L65b5. The Hero's Dogs at the Princess's Wedding. .15.16.27.28.

Despite the obstacles, the young man's dogs or other animals serving him get to the princess at the moment when they are trying to pass her off as a deceiver.

Italians (Piedmont), French (Nivernais), Dutch, Frisians, Croats, Transylvanian Saxons, Russians (Olonets).

Southern Europe. Italians (Piedmont) [Giacomo is tending sheep; a huntsman offers three dogs in exchange for them: Iron-Cripper, Swift as the Wind, Passing Everywhere; J. is driven away by his father, who leaves with his dogs, ends up in a sorcerer's castle, brings his sister there; the sorcerer wants to get rid of J. in order to marry her; K. pretends to be ill, wants flour, the miller gives flour in exchange for a dog; the other two are also removed; the sorcerer tries to strangle J., but he blows a whistle, the dogs come running, tear the sorcerer to pieces; J. comes to a city where the princess is about to be given to a seven-headed dragon; J. kills the dragon with the help of the dogs, the princess ties a piece of her shirt around Iron-Cripper's neck, promises to marry J.; he leaves for a year, because he is in mourning for his sister; chimney sweep (Negro, Saracen, Turk, Gypsy, monster) claims that he has defeated the dragon; princess asks for a year and a day's delay; J. returns, princess sees a bandage on the dog's neck; J. produced the dragon's tongues; wedding; chimney sweep was burned]: Gubernatis 1872: 36-37.

Western Europe. French (Nivernais) [a pregnant wife asks a fisherman to bring her a fish; the fisherman catches the fish, which twice persuades him to let it go; the fisherman refuses the third time; the fish orders that it be cooked, divided into three parts, and given to the wife, a mare, and a dog; the wife gives birth to twins, the mare to two foals, the dog to two puppies; the brothers grow up; one sets out on a journey, mounting his horse and taking with him his dog, Ironbreaker; in the first town everyone sings, in the second they laugh, in the third they cry; in the third a youth asks the reason; every day a seven-headed creature demands a girl to eat, the lot falls on the princess; the creature comes out of the forest; the youth orders his dog to tear off three of its heads; then two more, and cuts off the last two himself; cuts out their tongues and promises to return in a year and a day; the princess gives him her handkerchief; The charcoal burner tells the princess to name him conqueror or she will burn him alive; a year and a day are set for the wedding; the princess hesitates; the youth's dog comes running and carries off the best of the food, killing the palace dogs and two warriors who rushed after it; then 10 more; another 50; meanwhile the youth is feasting in a clearing; he comes to the palace, produces the tongues and the handkerchief, the princess names him husband, the charcoal burner is killed with a garrote and burned]: Drouillet 1973: 76-80; Dutch [a soldier was returning from duty; his money had run out; an old woman comes towards him; she gave him an apron; the soldier should climb the tree and come down into the hollow; he will bring her a tinderbox; there are three nests there; in one there are copper, in another silver, in the third gold coins; a dog is sitting on each one; the first has eyes like saucers, the second like plates, the third like bowls; the soldier scoops up coins in his apron; When an old woman asked him for a tinderbox, he killed her; the money ran out; the soldier decided to have a smoke; three dogs came out of the tinderbox and asked what he wanted; he asked for money; having become rich, he decided to marry the princess; but he is ugly; so the dogs brought him the sleeping princess at night; in the morning she thinks that she dreamed it all; the king posted a guard; the guard fell asleep, but one guard followed and marked with a sign the house where the dogs brought the princess; but the dogs left signs on all the houses; the next time the guard scattered peas along the road, but the dogs scattered them everywhere; on the fourth day the soldier came to the king to ask for his daughter, and he put him in prison; the soldier asked a boy passing by the window to bring him a tinderbox, because he would soon be executed, and this was his last wish; he brought it; standing on the scaffold, the soldier called the dogs and they tore the judge and the king to pieces; soldier married a princess, and if they are not dead, they are still alive]: Schanbach, Müller 1855, no. 15: 285-287; Frisians[after the death of her father, the daughter chose a house for herself, and the son - three sheep; he went wandering; a man offered him to exchange the sheep for dogs; the smallest one is called Bring-Food, the second - Rip-to-Tatters, the strongest - Break-Iron; having received the dogs, the guy ordered the first to bring food and she immediately brought a basket of viands; the guy met a carriage draped in black material; they are taking the princess as a sacrifice to the dragon, this happens every year, now it is her turn; the dragon came down from the mountain to meet him, burning sulfur from its mouth; the guy let Rip-to-Tatters go at him, she tore him apart and ate him, two teeth remained, the guy took them with him; he promised the princess to return in three years; the coachman announced that he had saved the princess; she persuaded her father to postpone the wedding for three years; on the wedding day, the guy showed up with three dogs; called the coachman a deceiver, thrown into prison; Break-iron gnawed through the door; the lad sent Bring-food to the palace, the princess recognized the dog, the lad produced the dragon's teeth, married the princess, the impostor was thrown into prison; the lad sent for his sister; convinced of the kindness of their master, the dogs said goodbye, became birds and flew away]: Montalve 1849: 329-338.

