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Ethnicities and habitats

E9. Unknown hostess, N831.1. .11.-.17.19.-.34.36.-.45.47.50.-.53.55.58.-.64.66.68.-.70.

The character (usually a woman) hides in the form (inside) of an animal (bird, plant, object) that is constantly near people. The character becomes human for a while (leaves cover) when he thinks he is not being seen, and remains in human form when captured.

Gusias, Batanga, Karanga, Maragoli, Chagga, Safwa, Zulu, Suthou, aka, Dagari, Ekoi, Joluo, Anuak, Lango, Moru, Sudanese Arabs, Morocco, Algeria, Berbers Morocco, Kabilas, Tunisia, Spaniards , Portuguese, Catalans, Italians (Piedmont, Liguria, Emilia Romagna, Abruzzo), Germans, Bretons, Aramaians, Palestinians, Arabs of Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Socotra, Marind-Anim, Ayom, Porapora, Vedau, Bining, Tolai, Admiralty Islands, Mono, Maewo, Palau, Tibetans (Sikkim, Amdo, Ham), Rai, Lepcha, Bhutan, Sema, Garo, Riang, Kachari, Lushi, Chins, Miri, Miniong, Sherdukpen, Kachin, Shans, Lao, Thai Vietnam, Viets, Khmers, Cham, Burmese, Karen, Pao, Palaung, Khmu, Buoys, Bengalis, Nepalis, Assamese, Santals, Ho, Birkhor, Baiga, Kondas, Oriya, Tulu, Tamils, Sinhales, Simalur, Aceh, Bataks, Dusun, Bali, Timor, Ifugao, Tingyan, Paiwan, Saisha, Chinese (Hebei, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Qinghai, etc.), Ancient China, Lisu, Chuan Miao, Meo (Hmong), Koreans, Moldovans, Romanians, Hungarians, Albanians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Gagauz people, Poles, Slovaks, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Pskov, Tver), Rumei, Crimean Tatars, Karachays or Balkarians, Abkhazians, Adygs, Ossetians, Terek Cossacks, Nogais, Avars, Andeans, Lezgins, Tabasarans, Rutulans, Georgians, Megrelians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Lurs, Persians, Tajiks, Bukhara Arabs, Turkmens, Sarykols, Pashtuns, Norwegians, Karelians, Setu, Lutsi, Lithuanians, Eastern Sami, Komi, Chuvash, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Dungans, Yellow Uighurs, Salars, Altaians, Shors, Tuvans, Chulym Turks, Mongols (Khalkha, Ordos), Dagurs, Mongors, Northeastern Yakuts, Central Yakuts, Amur Evenks, Orochi, Udege, Manchus, Japanese, Chukchi, Forest and Tundra Yukaghirs, Chuvans, Asian Eskimos, Aleuts (Unalashka), Central Yupik, Nuniwak, Kodiak, Caribou, Netsilik, Igloolik, Polar, Eskimos Labrador, Baffin Land, West Greenland, Chipewayan, Bellacula, Quakiutl, Hallkomelem, Lillouet, Quinolt, Ojibwa, Northern Ojibwa, Western Marsh Cree, Eastern Marsh Cree, Steppe Cree, steppe ojibwa, seneca, passamaquoddy, chiroki, tiva, teva, maricopa, mayo, tepecano, huichol, kora, totonaki, tlapanecas, mountain pools, mixteks, mihe, tsotsil, chol, lacandons, sumu, cabecar, bribri, kuna , kamsa, warrau, Caribbean Dominica, camaracoto, pemon (including taulipan), kalinha, lokono, vapishana, aparaí, oyana, trio, kashuyana, oyampi, canyari, aguaruna, huambisa (?) , kandoshi, carijona, guarikena, yukuna, chikuna, central Amazon, munduruku, parakana, tenetehara, urarina, chayahuita, shipibo, setebo, bororo, karaja, tapirape, kayapo (shikrin), apinaye.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Gusia [the eldest wife hates the youngest; she dies leaving a baby girl; the eldest throws her on melons, she climbs into the pumpkin, grows up in it; secretly weeds the field; the young man notices her, for two cows, buys a pumpkin from a woman; the girl secretly comes out of the pumpkin, does work in her mother-in-law's house; she grabbed and hid the girl; the young man fell ill from anguish; she returned her, he recovered, lived for a long time with her]: Vinogradov 1984, No. G17:141-143; batanga [when leaving, the father leaves the property and supremacy of his beloved daughter Ilâmbe from his youngest wife; orders not to leave home; the eldest forces And with witchcraft . forget about the prohibition not to go far, leads to the forest, hits, ties him to a tree; freed himself, I. wanders at random, comes to an empty village; cooks, hides; carpenters come; they say that if it is a man, let him be their brother, if a woman, then a sister; the next day he remains alone to guard, finds I.; carpenters warn that sometimes a dangerous bird arrives; one day a bird kills I.; her body does not decompose, carpenters leave I. in a coffin outdoors]: Nassau 1915, No. 1:24-27; safwa [a woman gives birth to snakes, throws away the first three, leaves the fourth in a vessel; while she is not there, a snake takes off her skin, turns into a girl, cooks and tidies; the woman stays watching; this time the girl started brewing beer, drank it, forgot about snakeskin, her mother grabbed it, she stayed a girl]: Arewa 1961, No. 3126:148-149; karanga [the old woman has 10 daughters; she hides them in her knee, goes to look for a husband for them; the owner of the kraal has sheltered her; only the youngest wife has agreed to put her in her hut; so far There is no one, the old woman lets her daughters out, they do all the work; the woman spies, her husband finds the girls; drives away former wives, takes the old woman's daughters, makes the ex-youngest wife the eldest]: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 155:392-394; maragoli [girls go to a neighboring village to be married there; one is the most beautiful; she is turned into a broom, then into a pot; but the people they meet still say that everyone beautiful, but especially a broom (pot); then sausage skin was thrown on her; the mother of one boy came later, when all the girls had already been dismantled, she got a dog; her son sees an imaginary dog taking off dog skin, bathes; how she cooks and cleans the house; tries to grab the skin, but does not have time; finally, she and her mother grab it; when they see the beautiful woman, other men killed their wives, children and mothers, and then committed suicide; a young man with a former dog gave birth to new, beautiful, villagers]: Kavaji 2005, No. 6:210-214; chagga [a single woman grows pumpkins; the mountain spirit promises to help; in her absence of pumpkins brought into the house turn into children, do all the work; neighbors spy, tell the woman; she finds the boys, asks them to stay human; the elder Kitete does not work, sits in the house; a woman stumbles over him, calls him a pumpkin; says she must feed them all; boys turn into pumpkins again, the woman died in poverty]: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 139:346-350 (=Pozdnyakov 1990:224-227); Zulu [all the leader's wives give birth to crows, the eldest is childless; two pigeons scratch her back, tell her to place drops of blood in a vessel, where a boy and a girl Tzombenzantzini appear; the mother hides them; they go to the river, they are seen by the people of another leader, his son Kakaka comes to marry; fearing that the crows will kill her, Father C. immediately sends her with K.; her mother tells her not to chase the green beast along the way; K. and his warriors are chasing; at this time, the lizard asks C. to try on her clothes, takes her place; C. and other girls turn into birds; K. believes that C. is fainted by the sun; the birds scream that K. took lizard; they fly to the legless old woman Khlesa, turn into girls, do all the work; K. asks H. to tell the truth, finds the girls; The lizard is lured into a hole of milk, poured with boiling water]: Snegirev 1937 in Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 236:575-590; Suto: Jacottet 1895:159 in Hellbom 1963 [poor Seetetelané finds, brings home an ostrich egg; someone cooks in his absence; finally he Sees a young woman come out of the egg; makes him promise that he will never call her "ostrich egg girl"; once he got drunk and named her that; everything disappears, S. is poor as he was]: 91; Knappert 1977, No. 3 [the chief's elder wife gives birth only to a raven, the youngest is childless; pigeons agree to help her, make an incision in her leg, place drops of blood in two calabasses, white and red grains corn; Soyane and her brother are born from calebas; the mother releases them at night when the crows sleep; one day they go out on their own, Ukakaka (the son of another leader) sees S., asks the chief to marry her; the chief is happy drives the crows away; S.'s mother warns W. not to leave S. on the way to his house; he and his men go hunting; the lizard turns S. and her maids into birds, puts on her clothes, occupies them place; Father W. is surprised that the bride is ugly; birds fly to old Uhlese every day, turn into girls, work around the house; make beer, she brings it to W.; he guesses who made the beer, finds S., kills the Lizard; wedding]: 119-126; aka [Tôlé asks the birds to carry him across the river, where the tree has fruits; they each give a pen, T. makes wings, flies over; birds they want to go back, but T. is not full yet; when the birds flew away and T. was full, he saw that there were no more wings; the water in the river rose and carried T., he caught on to the top; sees a fisherman inspecting the peaks; alone the fish screams not to kill it; once in the hunter's parking lot, it turns into a woman, cooks and cleans; so several times; the hunter finds her, they have three children; once the eldest son missed the fish ; the father is angry, tells his son that his mother is also a fish; the wife took the children and went to the river; the fisherman Esombé met T.; he turned fish into people, arranged dances; the fisherman goes to the sound; T. also pretended died, ordered to cover himself with bark and bury him; the fisherman does not believe; sends more and more burning ants to bite T.; finally, he jumps up; the fisherman says that this will not happen again and fish will not become human]: Motte-Florac 2004, No. 2:17-26.

West Africa. Dagari [a woman gives birth to twins, leaves an ugly girl in the forest, brings a beautiful boy home; her husband scolds her, but when she goes to the forest in the morning, she cannot find the baby; after a few years a woman goes for firewood, hears a voice calling her mother; the wife calls her husband, who pulls out a bush, sees a fragile girl who rushes into the swamp; he catches only a frog there; the wife advises to bring her home, suddenly this is the daughter; when she goes to the field, the spouses tell the frog to redo all the housework; that girl appears, does everything; the spouses think that the frog did the work; on the fourth day of the wife they wait for her, her mother is enough, the girl turns into a beautiful basket; her husband takes her to the men's room; the frog calls her assistant, she does not come, then she calls the frogs, they try, but they do everything badly; the main frog shows them the basket; they are surprised, the last frog is a leper; the basket is not given, falls, turns into a pool of blood; the frog explains to his father that it is his wife's menstrual blood, that her husband has injured her toe; when the couple asks together, the frog confesses that the blood is from the basket; the woman asks the frog to try if the water is warm, pushes it into boiling water, carries the pot out the door ; the frog moans while dying]: Hien 1995:14-24 (about the same in Métuolé Somba 1991:187-190); senufo [used to be left sick in the thickets; the girl was still ill, her mother left her in in the thickets, she was raised by perfume; the daughters of other women worked, and the mother, who left her in the thickets, brought a frog and told her to grind the grain; when she returned, more was done than she asked for; another the woman advised her to follow; the mother rushed to hug her daughter, but she slipped out and returned to the thickets forever; since then, children have not been thrown away]: Diep, Bamba 2007, No. 30:98-100; ecoi: Talbot 134, 136 in Thompson 1955-1958, No. 831.1.

Sudan - East Africa. Joluo [girls compete in beauty, the latter is the most beautiful; others turn it into a basket, but men say that although all girls are beautiful, the basket is even better; they turn it into a stick, a rope , other items are the same; then into a dog; men chose wives, Obong'o's mother took the dog; someone grinds grain; children say that the dog takes off its skin, turns into a girl; O. is enough {and destroys?} skin, gets married; one day all men are hunting; the wife goes from one group of hunters to another, bringing her husband food; each time she is sent on; the last group of men says O. is dead; she brings home his corpse, buries him]: K'Okiri 1970:52-66; lango [girls go to the river to choose their husbands; the most beautiful is turned into a dog; it goes to a lame boy; his mother scolds him for such a choice, cruel to dog; while mother-in-law is away, daughter-in-law takes off her dog skin, does housework; mother-in-law finds out the truth, realizes that her daughter-in-law is beautiful]: Wight 1960:110; anuak [Awili has Owili's brother; he wants to marry her, her parents do not mind; when O. came to his sister, she cut off his penis head, ran out of the hut, took all the girls in the village, with her a white dog; asked God to reveal termite mound, the girls went inside and stayed there; cattle graze nearby, one bull rubs against the termite mound and A. sings at that time; they heard the song; the leader tells us to dig up a termite mound, but no matter how much they dug, they dug filled with clay again; but after the chief sacrificed an ox, the young men dug up a termite mound; A. jumped down her dog's throat, the boys dismantled the girls, but one poor and ugly young man was left without wives, he only got a dog; he lives with his mother in a hut on the outskirts; when they go to the field, A. gets out of the dog, cooks food; the boy's mother said loudly to her son: Let's go! but in fact they hid; the young man grabbed A.; she turned into a cow, a hippopotamus, a leopard, a pelican, and other animals and birds, but he did not let her out and A. remained in human form; A. ordered to make a beer and appeared to the people in leopard clothing; became the wife of a young man, refusing to be the leader's wife; he hunted, the young man also went, the chief killed him by filling the corpse with branches; the white dog licked the owner, ran home, the mother saw blood, and the dog led A. to the victim; A. covered him with leopard skin and the young man came to life; the leader denied that he killed the young man; A. touched the ground with her bamboo with a staff, and all the villagers fell into the crevice; after 4 days A. returned them, but they were heavily eaten by termites; A. became the village leader]: Evans Pritchard, Beaton 1940, No. 15:66-70; moru [Okole cultivated the plot; sent his daughter Kide to drive away the monkeys (monkeys and hussars); they grabbed her, put monkey skin on her; one day she was among the monkeys who should have warned her others, if people came; Kenyi came, the monkeys ran away, and Kide was not so clever and he caught her; she said it was not really a monkey, he took her into his house; one day a hare saw how After going swimming, Kide took off her monkey skin and began dancing; Kenyi said; who gave Kida a beer, skinned her, and Kida remained a woman; Kenyi married her and drove her former two wives away; one day Kide went to get water, saw a crocodile, hit it with a stick, and he dragged it away and ate it]: Evans Pritchard, Mynors 1941, No. 33:81-82; Sudanese Arabs: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 14 [the poor man's wife went to My sister should get something to eat, but one day she closed the door in front of her; they went to live elsewhere; the woman spent time with the Sultan's wives and servants; three hawks flew in, and the women realized that it was perfume; the Sultan's wife asked for a wise and powerful son, the minister's wife a son as beautiful as the moon, the poor man's wife a daughter who, if she cries, it rains, if she laughs, sapphires fall, if she steps, grass is growing; another sultan heard this, married; when the girl reached marriageable age, she was sent to the Sultan accompanied by her aunt, who also has a daughter (she closed the door in front of her sister, but then came to her and stayed when she found out that she was held in high esteem); on the way she gave her niece a drink in exchange for her eyes; left her blind in the desert; she was picked up by a woodcutter; he already has 7 daughters; when the picked up cries, it rains when she laughs, jewelry falls; she asks the person who picked up to buy her material; she made a doll, ordered her to exchange it in the palace for her eyes (there is the Sultan's wife instead of her aunt); she made another doll hid in it, her adoptive father brought her to the palace, the Sultan took it for himself; for three nights she goes out and cleans his room; he cut his finger on purpose to stay awake; finds a girl; everything is clear; the aunt and her daughter were torn apart by three camels], 28 [the sultan went to other parts; placed his daughter in a golden cow with everything she needed; gave the cow to another sultan for preservation; a cow in a room where His son eats; the girl secretly goes out and eats everything; the Sultan's son hid, grabbed the girl; wedding]: 95-98, 143-144.

North Africa. The Berbers of Morocco (Fez) [wife died; husband placed her daughter in handicraft school; the owner persuaded her to ask her father to marry her; she has her own daughter; stepmother took her stepdaughter to a deserted place; she fell asleep, she wrapped her hair around a thorny bush and left; the gazelle untangled her hair, the girl lived by the gazelle for several years; then came to the house of 7 hunting brothers; cleaned everything, cooked, hid; the next day, the eldest stayed on guard, fell asleep; the others did; only the youngest grabbed the girl; others agreed that he should become her husband; her name was Lalla Hallal; a wandering merchant came; LH handed with him a gift for his stepmother; his stepmother paid him to give LH a poisoned ring; LH took him in her teeth and lost consciousness; the brothers placed his body on a camel and let him go; no one can do it catch up; the poor man accidentally named the camel, he stopped, he brought it to the Sultan; the Sultan took out the ring, LH came to life; the sultan took her to his harem, but she wanted to return to her first husband; together with six sat in a closed palanquin as maids and the camel brought them to their hunting brothers; each received a wife]: El Fasi, Dermenghem 1926:114-122; Moroccan Arabs [a woman always tells the Moon that the other is like that There is no beauty like her and Luna; Luna replies that the woman is carrying is more beautiful; the woman tells the midwife to throw away the newborn, replace her with a puppy; the husband throws the puppy away; the midwife brings up the girl, her name is Lalla; her mother suspects the truth, gives L. a ball, tells her to go and unwind; she gets to the ghouls; her mother cuts the thread so that L. does not find her way back; L. hides on the roof, she is found by a maid seven gulas; hides at night, L. helps her cook during the day; they agree to divide everything in half; brothers notice that the food has improved; the youngest hides, finds the girl, others agree to their marriage; the maid is jealous; L. wants to share the bean she finds with her, she deliberately pretends to be sleeping; the spelbeans disappear; the maid fills the fire with water, sends L. for fire; a ghoul named Uncle Yazit fires for the right to cut her forehead; the dove tries to dry the blood with flapping its wings, but L. thinks he's interfering with her, drives him away; on a bloody trail, the ghoul finds L.'s house, tells her to put his finger in the keyhole, sucks out his blood; L. is losing weight; his younger brother is spying; the brothers dig a hole, tell L. to answer the gulya rude; he breaks in, falls into a hole; the maid was burned in her with him; L. asks the Jewish merchant to say hello her mother Fulana; she asks for the ring to be handed over to her daughter; L. put it under her tongue, fell into a coma; the guli put a stretcher with her on the camel, who replied that she would wear it not for a year, not 10 years, but always; The camel's name is "shoe"; the sultan's servants cannot catch her, but the old woman loses her shoe, shouts "my shoe", the camel stops; the ring is taken out of her mouth, L. comes to life, the sultan marries her; she sits on her camel, returns to her ghoul brothers]: El Koudia 2003, No. 9:53-63; Arabs of Eastern Algeria (Souf) [a poor peasant woman raised a daughter, she was seen by the Sultan's son, he is amazed by her beautiful, married, sent home with two black maids; the mother gave her daughter a sesame seed necklace; the girl was thirsty, the maids told her to go down from the camel, killed her and buried her; the necklace broke; the youngest of the maids put on her clothes; the Sultan's son is surprised by the bride's changed appearance; she explains that it's the local water; the gardener hears a bird that has arrived talking about What happened, then the leaves in the garden fall off; the Sultan's son comes, takes the bird to him; the liar says that the cattle were stolen by robbers, the prince went to see, she killed and threw away the bird; at this place a pomegranate tree grew; an old woman picked a pomegranate, brought it home; someone cooks and cleans; drought begins; the Sultan's son distributed cattle, the old woman got a thin cow; but she immediately recovered ; where a girl who came out of a pomegranate steps, the grass turns green; the Sultan's son saw her; the wedding; the black woman was executed]: Scelles-Milles 1963:321-324; Tunisia: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 45 [The king has seven sons, he thought they were interfering with the management of his subjects, he imprisoned them in a palace. A maid brought them food. Just bread and water, but she felt sorry for them and started bringing them tasty and tasty food. She once told the king that his children had stopped eating and she did not know what was wrong with them. Then the king decided to marry them. He dressed them like a king, gave them each an apple. The princes threw apples. For one, it pointed towards the vizier's court, the other towards the court of a noble man, and so everyone decided on the bride, except for his younger brother. There was no way he could find his apple. Six got married and gave them a gift from the palace king, while the youngest was left alone. One day he went hunting and saw his apple and a frog stuck to him. He wanted to unhook it, but he didn't succeed, so he threw the apple and the frog under the bed. When he left, the frog shed its skin and turned into a beautiful girl. She did all the household chores and went back under the bed. This went on for several days. When the prince returned, he thought it was the neighbors' wives who had decided to help him. He went to thank his neighbors, but it turned out they weren't them. Then he addressed the sheikh. He advised him to hide and see what was going on in the house in his absence. So the prince saw the beauty, burned her frogskin, married her and got his own house. Once the king decided to visit his son and daughter-in-law. When he saw his daughter-in-law, he wanted to get rid of his son and marry her himself. He ordered the prince to make a burnus out of a piece of marble. The frog told her husband to go to his father, take a sandbasket with him, and ask him to make silk threads out of sand. The king admitted that his son overcame his ordeal. He ordered the army to be brought in and the entire army fed with "musarrad". The frog made a couscous, then added the king's musarrad and his handkerchief to it and told her husband to say: "For the hungry!" This is how he fed an entire army. The third task is to bring a talking baby. The frog sent her husband to her sister, who had just given birth. She said to the baby, "The one who came for you is your aunt's husband, and whoever you're going to talk to wants to kill your aunt's husband and marry your aunt himself." She said that and handed him a sword. The prince took the baby to the king. The baby said to him, "We speak and we want words over words and we cut off your head." The baby cut off the king's head], 68 [the merchant has three daughters, the father does not want to marry them; after overhearing their conversations, he married them at their request: the eldest to a bald rich man, the middle to an honest rich man, the youngest named Marjana ("coral"; hereinafter her name is Lulu) for a poor bathhouse attendant; she gave birth to a daughter who was predicted that when she laughed, precious stones would fall from her mouth, and when she cried, emeralds; this is how her father became rich; she grew up, the Sultan's son married her; his aunt went with her in a carriage to the prince, she hated Lyulya; when she wanted to eat, her aunt gave her salted fish in exchange for her eye, and when Lyulya asked for water, her aunt gouged out her second eye and threw her out of the carriage, dressed her daughter in her clothes, put her in Lyulya's place; a bird flew past Lyulya in the forest, said that if she chews a leaf from a tree, she would become a dove; Lyulya did so; while hunting, the prince caught a dove, put it in a golden cage, spent a lot of time with her; his wife told her to be sick fried a dove; a palm tree grew in the place where its bones were buried; the prince was time near the palm tree, his wife demanded that it be cut down, otherwise she would fall ill again; the prince cut down the palm tree and threw it into the forest; An old woman picked up the firewood, brought it home; when she left the house and returned, she found that everything in the house was tidy; the neighbors said it was not them; the old woman began to spy and saw that the firewood was coming out girl; Lulu told her what had happened to her; made a necklace with gems that fell out of her mouth while she was talking, gave it to the old woman to take the market, but not sell it to the prince's wife; she sold it; when the prince saw the necklace, he asked the old woman, she told him about Lyulya; he went to her and returned from her with his son, and told his wife that it was the son of his suddenly deceased friend; Lyulya told son to ask the prince's wife for a necklace from his neck; his wife took off the necklace and died immediately; Lyulya entered the palace and took her place] in Korovkina MS

Southern Europe. Spaniards: Malinovskaya 2002:146-150 [the beauty has seven sons and a daughter; the mirror tells her that there is no more beautiful woman in the world; when her daughter has grown up, she replies that she is more beautiful than her; the mother tells her servants take her daughter to the forest, cripple her; they bring the dog's eyes and tongue; the girl secretly lives and cooks in the house of seven robbers; they find her, call her sister; the mother turns to the mirror again; asks the sorceress lime daughter; she gives a poisoned shirt; robbers put a lifeless girl in a crystal coffin, let her go to sea; the prince finds him, his parents tell him to bury the girl; the maid takes off her shirt, the girl comes to life, the prince marries her; the mother is cooked in oil, the sorceress was burned], 210-214 [when daughter Mariquita is born, the parents forget about their seven sons, they leave; M. got lost, ended up in the brothers' house, secretly cleans up; brothers wait for her, recognize her sister by the ring; M. forgets to feed the dog, he fills the fire with urine, M. follows the fire to the dragon; she gives a head; the dragon comes after him, everyone sucks blood from M.'s finger; his brothers kill him, parsley grows on his grave, whoever eats will become a black bull; M. forgets about it, puts it in soup, the brothers become bulls; the prince takes M. as his wife, bulls with her; leaves; the maid turns M. into a dove, sticking a pin in her head, takes her place, makes the bulls work; the dove flies to the prince, he accidentally takes out his pin, M. finds human appearance; brothers are disgraced with the same pin; the maid is executed]; Portuguese: Braga 2002 [grandmother sent her granddaughter to sell linseed oil; she came to the castle, no one; she cleaned everything up ; when 7 bewitched brothers came, she hid; they promise to make brother the person who came if it is a man and sister if it is a woman; one day the seventh brother says he would like his hair washed; at night, the girl washes her brothers' heads, but the seventh does not sleep, grabs her; the brothers promise not to harm her; the prince sees the girl and marries her; the brothers tell him not to agree with him until he says: "(Will) seven bewitched"; it is not given to the prince, who lodges her with the maid, takes another wife, the princess; the maid tells her how the girl combs her hair: takes her head off her shoulders and then puts her back; the new wife, imitating, cut off her head, died; the king remarries; the maid: that girl, if her spindle falls, cuts off her arm, her hand reaches the spindle where it went, then returns to her place; the new wife cut off her arm and dies; the prince's mother advises trying to say that phrase about the bewitched; after that, the prince meets his wife, and the enchanted princes disgraced]: 192-194; Pedroso 1882, No. 28 [the father tells his son to become a shoe merchant, he does not want to; after the death of his father, he quarrels with his mother, leaves home, promising to return rich and marry the first the woman he meets; on the way he sits on a stone, a spider crawled out, the guy called her his wife, took her with him; stopped in an empty house; the spider climbed to the ceiling, began to weave a web; guy: love hard-working women; there were no shoemakers in the village, the boy was overwhelmed with work; he hired a maid to help his wife; a spider tells her to go to the chicken coop to pick up chicken, open the closet - everything you need to clean home and cooking; the guy is back, everything is cooked in the house; "What a good wife I took"; fabrics fall from the ceiling; the guy rides to the stone with the maid; the spider descends from the ceiling - no one no; in the chicken coop he finds the only rooster and rides after him; the stone turns into a palace, the spider becomes a beauty; the maid remains their maid]: 111-113; Basques (recorded by- French) [seven brothers leave home; after that, the mother gives birth to a girl; while playing, other children tell her that she would be as good as her brothers; the mother admits that her daughter has brothers , she goes to look for them; finds the brothers' house, cleans, cooks, hides; every night, when the brothers fall asleep, she sews a shirt for one of them; the youngest wakes up; the brothers do not tell her to go to her neighbor; the sister goes to look for fire to cook; the witch gives fire and herbs to be put in a basin to wash their feet; after putting their feet in there, the brothers turn into cows, the youngest into a Breton cow; her girlfriend loves her more than others; the king sees her, she agrees to become his wife on the condition that he will allow her to take care of cows, especially Breton cows; she gives birth in the absence of her husband; the witch throws her into the abyss, goes to bed in her place; tells the king that he will recover if he slaughtered a Breton cow; the servant goes after the cows, they are at the abyss; he hears the Queen's voice; she says she is not suffering because of herself but because of the child, the husband and the cows; the king pulls his wife out of the abyss; threatens the witch to burn her in the stove if she does not restore the young men to their human form; she returns, but is still burned; the ashes have been scattered, brothers married ladies of court]: Webster 1879:187-191; Catalans (Majorca) [young Gabriel Perxanch lives alone; every time he leaves home and returns in the evening, the house is tidy, the food is clean cooked; he hides and sees a siren (water woman) coming out of the well; she agrees to be a young man's wife on condition that he does not call her a siren; they have a boy and a girl; one day a husband got angry and broke the ban; the wife took the children and disappeared into the well for good]: Salvator 1896:151-156; Italians: Kotrelev 1991:53-56 (Emilia Romagna: Bologna) [the king asks his daughters how they are He is loved; the eldest replies that like bread, the middle one is like wine, the youngest is beautiful and kind like salt; the king orders her to be killed in the forest, but his wife hides her daughter in a silver candlestick and tells the servant to sell it; the prince buys it; every night it turns out that the food has been eaten by someone; he hides, finds a girl, says he marries a candlestick; a beautiful woman comes out of it in church; her father is served food at a feast without salt; he is ashamed], 118-122 (Abruzzo) [the prince goes to look for a wife white as milk and rosy as blood; the old man gives three grenades, tells them to break it by the stream; each has a naked girl, the first two immediately die from thirst, he immediately sprinkles the third with water, she remains alive; he tells her to climb a tree, goes to get her clothes; a filthy sarazinka comes to collect water, takes the girl's reflection for her own, breaks the jug, leaves; the hostess scolds her; so twice; on the third, the girl laughed, the sarazinka asks her to go down, she will comb her hair; killed her, injected her with a hairpin in her ear; a drop of blood turned into a dove; sarazinka explains to the prince that while he was walking, the sun and the wind changed her appearance and voice; the prince marries her; the dove bites the crumbs, leaves the cook with golden feathers; he wants to take it to the prince, the sarazink kills her , a pomegranate tree grows out of a drop of blood; the dying who ate pomegranates have recovered; the last sarazink grenade wants to keep for himself, the prince orders to give it to the woman whose husband is dying; the woman's husband has already died, she she kept the grenade for herself; returning, she sees that the house has been cleaned; the confessor tells the old woman to see what will happen to the grenade; she finds the girl; the prince recognizes her; the sarazina herself says to be smeared with resin and burned in the square]; Calvino 1980, No. 8 (Liguria: Genoa) [=Shustova 1994:236-239; a woman laid eggs in a basket, a little shepherdess the size of a tick threw a stone at them, the woman told him to stay little, until he finds a beautiful Bargalina with three singing apples; he goes looking; by the bridge, a woman swings on a walnutshell swing, asks her eyelids to be raised; when she sees the boy, she gives him stone; at the other bridge, a woman who bathes in an eggshell also asks her eyelids to be raised and gives her an ivory comb; a man collects fog in a bag, gives a shepherdess; a miller fox teaches how take away the witch's cage with singing apples; if her eyes are open, she sleeps, and if closed, she is awake; the boy sees that his eyes are closed and does not take the apple cage; the witch asks to comb her hair falls asleep; then the boy takes the apples, but the bells in the cage rang, the witch woke up, sent the riders after - the first time 100, then 200, then 300; the boy throws a stone ( rocky mountain), crest (smooth mountain), fog (the chase has stopped); the boy is thirsty, cuts an apple, inside B.; she asks for a cake to eat; as soon as the boy leaves for the pie, the maid Ugly Slave came for water, threw B. into the well; the shepherdess's mother came to get water, pulled the fish out of the well; they ate it, a tree grew out of the bones; the shepherdess cut him down, prepared firewood; his mother is dead; every time the house is tidy; he watches, B. comes out from under the firewood; both grew up, wedding]: 23-26; Calvino 1980, No. 16 (Piedmont) [12 brothers built a house in the woods, became carpenters; their sister grew up; the raven took her necklace away, she ran after her and came to the brothers; cooked food, cleaned it, hid; the next day, her younger brother began to watch, found her sister; the brothers told her not to be with anyone talking is around a witch; one day the fire went out, the girl came to the witch's house; she gave fire, but promised to come tomorrow to suck blood from her finger; no need to unlock the door, just stick your finger out; the brothers noticed that her sister was turning pale, they asked her; when the witch came again, the girl did not stick her finger out; the witch put her head in the cat's hole, the brothers cut off her head; the girl met another witch, She gave her 12 bowls and when her brothers ate, 11 became oxen, and the youngest, who took only a little sip, into a lamb; the prince saw the girl, married her, brought her animals to him; the witch came asked the young queen to pick a bunch of grapes for her while standing on the edge of the pool, pushed her into the pool, took her form, asked the king to slaughter the lamb; he suspected something was amiss, went to get the lamb, took it out wife from the pool; the witch was burned and as she burned, oxen and lamb turned human again]: 48-50; Straparola 1569, favola 4:27-33 in Cox 1893, No. 200 [Prince of Salerno Tebaldo promises a dying wife to marry only someone who can fit her ring; his daughter Doralice accidentally wears a ring; T. wants to marry her; the nanny hides D. in a dresser with clothes and jewelry mother, gives an elixir that allows her to go without food for a long time; the father sells a dresser, a Genoese merchant bought it, sent it by ship to Britain to King Genese; he put it in his room; D. secretly goes out, cleans everything up, puts roses on the bed; G. hides, finds D., gets married, they have two sons; T. guesses that his daughter was in the chest, comes unrecognized to his daughter, promises gifts if she allows he spends the night in the nursery; kills children, puts a bloody knife on D., runs away through the window himself; in the guise of an astrologer, he says that the killer is the one who has the knife; D. was buried up to the chin and began to feed him to she suffered longer; when she returned to Salerno, T. talks about everything to the old nanny; she arrives in Britain, talks about everything, D. is released; T. is taken to Britain, torn into four pieces hot mites, meat was fed to dogs]: 401.

Western Europe. Germans (Silesia) [a girl turned into a goose; a hunter wounded her, brought her home; in his house she plays the role of an unknown mistress]: Holmström 1912:39 in Hatt 1949:99; the Bretons [when the woman's husband died, she decided to get rid of her daughter; told the maid to take the girl to the forest; the fairy brought her back; ordered her to be thrown into the well; the girl was in the palace; cleaned everything in the room; came a good giant and a fairy, left the girl with them; one day she wanted to visit her mother; she put a pin in her head and the girl became a bird; she flew to the gardener and asked how the king was doing; king put a bird in a cage; once found and took out a pin; married a girl; and her mother fell ill out of anger and died]: Orain 1904:20-26.

Western Asia. Aramei [when she dies, the wife tells her husband to marry a girl who fits her shoes; they only fit daughters, the father wants to hug her; the daughter hides in the chest, the father sells it, the Pasha buys it; in Pasha's son's room, a girl comes out of the chest every morning, cleans up, cooks; a young man waits for her, marries her; her father is executed; she gives birth to a son and daughter with gold and silver curls; the housekeeper bothers to her; when refused, accuses her of attempted adultery and, having killed her son (and daughter?) , in infanticide; Pasha orders his wife and children to be taken to the mountains, kill; servants bring bird blood; a woman washes the bodies of children at the spring, they come to life; a castle appears; a golden ring fulfills any desire; a woman's son Chelenk-Afdal gets a beautiful woman; Pasha arrives, everything is explained, the housekeeper is decapitated]: Belov, Wilsker 1960:405-411; Syrian Arabs [after the death of his mother Sitt al-Bdur asks his father to marry again; the stepmother tells her husband to get rid of his stepdaughter; he takes her to a deserted area at night and leaves her; she sees a light in the distance, comes to a cave, there are 7 hunting brothers; when they leave in the morning, she cooks and cleans, then hides; the youngest is waiting for her, she stayed with her brothers, became the youngest's wife; a beggar comes; then the same beggar comes to her stepmother, who realizes that the SB is alive; sends with a poor poisoned bracelets, the SB puts them on, loses consciousness; her younger brother (i.e. SB husband) brings her on a camel to the village; an old woman guessed that these were her stepmother's intrigues, took off her bracelets from the SB, she came to life; at night her husband The SB cut the throat of the stepmother and her husband; a ghoul comes to the house where the brothers and the SB now live, drinks blood from the SB finger, she loses her strength; the husband told the SB to answer the gulya that he could not stand up, let him stretch out his neck; cuts off the head; all is well]: Kuhr 1993:237-243; Palestinians [in the absence of a fisherman, the genie's three daughters clean the house, clean and cook the fish he has caught; the neighbor replies that she is nothing did; he watches, grabs the youngest; the king wants a woman for himself, tells the fisherman 1) to plant a vine, collect grapes in the morning so that the whole army (the wife creates) eat it; 2) inexhaustible bread (the same); 3) bring The baby still has an umbilical cord to tell a false story from beginning to end; the wife's sister has just given birth, her baby tells a fairy tale; as a result, the king blesses the fisherman and his wife]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 37:272-277; Iraqi Arabs: Yaremenko 1990, No. 23 [an infertile woman promises to fill one ditch with honey and another oil; gives birth to a son; the old woman reminds the boy of his mother's vow; parents fill the ditches, the old woman comes last, picks up the leftovers; the boy accidentally broke her jug; she wishes him love for tarangh and trange (TT; "sour lemon and bitter orange"); he grows up goes to look for TT; the old man at the fork says that one road of well-being, the second is misfortune, the third does not return; the young man rides the first, falls to the giantess's chest, she teaches how to pick a TT in the garden when the eyes of the monsters will be open (which means they are sleeping); when trying to peel another fruit, a request was made for water, the fruit shrunk; the last young man peeled by the water, he became a girl; the young man walked away, leaving TT on a tree; a witch came to the spring, took the beauty's reflection for her own; she offered to help wash the dishes; the witch got up to her, put a pin in her head, TT flew away as a bird; the young man said that again will become beautiful in a year; the bird flew to the young man, the witch wife ordered her to be killed, otherwise she would not recover; a drop of blood grew yuyuba, her trunk is covered with pearls; the witch wife tells her to be made a cradle for a child; the baby in it is crying; the witch gave the cradle to a poor neighbor; someone cleans her house, she waits for the girl, asks her not to return to the cradle; the witch asks to return the cradle, calls craftsmen to sew pearls on a dress; TT comes, tells her story; husband leaves a witch, brings TT to parents]: 129-136; Stevens 2006, No. 29 [the beauty asks the moon who is more beautiful - the moon, she or her daughter Hajir; the moon replies that H.; the mother tells the maid to take X. to the mountains and leave it there; H. comes to the cave of the seven Efrites; hides; when they leave again, cooks and cleans; they take turns guarding but they fall asleep; on the eighth day, one of the efreets found H., they made her brothers; her mother asked the moon again; when she found out that H. was alive, sent a maid to give her poisoned chewing gum; H. lost consciousness, the Ifrites left her at the top of the mountain; she was found by the Sultan's son, the doctor brought her to life, the Sultan's son married her; again receiving an answer from the moon that H. is the most beautiful, her mother died of anger; son H. plays with other boys, who say he is no one's son; mother: tell me about your seven uncles; one of the Ifrites noticed that the boy looked like H., came to him, asked for water, he took him to his mother, efreet threw a ring into the bowl; promised the boy that seven efreet would always help him]: 114-119; Saudia [after the death of his father, the youngest of the poor man's three sons began to catch and sell fish; one day He could not catch it for a long time, then caught a big one; she had many little ones in her stomach, including gold; the young man placed her in a bowl of water; then the fish disappeared; a young man came to him and said that he was the son of the king fish, he was swallowed by a big fish, and the fisherman saved him; brought him to his father, ordered him to ask for a white chicken; someone was cooking in the house; the young man waited for the girl - she was a chicken; they got married; the ruler's servant reported beautiful; to take possession of it, he demanded 120 identical gold-plated red fish from the young man; the wife created it; the ruler demands a blue scarf as long as a road; the wife sailed to his father, delivered a scarf, he has no end; the ruler: a herd of red sheep and a herd of buffaloes; the young man called the ruler cattle; he demanded that 120 heads of such cattle be delivered; the wife sent 120 monsters in cages; they broke out, the ruler burned down along with the palace]: Juhaiman 1999:81-86; Yemen (SW corner, Khujariya region, western 2006) [the sister lives with her brother and his wife; goes to the roof at night, turns to the Month; the wife tells her husband that her sister has lovers; offers to look in her head, puts a lizard in her clothes, tells her brother that she has given birth to a freak; the brother tells her sister to bring him lunch to the field, lets the bulls in, they trampled her; she turned into a palm tree and the coffee she brought into a stream; women came to wash clothes in it, asked the palm tree to bend down (to hang it and then take off the laundry), she bent down; When the brother's wife came, her clothes remained on the palm tree, she did not bend back; the husband called the lumberjack, but the palm tree asked not to cut her body; the same happened to the second; the husband brings the deaf and dumb man, who cuts down the palm tree; the old woman picked up a date, brought it home and forgot; every day, when she returns, she sees the house tidy; her little nieces say it's them; but one day an old woman finds a young woman, she's all told; her brother sees her, does not recognize her, asks for a wife; her sister asks the old woman to demand a bed made of stone and glass, straw and wood, clay and cloth; he makes them, brings them, they say strange things ; sister explains who she is; he ripped his wife's belly open, brought his sister back home] Al-Baydhani 2008:41-49; Socotra [the fisherman was fishing, the female vulture fed the leftovers (Neophron percnopterus, ordinary vulture); he returns, finds the house tidy, the food is cooked; the ship has sailed, the captain made him sail with them; when they got off the ship, the man hid, then began to live with local inhabitant; refused to herd cattle, take care of palm trees, the owner agreed to keep them for nothing; the man is homesick; one day a woman came, told him to come ashore in the evening, rush into the open mouth of the fish; the fish drove him home; he stayed in his house with an old woman {was she a female vulture?}] : Müller 1905, No. 7:65-69.

