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The Frog Prince
"The Frog Prince; or, Iron Henry" (, literally "The Frog King or the Iron Henry") is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 in Grimms' Fairy Tales, ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' (KHM 1). Traditionally, it is the first story in their folktale collection. The tale is classified as Aarne-Thompson type 440. "The Frog Prince" can be compared to the similar European fairy tale "The Frog Princess". Origin Editions The story is best known through the rendition of the Brothers Grimm, who published it in their 1812 edition of ''Kinder- und Hausmärchen'' (''Grimm's Fairy Tales''), as tale no. 1. An older, moralistic version was included in the Grimms' handwritten Ölenberg Manuscript from 1810. Jack Zipes noted in 2016 that the Grimms greatly treasured this tale, considering it to be one of the "oldest and most beautiful in German-speaking regions." Sources The Grimms' source is unclear, but it apparently comes from an oral tradition of Dortchen Wild's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Friedrich Meyerheim
Paul Friedrich Meyerheim (13 July 1842 – 14 September 1915) was a German painter and graphic artist. He did portraits and landscapes, but is best known as a painter of animals. Life Paul Friedrich Meyerheim was born in Berlin on 13 July 1842. He and his brother took their first art lessons from his father. As a young boy, he was fascinated with the new Berlin Zoological Gardens and went there so often he was able to befriend Martin Lichtenstein, the zoo's founder, who allowed him into areas that were normally closed to the public. This experience led him to specialize in animal painting. From 1857 to 1860 he attended the Prussian Academy of Arts. Later, he made several study trips to Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands and spent a year in Paris. In 1883, he established an animal painting class at the Academy. He was appointed a Professor there in 1887 and became a member of the Academic Senate. Meyerheim was a friend of the Borsig family, owners of the ''August Bors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Aberdeen Art Gallery is the main visual arts exhibition space in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. It was founded in 1884 in a building designed by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie, with a sculpture court added in 1905. In 1900, it received the art collection of Alexander Macdonald, a local granite merchant. The gallery is noted for its fine collection of modern Scottish and international art, including works by Ken Currie, Gilbert & George, Ivor Abrahams, Bridget Riley and Bruce McLean. History Following a competition, the winning design by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie and James Matthews began construction in 1883 and was opened in 7 July 1885. There were further additions, again by Mackenzie, in 1901 and 1905, including the addition of a sculpture court. In April 2020, the gallery made 50 artworks available digitally via the Smartify app. In October 2020, Aberdeen Art Gallery was named one of the five winners of the 2020 ArtFund Museum of the Year Award. ArtFund incre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puddocky
"Das Märchen von der Padde" ("The Tale of the Toad") is a German folktale collected by Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching in ''Volks-Sagen, Märchen und Legenden'' (1812). It has been translated into English under the titles of "Puddocky" or "Cherry the Frog-Bride". Synopsis The story opens with the heroine, who is so greedy for parsley that her mother steals it for her. As a result, she is called Parsley. The parsley comes from the garden of a neighboring convent run by an abbess. The girl is seen by three princes, and because of her beauty, they quarrel over her. The resentful abbess curses the girl for the commotion, turning her into a toad and sending her far away. The king decides to allow fate to choose his successor from among his three sons. He sets them the task of finding a hundred-yard piece of linen fine enough to fit through a ring. While the two oldest princes choose to follow busier roads and collect bales of linen, the youngest son sets out on a dark and lonely r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frog
A frog is any member of a diverse and largely semiaquatic group of short-bodied, tailless amphibian vertebrates composing the order (biology), order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek , literally 'without tail'). Frog species with rough skin texture due to wart-like parotoid glands tend to be called toads, but the distinction between frogs and toads is informal and purely cosmetic, not from taxonomy (biology), taxonomy or evolutionary history. Frogs are widely distributed, ranging from the tropics to subarctic regions, but the greatest concentration of species diversity is in tropical rainforest and associated wetlands. They account for around 88% of extant amphibian species, and are one of the five most diverse vertebrate orders. The oldest fossil "proto-frog" ''Triadobatrachus'' is known from the Early Triassic of Madagascar (250Myr, million years ago), but molecular clock, molecular clock dating suggests their divergent evolution, divergence from other amphibians may exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mouse
