As John Davis's music points out, "fairytale" is a semi ominous/semi mysterious conjuring of the long ago, and far away, as rendered in the illustrations for Kingsleys water babies 1863.

There are no cardboard witches or villains, (This is not a Disney thing), only a spirit of the frozen north. The central character is the water baby, who is an inactive watcher of the action. And the action portrays whatever leaps into the viewer's mind.

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