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English Wikipedia calls the fairy tale Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich, literally "The Frog King or the Iron Henry."

The 10th subheading, about iron, correlates iron with the trusty servant Henry.

Why is the trustworthiness brought into the title?

Thank you for the links concluding symbol 10 about iron.

All the images -- but for two -- in the first link, to Frog king in pictures, illustrations and drawings, convey what could be late-teen, very-early 20-year-old girls. But do the fifth and the sixth in-text images depict tween-aged girls to you as they do to me?

I love long walks, and walking down coastal paths in beautiful green scenery with a rich cultural history ticks all the boxes, as the British idiom goes.I am hopeful that my currently successful program of physiotherapy will enable me to improve my damaged walking powers and that I can get back to longer walking. I know that I will never get fully well, but some hope of improvement remains.

Problems with The demonic seem to have risen in recent years, but there are no clear statistics onnthe issue. We know that the church is raising the number of clerics trained in dealing with these problems. No tradition of a reincarnated Christ exist. There is a difference between reincarnation and resurrection.

The normal clothes for monks and nuns would be what ordinary people wear.

No. Eden is a mythical past. Non return to a mythic time is possible.

Landlords needed a profit from their estates and only the cereals could provide It. Furthermore the country is not great for wheat, the climate is not right, Ireland is a land great for cattle and horses.

Forced conversion never works.

I do not know the film. But there is no reason why an animal cannot be blessed. Aquinas said that Grace works through nature, so Grace would work on an animal in accordance with its nature.

The gospels tell us that the colt on which Jesus entered Jerusalem had never been ridden. Animals such as this have to be tamed into being ridden, but Jesus rode it without problems. This indicates that the animal responded to the divine presence in Jesus.

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Thank you for this lovely presentation. I am all in for long walks, no matter how are they are called, but knowing the background defiitely adds another dimension to the experience.

Brothers Grimm were familiar with Perrault's work although they didn't bother with authorship. This is why they included Bluebeard and Puss in Boots in their first collection of 'German' Fairy Tales despite their origin in Italy and France.

Don't trust strangers. (The moral by Grimms is: Listen to your mother, don't stray from the path.)

It was vice versa. Perrault used hood because it was common to wear hoods in his times. Grimms decided for a cap, because many girls wore red caps in the area of today's Germany in the 19th century.

Yes, we can certainly say so.