WEBVTT - Snow White 0:00:08.245 --> 0:00:16.605 School of Humans. This episode discusses sensitive topics. Please listen 0:00:16.645 --> 0:00:25.525 with care. My name is Miranda Hawkins. Welcome to the 0:00:25.565 --> 0:00:30.485 Deep Dark Woods. Today's story is at U seven O 0:00:30.685 --> 0:00:39.645 nine or snow White. 0:00:39.765 --> 0:00:43.205 Once upon a time in midwinter, when the snowflakes were 0:00:43.245 --> 0:00:46.205 falling like feathers from heaven, a queen sat sewing at 0:00:46.205 --> 0:00:49.005 her window, which had a frame of black ebony wood. 0:00:50.045 --> 0:00:52.125 As she sewed, she looked up at the snow and 0:00:52.205 --> 0:00:56.285 pricked her finger with the needle. Three drops of blood 0:00:56.365 --> 0:01:00.205 fell into the snow. The red on the white looked 0:01:00.245 --> 0:01:03.805 so beautiful that she thought to herself, if only I 0:01:03.845 --> 0:01:07.085 had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, 0:01:07.125 --> 0:01:11.005 and as black as the wood in this frame. Soon 0:01:11.045 --> 0:01:14.245 afterwards she had a little daughter who was as white 0:01:14.285 --> 0:01:17.045 as snow, as red as blood, and as black as 0:01:17.085 --> 0:01:21.685 ebony wood. And therefore they called her little snow White. 0:01:22.085 --> 0:01:25.325 And as soon as the child was born, the queen died. 0:01:27.765 --> 0:01:31.285 A year later, the king took himself another wife. She 0:01:31.405 --> 0:01:34.085 was a beautiful woman, but she was proud and arrogant, 0:01:34.085 --> 0:01:36.685 and she could not stand it if anyone might surpass 0:01:36.725 --> 0:01:41.605 her in beauty. She had a magic mirror. Every morning 0:01:41.685 --> 0:01:45.525 she stood before it, looked at herself and said, mirror, 0:01:45.565 --> 0:01:48.765 mirror on the wall, who in this land is fairest 0:01:48.805 --> 0:01:53.765 of all? To this the mirror answered you, my Queen, 0:01:53.965 --> 0:01:57.765 are fairest of all. Then she was satisfied, for she 0:01:57.845 --> 0:02:03.205 knew that the mirror spoke the truth. Snow White grew 0:02:03.285 --> 0:02:06.445 up and became ever more beautiful. When she was seven 0:02:06.525 --> 0:02:08.925 years old, she was as beautiful as the light of day, 0:02:09.285 --> 0:02:13.165 even more beautiful than the Queen herself. One day, when 0:02:13.205 --> 0:02:17.365 the Queen asked her mirror, nearer, nearer on the wall, 0:02:17.525 --> 0:02:22.405 who in this land is fairest of all? It answered you, 0:02:22.605 --> 0:02:26.445 my Queen, are fair, It's true, But snow White is 0:02:26.485 --> 0:02:28.445 a thousand times fairer than you. 0:02:30.485 --> 0:02:31.405 The Queen took. 0:02:31.205 --> 0:02:34.725 Fright and turned yellow and green with envy. From that 0:02:34.885 --> 0:02:37.325 hour on, whenever she looked at snow White, her heart 0:02:37.365 --> 0:02:40.605 turned over inside her body. So great was her hatred 0:02:40.725 --> 0:02:41.245 for the girl. 0:02:42.645 --> 0:02:43.365 The envy and. 0:02:43.365 --> 0:02:45.925 Pride grew even greater, like a weed in her heart, 0:02:46.005 --> 0:02:50.405 until she had no peace day and night. Then she 0:02:50.485 --> 0:02:54.045 summoned the huntsman and said to him, take snow White 0:02:54.045 --> 0:02:56.485 into the woods. I never want to see her again. 0:02:57.565 --> 0:02:59.925 Kill her, and as proof that she is dead, bring 0:03:00.005 --> 0:03:07.485 her lungs and her liver back to me. The huntsman 0:03:07.565 --> 0:03:11.125 obeyed and took snow White into the woods. He took 0:03:11.165 --> 0:03:13.205 out his hunting knife and was about to stab it 0:03:13.285 --> 0:03:16.885 into her innocent heart when she began to cry, saying, oh, 0:03:17.045 --> 0:03:19.325 dear huntsmand, let me live. I will run into the 0:03:19.405 --> 0:03:24.485 wild woods and never come back. Because she was so beautiful, 0:03:24.525 --> 0:03:27.325 the huntsman took pity on her and said, run away, 0:03:27.405 --> 0:03:31.805 you poor child. He thought the wild animals will soon 0:03:31.845 --> 0:03:35.725 devour you anyway. But still it was as if a 0:03:35.765 --> 0:03:37.965 stone had fallen from his heart, for he would not 0:03:38.085 --> 0:03:41.765 have to kill her. Just then, a young boar came 0:03:41.845 --> 0:03:45.805 running by. He killed it, cut out its lungs and liver, 0:03:46.165 --> 0:03:47.965 and took them back to the queen As proof of 0:03:48.005 --> 0:03:48.845 snow White's death. 