https://medium.com/history-of-women/snow-white-was-real-and-the-magic-mirror-was-creepy-and-weird-a74c0ccd29df
Mirror, mirror on the wall, creepiest wedding gift of all.
The “magic mirror” was constructed by the Mirror Manufacture of the Electorate of Mainz in Lohr. It was a gift from Snow White’s father to his new bride on the occasion of their marriage.
It wasn’t really magic, but for people in the 1700’s who had no idea how it worked — it might as well have been
It was a trick mirror. An acoustical wonder that reverberated back the voice of the person who spoke into it, in a deeper tone. Like an echo.
The Countess would stand at that mirror and muse upon her own beauty and the mirror repeated her words back to her in a deep and acoustically amazing voice. Like Disney magic. In the 1700s.
On the left side of the mirror were etched the words “amour propre”, which means “self love” — a subtle acknowledgement of her self obsessed vanity.
That mirror still hangs in Lohr Castle, which is now the Spessart Museum, and visitors to the museum can test out the mirror for themselves.
I don’t understand why he married her. But he did, and everything that happened to Maria Sophia after that, it’s all his fault. I’ll tell you what happened to her shortly.
But first? A couple of things you probably didn’t know…