The story that inspired this herbal & green tea blend.
Northern Lights
Brighten & Uplift
This simple but elegant tea is just the thing to brighten up the day and give the lift that is needed on a winter morning.
Ingredients: Green tea China gunpowder, ginger, spearmint, peppermint, mallow, ginger powdered.
The Tale of this Tea:
The Snow Queen
Once there were two children named Kay and Gerda who were the best of friends. They went everywhere together and cared very much for each other. But one day while watching the snow Kay was struck by two splinters of glass from a magic mirror that had been broken by sprites way up in the sky, one splinter went into his heart, the other into his eye. This caused Kay to feel very differently and see the world in way that made it ugly and strange. But neither he nor Gerda knew why, they didn’t know about the splinters of glass. Soon after this Kay met the Snow Queen, a cold and elegant woman in a large white sledge and she took him away to her palace. No one knew where Kay had gone, he seemed to have vanished. Gerda went to look for him and ended up going on a long adventure to find him, meeting many people and creatures along the way, many of whom helped her to find where Kay might be. She eventually met a band of robbers, one of whom is a girl her own age and they become friends. Gerda learns that Kay is being kept by the Snow Queen in her home in the frozen north of Lapland. The robbers have a reindeer who knows the way and the young robber girl sets Gerda off riding on the reindeer to find Kay. The reindeer is guided it’s way home to Lapland by the northern lights, the Aurora Borealis. Gerda arrives at the Snow Queens palace which is made of snow and wind, and lit by the northern lights. Inside Kay is nearly completely frozen. Gerda thinks he might be dead and cries tears over him. The tears fall on Kay and begin to thaw him out, the tears go into his eye and into his heart and dislodge the splinters of glass so that Kay remembers who he is again. Kay and Gerda leave the palace to get back home and as they do the signs of spring are arriving all around them. There are many books with versions of this story, which was written in 1845 by Hans Christian Andersen. One beautifully illustrated version of this story is found in: The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by P.J. Lynch