E31a1. Who will be the husband of the created girl? ATU 653C.

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Three (rarely four or two) men are involved in creating a girl: one carves a figure out of wood, the other dresses her, and the third brings her to life. Who should a lively one belong to?

Swahili, Malgash, Sudanese Arabs, Arabs and Berbers Morocco, Algerian Arabs, Kabila, Tunisian Arabs, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Arameans, Viets, Khmers, Khmers, Oraons, Rajastans, Kannadas, Greeks, Kalmyks, Adygs, Abkhazians, Nogais, Stavropol Turkmens, Kumyks, Tsakhurs, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Talysh, Turks, Kurds, Persians, Turkmens, Bukhara Arabs, Baluchis, Bakhtiyars, Persians, mountain Tajiks (Karategin, Darvaz), Shugnans, Yazgulyams, Uzbeks, Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Tuvans, Buryats.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Swahili [Makame carved a woman out of wood, mwallim read the Koran over her, she came to life; she was stolen; they could not get a word from her; M. came to those people and asked the bird which of the three men the woman's real owner; 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 servant saw her, told the Sultan, he took the woman; M. sent the bird to pick up his property; the woman gave away all the jewelry; M. said it wasn't all; it gave the talisman, turned into a tree again]: Werner 1909:450-454.

Sudan - East Africa. Malgashi [God created two men and a woman, each living separately without knowing about the 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; God called the first man father, the second husband, and the woman the mother of a former wooden figure; two couples got married and people descended from them]: Parrinder 1967:43; Sudanese Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, NO. 653C: 358-360.

North Africa. Kabila, Arabs of Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt: El-Shamy 2004, No. 653C: 358-360; the Berbers of Morocco (Fez) [the sultan is afraid that his son will take his throne; all boys, whom wives give birth, sends away; one 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 someone to make her speak first; unsuccessful applicants are beheaded; 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 heads; younger, Moulay M'Hammed is smarter than others; hears two doves (fairies) talking; when the test begins, you should read Dalil el Khairat's book out loud; when you close it, ask one of those present to tell a story; the first story; the carpenter, the merchant and the Talib spent the night in the open air, taking turns at night; the carpenter made a female figure out of wood, the merchant dressed her up, Talib turned to God and revived; who should belong to it; MM: carpenter; princess: Talibu; retest the next night, second story; burnus maker, merchant and scientist the man set off; before that, the first borrowed money from the second one for the road; in the desert, the 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 the 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 a 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; Algerian Arabs [the king forbids three sons approach the mountain, even puts guards around; after his death, the elder prince goes there, sees the gazelle, pursues it, 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 missing people return, but the princess is silent; her uncle calls magicians and wise men, but no one can get the silent person to talk, everyone is cut off head; one prince accidentally peeked and overheard how the carpenter carved 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 is must belong; everyone is silent; then the princess says to the one who revived the figure; wedding]: Filleul de Pétigny 1951:191-209.

Western Asia. Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia: El-Shamy 2004, No. 653C: 358-360; 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 a daughter who is always silent; the one who does not fulfill the condition loses property; older brothers cannot get the girl to talk, lose money, stay in town to work part-time; Ali, left with a girl and a witness, tells how the faqih, carpenter and tailor spent the night in the open air, they guarded one by one; the carpenter carved the girl's figure, the tailor wore her, the fakir revived her; the witness replies that the girl should be received by the one who carved her; the girl shouts that no who revived her; the Sultan ordered the old woman to give her daughter Ali; Ali saw his brothers as servants in the inn; asked the owner to tell them to bring dinner for four; they recognized his brother; he added them in the coffee of a sleeping pill, quietly put his tamga on their backs; everyone returned to their father; the brothers said that they were the ones who got the gold, and the eldest got his wife, but Ali killed everything; 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; Aramaians [three friends, priest, carpenter and tailor, set off; overnight alternately awake; the carpenter carved the girl's figure, the tailor dressed her, the priest turned to God and revived her; the judge awarded her to the priest]: Macler 1908, No. 2:331-333.

