In a tale collected from a Leonese source with the title Las hijas del sastre ("The Tailor's Daughters"), a gypsy woman knocks on every door for alms. One day, she knocks on a king's doors and begs for some, but the king denies her request. Thus, the gypsy woman curses the pregnant king's wife so that her unborn child becomes a lizard. In time, a lizard is indeed born to the queen, but acts like a human being: eats at the table and walks with then. However, the lizard is indeed human underneath the lizard skin, for he removes it whenever he goes to sleep, without his mother knowing. Some time later, the lizard son asks his mother to find him a bride, and he chooses the tailor's youngest daughter. The queen asks the tailor for the hand of his youngest daughter on the prince's behalf, and he delivers his youngest to the royal couple. On the weddign night, the tailor's daughter pushes the lizard suitor away whenever he tries to climb on the marital bed, and, for this affront, his strangles her. Next, the prince asks for the hand of the tailor's middle daughter, whom the queen brings as his second bride. Just as the first one, the lizard prince kills the second bride. Lastly, the queen brings the tailor's elder daughter, who marries the lizard prince and goes to sleep on the same bed as the reptile. The prince takes off the animal skin and embraces his human wife. The queen notices the girl is strangely happy and suspects something, but her daughter-in-law reveals the prince is a handsome youth underneath the lizard skin, so the queen plots with her to burn his animal disguise. In another night, while the prince and his wife are asleep, the queen steals the lizard skin and burns it with the king's help in a large fire. The next morning, the prince cannot find the reptile skin, and says his wife will have to search for him at the Castillos de Irás y No Volverás, by wearing down iron shoes. The girl buys the iron shoes and begins a journey towards the Castillos. She passes by the houses of the Moon and his mother, the Sun and his mother and the Averroz and his mother. The Averroz knows the location of the Castillos, and gives the girl a woolen "manelita", a spool of thread and a tuft of cotton, then takes her to the Castillos. Once there, she passes herself off as a poor girl and takes out the gifts from Averroz: the first produces a golden hen with chicks, which she trades with the local bride who is celebrating her marriage to the human lizard prince. The girl cannot wake him up on the first night, so she trades a skein of silk for a second night. During her encounter with the sleeping lizard prince, her lament is overheard by a servant, who later informs his master about the stranger. The third night, the girl trades her last valuable thing for one last night with him, and the human lizard prince recognizes her, after not drinking a sleeping potion. The prince then arranges a new wedding, and invites the poor girl (his true wife) to eat with them. The prince then asks his guests about a lost key he previously had for a chest, bought others, but found the first one, so which one should he keep? The guests say he should keep the first one; thus, the prince chooses to be with his first wife, and they settle in the Castillos de Irás y No Volverás for a time, before they return to his parents' kingdom.[15]
In a tale collected from a Leonese source and published by scholar Julio Camarena with the title El Rey Lagarto ("The Lizard King"), a king and queen are childless, so they pray for the Virgin Mary and to God for a son, even if he is a lizard. Thus, a lizard is born to them, with head of a blue colour and the rest of a green shade. Years later, the lizard son asks his mother to find him a bride, lest he kills the queen. The queen finds a house with three single ladies, and brings the first one as Rey Lagarto's bride. On the wedding night, the lizard prince creeps on the girl's body, she shrieks and tosses him away, and he kills her for it. Later, the lizard prince asks his mother for another bride, and his second bride also rejects him on the wedding night after letting out a shriek of horror, and the lizard prince kills her for it. Lastly, the queen brings the youngest sister as the lizard prince's bride. On the wedding night, the girl does not reject him; he accepts her and tells her he is cursed into that form, and he must travel to the Castillos de África to reverse the curse, then disappears. The girl decides to go after him and buys a pair of shoes, beginning a journey towards the Castillos de África. After a long journey, the girl reaches the house of the Moon and his mother, who do not know where is such a place. Still, the mother of the Moon gives the girl some little golden apples, and