Mick Hartley

The Archbishop of Canterbury has dismissed the seven dwarves as nothing but “legend”:

There was scant evidence for the dwarves, and none at all that there were seven of them, or that they were of restricted growth, he said. All the evidence that existed was in Grimms fairy tale. The Archbishop said: “The original story doesn’t tell us there were seven of them, doesn’t tell us they were dwarves, doesn’t tell us where they came from. It says they are miners, short, strangers from somewhere outside Germany, that’s all we’re really told.” Anything else was legend. “It works quite well as legend,” the Archbishop said.

Further, there was no evidence that there were any bluebirds or bunny rabbits in the cottage. The chances of any snow falling around the little house in the forest were “very unlikely”. And as for the stepmother talking to the mirror: the Archbishop pointed out that stepmothers just don’t behave like that.