The Bride Wore Green - Tales of Frog Brides

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.

Kiss Me,
Marry Me,
Make Me Your Wife