The Snow Queen (1)

The Snow Queen (1)

There was once a wicked troll, a very wicked troll, the wickedest of trolls, who made a magic mirror.

Everything good and beautiful reflected in the mirror shrank to to nothing, and everything ugly and useless looked much worse and much bigger. 

Kind people's faces looked foolish and warped, and good thoughts always make them look even worse.

The other trolls carried the mirror from country to country to mock at everything there, and at last they carried it up to the sky.

BUt the higher they they went the more the magic mirror grinned, until they dropped it.

The mirror broke into millions an dbillions of pieces.

Some as small as a grain of sand, and these flew about in the air and got into people's eyes so that they saw only the evil in the world.

If a piece of mirror got into someone's heart, the heart turned to ice.

If a piece of mirror was made into spectacles, the person was never able to see properly and judge things well.

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