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The Frog Princess
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The Frog Tsarevna, Viktor Vasnetsov, 1918

Folk tale
Name The Frog Princess
Aarne–Thompson grouping ATU 402 («The Animal Bride»)
Region Russia
Published in Russian Fairy Tales by Alexander Afanasyev
Related
  • Puddocky
  • The Three Feathers

The Frog Princess is a fairy tale that has multiple versions with various origins. It is classified as type 402, the animal bride, in the Aarne–Thompson index.[1] Another tale of this type is the Norwegian Doll i’ the Grass.[2] Russian variants include the Frog Princess or Tsarevna Frog (Царевна Лягушка, Tsarevna Lyagushka)[3] and also Vasilisa the Wise (Василиса Премудрая, Vasilisa Premudraya); Alexander Afanasyev collected variants in his Narodnye russkie skazki.

Synopsis[edit]

The king (or an old peasant woman, in Lang’s version) wants his three sons to marry. To accomplish this, he creates a test to help them find brides. The king tells each prince to shoot an arrow. According to the King’s rules, each prince will find his bride where the arrow lands. The youngest son’s arrow is picked up by a frog. The king assigns his three prospective daughters-in-law various tasks, such as spinning cloth and baking bread. In every task, the frog far outperforms the two other lazy brides-to-be. In some versions, the frog uses magic to accomplish the tasks, and though the other brides attempt to emulate the frog, they cannot perform the magic. Still, the young prince is ashamed of his frog bride until she is magically transformed into a human princess.

In Calvino’s version, the princes use slings rather than bows and arrows. In the Greek version, the princes set out to find their brides one by one; the older two are already married by the time the youngest prince starts his quest. Another variation involves the sons chopping down trees and heading in the direction pointed by them in order to find their brides.[4]

Ivan-Tsarevitch finds the frog in the swamp. Art by Ivan Bilibin

In the Russian versions of the story, Prince Ivan and his two older brothers shoot arrows in different directions to find brides. The other brothers’ arrows land in the houses of the daughters of an aristocrat and a wealthy merchant, respectively. Ivan’s arrow lands in the mouth of a frog in a swamp, who turns into a princess at night. The Frog Princess, named Vasilisa the Wise, is a beautiful, intelligent, friendly, skilled young woman, who was forced to spend three years in a frog’s skin for disobeying Koschei. Her final test may be to dance at the king’s banquet. The Frog Princess sheds her skin, and the prince then burns it, to her dismay. Had the prince been patient, the Frog Princess would have been freed but instead he loses her. He then sets out to find her again and meets with Baba Yaga, whom he impresses with his spirit, asking why she has not offered him hospitality. She tells him that Koschei is holding his bride captive and explains how to find the magic needle needed to rescue his bride. In another version, the prince’s bride flies into Baba Yaga’s hut as a bird. The prince catches her, she turns into a lizard, and he cannot hold on. Baba Yaga rebukes him and sends him to her sister, where he fails again. However, when he is sent to the third sister, he catches her and no transformations can break her free again.

In some versions of the story, the Frog Princess’ transformation is a reward for her good nature. In one version, she is transformed by witches for their amusement. In yet another version, she is revealed to have been an enchanted princess all along.

Analysis[edit]

Tale type[edit]

The Russian tale is classified — and gives its name — to tale type SUS 402, «Russian: Царевна-лягушка, romanized: Tsarevna-lyagushka, lit. ‘Princess-Frog'», of the East Slavic Folktale Catalogue (Russian: СУС, romanized: SUS).[5] According to Lev Barag [ru], the East Slavic type 402 «frequently continues» as type 400: the hero burns the princess’s animal skin and she disappears.[6]

Russian researcher Varvara Dobrovolskaya stated that type SUS 402, «Frog Tsarevna», figures among some of the popular tales of enchanted spouses in the Russian tale corpus.[7] In some Russian variants, as soon as the hero burns the skin of his wife, the Frog Tsarevna, she says she must depart to Koschei’s realm,[8] prompting a quest for her (tale type ATU 400, «The Man on a Quest for the Lost Wife»).[9] Jack Haney stated that the combination of types 402, «Animal Bride», and 400, «Quest for the Lost Wife», is a common combination in Russian tales.[10]

Species of animal bride[edit]

Researcher Carole G. Silver states that, apart from bird and fish maidens, the animal bride appears as a frog in Burma, Russia, Austria and Italy; a dog in India and in North America, and a mouse in Sri Lanka.[11]

Professor Anna Angelopoulos noted that the animal wife in the Eastern Mediterranean is a turtle, which is the same animal of Greek variants.[12] In the same vein, Greek scholar Georgios A. Megas [el] noted that similar aquatic beings (seals, sea urchin) and water-related entities (gorgonas, nymphs, neraidas) appear in the Greek oikotype of type 402.[13]

Yolando Pino-Saavedra [es] located the frog, the toad and the monkey as animal brides in variants from the Iberian Peninsula, and from Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking areas in the Americas.[14]

Role of the animal bride[edit]

The tale is classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as ATU 402, «The Animal Bride». According to Andreas John, this tale type is considered to be a «male-centered» narrative. However, in East Slavic variants, the Frog Maiden assumes more of a protagonistic role along with her intended.[15] Likewise, scholar Maria Tatar describes the frog heroine as «resourceful, enterprising, and accomplished», whose amphibian skin is burned by her husband, and she has to depart to regions unknown. The story, then, delves into the husband’s efforts to find his wife, ending with a happy reunion for the couple.[16]

On the other hand, Barbara Fass Leavy draws attention to the role of the frog wife in female tasks, like cooking and weaving. It is her exceptional domestic skills that impress her father-in-law and ensure her husband inherits the kingdom.[17]

Maxim Fomin sees «intricate meanings» in the objects the frog wife produces at her husband’s request (a loaf of bread decorated with images of his father’s realm; the carpet depicting the whole kingdom), which Fomin associated with «regal semantics».[18]

A totemic figure?[edit]

Analysing Armenian variants of the tale type where the frog appears as the bride, Armenian scholarship suggests that the frog bride is a totemic figure, and represents a magical disguise of mermaids and magical beings connected to rain and humidity.[19]

Likewise, Russian scholarship (e.g., Vladimir Propp and Yeleazar Meletinsky) has argued for the totemic character of the frog princess.[20] Propp, for instance, described her dance at the court as some sort of «ritual dance»: she waves her arms and forests and lakes appear, and flocks of birds fly about.[21] Charles Fillingham Coxwell [de] also associated these human-animal marriages to totem ancestry, and cited the Russian tale as one example of such.[22]

In his work about animal symbolism in Slavic culture, Russian philologist Aleksandr V. Gura [ru] stated that the frog and the toad are linked to female attributes, like magic and wisdom.[23] In addition, according to ethnologist Ljubinko Radenkovich [sr], the frog and the toad represent liminal creatures that live between land and water realms, and are considered to be imbued with (often negative) magical properties in Slavic folklore.[24] In some variants, the Frog Princess is the daughter of Koschei, the Deathless,[25] and Baba Yaga — sorcerous characters with immense magical power who appear in Slavic folklore in adversarial position. This familial connection, then, seems to reinforce the magical, supernatural origin of the Frog Princess.[26]

Other motifs[edit]