The Balkans. Croats (Austria) [{the text is jagged and confused, including fragments of different plots}; a poor brother and sister went wandering; in the evening in the forest the brother saw a light in the distance; he also saw and took a belt with an invincible sabre; they came to the house; old woman: there are robbers here, they kidnapped me too; the robbers promised not to kill the children; old woman: when the chieftain comes, he will kill; but he did not; Agnes became a cook, and Hans {how is it in Croatian?} chopped wood; A. fell in love with the chieftain; invites her brother to go swimming so that he would take off his belt with a sabre; but he managed to jump out of the water and grab the belt; the old woman died, the brother hacked to death the robbers; he threw the half-chopped chieftain into the cellar, promising to return in a year; a voice from the cellar: I am suffering from thirst, throw down a barrel of wine; When the wild king drank it, one chain broke; after the third, he broke the last chain, went out and promised to help Hans; gave his hair: if set on fire, he will appear; G. met two dogs, fed them, they promised to help; there are black flags in the city; the seven-headed dragon ate all the cattle and all the girls, it's the princess's turn; the princess in black clothes was brought to the chapel in a black carriage with black horses; G. summoned the wild king, he tore off one head of the dragon, the dogs - two, G. himself chopped off 4; the princess gave Hans half of her scarf and a gold ring; G.: I'll be back in a year; cut out the tongues from the dragon's heads; the gypsy attributed the victory to himself; the princess demanded a year before the wedding; the wedding is already; G. sent his two dogs; they unsuccessfully tried to detain them; they wanted to shoot, but the princess recognized them, ordered them to be let in to her; she sent with them golden plates with all the dishes (tying them around their necks in scarves); G. came, showed his tongues; the dogs dragged the gypsy through the city, tearing him to pieces; the sister came; the wife said, let her live with us, make the bed; she put a knife under the sheets; he stabbed Hans, and Agnes ran away; the dogs found her and tore her to pieces, together with the princess they died on Hans's grave]: Neweklowsky, Gaál 1983, No. 26: 171-181; Transylvanian Saxons[after the death of a miller and his wife, their son and daughter inherited a goat and a rooster; the boy tied the rooster to the goat's horns and went to the fair; a passerby offered to exchange them for three dogs - white, black and spotted, and in addition blew a whistle to call them - they heard from everywhere; the sister cried: what are we going to eat; the dogs immediately ran, stole and brought back the roast, bread and wine; and so on; the king learned that his food was being stolen, ordered to keep an eye on him; the children understood this and went far into the forest with the dogs; they came to the old woman's house; she said that 12 robbers would soon return; the black dog first bit six, then the rest, but only one was wounded; the old woman carried him to the cellar along with the dead bodies; when the brother left in the morning, she gave him a reviving drink and they persuaded the girl to marry the robber; tried to lock the dogs, but the brother whistled, they broke down the door and appeared; the young man hacked to death the robber and the old woman and locked his sister in the cellar: until you eat the killed, you will sit here; came with the dogs to the city where there is mourning; the seven-headed dragon gets a girl every year, the princess's turn; the young man cut off all his heads, but was touched by the tail; the white and motley dogs remembered how the old woman revived the robber, the black one told them to bring this potion, the young man came to life; to test the princess, he told her that the wedding would be in a day and a year, when he returned; cut off and took with him the tongues; the coachman passed himself off as the winner of the dragon, showed the heads; the young man returned on the day of the princess's wedding with the coachman; stopped at an inn; sent the dogs to bring roast, bread and wine; the princess recognized them; at the feast, the young man asks what he is worthy of who deceived the king; coachman: to be tied to the horse's tail; youth: you have pronounced your own sentence; showed tongues; soon after the wedding, the youth inherited the throne; went to see what had become of his sister; she ate all the dead except her lover; but still her brother made her a maid of honor; and she put a sharp knife in his bed; in the morning the king was dead, and the maid of honor fled; but the dogs again brought the reviving potion, which was at the place where the dragon was killed; he ordered the sister to be placed on the body of her lover, she will sit until she has eaten him; the dogs order their heads to be cut off; turned into three princes, each went to his own kingdom]: Haltrich 1882, No. 25: 24-25.

