E31A. Girl Creators and Saviors, ATU 653, 653A, 653B. .11.-.17.21.-.34.38.

Several men (women) are involved in saving, creating or reviving a girl (man), or mourn her (his) death. The question is who should own a lively (lively) or who has done more to revive. Or three men create something valuable, each contributing. The question is whose merits are more important.

Bulu, Tanga, Kongo, Ndao, Konde, Swahili, Mindumu, Masango, Samo, Kono, Baule, Krachi, Grushi, Kasena, Vai, Loma Mende, Nalu, Dan, Dagari, Liela (Grumshi; probably Gurunsi, i.e. Liela), Ashanti, Igbo, Balant, Fulbe, Wolof, Songhai, Sakho, Malgashi, Arabs of Sudan, Morocco, Algeria, Berbers Morocco (Fez), Kabilas, Tunisia, Egypt, Spaniards, Portuguese, Basques, Italians (Tuscany), Corsicans, Maltese, Catalans, Irish, Flemish, Dutch, Friesians, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Silesia, Grimms), French, Bretons, Aramaians, Saudia, Tibetans, Viets, Khmers, Ancient India, Himachali Pakharis, Rajastans, Nepalis, Marathi, Oriya, Ho, Oraons, Malayals, Kannada, Tamils, Sinhales, Sangihe Islands, Pangasians, Koreans, Chinese, Greeks, Albanians, Bulgarians, Serbs, Slovenes, Hungarians, Romanians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Russians (Tersky Bereg, Vologda), Belarusians, Kalmyks, Adygs, Kabardian, Abkhazians, Abazans, Ossetians, Nogais, Stavropol Turkmens, Kumyks, Gunzibs, Tsakhurs, Aguls, Georgians, Swans, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Talysh, Turks, Kurds, Turkmens, Baluchis, Bakhtiyars, Persians, Tajiks, Mountain Tajiks (Karategin, Darvaz), Shugnans, Yazgulyams, Uzbeks, Lithuanians, Latvians, Finns, Estonians, Western Sami, Norwegians, Icelanders, Danes, Swedes, Maris, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Udmurts, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Karakalpaks, Uighurs, Tuvans, Buryats, Mongols.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Bulu [a person has five wives: Remembering, Finding-Path, Groping-Brody, Picking-Things-Up, Bring-Life); husband fell off the mango, crashed; the first wife remembered him, the second found his path, the third took everyone across the river, the fourth collected pieces of his body, the fifth revived him; they argued who his wife was; the judge said that this man is all their husband]: Schwab 1922, No. 3:212; mindumu [four brothers named Wind, Blacksmith, Clairvoyant, Hunter do not tell his sister to go to the forest; the child refused to go to get water, she went on her own, the Eagle took her away; the clairvoyant found out where her sister was, the Blacksmith cast the bullets, the Wind brought her sister, put her in a boat, the Hunter killed the Eagle; everyone says he was the one who saved his sister, so he must eat bananas; bananas were eaten by their father]: Raponda-Walker 1967:308-311; tanga [one brother has an all-seeing mirror, the other has a hammock that will carry you wherever you want, and the third has the cure to revive the dead; king promises a daughter to the one who will bring the slave; brothers go to get a slave; one sees that the princess is dead, the second brings them all three to her body, the third revives; brothers fight, but not even the judge can decide who to give the girl to]: Klipple 1992:222; Congo: Dennett 1898:33-34 [the hunter has three wives - Dreamer, Guide, Raiser-of-the-Dead; they eat the antelope he brought, the monkey, stay hungry; he goes to get a buffalo for them, kills him, but another buffalo kills him; Dreamer finds out, Guide takes them to the scene, Raiser revives her husband; everyone wants him was the first to eat her food; her husband explains why he would first take food from the hands of the one who revived him], 74-76 [The spider married Nzambi's daughter; N. demanded that he bring her Lord's heavenly fire Nzambi Mpungu sky; The spider accompanied the Turtle, the Woodpecker, the Rat, the Sand Flea; fixed the web thread in the sky; the woodpecker pierced a hole in it; NM is testing those who have come to the test to find out really did they come from N.; 1) bring a bunch of bamboo from the ground (The turtle brings); 2) stay alive in a hot pile of brushwood (The rat escapes the fire, is alive); the Spider gets fire; on the ground each of the companions demands a girl for her help; N. gives everyone the price of the girl, and she herself to no one, she remains unmarried]; kondo [three brothers: a doctor, a flying car builder who hears far away; one hears that the beauty is dead, the other brings all three to her, the third revives her; they agree that it is impossible to give preference to anyone, let the girl's father pass her off as whoever he wants]: Klipple 1992:221; ndau [chief rejects suitors; promises to give his daughter to whoever brings the best gift; one young man buys a plane mat, another a calebasu that revives the dead, a third all-seeing mirror; and a third sees that the girl is dead, they are going to bury her, on the first mat, all three are transferred to the leader's village, the second revives the girl; the leader is confused; passes off the daughter as the eldest, gives the other two possessions]: Boas, Simango 1922, No. 18:197-199; Swahili [Makame carved a woman out of wood, mwallim read the Koran over her, she came to life; she was stolen; could not get a word from her; M. came to those people, asked the bird which of the three men was the real owner of the woman; the bird did not answer, M. hit her, then the woman exclaimed not to hit the bird; M. received a wife; in his absence, the Sultan's slave saw She, told the Sultan, that he took the woman; M. sent the bird to pick up his property; the woman gave all the jewelry; M. said that was not all; she gave the talisman, turned into a tree again]: Werner 1909:450 -454; Comorians [three brothers are orphans; one has big eyes, he sees everything in the distance; the other hand can stretch as far as he wants; the third has a head like a watermelon; the first sees that On another island, the princess never laughs, the sultan promises to give her for someone who makes her laugh; the second weaves the carpet that takes her to the island; at the sight of the third, the princess begins to laugh; the servant speaks that he noticed that the princess did not laugh, the cook that he sent a servant to the princess's room; etc., everyone says they were participants; God divides the princess into thousands of princesses, everyone gets a wife; these princesses are stars in the sky]: Hatubou 2004, No. 21:94-99; Masango [Gazelle, Turtle and Leopard are going to marry the same girl; her father decides to think about it, asks her to come back in a few weeks; on the way back, the Gazelle sees in the magic mirror that the girl has died, the Leopard, using a magic web, immediately takes them to the village of the deceased, the Turtle finds a drug, revives the bride; her father does not knows who to marry her daughter to]: Raponda-Walker 1967:296-298.

West Africa. Myself [three guys take care of a girl; one buys an all-seeing mirror at the bazaar, the other buys speedwalking shoes, the third a reviving whip; the first sees that the girl is dead, the other endures all three to her, the third revives her; the question is, who should she belong to?] : Platiel 1984:319-321; kono [three young sorcerers are expelled from a village where they are in love with a girl; live in the forest; the first sees in his all-seeing mirror that their fiancée is sick, the second in hers a flying mat carries them to her, the third one revives them with a cow's tail blow; who should get the girl?] : Holas 1975:314-318; baule [husband died on the road from sunstroke; one wife drove away flies, the other ran into the forest, the spirit gave her a means to revive her, but it is only effective if none the fly did not sit on the deceased; the husband came to life, but the wives argued whose role in reviving him was more important; people decided not to revive the dead]: Himmelheber 1951b: 105-107, translated into Himmelheber 1960:146-148; curls [the sons grew up and their father sent them on a journey; they separated and met by the river a year later; the youngest bought an all-seeing mirror, the middle one bought a pair of sandals that carried them anywhere, the eldest bought an all-seeing mirror, a magic remedy; in the mirror, the brothers saw their father's funeral, they immediately arrived there and the elder revived his father with his own means; who did more?] : Cardinall 1931:202-203; groosy [two men asked the chief to feed them, then let him kill them; he did so; the third asked permission to spend the night with his daughter under the same conditions; the chief left the dog at the door of the hut, but the chief's daughter gave her food and the lovers ran away; by the river, the horsemen sent by the chief almost caught up with them, but the ferryman's daughter transported them to the other side; the three of them came to to the ogre's wife; she poisoned her husband and the man was left with three wives; each gave birth to a son; one was black, the other was red, the third was white; the sons quarreled: everyone wanted the tail of a dead cow; the father threw the cow's skin up; it became the sky, the horns the sun and the moon, the tail the stars; the wives began to argue which of them did more to save their husband; the husband said that everything was the same and that their sons were for he is equally expensive too]: Cardinall 1931:24-25; Dagomba [after giving birth, three man's wives went to their parents; at a fork in the road, the husband died suddenly; one wife immediately hanged herself, the other sat next to her body to drive away vultures; the third rushed into the forest, met Kulparga there, brought him to the body, which revived the man and first wife by hitting the bodies with a cow's tail; which wife is better?] : Cardinall 1931:203; casena [the boa constrictor ate the baby; the parents called four men; one knew how to track down the snake, the second how to kill, the third how to rip off, the fourth how to revive the swallowed one; four began to argue who should get the skin of the boa constrictor; the child's father offered to throw the skin - let the one he fall on get it; the skin rose, became the sky, the head became the sun, the tail the moon, the spots in the skin with stars]: Cardinall 1920:24 (=1931:26); vai: Ellis 1914, No. 18 [each of the three brothers wants to marry the king's daughter; one has an all-seeing mirror, the other has a hammock that carries to the right place, the third has a revitalizing medicine; the king tells everyone to bring a slave; one sees that the girl is dead, the other brings all three to her, the third revives; no one can decide who to give girl], 36 [the chief invites everyone to play the bąh game, loses, mortgages a gold bracelet, promises to execute if there is no bracelet in the morning; at night, the bracelet returns to him, the person executed; the young man is liked by the leader's daughter, she runs away with him; when her strength is running out, they meet a girl who carries food; she agrees to share if the young man also marries her; the same with the water carrier, with who took the fugitives by boat across the river; after the death of a man from a snake bite, his four sons argue about the inheritance; each refers to his mother, without whom the father would die; cannot find a solution; or very similar in Jablow 196:103-107], 39 [a man let a deer go for promising to make him rich; a deer brought it to the outskirts of town; there he shared cassava with a possum for promising to make it rich; the opossum broke the royal vessel of cola, left a mark where the man lay; the man was put in pads; the snake promises to make him rich if he gave her the rats he caught; bit his son king, gave man medicine; he cured the king's son, received half the kingdom; who of the three made man rich?] : 200-201, 225-227, 230-231; Loma-mende [the father will give his daughter for the one who brings the best gift; they came to the chief, who gave one an all-seeing mirror, the second a flying boat, and the third a spear, striking evil creatures; at this time, the evil forest serpent Lausing appeared handsome, got a girl; the first of three friends saw it in the mirror, the second took them to the wedding, the third hit L. with a spear, he fell into a snake; who should a girl marry?] : Pinney 1973:102-103; nalu [three young men are in love with one girl; each helps an old woman, who gives them a calebass, a cane, a potion; one sees in the cane that the girl is dead, all three they swim across the river in a calebas, a third revives the dead with a potion; a girl marries them to her sisters]: Mendelssohn 1971:121-124; dian [when three young men went to ask for the king's daughter's hand in marriage, she fell ill and died; one found out about this, the other took them to the king, the third revived the deceased; the king told them to come in a month to marry; they are still arguing who should belong to the girl]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:155-156; dagari [three friends are in love with a girl; went to the bazaar; one bought an all-seeing mirror and saw that the girl died; the other bought a dressed airplane skin, on they quickly returned to him; the third bought a cow tail that revives the dead, revived the girl; who should she belong to?] : Métuolé Somba 1991:214-216; lyela (Grumshi; probably Gurunsi, i.e. liela) [the chief's daughter rejects suitors; the serpent has taken the form of a handsome man, the girl leaves with him, he swallowed it at night, again becoming a snake; one man smelled the snake's trail to the water, the other drank the lake, the third removed all the silt, exposing the hole, the fourth reached and pulled out the snake, the fifth revived the girl found in the snake's stomach; who Did you make more of them?] : Abrahams 1983, No. 30:130-131; Ashanti [one of three friends has an all-seeing mirror, the other has a feather fan that carries anywhere, the third has a cow tail whip that revives the dead; the daughter of the chief of Nsia promises to marry the more valiant; friends go to work; the first sees that N. is dead, the second takes them to her, the third revives them; no one can decide who she is for must come out]: Jablow 196:49-51 (translated into Kharitonov 1975, No. 37:86-87); Igbo [a rich man's daughter finds it difficult to choose one of three suitors; the sage advises marrying the one who gets the best gift; one bought a box that could carry it anywhere, the other bought an all-seeing mirror, and the third a bottle of living water; they saw in the mirror that the girl had died, flew to her, revived her; the girl who had revived was chosen, because he has already touched her]: Basden 1938:424-426; balance [Mbali has a pipe, Siya has matches, Kulyutse has tobacco; they have a cigarette, a girl has appeared out of the smoke, they argue who should take it; they go to the sorcerer; he tells me to come tomorrow; they come, the sorcerer says that the girl is dead; only M. is left to bury her; the sorcerer pulls off the veil from the imaginary deceased, the girl says that she will marry M., since he is loyal to her to death]: Nikolnikov 1976:84-85; fulbe [the girl promises to marry the one of the three suitors who will get the most amazing thing; they bought a mirror, a flying carpet, an iron rod; who bought the mirror saw that the girl was dead, they flew in on a flying carpet, the owner of the rod hit her, she came to life; who should get the girl?] : Koval 2005:377-378; Wolof: Copans, Couty 1988, No. 49 [(same in Reuss-Nliba, Reuss-Nliba 2018:113-115, but a different ending: "this shows that people with different talents are needed"); three men expelled from the village for their ugliness; on the way they are thirsty; the first kicked so much that a well was formed, the second tilted it to drink, the third took it with him; which of the three is more worthy admiration?] , 50 [about (49)], 51 [three men were expelled from their villages, built a hut, began to live in it; one could set fire to anything with his eyes; the other urinated so much that everything around him turned into a swamp; the third one threw his penis across the river and others crossed it to the opposite bank; whose abilities are more valuable? (answer: the third's abilities)], 52 [three men were expelled from their villages, began to live together; at one glance he set fire to everything around him; the second filled everything with urine, the sea overflowed; the third held out his penis and friends crossed it to the other side; whose abilities are more amazing?] , 53 [one was kicked out of the village because of his love, the other because of excessive strength, the third because of gluttony; they went to the baobab; one split the trunk with his penis, the other crushed the baobab to pieces, the third one swallowed it all; whose things are more surprising?] , 54 [about (53)], 55 [same], 56 [same]: 129-130, 131, 132, 133-134, 135, 136-137, 138-139, 140; Songhai: Rozhansky 2005 [three friends marry a girl; she will marry a girl; she will marry who showed the greatest courage; the first kicked the lion, piercing him through; the lion died but remained standing, the man and the woman climbed the tree; the second did not see them, hit the lion so that he failed through the ground, also climbed a tree; the third saw only blood, thought that everything was eaten, brought the tree to the woman's mother's house; who should get the woman?] : 136; Tersis 1979 (zarma) [a cat, dog, hawk, bull, vulture, goat come to marry the girl; she answers everyone that she loves him; the same says to the spirit who has come down from seventh heaven; he takes her; animals search for the missing girl in vain; finally, the vulture rises to seventh heaven; overhears; the spirit asks the girl why she prays to God; she replies that her suitors are hers they are looking; the spirit says that life is in seven rivers, there is a rock, an antelope in it, a dove in the antelope, an egg in the dove; the bull drank the water of seven rivers, a rock appeared; the goat broke the rock with horns; the dog caught up, gutted an antelope, a dove flew out; a vulture caught up with her and killed her; he raised an egg to heaven, broke the spirit against her head, the spirit died, the vulture brought the girl back to earth; who should she belong to?] : 43-55.

