It is related to the international cycle of The Search for the Lost Husband and is classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 425A, "The Animal (Monster) as Bridegroom".
The daughter implores him to put it off if he can, and after giving her a walnut, the Wind blows on the tailors sewing for the wedding and destroys their work.
[2][3] However, the tale is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 425A, "The Animal (Monster) as Bridegroom".
In this tale type, the heroine is a human maiden who marries a prince who is cursed to become an animal of some sort.
[4] According to Hans-Jörg Uther, the main feature of tale type ATU 425A is "bribing the false bride for three nights with the husband".
[5] In fact, when he developed his revision of Aarne-Thompson's system, Uther remarked that an "essential" trait of the tale type ATU 425A was the "wife's quest and gifts" and "nights bought".
[6] It is "frequent" in Spanish variants that the heroine, in her quest, reaches the house of the Sol ('Sun'), Luna ('Moon') and Aire ('Air' or 'Wind').
Finding the husband can change shape is a common thread in stories of this type, but the discovery that the husband can become a beast is rare; usually, as in East of the Sun and West of the Moon, The Black Bull of Norroway, The Brown Bear of Norway, The Enchanted Snake, and The Enchanted Pig, the bride finds her animal bridegroom is also a man.
The quest is common to all fairy tales of this type, and the specific motifs of the Sun, the Moon, and the Wind are found in others, such as The Enchanted Pig and The Singing, Springing Lark.
Unable to reveal the truth, she is endlessly mocked by her elder sisters, until she says her husband is human, and not a lizard.
The girl finally enters the castle and takes out a splendid spinning wheel to trade with the princess of Oropé for a night with the (now human) lizard prince.
Lastly, she cracks open the nut given by the friars, and finds a third spinning wheel which she trades with the princess for a third night with the prince.
The girl manages to ask her husband if he remembers about when her father met him, and how he gave her the pilgrimess dress and iron shoes.
At the end of the tale, during his marriage to the princess, the human lizard asks the guests about a key he once had for a golden box, and a second he had made, but managed to find the first one.
[11] In a Spanish tale translated to Russian with the title "Околдованный принц" ("The Enchanted Prince"), a poor sweeper has three daughters, and goes to fetch some broomshrubs to make new brooms.
The voice belongs to a dragon that demands the man delivers him the first thing he sees at home, and he shall become rich.
The sisters burn the dragonskin and the girl lights up a candle for them to better see her beloved, but a drops of wax falls on his body, waking him up.
The prince wakes up and admonishes her for not obeying him, for the curse was almost at an end, and she will have to find him at the Golden Castle by wearing out seven pairs of iron shoes.
The Wind takes mother and son to the Golden Castle, where a wedding banquet is being held in the prince's honour.
On the third day, the prince suspects something is amiss and throws the potion in the fire, then is informed his true wife and son are there.
The following morning, the prince summons his court, asking them he had a golden box with key, which he lost and had a new one made, but found the old one - which one he should keep?
The elder daughter asks for a dress, the middle one for shoes, and the youngest for three singing roses.
[13] Folklorist and researcher Berta Elena Vidal de Battini collected a tale from Corrientes, Argentina.
Years later, the lizard says he wants to get married, and the king finds a rich man's daughters as potential brides.
However, he wakes up and admonishes his wife, saying that in 30 days time his curse would have ended, but now he will go to the city of "Que va y no vuelve".
The wedding occurs with little complication, and the girl and the black man live like husband and wife for some time.
He despairs at the fact that his wife betrayed him, and tells her to seek him, Prince Jalma, by wearing iron shoes.
Per Fraresia's suggestion, the girl uses the golden gifts to bribe the witch's daughter for a night with the prince, since their wedding is to happen in four days time.