0:03:50.805 --> 0:03:52.005 The cook had to boil. 0:03:51.765 --> 0:03:55.325 Them with salt, and the wicked woman ate them, supposing 0:03:55.365 --> 0:03:58.005 that she had eaten snow whites lungs and liver. 0:04:05.725 --> 0:04:08.685 As a kid, I always had short hair. If I'm 0:04:08.685 --> 0:04:12.885 being honest, It was a bowl cut. It was downright awful, 0:04:13.445 --> 0:04:15.965 but I loved the feeling of getting my hair cut. 0:04:16.405 --> 0:04:18.925 So every time my mother, who loved to keep her 0:04:18.925 --> 0:04:22.645 hair short, got her hair trimmed, so did I, and 0:04:22.685 --> 0:04:25.445 this is why whenever my friends and I played princess, 0:04:25.885 --> 0:04:29.605 they always stuck me with snow White, even though I 0:04:29.685 --> 0:04:35.885 looked absolutely nothing like her. Although snow White has different 0:04:35.965 --> 0:04:39.285 versions across the globe, there are two real life people 0:04:39.485 --> 0:04:43.605 the story may be based on. In nineteen ninety four, 0:04:43.925 --> 0:04:48.245 German historian Eckered Xander published his book snow White, Is 0:04:48.285 --> 0:04:51.565 It a fairy Tale? He said snow White was based 0:04:51.565 --> 0:04:55.245 on Philip the forces daughter. Born in fifteen thirty three, 0:04:55.365 --> 0:04:59.685 the German countess was named Marguerite von Waldeck. When she 0:04:59.805 --> 0:05:04.685 turned sixteen, her stepmother, Katharina of Hotsfeld, forced her to 0:05:04.725 --> 0:05:08.965 move to wild Yfe and Brussels. Von Waldock fell in 0:05:09.005 --> 0:05:12.045 love with Prince Philip, who would later become King Philip 0:05:12.085 --> 0:05:16.365 the Second of Spain, but her father and stepmother disapproved 0:05:16.405 --> 0:05:21.525 of their relationship for political reasons, and then at twenty one, 0:05:22.045 --> 0:05:27.165 von Waldeck died from poison. According to Sander, historical accounts 0:05:27.205 --> 0:05:30.365 say the King of Spain might have sent Spanish agent 0:05:30.645 --> 0:05:35.045 to murder the young woman. Doctor Claudia Schwabe is a 0:05:35.085 --> 0:05:39.325 German professor from Utah, State University. She says, von Waldeck 0:05:39.485 --> 0:05:42.085 knew she was going to die, and that's why she 0:05:42.165 --> 0:05:42.845 wrote her will. 0:05:45.685 --> 0:05:48.645 By the handwriting, you could see how trembling, how shaky 0:05:48.725 --> 0:05:52.445 her hand was. And then there was a book of 0:05:52.805 --> 0:05:55.005 death I don't know how you call it in Wildungen, 0:05:55.045 --> 0:05:57.885 where she was from, and the mayor wrote in there 0:05:58.365 --> 0:06:02.365 that she was poisoned. So that information we do have, 0:06:02.805 --> 0:06:07.405 but it just shows you how some times fairy tales 0:06:07.645 --> 0:06:12.205 are really very close to life. And I'm sure Margharitavonvaldek 0:06:12.325 --> 0:06:16.325 is not the only aristocratic woman that ever happened to right, 0:06:16.525 --> 0:06:20.005 I'm sure this happened throughout time in many different cultures 0:06:20.045 --> 0:06:24.765 that we have a scenarios that very much resemble a 0:06:24.805 --> 0:06:29.005 fairy tale story. But it just shows you that fairy 0:06:29.045 --> 0:06:32.365 tales are just like stories that life rights. 