Sudan - East Africa. Sakho [each of the four brothers wants to marry a girl; she fell into the river, was swallowed by a hippopotamus; one blew a horn, luring a hippopotamus out of the water; the other shot him; the third threw himself into the water, ripped his belly open, took out the girl; the fourth on a boat dragged them ashore; Schidsgericht awarded it to whoever lured the hippopotamus]: Reinisch 1889, No. 3:50-52; Malgashi: Haring 2007, No. 20 [shooter, a carver, a thief met at the crossroads; saw a female shrike laying eggs; one hit them with an arrow, damaging only one; the other stole, but also damaged; the third repaired; showing his abilities, everyone has come home; who is the most skilled?] , 21 [one brother saw a dead body, the other gave a reviving elixir, the third revived; they come from fortunetellers, sorcerers], 23 [four brothers married one girl; her father promised to give her to someone who will bring something wonderful; one bought a reviving elixir, another a plane mat, a third all-seeing mirror, the fourth a ring that protects against dangers; one saw that the girl died, the other brought her, the third expelled the attacking enemies, the fourth revived the girl; her father does not know who to give her to]: 23-24, 24, 25-26; Parrinder 1967 [=Haring 1982, No. 1.1.50 (bar): 91-92; God created two men and a woman, each lived separately, not knowing about others; the first man carved a woman out of wood, the second dressed her up and decorated her, the woman took her to bed and revived her; God called the first man father, the second - husband, woman - mother of a former wooden figure; two couples got married, they are people]: 43; Sudanese Arabs [each of the three brothers wants to marry an uncle's daughter; uncle gives everyone money, promises to give her daughter to the one who brings the best gift; they buy a flying carpet that revives lemon, an all-seeing mirror; they see that she is dead, flew on the carpet, revived; the wife received a lemon, because his gift was used up (the juice was squeezed out) and the rest were intact]: Olderogge 1969:267-268.

North Africa. Arabs of Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt: El-Shamy 2004, No. 353-353C: 356-360; Algerian Arabs [the king forbids three sons to approach the mountain, even puts guards around; after his death, the elder prince goes there, sees the gazelle, pursues her, disappears; the same middle and younger; the king's brother takes the throne; finds out that the king had a daughter, she also disappeared on this mountain; all four the missing return, but the princess is silent; her uncle calls magicians and wise men, but no one can get a silent person to talk, everyone is beheaded; one prince accidentally spied and overheard a carpenter carved out the girl's figure, the blacksmith made hinges to move, the tailor dressed the girl, the perfumer perfumed, the holy man turned to God and the girl came to life; the prince promised to get the deceased to talk, but to do this, gather all the courtiers and, on pain of death, tell them to remain silent; tells a story about a girl and asks who she should belong to; everyone is silent; then the princess says that , who revived the figure; wedding]: Filleul de Pétigny 1951:191-209; the Berbers of Morocco (Fez) [the sultan is afraid that his son will take his throne; sends all boys whose wives give birth away; one the wife hid three sons; after the death of the Sultan, the eldest of them, Sidi Mohammed, took the throne; the daughter of the neighboring sultan will marry the one who makes her speak first; unsuccessful applicants are cut off heads; SM tries, his head is 98th; seeing that the plant left by SM has dried up, Moulay Ahmed's middle brother, taking the throne, also goes to the princess and loses his head; younger, Moulay M'hammed is smarter others; hears a conversation between two doves (these are fairies); when the test begins, you must read Dalil el Khairat's book out loud; after closing it, ask someone present to tell the story; first story; a carpenter, a merchant and a Talib spent the night in the open air, taking turns on duty at night; the carpenter made a female figure out of wood, the merchant dressed her up, the Talib turned to God and revived her; to whom she owes belong; MM: carpenter; princess: talibu; retest the next evening, second story; burnus maker, merchant and scientist set off; before that, the first borrowed money from the second one for the trip; in the desert, a merchant demanded it back; what should I do? MM: he should get the money back; princess: what nonsense! third story; the Sultan of the Efreet cannibals ("Sultan Executioner", SP) has 7 brave men in the service, each has a gift; open any door; make any move in the ground; get hair out of the dough without hitting anything one grain of flour; cut through walls with a saber; jump over walls; jump from any height; cause a thunderstorm with a storm; SP marries another sultan's daughter for his son; he asks for a huge emerald for her; SP sends a caravan of such emeralds; had to give her daughter; she is terrified; SP is going to eat her; sleeps with her head on her hair and hiding behind the other part of her hair; the mother of 7 brave men tells her to write a letter to his father in blood - her sons would deliver it; the princess's father asked them to save his daughter; one opened the gate, the second jumped over the wall, the third pulled the princess's hair from under SP's head, the fourth stopped the pursuers with a storm; the fifth cut off the head of the SP; he turned into a 7-headed ghoul, but the young man cut off all 7 heads; who did more? MM: the one who opened the gate; the princess: the one who freed the girl from the ghoul's arms; MM won, but now he must know which of the 7 cocoons (the structure the bride sits inside) the bride will be in; prince again listens to the conversation between two doves: on the cocoon in which the bride will sit, he looks the most inconspicuous; everything is fine, the wedding]: El Fasi, Dermenghem 1926:178-208; kabila [the king keeps his son Mehend in a secret room, tells me to feed boneless meat; M. finds a bone in the lamb, breaks through its wall, runs out to the market square; the witch Settuta asks if Hamisha has been married to him ( Sumisha), daughter of Hitin; he asks S. to cook soup for him, puts her hand in boiling water, S. shows that H. lives in the east; M. saves the fish caught by the fisherman by exchanging it for his horse; fish turns into a young companion; after 7 years they arrive in a city where mourning: the princess is sick; the king promises to pass her off as someone to cure her; companion M. is called to do so; in the princess's room tells stories; three brothers traveled, spent the night in the forest, took turns keeping the fire on; the youngest saw a tree resembling a human figure, carved out the figure of a woman; the elder dressed her; the middle turned to God and revived; brothers began to argue about who she should belong to and killed each other; she was an evil fairy; she loved only the one who revived her, and when she saw him dead, she took revenge on people; companion The prince tells the fairy to leave Sumishi; S. regurgitates a black snake; she swallowed it quietly when she drank water from the spring; general glee; a wedding is scheduled, but instead of the one who expelled the snake, M. ; his companion says he cannot be her husband, because he is the spirit of water, who took the form of a fish and was saved by Mehand; disappears, M. marries S., returns with her to his mother, leaving her young son to her father]: Taos-Amrush 1974:99-110 (=Grim 1983:49-61).

Southern Europe. Spaniards [the girl likes three suitors equally; father: I'll give it for the one who brings the best gift; one buys an all-seeing mirror, the other a balm that raises the dead, the third buys a box, which will deliver to any place; grooms see in the mirror that the bride is dead, fly to her in a box, revive her with balm; she makes a choice in a year (which one, guess it)]: Shishlova 1971:110-114; Portuguese: Cardigos 2006, No. 653 [four brothers learn different skills; one becomes a thief, the other becomes a hunter, the third sees everything, the fourth becomes a tailor; using their skills, they save princess]: 150; Pedroso 1882, No. 23 []: 94-97; the Basques [four brothers were orphaned, went on a journey; divided the bread into four parts, promised to meet in 7 years; one became an astronomer's apprentice, the second a tailor, the third a hunter, the fourth a thief; the princess is stolen by a dragon, the king promises her savior; the astronomer finds out where she, the brothers, are sailing on the ship, the thief kidnaps the girl, a hunter kills an awakened dragon, a tailor sews up a ship with a hole in it; the king does not know which of them to give his daughter]: Barandiaran 1962a, No. 30:113-116; Italians (Tuscany) [three brothers- the queen is married to the daughter of a neighboring king; her father promises to give his daughter to the one who brings the best gift; one buys a flying carpet, the other an all-seeing pipe, a third grape that brings back to life the dying; one sees that the princess is sick, the other brings them to her, the third heals them with grapes; the king has to give his daughter to the fourth applicant who appears without a gift]: Calvino 1980, No. 65:229- 232 (=Kotrelev 1991:76-78); Catalans (Mallorca included) [father sends four sons to study and promises to hand everything over to whoever becomes the most skillful; the first earns points that are unusual sees far; the second becomes a skilled hunter; the third learns to sew and connect products from any material; the fourth learns the craft of thieves; when they return, the father tests them: it is necessary see which bird laid which egg in the nest, steal these eggs unnoticed, put them on a rock, smash them by shooting them, and then make them whole again and put them in place; together the brothers perform quest; the king promises a reward to whoever rescues his dragon-carried daughter; brothers do it together and it is impossible to say who to give the princess to]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 653:132; the Maltese [ four brothers are sent to study trading; when they return home, they are tested; the eldest, who has learned to observe stars, sees how many eggs are in the bird's nest; the second, a hunter, knocks them out nests without hitting the hen; the third, a tailor, stitches broken eggs so that they can be put in place; the youngest, a thief, steals eggs from under the chicken without her noticing; the princess has been kidnapped by a dragon, she promised to marry the savior; the brothers receive a ship with a crew from the king; the stargazer sees the dragon's abode far away; the thief takes her to the ship; the hunter shot the pursuer dragon; he falls onto the ship, crashing it; the tailor sewed it; the brothers argue who the princess should belong to]: Mifsud-Chrcop 1978, No. 653:212-213; Corsicans [the girl promises to marry one of three young men who will bring her the best gift in a year; one buys a flower that revives the dead, the second a horse that will instantly take her anywhere, the third buys an all-seeing mirror; he sees in it that the girl is dead, the horse brought them to her, the flower revived; who should she marry?] : Massignon 1984, No. 61:139-140.

