Snopes is a very lefty site. I don’t use them. Like all leftys, they lie. It’s probably not a true story but I still hate Snopes. Besides,why do you care if it’s true?
The reason I care is that fiction should be identified as such, before people start going around and believing everything that they find in their inboxes.
Well, you do have somewhat of a couple of points. I mistrust Snopes as well, for general reasons, but then again Wikipedia is often used as a source and they are not the greatest resource in the world.
Plus, I happen to have fond memories of several Hans Christian Anderson tales, but then again they were never meant to be taken as Gospel, so this story went quickly from a Good Remembrance to a Nice Thought once the possibility of a mere imagining came up.
I will leave it to others to peruse the search engines and determine its validity...