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The Tinder-Box – Hans Christian Andersen. The Tinder-Box is actually a fairy story, and contains those trappings of fairy-tales: a witch, a downtrodden marine, copper, silver, golden, three guardians, and a princess trapped in a structure and a king who has spotted the relationship unfavorably prophesied to–you got it–a typical soldier

The Tinder-Box – Hans Christian Andersen. The Tinder-Box is actually a fairy story, and contains those trappings of fairy-tales: a witch, a downtrodden marine, copper, silver, golden, three guardians, and a princess trapped in a structure and a king who has spotted the relationship unfavorably prophesied to–you got it–a typical soldier

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So this soldier happens to be going back property form the wars as he appear upon a witch that requests him or her to travel on to an enormous tree. Continue reading “The Tinder-Box – Hans Christian Andersen. The Tinder-Box is actually a fairy story, and contains those trappings of fairy-tales: a witch, a downtrodden marine, copper, silver, golden, three guardians, and a princess trapped in a structure and a king who has spotted the relationship unfavorably prophesied to–you got it–a typical soldier”