#Tsarevna Frog

[madcat-world]

Tsarevna Frog - IrenHorrors

[jeweled-blue-eyes]

"Marry me, for it is your destiny."

[ariel-seagull-wings]

@softlytowardthesun

You answered me about the familial/parenting relationships headcanons of your favorite fairy tale couples, so now i answer you the same about mine favorites.

Beauty and the Beast: Before getting married, the Beast imagined having a table with eight children, but reality ensued that him and Beauty would settle with five.The pregnancy with the eldest was the most dificult, with Beauty feeling insecure about her role as a parent and suffering from post partum depression, so Beast assumed most of the care for the newborn to take the burden away from his wife. With the other four children, things were more calm. Being a member of royalty, the Beast educates the children to prepare them for a leadership role in life. Beauty, more simple and sensitive, encourages the children to enjoy more idle lifes, reading, painting, gardening and playing around, while having toughts on metaphisical themes.

Teiniaguá and the Sacristan: Well, the tale already tells that they are a mithological founding lineage of the Brazilian Southern People, so i can imagine them with a big family of several children and them calling people to live around them in a village among the woods and mountains, leading everyone, be they blood related or not, teaching how to work with nature on their favour. They will be two wise patriarch and matriarch figures.

Princess of Bambuluá and João: The ultimate education enthusiastic parents of seven children. They will pass every bit of knowledge that they can to them. The Princess shares special knowledge of natural sciences like botanics and mineralogy, history, power and politics, while João shares special knowledge about music, languages (specially the languages of the birds) and world literatures.

The Feathered Stag and the Little Princess: After finally releasing her husband from his enchantment, the Princess goes to live happily with him, and the couple will be graced with four virtuous children, whose Godparents shall be the Moon, the Sun, the Stars and the Winds.

Maria and the Lizard Prince: They are a happily childless couple. For them, their subjects are the people they shall guide and take care of, and this is enough. 

Royal Parrot and the Peasant Lady: They settle with two children. The biggest lesson they will receive from their mother is in how to be cunning and witty to win the day and earn happiness. Their father is more of a romantic dreamer, so he mainly entertains them with sweet stories.

Maria Gomes and the Enchanted Horse: Eight children will come as a blessing for this couple. Maria shall teach them gardening, cooking, and how to play the violin, while her husband shall share his knowledge of magic, blacksmithing and fighting abilities.

Donkeyskin/All-Kinds-of-Fur and the Prince/King: They will be the proud adoptive parents of a little orphan boy. The mother will transmit to the child an honorable disposition and the rigidity of character. The father will transmit his impetuous and intensely romantic views. Balance those teachings can at first be hard, but eventually their son will know how to handle them.

Riquet of the Tuft and the Princess:  They will be the loving parents of three children. Riquet will say that the children inherited the inteligence of their mother. The Princess will say they inherited the beauty of their father.

Rapunzel and the Prince: Despite his wife telling him many times that it wasn’t his fault that they were once forcibly separated and he couldn’t be around when their twins were born, the Prince still feels very guilty for not being present when Rapunzel gaved birth and tooked care of the twins in their early years of life. So, while Rapunzel fully trusts her children with autonomy, after having teached them how to survive in the desert, the Prince still feels they are too young to be so autonomous, so he convinces her to accept that a nanny keep an eye take care of the children when they aren’t around. Also, wanting to see a child being born and to take care of them in their early stages of life, the Prince asks Rapunzel to have at least two more children, wich she wholehartly agrees.

Tsarevna Frog and Ivan: They will have three wonderfull children, to whom Vasilisa will teach everything about the Magical Arts, while Ivan will teach them the Military Arts.

[inkyami]

Kaeru nyōbō (蛙女房) — "frog wive", a shapeshifting character in Japanese folklore. The frog turns into a woman in order to marry a human man, but retains some of her froggy qualities — Kaeru nyōbō is very fragile, small, and is unable to do heavy work due to her little strength. The life with her can be perfectly ordinary and peaceful, unless the curiosity of a husband & family discovers her true nature, and she hops away.

The stories about frog wives exist all over Japan with some variations of the plot. The motive itself — of a girl "with a secret" and a family ruined by prying into it — seems to be extremely popular in Japanese folklore in general.

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[margotfonteyns]

The Frog Princess (1954)

[phantomrin]

Inktober 2023

Day 24 - Ivan-tsarevich & Tsarevna the Frog

"The youngest brother sent the arrow flying - it landed in a dirty swamp and was caught by the qwaking frog."

("Tsarevna the Frog")

[russianfolklore]

Gennady Novozhilov's illustration for russian tale "Tsarevna Frog".

[anyamyavk]

Rodya-tsarevna and tsarevich-cockroach 🪳👑🏹

Based on the illustration for the fairytale "Tsarevna-Lyagushka" ("The frog princess"??)

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Tsarevna Frog by  IrenHorrors

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[laurasimonsdaughter]

Burning a shapeshifter's skin

I came across this werewolf folktale from France, in which a man saves a strange woman from the werewolf curse by burning the skin she uses to transform:

A hunter from Montrond had returned to a cabin at a time when the people of the mountain had left their cabins. After a while he heard a loud noise; he hid in a corner and saw the door in the middle of the barn open, and a werewolf with a bear skin on its back came into the cabin. He shed his skin and a beautiful young girl emerged. She lit a fire in the hearth. She had beautiful big hair and she started combing and grooming herself. When he saw this, the man came out of his hiding place and grabbed the girl by the hair; she began to scream and struggle, but nothing helped: he held her with force and, with his other hand, he took her bearskin and set it on fire. When it was completely destroyed, she thanked him wholeheartedly for freeing her of that thing. (Collected from Philomène Sambuis by Joisten Charles in 1961)

Despite the presence of violence, the story frames this as an act of kindness. I'm rather glad it doesn't end with her marrying him, but it did make me wonder why I've never seen a folktale where the animal skin of a selkie or swan maiden is burned...