Western Europe. The Irish [four brothers become masters each in their field and thus save a girl]: Jackson 1936:288; Bretons [each of the 6 lazy sons receives 200 ECU from their father and pays the master for training; one has learned to climb trees and walls, the other to glue, repair and connect everything, the third to shoot accurately, the fourth to guess everything and know in advance, the fifth to play the violin, so the dead come to life, the sixth is to build a ship moving on water and on land; the brothers decide to take the gold-haired princess from a snake living in a palace that hangs in the sea on an island; the guesser is all found out and proposed a plan (first you have to plug the bell with a tow to prevent it from ringing), the builder brought his ship there, the climber climbed to the princess and carried her away, the shooter killed the snake that had arrived, gluing repaired the ship on which the serpent fell, the guessman pulled the princess out of the sea, the violinist revived her; the father does not know who to give the girl to, but she must have been the cutest]: Luzel 1887 (3) , No. 9:312-325; French, Flemish, Dutch, Friesians, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Silesia, Grimms): Uther 2004 (1), No. 653-653B: 358-360.

Western Asia. Palestinians, Arabs of Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar: El-Shamy 2004, No. 653-653C: 356-360; Saudi Arabia [carpenter, tailor, jeweler and whoever studying the Koran, wandering together; staying for the night, they guarded one by one; the carpenter carved the girl out of wood, dressed her as a tailor, the jeweler decorated her, the Koran student turned to God and revived her; the sheikh awarded the girl to the one who revived her]: Bushnaq 1987:306-307; Yemen [the Sultan has three sons with different wives, the youngest Ali is from a swarthy slave; everyone goes to get a wife; ends up in a city where the old woman will give her daughter and dowry to someone who talks to a daughter who is always silent; the one who does not fulfill the condition loses his property; the older brothers cannot get the girl to talk, lose money, remain work part-time in the city; Ali, left with his girlfriend and witness, tells how a fakir (Faqih), a carpenter and a tailor spent the night in the open air, guarded one by one; the carpenter carved the figure of a girl, a tailor He dressed her, the fakir revived her; the witness replies that the girl should be received by the one who slaughtered her; the girl shouts that no - the one who revived her; the Sultan ordered the old woman to give her daughter Ali; Ali saw his the brothers as servants at the inn; asked the owner to tell them to bring dinner for four; they recognized their brother; he added sleeping pills to their coffee, quietly put his tamga on their backs; everyone returned to father; the brothers said that they were the ones who got the gold, and the eldest got his wife, but Ali asked them to look at their backs; the Sultan appointed Ali heir and soon died; Ali's wife gave birth to many children]: Daum 1992, No. 20:174-186; Arameans [three brothers are in love with their uncle's daughter; their father tells them to learn a craft in three years, whoever gets the best will get a girl; one has become a stargazer, Another doctor, the third engineer; the first found out that the girl was sick, the third took them to the girl, the doctor cured them; the girl was given to the stargazer]: Macler 1908, No. 1:329-331.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans: Shelton 1925:172-177 in Ting 1978, No. 653.

Burma - Indochina. Vieta [Le's father promises to pass her off as the best master; a shooter, a diver, a healer come; the vulture takes Le; the shooter hits the vulture, the diver pulls Le out of the sea, the doctor revives her; the ruler decides that the doctor was only doing his duty, the shooter was not prudent to kill a bird over the sea, and the diver was holding the girl in his arms, and he should marry her]: Nikulin 1990:225-228; Khmers : Gorgoniev 1973:254-255 [predictor, sharpshooter, diver, reviver of the dead spent the night on the seashore; the first found out that the eagle had taken the queen, the second hit the eagle with an arrow, and the third took out the girl out of the water, the fourth revived; king: the husband will be the one who brought the body from the sea - he has already hugged the girl], 256-257 [four friends have learned in Taxil: one is to make the object human, the other to do perfect, the third is to turn the object into human flesh, the fourth is to revive; turned the deck into a girl; the king: the man who has given the appearance is the mother, the beauty-endowed husband who turned the tree into flesh is a brother who breathed life is a father]; Foshko 1981 [during a forest fire, a partridge dies with its children; her husband first takes off, then rushes into the fire; revives sick, covered with scab a man named Turpolpheap, his wife is the king's beloved daughter; he puts her in a tower, promises to give her three words to someone who exchanges three words with her; the princess does not respond to the calls of the rich and noble; T. comes during a downpour, behaves foolishly, the princess sees it, teaches him many times what to do; the king tells his daughter to marry T. once she has spoken to him; the perfume makes T. beautiful and intelligent; with his mouth one of the spirits says that one of four friends learned to control the flight of an arrow, the second to predict the future, the third to live under water, the fourth to revive the dead; the second predicted that the eagle will carry the body of the dead princess, the first hit the eagle with an arrow, the third takes the fallen body out of the sea, the fourth revived the princess; the spirit deliberately says that the girl should go to the one who revived her, but the princess objects - to the one who took her out of the sea, for he was the first to see her nudity; (then two other stories; T. marries a princess)], No. 20:76-93.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. The Tibetans [five friends broke up, each planted a tree; if it dries up, it's in trouble; after 6 years they promised to return; one is rich, the second is a soothsayer, the third is a painter, the fourth is a healer, the fifth is a silver jeweler; the son of a rich man married a beautiful woman; she dropped a ring into the river; the king ordered to find the owner; her husband was killed, shoved into a cave, covered with a stone; the other four saw a rich man's tree dried up; the soothsayer found his remains, the silversmith crushed the boulder with a chisel, the doctor revived it, the carpenter built a flying car, the painter painted it like a bird; friends flew to the king's wife, who wanted to return to her first husband; friends are dissatisfied, everyone claims to be a woman; asked a passerby; passerby: several people owned a stupa, cut it apart; friends were happy and also they chopped a woman to pieces]: Shelton 1925, No. 44:172-177.

South Asia. Ancient India {source?} [Somaprabha demands that she be passed off as either a brave warrior, or a soothsayer, or a magician; without agreeing with each other, her father promised her brahman who made a flying chariot, and her brother to a valiant one a brahma warrior, her mother to a soothsayer; S. has disappeared somewhere; soothsayer: she was kidnapped by Rakshasa; the first brahmana brings all three to the mountain forest, the second kills Rakshasa; the king orders S. to be passed off as a warrior: the magician and the soothsayer was only doing his usual job]: Borovkov 1938:14-17; chemical plowmen [the tsar will give his daughter for someone who will become famous in a special way; the daughter is missing; one says that she is in the land of spirits, the other makes a wooden flying horse, flies to the spirits, the third kills the guard with an arrow, brings the girl; she chooses the last one]: Dracott 1906:101-103; ho [during the festival hero (sowing time, when rice flour is used to make pies and is also used to paint home walls), the eldest of four brothers carved a figure out of wood and left it against the wall of the house at night; the third her brother coated it with clay, shaped it, the second painted it and decorated it, the youngest turned to God and he revived her; the brothers argue who should belong to a woman; the elders decided that the elder brother; ho have been celebrating hero ever since]: Halder 1918, No. 21:323-324; Oraons [carpenter, jeweler, weaver, cinnabar salesman spent the night in a deserted place, awake in turn; the carpenter made the figure women, the jeweler made her jewelry, the weaver dressed her, the seller sprinkled cinnabar on her head, as the groom does during the wedding ceremony; in the morning the woman came to life, friends began to argue whose she was; one wise man said that the woman belongs to a cinnabar seller because he married her; another added that the carpenter is her father, the weaver is her older brother, the jeweler is her younger, and the salesman is her husband]: Hahn 1906, No. 13:24-26; The Rajastans [carpenter, tailor, jeweler and brahmana stayed for the night and stayed awake one by one; the carpenter carved the girl's figure, the tailor dressed her, the jeweler decorated her, the brahmana revived her; a wise peasant said that the carpenter and brahmana are her fathers, the tailor is her uncle (the uncle prepares clothes for the bride), and the groom gives jewelry to the bride; the girl married a jeweler]: Bystrov et al. 1962:154-156; Nepali [two The girl's brothers and father each finds a groom for her; the girl does not know who to choose, rushes into the fire; the first groom rushes after her, the second goes to the forest to meditate, the third becomes a disciple sage; not yet, learns in the book how to revive the dead; revives the girl who jumped after her into the fire was born; they argue who should belong to the girl; king: reborn with her brother, revived by her father, her husband is a meditator in the forest]: Sakya, Griffith 1980:98-101; Marathi [carpenter, tailor, jeweler, bracelet seller and brahman, set off, spent the night, everyone took turns guarding; the carpenter carved out the woman's figure, the tailor dressed her, the jeweler and the bracelet seller decorated her, the brahmana revived it; they began to argue who the girl should belong to; decided to ask Brahma; he called the carpenter the girl's father, the tailor his brother, the jeweler his maternal uncle, the brahmana a guru, and the one who gave the bracelets (a symbol of becoming a married woman) her husband]: Sheorey 1973, No. 1:17-22; oriya (dombo) [the rich man has three unmarried sons; the inhabitants of the city tell them to marry in order to have heirs; the father gave the sons money and they went to look for wives; at the bazaar, the elder bought a horse that will cover any distance in an hour, the middle one is an all-seeing mirror, the youngest is a reed that revives the dead; the middle brother saw that their cousin was dying, the elder brought them to her , the youngest revived; they were going to pass off the girl as the youngest, but he gave in to her eldest, and the father found other wives to the youngest sons]: Tauscher 1959, No. 24:58-59; Malayali [three young brahmanas are in love with a girl; she died and was cremated; one rushed to lie in ash, the other threw ash into the Ganges, the third kept the bone, went on a journey and came to the brahman; he had no firewood; he burned his own the child to cook, and then revived him after reading the book; the young man stole the book and revived the girl; the council decided that the one who took the ash was the girl's son, the one who revived her was the father, and the one lying in Zole can marry her]: Fawcett 1915:417; kannada [three brothers have a sister, each with a son; when dying, everyone promises his son to marry him to his sister's daughter; the girl's parents give money for young men: the bride will be given by the one who brings the best gift; one buys an all-seeing mirror, the second a wagon that will take you anywhere, the third a stick that revives; the elder sees in the mirror that the girl died from a scorpion bite, the middle one brings them to her, the younger one revives the girl; the girl said that the three of them are together as a father for her, let them look for other brides; and the elder wished riddle: someone without hands milks a boneless buffalo, and someone without a mouth drinks milk; clouds are buffalo, the wind "squeezes out" rain from the clouds, the earth drinks this cloud milk]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 6:22-26; Tamils [The poor man has three sons and a daughter; the daughter is married and has a daughter of her own; all three brothers marry his niece; she invites everyone to bring a gift worth a thousand rupees, whoever she likes best, for which she will come out ; the eldest took the plane, the youngest the all-seeing mirror, the middle one a magic carpet; in the mirror, the brothers saw that their bride was being buried; they immediately flew by plane, the older brother stood at his feet girls, the middle one is at her head, the youngest is next to her; they revived the girl with a magic carpet; she said that her father is at her head, her brother is next to her, and her husband is at her feet]: Beck et al. 1987, No. 8:22- 23; Sinhalese [without agreeing with each other, the girl's father, mother and brother find her fiancé; the girl was poisoned; one groom remained on the grave, the other went to the charmer, and the third to his home; the first to learn the spells and revived the girl; she said that he was now her father, who remained on the grave was her mother, but she would marry the one who went home]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 132:317-318.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Sangihe Islands [one prince is a blacksmith, another is a carpenter, another makes wind guns; something sparkles like lightning on the horizon; a carpenter made a boat, they sailed to a huge coconut tree, their boat drowned; the blacksmith hammered nails into the barrel, they climbed upstairs; there is a princess; she tells them to leave - a garuda flies to her; a wind gun maker kills Garuda by hitting her eye with a dart; the boat again arose, all four came home; each of the brothers claims that without him the princess would not have been obtained, so he should be her husband; the king forbade them to marry the princess and told all four stay in the same house forever]: Bezimer 1904:257-260.

