The Real Inspiration for Frozen
The Snow Queen of Siberia
Hans Christian Andersen’s Snow Queen — the icy inspiration for Frozen — wasn’t born from magic alone. Scholars believe Andersen drew from tales of Siberian shamans and “ice maidens” discovered buried in frozen tombs, preserved for thousands of years.
When explorers unearthed one such mummy in the 1990s, locals said she was a witch-queen whose spirit brought blizzards. The day after her excavation, a violent snowstorm hit the region, cutting off communications for days.
The real “Elsa,” it seems, wasn’t a misunderstood princess — she was a frozen legend whose awakening came with a price.
About the Creator
Keep reading
More stories from GoldenSpeech and writers in Chapters and other communities.
The Real Pocahontas
Disney turned Pocahontas into a love story between a native princess and an English explorer. The truth is much darker. The real Pocahontas was about 11 or 12 when she met John Smith. There was no romance — but later, she was kidnapped by English colonists, converted to Christianity, renamed Rebecca, and forced to marry a settler named John Rolfe.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
Fair Exchange, No Robberies
Dark Memoirs - Index There are at least two kinds of people in the world: those who write this half-arsed kind of intro to a story that looks to separate the rare and the norm, and those who realise it's an overused framing device and don't.
By Paul Stewart10 days ago in Chapters
Kapow Life And Hobbies Galore
As Christmas just ended how busy was it for you? or have you had it yet for you and your family, do you celebrate it? Even if you do or if you don't life is still really busy this time of year. Not that life isn’t busy every other time of year too, it just feels so much more busy during the Christmas season, wouldn’t you agree? But it isn’t busy with hobbies and living as much as we would like it to be but it could be. Now I know you are probably wondering how this can be so, well it can be so with a mindset shift, what this means is yes this time of year might be busy, but there are ways to make sure that it doesn’t overwhelm us. We can decide to take fifteen or twenty minute breaks every hour just to give us some time to relax and regroup. That is where hobbies can be placed, or we might even have hobbies that we just do during the christmas season. Like watching Christmas movies or playing games, or getting out and building snowmen if it snows where you are and there is enough snow on the ground to do so. We might even just want to relax and watch Christmas movies as a hobby knowing how busy the next few weeks are going to be with Christmas and New years right around the corner.
By Louise Barraco3 days ago in Chapters
Comments
There are no comments for this story
Be the first to respond and start the conversation.