Bagatur-Ssedkiltu (Princess Goldfrog)

Overview

Bagatur-Ssedkiltu is the name given by the golden frog in Busk’s White Serpent-king tale. Captured from a stream, she performs a new dance each day at a human king’s court alongside a singing parrot. When a visiting minstrel displaces them, their keeper releases the parrot and throws the frog out of a window.

A crow catches her, but she persuades it to wash her before eating her and escapes into the spring’s rocky opening. She then stops her former keeper from digging up the source, saying that its king has put her in charge. She identifies herself as the daughter of the ruler of the white mother-of-pearl shells and promises a wondrous reward. Her father later calls her Princess Goldfrog and rewards the keeper for freeing her. No human transformation is narrated.

Origins & earliest records

Mongolian tales as presented by Rachel Harriette Busk

Records & interpretation

Complete relevant tales directly read in the 1873 textual witness.

Selected bibliography

Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.

1. 01

   Sagas from the Far East

   Rachel Harriette Busk, compiler and adapter · 1873

   Tales XXII, pp. 213–220

Family, evolution & connections

The White Serpent-king’s named daughter and only son

Busk’s Tale XXII, pp. 216–220.

The king explicitly calls Goldfrog his daughter and the rescued serpent his only son. No mother is identified. The red dog is a gift, not a stated daughter; transformed forms are not separate generations.

Primary records and illustrations

References

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1. Historical literary adaptationBusk, Sagas from the Far East (1873), tales XXII, pp. 213–220Research access: 2026-10-05

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