K76E. The son (daughter) is a pig. .15.16.27.-.29.

The son (daughter) or adopter of the spouses is a pig. He marries a princess, turns into a handsome man (she marries a handsome guy).

Sicilians, Italians (Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto), Corsicans, Ladins, French, Germans (Palatinate), Flemish, Romanians, Hungarians, Gagauzes, Slovenes, Western Ukrainians (Nutsulshchina), Ingush.

Southern Europe. Sicilians [a childless queen wants a child, even if she is a pig, even she has many children; a pig gives birth, grows up and wants a wife; parents negotiate with a laundress, she has three daughters; each time a young man comes out of pigskin when his wife falls asleep; the first two are beheaded; the third is affectionate to him; he lies down with her but returns to pigskin before his wife wakes up; then she wakes up earlier; he asks not to let go, otherwise he wears 7 pairs of iron shoes in 7 years, months, days until he finds him; she tells her mother, the prince disappears; the wife goes looking for him; three the old man consistently gives her a nut, a chestnut, another nut; the fourth gives a magic wand to create a castle; for treasure made of nuts (golden chicken with chickens, teacher with students, eagle) buys three nights from new wife; she gives the Piggy King sleeping pills; on the third night, the king does not drink it (he was warned by prisoners in the dungeon under the bedroom, they heard the voice of his true wife, he has now pardoned them); spouses returned to their wife's parents]: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 37:243-251; Corsicans: Massignon 1984, No. 11 [husband's son and wife are a red pig; demands him to marry; girl marries him; confesses his mother, that at night he becomes a handsome man; his mother snuck into the room, grabbed the pigskin that had been thrown off and threw it into the fire; three times the skin jumped out of the fire, but then burned down; the husband says that his wife would not see him without wearing out a pair of iron shoes; the wife put on her shoes, consistently comes to three old women who give nuts (apparently walnuts), almonds and another nut (hazel); in the first walnut is a silk thread, for which she buys the night with her husband from his new wife; she gives her husband a sleepy potion; in almonds, a silver thread (the same); in the last nut, a gold thread; neighbors heard how in the previous one at night, the wife tried to wake her husband, told him; he did not drink the potions; the couple reunited and returned to her husband's parents], 42 []: 25-27, 97-101; Italians: Calvino 1980, No. 19 (Piedmont) [the king has a son -pig (King Crin), he asks to marry him one of the baker's three daughters; the eldest agreed, but expresses her disgust, was found dead in the morning; the same middle; the youngest caressed him, at night a pig turns into a young man; his wife lit a splint (taper) to look at him, the coal fell, the husband woke up; said his wife would see him if she cried 7 bottles of tears, stacks 7 pairs of iron shoes, wears 7 iron cloaks and 7 iron hats; on the way, a young woman comes to the mother of wind (she gives a chestnut), lightning (gives walnuts), thunder (hazel nut); comes to the palace, whose mistress is going to go beyond the prince is a former pig; breaks chestnuts and nuts, the first has diamonds, the second has silk outfits, the third has horses and carriages; each time she exchanges treasures from the owner of the palace for the right to spend the night in the prince's room; the first two nights he sleeps, because the hostess gave him sleeping pills, on the third night the prince does not drink, hugs his wife, they return home]: 57-60; Widter et al. 1866, No. 12 (Veneto) [the witch wanted to marry the king, but he chose another one, so the witch made sure that the son born was covered in piggy skin; the son grew up and asked his father to marry him the eldest of three sisters; when At the wedding, the groom lay down in a puddle, and then sat down with the bride, who called him a real pig; in the morning she was found dead in bed; the same with her middle sister; the youngest did not disgust the groom, but called him treasure; at night he took off his pigskin and turned out to be handsome; forbid his wife to talk about it; the prince comes to the tournament three times; seeing his daughter-in-law next to the handsome man, the prince's mother calls her a libertine and wants to kill; when he finds out about the skin removed, he burns it; the prince disappears, the wife goes in search; The evening star (Stella d'oro, man) gives a nut, sends it to the Sun; he also gives a nut, refers to the Wind ; Wind's mother hides her, asks her son, he says that the prince lives behind the mountain, he and the Sun will go there tomorrow to dry their clothes; the mother of the Wind gives a chestnut; the prince marries again, an unrecognized wife in his house hired a goose; split a walnut, wearing an Evening Star dress; gives it to her new bride overnight with the prince; she puts sleeping pills; the same on the second night (dress is like the sun); the most beautiful dress wearing a chestnut tree; the prince just pretended to fall asleep; found out that his wife had worn out his iron shoes in search of him; returned to her and drove the new bride away]: 249-254; Italians (Lombardy: Bergamo) [father rips 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 her relatives, forgets everything after kissing her aunt; the 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 must wear out}; comes to the queen and stays with her {on that the paraphrase ends}]: Aprile 2000:727; ladins [childless spouses have a son, but with a pig's head; when he grows up, they send him to herd pigs in the forest; the lord is lost; the Pig's Head will bring out him from the forest if he gives him one of his three daughters; the master promised to send a daughter in three days; without waiting, Pig Head sends a rooster to him; he asks his daughters which of them will go; the youngest agrees; before the wedding ceremony, the priest decided to baptize the Pig's Head; as soon as the holy water touched him, he turned into a young man; the older sisters hanged themselves in grief]: Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 66:184-185

