The Mirror Bride: The True Death of Snow White
The apple didn’t kill her. The reflection did.
In 1536 Bavaria, a noble girl named Maria Sophia von Erthal reportedly fell into a “deathlike sleep” after eating a poisoned confection. But forensic historians now suspect her death wasn’t natural.
Her stepmother owned a mirror coated in mercury — an early optical invention that reflected light with eerie clarity. Servants claimed the mirror “spoke” when the queen was alone.
When Maria was buried, the mirror cracked. Days later, her body vanished.
A century later, travelers recorded seeing a woman in white wandering the woods near Lohr Castle, her skin pale as glass, her eyes silvered like mirrors.
She doesn’t speak — but she tilts her head as if listening to something no one else can hear.
The mirror still exists, locked behind glass in a German museum. Every morning, a thin mist forms inside the case — in the shape of a woman’s hand.
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