Jumpin' Jehosaphat

April 2, 2015 10:44 AM

Why Frogs Have Taken Over Passover: a comprehensive and captivating survey of frogs in legend and literature, just in time for everybody's plague-ridden holiday remembrance. [via mefi projects]
posted by Johnny Wallflower (8 comments total)

Did ctrl + F for Magnolia to see if this was a legit critical piece. Not disappointed. Great article!
posted by resurrexit at 11:02 AM on April 2, 2015

Relevant to my interests - I grew up in a town that was the site of a historic frog-related incident. (I got an article about it myself.)
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 11:08 AM on April 2, 2015 [1 favorite]

Perhaps this explains Jump
posted by rosswald at 11:14 AM on April 2, 2015

Well, it's definitely the most adorable plague, so I can see that angle. It's not like you're going to decorate your house with "Diseased Livestock" plushies and paint boils on everyone.

I mean, I totally would, but
posted by selfnoise at 11:54 AM on April 2, 2015 [2 favorites]

Just finished writing my new family seder - personally, I'm going to suggest that rather than putting little paper cutout frog confetti on the table, which she has done for years despite only recently having non-adults, that we have little death of the firstborn confetti and flies. That'll be fun.
posted by Sophie1 at 12:23 PM on April 2, 2015 [1 favorite]

Honestly, if you're going to have confetti, I'd really go for "Thunderstorm of Hail and Fire" confetti.
posted by selfnoise at 12:24 PM on April 2, 2015 [1 favorite]

And of course no mention of frogs and Pharoahs is complete without
posted by fallingbadgers at 12:41 PM on April 2, 2015 [1 favorite]

::updates haggadah::

A thousand years ago, medieval rabbis wrote a midrash (essentially biblical fan fiction), which imagined that the second plague started out as a single, massive frog that multiplied exponentially every time the Egyptians struck it in their obdurate efforts to drive it back into the Nile.

posted by Little Dawn at 7:07 PM on April 2, 2015 [1 favorite]