Melanesia. Marind-anim [someone cleans and cooks in a single man's house; he hides, grabs a girl; she has become a snake that lived in the house and is wrapped around a bow]: Wirtz, Neverman 1981, No. 38: 248-249; ayom (tembregak, Asai River) [people lived in heaven; Tumbregak took his dog and went down a rotan rope to hunt on the ground; the rope was cut off; his wife threw him fire, sweet potatoes, bananas, sugar cane, beans, four cucumbers; he built a hut; when he returned and found food cooked, cucumbers turned into four women; two gave birth to a son, the other two to a daughter, the children got married, became human ancestors]: Aufenanger 1960:247-248; porapora: Schwab 1970, No. 3b [Arero woman hid in a stone ax hanging on the wall; came out, pierced children with sharp leaves, cooked, ate; she was waiting for her, she jumped back into the ax, he was thrown into the fire, he jumped into the river; from there A., as a woman, moved to the top of a palm tree; the trunk could not be cut down, they called her brother Ambang, he knocked down she was finished off with batons, the meat was divided, A. asked for a vagina; at night his vagina glowed, he kept it in a bag to illuminate the forest when hunting wild boars; A.'s mother did not care about his property, he killed her; met people who fused together in two, divided them; they did not have anuses, and men also had holes in their penises, A. made them; other people lived in a hole, croaked; A. taught them to speak and walk; A.'s grandmother was W.; An eel jumped into her vagina; she gave birth to a son, hid him in the sink, from there he went out to her as an adult man; her great-niece Arero peeked, pulled the eel out of the sink, killed him, cooked it, gave it eat W.; she created a crocodile, lured Arero to a tree above the river, she fell, the crocodile killed her; the victim's mother threw the W. bag into the river, but she managed to take fire, the dog and the heron with her; she sailed to the place where people did not know fire, they cooked in the sun; W. secretly cooked in the house of two brothers, the dog and the heron were her watchmen; the youngest watched, W. married the elder; Unkinye came to ask W. for fire, stole it; his brothers found him, released W., cut W. into pieces; his head grabbed the elder's testicles, it could not be torn off; the youngest climbed onto the breadtree, but threw down only unripe fruits; the elder, his head, climbed agreed to get off temporarily; he threw the ripe fruit, threw it away alone; while his head grabbed him, the brothers ran away; the head grabbed the boar's face, which carried it away; tore it off the trunk of a bethel palm tree], 4 [eel climbed into Waro's widow's vagina; it was a dead man who turned into an eel; she began to copulate with them regularly, hid them in coconut; her daughter found an eel, killed them, cooked them with sago; V. lured her to a tree, a wasp, a girl fell, V. killed her; people decided to throw V. into the river, she managed to take fire, a female and a male dog, an osprey, a pot, a sago; one of the dogs then turned into a heron; V. swam out, began to live in the house; hid when two brothers came; the eldest went to the forest, the youngest waited for V., grabbed them; she told them her story]: 774-778, 779-780; Vedau [three brothers buried her mother; a plant with red leaves grew on the grave; it was the brothers' younger sister; when they left, Borevui turned into a girl, cooked food; the next day, his younger brother was left to guard, he grabbed the girl, she replied that she was their sister; the man kidnapped her, married her; the older brother finds her, the husband sends his wife, at which time he kills her brother; she keeps his liver in a vessel of water; then With the middle and younger brothers; while the husband is on the site, B. revives the brothers; the returning husband offers the worst pieces of pork; he is furious, his brothers kill him, burn his house]: Ker 1910:131-135 ; bining (Gazelle Peninsula) [To Kabinana and To Karvuvu were fishing; the stem of a Japanese fan (Miscanthus japonicus) swims twice in the net; they throw it away, then plant it; in their absence, from A woman comes out of the stem, cooks for them; they wait, Then Karvuva grabs her, and That Kabinana says she will be like his sister]: Meier 1909, No. 6:35 (Dixon 1916:110 apparently means others sources; in his paraphrase, the plant is sugarcane); tolay: Janssen et al. 2012, No. 2 [To Kabinana and To Karvuvu were fishing; pit plants caught on the net, they brought it home, it grew up, a woman came out of it, cooked food; the same the next day; TK decided to watch, took the woman as his wife; TC: both go away, she is our sister], 3 [~ (2); To Kambinanai and To Karivuvu; the first said that the woman was their sister, caught another]: 15-16, 16; the Admiralty Islands (Papitalai) [Saurang and his father had ripened almonds; the turtles flew to peck at him; the father told S. to kill them, he knocked them down with two stones; one was eaten, the other was alive, left in the house; S. went to dance on Fr. Yap; Gorlinka turned into a girl, danced there with S., he fell in love with her; Gorlinka cooked food at home, became a bird again; the next day S. waited for the girl in the garden; refused to name her sister, took as a wife; once she didn't give him a bethel, he called her a rootless dove, an almond thief; she cried, said she'd better be eaten like another dove]: Meier 1908, No. 6.1:203-206; mono (o- va Shortland): Wheeler 1926, No. 17 [the chief and his wives brought a wild tuber (tarot substitute) from the forest; someone is cooking; the chief finds a woman she was this tuber; when other wives asked her to dig up these tubers, she disappeared, becoming a tuber again; then the chief left his eldest wife, tied the others in the house and burned them with him], 35 [as in (17), but the woman is the bark of the kalola tree from which wearables weave straps]: 25, 26-27; Maevo [Tari cut himself in the garden, poured blood into a bamboo vessel; his wife finds food cooked; spies, sees a boy coming out of the vessel; T. glad; someone Taepupuliti took the boy in the form of a fish; T. came, began to drink alcoholic beverage with him, only pretended to drink, took the boy]: Codrington 1991, No. 13:406-407.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Palau [the girl became pregnant, gave birth to a breadfruit; her mother asked not to throw it away, leave it as a footrest; when she left, a handsome boy came out of the grown fetus, turned the house into a pond, bathed, then put the water and himself back in the fruit; the old woman notices a mess in the house; hides, catches the boy by surprise, he stays in the house; the chief calls the men to choose a husband daughters, no one is chosen; the old woman comes, (brings?) the fruit of a breadtree; the chief's daughter notices a young man coming out of it; so several times; she sits next to an old woman; other men, out of envy, give the old woman a witchcraft betel; when she treats her daughter chief, her skin is covered with boils; the chief moves her daughter to a special hut; the old woman sends a young man with medicine, who makes the leader's daughter beautiful again; the chief gives her to the young man as his wife]: Mitchell 1973, No. 44: 120-122.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans: Krapivina 2001 (Sikkim) [King Soroka learns that the boy dreamed that he would become king in his place; tells the boy to leave the country and return when his shoes are worn out; they are not wear out; the boy sees white and black water snakes fighting, throws a shoe at black, carried away by an eagle, a white boy hides from black horsemen under his hat; grateful whites (naked) they invite him to the underwater palace; he pours food and drink into the crack by the hearth; from there comes an old woman, whose mouth was covered with an iron flap for chatter; thanks him for the food, tells him to leave as soon as possible, ask for a white dog, a curtain, a stick as a gift; a stick with a curtain turns into a tent, there is a lot of good inside; someone cooks; a young man waits for a girl, threw a dog skin into the fire; the wife tells disperse the ashes from the skin, the slope is covered with cattle and jewelry; Magpie offers competitions, the winner will get the young man's wife; 1) whose milk spilled from the mountain will reach the foot faster (nagas give a jug ); 2) who collects mustard seeds (nagas give a chest of pigeons, a dove with a broken wing collects); 3) the wife tells you to ask for a military chest of nagas; Magpie demands "a-pho-pho", they jump out of the chest little men, kill, eat the king, the young man reigns]: 15-33; Thomas 1957:31, 42 in Allen 2011 [1) the demon eats 6 sisters and their parents, the seventh turns into a peacock; six brothers hunt with silk Snares, seventh, from another wife, with a goat hair force; a peacock falls into him, comes back when the young man lets him out; someone cooks in the house; the young man sees a beauty, grabs her; 2) the donkey warns the middle of three sisters that the eldest and their father were eaten by a demon; she grabs the bird's tail, flies away; six rich brothers hunt with silk snails, the seventh is poor with horsehair strength; (it's not clear does he catch a bird); someone cooks in his house; he hides, grabs a beautiful woman, marries]: 93-94; Tibetans (Amdo): Kajihama 2004, No. 16 [the maid's son told his mother as if he had dreamed of getting up to the royal throne; the mother spilled out; the king expelled the young man, allowing him to return when he wiped off his iron shoes; on the seashore, a young man sees a white snake fighting a black snake; black wins, but a young man killed her by throwing an iron shoe at her; at the same moment a kite rushed at the serpent; the young man hid the white one and took the black kite away; said this to the 7 black horsemen who had come out of the sea, they disappeared; then they went out Seven white horsemen said that the white snake was the son of a naga king; the young man was brought into the naga world; he left excess food at the hole; from there a woman comes out with her mouth sealed; a young man breaks off his bandage; a woman grateful that he gave her food; tells her to ask the king of the naga as a reward for a red knot puppy, a white bamboo cane and a multicolored curtain; on the seashore, a young man makes a tent out of a curtain and a stick, binds a puppy; when he returns, he sees a giant tent, full of different products inside; someone cooks; the young man saw: a beautiful woman comes out of the dog's skin; he throws his skin into the fire, takes the girl as his wife; she gives grains, orders them to be scattered in the mountains, the grain turns into cattle; contrary to his wife's advice, the young man calls the king to visit; the wife smears soot, but the streams of sweat washed away the soot, the king saw her face, demanded it for himself wives; then decided that the woman would go to the winner of the competition; 1) pour yogurt down the mountain, which would first flow down to the foot; the king orders to collect yogurt from all over the country, but the young man's wife tells me to ask for her help father; he gives a bag of yogurt, his stream immediately reaches the foot; 2) whoever collects the scattered mustard seeds faster; all his people help the king; the young man receives a box from the sea; opens earlier time, the pigeons are finished, left alone with the damaged wing; but he also manages to collect the seeds before all the royal people; the wife tells her father to ask her father for a box of war; asks the king if he wants to " by"; he says what he wants; warriors come out of the box, kill the king, the young man reigns]: 58-65; Potanin 1893, No. 8a [the young man went on a journey, hit the whirlwind with a staff, a shoe, a whirlwind remained on the ground disappeared into the hole; reported to the king, the young man promised to return the missing princess; the warriors lowered the girl into the hole, the young man sent her upstairs; the warriors were afraid that the dragon would also get out, left the young man in the hole, blocking the exit with a stone; below, a dragon with a broken arm - during a thunderstorm, the shaman threw (a stone from) a sling at him; after recovering, the dragon took the young man to the Water King; he offers a reward for saving his daughter (she and she was a dragon); her daughter tells me to ask for a piece of wood and a black donkey; in the parking lots, the young man finds himself in the palace every time, with delicious food nearby; when he returns to his mother, both wonder who cooks and cleans; The young man watched a beautiful woman come out of a piece of wood, threw the tree into the fire; contrary to his wife's advice, he invited the king to visit; he ordered to build a bridge from his house to the king's; his wife ordered needles to be scattered, a bridge arose; plant trees (the same, the wife gives seeds); spread red and white felt (the same, the wife gives two bunches of wool); the king came to visit; the wife took off her beautiful face, hid it under the pillow; her husband ordered her to make tea, she does not react, he screamed, called her the daughter of water; she took her face and went out, the king saw a beautiful woman; tells her to compete, whoever wins is his wife; 1) whose dog stronger (the wife gave a dog, she bit to death the khan's); 2) who will build a mountain (the khan's warriors dug a lot, his wife's aunt and younger sister immediately turned the mountain upside down); 3) whose army would win; the wife's mother gave a box of knives, the husband let them test the stone, the knives sparkled it; the wife orders them to go again; the mother-in-law sharpened the knives, they destroyed the king and the army, the young man became king]: 149-152; Tibetans (Ham) [the young shepherd cries at lakes, because his mother does not love him, does not feed him, tells him to work hard; the old man takes him under water; the king of the lake gives him a puppy; since then, the shepherd's house has a lot of food and money; he followed and saw how the dog threw off her skin, became beautiful, filled the bins and chests; he threw his skin into the fire, married the girl; smeared his wife's face with soot so that the prince's son would not be flattered by him; when he became rich, he decided that he could not to fear the prince's son, took his wife to the city; the prince's son saw her, sent people to take her away; the shepherd cries again by the lake; this time the king of the lake gives the box, tells her to open it on the mountain, summoning the prince's son to fight; warriors from the box kill the prince's warriors, the young man returns his wife, becomes a prince himself]: Hyde-Chambers, Hyde-Chambers 1981:71-75 (almost the same in Lhamo 2012:195-198; except for the warrior box, a bottle of water; a young man opens it on the mountain, a stream of water washes away enemy warriors); rai: Allen 2011 (tulung) [older sister Jaw and younger Khlew (they are both rhinoceroses of different species (unhappy that their younger Khakcilik's brother does not grow up; they make his image out of wood or pumpkin, crumble him, think that they killed his brother (although nothing happened to him), leave; J. tells K. to leave first, she refuses; goes later sisters, meets a relative of his mother Owl, who kills her, eats her; J. returns, finds his sister's bones, revives her, but since then the skin of this species of rhino birds has thin; the sisters go alone to the north, the other to the south; Wayelungma does not obey her mother, she tells her to throw herself into the water, she jumped and became a rock; Khakcilik threw the net several times (according to one informant, a fishing rod), all the time pulled out this stone, took it home; someone cooks and cleans in his absence; the old woman says it's her, eats up the young man; his "fate" says that an unknown mistress is in his house; he hides grabs V., takes her as his wife; she tells how he threw a stone several times, breaking her ribs, arm, leg; she teaches how to build a house; gives birth to a son; the pole is fragile; accidentally falls into a pole pit their son, the table on him, stands firmly; V. teaches how to cultivate and sow the plot; sisters come back, fly (they are either birds or women); become pregnant; to return them to the house, V. tells her husband to send them rooster]: 64-89; Ebert, Gaenszle 2008 [see motif L42; after escaping from the cannibal, orphan Khosipa (X.) catches a stone several times with a net; throws it back into the water; finally brings it home, puts it on the shelf; when H. left, the stone fell, split, a girl came out of it; cleaned it, cooked food, became a stone again; so several times; H. watched, grabbed the girl; sent for his two sisters (those they think that the brother is dead) to the flea, then the bug, they crushed them; then the rooster; they came; gave their feathers as a marriage gift (all participants are birds); the older sister went downstream, the younger sister went higher]: 92-96; lepcha: Siiger 1967, No. 4 [the orphan lives in the forest, feeds on roots; the wild yam tuber tells him not to eat it; he leaves him on the shelf, finds the hut tidy up in the evening, the food is cooked ; spies on a girl coming out of the tuber; grabs her, throws yam peel into the fire, marries; meets a mung (an evil spirit); answers him that water will defeat fire, the wind will defeat the cloud, god the mung; mung offers competitions, the winner will get another's wife (mung's wife is ugly); 1) whose excrement will be whiter; the wife cooks wild yam for the young man, mung eats rice and white fat; mung excrement is red, boys - white; 2) whose rooster, 3) ram, 4) the bull will win; the wife tells you to go to the lake, the young cockerel who come out of the lake kills seven mung roosters, the lamb the mung ram, the goby the bull; 5) whose army will win; from the lake a box appears, the wife does not tell me to open it until battle; the young man opens, the thunder-man jumps out, he can still be heard; the young man has time to shut the lid; the mung warriors kick the box, a thunder-woman pops up, kills all warriors; 6) fighting with mung; the young man cuts off his head, feeds his flesh to the birds, grinds his bones on a grain grater, throws dust in the wind; takes the mung's treasures, burns his palace, annexes his lands to his own], 5 [an orphan kills an eagle who is about to seize a boy; the rescued leads the orphan to his father, the master of the underworld; the orphan falls in love with the owner's daughter; she tells him to ask her father is only rewarded with dog skin; the orphan returns to earth, with wild animals and pets and birds (they weren't on the ground before); while he works in the field, someone cooks in his house; he waits for a girl, throws a dog's skin into the fire; marries, gets rich; the king has a wife with an abscess around his neck; the king offers competition, the winner will take the other's wife; the wife tells them to go to their place every time get out of the ground, ask for what you need (rooster, ram); orphan wins; 1) roosters fight; 2) rams; 3) bulls; 4) warriors; underground father-in-law gives a box, the wife does not tell you to open it on the way; orphan opens slightly, a thunder-man pops up (the origin of thunder); reopens at the sight of warriors, a thunderwoman kills them]: 220-223, 223-224; Stocks 1925, No. XXI [orphan young man is fishing, she asks her not kill, brings him to the underwater world to his parents; they offer a reward, a young man takes a puppy; every day, returning home, he sees that the food is cooked; finds a girl golden above the waist, silver - below; he tears the dog's skin, gold and silver flowers appear from the scraps; the girl becomes his wife, but regrets that everything happened ahead of time; the king wants it for himself, offers competitions, the winner will get a wife; 1) a cockfight (the wife tells her parents to ask a rooster, he kills the king's rooster), 2) fighting two bulls (the same); 3) the battle of armies; the wife's parents give the box, her young man opens, lightning incinerates the king and his army]: 380-382 (retelling the beginning in Elwin 1944:131); Bhutan [a young man herds sheep and looks at lake ripples; he is considered lazy; he sees a black rat fights white and overcomes her; takes white in her arms, gives her drink; a woman came out of the lake: the lord of the underworld wants to thank her son for saving her son; ask only for a dog at the door; do not stay longer than three days, otherwise you will forget the land; the underground lord (half dragon) reluctantly gave the dog; on earth the young man went to herd his sheep; when he returned, everything was tidy, the food was ready; next time he saw: the dog shed its skin, became beautiful; he threw his skin into the fire; the king saw a beautiful woman, began to give the young man impossible tasks to take his wife away; she every time tells him to go to the lake and asks her father to give a box with what you need; cut down a forest on the mountain (a box with swords, swords cut down themselves); create a buckwheat field on this site (a box with hoes, the young man sowed buckwheat himself); collect the sown grain (a box with birds, they collected everything); the king declared war on the young man (a box of warriors, they killed the king, defeated his army); the young man is happy with his wife]: Choden 1994:45-50; sema [Munchüpile killed his wife man, took her place; a bamboo shoot grew from the body of the victim abandoned in the forest; when it was cooked, the water gurgled the name of the murderer; she threw away the pot, and an orange tree grew out of the shoot; the husband cleaned one orange, hid it in the basket; when no one is at home, the orange turns into his ex-wife, cooks; the husband waited, grabbed the woman, she told me what happened; the husband killed M., began to live with his former wife; they died touching M.'s bones]: Hutton 1968, No. 21:357-358; garo [Awil and Singwil have younger sisters Nosé and Dimsé; maternal grandmother secretly spoils everything girls do; mother accuses them, hits them; they stick feathers to themselves, turn into doves, talk about what happened; parents cry, but A. and S. only ask for a necklace, fly away; they are caught by brothers Anal and Gunal; A. ate his bird, and G. put it in a cage; left alone, the dove turns into a girl, cooks and cleans; A. remains guarded, falls asleep; G. grabs S., marries; A. lures his brother into a hole, falls asleep with stones; his dog and S. dig it up, S. revives it; A. asks G. to climb the poplar to ruin the nests of birds; in fact, there were no nests; A. tells the tree to grow to the sky; S. gives Woodpecker a red a turban (now a tuft) and an ax (now a beak), which lowers G. to the ground; A. pushes G. into a hole with burning brushwood; his wife and dog pull him out again; G. killed A. by putting a pumpkin scoop down his throat; S. and G. are happy, they have many children]: Playfair 1909:119-128 (=Rongmuthu 1960:71-78); Riang [the widow has a lazy son; asked her mother to catch and cook fish; she caught it, put it to swim in tomorrow jug; at night a girl came out from there, cleaned everything up; on the second night, the son and mother spied on the third night, the girl was caught and the fish skin was thrown into the fire; after learning about the beauty, the king decided to take her for himself; ordered the young man's goat to butt his goat - if he loses, the young man will give his wife, and if he wins, the boy and his relatives will receive life support; the young man does not have a goat, but his wife gave a goat, who easily cared for the huge royal goat; the young man called even those who were not relatives; the king could not feed everyone; he ordered the house to be set on fire, the imaginary relatives ran away, and the young man continued to receive maintenance]: Mandal 2009:120-121; kachari [old Soti Rampa is getting married, the wife demands that he kill his son; the vulture warns the young man of danger, he runs away riding a buffalo; a buffalo falls into a hole, tells him to bury his head after 7 days; 7 puppies are inside the skull; someone cooks and cleans the young man's hut; he watches, sees how from the basket with a girl comes out with meat supplies; she calls herself Midongdi, tells her not to say her name, marries a young man; one of the dogs tears her threads on a loom, she kicks her out; offended dogs leave; husband says his wife's name, she turns into an elephant]: Sopitt 1885:59-62; best [the Tlumtea brothers are rejected; he himself helps the rat, the snake, they help his father-in-law carry out his father-in-law's errands, Tl. Marries Vanchung; she says she has forgotten her comb and rod, Tl. Returns for them, tells them to sit in a tree, not laugh, not cry; Tonulawki sees V.'s shadow, takes them for her own, but is surprised that other necklaces and bracelets; V. laughs, T. tells her to go down to look in each other's head; T.'s lice are huge, V. pretends to bite through them, just snaps her teeth; then T. looks in V.'s head, swallows it, puts on her clothes; replies to Tl., who has returned, that her fingers are sharpened, pointing towards him, her eyes narrowed looking for him; people meet Tl. And his wife, but they see that he has brought T.; she belches V. bracelet, the old woman tells me to put it in the pot for seven days; T. confused it, decided that for seven months; V. secretly leaves the pot, cooks for T., prepares reindeer manure for T.; T. waited for her, lay down with her ; T. came back, hears laughter; they killed her; a saichu tree grew out of her chest; her husband sent V. to wrap rice for leaves, told all residents to answer that they had no leaves (so that she could go around the village and that's it saw her beauty); V. tried to take the leaves of the saichu tree, could not tear it off, began to bite off, s. cut her tongue, she died]: Shakespear 1909:404-409; ranks [Tom Singh finds a green egg, asks if there is an equally beautiful girl, her father says it's Ral Don; TS comes for her, takes her away from home; returns for her forgotten necklace and cup; RD climbs a tree above the river, witch takes her reflection for her own; RD laughs, the witch pulls her down, swallows her, puts on her clothes and jewelry, pretends to be RD; a drop of RD's blood falls to the ground, a mango grows with one fruit, RD He only takes a bone, hides it under the roof; someone cleans the house; the TS spies, finds a real wife, kills a witch with a sword; it grows a banana; the TS does not tell his wife to pluck its leaves with her hands; RD tears off, touches the leaf with his tongue, becomes dumb]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 16:68-72; miri [two brothers hunt; someone cleans their house; they find two daughters of the forest king; parents give Animal daughters, telling them not to look back until they get home; the girls looked around, the animals ran away; so most animals are wild]: Bori 1995:39-40; Meitei (ranks) [two wives, y every boy and girl; the husband is dead; the youngest wife is evil; both went for fish; the eldest caught fish, the youngest caught oysters, eels and snakes; climbed a tree; the eldest asked to shed the fruit; she threw it in her mouth snakes and eels, the eldest turned into a turtle and swam away; her youngest took her fish; her eldest daughter, Shandrembi, saw her mother in a dream; she talked about what happened; let S. catch her, keep her where she was the rays of the sun and moon will not fall, and in 7 days she will be born as a man; but the son of his youngest wife noticed the turtle, demanded that it be cooked for him; in a dream, my mother appeared again Sh.: put my bones in the basket, in 7 days I will become a woman; but S. opened the basket on the 6th day, a swallow flew out from there; S. and the daughter of his younger sister, Chaisra, went to get water; S. in rags, C. in beautiful clothes; the king is converted to Sh.; they changed their clothes, but the king again turned to Sh.; took her away, made her queen; the youngest wife invited S. to the party, offered to wash her, poured boiling water over her, she flew away with a dove; C. put on her clothes took her place; the dove flies to the mower, says that the king forgot his wife, that S. was on the branch and C. was on the throne; the mower told the king; he brought the dove to the palace; C. killed her, fried her; where they woke up curry, a plant grew and there was a fruit on it; the mower wanted to cut; but if there was a knife, there was no fruit, there was no fruit, there was no knife; the fruit turned into S., she began to cook for the mower when he was not at home; he waited for her, grabbed, brought the king; he gave C. a beautiful but dumb sword, and S. ugly but sharp, told him to fight; S. hacked C.]: Singh 1985:278-285; miniong [someone cooks in the hunter's hut; he asks Doini-Pollo (Sun-Month) make him see who it is; finds the girl Wiyu (Epom-Wiyu); so ready to marry him, but first her brothers will bring gifts; the house is filled with clouds, it gets dark, the girl throws meat and beer under the roof, her brothers eat and drink; after they leave, buffaloes, pigs and necklaces remain; the clouds clear the area for crops; the spouses visit them, the wife gives her husband ginger, if he cut himself, let him suck blood and spit along with ginger; he cut himself, the first two brothers licked the blood, screamed it was sweet; he spat with ginger, the others believed it was bitter; otherwise they would eat him; he kills a chameleon, for the brothers it is a deer, they carry meat in a basket; in front of his son-in-law they cut, cook and eat their younger sister "with the eyes of a deer"; the man secretly throws the pieces given to him into the crack on the floor; brothers give this meat with them, Wiyu wife eats it; gives birth to children, devours everyone but one; when it is time for him to die, he went to the forest, is gone]: Elwin 1958b, No. 15:124-127; sherdukpen [ someone cooks in a hunter's hut, he finds a girl, she came from his accumulated supply of dried meat; warns that she will disappear if he scolds her; he calls her rootless, she leaves, turns into an elephant; coming from different pieces, elephant meat tastes like beef, pork, venison]: Elwin 1958b, No. 31:431-432 (=1958a: 389-390); kachin: Gilhodes 1909, No. 44 [all good places on the river is already occupied; the young man goes to another place; he is told he is biting; he finds a stone in the basket; so several times; he brings the stone home; someone cooks in his absence; he waits for the girl; her Her father Thunder sent him; they do not have machetes; Thunder sends his four sons Cloud, Rain, Wind, Lightning to clear the area, plant pumpkins; they collect them, each contains rice; the young man still asks machete, Thunder reluctantly gives; a chicken comes to peck for rice, a young man waves a machete, lightning kills a bird and cuts off the head of Thunder's daughter; Thunder revives and takes her away; tells him to sacrifice when it's time to burn vegetation on the plots]: 125-127; Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 30 [the young man lives with his grandmother; he catches fish, but only shrimp gets into the net; he throws it away every time; thinks that she scares off the fish, wants to kill; the shrimp asks to bring it into the house and leave it in a vessel of water; since then, the food has been cooked every time; the young man found the girl, married her; asked her to draw his own portrait to admire while working in the field; the wind carried away the portrait; the king saw it, sent the young man's wife to pick him up; when she leaves, she tells her husband to come to the palace dressed in chicken feathers; the new queen is always silent, indifferent to dancers and jesters; when she saw a peasant dressed in feathers, she cheered; the king decided to wear such clothes himself; when she saw him, the jesters decided that he was a competitor and beat him to death; a young man with returned home as a wife]: 106-109.

Burma - Indochina. Shany [the husband loves his eldest wife, her daughter Nang Hsen Gaw, the youngest daughter Nang E; the husband caught many oysters, the wives came to carry the catch; the youngest ate everything herself, the eldest brought it; the youngest said that the eldest is a witch, she took everything; the youngest was killed, she turned into a turtle; the turtle asks her daughter to bring cotton so that she can spin and weave; the mother DID NOT follow, pretended to be sick, agreed with a doctor to recommend a boiled turtle as a medicine; the turtle was caught and cooked; she asks her daughter to bury her bones; the mother DID NOT give bones to the dogs, but one ran away, the NHG took the bone, a singing tree has buried and grown; the king sent servants to bring him a tree; they cut down with the best axes, the felling is overgrown, the servants are executed; the king promises to make whoever brings the tree an heir if it is a man , and the eldest wife, if a woman; NHG easily brings a tree, becomes a queen; an unrecognized mother is NOT hired as a maid, led the queen to the spring, stabbed her, buried her under the road, put her clothes on her daughter; the singing tree stopped and withered; the king allowed the sparrow to nest in the room, for which he told him everything; announced the replacement of the queen; the king ordered the imaginary wife to be cut off; the NHG grew up on the grave a flower, a man picked it up, brought it home; the man's mother is surprised that someone cooks and cleans the house; the woman peeked, crushed the flower, the NHG remained a girl; the sparrow told the king everything, ordered to execute his mother NOT, bring NHG; the tree began to play]: Griggs 1902:66-76; Lao (northern Thailand) [a lazy young man was sent to work for a community elder, he does nothing, the elder drove him away into the forest; the king executes him if he does not bring a deer; the young man finds the dead deer and the elephant's tusk, the king let him go; the young man began to collect and sell myant leaves (stimulant); someone cooks in his hut, he waited for a girl coming out of an elephant's tusk; the king wants to pick her up, gives her husband difficult assignments to get rid of him; 1) bring the mythical flowers of Chant Ti; his wife sent to the abbot of the monastery, who is 100 years old, he is 200 years old, etc. (300, 400, 500 years old); the young man sees 7 daughters Pai In (Indra) coming down from the sky to swim, hid their wings and tails, returned them for promising to bring flowers, those they pledged an arrow that, if shot, makes them come back; they bring flowers, he does not return the arrow; he traded a bow from the 500-year-old abbot for a drum that can steal everything, sent him to bring back the bow; in the same way, a 400-year-old staff that hits everyone, a 300-year-old rope that would tie anyone, a 200-year-old pole that carries baskets himself, a 100-year-old cauldron, filled with any utensils; the pole itself carries everything he receives; the young man married all 7 virgins, their father and first wife agree; the king came, beaten, bound, the young man gets the kingdom]: Le May 1924:20-26 (translation Kornev 1963:52-57); Lao: Nikulin 1988:377-385 [The childless Queen Chanthevi finally gave birth, but not a child, but a golden snail; the king drove her away; she settled with the elderly; someone is cleaning up house; C. watched a handsome young man Sang Thooong come out of the snail; she broke the shell, the ST remained human; the vizier persuades the king to kill him; his sword does not take him, he was drowned with a stone tied to his neck ; the river lord entrusted him to the care of beautiful Phanthurak, not knowing that she was an evil witch; P. tells ST not to look into one room; ST looked, there were human bones, jugs of gold and silver water; he put his finger in a jug, his finger turned gold, he tied it with a cloth; and there were also clothes, shoes, and a spear in that room that gave strength and allowed him to fly; the next time the ST took off completely with water and flew away and P. died after scratching spells; whoever reads them will understand the language of birds and animals; ST returned, read, arrived in another principality, began to live under the guise of an ugly beggar Chau Ngo; the prince summons men to give Rochana, the youngest of seven daughters; she sees ST in his true form and puts on a wreath; the prince drives them away; tells all sons-in-law to hunt, those who return without prey will be executed; the ST convenes animals, gives elder sons-in-law a beast, for which everyone cut their nostril; the same is to fish (everyone cut off the edge of the ear); enemies attacked, ST smashes them, appears in their appearance, gains rule in the principality, and then the throne of the king father, who returns his expelled wife], 386-393 [orphan Khampa lives with her grandmother, puts the top, someone steals fish; he sets traps, and a fox, a tiger, a rhino fall successively into them, an elephant, everyone asks him to let go, promises to help, an elephant gives a tusk; one day K. and his grandmother come back, the house is tidy; they watched a beautiful woman come out of the tusk; said that she would be the wife of good K. ; the nobleman tells the king about her, he wants to take away K.'s wife; the courtiers advise to get rid of K. by cunning; 1) let the rooster K. defeat the royal rooster - the fox turned into a rooster, killed royal; 2) the same, bulls (the tiger kills the king's bull); 3) elephants (the rhino became a huge elephant, killed the royal); 4) boat races - the snake became a boat, overtook the royal one; the king screamed, the roof collapsed , the king became the evil forest spirit of Phi Khai; sent a poisonous snake to hide in a bowler hat, bite the fairy; the good spirit Phi Noah told her to pour boiling water into the pot first; sent an owl, his scream killed the fairy; Phi Noah offers advice to get into the basket, he will deliver it with the fairy's soul; closes the basket, makes the owl revive the fairy; Phi Noah cut off the owl's tongue, since then owls do not kill people; now Phi Hai has died of anger; the nobles chose King K.]; Viets: ÐThãn 1907 [a man died leaving two daughters; Tơm is the daughter of his deceased wife, Cam is the remaining; Kam brings the mother gathered There shrimp, as if she had picked it; only one shrimp remains in T.'s basket; Buddha tells T. to throw it into the well, feed it rice; K. spies, she and her mother eat the shrimp; Buddha teaches me to bury the shell, from she has beautiful clothes and a horse, T. goes to the king's party, loses her shoe, the shoe is only T. on her leg, the king marries T.; her stepmother invites T. to climb a tree, cuts it down, T. falls, sinks; the king has to marry her sister K.; T.'s soul turns into a golden bird, flies to the king; K. asks his mother to kill her, bury her feathers; two trees grow in this place, K. cuts them down; a spinning wheel is made of wood, the end is in the shape of a bird, it threatens K.; it burns a spinning wheel, a fruit tree grows; the fruit falls into the old woman's basket; someone in the old lady's basket is a fruit tree; the fruit falls into The old lady cooks the basket in the house, the old woman spies, sees T., breaks the fruit into pieces; the king finds T., returns it; K. asks how she managed to preserve beauty; T. replies that she bathed in hot water; K. jumps into boiling water, dies; the king sends her meat to her mother, the crow screams that she is eating her daughter; the stepmother dies; (translated into Karpov, Tkachev 1958:14-27)]: 102-107; Schultz 1994, No. 28 [ a woman sends her stepdaughter Tam and her own daughter Cam for fish, K. invites T. to swim, steals the fish she has caught; the Goddess of Mercy (BM) gives her a goldfish, tells her to let her houses into the well; her stepmother catches eats fish; BM tells them to bury fish bones; the chicken tells T. where they are; buried bones give T. the clothes, jewelry she asks for; stepmother and K. go to the party, tell them to share the mixed black and green beans; BM turns flies into sparrows, they separate; T. goes to the party, leaves, loses his shoe, the king tells everyone to try it on, marries T.; Father T. comes home for his name day; stepmother asks get nuts from a palm tree, chop a tree, T. falls, breaks, stepmother sends king K. to marry her; T.'s spirit moves into a nightingale, sings to the king, K. kills the nightingale, T.'s spirit turns into a tree, a fruit falls into the old woman's basket; in her absence, T. comes out of the fruit, cleans the house; the old woman finds her, tears her peel so that T. does not return to the fruit; the king comes to the old woman, finds out T.; K. asks T. how she has become so beautiful; T. advises her to jump into boiling water; K. dies, stepmother dies of grief]: 258-277; Karpov, Tkachev 1958:100-102 [a student saved a turtle; someone cooks in his house, he finds a girl; she takes him to the underwater world; he prepares for exams there; when he returns to people, gets a good position; the turtle stays in the underwater world], 147-150 [a young man saved an antelope from a wolf; she says that if he needs something, he must go to the hoe tree; inside the tree there is a house, the old man gives him an antelope; in the absence of a young man, someone cooks; he spies, grabs the girl, throws an antelope skin into the fire; gets married]; Khmers [a herdsman named Horse Apples says he goes to herd Shakyamuni's horses every time; asks merchants to take a gift to his friend the king of China; these are bags of manure, but when the king He opened them, there was gold; he sent LA his daughter, putting her in a drum; in the absence of LA, the girl leaves the drum, waving a magic handkerchief, food appears; LA spied, scared, but the girl told him not to be afraid, to become her husband; created a luxurious palace; the local king went with an army, she destroyed him, LA was elected king]: Gorgoniev 1973:39-43; tyamy [the lumberjack's daughter swam in in a forest spring, gave birth to a son without arms and legs, who looked like a coconut; he asks his mother to give him to the king as a shepherd, does not lose a single buffalo; the king asks to cut vines, then stakes for the palace fence; the younger princess spies, sees how the Coconut sheds her shell, turns into a handsome man; servants and animals obey him; other princesses do not want to bring dinner to the Coconut; the younger princess marries him; the elders spy, see the young man; the wife hides her shell; the sisters drop the bracelet given to her by her husband into the sea, she rushes after him, drowns; actually hides in the sink; the sink poor spouses pick them up; wonder who cleans their house; catch her by surprise; sell her woven hats; husband recognizes them, finds his wife; reigns after the death of her father-in-law]: Landes 1887, No. 1:9-33 (Russ. translated to Nikulin 1970:138-155; =1990:156-171); tyamy [orphan Kayong is adopted daughter, Halk is native; whoever catches more fish will be the oldest; K. catches more, H. steals its fish; K. catches it the fish, lets it into the well, feeds it, calls it brother; H. overheard, summoned with the same words, caught it, ate it; the fish in a dream tells K. to bury its fins, golden shoes appear from them; the raven takes one king; the king tells all the girls to gather, look for an owner; stepmother does not let K. in, tells them to unravel the ball, separate sesame seeds and corn seeds (ants and other insects do the work); shoe K. comes up, she has a steam room, the king marries her; the stepmother asks to let K. go to her for a couple of days; H. tells K. to climb the coconut palm, cuts it, K. falls into the pond, becomes a golden turtle; the stepmother sends H. instead of K.; the prince catches the turtle, H. eats it; now and then says that she is pregnant (this is a lie), so she ate it; a bamboo shoot grows out of the shell (X. eats it), the husk turns into a bird (X. eats it), a tree with fragrant fruit grows out of feathers; the fruit is given only to an old Vietnamese woman; while she is away, K. comes out of the fruit, fills the poor hut with food; the old woman catches K., that tells me to call the king, the king recognizes his wife; H. asks why K. is so white; K. says she bathed in boiling water; H. cooked; K. watered her meat, sent it to her mother, she ate it, and found her hand at the bottom of the vessel with her daughter's ring]: Landes 1887, No. 10:79-93; Karen: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 166 [a woman arranges a field in the way of elephants; they trample it; she follows elephants, drinks from an elephant trail, gives birth daughter Minanda; she grows up, asks about her father, comes to elephants, hides in a tree, secretly cleans their parking lot; a white elephant waits for her, recognizes her as a daughter; prince marries M.; a dying elephant leaves her tusks that give her gold and silver]: 426-431; Mason 1865 [the orphan boy has only a seven-tailed dog; she barks in a field near his house, the young man finds an egg there, brings it home; someone cooks and cleans; a young man finds a girl, her name is Egg, she warns that she will disappear if he calls her by that name; the neighbors gave the young man a drink, he let it slip, the wife has disappeared; the dog tells her to hold on to her tail, swims across Salwen, warns you not to shout, Great! , having swam to the shore; the young man exclaims, the tail falls off; so when crossing seven rivers; when the last tail has fallen off, the dog dies, telling its head to be cut off; at the crossroads, blood splashes on the right one road; in the village will drip on the steps of the house where the wife; the young man found a wife]: 221-222; Burmese [the wife tells her husband that the fish caught is for their daughter (her name is the Younger Mistress, MX); the husband beats her, she turns into a turtle; husband marries a widow who has her own daughter; MX meets a Turtle; stepmother pretends to be sick, she will be cured by turtle meat; MX buries the bones of an eaten turtle; a tree grows with gold and silver fruits; the prince marries the owner of the tree; the stepmother's daughter cannot pick the fruits, to MX they fall into the hem; MX goes to visit her stepmother; she pours boiling water on her, MX turns into a bird; stepmother's daughter pretends to be MX (long nose because she wiped it); the bird weaves instead of the imaginary wife; she orders to catch and cook the bird; the prince refused to eat it, the servant buried it; the quince grew up, the fruit fell into the hem of the old woman, she put it in a pot; someone cooks in the house; the old men are waiting for MX; test: MX with a wooden sword defeats an imaginary wife with an iron sword; the imaginary body is salted, sent to her stepmother, she eats it, finds fingers]: Aoun 1957:83-90; Karen [the orphan boy has only a seven-tailed dog; she barks in a field near home, the young man finds an egg there, brings it home; someone cooks and cleans; the young man finds an egg there, brings it home; someone cooks and cleans; the young man finds an egg the girl, her name is Egg, she warns that she will disappear if he calls her by that name; the neighbors gave the young man a drink, he let it slip, the wife has disappeared; the dog tells her to hold on to her tail, swims across Salwen, warns you not to shout, Great! , having swam to the shore; the young man exclaims, the tail falls off; so when crossing seven rivers; when the last tail has fallen off, the dog dies, telling its head to be cut off; at the crossroads, blood splashes on the right one road; in the village will drip on the steps of the house where his wife; the young man found a wife]: Mason 1865:221-222; pao [after the death of his wife, a rich old man took a new one; stepmother demands that her husband get rid of two stepchildren; their father took them to the forest, said he would return, and left; the tree gave them rice, pumpkin, watermelon and cucumber seeds, as well as a sword to cultivate the land; its owner would be king; when the elder brother left to hunt, ministers came to the youngest, called him their king and took him to the city; the eldest began to live alone; someone cooks and cleans in the hut; the young man began to watch: a girl, a young man, came out of the elephant tusk hid it; the girl offered to move closer to the city; she has boots and a golden hat, they fulfill her wish; the king's servants noticed the hat, the king (this is the younger brother) ordered her husband to be brought to the palace beauties; refused to recognize him as a brother, ordered him to deliver naga milk; the wife sends him to the naga - this is a girl, his wife's friend, she became the second wife; the king demands cannibal milk; the wife gives a golden hat , tells you to go to the cave and tell the cannibal everything; the young man brought milk and brought his third wife, the daughter of a cannibal; the king orders the young man to be cut and buried; his wives found pieces of body, folded and revived; the elder brother defeated the youngest and began to rule the country and live with three wives]: Zapadova 1977:253-258; the Shans [the youngest of the seven princes replies to his father that he marries only a fairy; the king orders to bring a wife in seven days, otherwise he will cut off his son's head; he goes from one hermit to another; the latter tells at noon, when the cannibal guard is sleeping, to enter the garden, pick the fruit from the top of the tree; temporarily turns the fruit into stone, the young man is a parrot; the cannibal finds nothing, returns to the garden; the hermit tells him not to cut the fruit before reaching the house; the young man cuts in the forest, a beautiful woman appears from the fruit; the young man leaves it on a tree, tells me not to talk to anyone, goes for clothes; a woman comes for water, sees a reflection, thinks she is beautiful, then sees a girl in a tree; knocks her down with a stick, kills her, hides her, puts her on her clothes, climbs a tree; tells the returning young man that the fairies are stupid because of the heat in the sun; the prince marries her; a lotus grew up in the pond, the elderly couple brought it to their place; in their absence, someone cooks ; they hide, see a girl coming out of the lotus, make them an adopted daughter; she makes paintings from petals, capturing the prince when he was a parrot, herself in a tree, and other episodes; for most, it's there were just garlands of flowers; the couple sold them at the bazaar, the prince saw and ordered the girl to be brought in; the liar wife said it was a witch, the prince sent servants to execute the girl; they killed her, her eyes turned into two parrots, started a conversation, and the prince heard the whole story from it; 7 days later he waited for the fairy by the pond; brought him to the palace, the liar was executed]: Milne 1910:275-282; palaung [childless the king asks his wives to fast; the seventh becomes pregnant, but gives birth to a shell with a snail; she is thrown into the river, her husbands (forest cannibals) catch her, she does not climb into any pot, the beaters forget about her, a snail turns into a young man; he cleans, cooks the house; beaters wait, catch a young man, ask him to be a son; one day a young man sees the bones of people eaten by beaters; finds clothes and shoes to give him while they are wearing it, looking like a bilu; arrives at a ceremony where the king's daughter chooses her husband; her garland falls on a young bilu; the king gives her for him, they live in a hut; the young man reveals his appearance to his wife; after death king reigns]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 137:312-316; ahem: Lindell et al. 1977, No. 6 [father sends two daughters to bring water in bamboo vessels; holes in the youngest's vessel, she remains alone in the forest; finds an old stump, water in it, rinses, becomes beautiful; dips the tail of a black dog, it turns white; comes to the elderly couple's house, hides; eats their food, then herself cooks, cleans; the owners find her; the prince marries her, she is rich; plants pumpkin, tells the pumpkin vine to grow to her father's house, push, knock over the pots of prepared food; her father comes, following the vine; says that she will sit on a rattan chair, eat from a wooden bowl, gets everything silver from her daughter; the older sister comes - on the contrary; asks how to become beautiful; the youngest answers what to get into the hole and ask the vessel of boiling water to be knocked over; the eldest dies]: 47-51; 1978, No. 18 [Taak is the older sister, Tok is the youngest; when they leave, the father tells them to weave cloth, prepare firewood, catch fish ; Soo does everything badly, Tok does good; Soak takes everything his sister did and got, ascribes his own job to her; father believes Soak, takes Tok into the forest, leaves quietly, leaving the louse responsible for himself ; The current is looking for his way, asks the Bear, the Tiger; they tell them to give them rice, but show nothing; The partridge leads to a certain place, then the Rooster, the Firefly brings them home; the father again takes the Tok into the forest; she comes to a woman, she takes care of her, marries her, Tok is getting rich, she has a son; the pumpkin vine from Tok's house has grown to her father's house; he visits Tok, realizes he was mistaken, scolds Soak; Soo comes to sister, invites her to climb the tree for fruit and take off her bracelets and jewelry so as not to interfere; cuts and knocks down the tree, Tok breaks, Soo puts on her jewelry, replaces her; the crow brings Tok's eye to a nest, a bird hatches from it like an egg, flies to her son Tok every day; Soo kills, eats her head, throws her head into the fire, it smolders; the old woman comes to get fire, takes a smoldering head, throws in a jug; someone cooks and cleans in her absence; an old woman finds a beautiful woman; Soo comes to find out how she became so beautiful; Tok says to pour boiling water on her body, steams Soak to death; Soooo revives in the form of a tarot plant, a pond, a fern; when Tok cooks tarot tubers, he gurgles in the pot, "The younger sister killed the eldest, she died; the eldest killed the youngest, she did not die"; The current pours out the contents of the pot, it fell on the ducks, so the heads of ducks and drakes are green]: 124-132; buoys (from three informants, two of them spoke Chinese); [the young Liuliu plowed, saw it in the well a shrimp, brought home; at night I had a dream: the moon was looking for her daughter who came down to earth; when she returned from the field, she found a girl; she gave birth to a son, Prince in Heaven (Chinese: tian wang), a boy immediately grows up, helps in his work; the emperor sent an army to take his wife; she tells his son to look for her on the moon; L. returned from the field, went to pick up his wife; the old man says that he saw how the warriors brought her to the woman, who told the river to wash them away, rose to the sky by the rainbow herself; Ransu, a close associate of the emperor, is trying to kill TV in order to seize the rich harvest from his fields; 1) lowers in an iron cauldron in a well; 2) ties a tiger to a stone to be eaten, 3) to a spruce; TV returns unharmed every time; his servants let him go; he turns into an old man, then into smoke, rises to the sky; at the site of ascension a stone in the form of a human figure remained; after learning about the injustices, mother TV began to send insect pests, drought, etc., and people began to sacrifice before that stone on the sixth day of the sixth month]: Miller 1994:97-101.

