Editing Snow White (section)

===Variants and parallels to other tales===
This tale type is widespread in Europe, in America, in Africa<ref>{{cite book|last=Thompson |first=Stith |author-link=Stith Thompson |title=The Folktale |publisher=University of California Press |year=1977 |page=124 |isbn=0-520-03537-2|quote=The tale [type 709, "Snow White"] appears without great variation over a considerable area—from Ireland to Asia Minor and well down into central Africa.}}</ref> and "in some Turkic traditions,"<ref>{{cite book |last1=Haney |first1=Jack V. |title=The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev, Volume II |date=2015 |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-4968-0275-0 |pages=536–556 }}</ref> the Middle East, in China, in India and in the Americas.<ref name="Meder, Theo 1997. p. 336">Meder, Theo. "Sneeuwwitje". In: ''Van Aladdin tot Zwaan kleef aan. Lexicon van sprookjes: ontstaan, ontwikkeling, variaties''. 1ste druk. Ton Dekker & Jurjen van der Kooi & Theo Meder. Kritak: Sun. 1997. p. 336.</ref> Jörg Bäcker draws a parallel to Turkic tales, as well as other tales with a separate origin but overlapping themes, such as those in Central Asia and Eastern Siberia, among the Mongolians and Tungusian peoples.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bäcker |first1=Jörg |title=Zhaos Mergen und Zhanglîhuâ Katô. Weibliche Initiation, Schamanismus und Bärenkult in einer daghuro-mongolischen Schneewittchen-Vorform |trans-title=Zhaos Mergen and Zhanglîhuâ Katô. Female initiation, shamanism and bear cult in a Daghuro-Mongolian Snow White precursor |language=de |journal=Fabula |date=1 December 2008 |volume=49 |issue=3–4 |pages=288–324 |doi=10.1515/FABL.2008.022 |s2cid=161591972 }}</ref> Due to Portuguese colonization, Sigrid Schmidt posits the presence of the tale in modern times in former Portuguese colonies, and contrasts it with other distinct African tales.<ref name="Schmidt2008">{{cite journal |last1=Schmidt |first1=Sigrid |title=Snow White in Africa |journal=Fabula |date=1 December 2008 |volume=49 |issue=3–4 |pages=268–287 |doi=10.1515/FABL.2008.021 |s2cid=161823801 }}</ref>