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The nixy lake
" and he vanished with a tremendous clap of thunder.
More than half-mad Hermann stumbled home; for weeks he lingered between life and death.
The kind little Brigitte would have liked to have taken care of him, and would have made him a good wife; but because of his consuming love for Lenore, he slowly pined away, until one day he was found lying dead beside the fatal lake.
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The Fish and the Leopard's Wife; or, Why the Fish lives in the Water
Category: Nigerian folktales
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