The Skeleton Woman

Skeleton woman was thrown into the sea by her father after she had done something of which he disapproved. A fisherman came fishing and his hook went through the water, in the bones of skeleton woman's rip cage. The fish ate her flesh away and plucked out her eyes as she lay under the sea. He turned to scoop up his net but did not see her bald head rise above the waves. When he turned back with his net, her entire body, such as it was, had come to the surface and was hanging from the tip of his kayak by her long front teeth. "Ah, cried the man, and his heart fell into his knees," said a sobbing