South Asia. The Bengalis [the merchant's son takes an egg from the warbler's nest, puts it in a locker in a niche in the wall, forgets; a girl is born from an egg; grows up; in the absence of the young man, she goes out and eats the food he has brought, returns to a niche; after 16 years, a young man notices this; his mother advises him to hide; he finds a girl; he marries her; they have sons Swat (Sheth in Russian transcription) and a younger Basanta (Boshonto); an elder the merchant, his wife, the wonderful wife die; the merchant (i.e. the husband of a wonderful wife) takes a young wife; his son's wife S. is older than her; the stepmother hates stepsons; the fisherman brings fish; if eaten, the lips will become jewelry falls if you laugh, and if you cry, out of the pearl's eyes; the merchant tells his daughter-in-law to fry fish for him; she gives fish to her husband and his brother; Boshonta's dove flew to his stepmother, who hides it under her dress, S. takes him away; his stepmother promises that her husband will kill his stepsons as soon as he returns; both brothers and wife S. leave the house on a fast horse; spend the night in the woods, S.'s wife gave birth; S. goes to look for fire; in his city elected king, married; the previous king was found dead in his wife's chambers in the morning; like this every day; S. does not sleep, sees a long hair crawl out of his sleeping wife's nostril, turns into a snake, S. kills him; Sh. forgets his first wife, remains king; B. comes to the river, cries; a merchant who has swam takes him away; keeps him locked up, hits and tickles to get pearls and precious stones; in the forest, S.'s wife falls asleep; The chief of police (he is from the lower caste) sees her, he has his own dead baby; he replaces the woman's baby with it; she goes to drown, she is saved by a brahmana, she lives with his family; the kidnapped baby grows up, wants to marry the brahmana's adopted daughter; he refuses; the young man is going to kidnap her; hears the calves talking, learns the whole story; comes to the king (i.e. his father Sh.); he confirms everything; family reunites; the merchant who tormented B. is buried alive in a hole with thorns]: Day 1914, No. 5:93-107 (Zograf translation 1976:133-138); Nepali [poor old woman went to the forest, in her shoulder basket turned out to be a serpent; she tried to drive him away, kill him, he ordered him to be brought home; in her absence, someone cooks, she realizes that it is a snake; he says he will follow the princess's wife; tells him to close eyes until he climbs to the top of the mountain; the old woman opens her eyes earlier, the serpent is immediately next to her again; the second time she crawls over the mountain; in the palace she crawls into a mortar, calls the king; only the youngest and most beautiful of the five daughters finds out where the voice comes from; the king refuses to give the serpent his daughter; then he cries - the rain causes flooding; the king promises but refuses his words; the serpent laughs, drought affects the kingdom; the king agrees to give her daughter; only the youngest agrees; the king tells her to throw a piece of iron, an iron stick into the serpent's head on the way; snakes: why do you throw your spinning rod; pin; houses the old woman and the princess liked each other; the serpent creates a palace; the princess and the old woman go to the party; decide to return unnoticed; the old woman sees that the serpent has taken off his skin, has become a prince; the princess grabs him, the old woman wants to burn her skin; the prince tells me not to do this; jewelry falls out of the skin, then courtiers, servants, and people come out; with luxurious gifts, the spouses come to the princess's father; the older sister tries on the youngest's clothes and jewelry, asks what to give the child, if he wants to eat, cow dung; what to do if he gets dirty, call the dog; persuades the father to stay and her husband He has left; he realizes that his wife will be killed, but cannot do anything; the older sister accompanies the youngest in the waterless area; by the lake she rushes to drink, the eldest drowns her; comes home in her guise; the old woman understood the deception only when the imaginary daughter-in-law gave the child manure, etc.; the husband went to the lake, caught and burned his wife's corpse; a bird arrives from the lake, turns to the baby; the husband realizes that it is transformed wife; the next day he caught her with bird glue, put her in a cage; the imaginary wife killed and fried the bird, said that she had fed her son; the husband killed the child, locked himself in his room, began to conjure; opened the chest, with his wife and son alive in it; sent the liar to her father]: Heunemann 1980, No. 1:19-33; the Assames [the king has two wives, the eldest gave birth to a boy, the youngest is a sour fruit ow; threw it on garbage dump; he rolls back; rolls to the river, a girl comes out of it, a prince sees her, asks her father to marry him; they perform a wedding ceremony; in the prince's room, the girl comes out of the fruit until the prince sleeps, eats the food left behind; the old woman advises to pretend to be asleep when the girl comes out, throw the fruit into the fire; she will lose consciousness, but will recover if you put a rice compress on her head, bananas and cottage cheese; prince did so, happy with his wife]: Borooah 1955:13-17; Santals: Bodding 1929, No. 72 [seven brothers live in the woods; Bonga girl secretly cooks, leaves seven servings; in the first time only the younger brother risks eating (eats all seven servings), the second time the younger brother and the next, then three; on the fourth day, the older brother guards, does not notice the girl; the brothers guard seniority, only the youngest sees her; timidly agrees to marry; she gets wives and his brothers; gives birth to a boy; the hermit Jhades asks for her cord to tie his hair; leaves, she follows him, leaving his child and husband; seven brothers catch up with them, J. turns them into stones; the boy grows up, others call him faultless; aunts tell him the truth, he goes to J.'s country; asks for the way various shepherds, in Yuyuba (Zizyphus Jujuba Lam.), the last instruction is given by a squirrel; a grateful young man runs his fingers over her body, leaving stripes; in the garden, J. the old woman makes floral garlands for the new queen; the young man hides the ring left by his mother in a garland, she recognizes it; the son tells the mother to find out where J.'s soul is; J. replies that in two types of pumpkins; the young man cuts the vine to no avail; in sword (burning manure on a heap - the same); in two cranes on a poplar in the middle of the sea; a young man passes three women, one has a bench stuck to the hair, the other straw to the hair, and a rice grinder to the third; the young man promises to find out how to free themselves; a crocodile with a bloated stomach transports him across the sea to the poplar for promising to find out how to recover; cranes reply that the first woman should invite the traveler to sit down (she does not did this), the second to clean the hair of others, the third to allow the poor to grind rice in her mortar; the young man broke the cranes's wings and legs, J.'s limbs also broke; the crocodile moved back, his stomach opal; in J.'s house, the young man twisted the cranes's necks; woke up his mother; carried the heads of the cranes, J.'s head follows, fell into the blacksmith's horn when the young man threw the crane heads there; revived his father and uncle]: 47-81; Bompas 1909 [the unknown mistress is a supernatural being Bonga]: 218f in Hatt 1949:100; Campbell 1891:52-57 [the seven brothers have a sister, she takes care of the household; their wives don't love her; they ask for her pond spirit pick it up; when a girl tries to get water, the water recedes and then comes back and the girl sinks; turns into a bamboo that grew up near the shore; a wandering musician made it a violin; she has such a good tone that the musician refuses to sell it to the Raja; the Raja replaces the violin, his son plays it; the girl comes out of the violin, cooks; Raja's son followed, grabbed her, married her; everyone was convinced that the girl is human; her brothers became impoverished; they came to the Raja, did not recognize her sister; she told everything; they all reconciled], 102-105 [Raja's two daughters were walking, the crow dropped the fruit, they liked it, they went to look for it the tree was found; the older sister went to get water, the youngest stayed in the tree; bhut pierced a hole in a vessel of leaves, the girl could not bring her sister water; the Raja saw her, took her as his wife; they came to the tree monkeys, the oldest saw a girl, ate; exhaled; a pumpkin grew in this place; the beggar made a banjo out of the fruit, it sings in the voice of the girl eaten about what happened; he came to the Raja's house, who has the wife is the sister of the deceased; she replaced the banjo; the younger sister began to leave the banjo, cook; the Raja followed, grabbed the girl, and married him too]; ho: Bompas 1909 [the poor man is ready to plow goats, but has no grain; asked for rice husks, it grew into beautiful rice, but wild buffaloes trampled everything; the poor man came to the forest, cleaned the clearing where buffaloes were resting, hid in the hollow; returned buffaloes are happy; so several times; they left the lame buffalo on guard, but he fell asleep; then the blind man, he had a good ear, he found it out; buffaloes promised to take care of the young man, gave two horns to blow them in case of danger; but the young man, swimming, left them on the shore and the crows took them away; the buffaloes attacked the merchants, they abandoned everything, the buffaloes brought all the belongings to the young man on their horns; one day he bathed his hair floated down the river; he was found by his daughter Raja, promised to marry only the owner of the hair; he was found, brought, married to a princess and made heir to the throne; once crows threw him stolen horns; he boasted that if it blows at them, the whole city would be destroyed; they did not believe him; he blew, buffaloes appeared, but the young man stopped them; they were given all the grain and straw they found in the palace; they left buffalo and buffalo and domestic buffaloes come from this couple]: 457-459; Halder 1918, No. 28 [two brothers have a house but no plot, they collect fruits and roots in the forest; the elder saw, plucked and brought a beautiful flower home; the next day the brothers returned - the house was tidy and the food was cooked; on the third day, the eldest hid, but by the evening he left for a while, and when he returned, everything was ready again; the next day, the youngest hid behind the firewood and saw a girl coming out of a flower; grabbed her and made her promise to become the wife of his older brother; a boy was born; his father began to sing him the song in which he was walking talking about this flower; the wife said it was time for her to go back to her own, and she disappeared; the brothers and boy went to that tree to call her back, but she did not appear anymore]: 338-339; birkhor [sister 7 She cooked the brothers and cut her finger; wiped the blood on the leaves she was cooking; after tasting this food, the brothers tasted extraordinary; the sister confessed what was going on; the brothers decided to kill and eat her; the younger was against it, but kept silent; the brothers started shooting, but the arrows flew by; told the youngest to shoot; he pointed the bow to the other side, but the arrow pierced his sister; the brothers sent the youngest to bring firewood, but they were forbidden to tie them with a rope; the snake tied them with its body; they gave a leaky jug to bring water; the frog plugged the hole with its body; told them to bring fire - in its own palm; Singbonga lent him one of their own hands; the brothers fried their sister's meat, and gave the youngest their legs and giblets - let him fry him; he also fried crayfish and fish, and buried his sister's remains unnoticed; bamboo grew in this place; The elderly couple came to cut it down to make a guitar (kendrār); when the old man started chopping, it was said, "Don't cut it down, don't cut me down, old man, my brother planted this bamboo!" (original in local Hindi); but his wife insisted on cutting down and making a guitar; meanwhile, all the older brothers got married and had families; the elderly couple came to their house, but the guitar sang, "Don't play, Don't play, oh kendra, this is the house of your enemies, oh kendra!" ; the old men left in fear and came to their little brother's cabin; there the guitar sang, "Play, play, oh kendra, this is my brother's house, oh kendra!" ; when he heard this, the younger brother gave the old people a drink and replaced them with his guitar; since then, when he went to look for food, his sister got out of the guitar and cooked food, and by the time his brother arrived she returned inside the guitar; her brother waited for her, grabbed her hand, said that he did not eat her flesh, they were happy; he called her brothers to his sister's wake; when they ate well, her sister appeared; in shame, the brothers asked the earth to open up, so that they could hide their shame in her; a crack in the ground swallowed them up; her sister tried in vain to hold them by her hair; bundles of hair remained in her hand and turned into Sābai (Ischaemun grass) angustifolium)]: Roy 1925:427-429; baiga [four brothers are married, the fifth is still single; their sister cut her hand, thinks what to wipe the blood off, wiped it on the rhizome she prepared for food; her brothers force her to say what she added to the food, making it tastier than usual; after learning that blood, the elders decide to become cannibals, took her sister into the forest, killed her, brought meat to her parents under the guise of dead game ; the younger brother did not want it, the elders threaten to eat it too; he secretly hid the meat, did not eat it; the girl's fiancé comes to the scene of the murder, a red flower grew there, the groom picks it up, hides it in the flute; at night the flower turns into a girl, she cleans, cooks; so several times; the groom hides, grabs her; the wedding; her brothers came, but she met only the youngest]: Elwin 1944, No. 1:374-375; conds [ the poor man collects and sells firewood; he has 7 daughters; one day he and his wife decided, while their daughters were sleeping, to slaughter and eat the last chicken; but the daughters woke up and could not eat enough; another time the father found a fruit tree, but the daughters went with it and began to eat the fruits themselves; then the father took the daughters to (another?) to the fruit tree, and he walked away, hung the calebas on a branch and left; the wind whistled in the calebas, and the daughters thought it was the father who was whistling; when it got dark, the elders told the younger ones not to cry, or the tiger will hear; storks flew by in the morning; the older sisters decided that they were flying to the water, went in the same direction; reached the water; but as soon as the older sister touched the water, the water was gone; water: give the younger sister a ring , then I'll return the water; they threw the ring; when they got drunk and swam, the eldest tried to take the ring from the bottom and immediately failed; the youngest rushed to help her; the eldest came back and the youngest disappeared; 6 the sisters came to the tiger's house; the house was empty, but there was a lot of food; they cleaned everything up, prepared food, and when the tiger came, they hid; the tiger was surprised, ate, fell asleep; the sisters threw oil on his back; the tiger decided that he needed a second mouth on his back, because he could not reach it first; he asked the tiger to allow himself to be tied, made a hole in it with a hot rod and the tiger died; the king's servants found the house, the king came and married him the eldest of the sisters, gave the rest to the courtiers; took the tiger's wealth; one day the sisters saw their poor parents and the king took them to the palace]: Schulze 1922, No. 14:79-86; oriya [pregnant wife asks her husband to collect her plum; a tree above the pond, a crocodile grabs a man, lets go for promising to give him a child if a girl is born; after 14 years, a person meets a crocodile, he demands to give it to him promised; the man tells the crocodile to wait in the pond, attach a lotus to his head; the girl tried to rip it off, the crocodile took it away, made her a daughter; does not let anyone into the water, ate all living things in the river; girl she collected all the gold, ran away, a tiger rushed at her, she asked the tree for help, the tree opened and hid it inside the trunk; the prince hears a voice, tells him to marry a tree, the tree was moved to his bedroom ; at night, a girl goes out and cleans; one day the prince has time to burn a tree; everything is fine]: Mohanti 1975:99-102; tulu [the king saw his daughter's naked chest; asked his wife and ministers if he could to disrupt what he planted himself; everyone said that, of course; the king was preparing the wedding, but did not say with whom; the daughter suspected what his intentions were, ordered a chest and put it in her room, hid in it; the guests have left; the king's wife orders the chest to be thrown into the river, for it reminds her of her missing daughter; the chest sailed to another kingdom, was not given to the minister, but was given to the king; he ordered it to be brought to his room; the mother sends milk and a bunch of bananas to the king every day; after the chest appears, the king finds only half of the usual; hides, finds the girl; when going to war, she tells her mother to continue to send milk and bananas; the concubine's maid noticed the girl, the concubine begged the Queen Mother for a chest, cut off the girl's arms, legs, breasts, pulled out her eyes, buried it in different places, threw her body headlong into a hole; the old woman found it; the girl indicates where to look for her dicks, the old woman brings her, puts them in place, they grow; when the king returned, the girl asked the old woman to gather everyone for the party, took a musical instrument (tambura) and sang about everything that happened; the king married her, the maid was hanged]: Coyaud 2013:140-146; the Tamils [after 50 years of reign, the king had a son, and then a second; the enemies took over the city, the king and his family went to another, began to beg, and taught his sons to a brahmana; he ordered the elder to herd cattle, and taught the youngest the secret sciences; the youngest moved into the dead the kite, flew to his father, explained how to deceive the brahmana; when the king came, the brahmana dressed the elder properly and boasted about his knowledge, and called the younger one stupid; but the king chose the younger one; to earn money, the youngest ordered to sell it in the form of a chicken to the king of the city, who could not find a mate for his extraordinary rooster; the young man became a chicken, at night he became a rat, dug a hole out of the cage, returned to father, becoming a man; next time the young man tells him to sell him as a horse to a rich man; but the brahman realized that the horse was his disciple, bought him; began to beat him; by the pond the young man moved into a dead fish; brahmana Orders the pond to be drained, the young man moved into the dead buffalo, then the parrot; the brahmana in the form of a kite (garuda) chased him; the parrot flew through the princess's window; she ordered him to make a precious cage; At night, the parrot becomes a young man, eats food prepared for the princess, smudges her with incense; on the third night he opens to her knowing that she is still awake; teaches her what to do when the brahmana comes ask for a parrot; the parrot's neck is twisted, it will move into the princess's necklace; it must be torn; the pearls thrown into the garden became worms; the brahmana became a rooster, began to peck worms; the young man became a cat attacked a rooster; he became a brahman and swore not to harm again; a young man marries a princess, a brahman returns his brother; the conqueror returns the city, the younger brother educates the elder, puts him on the throne]: Natesa Sastri 1886:1-18; Tamils [a woman herds goats, she has two sons but has no time to cook for them; a sanyashi told her to crush the pepper seeds and drink; one seed fell and became a girl, but the woman did not see her; since then someone has been cooking in the house; the girl is hiding on the top of a palm tree; once she bought bracelets from a merchant and told her to take money from her mother; a woman: I don't have a daughter; but when I saw her on a palm tree, I admitted it; went to take food to my younger brother, who works in the field; asked the swordfish to cross the river, promising rice on the way back; but when I returned, did not give anything and the fish scratched her back; at home, the girl said that it was her brother who beat her because she was late; the next day her mother put poison in the food and her brother died; a rose bush grew on the grave; the second brother wanted to pick roses for the wedding sister; but the bush answers: my roses will wither on the head of a demoness, a murderer; the same answers to my mother; my father; but then the bush gave roses and my sister got married]: Blackburn 2005, No. 99; Sinhales [the king marries the daughter of another king to his son as his wife; the princess turns out to be a mouse, the prince brings her in a box, she jumps out, hides; secretly goes out to cook; sends mice harvest in the prince's field; the prince hides, throws his removed mouse skin into the fire, stays with his beautiful wife]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 63:130-132.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Simalur [herons ruin the rice field, Palombana catches one of them, keeps the houses in a cage; someone cooks in his absence; P. finds a girl, burns feathers in the morning, they turn into pets birds; spouses go to live in the forest; the howler monkey wants to kidnap his wife; she offers to poison her husband with bananas and rice; when monkeys gather to the imaginary dead, the wife closes the door, the husband kills everyone; A pregnant female who did not enter the house escaped]: Koehler 1964:62-66; Aceh [about Simalur; Banta Ahmad catches a parrot eating his rice; a parrot turns into a princess]: Koehler 1964:149; bataks [just like Simalur; a woman cooks food for him unnoticed by the hero]: Koehler 1964:149; dusun [a man finds a nest of strange white bees in the forest, brings him home; while working, someone then he cooks in his house; he finds the girl, hides, then returns the hive, she agrees to marry him, provided that he does not call her a bee woman; at the party he gets drunk, calls her; wife flies away like a bee after the father bee, leaves her husband with a child; he comes with his son to the bee world, the bees turn into humans, he stays there with his wife]: Evans 1913:457 in Dixon 1916:218-220; Bali [the fisherman threw his fishing rod, each time he pulled out only a piece of coral; he liked the last one, he brought it into the house; when he came up, he sees that the girl is not in the house when she enters, the food is ready; next time appears unexpectedly, grabs a girl, breaks a coral; Raja wants to take possession of her, summons the fisherman to a duel, dies, the fisherman becomes raja]: Hoikas-van Leeuwen Bomkamp 1983, No. 42:213-215; tetum : Anonimo 1956a (Hatubuilico) [a man lives alone, he has a pig; when he returns home, the food is ready; he suddenly returns, buries pigskin, marries a beautiful woman; from this marriage Nuno-Mogue happens, do not eat pork]: 24-25; Correia 1973 [when dying, the chief's wife gives a ring, tells her to marry the girl it fits; the ring fits the chief's daughter; she asks her brother to put it in the box, throw it into the sea; another chief catches the box, brings it to his house; in his absence, someone cooks and cleans; the chief discovers the girl, marries; the insulted brothers of the leader's father, whose daughters he is rejected, they go to war; the wife tells bees and wasps to bite them to death; revives them; everyone is happy]: 169-172; Pascoal 1967:141 [after the flood, two brothers live alone; raise a pig; someone cooks in them absence; a brother named Mai-Léqui hides in a tree, sees a girl; when he comes down, throws piglet skin into the fire, takes the girl as his wife; their descendants have never eaten pork], 305-308 [mother Nó-Bere and her niece hates his young wife Sara-Léqui-Dáci; when she sends food to her husband working in the field, they eat it, replace it with plain corn porridge; the husband leads the SLD to swim, suggests look in her head, she falls asleep, he puts a rock on her, tells the water to rise; the dead SLD says she is still alive; they kill her so that she can live with them; the eldest two of the four SLD sons tell their dog to look for a mistress; they find the mother's corpse; tell them to search for her soul; the dog leads to a tree, it turns into a big house with a bamboo staircase leading to it; the mother's ancestors they say that she cannot return since her corpse has already been buried; the soul is also afraid of the dog; the mother gives her sons her milk in babmuk vessels for the youngest two who remain at home; at home in the absence of young men mother's milk turns into two girls doing housework; brothers hide, find them, get married, kill their father, grandmother and niece, bury them under the threshold so that everyone can step on them].

Taiwan - Philippines. Ifugao [Kinggaowan is offended that his relatives did not share meat with him at the festival, goes to live on the mountain; Bugan, the daughter of a Hinumbian celestial, descends, cooks rice in his absence; K. feels smell, embarrassed to enter the house because he has no clothes; B. throws him his belt; they marry, B. gives birth to a son; K. catches a lot of game; people come for their share, eat ginger, vegetables that produce skin disease; B. and K. move to people, then back to the mountains; B. offers to go to heaven, but K. cannot get up; B. divides their child, leaves the lower part of K., telling them how to revive and replenish the body ; K. is unable to do it; B. comes down to help, but the flesh is completely rotted; B. makes it some birds, insects, rainbows, landslides - everything people use to predict the future]: Barton 1956, No. 10:142-143; tingian [Aponibolinaen collected the edible leaves of the climbing plant, it took it to where Ini Init (The Sun) lives; while he is away, A. cooks in his house; before at sunset, I. leaves the star to shine, runs home, marries A.; A. cooks chopsticks, they turn into fish; A. asks I. to take it with him on his daytime journey; takes pillows and blankets to protect himself from the heat ; turned into oil from the heat, I. poured it into a bottle, threw it down; when people unfold a mountain of pillows, inside A.; she asks her mother Ebang to prick her little finger, from there a baby jumps out; E. tells the walnuts of the areca palm to call all people to identify the child's father; who does not want to come, grow to his knee; I. refuses to come, his nut grows to his pig, I. agrees; the child rushed into his arms; people saw that the one carrying the child was a rolling stone; A. changed into rags, went with a stone; in her house in the sky, I. was taking on his former form; sending nuts to bring people for marriage rites; they do not want to, nuts force them; people are surprised that A.'s husband is not a stone; they receive golden nuts as a gift; I. pays a ransom for his wife to her parents]: Eugenio 1994, No. 11:38-41 (translated in Rybkin 1975, No. 34:72-81); payvan: Egli 1989 [two brothers were orphans; still young, but planted potatoes; harvested, one potato was very large; someone cooks and cleans the house; boys find the mother, she turns into a potato; the next evening they grab her hands; she says she came from the world of the dead, will come every year at the same time; mother and potatoes are disappearing]: 142-143; Whitehorn, Earle 2003, No. 31 [Tjukutjuku woman chewed two types of nuts, spit at a spring, an areca palm tree grew there; T. picked fruit, came to some men's house, cleaned it, hid; the men decided to watch for her; took her wife; since then she has eaten arek palm trees]: 154; saisha [when returning to the hunting hut, people see the food cooked; the old man remains to guard, finds a girl coming out of their sea; the hunters return, the girl is silent; when the dog spoiled the air, she smiled and spoke; her name is Kateteru, one of the young men married her; after a while While she took 10 people to the bottom of the sea, showed fabrics there; when she returned to the shore, she taught her father the art of weaving at the request of her father; her first two students hid some secrets from others, K. She scolded them, they were rude in response; she went back to sea]: Chen 2014:425-426.

China - Korea. Ancient China [story known earlier than 5th century AD]: Eberhard 1938:61; Chinese (Qinghai) [two sisters climb into a rich man's garden to pick flowers; the owner takes the eldest as his wife; the youngest confronts her into the river, takes its place; the eldest turns into a bird, the husband puts it in a cage; the youngest burns the cage with the bird, blackthorns grow out of the ashes, it burns it in the stove; a piece of ash appears silver, an old woman picks it up; someone cooks in her house, she finds a girl; an old woman calls a rich man, he promises to come if his conditions are met; comes, returns his wife, the younger sister stays with his mother]: Frick 1954, No. 20:526-527; Chinese (Hebei, Wu. Qinglong, 1972) [the hunter drove the hare into a hole and was about to shoot when there was a cry "stop"; the young man carrying a bunch of brushwood ran up and asked the hare to be released; gave the hunter the only silver liang; the hare told the young man that he was the hare king from Yunguang Cave on Mount Fenghuang (Phoenix Mountain); the young man replied that his name was Zhihua and he lived with his elderly mother, collected firewood; the hare invited him to his place; the hare king offered the best food to the cave; one hare quietly told the young man that the king would give him a wife - let him take the little frog; she would jump out of the frog skin and become a girl; the king did not wanted to give the frog, because he received it from Lunwang (the king of dragons) of the East Sea, and he forbade handing it over to mortals; but C. insisted; C.'s mother died; in C.'s absence, someone was cooking; C. found the girl, hid the frog skin; the girl cried: Longwang would punish her; C. returned her skin and the girl was gone; Longwang realized that she had been talking to mortals; sent an army of shrimp to the hares, and threw the girl into prison to execute; when he saw the shrimp, the hare king flew to heaven, ended up in the Moon Palace and could no longer descend; hare ministers were executed; since then, the Hare King has been living in the Moon Palace with Chang'e] : Bai Gengsheng 2007c: 437-440; Chinese (Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu) [a person brings a snail into the house; in his absence, she turns into a woman, cooks and cleans the house; he finds her; later the Snail finds his shell, crawls away]: Eberhard 1938:59-61; Chinese: Lin Lin, Ustin 1959 [the fisherman regrets, lets go of the fish; someone cooks in the house; he finds the girl, calls her daughter; the official demands her concubines; requires 24 identical carps (the girl gives); demands a "miracle"; the girl asks to make tin look like a frog, puts gunpowder inside; the frog answers the call; the fisherman says that she feeds hot coals; a frog explodes, an official dies]: 313-318; Tishkov 1954 [the youngest of three brothers became a fisherman, caught a fish, brought it home in a vessel; someone cooks dinner for him; neighbors are spying on him grabs a woman; she pulls a pumpkin out of the river; the pumpkin gives everything she is asked for; the official finds out about it, demands many different things; then demands evil; Evil burns it and all the yamen with fire]: 47-49; 1957 [ orphan Wang Xiao picked up a snail; someone cooks in his house, he waited for the girl; she says she was surrounded by making her a snail; the official sees a beauty, tells YAS 1) build a house; 2) walls around: 3) a river with fish and trees; the wife creates everything; the official wants to constantly admire her, she turns him into a stone lion standing at the gate]: 80-82; fox: Durrenberger 1979 (northern Thailand) [for a woman seven daughters; she mows the grass for the horse, sees a tree with seven flowers, picks flowers, puts them in a grass cart; she cannot move the cart; there is a dragon under the grass, he demands one of his daughters as his wife; only the youngest agrees; going to the dragon, she meets a man, he asks to look in his head; the girl sees that her head is covered with snakeskin, gets frightened, the man runs away; reappears, tells him to close eyes, brings them to the palace, where everything is made of gold; he himself was a dragon; they have a boy; an older sister comes to visit; asks to hold the dog; the youngest asks to wait for her to wear a dress then a hat, various ornaments, etc.; finally goes out; the eldest asks the youngest to climb the tree for fruit, giving her the baby; stings him; replies that he is crying because he wants his mother's shoes ; so makes her take off all her clothes (in the same order as she wore them); when the younger sister comes down, the older sister tells her to stand on her shoulder, throws her into the lake; the dragon suspects substitution; the imaginary wife replies that she was visiting her mother, where her face was bitten by insects, her hair was scorched by fire; the dragon tells me to bring a vessel of meat, the imaginary wife brings the wrong one; replies that after staying with her mother, I forgot everything; the dragon sends his son to mow the grass by the lake; the boy comes back without grass every time, says that something prevented him; the bird flies out of the lake, says that the older sister drowned his wife king; the dragon comes by himself, plunges gold and silver rods into the ground; promises to kill his son if he lied; the boy cries, then the bird flies out, repeats what was said; the dragon asks her to sit on a golden rod, the bird sits down, the dragon brings it home; the bird spoils the vessels, the dragon kills it, gives meat to its elder son, bones to the son of the younger sister; the first turns flesh into bones, the second turns bones into flesh; the older sister throws the bones away, they turn into scissors; the younger sister's son gives them to the liar; she cuts clothes for her younger sister's son, she becomes precious, for her son simple; discarded scissors turn into a bush; the youngest's son picks fruit from it, the eldest son only hurts himself against thorns; burns the bush; the ashes turn into a little dog; everyone drives her, only the mother feeds the sisters; returning, he finds the house tidy; the old man says he saw a dog skin hung on the fence, that someone was cooking in the house; a woman finds a girl, tells her to be her daughter; the girl tells her to invite the king (i.e. dragon), cooks chicken; the king promises to come if there is a golden bridge, gold dishes; all this comes from mustard seeds and radishes; after eating, the king finds long hair in the bowl, says that he is like at his wife; tells both women to jump over spears; the third time the liar attacks the spear, the real wife jumps to the sky; everything is explained to the child; iya and so obaku; the youngest many times; he himself and had a dragon; they had a face]: 94-98; Dessaint, Ngwâma 1994 (the border between Yuz Yunnan and Burma) [the widow has 7 daughters; she went to mow grass for horses; plucked 7 unusual flowers; can't lift the basket; under no turned out to be a dragon; ordered the flowers to grow again or give him one of her daughters; on the way home, the widow rejects her promise three times, but immediately the basket becomes unbearable and there is a dragon under it; through For 3 days, the dragon sends a fly; all the sisters chase it; the widow is ready to eat it herself, but Amilome's youngest daughter agrees to go to the dragon; on the way she asks for directions; the sheep shepherd tells her to herd the sheep, then will show the way; instead threatens to kill; the same shepherds of goats, cows, buffaloes; on the fifth day he asks the old man, he asks him to look in his head, there are snake scales, the girl screams, the old man crawls away like a snake; on the sixth day, the same old man, she dutifully removes the scales; the old man is the dragon; he tells her to close her eyes, brings her to the palace, takes the form of a handsome man; they have a son; a dragon lets his wife see her family; Amima's older sister is jealous, goes with her youngest; offers to pick cherries over the lake; stings the child, each time explaining that he wants to play with one of the jewelry or mother's garments; when she gets everything, she pushes the youngest into the lake, puts on her clothes; tells the dragon that she is fool because she was cooking and oil splashed into her face; the voice became rude because she fried corn; her hair turned yellow because she slept by the hearth; the husband tells me to bring a deer, then a wild boar; she brings a bear, a wild bull; claims that she has lost her mother's memory; Amilone became a wooden needle, pricked sister, but not husband and child; Amima threw her into the fire; the son goes to the lake for grass, hears the oriole singing: the king is blind, lives with a liar; the son returns empty-handed; everyone answers his father that the shirt (hat, etc.) is old, mosquitoes have bitten, my father gives a new one every time; he goes by himself: if the song is true, sit on my golden staff, if not, on the silver one; the oriole sits on the gold one; in the palace she sings the king, spoils on the queen's bed; she killed and ate the oriole, threw away the bones; mulberry grew; the king and son ate the fruit, and she pricked the queen; she cut her down and burned her; the piece became scissors, picked them up old lady; Amima took them away, but they spoiled everything she sewed; she threw them away, they became a puppy, he was picked up by the same old lady; Amima took him away, fed him with her crap, the puppy refused to eat, she had him kicked her out, allowed the old woman to take it; in her absence, the puppy sheds her dog skin, becomes beautiful, cooks and cleans; the neighbor talks about this; the old woman lies in wait, threw her skin into the fire; the girl tells the king and her son to be invited; the dragon agrees to come if there is a golden bridge and a silver bridge in three days; the girl tells the old woman to go to the dragon, sprinkling sesame seeds from the right, opium from left hand and do not look back; behind her are bridges; the dragon went gold, the son went silver; Amime did not step on them, walked along the ground; the dishes resemble the dragon those served by his wife; he finds her hair, she comes out of hiding; the dragon tells both women to jump over the bamboo fence; Amilome jumped three times, Amima fell on the stakes for the third time; the corpse was cut, the piece was cooked, 7 daughters were sent to the mother; she is glad: Amilome did not send gifts, but Amima sent it; she recognized her daughter's hand, rushed into the burning hearth out of grief; since then she has been sacrificing in the hearth and her spirit]: 347-373; Cherkasova 1961 (Yunnan, formerly lived in Sichuan) [Gua-tzu ("Orphan") caught a clam, left it at home in a jar of water; someone cooks; G. followed, grabbed the girl, they got married, she creates on his farm cattle and poultry; Uncle G. has three daughters, he advises to drive away the mollusk, take its daughter; G. does so; the woman goes into the water, the cattle after her, the uncle does not give the daughter to the poor; Dog, Pheasant refuse to help; Frog drinks the river, tells me not to laugh; his wife sits at the bottom, weaves, G. laughs, the Frog too, regurgitates the water; next time G. does not laugh, stays with his wife, she is the daughter of the Dragon; he suggests 1) hide (G. turned into a needle by his wife, father-in-law does not find it; father-in-law is a bull, G. grabs it); 2) clear the area, burn it, uproot the roots (every time here and then you have to say "Dragon father, dragon mother, do this" trees fall by themselves, etc.); 3) harvest (millet grows immediately); 4) count millet; 5) kill two pigeons (split) with one arrow; 6) hunt with father-in-law (keep a cloak, father-in-law for yourself each time it causes a storm; the son-in-law planted cucumbers along the way, returned home on them); 7) shoot at the rock so that the arrows do not bounce (spread resin); 8) bring the gong from the monkeys (they got drunk, he took the gong, on left needles on the way of the pursuers); hit the gong - father-in-law died]: 431-440; Chuan Miao: Graham 1954:226-227 [poor Mbla catches fish, keeps it in a vessel; finds rice cooked; finds a girl he marries; he no longer needs to fish, she makes rice, her father and brothers build a house; M. meets the girl next door, who advises to look at the abscesses on his wife's legs; the wife agrees to leave, takes the house; the neighbor does not need an impoverished M.; M. cries, he is Chinese with him, he steals the Chinese's clothes, the magical wife becomes the wife of a Chinese; to comfort M., gives him a red handkerchief over his head, M. turns into kingfisher], 228 [the older brother takes everything for himself, the youngest stays with the blind mother; catches fish, keeps it in a vessel; someone cooks, the young man finds the girl; gets rich; the older brother offers to swap wives; the magical wife advises to agree; puts on fish skin, blows down the older brother's house with a stream of water; the youngest stays with the elder's wife], 245 [a poor orphan brings home a flower; someone cooks in the house; an orphan finds a girl getting married]; meo (hmong) [two poor orphan brothers caught a fish; younger Yah Ju Joa wanted to eat it right away; older Ya Ju Joa said she was too beautiful, put it at home in a vessel with with water; when the brothers went to work in the fields, the fish became a girl, cooked dinner, cleaned the house; the neighbors said that none of them helped the brothers; they turned to the supreme god Shao; he complained hide the broom and baskets, come back from the field early, hide; the brothers saw the fish become a girl, were surprised that there were no brooms and baskets - how would she cook food for orphans; the brothers opened up to her, the elder married her; the devil Gazinion decided to take the girl for himself; told his assistant eagle Galliyon to kill her with his scream; the elder told the younger to guard the body, went to look for the cause of death, promised to return 9 days later; the eldest took to heaven, where Gazinion is going to make his wife his second wife; at the wedding, the eagle got drunk; the young man gets permission to take the eagle to that house; brings on horseback to the forest, asks you to open your mouth to put in a cure for a hangover, sees three tongues with which the eagle killed people; tells him to revive his wife, otherwise he threatens to kill him; he screams three times; the young man carved out the eagle's middle tongue, so that he can no longer kill people by screaming; finds his wife alive at home]: Harper 2005; Koreans: Cho 2001, No. 83 [a single farmer finds a big snail, brings it home; someone cooks in the house; a peasant waits for a girl; she says he was in a hurry; an official sees and takes his wife; husband and wife die of grief, turn into a pair of birds, fly to heaven], 84 [childless woman thoughtlessly wants to give birth to at least a snake; after eating greenery, conceiving a snake; the neighbor's two daughters leave in disgust when they are shown a snake in a vessel, the third calls the newly-born snake groom; the snake son asks him marry, the neighbor's third daughter agrees; after the wedding, the serpent sheds her skin, turns into a young man, tells his wife not to reveal secrets; sisters peek, find snakeskin, throw it into the fire; the husband disappears, the wife goes in search; weeds the old man's field, repaints the woman's clothes, they show the way; another old man gives a dog, he leads his wife across the pond to another world; her husband has just married, now must choose one of two wives, gives them tasks; 1) bring clover from a distant mountain (the first wife brings more); 2) bring water up the stairs while stepping in stiletto shoes (the first brings, the second falls); 3) bring five hairs from the tiger's eyebrows; the old mother of tigers gives hair to her first wife; the second wife disappears]: 134-135, 136-142; Choi 1979, No. 206 [the young man brought a snail; someone cooks in his house; he finds a girl, she reproaches him for hurrying; the king wants to take his wife away, offers competitions; 2) cut down a tree; 2) cross the river; the king drowned, the young man reigns; var: the wife is not a Snail, but a Turtle, a Larva; an official takes his wife, the young man turns into a bird]: 64-65; Ząng 1952, No. 13 [a single peasant hears a woman's voice in the field, picks up a snail, brings it home; someone cooks in the house; a peasant waits for a girl; she says she is a slandered fairy from heaven, exiled to the ground, asks to wait two months, but the peasant does not want to wait; an official sees a woman demands; she sends him her sweater, then her pants are finally forced to come alone in her underwear; the husband breaks his head against the pole of the official's house, his spirit turns into a bird; the wife dies of grief, her the spirit turns into a comb so that wives think about maintaining chastity every time they comb their hair]: 29-31.

