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Elya

What does Elya use to try to prove his love to Myra?

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He falls in love with a beautiful but shallow girl, and in order to convince her father to let him marry her, Elya asks Madame Zeroni for her help in securing a prize-winning pig that will outweigh his rival's. To this end, Madame Zeroni gifts him the runt of her sow's litter, and gives him instructions on how to carry the pig up a mountain and let it drink from a magical stream, thereby increasing the weight of the pig as well as Elya's own strength. In return, she asks that on the day after his betrothal, Elya return and carry her up the mountain, so that she can also drink from the stream.