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“I shall be the breath of your lungs,” the water nymph Ondine said to her beloved Hans, a mortal, as the two professed their affection for each other. 

However, that romance, in Jean Giraudoux’s celebrated 1939 play Ondine, was not to last. Ondine’s uncle, the King of the Sea, unhappy with the relationship, forced his niece to submit to a Faustian arrangement, agreeing that Hans should die if he ever betrayed her.

Being a breathy French play, Ondine ultimately shows Hans deceiving his love and facing punishment — the ignominious end of literally forgetting to breathe. “All the things my body once did by itself, it does now only by special order,” he laments. “A single moment of inattention, and I forget to breathe. ‘He died,’ they will say, ‘because it was a nuisance to breathe.'”

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Living with “the curse”

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                               Marissa Schain               Source: Jon Levine

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http://mic.com/articles/127805/meet-the-people-living-with-a-deadly-200-year-old-curse

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