Frog King is one of the oldest German fairy tales and has a number on in the collection by Brothers Grimm. It's a story about a princess who loses a toy and promises great rewards to a frog to get it back but breaks her word. Yet, the frog is stubborn and the king, princess' father, supports it. Eventually, the frog transforms into a handsome prince that leads to another change - once a childish princess is ready to become a wife, a mother, and a queen.
Like many other fairy tales, The Frog King is packed with symbols. Here is just ten of them with short explanations:
Would you like to talk about other symbols in The Frog King?
Creating new life is in my opinion the ultimate superpower and probably the biggest source of conflict between genders.
The computer crashed before I could continue with my observation concerning the first typical element.
So I also meant to ask what, if any, superpowers might have been shared by Demeter and by Little Red Riding Hood's mothers?
You mention maternal powers as the first that the newborn notes. So might there not be a timelessness in what superpowers were wielded for ancient myths and for fairy tales?
Tolovaj, It's a revisit since I previously read and voted up this lovely article so non-traumatically thought-provoking during the COVID months.
As an arborist, I look forward to the actualization of your intention under "3. Forest" that "I intend to write a full article about the forest in fairy tales with examples." Will that be sometime this year?
Would there be particular tree species, outside or within forests, appearing in fairy tales?
Tolovaj, Thank you for the images and the symbols.
It intrigues me that wells represent affluence. Is it possible, not in the instance of The frog king but perhaps elsewhere, that they represent community since all the extraordinary ordinary people accessed communal wells? Or were all wells on, or under the control of, the powerful and wealthy?