If a piece of the magic mirror gets stuck in someone's heart, it makes that person become hard-hearted and cold. If people get one of those tiny pieces of magic mirror stuck in one of their eyes, they see the world as a horribly ugly place. Some of the pieces are as small as a grain of sand and are carried by winds around the world.

Each of the pieces retains the same power which the complete mirror once had.

However, as the trolls get closer to Heaven and God, the mirror begins to shake violently before breaking into millions of pieces. After all the people on Earth have been made to look at their hideously distorted reflections, the trolls decide to take the mirror up to Heaven and make the angels gaze into it also. A group of trolls take the mirror around the world. Everything which is evil or ugly appears greatly magnified in the mirror. The mirror's distorted reflections make everything which is good or beautiful appear small and insignificant. 19th century illustration by Vilhelm Pedersen.Ī wicked troll (possibly the Devil himself) creates a magic mirror. The trolls try to carry the magic mirror up to Heaven. Lewis in the writing of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and the creation of the character of the White Witch.

'The Snow Queen' is also likely to have influenced C.S. There have been numerous adaptations of the story to other media, including live-action and animated films and television programs, stage plays, musicals, operas and ballets. Gerda goes off on a long quest in search of her friend and has many adventures along the way. Kay is carried off to the Snow Queen's faraway palace. It then becomes easy for the Snow Queen, who rules over snowflakes as a queen bee rules over bees, to abduct the boy.

After tiny fragments of a magic mirror become lodged in one of Kay's eyes and his heart, his personality begins to change and he starts to turn cold. The main characters in the story are two friends, a boy named Kay and a girl named Gerda. 'The Snow Queen' is also one of Andersen's best known and most popular tales, often appearing in anthologies of children's stories. It is divided into seven sections, which may be called 'chapters', 'parts' or 'stories' depending on the translation. It first appeared n print on Decemas part of the anthology New Fairy Tales First Volume Second Collection 1845. 'The Snow Queen' (Danish: 'Sneedronningen') is a children's fantasy story by Hans Christian Andersen. 2011 Ukrainian postage stamps which depict scenes from 'The Snow Queen'.

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