The Balkans. Moldovans [childless old woman eats wheat grain, gives birth to a son Golden Seed (ZZ); baby stops crying when mother promises to marry him to Steppe Beauty (SK); goes to search betrothed, on the way, as a sign of heroism, eats a whole ram, a bull; wins, takes Drevolom and Kamnedava as companions; twins cook in turn, SAM-with-to-beard-with-elbow (SB) eats lunch while sitting riding a cook; ZZ defeats him, he runs away; someone cooks in the house; brothers watch for three doves turning into fairies; one marries Drevolom, the other for Kamnedava, SK for ZZ; wives are losing weight, twin brothers take turns guarding, becoming a sliver, a stone, the SB comes, hits them, demands their wings from the fairies, eats lunch; ZZ turns into a sword, pinches the SB beard in the trunk of an oak tree, he pulls out an oak tree, goes into abyss; only ZZ dares to go down, finds SK, rearranges barrels of living and dead water, SB drinks dead water, ZZ cuts off his head, sends the beauties upstairs, puts a stone in the basket for sample, the brothers cut the rope, the basket falls; the ZZ kills the snake, grateful eagles hide it from its mother so that she does not swallow it; she swallows and regurgitates three times; carries it to the ground, feeds it in flight and gives her water, cuts her last piece off from his game, the eagle puts it back; Woodcutter and Stonedav have made SK a maid, starve her son; ZZ tells her brothers to throw the club up, she falls on them, kills; their wives fly away with doves; ZZ brings his wife and son to his mother]: Botezat 1981:89-105; Romanians [the rich king has 12 sons; after the birth of the desired daughter, disasters fall on the country; on the advice of the stargazer, the king tells the servant to leave her daughter in the forest; she comes to the old woman; after that, her chicken, dog, cat die; she asks the girl to leave, gives her a poor dress; the girl comes to three shepherds, secretly cooks; they ask a stranger to go out, promise to call him brother if it is a man, sister if she is a woman; the girl opens up; after that, the sheep begin to die, the girl has to leave ; she comes to the black woman's castle; she brings her to two people, one of whom plays with balls of silk; tells her to grab balls, in which the girl's luck; the king must get silk for the bride's dress; total gold is not enough to balance the weight of the ball; the king himself stands on the scales, he buys silk, giving himself, i.e. marrying a girl]: Browne 1915:301-310; Hungarians [Ibronka is more beautiful than everyone, but without guy; "God give me a lover - at least a damn thing"; now a guy is with her at the party; she accidentally bent over and felt that he has hooves; asks for advice from an elderly woman; she offers to attach a ball thread to the guy; on an unwound thread he comes to church, then to the churchyard; I. sees through a keyhole how her boyfriend took out the skull of the deceased, cut it in half and eats the brain; I. home, locked the door, the guy behind her: what did you see? - Nothing. - Your sister will die. - If you die, we'll bury you. It's the same with your father, your mother. - You're going to die on your own. Woman: When you are buried, you should not dismantle the wall through a door or window; carry the coffin not along the road, but straight; dig the grave not in the cemetery, but in a ditch; hell asks the door, the window is those they answer that I.'s body was not carried through them; the devil puts on iron shoes, takes an iron staff: when he wears out, then I. will find; a rose has grown on the grave; the prince tells the servant to tear it off, she is not given; the prince himself easily tore it off, brought it to his room; someone eats the food left in the evening; the servant followed; the next night the prince grabbed I.; she agrees to live with him, but on condition not to take her to church; two the boys have grown up, everyone wonders why they come to church without a mother; I. has to go; hell sees her, promises to come; asks again what I. saw through the keyhole; I. in detail tells the whole story; and ends up like this: I tell the dead, not the living; the devil falls screaming terribly and dies; I.'s mother, father and sister come to life]: Dégh 1965, No. 4:46-57; Hungarians [king sent three sons to look for brides; they came to the old woman, she gave each an orange; it should be cut where there was water nearby; the eldest hurried, the girl who came out of the orange died of thirst; then with his middle brother; the youngest opened an orange at the spring; left the beauty to wait in the tree for him to bring clothes from the city; the gypsy woman came to get water, first thought that the spring reflected her, then raised her head; persuaded the girl to go down, pushed her into the water, took her place; the one that fell into the water became a goldfish; the gypsy woman explained to the prince that when she entered the human world, she had lost some of her beauty, but would find her again; after the wedding, she pretended to be sick, she needed to eat goldfish; fish scales fell into the yard, a tree grew; the prince's wife told him to cut him down and cook her food on wood; a flat chip the old woman picked up a jug of milk to close the house; in her absence, someone was cleaning the house; once she waited; the girl told her everything, and the old woman threw a sliver into the fire; told the prince everything; Gypsy woman tied to a pillory]: Stier 1850:83-91; Albanians: Elsie 2001, No. 8 [mother sends Constantine's son to her uncle in Smyrna, young man works in a shop, goes grocery shopping; man sells chest: whoever buys, regrets who doesn't buy, will also regret it; the young man buys; when he comes back, the food is cooked; the uncle says that the food has never been tastier; K. spies, sees coming out of the chest girl; she says she is in love with him, that her father is king of Egypt; when she refused to marry someone else, he put her in a chest and send her away, and she asked the servant to bring him to Smyrna and sell K.; K. sends his wife to his mother; a Jew bothers her, is refused, writes K. that his wife is debauchery; K. returns, throws his wife into the river; having learned the truth from his mother, he goes to the mountains; fishermen sell a woman to a Turk; she suggests that he dress her in men's clothes or she will be stolen; leaves in his clothes and on his horse; comes to Egypt, her father is dead, the residents decide to choose king Whoever is seen first in the morning is chosen by K.'s wife, who is mistaken for a man; people love the new king, his portraits are everywhere; servants grab those who react strangely to them; K., a Jew, fishermen, a Turk they lead; everyone tells the truth, the king's daughter reveals to ministers who she is, K. reigns, the Jew is expelled]: (without pagination); Lambertz 1952 [the king tells his son to find a wife; he shoots a cannon, the core three times falls by the tree, under it there is a turtle; the young man brings her home; leaves her; when he returns, the house is tidy; the third time he hides behind the door, grabs the girl, breaks the turtle shell; the king wants the girl for herself, trying to lime her son, demands to bring a cloth to dress the army; the wife tells her to go to the sea, turn to her parents, they gave matter; no matter how much she cut, the rest of the same length; then but bread to feed the whole army; the king sends a man 3 tops tall, a beard 7 tops; wife: this is my brother; the dwarf comes with the prince, blows the king's head off with a blow of his fist, puts the prince on throne]: 113-120; Greeks: Dawkins 1916 [the king has three sons, he wants to marry the youngest; they cast lots, he fell on the frog; while the prince is away, the wife takes off her frog skin, turns into the Beauty of the World, cooks and cleans; the prince finds her, tells her father; he wants to get rid of his son in order to take possession of his wife; 1) bring three cucumbers; the prince comes to the river, croaks, gets cucumbers; 2) a small tent, under which the entire army will be located and half of the space will remain empty; the same; 3) tablecloth {-magic?} ; the king died, the wife burned her frog skin, remained in the form of the Beauty of the World]: 341-343; Megas 1970, No. 24 [the king invites three sons to take wives where the arrows fall; the elders marry the rich beauties, the youngest brings a frog; when she is alone, the beauty comes out of her frog skin, cleans the house; the prince spies, sees the frog princess summon the maid frog, who too turns into a girl, does work; he throws her skin into the fire, the princess screams in pain, he throws her skin into the water; the princess explains that her family of underwater inhabitants is bewitched; will remain human appearance, if the young man falls in love with her; the prince and his wife are invited to the party; the wife tells her father to ask her father for magic rods, goose and two chicken eggs on the lake; they are with his retinue in a rich outfit; made of goose eggs are a crown for the king, chicken eggs are bracelets for older sons], 30 [a widow fisherman caught a turtle, brought it home; someone cooks and cleans; he sees a girl coming out of the shell; breaks the shell, takes a girl as his wife; the king wants to marry the one who makes the best headscarf; the fisherman's wife embroiders the sea and ships; to get rid of the fisherman, the king requires 1) to catch enough fish to feed army; 2) grapes for the army; the wife sends to her mother, she comes out of the sea, gives a pot, containing any fish dishes; a tray of grapes; 3) bring a man two tops tall, a beard three tops; This is the wife's brother, his name is Chickpea; he rides a rooster out of the sea; his sister tells him to tear out the king's eyes, make her husband king; the rooster pecks out his eyes, the king dies, the fisherman reigns]: 49-54 , 74-79; Paton 1900, No. 11 (Lemnos) [a childless woman is ready to give birth to a laurel berry; she gives birth to it, the maid shakes the bed out the window, the gardener sweeps away the garbage; laurel grows in that place; three young men they cook lamb nearby, tell the gardener to follow; a girl comes out of the laurel, throws salt into the cauldron, the meat is salted; next time the youngest young man waits for her, grabs her, marries her; on her wedding night leaves roses instead, goes to her former bride; the laurel girl changes clothes with the monk, comes to the wedding, returns the young man]: 339-340; Bulgarians [(many records); father tells sons marry where the apples, feathers, arrows thrown by them fall; the youngest's arrow falls into a swamp (spring, lake) to a turtle or frog; he brings it into the house; someone cleans houses, cooks; he finds a beautiful woman, throws her shell, her skin into the fire; the beauty remains]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 402:139-140; Macedonians [older sisters leave the youngest in the forest out of envy; she sees lamb, comes to pick him up at the house of nine brothers; secretly cooks and tidies; brothers take turns guarding, fall asleep, only the youngest finds the girl; they made her a sister; the sisters sent the old woman to give her the poisoned ring; the brothers left the girl in a glass coffin on an oak tree; the prince found the coffin and took him to the palace; his mother covered the girl's face with a towel soaked in wine; the girl came to life, married the prince]: Arkhipov 1962:3-12; Macedonians [merchants noticed a clever poor shepherdess, took it with them; he became a clerk, these merchants became rich, and others were envious, complained to the king; the king asks them where find a wife who looks like a dead queen; the boy tells him to be brought to the king; asks if it is possible to pick the best flower in his garden; which means that her daughter can also be married; the princess ordered to make a chest, sat down in let the servant sell him at the bazaar; the chest says: "Whoever buys will repent, and whoever does not buy will repent"; that boy bought it; in the morning the princess went out, cleaned everything up; next time he waited; sent the princess dressed up as a man to his mother; the boatman noticed that the girl; the mother was writing a letter, the boatman changed: as if the mother was writing that the girl was a slutty; the boy came to his mother, pushed the princess into the sea; the boatman tried to marry her, she ran away from him and others; dressed up as a man, became Pasha, and the seal was the one she took from home; tells her to exhibit her portrait and bring those who pay attention; the boatman was drowned, the princess married that guy, he began to rule after the death of the tsar]: Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:285-282; Gagauz people [the widow king tells three sons to fire arrows wherever they fall, there fate; the elders fell to the girls, the youngest to the turtle; he brings the turtle home, returning from hunting, finds the food cooked; he hides, grabs the girl, throws away the turtle shell; the king- the father wants his daughter-in-law, tells his son to bring the wedding ring of his deceased mother from the dead; the wife teaches him to go to the sea, shout into the hole, her mother will come out, give the key to the castles of the earth; he opens the ground, goes, sees a fat herd in a dry meadow, a skinny herd in an abundant one; on the way, the sea asks the guy to ask God why there are no fish in it, the sea; a man sits by the water, burns, black and white sheep come out, everyone wants put out the flame, fight, and the person lights up again; asks to know why he is burning; in the Sun Palace, the Sun's mother says that the ring is near the Sun will return and give; the Sun gives a ring, cries, because in In the city, people go to seek need in secret, but in the field openly; the guy goes back; the old man explains that obese cattle are who did alms, and thin cattle were giving alms, looking around; a burning man was who judged once righteous and the other unrighteous; the boy gave the ring to the king, he died immediately]: Moshkov 1904:39-41; Gagauz people [the tsar has 40 sons, 39 want to marry; the youngest of the fortieth Bald takes the last the remaining horse; every time she tells the brothers that the parking lot is dangerous, but they do not listen; the giantess came, gave wine, 39 fell asleep, Bald secretly followed the woman, she tells her 40 sons to kill who have come; Bald kills them one by one when they leave home; marries brothers 39 daughters of a giantess; the same at the next night with another giantess; Bald hung her by the chest, negotiates with the beautiful ; on the third night, the giant closes the door; releases the brothers on the condition that Bald stays with him; tells him to get the daughter of the Turkish king; Bald meets three arguing over an invisible hat and a carpet- an airplane that can be controlled with a whip; Bald shoots: the one who brings the arrow will receive a hat, the second will receive a whip, the last is a carpet; he picks up objects and flies away; at night in the princess's bedroom eats the abandoned food, moves the candlesticks; on the third night, the hat accidentally slept; Bald brings the girl to the giant, telling her to say that she has 40 days of mourning for her father and telling the rear {object what the soul is} of the giant; that: a pole; a broom; a girl decorates them every time; then the giant says that there is a lake in the Goose Forest, there are three ducks and a drake, a drake in his stomach, three flies in the stone; the Bald man took out flies, killed one, then the second, third, giant fell ill and died; Bald married a girl, and married the first one he kept for himself; 39 brothers married 39 daughters of the giantess]: Moshkov 1904, No. 63:113-120.

