Melusine is named after the fairy Melusine, who married a king, bore him children and helped him gain lands and power. And she left him not even when he, contrary to her request, began to peep – and found out that she was a half-snake (cursed by her mother for taking revenge on her father). She left her husband when he began to reproach her with the snake essence in front of the whole court. Then she turned into a dragon and flew away forever, because after the betrayal of the one she loved, there was no more human in her…