The story of the Frog King is not the typical story of Beauty and the Beast. The "beauty" in the story is a very young girl who loses her ball and promises a frog he can be her companion if he fetches her golden ball for her. After the frog gets her ball she runs away and tries to hide from the frog. The young girl thinks she is safe until the next day when the frog comes to the door. She tells her father that she made a promise to the frog and the father told her a promise is a promise and she must carry it out. The frog begins to demand to eat her food and sleep in her bed. The young girl begins to get very scared and annoyed of the frog and throws it at the wall. "When he fell to the ground, he was no longer a frog, but a prince with beautiful, beaming eyes" (50). He tells her that an evil witch had cast a spell on him and turned him into a frog. Since the girl had made the promise to be his companion, she woke up the next morning and they went to his castle.
This story is similar to the common story because the "beast" has a spell cast on him. But the "beauty" is not nice to the beast and does not care for him like in the typical story. The girl does not even want the frog around and tries to kill it, and that is why he turned back into a prince. This story is not as charming as the others but is still a story about keeping a promise and that love can come from mysterious places.
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