Wholesale Wicked Queen and Magic Mirror Greeting Card

She's not asking out of vanity. She's conducting quality control. The mirror in the original Brothers Grimm has never once offered comfort, only accuracy, and she keeps returning to it because it's the only honest voice in the castle. This gothic portrait places her exactly where she belongs, one hand on the mirror, the reflected face not her own, the room answering her question before she finishes asking it. Blank inside. The back restores what the Disney version quietly revised, starting with who the queen actually was in the 1812 first edition. BACK COVER COPY: Disney got the line wrong. In the original Brothers Grimm (1812), she addresses it as "Spieglein," meaning little mirror, not "magic mirror." In that same edition, she is Snow White's biological mother, not her stepmother. The 1819 revision softened her into a stepmother. The mirror, unlike the revision, never lies. "Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand, wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?" — Brothers Grimm, Schneewittchen (1812) .: 4x6 format .: Printed on premium card stock .: Kraft envelope included .: Blank inside