Richilde
Richilde turns Show White When the Grimms wrote Schneewittchen (Snow White ), they knew an earlier version (called Richilde ) written by Karl August Musäus (1735-1787) – see underneath (it’s a long story) – but they omitted one of the main actors, a Jewish docto r, who was inherently pious and didn’t want to commit murder crime. Karl August Musäus. By User Manu on de.wikipedia - Originally from de.wikipedia; description page is (was) here17:16, 10. Okt 2004 Manu 200 x 276 (20.767 Byte), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=834914 Fairy Tale Richilde The story is unbelievably lengthy with lots of side stories. But finally, Richilde becomes stepmother of a beautiful girl named Bianca who lives at one of the former places of Richilde's new husband. Now, Richilde was extraordinarily vain and for that she used a magical mirror that could prove that she was and still is the most beautiful - as in the later fairy tale the stepmother of Sn...