INKTOBER DAY 28 - GIFT + The Little MermaidThe Little Mermaid is a story written in 1837 by Hans Chr
INKTOBER DAY 28 - GIFT + The Little MermaidThe Little Mermaid is a story written in 1837 by Hans Christian Andersen. She’s the daughter of a Sea King who fell in love with the world above. One day The Little Mermaid saves a prince from drowning in the ocean and safely delivers him to the shores of a temple where a beautiful girl finds him and he never knows that it was the Little Mermaid who saved him. Because she’s in love with the prince and the world above, she decides to visit the Sea Witch and ask her if she can give her human legs and immortal soul. The Witch gives her a magical potion in exchange for her tongue and her beautiful voice, but says that every step she’ll take will feel like thousand knives stabbing her feet and if the prince marries someone else, she won’t gain an immortal soul and will turn to seafoam the morning after the prince is married. The Little Mermaid drinks the potion and is soon discovered by the prince who’s enchanted by her beauty and her dancing and she becomes his favourite person to be with. However, his parents want him to marry a princess from a neighbouring kingdom, and he agrees to that as soon as he finds out she’s the girl that found him in the temple and ‘saved’ him. The Little Mermaid sails with them on their wedding ship and it’s almost dawn when her sisters come with the gift of a dagger they got from the Sea Witch in exchange for their long hair, they say if she stabs the prince and his bride, she’ll be able to return to the sea again. The Little Mermaid can’t do it, however, and throws the dagger and herself off the ship into the sea and dissolves into seafoam. She doesn’t die, though, but is turned into an air nymph, she becomes the daughter of the air. She’ll earn her own immortal soul after doing good deeds for 300 years.Instagram -- source link
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