A Hobgoblin of the Very Worst Kind

One of my offspring is quite attached to a podcast in which a woman very nicely reads (pleasingly unvarnished and unbowdlerised) fairy tales and classic children's stories. One of them is Hans Christian Anderson's The Snow Queen . If you don't know The Snow Queen , it's framed by a sort of story-within-a-story in which an evil spirit has created a looking glass which causes everything to be…