According to Dutch philologist Jan de Vries, the tale belongs to the cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom, in a form that appears in the Indonesian archipelago.
At any rate, he exits his bride's room as a man clad in fine garments, to the three sisters' delight and jealousy, who then decide to get rid of their cadette and marry the youth.
A. T. Schwarcz noted, in his collection of Tontemboan tales, the "general outline" is that a human couple gives birth to an animal or vegetable that they get rid of, but the strange son is adopted by an old woman.
[7] According to linguist Nicolaus Adriani, the husband in these stories may appear in the shape of an animal (like an ape, an iguana, a hound, a pig, or a buffalo), even a coconut or a lame-bodied man.
The wellkeeper reports back to the iguana, who goes to take an evening bath as a human being: his toenails are of a golden colour, his fingernails of silver; and his finger and toes are like gemstones.
After listening to her tale, he plans to teach a lesson to his sisters-in-law: he asks some men to hide Molek in a box, to keep her survival a secret, then comes to port.
Tanara takes a seat and tells his adventures to them, and, lastly, about a woman he found adrift at sea, then bids his wife enter and sit beside him.
Some time later, the elder princesses learn of their brother-in-law's true appearance, and decide to get rid of Putri Bungsu to have the now human baung for themselves.
Later, Kusoi departs on a long business trip, and Ringkitan's sisters wait for the perfect moment to put their plan into action.
After news of Kusoi's return reach their ears, the elder sisters invite their cadette to come play with them and swing in some tree branches near the seashore.
Despite her concerns, her son insists on his wish and the woman takes him to the shore to the ships, in a basket filled with pumpkin and cucumber seeds, a cleaver, an axe and a machete.
[19][20] Ethnographer and missionary Albert Christian Kruyt collected a Torajan tale he translated as Het meisje dat met de maan trouwt ("The girl who married the moon").
The king hears the woman's plea, and summons the queen, who sends for her seven daughters: the six elders (Roun, Ili, Purut, Imes, Tombene and Kaes) all refuse to marry Kapitu - which his mother expected would happen.
Seven days later, their wedding happens: the guests are astonished by the food, and Kapitu himself, instead of a lame-looking person, appears as a divine-looking hero to meet his bride, to everyone's surprise.
The elder princesses, however, notice the happiness and beauty of the marrying couple, curse their previous decisions, and begin to plot a way to ruin Ingkan's fortune.
After these two events, the human crow tells his wife he is going to Koepang, but gives her a hen egg to be held in her clothes, and to have it with her the next time her sisters invite her to go fish in the sea.
The goat prince then plucks some ma noere flowers, wraps them in a white clothe, places the arrangement on a basin, then inside a box.
The rooster beaks the crocodile's belly, and eventually the bird and the girl escape the reptile's stomach and make landfall on a Cham beach.
[32] In a Vietnamese tale from the Koho people (Sre), translated into Russian as "Властитель вод" ("The Lord of Waters"), a man has two daughters, Nga and Nzi.
In this tale, a human hunter is preparing snares for prey, when a large snake named Trah Trang Lan blocks his away and demands one of his daughters in marriage.
Later, Trah Trang Lan says he will journey to the Cham country, and asks his brother-in-law, the hunter, to not let Nai Töluiˀ out of the house on any reason.
On the road back from Cham country, Trah Trang Lan meets his son en route and recognizes him with the help of the Sun, a relative of his.
After fighting a serpent lord of waters, Trah Trang Lan returns home with his son, but his sister-in-law Nga tries to pass herself off as Nai Töluiˀ, who finally descends from the heavens back to her husband.
Trah Trang Lan dons the snakeskin once again to meet the animal underwater and tricks him with a large bridle, which is pulled by heavy elephants.
The human snake begins to writhe in pain; Ma Htwe wakes up and goes to the kitchen to fetch some cool water and pours it on the youth's skin.
The Naga Prince decides to find work with a merchant, and sails away, leaving his family alone to deal with the elder sisters' envy, who plot to get rid of Ma Htwe.
When the monarch dies, the younger son turns the elder into a King Cobra, making him alternate between human and serpentine shapes every sunrise and sunset, and usurps the throne.
Some days later, the youngest daughter tells her mother the king cobra husband becomes a man at night and goes back to being a snake by daylight, so the widow suggests a course of action.
The girl's elder sisters, realizing their cadette married a prince and is set to become a queen, decide to get rid of her: they invite her to play on a swing by the river bank.
[41] Austrian anthropologist Hugo Bernatzik collected a tale from the Moken people with the title The frog and the maiden, which he considered to have "Malay influence".