Snowdrop (or, Snow White)

In Snowdrop (or Snow White) a queen sewing by the window during a snowfall pricks her finger. Admiring the drops of blood on the snow, she wishes for a daughter as white as that snow, as red as that blood, and as black as this ebony window frame! The queen dies after giving birth to Snowdrop. The girl''s stepmother, a vain and vindictive woman with a magic mirror, plots to eliminate Snowdrop, who ...