Hello tiktakers! What are your favorite childhood stories? I'm sure many of them ended up becoming
Disney movies. Today we are going to talk about one of them, reveal you its original story.
Are you ready to lose one of the sweet references of your childhood?
The Little Mermaid is a fairy tale originally called Den Lille Havfrue, which means "The
Little Woman of the Sea". It was written by Hans Christian Andersen and first published in 1837.
I'm sure you all know the story, but most of you probably know it
from the movie that Disney released in 1989. Do you remember watching it? The Little Mermaid
is a little girl named Ariel who all her life has longed to meet humans. Her father forbids
her to get close to them, but she tries to look around every time a ship approaches. That's why
she's nearby when one of them is shipwrecked. In that situation Ariel saves a handsome young man,
named Erick, from drowning. But in addition to this, she falls in love with him.
When her father finds out, he is furious and destroys some of Ariel's things. On the other
hand, taking advantage of the conflict, the witch Ursula sends two of her subjects to make Ariel
an offer. In exchange for her voice she will receive two legs that will allow her to live
on the surface. But she must make Erick fall in love with her before sunset on the third day.
The young man must give her a kiss of true love.
If not, he will lose the love of his life and will have to obey the witch
in everything. The story ends with Ariel and Eric marrying with her father's approval.
But this ending is not the original tiktakers.
For the author of the story The Little Mermaid is perfectly
capable of speaking the language of humans. She lives in an underwater kingdom with her father,
her five older sisters and her grandmother. When she turns 15, her father begins to allow her to
observe the surface world from time to time. But all with a clear rule: one visit per year.
And by chance, her first trip to the surface takes her near the wreck. There she meets the
only survivor, who is barely staying afloat. On seeing him, very handsome, the Little Mermaid
falls madly in love. She manages to help him and also discovers that he is loving and kind.
For all these reasons, he sets out to overcome all the inconveniences that come his way
so that he can spend his life with him. But on this occasion she cannot follow him by land,
so she brings him to the shore and returns to the water.
Once down, he runs straight to his grandmother, a wise old mermaid. She informs him that the
life span of humans is much shorter than that of water creatures, which can live up to 300 years.
She also explains that when a mermaid dies, she turns into sea foam.
Whereas when a human dies, their soul still lives on in heaven.
Hearing this, Ariel can think of nothing else but sharing this eternity with the man she had saved.
So she decides to meet with the Sea Witch. She has a number of supernatural powers,
but she doesn't always use them for good. In this case, she proposes a pact to the Little Mermaid.
She will transform her into a human woman, but if the prince does not
love her and decides to marry another woman, she will die in both worlds.
On top of that, the witch demands, as a down payment on her pact, that he give her his tongue.
It is clear that the deal is not very beneficial for Ariel, but surprisingly, she accepts.
Without her tongue and therefore without the voice and the songs that characterize her,
The Little Mermaid rises to the surface to look for her love. This is a one-way ticket,
for without a tail she will not be able to return to the underwater world.
Up there, she has two missions. On the one hand, to conquer the man she loves, and on the other,
to get an immortal soul so they can spend eternity together.
This is much more complicated than getting a pair of legs. As the witch had explained to her,
the soul only belongs to humans. The Little Mermaid will have to get it through a kiss.
Under normal conditions this would be quite simple for her, who dazzled everyone who
watched and listened to her sing. But now she has no voice, all she has left is her looks.
She is very beautiful, but her two new legs are not completely adjusted either,
it is difficult for her to walk and every step is a great pain for her.
But it's still her, so the prince soon finds himself attracted to this young woman
pacing back and forth. She dances and jumps, as if that's not making him die of pain.
She wants to get the young man's attention, and she succeeds, he can't stop looking at her.
However, after a short time, the boy, despite being attracted to Ariel, decides to follow his
family's advice. They had told him several times that he should marry another woman,
according to his social class. So he decides to leave Ariel, who is completely devastated.
His sisters, knowing that the young man's decision would end Ariel's life,
offer him an alternative. They give him a magic knife. This will give her back
the mermaid's tail if she can murder her beloved and bathe his legs in his blood.
The remedy did not come free for the sisters, who had to give the witch their long hair.
The Little Mermaid, trapped in a dead end, accepts the proposal.
So she goes to the newlyweds' room with a knife in her hand. She can't help crying inconsolably,
she is going to do something that will also break her heart. That's why he takes slow steps
and thinks about it. In fact, she hesitates so much that in the end it ends up dawning.
And in the end she can't. As much as she tries to kill the young man, her love for him
won't let her do it. So she ends up throwing the knife away and throws herself into the sea. It is
then that the witch's prophecy is fulfilled and the young Ariel ends up turned into sea foam,
far from her underwater world and also from her beloved prince.
But the story doesn't end there. Being sea foam, the Little Mermaid finds herself surrounded by the
spirits of countless dead mermaids. It seems that she is not the only one to be tormented.
There, they are doomed to be in constant motion, following the designs of nature itself.
This time, tiktakers, there is no happy ending. The protagonist does not live
forever with her prince. In fact, her love leads her to death and oblivion.
It seems that this version is far from the one Disney wanted to sell
us. Which one do you like more? Do you think this one is more real? Tell us, we'll read you!
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