M75b1a. Intended wife, ATU 930A.
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A high-ranking person finds out that a (just born) poor or ugly girl is intended for him, or the girl herself finds out that she is destined to become a man's wife of high origin. A betrothed or someone else tries to kill a girl, but only hurts her and the prediction is fulfilled; if the girl is ugly, she becomes beautiful.
Nubians, Tunisians, Arabs of Egypt, Catalans, Portuguese, Spaniards, Sardinians, Italians (Lazio), British, Scots, Arabs of Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Tibetans, Thais, Viets, Bengalis, Tamils, Ancient China, Chinese (Liaoning, Zhejiang, Shandong, Guangdong {etc?}) , Slovenes, Serbs, Bulgarians, Greeks, Russians (Murmansk, Novgorod, Vologda), Ukrainians (Galicia), Belarusians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Abkhazians, Dargins, Megrelians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Finns, Veps, Karelians, Faroese, Swedes, Danes, Icelanders, Latvians, Lithuanians, Kazan Tatars, Chuvash, Tuvans, (Baikal Buryats?) , the Mongols of Ordos, and the Japanese (Tohoku).
Sudan - East Africa.
Nubians: Kronenberg 1978, No. 4:14-17 in Uther 2004, No. 930A: 623-624North Africa. Tunisia, Egyptian Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 930A: 623-624.
Southern Europe. Catalans (Mallorca only) [poor girl dreams that she will become the king's wife; jealous sister tells her servant to kill her; he leaves her in the woods; the king finds her and marries her]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 930A: 189; Portuguese: Braga 2002 [the king hunts, sleeps in a coal burner's hut; his wife gave birth to a girl; at midnight, the king hears a chorus of voices: whatever he does, newborn will become his wife, queen; the king paid charcoal burner generously, took the girl, ordered her to be killed, but he left her in a ravine in the woods; she was picked up by a lumberjack, adopted her; they named her Maria da Silva; when she was 5 years old, the king saw her and recognized her (she was wearing his belt); bought her, put her in a box and let her go to sea; the sailors picked her up, showed her to the local queen, who raised her as a princess; and he came to the ball to choose her husband the king gave her a ring; the servant told him that it was the same girl, but the king still began to dance with her; the maid stole the ring and threw it into the sea; they caught a fish and M. saw her ring in her mouth; the king married M., realizing that fate cannot be avoided]: 136-138; Cardigos 2006, No. 930A [the prince learns that a peasant woman will become his wife; he tries to get rid of the girl, leaves her in the woods, signs a sign her forehead, cuts off her little finger, etc.; she is found and saved; the prince leaves her in a boat at sea, telling her to get a ring thrown into the sea; in the end, the prophecy comes true]: 242-243; Coelho 1879, No. 58 (Coimbra) [] : 131-132; Italians (Lazio): Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 930A: 239; Sardinians, Spanish: Uther 2004 (1), No. 930A: 569-570.
Western Europe. The British [after looking at the Book of Fates, the Baron found out that his son was marrying a simple girl who had just been born; this is the sixth child of a poor man; the baron bought her and threw her into the river; her fisherman caught it, she grew up; the Baron accidentally went there, asked the girl who she was, understood everything, sent a letter to his brother ordering her to kill the applicant; the robbers at the inn replaced the letter with an order to marry the girl as the son of a baron; after the wedding, the Baron wanted to throw his daughter-in-law into the sea, but regretted it and threw the ring: let him not appear in front of his eyes without him; she hired a dishwasher, found a ring in fish, presented her father-in-law; he recognized her son's wife]: Shereshevskaya 1957b: 119-123 (=1987:350-352); Scots: Uther 2004 (1), No. 930A: 569-570.
