The frog prince
The frog prince is a fairy tale ( ATU 440). In the Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales, it was only in the second part of the first edition from 1815 (since no. 13) in place 99 (KHM 99a).
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Three daughters go one after the other to the well to draw water, but it is cloudy. A frog sits at the edge and says:
- when you want to be my darling
- I will give you light, light water.
Only the youngest agrees because she thinks she is cheating on the frog. The water is as clear as day. She drinks and also brings something to her simple-minded sisters. In the evening in bed she crawls at her door and sings:
- Open me! open me!
- King's daughter, youngest,
- don't you know how you said
- when I sat in the fountain
- you wanted to be my darling too
- I would give you light, light water.
She opens something, he hops at her feet, and so did the following two nights. She says it will be the last time, but in the morning it is a prince whom she has redeemed. They marry. The other sisters are annoyed.
origin
Grimm's note notes that the fairy tale comes from Hesse (by Marie Hassenpflug ) and, together with KHM 1 Der Froschkönig or the iron Heinrich , assigns it to the basic idea of Amor and Psyche , such as KHM 88 Das singende, jumping Löweneckerchen and KHM 68a Von dem Sommer - and winter garden . From the second edition it is only in the note on The Frog King or the Iron Heinrich , namely the daughter fetches the water for the sick father (see KHM 97 The Water of Life ), the frog poem is longer:
- when you want to be my darling
- I will give you bright, bright water.
- But don't you want to be my darling
- that's how I do it puttel puttel cloudy.
The fairy tale interpreter Hedwig von Beit speaks here of the water of life and comments that, depending on the conscious attitude, life springs cloudy or clear from the unconscious . According to Walter Scherf, the rhymes could come from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1808, Appendix) and Friedrich David Gräter's journal article from 1794. Heinz Rölleke published a fairy tale by Julia Ramus from Grimm's estate, in which a man in the form of a parrot smuggles himself to the princess and later releases her from her frog form by kissing her, which is why Rölleke calls the text The Frog Princess .
literature
- Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Last hand edition with the original notes by the Brothers Grimm. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin, not published in all editions, published by Heinz Rölleke. Volume 3: Original Notes, Guarantees of Origin, Afterword. Pp. 15–17, 442. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
- Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Berlin 2008. p. 424. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )
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Individual evidence
- ↑ by Beit, Hedwig: Contrast and Renewal in Fairy Tales. Second volume of «Symbolism of Fairy Tales». Second, improved edition, Bern 1956. p. 39. (A. Francke AG, Verlag)
- ↑ Scherf, Walter: Das Märchenlexikon. First volume A – K. Munich 1995, pp. 362-363. (Beck-Verlag; ISBN 3-406-39911-8 )
- ↑ Rölleke, Heinz (ed.): Fairy tales from the estate of the Brothers Grimm. 5th improved and supplemented edition. Trier 2001. pp. 31–33, 107. (WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier; ISBN 3-88476-471-3 )