Verea Viteazul is a character of Romanian folklore, a powerful and courageous hero, and the elder brother of Ileana Cosânzeana.
He appears as the main character in Romanian fairy tale "Chiperi Viteazul lumii, Verea Viteazul and Mucha-far-de-moarte" (first published in 1901) by Alexandru Vasiliu,[1] in Moldavian folk tale "Verea-Viteazul" (published in the scientific collection "Genuri si specii folkloristice", by Chisinau "Stiinta", in 1972), and in tale "Fat-Frumos and Verea Viteazul", first published in 1973 in a compilation by author and folklorist Grigore Botezatu [uk].
Then the hairs turn into chains and bind his horse and dogs, and the old woman grows over him as a monster and, threatening to strangle him, tells him not to move.
[3] The old hag takes Verea Viteazul’s viscera to her house on the top of a tree, heals his ripped open belly with magic water, and before releasing him, she says that if he tells someone about what happened, he will die immediately.
[4][5] In turn, Romanian-Spanish scholar Angela Castineira Ionescu, in her work "Contribución al conocimiento de la estructura de los cuentos tradicionales románticos: el héroe en el cuento popular rumano", points to her perverted sexual fetishism.