Beneath the dark waters.
Little girl
Granny tell me the stories of mermaids.
Granny
Okay I'll tell you the most interesting one.
Granny
Long time ago...there was a deep lake where the clouds covered the water and our ancestors from generations back, have warned us not to get inside the water of that lake.
Little girl
Is it because of the mermaids?
Little girl
I thought they were good and helpful to humans.
Granny
Of course they are good, but there are also sinister ones who lured people into the deepest part of the Lake. Those who went in were never seen again.
Granny
So this lake was considered ominous and so almost no one went there.
Granny
But one year due to the severe drought, the water had dried up everywhere except in that particular lake.
Little girl
So magical !!!
Granny
Yes. So people started going to the lake to take water.
Granny
Initially no one went to the area which was heavily covered by the clouds. But as the drought prolonged, some went to collect water from that zone.
Little girl
Ah! Then what happened?
Granny
Then...they were never seen again.
Little girl
Then how do the mermaids look?
Granny
They were very pretty beings...much more beautiful than humans.
Granny
It is said that one man had seen them and was lured by thier song to go into the deep waters . Luckily his friends were quick to pull him back.
Granny
He went mad after hearing the song and kept on saying how beautiful the mermaids were.
Granny
Years passed but he's still mad & he seemed to have become more & more obsessed with the mermaids. His friends and family had to tie him so he couldn't go back to the deep waters.
Granny
But one day they were a bit reckless because he had been rather calm for some weeks and at night he ran away.
Granny
He was never seen again.
Little girl
Ahhh so scary!!!
Little girl
Granny then tell me about the story of the captured Mermaid.
Granny
Ok...I'll tell you.
Granny
There was once a group of fishermen who were experts. They had caught a Mermaid, half human and half fish. It had the body of a human girl yet the tail of a fish from waist downwards.
Granny
It was so pretty and ethereal, more beautiful than any creature.
Granny
At first, they thought they had captured a human so they took her out of the net.
Granny
But they saw the tail and thought it was a fish trying to swallow a human. They tried to separate the body and the tail but failed.
Granny
It was dark and they could barely see so they brought it home with them. It was only when daylight came that they realized they had caught a creature which wasn't a human at all.
Granny
By the time they brought it home it was dry like a fish out of water so they put it into a pond. The pond was knee deep and had clear water so they could see the creature.
Little girl
Oh wow I wanna see it too.
Granny
^^ Then at dawn many people had come to see the creature. Many had tried to shoot stones to let it move and see it better. Some had hurt it and it bled like the blood of a human.
Little girl
Ahhh so cruel!!!
Granny
Not long after many people from neighboring kingdoms and faraway places came to see the creature.
Granny
Bit then...something very bad began to happen.
Granny
For the whole time the creature was captured the wind blew so hard, the trees cracked and made howling sounds. The sky was covered with the clouds fully and there was no sight of the sun.
Granny
People began to get sick, drinking water would choke people and everyone had problems of accidents or injuries from water bodies.
Granny
At night there was the continuous howling sounds of animals, birds screeched and hovered around the whole place.
Granny
It seemed like the whole of nature was revolting against the ill-treatment and capture of the creature.
Granny
The situation became worse and people began to die after two weeks of the mermaid's capture.
Little girl
Ahhh!!! They should put it back.
Granny
And so they put the creature in a barrel of water and put it back into the lake.
Granny
Two days later the sun shone brightly and the harsh wind stopped blowing only a cool breeze greeted them.
Granny
People suffering from injuries gradually got healed and no more accidents of unknown reason happened to them.
Granny
That's all for today. I'll tell you another one tomorrow.
Little girl
Okay. Granny you're the best.
Narrator
Mermaids are guardians of the water bodies and yet there are some sinister ones that lured people into the deep waters, never to be seen again.
Narrator
There are some places which are better left alone. It is our recklessness and curiosity that often leads us to our death.
Narrator
"Be careful of what lies beneath the dark waters" The adults warned the young ones.
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