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

Western world. The Brothers Grimmpublished 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]
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 Dwarfsand 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.