I found this version of “Snow White” very interesting, but it had much darker theme than the general version of Snow White that we know today. In this version, Snow White’s character was known as Golden-Tree while the antagonist was Golden-Tree’s birth mother, Silver-Tree, instead of stepmother. In this version, Silver-Tree had attempted to kill her daughter three times: asked to eat her daughter’s heart and liver to cure her fake illness, pricked her daughter with poison dart, and planned to make her daughter drinks poisonous wine. In this story, instead of the magic mirror, Silver-Tree asked a trout in a well about who was the fairest. So, when Golden-Tree was presumed dead by poison dart, the Prince, her husband, remarried to another woman. Prince’s second wife was the one to rescue Golden-Tree from her deadly sleep and helped her kill Silver-Tree. Later, the Prince lived happily with his two wives. I want to play around with the characters. First, the Silver-Tree who wanted to kill Golden-Tree was not Golden-Tree’s real mother. The fake Silver-Tree was a witch at locked Golden-Tree’s mother away and disguise as her. Golden-Tree’s real mother was the talking trout, who was also a witch but a good one. Golden-Tree’s father knew that his wife was fake but could not expose for fearing that she would kill his true wife, the real Silver-Tree. This was why he put up to her cruelty toward his daughter. As for the Prince’s second wife, she was a witch and student of true Silver-Tree. She came to rescue her teacher and her teacher’s daughter. Her marriage to the Prince was a disguise to secure the fake Silver-Tree that Golden-Tree was dead although Golden-Tree was put into deep sleep to protect her from the poison. At the end, I want to create happier ending than the original version.
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