"Thumbelina" was a story from "Andersen's Fairy Tales."
Once upon a time, there was a woman who desperately wanted a tiny child, but she had no idea how to obtain one, so she went to ask a witch.
The witch gave her a magical seed resembling a grain of wheat and told her to plant it in a flowerpot.
When the tulip-like flower bloomed, Thumbelina was born from its bud.
The story also explained that Thumbelina was first kidnapped by a mother toad and her son, then took refuge in a mole's home after escaping, where she faced a political marriage with the mole.
At the moment of despair, the swallow she had once helped flew with her to the Kingdom of Flowers, where she met a flower fairy prince whose size matched hers.
In the end, the prince became king, Thumbelina became his queen, and the two lived happily together.
But that wasn't important. What mattered was the process by which Thumbelina was born!
Muggles couldn't see it, but only the Truth Seekers of the Hermetic Society could understand. That was true advanced witchcraft.
Hidden within it was none other than the former ultimate achievement of Create Life, a miracle of creation—the crown and Holy Grail, the Homunculus, or Artificial Life!
Among these was a miniature artificial human cultivated through artificial means in a flask or another container: a "little person in a bottle" possessing life and even supernatural abilities.
Thumbelina was actually a species of "little person in a bottle."
"I previously refined the Butterfly Spirit, the Palio Fairy, and it had some similarities to Thumbelina.
"The difference was that the previous Palio Fairy was merely a Low Bronze creation, and its species was the Butterfly Spirit, a type of fairy.
"But this 'Thumbelina' is a Low Silver