Rusalka
The water nymph Rusalka loves a human prince and asks the witch Ježibaba to make her human. The spell takes away Rusalka’s speech and immortality, and Ježibaba warns that the prince’s rejection will doom her. The prince takes Rusalka to his castle but becomes enamored of a foreign princess and rejects her. Rusalka returns to the lake and refuses Ježibaba’s offer to escape her fate by killing the prince. She becomes a spirit of death. When the prince returns to the lake, Rusalka can speak again; she grants his request for a kiss, knowing it will kill him.