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A vain and proud beauty, the Queen gained her royal position by marrying a widowed king who died soon after marrying her. She took over the castle and the whole kingdom and was jealous of Snow White's beauty, so she made Snow White a scullery maid. The Queen had a magical mirror with which she could look upon whatever she wished. The Magic Mirror shows a haunted, smoky face which replies to the Queen's requests. She regularly asks the Mirror who is the fairest in the land ("Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?"), and the Mirror always replies that she is.

One day, the Mirror tells her that there is a new fairest woman in the land, her stepdaughter, Snow White. After observing the handsome prince, singing a love song to Snow White, the Queen, in a jealous rage, orders 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. Humbert could not bear to kill the young princess, so he tells Snow White of the Queen's plot and tells her to run away and never to return. In order to escape the penalty, he returns 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.

Furious that Humbert tricked her, the Queen goes down into the dungeon laboratory and mixes a potion that turns her into an old peddler woman. It is unknown what happened to Humbert (either he has been executed under the Queen's orders or he has escaped away after reporting his deed to the Queen) Her beauty is shrouded in ugliness; a true image of twisted evil. This appearance of the Queen is commonly referred to as The Witch or The Old Hag. She then conjures a poison apple which holds death-like sleep inside it, and proceeds to leave the castle. She is sure that no one would know or perform the counter-curse to her spell, and believes the dwarves would bury Snow White alive, believing she was dead. The Queen comes to the cottage, followed by two vicious buzzards, 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 Snow White into letting her inside the cottage and eating the poisoned apple, telling her that it is a magic wishing apple. Snow White takes a bite and falls to the floor, apparently entering into a death-like sleep.

The Queen rejoices in her victory, but is soon discovered by the Seven Dwarves, who chase her deep into the forest as a great storm started. She climbs up into the mountains, where she stands upon a precipice, that overlooks a seemingly bottomless canyon, and attempts to use a large boulder to crush the dwarves to their deaths with a large stick. Just then, a lightning bolt strikes between her and the boulder, destroying the precipice and sending the Queen (along with the boulder) down the cliff, screaming while falling to the jagged rocks below. As the dwarves look wide-eyed over the cliff's edge, the buzzards fly past, to eat the evil queen's corpse. Her castle was taken over by the prince and Snow White.