The Sea Witch and the Prince

The little mermaid remained standing outside the forest her heart was pounding with fright she almost turned back but then she thought of the prince and of an immortal soul. She bound her long flowing hair around her head so the polyps could not grab her by it, crossed both hands upon her breast and then off she flew through the water. The sea witch let out a loud and hideous laugh and that toad and the water snakes gambled revealing their ugly yellowish white bellies in the middle of the opening have been erected a house made of bones of shipwrecked mortals there sat the sea witch letting a toad eat from her mouth just the way mortals permit a canary bird to eat sugar