About the astonishing husband Horu (Ukrainian folktale)

Про дивовижного чоловіка Гору (English: "About the astonishing husband Horu") is a Ukrainian fairy tale collected by folklorist Petro Lintur from a Transcarpathian Ukrainian source. It deals with the marriage between a human maiden and a husband in serpent guise.

The tale is related to the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or The Search for the Lost Husband: a human maiden marries an animal that is a prince in disguise, breaks a taboo and loses him, and she has to seek him out. A specific motif of the tale, which also appears in variants from the Balkans and Romania, is the heroine searching for her husband under a curse not to bear their child until he touches her again.


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