The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1988 TV serial) sleigh bells and think it is the Witch. However, to their delight, it is not the Witch but Father Christmas who gives gifts to the children - for Peter, a sword and shield, for Susan a horn and bow and arrow and for Lucy a cordial and a dagger. Meanwhile, the Witch come across a group of animals sharing a Christmas feast and demands to know where they got it. A fox reveals that Father Christmas gave it to them for which they are turned into stone. Signs of the Witch's magic being weakened are evident when the snow melts,
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe beginning of the next year. Then everything changed. In his essay "It All Began With a Picture" Lewis continues: "At first I had very little idea how the story would go. But then suddenly Aslan came bounding into it. I think I had been having a good many dreams of lions about that time. Apart from that, I don't know where the Lion came from or why he came. But once he was there, he pulled the whole story together, and soon he pulled the six other Narnian stories in after him." The major ideas of the book echo lines