The Enchanted Prince Who was a Hedgehog

The Enchanted Prince Who was a Hedgehog (Hungarian: Az elátkozott királyfi, aki sündisznó volt) is a Romani-Hungarian folktale collected in Püspökladány, featuring the marriage between a human maiden and a husband in hedgehog 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. The story shares motifs with other tales of the region, like Hungarian The Serpent Prince, Serbian Again, The Snake Bridegroom, and Romanian Trandafiru, The Enchanted Pig and Enchanted Balaur: the heroine must search for her husband under a curse not to bear their child until he touches her again.

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