0:06:35.445 --> 0:06:38.165 The second woman snow White might be based off is 0:06:38.285 --> 0:06:44.925 Maria Sophia von Earthel. Fabulology is fairytale science. A fabulology 0:06:45.005 --> 0:06:49.045 group did a study on Laura Bavaria, and that group 0:06:49.245 --> 0:06:54.125 says von Earthel was born June fifteenth, seventeen twenty nine. 0:06:54.165 --> 0:06:58.685 Her father, Prince Philip Christophon Earthel, was an eighteenth century 0:06:58.765 --> 0:07:04.205 landowner married to Baroness von Bettendorf. After the Baroness died, 0:07:04.485 --> 0:07:08.925 her father remarried Claudia Elizabeth Maria von Venningen, who was 0:07:08.965 --> 0:07:13.845 the Countess of Reichenstein. Based on a letter, Claudia didn't 0:07:13.925 --> 0:07:17.445 like her stepchildren, but that's the only evidence of her 0:07:17.485 --> 0:07:22.645 relationship with her stepkids. Mirror's maid in Lare were considered 0:07:22.685 --> 0:07:26.605 able to speak or tell the truth because they were 0:07:26.645 --> 0:07:31.125 made so well they showed clear reflections. They also had 0:07:31.165 --> 0:07:35.965 inscriptions on them. Today, the magic Mirror is displayed at 0:07:36.005 --> 0:07:38.965 the von Earthel Castle, which is now referred to as 0:07:39.085 --> 0:07:42.565 the Lore Castle and has been turned into a museum. 0:07:43.085 --> 0:07:45.605 Here's what doctor Schwabe says about von Earthel. 0:07:47.765 --> 0:07:50.725 I have to say straight away from the very beginning, 0:07:50.925 --> 0:07:54.885 So the whole story with Maria Sophia von Erta, that 0:07:55.205 --> 0:08:00.845 was a hoax invented by a pharmacist called Karl Heinz 0:08:00.965 --> 0:08:04.885 Bartels and it was a big hoax. And he came 0:08:05.005 --> 0:08:11.725 up with a nonsense word for doing fairytale archaeology. He 0:08:11.845 --> 0:08:16.245 called it fabu lology. And then the city officials they 0:08:16.285 --> 0:08:21.605 decided to use this for profit for tourism, so they 0:08:21.925 --> 0:08:26.605 could attract tourists to their town of Lore and then 0:08:26.805 --> 0:08:31.045 tell them this story of the aristocratic woman who once lived. 0:08:31.045 --> 0:08:32.925 But again, this is all a hoax. 0:08:34.205 --> 0:08:37.805 That's right, it was all made up for money. Well, 0:08:38.005 --> 0:08:40.925 von Earth was real, but the details of her story 0:08:40.965 --> 0:08:46.765 don't match up. There are many inconsistencies. Still, many believe 0:08:46.805 --> 0:08:49.845 that von Earthel could be an inspiration for Snow White, 0:08:50.525 --> 0:08:53.685 and this was reinforced after her grave was uncovered in 0:08:53.765 --> 0:08:59.445 twenty nineteen. But back to von Waldeck, doctor Schwabe says 0:08:59.685 --> 0:09:02.765 she and the Grim snow White had more similarities. 0:09:04.285 --> 0:09:08.365 For instance, my Garreta Vonvaldek had blonde hair, and now 0:09:08.405 --> 0:09:12.565 you might say snow White had dark hair black hair. However, 0:09:12.805 --> 0:09:16.885 in the very first unpublished version of the Grims, called 0:09:16.925 --> 0:09:20.845 the Uhlenbergam Manuscript, they actually wrote that snow White had 0:09:20.885 --> 0:09:26.205 blonde hair. The Waldek family owned several copper mines in 0:09:26.245 --> 0:09:30.765 the northern Hessan regions, and eckert Sunder found out that 0:09:30.925 --> 0:09:35.405 they employed children in these copper minds, children who wore 0:09:35.645 --> 0:09:39.245 special headgear to protect them from rocks falling down. And 0:09:39.325 --> 0:09:42.685 when they came out of the copper mines, it must 0:09:42.685 --> 0:09:45.805 have looked like what we imagined dwarfs to look like. 0:09:47.525 --> 0:09:51.885 Also, historian ECKERD. Standers believes the Poisoned Apple from snow 0:09:51.925 --> 0:09:55.005 White was based on a true story of a man 0:09:55.045 --> 0:10:00.325 giving kids poisoned apples kids he thought were stealing from him. 0:10:00.805 --> 0:10:03.605 But it's hard to believe one woman could inspire the 0:10:03.645 --> 0:10:06.485 story of snow White when she pops up in stories 0:10:06.525 --> 0:10:22.325 around the world time and time again. As I mentioned earlier, 0:10:22.685 --> 0:10:25.605 snow White stories can be found all over the globe. 0:10:26.165 --> 0:10:29.245 They might not have a magic mirror, but all stories 0:10:29.285 --> 0:10:32.965 have the same setup. A family member envies a beautiful 0:10:32.965 --> 0:10:37.485 young woman who is put into a suspended sleep. Mercina 0:10:37.565 --> 0:10:40.765 is a Greek tale where the sun declares three times 0:10:40.885 --> 0:10:44.725 the youngest of three sisters is the most beautiful, which 0:10:44.765 --> 0:10:49.245 makes her two older sisters jealous. Nori Hadig is a 0:10:49.285 --> 0:10:52.965 story from Armenia where the mother asks the moon who 0:10:53.045 --> 0:10:56.085 is the prettiest in all the world. In the epic 0:10:56.125 --> 0:11:00.085 Indian palm pod Novat from fifteen forty, the queen asks 0:11:00.165 --> 0:11:04.205 a truth telling parrot if she or the princess Podmavat 0:11:04.405 --> 0:11:09.205 is more beautiful. There's this epic Indonesian poem titled sayer 0:11:09.285 --> 0:11:13.445 Bit Asari. It's believed to have been written around seventeen fifty. 0:11:14.645 --> 0:11:17.485 I like this story simply because we haven't heard an 0:11:17.525 --> 0:11:21.285 Indonesian story yet, but also because of their depiction of beauty. 0:11:21.325 --> 0:11:27.605 In the eighteenth century, in the Palm, a merchant finds 0:11:27.605 --> 0:11:29.805 a young girl in a basket floating down the river. 0:11:30.485 --> 0:11:33.805 A fish is swimming beside her, and the merchant realizes 0:11:33.965 --> 0:11:35.885 that if you take the fish out of the water, 0:11:36.125 --> 0:11:40.125 then the girl stops breathing. The merchant decides to adopt 0:11:40.205 --> 0:11:42.685 the girl, uses a vase to scoop the fish out 0:11:42.725 --> 0:11:45.125 of the water, and then takes both the girl and 0:11:45.165 --> 0:11:50.285 the fish home. Later, the king of the land marries 0:11:50.325 --> 0:11:54.245 for the second time. The new queen is secretly a witch, 0:11:54.405 --> 0:11:58.005 and she has a magic mirror. The queen asks the 0:11:58.045 --> 0:12:02.125 magic mirror who's the prettiest in all the land. Normally 0:12:02.165 --> 0:12:05.565 it says the queen, but this time it says bit Asari, 0:12:06.125 --> 0:12:08.445 whose cheeks are the color of the bill of a 0:12:08.485 --> 0:12:12.885 flying bird, her nose like a jasmine bud, her face 0:12:12.965 --> 0:12:15.685 is like the yellow of an egg, and her teeth 0:12:15.805 --> 0:12:18.925 like a bright pomegranate, which is like a reddish brown. 0:12:20.365 --> 0:12:23.125 The queen brings Bitasari to the palace as a servant. 0:12:23.445 --> 0:12:26.285 She hopes that her beauty will fade, but it doesn't, 0:12:26.965 --> 0:12:30.085 so the queen decides to burn her face off, but 0:12:30.165 --> 0:12:33.045 when she sets the girl on fire, she doesn't burn 0:12:33.485 --> 0:12:38.165 and the fire is magically extinguished. Bitasari tells the queen 0:12:38.445 --> 0:12:41.365 she can't hurt her that her life is tied to 0:12:41.405 --> 0:12:44.765 a fish at home. So the queen finds the fish, 0:12:44.965 --> 0:12:47.045 and when she removes it from the base, the girl 0:12:47.125 --> 0:12:50.645 falls down dead. The queen then keeps the fish in 0:12:50.685 --> 0:12:58.405 a locket around her neck. Bitasari's father is devastated. He 0:12:58.525 --> 0:13:02.325 builds a tomb where he lays bit Asari to rest. 0:13:03.005 --> 0:13:05.965 During this time, the queen's step son has and having 0:13:06.045 --> 0:13:09.645 visions of Bitasari. He believes he's in love with her. 0:13:10.805 --> 0:13:13.205 One day, he stumbles across the painting of her and 0:13:13.325 --> 0:13:17.205 asks who she is. He's told she has died, and 0:13:17.245 --> 0:13:24.085 he decides to visit her tomb. When he arrives, Bitasari 0:13:24.165 --> 0:13:26.885 wakes up, but she doesn't wake up because of him, 0:13:27.205 --> 0:13:30.485 but because at that moment, the queen is taking a bath, 0:13:31.045 --> 0:13:33.645 and as she bathes, the fish falls out of the 0:13:33.645 --> 0:13:40.205 locket into the water, alive. Bitasari uses that time to 0:13:40.285 --> 0:13:43.205 tell the prince about his stepmother and how she needs 0:13:43.245 --> 0:13:47.725 that fish to live. While Bitasari fills the prince in, 0:13:48.045 --> 0:13:50.445 the queen notices the fish has fallen out of her 0:13:50.485 --> 0:13:52.765 locket and scoops it up to put it back in 0:13:52.805 --> 0:13:58.765 her necklace. Bitasari falls dead again. The step son rushes 0:13:58.805 --> 0:14:01.965 home to confront his stepmother. The two fight, and the 0:14:02.005 --> 0:14:04.805 prince kills the queen and puts the fish back in water. 