Central Europe. Poles: Lifshits-Artemyeva 2017 [the childless king returned to the castle, wanted to drink; the ladle at the well is not given in his hands; the king leaned to the water, Koschey grabbed his beard, let him give it what he did not know at home, but when he returned he would immediately find; the king promised that the well disappeared, the king caught up with the squad; found his newborn son at home; his name Nenadalek ("unexpected"); when he grew up, he met an old man with with green eyes, he recalled his promise; N. went, found 12 girlish shirts by the sea, and saw 12 jaws in the water; hid one shirt; the jaws became girls, dressed and flew away; the 12th asked return the shirt, promised to help; she is Koschey's youngest daughter; ordered K. to crawl to the throne on her knees; they fell into the underworld; K. laughed, did not kill N., promised to give tasks; 1) overnight create a palace with a garden (the girl created it); get to know the youngest daughter (girl: you will notice the sun under your right eyebrow); in the presence of K., sew a pair of shoes while the straw is burning; the girl tells you to run, leaves a spit responsible for herself; K. sends servants; the girl turned herself into a river, N. into a bridge, a horse into a crow; into a forest with many paths; into a church, a priest, a bell tower; K. did not recognize, returned; the girl tells you not to enter the city: if R. kisses a child who came out to meet him there, he will forget her; and so it happened; the girl became a cornflower in the field; the old man found him, transplanted him, brought him home; someone cooks and cleans; the fortune teller advised me to guard, the old man found the girl; on this day the Queen is getting married; the girl speckled the cake, asked the cook to serve; two doves jumped out from there and began to tell how N. forgot the girl; the queen remembered everything, came with his girlfriend to his father's country; wedding]: 209-221; Shcherbakov 1980 [the king tells his son to marry only after his death and take the bride from the testicle; after death The young king bought his father's eggs from the witch; she ordered him to keep his eyes on them on the way home and when someone wanted to drink, they immediately gave them a drink; there was no water, 14 testicles were gone; the latter had time to drink, arose beautiful; while the king was running to the castle for her dress, the witch turned the girl into a wild duck, took her place; the king is amazed that the girl is fool, but still married; gardener: there is a duck with gold on the pond with feathers; he took the duck to his chambers; while he was away, the Queen ordered the duck to be slaughtered and fried; a drop of blood to the cook: bury me under the royal window; an apple tree grew with 7 red apples, the king ordered fence her; in his absence, the queen ate apples, ordered the apple tree to be chopped and burned; the old woman picked up the chips, began to heat the stove, one sliver pops out all the time; the old woman put it in the chest; while she goes to beg, someone cooks and cleans the house; the old woman peeked, found a beautiful woman; the king tells all women to come and tell stories; the girl put on rags, came, began tell her story; the queen was chained to the floor, made to listen, then torn with harrows; wedding; and I was there, drinking wine and honey, flowing down her mustache, not getting into her mouth]: 47-49; Slovaks [Ibronka the most beautiful, but the only one without a boyfriend; when the girls are going to spin, they laugh at her; she says - let the hell take her; a handsome man comes, the girls are jealous; seeing off I. he disappears until midnight doesn't know where; she tied a thread to his clothes; a thread leads to the cemetery, I. sees her boyfriend eating dead from his bones; soon he comes to her and asks her what she saw; I. says : nothing; in which case her brother will die; I.: so he will rest; so with all members of the family; left alone, I. asks to drag her coffin under the threshold, let his pony be lucky, bury her where he is will stop; the ghoul comes again - this time he promises that I. herself will die; the pony stopped at a fork in the roads; a lily grew up on the grave; the young master saw it, sent the servant to tear it off - the lily disappeared; then the master tore it off himself, put it in his hat, brought it home; at night I. came out of the lily, cleaned everything up; on the third night, the master tells the servant to follow; he sees I. kissing the sleeping master and again became a lily; the servant did not tell, and the master began to guard himself; grabbed I. when she came to his bed; she turned into a toad, a lizard, a snake, etc., but eventually became a girl; they married; a daughter was born; but I. does not go to church; her husband persuaded her and she saw a ghoul there; in the evening he came and asked what she saw in the cemetery; if she did not say, the daughter would die; she confessed; the ghoul disappeared, and I. died again and lies in the grave at a fork in the roads; her husband stayed to raise her daughter]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 32:173-177; Russians (the place of recording is not known, but the only one-story text from Tersky Bereg) [Marusya meets a good guy at gatherings; his mother advises him to tie a thread to a button and open a ball; the thread led to the church, M. looked out the window: the groom eats there deceased; the next day, the groom asks what M. saw; she denies everything; he says that her father will die tomorrow; the next day, her mother; the next day, M. herself will die; the grandmother advises to ask the priest should take her body out not through the door, but through a hole dug under the threshold and bury it at a crossroads; a flower grew on the grave, the boyar's son ordered it to be transplanted into a pot; at night the flower turned into a girl, in the morning the boyar's son sees that the food has been eaten; waited and grabbed the girl; M. agreed to marry with an agreement not to go to church for four years; she is forced to go, she sees on the windowsill that ghoul: tomorrow your husband and son will die; they are dead, the ghoul came again, asked if she saw what he did in church; she said and sprayed holy water on him; he crumbled to dust; the same water she revived her husband and son]: Afanasiev 1958, No. 363:124-127; Russians (Arkhangelskaya: Severnaya Dvina) [the tsar did not know that his wife was pregnant, wanted to get drunk from a well, grabbed by the beard: give the one whom You don't know at home; Ivanushka was born; (grew up, came to the sorcerer); he tells Mary Tsarevna to know; she flies in: tomorrow they will release 12 ducks, she has a white feather; found out; new task: sew shoes while Selimenka with gunpowder is burning; Marya: we must run; a flint threw: a river of fire from heaven to earth; (the sorcerer crossed); threw a baton: ldes (cut through); M. became a chapel, I. a deacon; the pursuer did not recognize returned; reached the city; M.: they will give the child in their arms - don't take it, you'll forget me; I. took it, forgot, they married him; M. became a flower, the old man tore it off, brought it to him, put it on the window; everything was tidy up in the morning; on the third night, the old man waited for her, gave her clothes; at the wedding, a pigeon and a dove flew out of the pie, started a conversation; dove: forget me; I. remembered, married M.]: Mitrofanova, Fedorova 1966, No. 6:113- 114; Russians (North) [Ivan Tsarevich wounded a swan, brought it to the tent; someone cooks and cleans; for the third time I. finds and grabs the girl; she resists, turned into a golden spindle, I. his broke, threw his heel in front of him (be young), and the tip behind his back (be a scarlet flower); they have a son; in the spring, the backyard grandmother tells I. to guard his wife; swans are flying, everyone offers to shed his wing; the wife replies to her father and sister that she has Ivanushka here; tells her mother to throw off her wing, his wife picked it up, but I. grabbed her; she cried]: Karnaukhova 1948:173-177; Pskovskaya [grandfather and woman went for mushrooms, my grandfather found a lame duck, brought it, they put it under the bed; when they leave, the duck is made a man: heats the stove, bakes pies, puts a samovar; on the third day geese fly; the duck asks to throw it feather; the wing grew, it flew away]: Ploshchuk 2004, No. 29:95-96; Russians (Tverskaya) [grandfather and woman went to pick mushrooms, picked up a crooked duck; when they left in the morning, the duck turned into a girl, cleaned the hut , made pies; neighbors say that the crooked girl carried water; the grandfather and woman hid in the closet, threw feathers into the fire; the girl saw and cried asked for a spinning wheel, began to spin on the porch; flies a flock of geese, she asks to throw off a feather; geese: swans will give; swans: others will give; a lonely goose is flying, threw off its feathers; she became a duck and flew away]: archive of the Center for Tver Local History and Ethnography, sent by V.E. Dobrovolskaya.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [a young lonely fisherman Dovlet caught a huge stump in the sea; brought it home for firewood; woke up in the palace in the morning, food and drinks around; lay down again, pretending to be sleeping; appeared beautiful; agreed to be his wife on condition not to show her to anyone; D. gathered friends, got drunk, spilled, forced his wife to come out of the stump; she predicted disasters; the sultan saw her through the window; viziers advised not to execute D. for no reason, but to give an impossible assignment; the sultan orders to bring a watermelon with a hare inside; wife: hit the water with a stick, my younger sister will come out and take out a watermelon; now The sultan demands a bunch of grapes, which would be enough to satisfy the hunger of troops and residents; the second sister carried them out of the sea; bring a 9-10 year-old boy who will defeat the entire army; the older sister came out of the sea , gave a tiny boy; he grew up, destroyed the army, the sultan and the courtiers; proclaimed D. sultan, and returned to sea himself]: Kondaraki 1875, No. 2:41-46 (=1883a: 3-7); Rumei (handwritten text in Rumeian, stored in the library with. Yalta, Pershotravnevy district, Donetsk region) [the old woman walked and held a pot of water in her hands; the prince threw a pebble and broke the pot; the water spilled; the old woman said: "Love for three oranges"; the prince grew up and always remembered these words, they did not give peace to him; when he became a young man, he decided to go in search of three oranges; people said that they were very far away and well guarded; the prince found and took three oranges {without details}; on the way home I decided to cut one of them; a beautiful woman came out from there, said: "Water, water," and then turned into a bird and flew away; the prince cut the second orange, the situation repeated; the prince came to the well, cut a third orange; a girl who was more beautiful than the first two came out; she asked for water, the prince gave it to her; the girl said that she was his fate; the prince told her: "Climb a tree, I I'll go home, gather my matchmakers and come back for you"; the royal maid came for water; looked into the well and saw a beautiful woman sitting in the water; the maid said, "Put your hair down, I I'll see them, you've been sitting here for so many days, I guess you've worn them up"; the girl let her hair loose; the maid climbed upstairs, stabbed the girl, put her clothes on and sat in a tree instead of her; the girl turned into the bird flew away; the prince returned with his matchmakers, mistook the maid for an orange girl; asked why she had become ugly; the maid replied: "You have been gone so long, I turned black in the sun"; the prince believed her, married her; the bird began to fly in and sit on the trees; the tree she sat on dried up; all the trees were so dry; the maid knew she said to the prince: "Catch this bird, kill it, I will kill it I'll cook it and we'll eat it"; he did it; the wife took the bones and buried them near the threshold; a tree grew out of them; when the king, queen or prince came out into the yard, it hugged them with branches; when the prince's wife - her branches were beaten and burned; she told the prince to cut down this tree; he did it; the wind picked up one branch and threw it by the road; the old woman picked up this branch, brought it home, put it behind the icon; when the old woman left from home, the branch turned into a girl and did everything around the house; the old woman decided to find out who it was; hid and saw the girl; she told her everything; the old lady said, "I'll go to the king, get their shirts, and you You will sew them"; the girl sewed shirts for the king and queen that it was not clear that their hand had touched them, and sewed their daughter-in-law's shirt with stubble from a pig; the old woman took the shirts to the king and told them who sewed them ; the prince came to her house, recognized the girl and took her with him; then asked the maid: "Wife, what do you want - forty knives or tie you to forty horses?" ; she replied: "Forty horses"; the prince tied her by forty horses; where her body hit, there were beams and hills; the prince married an orange girl; "They still live and reign"]: Intervalskaya et al. 2001; Balkarians or Karachays [stepmother tyrannites stepdaughter Ileuka and her brother; children are leaving; Ileuka does not tell his brother to drink from the stream through which the cows passed - will become a calf; horses a foal; sheep a lamb; the boy secretly drinks, is made a lamb; I. climbed a tree with a lamb; warriors sit under it, fell asleep; I. went down, cooked meat, fixed her clothes, hid again; so for three days; once she ate an apple, which made her an adult beauty; the warriors waited, brought Khan, she agrees to marry him if he leaves a lamb with her; the witch offers to swim in the river, pushed I. into the river, put on her clothes, took her form, ordered the lamb to be slaughtered; he runs to the river, bleats, telling his sister everything; the Khan's servant understands the language animals, hears everything, tells the khan; the witch was punished, I.'s body was found, buried; a tree has grown; a poor woman asks for a twig, the khan sends to find the roots; she finds that the spine turns into I.; at the khan at the festival, I. says everything, the lamb turns into a young man; a kind woman became I. and her brother's foster mother]: Aliyeva, Kholaev 1983:? ; Abkhazians [three brothers shoot at a tree; after the eldest is shot, a girl comes out of the tree; the same is an average one; when the youngest shoots, a frog comes out; the parents drove the youngest to live in the forest; he just started building a house, got distracted, came back - the house is ready; every evening food is cooked; he waited for the girl, threw frogskin into the fire; the older brothers are jealous that the younger one is beautiful; one said the prince, as if the youngest can 1) bring a wild boar; the wife gives three nuts, tells him to go to the swamp, give one nut immediately to the wild boar, lure the rest to the prince's court; 2) bring the deer (the wife gave an ear, it is necessary give the deer, sit between its antlers, the deer will come by himself); 3) make a golden bridge across the sea; the wife tells him to go to that tree, call her mother; she gave three rings, we must throw it, the bridge will appear; the prince gave power to a young man]: Shakryl 1974, No. 33:169-174 (=Bgazhba 2002:232-236); Adyghi [remaining the last in the cemetery, the mullah eats the dead; buys, fattens the girl; she notices blood on her hands and her husband's beard; he takes the form of her friend, finds out that his wife has guessed that he is an ogre; promises to eat; the wife sits in a chest, swims along the river; the young man pulls it out; at night she secretly goes out and eats it the food that his mother prepared for the young man; on the third night he waits for the girl, grabs the girl, marries, they have children; a mullah comes, bribes the guard dogs with a ram's carcass, puts neighbors to sleep with intoxicating water, penetrates booger into the house; a woman manages to break another bottle of mullah, everyone wakes up; the mullah is hung by the legs at the gate, everything is cut off piece by piece]: Maksimov 1937:45-63 (=Kerashev 1957:142-146); Ossetians [the father bequeaths three sons to marry three sisters; they are dragon, eagle, hawk; brothers shoot, elder arrows fall at the king's doorstep, the youngest at the swamp frog; the youngest leaves live separately; someone cooks; he throws frogskin into the fire; brothers ask the youngest to return; a dwarf on a three-legged horse kidnaps his younger daughter-in-law; younger brother gets advice from husbands in search of a wife sisters; the Hawk gives a flying horse; the young man takes his wife, but the horse wakes up the dwarf; the wife tells the dwarf to collect pieces of the young man's body in a bag, gives the dog Karis, she brings the Hawk, he, the Eagle and the Dragon revive a young man (flying between the crushing mountains, the Hawk brings aluton = the elixir of life); sons-in-law distract the wolves guarding the Avsurgs - Donbettyr's horses; on the road he takes his wife, the horse kills a three-legged and a dwarf; Feeling guilty, the older brothers died, followed by the youngest; the wife committed suicide; trees grew over the graves, crossed branches]: Britaev, Kaloev 1959:64-75; Terek Cossacks (v. Naurskaya) [the peasant did not develop wheat; a stranger advises him to kill and bury his daughter in the field - then there will be a lot of wheat; the peasant decides to do so, warns his wife, goes to the field; she tells her daughter about her father's plan; the daughter brings him a bag of wheat and runs away; climbs a tree near the river; the king and his servants sit under this tree; notice the girl, persuade her get down; she tells her story to the king; he decides to marry her; goes with her servants to the capital to buy the bride dresses and jewelry; asks her to wait for him in a tree; two girls- Arab women come to the river for water; they notice the royal bride in the tree {no reflection or shadow is said}; one of the Arabs climbs a tree and pushes the girl into the water; pretends to be a bride, says to the king, that her skin has turned black due to the sun and wind; he believes he takes her as his wife; a girl thrown into the river turns into a mermaid with a fish tail; she is shown to servants who bring horses to a watering place; they they tell the king that a monster has started there: half woman, half fish; by order of the king, the mermaid is caught with a net; she reminds him of a real bride; an Arab woman pretends to be sick; assures that the mermaid must be cooked in a cauldron, otherwise the king himself will soon fall ill; the mermaid's bones are thrown away near the palace; they take root and grow in the form of a tree that is covered with leaves and flowers all year round; The king admires the tree and notices that its leaves wither when he leaves the palace; the Arab woman demands that the tree be cut down; the king agrees; the old woman collects chips near the felled tree; finds them among them spindle; leaves it in her room, goes to the kitchen; when he comes back, he sees a pile of thread; every time an old woman leaves the house, someone cleans her room and makes threads; the old woman hides behind the door; finds out that the spindle is turning into a girl; she tells her story, stays with an old woman; walks near the palace; the king falls in love, comes with his Arab wife to dinner with an old woman; a girl brings her bird Kakabka into the room; asks if she remembers how her father tried to kill her, the girl, how she was pushed off a tree by an Arab woman, how she was cooked in a cauldron in the form of a mermaid, how she became a tree they also cut down how it turned into a spindle; K. answers all questions in the affirmative; the king orders an Arab woman to be tied to the horse's tail; tells his servants to ride this horse on the rocks; lives with a new happily wife]: Vostrikov 1904, No. 3:80-86; Terek Cossacks (v. Umakhan-Yurtovskaya) [the son of a poor widow buys the dog and cat that their owners wanted to kill; the widow scolds her son; he buys the snake that the men wanted to kill; goes with his mother to work in the garden for all day; in the evening they see that the stove is heated at home and food is cooked; this is the case every day; the widow comes home in the middle of the day; sees a snake shirt lying on the table; burns it in a burning stove ; a girl enters the hut; tells the widow that if she waited three more days, she would marry her son; then turns into a snake and tells her to be taken to her father and mother; the widow's son goes with her to the forest; from the father of the snake comes out of the glass house; asks the daughter whether to reward her savior with gold or a ring; at the insistence of the daughter, he gives the widow's son a ring from which three young men appear who fulfill wishes; son the widow returns home; tells the fellows to build mansions and the mother to go to marry the royal daughter; the king gives the task: to build a crystal bridge between his palace and the mansions by morning; thanks to the ring, the widow's son performs it; marries a princess; decides to test her and turns the mansions back into a hut; the princess takes off the ring from her sleeping husband and returns to her father; the widow's son asks the cat and dog to help return the ring; the cat and the dog come to the palace; the mouse king caught by the cat asks him to let go; the cat tells him to order the mice to steal the ring from the princess; the princess sleeps and holds the ring in her mouth ; the mouse tickles her nose; the princess sneezes; the mouse grabs the fallen ring and brings it to the cat; on the way back, the cat and the dog must cross the river; they agree that the cat will hold the ring in its teeth and sit on the dog's back, and when it gets tired of swimming, they will switch places; the dog gets tired and wants to take the ring; the ring falls into the water; the dog catches the cancer king; on his orders, crayfish find the ring; the dog and the cat run home; the cat gives the ring to the widow's son, who is already being led to the gallows; he escapes thanks to three fellows and returns home]: Kikot 1892, No. 1:179-184; Avars [mother with three daughters walks along in the forest, the snake demands to give one daughter, only the youngest agrees; in the house, the snake turns into a young man; the wife and son go to visit the mother; when she goes back, the older sister goes with her, stings the child, he cries, the sister explains that the child wants the sisters to exchange scarves and dresses, then, if he wants a flower from the sea, pushes the youngest into the sea, takes her place; but literally follows the order mother-in-law break the jug against the wall (this means you have to go get water), cut off the cow's udder (milk it), etc.; the son grazes the cows, the bird says that it did not give birth to him to herd cows; the boy says to the father, who puts the bird in a cage; the eldest throws the cage on the floor, the bird turns into scissors; cut all the elder's clothes; the scissors have become chicken, they were taken by the old woman; someone cooks in the house, old lady finds a girl; husband recognizes his wife, older sister dies of a broken heart]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 36:339-342; Andians [son went to work in Russia, hired a merchant, the merchant's daughter fell in love with him, he sent her in the trunk to her mother; when she left, the girl got out of the chest, cleaned the house; the mother was surprised; the girl opened up and called herself a daughter-in-law; they built a good house; the local merchant wants girl; wrote a letter to her husband, as if on behalf of his mother, that his wife was walking; the son came and cut his wife; the mother said that she did not write letters; the merchant cured the woman, but she ran away to the shepherd; wearing a man's clothes, came to the village; they chose khan there; the falcon sat on the head of an imaginary man, she became a khan; hung her portrait at the gate, ordered those who would be surprised at him to be stopped; the guard brought that merchant, husband, shepherd, father; everything was clarified; ordered the merchant to hang, appointed the shepherd khan]: Salimov 2010:225-226; Chechens [when she dies, the wife tells her husband to take a woman her gold will suit dudes; the husband has been looking for 15 years, only his daughters came up; she orders to build a tower of gold; tells the builders to leave a hollow pole inside, hides in it, the father furiously threw the tower into the river, one young man with his father they pulled out the pole, brought it into the room; at night someone eats the food in the room; the third time the young man waited for the girl, married her; she gave birth to a son; the unrecognized father came disguised as a beggar, stayed spend the night, stabbed the boy, put a knife in his daughter's pocket; the husband gouged out his wife's eyes, cut off his hands, tied the baby to his back and drove him out; by the river she called out to God; he sent an angel with a pen; throw up a pen - All wishes will come true; the mother was healed, the son came to life; the angel also left a golden whip for her son; the son grew up, came to the village with his mother, stayed with the old woman, people gathered there; the young man put a golden whip under the sweat of his father's horse, accused him of stealing; said that he also accused his mother; everyone was reconciled, everything was fine]: Malsagov 1983, No. 39:167-169; Nogais [eldest daughter passed off as Bear, middle Fox, youngest Eagle; when he died, the old man ordered his sons to shoot arrows; the elder's arrow hit his father's gravestone, the middle shot west, the youngest to the east; his arrow stabbed a turtle; he stayed in a hut in the reeds; someone was cooking; he waited for a girl, it was a Turtle; an old man hired a worker, took the girl away; a young man found her, took her away; a six-legged horse the old man told him everything, the old man caught up with the young man, killed him; Eagle's wife told her husband to assemble his brother from pieces, revive him; the Eagle ordered him to catch a sixth horse at the watering hole; the young man tamed him, killed the old man, returned him wife]: Nogai 1979, No. 20:106-109; Lezgins: Ganiyeva 2004 (author's title) [orphan Bakhtiyar is fishing on the river; pulls out some branches all day; in the evening he pulls something to the forest, he pulls out a branch amazingly shaped, brings home; the next day, when he returns from work on the site, finds the room tidy, the food is cooked; the next day he pretends to go fishing, hides himself, sees how a branch turns into a girl, grabs her, calls Bakhtavar ("happy; "Bakhtiyar" means "happy")]: 199; 2011b, No. 46 [stepmother loves her bald daughter, tyrannites stepdaughter Bibikhatun; mother from the grave tells you to suck the horns of a red cow, honey in one, oil in the other; the stepmother pretends to be sick, tells me to wrap herself in the skin of a red cow; the mother tells me to put the cow's bones in a hole, they will turn into clothes; wearing it, B. secretly goes to the wedding, returning, loses his shoe; the padishah's son is looking for the owner; the rooster shouts that B. is in tandoor, bald at the screenings; the padishah's son finds B., marries; the bald changes clothes with B., pushes her into the river; a plane tree grows up, bald tells her to make a cradle, the old woman brought one sliver into the house; in her absence, the sliver turns into a girl, cooks, the old woman finds her; she fattens a horse, the girl washes her hair and legs, grass grows, the spring hits, the horse is the most well-fed; the padishah's son calls the girls to scratch their hair, hears B.'s story; a bald one is put on a donkey backwards, expelled]: 420-423; Khalilov 1965, No. 69 [seven princes leave home since they have no sister; the queen gives birth to a daughter, she grows up, goes looking for brothers; the shepherd teaches how to find the brothers' house, hides there cooks; the elder brother finds her sister in the chest; the brothers tell her not to let the fire go out; she takes the red bead for a coal, does not notice that the fire has gone out; comes to Azhdakh's house for fire; he gives fire in the sieve; when the brothers are hunting, they come on an ash trail to suck the girl's blood; the brothers dig a hole, agdaha falls into it, they cover it with earth; they carry their sister in a chest on a white camel, chase a hare, a merchant finds a girl, gets married; she gives birth to two sons, tells them by the swamp, says who she is; brothers hear, find a sister, return home with the merchant], 71 [seeing dew, the daughter of a poor man dreams that handsome Chigali ("Rosa Ali") will fall in love with her; wearing iron shoes and taking an iron stick, her father goes to look for a person with that name; merchant C. gives him a handkerchief; if his daughter washes it, she must drain the first water to the roof of her house (roses will grow), the second to the neighbor's roof (a tree will grow up); C. will take the girls from the house where there are roses; the father explains all this to his daughter, a bald neighbor overhears, replaces water; the poor man's daughter asks God to make her father a snake, herself a dove; bald tells C. to slaughter the dove, a drop of blood turns into a plane tree; bald tells her to be cut down, a sliver falls into a neighbor's yard; an old woman picks her up; someone cooks in her house, she hides, grabs a girl; C. gives horses for fattening, an old woman gets an oath, a girl turns her into a beautiful horse; girls they gather in C.'s house, a sliver girl tells her story, C. takes her as his wife, drives her bald woman away with her child (=Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (2): 102-109)]: 211-215, 218-222; Tabasarans [stepmother tells Perikhanum herds a red cow and spun the wool; the wind blows away the wool, the cow tells him to follow the wind; P. goes through a golden, silver current to the Azhdaha cave; in his hair there are snakes, lizards, P. says that his hair clean; the dough is dirty, P. says it's clean like her mother's; cleans the house, takes no treasures, Azhdaha shakes it on a swing, the gold from her dress does not fall; he tells her to swim in a white lake, wash her hair in black, gives gold, dresses and a horse that can be turned into anything; when she sees beauties, the stepmother sends her own daughter Aykhanum; she calls Azhdaha dirty, hides gold, it falls out on the swing ; she is told to swim in a black lake, wash her hair in white, and a horn grows on her forehead; her stepmother and A. go to the party, tells P. to separate the ash and millet, fill the vessel with tears; the mother teaches from the grave sift the millet through a sieve, fill the vessel with water and salt, put on a dress, take the horse given by Azhdaha; returning from the wedding, P. lost her shoe; Beck's son fell in love, found the owner of the shoe; stepmother slipped her freak daughter instead of P.; P. flew in as a dove, A. ordered him to be slaughtered, the giblets were thrown away, a pine tree grew, A. ordered her to be made into a cradle, the old woman picked up chips; someone was cooking in her house, she finds a girl; fattens a thin horse, she is getting prettier; Beck's son calls women to spin and tell stories; P. tells; everything is explained, stepmother and A. were put on horseback, whipped]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 49:444-450; Rutultsy [the poor shepherd asked for a pumpkin; the pumpkin went with the girls to fetch water, dropped a ring into the river; the padishah's son found him, fell ill with love; bought a pumpkin from poor man; someone eats food in his room; he sprinkles salt on his cut finger, grabs a beauty coming out of a pumpkin; wedding]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 56:504-506; Georgians: Kurdovanidze 1988 (1), No. 54 [ nine brothers go hunting; a mother gives birth to a girl, puts a spindle on the gate; an angry neighbor replaces it with a yoke; another girl tells her siblings that her brothers are missing because of her; a daughter bites mother by the chest, forcing her to reveal the truth; comes to the brothers, they do not know who is cleaning the house; they find her; warn her not to let the fire go out; the girl comes to the mother of the devas; she gives smut and cilantro seeds, finds a home on them; dev bites off the girl's finger; the next day, the brothers kill him; the mother of the devas asks for medicine to be added to the brothers' food; they turn into deer, run away; walks alone with her; the prince wants to shoot, the girl asks not to do so; the prince marries her; the neighbor tells her servants to drown her, puts on her clothes, replaces her, tells her to stab the deer; he calls his sister, she answers , tells the king not to carry water, not to sharpen his dagger; the servants pull out the woman, tie the impostor to the horse's tail]: 213-218; 1988 (2), No. 97 [the king has a daughter Agatha and a new wife; she pretends to be sick, tells her husband to feed her stepdaughter's meat; the servants brought A.'s clothes, smeared her with animal blood; A. came to the palace of 9 brothers, secretly cooks and tidies; the brothers waited for her, made her sister; stepmother asks the mirror if she is more beautiful than anyone else in the world; the mirror replies that A. is more beautiful; the stepmother sends a sorceress to A., giving her poisoned resin; the younger brother managed to remove the poison from the girl's mouth; the next once the stepmother sends a poisoned grenade, A. saw it and died; the brothers left her in the coffin; the prince found the coffin, brought living water, resurrected the girl, their son; the stepmother sends the old woman again, she killed the baby, A. put a knife; her eyes were gouged out, the killed baby was given, driven away; the old man put her eyes back, she saw the light; the son grew up, the father comes to them without knowing who it is; the son put a bunch of father rubins, accused of stealing; everything was clarified, the stepmother was tied to a horse, torn]: 150-156; Georgians [the eldest daughter asks her father to buy a dress, an average all-seeing mirror, the youngest a rose of paradise; father steals a rose from Davy, who tells her youngest daughter to be given in return, calls her "Rose of Paradise"; at Davy's house, she hears him telling her sister to slaughter PP; she cuts and cooks sister Davy herself, runs away, leaves mirror (glass forest), comb (forest of ridges), scissors (scissor forest); PP hides in a house whose doors do not open to Davy; there is a coffin with the prince coming to life at night; servants bring him food; PP cleans the house, the prince finds her; when it is time for her to give birth, he sends her with his ring to his father; she gives birth, the prince comes at night, his parents catch him, in the afternoon he dies again; the wife goes to To the sun, to which her sister is married; on the way she meets the suffering (the king's wife is suffering from childbirth, a man is standing in the middle of a burning bakery, a deer rests its horns on the sky); she rises its horns to the sky; the Sun does not kill the woman who comes when she learns that she is his wife's sister; gives water to buy the prince, tells the woman in labor to be put on straw, the person to leave the burning bakery, the deer to bend his head; everyone is happy]: Glushakov 1904, No. 3:27-35; Chikovani 1954 [the serpent turned around the ricks, demands the farmer's daughter; the older two refuse, the youngest agrees; behind the village, the serpent shed his skin, became a young man; explained what they say kajeti (on the contrary: if "break" means "build", etc.); mother-in-law is surprised that the daughter-in-law is doing everything right at once; the snake wife goes to give birth to her parents, then returns with her sisters; the eldest tells her to climb the tree, changing clothes and giving the child, leaves her, takes her place; she does everything "not like a Cajet"; she does not have milk for the baby; under the tree where the mother remains, from her reeds grew in tears and blood; the boy grew up, cut off a reed, made a pipe, she sings about what happened; the stepmother broke, burned the pipe; the ash formed a portrait of his mother; the stepmother scattered the ash on the roof, from it poplar has grown, poplar branches hug her husband; stepmother is sick, tells me to cut a trough out of the poplar; one sliver fell to the old woman; every day she comes out from under the sauerkraut in the form of a girl, cleans everything up; the old woman She was waiting for her; the girl asks to invite a snake to visit, she says everything; her sister was tied to the tails of horses]: 137-140; Kagan 1898a, No. 19 (Imereti) [three brothers decided to marry where the arrow falls each; the older and middle married rich brides; the youngest's arrow fell into the swamp, he married a frog and moved away from his brothers; returning, he found the house tidy, lunch cooked; the young man followed, found a woman, burned frog skin; the king wanted to take his wife away, ordered to sow bread for the whole barn in a day; the wife sent her husband to the wizard test, who gave workers; the king orders to collect seeds sown in the ground; father-in-law sent birds; a crow with a broken leg brought the last grain at the last moment; the king orders to bring his grandmother's gold box from the underworld; a young man on the way sees an obese bull grazing on bare ground, and skinny, grazing on juicy grass; a husband and wife are not cramped on a narrow bed, and others can't fit on a wide bed; one woman bakes mud, but she makes bread and the other bakes bread, but it turns out dirt; another one is hanged by the hair; the king's grandmother tells the young man to give him the box not by himself, but through servants; on the way back, those he meets give explanations; hanged for her hair was jealous of someone else's beauty; her dirt did not repay debts, and whose bread was good; those lying on a wide bed quarreled, on a narrow bed they lived in harmony; the skinny bull was greedy, obese - hardworking; when the king opened the box, a fire blazed out of it and burned it]: 58-61; Armenians: Bagriy 1930 (3) [the king tells his sons to shoot arrows, take his wife where they fall; elder; elder marries the daughter of a vizier, an average merchant, the youngest's arrow is gone, his father drove him out; he came to the swamp, saw his arrow in the frog's mouth, took the frog with him; settled in the city, began to hunt, leaving the frog in the chest; someone cleans up the room; the hostess advises you to hide, throw frogskin into the fire; he grabs the beauty, burns the skin; the wife tells you to return to his father; the prince builds the palace next to the father's; the father wants to take possession of his son's wife; tells 1) to dress the whole army in a week; the wife orders to shoot an arrow into the swamp, her mother will come out, we must ask her, i.e. wife, a chest; clothes in the chest for one person, but when the first one is dressed, there are already clothes for another in the chest, etc.; 2) bring the seal owned by the prince's deceased mother; the wife tells you to shoot into the swamp again, ask her beloved donkey, do not splash the foam that will appear in the swamp when the donkey appears; holding the donkey's tail, the prince enters his mother's grave, the mother tells us where the cauldron with gold and seal is buried, the donkey pulls out The prince is back, he pulls out the cauldron; 3) bring a dwarf with a beard twice as long as himself and a staff of 20 pounds; the wife tells her mother to ask her mother in the swamp for her (wife) beloved Arab; the Arab came to the king, shamed him, killed the tsar, his eldest sons and courtiers with his staff; the prince ascended the throne]: 57-65; Epiphany 1894, No. 1 [the tsar hates his youngest son Segran; he went to live in the forest; someone in his hut cleans up; he waited for the frog, she turned into a girl; the older brothers Bala and Meghri find him and bring him back to the palace; the father demands 1) bring a log 50 fathoms long and thick; the wife tells ask your sister Sea, the sea gives; 2) a cauldron to cook pilaf for all people (same) 3) the key to the treasury that the late mother took to the next world; The sea tells you to ride a donkey across the mountain that will part, stop at the grave where the donkey will eat barley; on the way, S. sees the suffering, on the way back they tell us what sins they have been punished for; the mother warns that when S. brings the father is the key, he will die; the father is dead, S. is friends with his brothers]: 156-159; Bunyatov et al. 1900, No. 5 [three princes shoot arrows; if the arrow falls into a deserted place, you cannot marry; the youngest's arrow falls at rocks, a passage opens in it, the old woman gives her youngest daughter; upon return, the son finds out that his mother has died; the king wants his daughter-in-law, the vizier offers difficult tasks; 1) pay a seven-year tribute from the king of the virgins ( the wife orders to take her brother's horse and sword, with their help the husband defeats the virgins); 2) a carpet on which the army will fit (mother-in-law gives); 3) go to the late mother to find out where the treasure is buried; the elder brother-in-law with the prince gallops to heaven to the dead; then the prince goes alone, sees those suffering for sins (on the way back they tell us what they were punished for); the woman's breasts are sucked by puppies; naked freezes among the scattered silks; an old man draws and drinks blood from a cauldron (meat nearby); a skinny bull in fat meadows, fat on bare ground; a man lies on a bridge across the water, water washes away the worms from his sides, they reappear; a river with yk in fat meadows, fat on bare ground; a person lies across the water, water washes away worms from his sides, they are again rubs with black, red, yellow stripes of water; the mother first suggests crossing the river to her; when he finds out why he came, he gives a ring with which the treasure was sealed; tells the king to turn into a black stone; as it happened, the prince took the throne], 6 [the poor man dreams of the sun on his head, at his feet - the moon, two stars on his chest; the shepherd buys sleep, giving the whole herd for it; at night he comes to the city; the young man arrives with two horses, falls asleep; the princess takes it for his cousin, with whom she was going to flee; they are leaving, she takes a shepherd as her husband, dresses him in a shah-zade costume, now his name is Teymur Shah; the local shah receives him honorably, falls in love with his wife, tells him to get 1) milk sea mare (wife teaches her how to drink her by pouring wine into the pit); 2) heavenly apples; the wife tells her to ride a sea mare, hide the clothes of the youngest of the three bathing sisters, she became the second wife, brought apples of paradise; 3) visit the king's parents; the second wife orders T. to ask the king to throw him into the fire, takes him out of the fire, T. comes to the king with imaginary news; the king and the courtiers order them to be burned, T. reigns; the sun is the moon in a dream - his wives, sons are stars]: 89-101, 115-124; Ganalanyan 1965:114-120 [the hunter brings a dove; the house is tidy; the hunter's mother sees the dove turning into a girl; grabs her; the hunter marries her; the king demands 1) to bring something I don't know what; the wife reproaches that he did not leave her feathers; sends her to his sisters, gives a towel, does not tell strangers to wipe themselves off, otherwise he will turn into a rope; they, King Kajatz, kings of Serpents and Mice do not know how to get it; the frog king calls Delagore; he takes him to the forest, disappears; another person asks Afandi for food; she appears herself; Afandi gives it to the hunter; on the way, A. asks to sell himself to a Kurd, a peddler, returns every time; the hunter tells the king that he has not found what he needs, A. kills the king, smashes his army; the hunter is done king], 134-141 [the young man throws nets three times, each time he catches a frog; brings home to his mother; both wonder who is cleaning the house; the son spies on how the frog turns into a girl, throws skin into the fire; the old woman persuades the king to send an army to pick up the girl; the girl destroys the entire army with a saber; the old woman advises the king to ask the young man to bring the mother of forty horses; the young man pours wine into the stream, the mare gets drunk, the young man comes to ride it; bring a wife for the king; on the way, the young man feeds the dog and baklavana, takes as his companions a lake drinking, a hungry miller eating flour, with his little finger pushing millstones, listening, standing on his head; eating everything, eating everything, the dog and baklavan defeat the royal ones, drinking the water they tried to flood the room with, the young man throws the ring into the poisoned food, separating the poison; the king gave his daughter; during this time the king took the young man's wife to his palace, poisoned the water in the bathhouse; the young man collected poison with a ring, pushed the king there, became king, and passed off the brought girl as his baklavan ]; Nazinyan 1969 [seven brothers tell the mother to put a spindle on the roof if a girl is born, and a plow if it is a boy again; someone mistakenly put the plow, the brothers have left; the girl has grown up; someone is missing a ball; all the girls swore by their brothers that they did not take the ball, and this one swore by a dog; the mother admitted that the girl had brothers; she came to the house in the woods, cleaned and cooked, hid; the younger brother began to guard, saw his sister; one day the fire went out, the girl saw smoke, came, and there was a terrible old woman, the mother of a deva; she gave coal and ash, the devil found a home on the fly; the girl refused unlock it, but agreed to stick her finger out; the dev bit it off, she fainted; the brothers killed the deva, buried it; the deva's mother watered the grave, the grass grew, the brothers put her in soup, turned into rams; the girl the prince took it, promised to take her brothers; the prince's relative pushed his wife into the water, put on her dress, her husband did not notice the substitution; the liar pretended to be sick, asked to slaughter the sheep; they came to the shore , ask her sister to go out; she swam out, the brothers became human again, the liar was tied to the tail of the mule, let him flee the mountain; three apples fell from the sky]: 135-138; 2014 [the king's son found out that he grew up in the garden huge cucumber; gardener: if you pick a cucumber, go without looking back, although they will call; the prince brought the cucumber to the edge of the forest, cut it, a girl came out of it; the prince tells you to climb on the plane tree and wait for he will come back for her with his entourage; an old woman came, turned the girl into a bird, took her form herself; the bird began to curl at the prince's head, who tore off her head, threw her into the garden, and a mulberry tree grew, the gardener cut him down, a sliver flew into the old woman's yard, became a spoon; while the old woman is away, the girl cleans the house; she waited for her, decided to pass her off as her son; he agrees to consider the girl a sister; The king orders that every house should feed a horse; the girl feeds the horse, tells him not to get up when the prince calls him; calls the prince who has come a traitor; he begins to suspect something; summons wool scratchers; a girl comes, asks for a pomegranate, a doll and a razor as a reward; the prince spies on her story as she tells the pomegranate, tells the doll to splash, is going to cut her throat ; the prince grabs her, the witch was tied to the tail of a mule]: 70-75; Azerbaijanis: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:83-94 [the prince fell in love with a pomegranate girl; the vizier says she is from divas; bought sakyz ( pistachio gum), came to the house where the old woman, her lower lip crawls on the ground, the upper lip reaches the sky; the vizier threw tar into her mouth, she began to chew and did not eat it; he became an awl, hid in the cracks; sons the old women came, believed her that there was no one; in the morning the old woman showed the way west; there the second old woman (the same episodes, the vizier became a piece of carpet); the third (the vizier hid, becoming a fly) pointed out a tree with three grenades at the top; becoming a mosquito, the vizier took the grenades; the first two were empty, the third was beautiful; asked for clothes; the vizier left her at the top of the plane tree, went to town; the vizier's maid saw her reflection, pushed the girl into the well, took her place; she got out, turned into a rose bush; the prince married a liar, is surprised that she is black; the vizier cut the roses, sent her wife the prince, she threw away the bouquet, he became a plane tree; his wife ordered her to be made a cradle for the child; the old woman took one board, brought it to her place; while she was leaving, the board became a girl, cleaned and cooked everything; neighbors advised to make sure that the girl stayed with the old woman; the prince is going to Mecca, distributing horses for fattening; the girl told the old woman to take one, she was sworn, the girl turned into the best horse ; women are going to embroider the prince's dress; a pomegranate girl folds pearls with a song, sings about what happened; a wedding of 40 days and nights, a liar tied to the tail of an immense horse], 96-102 [prince wants to take a wife from genies; the old woman tells me to go west, pierce an abscess on the genie's leg; the genie cried in pain, and when the abscess has passed, he agrees to help; you must cut off the reed, but not cut it before reaching it home; the prince cut it along the way, a girl came out; I had to hide her on a plane tree and go after the army; a maid came; a girl from the reeds asked for a drink, she pushed her into the sea, took her place; the girl was swallowed by a fish; the prince's horse is frightened of the fish, he tells her to catch it; the liar tells her to fry; a drop of blood has turned into a plane tree; the liar tells me to make a cradle for the child; picked up a chip old woman; someone cooks and cleans the house; the old woman followed and adopted a girl; she died, telling her to be put in the crypt, but not to bury her; the prince passes by, someone called out to him; when he went into the crypt, he first she sees the corpse, but the next time she comes to life; she says that the liar took the key around her neck, without it she cannot leave the crypt; the prince threatens the liar, who gives the key; the liar was tied to the tail of a stray horse]; Turks: Stebleva 1986, No. 39 [seven brothers want a sister; a mother gives birth to a girl, the midwife deliberately hangs a black flag rather than a red flag; brothers think that a boy is born, they leave; the girl grows up, her friends tell her about her brothers; the mother gives her a donkey made of ash, he brings her to her brothers; they do not understand who is cleaning the house; the younger one guards, finds her sister; brothers they warn her not to let the fire go out; the cat extinguishes the fire, the girl comes to the old woman, she gives a sieve of ash and coals, the ash mark now reaches the house; the brothers dig a trap hole, the old woman's dev-son falls into her, is killed; an old woman comes, a cat brings her son's head, an old woman pulls out his tooth, pierces a girl's leg; brothers bring her to their mother to bury her body; someone pulls out a tooth, a girl comes to life], 46 (throughout Anatolia) [the padishah's wife asks him, if she dies, to marry whoever her shoe fits; she suits his daughter, he wants to marry her; the daughter tells him to make gold the bull, gets inside, tells the maid to push the bull into the sea when the father enters her room; shahzade picks up the swimming bull, tells him to bring it to her room; at night the girl goes out, eats the cooked food, moves candlesticks, changes rings with the shahzade sleeping; the same on the second night; on the third shahzade, she hurts his finger, sprinkles salt on the wound so as not to fall asleep; the princess replies that her name is Ahu-Melek ("angel chamois"); at night she goes to Shahzade, hides in a bull during the day; Shahzadeh's bride (she is his cousin, daughter of a vizier, crooked) is informed that her fiancé has fallen in love with the bull statue; shahzade leaves for war, his fiancée tells the bull to be burned, AM jumps out, beats her, the half-dead is thrown into a landfill; she was adopted by an old man; shahzade fell ill with grief, said that he would recover after tasting the right soup; AM throws in his ring is his soup, he recognizes him; a wedding is being prepared; Shahzade's mother and ex-fiancée lure AM into the desert and leave it there; she looks like an arap shepherd, shahzade does not want to part with her; she, Shahzade and his crooked bride sleep in the same bed; seeing that Shahzade turned to the bride, AM killed herself; when she saw this, Shahzade killed herself, the bride died of annoyance; the dervish revived Shahzade and AM]: 160- 163, 194-201; Tsvetinovich 1959 [an elderly padishah has a son; breaks an old woman's jug, who tells him to fall in love with three Pomeranians; he leaves home, sticks to the mother of the devas; her sons guard Pomeranians, but they themselves do not know where they are; the middle, older sisters of their mother do not know; the eldest son of the eldest brings him to the pond where the Pomeranians swim; tells them not to cut them where there is no water; from cut beauties come out; two immediately die of thirst, one remains; shahzade leaves her in a tree, goes to get clothes for her; an Arab woman takes her reflection for hers; the girl calls out to her; she suggests looking for clothes for her; in her head, pierces a needle, the girl flies away as a bird; an Arab woman tells Shahzade that she is black from the sun; a bird sits on trees in the Shahzade garden, they dry up; she is caught; an Arab woman pretends to be sick, asks kill a bird to recover; an old woman picks up one pen; in her absence, the pen turns into a girl, cleans her house; an old woman takes her by surprise; tells shahzade her story; an Arab woman replies he wants 40 horses, not 40 knives; torn by mules; shahzade marries a newfound beauty]: 58-67; Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 4 [son of a late fisherman (SR) catches a turtle shell; who something cooks and cleans the house; the SR spies, sees the girl, the SR breaks the shell, marries; the king orders to turn off the lights in the city, sees the light coming from the wife of the SR; the vizier advises to give her husband tasks; everyone since the wife tells you to press the seal against a stone on the seashore, an Arab will come out and fulfill his wishes; 1) bring 10 lions to defeat the king's 10 lions; 2) feed the city; 3) build a wall of iron around the city gate; 4) bring a wild mare with 40 foals from the mountains (instead of an Arab, a bridle appears; fills the pond with wine; the mare is intoxicated; the foals followed their mother); 5) the king personally comes up with a task to bring sister of seven giants; SR wife cannot help; SR meets Edal, Drinker, Flutist, Omniscient; giants tell 1) eat 7 meat boilers, 2) drink 7 wineskins of water; 3) give poisoned bread; companions complete tasks: The omniscient knows what bread is poisoned, the Flutist makes the plates dance, change places, the giants have died; the sister of the giants kills the king's army and himself, the SR reigns]: 55-63; Kurds [seven brothers ask the mother to put up a sieve if a girl is born; the woman's brother's wife hangs a gun out of envy, the brothers wanted a sister, they do not return; girlfriends tell a grown girl swear by her brother, they say that she has brothers; she comes to a house in the woods, secretly cooks there; her seventh brother is waiting for her, they recognize each other; Luna replies to her uncle's wife that the sister of seven brothers more beautiful than her; finds her, throws the ring into the water, she drinks, dies; the brothers put the body in a golden box, let her into the steppe on a camel; the son of the padishah takes the ring out of her mouth, she comes to life, he is on it getting married]: Rudenko 1970, No. 56:202-204; Kurds (Iraq; West in Prov. Sulaimaniyah, published in literary Arabic) [the youngest of the poor man's three sons became a fisherman; caught a big fish, found a small gold fish in its stomach, still alive; began to take care of it; one day a fish disappeared; a young man came and said that he, the son of the sea king, was that fish, brought him to his father, advised him to ask for a white chicken as a reward; the young man came back, someone was cooking in the house; he waited for the girl - she, the daughter of a sea king, and was a white chicken; the ruler tells the fisherman to give his wife; he replies that he would do anything better; the ruler tells 1] to bring 120 identical goldfish (the wife creates them), 2) a blue scarf as long as the road (the wife gives it, the scarf is measured, there is no end); 3) a herd of red sheep, a herd of buffaloes (the fisherman brings him); the fisherman calls the ruler cattle; he puts him in prison, then demands 120 such "cattle"; the wife creates monsters from coal and oil; the ruler approaches them with a lamp, they flash, the ruler and the entire palace burn down]: Yaremenko 1990, No. 26:142-147.

Iran - Central Asia. Lura [when leaving, the husband demands that his wife have a son and daughter by his return; the mullah turned the egg into a girl, the tibia into a boy; the husband returned a month later, did not believe that they were children, threw the egg on the manure heap and the bone at the dogs; the dal bird asked if she could pick the egg; the woman allowed it, the bird carried the egg to its nest, it became a girl; (the egg turned into a girl again) ; the girl has grown up, the bird brings her everything she needs; she weaved the carpet; wants to go down to wash; the bird teaches how to tell the rock to go down and how to lift it back; the girl has lost her shoe and curl of hair, they fell into the eye of the prince's mare; he wants to marry the owner; the old woman promises to find her; refuses gold, asks for a skein of rope according to her weight; began rubbing rice at the bottom of an inverted mortar, pouring from above, the water, extinguishing the fire, pretended to slaughter the ram with the back of the knife; the girl shouts to her how to do it; old woman: I can't see anything; the girl went down to show; the old woman asks her to look for in her head; at this time, the old woman's daughter pinned the girl's dress to the ground with pegs; the riders arrived in time and took the girl away; the old woman told the riders to leave, put the girl's clothes on her daughter, passed her off as a king , and left the girl tied to a tree; the lion ate the girl, but a drop of blood fell to the ground and reeds grew in this place; the shepherd cut it off and made a pipe, played, she sings; "Play, shepherd, play, play nicely! I was the daughter of a Dali bird in a cave on a rock. The old woman tied me to the willow, the lion ate me"; the mother of the prince's imaginary wife heard me, threw the pipe on the pile of manure; the woman who grazed the geese picked me up to burn when it was dry; someone cooks and cleans her house; she waited for the girl and grabbed her; she replied that she was both a man and a fairy; the girl stayed with a sheep's stomach on her head - as if she were lousy; once she took off sheep's stomach to wash; the prince went to pick up his dice and saw the girl; ordered the old woman and her lousy daughter to be taken to the palace; pretended to be sick: let the lousy woman bring it a bowl of broth on his head; ripped off her lamb's stomach, married her]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 17:83-88; Persians: Ottomans 1987 [seven brothers want them to have a sister; mother gives birth a girl, mistakenly hangs a sling over the door, not a spindle; brothers leave; the girl grows up, finds her brothers' house on the top of the mountain; secretly cooks and cleans; the younger brother hides, catches her; the brothers command do not eat kishmish berries if found on the floor; give it to the cat; the girl eats it, the cat extinguishes the fire, puts a red stone in the hearth so that the girl thinks that the fire is burning; the girl comes for the smut in diva cave; the next day, the diva comes to her, tells her to stick her finger into the crack; the girl does not tell her brothers, she weakens; says that the younger brother breaks the bottle of life from the diva, he dies; siblings return to their parents]: 235-238; Rosenfeld 1956 [the padishah has 40 wives, all infertile; he promises to fill one pool with honey, the other with oil if a son is born; the fortieth wife has given birth, the young man is 18 years old, the padishah fills the pools so that everyone can take honey and oil; the old woman leaned down to get oil, the padishah's son shot her with a pebble from a sling, the bowl broke, the oil spilled out; the old woman cursed him: let him go to get the Pomeranian girl; mother to the prince: there is a garden on the mountain where girls are in Pomeranians, but they do not return from there; the old man shows the way; the divas tells him to change the horse to a tied one black, throw the game to the dragon, take the Pomeranians without paying attention to the divas, rush back, return the horse; a girl comes out of every Pomeranian, asks for water or bread, dies; diva woman: asks bread, give me water; the last girl is left, the prince went to get her clothes, the girl stayed in the tree; the black maid saw her reflection; first she thinks it is hers, then hears laughter, looks up; cuts off the girl's head, takes her place, replies to the prince that she has turned black in the sun, the wind has carried the braids away; an orange tree grew out of Pomeranz's blood, the prince transplanted it into the palace; the imaginary wife tells make a board out of it; an old woman took a branch, made a spindle; someone is cleaning her house; an old woman finds a girl; the doctor advises wearing a mirror chain around the prince's neck; a Pomeranian girl says that can do this; tells her story, showing everything in the mirror; everything is fine; a liar is offered a sword or horse, she chooses a horse, she is tied by her braids to a horse, let her into the steppe]: 164-174; Tajiks: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1960 [seven brothers want them to have a sister, go hunting; a mother gives birth to a girl Gulmokh, hangs a spinning wheel on the gate, an evil neighbor replaces an onion; friends say G. that her brothers left when she was born; she asks her mother to give her a hot wheat with her hand, clamps her hand, makes her tell the truth; she comes to the brothers' house, they do not understand who is cleaning; only the younger brother does not fall asleep, the guard; the fire goes out, G. comes for him to Baba Yaga; she gives fire, tells him to throw wheat along the way, comes after the goat, tells herself to comb her hair, sucks G.'s blood; brothers push the woman together yaga into a pit, covered with earth; dill grows there; after eating it, brothers and sister turn into pigeons, fly to their father's house; brothers turn into poplars, sister into an apple tree; they do not give apples to the prince, for he did not do good deeds; they let the old man rip off, brothers and sister get out of the trunks, hug their parents]: 98-105; Ulug-zade 1967 [the padishah promises to execute his wife if she does not give birth to a son; the wife rides in a boat, almost drowned in a whirlpool; tells her husband to fill up this place and build a palace on the hill; the padishah agrees, and if the wife does not give birth to a son, her and her daughter's tomb will be on that hill; working in construction the baker's daughter-in-law gives birth to a boy and dies, the old woman has changed children; the boy Dilshod is brought up as a prince, the girl Nigina grows up in the baker's house; D.'s real father is a kimyogar (i.e. alchemist), does a gilded tin cow, bought by a padishah, she is standing in D.'s room; at night someone eats part of the food; D. cuts his finger to stay awake, finds N., who was hidden in a cow; father wants to marry D. on Begim, the daughter of his sister; takes D. with him to hunt, at which time the golden cow was burned, believing that it had evil spirits; a tin bar remained, one old woman picked it up; someone is cleaning it up and cooks in her absence; she spies, faints, N. brings her to life (N. flew out of the cow invisible and came to the one who picked up the bar); D. withers in her room, the padishah promises gold to the one who makes his son eat; N. sends the old woman with dumplings, puts it in one of his rings; D. and N. meet in the old woman's house; the kimyogar came, told everything, took N. and D. out of the palace invisible, left with them to another country]: 180-200; Bukhara Arabs [the wife is dead, the man marries another; the daughter asks to bring her a shirt, the wife asks for a mirror in which the whole world is in; tells the stepdaughter to separate Jugara from millet (sparrows separated); tells her husband to throw her daughter into the steppe; she comes to forty divas, secretly cooks, hides; one cuts his little finger to stay awake, waits for the girl; divas call her sister; her stepmother sees her in the mirror, comes, gives her sleeping pills; the divas think she is dead, they let her go to the steppe on a camel; the shepherd takes a camel, the emir takes the dead, she comes to life warmly, he marries; the stepmother, the emir, comes cuts off her head]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 10:73-75; Turkmens: Lebedev 1954, No. 11 [starting like in Sokali; dev come to suck blood from the AP finger, his brothers kill him, but other devas kill his brothers; Ak-Maya's camel tells the camel to become a black stone, he is on the road to Mecca; wives bewitch AP, but Bayram's wife is good to her, scorpions do not bite her; stung wives, except Bayram's wife, are brothers driven away]: 136-146 (quail in Stebleva 1969, No. 47:257-266); Sokali et al. 1955 [seven hunting brothers tell a pregnant mother to hang a doll at the gate if a daughter is born; evil neighbors replace her with a bow and arrow; brothers do not return; born Ak-Pamyk does not know that she has brothers; neighbors tell her to squeeze her mother's palm when she takes hot wheat grains; mother talks about her brothers, gives a rolling cake that shows the way; AP cleans up the brothers in the cave; the youngest does not fall asleep, the AP grabs, she tells me who she is; eats the berry promised to the cat, he blows out the fire; AP comes to the diva for fire ; he gives, when he comes, kills the brothers; the old woman says that only the milk of the cannibal camel Ak-Maya will revive them; her camel helps AP, sucks, pouring into a wineskin; AM chases AP, she splashes part milk, the Milky Way forms; AP revives brothers, but the youngest does not have enough shoulder blades; brothers are married, wives hate AP, they pour lead into her ears, she is dumb and deaf; she is sent on a camel to look for herself husband; the prince marries her, and the vizier's son takes a camel; advises the prince to look for a second wife; the son pushes AP, lead falls out of her; when he learns that his wife has recovered, the prince sent a new one back; uncle Bayram meets AP's son; she sends bags of scorpions to the brothers' wives, they die]: 69-81; Sarykol residents [parents want to give three sons to three daughters; the youngest climbs plane trees, according to her goes to heaven; sticks a needle into the house of three brothers, cooks in their absence; only the younger brother does not fall asleep, the brothers make the girl a sister; they tell me to watch the fire, the bead falls into the hearth, the girl takes her for coal; she comes to ask the old woman for fire, she gives her, tells her to bake cakes at home, comes on a goat, sticks a needle into the floor, tells her to dance, the girl stabs her legs, the old woman eats cakes, dipping them in blood; brothers guard, only the younger one kills the witch, her corpse is burned]: Pakhalina 1966:103-106; Pashtuns [the king's only daughter asks her father to allow her to hunt with the maids; while they are asleep, The princess follows the river after a floating rose; at dusk she climbs a tree; the prince camps under him; every time he falls asleep, the princess descends from the tree to eat food prepared for He is eating; he pretends to fall asleep, grabs the princess, marries him, brings him home, arranges a wedding; they come to see the princess's father, who passes the throne to his son-in-law]: Ali 1969:143-147.

Baltoscandia. Norwegians [the Queen's nose bleed on the snow; she thought it would be nice to have a daughter as rosy and white as snow and blood, for which she is ready to give her ten sons; the trollich promises that so it will be, she will take her sons after her daughter's baptism; they turn into drakes, fly away; the mother confesses to her daughter that she had brothers, she gave them and her a silver spoon; the girl goes to look for them; finds the house, there are spoons, she puts her own, cooks and tidies, hides under her younger brother's bed; brothers fly in ducks, become human; they guess when they see the spoon; the eldest wants to kill his sister, the youngest says that she is not to blame; she can restore their human appearance if in three years she hides threads from thistle fluff, wears them clothes, keeps silent all the time; the prince sees her, marries; the prince steals her newborn son, throws her into a hole with snakes, smears blood on her mouth; for example, three times, two sons and a daughter; the king agrees to burn his wife alive; she lays out clothes for her brothers, the youngest does not yet have a sleeve; Ducks arrive, take their clothes away, come back as horsemen, the youngest has a wing instead of his left hand; everything is explained, the children are alive, playing with snakes, the stepmother was torn by twelve horses]: Asbjíørsen, Moe 1960:187-189; Karelians (Kalevalsky District) [the old man went into the forest, began to cut down a tree; a bird flew in, he fell asleep, woke up only in the evening; the same on the second day; on the third, the old man cut down a tree, a bird began to sing on a stump and fell asleep by herself; the old man brought her home, put her in a cage; when the old men went to church, the bird became a girl, cooked everything, cleaned everything; the prince comes, hears the singing, walks into the hut, falls asleep; asks the healer; she says that it is a heavenly star, fell from the sky; if you look at the girl, she will no longer turn into a bird; the girl curtains the windows, but the prince found a crack; when the old men returned from the church, they saw a girl; the prince married her and took the elderly to him]: Onegin 2010, No. 23:254-255; setu: Järv et al. 2009, No. 34 (Vasceliina) [dying, mother commands son to take a wife who looks like a sister; there is no such thing, he wants to marry his sister; she goes to dress in the barn, leaves the spits responsible for herself, goes out on the other side, climbs an oak tree, asks him to be taller, the sky is lower; in the sky she comes to a house where two girls look like her; their mother walks with an icy head at night to eat reeds, drink water from the sea; during the day, the girls hide what they have come, answer their mothers that the smell is a scorched pig; returning before dawn, the mother sings, asks her daughters to let her into the house; daughters tell the girl that they have special ear plugs, some to hear, others not to hear; the girl replaces the liners; the daughters do not hear the mother, her head melts in the sun, she dies; all three girls go down to earth; brothers (three of them) cannot say which of the three is their sister; the old woman advises Cut the elder's finger; only the sister rushes to tie it; the older brothers marry girls from heaven; the youngest is unhappy that he has been left without a wife again; makes a coffin in the forest; when his sister brings him food, puts her in a coffin, bobs her up; the brothers' wives call her to the bathhouse in vain; a bunch of berries grows on the lid; the hunter brings her home; someone cooks and cleans; the old man advises to spy, the hunter finds her a girl, hangs a cross around her neck, marries her; meets her brothers]: 142-147; Normann, Tammpere 1989 [two married brothers decide to get rid of their sister; tell wives to send her to them in the woods to bring her lunch; wives feel sorry for the girl, they carry food themselves; brothers insist that her sister come, lock her in an oak tub, leave her in the forest; the brothers' wives call her to the bathhouse; the younger one hears a weak voice - I'm in oak tub, the lid is filled with rowan rod; mountain ash grew out of this pin, there is one bunch on it; a guy from a forest farm tore it off, brought it home; now someone cooks and cleans the house; the guy finds it a girl who turns into a menace, a bird, a spindle, he does not let go; he marries; they visit her brothers, so embarrassing]: 53-57 (=Põder, Tanner 2000:161-165); Lutsie (1893; the informant learned a fairy tale from not Estonian speakers) [the family has three sons and a daughter; the mother is dead, the father married a witch; the brothers want to go to church and everyone wants a better horse; they start fighting; stepmother: fight like this; brothers are leaving. (it is clear from the following: they are friends at night, they fight with iron clubs during the day); the sister went to look for brothers; the old man called animals - they don't know; sent them to another, who called birds; birds: brothers fight in the ninth a kingdom by the sea; the sister came to their house, bit off her older brother's edge, hid behind the stove; the next day she put her mother's ring in the middle town; the brothers recognized him and rejoiced at his sister; she will save them if she has not said a word for 9 years; the sister left, lay down in the coffin; the prince was driving, the servant found the girl so beautiful that she could not leave; the same second; the prince himself came, brought them to him, married them; the wife gave birth; the prince's stepmother cut off the baby's leg, put it in the mouth of the woman in labor; the same with the second child; the woman was going to hang; 9 years passed, brothers appeared, and angels appeared from heaven; everyone to heaven, and the prince's stepmother to hell, where there is no sun or moon]: Annom et al. 2018:131-134; Eastern Sami [the old man pulls birch bark, the Frog tells her to marry, otherwise he will stab her to death with scissors; they have sons Hewn Stump , Reindeer Yoke, daughter of Vostroeye; The frog and her children ate the old man and his old woman; she manages to tell her daughter to collect her 99 bones, hit the Sharp-eye, the hundredth bone will fall out, put it in a bag, run, a house will emerge from bones; an old woman's daughter plays with the sun, embroiders a silver belt; stabs a sleepy match Stump, Yoke, who lose sight and hearing; Vostroeyka has other eyes on the back of her head; Frog and Eye they sew the old woman's daughter in seal skin, throw her into the water; she ripped her skin with a knife, came to a house with blood on the floor; she hardly scooped it out, washed the hut, broke it off and ate a piece of one cake; hid, turning into a spindle; Flashes came, saw that one of them, Ninas, had a cake bitten, left, Ninas stayed; asks to show up (if the old man, you will be a father, if the old woman is a mother, if young is a brother, if a woman is a sister, if the girl is a wife; the girl opens; N. says that she cannot live here, Flashes are cut here, gives a ball of thread, he rolls to his mother; The flashes scream, Ninas' wife is walking, but the Sun will soon take her; mother N. transports her across the river; at night she hangs a silver belt over her bed; N. sleeps with his wife, believes that these are stars, although it's already a day; mother N.: take reindeer skins, they will dry up from the sun; she goes out, the Sun grabs her hair, N. tries to hold her, dies; she suffers from the heat, the Sun sprinkled her with water, married her, she gives birth to him a daughter; daughter has grown up, her they gave silk to cook three scarves, sent them to the ground, told them to marry the first person they met; she married a shepherd; sold scarves; people envy their wealth, they want to kill their husband; the wife brought him to her father -To the sun, he was riding a deer; The sun tells his son-in-law to ride a bear around the earth in the morning, on a male deer in the afternoon, on a vazhenka in the evening; at noon, the son-in-law rides a male deer, sees an image of a man, hit him foot; "I had a deer calf, you didn't keep it, don't stand on the road"; soon the deer fell, my son-in-law returned in a vazhenka; the next day the Sun went by himself, saw a dead deer, told my son-in-law to do with animals affectionately; on the third day, the Sun let his son-in-law and daughter go, they began to live even richer]: Kharuzin 1890:348-351; Lithuanians: Kerbelite 2014, No. 92 [a swan flies to the elderly, turns into the girl, cooks and cleans; the old man waits, burned his wing; the king married her; the swan father calls her, but she refuses to leave her son; the mother is the same; when the darling flies, she asks to throw off her wing, leaves his son; the king married lauma; the swan flies to his son; the king smeared the windowsill with resin, grabbed his wife, executed Laume]: 205-207; Lebite 1965 [while the old people are clearing the felling, Swan every day she arrives, turns into a girl, puts the house in order; the old man hides, burns his wings, the Swan remains with the old people; the king notices her, brings her to the palace, she gives birth to him a son; they fly over her swans, offer to shed her wings; she refuses her father, mother, takes wings from her swan friend, flies away; her friend dies; the king marries Lauma; the Swan regularly flies to his son, the rest of the time the baby sleeps; the king spies, the old man advises to smear resin on the windowsill; the king catches the Swan, tears off his wings, executes Laume]: 133-135.

