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) Lucy has been lying. Peter and Susan kindly try to get Lucy to admit that it was "just a story", while Edmund makes spiteful comments like "found any new countries in the wardrobe?". A few days later, during a game of hide and seek, Lucy returns to the wardrobe and Edmund, the second youngest, and by far the most volatile of the four children, follows her. To Edmund's shock, he finds that Lucy was telling the truth about the country in the back of the wardrobe, but Lucy is nowhere to be seen when he enters Narnia. He carries on