0:14:07.885 --> 0:14:10.205 That Assari comes back to life, and she and the 0:14:10.205 --> 0:14:20.005 prince Mary. French author Charles Perraut may not have a 0:14:20.085 --> 0:14:23.725 version of snow White, but Italian author John Batiste Basilee 0:14:24.045 --> 0:14:29.365 doesn't disappoint. In sixteen thirty four he published The Young Slave, 0:14:29.845 --> 0:14:33.765 which is not a great title. A baron has a 0:14:33.805 --> 0:14:37.205 younger sister named Celia, and she goes to the garden 0:14:37.245 --> 0:14:40.965 to play games with other young maidens. That day, a 0:14:41.045 --> 0:14:44.525 rose tree has a beautiful new bloom. The maidens make 0:14:44.565 --> 0:14:47.085 a wager to see who can jump over the tree 0:14:47.245 --> 0:14:52.765 without damaging the bloom. All the maidens try to no avail. 0:14:52.885 --> 0:14:55.685 When it was Celia's turn, she jumps over the tree 0:14:56.005 --> 0:15:00.485 but knocks a single leaf off the bloom. She quickly 0:15:00.525 --> 0:15:05.165 swallows the leaf before anyone notices. With her deception, she 0:15:05.165 --> 0:15:11.045 wins the bet. Three days later, Celia feels she's pregnant. Worried, 0:15:11.245 --> 0:15:14.565 she visits some fairy friends and they confirm her suspicions. 0:15:15.165 --> 0:15:18.525 They say she is quote with child of the leaf 0:15:18.605 --> 0:15:23.685 she had swallowed. Celia hides her magical pregnancy, and on 0:15:23.725 --> 0:15:27.685 the fourteenth night, she gives birth in secret. Her daughter 0:15:27.765 --> 0:15:32.285 is born with a face like the moon. Celia names 0:15:32.285 --> 0:15:34.765 her Lisa, and then sends her daughter to be raised 0:15:34.765 --> 0:15:37.965 by the fairies. Each of the fairies want to give 0:15:38.005 --> 0:15:41.365 Lisa a charm, but the final fairy, who runs to 0:15:41.365 --> 0:15:45.205 meet the child, twists her foot. In her anguish, she 0:15:45.365 --> 0:15:49.205 curses Lisa, saying that when she turns seven, her mother 0:15:49.245 --> 0:15:52.365 will forget a comb in Lisa's hair, which would cause 0:15:52.405 --> 0:15:57.405 the girl to die. The fairy's curse comes to pass. 0:15:57.405 --> 0:16:01.085 In her devastation, Celia has Lisa placed in a casket 0:16:01.285 --> 0:16:05.365 made of seven crystals, one inside the other and locks 0:16:05.645 --> 0:16:09.365 it in a distant chamber of the baron's castle. Celia 0:16:09.405 --> 0:16:12.685 then keeps the key in her pocket. But not long 0:16:12.765 --> 0:16:17.685 after Celia is on her deathbed, she entrusts all her 0:16:17.685 --> 0:16:21.045 possessions to her brother. When she gives him the key, 0:16:21.285 --> 0:16:24.765 she makes him promise he will never open the distant chamber. 0:16:25.445 --> 0:16:29.605 He assures her he won't. A year later, the baron 0:16:29.685 --> 0:16:33.765 marries while away on a hunt, the baron puts his 0:16:33.845 --> 0:16:36.325 new wife in charge of the house and tells her 0:16:36.805 --> 0:16:40.405 not to open the chamber. Of course, as soon as 0:16:40.405 --> 0:16:44.045 the baron leaves, she searches a castle, finds the key 0:16:44.125 --> 0:16:47.845 in his desk, and opens the room. The new wife 0:16:47.885 --> 0:16:50.685 sees a girl in a casket made of seven crystals. 