Volga - Perm. Komi: Novikov 1938, No. 45 [two brothers marry girls, the third takes chicken; someone cleans, cooks; husband hides, sees his wife throw off chicken clothes; he burns chicken clothes, lives with a young man]: 159; Plesovsky 1975 [after serving 25 services, Fedot decided that his parents were dead and began to live in a forest hut; the old cook says that there will be no luck today; F. goes to the forest, there is no game, sees a beautiful bird, takes aim three times, the bird tells you not to shoot; F. brings it home; the bird tells me to calculate the cooking; every day someone cooks and cleans; F. spied, found the girl; she tells her marry, otherwise she will fly away; three years old she is a woman at night, a bird in the afternoon, then the marriage period is over; tells me to buy silk, a tablecloth with woven trees is ready in the morning, etc.; F. carries the tablecloth to the bazaar, the treasurer for buys dearly, the tsar orders more; the treasurer sees F.'s wife, gets crowded, tells the king; the witch advises the king to send F. to catch black deer on the White Sea; the wife brings the deer out of the forest; says that the ship will last only 3 days on the water; the crew is drunk, I. turns the ship, brings the deer to the king; the witch tells F. to be sent I don't know where, I don't know why, I don't know who to bring; the wife gives white ones, red and blue threads, they will show the way; gives a towel: turn it around when trouble comes; F. comes to the house, the old woman tells me to wash in the bathhouse to eat it when her brothers come; giants come, business bad, but F. unfolded the towel, the old woman recognized him as her son-in-law; the frog croaks: it turns out that F.'s wife is her daughter; jumped over the first sea in it; teaches what to do; when she jumped over the third sea , died; F. listens to the conversation well done: Matrazum, bring lunch; when they leave, F. calls M. himself, but thanks; M.: no one thanked me, I'll go with you; F. sails on the ship, M. teaches me to sell it for a small magic pipe; after 3 days M. returned; F. arrived home, his parents died, and one of the brother-in-law gave a wolf cub; he tells him to get rid of the king's army; his wife tells him to blow through the phone; went out the army, boldly the king, F. and his wife reigned]: 52-63; Chuvash [the bird asks the Chuvash not to shoot at it; he brings it home; at night an unknown guy repels the attack of the Kipchaks; in the morning C. touches the bird, she becomes a girl; he marries her, Chuvash descended from them; C. killed the nukers sent by the tsar to take his wife away from him]: Dimitriev: 26-27 in Morokhin 1998, No. 462:430-431; Bashkirs [childless an old woman makes her son out of dough, this is Kamyr batyr; he is strong, maims other children, his father drives him away; he meets, takes Name Batyr and Tau-batyr as companions; they sleep in a hut, three girls cook, leave; on the third day, the batyrs catch them; in their absence, yyirly-karsyk comes to their wives, tells them to look in her hair, sucks their bone marrow; I., T. guard, see everything, but are afraid to say; K. cuts off the old woman's head; she promises that there will be a thousand heads; every day there are more demon troops, the warriors are defeated, their wives are kidnapped; K. descends to the lower world on a rope; women pinched the baby deva, they say he is crying, wanting to be at the father's soul; dev: she is in a dove, that in a chest, a chest in a mare; K. kills a deva, companions pick up women, cut off the rope; Azhdaha closed the water, K. kills him; kills a snake crawling to eat Samrigush bird chicks; she agrees to take K. to the ground; on the way he feeds her starlings, cuts off the last piece from the leg, the bird puts it back; K. offers I. and T. to shoot up, fallen arrows kill them, K. gets three wives]: Barag 1988, No. 23:154-158.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [son of Aleke Aleuko (Ali-ükö?) He dreams of the khan's daughter, goes to look for her, went to look for her, put 40 watchmen to sleep, found her sleeping, moved the candles in her heads and legs; the girl woke up, ordered the guards to be executed; the same for the second time; A. came to her and they met; Aleuco tells his father to marry her; Khan demands to fill all his wintering and summers with cattle; A. brought cattle, but the khan managed to migrate overseas, is going to give his daughter for the blind dhow (giant) Karké; A. crossed where bai-terek grew up; at the wedding, brother K. went out to fight; A. turned into a bad boy, killed brother K.; won the races; Khan's daughter saw the lousy boy's hand was given the ring that A. gave; they run (or rather fly), K. catches up; A. killed K. with an arrow, got the khan's daughter; once A.'s wife came to the sea, the maid pushed her into the water, she became a swan; the maid put on her clothes, came under her guise; but the real wife spits gold, but the maid cannot; the wanderer says to A. that a swan was flying, said: How stupid A. is, does not know that he lives with a fake wife; the imaginary wife pretended to be sick, asked for swan meat; A. shot the swan, one feather flew off and became a camel; the maid asked for camel meat; one bone flew off, turned into rose hips; the maid ordered to be cut down, the thorn became a hawk; A. caught it, brought it into the house; everything in the house becomes tidy, the clothes are repaired; the maid orders to kill the hawk, A. refuses; waited, saw how the girl took off her hawkish skin, began to sew a dress; A. hid the skin, the girl admitted that she was his wife; A. brought her to his parents; his wife ordered him to wash it with milk and grease the mares so that get rid of the bad smell he had when living with his maid; she was asked if she wanted 40 horses or 40 scissors; she said both; she was cut into 40 pieces with scissors, tied they were carried to the tails of 40 mares, spread across the steppe; that]: Potanin 1916, No. 14.1:95-97; Kazakhs (Xinjiang) [bai Baocha has a thousand heads in each herd; the shepherd sees how another - a thousand - came to his herd black sheep; he tries to separate his own from those who came; it got so hot that he stripped naked and then found no clothes; the owner of the black sheep came, but they disappeared somewhere; then they appeared, but the owner He did not come again; the shepherd slaughtered the sheep and pulled on its skin; three fishermen laughed; they caught a goldfish; the shepherd gave three rams for it and let it go; the shepherds took three more, laughed and left; the shepherd discovers that no matter how many sheep he slaughtered or gave away, there are still a thousand in the flock; a man came, stayed, invited him to his place, took him to an underwater palace; the underwater king says that the shepherd saved him son, and inexhaustible black sheep his; the underwater prince advises to ask his father only for the skin from the belly of a ram in the attic and a puppy; if there is trouble, you should go to the river and shout "Friend!" three times ; when the shepherd brings the herd in the evening, the yurt is tidy, the food is cooked; the shepherd waited for the girl, is going to burn the dog skin; the girl asks to wait 6 days, but on the third day the shepherd's skin is still burned; the girl became his wife, but predicts misfortune; two came; they are the king's servants, he is ill and will recover if he is brought a quail roasted in the sun; but the quail is not fried every time, but deteriorates; the shepherd's wife roasts the quail and tells these people to hold it in the sun during the day; the king will recover, but let them say that they did everything themselves; so it happened; they gave it a piece to all wives and ministers etc., everyone felt better; the Minister demanded that the envoys say who actually fried the partridge; one was beaten to death, the other let it slip; the minister came to the shepherd's wife and said that The king will arrive with 30 ministers, I must receive; the shepherd's wife: go to the river and ask my brother to help; all those who came easily fit in a yurt, a sumptuous feast; the king was so amazed at the beauty of the hostess that accidentally cut off his finger; the king demands that the shepherd migrate to his headquarters; wife to the minister: let us build a house entirely of iron; the house has been built; as soon as the king wants to enter, the shepherd's wife closes door; the minister proposes to divide the people into noble and poor and organize a competition; if the noble win, the shepherd will give his wife; the shepherd's wife's brother gave a horse, the shepherd won the races; the competition fighters; a little boy sent from the river easily defeated the royal hero; shooting at the target; his wife's brother gave a magic bow; the king lost his 6 wives and concubines and died]: Coyaud 2012, No. 73:197-212; Dungans: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 1 [young man Jeong Dajyo sees a black snake fighting a white snake, winning; he hits a black whip, she lets go of the white one; in a dream, the old man tells you not to follow a black man on a black horse, and behind a white horse; he tells him to ask his father for a throat pumpkin that hangs on the wall; after receiving a pumpkin, he sleeps in the steppe; someone cooks; he spies, sees three girls (this is daughters of the white snake father) come out of the pumpkin, cook; at the young man's house, the younger sisters hide in a pumpkin and return with it to their father, leave the eldest to the young man as his wife; people from the spring build for their spouses new home; the official is jealous, demands 1) plant trees before the government, 2) shoot pheasants, 3) win mules races (bet - wife); wife teaches what to do; BH refuses his wife official; the mule throws fireballs, the official burns down with the administration], 37 [mother gives 13-year-old Aisha for an old akhun who reads the Koran; after eating, ahun dies, telling him not to extradite A. again married; mother locks A.; The hare gives her a white hare skin, tells her to dig a hole to Mount Myyasan; A. digs, and when her mother brings food, sheds her skin, turns into a girl; swarm a hole, finds a jug of silver; finds herself in the house of a good old woman and her shepherd son, secretly cooks and tidies there, leaves silver; mother and son find her, no longer allow her to wear her skin; her mother decided that Akhun took A. to heaven]: 35-40, 203-211; Shujang Li, Luckert 1994 (Changji, Xinjiang) [the old woman only has a horse; one day she came back - she is a boy, he is a Brother Horse; he went on a journey, broke a rock with an arrow, and left Brother stone; then split the tree, Brother Elm came out; they cultivate the land, hunt; someone cooks and tidies in the house; they take turns guarding, two fall asleep; when it's Brother's Horse's turn, three arrive white doves become girls; he asks them to marry him and his brothers, but first become doves again; invites brothers to choose; he takes the rest for himself, the pigeons become girls; the cat has come , stayed, mischievous; the women slapped him, for which he put out the fire and left; the women went to look for coals; the shepherd says that the fire is owned by a nine-headed monster, let them go to him; the maids took them deep caves; the monster has a human body and 9 heads, all but the central one, are blind; he orders to give fire and a bag of beans; it has a hole, the beans woke up on the way back; the next day the monster came for this reason on the trail, sucked women's blood; then the eyes on his other heads see; so many days; The horse brother notices that the wives are losing weight, they tell him everything; the first is Brother Stone, then Brother Elm, both afraid; The horse brother hits the monster with an arrow in the eye, he runs; The horse brother releases the shepherd, comes to the cave under his guise, taking sheep's tongue with him; the shepherd must lick the monster's damaged eye; Brother- the horse strokes him with sheep's tongue, the monster hurts; he says his tongue is rough because he has a cold; then kills the monster, cutting off all his heads; distributes the monster's property; his brothers want everyone take possession; lead Brother Horse to look at the lotuses, pushed him off a cliff; he fell on the lotuses, alive but unable to climb back; healed the swan's wing, he lifted it upstairs, the flight lasted three days and three nights; he returned home a year later; he was not recognized, his wife did not recognize him, he cries; he takes his bow; the brothers say that only the Horse Brother who fell off the cliff could pull it; he shoots at the stone, the Stone Brother disappears into stone; shoots elm - Brother Elm returns to the tree; since then there are stone steps in the gate and the elm trunks are cracked; Brother Horse's wife has stayed with him, and the other two women put on their pigeon clothes and flew away; since then, people near Mount Bogotá love white pigeons]: 111-118; yellow Uighurs [a man climbs a tree, drops an ax, sees that the ax is wrapped around a white snake; the serpent demands that one of three daughters of a man; only the youngest agrees; when a girl comes to the cave, the serpent and his family look like human beings; they are celestials exiled to earth; their period in the guise of snakes is over; the eldest the sister visits the youngest, sees snakes, is frightened; the middle sees her sister's handsome husband, envies her; goes swimming with her, pushes her into the water, takes her place; the youngest turns into a bird, caresses her husband, defecates for her sister's food; she kills the bird, buries it under the threshold; a thorny bush grows, tears her middle sister's clothes, she digs it up, burns it; a stone spinner rolls out of the ash, finds it old lady; when she gets home, the food is ready; she spies, finds the girl; she asks the old lady to invite the prince (i.e. her husband); the new wife says they will come when 1) along the road pine trees will grow (a real wife grows them overnight); 2) the road is covered with red and white carpets (she throws wool, she turns into carpets); the prince and his imaginary wife come; the real one puts them in a cup her husband's wedding ring, crap in his sister's cup; the prince recognizes his wife, throws a snake on her imaginary skin, she becomes a colored snake]: Stuart, Jhang 1996:55-59; salars (Ullagyl, Xunhua- Salar Autonomous County) [on a deserted mountain, a mare gave birth to a child; he grew up looking for his brothers; shot a stone with a bow from which smoke was coming; a man screamed inside the stone; both went on; They shot an arrow at the tree; from there a man screamed; the three of them began to live; the one who came out of the stone was named Tash-gaga (brother Kamen), from wood, Agash-gaga (Brother Derevo), and the one born as a mare was named Masemba; went to look for wives, came to a dwelling; no one was there, food was being cooked in the cauldron; the next morning the brothers went hunting, returned in the evening; bread and tea were prepared; in the morning they left T. in the house and left hunting together; T. hid, saw three pigeons fly in; they threw off their feather cloaks, turned into girls; one cooked food, the other made a fire, and the third swept the yard; then they put on their raincoats and flew away; one of them was Kyung-ana (Sun Maiden), the other Ay-ana (maiden Luna), the third was Yultus-ana (Star Maiden); in the evening T. told his brothers what he saw; the next morning A. was left to guard the house; he saw and told his brothers the same thing; the next day M. stayed in the house himself; when the girls started cooking, he jumped out of the shelter and threw their feather cloaks into the fire; Kyung -ana smeared herself with dust and soot; her brothers came in the evening; T. chose Ai-ana, A. - Yultus-ana; M. went to Kyung-ana; in the morning she washed her face and turned out to be beautiful compared to the other two girls; T. and A. did not like it; they threw M. into the abyss, took his bow and arrows, and Kyung-anu gave him to herd his sheep into someone else's house; a bird that flew into the abyss told M. that she had a chick there; M. said to her about his brothers who betrayed him; the bird promised that it would carry him on its back; then she brought a hundred sparrows and said to M.: "Sit on my back, take all the sparrows. When I make a circle, open my mouth, you throw [there] one at a time!" ; M. did as she commanded; fed her all the sparrows and, when he was upstairs, set off; came to his wife, asked her to look in his head; the wife cried, said that her husband had a similar one mole; M. admitted that he had escaped the abyss; they came to his brothers; they played with a bow and arrow; said to M.: "You will not be able to pull the bow. Masemba played with that bow and arrow!" ; M. replied that he would pull a bow, grabbed it, put an arrow and killed both brothers; his wives went to him]: Tenishev 1964, No. 53:104-105; salars (Ullagyl, Xunhua-Salar Autonomous County) [The orphan young man saw two snakes fighting on the road; one black and the other colorful; the young man threw the black snake into the bush and let the motley snake go; she brought him to her home; said to the snake father that the young man saved her from the black snake; the young man stayed there for a few days, then was about to go home; the motley snake advised: "Tomorrow my father will ask you: "Do you want more silver or a small measure of gold?" You say, "I don't want a big measure of silver or a small measure of gold. I want chicken in the yard"; the young man did so, brought the chicken home; went to mow the grass in the morning, and when he returned home, he saw that the bread and tea were ready; the next day he stayed outside the door; the chicken took off its feather cloak, turned beautiful, cooked food, and then put her cloak back on; the young man ate dinner and stayed on guard at the door again in the morning; when the chicken threw off her cloak, threw it into the fire; chicken remained beautiful and became the young man's wife; an imperial hunter approached him in the mountains; he tasted the bread that the young man had given him and took a piece for the emperor; he ordered him to give it to the young man: "Let's arrange horse competition; if your horse fails, the emperor will take your wife for himself!" ; the young man told his wife about this, she told him to go to her father's house and bring a little white horse from there; the young man did this, won the contest; the emperor: "Tomorrow you level this mountain, and my army will level that mountain. If you fall behind, I will take your wife away"; the wife told me to go to her father's house and bring a white chest; the young man did it; a flock of pigeons flew out of the chest, which leveled the mountain before the imperial one army; the emperor warned the young man that he would come for his wife tomorrow; the wife: "If she comes for me, I will go. You wait seven days. Then tie your feathers with wool, make a cloak, hang a bag on your shoulders, pick up a stick and go to the imperial door to ask for bread!" ; the emperor's warriors took the young man's wife, he waited seven days and did as she ordered; his wife laughed when she saw him; the emperor: "I'm so beautifully dressed! Why don't you laugh at me?" ; the woman replied that she would laugh when he dressed like a beggar; the emperor invited the young man to come in, took his clothes and stick; then went outside and came back; the woman ordered the guards to kill him; the young man became emperor, the woman remained his wife]: Tenishev 1964, No. 54:108-109.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Altaians [wolves took the cow and the goat Juskuzek a; it is carried by the Kaan-Kerede bird, pulls him out of the abyss; Wolves invite him into the mountain; there their mother feeds on the cow's milk, plays a goat husky puppy; Wolves reluctantly give Yu a puppy; someone cooks at his house; Yu watches, hides dog skin, marries Altyn-Chach (Golden Hair); she says that her brothers have become wolves, she is a puppy, hiding from Karata-Kaan a; K. requires 1) to hide three times (A. helps Yu, who finds K., who has become an onion, stallion, birch, K. does not find it); 2) get the Kaan-Kerede egg; her nest on an iron poplar with nine branches; its roots rest on the lower world, branches touch the third heaven, a seven-headed serpent crawls along the trunk; one chick cries, its snake will eat it now; the other laughs, it will be eaten tomorrow; Yu cut off the snake's heads with an ax, blood formed a sea; the chick held out its wing, Yu crossed into the nest through it; Kaan-Kerede flew in, her tears fell in warm rain; recognizes her claw marks on Yu; says that K.'s soul is in the golden egg, but she does not know where it is; brings Y. to his poor old parents; K. takes A.; Yu has been fighting him for seven years; wolves killed K.'s horse, Kaak-Kerede took him to heaven; A. found a golden egg in K.'s palace, threw it into the fire, K. died; A. and Yu began to rule Altai]: Garf, Kuchiyak 1978:215-239; Shors [Lonely Guy (OP) exchanges sheep for pike caught by people; she falls out of his bag, he throws it into the water; the owner of the water sends for him, offers a reward for his saved son; OP takes the little dog, feeds her at home; in the morning his dishes are made golden; at night OP spies, grabs the copper-haired beauty; she says that now the owner's son (CX, i.e. her brother?) will come for her ; CX tells her father to return the girl; 1) offers OP to play hide and seek; the girl indicates that CX has become a ram with twisted horns; turns her husband into a comb, CX does not find him; CX is a bull, OP is a thimble; CX - a bird with a comb on the seashore, OP is a needle; 2) bring a golden table; his wife tells me to follow her ball; he sleeps with three girls, in the morning a copper-eared old woman wants to eat it; he shows her the one given to him wife a book, she recognizes him as a son-in-law; gives another horse, sends him to her older sister; she has the same episode, she gives him a six-legged horse, tells him to go for a black cloud; OP takes the table, the shaman cannot catch up; stops in an empty house; asks for food, food appears; he asks the invisible to share the meal; the grateful invisible follows him; OP distributes horses to the horses that helped him, etc., returns home; there are no doors and windows in the house, they appear when the wife finds out OP; The owner sends soldiers, the OP releases the birds he brought with red crests, they destroy them, transfer the property to the OP]: Dyrenkova 1940, No. 15:237-251; Kumandins [the wolf grabbed the horse, told the rider not to shoot at him, to follow him; the door opened in the mountain, the wolf was the master of the mountain, offered to take what the man wanted; he took dog; the wolf cried and told the dog not to hit; the man returned home, the food was cooked in the morning; the man waited for the girl, threw the dog skin into the fire; his wife gave him 77 children; they separated, became speak 77 languages]: Dyrenkova 1949b, No. 16:131-132; Tuvans (Dzun-Khemchik District) [Oskus-ool herds of Karaty Khan; his tailless mare gives birth to 9 foals, good horses; K. wants to kill him, take possession of horses; the old man tells O. to run; the wolf eats all 9 horses, turns into a man, is ready to reward him; the old man tells O. to ask for a dog, 3 millet grains, 3 poles, a golden chest; O. wakes up in a rich yurt; the beautiful woman is busy with the housework, disappears when she gets closer; O. spies through a hole in the yurt, sees the beauty come out of her dog's skin, throws her skin into the fire; Karaty Khan offers to hide; he and O. turn into different objects, his wife tells O. where K. hides O. from K.; K. orders to find the missing arrow, harpoon; animals and fish are found; K. sends an army; the wife sends O. to her parents, who give a box with an army, it destroys K.'s army: turns him and his wife O. into servants]: Vatagin 1971, No. 13:121-130; Samdan 1994, No. 3 [same]: 249-271; Tuvans (Khemchik) [The wolf ate 7 red orphan horses; calls for a visit, he is Tsar Volkov; his wife Shibishkin advises to ask for three sticks of a yurt, a puppy, a lamb; they turn into a palace, a beauty, cattle; a wife Karatta Khan's son wants orphans; K. suggests 1) hide (the wife turns the orphan into objects, says what K.'s son has become); 2) count the hares (give sugar; the hare will say, I am one of 50 thousand hares, but he did not eat such sweets); 3) K. wants to kill an orphan, but shoots a feather grass; puts up with him]: Radlov 1907, No. 1095:128-132; Chulym Turks [three swan maidens (aka ducks) fly in, clean up the house of three brothers; the elder, the middle brothers see nothing, the younger hides the girls' clothes, the brothers get married; the devil comes out of the pipe under the hearth to drink women's blood; the younger brother shoots, damn it, taking his wife the youngest, falls into the ground; the brothers lower the youngest on a rope; the woman gives the devil the iron king vodka, who says that his soul is in seven eggs in a box, a box in the stomachs of seven deer; the hero pulls out, breaks eggs, kills a devil born to a woman's son, brothers pick up the woman, the elder cuts off the rope, picking up the youngest; he falls; sees how the mouse has recovered, gnawing grass, heals himself; the kite cooks meat, lifts the hero to the upper world, the meat runs out, the hero cuts off the flesh from his leg; the kite regurgitates this piece, puts it to his leg; the hero marries; shoots into the air, the arrow pierces the elder brother]: Porotova 1980:76-80 (=Lukina 2004, No. 5. 12:117-122); Mongols: Potanin 1893, No. 8b (Ordos) [the boy learned to play the khura (violin genus), he was invited by an underwater king; the old man ordered to take him paying a puppy and a door latch; a boy wakes up on the shore of rich yurts; someone cooks; he pretends to be sleeping, sees a girl taking off her dog's skin, throws her skin into the fire; the girl says he hastened, Shatsgai (Soroka) Khan would begin to take it away from him; when they entered the yurt, the khan's servants looked at the woman, burned the meat; she gave something else, it tastier, the khan had to confess; his wife tells ask the boy to hide; the boy wins three times (the wife helps); the khan offers to compete, whose horse is faster; the father-in-law sends the boy an eight-legged horse and a four-legged lion from the sea, this one the horse wins; the boy crosses the boiling lake twice, saying Hoshuai; the khan dies; the noyon asks what hoshuai is; the wife gives a red bean, he kills noyon and warriors with iron hail; the boy becomes khan]: 152-156; Poppe 1981 (khalha) [epic "Old Dansaran riding a white horse"; poor Dansaran catches a swan in his snare, he asks him not to kill; D. finds food cooked every morning; for the third day, the swan turns out to be a girl, D. marries her; two generals send D. on an errand, try to burn his wife in a cast-iron house, she flies away with a sparrow; D. returns, finds his wife, burns generals in a cast-iron house]: 101-102; Dagurs [Hanlimao orphan young man is a great hunter; chasing a deer, he caught it alive, brought it home; in his absence, someone cooks and cleans; he suddenly comes back, sees a deer turn into a girl; grabs her when she is about to become a deer again; she agrees to remain in the form of a human being, to become the wife of H.; the king demands her for herself; the girl warns that the king will suffer trouble; he orders to weave a net the size of a river; the girl asks to specify the size of the river; the king does not know; demands to embroider all birds and animals on silk; girl demands their image; the king demands to catch a hundred deer; the girl turns her hairs into deer; the adviser suggests sending H. to kill two terrible demons - a millennial white rabbit and a pheasant; wife teaches that demons are afraid of smoke and fire; seeing demon heads, the king leaves H. alone]: Bender, Su Huana 1984:126-138; Mongors: Todaeva 1973, No. 10 [childless old woman prays for a child; God sends her a son; her black mare gives birth to a stomach, there is a boy in him; children tease him, he tells the old woman to fry wheat, clamps hot grains in her fist, she has to admit that she did not give birth him; he goes to look for parents, brothers, sisters; shoots at a stone, a young man comes out from under him Stone; from under the tree, a tree; three brothers hunt, someone cooks in their house; Stone, Wood fall asleep, the Mare's son grabs three doves who turned into girls; the most beautiful smears with soot, the Stone and the Tree choose others, the beauty goes to the Mare's son; the women forgot to leave food for the cat, he put it out fire with her tail; the wife of the Mare's son comes to the nine-headed old woman for fire; she gives fire and an armful of yellow flowers, tells her to throw it along the way; in the absence of husbands, she comes to suck women's blood; Stone, Wood remain on guard, numb with fear; the Mare's son cuts off the old woman's eight heads, comes to her dungeon; she tells the boy to lick her wounds; the Mare's son tells them to stroke them with cow's tongue, the old woman screams from pain; then when a dog, the old woman goes to bed, says that it will be warmer on the iron bed; the Mare's son and the boy put her in the cauldron, cover her with a lid, burn her; the brothers live well with their wives]: 289-295; Stuart, Limusishiden 1994 [an elderly childless couple has a mare giving birth to a bale or lump, inside is a boy; he is given the name Black Horse; he grows up, goes wandering; under a stone, under a tree meets orphans, this is Stone, Tree, now they are his older brothers; brothers hunt; three heavenly maidens in the form of doves fly in, take off their feather clothes, cook one tea, another bread, and a third meat; The stone, the tree do not notice anything; when the Cheka guards, he grabs feather clothes; three brothers marry girls; brothers warn to always feed the cat, otherwise it will extinguish the fire; they forget the cat extinguishes; only the younger sister finds an old woman who has fire; she also gives her small seeds; a 9-headed demoness comes along the trail, sucks her younger sister's blood; Stone, Tree are guarded, nothing they notice; the Cheka cuts off three heads, the demoness runs away; the brothers follow a bloody trail, meet a shepherdess told by the demoness to lick her wounds; Cheka goes with him to the cave; strokes the demoness's wounds first cow tongue, then dog tongue; cuts off three heads; twins cut off two more, the last Cheka again; they all return to their Cheka parents]: 80-84.

Eastern Siberia. Northeastern Yakuts (Srednekolymsky ulus, 1945) [Erbehchin Mergen saves Aiyi hero Suksuidaan Baatyr from persecution by Abaasa; before returning to his country, the Security Council invites EM to visit him; after three years, EM sets off; in the second year His horse refuses to go further; EM continues on foot, but before reaching the SB home and exhausted, falls on the road; he is found by the SB sisters; the SB cares for EM, and gives him a horse and a black one goodbye puppy; EM returns home, eventually begins to notice that in his absence someone is cleaning the house and cooking for him; under the guise of a puppy, SB's sister, shaman Eigerime, hides: in the absence of EM, she turned into a girl and ran his household; upon learning about this, EM burns the puppy's skin; Eigerime grieves, but EM manages to calm her down; they become husband and wife]: Yemelyanov 1990:97-98; Yakuts ( central; Taragay nasleg of the Megino-Kangalassky District) [Siberian land is formed, on all sides of the sea and mountain, rivers, lakes, forests in Siberia Earth, in which fish, birds and animals are formed. In the middle is the sacred Aal Luuk Mae tree, which has 8 branches. Aal Luuk Mae ejects yellow ilte, which is the life-giving moisture for animals, birds and inhabitants of this land. The sacred tree plans to reach its top land of the Upper Abaas and destroy them, but abandons this sinful idea and grows into the land of the horse deity Joshogyop Ieyehsita, turning there for the best horse riding. Jyoshogyoy Toyon does not offend the sacred tree against the abaasa. With its lower roots, the tree wants to grow to the lower abaas and destroy them, but also abandons this sinful idea and grows into the tract of cattle deities, the host spirits of the Middle World, becoming hanger for white milk products. The spirits that own the land do not offend the sacred tree to the lower abaas. The sacred tree is surrounded by a fertile valley with a crystal house. Its owner is a lonely hero Dyyray Byögyo (DB), the son of a Horse. One morning, when DB goes out into the yard, the wind blows, and a black cloud appears that looks like a bear's skin. It splits above DB's head, and an exhausted, almost naked man falls out, calls himself, asks to hide from the persecution of Abaasa. This is Ayyi hero Erbehtey Bergen (EB), who lives in a country so far away that birds fly there, laying eggs three times along the way. He has been persecuted by Sollong Tuigun abaas for 9 years. Until now, he has run away from it, turning into a hundred species of fish in the Lower World, a hundred species of four-legged fish in the Middle World, and a hundred species of winged fish in the Upper World. DB doesn't know what to do with a person. To hide is not to find peace, to allow the Abaasa to kill the hero of Ayya is an honor to lose. He stomps his foot on the frozen ground, makes a hole, hides his EB there. He puts on armor and waits for an abaasa. A whirlwind came from the south and it became dark. A three-headed bird arrives with three eyes and claws like a walk, flies around the DB country three times, sits on a sacred tree, and demands that electronic devices be issued. After shedding his skin, he turns into an iron hero abaasa with one leg, one hand, and one eye. DB is frightened, but does not show fear and replies that he will not betray a person and is ready to fight. They fight for a month, at the end of the second DB, the Abaas wins. The heart and liver are sacrificed to the goddess of war Yrya Biebeideen, the daughter of the Cloud, and scatters the ashes over the sea. Three crows fly out of the ashes that floated on the waves. They shout that in the future they will harm DB, they soar into the sky. DB bathes after washing himself from the evil spirits of the Abaasa. He goes to that place, pulls the EB out of the hole. They live in peace and friendship and sleep in the same bed. DB wakes up one night singing EB. He sings that DB is illegitimate, that he has only one mother and 50 fathers, that his homeland is much worse than the homeland of EB, that he, EB, came here well done, and at work for DB he lost weight and I fainted that it was time to go home, and if DB followed him, he would kill him. He's leaving. DB decides to follow him and asks Joshogy Toyon to specify the horse intended for him. A fresh wind is blowing, and a saddled horse descends from the sky. The hero passes through his land, another is visible. He remembers that he did not say goodbye to his native places. He turns his face towards the house, blesses the arrow to stick the point into the main horse riding, and shoots. He appeals to the spirits who are the owners of the hearth and native land. He sends the horse to the south. The land of Ayia is ending. He passes through a country inhabited by shamans and shamans, a country inhabited by dead sorcerers whose ashes were not accepted by the holy land, reaches a country blazing with fire. It's a fire burning, whole bears, deer and moose are roasting around in horns. DB jumps off the horse, turns it into a tree and kicks it aside. Eat better pieces, sleeps. He sees an almost naked man with a huge head and a huge belly. The ragged man says that his name is Ukumal, the son of the Beggar, reproaches the alien: such a hero took away from the poor beggar food sent to him by the spirit master of the taiga; he will tell eight about this shameful act countries, seven uluses. I'm ashamed, he wants to catch the ragged man, he runs away. DB is going further south. The horse got up. He says that he comes from the best stallion and best mare, Yuryung Aiyi Toyona, and was born to become a DB horse. DB himself was born to Yuryung Aiyi Toyon, the youngest of three daughters, and his father is Khaardiyr Mokhsogol, the hero of heaven. When DB was in his mother's womb, his grandfather Yuryung Aiyi Toyop arranged a ysyah in honor of the deity of horses and cattle, and when he was presented with a yellow ilge choroon in the womb the boy kicked the goblet with his foot: the yellow ilge splashed by one quarter - many calves, foals and newborns died this year. We thought, if this boy is still so naughty in his mother's womb, what's next? Shamans caused the mother to give birth prematurely and settled the premature baby in the Middle World to become the ancestor of humans. DB is happy to listen: their fate is patronized by celestials. It's going further south. In one country, he is greeted with wine and food by three beauties. As soon as the horse sees them, it releases golden wings, flies between the clouds, says Dyyray Bøge that this is the witchcraft of a murdered abaasa, from whose ashes three crows flew: they turned into women and now they lure the owner into the abyss. The horse also overcomes the second obstacle - the Sea of Fire. He calls for help from his brother, a horse named Aiyi Dutuy, and his owner Kyun Tuygun. With their help, the Sea of Fire flies over. When they fly, a stone ball falls on top of them - it almost killed them. The sea is starting to cool down and there is no trace of it. It's all raven magic. Kyun Tuigong blesses DB, promises to help him, and flies to the Eastern Sky. DB continues his journey, sees EB, but does not kill, and goes after him to look at his sister Aptala Kuo. They see the sacred Aal Luuk Mae tree and nine horse riders. The DB horse is heading to the first one. At this time, cowgirl Simehsin Emeehsin Emeehsin looks out of the house and tells her owners Hangyryyr Haan Toyon and Kyngyryyr Haan Khotun about the arrival of the heroes. Those who thought their son was dead, EB parents don't believe at first. When they see the heroes, they hurry to receive them honorably. The celebration begins, but EB sits gloomy. The DB thought he was plotting a bad thing. The elderly Hangyryyr Haan Toyon and Kyngyryyr Haan Hotun ask the servants to lift their eyelids that have fallen from old age. A boy and a girl pick up silver hooks and raise the elders' eyelids. The old man and the old woman look at the visitor and share their impressions. The husband compares him to himself when he was young and strong. The wife says that a visitor is much better than her younger husband. DB is offended and tells EB's parents about his ingratitude. Hearing threats from a visitor, Kyngyryyr Haan Hotun asks her husband for advice. Old Hangyryyr Haan Toyon: Let the young people figure it out for themselves. The old woman asks the hero to calm down, gives a drink of koumiss. The hero calms down. The old woman pulls out the pz happahchy, the closet where the girls sleep, a folding golden table, a gold plate, golden forks and spoons, walks around DB three times and begins to put it all in his bosom. Then he takes a puppy from Happahcha. "As a thank you for saving our son, we give you a puppy that is dear and close to us. Let DB live happily with the puppy, let them light up an unquenchable hearth, build a house, and put up a golden horse ride." DB: It's like not giving a puppy, but marrying her daughter. The hero goes home. Halfway through, he thinks: "I went to a distant country, suffered a lot and what did you get a puppy in return?!". Decides to throw the puppy away. But the puppy does not lag behind, whines. The hero again puts him in his bosom. He returns to his native places. His wealth did not decrease, but increased. DB releases the horse into the wild, and puts the puppy in happpakhchi. When he wakes up in the morning, the house is cleaned and the food is cooked. Dinner is prepared in the evening. The next morning, DB pretends to hunt, but turns into a fly at the edge, comes back, hides on the ceiling by the beam. A puppy comes out of the happahcha, runs around the house, sniffing the hero's trail, kicks into bed, sheds his skin, turns into a girl. Starts cleaning and cooking. DB turns into himself, wants to hug a girl. She slips out, puts on her skin, turns into a puppy. DB is going hunting. The next day he turns into a fly again, comes back, hides, grabs the girl, manages to throw her skin into the fire. The girl wraps her arms around the pole with her legs and sits like this. The DB house is crystal, rotating around an axis. A handsome man arrives from the east and cannot open the door. He says that his name is Toyon Joburuoptai, a hero, he is the son of Erian Toyona and Ebiriechin Hotun, his country is far away, birds reach it, laying eggs seven times along the way, and runners multiply nine times. Asks me to open the door The girl doesn't pay attention. DB hears a voice and comes back. The hero says that DB took away his name, Aitala Kuo, for which he paid dowry to her brother Erbahtey Bergen. DB: I earned the right to Aitaly Kuo not by paying dowry, but by a heroic feat. The heroes fight and swear that if one dies, the rest will not answer to Yuryung Aiyi Toyon. They shoot with a bow. The first is a visitor, but the DB turns into a triangular prison, the arrow flies by. When Dyyray is shot, the visitor turns into a bird, and the arrow also flies by. For the second time, the opponent's arrow passes below the heart, above the DB liver, hitting an artery. DB aims upwards, an arrow hits Toyon Joburwantai's heart and liver. DB has a hard time entering his house, lying down, falling asleep in a dead sleep. His horse takes the form of a hawk, flies into the sky, tells the heavenly messenger about the death of his owner, and asks Yuryung Ayyi Toyon and Jilga Haan to tell about it. Yuryung Ayyy Toyon orders to call three heavenly scribes, the younger heavenly shaman Aiyi Jargyl and three execution heroes. Three heavenly scribes establish: Yuryung Aiyi Toyon had three daughters; the youngest Egiliene Kuo was married by the heavenly hero Khaardiyr Mohsogol. In the ninth month of his daughter's pregnancy, Yuryung Aiyi Toyon celebrated the deity of horses and cattle. The choroon, filled with yellow ilge, was presented to Father Egiliene Kuo. The baby in the womb kicked the goblet, and ilge splashed. Three days later, horses and cattle began to die as a result. The unborn child was convicted of an unworthy act, and fearing that such a mischievous man would not live, his mother was brought to the Middle World. There she was given permission as a premature baby. Egiliene Kuo left her son in a horse pen and returned to her homeland. The boy was found by the spirit mistress of the land, Aiha Michil, gave him the name DB, the son of the Horse, because she found him in a horse pen. His opponent Toyon Joburuontai hero is the son of Erien Toyona and Ebiri-Echchin Baay Khotun, who come from the deities Iei-iehsit and Aiysyt. Aitaly Kuo, predestined by Odun Haan and Tyiys Haan, should become the wife of DB. Toyon Joburuontai must not die; he must be saved. A younger heavenly shaman is sent to the Middle World, accompanied by three heavenly heroes. The shaman camlates to revive Joburontai the hero, sends him to the Eastern Sky. Aitaly Kuo still sits the same way, with his arms and legs tightly wrapped around the pole. He looks at the wounded hero, regrets it. He gets up, prepares the balm to treat DB. The ceiling opens, a bird of prey grabs Aitala Kuo and flies to the sky. DB's wound heals, gets up, sees traces of a bird of prey, drives north, recognizing autumn by bad weather, winter by snow, summer by heat. He approaches the Sea of Fire, decides to propitiate the spirit of the owner of the sea with a victim of horse hair, but the victim is not accepted. He guesses that these are the intrigues of Har Suorun, known for his greed. He asks him to open his mouth wide. The Sea of Fire is gradually beginning to fade, and something like a wide mouth opens up. Riding a horse, a hole slips through his jaws and reaches Icchi's stomach. Together with the horse, they destroy the inside of the monster and get out of it. After that, the Sea of Fire disappears. The Second Sea of Fire. You can hear the singing of Oblak's daughter Yrya Biebeideen, whom Dyyray once treated with the heart and liver of Abaasa Syung Jaasin, who was killed by him. In gratitude, she says that Timir Nuoracin, the kidnapper of his wife Abaasa, lives across this Sea of Fire, and he will be transported across the sea by the sea carrier Otorulla, a shaman. Dyyray sends the horse home and waits for the carrier. Otorulla shaman scolds ungrateful Timir Nuorajin, who did not donate anything for the transportation, asks DB to feed him. DB takes three hairs out of his pocket, talks them to turn them into three bald black bulls, and gives them to the carrier. Old Otorulla rejoices, transports DB across the Sea of Fire, blesses him for exploits. DB goes north, reaches stone mountain, black smoke is coming from the top. He understands that this is the kidnapper's home. He turns into a Yeokseku bird, goes down to Timir Nuoracin's house through a chimney, turns into himself, sees Aitaly Kuo chained to the wall. After consulting with his wife, he turns into a triangular jail, hides behind the stove. When Timir Nuorajeen arrives, Aytali Kuo lulls his incredulity with flattering words. He makes the Abaas repeat the spell after her so that the prison kills him, gives the abaasa prison and tells her to throw him into the sky. When it falls, it kills the abaas and the DB turns into itself. Ayyu people turn into birds and fly to their homeland. The DB country became even more beautiful while he was driving. DB and his wife bow to the sacred tree Aal Luuk Mac. Aitala Kuo propitiated the spirit mistress of the earth with eight horsehair. Then mares are milked, koumiss is cooked, and ysyakh is arranged. Aitaly Kuo turns to feed the spiritual owners of the land, hearth and taiga. DB and Aitaly Kuo become the ancestors of people]: Yemelyanov 1980, No. 3:22-33; Amur Evenks (Ust-Nyukzha village) [two older brothers hunt, younger fool Ivulder remains in charge of tent; two girls arrive, clean, cook, comb I.'s hair, fly away before the brothers return; I. replies with what he did himself; the same the next day; on the third day, brothers they spy, call I. to hunt, tell them to kill an elk, who is allegedly driven, a stone is rolled down the mountain themselves, I. dies; brothers return to the tent, one dresses like I., the other hides; they catch girls , burn their wings, get married]: Malchakitova 2003:225-226

