The Son of the Ogress
Der Sohn der Teriel (French: Le Fils de l'Ogresse; English: The Son of the Ogress) is a Berber folktale, first collected in Kabylia in German by ethnologist Leo Frobenius and published in 1922, about a human maiden who marries a youth that is the son of a man-eating teriel, loses him due to her breaking his trust, and goes after him at his mother's home, where she is forced to perform hard tasks for her. Scholars relate the tale to the international theme of the Animal as Bridegroom or The Search for the Lost Husband, wherein a human princess marries a supernatural husband or man in animal form, loses him, and goes on a quest to find him.