A mouse (: mice) is a small rodent. Characteristically, mice are known to have a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail, and a high breeding rate. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse (''Mus musculus''). Mice are also popular as pets. In some places, certain kinds of Apodemus, field mice are locally common. They are known to invade homes for food and shelter. Mice are typically distinguished from rats by their size. Generally, when a muroid rodent is discovered, its common name includes the term ''mouse'' if it is smaller, or ''rat'' if it is larger. The common terms ''rat'' and ''mouse'' are not Taxonomy (biology), taxonomically specific. Typical mice are classified in the genus ''Mus (genus), Mus'', but the term ''mouse'' is not confined to members of ''Mus'' and can also apply to species from other genera such as the deer mouse, deer mouse (''Peromyscus''). Fancy mouse, Domestic mice sold as pets often differ substantially in size f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Well Of The World's End
The Well of the World's End is an Anglo- Scottish Border fairy tale, recorded in the Scottish Lowlands, collected by Joseph Jacobs in ''English Fairy Tales''. His source was '' The Complaynt of Scotland'', and he notes the tale's similarity to the German '' Frog Prince''. Like that tale, it is Aarne-Thompson type 440, "The Frog King" or "Iron Henry". Synopsis A girl's mother died, and her father remarried. Her stepmother abused her, made her do all the housework, and finally decided to be rid of her. She gave her a sieve and ordered her to not come back without filling it at the Well of the World's End. The girl set out and questioned everyone about the way. Finally, a little old woman directed her to the well, but she could not fill the sieve. She wept. A frog asked what was wrong and said it could aid her if she promised to do everything he asked for a dark night. She agreed, and the frog told her to stop the holes up with moss and clay. With that, she carried back the water. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tale Of The Queen Who Sought A Drink From A Certain Well
"The Tale of the Queen Who Sought a Drink From a Certain Well" (Scottish Gaelic: ''Sgeulachd Ban-Righ a dh' Iarr Deoch a Tobar Araid'') is a Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis Campbell in '' Popular Tales of the West Highlands'', listing his informant as Mrs. MacTavish, Port Ellen, Islay, and noting the story could be traced back to 1548. It is Aarne-Thompson 440, the frog prince. The creature involved was called a ''losgann'', which could be either a frog or a toad. Synopsis An ill queen sent each of her daughters to a well for healing water. They each met a ''losgann'' who asked her to marry him, for a drink. The first two refused him as an ugly creature and were unable to get water. The youngest agreed to marry him for the water. She took the water home and healed her mother. The ''losgann'' came to the door and told her to remember her pledge. First she put him behind the door, then under a bucket, then in a little bed by the fireplace, then a bed beside her o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Taylor (author)
Edgar Taylor (28 January 1793– 19 August 1839) was a British Legal_professions_in_England_and_Wales#Solicitors, solicitor and author of legal, historical, literary works and translations. He was the first translator of the Brothers Grimm's 1812 book ''Kinder- und Hausmärchen'' into English, as ''German Popular Stories'' (1823). In 1826, he translated the second volume (1814) of the ''Kinder- und Hausmärchen'' . Biography Taylor was born on 28 January 1793 in Banham, Norfolk, UK. He was the fifth son of Samuel Taylor and grandson of John Taylor (dissenting preacher), John Taylor. He studied at a school in Palgrave, Suffolk, Palgrave under Charles Lloyd (minister), Charles Lloyd and became his uncle's apprentice in Diss, Norfolk, Diss in 1809. Taylor was reported to be fluent in Italian and Spanish before arriving in London in 1814 and subsequently learned German and French. In 1817, with William Roscoe's son Robert, Taylor set up the solicitor firm Taylor & Roscoe in King's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enzyklopädie Des Märchens
The ''Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales'' (''Enzyklopädie des Märchens'') is a German reference work on international folkloristics, which runs to fifteen volumes and is acknowledged as the most comprehensive work in its field. It examines over two centuries of research into the folk narrative tradition. It was begun by Kurt Ranke in the 1960s and was continued by chief editor Rolf Wilhelm Brednich, both of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences (Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen). Like the technical periodical '' Fabula'' it is published by the Walter de Gruyter GmbH publishing house with working premises at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and as a project of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. The forerunner of this work was the ''Handwörterbuch des deutschen Märchens'' (''Handbook of German Fairy Tales''), of which only two volumes were published. (article on the making of the ''Enzyklopädie des Märchens'') The first article ''Aarne, Antti Amatus'' appeared in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jurjen Van Der Kooi
Jurjen van der Kooi ( Hurdegaryp, 22 December 1943 – Drachten, 4 September 2018) was a Dutch university lecturer and folklorist from Frisia. He was widely recognized as an authority in the field of folk tales from Frisia, Northern Netherlands and parts of northern Germany. Life and career Van der Kooi was born in 1943 in Hurdegaryp. He studied literature and until his retirement in 2004 was head lecturer and associate professor of folklore and oral literature at the University of Groningen. In that capacity he was also active as a scientific researcher of folk tales from the Northern Netherlands, Eastern Netherlands and parts of northern Germany. In 1984, he obtained his doctorate cum laude on ''Volksverhalen in Friesland: Lectuur en Mondelinge Overlevering.'' The central point of that thesis was Van der Kooi's statement that many folktales in Frisia have not been handed down from parent to parent for centuries, but actually often go back to (written) publications from the nin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