Georgios A. Megas noted two distinctive introductory episodes: the shooting of arrows appears in Greek, Slavic, Turkish, Finnish, Arabic and Indian variants, while following the feathers is a Western European occurrence.[27]

Variants[edit]

Andrew Lang included an Italian variant of the tale, titled The Frog in The Violet Fairy Book.[28] Italo Calvino included another Italian variant from Piedmont, The Prince Who Married a Frog, in Italian Folktales,[29] where he noted that the tale was common throughout Europe.[30] Georgios A. Megas included a Greek variant, The Enchanted Lake, in Folktales of Greece.[31]

In a variant from northern Moldavia collected and published by Romanian author Elena Niculiță-Voronca, the bride selection contest replaces the feather and arrow for shooting bullets, and the frog bride commands the elements (the wind, the rain and the frost) to fulfill the three bridal tasks.[32]

Russia[edit]

The oldest attestation of the tale type in Russia is in a 1787 compilation of fairy tales, published by one Petr Timofeev.[33] In this tale, titled «Сказка девятая, о лягушке и богатыре» (English: «Tale nr. 9: About the frog and the bogatyr»), a widowed king has three sons, and urges them to find wives by shooting three arrows at random, and to marry whoever they find on the spot the arrows land on. The youngest son, Ivan Bogatyr, shoots his, and it takes him some time to find it again. He walks through a vast swamp and finds a large hut, with a large frog inside, holding his arrow. The frog presses Ivan to marry it, lest he will not leave the swamp. Ivan agrees, and it takes off the frog skin to become a beautiful maiden. Later, the king asks his daughters-in-law to weave him a fine linen shirt and a beautiful carpet with gold, silver and silk, and finally to bake him delicious bread. Ivan’s frog wife summons the winds to help her in both sewing tasks. Lastly, the king invites his daughters-in-law to the palace, and the frog wife takes off the frog skin, leaves it at home and goes on a golden carriage. While she dances and impresses the court, Ivan goes back home and burns her frog skin. The maiden realizes her husband’s folly and, saying her name is Vasilisa the Wise, tells him she will vanish to a distant kingdom and begs him to find her.[34]

Czech Republic[edit]

In a Czech variant translated by Jeremiah Curtin, The Mouse-Hole, and the Underground Kingdom, prince Yarmil and his brothers are to seek wives and bring to the king their presents in a year and a day. Yarmil and his brothers shoot arrow to decide their fates, Yarmil’s falls into a mouse-hole. The prince enters the mouse hole, finds a splendid castle and an ugly toad he must bathe for a year and a day. When the date is through, he returns to his father with the toad’s magnificent present: a casket with a small mirror inside. This repeats two more times: on the second year, Yarmil brings the princess’s portrait and on the third year the princess herself. She reveals she was the toad, changed into amphibian form by an evil wizard, and that Yarmil helped her break this curse, on the condition that he must never reveal her cursed state to anyone, specially to his mother. He breaks this prohibition one night and she disappears. Yarmil, then, goes on a quest for her all the way to the glass mountain (tale type ATU 400, «The Quest for the Lost Wife»).[35]

Ukraine[edit]

In a Ukrainian variant collected by M. Dragomanov, titled «Жена-жаба» («The Frog Wife» or «The Frog Woman»), a king shoots three bullets to three different locations, the youngest son follows and finds a frog. He marries it and discovers it is a beautiful princess. After he burns the frog skin, she disappears, and the prince must seek her.[36]

In another Ukrainian variant, the Frog Princess is a maiden named Maria, daughter of the Sea Tsar and cursed into frog form. The tale begins much the same: the three arrows, the marriage between human prince and frog and the three tasks. When the human tsar announces a grand ball to which his sons and his wives are invited, Maria takes off her frog skin to appear as human. While she is in the tsar’s ballroom, her husband hurries back home and burns the frog skin. When she comes home, she reveals the prince her cursed state would soon be over, says he needs to find Baba Yaga in a remote kingdom, and vanishes from sight in the form of a cuckoo. The tale continues as tale type ATU 313, «The Magical Flight», like the Russian tale of The Sea Tsar and Vasilisa the Wise.[37]

Finland[edit]

Finnish author Eero Salmelainen [fi] collected a Finnish tale with the title Sammakko morsiamena (English: «The Frog Bride»), and translated into French as Le Cendrillon et sa fiancée, la grenouille («The Male Cinderella and his bride, the frog»). In this tale, a king has three sons, the youngest named Tuhkimo (a male Cinderella; from Finnish tuhka, «ashes»). One day, the king organizes a bride selection test for his sons: they are to aim his bows and shoot arrows at random directions, and marry the woman that they will find with the arrow. Tuhkimo’s arrow lands near a frog and he takes it as his bride. The king sets three tasks for his prospective daughters-in-law: to prepare the food and to sew garments. While prince Tuhkimo is aleep, his frog fiancée takes off her frog skin, becomes a human maiden and summons her eight sisters to her house: eight swans fly in through the window, take off their swanskins and become humans. Tuhkimo discovers his bride’s transformation and burns the amphibian skin. The princess laments the fact, since her mother cursed her and her eight sisters, and in three nights time the curse would have been lifted. The princess then changes into a swan and flies away with her swan sisters. Tuhkimo follows her and meets an old widow, who directs him to a lake, in three days journey. Tuhkimo finds the lake, and he waits. Nine swans come, take off their skins to become human women and bathe in the lake. Tuhkimo hides his bride’s swanskin. She comes out of the water and cannot find her swanskin. Tuhkimo appears to her and she tells him he must come to her father’s palace and identify her among her sisters.[38][39]

Azerbaijan[edit]

In the Azerbaijani version of the fairy tale, the princes do not shoot arrows to choose their fiancées, they hit girls with apples.[40] And indeed, there was such a custom among the Mongols living in the territory of present-day Azerbaijan in the 17th century.[41]

Poland[edit]

In a Polish from Masuria collected by Max Toeppen with the title Die Froschprinzessin («The Frog Princess»), a landlord has three sons, the elder two smart and the youngest, Hans (Janek in the Polish text), a fool. One day, the elder two decide to leave home to learn a trade and find wives, and their foolish little brother wants to do so. The two elders and Hans go their separate ways in a crossroads, and Hans loses his way in the woods, without food, and the berries of the forest not enough to sate his hunger. Luckily for him, he finds a hut in the distance, where a little frog lives. Hans tells the little animal he wants to find work, and the frog agrees to hire him, his only job is to carry the frog on a satin pillow, and he shall have drink and food. One day, the youth sighs that his brothers are probably returning home with gifts for their mother, and he has none to show them. The little frog tells Hans to sleep and, in the next morning, to knock three times on the stable door with a wand; he will find a beautiful horse he can ride home, and a little box. Hans goes back home with the horse and gives the little box to his mother; inside, a beautiful dress of gold and diamond buttons. Hans’s brothers question the legitimate origin of the dress. Some time later, the brothers go back to their masters and promise to return with their brides. Hans goes back to the little frog’s hut and mopes that his brother have bride to introduce to his family, while he has the frog. The frog tells him not to worry, and to knock on the stable again. Hans does that and a carriage appears with a princess inside, who is the frog herself. The princess asks Hans to take her to his parents, but not let her put anything on her mouth during dinner. Hans and the princess go to his parents’ house, and he fulfills the princess’s request, despite some grievaance from his parents and brothers. Finally, the princess turns back into a frog and tells Hans he has a last challenge before he redeems her: Hans will have to face three nights of temptations, dance, music and women in the first; counts and nobles who wish to crown him king in the second; and executioners who wish to kill him in the third. Hans endures and braves each night, awakening in the fourth day in a large castle. The princess, fully redeemed, tells him the castle is theirs, and she is his wife.[42]