Amur - Sakhalin. Orochi: Aurora, Lebedeva 1966, No. 14 [Ngetyrka stays at home, his older brother hunts; seven swans arrive, turn into girls, clean the house, wash and comb N.; they order then get dirty again, scatter fir branches spread on the floor; N. does not do it; lies as if he combed his bird's foot, wiped his face with bird's down; brother shows that this is impossible; N. tells the truth; the brother tells him to sew his younger sister's robe to N.'s robe next time, hides himself; grabs the girl; she gives birth to him a son; the boy stops crying when N. tells him that his clothes are his mother in a box; the woman tickles N., makes him say how he stopped crying the baby; puts on feathers, flies away, taking her son; the husband shoots at the flying swan, shoots his son's little finger; meets the servant, asks what he does and says at home; kills him, takes his form, comes to his wife, puts his son's little finger; appearance (skin?) he dumps his servants in the taiga; says that he killed a hare, in fact, a lot of moose, feeds his father-in-law and mother-in-law; returns home; N. stuck to the door, because contrary to his brother's warning, he ate fatty meat first, not lean; brother revives him], 15 [starting as in (14); N. immediately admits that he was cared for by Swans; brother meets not a servant, but an old woman; she gives him a teal, tells him to let him out when the person gets to goals; the teal calls the Swan to the shore, the man grabs it, tears the plumage; returns to N., he is happy]: 142-145, 145-147; Udege people: Kormushin 1998, No. 5 [Uza's elder brother comes to the old woman, corrects fishing hooks, sees a lot of poultry, takes two burnt females away from the fire so as not to get burned; peeking, he sees how the females have become beautiful, dry his boots, drag sledges; begs for one female; at night he hears someone planing in the hut; opens the door, grabs the girl, tears the dog's skin; the girl below is half a dog; Udza goes to the old woman himself, breaks hooks, hits geese and ducks, kicks and hits the dog; at night he hears the sound of bird cherry planing, swears, lets his wife tie a rope to catch a whale, which drags him under water], 29 [well done, he hooks lentils, puts it under the blanket at home ; returning from hunting, he sees that someone is at home; at night he spies, sees a girl working, she is half a fish; the next night he grabs her, takes off her fish skin; they have a boy; well done friend Alder also catches lentils, hits him on the head; at home, the fish has rotted under the blanket; Alder turns into Alder]: 108-114, 141-148; Nikolaeva 2003, No. 5 [Lektige lives with her younger sister; she does not know how sew; someone washes, sews, embroiders in L.'s absence; L. waits for a duck woman; grabs her feathers; one day their son cries; sister L. says he is looking for his mother's duck clothes; mother takes her clothes, flies away with her son; L. goes in search; the old woman says that a woman with a child stayed with her must be on the red lake; L. lures her with this old woman with a decoy duckling, catches; she agrees to drop her feathers, he burns them; at home, her sister stuck to the door; says that L.'s wife's seven sisters ate all supplies]: 38-41; Manchus: Bäcker 1988, No. 10 [Shun dosiha has a father died, his mother became blind; he grew up, began to hunt; brought home a Manchu nut, planted a tree, grew in a year; in the third year, a huge nut ripened on it; when he left, S. left it in the house; once he found food cooked; mother said it wasn't her; S. pretended to be asleep; at night he saw a girl come out of a walnut; S. and his mother asked her to stay; she replied that she was the youngest daughter of a millennial Manchu walnut from white mountain; sent to earth for violating the ritual; after a year of service she will return to the mountain; they asked her to stay; she ordered her to be cooked alive in a large cauldron and not open the lid until he stops screaming; he could not stand it and opened it earlier; the girl said that she would now be able to stay with him only for 5 years; the water in which she was brewed restored Sh. gave birth to a son; died five years later; a Manchurian nut grew on her grave; he always produced a plentiful harvest; there are still the best nuts in this valley]: 67-79 (cf. No. 7 [hero Balus Ulu (BU) inherited from father's powerful bow and other weapons; at the edge of the thicket, a sable, always sat on a green stone, or rather a sable god; once he was carried away by a monster, no one else went to the forest, hunger began; BU went in search, he rode his horse into a cold cave; when the light came again, he saw a stone with a sable, and a three-headed three-eyed demon lynx appeared from behind the stone; from one eye a deadly ray, from the other a smelly ray water, fire from the central one; the BU hit all three with arrows, killed the monster; took out the sable, it became possible to hunt again; one day, returning home, BU noticed a girl who had cooked food and fled; Sakala Mama, a female chief, explained that this girl named Akumi was sent by a sable; he returned home, A. was waiting for him there; she was the daughter of a neighboring tribe leader; holiday]: 44-50).

Japan. Japanese [at night in a snowstorm (1) a young woman comes to a childless couple (man), becomes their daughter (his wife); (2) a woman comes to her spouses, asking them to take care of her child for a while, disappears; the child grows up, becomes a beautiful girl; (3) on a snowy evening, a person returns home from work, finds food cooked; hides, spies, sees a girl doing housework; takes her as his wife, she gives birth to a child; (4) a man looks at icicles, wants an equally elegant and beautiful wife; at night a woman comes and becomes his wife; (5) during a snowstorm in the mountains, a young man sees a snowy woman; she forbids him to talk about what he saw, saves his life; soon the unrecognized comes to the village, becomes his wife; (1) melts when she is forced to swim in hot water; (2) by as the weather gets warmer, she feels worse; she disappears on a spring evening, leaving a pile of her clothes in front of the stove in the kitchen; (3) after ten years, the woman's time on earth ends; she goes into a snowstorm leaving her child; (4) leaves when her husband violates the ban on talking about how he saw a snowwoman]: Ikeda 1971, no. 413G:106.

SV Asia. Chukchi: Baboshina 1958, No. 44 [When returning home, ten brothers find that someone is sewing clothes for them; one catches Lisa by surprise; she marries the elder, turns nine dolls into wives for the rest of the brothers; forgets to nail the dolls; first young, then the rest of the wives, then the brothers start laughing; the fox runs away, the women become dolls again], 94 [the wife and daughter have left her husband, found an empty yaranga; the mother died, the girl came to the yaranga of seven brothers, cleaned everything up, left; then sewed clothes; one day the older brother hid, found the girl; the younger brother also needs a wife, he bothers to the girl, she killed him with a stick, hid him among pieces of meat; the brothers found the body, dug a hole, gathered worms there, began to fatten him; the mosquito asks the girl to sew him beautiful clothes; warns that tomorrow the brothers will throw her into the hole; she must look up, fly into the sky; so it happened; the brothers went to their place for dinner, the worms crawled out and ate them]: 115-116, 227-229; tundra yukaghirs (Russified, probably tundra) [the poor man hooks Sherkala, a girl fish (it looks like a fish); brings it home, throws it in the corner; someone cooks and cleans in his absence; he waits for the girl throws her fish skin into the fire; she says she is now forced to go back, flows down with sea water]: Bogoras 1918, No. 26:101; forest yukaghirs (p. Ridiculous Verkhnekolymsky Ulus of Yakutia): Zhukova, Prokopyeva 1991, No. 9 [the shepherd took the puppy; when he returned from work, the house was clean, the food was cooked; decided to find out who was coming to him; saw that the dog was turns into a girl; the shepherd threw her skin into the fire, began to live together; the son of the rich man began to flirt with the shepherd's wife; she released the calf, which butted the boy; the next day the rich man sent the shepherd look for a violent bull; with the help of his wife, the shepherd returned him]: 150-152; Nikolaeva et al. 1989 (1), No. 20 [The old louse causes the wind, carries him into the talnik, the Elk swallows it along with the bark; he cuts the Moose with a knife from the inside, goes out through a hole; brings the meat of the victim to his two wives; cooks it, falls into the cauldron, dies; the youngest wife hangs herself from a tree, the eldest has turned into a dog; an old woman picks her up; the son of an old woman feeds her; takes care of her; she shakes off her skin, turns into a woman, cooks food; a young man grabs a woman, marries her]: 67-69 (=Kurilov 2005, No. 32:301-303); Chuvans [orphan herds cattle rich man; a rich man's son at a nearby camp was given a dagger and an orphan a puppy; a rich man's son laughs at an orphan; when an orphan returns to yaranga, the fire burns, the food is cooked; once he saw how the dog takes off its skin and turns into a girl; threw the skin into the fire; the girl warns that she will be taken away from him; the son of a rich man wants to take her away, gives the orphan difficult errands; 1) get the forgotten one from the cliff father dagger; wife: hit the rock with a snowplow, it will collapse; the cliff fell apart, a dagger fell out of it; 2) bring the father's dog tied on the pass; the wife gives an iron rod to beat the dog on the nose - this is not a dog, but a bear; 3) go to my father who lives on the horizon, bring a dagger from him; wife: devils live there; you have to climb to the roof of the central iron house, ask for a knife; they gave a knife, lice on it the size of a mouse; 4) bring the parents themselves; devils came, but the orphan turned all the yarangas into bunches of grass; the devils are gone; 5) bring the dog tied to the horizon; this is a huge bear; the wife gave a lasso; When he saw the bear, the rich man began to offer a herd, but his wife advised him to take some of the argish; they migrated; the rich starved to death]: Brodsky, Innecay 2018, No. 18:38-42.

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos: Baboshina 1958, No. 69 [a girl approaches the yaranga of two brothers, eats there, leaves; then sews pants; the eldest remains guarded, finds a girl, marries; one day the youngest began to bother her, she stabbed him in the throat, hid his body; her brother found him; began to feed worms in a pit; pushed his wife, but she grabbed the web and disappeared into the sky; she was sitting with God in yaranga, he pushed his skin off the floor, the ground could be seen; the girl began to cry, it rained on the ground, her mother quickly began to collect the hides that had been hung to dry; the girl went down the web back to her yaranga]: 170-173; Menovshchikov 1974 (Sireniki) [five hunting brothers live together; a girl who refused to marry comes when they are not there, steals meat; the youngest stays on guard, catches the girl, marries her the eldest; the youngest bothers her, she swings, accidentally kills him with a knife, hides him; the eldest finds the body; the brothers grow two worms in the pit; The spider warns the woman, tells him to sew a torbaza, promises embroider them; on the edge of the hole, the husband looks at the torbaza; when he pushes a woman, the Spider picks her up, the husband jumps into the hole himself out of annoyance, is eaten], No. 25:121-123; (=1985, No. 71:157-159); Asian Eskimos ( Chaplino) [a lonely man lived with a female dog; left her bones to eat; one day he heard a dance from the yaranga; saw: the woman was dancing, the dog's skin was lying separately; when he entered, the dog was in the yaranga; The next day he packed the fuel in piles; hid behind the far one; when the dog shed her skin and the woman went out, looked around, came back, the man ran from one pile to another, ran into the yaranga, burned his skin; began to live with a woman]: Rubtsova, Vakhtin 2019, No. 4:70-72;; Aleuts: Jochelson 1990, No. 10 (Unalashka) [a young man traps a fox; finds squirrels killed the day before at home refreshed; finds a woman; his sisters tell her she has fox teeth; she puts on her skin, runs away; he follows her in a fox hole; inside is a house; his wife, her sisters and mother wear animal skins, hunt seals; he sees this, becoming a sparrow, a wren; they throw it into a hot spring; he becomes a fish, stays alive; leaves them, they die; soon he dies]: 117-129; Beklemishev 1884 (Athinsky Department) [many lives together, the Ogolguzah brothers were water men; in the morning they went to sea to fish, and in the evening they returned to their drum and found her tidy; they did not know what a woman was and did not need her; to find out who was in charge, the brothers left the youngest; he lay down on the floor; saw the woman come in and cook everything; wanted to grab her when he came closer, but fell asleep; rushed to her when she came closer, but fell asleep; rushed to her when she went out, but she pushed him away; the next day, her middle brother stayed; he listened to her song and realized that it would be good for someone to take the woman; when the brothers returned, they called the middle brother, but he did not respond; another brother went down to the drum and also disappeared; the eldest looked in and saw that the brothers were fighting over a woman; he started beating them; they all jumped out and, continuing to fight, threw themselves into the sea and turned into sea otters (sea beavers) and the woman into a beaver uterus; swam, continuing to fight and chasing the uterus]: 11-12; central Yupik [the foreman has three sisters, the youngest has one eye in the middle of her forehead ; the brother goes hunting for a long time; keeps a goose in his parking lot; someone cooks and washes his clothes; he waits for the girl, she agrees to live with him, hiding her gooseskin; they have a child; one day, the younger sister said that her brother's wife did not dress her skins well, they were covered with blood; and she was a goose, eating dirt; the wife found her skin, put it on, took her son and flew south, putting one under the door a feather from the wing; the man scolded his sister, went to look for his wife; found her in the bird world with her new husband a crane; the son recognized him; the crane had to leave, the man stayed with his goose wife; in the spring he flew with them to north; warned of traps]: Burrows 1926:80; Fr. Nunivak [a man wakes up in an empty man`s house; climbs to the surface of the earth; learns to hunt, make fire; someone cooks, cleans the house; finds a woman; she gives birth to him a son; he goes travel, comes to the old man's house, helps him, comes to other people, wins shamanic tricks]: Curtin 1976 (20): 75-76; Kodiak [young and old hunters live together; young chases a partridge, an old man takes care of her; a partridge turns into a woman, cooks food, sews for an old torbas; an old man finds a woman, makes a wife; a young man kills an old man to take a woman for himself; she puts on leather with partridge, flies away]: Golder 1903, No. 7:87-90 (cf. Also Lisyansky 1812 [the eldest son of the first man and woman played with a stone, Kodiak appeared out of stone; putting a man with a female on him, he shoved the island to its present place, then people divorced]: 77); caribou [returning from hunting, a man finds food cooked; finds Lisa taking off her skin; grabs skin = clothes, gives for promising to become his wife; the Wolf offers to swap wives, says that the man's wife smells like a fox; she runs away; the man follows in the footsteps - first human, then fox, comes to the hole; he They offer animal women as wives to Wolf, Wolverine, Lemming and other women; he rejects them all, returns them to the Fox Wife]: Rasmussen 1930b: 93-94; netsilic [Kiviok lives alone, finds in a home cooked meat; finds a woman, hides her fox skin, marries her; reluctantly agrees to swap wives with Wolverine for the night; despite the warning, Wolverine complains about the smell of a fox; the fox is ashamed she runs away with her skin on; K. follows her, licks her urine, eats droppings; comes to the house; rejects various women (Lemming, Groundhog, Ermine, etc.), replying that their nose, waist and Ave.; reunites with Lisa]: Rasmussen 1931:370-372; igloolik: Rasmussen 1930a [husband watches his wife; she calls the penis of the Lake Spirit; the penis crawls out of the lake, enters it; the husband summons him by imitating in his wife's voice, cuts her off, cooks, lets his wife eat; he sprinkles worms on her, they crawl into her, kill her; when he returns from hunting, he finds food cooked; finds Lisa taking off her skin and becoming a woman marries her; Raven comes, says she smells like a fox; his wife puts on her skin and runs away; Raven's wife is dog Kal]: 221-222; Spalding 1979 (Repulse Bay) [Kiviuq sees his two wives walking naked to the lake, ask "Substitute penis" to show up; take turns satisfying themselves with him; K. calls the penis with the voice of his wives, cuts it off, cuts it apart at home, cooks, gives it to wives; they say it's tough and tasty; they cry when they find out that they ate; K. collects worms on the shore; asks one if she is more afraid of worms or a knife; she replies that a knife; sits on worms; they crawl into her anus and vagina, crawl out Through her mouth, she dies; the second wife says she is afraid of worms; K. hacked her; someone cooks and cleans his house; he notices a fox hole under his wives' grave; finds a woman grabbing her skin; one day Wolverine offers to swap wives; K. tells me to close the door tightly, but he forgets; the wife pees in bed, Wolverine asks what the stench is, the Fox grabs her skin, runs away; Wolverine's wife, with whom K. slept, turns into feces; K. follows the Fox's trail against the hole; Lemming, the Wolf, comes out of it, offers himself; K. rejects them; they let him into the hole; there is a crying wife; she first sits down from him then goes home with him]: 64-66; polar Eskimos [the husband watches his wife, sees her coming to the lake, calling her penis, he appears, she copulates with him; the husband calls the penis himself, kills with a stick, cooks, feeds his wife; puts worms, flies, etc. under her blanket, they eat her; he burns insects; someone cleans his house; he finds a beautiful woman; this is Lisa; Hare and Kal live in another house; the hunter and Kal change wives; Kal and the Fox are dissatisfied with each other's smell; they turn into a fox, feces, a hare into a hare; the hunter is looking for the Fox; comes to the cave where the worms he burned live; now they are people The fox lives with them (text ends)]: Holtved 1951, No. 38:166-172; Menovshchikov 1985, No. 231:449-450; man finds and returns his wife]: Rasmussen 1930a: 222-224; Baffin's Land [like the polar ones Eskimos; Raven offers to swap wives; The fox leaves because the raven calls her smelly; the man rejects the Raven's wife because of her smell; comes to the fox hole; climbs inside, sees his wife again in in the appearance of a woman; her child is a dog, in fact a spider]: Boas 1901b, No. 42:222-226; Labrador Eskimos [a lonely hunter finds his house tidy; waits for a woman who has taken off her fox skin; after a while, his smell begins to irritate him; she puts on her skin, runs away, the person has not seen her again]: Hawkes 1916:156-157; Turner 1894:264; West Greenland [bachelor caught in fox trap, brought home, tamed; returning from hunting, finds the skins hanged to dry, the food is cooked; he hides, grabs a beautiful woman; once a stranger came to swap wives; man refused - his wife was too jealous; but was actually afraid that his wife smelled like a fox and people would find out; next time he agreed; the man smelled a fox and said it; the woman became fox, ran away; her husband is still looking for her]: Ostermann 1939:120-122; Eskimos of Labrador, West Greenland (5 versions - one from Labrador, 4 Greenlandic) [husband suspects wife of infidelity, watches her; she dresses up, comes to the lake, throws something into the water; a male creature appears out of the water; the woman undresses, rushes to him; the husband collects various worms, lets they are killed on his wife; every time she returns home, she finds food cooked; finds Lisa in the guise of a woman, takes them as a wife; when visiting him, his relative deliberately complains about the stench out of envy; the wife turns into a fox, runs away; the husband comes to the hole, the fox sends a beetle, a spider, a caterpillar to him; he makes a fire, burning a fox; he is alone again]: Rink 1975, No. 11:143-145.

Subarctic. Chipewayan [a man's wife turns into a beaver; returning to his plague, he finds snowshoes ready; finds a partridge, she turns into a woman; warns her not to leave prints fingers on beaver fat; when he enters and takes off the grease from one leg, he notices prints on fat; runs out of the house, rises to the moon; he can be seen there with his dog and greed on only one leg]: Birket-Smith 1930:89.

NW coast. Bellacula: Boas 1895, No. 11 [Kasana's man consisted of one half; carved his wife out of a tree growth, named Culems; planted her as if she were weaving a blanket; Chief Heiltzuk sent his two daughters to marry Kasan; they entered the house, knocked down a wooden woman, hid; Kasana came in, angrily told his wooden wife that he did not need her because he could not sit ; one of the girls laughed; he did not marry both, each with a child; went with them to their father]: 256; McIlwraith 1948 (1) [at the beginning of time, a single person descends to the ground; makes a woman out of wood, dresses her up; every morning she sits in front of a loom, leaves food for her; two girls enter the house, push the figure, her head falls into the fire, burns; they weave a blanket, eat food, hide; when they come back from hunting, the husband praises his wife for her work, asks to be more careful; the girls laugh; he marries the eldest, invites other people to live nearby, arranges a potlach]: 356-357; quakiutl [1) Sitting on Earth goes to tear the cedar bark; a voice invites him into the house, asks where his wife is; he replies that his wife cannot speak because she is carved from alder and her hair is made of yellow cedar bast; more about visiting the homes of supernatural creatures; 2) the chief sends two female slaves to swim; when they return, one falls into the fire, burns; the other decides to commit suicide in the forest; four days go by up the river; sees a house with two wooden female figures, a pile of mountain sheep wool and a spinning rod; a hunter enters, asks the figures to talk to him; divides meat, puts it between them; when he leaves, the girl roasts meat; when he returns, he thinks that wooden wives have begun to come to life; brings salmon, the girl also secretly cuts them; the hunter thinks that the wives have begun to work; the next day the girl burns them figures; the hunter thinks that they killed each other out of jealousy; a girl appears, says that she is the embodiment of wooden figures; becoming a man's wife, the girl gave birth to many children, they became ancestors tribes]: Boas 1916, No. 17:745; Boas, Hunt 1902, No. 3.1:122

The coast is the Plateau. Vancouver Island (salish? ethnicity not specified) [a lonely man Quil-Tum-Tum carves a woman's figure out of wood, considers it a mistress; Woodpecker tells two girls about this; they come, hide; K. finds the fire burning, the basket is finished; next time the girls open; the tribes inhabiting Vancouver come from them and K.]: Webber 1936:24; halkomel: Boas 1895, No. 2 (kovichan) [first Sialatza, then Swutlak, then other men and women descend from heaven; S. teaches them how to hunt and fish; the tribes disperse, S. is left alone; the other chief sends his daughter to him; she finds an empty house, there is a wooden woman in it, a spindle and a piece of fat are put in her hands; the one who comes eats fat, hides; S. is glad that the wooden wife has eaten; next time she comes burns wooden clothes, puts on her clothes ; marries S., her maid marries another man]: 47-50; 1916, No. 17 [retelling 1895]: 746; lillouette [a single man considers a branch to be his wife; a woman visits the house in his absence; eats The food left for the branch cleans the house, makes a fire, hides; one day he throws a branch into the fire; a man cries, a woman comes out of hiding; they have many children]: Teit 1912b, No. 9:309-310; quinalt [a young man is fishing, someone is cleaning the salmon he has caught; he hides, sees a woman coming out of the forest; takes her as his wife; she does not laugh or open her face; Blue Jay makes her laugh; she throws away the veil; she has the face of a monster, pieces of man between her teeth; those who hear her laugh fall dead; she devours them, hides the genitals of her eaten husband in the basket; gives birth to twin sons; they they find their father's genitals, see an empty village; they set fire to their house, run away, climb a tree; the mother rushes in pursuit; they ask her to wrap her around the trunk, tell the bark to fall on her, the mother is killed; brothers they travel further, exterminating monsters]: Farrand 1902, No. 1:81-82.

The Midwest. Ojibwa: Jones 1916, No. 19 [every time ten brothers find the house tidy; find a girl, she becomes the youngest's wife; the jealous elder hurts her; she tells her husband not to come for ten days to her; he violates the ban, she flies west as a bird; he follows her, the trees show the way; his grandfather and grandmother gave him an inexhaustible supply of food, warned him of dangers; he returned his wife, and her nine sisters married his brothers], 19a [as in (19), eleven brothers, the eldest Machigives; the young man follows the big bird, successively passes three old women and an old man warning of dangers; the old man gives four copper hooks to climb a steep mountain; the young man reaches the top as a butterfly, duck, squirrel; the girl's father promises her to whose finger the bead will stick to; The rabbit wraps the finger with a rope, the Raven lubricates pus from his eyes, but the young man wins; the wife and her sisters become birds, bring it home; sisters marry older brothers]: 372-374; northern ojibwa ( Sandy Lake) [someone cooks in the absence of brothers; the eldest scares the woman, the youngest turns into a feather, catches her; the eldest shoots her in the leg out of jealousy, she runs away; the youngest follows her; the rabbit speaks that she is the daughter of Thunder, the shaman gives glue to climb a steep mountain; the husband finds a wife; snakes and frogs cannot eat, the food of the Thunder; they give him their feathers, teach him how to hunt beavers; the spouses return to people; Machi-Avia kidnaps a woman; his house is made of human hair; his older brother comes, is killed; the younger one revives him, kills M., frees the prisoners who have become bald in M.'s house; both brothers and a woman rising to the sky, they're stars now]: Ray, Stevens 1971:88-92; Western Swamp Cree: Brightman 1989 (stone crees) [two brothers live separately, hunt beavers; someone cleans, cooks in their teepee; the next time they return, they see two women; the beautiful takes the older brother as her husband, the ugly brother; the youngest decides to kill the elder's wife, shoots, the arrow falls between the ribs, her the sister (i.e. the youngest's wife) pulls out the arrow; the women (they are the Thunders) leave; the older brother reproaches the younger brother, goes in search; meets an old woman who saw women, she was sick (i.e. wounded); gives squirrel claws and Thunder skin; with their help, a person climbs a mountain and flies to the Thunder; women are happy, Thunder Bird (but not mentioned in bird appearance) tells women to return to their brothers; elder brother and women return to the youngest, who has been crying all this time; everything is fine; women find the arrow that the younger brother used to injure the elder's wife; this arrow will now bring hunting luck]: 102-104 ; Cresswell 1923 [three brothers hunt, the youngest fourth watches the house; hears laughter and voices from a teepee, finds food cooked, firewood chopped; brothers turn it into a feather, hide it under the roof; he hears that women are going to kill their brothers; they throw a pen into the fire but it soars up; next time the brothers hide the youngest in a hole near the hearth; they fight women, they die; the youngest dies in a hole] : 405; Steppe Cree: Bloomfield 1930, No. 11 [a person lives alone; someone brings firewood, cleans the house; he finds a woman; they visit her parents; he realizes that the wife and her relatives are bears, that he will not be able to be with them for long], 24 [ten brothers live alone; the youngest is the most beautiful, the first to return from hunting, finds the house tidy, firewood cooked; finds a woman; the eldest Brother Machikivis behaves inappropriately to her; she leaves; her husband follows her; she is the Thunder, she has nine sisters; they think he killed the Snake because he is stained with blood (clay is snake blood); they eat the slaughtered Snake; they go down to earth; now all ten sisters marry ten brothers]: 59-61, 228-236; Skinner 1916, No. 3 [Mujikivis is the eldest of ten brothers; someone cooks and cleans the house; M. finds a woman, her fifth brother marries her; M. tries to seduce her, she refuses; he wounds her in the leg with an arrow; she leaves to live separately; tells her husband not to come to her for four days; he comes before the deadline, she runs away, gives birth to a boy; he follows in her footsteps; four grandmothers (the last one is young) consistently give him advice and magic objects to overcome obstacles; explain that his wife is the daughter of Thunder; he climbs a steep mountain to a nest in which Thunder eggs; crosses the river on a log that rises and falls; his father-in-law tells men to hold his grandson in their arms; whoever he pees will be reimbursed by his mother; M. (here he is one of the Thunder) takes water in his mouth, splashes it on his chest; everyone laughs; the child pees on the man's hands from the ground; a person notices a rusty stain on the water, paints his face; Thunders ask show them the source, they hit monsters (the Great Pumas); a man kills a porcupine that is dangerous for the Thunder; the Thunders bring him back to earth; the brothers at first do not believe he is back, they think that jays and crows laugh at them; each brother marries one of the Thunder sisters]: 353-361; steppe ojibwa [eight brothers find firewood cooked; take turns guarding; woman appears to the youngest; breaks the trunks with his hand moved; the older brother kills her out of jealousy; she flies away; the younger one shoots arrows, follows them; meets four old women one by one; they give sharp claws , bones and horns explain what to do to climb the pointed mountain; there will be eight identical sisters in the house, the wife will sit closer to the entrance; the young man sits next to her; the father-in-law sends everyone with him Eight daughters, they fly to their brothers; animals mock their brothers, saying that the youngest is back; this time it is; brothers get married]: Skinner 1919, No. 4:293-295.

Northeast. Seneca [the hunter awaits the woman running his hut; this is Moose; a guest with his mother, marries another girl; loses his hunting luck; returns to the forest, follows Moose and her two sons and a little daughter; she forgives him]: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 65:361-365; passamaquoddy [two brothers dream of having a mistress in their hunting lodge; the youngest returns first, finds clothes repaired, etc.; finds a woman, gets married; brothers return to people; their father says that a woman is a dangerous demoness; her older brother shoots at her, she flies away, becoming a partridge; younger finds her; dies as soon as his father forces him to marry another woman]: Leland 1968:295-299.

Southeast USA. Chirokee [the hunter takes a woman by surprise in his forest hut; returns to people, marries another girl; wants to return to his magical wife, follows her and two sons; she turns into a moose]: Kilpatrick, Kilpatrick 1966, No. 1:422-424.

The Great Southwest. Tiva (Taos) [1) Little Zamarashka lives with his grandmother in a pile of mud; someone comes to cook; a deer girl admits that it is her who leads to her; two Deer call him father; he must race against sorcerers, the losers will be killed; Reindeer run for him, Hawks against them; Reindeer cause rain, Hawk feathers get wet, they lose; Zamarashka and Reindeer slaughter them with sticks; 2) the hunter finds the food cooked, the house tidy up; throws meat and porridge behind the unknown hostess's back; moves the camp to a new place, everything repeats itself; is going to shoot a deer; she says that mistress - she, turns into a woman, marries a hunter]: Parsons 1940, No. 11:40-45; teva (San Juan) [girl dies from childbirth, rituals have not been performed; twelve young hunters they are surprised to find food cooked in the camp in the evening; everyone leaves part of their loot for the unknown hostess, one of the young men asks the hostess to appear; the dead woman and the baby are approaching; the young men are afraid run away; rituals are performed after the deceased]: Parsons 1926, No. 6:24-25; maricopa [(summary); while two men are hunting, their dog stays at home, becomes a woman, cooks; they find her by surprise, they are persuaded to preserve their human appearance; they are descended from the Dog Pima tribe]: Spier 1937:422.

NW Mexico. Mayo [a man lives alone, has a dog; finds food cooked; spies on, sees a dog become a woman; explained that God told her not to live alone]: Olmos Aguilara 2005:239-240; tepecano [in the morning a person finds an area newly overgrown with forest; next time he finds an old man; he tells him not to work, there will be a flood; we must make an ark, put it together in pairs animals and birds; after the flood, he began to live in a hut with a dog; someone cooks; he finds a girl, throws a dog skin into the fire; after 7 years, the girl grows up, he marries her at night, and hay Their stars are small; his father Sun says he warned him; since then, deer have been walking l]: Mason 1914, No. 7:163-164; Huichol: Benzi 1971, No. 3 [Huatahame works on the site; when he returns, he sees that vegetation has revived; this is what the old woman does; she says that there will be a flood, tells you to take a black dog into the boat; utensils will become animals, snakes, jaguars, and destroy people; after the flood, H. finds ready-made tortillas at home; finds a woman a dog has become; people come from this couple]: 185-186; Furst, Auguiano 1976 [Watákame (one of Héwi's first ancestors) cleared the plot, the vegetation was being restored the next morning; Nakawé did this with her bamboo staff (the first plant she created); W. said that there would be a flood, you should take a black female and white with you with a stain on her neck; showed how to cut down a ficus and make a box, sealed V. with her dog in it, sat on a box, rowed; after the flood, restored vegetation and animals; V. saved five corn kernels; someone makes tortillas, V. threw dog skin into the fire; the woman screamed in pain, he poured water on it; they are the source of Huichol; because the woman is slightly burned, their skin is brownish]: 114-116; Lumholtz [man clears the area; every morning she finds the forest intact; on the fifth day she finds great grandmother Nakawa; she finds her rod to the south, north, west, east, zenith and nadir, the felled trees rise; warns that there will be a flood, tells you to make a box of ficus wood, take with you five corn kernels of different colors, fire, five pumpkin shoots, a black dog; puts a person in a box, herself sits on it, the mako and the parrot sit on her shoulders; the water rises for five years, then falls; the box descends to the mountain, there is still water around; mako and parrots lay valleys with their beaks, water flows down them, birds divide it into five seas; N. turns into the wind; a man lives with a dog in a cave, works in the field; in the evening he finds tortillas ready; on the fifth day he hides, sees the dog throw off his a skin, turns into a woman; he burns his skin; their descendants repopulate the world] 1900:168 and 1902 (2): 191-193; Zingg 1982 [Kauymáli finds food cooked every time he returns; cuts down the forest on the site, during the night he grows up again; the old woman says there will be a flood; after the flood, K. throws the dog's skin into the fire; during the first sexual intercourse, blood appears, the wolf and the jaguar come to lick it, Nakawé (The Month) cursed them]: 225-226; bark: Lumholtz 1902 (2) [like Huichol; additionally: a person is told to take with him a woodpecker, the sandpiper, a parrot; when the water comes down, he sends the parrot finds out if it is possible to walk on the ground; it comes back, the ground is still wet; the sent woodpecker can hardly pull its beak out of the wet wood; the snipe does not fall into the mud, the ground is dry]: 193-194; Preuss 1912:201-202, 277-280.

Mesoamerica See motive C10B: After the flood; dog; hero throws his skin into the fire. Totonaki: Arenas 2000:159-160 [God turned all people into stones; left alone, with him the dog finds food cooked after work; looks after the dog, sees that in the house it has become a woman; he throws ash on her skin, a woman's body starts to ache; she asks to wash her skin, remains human; new people come from them], 164-166 [a person cuts down the forest on the site, vegetation by morning recovers; he stays watching, sees the Rabbit telling the trees to rise; he asks him not to kill, says he is acting on orders that there will be a flood, man must build an ark; he takes all animals into it; sends torcaza, which comes back, says that the water has begun to fall; sends Vultures, who peck corpses, man tells them to eat carrion from now on; after the flood, man works on the site, finds food cooked in the evening; finds a woman shed her dog skin, sprinkles ash on her skin; the woman remains human, creates new people]; Oropeza Castro 1947 ( mountain) [a man escapes from the flood in a boat; sends a dove to find out if there is land; one day she returns with feet stained with clay; after the flood, a dog comes to the person; he finds it in the house cooked tortillas; finds a woman throwing a dog's skin into the fire; the wife gives birth to a boy; the husband asks her to make tender bread; means tender pumpkins, she kills their son; the husband finds bread finger; continues to eat on]: 269-275; Oropeza Escóbar 2007 [a man cut down the forest under the field; when he returned, the trees are standing again; he found the Rabbit reviving the forest; he says that to him They ordered this to be done and ordered to warn of the flood, so that man would make an ark and take various animals into it; the man sent torcaza, which said that the waters were coming down; sent vultures, they ate carrion, they came back dirty; the man told them to eat so much carrion; after the flood, the man began to work as before; when he returned, he found food cooked; he found a woman who had skinned a dog; man filled the skin with ash so that the woman could no longer wear it; she became the ancestor of people]: 200-201; tlapanecas [1) {both versions on the same pages, above and below}; Vulture tells the person to stop working {obviously clearing a plot in the mountains}, for the world will end; told the tree and stone to rise; the tree has risen, there is no stone; told the man to make a box, not tell anyone , climb into it; put a dog and a chicken in the same place; through the gap, a man saw how the rain flooded the ground with a flood, how aquatic creatures tried to break the box, eat a person; the water came down, the ground dried up; the chicken (chicken) turned into Vulture, flew, creating behind {wingflapping?} valleys and mountains; returning from work, a man found food cooked; waited for a woman, threw a dog skin into the fire; the woman said that their children would not grow up now; 2) a man clears the area, vegetation is reviving again; another person tells him to stop working and make a box, put it there with a black chicken and a black dog; this is how the man survived the flood; returning from work, he finds food cooked; waits for a woman, threw dog skin into the fire; woman said they won't have many children now]: Lemley 1949:76-77; mountain shelter [wife dies; in house the dog remains; returning from hunting, the widower finds cooked food every night; one day he comes back earlier, sees a beautiful woman from afar making tortillas and a dog skin next to her; gets married] : Foster 1945a, No. 21:211; mixteks [a single man has a dog; when he returns home, he finds food cooked every time, the house is tidy up; hides, sees the dog take off his skin, becomes as a woman, rubs corn; he copulates with her, destroys her skin, marries a woman; some say it is a myth about the survival of Yukuhichi people, others say that it is about the origin of women]: Monaghan 1995: 145-146; Miche [dog; retains his zoomorphic appearance]: Bartolomé 1984:22; Tricky [a childless widower cannot find a wife; one day finds food cooked in the house; one day pretends to leave, watches, sees the dog take off its skin, turn into a girl; they got married, their children are very hairy, and they are still found among tricks]: Relatos Triquis 1998:19-21; chol [wife dies; widower still has a dog; he discovers that someone is cooking for him; waits for a woman who turns into a dog again and for all]: García 1988:67; tsotsil: Gossen 1974, No. 104 [wife dies; returning from the field, husband finds tortillas ready; sees his dog staring at them; they were baked by his wife in the sky, but the dog said she baked them; the man saw a woman above, did not recognize his wife, shot, bones fell from above; after his death, his wife asked why he shot her; he opened the dog's mouth and rubbed it against the ground as punishment], 109 [ after the flood, a woman marries a dog, Europeans come from them]: 306-307, 309-310; Relatos Tzotziles 1995 [The Creator or Angel told one person to hide in a cave, the rest of the people were destroyed by rain boiling water; a man took a dog with him; after the flood, a person returns from the site, sees the food cooked; an angel tells him to marry a dog; their descendants have repopulated the land; bones in the caves are the remains trying to hide from the flood of boiling water; at that time it was dusk, light came into the world with Jesus]: 16-19; lacandons (northern) [among people there are descendants of the daughters of a vulture woman and a woman dogs]: Boremanse 1986:242-246 and 1989:91-93 [there were few women, men were cooking themselves; the man saw two girls bathing, their clothes were royal vulture feathers; the next day he caught one of girls; she agreed to marry him if he was a good husband; told her to leave her feather clothes, her sister would pick them up; a year later they went to their father-in-law, while a path led to heaven; there were fields corn; the bald leader tells his son-in-law that after death, his soul will not go to the underworld to Kisin, but here to heaven; the man began to treat his wife badly when he saw her eat carrion and worms; began to spend the night in the field; Xok (watermen, fish owners) began to come to her, she became pregnant; told her husband to open her stomach, there are a dozen Xok children; when she dies, she tells her to cut off her little finger, there are pumpkin seeds, she teaches how to raise calebasses; three calebasses have grown up, he accidentally cut one, put two under a bench in the kitchen; someone cooks in his absence; he finds two girls, his daughters from his vulture wife; gives in wife to a neighbor in exchange for his sister; a man was bitten by a snake, but his soul did not rise to heaven because he mistreated his wife; his daughters have many children, they are descendants of a vulture woman; vultures are not allowed kill], 1986:224-226 and 1989:93-94 [the hunter's dog comes back and cooks; he finds her, gets married, they have two daughters; the dog wife is unscrupulous, puts her crap, his own and children, in the atol; he kills her; gives daughters to a neighbor in exchange for his daughter]; shank [first tiwix o Ow kajna'tata (hereinafter O.) made a man from the core of a certain tree, but he could hardly walk and did not remember his creator; then the gods tried to make people out of different types of trees and finally found a suitable one; trees are considered "big brothers"; then T. sculpted a man from unburned clay; he was smart and walked normally; but when O. sent a downpour, the man blurred; finally, O. made a man out of clay and burned the workpiece in the coals of the fire; when the man came to life, O. sent a downpour, but he did not harm the man ; O. made clay as well as a woman and people multiplied]: López Ramírez 2007:115-118.

