and the Märchen of Little Snow-White". For example, the huntsman, who was ordered to kill Snow White, describes her as a "pretty child" and lets her go, which carries over to when the seven dwarfs decide not to cast her out when they find Snow White in their home. Finally, the queen disguises herself as a farmer's wife and offers Snow White a poisoned apple. It was the middle of winter, and the snow-flakes were falling like feathers from the sky, and a queen sat at her window working, and her embroidery-frame was of ebony. And when she saw how bright and red it looked, she said to herself, "Oh that I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood of the embroidery frame!" But when Snow White is seven years old, her fairness surpasses that of her stepmother. Believing it must be an intruder, the men take turns to stay at the cavern, but the first one falls asleep during his watch. Hermes put her to sleep with the touch of his caduceus and raped her in her sleep. The moment she puts it on, she falls in a death-like state. When the queen asks her mirror, it tells her that Snow White is the fairest. Grimm's Snow White Jane March (Actor), Eliza Bennett (Actor), Rachel Goldenberg (Director) When the King is killed by ferocious reptile beasts, his Queen takes control of the kingdom. After hearing her story from the Seven Dwarfs, the prince is allowed to take Snow White to her proper resting place back at her father's castle. The Grimm story, which is commonly referred to as "Snow White",[3] should not be confused with the story of "Snow-White and Rose-Red" (in German "Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot"), another fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. Sebastian Wimmer as Runt/Haegthorn. Snow White. [27], In most Italian versions the heroine is not the daughter of a king but an innkeeper, the antagonist is not her stepmother but her biological mother, and instead of dwarfs she takes refuge with robbers, as we can see in La Bella Venezia an Abruzzian version collected by Antonio De Nino, in which the mother asks her customers if they have seen a woman more beautiful than she. To get his revenge he writes a letter to the heroine’s father, accusing her of misconduct. Meanwhile, the queen, who believes she had gotten rid of Snow White a decade earlier, asks her mirror once again: "Magic mirror on the wall, who now is the fairest one of all?" In: Oriol, Carme. As a punishment for the attempted murder of Snow White, the prince orders the Queen to wear a pair of red-hot iron slippers and to dance in them until she drops dead. Every day after she sees the men leave she enters the cave and cleans it up. It was a product of the Lohr Mirror Manufacture (Kurmainzische Spiegelmanufaktur). When the queen and the servant discover she's alive, they give her poisoned candy, which she eats. At the age of 16, Margaretha was forced by her stepmother, Katharina of Hatzfeld, to move away to Brussels. But the most significant difference is that the role of the prince in this version is instead Snow White's father the king. Jane March, Eliza Bennett, Jamie Thomas King. Instead, the story starts with the mother already hating her daughter because she's prettier, and ordering a servant to kill her, bringing as proof her heart, tongue, and her little finger. When the heroine's mother discovers her daughter is still alive, she twice sends a fairy to attempt to kill her, first with sugar almonds, which the dragons warn her are poisoned before she eats them, and then with a red dress. Related Clips. A Brief Literary History of Snow White. The one who wants to kill the heroine, called here Mauricia, is her own biological mother, who’s convinced by a demon with a spider head that if her daughter dies she’ll become beautiful. Jewish North African versions of Snow White". After several attempts, she finally manages to turn her into a statue with an enchanted shirt. Let’s just say I know Snow White really well now. The opening model, Hitoshizuku and Yamasankakkei are two Japanese. Perhaps the most interesting is this: in the first published edition of the story, in 1812, there is no … Hemming, Jessica. Folklore 123, no. A magic mirror referred to as “The Talking Mirror”, known as always telling the truth, can still be viewed today in the Spessart Museum in the Lohr Castle, where Maria Sophia's stepmother lived. [33][34], There's also a couple of conversions that combines the ATU tale type 709 with the second part of the type 410 Sleeping Beauty, in which, when the heroine is awakened, the prince's mother tries to kill her and the children she has had with the prince. Later a witch discovers that Caterina's still alive and where she lives, so she goes to tell the queen, who sends her back to the cottage to kill her with poisoned flowers instead of an apple. She goes twice, the first trying to kill her with an enchanted ring, and the second with poisoned grapes. Erhältlich in deutscher und englischer Tonspur. Snow's opinions changed after her mothertried to kill her multiple times, such as the poison apple plot. It was titled The Enchanted Shoes (Os sapatinhos encantados), where the heroine is the daughter of an innkeeper, who asks muleteers if they have seen a woman prettier than she is. Originally published by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in 1812, Snow White’s written history began as these scholars’ attempt to preserve Germany’s fairy tale legacy as well as to establish critical editions of that legacy for further academic study. [16] In their first edition, the Brothers Grimm published the version they had first collected, in which the villain of the piece is Snow White's jealous biological mother. "Une version savoyarde du conte de Blanche-Neige". Instead of ordering a huntsman or servant to kill her daughter, after the mirror tells the woman her daughter has surpassed her, she tries to get rid of her daughter herself, inviting her to go for a walk in the countryside, and when they reach a rock she recites some spells from her book, making the rock swallow her daughter. [22], In regards to the Turkic distribution of the tale, parallels are also said to exist in Central Asia and Eastern Siberia, among the Mongolians and Tungusian peoples. Fabula. The Grimms completed their final revision of the story in 1854. When you finish the story, enjoy a collection of Snow White jigsaw puzzles and then create your very own stories in the Snow White 3D sticker book. But after the marriage, Marigo's stepmother asks the king to get rid of the princess, but instead of killing her the king just abandons her daughter in the woods. 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