The Princess of Crows: The Lost Diary of Snow White
She didn’t eat the poison. She became it.
When researchers restored a Bavarian convent in 1901, they found a sealed wooden chest inscribed with a mirror symbol. Inside: blackened feathers, seven glass vials, and a diary written in archaic German.
The author identified herself as Sophia Weiss, daughter of Count von Erthal — better known by her nickname: Schneewittchen.
Her writings detail experiments with tinctures derived from belladonna and raven’s blood, which she believed granted “clarity of the spirit.”
She describes her “stepmother” not as evil, but as a mentor in alchemy.
The entries end abruptly after this line:
“The elixir burns but purifies. My veins whisper. My skin darkens like glass. Soon I will see everything.”
When the chest was opened, the vials shattered on contact with air.
The feathers turned to ash.
And the mirror’s surface cracked from the inside.
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