Snow White Was Real and the Magic Mirror Was Creepy and Weird
Mirror, mirror on the wall was the weirdest wedding gift of all. Plus, the prince will break your heart a little.
Once upon a time, a princess was born with hair black as ebony, skin as white as snow and lips red as a rose. You know this one? The brothers Grimm called her Snow White but that wasn’t really her name.
Of all the fairy tales, who would think Snow White was real?
It sounds too bizarre.
A talking mirror, a wicked stepmother, dwarves living in cottages in the forest. Sounds like something a skilled storyteller would make up, right?
But you know what they say. Truth is stranger than fiction.
She wasn’t just a made-up fairy tale.
She was as real as you and me.
The Real Snow White
She was born June 15, 1729 in Lohr Castle in Lohr am Main, Bavaria and her name was written in lovely swooping letters in the birth records at the Lohr am Main town hall. Maria Sophia Margaretha…