Germany is quite the land of fairy tales – after all, it’s the home of Brothers Grimm. You can now go see Snow White’s gravestone at a museum in Germany: Maria Sophia Freifräulein von Erthal is thought to have inspired the fairy tale Snow White. She was born and raised in a castle in Lohr am Main in the state of Bavaria and her life resembled that of Snow White in many ways: She had a domineering stepmother, her hometown was famous for its extremely smooth and elaborate mirrors referred to as “talking mirror” and was surrounded by silver mines where workers were often of short stature, hence the dwarfs. Read more about this fascinating figure here:
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German News Service
