The Rebellious Curator

Still photo artwork from Disney's first animated feature film released in 1937.

The original story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was written in German by Brothers Grimm and was later translated to English by Edgar Taylor in 1823. Several alternate stories followed. The origin of the evil Queen can be traced to a character named "Silver Tree", a jealous queen who threatened her daughter in the Celtic oral tale "Gold Tree and Silver Tree". In Welsh mythology, this character embodied an evil female antagonist with troublesome self esteem issues (aka Post-modern Feminism).