THE LITTLE MERMAID by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON (PT 1)
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this story originally written by Hans Christian Anderson and later made popular by Disney, a young mermaid dreams of what life would be like as a human, and soon makes a deal with the sea witch to trade her mermaid existence for that as a human- having to give up the ability to speak in the bargaining. The story ends much differently than the movie, and teaches a powerful lesson about what can happen when you make a deal with the devil.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone. The one thousand one classic short stories entails and to 20-20. |
| 0:36.5 | We're starting the new year with two classic short stories. |
| 0:39.5 | This one the little mermaid and a story called Long Odds by H. Rider Haggard. |
| 0:47.0 | Soon after reading the H. Rider Haggard story, I received a terrific review from a grandmother |
| 0:52.1 | who reads our stories to her four grandkids and I'll |
| 0:55.4 | share that review right after this show. |
| 0:58.2 | Things did not go well for the Lions in H writer Haggard's story and I realize that our fans might need a choice which inspired me to do |
| 1:05.4 | the Little Mermaid. I was halfway through the Little Mermaid before I realized that |
| 1:10.4 | I had done this one a couple of years ago. |
| 1:12.8 | That when you've done over 700 stories, |
| 1:14.9 | sometimes you can forget which ones you've done. |
| 1:17.6 | But each time you do one, you get a little better. |
| 1:21.1 | Thank you all for being great fans. I'm looking forward to a really really great year here at |
| 1:26.7 | 1001 stories network. A good many of us have seen the Disney version of the Little Mermaid, the original story, by Hans Christian Anderson. |
| 1:38.0 | He wrote it in 1837, and for a long time it was the most below it of fairy tales. |
| 1:44.0 | As you already know it's about a mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea |
| 1:48.0 | in exchange for a human soul and immortality, |
| 1:52.0 | but it's quite different than the Disney story that you might be familiar with. |
| 1:57.0 | And now, Part 1 of The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson. |
| 2:05.0 | Far out in the ocean, the water is as blue as the petals of the loveliest cornflower |
| 2:10.0 | and as clear as the purest glass, but it is very deep too. It goes down |
| 2:16.9 | deeper than any anchor rope will go and many many steeples would have to be |
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