74. The Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves)
Snow White is born to a queen, who dies shortly after giving birth. The king takes a new wife who is beautiful but very proud. She possesses a magic mirror, to whom she would often ask "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?", and to which the mirror would always reply, "You are". But one day when she asks her mirror, it responds, "Queen, you're the fairest where you are, but Snow White is more beautiful by far".
The Queen is jealous, and orders a huntsman to take Snow White into the woods to be killed. She demands that the huntsman return with Snow White's lungs and liver as proof. The huntsman takes Snow White into the forest, but finds himself unable to kill the girl. Instead, he lets her go, and brings the queen the lungs and liver of a wild boar.
Snow White discovers a tiny cottage in the forest belonging to seven dwarves, where she rests. Meanwhile the Queen asks her mirror once again "Who's the fairest of them all", and is horrified when the mirror tells her that Snow White, who is alive and well and living with the dwarves, is still the fairest of them all. Disguised as a farmer's wife, the Queen visits the Dwarfs' cottage where Snow White is staying, and gives her a poisoned apple, which Snow White eats eagerly and immediately falls into a deep magical sleep. When the dwarves find her, they mourn and place her in a glass coffin. The dwarves give chase and the evil queen falls from a cliff and dies.
Time passes, and a prince travels through the land and sees Snow White in her coffin. The prince is enchanted by her beauty and instantly falls in love with her. He begs the dwarves to let him have the coffin. The prince and his men carry the coffin away, but as they go they stumble, the coffin jerks and the piece of poison apple flies out of Snow White's mouth, awakening her. The prince then declares his love and soon a wedding is planned.