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Overview
The two daughters of the Snake King and Queen keep a frog chowkidar, or watchman, in the underwater setting where they have received the Saru Prince. After hearing his wife’s grief, they tell the frog to restore him to her, and the prince and wife return home together. The passage gives the frog an official role and a commanded errand but no personal name, special anatomy or description of how he carries it out; it does not identify him as another form of the prince.
Origins & earliest records
Santal Parganas, eastern India; source-specific Santali storytelling
Records & interpretation
Complete relevant tale directly read with existing collection preface and narrator-chain record.
Selected bibliography
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- 01
Folklore of the Santal Parganas
LXXV, The Caterpillar Boy, p. 232 within pp. 227–232
Family & connections
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Primary records and illustrations
Cecil Henry Bompas, Folklore of the Santal Parganas (1909)
Part I, Santal folktales. LXXV, The Caterpillar Boy, p. 232 within pp. 227–232
Entire relevant tale read, including ending. Ordinary comparison dog distinguished from actual skin-removing bride; snake sisters have no supplied anatomy or princely marriage; frog notice remains proportionately brief.
References
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- Historical translation of collected narrativesBompas, Folklore of the Santal Parganas (1909), LXXV, The Caterpillar Boy, p. 232 within pp. 227–232Research access: 2026-10-05
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