as a Moor", says she kissed a shoemaker's behind for a spoonful of rice. On hearing this, Constantino takes the candles from Maricoula and places them on the false bride (who burns to death), kills his ogress mother and takes his human wife back to their mountain abode. Cyprus In a Cypriot tale titled "Ο γιος του Περπέρογλου" ("The Son of Perperoglu"), and translated to Hungarian as Perperoglu fia ("The Son of Perperoglu"), a king has three thrones on which he sits according to his mood: a golden one if he is happy, and a copper one if he is worried. His three daughters see him on the copper throne and inquire about his mood. He tells them he received a letter to join in the war, and curses the fact that he has no sons. His youngest daughter, Theodora, agrees to take his place in the war with a masculine disguise, "Theodoros". Theodora, or Theodoros, reaches another city, where she lodges with the son of Perperoglu, whose mother is a drakaina. The son somehow sees through Theodora's disguise, although his mother dismisses her son's fanciful notion. Either way, the drakaina convinces her son to put Theodoros through some tests to see his true gender: choose to pick between sweet and bitter fruits; to pick up a sack of flour in the basement; and to sleep next to roses enchanted to ascertain her identity. With the help of her little dog, Theodora passes through the tests and Perperoglu's son is convinced he is truly a man. Theodoros goes to the war then returns to write a goodbye letter, where she confesses she is a girl named Theodora, then leaves to her father's kingdom. Seeing that she was humiliated, the drakaina tells her son to go to the Mount of Olives, summon all birds, and chop down four trees. He delivers four pieces of wood to his mother, who fashions a frame and tells him to sell it to Theodora's father. Theodora is given the frame and the next morning wakes up in the drakaina's house. The drakaina forces the girl to perform tasks: first, to fill a jar with her tears, then to wash and not wash, dry and not dry, iron and not iron a pile of clothes. The drakaina's son offers to help her for a kiss; she declines, but he still advises her. Next, she is to