In another Polish tale, collected by collector Antoni Józef Gliński [pl] and translated into English by translator Maude Ashurst Biggs as The Frog Princess, a king wishes to see his three sons married before they eventually ascend to the throne. So, the next day, the princes prepare to shoot three arrows at random, and to marry the girls that live wherever the arrows land. The first two find human wives, while the youngest’s arrow falls in the margins of the lake. A frog, sat on it, agrees to return the prince’s arrow, in exchange for becoming his wife. The prince questions the frog’s decision, but she advises him to tell his family he married an Eastern lady who must be only seen by her beloved. Eventually, the king asks his sons to bring him carpet woven by his daughters-in-law. The little frog summons «seven lovely maidens» to help her weave the carpet. Next, the king asks for a cake to be baked by his daughters-in-law, and the little frog bakes a delicious cake for the king. Surprised by the frog’s hidden talents, the prince asks her about them, and she reveals she is, in fact, a princess underneath the frog skin, a disguise created by her mother, the magical Queen of Light, to keep her safe from her enemies. The king then summons his sons and his daughters-in-law for a banquet at the palace. The little frog tells the prince to go first, and, when his father asks about her, it will begin to rain; when it lightens, he is to tell her she is adorning herself; and when it thunders, she is coming to the palace. It happens thus, and the prince introduces his bride to his father, and whispers in his ear about the frogskin. The king suggests his son burns the frogskin. The prince follows through with the suggestion and tells his bride about it. The princess cries bitter tears and, while he is asleep, turns into a duck and flies away. The prince wakes the next morning and begins a quest to find the kingdom of the Queen of Light. In his quest, he passes by the houses of three witches named Jandza, which spin on chicken legs. Each of the Jandzas tells him that the princess flies in their huts in duck form, and the prince must hide himself to get her back. He fails in the first two houses, due to her shapeshifting into other animals to escape, but gets her in the third. They reconcile and return to his father’s kingdom.[43]

Other regions[edit]

Researchers Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard L. Dauenhauer found a variant titled Yuwaan Gagéets, heard during Nora’s childhood from a Tlingit storyteller. They identified the tale as belonging to the tale type ATU 402 (and a second part as ATU 400, «The Quest for the Lost Wife») and noted its resemblance to the Russian story, trying to trace its appearance in the teller’s repertoire.[44]

Adaptations[edit]

  • A literary treatment of the tale was published as The Wise Princess (A Russian Tale) in The Blue Rose Fairy Book (1911), by Maurice Baring.[45]
  • A translation of the story by illustrator Katherine Pyle was published with the title The Frog Princess (A Russian Story).[46]
  • Vasilisa the Beautiful, a 1939 Soviet film directed by Aleksandr Rou, is based on this plot. It was the first large-budget feature in the Soviet Union to use fantasy elements, as opposed to the realistic style long favored politically.[47]
  • In 1953 the director Mikhail Tsekhanovsky had the idea of animating this popular national fairy tale. Production took two years, and the premiere took place in December, 1954. At present the film is included in the gold classics of «Soyuzmultfilm».
  • Vasilisa the Beautiful, a 1977 Soviet animated film is also based on this fairy tale.
  • In 1996, an animated Russian version based on an in-depth version of the tale in the film «Classic Fairy Tales From Around the World» on VHS. This version tells of how the beautiful Princess Vasilisa was kidnapped and cursed by the evil wizard Kashay to make her his bride and only the love of the handsome Prince Ivan can free her.
  • Taking inspiration from the Russian story, Vasilisa appears to assist Hellboy against Koschei in the 2007 comic book Hellboy: Darkness Calls.
  • The Frog Princess was featured in Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, where it was depicted in a country setting. The episode features the voice talents of Jasmine Guy as Frog Princess Lylah, Greg Kinnear as Prince Gavin, Wallace Langham as Prince Bobby, Mary Gross as Elise, and Beau Bridges as King Big Daddy.
  • A Hungarian variant of the tale was adapted into an episode of the Hungarian television series Magyar népmesék («Hungarian Folk Tales») (hu), with the title Marci és az elátkozott királylány («Martin and the Cursed Princess»).
  • «Wildwood Dancing,» a 2007 fantasy novel by Juliet Marillier, expands the princess and the frog theme.[48]

Culture[edit]

Music

The Divine Comedy’s 1997 single The Frog Princess is loosely based on the theme of the original Frog Princess story, interwoven with the narrator’s personal experiences.

See also[edit]

  • The Frog Prince
  • The Princess and the Frog
  • Vasilisa (name)
  • Puddocky

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External links[edit]

  • The Frog Princess on YouTube
  • The Wise Princess (The Blue Rose Fairy Book) from Project Gutenberg
  • The Frog Princess (Ukrainian Folk Tale)
  • The Frog Princess (Polish Folk Tale)
  • The Frog Princess (Chinese Folk Tale)
The Frog Princess
Vasnetsov Frog Princess.jpg

The Frog Tsarevna, Viktor Vasnetsov, 1918

Folk tale
Name The Frog Princess
Aarne–Thompson grouping ATU 402 («The Animal Bride»)
Region Russia
Published in Russian Fairy Tales by Alexander Afanasyev
Related
  • Puddocky
  • The Three Feathers

The Frog Princess is a fairy tale that has multiple versions with various origins. It is classified as type 402, the animal bride, in the Aarne–Thompson index.[1] Another tale of this type is the Norwegian Doll i’ the Grass.[2] Russian variants include the Frog Princess or Tsarevna Frog (Царевна Лягушка, Tsarevna Lyagushka)[3] and also Vasilisa the Wise (Василиса Премудрая, Vasilisa Premudraya); Alexander Afanasyev collected variants in his Narodnye russkie skazki.

Synopsis[edit]

The king (or an old peasant woman, in Lang’s version) wants his three sons to marry. To accomplish this, he creates a test to help them find brides. The king tells each prince to shoot an arrow. According to the King’s rules, each prince will find his bride where the arrow lands. The youngest son’s arrow is picked up by a frog. The king assigns his three prospective daughters-in-law various tasks, such as spinning cloth and baking bread. In every task, the frog far outperforms the two other lazy brides-to-be. In some versions, the frog uses magic to accomplish the tasks, and though the other brides attempt to emulate the frog, they cannot perform the magic. Still, the young prince is ashamed of his frog bride until she is magically transformed into a human princess.

