The 4,000-Year-Old Secret Behind The Frog Prince

🐸 A talking frog… who asks for more than he should—
Not riches. Not power. But a place at your table. Even in your bed.
Most call it a fairy tale. But what if it’s not?
What if this is one of the oldest stories we've ever told—a fragment of ancient rites, from a time when gods walked in animal skins and the unknown called from the water?

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🕯️ In this episode of The Resurrectionists, we dive into The Frog Prince—a tale of pact, promise, and transformation. What seems like childhood fantasy may conceal a truth as old as Bronze Age rituals, where water, frogs, and marriage bridged worlds.

📜 From German forests to Scottish wells, from ancient vodníks to Egyptian goddess Heket, the bones of this tale run deeper than you ever imagined.

⏱️ Chapters:
0:36 The Original Story Retelling
3:58 Strange Variants Across Europe
5:54 Wells, Water Spirits, and Ancient Gateways
8:42 The Animal Bridegroom Pattern
12:47 Union, Sacrifice, and the Creation of the World

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📚 Sources & Further Reading:
– Comparative phylogenetic analyses uncover the ancient roots of Indo-European folktales — Royal Society Open Science
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
– Alison Flood, Fairytales much older than previously thought, say researchers — The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/201...
– What Makes a Repulsive Frog So Appealing: Memetics and Fairy Tales — Jack Zipes, Journal of Folklore Research
https://www.academia.edu/3384436/What...
– The Types of International Folktales — Hans-Jörg Uther (2004), no. 440 — Scholarly typology of tale variations
https://www.academia.edu/3384556/
– The Emperor’s New Sanctum: A Folktale in Jordanes’ Gothic History — Nathan J. Ristuccia, Parergon 35.1 (2018)
https://www.academia.edu/38866343/
– Froschkönig (AaTh 440) — Lutz Röhrich, Enzyklopädie des Märchens (1987)
– Breaking the Magic Spell — Jack Zipes, Routledge (2002) — fairy tale transformations across cultures
– The Beastly Bride — Barbara Leavy, in The Feminist Companion to Mythology — beast bridegroom vs swan maiden motifs
– Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts — Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty (1980) — mythic unions & cross-species marriage
– Popular Tales of the West Highlands, vol. 2, no. 33: The Well at the World's End — J. F. Campbell (1860)
https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt...
– Frog Kings: Folktales about Slimy Suitors — D. L. Ashliman, University of Pittsburgh
https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/type0440...
– Animal Brides: Folktales of Type 402 — Global examples of beast bridegroom stories
https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/type0402...
– History of Frog King — Heidi Anne Heiner, SurLaLune Fairy Tales
https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/f...
– The Princess Who Would Not Laugh: The Ancient Goddess as Revealed Through Fairy Tales — Jeri Studebaker, Goddess Pages
https://www.academia.edu/7423655/
– What Can the Mythical Frog Tell Us? — Jelka Vince-Pallua, Folklore, vol. 77 (2019)
https://www.academia.edu/41657465/
– Heqet | Egyptian Frog Goddess — Britannica
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Heqet
– Fairytale in the Ancient World — Graham Anderson, Routledge (2000) — explores classical roots of fairy tales, including ancient "frog prince" motifs
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fairytale-An...
– The Everchanging Frog Symbol in World Myth — Ancient Origins
https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths...
– Gerald of Wales on Irish Kingship Ritual — Alpha History (medieval source reference)
https://alphahistory.com/primarysourc...
– The Folktale — Stith Thompson (1946) — foundational study of tale types & diffusion
– Kinder- und Hausmärchen, no. 1: Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich — Brothers Grimm (1812)
https://www.grimmstories.com/en/grimm...