Wednesday 15 October 2014

Fantastically Wrong: The Murderous, Sometimes Sexy History of the Mermaid

Fantastically Wrong: The Murderous, Sometimes Sexy History of the Mermaid

Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid is a heartwarming tale of a mermaid falling in love, battling evil to be with her love, and living happily ever after as a human. Just kidding. That’s the Disney version. In Andersen’s, the young mermaid has her tongue cut out, gets burned hard by the prince when he […]


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