K178. The bewitched husband drives away and finds his wife again, ATU 425E, 425L. .14.15.17.27.29.30.
The girl goes down to the lower world to her magical husband, and when she violates the ban, he drives her away (sends her on an errand). She comes to live with other people, she has a child with a magical husband. The husband finds her, the spouses are reunited, the witchcraft is destroyed. {Motive at work}
Arabs in Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Moroccan Berbers, Kabilas, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalans, Italians (Lombardy, Umbria, Naples, Calabria, Puglia), Palestinians, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Hungarians, Croats, Romanians, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Greeks, Turks.
North Africa. Libyan Arabs [the poor couple has 7 daughters; a black man grabs one of them by the hand; he brought so much money that his parents gave him a daughter; he brings the bride to a luxurious palace; at night he turns into a beautiful young man; one night she found a lock on his chest and opened it {al-Shami also mentions this episode, apparently found in other Arabic texts}; then the husband disappears; wife goes in search; meets his sister and tells her everything; gives birth to a son, who also has a lock and a key on his chest; the sister shows his brother his child; he brings it to his wife and returns to her]: Panetta, l'Arabo parlato, p. 87-89 and 157-161 in Nowak 1969, No. 97:112; Berbers from Morocco, Kabila, Arabs from Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt {not sure if ash-Shami exactly this story; he refers to the Algerian version in Filleul de Pétigny, but there's a different story}: El-Shamy 2004, no. 425L: 207-208.
Southern Europe. The Portuguese [the poor girl is promised to the bewitched prince; the moment she lights a candle to see him, he disappears; or they break up after the wife leaves visit her parents; she receives a ball of thread that leads her to the prince's mother's palace, where she gives birth to his son; after that she is recognized as the prince's wife, cursed destroyed; or the prince secretly explains to the girl what she must do to spoil him]: Cardigos 2006, No. 425E: 100; Spaniards (Ciudad Real) [the poor man has three daughters, one dress for three; he goes for brushwood, tears off rosemary, a voice hears: Who is dragging me by the beard? the door opens, someone asks him to bring his daughter, gives clothes, offers to eat 3 nuts and 2 figs; the father brings the eldest daughter, who eats two nuts out of three, her voice sends her; the same with the middle daughter; the youngest gives two out of three to her father, asks her to stay; her husband is with her at night, but she does not see him; she asked for time off for her sister's wedding, her husband tells her not to tell anything, not to kiss anyone; then to her father's funeral; there she kissed her aunt, who asked her, advised her to light a candle at night; a drop of wax woke her husband up, he says that in two days the spell would be broken, teaches her to find him, not to be afraid of animals along the way, choose a room by the road for the night; she gave birth, her husband's mother praised the child, her husband's crocodile skin came off, everything is fine]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 425E: 253-258; Catalans (incl. Mallorca) [{the summary is very brief}; the heroine marries the bewitched prince because she promised it to her father; sees weavers preparing clothes for the prince's son; at the moment when the spell is about to break, wax drips on his face from a candle that his wife should not have lit; the heroine gives birth to a son; her husband comes to sing him a lullaby; the heroine answers him, after which the spell is completely broken]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 425E: 97-98; Italians (Lombardy: Pavia) [poor father of 5 daughters began to pull turnips out of the ground, fell down, oimé exclaimed! (Oh!) ; a monster appeared - a half-frog half-human, his name is Oime; tells him to give him his daughter no later than a year later; gives him a purse of money; the youngest daughter comes to the underground palace; the monster gives her a sleepy drink so that she did not know who she was with at night; her father comes to her and advises her not to drink the potion; in the evening, O. asks the lamp if the girl is awake, she replies that yes; the girl is in the forest with her born as a baby; comes to another country, she was put in a barn; the monster finds her, the spell dissipates; both end up in the garden where turnips grew, the girl's husband turns out to be a wonderful young man]: Aprile 2000:427; Italians (Lombardy: Bergamo) [the father picks flowers for the bouquet; for this, the hog demands to give him his youngest daughter; at night the hog turns into a young man; the girl gives birth to a boy; goes to visit relatives, everything forgets after kissing her aunt; her father talks to her and she remembers, but comes back late, does not find her husband; the girl goes in search, taking three pairs of iron shoes {which should wear out}; comes to the Queen and stays with her {that ends the paraphrile}]: Aprile 2000:727; Italians (Umbria: Castel Viscardo, 1969; a brief retelling) [after picking chicory, father of three daughters exclaims: "oimè" ("Oh!") ; a serpent appears, demands one of his daughters to marry; the youngest agrees and goes with the snake to an underground palace; her husband is a serpent during the day and the son