LuluBearDesigns In reply to granddragoonknight [2015-10-25 06:26:06 +0000 UTC]
I'm Canadian, I just do research. Lol.
The Snow Queen*: "The devil makes a mirror that makes everything good/beautiful, evil/ugly, and vice versa. The mirror breaks while it's being carried up to heaven to mock God, and the shards and splinters fall all over the earth. Getting a sliver in your eye means you'll see everything distorted, while a sliver in your heart means that your heart will turn to ice.
Kai and Gerda are neighbors, and they always play together. Old Grandmother tells them about the Snow Queen, who appears during snowstorms. Kai gets evil-mirror-slivers in both his eyes and heart, so he starts being nasty to Gerda. While out sledding, Kai ties his sled to a bigger sled, which turns out to belong to the Snow Queen. She's insanely beautiful, and when she kisses him, he longer feels the cold. Cuz he's all warm and fuzzy inside.
Gerda goes to look for Kai, and throws her red shoes into the river in case it had claimed him. But she ends up floating along the river until she reaches an old woman's garden. The old woman treats her like a daughter, and all the flowers there tell Gerda their stories. The roses believe that Kai is not dead because they haven't seen him underground, so she continues her quest.
A crow tells Gerda about a boy with shining hair who goes to a city and marries a princess. Convinced that it's Kai, Gerda gets into the palace, only to find that it's some prince she doesn't know. The prince and princess are sympathetic, though, so they outfit her with a fab carriage with some attendants and send her on her way.
Robbers attack the carriage and kill everyone but Gerda. A robber girl takes a liking to Gerda, and keeps her as a pet. When Gerda tells her about Kai, the robber girl decides to let her go, and puts on her on the back of a reindeer, who can bring her farther north, to where the Snow Queen lives.
The reindeer stops at the hut of a Lapp woman, who sends them to a Finnish woman. The Finnish woman instructs the reindeer to bring Gerda to the Snow Queen's garden and leave her there, because Gerda's innocence is her strength. As Gerda walks into the garden, tiny angels appear to warm her bare hands and feet and defend her from the Snow Queen's guards.
While Kai's been chillin' at the Snow Queen's, he's been playing with ice crystals and convincing himself that it's Serious Business. Gerda shows up, weeps on him, and her tears melt the ice splinters in his eyes and heart. They go home, encountering the Lapp and Finnish women, the robber girl, and the reindeer. It's spring when they get home and greet the Grandmother, and they realize that they've grown up. Egads, adulthood!" - Andersen's Fairy Tales 21 -30 Summary, www.shmoop.com/hans-christian-…
*The story is broken up into 7 different books.
The Snow Princess: "She is the daughter of Spring the Beauty (Весна-Красна) and Ded Moroz, and yearns for the companionship of mortal humans. She grows to like a shepherd named Lel, but her heart is unable to know love. Her mother takes pity and gives her this ability, but as soon as she falls in love, her heart warms and she melts." - Snegurochka on Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneguroc… ;
Only in regards to Rie's mother, who was the original Snow Princess/Snegurochka, it was more similar to the children's book by Ruth Sanderson. The change from the story above, is that instead of her heart melting after given the ability to fall in love, she was instead turned mortal and will die. However, my twist is that Rie's mother didn't die of old age, she died because her "true" love proved untrue; he left her when they learned she was pregnant. Rie carries a curse within her, built the same way her mother's did.
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