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 [four friends learned from Taxil: one to make an object human, the other to make it perfect, the third to turn an object into human flesh, the fourth to revive; they turned the deck into human flesh into a girl; king: looking mother, beauty-husband, tree into flesh brother, father who breathed life]: Gorgoniev 1973:256-257.

South Asia. Ho [during the hero festival (sowing time, when rice flour is made into pies and used to paint home walls), the eldest of four brothers carved a figure out of wood and left it at night against the wall of the house; the third brother covered it with clay, shaped it, the second painted it and decorated it, the younger one turned to God and he revived her; the brothers argue who should belong to a woman; the elders decided that the older brother; since then, ho have been celebrating hero]: Halder 1918, No. 21:323-324; Oraons [carpenter, jeweler, weaver, cinnabar salesman spent the night in a deserted place, one by one awake; the carpenter made the figure of a woman, 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, her friends began to argue Whose is she; 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 overnight and stayed awake one by one; the carpenter carved out the girl's figure, the tailor dressed her, the jeweler decorated her, the brahman revived; a wise peasant said that the carpenter and brahman were her fathers, the tailor was her uncle (the uncle prepares clothes for the bride), and the groom gave jewelry to the bride; the girl married a jeweler]: Bystrov et al. 1962:154-156; kannada [the princess tells her father to build a 7-story tower for her and put up four gates; one has a necklace, then a cobra, a bear, a tiger; whoever talks to her will marry her; two friends stopped, the maids liked it; they taught them not to look at the necklace, give the cobra an egg, honey to the bear, meat to the tiger; one looked at it, and the other passed, as the guards taught, began to tell the princess story; father and brother promised a daughter/sister to marry two different young men; they appeared at the same time; the girl was so excited that she rushed into the well; one rushed after her and the other went to pilgrimage; who should her husband be? girl: who rushed after her into the well; second story; three friends at the night take turns awake; the carpenter carved the girl's figure, the artist painted it, the jeweler dressed in gold jewelry; if she came to life, who should it belong to? girl: jeweler; third story; teacher beats a girl at school; she asks why; he tells her to promise to come to him first when she gets married; she promised he stopped hitting her; when she came out married, told her husband about it and he let her go; four robbers attacked her on the way; she promised to give her gold jewelry when she went back; they agreed to wait; the same tiger agreed to eat later; the teacher did nothing to her and let her go; on the way back, the tiger and robbers named her sister and did no harm; who is nobler? girl: husband; thus the girl broke the silence three times, the king passed her off as a young man]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 62:167-172.

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, which 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.

