In fairy tales and folklore, she represents conflicting values: fertility and barrenness, life and death, erotic seduction and fatal rejection. ...the witch, broadly defined as a female1 human or human-like creature capable of magic feats, often embodies conflict. Cristina Bacchilega observes that such re-imaginings break the reader's horizon of expectation, creating an effect that is dependent on the reader's or viewer's acquaintance with the source text3 or the standard formulas and tropes of the genre (1997, 22-3). ...tales highlight, and potentially change or subvert, the content of the specific source text and the norms of the fairy-tale genre. In this postmodern trend of retellings, several adaptations attempt to rehabilitate the wicked fairy-tale witch. Besides Frozen, one might mention Gregory Maguire's 2007 novel Wicked, which has been adapted into an extremely successful Broadway musical, and the Disney liveaction movie Maleficent, an adaptation of Disney's animated classic Sleeping Beauty as other contemporary examples. ...only in the closing credits of Frozen is the adaptation peritextually acknowledged, as a "Story Inspired by 'The Snow Queen' by Hans Christian Andersen" (Frozen 2013).