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| - Snow Maiden is a Boss that is aligned to the Hero faction. Villains can find her on the second portion of the Steal Outbreak from Lost mission from The Radio for levels 10-14.
- In Eastern Slavic (Russian, Ukranian, Belorussian) folklore, the granddaughter of Father Frost. She appears in several Russian fairy tales. In one story, she falls in love with a shepherd, but she cannot love because her heart is cold. Her mother (Spring) takes pity on her and allows her to love. When she is able to love, her heart grows warm and she melts. In another story, an elderly couple make a young girl out of snow. Other young girls invite her to play with them. One time, when they are walking in the woods, they make a small fire and decide to take turns jumping over it. When the Snow Maiden jumps over it, she evaporated into a cloud of vapor. Her name in Russian is Snegurochka
- Snegurochka, often rendered in English as Snow Maiden, is a figure from slavic folklore.
- The snow maiden is a creature in Might & Magic: Heroes VI. It is an Elite creature of the Sanctuary faction, and its upgraded version is the yuki-onna.
- The character has multiple origins: The first, a version of a folk tale about a girl made of snow and named Snegurka was published in 1869 by Alexander Afanasyev in the second volume of his work The Poetic Outlook on Nature by the Slavs, where he also mentions the German analog, Schneekind ("Snow Child"). In this version, childless Russian peasants Ivan and Marya make a snow doll, which comes alive. This version was later included by Louis Léger in Contes Populaires Slaves in 1882. Snegurka grows up quickly. A group of girls invite her for a walk in the woods, after which they make a small fire and take turns leaping over it; in some variants, this is on St. John's Day, and a St. John's Day tradition. When Snegurka's turn comes, she starts to jump, but only gets halfway before evaporating
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| - Snow Maiden is a Boss that is aligned to the Hero faction. Villains can find her on the second portion of the Steal Outbreak from Lost mission from The Radio for levels 10-14.
- In Eastern Slavic (Russian, Ukranian, Belorussian) folklore, the granddaughter of Father Frost. She appears in several Russian fairy tales. In one story, she falls in love with a shepherd, but she cannot love because her heart is cold. Her mother (Spring) takes pity on her and allows her to love. When she is able to love, her heart grows warm and she melts. In another story, an elderly couple make a young girl out of snow. Other young girls invite her to play with them. One time, when they are walking in the woods, they make a small fire and decide to take turns jumping over it. When the Snow Maiden jumps over it, she evaporated into a cloud of vapor. Her name in Russian is Snegurochka
- The character has multiple origins: The first, a version of a folk tale about a girl made of snow and named Snegurka was published in 1869 by Alexander Afanasyev in the second volume of his work The Poetic Outlook on Nature by the Slavs, where he also mentions the German analog, Schneekind ("Snow Child"). In this version, childless Russian peasants Ivan and Marya make a snow doll, which comes alive. This version was later included by Louis Léger in Contes Populaires Slaves in 1882. Snegurka grows up quickly. A group of girls invite her for a walk in the woods, after which they make a small fire and take turns leaping over it; in some variants, this is on St. John's Day, and a St. John's Day tradition. When Snegurka's turn comes, she starts to jump, but only gets halfway before evaporating into a small cloud. Andrew Lang included this version as "Snowflake" in The Pink Fairy Book in 1897. In another story, she is the daughter of Spring the Beauty and Father Frost, and yearns for the companionship of mortal humans. She grows to like a shepherd named Lel, but her heart is unable to know love. Her mother takes pity and gives her this ability, but as soon as she falls in love, her heart warms and she melts. This version of the story was made into a play The Snow Maiden by Aleksandr Ostrovsky, with incidental music by Tchaikovsky in 1873. In 1878, the composer Ludwig Minkus and the balletmaster Marius Petipa staged a ballet adaptation of Snegurochka titled The Daughter of the Snows for the Tsar's Imperial Ballet. The tale was also adapted into an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov titled The Snow Maiden: A Spring Fairy Tale in 1880–81. In the late Russian Empire, another origin for her came about. Snegurochka was part of the Christmas celebration, in the form of figurines to decorate the fir tree and a character in children's pieces. At this time, Snegurochka became known as the granddaughter of Ded Moroz (the Russian Santa Claus) and became his helper. In “The Little People of the Snow,” the Snow Maiden is a fairy character who befriends a mortal girl named Eva and guides her through the snow; however, the Snow Maiden forgets that a mortal cannot withstand the low temperatures in which she thrives and is horrified when Eva perishes. This is a reversal of the usual storyline, in which the Snow Maiden survives but her loved one dies. In “The Snow‐Maiden: A Legend of the Alps,” a man meets and falls in love with an adult Snow‐Maiden who introduces herself as Niègette. When he attempts to carry her from her snowy mountainous home to wed her, she gradually melts into nothingness. In “The Secret,” a man has obsessive visions of the Snow‐Maiden and sets off to find her, but when he finally meets her, her gaze freezes and kills him. In a number of poems, the Snow Maiden is little more than an allegorical personification of snow. The character Miss Snow serves a similar function in The Christmas Chain. According to the 1864 poem “The Snow Maiden,” “Her shoulders bare, gleamed white, / And were bright, but cold to see; / The curve of her shape was wavy / As snow‐wreaths curling free. // Icicles were her eyes, / And her body glittered fair; / What, but wreaths on the frosted pane, / Could gleam as gleamed her hair?” The 1877 poem of the same title describes her as “A dainty maid … / All in a feathery robe of white, / Decked o’er with green and berries bright; / And round about her braided hair / A wreath of myrtle doth she wear,” and says she “sings a song for men to hear, / Of purity and purpose high, / And deeds of unknown chivalry.” The 1921 poem “The Fir Tree and the Snow” describes her as the tree’s “fair white bride” wearing a “fleecy gown,” and that “Her robe was white as the folds of a shroud.” The Japanese version of the character is the snow spirit Yuki‐Onna, who can kill mortals by breathing on them.
- Snegurochka, often rendered in English as Snow Maiden, is a figure from slavic folklore.
- The snow maiden is a creature in Might & Magic: Heroes VI. It is an Elite creature of the Sanctuary faction, and its upgraded version is the yuki-onna.
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