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 younger one picked up the girl who was falling; who is more worthy of the award ?] : Egorov 1978:34-37; Adygi [=Kerashev 1957:194-209; Psha Zedem has only son Zedeb (Z.), his father holds him for a lazy and a fool; hearing his father's words, Z. tamed the best horse and became the first among young people; his father married; according to 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 figure that came to life will serve each of the three for the same number of days; 2) the one who 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; the 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; tomorrow it was S.'s turn to fight with 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 people into his service]: Maksimov, Kerashev 1953:91-116; Abkhazians [carpenter, tailor, goldsmith and mullah are wandering; at the night, the carpenter made the figure of a girl, dressed her tailor, the jeweler decorated, the mullah revived; the village government gave the girl to the mullah]: Shakryl 1975, No. 86:389-393; the Nogais [Batyrbek, the son of poor Bolat, is ashamed that his horse is worse than others; Bolat finds tulpar's trail, exchanges him from a beggar (tulpar looks like a thin nag); Khan gives grain to feed tulpara; Batyrbek wins it at the races, but, contrary to his father's warning, unties it on the reins the last knot, the horse rushes, dives into the sea, Batyrbek goes ashore; finds the clothes of three girls; promises to return if the girls help make the daughter of Khan Olmes Soleimes ("enduring Khan is a non-speaking daughter"); the girls take Batyrbek to Khan, the eldest hides in S.'s fur coat, tells a fairy tale, at the end an answer must be given, Batyrbek must deliberately answer incorrectly, then S. will speak; then the same: talking kumgan; talking golden bowl; the story of the fur coat: three brothers take turns herding sheep; the elder carves the girl out of wood, the middle one dresses her, the younger sprinkles infusion herbs, revives; Batyrbek replies that the girl should be taken by 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 the belly, the third hind legs of the bull; the elder brother goes to the middle brother all day, they both go to the youngest to find out if the bull is sick; the bull is healthy; they take him to a watering hole; the bull drank the sea, the island remains, he is fish, she swallowed the bull, the eagle took the fish, sat on the goat's horns, an old man sat in the shade of his beard, the bull's shoulder blade hit his eye, the old man's daughter swam in a boat in his father's eye, pulled out her shoulder blade, threw it out the door; the caravans stopped on the shoulder blade, the ground under them trembled - it was the fox who gnawed on its shoulder blade; the woman killed the fox with a rocker arm, left; 99 caravans ripped off the fox's skin from one side, but they could not turn the fox over; the woman returned, turned the fox over with her toe, 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. - that child; the story of the bowl: the mother of nine sons sews a skullcap, answers everyone what is for him; tells them 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 from a chip; a boat out of a chip; a house made of one brick; feeds everyone; digs an underground passage; a thief); the khan asks the brothers to find his missing daughter; brothers find out that Azaa took her away, hit him with an arrow in the eye, return the girl; Batyrbek replies that his younger brother, S., who is the eldest, should receive the skullcap; Batyrbek marries Soleimas]: Nogai 1979, No. 18:86-102; Stavropol Turkmens [the fisherman caught a golden carp; left his son to follow the net, went to call the Shah to see the miracle; the son regretted the carp and let him go; the carp was gone 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, met a good man there; together they learned from the shepherds that the local king would give his silent daughter to someone who could do it get to talk; well done, he came to the princess, began to tell how his older brother carved a girl out of wood, his middle brother 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 the younger brother; the princess opened her mouth for the first time and said that he was the youngest; they told the king that he had come and asked the young man where his brothers were; that: 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; out of fear, a snake came out of her mouth, the young man hacked her; well done, explained that he was the carp the only son of the king of fish, he was the one who supported the boat so as not to drown; well done, went to sea, sent a big fish, she transported the young man with his wife and property to his father's house; the young man told the Shah, who forgave him, arranged a wedding and gave him a house]: A.K. 1875, No. 2:14-18; Kumyks [when he dies, the father bequeaths his son to cook pilaf every day and leave it in the corner in the stall; the young man did so until he spent used all the money for pilaf and sold all the property; began to see who was taking the pilaf; followed the woman who appeared; it turned out to be Ginny; she became the wife of the young man's father when his mother died, she has two children - the young man's half-brothers; Ginny tells him to stay in the room, not to go into the other; the young man violated the ban, there is a portrait of a beautiful woman; Ginny gave the young man equipment and a horse (more precisely, she says what she will give, 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 the candlestick and tells stories in response; the story of the candlestick ; three friends are in love with one girl; her father gives them money; whoever buys the best thing will get his daughter; one bought a horse that quickly travels any distance; the second is a spyglass, in which everything can be seen; the third is a reviving elixir; one saw that the girl died, the other carried her on his horse, the third revived her; who should she 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; Tsakhurs [the king went 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 it go; once offended a black slave, who 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 (he guarded the prince's peace 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, the carpenter and the mullah spent the night on the road, took turns awake; the carpenter slaughtered the girl, her tailor clothed, the mullah revived; who will 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; Georgians: Bogoyavlensky 1894b, No. 6 [the tsar's servant inherited a snuffbox to his son; the tsar's wife wanted the young man, he refused; she accused him of trying to seize it; tsar 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 [the tsar died telling his son not to travel westward; left the box he needed carry it with him and open it in case of trouble; when he reigned, the young king decided to hunt, went west, noticed a tower on the way back, told him to see what was inside; the satellites came in one by one and did not they return; the king goes by himself, is captured, brought to the room where she is beautiful; she must be made to speak three times; the king opens the box, there is an apple in it, it tells; 1) a man with his wife and 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 corpses, cried; a mouse jumped out, the woman threw it at him stone; a rat revived it with grass; a woman revived her husband and brother-in-law, but accidentally moved her heads; to whom it should belong; beauty: to the one whose head; 2) the carpenter, tailor and priest spent the night; a carpenter he made the girl's figure, dressed her as a tailor, the priest revived it; who should it 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 has made the medicine, the younger one 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 is a 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 [the older brother became a carpenter, the middle brother became a tailor, the younger brother became a carpenter, the younger brother became a carpenter scientists; returning with goods, they 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]: Karapetyan 1979: 202-203; Azerbaijanis [Jamal-Eddin caught fish in the Nile; his father is going to give it to his son a Caliph, but DE let her go out of pity; his father drove him away; young Ibrahim offered to go with Chinskoye state; there, the emperor will give her daughter off as someone who will cure her from silence; losers are executed; in the presence of Princess I. speaks to a parrot; three princes marry Mariam; one has learned find out what happened in a remote place, the second got a flying carpet, the third learned to revive the dead; the princess is dying, who should I give her 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]: Stamboliev 1896, No. 6:51-56 (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 a thing that will take him to any country; the youngest remains 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 [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 of the skulls of those , who failed to get S. to talk; the nightingale tells him to hide him under the bench, supposedly start talking to the bench; next time with the shelf, the third time with the door; after S. interferes with three times conversation, saying who should belong to a woman; the father gives her to shahzadeh; 1) a person who knows the secret finds out that the padishah's daughter is sick, the doctor prepares medicine, the speedboat delivers it; 2) three lovers in one women, she tells the first to go to the grave, for her supposedly dead 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 reviver)]: Tsvetinovich 1959:154-164; 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 ( who cooks shorba); next time: there is a worm in pearls (another scoop of shorba); the horse is a cross breed with a 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 entered 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; the carpenter made a figure the girls, the tailor dressed, the third revived; 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 with a letter home, 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 the first he would bring a stone, took everything for himself and flew away; the brothers flew to the girl, the doctor cured her; decided to give her to the doctor; old woman: to 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. Persians [the servant refuses to tell the master 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 forces her speak; whoever tries but fails is killed; a man tells how a carpenter, tailor and pious man spent the night; a carpenter carved a figure, a tailor dressed it, a pious man turned 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 of three princes; the vizier will give his daughter to someone who is smarter in the trade; the elder bought a book that says who died and where, the middle one was a flying carpet, the youngest was a bowl from which water would 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; princess: she must belong to the one who revived her; the story of the third day; the learned brother came to visit the cruel; 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; princess's wedding with the storyteller]: Romaskevich 1934a, No. 47:233-238; Turkmens: Bulatova 1985 [fisherman catches a golden carp; his son Tair regrets and lets go of 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 the island; he is met by a young man like him (this is a carp); Khan's daughter is nema from birth, many to no avail they tried to cure her, their head was cut off; T. asks the girl for advice: the elder brother slaughtered 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 her, she belches a snake, is speechless; T. marries her; wants to go home; Carp sends a fish that takes T. and his wife in his mouth, sails to his father]: 527-531; Stebleva 1969, No. 46 [Karavanbashi's son and brother leave home, taking a parrot bought for an expensive parrot with them; he knows everything and gives advice; says that the padishah's daughter has not talked since birth; it is necessary in front of her talk about 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 that a mullet; the next night, a story about how the older brother learned to guess, the middle brother bought a goblet of live water, the youngest met three devas fighting over the flying carpet; fired arrows, told The devas ran after them, flew away