Snow White
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Oct 23, 2026
speaker_8GUEST
You know the story of the princess who fell asleep, who bit the poisoned apple.
speaker_6GUEST
No, no, no. Oh, Snow White, it's the fairest of them all.
speaker_6GUEST
Just like
speaker_8GUEST
me! Yes, exactly.
25 MINS LATER
TomHOST
The door is still open.
TomHOST
And what, you're going to charge in and hit him with the axe?
speaker_5GUEST
Yeah, like the woodsman in Snow...
speaker_5GUEST
No, Great Riding Hood.
Andy WilliamsHOST
Root suit.
Andy WilliamsHOST
I mean, that is the remake of Snow White we all really wanted.
Andy WilliamsHOST
Seven dwarves in one drag outfit.
Sean WilsonHOST
Stephen Root.
Tom WilliamsHOST
USU professor of German Claudia Schwabe recently presented an Aggie Talks event called What Disney Didn't Tell You, a tour of the original Grimm fairy tales.
Tom WilliamsHOST
She says if you think you know Cinderella, Snow White, or Sleeping Beauty, you should think again.
Tom WilliamsHOST
For most Americans, these stories feel like Disney inventions, but their true origins are far older, stranger, and more fascinating.
Tom WilliamsHOST
And today on the program, she'll take us on a journey 200 years back to discover the original fairy tales collected by the two German brothers, Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm.
8 MINS LATER
Tom WilliamsHOST
So the Brothers Grimm changed these from wicked mothers to stepmothers, right? Was this a backlash from mothers reading these tales or what happened here?
Claudia SchwabeGUEST
Yes, exactly.
Claudia SchwabeGUEST
So in all the tales at the beginning, like the famous ones, Hansel and Gretel is a big one, Snow White or the Juniper Tree, it was always biological mothers.
Claudia SchwabeGUEST
And exactly when they shifted the audience, the target audience, Presumably they had complaints by mothers to change that, and I have to also emphasize they held their own mother in very high regard.
CourtneyHOST
i don't know what to make of it i thought it was going to be so the premise is it follows the story of seven brothers whose mother is like a high-ranking individual in this kingdom and each of the brothers has like a very blatant name that describes their personality
KarlHOST
is this like the the seven dwarves of snow white because i Should I read some of the names of these brothers? Yes.
KarlHOST
Because I have Insomniac, Feverish, Chili.
KarlHOST
What? Is this like a spin on the Snow White story?
CourtneyHOST
I actually don't know if it is, but now that you say that, I could see that.
CourtneyHOST
The only tie-in that I made was the seven brothers having very obvious names for their personalities, which, again, was like Snow White.
KarlHOST
Hungry.
KarlHOST
I wonder what his personality is.
RufusHOST
You're in for a treat.
RufusHOST
I went away and I read the tale of Little Snow White.
RufusHOST
I returned to her ten minutes later, frowning, and gave her the book back.
RufusHOST
What's the matter? she asked.
RufusHOST
Oh,
speaker_1UNKNOWN
good
RufusHOST
heavens! So, why didn't the Queen just swat Snow White's clock? Only a wee sock could try and kill her.
RufusHOST
I don't know if that's a very interesting spelling of Wazzock, but it is Weesock.
Carrie SmithHOST
Yeah, you know, and, um, I just thought that was a palatable way of talking about poisons.
Carrie SmithHOST
Uh, you know, like in Snow White, is it a poisoned apple?
Emma SkipHOST
Poisoned apple, yeah.
Carrie SmithHOST
Um-
ChrisHOST
The frog prince's warning ends up in Wilhelm's hands, spoken into the wind.
ChrisHOST
The brave little tailor always follows his pointy nose, and Snow White's queen turns yellow and green with envy.
ChrisHOST
It all sounds like ancient oral tradition, like spinning rooms and fire sites.
ChrisHOST
To a large extent, it's the work of a castle librarian at his desk.
ChrisHOST
How mothers became stepmothers.
ChrisHOST
Perhaps the most consequential change concerns not a single character, but a role.
ChrisHOST
Snow White, first edition 1812.
ChrisHOST
A queen sits at her window, pricks her finger, wishes for a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony, and gets it, and then there's that same queen, the vain one, the one with the mirror, who wants her own child killed.
Joanna EberstineGUEST
Some stories were removed altogether.
Joanna EberstineGUEST
And so if you go back to the first printings, you will see that Snow White, the, the, it's not an evil stepmother of Snow White.
Joanna EberstineGUEST
It's her mother.
Joanna EberstineGUEST
Same with Hansel and Gretel, and in Snow White, the Evil Queen at the end, and you've probably heard this, dances to her death in, in hot r- r- hot slippers that were put in the fire.
Greta Lee JacksonHOST
Mm.
Joanna EberstineGUEST
Similarly, Rapunzel, I love this story.
SarahHOST
All right with all that being said we're going to get into our villain stories.
SarahHOST
Today, we're looking at six villains from very different eras of Disney animation, beginning all the way back in 1937 with the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
SarahHOST
From there on, we'll move to Maleficent, Jafar and Ursula before finishing with Hades and Gaston.
SarahHOST
And rather than simply comparing Disney's versions with their original fairy tales, I want to take it one step further.
SarahHOST
An artist can find inspiration in a painting, and eventually all of those ingredients disappear into the final character.
SarahHOST
And nowhere is that more obvious than with Disney's very first animated feature, Villain.
SarahHOST
When Snow White and the Seven Dwarves was released in 1937, Disney didn't even have to invent its villain.
SarahHOST
The Queen was already waiting for them.
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