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A fairy-tale prince trapped as a frog until a princess's act breaks the spell.
means a cursed or transformed prince trapped in a frog's body, waiting for a princess's kiss (or in older tellings, her disgust-fueled tantrum) to break the spell
from from the Brothers Grimm tale 'Der Froschkönig' ('The Frog King'), collected in their early-1800s compilation of German folk stories — worth noting that in the original version the spell breaks not with a kiss at all, but when the disgusted princess hurls the frog against a wall; the kiss is a later, gentler retelling (most famously Disney-adjacent in the popular imagination) that softened the story's edges
- original ending
- princess throws frog against wall, not kisses him
- kiss version
- added later, disney popularized the softer edit
- moral lesson
- keep promises even to slimy strangers at dinner
- brothers grimm
- first published the tale in 1812