• MelastSB@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Snow White’s whiteness isn’t actually a defining characteristic of hers.

    Here’s a quote from the (translated) original German tale: “[A queen] had a daughter, with a skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony, and she was named Snow-white.” That’s pretty much her definition

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      1 year ago

      It isn’t really central to the content of her character or the story, though.