Taiwan - Philippines. Pangasian [of the three Ambo brothers buys a book that revives the dead, Iloy buys a plane mat, Suan buys the broken stones; saw people bury the girl; A. revived her, I. took everyone to by sea; they sailed on the ship, the storm broke it, but S. connected the wreckage; the king ordered the girl to be divided into 3 parts; A. and I. threw their own, and S. joined it, took the girl as his wife]: Kharitonov 1975, No. 36:84-86.

China - Korea. Koreans: Choi 1979, No. 469 [the father promises to divide the inheritance between his four sons in proportion to their excellence in the arts they have mastered; the first has learned to steal, the second guess the future, the third is archery, the fourth is to sew any objects and materials; the father tested their skills and divided the property; the princess is kidnapped by a serpent, the king promises her hand to the savior; the soothsayer finds out where she is, the shooter hit a flying serpent, who fell on the ship and crashed it; the fourth brother sewed the ship; the king cannot divide his daughter between the three suitors, so he divided them between them kingdom]: 207-208; Park 1991 [the sage advises the girl to give three suitors a gold bar to marry the one who will bring the best gift; one sees in the mirror that the bride is terminally ill, the other all She instantly brings her on a camel, the third heals her by letting her taste the apple; the girl chooses the one who gave the apple, because he thought about it, but the mirror and camel remained with those who bought them]: 222-224; Chinese (Shandong, Sichuan, etc.) [each of the several brothers has a unique ability and shows it to save the princess; brothers receive an award (but not half the kingdom)]: Ting 1978, No. 653: (pdf without pagination); chuan miao [father- the geomancer tells three sons to buy hemp ropes, carry it and bury it where they break; the brothers go and go, the eldest insists on carrying their father as he told; when the ropes are broken and the father was buried, the brothers separated, each learned their skills: to understand the language of birds; to fly; to heal; from the chatter of birds, the elder understands that the emperor's daughter is dead; the middle one brings the rest to her to the air; the youngest said, "Tai, Tai, Thai" and stamped his foot, the girl came to life; the emperor made them ministers]: Graham 1954:214-215.

The Balkans. The Greeks [the priest's cattle died; he went on a journey, met a carpenter and a tailor; they came to an empty house with food; after eating, they went to bed, the watchmen took turns; the carpenter carved the statue, the tailor dressed her, the priest revived her; Kadiy awarded the girl to the priest as a daughter; she promises to marry the one who brings her the handkerchief embroidered by the princess on the Death Road; the poor young man is drunk agrees to go there, kills a seven-headed snake in the forest that is about to eat eagles; adult birds first want to kill him, the chicks explain that he is their savior; they agree to take him to the Death Road (they must be fed and watered on the way), leave their pen; everyone in that country seems to be frozen; he finds a princess, takes a handkerchief; only the priest is alive, asking the one who has exhausted them to return; the young man talks about his adventures; after listening, the girl flies away as a dove, tells her to be found; her soul was taken to revive the statue; when the young man comes back to Death Road, everyone is alive there, he marries princess]: Paton 1901, No. 23:317-320; Albanians [king ask his daughter to look for lice; she found a louse in her beard; the king ordered her to be put in a box (and fed); soon the louse became huge; the king orders to remove the skin from the lice and promises to pass off the daughter as someone who says whose skin it is; only the devil immediately said that it was a lice skin; the king realized that the guesser was not human; the king rearranged test; the devil appeared in a different dress and asked to show the princess; grabbed her and carried her underground; that night the king forbade lighting the fire; an old woman did not pay attention; they came to her; she explained that her seven sons return after dark and would not be able to find a home; the king called sons; one hears a person speaking at any distance; the other told the earth to open up; the third can quietly steal anything; the fourth will throw his shoe to the edge of the world; the fifth will call a tour in one word; the sixth will knock down anything at any height; the seventh will catch everything that falls; the king sent them behind the princess; the first heard a conversation underground, the second discovered the ground, the third carried the princess without waking up the devil, the fourth threw his shoe to the end of the world; the devil took time to make his shoe get it; after catching up with the brothers, the devil asked permission to look at the princess through a small hole and flew with her high into the sky; the sixth brother shot him, and the seventh picked up the fallen princess; the king asks her who to marry her; the princess: the one who embraced her; he is the youngest; the princess's husband has been given the throne, and the rest of the brothers have titles and positions]: Dozon 1881, No. 4:27-33; Bulgarians [the princess is promised to the one who will bring the most beautiful item; three brothers (friends) bring a flying carpet, an all-seeing mirror, living water (life-giving apples); one sees in his mirror that the princess dies (dies), the other takes everyone to her on a flying carpet, the third revives; the dispute over who will receive the princess is resolved in favor of the latter or denied to all three]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 653A: 230; Hungarians [three queens come to the White King, fall in love with his daughter; he will give her to the one who brings the best gift in a year; the eldest bought an all-seeing lens, the middle one a cloak that immediately takes her anywhere, the youngest sees a reviving orange; one sees that the princess is dying, the second carries her to her, the third revives her; the king gives his daughter to the youngest queen]: Klimo 1898:139- 142; Romanians [the king keeps his daughter in a cage so as not to be stolen; rejects suitors; gives it to a handsome man who turned out to be a devil; taking the girl, the hell became a snake, stuck to the girl's chest; a girl is assumed, took a dove and paper with her, wrote a note, sent it with a dove; the king promises her daughter to her savior; the old woman has sons Evening, Midnight, Dawn; each has different abilities; Evening milks a goat on the run, midnight hears the hell sleeping; they pick up the princess and run away with a nipple filled with goat's milk in their mouth; when the hell grabs the girl and takes off, Dawn hits him with an arrow, and Evening catches; girl decides what should belong to whoever picked her up]: Bîrlea 1966:451-452; Serbs, Slovenes, Albanians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 653-653B: 358-360.

