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Disney’s Frozen originally portrays the Snow Queen as a woman frightened by her power. But as the film goes on and she learns to control her abilities and it becomes clear that she has a good heart.

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Hans Christian Andersen’s Snow Queen barely appears in the story despite being the titular character. Her motives are unclear and left ambiguous leaving us wondering if she was good or bad

🖼️Polina Yakovleva

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THE SNOW QUEEN'S MIRROR makes anything good in the world appear bad & all that is evil & worthless seem attractive. If a fragment enters a person's eye they will see only faults, if a splinter enters a person's heart it will turn to ice
🎨T.Pym

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Today is the feast of St Nicholas, a 3rd century saint who sold all his possessions to help the poor. He was known for giving gifts in secret, such as putting coins in the shoes of those who left them out for him, and so became the inspiration for Santa Claus.

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In yuki-onna is a terrifying appearing on snowy winter nights. She glides across the snow with her blue lips & transparent skin. Her icy gaze can be deadly, and she will suck the life force out of you & leave you to die in the snow.

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These are a few of my favorite queens❄️

Vladislav Erko, Rudolf Koivu,
Artur Scheiner, Errol Le Cain

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"The Snowman" by Hans Christian Anderson is about a snowman falling in love with a wood-burning stove. He spends his days gazing longingly into the window of the house where the stove is. His only friend, a dog, warns him that he'll melt if he goes inside.

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The winter season has been associated with numerous deities - Greek god of winter, Boreas; Norse god, Ullr; Celtic goddesses Cailleach & Beira. Over time, the old gods and goddesses of winter transformed into Old Man Winter/ Jack Frost.


art: Baklaher

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Cinderella's sisters home from the ball, book plate from Blackie's "Popular Fairy Tales", pub. 1921. by John Hassall (1868-1948, English)

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"Snow-White and Rose-Red" are a charming and refreshingly happy pair of siblings from the Brothers Grimm:

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Grimms' "Little Brother and Little Sister" by Paul Meyerheim (1842-1915, German), from "Kinder- und Hausmärchen", pub. Bertelsmann, 1890

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Then joining hands to little hands
Would bid them cling together,
“For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather…”

~ The Goblin Market, Christina Rossetti

🎨 Victoriasmoon


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Morgan le Fay, King Arthur's sibling, is a seductress & enchantress. Morgan is an enemy of Arthur's, but reconciles with him at his death, helping conduct him to the Isle of Avalon. There, some say, she reigns with him as queen.

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Dog-headed Xolotl is the Aztec god of twins, and himself a twin born of the virgin Chīmalmā. The dark side of the evening star and of heavenly fire, his twin Quetzalcoatl far outshone him: and for that he would pay.

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The Pandavas are five warrior brothers who toil together in thr Mahabhatara, fighting an extended war against their cousins that, while they won, came at great personal cost: but they stayed true to each other.

🖼: Y. Yoshitani

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Beautiful illustrations by Beatriz Martín Vidal (b.1973, Spain) for “Hansel and Gretel”, a brother & sister abandoned in the woods who come across a delicious gingerbread house inhabited by a hungry witch. They must outwit her to survive...

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🌿👑🌿Aslan chose siblings from our world - Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy - to rule as kings and queens of Narnia, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis.

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Worm (or wyrm) dragons are the most wicked and devious dragons in Europe; they are serpents with four legs who grow big enough to coil around hills, they breathe out either fire or poison.
The most famous worm is probably the dragon from Beowulf.

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A tale about a swamp witch with a demon goat? Yes, please.


by Asya Yordanova

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