The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe popular English folklore. There are several parallels between the White Witch and the immortal white queen, Ayesha, of H. Rider Haggard's "She", a novel greatly admired by C. S. Lewis. "The Story of the Amulet" written by Edith Nesbit also contains scenes that can be considered precursors to sequences presenting Jadis, particularly in "The Magician's Nephew". Nesbit's short story "The Aunt and Amabel" includes the motif of a girl entering a wardrobe to gain access to a magical place. The freeing of Aslan's body from the stone table by field mice is reminiscent of Aesop's fable of "The Lion and
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1988 TV serial) hand over any humans (or 'Sons of Adam' and ' Daughters of Eve' as they are known) should they spot any in Narnia. The faun realises he cannot hand over Lucy to the evil Witch, having understood what humans are like once he met her. He guides her back to the lamp post and she returns back through the Wardrobe. Lucy tells her siblings of what she discovered in the wardrobe but they find nothing when they look. This, along with the fact that no time passed on Earth when Lucy entered the wardrobe, lead her siblings to believe that