The Seven Dwarfs are a group of seven fictional dwarfs that appear in the 1812 fairy tale Snow White by the Brothers Grimm and other renditions and adaptations.
Six out of the seven Disney dwarfs (left to right: Sneezy, Bashful, Sleepy, Happy, Grumpy, Doc) – all but Dopey, who is just off-screen – walking on a log and singing "Heigh-Ho"
1930 Illustration by Otto Kubel depicting the seven dwarfs finding Snow White asleep
Walt Disney introducing his design of the dwarfs in the trailer of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Built during World War II, Doc, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, was named after one of the Seven Disney Dwarfs.
"Snow White" is a German fairy tale, first written down in the early 19th century. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection Grimms' Fairy Tales, numbered as Tale 53. The original German title was Sneewittchen; the modern spelling is Schneewittchen. The Grimms completed their final revision of the story in 1854, which can be found in the 1857 version of Grimms' Fairy Tales.
Schneewittchen by Alexander Zick
The fable's antagonist the Evil Queen with the protagonist Snow White as depicted in The Sleeping Snow White by Hans Makart (1872)
1. The Queen asks the magic mirror
2. Snow White in the forest