F9f2. The wife's cobra hood is in her purse. 22.23.
A woman puts part of the flesh of her murdered snake lover in her purse and makes a corresponding riddle. If her husband doesn't know it, she has the right to kill him. A husband accidentally finds out a secret, kills his wife.
Burmese, Nepalese, Sinhalese.
Burma - Indochina. Burmese [after leaving university, lazy Mong Paung Chin learns that the princess's husbands die on the first night; marries a princess, puts on raising two of his own instead a banana trunk; Naga crawls out from under the roof, pierces his teeth into the trunk, they get stuck, the MPH kills him with a sword; Naga was the princess's lover; she pays the hunter a thousand coins to rip off Naga's skin the seamstress - a hundred for sewing a pillow, makes a hairpin out of a bone; tells me to figure it out in 40 days: it was torn for a thousand, it was sewn for a hundred, made a hairpin out of a bone; the parents of the MPC hear how the Raven tells Voronikha that they will soon enjoy the eyes of the MPH, because he will not be able to solve (describes the riddle); parents answer on the last day; the MPH receives the throne, does not execute, but expels the princess]: Aoun 1957:65-69.
South Asia. Nepali [the man asks God to make him a wife out of his half; he did, but a drop of blood was lost, a black snake grew out of it; the wife took the snake as a lover; they agreed that the snake will bite her husband; he managed to kill the snake by cutting it into pieces; the wife says that she cries because if her husband died, she would be left alone; asks for temple worship, cremates pieces of body lover, gave the jeweler three coins to seal the snake's head in a silver talisman weighing 5 coins; when she returns, she offers her husband a riddle (what are 5, 3, etc.), if she does not guess, she will kill him; husband thinks that everything is a joke; he did not guess; before she dies, he writes a letter to her sister; she rests under a tree, hears sparrows talking; the sparrow insists that the sparrow tell her everything; he warns that After telling, he will die; tells the whole story, dies; sister solves the riddle; his wife's nose and ears were cut off, half shaved, driven away]: Sakya, Griffith 1980:88-91; Sinhalese [prince is afraid to marry; God Shakra makes him a wife out of a piece of his flesh and blood; she took a naked prince as a lover, he asked him to know where the prince's life is; she is in the thumb of her right hand; the naked prince in the guise of a cobra gathered him bite, but the servants accidentally killed the cobra; the wife put the cobra hood in her purse, hung it on her gold belt; if the prince guesses what "cobra ribbon is a golden belt" means, he can kill her, and if no, his wife would kill him; the prince's older sister and her husband spent the night under a tree; the spirit lived on him; he brought his wife smoke from the lamp, which the prince had extinguished on the 15th day; when the spirits were talking, the prince's sister I managed to tell him that his wife was beheaded]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 120:292-293.