L9F. Golden nose or teeth .15.28.31.
A person's nose or teeth made of gold or silver are a sign of his demonic nature.
Portuguese, Spanish, Italians (Piedmont, Naples), Maltese, Russians (Terek coast), Estonians, Eastern Sami.
Southern Europe. The Portuguese (Coimbra) [the princess rejects the grooms, will only marry a man with a golden beard and silver teeth; one day a carriage arrived, footmen in green, a gentleman with a golden beard in a carriage and silver teeth; after the wedding, the husband took the princess to the forest, the storm began, the princess called Jesus, the storm subsided, and the husband and carriage were gone; the princess turned to St. Virgo and promised that if she was saved, she would not say a word for a whole year; a prince appeared, believed that the girl was dumb, brought her to the palace; a year later he decided to marry another woman; on this occasion he dressed up dumb in a luxurious dress; her term is over, the princess speaks, the prince married her]: Coelho 1879, No. 48:112-114; Spaniards [the count's daughter rejects grooms, wants the Marquis wants silver lips, golden teeth; hell is a marquis in the palace; the girl does not listen to the swallow warning of danger; the devil leaves his wife in the room, puts a pot of boiling water in the basement under her, begins to break the ceiling; swallow reports this to the Marquis, who saves his daughter, leaves a doll instead of her; she falls into the cauldron, hell sees it's a doll]: Shustova 1994:240-241; Italians (Naples) [princess refuses grooms; the magician Fiorovante ordered him to make his head and teeth out of gold; the princess immediately agreed to marry him; he left her in the stable, ordering her to eat the same as horses, and left; she went out to garden; he immediately returned and almost killed her; left her again; her father's goldsmith accidentally went there, hid the princess in an empty barrel and returned her to the palace; the king put iron doors in his daughter's room; F. bribed the old woman, let her put an enchanted leaf in the princess's bed; everyone but the princess fell asleep; F. broke in, dragged his victim, but the leaf fell out, the palace's cloisters woke up and tore F. into scraps]: Basile 2018:263-270; Italians (Piedmont) [a laundress widow has three daughters exhausted by work; the eldest is ready to hire the hell; a gentleman with a silver nose arrives; mother in doubtful, but the eldest daughter is ready to go with him; in his house he gives the keys to all rooms, forbids entering one of them; at night he quietly sticks a rose into the girl's hair; when she unlocks the forbidden door , behind her hell, the flame burned the rose; when Silver Nose returned, pushed the girl to hell; the same with her middle sister (Silver Nose explained that one maid could not do all the work; stuck it in her hair cloves); younger Lucia noticed jasmine in her hair, put it in the water, it remained unscorched; before Silver Nose arrived, she stuck it back in her hair; asked her to take the bag to her mother laundry; warned that she saw far away - let Silver Nose not sit down to rest on the way; instead of laundry, L. put her older sister in a bag; when Silver Nose intends to look into the bag, sister says "I see, I see" instead of L.; L. sent her middle sister the same way; then made a doll in her own likeness, said she was ill, sat in the bag herself, taking money as well; when all the sisters came back, they put a cross in front of the house and the devil never came again]: Calvino 1980, No. 8:26-30; Maltese [princess refuses grooms, wants to marry a man with golden teeth; like this the devil appears; on the way to his house, she sees horns on the groom's head, enters his underground house; her maid's three sons secretly follow the princess, find out what happened to her; while the devil sleeps, They pull her out, cover her whole body with roses; when the devil later comes for her, he is powerless because of these roses; the princess marries her youngest brother]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 312C: 52-54.
Central Europe. Russians (Teresky Bereg) [while parents are at the wedding, popovna drinks to their health; someone from the street asks for a drink for him; gnaws through the wall, asks where the good is; she locked him in the cellar, called people; the devil flew away and screams: I remember popovna; matchmakers have arrived, the pop asks his daughter who he will marry; one has a golden nose, the daughter chooses it; mother-in-law went with her daughter, the groom persuades her to pass, she he did not want to, he threw her off; they came to the forest, the groom dug the grave, ate the deceased, the popovna pretended not to see anything; he brought her to the house, began to live; but her father came to visit, she told him everything; he ate it; this was the devil who took the form of a father]: Balashov 1970, No. 69:237-238.
Baltoscandia. Estonians (all over Estonia, but more in southern Estonia) [a girl rejects her suitors and dreams of marrying a man with a golden nose; he shows up and takes her away; they stop three times along the way, groom enters a house; the second time the bride peeks: he eats a dead dog; the third time he is dead; when they reach the groom's home and the girl is left alone, the deceased mother tells her that her the husband is hell; one of the guys who likes the girl goes to the witch doctor; he tells him to take a ball three times on Thursday and go to the crossroads; the third time the whirlwind brings the young man to the house of the devil; he hired him in workers, but since it is winter, there is no job yet; the girl comes to him, gives him a chip, a grain of sand and water in a glass: let her quit when she says; takes a broom: if she moves, the pursuer is close; a grain of sand has become a mountain (hell sends his son for shovels), a sliver a thick forest (sends for axes), a splash of water has become a sea; hell sends his son for his grandmother, she tries to drink the sea, but bursts; the devil is left overseas, boy and girl got married]: Mälk et al 1967, No. 58:151-154; Eastern Sami [loved one disappears; girl rejects other suitors, says she will marry a man with a golden nose; Ravk comes, she is forced to fulfill her promise; he leaves her keys, does not tell her to open one door; there is a weak elk; she feeds him, three days later they run away; they throw a comb (forest) mirror (lake), shard (mountain), match (fire); The elk brings the girl to his mother, turns it into a sliver underground, puts the pine tree with its roots up, runs away; Ravk did not find a sliver, could not pull out the pine tree; Moose shows the girl a pine tree, she recognizes her betrothed, an elk turns into a guy, takes a girl as a wife]: Charnoluski 1972:80-83.