The Frog Prince

Today, you're going to learn how to put feeling back into a story by emotional mapping.

There'll be a story from The Brothers Grimm, The Frog King, One Tool, The Golden Ball, and four sentences that turn any feeling into a story moment.

Listen.

We have two ears and one mouth for a reason.

So here's a question for today.

How did you feel at each step and how is your listener feeling right now in the stories that you tell? And here's a tale that travels through most feelings in five minutes that most of us manage in a week.

The tale of the Frog King, and this is another grim tale.

Sometimes it's called Iron Henry.

Even to things you don't like, Hamelin refuses to pay the piper and loses its children.

The frog prince holds the princess to her promise.

And even the devil keeps his word to Stingy Jack.

Recognize that even in this ritual magic space and the idea that we go back to these otherworldly entities, even unto the devil himself, these packs are binding.

You can see it most clearly in the very first tale of the collection.

In 1812, the Frog King begins like this, "Once upon a time, there was a king's daughter who went out into the forest and sat down beside a cool well." Plain, almost bare.

In later editions, it opens with one of the most famous sentences in German literature, "In olden times, when wishing still helped, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that the son itself, which had seen so much, marveled every time it shone on her face." It's a beautiful sentence, and in that form, it's Wilhelm Grimm's.

Where that this ideal of style came from, Heinz Rölleke keeps pointing to two texts that served the brothers as models, the Fisherman and His Wife, and the Juniper Tree.

If you buy an edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales today, you're almost always reading the last edition of 1857.

In other words, the text Wilhelm worked on for 45 years.

The text with the stepmothers, with the frog king in olden times when wishing still helped, with the Rumpelstiltskin who tears himself in two, with the blinded sisters, and the Rapunzel whose twins seem to fall out of the sky.

The text isn't wrong.

They then took leave of the king, and got into the coach with eight horses, and all set out, full of joy and merriment, for the prince's kingdom, which they reached safely; and there they lived happily a great many years.

End of The Frog Prince.

A certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples.

These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone.

Don't know.

Um, and then obviously it's, uh, based off of the fairy tale The Frog Prince- Princess, uh, by E.D.- E.D. Baker.

So I have a bit more to add to that, and shall I get into the kind of-

Yes

Okay.

Yeah.

So yes, it's based on that 2002 novel, The Frog Princess, uh, which in turn is pla- based on the 1812 fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, which we'll also see-

Yeah

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The Frog Prince by the Brothers Grimm.

One fine evening, a young princess put on her bonnet and clogs and walked out to take a walk by herself in a wood.

And when she came to a cool spring of water that rose in the midst of it, she sat herself down to rest a while.

"You have broken his cruel charm, and now I have nothing to wish for but that you should go with me into my father's kingdom, where I will marry you, and love you as long as you live." The young princess, you may be sure, was not long in saying "Yes" to all this; and as they spoke a gay coach drove up, with eight beautiful horses, decked with plumes of feathers and a golden harness; and behind the coach rode the prince's servant, faithful Heinrich, who had bewailed the misfortunes of his dear master during his enchantment so long and so bitterly, that his heart had well-nigh burst.

Then they took leave of the king, and got into the coach with eight horses, and all set out, full of joy and merriment, for the prince's kingdom, which they reached safely; and there they lived happily a great many years.

End of the short story The Frog Prince by the Grimm Brothers.

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