refuse, but the youngest agrees to be his bride. They marry. On the wedding night, the prince's daughter cries, and the hedgehog asks the girl to take a knife and cut open his body. The girl obeys and cuts open the hedgehog's body, revealing a handsome youth underneath. The next morning, the human hedgehog takes his wife for breakfast with the prince and his family and introduces himself as the hedgehog, explaning his mother's hasty wish was the cause of his animal form. The prince's elder daughters kill themselves out of envy: one throws herself from a window and the other jumps into a well. As for the girl, she lives happily ever after with her human husband. In a Croatian tale translated by August Leskien with the title Der Igelbräutigam ("The Hedgehog Bridegroom"), a woman gives birth to a hedgehog who her husband expels from home. The hedgehog spends his days in the woods herding and fattening his father's pigs. When he returns home, he asks his parents to find him a human bride. They marry, and he takes off his skin at night. The tale, however, ends abruptly with the burning of his hedgehog's skin, and him complaining to his wife. In his notes to the tale, Leskien supposed that story could have led into another sequence, but the second part was apparently missing. Poland Philologist and folklorist Julian Krzyżanowski, establisher of the Polish Folktale Catalogue according to the international index, classified tales about the hedgehog husband as Polish type T 441, Królewicz-jeż ("Prince-Hedgehog"). Slovenia In a Slovenian tale, The Little Hedgehog (Ježek), or in the Slovenian original, ("Little Hedgehog Janček"), little Jancek is accidentally cursed by his mother, turns into a hedgehog and flees to the woods. Years later, when a count becomes lost in the forest, the little hedgehog helps the nobleman in return for the hand of one of his daughters in marriage. In a Slovenian-language tale from Varaždin with the title Sin jež ("Hedgehog Son"), a childless couple pray to God to have a son, even if he is the size of a hedgehog, so God grants them one. Despite some fright at first, their hedgehog son grows up and asks his father to her his pigs in the forest. His father agrees to let him work with teh pigs so he can stay away from them. The hedgehog son grazes the pigs in