[1] A daughter of a priest wore men's clothing, rode horses, and could fire a gun.
The king did not believe the servants; he wrote to the priest asking him if his "son" could have dinner with him.
Before she arrived, the king sought advice from a witch regarding the true identity of the "young man".
The witch advised the king to do many different things to test if Vasilisa is a girl or not, such as place an embroidery frame and a gun positioned on a wall and to see which object she will notice first.
The woman disguised as a man is found in other fairy tales, such as Belle-Belle ou Le Chevalier Fortuné, by Madame d'Aulnoy, Costanza / Costanzo, by Giovanni Francesco Straparola, The Three Crowns by Giambattista Basile and Fanta-Ghiro the Beautiful, by Italo Calvino.