OK, So I was reading something on the Internet and came across this aMAZZZZZZing fact: the real names of the Seven Dwarfs. It wasn’t until a Broadway play in 1912, a full century after the Brother’s Grimm fairy tale first appeared, that the gentlemen were given individual names: Blick, Flick, Glick, Plick, Snick, Whick, and Quee. Wait… what?
In actual fact, the Seven Dwarfs are anonymous in the Grimms’ 1812 story. You can probably name them all, or at least get to six and spend the rest of the day scratching your head and desperately trying to remember the seventh.
It wasn’t until the Disney film in 1937 that the better known names Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey came into existence.
Doc is the only dwarf whose name is not an adjective. Not long after Disney’s Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, a famous rabbit by the name of Bugs Bunny would start saying ‘What’s up, doc?’, though this is presumably unrelated.
So, what is the purpose of this blog post: informational, only informational. Fairy tales are good to think with.