The Hello and welcome to Disney Story Origins episode 13 A the Princess and the Frog, part one. You're going to Oh, The frog prince or Iron Henry is a fairy tale best known through the Brothers Grimm.

Traditionally, it is the first story in their collection, Children's and Household Tales.

As I pointed out in earlier episodes, the Brothers Grimm were German academics, cultural researchers, lexicographers,

and authors who together collected and published folklore.

This was part of a more

popular popular, seemed to represent a pure form of national literature and culture of the common folk.

Between 1812 and 1857,

they kept revising and repubishing their now celebrated collection,

Grimm's Fairy Tales.

This trend known as Romantic nationalism ensured the revival of the Fairy Tale not just in Germany but all over Europe.

In fact, although the Grimm's tales were meant to reflect German popular culture, many were

inspired by the Parisian Charles Peralt, who wrote tales intended for the literary salons of an aristocratic French audience.

Today, the stories first collected in children's and household tales are incredibly well known, often added to by other

authors as well as a source of unending inspiration for illustrators. And because the

Brothers Grimm tend to get all the credit for these great stories. A lot of people are under

the impression that the histories of fairy tales, like the Frog Prince, begins and ends with

the Brothers Grimm. But like all of the Grimm's fairy tales, it goes back farther possibly than they even knew.

According to Stith Thompson, he's the Thompson of the Arn Thompson-Euthar classification system,

which index is certain folk tales by their structure and

assigns them numbers. I think I brought it up in the tangled episode.

Anyway, Stith Thompson says the frog king dates back to the 13th century Germany

where a Latin version of the tale was written. It later appeared in

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