The image of the Snow Queen in fairy tales

The Snow Queen is the embodiment of a heartless mind, the main value in her kingdom is an icy and absolutely correct mind.
The image of the Snow Queen is repeatedly found in Scandinavian folklore. Most often, she is called the Ice Maiden. The strange and mysterious image of the cold, insensible mistress of the cold, apparently, was borrowed by the writer from northern myths, which just then, thanks to the research of German researchers, were widely let into cultural circulation. Ice Maiden, Ice Fairy, Snow Witch are classic characters of northern folklore.
This eerie and beautiful lady of the cold, blizzards and ice “was so lovely, so gentle, all of dazzling white ice and yet alive!”.
The kingdom of the Snow Queen can be imagined as an image of some afterlife – it is known that Andersen did not take any of the concepts of life after life as an example – the palaces of the Snow Queen are completely a figment of his imagination. The heroine is surrounded by symbols of death, lifeless spaces. “Cold, deserted, dead” in the Snow Queen’s garden: northern lights, eternal ice and snow. “Fun has never looked in here!” The possessions of the Snow Queen are not accessible to the sun’s rays. The sun as a source of life, heat and light was deified by all peoples of the world.