<P> This version of the classic fairy tale character has been very well received by film critics and the public, and is considered one of Disney's most iconic and menacing villains . Besides in the film, the Evil Queen has made numerous appearances in Disney attractions and productions, including not only these directly related to the tale of Snow White, such as Fantasmic!, The Kingdom Keepers and Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, sometimes appearing in them alongside Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty . The film's version of the Queen has also become a popular archetype that influenced a number of artists and non-Disney works . </P> <P> In "another land, far away," "many, many years ago," about the time of fairy tales of castles, knights, fair maidens, romance, magic and witches," a mysterious and icily beautiful woman with magical powers (a 1938 promotional brochure suggests she is able to work her witchcraft having sold "herself body and soul to the bad spirits" of the Harz mountains) has gained her royal position by marrying the widowed King, giving her rule over his kingdom before he died . "From that time on the cruel Queen ruled all alone, her every word was law, and all trembled in mortal fear of her anger ." The vain Queen owned a magical mirror with which she could look upon whatever she wished . The Magic Mirror shows a haunted, smokey face of her familiar demon which replies to the Queen's requests . She regularly asks the mirror who is the fairest in the realm, and the mirror would always reply that she is . </P> <P> One day, however, the mirror tells her that there is a new fairest woman in the land, her 14 - year - old stepdaughter, Princess Snow White . She became obsessively jealous of the princess' emerging beauty, therefore turning her into a scullery maid in her own home . After observing the handsome Prince from another kingdom singing a love song to Snow White, the proud Queen, in a jealous rage, commands her faithful Huntsman, Humbert, to take the princess deep into the forest and kill her . He is ordered to bring back her heart in a box to prove that he had done so . But Humbert cannot bear to kill the young princess upon realizing that she is impervious to harm, so he tells Snow White of the Queen's plot and tells her to run away and never to come back . To escape the penalty, he comes back with a pig's heart and gives it to the Queen . When she questions her mirror, it again replies that Snow White is the fairest in the land, and that she is living at the cottage of the Seven Dwarfs, revealing that the box contains the heart of a pig . The Dwarfs are fearful of the Queen's black magic but decide to take in Snow White anyway . </P> <P> Furious that Humbert tricked her, the Queen decides that first Snow White shall die by her own hand and at any cost . She goes down the dungeon to her secret room where she practices her dark magic, complete with a pet raven that "knows all her secrets," and in desperation uses her spellbook and cauldron to mix a potion that transforms her into a hag . Her beauty is shrouded in ugliness and age, though presumably reversible . She then conjures a poison apple, which will cause "the Sleeping Death", and proceeds to leave the castle via a moat boat . She is sure that no one would know or perform the counter-curse to her spell, and believes the Dwarfs would bury her rival alive, thinking her dead . The Queen comes to the cottage, followed by two vicious vultures, and finds Snow White baking a pie for Grumpy the dwarf . Somehow Snow White's animal friends realize that the old hag is the Queen . After an unsuccessful attempt to warn Snow White by attacking the Queen, they go to warn the Dwarfs of the Queen's arrival . The Queen tricks the princess into letting her inside the cottage and eating the bewitched apple, telling her that it is a magic wishing apple . Snow White takes a bite and falls to the floor, apparently dead . </P>

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