Snow White’s Coffin Was Real — And It’s Still Preserved in Germany
The fairy tale wasn’t fiction — it was a crime scene.
In the hills near Lohr am Main, Germany, historians uncovered a glass coffin in a 17th-century crypt beneath a chapel. Inside lay the perfectly preserved body of a young woman — raven-haired, alabaster-skinned, and believed to be Countess Maria Sophia Margaretha Catharina von Erthal. Her stepmother, known for her cruelty, owned a “talking mirror” — a rare acoustical mirror that amplified voices.
The glass coffin was commissioned after the countess’s mysterious death, believed to be caused by a poisoned apple laced with antimony — a toxin used in cosmetics. The dwarves? Likely miners from the nearby hills who cared for the dying girl.
When the coffin was opened briefly for study in 1994, witnesses claimed the reflection of a smiling woman appeared on the inner glass — and vanished when they blinked.
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