Reports On The Bulgarian Woman Who Killed A Swan In Macedonia For A Photo Prompt Outrage Online

"Swan Lake" it was not.

According to onlookers on the banks of Lake Ohrid in the Balkan nation of Macedonia, an unidentified woman fatally injured a swan over the weekend after pulling it from the water by its wing in order to pose for a photograph.

"The woman, part of a larger tourist group from Bulgaria, much to the shock of onlookers stepped into the lake and dragged the swan out," read a report on Sunday from the Macedonian International News Agency.

"According to witnesses, the swan itself didn't react to the Bulgarian woman's approach."

Swans are used to people approaching them from the nearby town, also called Ohrid, according to a report Monday from the UK-based publication the Daily Mail.

The woman, who can be seen pulling the swan by the wing in a series of images that have since gone viral, reportedly abandoned the majestic bird on the beach after a friend snapped the photo, where it died shortly thereafter.

The photos prompted outrage around the world from animal lovers.

"Stupid, rotten woman!" wrote a Daily Mail reader from Derry, Ireland named Claire. "I hate people who abuse animals."

"If I had witnessed her doing that, I would have stuck her head under the water and stood on it," wrote Tinker23 from Suffolk in the UK. "These kinds of people make my blood boil."

Though a reader from the English city of Leeds commenting under the name Outofnowhere doubts the story is even possible.

"This cannot possibly be true, have you ever tried to go near a swan?" he asked.

"They can snap your arm in the blink of an eye. I don't believe that petit looking female dragged the creature and then killed it. Rubbish."