K145B. The bride eats the groom. .26.27.29.-.31.33.
After the man and girl are alone (usually on their wedding night), the girl turns into a predator or monster and eats the man.
Chinese (Shandong), Bulgarians, Macedonians, Serbs (?), Bosnians (?), Croats (?), Hungarians (?), Kurds, Bakhtiaris, Latvians, Lithuanians, Kyrgyz.
China - Korea. Chinese (Shandong) [two worthy families agreed on the wedding of their children; on the wedding day, 24 bearers carried the palanquin with the bride; on the way, the bride fell asleep; the bearers stopped to rest in the shade by a pond to wait out the heat; a turtle lived in the pond; when the bride was brought, the groom's mother was unpleasantly surprised to find that she was wearing a green cloth instead of a red one on her hips; in the morning, the groom's parents approached the door of the newlyweds, but everything was quiet behind them; on the third day they decided to open the door; the groom lay with his lungs, heart and liver torn out, and a turtle was nearby; apparently, during that rest, it had gobbled up the bride and taken her form; only it could not reproduce the red cloth; now its entrails were torn out, too]: Lessing 1935: 118-120.
Balkans. Croats (Samobor) []: Lang 1914: 138f in Brednich 1964: 34; Serbs []: Čajkanovič 1927, no. 87: 307f in Brednich 1964: 34-35; Bosniaks (Sarajevo) []: Bosanska Vila Bd. 3: 189 in Brednich 1964: 35; Bulgarians [after the birth of a boy, the orisnici (who control his fate) say that he will die from a wolf on his wedding day; the godfather heard this and stood at the door of the newlyweds after the wedding; he killed the wolf that came up, but in the morning it turned out that the bride had turned into a wolf and eaten the young man]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 934B: 346; Macedonians [only at the age of 40 did the wife finally give birth; the prince was hunting and spent the night in this house; he heard how three fairies of fate determined the future of the child; he would be a good young man; he would marry at the age of 20; and when he married, a wolf would eat him; in the morning the prince gave the newborn a louis d'or and asked to invite him to the wedding when his son got married; they invited him; the prince {now, apparently, the king} brought warriors with him, ordering that the animals not be allowed near the house; the wedding was also held in the house, and not in the church; as soon as the young couple entered into marriage, the wife became a she-wolf and ate her husband; [the prince told about what happened 20 years ago]: Mazon 1936, no. 94: 341-343; Hungarians [death by a wolf on the wedding day]: Aarne, Thompson 1961, no. 934B: 329.
Caucasus – Asia Minor. Kurds [a soothsayer tells the padishah that his son, if he marries, will die immediately, and his daughter will be given in marriage to the son of the Eastern padishah, but will become the wife of a poor shepherd; when the son turned 30, he was married anyway; the young couple was locked in an iron box, but the bride turned into a she-wolf, ate the groom and ran away; when the Eastern padishah was taking the bride, a snowstorm came, the horsemen were scattered, the bride was left alone and came to the shepherd; the padishah found the shepherd and handed over the throne to him]: Jamil et al. 1989, No. 70: 330-332.
Iran – Central Asia. Bakhtiyars [when a son was born, the akhund predicted to the father that the son was destined to be torn apart by a wolf; the father imprisons his son in an underground chamber, orders the akhund to teach him; marries the son to his brother's daughter; after the wedding, the wife turned into a wolf, tore the young man apart, then again took human form]: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 43: 291–292.
Baltoscandia. Latvians [A clairvoyant predicts that he himself will be killed by a fence, and that a wolf will tear his master to pieces in eight years. One day, the master invites a beautiful girl into his carriage, who turns into a wolf and bites the master]: Arijs, Medne 1977, No. 934B*: 334; Lithuanians [{To avoid the predicted death from a wolf}, a man hides under a barrel; a girl runs in, asks for it to hide her too; turns into a wolf, from whose teeth the man was destined to die]: Balys 1936, No. *166: 14.
Turkestan. Kirghiz [the cruel khan Dzhemak has 7 wives, all barren; a poor man gave him a daughter Jamila, warning that she would give birth to a fool; the khan began to pour gold into the poor man's bag, but it did not fill up; the seven-headed witch Dzhelmoguz threw two handfuls of earth, the bag filled up - the bag was made from a human eyeball; a boy was born - Muradsha; then the khan married Jamal, the daughter of his vizier, she has a son Omor; he is cruel and arrogant; began to rule; when M. was 50 years old, he came to ask for a position, but O. did not give it; but then M. had a son; someone read on his forehead: when the boy turns 18 and marries, a wolf will eat him; O. took them all to himself, imprisoned M.'s son in an iron palace; when he was 18, O. ordered Akmaral, the 18-year-old daughter of the vizier, to marry the young man; after the wedding they spent the night together; then A. turned into a she-wolf, her husband next to her became a ram in her eyes and she ate him; after that she became a woman again; M. took his daughter-in-law to himself and she gave birth to a son named Bolotbek; the traveler came and ordered Omor to give B. the throne; O. called the executioners, but with a wave of his hand the traveler cut off their heads and Omor's; B. became a kind and fair khan]: Sabyr uulu 2008: 360-363.