Western Europe. The French (Dauphin) [the childless king tells the person he meets that he would like a son even with the head of a pig; the son is born, grows up, asks to marry him; the lumberjack's eldest daughter agrees, but then weddings do not allow herself to be hugged, the queen with a pig's head rips open her stomach; the same with the middle one; the youngest accepts her husband; ten months later she sees that he has become handsome; he warns no one talk about it, otherwise he will become a pighead again for a year and one day; she tells her parents; her husband leaves, says she will find him by changing seven pairs of wooden shoes and seven pairs of iron shoes; wife comes to the ogre, he sends her to his brother, this one to another; everyone gives a glass walnut, it must be broken when she finds her husband; this third says that the woman's husband is getting married today; gives a horse; he immediately takes the woman to the castle; every night she breaks a nut, wearing dresses made of silk, silver, diamonds; she changes them for the right to spend the night with her husband (who is handsome, with a man's head), but the new wife puts him to sleep twice; the third time the servant tells her husband that he does not drink the potion, returns with his real wife to his parents]: Joisten 1991, No. 12:119-126, 127-128; Germans (Hessen) [at the king a son was born with the Queen, but the witch turned him into a wild boar; the rich master has three daughters; the boar fell in love with the eldest, her father forced her to marry a boar, since that prince; when the newlywed went to bed , the boar jumped on her, hit her neck, she died; the same with her middle daughter; when the boar went to the youngest, he was driven into the forest; one day everyone went for a walk, a boar appeared and took the girl to cave; she sees tears in his eyes; he says he can save him if he agrees to marry him; she agrees; at night she dreams: she must burn the boar's skin; she got up in the morning and burned it; from the cave a beautiful young man came out; he soon inherited the throne, his wife became queen; if they still haven't risen from the throne, they still sit on it]: Wolf 1845, No. 3:16-21; the Flemish [king expelled an aged governess; her daughter married a merchant's son and gave birth to a beautiful girl; the king had a boy; to avenge her mother, whom the king expelled, her daughter added potions to the prince, who became a pig; the girl grew up, the pig wanted to marry her; the mother had to tell her daughter everything; during the wedding, the daughter pierced the pig with a dagger, she turned into a prince; everything is fine]: Kingo 2012:20-27.

