Editing Snow White (section)

====Belgium and the Netherlands====
A [[Flemish Region|Flemish]] version from [[Antwerp]] collected by Victor de Meyere is quite similar to the version collected by the brothers Grimm. The heroine is called Sneeuwwitje (Snow White in Dutch), she is the queen's stepdaughter, and the stepmother questions a mirror. Instead of dwarfs, the princess is taken in by seven [[kabouter]]s. Instead of going to kill Snow White herself, the queen twice sends the witch who had sold her the magic mirror to kill Sneeuwwitje, first with a comb and the second time with an apple. But the most significant difference is that the role of the prince in this version is instead Snow White's father, the king.<ref>{{cite book |last1=de Meyere |first1=Victor |title=De Vlaamsche vertelselschat. Deel 2 |date=1927 |publisher=De Sikkel |location=Antwerpen |pages=272–279 |url=https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/meye015vlaa04_01/meye015vlaa04_01_0094.php |access-date=23 June 2021 |language=nl|chapter=CLXXX. Sneeuwwitje}}</ref>

Another Flemish variant, this one from [[Hamme, Belgium|Hamme]], differs more from Grimm's story. The one who wants to kill the heroine, called here Mauricia, is her own biological mother. She is convinced by a demon with a spider head that if her daughter dies, she will become beautiful. The mother sends two servants to kill Mauricia, bringing as proof a lock of her hair, a bottle with her blood, a piece of her tongue and a piece of her clothes. The servants spare Mauricia's life, as well as her pet sheep. To deceive Mauricia's mother, they buy a goat and bring a bottle with the animal's blood as well as a piece of his tongue. Meanwhile, Mauricia is taken in by seventeen robbers who live in a cave deep in the forest, instead of seven dwarfs. When Mauricia's mother discovers that her daughter is still alive, she goes to the robbers' cave disguised. She turns her daughter into a bird, and she takes her place. The plan fails and Mauricia recovers her human form, so the mother tries to kill her by using a [[magic ring]] which the demon gave her. Mauricia is awoken when a prince takes the ring off her finger. When he asks her if he would marry her, she rejects him and returns with the seventeen robbers.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Roelans |first1=J |editor1-last=de Mont |editor1-first=Pol |editor2-last=de Cock |editor2-first=Alphons |title=Wondervertelsels uit Vlaanderen |date=1924 |publisher=W. J. Thieme & CIE |location=Zutphen |pages=313–319 |edition=2 |url=https://www.delpher.nl/nl/boeken/view?coll=boeken&identifier=MMKB02:000121944:00399 |access-date=29 June 2021 |language=nl|chapter=XLI. Mauricia}}</ref><ref>Lox, Harlinda ''Flämische Märchen'' Munich: Diederichs 1999 p. 36 nº 11</ref>