I132B. The metamorphosis of the Sun's bride .27.29.

A girl comes to the Sun to become his wife, but at the last moment she experiences a metamorphosis (usually turns into a bird).

Bulgarians, Romanians, Gagauz people, Lezgins.

The Balkans. Bulgarians [a Sun man fell in love with Maria, she does not leave the house; her stepmother washed her child's diapers, spread it out, it began to rain, she sent M. to collect them; when she saw M., the Sun did not Many people came in, burned; the mother of the Sun advises him to set up a swing on a curved willow for Easter; M. will sit on them, you will take her to heaven; stepmother then shouts for M. to chase {?} mother-in-law and father-in-law are 9 years old, Brother-in-law Ognyan is 4.5 years old, her husband is one and a half years old; M. is silent, the Sun is tired of waiting for a year and a half, took Wife Denitsa; during the wedding, M. held candles and her fingers lit up; DD: even if you are dumb and deaf, but can't you see that your fingers are burning; M.: forgive my crap, my stepmother punished me; Sun: I don't want DD, I wish M.; DD prayed to God to become a bird, he turned it into swallow]: Smirnov 1976:26-29; (cf. Albanians [=Elsie 1994, No. 22 {without pagination}; the childless queen asks the Sun for at least a girl; when she is 12, she promises to give her to the Sun; when she is 12, the Sun takes her; lives in his house Kulshedra, wants to eat the queen, the Sun does not allow her; she misses her mother, cries; the Sun allows her to return if the queen finds an animal to take her; asks Kulshedra what he will be eat and drink on the way; he replies that he will eat the girl and drink her blood; then the Sun asks the deer; he replies that grass and water; the queen rides a deer; he leaves her on a tree to pinch herbs; Kulshedra comes up, tells her to get down; but the deer manages to come running, brings the Queen's mother; the young people called the Queen to play; there is a gate that no one can open; the queen easily opens, the gate closes behind her; there is a garden and people turned into marble statues; a note in the king's hands: I'll come to life when a girl sits next to me for three weeks, three days and three nights, I'll marry her; the queen bought a maid, told her to sit in her place while she slept for a while; the king had just woken up; the maid put on the mistress's clothes, and the hostess passed off as her maid; the queen was allowed geese to herd; the king heard her lamentations, found out everything; the maid was chopped into small pieces]: Dozon 1881, No. 7:49-55); Romanians [the childless Empress finally had a daughter Luminoară ("Little Light", L.); something bothers her, she did not leave the palace for a long time; when she left one evening, she was fascinated by the light of the sun; went to look for the Light of the Sun; taking off the clothes of the killed warrior, dressed up as a man ; began to serve the master, he was defeated, she came to the spring, an old woman next to her, L. exclaimed that she was black as darkness; the old woman is happy that L. called her by name, because her name was Darkness; tells her to go east and climb the glass mountain; 12 days later L. reached the mountain; the blacksmith shod her horse and he climbed the mountain; then the plain; she came to the palace, there were three girls; they decided to call her brother, but she explained that she was also a girl; when she saw that L. was sad, the sisters gave her a sword: if removed from its scabbard, the enemy army would die, only the leader would remain; L. went further east, destroyed opponents of the king, who married her against her will; she ran away, went east again, met a decrepit old man; cut his hair, washed him, he showed the way further east, let him throw a piece of bread three-headed dog; L. threw it, the dog let her through; the light in the palace blinds her eyes, she drank from the spring, then she was able to look; achieved her goal by going beyond Sunlight; but his jealous mother turned her into a lark; he has been constantly trying to fly closer to the sun ever since (=Gorovei 1893:598-601; a shorter retelling of the same or similar text in Gaster 1915, No. 80:240-242); 2nd var.: parents' names Titus and Gheorghina; L. grows up a day like others in a year; when she reaches the river, a girl in white appears from the spring and predicts that L. will achieve her goal, but her happiness will not last long; a bridge has appeared; L. reached the old woman, she gave a ring and a branch, ordered to outline the sign of the cross with a branch; then flew by air to the Sun Palace; around the water stream, in order to cross, you have to give silver or wander for a year around the world; L. gave her ring, threw bread to a double-headed dog; the Sun's mother asked her everything, turned her into a lark]: Rev. de trad. pop. 8, 598, 601 in Dähnhardt 1910:387-389; Gagauz people [y the master has three daughters, he is looking for someone who can herd his horses; the eldest daughter goes, the father turned to the bear, went out to meet him, the girl ran home; the same middle; the youngest goes for advice to the old woman; she tells give the horses hot coals, take the one that will eat them; the skinny mare began to eat, the girl sat on it, was going to shoot a bear; her father blessed her to herd horses for three years; The sun in her fell in love, but does not understand whether it is a girl or a man; Mother of the Sun advises to see how she urinates and what things she buys at the bazaar; the girl urinates like a man, takes only things for men at the bazaar; through for three years she shows the Sun her chest and braid; the mother of the Sun advises to put a golden swing; the girl sat on her, the Sun raised her; her palm advised the girl to remain silent for seven years; then the Sun took another bride; she tells her to be the first to bring a sieve from Mother Sunday; Sunday sends by Friday, she sends by Wednesday, Wednesday says that the sieve took the hobur; hobur tells me to play the violin, goes for with a sieve, but in fact, sharpen her teeth; the mouse volunteered to jump on the strings, run; the hobur killed the mouse, chases after him; the girl threw the canvas (river; hobur put one lip to the ground, the other to the sky, drank water) , brush (forest), stone (rocky place, hobur can't cross); girl brought a sieve; second bride: hey you dumb, bring a pot; girl: to take your tongue away; the sun cut the ram, I heard, rushed to the girl, her hands were covered in blood; the girl became a swallow, the second bride was a goat, both went through the trumpet, the Sun still did not marry]: Moshkov 1904, No. 30:42-44.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Lezgins [an angel in a dream tells the poor man that he should send one of his three daughters to heaven as a shepherd; only the youngest agrees; dressed in men's clothes, the wind lifted her and the dog to the sky from the top of the mountain; the father and son have sheep in the sky; the father says that the boy, the son suspects that the girl; she withstands all the tests (hit the target, the dog changed the violets at night - violets will wither under the woman, but not under the man); seven years later she was released; from the sky the young man saw that she was still a girl; on the holiday everyone swung on a swing, the dog did not let the girl in, but she sat on them, the swings took her back to heaven; she had to marry; her mother-in-law did not give her keys; fell asleep, the girl took her keys, began to open the rooms; in one jug with the moon, the sun, rain, wind; she took off the lid, saw the ground where her mother and father jumped into this jug; flew and turned into sunlight; the guy jumped into a jug of snow out of grief, turned into snowflakes]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 20:235-237 (=Khalidova 2012, No. 10:37-39).