Each one of the poor man’s four sons learns a craft. The dragon kidnaps the princess. The four young men bring the princess back to the king with the help of their crafts. In his thankfulness, the king presents them with four provinces of the country.

The Szekler woman makes everything inversely. Her husband gets rid of her with a contrivance. The devil takes her upon him but he cannot shake her off. A soldier sets the devil free from her so in his thankfulness the devil makes a king from him.

While the prince is fighting in the war, his wife bears him two sons with golden-blond hair. The Iron-Nosed Witch, who wanted the prince to marry her daughter, kidnaps and buries the babies, replacing them with two puppies. When the prince learns of the puppies' birth, he, in a rage, has his wife murdered and marries the witch's daughter.