The Snow Queen & The King of the Golden Mountain | English Fairy Tales & Bedtime Stories

The Snow Queen & The King of the Golden Mountain | English Fairy Tales & Bedtime Stories The devil, in the form of an evil troll, has made a magic mirror that distorts the appearance of everything that it reflects. The magic mirror fails to reflect the good and beautiful aspects of people and things and magnifies their bad and ugly aspects. The devil, who is headmaster at a troll school, takes the mirror and his pupils throughout the world, delighting in using it to distort everyone and everything. A fairy carried Heinel to a castle on a golden mountain. In the castle there lived a princess who had been turned into a snake by a wicked witch. The snake told Heinel, “I have been waiting for you. Please release me from the witch’s spell.” She told him that to free her he would have to undergo a lot of hardship. “Twelve men carrying steel chains will come every night to the castle. They will whip you. But you will have to bear it all without speaking a word for three nights.” Heinel agreed to challenge the men.