Snow White is a story that has lost its true purpose. Who knew it was a story involving ritual cannibalism, divination techniques, and dark magic? Check this out from a college anthropology textbook:

"The following is a story that is European in origin and was first published in 1823, written down from oral presentations. It has been told and retold countless times and is probably familiar to the reader in some form. It is the story of Snow White. The story of Snow White involves an evil queen who flies into a jealous rage whenever she learns that someone in the kingdom is more beautiful than she. She keeps tabs on her status in the beauty arena by using a talking mirror. This is a type of divination instrument (see Chapter 7) that can be used to gather information about things and events in ways that are supernatural. (Certainly, one would have to agree that talking mirrors do not exist in our empirical, natural world.) Snow White is the evil queen’s stepdaughter. As Snow White matures, she eventually becomes more beautiful than the queen, who sees Snow White as a threat that must be eliminated. The queen orders Snow White killed, but the huntsman who is ordered to do the killing takes pity on Snow White and lets her escape into the forest. The huntsman then kills a wild boar and presents its lungs and liver to the queen as being Snow White’s. The evil queen cooks and eats the lungs and liver, thinking them to be those of her dead stepdaughter. This is an example of ritual cannibalism. Perhaps the queen believes that by eating the remains of her rival, the elements of beauty in Snow White will pass to her. Thus Snow White escapes and moves in with seven dwarfs. The evil queen, learning through her magic mirror that Snow White is still alive, finally kills her with a poison apple. After many years Snow White is discovered by a prince who, on kissing her, brings her back to life. When we read the story of Snow White, it is clearly a story told for entertainment, primarily for children. However, like many such stories, it also provides a moral lesson. In this case we are told of the evils of envy and jealousy and what can happen to someone who exhibits these attributes. (In one early version of the story the evil queen is invited to the wedding celebration of Snow White and the Prince. Her evil deeds are revealed and she is made to put on a pair of red-hot iron slippers. She dances until she dies.) Yet although this story talks about moral issues and contains many supernatural elements (the magic mirror, for example), no one would classify it as a religious story. The dwarfs are not sacred; the mirror is not holy; the resurrection of the beautiful maiden does not elevate her to the status of a deity. The story does not relate the actions of any gods; it is not the basis for religious rituals; there are no churches or temples dedicated to Snow White. Adults do not believe the story of Snow White to be true."

Source: Stein, Rebecca L. and Philip L. Stein. The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft, Fourth Edition, (2017): pp. 33-34.