The Balkans. Romanians: Kúnos 1901 [When leaving, the emperor tells three daughters not to unlock one room; the eldest insists on unlocking it; there's a table and a book, it says that the older sister will come out for the emperor of the East, the middle for the emperor of the West, and the youngest for the hog; the father returns, royal matchmakers come to the eldest daughters, the hog comes for the youngest; she is obedient to the father; along the way of the hog lies in the mud and tells the bride to kiss him; at home she turns into a young man in the evening; the wife is pregnant; asks the old woman to help; she gives the rope to tie her husband by the leg at night; the rope breaks, the husband jumps up, says that if it were not for his wife, the spell would have ended in three days; she would see him wearing out three pairs of iron sandals and three iron staffs; she comes to the mother of the Moon (woman), she sends him to the mother of the Sun ( man); The Sun advises you to ask Wind; Mother of the Wind: your husband is in a forest house like a pile of fallen trees; the wife comes there and makes a ladder out of bones to get up; one is missing, she He cuts off his finger and it turns into the last crossbar; the husband flies in like a dove, is frightened, then recognizes his wife, the child with her; explains that his emperor father fought dragons and killed the dragon; his mother turned the emperor's son into a hog to prevent a predetermined marriage]: 222-243; Sadetsky 1973 [=Moldavian tales 1968:38-50; a childless wife tells her husband to adopt whoever he is He will be the first to meet; he brings a pig; the pig tells him to marry him the royal daughter, creates a bridge and a palace overnight, gets a wife, turns into a prince at night; the wife's mother advises to burn piggy skin; the husband says that he is Fat Frumos, let him look for him in the Frankincense Monastery, tighten the woman's belt with a hoop so that she cannot give birth without him; the wife consistently comes to Saints Sereda, Friday, Diminika, those they give a gold spinning wheel, a reel, a tray and a hen with chickens; in a year, flying over monsters, a lame lark brings a woman to the Frankincense Monastery; a key witch allows her to spend one, two, three night in FF's bedroom in exchange for gold items, each time gives FF a sedative potion; for the third time, on the advice of a servant, FF does not drink potions, he hugs his wife, the hoop falls apart, the witch is tied to an immense mare; the witch was a pig who wanted to marry FF to one of her 11 daughters (piglets that an old man who adopted a pig saw when he left the house)]: 342-358; (cf. Romanians [a poor widow with 7 children steals a bull from boyars; a judge sentences him to be beheaded, but the youngest son proves that in this case the children will also starve to death; the boyar makes a boy a friend of his son and his brothers as servants; he became known as "Holy Justice" (SS); one day he wakes up from a strange silence and thinks that everything entrusted to him has been stolen; meets God in the form of a sheep shepherd; he points to his adoptive father (i.e. to the boyar); the boyar gives a snake in a barrel that only a horse with 7 hearts can carry; at rest, the SS goes to fetch water, and when he returns, he sees beautiful house, and in the morning a beautiful woman next to him; throws snakeskin into the fire; wedding; but the boyar's own son wants a beautiful woman for himself; advisers offer to give the SS difficult assignments; by morning turn the forest into field, bring the corn cobs grown there (the wife performs); so that during the night the heifer becomes a cow, gives birth to another, both give birth again, slaughter them and serve goulash (the same); bring a head of cheese from God and a pot of sheep's milk; the torturers kill the SS, but God revives; God destroyed the boyar's house and grass has grown in this place]: Bîrlea 1966:418-419); Gagauz people [childless old woman sends her husband to find a child; he brings a pig; a pig tells him to marry a boyar's daughter; the boyar tells him to create a golden bridge, a garden with golden apples; everything appears; tells the dos to stand on the water - the house stands; the boyar gives his daughter; at the wedding, the pig sheds his pigskin, becomes handsome; at night the wife throws her skin into the fire; the husband puts a hoop on her belt, only his hand will take it off, only then the wife will be born ; she comes to Duma-báb (makes sure no one spins on Friday), who refers to her sister Pazar-bab (watches on Sunday); she gathers birds; only a lame bird saw the woman's husband at Jade b ábu (witch); P. gives him a gold spinning wheel, arshin, reel - sell J. for the right to spend the night with a guy; J. puts him to sleep for two nights, his wife cannot wake up; on the third night, the maid told the guy not to drink potions; he takes off his wife's belt, she gives birth to a boy, all three return home]: Syrf 2013:149-153; Hungarians [the youngest queen asks her father to bring her gorgeous grapes, a smiling apple, a blooming peach; on the way home, the king has to promise his daughter to a pig; after the wedding, he turns into a handsome man and gives his wife what she wanted]: Domotor 1988: No. 425X* 459; Slovenes [childless The Countess is ready to give birth to even a pig; he is successively married to three daughters of a poor man; every time at the wedding he falls out in the mud and rubs against the bride's dress; two older sisters reject him, the youngest protects; at night he sheds pigskin, becomes handsome; upon learning of this, the Countess Mother burned the pig's skin; the husband disappears, telling his wife to look for him beyond seven mountains and valleys; she consistently comes to three To the winds, everyone gives a nut, the third gives her her boots, says that tomorrow the count has a wedding; the earthly wife is hired as a pigsty, consistently breaks nuts, pulls out gold rings and earrings from them, a luxurious dress, buys them from his first wife for three nights with her husband; the first two he does not wake up, does not drink a sleepy drink on the third evening (his friend advised this), returns his first wife]: Arkhipova 1962: 111-116.

Central Europe. Western Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina) [when the wife finally gave birth, the daughter looked like a pig; one day she returned - a basket of mushrooms on the bench; so several times; the guy in the woods came across pigskin; a naked girl came out, she was picking mushrooms; agreed to marry a guy; he married a woman to her pig daughter; after the wedding he burned her skin, everyone is happy; the neighbor's boyfriend married a pig elders; and she is a pig with a pig; and do not slaughter, since she is married]: Zinchuk 2006a, No. 223:377-379.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ingushi [a witch doctor advises a childless woman to eat a pig's lung and liver; she gave birth to a son who is a man at night, a pig in the afternoon; he asks his father to marry him his stepdaughter; she advises his father to give the groom has difficult errands, knows that at night he is a young man; the padchah demands golden carriages full of pearls, they appeared in the morning, the groom got a bride; she threw pigskin into the fire; the husband disappeared, telling him to find him ; his wife finds him in a cave, they return to his parents]: Malsagov 1983:335-337 (=Tankieva 2003:221-223).