Enchanted Balaur

Enchanted Balaur (Romanian: Balaurul fermecat) is a Romanian fairy tale collected by author T. Popovic and published in 1908. It 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.

The story shares motifs with other tales of the region, like Serbian Again, The Snake Bridegroom, and Hungarian The Serpent Prince: the heroine must search for her husband under a curse not to bear their child until he touches her again. Other Romanian tales of the same classification are The Enchanted Pig, wherein the enchanted husband is a pig, and Trandafiru, wherein the enchanted husband is a pumpkin.

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