A shocking new fan theory will permanently alter your perception of Snow White. Although Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a cherished Disney classic, a shocking fan theory claims that the film’s heroine dies at the end — and that the prince is the Grim Reaper, whose kiss is the kiss of death.
The film, which was inspired by a 19th-century German fable and premiered in 1937, was Disney’s first full-length animated film.
According to a MailOnline report, Snow White’s ‘happy ending’ may not have been all that pleasant. The frightening hypothesis that is circulating the internet appears to have begun in the comments area of a Buzzfeed post published in 2016, and it has definitely shattered many hearts.
Matt Morgan wrote an in-depth case that Snow White truly dies at the end of the film, claiming that many people believe the raven-haired beauty’s ‘happily ever after’ is all a deception.
According to him, she appears to die at the end of the film, but is brought back by the ‘real love kiss.’ He does, however, recommend that viewers re-watch the video from the perspective of an adult.
He adds that Margaretha von Waldeck, a 16th-century German noble who some believe was the inspiration behind the fairy tale, resided in a mining town that used child laborers, leading to the theory that the seven dwarfs in the narrative are actually a reference to child labor. She moved out of her father’s house when she was a teenager, and her beauty drew Philip II of Spain’s notice when she was in Brussels. At the age of 21, she grew inexplicably ill and died. It was commonly assumed that she was poisoned to prevent her from marrying Philip. Does this ring a bell?
The story was heard by the Brothers Grimm, who documented it and turned it into Snow White.
“She gets her first peek of the prince when she gets her first glimpse at death; when she almost falls into the well and dies,” he adds of the prince being the Grim Reaper. He went on to add that the prince returned to see Snow White a second time after she chewed the poison apple and was laying in a casket to prove his point. ‘He rides in on a pale white horse,’ says the narrator (which is what Death was often portrayed riding at the time). He gives her a kiss,’ he wrote. “Before humans understood how to take pulses, the “kiss of death” as a means to tell if someone had died.
Matt said that the seven dwarfs had to stay behind because of Snow White’s death in the last scene.”
Snow and the Prince, he claims, bid farewell to the dwarfs rather than bringing them with them since they’re heading somewhere the living can’t follow.