Frogs: The opposite of Cupids
Frogs: The opposite of Cupids The two stories “Cupid and Psyche” and “The Frog Prince or Iron Heinrich” could not be more different from each other. One’s about a princess who loses her ball down a well, a frog gets it, and they wind up being lovers in the end. The other story is about a princess who falls in love with an immortal who was sent to kill her. But if you look close enough, the themes are in a way similar, just flipped around. In “The Frog King or Iron Heinrich” by the Grimm Brothers, the young princess loses her ball near a well then starts crying. A frog hears her and offers to help if she promises to love him, be her companion, eat with him, play with him, and sleep with him. The princess says yes and the frog gets the ball. Not too long after, she forgets the promise she made and the frog is waiting for her at her door, the father tells her she needs to keep her word and makes her do all the things she promised. Fed up with all this, the princess throws the