THE LITTLE MERMAID (PT 2) by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 9 January 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Explicit: Original text contains references to violence. Use judgement with young ones.
Warning: Atheists and agnostics my find references to God, Christianity, angels and afterlife as well as suggested proper moral behavior offensive.
In part two, the little mermaid completes her deal with the sea witch and becomes a human- unable to speak- and unable to disclose her true identity to the prince- who takes a wife
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everybody to 1001 classic short stories Classic Short Stories and Tales. |
| 0:34.0 | And now, as promised, Part 2 of The Little Mermaid |
| 0:38.0 | by Hans Christian Anderson. |
| 0:40.0 | The Little Mermaid set out from her garden toward the whirlpools that raged in front of the |
| 0:46.0 | witch's dwelling. She had never gone that way before. No flowers grew there, nor any seaweed. |
| 0:55.0 | Bear and gray, the sands extended to the whirlpools, |
| 1:00.0 | where like roaring mill wheels the waters whirled and snatched everything within their reach down to the bottom of the sea. |
| 1:07.0 | Between these tumultous whirlpools she had to thread her way to reach the witch's waters. |
| 1:13.8 | And then for a long stretch, the only trail lay through a hot seething mire, |
| 1:18.0 | which the witch called her Peac Marsh. |
| 1:22.0 | Beyond it, her house lay in the middle of a weird forest where all the trees and shrubs were |
| 1:26.9 | polyps, half animal and half plant. They looked like hundred-headed snakes growing out of the soil. |
| 1:35.0 | All their branches were long slimy arms with fingers like wriggling worms. |
| 1:41.0 | They squirmed, joint by joint joint from their roots to their outermost tentacles and |
| 1:47.0 | whatever they could lay hold of they twined around and never let go. |
| 1:58.4 | The little mermaid was terrified and stopped at the edge of the forest. Her heart thumped with fear and she nearly turned back. But then she remembered the prince and the souls that men have, |
| 2:07.0 | and she summoned her courage. |
| 2:09.0 | She bound her long flowing locks closely about her head so that the polyps could not catch hold of them. |
| 2:15.3 | Folded her arms across her breast and darted through the water like a fish. |
| 2:19.8 | In among the slimy polyps that stretched out their writhing arms and fingers to Caesar. |
| 2:25.1 | She saw that every one of them held something that it had caught with its hundreds of |
| 2:29.9 | little tentacles and to which it clung as with strong hoops of steel. |
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