21-Frozen/The Snow Queen: Fearful Symmetry

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, History, Arts, Books

4.8 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

It's the original story of the Snow Queen, more commonly known as the source material for the hyper-popular Disney movie named "Frozen". The original, though, is incredibly different, and contains much more violence, kidnapping, and weirdness than the adaptation.
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Music
"Get Far" by Muddy Wires
"Threadbare Cashmere" by REW<<
"A Leaf in the Wind" by Coldnoise
"Morbid Imagination" by Kai Engel
"Baroque" by Jon Watts
"Snowfall" by Kai Engel
"Headlights/Mountain Road" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Tar and Spackle" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Wisteria" by Blue Dot Sessions

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0:00.0	This week, on the Myths and Legends podcast, it's the story of the Snow Queen,
0:04.7	the fairy tale that very loosely inspired Disney's Frozen. You'll see how children's entertainment
0:09.6	has changed over 170 years because this children's fairy tale contains demons, drowning, murder,
0:16.8	three kidnappings, and a delightful little sociopath who just wants a friend.
0:22.2	Then, on the creature of the week, I don't even need to tell you that if you see a
0:25.9	moss-covered log with wings or a guy with a blue face and green hair, maybe avoid them if they're
0:31.6	beckoning you into the river. This is the Myths and Legends podcast, Episode 21, The
0:42.4	Air Full Symmetry. This is a podcast where I tell stories that have shaped cultures throughout
0:50.9	history. Some are incredibly popular stories you think you know, but with surprising origins.
0:56.2	Others are stories you probably haven't heard, but really should. This week, it's one of those
1:00.8	popular stories with a surprising origin. I'm celebrating the fact that everything is frozen here
1:04.8	in the Northern Hemisphere, or at least in upstate New York, by telling the story that inspired
1:09.1	Disney's Frozen. The story is called the Snow Queen, an inspired old friend, and much
1:14.4	maligned in a storyteller Hans Christian Anderson. Moderately long-time listeners of the podcast
1:20.0	were remembered that he was the writer of the original Little Mermaid, a fairy tale that I was
1:23.2	perhaps a little bit too hard on. The funny thing about the stories of Hans Christian Anderson
1:28.3	is that they really aren't technically folk tales. He made up the Little Mermaid and the story
1:32.8	today. They are absolutely fairy tales to do their inclusion of fantastical supernatural elements.
1:38.8	I'll jump right into the story, you really don't need any background, other than the fact that it
1:42.1	takes place in the 1800s and is gaining a avian country. And that's about it. One day there was
1:47.6	a little hobgoblin. Some interpretations say he was the devil and others that he was just a little
1:52.2	imp. He's called a troll in places and sitting at his school one day because he absolutely ran a
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