Sang Thong
In its Thai version, it tells the story of a prince who acquires a golden countenance, dons a disguise, marries a princess and saves the kingdom of his father-in-law.
[4][5][6] (In another Thai version, the prince escapes with the treasures from his adoptive mother, named Panturat, who dies of a broken heart).
The brothers-in-law ride to the forest, while Sang Thong takes off his disguise, shows his golden skin and attracts every stag to himself.
Sang Thong's brothers-in-law see that the mysterious golden-skinned man has the wild animals all around him, and ask him to share some with them.
Sang Thong, in his golden appearance, has summoned all the fishes from the river, and his brothers-in-law meet him and ask for some of his catch.
[25][26][27] According to James R. Brandon, Fern Ingersoll finds many literary treatments of the tale of Sang Thong across this region.
When he becomes a youth, the ogress gives him a cloak that turns him into a hunchback, to disguise his appearance; a magic cane and sends him to a human kingdom.
When the youngest daughter of this city's king wants to marry, she throws a garland of flowers that falls on the now human snail prince.
He dons a disguise as a poor man and goes to a celebration, where the princess is standing on a built platform from where she will throw flower garlands at her prospective husband.
One day, the snail prince takes off the poor man's disguise and shows his true self at the princess's house, who does not recognize him.
The (now human) snail boy discovers the bones of his adoptive mother's victims, fetches some clothes form her storeroom, steals some elements of nature from her garden (water, fire and wind) and flies away to the kingdom of Chambanagō.
In poverty, the snail boy builds a hut of palm leaves as their home, and guides the princess to a hidden valley of gems and gold.
They summon a "master of the carts" to take out the gold and precious gems to the city, where they hire servants to build them a palace.
The lord of the spirits shows the princess the ogress jacket he stole from his adoptive mother and proves he was the lowly snail boy.
[37][38] In a tale from the Shan people translated as The Silver Oyster, a king has many wives, but no child, and asks them to pray to the Nats for one.
The Queen goes to the garden to pray, and one day has a dream about the Sun descending on her breast, which she interprets as a sign she will become pregnant.
The queen takes shelter with a poor couple, while Thakya Min comes down from the Heavens, places a pair of flying shoes and a stick, and writes a letter informing that after seven months something will come out of the oyster.
One day, when the boy is sixteen years old, finds a giant's garments, a mask and the pot that held the oyster with the shoes and the stick.
He then takes his wife and both walk the splendid road to the king's palace, accompanied by divine nats, and there he tells how he was the one to fulfill the hunting tasks.
At the end of the tale, the boy returns to his home country, brings the dragon-princess and the giantess foster mother to live with them.
After a situation with his birth father's cock-trapper, the Raja imprisons him and tries to kill him, but a sword cannot harm his skin, nor an elephant can trample the boy.
The boy is thrown in the sea, in the domains of his maternal grandfather, who rescues him and puts him in contact with the Ogre king named Raja Gurgasi.
The king orders his execution and, after the executioner's axe is useless against Sang Thoong, ties a rock to his feet and throws him into the river.
The next day Phanthurak leaves, Sang Thoong drops the golden liquid on himself, steals the spear and shoes and flies away beyond the mountains.
When Phanthurak returns, she discovers her things were stolen by the boy and tries to follow him, but stops at the foot of the mountain, since she has no magic equipment to climb it.
The six brothers-in-law cannot find any good game, but see Sang Thoong surround by animals of the forest and ask if he can share some with them.
The same bad luck assails them, until Sang Thoong agrees to share some of his catches in return for them cutting their earlobes.
The king orders for every male of noble and low birth to be brought to the assemblage, even the stranger Khyaṅ Săṅkh, whom princess Racanā chooses for she can see who he truly is.
Khyaṅ Săṅkh, who can fly, defeats Indra in the game and saves the city, then reveals he was the one who ordered the brothers-in-law to cut off their body parts.
Prince Preas Sang learns of the willful princess, takes a bath in the Golden Well and the Silvern Well, dons a disguise as an ugly Wild Man of the Woods, then goes to the gathering.
