HANDS: The Queen's graceful hands conjure up cruel spells and create poisonous objects.
BODY: The attractive queen uses magic to transform herself into the shape of a lace peddler or a harmless old woman selling letters.
FACE: Her face is not a true reflection of her jealous and corrupt soul. Being beautiful is not enough for the evil queen, and so she kills innocent Snow White to claim the title of most beautiful.A proud, beautiful queen with supernatural powers asks her magic mirror the same question everyday: "Who is the fairest in the land?" The mirror always replies that the queen is fairest in the land. One day, though, the mirror responds differently, saying the fairest in the land is Snow White. The jealous queen sends Snow White into the forest with a huntsman. He has orders to kill Snow White and bring her lungs and liver as proof that she is dead. The huntsman pities Snow White and lets her live. He kills a wild boar and takes its lungs and liver to the queen. The evil queen eats the lungs and liver believing they are Snow Whites.
Seven friendly dwarves take Snow White into their home. The next time the evil queen asks her mirror the daily question, it replies "Snow White," and the queen knows that the girl is still alive. The queen disguises herself as a paddler selling lace. She wraps Snow White so tightly in laces that the girl cannot breath and faints. The dwarves save Snow White by cutting the laces away. The queen knows Snow White lives because the mirror still identifies her as the fairest.
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The evil queen produces a poisoned comb, but the dwarves pull the comb from Snow White's hair and save her. Once again, the mirror's answer that Snow White is the fairest confirms she is alive.
Using black magic, the vain queen poisons an apple that kills Snow White. The dwarves place Snow White in a glass coffin on a hilltop, where she lies for years but does not decay. A passing prince asks if he may have the beautiful girl in the coffin. When his servants move the coffin, they jostle it and the bite of apple is jarred loose from Snow White's mouth. Snow White comes back to life.
The evil queen attends the wedding of Snow White and the prince. A pair of iron slippers is heated in a fire and the evil queen is forced to dance in the red-hot shoes until she drops to the floor, dead.
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Monsters, Dragons, and Villains of Movies, Myth, and Literature
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