In Calvino’s version, the princes use slings rather than bows and arrows. In the Greek version, the princes set out to find their brides one by one; the older two are already married by the time the youngest prince starts his quest. Another variation involves the sons chopping down trees and heading in the direction pointed by them in order to find their brides.[4]

Ivan-Tsarevitch finds the frog in the swamp. Art by Ivan Bilibin

In the Russian versions of the story, Prince Ivan and his two older brothers shoot arrows in different directions to find brides. The other brothers’ arrows land in the houses of the daughters of an aristocrat and a wealthy merchant, respectively. Ivan’s arrow lands in the mouth of a frog in a swamp, who turns into a princess at night. The Frog Princess, named Vasilisa the Wise, is a beautiful, intelligent, friendly, skilled young woman, who was forced to spend three years in a frog’s skin for disobeying Koschei. Her final test may be to dance at the king’s banquet. The Frog Princess sheds her skin, and the prince then burns it, to her dismay. Had the prince been patient, the Frog Princess would have been freed but instead he loses her. He then sets out to find her again and meets with Baba Yaga, whom he impresses with his spirit, asking why she has not offered him hospitality. She tells him that Koschei is holding his bride captive and explains how to find the magic needle needed to rescue his bride. In another version, the prince’s bride flies into Baba Yaga’s hut as a bird. The prince catches her, she turns into a lizard, and he cannot hold on. Baba Yaga rebukes him and sends him to her sister, where he fails again. However, when he is sent to the third sister, he catches her and no transformations can break her free again.

In some versions of the story, the Frog Princess’ transformation is a reward for her good nature. In one version, she is transformed by witches for their amusement. In yet another version, she is revealed to have been an enchanted princess all along.

Analysis[edit]

Tale type[edit]

The Russian tale is classified — and gives its name — to tale type SUS 402, «Russian: Царевна-лягушка, romanized: Tsarevna-lyagushka, lit. ‘Princess-Frog'», of the East Slavic Folktale Catalogue (Russian: СУС, romanized: SUS).[5] According to Lev Barag [ru], the East Slavic type 402 «frequently continues» as type 400: the hero burns the princess’s animal skin and she disappears.[6]

Russian researcher Varvara Dobrovolskaya stated that type SUS 402, «Frog Tsarevna», figures among some of the popular tales of enchanted spouses in the Russian tale corpus.[7] In some Russian variants, as soon as the hero burns the skin of his wife, the Frog Tsarevna, she says she must depart to Koschei’s realm,[8] prompting a quest for her (tale type ATU 400, «The Man on a Quest for the Lost Wife»).[9] Jack Haney stated that the combination of types 402, «Animal Bride», and 400, «Quest for the Lost Wife», is a common combination in Russian tales.[10]

Species of animal bride[edit]

Researcher Carole G. Silver states that, apart from bird and fish maidens, the animal bride appears as a frog in Burma, Russia, Austria and Italy; a dog in India and in North America, and a mouse in Sri Lanka.[11]

Professor Anna Angelopoulos noted that the animal wife in the Eastern Mediterranean is a turtle, which is the same animal of Greek variants.[12] In the same vein, Greek scholar Georgios A. Megas [el] noted that similar aquatic beings (seals, sea urchin) and water-related entities (gorgonas, nymphs, neraidas) appear in the Greek oikotype of type 402.[13]

Yolando Pino-Saavedra [es] located the frog, the toad and the monkey as animal brides in variants from the Iberian Peninsula, and from Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking areas in the Americas.[14]

Role of the animal bride[edit]

The tale is classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as ATU 402, «The Animal Bride». According to Andreas John, this tale type is considered to be a «male-centered» narrative. However, in East Slavic variants, the Frog Maiden assumes more of a protagonistic role along with her intended.[15] Likewise, scholar Maria Tatar describes the frog heroine as «resourceful, enterprising, and accomplished», whose amphibian skin is burned by her husband, and she has to depart to regions unknown. The story, then, delves into the husband’s efforts to find his wife, ending with a happy reunion for the couple.[16]

On the other hand, Barbara Fass Leavy draws attention to the role of the frog wife in female tasks, like cooking and weaving. It is her exceptional domestic skills that impress her father-in-law and ensure her husband inherits the kingdom.[17]

Maxim Fomin sees «intricate meanings» in the objects the frog wife produces at her husband’s request (a loaf of bread decorated with images of his father’s realm; the carpet depicting the whole kingdom), which Fomin associated with «regal semantics».[18]

A totemic figure?[edit]

Analysing Armenian variants of the tale type where the frog appears as the bride, Armenian scholarship suggests that the frog bride is a totemic figure, and represents a magical disguise of mermaids and magical beings connected to rain and humidity.[19]

Likewise, Russian scholarship (e.g., Vladimir Propp and Yeleazar Meletinsky) has argued for the totemic character of the frog princess.[20] Propp, for instance, described her dance at the court as some sort of «ritual dance»: she waves her arms and forests and lakes appear, and flocks of birds fly about.[21] Charles Fillingham Coxwell [de] also associated these human-animal marriages to totem ancestry, and cited the Russian tale as one example of such.[22]

In his work about animal symbolism in Slavic culture, Russian philologist Aleksandr V. Gura [ru] stated that the frog and the toad are linked to female attributes, like magic and wisdom.[23] In addition, according to ethnologist Ljubinko Radenkovich [sr], the frog and the toad represent liminal creatures that live between land and water realms, and are considered to be imbued with (often negative) magical properties in Slavic folklore.[24] In some variants, the Frog Princess is the daughter of Koschei, the Deathless,[25] and Baba Yaga — sorcerous characters with immense magical power who appear in Slavic folklore in adversarial position. This familial connection, then, seems to reinforce the magical, supernatural origin of the Frog Princess.[26]

Other motifs[edit]

Georgios A. Megas noted two distinctive introductory episodes: the shooting of arrows appears in Greek, Slavic, Turkish, Finnish, Arabic and Indian variants, while following the feathers is a Western European occurrence.[27]

Variants[edit]

Andrew Lang included an Italian variant of the tale, titled The Frog in The Violet Fairy Book.[28] Italo Calvino included another Italian variant from Piedmont, The Prince Who Married a Frog, in Italian Folktales,[29] where he noted that the tale was common throughout Europe.[30] Georgios A. Megas included a Greek variant, The Enchanted Lake, in Folktales of Greece.[31]

In a variant from northern Moldavia collected and published by Romanian author Elena Niculiță-Voronca, the bride selection contest replaces the feather and arrow for shooting bullets, and the frog bride commands the elements (the wind, the rain and the frost) to fulfill the three bridal tasks.[32]

Russia[edit]

The oldest attestation of the tale type in Russia is in a 1787 compilation of fairy tales, published by one Petr Timofeev.[33] In this tale, titled «Сказка девятая, о лягушке и богатыре» (English: «Tale nr. 9: About the frog and the bogatyr»), a widowed king has three sons, and urges them to find wives by shooting three arrows at random, and to marry whoever they find on the spot the arrows land on. The youngest son, Ivan Bogatyr, shoots his, and it takes him some time to find it again. He walks through a vast swamp and finds a large hut, with a large frog inside, holding his arrow. The frog presses Ivan to marry it, lest he will not leave the swamp. Ivan agrees, and it takes off the frog skin to become a beautiful maiden. Later, the king asks his daughters-in-law to weave him a fine linen shirt and a beautiful carpet with gold, silver and silk, and finally to bake him delicious bread. Ivan’s frog wife summons the winds to help her in both sewing tasks. Lastly, the king invites his daughters-in-law to the palace, and the frog wife takes off the frog skin, leaves it at home and goes on a golden carriage. While she dances and impresses the court, Ivan goes back home and burns her frog skin. The maiden realizes her husband’s folly and, saying her name is Vasilisa the Wise, tells him she will vanish to a distant kingdom and begs him to find her.[34]

