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- From: lgb2@po.CWRU.Edu (Linda G. Brashear)
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- Subject: Re: Sanitizing Fantasia (was: Latest rumors)
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 19:41:27 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- The person who had to dance to death in red hot shoes was Snow White's
- stepmother, the evil queen, in the Grimm's version. She had believed S.W.
- was dead, but when she asked her mirror The Question (you know), right before
- leaving for a wedding she was invited to, the mirror said the new bride was
- fairest. The queen was furious, and she went to the wedding to see who this
- new threat to royal vanity was. Knowing that she was coming, someone at
- the wedding (the dwarves? I don't remember), had red-hot shoes waiting, and
- when the queen got there, they slipped the shoes on her, and she was forced
- to dance in them until she dropped dead. Typical gruesome Grimm's ending,
- but arguably justified I suppose. This is from my memory of the story as
- told in my Grimm Bros. collection. Anyone who can add/improve this info
- is more than welcome and actively invited to do so.:-)
- Linda
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- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding"
- --Proverbs 3:5
- "Aw, Mom, you act like I'm not even wearing a bungie cord!"--Calvin
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