(The apple was so artfully made that the red cheeks alone were poisoned.)
Snow-White very much wished for the beautiful apple, and when she saw the woman eating the core she could no longer resist, but, stretching out her hand, took the poisoned part.
Scarcely had she placed a piece in her mouth when she fell down dead upon the ground.
Then the Queen, looking at her with glittering eyes, and laughing bitterly, exclaimed, "White as snow, red as blood, black as ebony! This time the Dwarfs cannot reawaken you."
When she reached home and consulted her mirror - "Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of us all?"
it answered: "The Queen is fairest of the day."
Then her envious heart was at rest, as peacefully as an envious heart can rest.
When the little Dwarfs returned home in the evening they found Snow-White lying on the ground, and there appeared to be no life in her body; she seemed to be quite dead.
They raised her up, and tried if they could find anything poisonous.
They unlaced her, and even uncombed her hair, and washed her with water and with wine.