Czech Republic[edit]

In a Czech variant translated by Jeremiah Curtin, The Mouse-Hole, and the Underground Kingdom, prince Yarmil and his brothers are to seek wives and bring to the king their presents in a year and a day. Yarmil and his brothers shoot arrow to decide their fates, Yarmil’s falls into a mouse-hole. The prince enters the mouse hole, finds a splendid castle and an ugly toad he must bathe for a year and a day. When the date is through, he returns to his father with the toad’s magnificent present: a casket with a small mirror inside. This repeats two more times: on the second year, Yarmil brings the princess’s portrait and on the third year the princess herself. She reveals she was the toad, changed into amphibian form by an evil wizard, and that Yarmil helped her break this curse, on the condition that he must never reveal her cursed state to anyone, specially to his mother. He breaks this prohibition one night and she disappears. Yarmil, then, goes on a quest for her all the way to the glass mountain (tale type ATU 400, «The Quest for the Lost Wife»).[35]

Ukraine[edit]

In a Ukrainian variant collected by M. Dragomanov, titled «Жена-жаба» («The Frog Wife» or «The Frog Woman»), a king shoots three bullets to three different locations, the youngest son follows and finds a frog. He marries it and discovers it is a beautiful princess. After he burns the frog skin, she disappears, and the prince must seek her.[36]

In another Ukrainian variant, the Frog Princess is a maiden named Maria, daughter of the Sea Tsar and cursed into frog form. The tale begins much the same: the three arrows, the marriage between human prince and frog and the three tasks. When the human tsar announces a grand ball to which his sons and his wives are invited, Maria takes off her frog skin to appear as human. While she is in the tsar’s ballroom, her husband hurries back home and burns the frog skin. When she comes home, she reveals the prince her cursed state would soon be over, says he needs to find Baba Yaga in a remote kingdom, and vanishes from sight in the form of a cuckoo. The tale continues as tale type ATU 313, «The Magical Flight», like the Russian tale of The Sea Tsar and Vasilisa the Wise.[37]

Finland[edit]

Finnish author Eero Salmelainen [fi] collected a Finnish tale with the title Sammakko morsiamena (English: «The Frog Bride»), and translated into French as Le Cendrillon et sa fiancée, la grenouille («The Male Cinderella and his bride, the frog»). In this tale, a king has three sons, the youngest named Tuhkimo (a male Cinderella; from Finnish tuhka, «ashes»). One day, the king organizes a bride selection test for his sons: they are to aim his bows and shoot arrows at random directions, and marry the woman that they will find with the arrow. Tuhkimo’s arrow lands near a frog and he takes it as his bride. The king sets three tasks for his prospective daughters-in-law: to prepare the food and to sew garments. While prince Tuhkimo is aleep, his frog fiancée takes off her frog skin, becomes a human maiden and summons her eight sisters to her house: eight swans fly in through the window, take off their swanskins and become humans. Tuhkimo discovers his bride’s transformation and burns the amphibian skin. The princess laments the fact, since her mother cursed her and her eight sisters, and in three nights time the curse would have been lifted. The princess then changes into a swan and flies away with her swan sisters. Tuhkimo follows her and meets an old widow, who directs him to a lake, in three days journey. Tuhkimo finds the lake, and he waits. Nine swans come, take off their skins to become human women and bathe in the lake. Tuhkimo hides his bride’s swanskin. She comes out of the water and cannot find her swanskin. Tuhkimo appears to her and she tells him he must come to her father’s palace and identify her among her sisters.[38][39]

Azerbaijan[edit]

In the Azerbaijani version of the fairy tale, the princes do not shoot arrows to choose their fiancées, they hit girls with apples.[40] And indeed, there was such a custom among the Mongols living in the territory of present-day Azerbaijan in the 17th century.[41]

Poland[edit]

In a Polish from Masuria collected by Max Toeppen with the title Die Froschprinzessin («The Frog Princess»), a landlord has three sons, the elder two smart and the youngest, Hans (Janek in the Polish text), a fool. One day, the elder two decide to leave home to learn a trade and find wives, and their foolish little brother wants to do so. The two elders and Hans go their separate ways in a crossroads, and Hans loses his way in the woods, without food, and the berries of the forest not enough to sate his hunger. Luckily for him, he finds a hut in the distance, where a little frog lives. Hans tells the little animal he wants to find work, and the frog agrees to hire him, his only job is to carry the frog on a satin pillow, and he shall have drink and food. One day, the youth sighs that his brothers are probably returning home with gifts for their mother, and he has none to show them. The little frog tells Hans to sleep and, in the next morning, to knock three times on the stable door with a wand; he will find a beautiful horse he can ride home, and a little box. Hans goes back home with the horse and gives the little box to his mother; inside, a beautiful dress of gold and diamond buttons. Hans’s brothers question the legitimate origin of the dress. Some time later, the brothers go back to their masters and promise to return with their brides. Hans goes back to the little frog’s hut and mopes that his brother have bride to introduce to his family, while he has the frog. The frog tells him not to worry, and to knock on the stable again. Hans does that and a carriage appears with a princess inside, who is the frog herself. The princess asks Hans to take her to his parents, but not let her put anything on her mouth during dinner. Hans and the princess go to his parents’ house, and he fulfills the princess’s request, despite some grievaance from his parents and brothers. Finally, the princess turns back into a frog and tells Hans he has a last challenge before he redeems her: Hans will have to face three nights of temptations, dance, music and women in the first; counts and nobles who wish to crown him king in the second; and executioners who wish to kill him in the third. Hans endures and braves each night, awakening in the fourth day in a large castle. The princess, fully redeemed, tells him the castle is theirs, and she is his wife.[42]

In another Polish tale, collected by collector Antoni Józef Gliński [pl] and translated into English by translator Maude Ashurst Biggs as The Frog Princess, a king wishes to see his three sons married before they eventually ascend to the throne. So, the next day, the princes prepare to shoot three arrows at random, and to marry the girls that live wherever the arrows land. The first two find human wives, while the youngest’s arrow falls in the margins of the lake. A frog, sat on it, agrees to return the prince’s arrow, in exchange for becoming his wife. The prince questions the frog’s decision, but she advises him to tell his family he married an Eastern lady who must be only seen by her beloved. Eventually, the king asks his sons to bring him carpet woven by his daughters-in-law. The little frog summons «seven lovely maidens» to help her weave the carpet. Next, the king asks for a cake to be baked by his daughters-in-law, and the little frog bakes a delicious cake for the king. Surprised by the frog’s hidden talents, the prince asks her about them, and she reveals she is, in fact, a princess underneath the frog skin, a disguise created by her mother, the magical Queen of Light, to keep her safe from her enemies. The king then summons his sons and his daughters-in-law for a banquet at the palace. The little frog tells the prince to go first, and, when his father asks about her, it will begin to rain; when it lightens, he is to tell her she is adorning herself; and when it thunders, she is coming to the palace. It happens thus, and the prince introduces his bride to his father, and whispers in his ear about the frogskin. The king suggests his son burns the frogskin. The prince follows through with the suggestion and tells his bride about it. The princess cries bitter tears and, while he is asleep, turns into a duck and flies away. The prince wakes the next morning and begins a quest to find the kingdom of the Queen of Light. In his quest, he passes by the houses of three witches named Jandza, which spin on chicken legs. Each of the Jandzas tells him that the princess flies in their huts in duck form, and the prince must hide himself to get her back. He fails in the first two houses, due to her shapeshifting into other animals to escape, but gets her in the third. They reconcile and return to his father’s kingdom.[43]