of the king at night; the king himself is imprisoned by sorcerers; the girl opens three rooms in which she discovers three women preparing everything she needs for the newborn; after giving birth to a son, the girl must leave the palace; with her what is prepared for the baby and the ball , for which she comes to Rome, where she is allowed into the royal palace]: Aprile 2000:731; Italians (Naples) [mother sends three daughters to the spring for water; none go; wants to go by herself, but the youngest Luciella has gone; at the spring, a handsome young man asks him to go to the cave with him; she brings water to her mother, returns, enters the cave, finds herself in a beautiful palace; at night someone is near her; she wants to visit her mother; the servant, after consulting, gives her money and asks her not to stay long; so several times; sisters, out of envy, advise not to drink wine containing sleeping pills at night and open the latch on shutters; lit a candle, a young man next to her; L. opened the shutters, called out to the woman whose yarn had fallen; the young man woke up and kicked out pregnant L.; her sisters also drove her away; she came to the royal palace, gave birth boy; when everyone sleeps, a young man appears, calls the baby a sweet son, disappears after the first cry of the rooster; the maid told the queen; she ordered all the roosters to be slaughtered; the mother hugged the young man, witchcraft broke up (it was necessary to hug before the first cry of the rooster); L. returned her husband, and the Queen returned her son and grandson]: Basile 2018, No. II.9:234-238; Italians (Calabria, Portosalvo, 1957) [after plucking a head of cabbage, the girl goes down to the underground palace; there is a serpent, she stays with him; he asks her to go to the king to ask permission to spend the night "for the soul of the son he lost"; at night the serpent sings a lullaby to a sleeping baby; the ladies of the court hear him; he tells the girl that time is up and the next day he will become a bird; but witchcraft can be destroyed if she cuts off his wings; the girl succeeds the husband turns into a beautiful young man; the courtiers recognized him as the royal son]: Aprile 2000:736; Italians (Puglia: Galatone, 1969, a brief retelling) [a girl plucks a chicory, a hole under it; When she goes underground, she meets a snake; this is an enchanted prince, at night he turns into a handsome young man; she gives birth to a son, his father takes care of him; after sleeping three days and three nights in a row, the girl helps her husband get rid of the spell]: Aprile 2000:739;.
Western Asia. Palestinians, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar: El-Shamy 2004, No. 425L: 207-208
The Balkans. Bulgarians [the youngest princess chose a vampire as a human husband by throwing an apple at him; at night he or her parents take her to the grave; she should not see her husband before meeting him he loses consciousness every time he eats, drinks and bathes; on the advice of his sisters, one day he abstains from eating and drinking, finds the key and unlocks the lock in her husband's heart; sees merchants ranks where people buy and sell; husband expels wife; she reconnects with him with the help of his parents; after that they live like human beings among people]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, № 425L: 150; Greeks: Megas 2012, No. 425E [the heroine goes up the tower and stays there until she gives birth to her son; her husband visits her at night; someone hears him singing a lullaby and tells King+Eve; in a lullaby explains how you can break the spell that gravitates over the singing person; the Queen makes sure that the conditions are met (for example, roosters should not sing in the morning and the bells should not ring); it turns out that the heroine's husband is the Queen's missing son], 425L [the pregnant heroine breaks up with her husband; after giving birth, the curse that weighed over her husband is broken; or when the heroine meets her husband again, she gives birth to a son with the same characteristics as that (for example, a golden keyhole on his stomach); golden children, father loves them]: 115-117; Hungarians, Croats, Romanians, Macedonians : Uther 2004 (1), No. 425E: 254
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Turks [(many options); when leaving, the father asks the three daughters what to bring them; the youngest (on the advice of the teacher) asks for a pearl brush of grapes or something else extraordinary (chest, in which is the palace and the prince); the father forgets the promise, but the ship does not move until he finds this thing; or the fisherman throws a net for the happiness of each of the three daughters and catches a black man for the youngest; in As a result, the youngest daughter finds a lover; but she does not see him; sisters advise not to take sleeping pills in the evening; the lover turns out to be a beautiful young man, and his body has a lock; she unlocks him and sees craftsmen who cook everything they need for the wedding; then the young man drives his wife away; she comes to his first sister (seine erste Schwägerin), then to the second, both chase her; the third takes her maid; once a year her husband appears there, does not recognize his wife; after agreeing with the hostess, he deliberately breaks a glass (ein Glas), she scolds her terribly, and her husband intercedes; as a result, he recognizes her and again on it is getting married]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 104:123-125.