<P> Karlheinz Bartels, a pharmacist and scholar from Lohr am Main, a town in northwestern Bavaria, found evidence that Snow White was Maria Sophia Margarethe Catharina, Baroness von und zu Erthal, who was born in Lohr on June 25, 1725 . Her father, Philipp Christoph von und zu Erthal, was the local representative of the Prince Elector of Mainz . After the death of Maria Sophia's birth mother in 1738, her father remarried in 1743 . The stepmother, Claudia Elisabeth von Reichenstein, was domineering and employed her new position to the advantage of her children from her first marriage . A magic mirror referred to as "The Talking Mirror", known as always telling the truth, can still be viewed today in the Spessart Museum in the Lohr Castle, where Maria Sophia's stepmother lived . This mirror was presumably a present from Maria Sophia's father to his second wife . It was a product of the Lohr Mirror Manufacture (Kurmainzische Spiegelmanufaktur). </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (January 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (January 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> The principal studies of traditional Snow White variants are Ernst Böklen's, Schneewittchenstudien of 1910, which (re) prints fifty Snow White variants, and studies by Steven Swann Jones . </P>

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