Snow White" is a 19th-century German fairy tale which is today known widely across the Western world.

The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection Grimms' Fairy Tales. It was
titled in German: Sneewittchen (in modern orthography Schneewittchen) and numbered as Tale 53. The
name Sneewittchen was Low German and in the first version it was translated with Schneeweißchen. The
Grimms completed their final revision of the story in 1854.[1][2]

Snow White

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Schneewittchen by Alexander Zick

Folk tale

Name

Snow White

Data

Aarne-Thompson grouping

709

Country

Germany

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. The seven dwarfs were first given individual names in
the 1912 Broadway play Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and then given different names in Walt
Disney's 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. 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.

In the Aarne–Thompson folklore classification, tales of this kind are grouped together as type 709, Snow
White. Others of this kind include "Bella Venezia", "Myrsina", "Nourie Hadig", "Gold-Tree and Silver-
Tree",[4] "The Young Slave", and "La petite Toute-Belle".