Honduras-Panama. Sumu [four brothers collect rubber in the forest; someone cooks in their hut; take turns guarding; the older three do not dare to talk to the beauty who comes; the youngest grabs her, finds out that she is the queen of vultures; 4 days later she returns, rises with her youngest to heaven, they stay there]: Houwald, Rener 1987 (4): 25-26; cabecar: Bozzoli, Cubero Venegas, Constenla Umaña 1983 [y a lonely man is a pet parrot; he finds food cooked; finds a woman, throws her parrot skin into the fire; children look for their mother in her head, she asks what is on the back of her head; they never they answer; one day the youngest son says that there is a parrot's beak; both turn into parrots, fly away]: 5; Margery Peña 1989 [two men caught a parrot; someone cooks in their house; they hid, they waited for a woman, one of them caught her (the second is not mentioned further); every time he returns, his wife gives him fish; he waited for the one who supplied his wife with fish, wounded her, he rushed into the lake, became D ínama ("water jaguar")]: 54; Stone 1962:59 [sister feeds the brothers fish; replies that this fish is given to her by their son-in-law (i.e. her husband); the elder watched and saw a jaguar approach his sister's bed, shot him with an arrow; the jaguar ran away, rushed into the lake; his sister followed him; his younger brother went to the lake, there was a road, he came to his sister's house; she refused to return, and her jaguar husband told her to give it to the parrot's brother; at home, the parrot began to do all the homework that his sister did; (the informant does not remember the text beyond, but it's called "The multiplication of human beings", clearly the beginning of a forgotten myth] 63 [at the beginning of time there were only men; when they returned, two men find their food cooked; so every day for 30 days; then they find two Middle girls in the house and marry them]; bribri [parrot]: Bozzoli, Cubero Venegas 1982:9; 1989, No. 17 [two men bring two parrot chicks; find food cooked; hide, grab two women, marry; they have many children; one day a granddaughter looks for a grandmother in her head, notices a beak in her hair; grandmother turns into a parrot, flies away]: 25; Bozzoli, Murillo Chaverri 1984, No. 32 [the owner of a pet parrot finds food cooked; finds a woman gets married; she has a parrot's beak on the back of her head; the youngest of her three sons looks in her head, asks what it is; both turn into parrots, fly away]: 33; Margery Peña 1989 [three brothers caught two parrots; someone cooks in their house; they waited, caught two women; (hereinafter referred to as one person); he waited for two jaguar brothers who gave his wife fish, killed them; then his wife again became a parrot, flew away]: 54; kuna: Chapin 1989 [as in Howe; women are not called stars; the name of the captured Olonadili; she does not give birth to a daughter, but catches a bird that turns into a small one girl]: 111-116; Howe 1991 [parents fear that their four sons will leave them when they get married; they give them a potion with an overwhelming interest in women; they go to the forest altogether, live alone; someone cooks, cleans in their hut; they wait for four Stars descending on a gold platter; only the youngest manages to keep Inanatili's girlfriend; he marries her; she explains that the Great Father sent them out for young men, but they ruined everything, trying to seize them by force; I. gives birth to a daughter, later she dies; I. teaches women to sing lullabies and mourn the dead]: 240-241; Wassen 1934b [two single men went to the forest; in their absence, someone cooks and cleans the hut; one watched four heavenly women (they were wives of stars) descend from the sky on a gold platter; the next day, two men catch two women, the other two ran away; the men brought their wives to the village and had children with them; the child died, the mother began to mourn him, so the kuna learned to mourn the dead]: 17.

The Northern Andes. Kamsa [Our Master lived alone; someone cooks; he leaves lice to guard; the wardrobe fell asleep, the head saw a girl coming out of the hearth; Our Master is underground went to the girl's mother; this is a Snow woman trying to kill him, deprives her eye; later turns into a pile of bones]: Chindoy 1987:42-43.

Guiana. Varrau: García 1993, No. 19 [a huge caiman swims to the shore, invites a man to sit on his head, drives him along the river; asks what he needs, pulls it out from somewhere and gives him a harpoon, a hat , belt, calls a man his grandson; leaves him in an unknown village; there is a dog in the house; a person returns hunting every time, finds food cooked; sees how the dog takes off his skin, becomes a woman; takes her as a wife, they have many descendants among the warrau], 91 [people had a domestic monkey; when they return in the evenings, they notice a mess; one spies, sees a monkey turns into a woman, makes cassava starch cakes, and then throws them, crumbles them; a man talks to her, takes her as a wife; in a palm grove, a man responds to a frog scream that she will also become his wife; she became a woman, went out to him; the Monkey gave birth to children, and the Frog remained childless; they got into a fight, the Frog went away, became a frog again; the husband beat the Monkey for this; she took the property and children went into a palm grove, climbed a tree; they dumped pieces of starch and crabs soaked in urine to man; the frog told the two banks of the river to meet, the Monkey and the children crossed to the other side; when her husband wanted to follow them, the Frog spread its banks again; someone moved him across the river, pointed the direction; the man cried so much that he became a jaguar, made fangs out of his axes, claws out of knives]: 87-88, 288- 291; Wilbert 1970, No. 140 [two sisters live alone; someone cooks starch for them at night from the core of the Mauricium palm tree; they spy, see a nearby tree (Euterpe sp,) lean towards the trunk palm trees; they grab him, ask him to become a man; she marries him alone, gives birth to a son Haburi; her husband is killed by a Jaguar, comes to women in his form; they run away, old woman Wau-uta kills Jaguar; makes Hubari an adult, says she is his mother; Otters tell him the truth; he sails away in a boat with his mother and aunt; Wow uta turns into a tree frog], 169 [ married sisters, they have a younger brother; they leave him moriche palm flour at home, he processes it like a woman; someone stole flour while it was dry; a monkey came down from the tree, became a woman, he grabbed her, she has become a woman, he is happy with her; her husband's sisters call her a monkey, they say that she does not work well, they scold her son; she takes her son, leaves, her husband follows, she screams three times, shores rivers converge, she crosses the river, neither did her husband; he did not have time at the second river; the termite told the man that the water was shallow; he crossed many rivers; sees an old man scooping water with a basket, so he catches fish; does from the poles to fry fish; sends a man for palm starch, for a pot; he sees only a snake, a yashuara; the old man brings starch, a pot; at night jaguars come, the man hardly woke up the old man, hitting him with a club; in the morning the old man put all the fish and meat in a small bag, told him not to open it on the way; the man opened it, everything fell out; the second time the man accidentally dropped the bag; the old man said that people will now have a hard time getting grilled fish], 170 [when no one is home, pet monkeys turn into a woman, cooks manioc cakes, then scatters them on the floor; a man waits in wait her, gets married; one day he hears a frog teasing his "short penis"; he replies that she will also be his wife; the Frog comes in the form of a young woman; barren, and the Monkey has two sons; Monkey reproached the Frog for infertility, she returned to the pond; the man punished the Monkey; she left, climbed the tree with her children; the tree has grown; they throw cakes moistened with urine to the man; they run through the trees three times they cross the river, telling the banks to meet; a person runs along the shore, the last time he does not have time to cross the river; cries and turns into a jaguar, his ax is fangs, machetes are claws], 171 [= (170); after making cakes, eats them himself; the man throws his skin into the fire]: 284, 364-367, 371-374, 375-376; Dominica's Caribbean [the widower has a dog; when he returns home, he finds food cooked; the old man advises him to buy the dog in the river, letting the fish swim between her legs; the dog turns into a woman; tired of his wife, the man bathes her again; the woman turns into a male dog]: Taylor 1952, No. 7:277; (ethnicity unknown) [girl asks father turn her into a dog to be close to the hunter he loves; he throws his skin into the fire]: Brett 1868 in Roth 1915, No. 64B: 151; kamarakoto [Maichak kills tapir, pretends to be dead { hiding in a carcass?} , catches a female vulture; every evening, returning home, finds food cooked; M. waited for her and caught her, she is the Queen of the Vultures; one day M. rises to heaven with her; father-in-law demands 1) to dry lake (dragonflies dry), 2) build a house on a rock (animals are building), 3) make a bench with the image of a father-in-law (a bird flew by, a vulture stuck out its two heads, son-in-law saw them); father-in-law wants kill his son-in-law, he is hiding on the mountain, a big lizard lowers him down; he returns home, where his two sisters and brother grew up; M. became a fish, let himself be caught, became a man again, said he was their brother] : Simpson 1940:585-591 (=1944:269-271); taulipan [enemies killed all the villagers, Maitxaúle pretended to be dead, saved; pretended to be dead again, vultures flew, he caught a female, asks her to become a woman; she lives in his house, in the evenings he finds food prepared; finds a woman agreeing to marry him; one day she asks to let her go, promises to return; returns with his two brothers, who give the man an outfit of feathers, a man goes up to heaven with vultures; his wife sends him to eat at the Parrot house, they have kashiri (an alcoholic beverage); father-in-law has two heads, he tells his son-in-law 1) to dry the lake in two days (water maidens dry, vultures have eaten fish); 2) build a house on a rock (worms made holes for poles, the bird has laid walls and a roof); 3 ) make a bench decorated with two vulture heads (termites made, the bench walked herself); father-in-law drinks corn beer, M. hides a grain of corn in his mouth (there was no corn on the ground yet); tells wasps sting father-in-law when he sits on the bench, the bench runs with his father-in-law sitting on it; the nightingale fumigated M., he became light, went down to the ground, brought corn grain]: Koch-Grünberg 1924, No. 27:81-91; pemon {arecuna?} [the wife is dead; the widower brings cassava from the garden every day, wonders how well his young daughters are able to process it; in fact, in the absence of her husband, their dead mother comes to work; husband finds his wife, she stays alive with her husband and children]: Armellada 1988, No. 79:212-213; caliña: Magaña 1985, No. 1 [after the flood, one person with a dog escapes; finds a house tidy, food cooked; takes a woman by surprise, hides her dog skin; their children are human, but they live like dogs, without knowing parents and children, siblings], 2 [neighbors do not like people, they go to live alone; Información suplementaria as in (1); he cuts dog skin into pieces], 3 [a person lives alone with a dog and a parrot; finds a fire lit at home; finds two women, burns them with a parrot and dog skin], 4 [during a flood Abraham (the Indians call him Nove) escapes; climbs a tree with a dog and a parrot; throws fruits down to see if the water is deep; after the flood, he works his own housework; one day he finds food cooked; finds two women, both raped; Caribbean descended from a beautiful Parrot and Arawaks from an ugly Dog], 5 [a dog lives with a single man; he finds food cooked, home tidy up; finds a woman, grabs her before she can put on her dog skin]: 22-27; 1987, No. 39 [a person who escapes the flood finds food cooked in the house; takes him by surprise parrot and dog that turn into women; throws their skins into the fire; people with big ears come from Dogs, with small ears come from Parrots], 46 [as in (39), short version]: 244, 245; curl [a lonely hunter leaves the dog at home; every time he returns, finds the house cleaned; finds a woman throwing a dog's skin into the fire; members of one family are descended from this couple]: Brett 1880:176- 178; Coll 1907-1908, No. 3:484-485; Goeje 1943, No. d41:129; Wapishana: Wirth 1950:196-197 [a young man's friend doesn't give him arrow feathers; he smears himself with crap to attract vultures; catches a royal vulture, brings home; in his absence, he turns into a girl, cooks kashiri; a young man spies on a bird, grabs a girl, marries; she offers to visit her parents; carries him on his back to the sky; her father has two heads and four eyes; he demands 1) to dry the Pleiades Lakes (the Sun dries, her son-in-law brings his father-in-law the fish); 2) build a house on the rock; minhoca helps do this; 3) make a bench shaped like your head; an ant tells a osga to pump a shredder's head; he lights a fire to wash himself, the son-in-law sees what he looks like, makes a bench; father-in-law enters his new home, dies of fear; mother-in-law orders his son-in-law to be killed; he runs away, returns to his mother], 200 [while a single man hunts, the pet parrot turns into a girl, cooks and cleans the house; he catches the Parrot by surprise, throws her feathers into the fire, marries her]; aparai [father and son find the female vulture; when they return to the hut, the food is ready; the father finds the female vulture; when they return to the hut, the food is ready; the father finds the female vulture a woman, asks to be his wife; she gives him an outfit of feathers, they go to heaven into the world of vultures]: Rauschert 1967, No. 17:191; oyana: Magaña 1987, No. 12 [lives in a lonely person's home howler monkey; in his absence he turns into a woman, cooks food for him; he takes her by surprise, takes her as a wife; her relatives come to visit, dance, he laughs at them, they leave him as punishment at the top of the tree; the watankë bird creates a rope from its excrement, it does not reach the ground; the eagle's excrement rope is long enough, a person goes down], 13 [a single man spies, that in his absence, a tapir comes, turns into a woman, makes him manioc cakes; he rapes a woman, marries her; she dies, he marries his own daughter], 52 [Vulture turns into a woman, cooks food for a man; he watches, grabs her, marries her; she gives birth to a son; the boy needs feathers for arrows, the wife suggests looking for them in the sky; the man weaves wings for himself and for the son; both visit vulture villages, then return to land]: 36, 44; trio: Koelewijn, Riviere 1987, No. 1 [poor old man son of Përëru (toads) Përëpëräwa hooked first sugarcane cake, then sweet potato peel, yam peel, then Waraku fish, threw it behind her back, she became a Waraku woman; brought all cultivated plants, knives, and an ax from the water; her father- Cayman also brought plants, which were better than those brought by his daughter, but P. was afraid of Cayman, did not take it; V. refused to copulate during the day; the sun was always at its zenith; at V.'s request, the monkey attracted the sun with a rope to the west, the first night began; P. and V. met; cassava tubers hung on branches, P. did not collect them since the tubers were in the ground; while P. was hunting, the female spirit Kaikë asked her to say all the words she says to her husband, learned them, ate V. and her child, pulled her skin over her, and the baby's skin over the block; P. felt a different voice and a bad smell, and at night found that the imaginary wife had there is no vagina; when the imaginary wife went to the garden, P. cooked her baby, gave her broth and pepper to eat; there is no water around, the woman is thirsty, P. finished her off with a club; P. is alone again; returning home, finds food cooked; he has a parrot, a rabbit and a toad at his house; P. saw a vulture woman descend from the sky, P. catches her; when she throws her clothes into the fire, his wife is offended, returns to her father; V.'s father covered everything water; P. turned into a frog to hear the voice of another frog (where the frog is water); Makitiri (the grandfather of the makitiri waterfowl) found it; P. "dived" into imitation birds, but only fell; Father V. came to find out where his daughter was; tied P., dragged him with him; where he dragged through the mountains, river valleys formed, so all rivers were created; brought P. to the sky]: 15-21; Magaña 1987, No. 6 [a man marries fish, the daughter of Cayman; she brings him cultivated plants, teaches him how to build a house, weave baskets, etc.; it was not night, they could not make love; she gets the night from his father; Kaikyo's evil spirit devours her and her son, takes her form, turns a toad into a son; the husband understands deception; gives the meat of an imaginary son to his imaginary wife under the guise of sloth meat; lives alone finds food cooked; finds a vulture woman, throws her feather clothes into the fire; she leaves; he looks for water, Father-Cayman drags him into the lake; then lets him go], 79 [the hero catches the female vulture, rises to heaven with it]: 132, 148-149; Kashuyan [the young man brought a lot of game from the hunt, ate it, went to bed, leaving the female monkey to roast until noon; then did not eat, wished that the monkey turned into a girl; when he returned from hunting, the food is ready; then finds the girl in a hammock; they come to her parents; monkeys leave it in the tree; the royal vulture makes a vine out his snot; it is thin; the same is a harpy eagle; a man descends it; kills monkeys; whoever cooks a vine called the "harpy eagle arrow" in a certain way goes hunting guariba monkeys] : Frikel 1953:267-269 (=Lévi-Strauss 1964:279-280); oyampy [Yaneya leaves; pregnant wife follows him; twins from her womb show her way; ask her to pick flowers; she gets bitten wasp; she refuses to collect, the twins fall silent; the woman goes to the Jaguars, Jaguariha eats her; the Mayamayali and Wayamakale twins (from poppy - monkey?) jump on a tree; Jaguariha calls them back; A dove hunting talks about his mother's death; M. and Y. lure the Jaguars to the bridge, create piranhas in the river; V. cuts off the vine ahead of time, two jaguars they save themselves, the rest are eaten by piranhas; M. almost revives his mother, V. hugs her ahead of time, she falls apart; by the sea, their father cuts down a tree, chips turn into fish; the father tests his sons, M. does not He withstands; the father tells him that he is not his son, but the Monkey; makes a parrot out of his skin, monkeys out of flesh; in the morning the father rises to heaven; M. makes a woman out of wood; V. appears again, despite warning makes love to a woman; she turns into a hard tree, his penis becomes long, he wears it in a basket; comes to the village; while men sleep, he dances with all women; they go into a hole, disappear underground; a parrot and a monkey remain in the village; while men hunt, they take off their feathers and skins, cook; V. comes out of the hole; one woman cuts off his long penis; a piece stays in the vagina; once in the river, it turns into an eel]: Greenland 1982, No. 5:69-72; emerillon [after the flood, people gathered on a caumou palm tree, no land can be seen from the top; they regularly threw palm seeds, listening to them fall into the water or to the ground; when the seeds began to fall to the ground, people tied leaves to their heads, arms and legs, went down to the ground, but became jaguars, bakers and other animals; only one the man remained human; in the village he found a capuchin monkey (Cetus apella) tied to an empty pot; brought cassava; when he returned next time, the kashiri was ready; the man pretended to leave, found and married a girl; she gave birth to a child the size of a small capuchin; asked her uncle not to kill her uncle: howler monkeys (Atouatta seniculus) and ateles (arachnids, Ateles panicus); when the husband killed the howler, the child became a monkey, ran into the forest, the wife also disappeared; Wilakalo descended from the sky, ordered three hammocks to be hung, killed the anaconda, cut into as many pieces as there were peoples in the land, put pieces in hammocks, left for a few days; the meat went wormy; when the man lay down in the hammock, the worms became human; W. told everyone to dive into boiling water, people got scared, didn't, W. bought the spider; the white man swam, turned white; followed by an Indian, the last black man, turned black with dirty water; W. gave the Indian shoes, he did not take it, a European took it, sailed on a ship; W. taught Indian shamans how to make a shaman's rattle maraku; W. told the snake to bite a tree, it bit a man, who hit it with a stick; the same with a mosquito, a jaguar; a man threw ash on agami, her back turned white; atele painted her face red uruku, capuchin - the body, the howler rubbed its roots, turned yellow; men poured sperm into the calebasses for children; women did not have genitals; the cul jaune bird pierced the woman, the beak turned red; W. attached to the man a piece of wood that met a woman]: Renault-Lescure et al. 1987, No. 1:129-141.

Ecuador. Kanyari [1) during the flood, two brothers escape to the mountain; after the flood they live in a cave, find food cooked; the elder sees two parrots with female heads; they fly away; the youngest in next time he manages to catch a younger parrot; she gives birth to him three sons and three daughters; people come from them; 2) the same, but two brothers marry two parrots]: Molina 1916 [1573]: 12-13; Cobo and other chroniclers in Urbano 1981:66-67, 146-147; Verbeaux, Rivet 1912 [although the plot coincides with that of hivaro, and Cobo and Molina's texts are recorded in Cuzco from Ecuadorian immigrants, it is unlikely that Both were wrong; besides, there was no hiwaro in Cusco; at the very least, the palta is presumably a hiwaro-speaking group south of the Kanyari]: 34.

Western Amazon. Aguaruna [the bachelor's hut is home to a monkey and a spider bird (Cacicus cela, sem. Icteridae); returning from the site, finds the food cooked, the house is fine; went to bed, the bird stopped him from singing, he threw a stone at it, fell asleep; the bird sang again, the man continued to sleep, the bird moved him to a tall tree, from there he could not get off; the spider began to bring him bananas; the hunter asked him to bring one to plant; the tree grew, its roots reached the ground, the hunter descended on it the ground; he saw a woman washing by the river, a monkey's skin nearby, he threw it into the thicket; the woman asks if he took her clothes, the man denies everything; the woman agreed to live with him]: Chumap Luc& #237; a, García-Rendueles 1979, #67:598-599; huambisa? [after the flood; parrot]: Stirling 1938:122; kandoshi (myna): Figueroa 1661 in Dean 1994 [during the flood, only a man and a woman escaped from the Sapota tree, ate its fruits; when the waters came down, came down, gave birth to new people; others say that the tree grew to the sky, and the flood was a punishment; God, covered with ulcers, came to the people who were fishing, and they threw it into the hole; one man pulled him out, for it was God who saved him; {the following was probably about a man marrying a parrot}]: 39; Verneau, Rivet 1912 [Rimachuma Lake (on the right bank of Lower Pastas) overflowed; only one escaped the flood man; went hunting and fishing; returning to the hut, found the food cooked; hid, saw two parrots fly in and became girls; the man grabbed the maid, and the hostess flew away; myna - descendants of a man and a maid, failures are due to a wrong choice]: 34-35; kandoshi [the boy threw fish poison into the water, dived, took out fish, let him bake, ate; evil children envied him, threw him into His eyes were sand; one man scolded the children for mocking God's son, washed the boy's eyes; he flew to heaven to his father, creating a genip tree (huito) and telling the man to climb on it; the wind began, the flood began; the man and his wife climbed the tree, it kept growing, the others drowned; the woman in the middle of the trunk turned into a nest of ants (comejen); the man ate fruit, threw the seeds down; first they fell into deep water, then into shallow water; he began to descend; the bone fell back into deep water, but it was just a pond at the foot of the tree; the spirit directed the man to the recently burned area, there same house; when a man returns from fishing, he sees a fire in the hearth, a prepared masato drink; a man hides, sees a man, a woman and two daughters; a man grabbed a less beautiful one, the other and parents the girls became parrots and flew away; they came to help again, the man's wife grabbed her sister, but she escaped; the parrots did not return again; the wife gave birth to many children, they came out of different places to her bodies - legs, heads; separated to become people of different races]: Page 1975:1-8.

NW Amazon. Carijona [a woman takes Jaguar as a lover, allows him to kill her husband; when she is two years old, her son Months asks his mother how his father died; Missing in the woods; boy wanders through the woods, Forest says he did not kill his father; Fell off a tree; boy jumped off a tree, fell slowly; Earth; Didn't kill; - Drowned while fishing; boy swims in a hollow over rapids, Water: She did not kill; the boy took a hummingbird egg, from which his younger brother Tukučimobi (hummingbird egg first) was born; he is the Sun, on the third day he is smarter than the Month; the Month brings a lot of meat, but the mother is still gives it to Jaguar; brothers kill birds to tell them about the death of their father; the woodpecker who hammered the tree in which the Jaguar and the Night Monkey lived told; brothers revive dead birds; spy on the mother in The girl brings food to the girl's outfit, calls the Jaguar, knocks on wood with a vine, copulates; when he leaves, the brothers call the Jaguar with the same signal, kill him with poisoned arrows; T. made a necklace out of his fangs, wears it for war; when the Month wears the necklace, the hunters have a lot of prey; the mother takes a palm larva as lovers, the brothers burn the palm tree, the larva dies; the mother causes T.'s eye disease (same after Jaguar murders); the forest chicken screams about it; T. tells all the birds to voice, finds a chicken by voice, brings it to its mother to fry; she witches to pour water from the bone broken while eating, flooded the earth with a flood; T., with the help of a magical calebass, stops the flood; tells her mother to drop her milk into a pot of ash, from which a fruit tree grows; animals come to the tree, including Night A monkey; she has a horn from Father T.'s skull around her neck; brothers kill the Monkey in an ambush, but her mother creates a snake that steals her father's skull; so he could not be resurrected; the mother tells T. and his month-old brother that she would die, tell her to cut off her hand, put it in a basket with cassava, hang it over the hearth; when her sons returned from hunting, the food would be prepared; she said that the garden was ruining Aguti, she went make a trap, turned into an agouti, died deliberately trapped; there was a trap on her paw where T. took a sand flea out of his mother's leg the day before; the brothers did as his mother ordered, but T. did not believed that Aguti's paw was preparing the food; told the kuckuck bird to shout if women appeared; but the brothers were far away, did not have time to run; the same with the woodpecker (the brothers noticed the traces of two women); the third time the cacambra bird warned in time, the brothers grabbed two women, both wanted a lighter and younger one; T. managed to grab the eldest before she put on her Vulture outfit, and the youngest wore and flew away; because the eldest's clothes were torn, she remained human, T. married her; had many children, but was dumb; then T. showed her huge larvae, she spoke in surprise]: Schindler 1979, No. 1:21-43; guariquena [a lonely man brings a baby parrot (loro) and then another (guacamayo) to his hut; while he is away, guacamaya (loro is not mentioned anymore) becomes a woman, cooks; he dreams of guacamaya becoming a woman, and that's what happens; other people poisoned her out of envy because she is the most beautiful; the man is gone]: González Ñañez 1980, No. 14:204-205; yukuna [hero comes to the Dragonfly Spirit; every day he finds manioc cakes in the house; a box of feather ornaments hanging on the rafters comes down, a parrot girl comes out of it; the hero waits for her, they copulate; she hasn't seen a human penis before, her husband is a Dragonfly; she asks the hero to kill him; becomes the hero's wife and accompanies him]: Jacopins 1981:140-145; chikuna [girl finds cooked bread and grilled meat; vulture brings them; she hides his feather clothes, marries him; her brother marries a vulture's daughter; all four fly to heaven]: Nimuendaju 1952:113 .

Central Amazon. The exact recording location is not known {Rio Jamunda?} [Many women sailed along the river to the edge of the forest; with them the only Pahi ("father") Tuna ("water" or "black") man; women always killed boys; one woman gave birth to an ugly man, regretted it; fumigated with smoke, he became handsome; other women began to chase him to make him their lover, called Pahi-Tuna-Re; his mother hid him in the water; the women summoned him, imitating his mother's voice, grabbed him, made love to him; PT told women to cut their hair, twisted a rope, caught a PTR, killed him, cut off his penis, hung it over the entrance to the cave where the women lived; they ran away, hid in another cave, blocking entrance by poisonous creatures; PT lived alone; once food was cooked; saw a parrot fly in, became a girl; PT threw feathers into the fire; lived happily ever after with a girl]: Barbosa Rodrigues in Barroso 1930:99- 102; munduruku [while men hunt, women make cassava drink, take it to the river, hit the water with calebasa; the Serpent comes out, drinks beer, becomes a man, copulates with women; alone a person watches them; men call the Snake with the same signal, kill with arrows; women leave; a pet parrot lives in the same house; turning into a woman, cooking and drinking for the owner; he finds A parrot, throws feathers into the fire, gets married]: Kruse 1949, No. 32:640-642.

Eastern Amazon. Paracana [during the Wirapyna flood (he is Maíra's son) escaped on the only tree left, the bakaba palm; all the birds gathered here, the parrot pooped on his head, he became bald (so now paracana shaves their heads); when the waters came down, the deer, then the boar, then the tapir came to offer to climb to the ground; at first the earth was soft, when the tapir came for the third time, it hardened; while hunting, who was at home something cooks; he waited for two Wiratin women; grabbed a dark one, not fair-skinned, so the parakan has dark skin; their sons are ancestors of family groups; after the boy killed the same parrot, because who was bald Wirapyna, everyone quarreled and parted]: Magalhães 1991:206-207; tenetehara: Nimuendaju 1915, No. 9 [about Wagley, Galvão]: 296-298; Wagley, Galvão 1949, No. 25 [a bachelor picked up and raised a female royal vulture; dreams that if she were a woman, she would cook for him; someone cooks, a man finds a girl, grabs her feather clothes, takes it in wife; offers to visit her relatives; she replies that her father is dangerous, but still takes her husband to heaven; father-in-law demands 1) to make a hollowing boat in a day (the woodpeckers did); 2) clear it in a day the plot (also woodpeckers); the father-in-law orders to set fire to the vegetation cut down on the site, starting from the middle; the Spider hides the man in his hole; when he goes out, the man asks for help from the harpy eagles; they took him, his wife and son to their village, they stayed there], note 10 [var.: the hero is a man who has lived with Brazilians for a long time, or a black man, an unknown hostess is a parrot; at the festival, a white man tries to take his wife away]: 150-151.

Montagna - Jurua. Urarina [people almost kill a fisherman boy by burying him in the mud, his father sends a flood; people flee the flood on the Erythrina elei tree; during the long night they throw fruits down to find out whether the water has slept; the man sends down to explore first one son, who turns into a heron, then the second, who turns into a Caracara plantus bird, then descends himself; finds a hut in it cooked food; he hides in a hole, sees a boat descending from the sky; at the stern sits his "our goddess" dressed in a tapa, and her maid on her nose, she did not know how to make bast matter; she shouts that another one is intended for him, but he does not let her in; she {in the text is "he", but clearly talking about this woman} consistently tells a snake (pit viper, Bothrops piuctus), a spider, a giant ant ( Isula, Myrmca saevissima, the bite is very painful) bite him, but he does not let him out; so there are still people who do not even know how to make bast matter; and the intended wife flew away like a bird; they are not copulated, but only hugged; to make a child, the wife rolled a ball of cotton; when the husband returned from hunting, the cotton baby was already coming to meet him and calling him; the husband waited and saw his wife makes children; she said she wanted children to appear without suffering; if you do not abstain from having sex for 10 months after giving birth, the baby will get sick; but her husband got along with her, the baby fell ill, died; var. (p.39): the child asks me to write everything, the father furiously cuts him in half, he turns into a cricket]: Dean 1994:25-28; chayahuita [two brothers escape to a sapote tree during the flood; is being done it's dark; the birds begin to sing when the sun rises, the flood ends; the brothers find food cooked; the youngest waits for two women, talks to them; they turn into parrots, fly away; the elder tells him to open the vessel; from there a spider jumps onto the youngest's testicles or a ball of clay falls out, turns into a vagina; the eldest marries this woman]: Ochoa Siguas 1992:165-167 [(one of?) brothers throw fruits to see if the water has descended], 170-173 [every time the fruit ripens and falls, the water level drops]; Shlyakhtinsky, Arodzero 2008 [Kumpanama carved the canoe, threw chips into the river, a lot of fish appeared; invited people to poison her with the juice of the Barbasco vine; someone pushed K. into the river, everyone laughed at him; when he almost drowned, two people took pity on him, pulled him out rivers; K. told them to climb the tall tacon tree, taking baked tubers with them; flooding began; when the flood hid all the other trees, according to Yusa's will, the tacon tree grew up; night fell, the sun was gone, all people died except those two; they climbed the tacon tree while its fruits were still green; a long time passed, the fruits were ripe, one night they were they tasted them and began to eat them, then threw the seeds down; the sound seemed unusual, there was too much water around them; after a while they picked the fruits again and ate them, then the water began to decrease; they picked the tacon, threw the seeds down, heard the sound of how the water was leaving; then the bones fell again, and they fell to the damp ground; then to the dry ground; at that moment Chinsha shouted; compose and I'sa also shouted, foreshadowing a good day; Taiu' and the rest of the birds also sang, so the day really should have been clear, it was dawn; the survivors built a house for themselves; coming back from forests, found cooked food; on the third day they also saw woven loincloth; one of the two brothers hid, and two loro parrots, called sha'uo, flew in, turned into women, the man grabbed one of them, the other flew away; the woman turned into a worm, and the man, frightened, dropped her from his hands; the woman turned back into sha'wo and, flying away, said that because men were in a hurry, they would not see them again; told his brother that he suddenly became a woman; she became pregnant, gave birth to a girl; all people descended from her; so some women are tall and others short; if people were descended from Sha'wo, all women would be short]; shipibo: Gebhaert-Sayer 1987, No. 1 [a boy comes, shoots fish, they become big; people enviable, they bury the boy with his property on the river bank; a man with his wife and two children finds him, tears him off; he causes a flood, tells the man to climb the genip tree; the rest of the people die; the wife becomes a nest of termites; the sun hides; the man and his children grope for food prepared for them in the dark; the man throws fruits down; on the sixth day the fruit falls to the ground, not into the water; a man goes down, his children turn into huancay birds; a man finds food cooked in the house; waits for two women who have arrived in a boat; grabs a maid sitting on her nose; sitting aft daughter of the sun swims away, marries a Spaniard; shipibo-conibo are descendants of a maid]: 347-349; Roe 1982, No. 1 [as in Gebhaert-Sayer; after the flood, a person does not know where the beer vessel comes from; hides, sees two women who came in a boat; before the boat appears, a parrot arrives and flies; a maid grabs, not a noble one]: 49-50; setebo [after the flood, a person does not know where the vessel with with beer; hides, sees two women coming in a boat; grabs a maid, not a noble one]: Bardales Rodriguez 1979:45.

Southern Amazon. Bororo: Wilbert, Simoneau 1983, No. 55 [a single woman has two doves; she leaves for a day expressing her wish for someone to cook corn porridge; since then, every day the porridge is ready; a woman spies, asks two girls to stay human; they get married, people of the Aroroe Cebegiwúge family are their descendants, they have a totem dove], 56 [someone cooks in a single woman's house Birimoddo (men can also bear the name); she finds two girls, they agree not to turn into turtles anymore], 57 [Magurereréu and Aroro Ikáre go to the forest, M. tells A. not to tear the fruit, he vomits one head is left from him (not a decree, as it happened), rolls after M.; M. builds a hut, brings two turtledove chicks there, A.'s head lies on the floor; when leaving, M. dreams of his wife cooking in his house; someone cooks; M. finds two girls, marries them, he throws their birdskins into the fire; a large group of women enters M.'s house, stumble over A.'s head; M. tells her to jump into the river, her head turns in the evil spirit of Imédu; M. catches him on the hook, tells him never to show himself to people]: 112, 113, 114-116.

Araguaia. The first humans die in the fire; the current ones are descended from birds that have become women. Karazha: Baldus 1952-1953:210 [two old men quarreled, one dug a hole, made a fire in it, people, animals, fish, all living things died in the fire; old men shot each other in the stomach, died; flew in green parrot pequito; the surviving young man asked him to marry him {apparently, the parrot has already taken on a human image}; karazh does not kill the Pugaev; var.: after the old people have killed each other, in two boys and two periquito parrots stayed in the house; the boys watched periquito grind and cook corn and became girls; when the boys grew up, they married them, they made new people ], 210-211 [(this is option 3 in Ehrenreich 1891); there is a festival in the village; the dancers took off their masks; the rest went hunting and fishing; each promised to return with their prey; three boats sailed upstream , one young man swam down; his blind, lame mother remains at the hearth; when he returns, he asks her if the dead really danced; the mother replies that men danced with their fingers on top of each other the manner of the dead; then the others returned, including two strongmen Tenira and Sokrä; one of them cut off the old woman's head with a knife from piranha oaks, showed everyone, ordered them to dig the grave, and set fire to brushwood in it , threw all the carages into the fire; began to fight, hit each other in the eye, died; two parrots remained in the village; two young men came, who were late hunting; returning the next day from hunting, found the food was cooked, we heard the voices of women, the sound of stones; on the third day they found two girls; from these two couples - the current carage; =Baldus 1937:216-217]; Ehrenreich 1891 [1) a young man escapes, asks a girl- A parrot becomes his wife; 2) two boys escape; two Parrots are caught cooking in their house, turning into girls; boys grow up to marry Parrots; 3) like in (2); two are saved young men hunting in the woods]: 39-40; tapirape [most people die in the fire; two men remain, Jacques, the Parrot Girl and the Mutum Girl; they give birth to new people]: Baldus 1970 [people die in community house in a fire pit; survivors at this time were sleeping in a large vessel in an old hut]: 355; Wagley 1977 [people die in a world fire]: 176.

Eastern Brazil. Kayapo (shikrin) [two Storks come to a man's house, make manioc cakes; he hides, grabs both, paints them with a genip as it should be for women; they no longer turn into birds; they become the owner's adopted daughters, marry Indians]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 149:440-441; Apinaye [Mbud-ti (The Sun) descended to earth, hunted; Mbuduvrí-re (Month) followed, frightened by the Sun, hid; he told him to go out; offered to touch the wasp nest, the Month is bitten, blind; the Sun leads him so that the Month bumps into trees; carries it, hitting the overhanging ones branches, plants in a hut on a thorny bush; the woodpecker agreed to throw off a crown of fiery feathers to the Sun; at night he hides it in a calebass; a month found her, wanted the same one, did not dare to grab it, the crown fell on the earth, the earth caught fire; The sun immediately hid in the wasp's nest, which does not burn out of clay; The month found solid only on the fourth attempt, badly burned; all the meat that the Sun finds is fatty; The Month complains, the Sun throws hot capybara meat into his stomach, removes water from the stream; then returns it, but the turtle bites the Month to the burned place; the Month has left its meat, it has wormed; the Sun cut he threw him, the pieces became animals with wool; The month came back, took the Sun-fried nandu meat, threw the pieces, they became all commercial birds; the Sun ate the fruits of the buriti palm, his the bowel movements turned red; advised the Month to eat the flowers of the pau d'arco tree, the Month's bowel movements turned black; when the Month began to eat buriti fruits, the Sun told them to become firm on one side; Month threw the fruit into the trunk, all the fruit trees became tall and low; The month said that now people from afar will understand where the water is because they will notice tall trees; the Sun has brought two parrot chicks, one gave it to the Month, taught me to speak; returning from hunting, they find a ready-made dinner; they take girls by surprise, get married; The sun leaves the woodpecker, snail and quartz to cut down the forest, the Month heard a knock, threw a baton to the sound, magic workers have stopped working; the Sun and the Month grow Lagenaria sp. calebasses, throw them in pairs into the water, they turn into people; after the Month created four pairs of people, the Sun did that the next couple of the Month is blind and lame; the Month did the same to the last pair of people of the Sun; the Sun made the village, divided the fratria Kol-ti and Kol-re; the leaders from Fratria Kolti, as the Sun told; when people got married, the Sun and the Month rose to heaven]: Wilbert 1978, No. 6:51-55.