The Little Mermaid agrees to this arrangement, and the Sea Witch cuts off her tongue. Otherwise, at dawn on the first day after he marries another woman, the Little Mermaid will die brokenhearted and disintegrate into sea foam upon the waves. In addition, she will obtain a soul only if she wins the love of the prince and marries him, for then a part of his soul will flow into her. However, she will constantly feel as if she is walking on sharp knives. Consuming the potion will make her feel as if a sword is being passed through her body, yet when she recovers, she will have two human legs and will be able to dance like no human has ever danced before. The Sea Witch warns that once she becomes a human, she will never be able to return to the sea. The witch willingly helps her by selling her a potion that gives her legs in exchange for her tongue (as the Little Mermaid has the most enchanting and beautiful voice in the world). The Little Mermaid, longing for the prince and an eternal soul, eventually visits the Sea Witch in a dangerous section of the ocean. The grandmother explains that humans have a much shorter lifespan than merfolks' 300 years, but that when mermaids die, they turn to sea foam and cease to exist, while humans have an eternal soul that lives on in heaven. The Little Mermaid becomes melancholy and asks her grandmother if humans can live forever and if they can breathe under water. The Little Mermaid and her dowager grandmother To her dismay, the prince never sees the Little Mermaid or even realizes that it was she who had originally saved his life. The prince regained consciousness and mistook the temple woman for his rescuer. Here, she waits until a young woman from the temple and her ladies in waiting find him. She delivers him unconscious to the shore near a temple. A violent storm hits, and the Little Mermaid saves the prince from drowning. When the Little Mermaid's turn comes, she rises up to the surface, watches a birthday celebration being held on a ship in honor of a handsome prince, and falls in love with him from a safe distance. As each returns, the Little Mermaid listens to their various descriptions of the world inhabited by human beings. When a mermaid turns 15, she is permitted to swim to the surface for the first time to glimpse the world above, and when the sisters become old enough, each of them visits the upper world one at a time every year. The Little Mermaid dwells in an underwater kingdom with her father (the sea king or mer-king), her dowager grandmother, and her five older sisters, each of whom had been born one year apart. The Little Mermaid and the statue of the human prince
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