Here we come to the second stage of the fairy-tale where the creature seems so unmanageable in his physical aspect that some actor must be substituted who will embody the essence of him.

To properly illustrate the quarrel of the Mountain and the Squirrel, the steep height should quiver and heave and then give forth its personality in the figure of a vague smoky giant, capable of human argument, but with oak-roots in his hair, and Bun, perhaps, become a jester in squirrel's dress.
Or it may be our subject matter is a tall Dutch clock.

Father Time himself might emerge therefrom.

Or supposing it is a chapel, in a knight's adventure.

An angel should step from the carving by the door: a design that is half angel, half flower.