Western Asia. Syrian Arabs [the Prince of Baghdad dreams of someone throwing two rings into the water; explains that the man's ring is for him, and his wife will be the newly born daughter of a stoker in baths Damascus; the prince finds a woman with a newborn girl in Damascus, gives her money to buy something, stabs a dagger into the baby, runs away; the wound was not dangerous, the girl recovered, only remained around her neck scar; the girl's father put the money received from the prince into business; the daughter grew up beautiful, the father and family moved to Baghdad; became a famous merchant, the prince married his daughter; on his wedding night he decided that Outsmarted fate, but noticed a scar on his wife's neck; everything was clarified; Allah is great]: Kuhr 1993:246-269; Yemen, Iraq: El-Shamy 2004, No. 930A: 623-624.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [a lonely poor Drashup went to the mountains, fell asleep under a tree; at this time, a girl was born under the mountain in the village; the spirit woman of this tree called the spirits of other trees to her determine the girl's future; when she reaches middle age, she will die after eating a sheep's shoulder blade, and sleeping under a tree will become her husband; D. was indignant: he himself is already years old and it is ridiculous to think that he is marrying someone who just born; he found the house where the girl was born, hit her with a hatchet and ran away; she grew up, her parents died, she came to town, met D., they fell in love and got married; he noticed scar; the wife said that she heard from her parents how a man named D. tried to kill her with an ax; D. did not confess, but made sure that his wife did not get the lamb shoulder; she decided that the husband saves the best pieces for herself; in his absence, she slaughtered a sheep, ate the meat off the shoulder blade and died]: Shelton 1925, No. 10:50-54.
Burma - Indochina. Thais [Supanburi was home to Nai Prasop, the son of a noble woman, in Supanburi in the middle of the 15th century; when he was initiating in the temple, the astrologer said that he was marrying a slave's daughter, that his future wife was now the baby and that she is currently physically below him; through a gap in the floor, the NP saw a slave in the cradle of the child; NP threw a knife at the girl, but he only touched her stomach, the wound was overgrown; the parents succeeded pay off the debt and they left; NP's mother went broke and he himself became a merchant's servant; married his daughter; noticed a scar on her stomach; she told everything, but he did not confess]: Banhān 1930, No. 11:93- 98; Viets {"Annam"; without reference to source}: Liungman 1961, no.* 930:243.
South Asia. Bengalis [the prince learns that a girl from the lower caste is intended to be his wife; he wounds her in the stomach, but she recovers; later the king's elephant brings her to the palace, the prince marries her; his mother found a scar]: Damant 1880 in Thompson, Roberts 1960, No. 930A: 117; Tamils [brahman finds out he is destined to marry a lower-caste girl; he hits her on the head, runs away; later meets, falls in love, marries; painting her head with oil notices a scar]: Robinson 1885:41-48 in Thompson, Roberts 1960, No. 930A: 117; (probably also Tamils) [the spirit predicts the brahmana that he marries a lower-caste girl; he lowers her down the river in a box with carnations in her head; later meets, falls in love, marries; finds carnations in her head]: Thurston 1909 (6): 120-121 in Thompson, Roberts 1960, NO. 930A: 117.
China - Korea. Ancient China (Tang, early 9th century; the story is also in other sources, starting from Shi Qing, 6th century BC) [Wei-Ku sees an old man with a book in an incomprehensible font; he replies that this book lists predetermined marriages; VK asks if he is marrying a girl he is currently wearing in love; the old man replies no, but that he is already tied with a red thread to his future wife; brings her to a house where a three-child girl is; she is ugly, her parents are not in high position; VK hired a maid kill a girl, but she only scratched her head; 14 years later, VK became an official and married a high-born beauty; after a year of marriage, she explained why she covered one place on her forehead; husband about I told everyone; the couple continue to be happy]: Taylor 1959^ 45 in Zhang 2014:29; Chinese: Eberhard 1937, No. 149 (Guangdong) [a person learns the name of the girl he is destined to marry; after finding her, he recognizes her ugly and seriously injures her; later, without recognizing the girl, he marries her]: 202; Fielde 1893 (Guangdong) [the woman has a daughter of 12 years and another very young; she sends a matchmaker to the young man; he thinks that he is promised an eldest daughter; when he learned that the youngest and that it would take years before the marriage was realized, the young man threw a stone at the baby, hitting her temple; thinking that he had killed her, the young man went to another area for a long time; got rich, came back, decided to marry; he got married to his fiancée and saw a stone blow mark on her temple]: 75-79; Ting 1978, No. 930A [{some sources are probably not Chinese, but records so much that the Chinese are probably there too}]; Zhang 2014 [in late folklore, the story is in Liaoning, Zhejiang, Shandong, Guangdong {and apparently also in other provinces, but in the article they are not specified}]: 39-40, 46.
The Balkans. Slovenes, Serbs, Bulgarians, Greeks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 930A: 569-570.