Central Europe. Russians (Olonets) [a blacksmith made an iron wolf so that people would come to see it; the wolf swallowed the blacksmith's wife, then the blacksmith himself; the blacksmith has a son, Ivan, and a younger daughter; the bull tells them to run; the wolf became a snake, came to the hut at midnight to eat the children; the spoons, bowl, and dough do not tell; the poker is offended that its owner first heated it in the stove and then put it in water; she says that the bull took the children; in the morning the bull puts the children in a cart, tells them to take a comb and a whetstone with them; the snake chases, the bull tells them to throw away the comb (dense forest); the whetstone (mountain); by the fiery sea the bull tells them to grab a handkerchief by the horn, a bridge has become; they live in a hut; the bull tells them to slaughter it: the meat in the cauldron, the horns under the hut; Two dogs jumped out from under the cauldron; Ivan hunts with them; the dragon from the other side of the sea tells the sister to find her brother's handkerchief and wave it - the dragon will pass by her; became her lover; to destroy her brother, let her pretend to be ill: you need to bring milk from the she-wolf hero; the she-wolf gives milk and one wolf cub; he carried it on his back; then the same - a she-bear and a bear cub; a lioness and a lion cub; the dragon lured Ivan's animals behind 12 iron doors; Ivan asks to be allowed to wash in a bathhouse before he dies; a raven flies in and reports how many doors the animals have already broken down; the animals came running and tore the dragon apart; they burned it; but the sister collected the ashes and it was revived; he took out a poisonous tooth, put it under Ivan's pillow, he died, the dragon buried it; the animals dug it up, told the hare to lick the tooth; Ivan came to life, but the hare died; the animals killed and burned the dragon again, buried the ashes; the animals dug their sister into the ground up to her chest and put two cauldrons: let her cry; if there are more tears in the one for the dragon, then we will leave it in the ground, and if according to Ivan, then we will dig it up; Ivan and the animals come to the crypt, where the horse is on a chain, a sword, a saddle, clothes; Ivan dressed up and came to the city; settled with an old woman; she says that a six-headed dragon demands the king's eldest daughter to eat; the dragon came out of the sea, Ivan and the animals killed him; hid the heads under a stone, and cut out and took the tongues; the princess gives a ring, tied a piece of a scarf to all the saviors; the gypsy attributed the victory to himself; in 3 days the 9-headed dragon demands the middle daughter (ditto); then the 12-headed one demands the youngest, otherwise he will burn the whole kingdom with fire; ditto; the gypsy is preparing for the wedding; Ivan sends the animals to bring the cooking, the princesses recognize their saviors; Ivan orders the king to come to him himself, and then they go to the palace together with the animals; the bear killed the gypsy; Ivan went to his sister, she filled the cauldron with snakes, Ivan left her buried; wedding; it didn’t get into his mouth, but it ran down his beard]: Gospodarev 1937: 227-258.