What Tadpoles Symbolize

Potential. As they are symbols of fertility, frogs also symbolize potential. Growing from a tiny tadpole swimming in the water to a frog who can hop, climb, and croak, the frog demonstrates the capacity for something simple to evolve into something magnificent.

What does a tadpole symbolize?

Potential. As they are symbols of fertility, frogs also symbolize potential. Growing from a tiny tadpole swimming in the water to a frog who can hop, climb, and croak, the frog demonstrates the capacity for something simple to evolve into something magnificent.

Do frogs symbolize death?

In The Complete Dictionary of Symbols, author Jack Tresidder describes frogs and toads thusly: “a loathsome familiar of witches, suggestive of death and the torments of the damned—a demonic symbolism … based perhaps on the toad’s noxious secretions.”