The brother returns to the Mother of Devils, who tells him to cross a desert, pass by a large cypress wood with a tomb housing the petrified bodies of those who failed, go to her palace and shout at the top of his lungs for the Queen of the Peris.
The next day, the Queen summons her Black lala and commands him to fetch her father's steed and give to her human husband, so that he can go to the palace and invite the padishah this time.
Folklorists and tale collectors Wolfram Eberhard and Pertev Naili Boratav listed 41 variants in their joint work (Catalogue of Turkish Folktales), grouped under the banner Die Schöne or Güzel ("The Beautiful"), numbered 239 in the Typen Turkischer Volksmärchen (TTV).
[7] Part of the Turkish variants show two heroes[6] and follow the Brother Quests for a Bride format: the aunts' helper (witch, maid, midwife, slave) suggests her brother brings home a woman of renowned beauty, who becomes his wife at the end of the story and, due to her supernatural powers, acquits her mother-in-law of any perceived wrongdoing in the king's eyes.
[8] In some variants, the maiden (named Gülükan or Dilaremcengi) accompanies the Brother; in others, a male character joins the twins and reveals the whole truth.
[10] Regarding a tale he published, orientalist Otto Spies explained that the word Çengi means "female dancer", and dilaver "brave, valiant".
They approach the house and overhear the conversation between three sisters: the elder two say they can cook extravagant meals to feed the padishah's army, and the youngest promises to bear him children.
He rides his horse to Dilalem's tower in her garden and shouts at her three times, but, since she is still in her forty day sleeping cycle, she does not answer.
He goes with the vizir to check on the only house that is still illuminated, and listens to the conversation between three sisters: the youngest says she wants to marry the sultan and bear him twins, a boy and a girl with teeth of pearl and golden hair.
Sixteen years pass, and after the miller dies, the twin children, now homeless, wander around, until the sister finds some stones on the ground and picks them up.
In return, Cengidilaver, now a normal man, thanks the brother and gives him the former sultana's golden ring, advising him to invite the king for dinner with the twins.
[19] This tale was originally collected by German orientalist Otto Spies [de] with the title Die goldhaarigen Zwillingskinder ("The Twin Children With Golden Hair").
[11] In a tale collected by folklorist Pertev Boratav from his own mother with the title "Чан-Кушу, Чор-Кушу" ("Tschan-Kuschu, Tschor-Kuschu", Turkish: Çan-Kuşu, Çor-Kuşu), the padishah forbids using candles at night.
One house still does and he goes to investigate: he sees three sisters talking, the two oldest boasting they can weave a large tent and cloth, and the youngest promising to bear twins, boy and girl, with golden curls.
Meanwhile, the padishah himself is listening to their conversation about their wishes to marry the padishah: the elder sister promises to weave a carpet large enough for the army and the people to sit, and there would still be room left; the middle one that she can prepare a cauldron of pilava to feed the army and the people, and there would still be half cauldron left; and the youngest promises to bear twins, a boy with a moon on the front and a girl with the sun.
The midwife pays the twins a visit and each time tells them about a treasure they have to seek: a white poplar tree whose leaves ring and play music, a bird that chirps, and their owner, a woman named Naylanim.
One day, he takes his horse to the fountain, and overhears the conversation between three sisters: the elder two want to marry to have a comfortable life, while their cadette says that being mother to a boy and a girl with silken hair and teeth of pearl would make her happy.
With the help of a magic snow-white horse, he gets the leaves, and is warned by a dev-mother that the Sun Girl's land is filled with stones - people who tried and failed to get her.
Despite the danger, the youth soldiers on: he is to dig a trench on the ground, fill it with water and wait for the coming of 39 pigeons that will become maidens, and a 40th one that is the Sun Girl; he is to steal her clothes.
One day, they begin to talk among themselves about marrying the padishah: the elder boasts she can weave a rug for the whole army to sit, and half would still be left over; the middle one that she can sew a tent large enough to house the entire army and there would still be space left; and the youngest promises to bear him twins, a boy with golden hair and a girl with silver hair.
He gets the saz first, then rides to find the maiden, and meets an old man on the road, who warns him that many have gone to her lands and turned to stone, and he may suffer the same fate.
However, marital life is not an easy one: the second sultan's elder sons questions their respective wives about their boasts, and the girls dismiss their husbands' concerns, while their cadette does give birth to her promised twins, to their jealousy.
The witch pays a visit to the female twin and convinces her to find Zülfü Mavi that can play the strings on a saz and amuse her.
The third time, the spell dissipates, and the youth takes some water from a basin and sprinkles it on the stones, releasing Zülfü Mavi's previous victims.
The sultan's son sends for the trio and they are brought to their presence: the elder two dismiss their boasts as mere fancies, while the youngest marries him and, nine months later, she does give birth to her promised twins: a boy and a girl with golden and silver hair.
The sultan's son falls for their trick and orders his wife to be sewn inside a buffalo's hide, abandoned at the crossroads and spat on by the people.
[27] In a Turkish tale collected from a female teller from Malatya, in 1990, and archived in the Uysal–Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative with the title The Abused Youngest Sister, three sisters wish to marry the padishah: the first claims she can make a huge meal for the padishah and his army, the second that she can sew a tent for the whole army and the third that she can bear a boy and a girl, one of them with golden hair and the other with silver hair.
[28] In another Turkish variant from the Uysal-Walker Archive, collected from teller Gülşah Gülen from Kars Province in 1977 and titled The Persecuted Wife, the third sister promises to bear twins with golden hair and pearly teeth.
The aunts send them for the "saçlı fırak", the laughing rose (güllü kahkaha) and lastly for their owner, a woman named Güllüzar Hanım.
In this tale, the king forbids lighting any fire at night, and, the next evening, he wanders incognito through the streets of his kingdom, until he sights an illuminated house in the distance.