After they return to land, a local man of higher social standing begins to desire the supernatural maiden, and devises ways to have her for himself by setting impossible tasks for the husband.
[8] Yanagita located variants from across Japan in the following regions: Iwate; Niigata; Gifu, Yoshiki-gun; Shimane, Ochi-gun; Nagasaki, Kagoshima, Kikaijima; and in Koshikijima.
[10] In addition, Riftin argued that tales about a hero gaining an object from a marine deity only appear in coastal Southwestern Japan and near Korea, which would indicate that the story migrated from the continent.
Suddenly, a "swarthy-looking" yaksha appears out of the sea and asks Wang Xiang to accompany him to the underwater palace of Dragon King for a talk.
Wang Xiang doubts his intentions, but the yaksha assures that, if he complies, he can ask for a bamboo cylinder that grants an endless supply of rice, and for the little puppy that sleeps by the Dragon King's throne.
When he steps on land, the sea is restored to normal, and the puppy becomes a beautiful maiden who introduces herself as the Dragon King's daughter and says she wants to be his wife.
That same night, while her husband and her mother-in-law are asleep, the maiden summons sea creatures (fishes, turtles, shrimps and crabs) to help her build a larger house for them.
With his wife's advice, he fulfills the first two tasks, and, once again advised by her, goes to the sea and asks his father-in-law, the Dragon King, for an iron scoop to dig out the fire pit.
[17] German linguist Bernhard Jülg [de] translated a Mongolian tale from the Siddi Kur ("The Bewitched Corpse") wherein an Indian king's animal tamer releases a dancing golden frog back to the water and later rescues a white serpent from the clutches of an eagle.
After a while, the tamer wants to return to land, and as a parting gift the Dragon Lord gives the man a red-furred she-dog as companion and a magical jewel.
Men from Shatsgai khan's retinue come to the boy's yurt and cook some meat in their bonfire, but let it be overcooked when they see the khur player's wife.
One day, he takes the red ox to graze by the "yellow sea" and finds some people fishing a golden dace (the daughter of Lusun Khan).
One day, the son of the local Hartagai Khan is hunting nearby, and sees the woman inside the house, falling in love with her, then returns to his father's court to tell he wants the poor orphan's wife.
Hartagai Khan's son then plans to get rid of the orphan by playing a game of hide and seek with him, then, after losing it, asking him to find answers about the age of the bear and the mother of the sun.
[26] In a Tibetan tale published by A. L. Shelton with the title The Story of the Violinist, a father sends his three sons into the world to learn a trade and return home.
Some time later, a white-haired woman appears to thank the youth for saving the son of the king of the lower regions, the white snake, and invites him to go with her to his palace.
One day, his mother wants to take the yaks to pasture, while his son is away at home: Rinchen hides himself and sees the little dog walk to the hearth, shake itself off and become a beautiful human maiden, the dogskin at her feet.
While she proceeds to fill the chests in the house with barley and butter, the boy rushes to fetch the dogskin and burn it to keep the maiden human forever, but, since she is beautiful, he fears the chief's son may take her away from him, so he dirties her face with soot.
He reaches the shores of the Chinge-Kara-Kham river, where people are gathering for a suitor challenge: the local Bai Khan will marry his daughter, the princess, to anyone who can bring her water from a place behind Kara-Dag Mountains.
On the way there, the man explains his master, the ruler of the lake, wants to thank the human youth for saving his daughter when she played near the surface, but advises the boy to choose as his reward only a small red dog that lies near the feet of Dalai Khan.
They settle into a routine, until one day Karaty Khan, on a hunt, sends some servant to get provisions in the Golden Princess's yurt, and are agape at her beauty.
[31] A very similar story is attested in the Kalmyk Folktale Corpus, as summarized by philologist researcher Irina S. Nadbitova, who classified it as type 449, "Царевна-собака" ("The Dog-Princess").
Some time later, a king from the human world sees the shepherd's wife and becomes enamoured of her, and decides to send the youth on impossible demands: to raze a whole forest in a mountain, to create a wheat field and then harvest the grain.
With his wife's family's help, the shepherd prevails: his family-in-law gift him a box filled with swords to raze the forest; one with hoes to plant the grains; and lastly one with birds to harvest them.
[33] In a tale collected from a Lapcha informant named Yanku-sarang Mangal, in Kasseon (Sikhim), with the title A Fairy Disguised as a Puppy, a poor orphan boy lives alone and catches fishes to feed himself.
During this time, the human orphan boy falls in love with lu pŭ nŭ's daughter, who, to be with him, advises him to ask her father only for the coat of a dog if the deity offers material wealth to him.
He burns the dog coat, takes the girl as his wife, and becomes very rich, richer that the local king of the place where the sun sets, the tsŭk kyār pŭ nŭ.
The daughter of lu pŭ nŭ advises her husband to go back to the place where they returned from the underground and asks her father for help: he sends first a cockerel, then a kid, and another bull to fight - and beat - the king's animals.
A local magistrate sees the human form of the Dragon King's daughter - now on land with her husband - and wishes to possess her, so he sets impossible tasks for the humble fisherman: first, to catch 120 red carps of same size and weight; next, for the fisherman's wife to weave a bolt of blue cloth as long as the road; thirdly, to produce a flock of red sheep; lastly, to bring 120 monsters to the magistrate.
[36][37] In a tale from the Shor people, titled "ЧАГЫС - ОДИНОКИЙ ПАРЕНЬ" ("Chagys, the Lonely Fellow"), a poor man trades his sheep for a pike caught by fishermen and releases the fish back to the sea.