 When king Jozef is annoyed by one of Kulderzipkens invented adventures, he issues a law that whales, as in his latest story, never existed. He soon has worse worries when his niece Hildegarde arrives from the North Pole, a witch who is terribly addicted to cold, and announces to take lodging in the castle for a few freezing years. An attempt by the Grimms to convert a bird- into a witch-chasing machine only gets them joined into a scarecrow. The spell by the mother of the devil to turn her into a beetle is simply turned on herself. Kulderzipken is everybody s last hope- his humble charm pleases  auntie  witch enough to lure her into the basement, claiming it to be the coldest ice cellar, but actually locks her into the fireplace, where her magic fails, till she promises to behave and revert her spells.