The Enchanted Pig

For the 2006 chamber opera, see The Enchanted Pig (opera).
The Enchanted Pig
The giant pig appears in the court to marry the princess. Illustration by Henry Justice Ford for Andrew Lang's The Red Fairy Book (1890).
Folk tale
NameThe Enchanted Pig
Also known asPorcul cel fermecat
The Enchanted Hog
Aarne–Thompson grouping
  • ATU 441 (In Enchanted Skin)
  • ATU 425A (The Search for the Lost Husband)
RegionRomania
Published in
  • Legende sau basmele românilor by Petre Ispirescu
  • Rumänische Märchen by Mite Kremnitz (1882)
  • The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang (1890)
Related

The Enchanted Pig (Romanian: Porcul cel fermecat) is a Romanian fairy tale, collected in Rumanische Märchen[1] and also by Petre Ispirescu in Legende sau basmele românilor. Andrew Lang included it in The Red Fairy Book.[2]

The tale is related to the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or "The Search for the Lost Husband", wherein a human maiden marries a husband in animal form, breaks a prohibition and has to search for him.

  1. ^ Kremnitz, Mite. Rumänische Märchen. Leipzig: Wilhelm Friedrich, 1882. pp. 48-66.
  2. ^ Andrew Lang, The Red Fairy Book, "The Enchanted Pig" Archived 2014-04-01 at the Wayback Machine