One the one hand it makes sense, because werewolves are generally seen as cursed humans while selkies and swan maidens are born shapeshifters. But on the other hand, while burning a werewolf's skin or belt is a common theme (Dutch examples), there are also tales about werewolves who scream and flee in rage or terror when their skins are burned (Het weerwolfsvel verbrand). And there are plenty of fairy tales who use this trope in various ways:

• In many variants of the Romanian tale "The Enchanted Pig" a prince is cursed to be a pig but can take his skin off at night to become a human. When his wife burns the skin he is furious and she has to redeem herself. Sometimes it is implied the curse would have lifted on its own if she had been patient, but in others he just seems angry she did it at all.

• The Russian tale "The Tsarevna Frog" is similar. The Tsarevitch who marries a cursed maiden burns her frog skin and has to suffer for it. Because instead of breaking her curse it turns her into a swan that flies away for him to rescue.

• In the some versions of "Hans my Hedgehog" burning the hedgehog skin is punished too, while in some it cures the shapeshifting (even while in some cases the hedgehog wasn't born to humans, but was an adopted animal, like in the Indian stories about a crab husband). But in the Grimm's version Hans specifically instructs to burn his animal skin so he can be human permanently.

• In the folktale "The Dog Bride" from the Santal Parganas in India a herdboy marries a dog after seeing it shed its dog skin and become a beautiful maiden. She only turns human when her husband is asleep, but one night he manages to catch her and burns her skin, leaving her permanently in her beautiful woman shape. The story does not say she was cursed.

• In the story "The Mouse Maiden" from Shri Lanka the princess does seem to have been cursed to shapeshift between a girl and a mouseling, but she weeps when her husband burns her mouse jacket at the advice of her mother.

• The girl in the Greek tale "The Goat Girl" seems just as upset. She is the goat child born to a woman, who can shapeshift at will, and tries to throw herself into the oven her groom burns her goatskin in. It isn't clear if this is a compulsion or an act of grief.

• And there's also the tale "The Little Donkey", collected by the Grimms, in which a queen gives birth to a donkey who is then married to a princess and only then starts to turn human at night. The father of the bride burns the donkey skin, but unlike the other shapeshifters on this list (except for the Mouse Maiden) the donkey prince does not even notice until the next morning. He is terrified and tries to flee, until the king begs him to stay.

All this to say, these folktales are very divided on whether burning a shapeshifter's animal skin is the right thing to do. And it does not always depend on whether you are dealing with a cursed human or a born shapeshifter either! So I really wonder if there really aren't any folktales about selkies or swan maidens that involve the (attempted) burning of their skin, or if I just haven't found them yet...

[visualpoett]

Frog Tsarevna or Frog princess. She is a frog. (1918)

Artist: Viktor Vasnetsov

[noplaceforsanity]

I am very interested in Russian fairytales and movies, do you have any recomendation of a russian movie with theme similar to Beauty and the Beast? Or any good russian fairytale movie that you'd reccomend. I can't be realistic like RAIUNO Bella y la Bestia or Fantasy. I like fantasy as well ^-^. Thanks in advance!

Beauty and the Beast plot in Russia is known by Sergey Timofeyevich Aksakov's tale The Scarlet Flower (published in 1858). The story is recognizable - a merchant goes far from home and asks his three daughters what gifts they want, the youngest one, Nasten'ka, asks for a scarlet flower. Her father finds it in a garden of a mysterious beast who turns out to be a cursed prince. In 1952 the tale was made into an animated film (here English subtitles are available) - highly recommend watching. Btw, in Italian version the cursed prince is voiced by Massimo Wertmüller (Maurice Dubois in La Bella e La Bestia). Here are some of my favorite fairy tale films/cartoons: Sadko (1952) - based on a Russian bylina (epic tale); Morozko (1964); The Frog Princess (1954) - cartoon; The Tale of the Dead Tsarevna and of the Seven Bogatyrs (1951) - cartoon based on 1833 poem by Aleksandr Pushkin. A romance film "I am Dragon" (2015) also has Beauty and the Beast plot and a fairy tale-like feeling. It's beautifully made and worth watching.

[indigodreams]

The Tsarevna Frog

[ariel-seagull-wings]

What would they dress up as? (for Halloween)

Egon and Janine? :D

@bixiebeet @spengnitzed @amalthea9 @theselfshippingwitch @slimerspengler @inevitablemoment @angelixgutz

As Prince Ivan and Princess Vasilisa the Wise from the Tsarevna Frog fairy tale 😀

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LISTEN you remind me of (there are few translations) Tsarevna Frog/ Princess Frog whose real name is Vasilisa the Wise - she is a beautiful, intelligent and really skilled young woman, who was forced to spend 3 years in a frog's skin for disobeying Koschei. She's also a daughter of one powerful warlock and she mastered the magical wisdom to perfection. She's so badass, but unfortunately she fell for a really stupid guy ;-;

[margotfonteyns]

The Frog Princess (1954)