Central Europe. Czechs, Slovaks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 653-653B: 358-360; Poles: Shcherbakov 1980 [the king has three sons; he brought a girl from a poor family, she grew up with his sons; after learning that she is not their sister, everyone wants to marry her; the king promises to give her to whoever gets the most valuable item; one has bought a wagon that will take you anywhere, the other has an all-seeing mirror, the third is healing apples; seeing in the mirror that there were all deaths in the palace, the brothers instantly arrived there, the blocks healed the sick; the man sevets to marry the girl as the owner of apples]: 126-128; Krzyż anowski 1962, № 653 [four brothers go to learn the arts, come back and prove their skills; an astronomer sees eggs in a bird's nest in a tree; a thief stole them from under a bird; the shooter broke eggs, and the tailor sewed again; only the hatched chicks had a red mark on their necks; the dragon kidnapped the princess; the astronomer sees her on a distant island, the thief takes her away, the shooter hits the dragon in pursuit, the tailor sewed the ship after the dragon fell on it; there is a dispute over who will be the princess's husband (several options)]: 203; Russians (Terek Bereg), Belarusians (1 entry, Grodno region). ) [Three grooms: the princess promises to marry the one who gets her the best gift (the rarest thing in the world); three grooms go out and get magic items - a mirror, a flying carpet and a healing apple; with the help of a mirror, they learn that the princess is dying; they go to her on a flying carpet and heal her with an apple]: SUS 1979, No. 653A: 171; Russians (Vologda) [Tsar gives three He tells his sons a hundred rubles each to buy what they need. They reach the pole with a sign on three sides. The oldest goes straight, the middle one goes right, and the youngest goes to the left. The eldest meets a wheelchair merchant: two cost 30 rubles each, and one costs 100, because he can travel all over the world in an hour. He buys and goes home. The second meets a girl selling mirrors: two cost 40 each, one 100, because it shows what is happening in the world. He also buys. The third meets an apple merchant, one of the apples costs 100 rubles, since one piece of it can cure a patient. He buys. The brothers are coming home. It soon becomes known that a royal daughter has fallen ill in one kingdom, and her father promises her to marry whoever cures her. The middle brother uses a mirror to find out where this is happening, sit in the elder's stroller and go there. Her younger brother treats her by giving her a piece of apple. "Can you guess which one should give it for?" - for the "menshak", because he lost the apple, and the rest remained with their own]: Burtsev 1895, No. 29:136-139.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks [the widow has three sons and a daughter; the daughter took the mangus; the older brother saw a cloud where the mangus was hiding, the middle brother hit him with an arrow, the youngest picked up the girl who was falling; who is more worthy of the award ?] : Egorov 1978:34-37; Adygs: Aliyeva 1978, No. 24 [Khan's three sons fall in love with one girl; she promises to marry the one who gets the most unusual thing; at the market in Babylon, the eldest buys the all-seeing mirror, the middle one is a flying carpet, the youngest is a kumgan, the water from which revives the dead; the eldest sees that the girl is dead, the brothers fly to her on the flying carpet, the youngest revives her; kadiy sends the brothers to seek solutions from the Caliph of Babylon; they leave the mirror, carpet and kubgan in their village; while they were suing, the girl died, they did not know about it, she was buried]: 221-223; Maksimov, Kerashev 1953 [=Kerashev 1957:194-209; Psha Zedem has only son Zedeb (Z.), his father holds him for a lazy and a fool; after hearing his father's words, Z. tamed the best horse and became the first among young people; his father married him; custom, Z. (with his wife) left his father's house for a year; his father also left; when Z. returned, found the doors of seven rooms locked, asked his mother for keys; she gave the keys to six rooms, which were empty; Z. broke the door of the seventh, there three doves asked them to be released, Z. released them; when he learned about this, the father ordered Z. to be thrown into the steppes; Z. realized that his father kept pigeons and left him for Suret (Su-Isuret, "written beauty" in Nogai) whom no one can force him to speak; after killing a bastard who was about to eat eagles, Z. lost consciousness; the chicks told the eagle that he was their savior; the eagle carried Z. and his horse to a distance that Z. I would have passed a month before coming back because she couldn't leave the eagles without food; in an empty village, the old man says that a creature with 8 legs and one eye in its forehead ate ate people and cattle; it crawled out of the swamp, Z. hit him in the eye with an arrow and killed him; the old man warned that S. had already put 99 stakes on stakes, the last one was left; Z. lay down under the apple tree, those three pigeons flew in; they told S. to tell S. the story of how the carpenter carved the figure, Goochips (a name for blacksmiths) revived, the cutter dressed - who owns the created person; only S. can answer - let him say; second question: only S. can know who stole the gouache belt (searched maids, drovers - they did not find); the third question: Pshi fell ill, and two people did not grieve, one whispered to the other that there was half of the oxalis from which to cook the broth for treatment; the half-deaf old woman heard the farsighted saw oxalis in the gorge, the quick-footed brought it, the doctor made medicine, the pshi recovered; only S. knows who to reward for this; on the way, Z. stayed with the khan, amazed everyone by playing the violin and by making a saddle out of leather overnight; Khan gave companions; Z. asked S. the first question; three pigeons flew in: 1) the revived figure will serve each of the three for the same number of days; 2) the one whom they search, quietly hand over the belt to the one who is not being searched; 3) the fee should be divided not between four (farsighted, runner, doctor, old woman), but between 6 participants (including whispers); S. each time He is silent, but after the third time, after changing his clothes, he throws Z.'s ring and promises to be a good wife; on the way home, Z., while taking S., also took the daughter of Khan and the daughter of an old man who lived in a village ravaged by a monster; father invited Z. to play checkers: the winner will blind the loser; Z. wins many times, but does not want to maim his father; the old woman advises Pshi to force Z. to spend the night with him; Z. will think about wives and will be distracted; the father won, blinded Z., ordered him to be thrown into the forest; tried to take his son's wives, but they destroyed his army; Z. hears the pigeons talking: if Z. breaks the fetters and tears off the oxalis, he will see the light; Z. did; his wives did not let him in until he talked about how he married them; then S.'s turn to fight the psha; Z. will help, but the son cannot kill his father, let S. do it; she cut off her head, Z. took his father's men into his service]: 91-116; Huth 1987 (shapsugi) [Prince Zedem considers his son Zedeb worthless; he tames the horse; in the absence of his father, he takes the keys to locked rooms from his mother; in six empty; he hacks the seventh; there three tied pigeons ask them to let them go; he lets go; the father tells him to take his son away and leave him asleep; three pigeons invite him to marry Silent Suret; she will marry the one who makes her speak; Z. kills a snake that eagles; the Eagle takes him under his wing, flies with him part of the way to MC; in an empty village, an old man says that the eight-legged monster of all devoured, you have to get into his only eye; Z. kills a monster; three pigeons teach you how to ask the MC how to resolve three disputes; in the presence of the MC they give answers themselves; the MS is forced to say that the answers are correct; Z. returns with MC and two other girls married on the way; his father plays with him, wins, gouges his eyes out, throws him tied up in the woods; three pigeons teach him how to eat an apple, he sees the light; together with kills her father with his wives]: 96-111; Kabardian people [the girl consistently agrees to marry the khan's three sons; promises to choose the one who will bring the best thing; at the market in Babylon (Baby) The elder bought an all-seeing mirror, an average flying carpet, the youngest living water; one saw that the girl died, the other brought her to her, the third revived it; they went to court; at this time the girl again died; this time there was no one to revive her and she was buried]: Lopatinsky 1891a: 89-91; Abkhazians: Shakryl 1975, No. 21 [three brothers married one girl; she promises to marry someone who will bring the best thing; they get a flying carpet, an all-seeing mirror that revives an apple; in the mirror you can see that the girl is dead, her brothers are flying to her, the younger one squeezes juice into the girl's mouth, she comes to life; he gets it, because the carpet and mirror have been preserved, but the apple has been destroyed, but it is impossible to return it], 86 [a carpenter, tailor, goldsmith and mullah are wandering; at night, the carpenter made the figure of a girl, the tailor dressed her, the jeweler decorated her, the mullah revived her; the village government gave the girl to the mullah], 97 [three hunting brothers feed their sister only animal bone marrow; agulshap took her sister; older brother: I can quietly remove the fruit from the cow; kill everything, even if it is high in the sky; younger: catch everything that falls from the sky; brothers {obviously the elder} secretly took his sister; Agulshap caught up, took, flew; his middle shot, the youngest picked up his fallen sister; advisers argue who did more to save his sister]: 93-97, 389-393, 414-416; Abazins: Tugov 1985, No. 60 [Aminat promises to marry the one who will bring the best gift; one bought an all-seeing mirror at the bazaar, the other horse that will instantly deliver where needed, a third apple that heals the dying; the first saw A. dying, the second took everyone to her, the third cured; the judge orders the gifts to be returned; the apple cannot be returned - it is bitten, A. takes it as a husband], 61 [the dragon took the sister of three brothers; the elder Buba can quietly take the deer out of deer wombs, find a needle that has fallen from the sky; middle Umar can shoot any bird; younger Talib can pick up any falling object; B. carried his sister away from the dragon, W. shot the dragon that grabbed her, T. picked it up when she fell; the brothers' mother does not know who to give the Circassian woman promised to save her daughter]: 180-182, 182-184; Ossetians [one groom has a flying carpet, the other has a healing carpet an apple, the third has an all-seeing mirror; they saw a sick princess in the mirror, flew in on the carpet, gave an apple; who should the princess belong to?] : Byazirov 1958, No. 115:343; Nogai: Nogai 1979, No. 18 [Batyrbek, the son of poor Bolat, is ashamed that his horse is worse than others; Bolat finds a trail of tulpar, exchanges him from a beggar (seemingly tulpar - thin nag); khan gives grain to feed the tulpara; Batyrbek wins it at the races, but, contrary to his father's warning, unties the last knot on the reins, the horse rushes, dives into the sea, Batyrbek goes out ashore; finds the clothes of three girls; promises to return if the girls help make Khan Olmes's daughter Soleimes ("the enduring Khan's non-speaking daughter") speak; the girls take Batyrbek to the khan, the eldest hides in S.'s fur coat, tells a fairy tale, at the end you have to give an answer, Batyrbek must deliberately answer incorrectly, then S. will speak; then the same thing: talking kumgan; talking golden bowl; the story of the fur coat: three brothers take turns herding sheep; the eldest carves the girl out of wood, the middle one dresses her, the youngest sprinkles her with herbal infusion, revives her; Batyrbek replies that the girl owes take the one who revived her, S. objects: the younger brother should not marry before the elder; Kumgan's story: one brother herds his head, the other belly, the third hind legs of the bull; the older brother all day goes to the middle, they both go to the youngest to find out if the bull is sick; the bull is healthy; they lead him to a watering hole; the bull drank the sea, the island remains, he turned out to be a fish, she swallowed the bull, the eagle took the fish, descended on a goat's horns, an old man was sitting in the shade of his beard, a bull's shoulder blade hit his eye, the old man's daughter swam in a boat in her father's eye, pulled out the door; the caravans stopped on the shoulder blade, the ground under them trembled - it was the fox who began to gnaw on the shoulder blade; the woman killed the fox with a rocker arm, left; 99 caravans ripped off the fox's skin from one side, but could not turn the fox over; the woman returned with the toe of her foot turned the fox upside down, but doubted whether half the skin would be enough for a hat for her newborn son; Batyrbek replies that the eagle was the most, S. was the child; the story of the bowl: the mother of nine sons sews skullcap, everyone answers what is for him; tells him to go to the khan, let him judge who the skullcap is; everyone tells the khan about his abilities; one finds everything, the other sees everything, the third shoots accurately, etc. (makes a bow out of a chip; a boat out of a chip; a house made of one brick; will feed everyone; digs an underground passage; a thief); the khan asks the brothers to find his missing daughter; the brothers find out that Azaa took her away, hit him with an arrow at eye, return the girl; Batyrbek replies that the younger brother, S., who is the eldest, should receive the skullcap; Batyrbek marries Soleimas], 27 [three brothers are indistinguishable, each receives the girl's consent, they come to her together; she promises to choose the one who will bring the most unusual item; one buys an all-seeing mirror, sees that the girl is dying; the other is a flying carpet, the brothers fly in on it, the third is a healing apple; it marries the third (the mirror and carpet are intact, but the apple is eaten)]: 86-102, 136-137; Stavropol Turkmens [the fisherman caught a golden carp; left his son to watch the net went to call the Shah to see the miracle; the son felt sorry for the carp and let him go; there was no carp, the shah ordered the fisherman to put his son in a leaky boat and let him go to sea; the young man sailed to the island and met a good man there; together they learned from the shepherds that the local king would give his silent daughter to someone who could get her to talk; well done, he came to the princess, began to tell how his elder brother carved a girl out of wood, the middle brother carved a girl out of wood, he dressed it, and he prayed to God and revived it; one maid replied that the girl should be given to the elder, the other to her younger brother; the princess opened her mouth for the first time and said that the youngest; they told the king that came, asked the young man where his brothers were; he: the eldest is you, the king, the middle one is the queen; the king gave a feast, gave his daughter; well done invited the young man to share everything; swung his sword to cut the princess; from a snake came out of her mouth, the young man hacked her down; well done, explained that he was the carp, the only son of the king of fish, he was the one who supported the boat not to drown; well done, went to sea, sent a large fish, she took the young man with his wife and property to his father's house; the young man told the Shah about everything, who forgave him, arranged a wedding and gave him a house]: A.K. 1875, No. 2:14-18; Kumyks [dying, the father bequeathed to his son cook pilaf every day and leave it in the corner in the stable; the young man did so until he spent all his money on pilaf and sold all his possessions; began to see who was taking the pilaf; went after the woman who appeared; It turned out to be Ginny; she married the young man's father when his mother died, she has two children, the boy's half-brothers; Ginny tells me to stay in the room and not go into the other; the young man broke the ban, there is a portrait of a beauty; Ginny gave the young man equipment and a horse (or rather, she says she will, etc., but the narrator forgot about it and describes the events as happened), he found the khan's daughter, but she is silent; he turns to a candlestick and in response he tells stories; the story of a candlestick; three friends are in love with one girl; her father gives them money; whoever buys the best thing gets it daughter; one bought a horse that quickly travels any distance; the second, a spyglass in which you can see everything; the third, a reviving elixir; one saw that the girl was dead, the other carried her to her on his the horse, the third revived; to whom should it belong? young man: healer; girl: horse owner; young man to girl: once spoke, now you belong to me; behind the lamp was Ginia; the next evening she hid behind the ottoman, to which she now a young man turns; the story of the ottoman; on the way, a tailor, a carpenter, a scientist are on duty in turn; one carved a female figure, the other dressed it, the third revived it, who will get it? a young man to a tailor, an ottoman to a carpenter, a girl to a scientist; Khan gave his daughter to a young man; he brought his wife to Ginny, who told him to return to his father's house and take gold - everything he had spent on pilaf over the years]: Dirr 1920, No. 31:147-153; the Gunzibs [two shahs are brothers, three sons of one are in love with the other's daughter; she gives everyone money, promises to marry the one who will bring the best gift; the brothers go to the bazaar, the eldest buys a flying carpet, the middle one buys an all-seeing mirror, the youngest a reviving apple; one sees that the girl is terminally ill, the other brings everyone to her, the third gives an apple to taste, a girl gets 60 years of life; marries a third]: Berg 1995, No. 23:244-250; Tsakhurs [the king is blind by old age; only the blood of a "red fish" with a horn on his head will cure him; the prince caught a fish, but it was so beautiful that he let her go; once offended a black slave, he told the king everything, the king expelled his son; the mother tells the prince how to recognize a stranger as a faithful friend; the stranger turned out to be him (guarded the prince's rest at night, etc.); the king has a dumb daughter, he will pass her off as someone who can get her to talk; in the presence of the princess, the companion tells how the tailor, carpenter and mullah spent the night on the road, one by one were awake; the carpenter slaughtered the girl, the tailor dressed her, the mullah revived her; who would get the girl? Everyone is silent, the princess says that the mullet; the prince gets a wife; the companion tells not to lock the bedroom door; at night she enters, kills a snake crawling into the bedroom; everyone goes to the prince's homeland; where he met companion, who tells me to divide everything in half, including his wife; the companion pretends to cut the girl, snakes crawl out of her mouth; he explains that a snake fell in love with the princess, slept with her at night; from in his breath, she became pregnant and numb; to cure her father's blindness, you must smear his eyes with earth from under the hooves of his companion's horse; the companion himself is that fish; the prince returned with his wife and property, cured his father ]: Dirr 1920, No. 18:93-96; aguly [a merchant in Tiflis will give his daughter only to a special craftsman; a man from Erzerum sees everything, from Bukhara he owns a striking edge without a miss, from Afghanistan he can make a flying ship; a girl disappears; an Erzerumets sees her at sea in a genie fortress, an Afghan flies there with a Bukhara citizen, a Bukharan kills all genies, they return to Tiflis; they argue who a girl must belong]: Dirr 1920, No. 20:101-103 (=Maysun 2014, No. D2:470); Swans [three brothers-princes married the king's daughter; the king promised to give her for someone who would bring something unprecedented in his kingdom a thing; one bought an all-seeing mirror and saw that the princess was dead; the other, a flying carpet, he took the brothers to the king; the youngest, a glass of wine from which revives the dead; the revived princess chose the younger brother]: Petrov 1886a: 94-96; Georgians: Bogoyavlensky 1894b, No. 6 [the tsar's servant inherited a snuffbox; the tsar's wife wanted the young man, he refused; she accused him of trying to seize it; The king ordered the torturer to execute the first person who came to him, and the second to hand over the head of the executed; the young man went to church; another servant appeared first; the young man brought his head to the king; the queen demanded that he be expelled; he came to a kingdom where the queen demands to force her to answer three questions, otherwise he executes her; the young man opened his snuffbox, a ball and two candlesticks jumped out of it; they begin to tell stories; 1) the ball: the robbers cut off the heads of the husband and the guest; the wife put her heads and they grew, but she was mistaken: the husband's head to the guest's body and vice versa; who should be her husband? candlesticks: whose head; princess: the head is smaller than the body, whose body; ball: the carpenter made a wooden figure, the tailor dressed, the priest revived it with prayers; who owns the person? candlesticks: priest; tailor; princess: carpenter, he made a man; ball: the one who had a mirror saw that the prince was being buried; the plane who had a carpet brought there; the owner of the medicine revived the prince; who should receive the main award? candlesticks: medicine holder; carpet; princess: mirrors; this is the third time, wedding]: 119-123; Glushakov 1904, No. 7 (Imereti) [the tsar died telling his son not to travel westward; left the box, which should be carried with you and opened in case of trouble; after reigning, the young king decided to hunt, went west, noticed a tower on the way back, told him to see what was inside; the companions come in one by one others do not return; the king goes by himself, is captured, brought to the room where she is beautiful; she must be forced to speak three times; the king opens the box, there is an apple in it, it tells; 1) a man with his wife and the younger brother spent the night on the road; the younger brother went to the village to get bread; the robbers robbed him, cut off his head; the woman's husband did the same; she found their bodies, cried; a mouse, a woman, jumped out threw a stone at him; a rat revived him with grass; a woman revived her husband and brother-in-law, but accidentally moved her heads; to whom she should belong; beauty: to the one whose head; 2) a carpenter, tailor and priest spent the night; the carpenter made the girl's figure, dressed her as a tailor, the priest revived her; who should she belong to? beautiful: to the priest; 3) the elder brother knows the future, the middle brother knows the doctor, the youngest is fast; the eldest learned about the princess's illness, the middle brother made the medicine, the youngest delivered it; the girl: let the princess get it middle; the king married a girl]: 58-62; Chikovani 1986 [when he dies, the king orders his three sons to give their three sisters to the first to ask them; the older brothers want to refuse, the youngest gives the sisters to the owl, wolf, falcon (younger); hunting after a goose, loses a horse, comes to his older sister; Owl's son-in-law says that this is not a goose, but a girl he chased unsuccessfully; Wolf son-in-law does not know how to find the girl, the Falcon son-in-law, advises to turn to the deva with a dried side; dev says that that girl threw a storm on him and his side became petrified; the young man came to the girl to talk; put it next to him a gem presented by his father with a candle; the stone begins to talk to the candle; the first story of the stone: the pop, the tailor and the carpenter spent the night in the forest, taking turns awake; the carpenter made a figure the girl, the tailor dressed her, the pop revived who she should belong to; the girl: the carpenter, he first began; the second story of the stone: the velun sees in the saucer of fate that in one country the prince is sick, the doctor prepared the medicine, the speedboat delivered, who is more important? princess: who brought medicine; the third story of the stone: the robbers killed the woman's husband and brother; she hears two pigeons talking - run a branch over the dead, they will come to life; she revived them, but accidentally changed heads; who should a woman belong to? the candle is silent again, and the princess scolds the candle for silence; young man: the princess spoke three times, must marry him]: 236-241; Armenians: Karapetyan 1979:201-202 [the girl promises to marry the one three young men who would be more distinguished; one took out an all-seeing mirror and saw that the girl was sick; the other was a flying carpet, they flew to her on it; the third was a healing apple, the girl recovered from it; married a third because he had nothing left, and the mirror and flying carpet remained with their owners], 202-203 [the older brother became a carpenter, the middle brother became a tailor, the younger brother became a scientist; returning with the goods, spent the night, guarded one by one; the carpenter carved out the girl's figure, dressed her up as a tailor, the scientist revived her; the girl must belong to him, because he gave her breath]; Azerbaijanis: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935 [ The king orders that after his death, the eldest son Melik-Jumshud take the throne, then Melik-Ahmed, then Melik-Mamed; forbids going over the mountain; MD hunted, chased the deer over the mountain, disappeared; the same MA; MM chases, spends the night with an old man; he says that the local king will give his daughter to talk to her three times; losers are kept in prison; the parrot tells MM to hide him behind the mirror, as if to turn to to the mirror, and he will tell stories in the presence of the princess; 1) the carpenter, the tailor and the mullah wandered together, alternately awake; the carpenter made the figure of a girl, dressed her tailor, the mullah revived; to whom Should I get a girl? princess: mullet; 2) at night the princess broke the mirror, the parrot hid behind the curtain; one of the comrades bought an omniscient book, another flying carpet, a third vessel from which water heals the sick; the first found out that the princess was dying, the second brought her to her, the third healed; who should she belong to? princess: to the owner of the vessel; 3) the princess tore the curtain. the parrot crawled under the sofa; the wives of the king, vizier and vekil saw the golden belt, but only Vekil's wife got off the horse to pick it up; who should belong to it ? princess: Vekil's wife; the king gave his daughter to MM, released his brothers and other prisoners]: 125-132; Stamboliev 1896, No. 6 [Jamal-Eddin caught fish in the Nile; his father is going to give it to his son a caliph, but DE He let her go out of pity; her father drove him away; the young Ibrahim offered to go with the Chin State; there the emperor will give her daughter to someone who would cure her from silence; losers are executed; in the presence of Princess I. speaks to a parrot; three princes marry Mariam; one has learned to find out what happened in a remote place, the second has obtained a flying carpet, the third has learned to revive the dead; the princess at death, who should I give it to? parrot: to the one who brought all three to her; princess: revived; the emperor demands that the princess speak again; the mullah, carpenter and tailor spend the night in the forest; one made a figure girls, the second one wore her, the third revived her; who should I give the girl? parrot: tailor; princess: mullet; I. received the princess and treasures; on the way back he offered J to divide everything; swung his sword at the princess, a lizard fell out of her mouth - the cause of the disease; I. gives all DE , says that he is the fish he saved]: 51-56 (about the same No. 7 [Tsarevich, his companion Ahmed; a snake crawls out of the princess's mouth]: 57-60); Talyshi [a rich brother has a daughter, the poor has three sons; the rich promises a daughter to one of his nephews who will bring a hundred mists in a year; the eldest became a doctor's apprentice, the middle one stayed with a man who later promised to give him something that would take him to any country; the youngest stayed with the old man; he sends him to talk to the ruler's dumb daughter; we must ask the nargile with a soft pipe to turn to the ruler, say, "Mr. Nargile, tell us a story that would make the ruler's daughter speak." Nargile will start telling. After each story you tell, ask council members to make a conclusion. None of the audience will be able to do this, and the ruler's daughter will start talking from behind the curtain. There will be a turmoil, we must return home right away; Nargile's story: there was a carpenter, a tailor and a mullah; they decided to go to another city; spent the night in the deserts, stayed in turn to guard and made the figure the woman, the tailor dressed her, the mullah asked God to revive; the audience wondered who the girl should belong to; the king's daughter said from behind the curtain that she was a carpenter; the old man tells the young man to repeat everything the next day ; "There were three brothers and all three wanted to marry their cousin. They went in different directions, earning a hundred mists to give their uncle for their daughter. Before leaving, they left a sign near one spring, thinking that whoever made the money first would pick up the tag. After a year of work, it turned out that none of the three brothers were able to raise so much money. One brother studied medicine, another received the Prophet Solomon's carpet, and the third became a fortuneteller; the doctor was the first to return to the spring, then the other two came up. No one had money, but the first said he had learned medicine, the second said he had Solomon's carpet, and the third said he had learned divination; the fortuneteller found out that a cousin had just died, the second brother gave a carpet, the doctor revived (cured); the padishah's daughter said that the girl belonged to the fortuneteller; the old man ordered to go again, ask the ruler to tie the girl to a tree, whip her, A worm will fall out in his mouth, you have to kill him, then the girl will speak; the old man sent the young man to meet his brothers, it happened as in the story; the younger brother married his uncle's daughter]: Asatryan 2005:41-50; Turks: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 291 [parents promise a daughter to three suitors; one got an all-seeing mirror and found out that the bride was dead; the other got a flying carpet, all three flew to the deceased; the third revived it with a magic scar; who should it belong to?] : 335; Tsvetinovich 1959 [shahzade breaks an old woman's jug three times out of mischief; she tells him to love Seilemez Sultan {"the one that does not say"}; shahzade and an old servant come to S.'s country; there is a fortress from the skulls of those who failed to get S. to talk; the nightingale tells him to hide him under a bench, to start talking, supposedly, to the bench; next time to the shelf, the third time to the door; after S. three times interferes in the conversation, saying who the woman should belong to; the father gives her to shahzadeh; 1) the secret knows that the padishah's daughter is sick, the doctor prepares the medicine, the speedboat delivers it; 2) three one woman's lover, she tells the first to lie in the grave, because her supposedly deceased father, a sorcerer, got up from her (etc.); 3) one carved the woman out of wood, the other dressed her, the third revived her (she must go to the revived one)]: 154-164; Kurds [servant Ahmad tells the padishah that there is sand in the core of his saber; the padishah broke his sword, there is sand, ordered to give A. a scoop of shorba, made the shorbachi heir (the one who cooks shorba); next time: there is a worm in pearls (another scoop of shorba); the horse is a cross between buffalo (the horse refused to go into the water; the third scoop); the padishah is the heir of the shorbachi (mother of the padishah: he came in to me, and then the padishah came and I kept silent); the padishah brought A. closer to him; Guria does not tell the padishah, A. and the vizier to turn over his left shoulder; the padishah turned around, he was carried away by the wind, he was in front of a toothy old woman, could not make her speak, beaten, returned, fell ill; the same with the vizier; A. tells the old woman: 1) the tailor, the carpenter and the one whose prayers please God spent the night in the forest; carpenter made the figure of a girl, put on a tailor, the third revived it; the padishah: give it to the carpenter; the old woman: to the one who revived her; 2) the uncle promises a daughter to one of the nephews who will learn a better craft; the youngest bought a parrot, he was sent home with a letter, and he brought a letter from his uncle that his daughter was dying; then the youngest undertook to resolve the dispute between the owners of the magic tablecloth, the invisible hat and the flying carpet, offered to give it to someone who He would be the first to bring the stone, take everything for himself and fly away; the brothers flew to the girl, the doctor cured her; decided to give her to the doctor; old woman: the owner of the rug! 3) the elder brother sent the youngest to pick up his wife; he was late, the elder suspected bad; the younger one stabbed himself; then the elder also stabbed himself; the wife hears the doves talking: dip their pen in the water, run over the wounds; the woman revived her brothers, but confused the heads; the padishah gave the woman to the head; the old woman: the body! became beautiful and A. got it]: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 27:264-272.

