Once upon a time, the queen of a certain kingdom was barren. Though she wished it more than anything, she could not have a child. She kept her sadness hidden in songs and kindness, but the king could discern her suffering through the smiles.

For years, she kept her tears to herself, her heart secretly praying for her long-desired child.

One day on the feast of candle moss, a crow perched in a tree just above her in the garden.

Startled in her mending, the queen pricked her finger, and a drop of her blood fell on to the pristine snow.

She knew at that moment that she would have a child, that her prayers had been answered.

She would give birth to the most beautiful girl in the world, with skin as white as the virgin snow, with lips as red as blood,

and with hair as black as coal.

This is Jonathan Pajot. Welcome to the symbolic world. So hello, everyone. I'm very excited today because we are going to present you the Snow White Project, which is coming out on Kickstarter next week, June 6th. As you know, I started working. We've been working on in this for several months with Heather Pollington, who's here with me. And so I'm, you know, we're all both really nervous because this is like our little baby

that we've been working on for a long time.

And, you know, in some ways we're really doing something that is both very strange and

surprising, but then also something which is a fairy tale, like a fairy tale like everybody

knows about. So what we want to do

is we want to go through some of the reasons why we're doing this, why we're doing Snow White,

you know, why we're also doing this series of fairy tales and why we're doing it now. So first of all,

Heather, thanks for joining me. You're welcome. It's good to be here. Yeah.

And so Heather and I, we met several months ago before we did the Snow White Project.

You know, she helped me with the rebranding of the symbolic world, as you know.

And I told her about this project that I was working on.

And so for several years now, I've been thinking about fairy tales. I've been thinking about them very much inside the symbolic world, comparing them to Bible stories, comparing them to myth,

and realizing to what extent, you know, there's just a range, there's just a scale between

Bible stories, myths, and fairy tales. They're really of the same nature.

It's just that some are more fantastical. You know, fairy tales can be more whimsical, fantastical.

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