[1] This tale, in particular, is actually titled Paholaisen antamat soittoneuwot [soittoneuvot] ("Musical Instruments Given by the Devil").
[a][3] Andrew Lang included it in The Crimson Fairy Book (1903), listing his source as Finnische Mahrchen.
When he did, the magician tried to persuade him otherwise, but finally gave it to him, along with a zither, a fiddle, and a flute, telling him to play each one in turn if he were in danger.
The horse told him to demand a hundred dead oxen, cut to pieces, and they rode off.
The horse told him to ride it to the river, where it would dive in and assume her true form; she was the queen.
William Henry Jones and Lewis L. Kropf gave an abridged summary of the tale, translating the instruments as a kantele,[b] a fiddle, and a flute.
[5] French author Eugéne Beauvois translated the tale as Les dons du Diable ("The gifts from the Devil"), where the instruments are a harpe, a violon and a flûte.