K107e1. Blood on the shirt. 16.28.
When a magical spouse leaves his earthly wife, his shirt is stained with blood. Only the wife who comes in manages to wash it off.
Bretons, Irish, Scots, Western Ukrainians.
Western Europe. Bretons: Lopyreva 1959, No. 39 [a toad clutches the old man's face at the well, demands his daughter as his wife; only the youngest agrees; the Toad takes her to his castle; the sisters spy, see the beautiful prince; they burn the skin with a toad; the husband scolds his wife, runs away; she follows him, he hits her, three drops of blood fall on his shirt; she tells that the stains do not disappear before she comes to wash them off; she walks past lions, a hare brings her to the castle; she helps the laundresses wash off the stains, is hired as a shepherdess; buys three nights from the new bride with her fiancé for three golden balls that her husband left her while running away; the new bride gives him a sleepy potion; the servant tells him about it, he does not drink a potion; marries his ex-wife]: 166-173; Irish [when leaving, a noble man forgets to lock the house where his daughters are; the eldest says she will marry an officer, the middle says she will marry a soldier, the youngest is a white deer; a week later, the grooms take their wives; the youngest answers the Deer that she wants to see him as a man at night and deer during the day, and not vice versa; a year later she goes to visit the house, her husband warns not to drop a tear; at home she gives birth to a boy, he is taken away; the same year later, gives birth to a girl, drops a tear in a handkerchief; Returning, the Deer's house is in ruins; she follows her husband's wagon, successively gets to his three sisters, who give her scissors that make clothes, a magic tablecloth, a comb that makes her beautiful hair; she she finds her children in her sisters' homes, her daughter has a lost eye, she inserts a fallen tear into her eye socket, her eye recovers; her husband goes over a mountain of needles; the wife has been serving with a blacksmith for a year, he forges iron shoes; she crosses a mountain; in that world her husband has a different wife, she sends her husband's clothes to wash, on which her earthly wife sprayed blood before parting; blood is not erased, laundresses are executed; earthly wife is easy washes away stains; buys three nights with her ex-husband for magic items received from his sisters; the new wife gives her husband sleeping pills; on the third night, the servant tells him what happened, he does not drink sleeping pills; the husband explains to his earthly wife that life is new in a mole, an egg must be thrown at him, it is in a duck, a duck in a lamb that kills a lamb, an earthly wife throws an egg at a mole; a new wife dies, family reunited]: McManus 1915:185-191; Scots [the old poultry house consistently tells three princesses that they will see their fate from the back door of her house; behind the eldest and Carriages come for the middle, the Black Ox comes for the youngest; he carries her on his back to the castles of his three brothers, they give an apple, a pear, a plum, they must be broken in extreme need; in the gorge he says that if any blue fog, he won, if red died; everything turns blue, the Black Ox turns into a Black Knight, but the bride becomes invisible to him; for seven years she has been serving for a blacksmith, for which he makes her iron shoes go up the glass mountain; there she is the only one who bleeds her Czech shirt; he must marry someone who could do it; the laundress says she washed her daughter; the princess consistently She breaks an apple, a pear, a plum, and jewelry in them; for them she buys a laundress the right to spend the night near the Czech Republic, but she gives the Czech Republic sleeping pills; the old hunter tells him that he heard singing; the Czech Republic does not drink a potion, recalls a princess, a laundress and her daughter expels]: Kharitonov 2008:419-428
Central Europe. Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [the mother in her hearts wished her son to turn into a snake; the king is blind, he will be healed by water from a spring; only the youngest daughter decides to take water, although the voice of the snake is from the source promises to make her his wife for this; the king leaves his daughter in a separate room, crawls at night, sheds her skin, becomes handsome; the family stole, burned the skin; the husband disappears, saying that the wife will not be born until he puts two fingers on her; only the Third Wind directs her to the Black Sea; gives a valek, it must be given to Snake's new wife to wash her shirt from blood in exchange for permission to sleep with her husband is the night; the second wife puts her husband to sleep; the same on the second night (for a golden hen with chickens); the servant tells her husband everything, he does not drink potions; the third gift is gold yarn and a spindle; the wife gives birth to two boys, one has golden curls; he grows up, is led by a frog, turns into a beauty; she is carried away by a 12-headed Serpent; a snake kills the wind, but the girl must be a frog for three days; father shot his son because he does not see his fiancée; the bride revives him with living and dead water]: Verkhovyna's Tales 1970:265-271; Ukrainians (Podolia) [grandfather and woman went to the forest for firewood; sat down to eat, so picks up the crumbs; they brought him home; a year later he tells him to marry the princess; the king suggests that the groom jump up to the princess sitting on the third floor and take her sign; he went into the forest, chipped in well done, got on a horse, got a ring (? signal) princesses; the king threw a signal into the sea - let him get it; he got it from the bottom; the princess agrees; after a while the king calls the young to a feast; he has already thrown off his skin, came to the feast; the princess quietly returned home and burned her skin; the husband ran, hit his wife in the face, blood sprayed on his shirt; left, saying that he was no longer her husband; the wife went in search; on the way she bought a gold tow from a woman, the other has a reel, the third has a golden hen with chickens; the girls ask if she will wipe the blood off their owner's shirt; it was easily erased; hired to herd geese; she began to spin a golden tow in sight; the new wife bought for permission to spend one night with her husband; gave him sleeping pills; the same the next day (reel); on the third night (hen with chickens), the wife pricked her husband with a needle in the finger, he woke up ; the couple began to live happily, and the other wife was expelled]: Levchenko 1928, No. 481:326-328.