Iran - Central Asia. Turkmens: Bulatova 1985 [a fisherman catches a golden carp; his son Tair regrets and lets go to the carp; Khan comes to see a miracle, does not believe T., tells him to let him go to sea in a boat; T. sails to on the island; he is met by a young man like him (this is a carp); Khan's daughter is nema from birth, many unsuccessfully tried to cure her, they were beheaded; T. asks the girl for advice: the elder brother carved the bird, the second decorated it with feathers, the third revived it by dipping it into a spring - who should own the bird; the girl points to her mouth, T. wants to hack it, she regurgitates the snake, is speechless; T. marries her ; wants to go home; Carp sends fish, which takes T. and his wife in their mouths, sails to his father]: 527-531; Stebleva 1969, No. 46 [the son and brother of the caravanbashi leave home, taking with them a parrot bought for money ; he knows everything and gives advice; says that the padishah's daughter has not talked since birth; we must tell her how the carpenter, tailor and mullah spent the night in the steppe; one made a wooden figure, the other dressed it, the third revived it; we must start an argument about who it should belong to; the padishah's daughter could not stand it and said it was a mullah; the next night, the story of how the older brother learned to guess, middle bought a goblet of live water, the youngest met three devas fighting over the flying carpet; fired arrows, told the devas to run after them, flew on the carpet to his middle brother, and the devas continued to fight and killed each other friend; the older brother finds out that their father is dying, the youngest brought them to their father, the middle brother has cured; the dumb one argues, says that the one who got the rug is more important than others; the son of the caravanbashi received the girl]: 247- 257; Bukhara Arabs [the girl promises to teach her royal son how to read and write in a month; the young man wants to marry her; the emir had to be allowed, although the girl is from a poor family; every day the emir's son beat his wife; her the mother understood why her daughter was losing weight; gave her an image of peri to show her husband; he would go looking for peri and would disappear - you would get rid of him; the emir's son came to the garden, three doves came down, became human, offered to play, he lost everything; he came to the city of the peri in the portrait; she gave it to the hangman, but the hangman did not execute him, but put him to work at the butter mill; he sent a letter to his father asking him to kill his wife; the messenger handed the letter to the father of the wife of the emir's son; she took the letter away, replaced her with a request to take care of his wife; the emir took his daughter-in-law, dressed well; she put on men's clothes, went to Peri; knowing peri art, beat the peri-doves, they promised to help her; to beat that peri, you have to make the first move; then come with her to a room with three beds; (that woman must be talked); under each there will be one of the peri; we must ask the red bed to tell a fairy tale; the peri hiding under it tells; the khatib, the carpenter, the tailor, the jeweler stopped for the night; the carpenter made a doll, dressed the tailor, the jeweler dressed up, the khatyb asked God to put his soul into her and she came to life; who should I award a woman? peri: khatyba; since she spoke first, she had to agree to become the wife of an imaginary man; she promised to do so after the bath; the wife sent her husband instead, opened herself to him, returned to her father-in-law, the emir; When the emir's son and his Peri wife arrived, he sent a letter to his father asking him to kill his first wife; he intended to do so, but she asked for permission to give her husband the clothes he had taken off in the bathhouse; son The emir lived his life with two wives]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 35:230-234; Baluchi: Dames 1892, No. 6 [the king's four servants were guards; the carpenter was the first to watch, carved the girl's figure out of wood; Darzi dressed her , the jeweler decorated, the seyid prayed to God, she came to life; the judge awarded her to Darzi, because the carpenter and jeweler were only engaged in their usual craft, and if the girl is awarded to Seyid, they will claim reward for each successful completion of the prayer]: 524-545 (=Porozhnyakov 1989:89); Porozhnyakov 1989 [three sons of one brother have come to marry another's daughter; her father will give her to whoever brings a more valuable item; one bought a reviving beads, the other bought a flying carpet, the third an all-seeing mirror; the owner of the mirror sees the girl dead, the brothers fly in on a flying carpet, the owner of her beads revives; the king gives his daughter to the owner of the mirror]: 48-49; Tajiks [when a childless padishah had a son, he adopted a shepherd's son born on the same day; the prince shot a chicken; when he fell down, that she smeared the old woman's threads, she told the prince to fall in love with Farishtamokh, who lives at sunset; the prince and the shepherd's son go in search, stay with an old woman; at night half of the city is flooded with light: this F. looked at the side; F. sets the condition: to sit quietly at night without falling asleep or letting her sleep; the padishah's son falls asleep, the next time the shepherd's son comes; brings the doll and begins to talk to her, answering for her in a thin voice; 1) the pharaoh's daughter fell ill; the fortuneteller found out about this, the master made a flying horse, the witch doctor cured, who should I give the girl? F. intervenes in the dispute: give the girl to the witch doctor; 2) the nightingale asks the padishah to let him go out of the cage for two days, promises to bring an apricot seed from which a tree with the fruits of immortality will grow; performs promised; the gardener brought an apricot that fell to the ground; it was given to an old man who died; the padishah executed a nightingale; but another old man ate an apricot and became younger; it turned out that a snake had injected venom into the fallen fruit; F.: most of all the padishah is to blame; 3) (the third story is about a girl married to an unloved one); F. married a shepherd, and the padishah's son went home and never married]: Amonov 1990:203-214; mountain Tajiks: Semenov 1900 (1) (Karategin) [the artist, merchant and mullah spent the night in the desert; the artist stayed awake, carved the girl's figure out of wood, woke up the merchant, lay down; he wanted to hug the girl, realized that she was wooden, put it on clothes on her; then the merchant stood up, prayed to God, the girl came to life; all three began to argue about who to take the girl; the judge gave her to the mullah]: 22-23; 1900 (2) (Darvaz, Vanja Valley) [about 1900 (1), plug-in episode]: 2-3; Schugnans: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 34 [a man asks three brothers if they saw his camel blind to his left eye; the brothers indicate where the camel went, but They refuse to find it; a man leads them to a judge: if they have not seen the camel, how can they know where it went? answer: someone ate grass on the right side of the road but not on the left; the brothers came to the king: rice in pilaf smells like dead, meat smells like dog, and the king is illegitimate; seller: I sowed rice where there was a cemetery; a butcher: a female fed the lamb; the king poured hot barley into the mother's palm; she admitted that her husband ordered to congratulate him if a son was born, but to kill his wife and baby if he had a daughter; people they said that a rich man with only sons promised to kill his wife if she did not give birth to a daughter; both women exchanged babies; brothers went in search of the beauty they saw in a dream; the elder buys an all-seeing mirror, the middle one is a camel moving at lightning speed, the youngest is a bowl that revives the dead; they see a dying princess in the mirror, instantly get to her, revive her; the girl chooses to be her husband whoever revived her], 43 [the princess will marry someone who wakes her up three times at night and that she likes it; a hashish smoker pretends to talk to his hookah and he answers himself; first story: a carpenter, a weaver and a scientist spent the night in the forest, taking turns guarding; the carpenter carved the figure, the weaver dressed it, the scientist revived it; the girl says that the lively one should belong to the scientist, and she should belong to the storyteller ; second story: a diva stole the princess, a farsighted saw it, a shooter hit a diva with an arrow, who could reach out, caught the girl in the air; the girl caught it, and she hit the narrator; wedding]: 327-330, 374- 378; Yazgulyam [a girl will marry someone who wakes her up and puts her to sleep three times a night; losers are beheaded; Orphan, addressing herself, tells three stories, each ending the questions the girl is trying to answer; 1) the princess and the son of the vizier agreed to marry, but the king gave his daughter for the judge's son; after the wedding feast, the judge's son asks why the princess sighs; she told and he let her go to her lover; on the way she got to the robbers, but when she heard her story, the chieftain let her go; having learned about her husband's nobility, the vizier's son gave the princess a lot of good things and sent her back; 2) three The prince's brother fell in love with a girl; the vizier advised to give everyone a tanga, and whoever turns them into a hundred tanga will get a girl; one exchanged his coin for a spinning wheel, which is three-year-old the path runs in three hours; the other to the all-seeing mirror; the third to the bowl from which the water will resurrect the deceased; one saw that the girl was dead, the other brought all three to her, the third revived her; 3) three craftsmen spend the night in the forest, each one watches in turn; the first carved the figure out of the trunk, the second dressed it, the third turned to God and revived it; the girl replies that the girl who came alive must marry the one who wore her, and she She will marry a storyteller herself]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 44:379-383; Persians: Osmanov 1987 [a young fisherman asks an old man for help pull out the net; but the fish is too heavy; the fisherman went to call someone else; at that time the fish leaned out of the water and laughed; the man let her go; the fisherman drove him away; met a young man named Mota; and he himself was Moti; Mota began to get meat and Moti sold it; Mota ordered to go to the Sultan and promise him to get his dumb daughter to talk; teaches him to put the padishah's daughter behind the curtain and ask him to talk flowers on the carpet; 1) the first story of flowers; instead of money, the gardener asks promise the vizier that when his daughter gets married, she will first come to his garden; her husband let her go, the gardener too; on the way back she met robbers; when she found out what was going on, the robber also let her go ; who is nobler? Sultan's daughter: husband; 2) second story; the sons of three viziers want to marry the Sultan's daughter; one bought a bowl, the water from which revives the dead, the second - a flying carpet, the third - an all-seeing mirror; when he saw that the princess is dead, the young men flew in and brought her back to life; who should she be? princess: the owner of the mirror; Moti got the Shah's daughter; Mota tells me not to touch her for three nights; then say he should have the wedding at home; reached the place where Moti first saw Moti; mota took out his sword and told him to share everything he had acquired equally; Moti swung his sword, and a worm fell out of his wife's mouth; Mota: take everything for yourself; if the worm stayed in your wife, you would fall ill; I'm that fish released; Mota disappeared]: 230- 235; Romaskevich 1934a, No. 47 [the servant refuses to tell Mr. a dream; he complained to the Shah; the servant did not tell him either; the Shah ordered the man to be expelled from the city; in another city the king will give his daughter to someone who will make her speak; whoever tries but fails is killed; a man tells how a carpenter, tailor and a pious man spent the night; the carpenter carved the figure, the tailor dressed it, the pious turned to To God, the figure came to life; the princess: the right is on the side of the one who revived; the next day a story about three princes; the vizier will give his daughter to someone who is smarter in the trade; the elder bought a book in which it is written who died and where, the middle one is a flying carpet, the youngest is a bowl, the water from which will revive the dead; the eldest learned about the death of the vizier's daughter; the brothers flew on the carpet by plane, the youngest revived the girl; the princess : it must belong to the one who revived her; the story of the third day; the learned brother came to visit the cruel one; he called him to the bathhouse, but the guest refused; when he returned, he accused his brother of trying while he was washing, seduce his wife; brothers got into a fight, cut off each other's heads; the wife put their heads, but accidentally changed, the angel revived the brothers; who should a woman belong? princess: to whoever wants her; the princess's wedding with the storyteller]: 233-238; Marzolph 1984, No. 653 (Isfahan, Khuzestan, Fars, Khorasan) [the first of three brothers revives people turned into stone, the second in the image the bird gets a vessel with the soul of a diva, the third destroys the diva, frees the girl he has kidnapped; who should she belong to?] , 653A [three brothers marry the princess; the king will give his daughter to someone who brings a great curiosity; the first gets an omniscient book, the second a flying carpet, the third a reviving potion; the first learns that the princess is dead, the second one on her carpet brings her to her, the third brings her back to life; who should she belong to?] , 653C [a carpenter makes a female figure, a tailor dresses her, a devout person revives her; who should a woman belong to?] : 128-129; Bakhtiyars [a shepherd sends his mother to marry him to Kadhud's daughter; mother: K. will not give you a daughter; K. agrees that the shepherd will take the letter to one city and give an answer; on the way a shepherd smells cooked rice (chilau); becomes a shopkeeper's apprentice; notices severed heads on the roof of the royal palace; shopkeeper: the king promises his daughter to someone who wakes her up without touching or touching her talking to her; the losers are executed; the young man takes a mullah with him, tells stories as if addressing him; at night, three travelers took turns awake; the carpenter carved the figure, the tailor dressed it, the mullah turned to God and revived; to whom does man belong? mullah: mullah; young man: tailor; princess: carpenter; princess signs that the young man won; second story: a cruel brother suspects good in trying to take possession of his property or wife, attacks, brothers kill each other; a cruel wife asks God to come to life; confuses brothers' heads in the dark; those argue who a woman should belong to; a mullah: to the one whose body; to the one whose head; the princess agrees with the mullah; again gives a receipt; demands to guess what is in the box; if he does not guess, he will not receive it; the young man: oranges, lemons and pears; takes the third receipt and the necklace, brings it to the king, receives princess]: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 37:244-250; Uzbeks: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1) [the old man caught a goldfish, went to tell the khan, his son let go of the fish, the khan accused them of lying, ordered the young man to be tied up, let him go to sea in a boat; the boat was nailed to the island, another young man freed the bound man, he looks like him in everything; the old shepherd says that a distant khan has a dumb daughter, whoever cures her, will marry her, who does not he can, he will be executed; the young man from the island goes first, says: the elder brother carved the wooden bird as if alive, the middle brother decorated it with rare feathers, the younger one revived who owns the bird; the girl kept silent , the young man swung his sword, the girl belched the snake, the young man killed her; the girl spoke, gave a ring; the young man gave it to the fisherman, said he was that fish; returned to sea; the khan gave his daughter against his will fisherman; the fish sent the young to the young man's father, keeping them in their mouth]: 243-247; Rogov 1980 [the padishah tells him to teach his son to read and write in 40 days; the poor's daughter Atyn Oy teaches; the young man marries her, but does not feed her well , throws her to zindon every day; AO's mother teaches her to offer her husband to get Akbilyak-peri; her father will give it to someone who makes her speak three times; A. beats the young man in ashichki, makes him a slave; he sends a letter home, AO in men's clothes beats three peri, who promise to help; hiding under three beds alone A. tells stories; after each A. can't help but comment, i.e. three times talks; one story: a carpenter carved a doll, a chasher decorated it, a tailor dressed it, it came to life; A. says it must belong to a carpenter; AO changes clothes with her husband, who marries A. receives the kingdom; everything is revealed; the padishah gives the kingdom of AO, sends his son to work at the mill]: 55-71.

