Mysterious Frog King Returns - What Could It Mean?

Chapters:

 

0:00 - The Frog King, or Iron Henry

8:45 - Hansel and Grethel (called Gretel in this version)

26:37 - The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs

 

Three amazing stories from Brother's Grimm. Please enjoy them and don't forget to like and subscribe and comment down below if you would like to me to narrate your favorite story or reddit post.

 

1. The Frog King, or Iron Henry

    

     In olden times when wishing still helped one, there lived a king

whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful

that the sun itself, which has seen so much, was astonished whenever

it shone in her face.  Close by the king's castle lay a great dark

forest, and under an old lime-tree in the forest was a well, and when

the day was very warm, the king's child went out into the forest and

sat down by the side of the cool fountain, and when she was bored she

took a golden ball, and threw it up on high and caught it, and this

ball was her favorite plaything.

 

Now it so happened that on one occasion the princess's golden ball

did not fall into the little hand which she was holding up for it,

but on to the ground beyond, and rolled straight into the water.  The

king's daughter followed it with her eyes, but it vanished, and the

well was deep, so deep that the bottom could not be seen.  At this

she began to cry, and cried louder and louder, and could not be

comforted.  And as she thus lamented someone said to her, "What ails

you, king's daughter?  You weep so that even a stone would show........

 

2. Hansel and Grethel (called Gretel in this version)

 

       Hard by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife

and his two children.  The boy was called Hansel and the

girl Gretel.  He had little to bite and to break, and once when

great dearth fell on the land, he could no longer procure even daily

bread.  Now when he thought over this by night in his bed, and

tossed about in his anxiety, he groaned and said to his wife, what

is to become of us.  How are we to feed our poor children, when

we no longer have anything even for ourselves.  I'll tell you what,

husband, answered the woman, early to-morrow morning we

will take the children out into the forest to where it is the

thickest.  There we will light a fire for them, and give each of

them one more piece of bread, and then we will go to our work and

leave them alone.  They will not find the way home again, and we

shall be rid of them.  No, wife, said the man, I will not do that.

How can I bear to leave my children alone in the forest.   The wild

animals would soon come and tear them to pieces.  O' you fool, said

she, then we must all four die of hunger, you may as well plane the

planks for our coffins, and she left him no peace until he

consented.  But I feel very sorry for the poor children, all the

same, said the man.

 

The two children had also not been able to sleep for hunger, and

had heard what their step-mother had said to their father.  Gretel

wept bitter tears, and said to Hansel, now all is over with us.

Be quiet, Gretel, said Hansel, do not distress yourself, I will soon

find a way to help us.  And when the old folks had fallen asleep,

he got up, put on his little coat, opened the door below, and....

 

3. The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs

 

      There was once a poor woman who gave birth to a little son,

and as he came into the world with a caul on, it was predicted

that in his fourteenth year he would have the king's daughter

for his wife.  It happened that soon afterwards the king

came into the village, and no one knew that he was the king,

and when he asked the people what news there was, they answered,

a child has just been born with a caul on, whatever anyone so

born undertakes turns out well.  It is prophesied, too, that

in his fourteenth year he will have the king's daughter for his

wife.

 

The king, who had a bad heart, and was angry about the prophecy,

went to the parents, and, seeming quite friendly, said, you poor

people, let me have your child, and I will take care of it.  At

first they refused, but when the stranger offered them a large

amount of gold for it, and they thought, it is a child of good

fortune, and everything must turn out well for it, they at last

consented, and gave him the child.

 

The king put it in a box and rode away with it until he came to

a deep piece of water, then he threw the box into it and thought,

I have freed my daughter from her undesired suitor.