The Tale of the Queen Who Sought a Drink From a Certain Well
- The Tale of the Queen Who Sought a Drink From a Certain Well
The Tale of the Queen Who Sought a Drink From a Certain Well is a Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis Campbell in "Popular Tales of the West Highlands", listing his informant as Mrs. MacTavish, Port Ellen, Islay, and noting the story could be traced back to 1548.
It is Aarne-Thompson 440, the frog prince. The creature involved was called a "losgann", which could be either a frog or a toad.
ynopsis
An ill queen sent each of her daughters to a well for healing water. They each met a "losgann" who asked her to marry him, for a drink. The first two refused him as an ugly creature and were unable to get water. The youngest agreed to marry him for the water. She took the water home and healed her mother.
The "losgann" came to the door and told her to remember her pledge. First she put him behind the door, then under a bucket, then in a little bed by the fireplace, then a bed beside her own bed, but nothing stopped him. Finally, he told her to take down a rusty sword behind the bed and cut off his head. She did, and he became a handsome young king, who married her.
ee also
*The Frog Prince
*The Well of the World's End
External links
* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/pt2/pt225.htm "The Tale of the Queen Who Sought a Drink From a Certain Well"]
* [http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/frog.html#campbell "The Queen Who Sought a Drink from a Certain Well"] , with other tales of this type.
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