Again, The Snake Bridegroom

Again, The Snake Bridegroom (Serbian: Опет змија младожења, Opet zmija mladoženja; German: Wieder vom Schlangenbräutigam) is a Serbian folktale collected in the 19th century by Serbian philologist Vuk Karadžić, featuring 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,in that 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. It shares motifs with other tales of the region, like Hungarian The Serpent Prince and Romanian Trandafiru and Enchanted Balaur: the heroine is cursed by her husband not to bear the child she is carrying, until he places a hand on her again.

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