# Snow White Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 3, 2001, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-white-question/56585 "2001-03-03T02:53:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mongrel\_8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@mongrel\_8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mongrel_8)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2001, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-white-question/56585/1 "2001-03-03T02:53:58Z")
If I’m not mistaken on Jeopardy tonight one of the clues in the “Snow” category said that, “In early versions of the story, she had a sister named Rosey Red”. The answer was Snow White. I probably messed up what the clue really said but I am interested in the Rosey Red part. I’ve searched and have turned up nothing. Thank you in advance. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2001, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-white-question/56585/2 "2001-03-03T03:01:24Z")
That’s ringing a vague bell. Sounds right. Sorry, can’t help you more than that. ---
**Author:** ![snac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@snac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snac)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2001, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-white-question/56585/3 "2001-03-03T03:06:45Z")
The Grimms collected (or wrote themselves) a somewhat different and–I thought–unrelated story called Snow White and Rose Red. IIRC, too, the two “Snow White” names in German were slightly different forms from one story to the next. I’ll try to find my well-thumbed copy of the originals and let you know what I find…if someone doesn’t get there first… ---
**Author:** ![pmwgreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@pmwgreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pmwgreen)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2001, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-white-question/56585/4 "2001-03-03T03:12:04Z")
There are definitely fairy tales entitled “Snow White and Rose Red”. Check your library for books by Andrew Lang. As I recall, and it’s a pretty vague memory, the stories didn’t have much resemblance to the Snow White story, other than the way all fairy stories seem to resemble each other. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2001, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-white-question/56585/5 "2001-03-03T03:13:58Z")
A google search for “snow white and rose red” turned up [Snow White and Rose Red](http://members.aol.com/rocketrder/frytales/snowhite/) It doesn’t seem to bear much resemblance to the Disney version of Snow White, but I’m not up on my fairy tales anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2001, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-white-question/56585/6 "2001-03-03T03:59:24Z")
I bought the book “Grimms Complete Book of Fairy Tales” and they have many different versions of the same fairy tale. For instance Hansel and Gretal were abandoned by their parents in the woods. Little Red Riding hood was called Little Red Cap in two of the three versions and so forth… ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2001, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-white-question/56585/7 "2001-03-03T04:12:08Z")
The two stories are urelated. In the Pantheon Books **The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales** , the story that Disney messed with is known as _Little Snow White_ and is listed as story #53. _Snow White and Rose Red_ is story #161.