Other regions[edit]

Researchers Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard L. Dauenhauer found a variant titled Yuwaan Gagéets, heard during Nora’s childhood from a Tlingit storyteller. They identified the tale as belonging to the tale type ATU 402 (and a second part as ATU 400, «The Quest for the Lost Wife») and noted its resemblance to the Russian story, trying to trace its appearance in the teller’s repertoire.[44]

Adaptations[edit]

  • A literary treatment of the tale was published as The Wise Princess (A Russian Tale) in The Blue Rose Fairy Book (1911), by Maurice Baring.[45]
  • A translation of the story by illustrator Katherine Pyle was published with the title The Frog Princess (A Russian Story).[46]
  • Vasilisa the Beautiful, a 1939 Soviet film directed by Aleksandr Rou, is based on this plot. It was the first large-budget feature in the Soviet Union to use fantasy elements, as opposed to the realistic style long favored politically.[47]
  • In 1953 the director Mikhail Tsekhanovsky had the idea of animating this popular national fairy tale. Production took two years, and the premiere took place in December, 1954. At present the film is included in the gold classics of «Soyuzmultfilm».
  • Vasilisa the Beautiful, a 1977 Soviet animated film is also based on this fairy tale.
  • In 1996, an animated Russian version based on an in-depth version of the tale in the film «Classic Fairy Tales From Around the World» on VHS. This version tells of how the beautiful Princess Vasilisa was kidnapped and cursed by the evil wizard Kashay to make her his bride and only the love of the handsome Prince Ivan can free her.
  • Taking inspiration from the Russian story, Vasilisa appears to assist Hellboy against Koschei in the 2007 comic book Hellboy: Darkness Calls.
  • The Frog Princess was featured in Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, where it was depicted in a country setting. The episode features the voice talents of Jasmine Guy as Frog Princess Lylah, Greg Kinnear as Prince Gavin, Wallace Langham as Prince Bobby, Mary Gross as Elise, and Beau Bridges as King Big Daddy.
  • A Hungarian variant of the tale was adapted into an episode of the Hungarian television series Magyar népmesék («Hungarian Folk Tales») (hu), with the title Marci és az elátkozott királylány («Martin and the Cursed Princess»).
  • «Wildwood Dancing,» a 2007 fantasy novel by Juliet Marillier, expands the princess and the frog theme.[48]

Culture[edit]

Music

The Divine Comedy’s 1997 single The Frog Princess is loosely based on the theme of the original Frog Princess story, interwoven with the narrator’s personal experiences.

See also[edit]

  • The Frog Prince
  • The Princess and the Frog
  • Vasilisa (name)
  • Puddocky

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External links[edit]

  • The Frog Princess on YouTube
  • The Wise Princess (The Blue Rose Fairy Book) from Project Gutenberg
  • The Frog Princess (Ukrainian Folk Tale)
  • The Frog Princess (Polish Folk Tale)
  • The Frog Princess (Chinese Folk Tale)

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Волшебная сказка и её герои.

1. Понравилась ли вам сказка? К какому жанру сказок она от­носится (волшебным, бытовым, сказкам о животных)? Какие особенности народной сказки вы в ней обнаружили (присказ­ка, зачин, концовка, повторы, постоянные эпитеты)? Приведи­те примеры из текста.

         Сказка «Царевна-лягушка» очень интересная. В ней много превращений и чудес, поэтому она относится к жанру волшебной сказки. В этой сказке мы видим признаки народной сказки, такие как:

         Присказка – утро вечера мудренее, ни в сказке сказать, ни пером описать, долго ли шёл, коротко ли, близко ли, далёко ли – скоро сказка сказывается, да не скоро дело дела­ется.

         Зачин – «В некотором царстве, в некотором государстве»

         Концовка – «И стали они жить дружно, в любви и согласии».

         Повторы – жил-был, лягушка-квакушка, подумал-подумал, спать-почивать, костями-огрызками, шел-шел, избушка-избушка.

         Постоянные эпитеты – тугие луки, широкий двор, красное крыльцо, буйна голова, птицы летучие, звери рыскучие, высокие горы, темные леса, синее море, добрый молодец.

2. Кто главные герои? Почему сказка называется «Царевна-ля­гушка», хотя не одна она героиня этой сказки?

         Главными героями сказки являются Иван-царевич и Василиса Премудрая. Главное волшебство сказки  – превращение лягушки в Василису Премудрую, именно поэтому, я думаю, сказка так и называется «Царевна-лягушка».

3. Как выполняют задания царя Василиса Премудрая и жёны старших царевичей? Расскажите об этом. Как царь оцени­вает их работу? Постарайтесь рассказать близко к тексту эпизод, когда царевна-лягушка приезжает на пир. Каким был пир?

         Царь дает женам сыновей три задания: испечь хлеб, соткать ковер и показать себя в танце. Жены старшего и среднего сыновей каждый раз звали на помощь мамушек и нянюшек – видимо, сами ничего не умели делать, оттого и не понравились царю их хлеба и ковры, может, это все было и неплохо сделано, но не было главного – души. А Василиса Премудрая все задания выполняла сама и от всего сердца, поэтому царь и оценил ее хлеб и ковер самой высокой похвалой. А танец Царевны-лягушки на пиру заворожил всех гостей, может, и не было ни озера, ни лебедей, но все гости видели это, потому что Василиса Премудрая и в движения вкладывала свою любовь.

4. Известно, что у этой сказки более 20 вариантов, значит, она совершенствовалась и недаром считается одной из лучших на­родных сказок. Постарайтесь найти примеры особого склада сказки. Вот один из них: описание работы царевны-лягуш­ки – ритмичное, складное, как стихотворение:

Где кольнёт иглой раз – цветок зацветёт, где кольнёт другой раз – хитрые узоры идут, где кольнёт третий – птицы летят…

Какие варианты этой сказки вам известны? Какие отличия вы в них заметили?

         Один из вариантов сказки о Царевне-лягушке называется «Сказка о лягушке и богатыре». В ней главные герои – Иван-богатырь и Василиса Премудрая. Отличий по сюжету много: это и король вместо царя, жены сыновей рубашки шьют вместо ковров, три Бабы Яги вместо Кощея, Иван-богатырь сразу знал, что его жена не лягушка и т.д. Но главная суть сказки осталась неизменна: превращение лягушки в Василису Премудрую и все, что делает Василиса, получается у нее лучше других.