0:16:51.405 --> 0:16:54.325 Lisa has grown as time has passed, and the caskets 0:16:54.325 --> 0:16:57.925 have grown with her. The woman is filled with rage 0:16:57.965 --> 0:17:01.485 and jealousy, believing her husband comes into this room to 0:17:01.525 --> 0:17:05.245 worship the beautiful girl. In a fit, she yanks the 0:17:05.285 --> 0:17:08.405 girl out of the casket by her hair, and doing so, 0:17:08.645 --> 0:17:11.685 the comb falls out, and the girl wakes up crying 0:17:11.725 --> 0:17:15.765 for her mom. The baroness answers, I'll give thee mama 0:17:15.805 --> 0:17:19.165 and Papa, and proceeds to beat Lisa, cut her hair, 0:17:19.645 --> 0:17:23.805 dress her in rags, and make her a slave. The 0:17:23.885 --> 0:17:27.525 story says, every day the baroness beats on her head, 0:17:27.965 --> 0:17:31.885 gives her black eyes, scratches her face and makes her 0:17:31.885 --> 0:17:36.725 mouth bleed, as if she'd just eaten raw pigeons. When 0:17:36.725 --> 0:17:40.125 the baron returns, he asks the baroness why the young 0:17:40.205 --> 0:17:44.925 girl is being treated so poorly. The baroness lies, saying 0:17:44.965 --> 0:17:47.845 her aunt had sent the child to her and she 0:17:47.925 --> 0:17:52.725 needs to punish her to keep her in line. After 0:17:52.805 --> 0:17:56.245 some time, the baron goes to the country fair. Being 0:17:56.365 --> 0:17:59.605 kind hearted, he asks all the servants what they would like. 0:18:00.085 --> 0:18:03.485 When it's Lisa's turn, The baroness tells him to ignore her, 0:18:03.685 --> 0:18:07.805 but he would not. Lisa asks for a doll, a knife, 0:18:07.885 --> 0:18:11.885 and a pummice stone. She also says that if he forgets, 0:18:12.045 --> 0:18:14.085 he will not be able to cross over the river 0:18:14.165 --> 0:18:17.085 on his way home, and so the baron heads to 0:18:17.125 --> 0:18:20.685 the fair but forgets Lisa's items. When he tries to 0:18:20.725 --> 0:18:24.165 cross the river, he can't. Then he remembers the slave 0:18:24.205 --> 0:18:28.965 girl's request and goes back for her items. Once Lisa 0:18:29.005 --> 0:18:31.765 has her gifts, she retires to the kitchen and tells 0:18:31.805 --> 0:18:34.925 the doll her life's story. She asks the doll if 0:18:34.965 --> 0:18:37.645 she hears her, and when the doll doesn't answer, she 0:18:37.685 --> 0:18:40.205 begins sharpening the knife on the pummice stone. Saying she 0:18:40.245 --> 0:18:43.685 will take her own life. At that, the doll grows 0:18:43.725 --> 0:18:47.565 and answers, yes, I did hear thee I am not deaf. 0:18:49.525 --> 0:18:52.485 This goes on for several days until one day the 0:18:52.525 --> 0:18:56.965 baron overhears the servant girl crying and talking. He puts 0:18:56.965 --> 0:18:59.565 his eye to the keyhole to see Lisa recounting her 0:18:59.605 --> 0:19:02.685 story once again and sharpening her knife on the pummice stone. 0:19:03.725 --> 0:19:07.005 At this point, the baron kicks down the door, snatches 0:19:07.125 --> 0:19:11.365 the knife, and has Lisa tell him her story. When 0:19:11.405 --> 0:19:14.485 he understands who she is and what she's been through, 0:19:15.005 --> 0:19:17.645 the baron hugs his niece, then sends her to live 0:19:17.685 --> 0:19:21.525 with other relatives and commands that she be well treated. 0:19:23.125 --> 0:19:26.805 After a couple months, Lisa becomes as beautiful as a goddess, 0:19:27.125 --> 0:19:29.605 and her uncle throws a great feast for her in 0:19:29.685 --> 0:19:33.965 his castle. During this feast, he presents Lisa as his 0:19:34.085 --> 0:19:36.685 niece and has her recount her tale to the guests. 0:19:37.965 --> 0:19:42.325 Everyone weeps hearing how the baroness treated Lisa. The baron 0:19:42.365 --> 0:19:45.645 then sends his wife back to her family, declaring she 0:19:45.925 --> 0:19:50.405 is not worthy to be his mate. Later, the baron 0:19:50.445 --> 0:19:54.205 finds his niece a handsome husband who she loves. It's 0:19:54.245 --> 0:20:04.405 a happy ending. In some of the stories, it's actually 0:20:04.445 --> 0:20:07.045 snow whites by a lot mother who kills her for 0:20:07.085 --> 0:20:11.365 her beauty, like in the Scottish tale Silvertree gold Tree. 0:20:11.565 --> 0:20:14.605 The story was collected by Joseph Jacobs and published in 0:20:14.645 --> 0:20:18.445 eighteen ninety two. In this tale, a king has a 0:20:18.485 --> 0:20:22.805 wife named Silvertree and a daughter named gold Tree. One day, 0:20:23.045 --> 0:20:25.445 Silvertree and gold Tree visit a glen with