The Bride Wore Green
Tales of Frog Brides

 

Beautiful maiden...

...or...
...disgusting toad?

 

The Frog Princess - Russia, The Main Tale

The Frog Princess - Russia, a variant

The Frog's Skin - Georgia

The Frog - Austria/Italty

The Enchanted Toad - Scandinavia

The Frog's Bridegroom - Germany

The Frog Maiden - Burma

The Frog Princess - a version from The Violet Fairy Book

The Toad Princess - a version from The Brothers Grimm

 

Slimy Skin
Commentaries, interpretations and other thoughts about the many various tales, and the frog bride genre as a whole. Full of Bettleheimian goodness.

     
A Modern Day Frog Princess
 

 

But what about the boys?

Froggy would a-wooing go, mm-hmm
Froggy would a-wooing go, mm-hmm
Dressed in red from head to toe, mm-hmm

- from an Appalachian variant of a traditional ameri-european folksong

 

D. L. Ashliman's Slimy Suitors

A nifty collection of A-T type 440 tales
in which an ugly frog is transformed into a handsome prince, with no (hopefully!) remaining slimy parts.

 

 

For Natalie Kononenko's Slavic Folklore: Tale and Legend class.

Sources

 

 

 

 


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Marry Me,
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