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It is a fascinating concept and certainly one to set the wheels of your imagination in a spin! Jenna tells me that she has a nine year old student named Max who has been studying the topic, and having also visited my 'Folktales' page, thinks that I should include a link to a website that talks in some detail about Fractured Fairy Tales! I agree with him! Here is the very website, enjoy the exploration and Thank you, Max! Keep up the research! It is only after considering this concept that it occurs to me that I have for some time unaware until now of the term, 'Fractured fairy tales' indulged myself with a similar idea, concerning 'The Frog Prince'.
Even as a youngster, I was never satisfied with the undeserved reward of marriage to a 'handsome prince' to the selfish and unkind princess. And so I re-wrote the ending, creating in my view, a more satisfactory conclusion. Here is the original Brothers Grimm story: One fine evening a young princess put on her bonnet and clogs, and went out to take a walk by herself in a wood; and when she came to a cool spring of water with a rose in the middle of it, she sat herself down to rest a while.
Now she had a golden ball in her hand, which was her favourite plaything; and she was always tossing it up into the air, and catching it again as it fell. After a time she threw it up so high that she missed catching it as it fell; and the ball bounded away, and rolled along on the ground, until at last it fell down into the spring.
The princess looked into the spring after her ball, but it was very deep, so deep that she could not see the bottom of it. She began to cry, and said, 'Alas! Whilst she was speaking, a frog put its head out of the water, and said, 'Princess, why do you weep so bitterly? My golden ball has fallen into the spring. The frog said, 'I do not want your pearls, and jewels, and fine clothes; but if you will love me, and let me live with you and eat from off your golden plate, and sleep on your bed, I will bring you your ball again.
He can never even get out of the spring to visit me, though he may be able to get my ball for me, and therefore I will tell him he shall have what he asks. Then the frog put his head down, and dived deep under the water; and after a little while he came up again, with the ball in his mouth, and threw it on the edge of the spring. As soon as the young princess saw her ball, she ran to pick it up; and she was so overjoyed to have it in her hand again, that she never thought of the frog, but ran home with it as fast as she could.
The next day, just as the princess had sat down to dinner, she heard a strange noise - tap, tap - plash, plash - as if something was coming up the marble staircase, and soon afterwards there was a gentle knock at the door, and a little voice cried out and said: And mind the words that thou and I said By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade.
Then the princess ran to the door and opened it, and there she saw the frog, whom she had quite forgotten. At this sight she was sadly frightened, and shutting the door as fast as she could came back to her seat. The king, her father, seeing that something had frightened her, asked her what was the matter. I told him that he should live with me here, thinking that he could never get out of the spring; but there he is at the door, and he wants to come in. Then the king said to the young princess, 'As you have given your word you must keep it; so go and let him in.
She did so, and the frog hopped into the room, and then straight on - tap, tap - plash, plash - from the bottom of the room to the top, till he came up close to the table where the princess sat. As soon as she had done this, the frog said, 'Put your plate nearer to me, that I may eat out of it. This she did, and when he had eaten as much as he could, he said, 'Now I am tired; carry me upstairs, and put me into your bed.
As soon as it was light the frog jumped up, hopped downstairs, and went out of the house. But she was mistaken; for when night came again she heard the same tapping at the door; and the frog came once more, and said: And when the princess opened the door the frog came in, and slept upon her pillow as before, till the morning broke.
And the third night he did the same. But when the princess awoke on the following morning she was astonished to see, instead of the frog, a handsome prince, gazing on her with the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen and standing at the head of her bed. He told her that he had been enchanted by a spiteful fairy, who had changed him into a frog; and that he had been fated so to abide till some princess should take him out of the spring, and let him eat from her plate, and sleep upon her bed for three nights.
The young princess, you may be sure, was not long in saying 'Yes' to all this; and as they spoke a brightly coloured 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. 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.
I changed the ending. As I mentioned earlier, it seemed to me totally unacceptable that after everything she had done to reject the frog, she should be rewarded with marriage to a handsome prince and a 'Happy Ever After' conclusion. Manx Fairy Tales [20]. Hero-Tales of Ireland [21]. Hero-Tales of Ireland [22]. Legends and Stories of Ireland [23].
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Whilst she was speaking, a frog put its head out of the water, and said, 'Princess, why do you weep so bitterly? Click here Further thoughts on Fractured Fairy Tales It is only after considering this concept that it occurs to me that I have for some time unaware until now of the term, 'Fractured fairy tales' indulged myself with a similar idea, concerning 'The Frog Prince'. A House of Pomegranates. At this sight she was sadly frightened, and shutting the door as fast as she could came back to her seat. Fairy Legends and traditions of the South of Ireland [79].
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