         Особенность этой сказки в том, что Василиса, выполняя задания короля, обращается к ветрам: «Буйные ветры! Разнесите лоскуточки и сшейте свекору рубашку». Отличаются зачин и концовка: «В некотором царстве, в некотором было государстве жил король», «Иван-богатырь остался с своею супругою и правил королевством после отца своего благополучно». К особому складу относится одинаковый разговор Ивана-богатыря и каждой Бабы Яги: «Доселева русского духу слыхом не слыхивано и видом не видывано, а нынче русский дух в очах проявляется». Потом спрашивала его: «Что ты, Иван-богатырь, волею или неволею?» Иван-богатырь отвечал: «Сколько волею, а вдвое неволею».

5. Сказка – это занимательный рассказ о необыкновенных со­бытиях и приключениях. Какие необыкновенные события и приключения связаны с героями сказки «Царевна-лягушка»? Кто помогал Ивану-царевичу? Почему? За что разгневался Ко­щей Бессмертный на Василису Премудрую и приказал ей три года квакушкой быть?

         Необыкновенные события в сказке «Царевна-лягушка» – это волшебство. Василиса Премудрая была превращена отцом в лягушку, но и сама умеет превращаться, например, от Ивана-царевича она улетела белой лебедью. Звери умеют разговаривать.  

         Приключения ждали Ивана-царевича, когда он пошел на поиски жены. Герой встречает на своем долгом пути старичка и получает от него волшебный путеводный клубок. Далее –медведя, селезня, зайца и щуку, которые за то, что Иван-царевич пожалел их, помогают ему, и Баба Яга в этой сказке в благодарность за доброе слово царевича тоже оказывается союзницей человека.

         Кощей Бессмертный превратил свою дочь в лягушку на три года, потому что она оказалась умнее и хитрее своего отца.

6. Почему таким долгим и трудным был путь Ивана-царевича к царевне-лягушке? Что этим хотел сказать сказитель-автор? Кто помогал Ивану-царевичу? Расскажите о чудесных помощ­никах.

         Иван-царевич сжег кожу лягушки, не думая о последствиях, он хотел, чтобы Василиса Премудрая всегда была женщиной и над ним больше никто не смеялся, что женат на лягушке. Сказитель-автор говорит нам, что сделать ошибку можно быстро, а вот на исправление может понадобиться много времени.

         Иван-царевич со смирением принял долгий путь и больше не совершал поспешных поступков, он научился думать о других, поэтому на просьбы медведя, селезня, зайца и щуки о пощаде, он выбрал их жизнь, а не свой голод. За доброе отношение получил Иван-царевич помощь от животных: медведь дуб выворотил, заяц зайца догнал, селезень утку поймал, а щука со дна моря яйцо достала.

Литература и изобразительное искусство

Сравните иллюстрации разных художников к сказке «Ца­ревна-лягушка», например, иллюстрацию И. Я. Билибина и картину В. М. Васнецова «Пир» (см. иллюстрацию Билибина в книге сказок или в Интернете). Какие из них вам кажутся наиболее близкими к тексту прочитанной сказки? Сделайте собственные рисунки к сказке (портреты героев, путь главно­го героя в поисках Василисы Премудрой, пир и т. д.).

Подготовьте сказывание сказки с использованием зачина, концовки, повторов, постоянных эпитетов.

         Иллюстрации И.Я. Билибина и В.М. Васнецова, на которых изображен момент танца Василисы Премудрой, близки сюжету сказки, но художники по-разному расставили акценты. У Билибина на переднем плане мы видим зрителей, их удивление и восхищение от танца, а у Васнецова в центре картины – танцующая Василиса и музыканты, здесь мы видим динамику танца и настроение людей.

Фонохрестоматия («Слушаем актёрское чтение»)

Сказка «Царевна-лягушка»

1. Как вы думаете, почему сказка «Царевна-лягушка» относится к волшебным? Обоснуйте свой ответ пересказом нескольких эпизодов сказки.

         Сказка относится к волшебным, потому что в ней много волшебства и превращений, а также есть сказочные герои такие, как Баба Яга и Кощей Бессмертный, и волшебный клубок, который указывал путь Ивану-царевичу.

         Выполняя задания царя, квакушка сбрасывала с себя лягушачью кожу и превращалась в Василису Премудрую. Например, ковер она ткала так: где кольнет иглой раз, там цветок распускается, кольнет два – хитрые узоры идут, третий раз кольнет – птицы летят.

         Когда Иван-царевич встречался с животными, те разговаривали с ним человеческим голосом. Например, увидел он медведя, только хотел его убить, а тот заговорил с ним: «Не убивай меня, Иван-царевич, когда-нибудь пригожусь тебе».

2. Как вы думаете, почему героиня сказки названа Василисой Премудрой? Послушайте внимательно, как читает актриса слова Василисы Премудрой. Какие качества её характера пе­редаёт она в чтении?

         Василиса названа Премудрой (очень мудрой), потому что она очень умная, умнее и хитрее своего отца Кощея Бессмертного, за что он ее и превратил в лягушку на три года. Актриса при чтении слов Василисы понижает голос, интонации становятся уверенными, темп неторопливым и в голосе звучит нежность и смирение. Видимо, не из злости, а для науки превратил ее отец в лягушку, чтобы спокойнее стала, глупостей не делала и ценила человеческий облик. И Василиса Премудрая в сказке предстает рассудительной, спокойной, рукодельницей, умеет все делать лучше других, но не хвастается этим.

3. Подготовьте пересказ сказки от лица Ивана-царевича, попро­буйте при этом передать чувства, настроение главного героя в различных эпизодах сказки.

         В некотором царстве, в некотором государстве жил царь, было у него три сына, младшим из которых был я, Иван-царевич. Захотел батюшка, чтобы мы невест себе нашли, велел натянуть тугие луки и пустить стрелы в разные стороны.

         Стрела старшего брата угодила в боярский двор, среднего – в купеческий, а я три дня искал стрелу, нашел в болоте у лягушки. Она заговорила со мной, велела с сбой взять и жениться на ней и успокоила, что жалеть об этом я никогда не буду. Испугался я насмешек! Где тут не жалеть?! Но судьба распорядилась так, и я не стал перечить, понес лягушку к отцу, в надежде, что он рассудит, как делу быть.

         А батюшка велел жениться на лягушке. Слово родительское для меня закон – женился. А на следующий день отец позвал к себе, смотрю, и братья мои тоже здесь. Дает царь задание, чтоб жены наши караваи испекли к завтрашнему дню. Пришел домой невеселый, а квакушка успокоила меня, велела спать ложиться, а на утро я своим глазам не поверил, никогда такого хлеба я не видывал. Батюшка очень доволен остался работой моей квакушки. Но тут же новое задание дал: соткать ковер.

         Опять я домой печальный пришел. А на утро ждало меня очередное удивление. Царь обрадовался ковру моей квакушки, но следующим заданием опять вверг меня в уныние: как же я с лягушкой на пир приеду? Ведь на смех поднимут все, будут перешептываться да переглядываться.

         Велела мне квакушка одному ехать. Уж столько раз удивляла меня она, но на этот раз радости моей не было предела, так как увидел я перед собой не лягушку, а красавицу Василису Премудрую. Влюбился в нее без памяти и поспешил домой, чтобы сжечь лягушачью кожу – не будет жена моя никогда больше квакушкой, а я – посмешищем.

         Только поспешил я, и за спешность был наказан. Вернулась Василиса с пира, обернулась белой лебедью и улетела, сказав на прощание, что не так-то просто будет её отыскать.