a well. 0:20:26.285 --> 0:20:30.085 The well has a trout swimming in it. Silvertree asks 0:20:30.165 --> 0:20:33.005 the trout is she the most beautiful queen in all 0:20:33.085 --> 0:20:37.205 the world. The trout replies she is not. When the 0:20:37.285 --> 0:20:40.845 queen asks who is, then the trout says it's her daughter, 0:20:41.165 --> 0:20:45.125 gold Tree. The queen goes blind with rage. When she 0:20:45.205 --> 0:20:48.125 returns from the glen, she climbs into bed, claiming to 0:20:48.125 --> 0:20:51.485 be sick and vows she'll never be well until she 0:20:51.645 --> 0:20:55.525 eats her daughter's heart and liver. When the king gets home, 0:20:55.605 --> 0:20:58.165 he asks his wife what is wrong, and she tells 0:20:58.245 --> 0:21:00.365 him she needs to eat gold Tree's heart and liver 0:21:00.485 --> 0:21:04.685 to be well. Luckily, a prince from another kingdom has 0:21:04.845 --> 0:21:07.405 asked the king to marry gold Tree, and the king 0:21:07.485 --> 0:21:10.845 has agreed, so the king sends her away with the 0:21:10.845 --> 0:21:13.925 prince to keep her safe. He then has some men 0:21:14.005 --> 0:21:16.725 hunt down a goat. The king feeds the queen the 0:21:16.765 --> 0:21:19.885 heart and liver of the goat, claiming they are gold Trees, 0:21:20.285 --> 0:21:22.965 and once she eats, the queen is well and healthy 0:21:23.005 --> 0:21:28.365 once more. A year later, Silvertree visits the glen again. 0:21:29.085 --> 0:21:32.565 She asks the trout who's the most beautiful queen, and 0:21:32.645 --> 0:21:36.405 the trout responds gold Tree. The queen says it can't 0:21:36.445 --> 0:21:39.925 be because gold Tree is dead. The trout then tells 0:21:39.965 --> 0:21:42.565 her that her daughter isn't dead, but married to a 0:21:42.645 --> 0:21:47.125 prince oversees. Silvertree begs the king to give her the 0:21:47.165 --> 0:21:50.125 long ship to visit her daughter. For some reason, the 0:21:50.245 --> 0:21:53.805 king agrees. The queen takes the long ship, which is 0:21:53.925 --> 0:21:56.805 wide and stable but fast and light, and heads to 0:21:56.845 --> 0:22:01.845 the kingdom across the sea. Gold Tree recognizes the long 0:22:01.885 --> 0:22:05.205 ship as it's coming ashore. She tells her servants it's 0:22:05.205 --> 0:22:08.805 her coming to kill her. The servants devise a plan 0:22:08.965 --> 0:22:11.085 to lock gold Tree in a room where her mother 0:22:11.165 --> 0:22:15.845 can't reach her. When Silvertree reaches the castle, she cries 0:22:15.925 --> 0:22:18.365 out for Goldtree to come say hello to her. Mother. 0:22:19.125 --> 0:22:22.005 Goldtree says she can't because she's locked in a room, 0:22:22.685 --> 0:22:25.925 but Silvertree convinces her daughter to stick her finger through 0:22:25.965 --> 0:22:28.325 the keyhole so that she could give it a kiss. 0:22:29.045 --> 0:22:32.285 When Goldtree does, her mother puts a poisoned stab in 0:22:32.325 --> 0:22:36.165 her daughter's finger. The prince is heartbroken when he returns 0:22:36.205 --> 0:22:39.605 to find his wife dead, but she's too beautiful to bury, 0:22:40.645 --> 0:22:42.845 so he locks her away in a room and keeps 0:22:42.845 --> 0:22:47.005 the key on him. A while later, the prince remarries. 0:22:47.845 --> 0:22:49.925 One day, he forgets to keep the key on him, 0:22:50.125 --> 0:22:53.085 and his new wife takes it. It opens the room. 0:22:53.445 --> 0:22:57.085 There she finds Goldtree, the most beautiful woman she's ever seen. 0:22:58.245 --> 0:23:01.125 The new wife notices the stab in gold Tree's finger 0:23:01.325 --> 0:23:05.765 and pulls it out. Goldtree awakens alive once again and 0:23:05.845 --> 0:23:10.645 as beautiful as ever. The prince returns from hunting crestfallen. 