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A tile design by William de Morgan, 1872 (Victoria & Albert Museum). The majority of literary allusions to the fable have contrasted the passivity of King Log with the energetic policy of King Stork, but it was pressed into the service of political commentary in the title "King Stork and King Log: at the dawn of a new reign", a study of Russia written in 1895 by the political assassin Sergey ...
The Frog and the Mouse (La grenouille et le rat, IV.11) The Fox and the Stork (Le renard et la cigogne, I.18) The Frog and the Ox (La grenouille qui veut se faire aussi grosse que le boeuf, I.3) The Frogs Who Desired a King (Les grenouilles qui demandent un roi, III.4) The Girl (La Fille, VII.5), see under The Heron and the Fish
The frogs, disorganized and directionless, asked the god Jupiter for a king. So the gods threw down a log into the water. This log king was amiable and supported the frogs in their lounging. The young frogs, knowing nothing but the time of the log, sat upon the log and croaked to Jupiter about theirs woes with the government.
The Greeks and Romans associated frogs with fertility and harmony, and with licentiousness in association with Aphrodite. [4] The combat between the Frogs and the Mice (Batrachomyomachia) was a mock epic, commonly attributed to Homer, though in fact a parody of his Iliad. [8] [9] [10] The Frogs Who Desired a King is a fable, attributed to Aesop.
"Hop-Frog" (originally "Hop-Frog; Or, the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The title character, a person with dwarfism taken from his homeland, becomes the jester of a king particularly fond of practical jokes.
The lyrics involve a frog courting a mouse (Missie Mouse). The mouse is willing to marry the frog, but she must ask permission of Uncle Rat. In other versions such as "King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O" by Chubby Parker, the frog fights and kills Miss Mouse's other suitors (an owl, bat and bumblebee) after they interrupt his proposal.
There the fox is accompanied by two storks, one of which has a frog in its beak – in reference to the fable of The Frogs Who Desired a King. [18] In the contemporary fountain sculpture by the Catalan Eduard Batiste Alentorn (1855–1920) in Barcelona's Parc de la Ciutadella , the frustrated fox kicks over the tall vessel, from which the ...
The Frogs who Begged for a Tsar (III.4) The Man and the Lion (III.10) The Animals Sick of the Plague (VII.1) The Two Pigeons (IX.2) 1811. The Young Crow (who wanted to imitate the eagle in La Fontaine, II.16) Gout and the spider (III.8) The Banker and the Cobbler (VIII.2) 1816. The Wolf and the Crane (III.9) The Mistress and her Two Maids (V.6 ...