on the carpet to his middle brother, and the devas continued to fight and killed each other; the older brother found out that their father was dying, the younger brother brought them to their father, the middle one cured; the dumb enters argument, 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 the king's son to read and write in a month; the young man wants it to marry; the emir had to be allowed, although the girl came from a poor family; every day, the emir's son beat his wife; her mother understood why her daughter was losing weight; gave her an image of peri to show her husband; he would go to look for peri and if you lose, you will 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 a 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 him with a request to care about his wife; the emir took his daughter-in-law, dressed well; she put on men's clothes, went to Peri; knowing the art of peri, she beat the peri-doves, they promised to help her; to beat that peri, you have to do first move; then come with her to a room with three beds; (that woman must be talked); one of the peri will be under each; you must ask the red bed to tell a fairy tale; peri hiding under it says; a khatib, a carpenter, a tailor, a jeweler stopped for the night; the carpenter made a doll, dressed the tailor, the jeweler dressed it up, the khatib asked God to put his soul into it and she came to life; who should I award the 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 [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, decorated her, 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 was awarded to Seyid, they would claim a reward in case every successful completion of the prayer]: Dames 1892, No. 6:524-545 (=Porozhnyakov 1989:89); mountain Tajiks: Semenov 1900 (1) (Karategin) [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 clothes on her; then the merchant got up, prayed to God, the girl came to life; all three began to argue who to get the girl; the judge gave her to the mullah]: 22-23; 1900 (2) (Darvaz, Vanja Valley) [about 1900 (1), plug-in episode]: 2-3; Shugnans [princess will marry the one who is her at night She wakes her up three times and makes her like it; a hashish smoker pretends to talk to his hookah and he answers himself; first story: a carpenter, weaver and scientist spent the night in the forest, one by one they guard; 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 to the storyteller; the second story: the diva stole the princess, the farsighted saw it the shooter hit a diva with an arrow who knows how to reach out caught the girl in the air; the girl caught, and she to the storyteller; wedding]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 43:374-378; Yazgulyam [girl will marry someone who wakes her up and puts her to sleep three times a night; beheads losers; Orphan, addressing herself, tells three stories, each ending with a question that the girl tries to answer 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 beloved; on the way she came 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 brothers fell in love with one girl; vidir advised to give everyone a tanga, whoever turns them into a hundred tanga will get a girl; one exchanged his coin for a spinning wheel, which runs three years in three hours; the other to the all-seeing mirror; the third to the bowl, the water from which will resurrect the deceased; one saw that the girl was dead, the other brought all three to her, the third revived her; 3): three masters spend the night in the forest, each takes turns watching; the first one carved the figure out of the trunk, the second dressed it, the third turned to God and revived it; the girl replies that the revived woman must marry the one who wore her, and she will marry her own narrator]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 44:379-383; Persians (Isfahan, Khuzestan, Fars, Khorasan): Marzolph 1984, № 653C [a carpenter makes a female figure, a tailor wears her, a devout man revives; to whom should a woman belong?] : 129; Osmanov 1987 []: 230-235; 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 takes the letter to one city and will answer; on the way, the shepherd smells cooked rice (chilau); becomes a shopkeeper's apprentice; notices severed heads on the roof of the royal palace; shopkeeper: the king promises a daughter to whoever wakes her up, without touching or talking to her; 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 out the figure He dressed her as a tailor, the mullah turned to God and revived her; who 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.

Turkestan. Kyrgyz [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 the hand of Khan's daughter Zhannat; she will marry someone who three times will make her speak; M. could not, planted in zindan; A. dressed as a man, came to J.; tells three stories 1) spending the night in the woods, the carpenter carved the girl's figure, dressed up the tailor, the blacksmith made jewelry, Literacy revived; 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 girl; the father will marry her to the one who will bring the most valuable thing; the eldest got a flying carpet, the middle one got an all-seeing mirror, the youngest saw a reviving apple; the first saw that the girl was dying, the second brought them to her, the third gave an apple; people: we must give it to whoever is hers the first saw; the khan's daughter: who gave an apple; 3) three decided to help the girl who was forcibly married; the cunning man took her outside, the runner took her away, the batyr blocked the way to the chase; elders: let him take her cunning; 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 me 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]: Ledenev 1987:135-141; Uighurs [five poor craftsmen are going 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 [the eldest of four brothers carved a birch doll, the second dressed it, the third moistened his lips with milk, put food next to him, the youngest fourth kissed her, she came to life; the girl said that her eldest father, second mother, third brother, younger Biche-ool husband]: Hadahane 1969:123-125 (quail in Taxams 1988:166-167); Buryats (Western place 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.