M75b4. The Trojan horse: getting a woman. 12.16.23.29.
To master a woman, the hero hides inside the hollow figure of a horse (bull, deer) or in an animal carcass. The character guarding the woman takes her to her. The hero gets outside and becomes a woman's lover. Or a woman hides inside the figure of a horse, which is taken to the man's chambers.
Balant, Germans (Switzerland, Swabia), Tamils, Ingush.
West Africa. Balant [the king keeps his daughter locked; Mbana sees her in the window; the old woman gives him a precious wooden figure of a horse in which he hides; sells to the king for his daughter; in the room of Princess M. goes out; the daughter becomes pregnant, the tsar has to marry her off for M.]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:187-190.
Western Europe. Germans (Switzerland, Canton of Valais) [the peasant bet with the king that in 9 months the princess will give birth to a child, otherwise the peasant will be beheaded; locked the princess in a castle; in a couple of days a golden calf was brought to the king as a gift to be placed in the princess's room; at night a peasant got out of the calf and in the morning the calf was moved to the courtyard; the princess gave birth]: Jegerlehner 1913, No. 140:114 -116; Germans (Swabia) [soldier Ferdinand is cheerful and carefree; wrote on the doors of the royal castle: money conquers the whole world; the king agrees to give him as much money as he wants if his daughter will conquer his year; if she fails, she will cut off her head; using the royal treasury, F. orders to make a golden deer, in which he hides while playing zither; the king is delighted, sends the deer to an island where her daughter hides from any man; when the princess fell asleep, F. went out, kissed her; she fed him, listened to him, and then put him to bed; 5 months later, the doctor reported that the princess was giving birth; F. married a princess and, after the king's death, ascended the throne]: Meier 1862, No. 54:188-194.
South Asia. Tamils [a childless Raja sits on a needle in the forest for six months and lives in a palace for six months; Rani gives birth to a girl and hides her in an underground shelter with everything for life; the Raja does not know about this for a long time; when she sees a beautiful girl on the verge of refuge and understands what is going on, she kills his wife and is going to marry her daughter; she requires a lot of outfits and jewelry; orders the carpenter a horse figure; He hides in her, taking all the outfits; the Raja lost and became impoverished, sold the horse to another Raja; he is going to marry; tells him to put the figure alone; at night half of the food is lost; he waited for the girl listened to her story and married both; the first bride is ugly; her mother advises to get rid of her rival, her daughter pushes her into a well; before that, the Raja took his wife's palm print and gave her a ring; when the first wife appeared disguised as the second, the prints did not match, the ring was different; the Raja dressed as a bracelet merchant; the snake on the edge of the well asked to sell a bracelet for his sister's son; they went down, Raja's wife in the well; the serpent agrees to let the Raja's wife go, but let him warm the milk first and drink the snakes; the snake burned himself and promised to bite the woman; but when the boy saw the snake and called him uncle, he left his intention]: Blackburn 2005, No. 51.
Caucasus â€" Asia Minor. Ingush [God created a man in the east and a woman in the west, and before that he created birds; God decided that a man and a woman would marry, but the owl said he would not allow this and took the woman to the rock; the man saw the girl; she advised her to slaughter the horse and get inside the carcass; told the owl that she missed horse meat; the owl brought her a horse and flew away; God invited the owl to choose punishment for one or in this world, the owl chose to be on this one; God has made the owl not see during the day and is deprived of honor between birds]: Dakhkilgov 2003:33-34.