Prince Wolf

Her mother, this time, convinces the princess to use some light source to see his true face, when he comes at night to the bridal bed.

After she finally climbs the glass mountain, she employs herself as a kitchen maid in the witch's castle, and is ordered to perform difficult tasks.

[9] In addition, Swedish scholar Waldemar Liungman [sv] also remarked that type AaTh 621 appears as introduction to tales from the Cupid and Psyche cycle of stories in "almost all the Northern region".

One of the tasks forced upon the heroine is to go to the house of another witch, located in Hell itself, to get fiddlers, musicians, girl carders, ballads, or some bridal ornament (as in some variants from Denmark).

In this tale, the king finds a louse in his hair, fattens it with almond milk and kills it later, using its skin as part of a riddle: whoever guesses it right shall have the princess for wife.

The wolf prince takes her on his back to the foot of a mountain, and he tells the princess to find work in the nearby castle of an evil queen as a servant.

The rooster gives the girl some seeds and advises her to throw them to the troll's sister's guardians (a tiger and a lion), get the box and do not opent it, and refuse to eat anything while in her house.

[27] Evald Kristensen collected a Danish tale titled Min Hjærtens Ven ("Friend of My Heart"): a girl marries a man who comes at night and whose face she does not know.

At any rate, the dog advises her on how to get to Hekkenfeld: he gives her two sticks - to give to two women she will meet on the way - and two loaves of bread, for two dogs, and tells her to knock on a door and ask it to open up; then to dip her finger in a basin of blood next to two men; enter the troll-woman's house at Hekkenfeld, refuse any food she offers (a calf's foot), get the jewelry box and escape.

Finally, the witch Kjælinjen announces that the human lame black hound is to be married to her daughter, and orders Maria to hold torches to illuminate the wedding couple.

During the night, the human lame black hound takes the torches out of Maria's hands and places them in the Kjælinjen's daughter, who burns to ashes.

[29] Swedish folktale collectors George Stephens and Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius reported a tale from Northwestern Finland that begins with the louseskin riddle.

[30][31] In a tale collected by Swedish author Eva Wigström from Ystad, Skåne, with the title Den svarte, halte hunden ("The Black Lame Dog"), a man loses his way in the woods and cannot find his way home, until he sees a black lame dog that offers to help him, in exchange for the first thing that greets the man on his way back.

The man consents to let his daughter go with the lame dog, who takes her to a beautiful castle in the woods and forbids lighting any candle at night.

One day, missing her parents, the girl returns home and her mother tells her to use a blunt knife at night to see if her husband is a man or a monster.

After the couple enter the bridal chamber, the human girl tosses the candle at the troll-princess's daughter, burning her, and escapes with the prince in a "Magic Flight" sequence.

[32] In a tale originally collected by Swedish scholar Waldemar Liungman [sv] and translated into Hungarian as A zacskóból kiszabadult és visszaparancsolt nóták ("The Songs that escaped from a bag and were returned to it"), a poor girl lives with a lame dog as her only companion.

The handsome stranger appears and advises her on how to proceed: drink milk from a cow and hang the cheese on its horns; shear a goat's horns; take some loaves of bread off of an oven; cross a bridge barefoot; throw the loaves of bread to three dogs; help two women grind in the courtyard; accept the aunt's food (a calf's foot), but do not eat it; take the bag of wedding songs and escape.

The songs begin to sound even louder, which entices the girl's curiosity; she opens the bag and snakes, frogs and toads leap out of it and crawl into the grass.

Later, after the wedding, the stranger assumes his true form, tells the girl he is the lame dog and bids her take with them a few pine cones, some grains of sand and some drops of water, for they will escape that night.

Suddenly, a voice commands the dogs, the gate and the men to kill the princess, but due to her kind deeds, she is left unscathed.

[34] German philologist Adeline Rittershaus summarized an Icelandic tale found in a manuscript in Landesbibliothek, which she titled Der schwarze Hund ("The Black Dog").

[35][36] Authors and folktale collectors Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe summarized a Norwegian tale from Ringerike with the title Skrubben og Kongsdatteren ("The Wolf and the King's Daughter").

The wolf goes to the king's castle and fetches the girl for himself in a carriage, and they settle in a routine, with him coming to her bed at night in human form.

The girl agrees and passes by the houses of her three sisters-in-law, where, despite their grievance over her betrayal, let her see her children, and gains a pair of scissors, a tablecloth, and a magic needle.

The girl goes after him and commissions a pair of metal claws from a blacksmith to climb the hill, until she reaches the house of a "Gjygri", where she finds work as their servant.

[43] In a Seto tale collected by folklorist Ello Kirss Säärits from teller Paraskevja Prants with the title Must pini, translated to Estonian as Must koer (English: "Black Dog"), an old couple has three unmarried daughters.

The girl returns to the house and goes to sleep, then lights up the match to better see the black dog: a handsome youth is beside her, whom the tale explains was at the end of his canine curse.

[44] In an untitled Seto tale collected by Estonian folklorist Ello Kirss Säärits from teller Ann Kann, a girl lives with her mother.

Thirdly, the devils give her some linseed and order her to sow, water and harvest the linen, then prepare a sauna's shirt with it, in half a day.