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians [each of the king's three sons wants to marry his pupil; the king promises to hand over the throne to whoever brings the curiosity; the elder buys a spyglass, the middle one buys a flying carpet, the youngest is an apple that cures diseases; the eldest sees that their chosen one is sick, the middle one takes them to her bed, the youngest cures them; they argue who should marry her]: Lebitte 1965:108-200; Latvians [The best thing. The princess promises a hand to whoever brings the best thing. One brother buys an apple from a junk collector that can heal a sick person, the other a mirror in which you can see everything, and the third buys a saddle where you can fly wherever you want. In the mirror, the brothers see that the princess is sick, they go after her on the saddle, heal her with an apple, everyone wants to marry her]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 653A: 308; Finns, Estonians, Western Sami, Danes: Uther 2004 (1), No. 653-653B: 358-359; Norwegians [four brothers each learned an art (one shooter, another thief, a third predictor, and etc.); their father tests them; thanks to their abilities, they return the princess stolen by the dragon and argue who she should belong to]: Hodne 1984, No. 653:148; Icelanders [one king has three a son and the other a daughter; her father is dead; the king asks the princess which of his sons she wants to marry, but it is difficult for her to make a choice; the king decides to marry her the one who will get the most valuable thing in a year treasure; the eldest bought all-seeing glass from another princess; the middle one bought clothes from a dwarf that you can instantly fly anywhere; the youngest bought an apple from a merchant that treats sick and revives the dead; the elder saw the princess on her deathbed, the middle one brought all three to her, the youngest brought her back to life; no choice could be made, so the king invited his sons to shoot at the target; the eldest missed badly, the middle one almost hit, and the youngest's arrow went somewhere else; the older one went to a foreign country, the middle married the princess and went to her kingdom, and the youngest also decided to leave; in the woods stopped at a stone; 10 horsemen appeared and took him to the city; it was ruled by a young queen; said that she fell in love with a young man and wanted to give him her kingdom; he married her; meanwhile, to the old a woman came to the king, trusted him and married her, although the courtiers were against it; she assured the king that his youngest son was preparing for his death - let him lure him to him; he also came to the king ordered to complete three assignments in a year, otherwise he will execute; 1) get a tent that can accommodate a hundred people, but which can be taken in hand; 2) water that cures any disease; 3) bring a person who is different not to anyone else in the world; when the youngest son returned to his wife, she says that she has such a tent; the water is in a dark cave nearby, guarded by 7 lions and 3 vipers; the wife went to cave, threw lions at the ox and snakes at the pig; brought water; an unusual person is her brother, who owns an island nearby; he is three feet tall, a beard 30 cubits, one eye in his forehead; he has a dog face and cat eyes; the princess's father conceived him with a giantess; you must come to him in royal vestments, be very kind and give him the ring he had long wanted to have; the dwarf is glad they have come to the king; the dwarf killed the queen with a pole he used to move, and she immediately turned into a terrible giantess; the king was brought to life with living water; he apologized to his son and handed him the kingdom]: Poestion 1884, No. 14:103-118; the Swedes [the giant kidnapped the princess, the king promised half the kingdom and the hand of his daughter to the savior; six brothers each began to learn some art; 1) build a ship; 2) control it; 3) climb a glass mountain; 4) steal - could steal an egg from under the magpie; 5) create the night behind, the day ahead; 6) shoot accurately; the brothers got the princess, the fifth blinded the giant- The stalker, having created the night, killed him with an arrow; the king and the princess herself do not know who to choose; the brothers and then the princess rose to heaven one by one, became the Pleiades]: Balzamo 2011, No. 16:26-31.