Central Europe. Russians (Murmansk, Novgorod, Vologda), Ukrainians (Galicia), Belarusians [Intended wife: Tsarevich (lordly, merchant son) finds out that he has been appointed to the wife is sick, an ugly girl of low origin; she hits her with a knife (sword); she recovers from the blow, becomes beautiful; the prince marries her]: SUS 1979, № 930A=AA *934:237; Russians (an epic recorded by Rybnikov, Part 1:40-41) [wanting to know fate, Svyatogor, on Mikula's advice, goes to the Siverny Mountains; there the blacksmith forges two thin hairs - fate, who to marry; Svyatogor's bride in the kingdom of Pomerania for 30 years; S. came there, hit the lying cripple, left the money and left; the girl's clumsy skin slept, she became beautiful; S. saw her, married, saw a scar on her chest, realized that you can't escape fate; (this epic is clearly based on a fairy tale)]: Miller 2013:921-922; Poles [a person finds out that he is destined to marry a girl of low origin; he deals her a fatal (he thinks) wound; she recovers and marries him; upon learning about this, a person dies]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 930A: 282; Czechs, Slovaks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 930A: 569-570.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians [a 60-year-old man married a widow's 18-year-old daughter and is happily married; asks his wife why she has a scar on her stomach; she says that when she was born, a cat ripped her stomach apart and dragged her to the attic, but the mother sewed up her stomach; the mother did not see the cat - only a glimpse of the silhouette; the man remembered how he once came to steal a cow and heard angels talking; the newborn would marry someone who now trying to steal the widow's only cow; if anyone tells, he will petrify; the man tried to avoid fate, stabbed the baby and threw him into the attic; tells his wife that he would be miserable, not having met her]: Khvartsky 1994:55-56; Dargin residents [the young man went to travel, spent the night in someone's house; the owner wrote something; answered that he predicted human destinies; the person who came was destined to marry sick to a poor girl; the young man left this house and came to another; there the hostess said that it was unlikely that the one who came to sleep, because the daughter was sick and moans all the time; the guy decided that this was his narrowed, he stabbed her, left the money, left; in the morning the girl got up: after being stabbed, she recovered; the guy met this girl by chance, fell in love, married; saw a scar on her stomach; realized that the old man's prediction came true]: Aliyeva 2013, No. 78:346-347; Megrelia [thief Burdgu met forest queen Tkashi Mapa in the forest and was forced to agree to be her husband for 10 years; since then he has been accompanied by good luck; to steal a cow, B. hid in the courtyard of the house where the mistress was to be born; she gave birth to a girl; B. hears three angels talking; one suggests that the newborn grow up beautiful and died, the second to die at the age of three, the third to marry a man hiding behind a tree; to prevent the prediction from being fulfilled, B. ripped open the newborn's stomach and threw her on the roof ; but the girl survived; later B. was persuaded to marry; one day his wife had a stomachache, B. noticed a scar, found out from his wife what had happened to her; then began to pray to God more often; lived with his wife until old age]: Stepanov 1898, No. 2:5-10; Armenians (Shirvan) [lost his way while hunting, the prince enters the house where the old man writes down people's destinies in the book; replies to the prince that he is destined to marry his daughter a poor shepherd who suffers from an incurable illness; the prince finds himself in a shepherd's hut, who talks about his sick daughter, the prince decides to kill her at night; hits her with a dagger, leaves gold; from The girl's stomach blew out of her stomach, she recovered, became beautiful, her parents became rich, the prince saw her and married her; he noticed a scar, his wife told her story, the prince believed in predestination]: Bagriy 1930 (3): 65-7 (=Gullakian 1990, No. 930A: 44); Azerbaijanis (villages. Gulably, Shushi District) [while hunting, Tsarevich Murad sees an old man writing on scraps of paper the names of those who are destined to become spouses and throws papers into the sea; finds out that his daughter is intended for him a coal miner named Bad Saba; he finds her sleeping (this is an 11-year-old daughter of a poor man), pierces a dagger, leaves her purse full of gold; the girl recovers, her parents are rich, M. sees a beautiful woman, takes her wives; sees a scar, wife tells her story, M. apologizes to her]: Bagry 1930 (1): 124-130 (=Miller 2013:920-921); Turks [prince predicted that he will marry a poor girl just now born here and there; he finds a baby and tries to kill; but the girl survived, grew up beautiful; the prince falls in love, marries; on his wedding night he notices a scar, or his wife gives him the knife with which he once- then wounded her]: Eberhard, Boratav 953, No. 124:140-141.