0:23:11.325 --> 0:23:14.525 His wife asks what's wrong, and he replies he wishes 0:23:14.565 --> 0:23:17.725 gold Tree was alive. She tells him that gold Tree 0:23:17.805 --> 0:23:20.485 is indeed alive once again, in the room he had 0:23:20.485 --> 0:23:24.205 put her in. When the prince sees gold Tree, he 0:23:24.325 --> 0:23:28.725 is overjoyed and can't stop kissing her. The new wife says, 0:23:28.885 --> 0:23:32.365 since the prince married her first. She will leave, but 0:23:32.405 --> 0:23:35.565 the prince says no, that he will have both of them, 0:23:35.685 --> 0:23:38.725 and this turns out to be a good thing. At 0:23:38.725 --> 0:23:41.805 the end of that same year, Silvertree visits the glen 0:23:41.925 --> 0:23:44.485 for a third time and learns that gold Tree is 0:23:44.525 --> 0:23:49.085 still alive. Once again, Silvertree convinces her husband to lend 0:23:49.085 --> 0:23:52.845 her the longboat to visit gold Tree. The prince is 0:23:52.845 --> 0:23:56.485 out hunting when gold Tree notices the longboat. She tells 0:23:56.565 --> 0:23:58.925 the second wife it's her mother coming to kill her. 0:23:59.525 --> 0:24:02.325 So the second wife joins gold Tree to meet Silvertree. 0:24:03.525 --> 0:24:06.725 When Silvertree comes ashore, she tells gold Tree she has 0:24:06.765 --> 0:24:09.925 a precious drink to share with her. The second wife 0:24:09.925 --> 0:24:12.965 tells Silvertree it is customary in their country that the 0:24:12.965 --> 0:24:15.965 person who offers the drink must take the first sip. 0:24:17.165 --> 0:24:20.165 As Silvertree brings the cup to her lips, the second 0:24:20.245 --> 0:24:23.045 wife knocks the cup so some of the liquid goes 0:24:23.085 --> 0:24:27.365 down the queen's throat. The queen falls down dead, then 0:24:27.445 --> 0:24:31.205 gold Tree and the second wife bury her corpse. The 0:24:31.245 --> 0:24:33.845 prince and two wives then lived happily the rest of 0:24:33.885 --> 0:24:38.645 their days. The story ends with the line I left 0:24:38.685 --> 0:24:41.805 them there. I'm not sure what that line means or 0:24:41.845 --> 0:24:45.005 why it's included in the tail, but I liked it. 0:24:45.005 --> 0:24:47.845 It makes me feel like the narrator was watching from 0:24:47.885 --> 0:24:50.925 a distant hill, and now that this tale has concluded, 0:24:51.125 --> 0:24:55.925 they're off to find other stories. As discussed in previous episodes, 0:24:56.125 --> 0:25:02.685 the Grimms heavily editorialize the stories they collected. Similar to Rumpelstilskin. 0:25:02.925 --> 0:25:06.445 The brothers created their own version of snow White, including 0:25:06.685 --> 0:25:10.725 making the biological mother a stepmother. Here's doctor Schwabe. 0:25:12.685 --> 0:25:15.845 In many versions, early versions of the Grim's fairy tales, 0:25:16.085 --> 0:25:19.685 it was always biological mothers, and then with the second 0:25:19.965 --> 0:25:24.005 edition and later, the Grims swapped them out for stepmothers 0:25:24.045 --> 0:25:27.725 to preserve the good mother, the sanctity of the good mother, 0:25:28.125 --> 0:25:30.845 and also they had a really good relationship with their 0:25:30.885 --> 0:25:33.885 own mother, so I think there were might have been 0:25:33.885 --> 0:25:38.165 also some complaints from mothers actually about these fairy tales, 0:25:38.205 --> 0:25:39.885 and that's why they swapped that out. 0:25:41.365 --> 0:25:44.445 The brother's grim tail also reflects the beauty standards for 0:25:44.525 --> 0:25:48.805 Western culture at the time. Doctor Schwabe explained what the 0:25:48.845 --> 0:25:50.685 colors and snow white represent. 0:25:51.925 --> 0:25:55.765 We think of the white as snow. We always think 0:25:55.845 --> 0:26:00.405 of skin and red as blood, we think of the lips, 0:26:00.565 --> 0:26:03.845 and then you know, for the black as ebony, would 0:26:04.045 --> 0:26:07.085 we think of the hair, But that if you read closely, 0:26:07.165 --> 0:26:10.685 that is not emphasized in the tail, and in some 0:26:10.965 --> 0:26:15.645 versions it's also the eyes are black as ebony, or 0:26:15.685 --> 0:26:19.125 the cheeks are as red as blood. The body parts 0:26:19.165 --> 0:26:22.965 are not labeled specifically when you ask yourself what do 0:26:23.085 --> 0:26:28.805 these colors represent. So white is, at least in Western culture, 0:26:29.445 --> 0:26:33.565