64-Frog Prince: Warts and All

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, History, Arts, Books

4.8 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The story of the frog prince is well known - a beautiful princess meets a frog, kisses him, and he turns out to be a prince. Except, in the earliest version, it doesn't go like that at all. I won't spoil it, but the original frog prince is extremely bizarre, and I had the most fun writing it of any episode so far. The second story is of a frog princess, from Russian folklore, and not only is it a great story in its own right, with a stupid king and a ridiculous dating service, but we'll catch back up with our favorite witch living in a house on chicken legs and a certain deathless sorcerer early in his career. The creature of the week shoots hail out of its ears and kills anyone it sees...unless you're carrying a sack of llama fat. Sponsors: The Great Courses Plus: Text MYTHS to 86329 to get a free trial of The Great Courses Plus, and while you’re there, check out the course “Great Mythologies of the World”. (Standard message and data rates apply.) Stamps.com is AMAZING. I'm not joking. They make my life over at bardic.fm infinitely easier. If you want to make your life better, go to stamps.com and use the code LEGENDS. Music: "The Spinnet" "The Silver Hatch" "The Shoes they Wear" "Filing Away" "Decompression" and "Brass Buttons" are all by Blue Dot Session "Vanagon" "Submerging Blue-Black" "Trailways A" "Smolder" "Sensitive" "Running on Empty" and "Down and Around" are all by Podington Bear "Final Sacrifice" by Visager "Independent Film" by Steve Combs

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0:00.0	This week, on the Myths and Legends podcast, it's the earliest story of the frog prince,
0:05.2	and then one of a frog princess. You'll see why you shouldn't let your children play in the
0:09.5	dark forest. They might just bring home a slimy new best friend, and we'll see a medieval
0:14.8	dating service that takes Kubit's methods fairly literally and consists of shooting arrows
0:20.2	indiscriminately at potential matches. Then, on the creature of the week, it's a cat from the
0:25.2	Peruvian Highlands that enjoys dance walking up rainbows and shooting light in out of its eyes.
0:35.7	This is the Myths and Legends podcast, Episode 64, Warts and All.
0:44.8	This is a podcast where I tell stories from mythology and folklore. Some are incredibly
0:49.5	popular stories you think you know, with surprising origins. Other stories you might not have heard,
0:54.2	but really should. The frog story is so well known that I completely wrote it off, even before
0:59.6	looking into it. I mean, a princess meets a frog, kisses him, and he turns into a handsome prince,
1:05.6	and they live happily ever after. Except, and I'm surprised I was surprised by this.
1:11.6	That's not the original story, the original, though brief, is hilariously bizarre. I loved it,
1:17.9	and something really unexpected happens. Then, we're going to talk about a story I've received a
1:22.7	lot of requests for, the frog princess. From the same collections as the stories of Bobby Yagah,
1:28.4	Ivan in the Wolf, Vasiliya Sothebeautiful, and the full-in-his-flying ship comes to the story of a
1:33.4	frog that was made princess. And not only is it a fun story, but we get to meet some of our old,
1:38.8	old friends from Slavic folklore. Anyway, the first story, that of the frog prince, was originally
1:44.7	collected by the Grim Brothers in the 1800s. There's Rich, and then there's your kid plays with
2:01.5	gold toys worth more than my house, Rich. The king was, not surprisingly, the second type of Rich,
2:07.9	and the princess took one of the golden balls to play out in the great Dark Forest. Despite a
2:13.2	young girl casually tossing a ball of a measurably high worth by herself, in the Dark Forest,
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