Volga - Perm. Marie [the poor man's wife gave birth to 7 twin sons; the king went, became godfather, left money, told his brothers to come to him when they were 10 years old; each name was Semyon; brothers came to the king, no one cannot say what to teach them; everyone has chosen their own job: a blacksmith, a carpenter, a tailor, a hunter, a doctor, a witch doctor; the seventh wants to learn gypsy business - buy, sell, change; the king sends them to study and tells him to return in another 10 years; the brothers undertake to return the king's missing daughter Anna; the blacksmith put a pole to the sky, where Anna is from the three-headed dragon, the thief stole her, the carpenter built a ship; the dragon pursues , the hunter shot him, he fell on the coral, it split, but sewed the tailor; Anna was touched with his wing, she died, the doctor cured; the brothers argue who to give the princess; the king did not give anyone, but made them big ministers]: Chetkarev 1941, No. 7:153-155; Udmurts: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 653:234; Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2009, No. 11 [three brothers want the same girl; father marries the one who will bring the most amazing thing; the eldest bought an all-seeing mirror, saw that the girl was dying; the middle one was a plane carpet, they flew on it; the youngest made her healthy by giving an apple; who should a girl belong to?] : 55-56; Yarmukhametov 1957 [the diva kidnapped the sister of three brothers, the mother promises her sewn zilyan to the one who will return her; the elder brother smells the diva's house, they take their sister, fall asleep, the divas grabs the girl, carries her through the air; the middle brother hit the diva with an arrow, the younger one picks up her fallen sister; the mother does not know who to give the Zilyan to]: 37-38; Bashkirs [the tsar will give his daughter to the one who gets the best gift; one Eget bought an all-seeing mirror, the second a flying carpet, the third a healing apple; the first saw the princess dying, the second brought them to her, the third healed her; she was passed off as the third]: Barag 1992, No. 80:131- 132.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Malyuga 1970 [=Sidelnikov 1964:106-111; three brothers find a stove with the image of a beautiful woman and an inscription in which the beauty promises to marry the one who will deliver this stove to her; bring the stove of Khan's daughter Aislou; she promises to choose the one who will bring the most outlandish gift; the eldest buys an all-seeing mirror, the middle one buys a flying carpet, the youngest buys a comb that heals wounds and revives the dead (he bought it from the monster, paying for a piece of his meat); one sees that A. is dead, the second brings them to her, the third revives them; A. and her father cannot choose, the beggar chooses A. the youngest as suitors, because he paid more than others (his flesh)]: 16-22; Tursunov 1983 [Khan's daughter Kanshaim is carried away by the Black Bird; a fisherman named Salim has seven sons, each with a special gift; they are brought to the khan; one can fly, the second knocks down a bird with an arrow, the third catches the fallen girl out of the water, the fourth built a wall around to protect against the dragon, the fifth dug an underground passage, the sixth found his way home, the seventh He fed everyone; the elder awarded the girl to a swimmer, because he was the first to hold her in his arms]: 273-275; Kyrgyz: Brudny 1954 [each of the seven brothers is in any way superior to other people (sharpshooter, a ranger who knows what is being done in this world and in this world, a food earner, a crossover of water barriers; according to the younger, the land is parting, he can hide people from enemies; Khan Bolbos's daughter has disappeared; a guessing man says that she was carried away by a black bird on the orders of Khan Toybos; the food earner fed everyone; the sailor made a ship, they sailed along the river; the girl who could run on water grabbed the girl; the shooter shot the chasing bird; the last brother told the earth to part, they left the troops sent in pursuit; they returned the khan's daughter; no one can say who to give the girl to]: 69-72 (= Brudny, Eshmambetov 1963:61-65, =197:113-116, =198:116-119); Ledenev 1987 [Khan has a son Meentebek, the vizier has a daughter Akyljan; the parents decided to marry them, but M. refused; A. advised him to get his hand Khan's daughter Zhannat; she will marry someone who will make her speak three times; M. could not, put in zindan; A. dressed as a man, came to J.; tells three stories 1) spending the night in the forest, the carpenter carved the girl's figure, dressed up the tailor, the blacksmith made jewelry, revived literacy; the elders decided to give the girl to the one who first decided to create it; Khan's daughter: we must give literacy; 2) three brothers want one a girl; her father will marry her to the one who brings the most valuable thing; the eldest gets a flying carpet, the middle one gets an all-seeing mirror, the youngest a reviving apple; the first sees that the girl is dying, the second brought them to her, the third gave an apple; people: we must give it to the first person who saw it; Khan's daughter: who gave the apple; 3) three decided to help the girl who was forcibly married; the cunning man took her outside, the runner took it away, the batyr blocked the way to the chase; elders: let the cunning man take her; J.: runner; A. gave M. her clothes and he married J. instead of her; told A. to get out; then she asked: let M. tell how he managed to get J. to talk; J. refused to be M.'s wife; his father handed over the khanate not to his son, but to A., and J. became a vizier]: 135-141; Kyrgyz [one brother bought an all-seeing mirror, the other a reviving mirror the dead are a cure, the third is a camel as fast as a bullet; the first saw that the king's daughter was dying, and the father promised the savior her hand and all the treasures; the brothers immediately arrived on a camel and cured the girl that medicine; everyone decided that the camel carried three and its main strength; the princess was given to the camel owner]: Muchnik 1944:58-59; Karakalpaks: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:102-105 [the girl promises to go out for the one of the three brothers who will buy the best gift; the eldest bought a flying carpet, the middle one bought the whole healing apple, the youngest is an all-seeing mirror; sees that the girl is dying, the brothers arrive on the carpet- On the plane, after eating an apple, the girl recovers; the girl chooses her younger brother who bought a mirror], 150-151 [the carpenter, jeweler and mullah spend the night on the road; the carpenter carved the doll, the jeweler dressed and decorated, the mullah revived; they are still sitting around the fire arguing who owns the girl]; Uighurs [five poor craftsmen go to look for work; a carpenter cut a tree, a carver carved a girl out of it, a painter painted, dressed as a tailor, the fifth prayed, then the girl came to life; they ask the khan to judge whose wife she should become, he takes her for himself]: Kabirov 1963:97-98 (=Aliyeva, Kabirov 1989:42-44).

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans: Vatagin 1970, No. 23 [the son of a rich bay, the son of a not so rich bay and the son of a poor man marry Chechen-kys; she promises to marry the one who will bring the best gift in three months; the son of a rich man bought a self-propelled cart, the son of a less wealthy man bought an all-seeing mirror, the poor man's son saw medicinal herbs; one saw in the mirror that C. was dead, the other let his cart go to the funeral, the poor man's son revived girl; C. agreed to marry the one who suffered the most losses; the Bayi sons remained with their jewelry, and the poor man's son spent revitalizing powder; C. married him]: 171-174; Hadahane 1969 [ the eldest of the four brothers carved a birch doll, the second dressed it, the third moistened her lips with milk, put food next to her, the youngest the fourth kissed her, she came to life; the girl said that her eldest father, the second mother, third brother, younger Biche-ool husband]: 123-125 (published in Taxami 1988:166-167); 1984:23-27 [Karata Khan's youngest daughter has disappeared; old Adygan agrees to send nine in search of his nine sons, gives each an arrow; the first will find a bug on the seven-year trail; the second will see a needle on the edge of the earth; the third can pick up and carry the sarlyk to the end of the world; the fourth will climb any rock; the fifth will quietly steal the pen from the magpie's tail; the sixth will hit any target; the seventh will catch a stone falling from the sky; the eighth will build a hut of any size; the youngest ninth will dig an underground passage; brothers together they find and carry away a girl kidnapped by the Khan-Kereti bird; the old man orders to give the girl for the one who worked the most: he dug an underground passage from a shelter built by his eighth brother; girl: I'll go beyond Sixth, he spent an arrow hitting the bird's claw to release the girl, the rest of the arrows still have], 83-86 [the girl promises to marry the one of the three brothers who buys the most useful item; one buys a sleigh that will be delivered anywhere, the second is an all-seeing mirror, the third is a resurrecting medicine; the second sees that the beauty is dead, the first brings her to her, the third revives her; the girl: a sleigh and the mirror remained with the owners, but there is no more medicine, it will marry the third]; Buryats (the place of spare is not known) [the carpenter made the girl's figure, the painter painted her, the one who knew how to grow meat, revived her breathing life; the people decided that the first would be the girl's father, the second her husband, the third the mother, the fourth doctor; the girl was given to a painter]: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 25:299-301; the Mongols [six brothers separated to study; five returned: clairvoyant, who knows what is happening in the world, capable travel to any place that becomes invisible, fulfills any wishes; found out that the sixth brother married a beautiful woman, they are threatened by snakes on the island; they have defeated the snake, returned brother and wife; each argues that the beauty should be his; she offers to become stars, she will be Venus, the comet brothers, will meet once a year]: Skorodumova 2003:26-28.

Japan. Japanese (two entries: southern Honshu, Kyushu) [three sons do not plow, but practice archery; for this, their father drove them away; the eldest became a carpenter, the middle son became a shooter, the youngest a thief; the cannibal kidnapped the princess; while he sleeps, with his head on her lap, the thief replaced her with a doll made by a carpenter; the shooter shot the ogre when he set off in pursuit; the princess's father rewarded the brothers; var: the girl drowned; the seer found out about this, the swimmer took her out, the doctor revived her]: Ikeda 1971, No. 563:159-160.