she continues on her journey. Next, the girl reaches the house of the Sun and his mother, who also do not know of the location of the Castillos. Still, the Sun's mother gives her some golden pears, and she continues her travels. At last, the girl reaches the house of the Aire and his mother, who do know the location of the Castillos: in a valley, in a thick forest. The Aire's mother gives the girl a golden spinning wheel and golden fuse, and she is carried by the Aire to the wooded valley, where she lands. The girl then knocks on a nearby hut to check her destination, and its female occupant confirms it is the Castillos de África. The lizard prince's wife takes out the golden objects and draws the attention of the female owner of the house, who wishes to buy the golden items. The girl trades them for a night with Rey Lagarto: the golden spinning wheel and fuse on the first night, the golden apples on the second, and the golden pears on the third. For the first two nights, the girl sings some verses to wake Rey Lagarto up, but he does not budge, since he drank a sleeping potion given by the owner of the house. On the third night, Rey Lagarto pretends to be asleep, and listens to his wife's lament, then wakes up, takes his wife, and goes back to his homeland where his parents live.[16]
In an Andalusian tale collected from an informant named Leocadia Caballero Robles in Arahal with the title El Castillo de Irás Y No Volverás ("The Castle of Going and Not Returning"), a childless woman prays in church for a son, even if he is a little pig, and the priest sends her back home, since her prayers have been granted. The woman talks to her pig son, who wishes to marry and chooses the eldest daughter of their female neighbour. Despite his mother's objections, the pig goes through with the marriage. At night, the teller explains, the pig takes off the skin to become human, but kills the first wife in the morning. Days later, he wishes to take the middle daughter as second bride. He marries the second daughter and kills her. Finally, the pig son marries the youngest daughter, who survives the night with him. The pig son reveals his true human form to the girl and bids her not to tell anyone, lest she has to search for him at the Castle of Going and Not Returning. Despite the warning, the girl tells her mother-in-law the pig is no animal, but a prince. The human pig learns his wife betrayed his trust, tells her to search for him in three pairs of iron shoes, and vanishes. She begins a journey to the Castle, and passes by the house of the Wind and his mother, where she gains a ball of yarn that can produce chickens, and the house of the "aire o el viento" (per the teller's text) and their mother, where she gains some casts. She rides the strong winds and reaches the house of the Hurricane and his mother. The Hurricane takes the girl to the Castle and leaves her there. As soon as she lands, the girl takes out the ball of yarn and plays with its chicks. This draws out the attention of the local woman, who wishes to have the chicks, but the girl trades them for a night in the prince's quarters. She cannot wake the prince, her husband, for he was given a sleeping drink. The woman enters the prince's room and expels the girl. The girl trades three nights with the prince, and wakes him up on the third one. The prince recognizes his true wife and kills the second woman.[17]
In a Galician tale collected from Vila de Calvos de Randín by author Xaquín Lorenzo with the Galician title O Príncipe Lagarto ("The Lizard Prince"), a king and a queen are childless. One day, the queen goes to the palace balcony, sees a lizard and makes a wish to have a son, even it he looks like this lizard. Thus, a lizard is born to her. When he is older, he asks his mother he wants to be married, but the queen questions how anyone would marry one such as him. Still, the lizard prince insists, and the queen finds a poor family of three sisters who agree to marry him, and whoever resists his "kisses" ("beixos") would be his bride. The elder sister is brought to the prince, but she faints when the lizard nears her breast. The same happens to the second sister. Finally, the third sister declares she will resist. The third sister bears his approach and marries him. The day following the wedding, the queen asks her daughter-in-law about the lizard prince, and the girl reveals the prince is actually a handsome youth under the lizard skin ("pelica do lagarto"). The queen conspires with the girl to destroy the snake skin and to have him in human form at all times: she is to steal the lizard skin when he is asleep and burn it. The following morning, the prince, in human form, asks his wife where she put his skins, but his wife feigns ignorance. The