what would you choose, where will you be.

A little brother and sister were once playing by a well,

and while they were thus playing,

they both fell in.

A water-nixie lived down below, who said: 

"Now I have got you, now you shall work hard for me!" 

and carried them off with her.

She gave the girl dirty tangled flax to spin,

and she had to fetch water in a bucket with a hole in it,

and the boy had to hew down a tree with a blunt axe,

and they got nothing to eat but dumplings as hard as stones.

Then at last the children became so impatient, 

that they waited until one Sunday,

 when the nixie was at church, 

and ran away.

But when church was over, the nixie saw that the birds were flown, 

and followed  them with great strides.

The children saw her from afar, 

and the girl threw a brush behind her which formed an immense hill of bristles, 

with thousands and thousands of spikes,

over which the nixie was forced to scramble with great difficulty; 

at last, however, she got over.

When the children saw this, 

the boy threw behind him a comb which made a great ridge

 with a thousand times a thousand teeth,

but the nixie managed to keep herself steady on them, 

and at last crossed over.

Then the girl threw behind her a looking-glass 

which formed a hill of mirrors, 

and was so slippery that it was impossible for the nixie to cross it.

Then she thought: "I will go home quickly and fetch my axe, 

and cut the hill of glass in half."

Long before she returned, however, and had hewn through the glass,

 the children had escaped to a great distance,

and the water-nixie was obliged to trundle back to her well again.

"The Water-Nixie" from The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

Photographs by Izima Kaoru

I was just recently introduced to Kaoru's "Landscapes with a Corpse" series.

I love the contradiction of death and beauty.

It really is enchanting horror at its finest.

La, la, killing off Snow White for my photo shoot on Sunday...