Fairy Tales & Fables: The Frog Prince Mystery Cache

This is tale #1 in Grimm's Fairy Tales otherwise known as Kinder- und Hausmärchen or Children's and Household Tales, published in 1812.

Below is the Tale of the Frog Prince

One day, a spoiled Princess way sitting in a wood under a linden tree playing with a golden ball she had just been given by one of her suitors. While tossing it, the ball slipped from her hands and bounced into the pond at her feet. The Princess got very irritated and called to one of her servants to retrieve it immediately but none of the servants could get it as they didn't know where in the pond it had gone or how far down it had sunk. 

All of a sudden, a frog hops out of the pond right at the Princess feet and with a loud croak, tells the Princess he will retrieve the ball, but with one stipulation: The Princess must agree to become his friend and let him intoe her castle, eat from her plate, and sleep on her bed. The princess agrees  because she does not think the frog will be able to find her ball if her servants couldn't. However not shortly after the frog dove underneath the surface, his frogeyed head popped up with the ball. The princess shrieked with delight, grabbed the ball and ran back to her castle forgetting her promise.

That night there was a rap on the door and a voice called out,

"Open the door, my princess dear,

Open the door to thy true love here!

And mind the words that thou and I said

By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade."

The princess opened the door and shrieked when she saw the frog, slamming the door shut. Her father head her cry and came running to see what the matter was. The princess, not seeing how she could explain this otherwise told the truth. Her father, who was a noble and just king, scolded her, telling her she cannot go back on a promise and she must let the frog in. Reluctantly, the princess complied and the frog ate as she ate, and slept on her pillow that night. At daybreak, the frog hopped up, jumped out the window and into the wood.

That night there was another knock and the melodious voice of the frog cried out,

Open the door, my princess dear,

Open the door to thy true love here!

And mind the words that thou and I said

By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade."

The Princess, having thought her promise fulfilled, refused to open the door, but the king came down and did so letting the frog in. The frog once more ate from her plate and slept on her pillow. A third night came and the frog sang out, 

Open the door, my princess dear,

Open the door to thy true love here!

And mind the words that thou and I said

By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade."

The princess who was getting used to this by now and no longer felt animosity or acted spoiled let the forg in without hesitation and he bounded in. But that morning at daybreak, when the princess woke up, instead of a frog, there was a handsome prince sleeping next to her. That minute, the princes servant rode up and explained how an evil witch had cursed his master to become a frog and the only way the curse could be lifted was to have a beatutiful princess willingly allow him to spend 3 nights in her abode. And his heart had burst with joy at seeing his master freed and he rode them off in a glorious coach and they both lived happily ever after.