prince issues an ultimatum: either she produces the skins, or he will depart. Thus, he departs and wanders the world, until he reaches another kingdom and falls in love with its princess. Back to the lizard prince's wife, she goes after him and begins a long journey. Eventually, she finds an old woman who tells her the prince is to be married to another princess, gives her an apple, a pear and an orange; the girl is to wait by the steps of the castle, cut open the apple to release a spinning wheel and a spindle, both of gold and gemstones, which she is to trade with the princess for a night in the prince's quarters. The girl continues her journey until she reaches the princess's castle doors, cuts open the apple and produces the extravagant spinning wheel and spindle, which she trades with the local princess. The princess gives the prince a sleeping water to make him fall asleep, and his first wife cannot wake him up. For the second night, the girl opens up the pear and takes out a reel ("sarillo") of gold and gemstones which she trades for a second night in the prince's quarters, but she cannot wake him up again. The following morning, the guard of the palace informs the prince about the mysterious girl that comes at night to cry over his body who claims she is his wife, and the prince realizes she is his wife. For the last night, the girl opens up the orange and produces a spool ("devandoira") of gold and gemstones which she trades with the princess. The prince avoids drinking the water and feigns sleep, so he waits for his true wife in his chamber. The girl appears and cries over him the entire night. He wakes up by dawn and goes to talk to the local king about having a key for a chest, lost it and had another made, but found the first one. The king replies that the prince should keep the first one, and the lizard prince explains he found his first wife and will go back with her, leaving the princess in her kingdom. The king tries to recant his reply, but lets the lizard prince depart with his first wife.[18] Professor Camiño Noia Campos's Index of Galician Folktales, published in 2021, classifies the tale as type ATU 425A, "The Animal as Bridegroom".[19] Galician anthropologist Xosé Ramón Mariño Ferro [gl] recognized that the Galician O príncipe lagarto was classified as type ATU 425A, with elements of 433B.[20]
In a Panamenian tale titled El Rey Pajarino Amor, first collected by author Mario Riera Pinilla and republished by folklorist Dona Pérez de Zárate [es] as El Rey Pájaro Amor, in a city a serpent takes a girl every day. Eventually, the lot falls to an orphan girl, who readies herself to the sacrifice, so she prays for her mother's soul to guard her. As she is going to meet the serpent, she hears a voice telling her that the serpent is an enchanted prince, so she should put on seven undershirts. The girls does as instructed and meets the serpent, who coils around the girl's legs. As the girl takes off the first undershirt, the snake sheds a skin. This continues until the girl removes all seven undershirts and the serpent sheds seven skins, revealing his human countenance within. The prince asks the girl not to reveal the secret, lest he vanishes. The next day, the girl is questioned about the event, but she tells nothing, save to the prince's mother, the queen. In secret, the queen fetches the seven snakeskins and burns them. The prince admonishes the girl and tells her to seek him out with three pairs of iron shoes, then vanishes. The girl cries for her misdeed, buys the iron shoes and departs on a long journey in search of Rey Pájaro Amor (the prince's name). She passes by the house of the Wind and his mother, where she gains a golden totuma [es], then to the house of the Sun and his mother, where she is gifted a little golden comb. Both the Wind and the Sun do not know. Lastly, she reaches the house of the lord of the birds, who summons his subjects with a whistle to confer with them: the cacicón says it has flown from the prince's wedding. The lord of the birds gives the girl a pair of golden shoes and bids the cacicón carries her there. When they land, the girl takes out the golden comb, which draws the attention of a servant of the queen that married Rey Pajarino Amor. The girl trades the comb for a night in his chambers, but the queen gives him a soporific drink. The next day, she uses the golden totuma to bribe the queen, again failing to wake him up, and on the third day the golden shoes. On the third day, Rey Pajarino Amor avoids drinking the potion and pretends to be asleep, when the girl enters his chambers and begs him to wake up. He wakes up and they embrace. The queen finds them together and dies of anger. Rey Pajarino Amor marries the girl who disenchanted him.[21][22]