Beauitful as an ice crystal, the fairy called the Snow Queen was much loved by the Danish children but dangerous to those whose love she returned .

An old tale tells how this was so. Once, on a cold winter's day in a northern city, a small boy sat in his little attic room watching the snowflakes blow against the window pane .A particularly large and lacy flake stuck to the glass and caught his eye.It glittered and spread across the pane until it took the shape of a tall woman  hovering in the winter air.

Smiling ,radiantly,she beckoned to the boy through the glass, then disappeared . Entranced , he ran  down the stairs and  out into  the street .There he found the Snow Queen  -  for it was she -awaiting him in a white sledge drawn by white horses.

She gave him her hand, and he climbed into the sledge among the snowy furs that filled it.At once the sledge began to move, tearing through the winter streets and climbing into the air.     Over the ditches and the hedgerows they flew, with the snow driving in their faces.As they soared,  the Queen put her icy lips to the little boy's forehead and he felt a chill that pierced to his heart.
But the fairy only smiled and urged the horses on .
At last the wild ride ended at the fairy's winter palace, set on a plain of ice in Lapland.  

The boy  might have remained for-ever as the shivering inmate of the Snow Queen's palace. But in Denmark he had a friend who loved him dearly, a little girl who all alone searched the wide world  until she found him.

Her adventures are the stuff of another tale.

What matters is that, invincible in her fidelity, she rescued her companion and returned him to the gentle sun. 

As for the Snow Queen, alone in her wind-swept, frozen halls, she wept icy tears and waited for the chance to find another child. 

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