Once upon a time there were two people in love. One was a beautiful princess and the other was an unknown knight. The only problem with their relationship was that they could never be married. Why you ask? Since the dawn of upper classes and royalty, marriage has been most commonly been about one thing, strategic political alliances. Love was for the common folk, we were talking about no war here. You see, the princess' father was going to go to war with one of his neighbors, and he could either marry his daughter to his enemy, and end all thoughts of war, or marry his daughter to another neighbor, and get an ally. The boy that the princess was in love with was an unknown knight. What possible good was he toward the kingdom? It was this knowledge of her Father that convinced her father would never have approved of their marriage.

So the princess and the knight made a plan. The plan was to find a witch who could turn the knight into a creature. Then the princess would promise knight/creature marriage in return for a favor. Seeing as the father was an honorable man, who believed in keeping promises, she would have to marry the knight. You may be wondering how they came up with such a crackpot of an idea. It is my belief that at least one of them was licking special frogs. And that the other was just an imbecile.

Everything went according to plan, except that the witch had a cruel sense of humor. She turned the knight into a slimy frog, which incidentally was the only animal the princess didn't like. The witch also conveniently forgot to tell them how to lift the spell. So the Princess and the Frog lived happily ever after, sort of. The father eventually found out about the plan and let his second daughter marry whomever she liked in hopes she would pick someone better than a frog knight.