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 Lyin', the Watch and the Wardrobe The Lyin', the Watch and the Wardrobe "The Lyin', the Watch and the Wardrobe" is an episode from the dramedy series "Ugly Betty", which aired on October 26, 2006. Internationally, it is the sixth episode overall, but in the United States and Australia it aired as the fifth due to the delayed airing of "Swag." The episode name is a play on words of the novel and subsequent film titled "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" in the "Chronicles of Narnia" series, which incidentally was produced by The Walt Disney Company, the parent company of "Ugly Betty"s co-producers, ABC