The daughter of the sea

Once upon a time, in the depths of the sea lived a mysterious family of merpeople.

The Sea King had six beautiful daughters, of whom the youngest was the most beautiful, and sang the sweetest song and danced the prettiest. It's grandma's baby.

On the little mermaid's fifteenth birthday, he came out of the water and saw the beautiful world. The sun had just set, and not far from her was a large sailing ship.

She swam to the side of the boat and looked through one of the Windows. There was a ball going on inside! The star of the ball was a handsome prince, whose sixteenth birthday it was. The little mermaid was deeply enchanted by the prince.

At this time a strong wind blew over the sea, and before the sailors could take in their sails, the ship was torn to pieces. She swam bravely to the drowning prince, took him in her arms, and carried him to the shore.

She kissed him on the cheek, hoping he would wake up. Then some one approached, and the little mermaid left the prince and hid herself behind a rock.

When a young girl found him, the prince woke up and smiled gratefully at the girl -- he thought she had saved him! The little mermaid saw all this, and went sadly back to her palace under the sea.

The little mermaid was unhappy every day, and finally she told her sister the secret of her heart. Soon all the elder sisters knew about it, and one of them knew where the palace where the prince lived.

Then the sisters took the little mermaid and swam with them to the bay where the prince lay, and the little mermaid saw the prince in a beautiful palace, and laughed again.

She often came to see the prince, and she grew fond of the human race, and she longed very much to go on shore and live with them.

So she went to ask her good grandmother, what is the difference between a mermaid and a mermaid, and how can a mermaid become a human?

She had been told by her grandmother that people had souls and that when they died they would ascend to heaven and remain there forever. But a mermaid has no soul, and to get her soul, a mermaid must have a human who loves her more than anything else, and must marry before he can give her half of his soul.

But the old grandmother believed that such a thing could never happen, for people do not love merpeople, and the tail was too strange for them.

The little mermaid suddenly thought of the witch. Perhaps she could help her.

She went quietly to the house where the witch lived. The witch promised to help her, but she must give her voice in exchange. The little mermaid agreed.

The witch gave her a pot of soup, and when she drank it, she would have legs and dance the lightest dance in the world. But he could never return to the sea again, and every step he took was like walking on the tip of a knife, and his feet bled.

If the one she loves marries someone else, then she turns into foam on the sea.

The little mermaid took the soup and went away. When the sun rose, on the beach in front of the prince's palace, there lay a very beautiful girl.

When she woke up, she was lying in a big palace with the prince in front of her. As soon as the little mermaid stood up, she felt a piercing pain under her feet.

She lived there and became the most beautiful girl in the whole palace. However, she was mute and could neither sing nor speak. She was the most beautiful dancer in the palace, and every movement showed her beauty.

In this way, the prince was deeply enchanted by the little orphan girl, as she was called. The little mermaid lived happily with the prince, but at night she sat by the sea and looked down into the depths of the sea, and thought of her loved ones.

One night her sisters came to see her, arm in arm, and they sang mournful songs for her. Far out on the sea, her grandmother and her father, who had not surfaced for a long time, were watching her.

Though the prince loved her, he had no intention of marrying her. Soon it was said that the prince was going to be married, and that his future wife would be a beautiful daughter of the king of the neighboring country.

The little mermaid went with the prince to see the princess, and when she came out from behind the hall, the prince was astonished -- it was the maiden who had saved him.

Then he put aside his love for the little mermaid, and looked with all his heart at his bride. The little mermaid was very sad.

On his wedding night she danced for the bride and bridegroom, and they cheered her with joy. She had never danced so happily before, and it was to be her last dance.

She left her family for him, gave her beautiful voice, endured pain every day, but he knew nothing, and married another girl.

When the night was late and all the people were asleep, the little mermaid waited on the deck for the sun to rise.

When the sun had just risen, her sisters appeared on the surface of the sea, with their long hair gone.

They exchanged their hair with the witch for a knife, which they had only to plunge into the prince's heart before morning, and let his blood flow into the little mermaid's legs, so that the little mermaid could become a mermaid again, and go back to the sea.

The little mermaid drew back the purple curtain of the tent, bent down, kissed the prince's beautiful face, threw her knife into the sea, and threw herself into the foam.