A very sharp and documented post, @ladyrebecca, as well as beautifully illustrated. Your series promises to be very interesting.
I didn't know the historical data you provide to correlate with Snow White's tale. Yes, I would like to emphasize that the Brothers Grimm were fundamentally compilers and recreators of oral tales belonging to the rural popular tradition. Let's remember that with German Romanticism something begun by Charles Perrault in France in the 17th century is taken up again: the interest in popular knowledge (folklore as it will be called). So, we are before versions, which as such can include modifications, whether by addition, turns, suppressions, attenuations, sweetenings, etc..
Thanks for your good post, @ladyrebecca. Greetings.
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Subsequent editions of Grimm's collection of tales do contain various modifications, some of them dictated by the need to make the stories more appropriate for a wider audience, especially children.