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In “Little Snow White” by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm...

It’s not a poisoned apple, but a poisoned comb.

The Queen says
"Mirror, Mirror, on the wall,
Who in this land is fairest of all?"

The Queen eats what she thinks are Snow White's lungs.

The Queen dies by being forced into burning hot metal shoes until she falls down dead. Happy ending!

In "Cinderella" by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm...

She has no fairy Godmother. Instead, she plants a tree by her mother's grave from a twig her father gave her, and each day she goes to the tree and weeps, and a white bird comes and grants her one wish.

It is not mice that help her, but pigeons.

Cinderella's stepmother tells Cinderella that she can go to the dance if she can pick out 3 bowls of lentils from the fire in 3 hours.

She goes to the ball three times, not one, and flees from the prince by choice because she is embarrassed that she is a slave.

At first, her slippers are not glass, but fur. Then when she goes to the ball the third time, her shoes are of pure gold.

One of the step sisters cuts off her toe to be able to fit into the shoe.

The fairy tale ends with the step sisters getting their eyes pecked out by pigeons.

The six gifts given by the fairies are:

Beauty
A sweet temper
Grace, in words and actions
Singing
Dancing
Playing music

In "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Andersen...

The Sea Witch literally cuts out her tongue in exchange for legs.

Every step she takes on land feels like she is stepping on sharp shards of glass.

If she fails to marry the prince in three days, she will die.

If she cannot marry the prince and does not wish to die, she can murder him instead and turn back into a mermaid.

Since the prince marries someone else and she won't kill him, she jumps into the sea and turns into sea foam. THE END!

In "Sleeping Beauty" by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm...

There are 7 fairies. One, the old fairy, is not invited because they didn't have enough gold plates and silverware.

The six gifts given by the fairies are:

Beauty
A sweet temper
Grace, in words and actions
Singing
Dancing
Playing music

She is to fall asleep on her 17th birthday, not 16th.

She falls asleep for a hundred years, not a few days.

While she is asleep, a king stops by her castle, breaks in (view spoiler)[and rapes her (hide spoiler)].

She wakes up while giving birth because one of the twins she birthed sucked the poison out of her finger. (Wait… how did that work? o.O)

The king (view spoiler)[who raped her (hide spoiler)] had already been married. His wife gets jealous and tries to cook and eat the twins Aurora gave birth to.

She also tries to burn Aurora at stake.

Despite all of this, Aurora and the king fall in love and live happily ever after…..

In "Beauty and the Beast" by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve...

Beauty, (yes, that is her name), has three sisters. When her father leaves, he asks each of them what they want. Beauty asks for a single rose.

When the Beast finds the merchant stealing one of his roses, he threatens to kill him. The merchant goes home and gets his daughter, Beauty, in exchange for himself. (It's his idea, not hers).

The Beast becomes fond of Beauty and doesn't kill her, but forces her to stay with him forever.

Years pass, and the Beast asks her to marry him. Beauty rejects him. Later when the Beast dies, Belle says she will marry him, and he comes back to life.

In "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen...

The story is about a brother and sister, Kay and Gerda, whose kingdom has been affected by a magical broken mirror.

The character Anna combines the two siblings. Gerda has the personality of Anna and goes to search for Kay, but Kay is the one who has his heart shattered (or, in the movie, frozen).

When Kay's heart is shattered, he forgets everything about his home and goes to live with an evil witch called the Snow Queen.

There are no trolls, only one goblin who created the evil mirror.

Anna's sidekicks are not a reindeer and a snowman, but two ravens and a flock of pigeons.

The inspiration for Sven comes from the reindeer, Bae, owned by a robber girl that Gerda meets in the woods.

The Snow Queen is a combined series of six different short stories.