When the young wife does so, her husband wakes and tells her that the spell would have fallen from him in three days, but now he must remain in this shape, and she will not find him without wearing out three pairs of iron shoes and blunting a steel staff.

[11][12][a] Others of this type include The Black Bull of Norroway, The Brown Bear of Norway, The Daughter of the Skies, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, The Tale of the Hoodie, Master Semolina, The Sprig of Rosemary, The Enchanted Snake, and White-Bear-King-Valemon.

[22] In a tale collected by folklorist Josef Haltrich [de] from the Transylvanian Saxons, with the title Das Borstenkind (A serteruhás gyermek[23] or "The Child in the Pighair Clothes"[24]), a three-year-old prince is eating some of the apples his mother, the queen, has been peeling.

The distraught princess, then, decides to travel to the end of the world to save her husband: with the help of the Wind's winged steed, reaches the Moon.

The princess cracks open each nut to produce three dresses (a silver one, a golden one, and a third reflecting the stars in the sky) which she uses to trade for three nights with her husband.

[28][7] Romanian ethnologue Pauline Schullerus [fr] collected a tale from Harbachtal [de] with the title Die drei Sterne ("The Three Stars").

Just outside the city, the princess sees three youths quarreling over three magic objects: a cane that petrifies people, a cap of invisibility and a pair of shoes that can cross water.

[29] Folklorist and ethnologue Adolf Schullerus [ro] provided the summary of a tale from "Nieder-Eidisch" (Ideciu de Jos) with the title Kraushaarferkel ("The Piglet with Curly Hair").

The princess then cracks open the nuts to produce three dresses (one copper, another silver, and the third golden), and waits by the church's door for the queen of the dark world.

[30] Author Iuliu Traian Mera published a Romanian tale in his book Din lumea basmelor with the title Ginerele dracului ("The Devil's Son-in-Law").

The boy, Constantin, suspects something, and one day, a wise old man tells him to fill a bag with pig's blood and threaten to kill himself in front of his parents if he does not reveal their secret.

He reaches the devil's house, who welcomes him and treats him like his future son-in-law, but he has to perform tasks first: first, to rise a valley and raze a hill overnight, so that they become a plain meadow; next, to sow wheat, harvest it, grind it into flour and bake a pie with it, all of this in a single night.

Constantin's mother wants to see her handsome son, and dislikes that he is still wearing the prickly coat despite marrying a pricess, to the mockery of the locals.

The princess takes her son to the woods and builds a ladder with the chicken bones, but is missing the last step, so she cuts off her left little finger and enters it.

[36][37] In a Ukrainian tale collected by folklorist Mykola Zinchuk from a source in Chernivtsi with the title "Зачарований царевич" ("Enchanted Prince"), a very old couple live together.

The now human hog husband embraces his wife and admonishes her for her action, saying that in two years he would have been rid of the porcine skin, then places an iron ring around her body, and tells her to find him at "Ладановім монастирі" ("Monastery of Incenses"), then vanishes, along with the golden palace and bridge.

She then begins a long journey to find her missing husband: she passes by the house of Holy Wednesday (Sviata Sereda), who takes her in and summons all the animals of land, the birds and the snakes, and none knows the location of the Monastery.

The lark takes the princess to the Monastery, despite its small size, and, after they land, advises her to use the objects to draw the attention of Baba Yaga's servant.

[39] In a tale from the Gagauz people with the title "Заколдованный молодец" ("Enchanted Youth"), an old couple have no son, so decide to find any animal to be their child.

The next morning, the youth cannot find the pigskin, and ties an iron ring around his wife's belly, cursing her not to give birth until he places his hand on her again, and vanishes.

The commoner agrees to send his third daughter as the pig's wife; she asks courteously during the wedding feast, and does not mind the mud in her clothes.

They do, and, in the next morning, the countess's son cannot find his pigskin, and proclaims that his human wife shall seek him out beyond seven mountains, seven valleys and after crying rivers of tears.

Suddenly, she remembers the old women's words and cracks open the hazelnuts: they produce fine dresses she uses to attend the wedding feast for three days.

The following night, the girl leaves the door ajar so the pig's mother can see her son's human shape on bed, then she enters, takes his pigskin and throws it in the fire.

She cracks open the nuts and discovers beautiful threads inside (the first of silk, the second of silver and the third of gold), which she uses to bribe for three nights with her husband's new bride.

Delighted with this turn of events, she embraces him, and asks him about the situation: the pig son's name is Milan, and he just has to wear the pigskin for three months, then he will be human permanently when he is seventeen years old.

The pig's mother asks her daughter-in-law to leave the key out of the lock so she can see the transformation for herself, steal the pigskin and give it to her so it will be burnt in the oven.

Years later, the old man goes returns home from the market with good news: the king has decided to marry his daughter, the princess, to any youth that can build a crystal bridge, with gardens alongside the path and with singing birds.

This goes on for several days, until the princess visits her parents and tells them about her husband's pigskin: the king warns her against doing anything, while the queen suggests she takes the skin and burns it in an oven.

One day, she arrives at a kingdom where her Prince White Pig is to be married to another princess, and bribes her with a silk handkerchief, a golden ball and a ring (given by helpful fairies) to spend a few nights with him.