         Отправился я за любимой своей в долгий путь. Три пары железных сапог износил, три хлеба изгрыз, пока не встретил старичка, который рассказал мне, почему Василиса Премудрая лягушкой была и дал клубок волшебный, который должен был привести меня в Кощеево царство.

         Многое я передумал за время пути, много корил себя за поспешность и эгоизм, поэтому, встретив на пути медведя, зайца, селезня и щуку, услышав их просьбы, поступал каждый раз, как они просили, а не как мне хотелось. И с Бабой Ягой я разговаривал уважительно, может, поэтому мне старая и рассказала, где смерть Кощеева спрятана.

         А дальше все как в сказке было: и дуб медведь выворотил, и заяц помог, и селезень пособил, и щука утешила. Разбил я то яйцо треклятое, сломал иглу и нашел свою Василисушку. Вернулись мы домой вместе и стали жить счастливо, а поступать по справедливости.

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К какому жанру сказок относится сказка о царевне-лягушке?

Задания по литературе для 5 класса 1. Понравилась ли вам сказка? К какому жанру сказок она относится (волшебным, бытовым, сказкам о животных)? Какие особенности народной сказки вы в ней обнаружили (присказка, зачин, концовка, повторы, постоянные эпитеты)? Приведите примеры из текста.

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Сказка «Царевна-Лягушка» — это волшебная сказка. В ней есть все элементы, которые присущи этому жанру народных сказок. Лягушка превращается в Василису, Василиса в лебедя, Ивану встречается Баба-Яга, а заколдовал Василису сам Кощей. Попадаются и волшебные предметы, вроде указывающего путь клубочка.

Есть в этой сказки зачин, слова, с которых она начинается:

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Есть эпитеты: солнце ясное, голова буйная, лебеди белые, сапоги железные.

Троекратных повторов тоже не мало: и сыновей у царя три, и задания невесткам царь три дает, и три пары сапог Иван износил, три каравая съел, и в одном варианте сказки даже баба Яга в тройном размере присутствует

Наконец есть и концовка у сказки, как и полагается счастливая:

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Сказка «Царевна-лягушка» — это волшебная сказка. Мне и моим детям нравиться.Она начинается с зачина: «В неком королевстве, в неком государстве…», заканчивается концовкой: «И стали они жить дружно, в любви и согласии». В притче есть повторы: жил-был, подумал-подумал, царство-государство, костями-огрызками (осыпали), находила, искала. Неизменные эпитеты: тугие луки, буйну голову (повесил), птицы летучие, животные рыскучие, красноватая девушка, солнце ясное, столы дубовые, скатерти кружевные, белоснежные лебеди, высочайшие горы, дремучие леса, черные леса, зеленоватые луга, топкие болота, незапятнанное поле, острая стрела, голубое море, хороший молодец, красноватое солнце.



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Сказка «Царевна Лягушка» не может не понравится, ведь это одна из самых известных русских народных сказок и о любви к ее героям говорит тот факт, что собирателями сказок собрано не менее 20 различных вариантов этой сказки.

Это волшебная сказка, ведь в ней мы встречаем волшебные превращения, сказочных существ, долгое путешествие главного героя и счастливый финал.

В этой сказке мы находим все традиционные элементы русских сказок.

Есть в ней зачин:

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Есть в ней конечно же концовка:

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Есть присказки:

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Есть троекратные повторы: три задания царя, трем сыновьям, три помощника у Ивана в дороге.

Ну и постоянных эпитетов в этой сказке много, например саму Василису зовут Премудрой, Кощея — Бессмертным, солнце оказывается ясное, столы дубовые, а скатерти узорчатые.

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Героиня сказки «Царевна Лягушка» действительно заслужила свое имя — Премудрая.

Если обратиться к сюжету сказки, то можно узнать, что отец Василисы — Кощей, как раз и наказал свою дочь, превратив ее в лягушку за то, что она стала умнее его. То есть Василиса действительно была очень умной, мудрой девушкой.

И это нашло свое подтверждение в дальнейших событиях, описанных в сказке. Когда Василиса становится женой Ивана-царевича она несколько раз демонстрирует свой ум и познания в волшебстве.

Она готовит чудесный каравай, равного которому никто не видел, она ткет расчудесный ковер, который приводит царя-отца в восторг. Она так ведет себя на пиру, что все гости и другие невестки стараются ей подражать, безоговорочно признавая превосходство Василисы.

Поэтому ее и прозвали Премудрой, хотя она конечно была еще и Прекрасной.

Уметь читать это не просто умение складывать слова из букв. А умение понять и осмыслить то, что прочитал. Помните, в первом классе всех учили читать «мама мыла раму, но не все сразу могли понять. И вот если читать вникаетв каждое слово, и его берет за душу то, что прочитал вот тогда и происходит этот «доверительный разговор».

Волшебная сказка сама по себе рассказывает о событиях невозможных, сказочных. Она должна интриговать слушателя,заставить его затаить дыхание, сопереживать приключениям героев, вздрагивать при возникновении опасной ситуации, а потому волшебные сказки рассказывают не только неторопливо и торжественно, но иногда патетически выделяют особо напряженные моменты.

Но иное дело сказки о животных. Как правило это веселые истории о том, как кто-то с кем-то поссорился, кто-то кого-то испугался, и даже скажем сказка «Волк и семеро козлят» (не совсем народная), читается легко и непринужденно, мы знаем, что ничего страшного в ней не случиться.

Поэтому сказки о животных часто рассказывают имитируя речь и поведение героев,выделяя смешные моменты.

Доверие — от веры в честность и порядочность, что делает возможным вести доверительный разговор, при котором раскрываются (доверяются) искренние чувства, тайны, делегируются важные полномочия, даются ответственные поручения.

Пример: Доверившись своему учителю, ученик решил рассказать о причинах своих проблем в учебе в доверительном разговоре после уроков, когда учитель взялся помочь ученику.

Перечисленные жанры народного творчества предназначались исключительно для детей, это формы практически все поэтические и отличаются подчас крайне незначительно.

Например Пестушка — это небольшое стихотворение или даже песенка, которая предназначалась самым маленьким детям, а потому в пестушке использовались самые простые слова.

Потешка — вообще песенка чуть ли не для младенцев, она обычно сопровождается хлопками, жестами, привлекающими внимание ребенка и заставляющими его принимать участие в игре.

Колыбельная — это специальная песня, которая была призвана не только помочь ребенку заснуть, успокоить его после игр, но и играла роль своего рода оберега, защищающего ребенка от дурных снов

Закличка — песня или стихотворный призыв, обращенный к силам природы, в котором человек высказывал некое заветное пожелание — дождя, тепла и так далее.

Приговорка — шуточное или серьезное обращение к животному, например призыв божьей коровке улететь на небо, тоже обычно исполнялась в стихах.

Прибаутка — короткая история для ребенка, в которой содержится народный юмор или что-то смешное, но часто назидательное

Считалочка — стихотворение в котором перечисляются различные предметы, используется обычно для игры и выбора.

Скороговорка — фраза трудная для быстрого произношения, в которой имеется частое повторение одного или группы звуков, использовалось для выработки дикции ребенка

Загадка — короткое описание чего-либо, в которой требуется самому найти ответ, что-именно описано в загадке.

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