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What Makes a Repulsive Frog so Appealing: Memetics and Fairy Tales
This essay explains why it is important to explore and to apply theories from the sciences and social sciences, such as biology, memetics, evolutionary psychology, and cultural anthropology, in order to grasp why tales from oral tradition are transformed and stick with us as memes. I have already discussed this topic in my book, \"Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre\" (2006), and here I endeavor to elaborate some of my theses in more detail, and, I hope, with greater clarity. I use the classical version of the Grimms' \"The Frog King\" as an example of how a discourse about mating has been disseminated memetically and how this particular fairy tale enables us to grasp the mating strategies that different cultures have developed over several centuries. Folk and fairy tales are part of a civilizing process in all societies and evolve according to basic natural and cultural human needs and dispositions. \"The Frog King,\" more often referred to as \"The Frog Prince,\" provides an interesting case study of how people are attracted to and employ this tale to comment on the strategies of mating.
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The prince of the pond : otherwise known as De Fawg Pin
Having been turned into a frog by a hag, a frog-prince makes the best of his new life as he mates, raises a family, and instills a new kind of thinking into his frog family.
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THE FROG PRINCE
In the olden days when wishing was still of some use, there lived a King. He had several beautiful daughters, but the youngest was so fair that even the sun, who sees so many wonders, could not help marveling every time he looked into her face.
Near the King’s palace lay a large dark forest and there, under an old linden tree, was a well. When the day was very warm, the little Princess would go off into this forest and sit at the rim of the cool well. There she would play with her golden ball, tossing it up
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Transformed : the perils of the Frog Prince
Prince Syrah of the Olive Isles used to be human (and a jerk), but for the last fifteen months he has been a frog (still a jerk) and he would really, really, like to be human again; although life has been a little better since Rapunzel found him, the spell he is under prevents people from realizing who he is--his one advantage is that he can hear people's thoughts when his skin is in contact with them, and hopefully he can use that to save Rapunzel and Jack, and earn his humanity back.
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