Baltoscandia. Finns, Veps, Karelians, Faroese, Icelanders: Uther 2004 (1), No. 930A: 569-570; Lithuanians [an old man predicts a young man that he will marry a girl who will be beautiful but of low origin; a young man shot a girl, but, as it turns out, only wounded her; her father found money and, thanks to it, cured his daughter; she discovers pub, man goes there, falls in love with and marries his hostess]: Balys 1936, no.*934A: 101; Latvians: Aris, Medne 1977, № 930A [Intended wife: to get rid of yours betrothed, the guy cuts the girl's belly and leaves her in the forest; many years later he marries and finds a scar on her stomach]: 333; Brivzemniax 1887, No. 5 [the woman went to the bathhouse to give birth; the guy began to spy; Lyma said that the newborn would be the wife of the one who hid there; the boy threw the knife but only hit the girl; the midwife hid the knife; the girl grew up, met that guy, began to show her dowry, including a knife; the guy recognized him, cried, married a girl]: 9; Swedes [when he finds out that he is destined to marry a poor girl, the king tries to get rid of her (hurts; nails her to tree); the girl remains alive; when he marries, she finds his wife scarred]: Liungman 1961, no.*930:243; Danes {no reference to the source}: Liungman 1961, no.*930:243.
Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars (1 entry) [the padishah sees an old man throwing sheets of paper into the river with the names of who to marry; the padishah is appointed the daughter of a forester; the padishah came to the forester at night stabbed the girl, left the gold, disappeared; the girl recovered, built a rich house with the gold left; the padishah saw her and married her; the wife told her story, the padishah admitted the correctness of the prophecy]: Zamaletdinov 2009, No. 22:80-81; Chuvash [hunter Peak cannot find a suitable bride; stays in the house where the widow gives birth; hears Pikhambar telling Pulehsi to write down in the book of destinies that Peak marries a widow who has just given birth to a daughter; Peak does not want to wait so long; plunged a spear into the baby, ran away; hears the wolf asking the gods for food; they tell him to eat the widow's last sheep; Peak tries prevent, killed the wolf, but he has already eaten the sheep; asks the gods for a drink, they show a stream of dirty water, then a stream of clean water; Peak shot a swan, which has become beautiful; a wound on his side; the wife explains that this is from his arrow; that lake is called swan, and the Chuvash do not touch swans]: Chuvash tales 1937:198-202 (=Sidorova 1979:130-132).
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans [the hunter fell asleep in the taiga; heard a conversation between the dukha, the owner of the forest, and the owner spirit says that a girl was born in one aal who will marry a sleeping hunter and die, choking on his tendons (that is, if she only eats tendons); the hunter has a wife and children; so he came to the aal, ran into the yurt, stabbed the girl's stomach, ran away; the wife died, the children grew up, advised the hunter to marry a girl; once he noticed a scar on his new wife's belly; she explained that she was hit by a man as a child; the hunter understood who his wife was and forbade her to eat tendons; in her husband's absence, her neighbors treated her, she choked and died]: Alekseev, Dongak 2006, No. 1:7; {mistake, there is no such text on these pages; Baikal Buryats (Balagansky) []: Khangalov 1960 : 48-49}; the Mongols of Ordos [the old man gave his daughter for a man who came from afar; after 10 years he goes to visit her; one day he spends the night in the steppe at the grave, leaves food; a grateful streak dead man helps advice (do not stay with your daughter for a long time, choose a plain skate, hit your children and wife when you return, cut down the yurt support, burn the horse with a hot iron); the dead old man explains that he overheard conversation between Erlik's two servants: they were next to their children, wife, yurt hundredth, horse and are now maimed; Erlik ordered the old man to live until the age of 160; before disappearing, the dead man tells him to go to the same yurt and sit at the entrance; a man there will stab a newborn, run away; when he returns to his wife, explains his actions; when they are both 80, the wife died; the husband took the girl 20 years old; she had a scar; it turned out that this one who he stabbed in the yurt; the old man lived in peace and happiness until 160]: Mostaert 1937, No. 26 in Solovyov 2014.
Japan. Japanese (Tohoku, 2 entries) [a monk (young man) spends the night in the temple, hears the gods talking that he is destined to marry a girl who has just been born in the village; he decides Kill a newborn by hitting him in the neck or head; he later marries and notices a scar on his wife's neck or head]: Ikeda 1971, No. 930A: 207-208.