Whether it happened or not, a poor childless husband and wife lived in the world. All their wealth was in one pig. This pig carried water for them, and washed their clothes, and chalked the house, and washed the dishes - she did all the housework. One day a pig went to the river to wash. She entered a dense forest, and the prince was hunting in that forest. The prince saw a pig, followed it - the pig approached the river, threw off its pig skin, and turned into such a beauty that the rays of its beauty illuminated the entire forest. The prince looks with bated breath at the beauty, looks into her beautiful eyes. And the beauty washed what she had brought with her, climbed back into the pigskin and ran home. The prince chased after her.
The pig came home, the prince came for her and said to the poor people: “Let me spend the night with you.” “We are not worthy of such an honor,” they say, “we have neither food for you, nor a bed.” “I have both food and bed with me,” says the prince. The next morning the prince gives them a hundred rubles for that pig. “No,” the old men say, “we can’t live without it, we won’t give it back.”
The prince gives two hundred, but the old men could not resist and gave away the pig. The prince put the pig in the khurjin and took it to the palace.
He brought it and said to the king: “Here is my bride!” The king got angry: “What are you doing, my son, how can you marry a pig?” Don't embarrass me or yourself. My son doesn’t listen. “No and no, that’s my fate.”
They took them to church to get married. The pig stands there, doesn’t make a sound, and who doesn’t know what kind of screamers pigs are! We got married and went home. The king gave his son and daughter-in-law an old closet. “You don’t deserve better.” The prince and his wife came to his closet, locked the door, and began to ask her: “Take off your pig skin.”
The pig obeyed, shed her skin, became a beauty again, they hugged and kissed. And the king sent his advisers to see what the prince would do with his pig wife. The advisers spied, went and told the king:
“So and so, she shed her pig skin, became a beautiful girl, and now they are kissing.” The king was delighted, called the prince and his wife, blessed them and crowned them with a crown. One adviser was jealous of the prince and thought: “He stole one little pig from some poor people and got such a wife.” Let me go and choose the biggest pig from the whole herd; she won’t turn out to be such a beauty.”
He went, chose the fattest pig for himself, made a deal, tied the pig to the saddle, and was lucky. The pig squeals with all his strength and breaks. She broke free and ran back to the herd. The adviser did not lag behind, he chased after her, caught her, somehow dragged her home, and then dragged the pig into the church to get married. The pig squeals, breaks, knocks down all the candles and drives the priest and all the guests away. Nevertheless, the adviser married her, took his married pig home, and brought her into the bedroom. The adviser caresses the pig and kisses it.
- Darling pig, don’t be angry, take off your skin! The pig squeals; the adviser hugs her and kisses her. The pig got angry, grabbed the adviser with its fangs - and killed him. So the royal adviser married the pig.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru