E9H. The magic wife is a dove.

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The magical wife (husband; rarely: the girl is the hero's patroness) takes the form of a dove, a turtledove (pigeon). See E9, K25, K33, K80 motifs.

Sudan - East Africa. Sudanese Arabs: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 1 [Wad al-Nimayr (VN) has 7 wives, he took the eighth, she gave birth to a girl, the other wives threw her into the river, said that the wife gave birth to a broom; VN: who gave birth to a broom, will give birth to a son; the next time she gave birth to twins Hassan (al-Hassan) and Husain (al-Husain), the wives threw them into the river, said that the wife gave birth to stones; VN: whoever gave birth to stones will give birth to a son; but ordered the slave to take the eighth wife in the desert and kill; he did not kill, but left her in the desert; the fish swallowed the children, ran aground, they went out; the man saw them, was frightened, but they followed him {teenagers at once}; take care of others children; sister found a pot of gold; when the brothers grew up, asked what they would do with wealth; they would cover it with gold; next time: they would make clay bracelets and cover you with gold {not quite clear}; she showed them gold, they dressed it in gold; VN's wives persuaded her to ask her brothers to get VN chicken: she and the chickens were made of gold; the brothers stole it, the women said it to VN, the brothers were put in prison; VN wives stuck a pin in the brothers' sister's head, who turned into a turtle, sat on a tree in front of the prison; asked a guard named Khair where her brothers were; they were crying in prison; she too she cried - it started raining, the gardens were blooming; next time, they were sleeping on silk, they would go out soon; she laughed, gold fell from her mouth, Khair began to pick it up; said VN; he replaced him, closed with a veil; the throat began to ask, he was silent; the gorlinka went down to him, VN grabbed her, noticed the pin, pulled it out, the throat became a girl; the brothers gave her VN to his wife, for this one of them let go; during the wedding, a gorlinka flew in and began singing: VN marries his own daughter; VN understood everything, cut off the heads of 7 wives, returned the eighth from the desert, stayed with her and with her children], 3 [the girl was passed off as a stranger; a cousin hoping for marriage went to the old woman; she told her to stick a thorn in the bride's head during the wedding, which would turn into a throat; the groom complained, the father and cousin were imprisoned; the turtle asked the slave -a shepherd who is with her brother (obviously with her cousin); he is preparing to be decapitated; she cried - it rained, laughed - florins fell down; the shepherd told the girl's other brother, then another; he caught throat, took out a thorn, gorlinka became a girl, married a cousin]: 61-63, 64-65.

North Africa. Arabs of Morocco: El Koudia 2003, No. 4 [when she dies, a mother asks her husband not to remarry until her daughter picks up her jewelry box herself (i.e. grows up to reach her); mother's sister, who has her own blind daughter, kind to a girl, she persuades her father to marry; her aunt helps her niece get the box, her father marries her; now she tyrants her niece; she goes to the river to clean the caught the father is a fish, the fish asks her to let go, turns into a siren; when she learns about the fish released, the stepmother hits the girl, throws her into the dungeon; when the father opens it, the daughter sits there covered in gold; at first the siren is not lets her go, then lets her go out; her father puts her in a separate room, the siren gives her everything she needs; the Sultan has a holiday, the girl secretly goes there, loses her shoe; the sultan's messengers find the owner, the son of the Sultan, takes her as his wife; she gives birth to a son; the stepmother comes to her, offers to comb her hair, pierces seven pins, she flies away with a dove, the stepmother replaces her with her daughter; the husband immediately understands the deception , cuts the imaginary wife into pieces, sends it to her mother as a gift; she thinks it is food, distributes pieces of meat to neighbors, finds her daughter's head at the bottom; everyone visits his son, sits on his shoulders; the beggar reports this to the Sultan's son, who lubricates his son's shoulders with glue, catches a dove, takes out his pins, the dove turns into a woman again; the stepmother was burned alive], 16 [a man has two wives, one has a daughter Nunja and son, the other has daughter Aakasha; the first one day says she would like to be a cow to eat herbs; the other touches her with a necklace, turns her into a cow, but refuses to turn her back into a human; a cow they slaughtered, the bones were buried, and a kind of candy stick grew in this place, sucked on by son and daughter; A.'s mother asks what they eat if they are so healthy; they say that frogs; she sends A. to eat frogs, the frog jumps in her face, dazzles her; children say that A. does not know how to catch frogs; the stepmother herself watches the children, pulls out the nutritious stem, scatters bones; walking to the bazaar, the father asks what to bring; N. asks for pomegranates; everyone goes to the Sultan's party, N. leaves to collect the scattered grain; the crow does this as a reward for a piece of rag for his nest; N. finds dress and shoes in a pomegranate, goes to the party, returns, loses his shoe; the sultan orders to find the owner, marries N.; at the wedding, the stepmother pierces a needle into N.'s head, she flies away with a dove, her stepmother replaces her his blind daughter; A. becomes the wife of the Sultan, gives birth to a daughter; the Sultan orders to cut the reeds, the dove prevents this from doing so, rushes to the Sultan, and gives it to A., tells her to take care of her; she slowly plucks, says that the child did it; the sultan finds, takes out the needle, the dove turns into N.; the sultan sends mother A. the body of her daughter cut into pieces; the stepmother gives neighbors a gift from the Sultan, finds his daughter's nose, falls dead]: 19-26, 100-103; kabila [the king raises an heir whose mother is dead; married again, the new queen is childless, hates her stepson; persuaded her husband, he told her son leave his domain; the prince came to the high castle, got up, tired, fell asleep; a dove flew in, became the girl of the White Dove; she is the daughter of the ruler, her father exiled her to this castle; says that usually those who came are incinerated, but agreed to become the prince's wife; the stepmother found out and sent a letter: why not marry Aisha, the daughter of King Rum; King Ruma offers to cut down a huge tree around whom the people have gathered, but at the same time not to crush the righteous; BN teaches to say "In the name of God" - the righteous will run away, the infidels will stay and die; and so it happened; A. is happy that her suitors are no longer will be executed; stepmother suggests taking Hita (H., Hita) with a Silver Neck as a third wife; A.: this is the daughter of the king of spirits, she must be obtained; teaches how to get there, use the ring given by BG; king perfume requires eating three dishes of couscous, three rams and drinking three wineskins of water; the ring fulfills the wish - food and water disappear; then find X. among many equally dressed girls; the prince told the king stand up, lift the lid, H. under the throne; now the stepmother offers to return and inherit the throne; H. promises to destroy her intrigues; tells the spirits to move the palace to the father-in-law's city; the king at first did not believe that an exiled son in front of him; when he saw his daughters-in-law, the king wanted them for himself; wife: to do this, we must get rid of his son and invite him to his place; wives advise that cat and dog be the first to try all dishes; cat she was immediately poisoned, the prince did not eat anything; the wife advises the king to call his son to hunt, taking fresh (for himself) and salt (for his son) water with him; the prince dies of thirst, the king gives him a little drink in exchange for eyes; the crow came down to peck at him, the prince grabbed him; let him go when the crow's mother brought herbs to regain his sight; the prince's tame lion does not allow the king to enter the palace to his wives; the king sent an army; The prince's black servant cut down 99 heads in one stroke; on the fourth day, the prince returned; the army was completely destroyed by a black man and a host of demons summoned by H.; she also turned the king and his wife into stone; Prince reigned and has three wives]: Mammeri 1996, No. 3:43-60; Algerian Arabs: Belamri 1990 [the poor widow's son agreed to sell his soul to a Jew; bought food, he and his mother ate; in the morning a Jew took the young man to and left the top of a steep cliff there; he came to the palace; there three fairies called him brother, allowed him to unlock all rooms except the hundredth; he looked into it, there was a pool with three girls, he fell in love with youngest; when they saw the young man, the girls put on pigeon plumage, flew away; the fairies advised me to wait a year: the girls would arrive again, we must hide the robe of the one they like; he did so, the dove maiden lives with He is three years old and has two children; a young man misses his mother; fairies tell him to close his eyes, he finds himself at home with his wife, children and camels, who are loaded with gold; he built a palace for this gold; He gave his wife's plumage for storage; despite her son's prohibition to let his daughter-in-law out of the house, the mother agreed to take her to the bathhouse; she was seen by the servant of the Sultan's wife; she wanted to see the beauty herself, arranged holiday; everyone must dance; dove wife: for this I need my clothes; mother went and brought it; my wife put it on, flew away, taking both children; my husband went in search; at the crossroads, Troy is arguing; they found an invisible slipper; a rod that directs you where you need to go; a flying carpet that immediately moves to the right place; the man offered to race, flew invisible across the seven seas; found a wife and children tied to a tree: her genie father punished her for staying on the ground; her husband untied them; first the children recognized their father, then their wife; they all returned to land to their home]: 31-43; Certeux, Carnoy 1884, No. 4 (1880, cafe in Algiers) [righteous and chaste Ahmed ben Abdallah went to the saint's grave; saw a beauty swimming in a pond, hid her pigeon robe; returns, taking from Jeannie promised to return in half a month; she came back and became his wife; one day her children found their mother's skin, she put it on and flew away; returned several times to see the children, but flew away again]: 87- 89; Filleul de Pétigny 1951 [A Jew sells conception apples; the childless king is interested; his youngest wife heard and bought an apple, cut it in half, ate half; when she wanted to eat the second, it turned out that the king ate it himself; the wife gave birth to a boy, and her husband was bloated on his leg; he was opened, something alive was taken out, but the female peacock who climbed into the room grabbed it and carried it to the nest on tree; raised a girl; the prince also grew up, went to find out what goats were afraid of; saw a girl's reflection in the source; fell ill with love; told that Jew; he turned the girl into a dove; the dove flies away ; but on the seventh day, a Jew managed to get the dove to go down to the prince under the tree and become a girl again; the prince was already married to his mother's sister's daughter; his father married him to a girl he was accepted for jinnia; the prince's first wife and mother asked the Jew to turn her into a dove again; he gave a pin, the prince's mother stuck it in the head of her daughter-in-law and she flew away with a dove; gardeners hear a voice: I was born from apples, pava raised me, your mother and your first wife turned me into a dove; it rains, but as soon as people hide under a tree, the sun comes out again; so many times; after learning about it, prince asked the old woman for help; she came under the tree, put the hand mill upside down and began to grind; the dove girl began to explain that they did not do this; the old woman asked me to go down and show her how to do it; then she sifted the flour, putting the sieve upside down; then baking tortillas on the convex side of the bowl; finally, the dove came down and the old woman caught her; the prince kept the dove in his cage in his room; the mother picked up the key, pulled out the dove and threw it on the pile of coal; the prince washed the dove, felt for the pin and pulled it out; the dove became a girl again; the prince executed his mother and first wife; the prince and his wife visited a woman in a luxurious outfit - she took the form of a pava]: 11-23; the Arabs of Tunisia [everyone loves the merchant, because he sells on loan and borrows in kind; once heals, lets go of a turtledove with a wounded leg; later a beauty appears, asks for a needle to sew up a torn dress, leads her to her house, offers marriage on the condition that he does not look into one of the rooms; the wife sews, the merchant became rich; once he discovered that one room; there the gorlinka says that another week and the witchcraft would be over, she would have a baby, and now she flies away with her throat; since then, the turtles have not sung as a nightingale, they have a sad voice]: Ayadi 2008, No. 54: 73-80.

Southern Europe. Spaniards [K25, K80]; Portuguese: Braga 2002 [prince goes on a journey; on the way he meets a man with whom he plays cards and loses everything; he keeps him for three years for bread and water; after that, under the terms of the contract, he must go to him (i.e. the king) and be a servant there for another three years; on the way, the young man gives his bread to a woman with a child; she teaches how to hide clothes alone of the pigeon girls who will come to swim and take off their clothes; let the girl give him a ring, a necklace and a feather; when the young man came to the king, he ordered 1) to sow three types of grain, and in the morning to have bread; with the help of a pen, the young man summons the dove, which does everything; 2) get the ring from the bottom of the sea; they got into the boat, swam, the girl tells her to cut off her head and throw it into the sea, but so that not a drop of blood is lost; the girl took out the ring; 3) tame the stallion; this is the king himself, the saddle is the girl's mother, she herself is a bit, her sisters are stirrups; by evening they are a little alive; the girl tells me to use it and run; tells me to take it the worst horse (jumps like a thought), and the young man took the fattest (jumps like the wind); the girl's mother sends her father in pursuit; the girl turns the horse into a chapel, herself into a saint, the young man into a hermit; next time, garden and gardener; when mother chased, lake, eiró (duck?) , turtle; mother told her daughter that the young man would forget her; so it happened, but the dove showed him a ring, necklace and feather, he remembered everything; wedding]: 171-175; Pedroso 1882, No. 8 [the widow has three sons {more only two are valid}; the eldest goes to look for work; hired a wizard; they jump to the mountain, the wizard killed the horse, told the young man to climb into the carcass and, reading the book, raised the horse to the rock; there's gold and jewelry; when the young man filled the bags and put them inside the carcass, the wizard lowered the horse and drove away; the young man pulled out the grass, found the ring, opened the hatch; the stairs led to the hall where the giant lies; he says that before sunrise, three doves will arrive to swim in the pond, we must grab a white dove (others are gray and brown); the young man has two feathers in his hand, but the doves flew away; then he did a snare and caught a white dove in the morning; she turned into a girl; a young man brought her to a giant; maids and servants appeared, gave her clothes; the widow's youngest son went to look for the elder; the same thing happened to him, but he filled the bags not with gold, but with bones, threw a stone at the wizard, breaking his legs; as the wizard passed away, the giant freed himself from the spell, became a prince, his palace rose from land and found himself near the young men's mother's house; the other two doves also became girls, married a young man, and the prince married a white dove]: 33-37; Italians (Ticino) [someone tramples the meadow at night; the peasant tells his eldest son to guard, he falls asleep; the middle son is the same; the youngest Vittorino sees three white doves at dawn; they take off their clothes from their feathers, turn into girls, dance in the meadow; V. hid the most beautiful clothes; she promises to love him; they live in Sun Castle, where none of the people have been; V. gives her clothes, says at home that he slept all night; the fairy comes back, the wedding; but in the morning must return to the castle; there she is guarded by the monster Orco; she leaves V. a ring; he goes looking for her; two giants fight for speed boots, an invisible cloak, a sword (her touch brings the dead to life); agree to give this to V. so that he can return his wife; V. comes to the old woman, she calls the animals, but no one knows where the Suncastle is; she sends her sister, she asks the fish - the same thing; she - to her older sister she calls birds; the phoenix is late because he lives far away, in Suncastle; the old woman tells him to take V. there; he meets his wife, kills Orco with his magic sword; revives his wife's father and brother, whom O. killed; stays with his wife in the castle]: Keller 1981:298-308; Italians (Abruzzo) [the prince goes to look for his wife white as milk and rosy as blood; the old man gives three grenades, tells him to break it by the stream; in Each girl is naked, the first two immediately die of thirst, he immediately sprinkles the third with water, she remains alive; he tells her to climb a tree, goes to get clothes; a filthy sarazinka comes to get water, takes the girl's reflection for her own, breaks the jug, leaves; the hostess scolds her; so twice; on the third girl laughed, the sarazinka asks her to go down, she will comb her hair; killed her, injections 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 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 pomegranate wants to keep The prince orders to give it to the woman whose husband is dying; the woman's husband has already died, she has kept the pomegranate for herself; when she comes back, she sees that the house has been cleaned; the confessor tells the old woman to see what happens to the grenade; she finds girl; prince recognizes her; Sarazinka herself says to be smeared with resin and burned in the square]: Kotrelev 1991:118-122; Sicilians (Palermo) [K25]: Calvino 1980, No. 164:591-594; Sardinians [ Prince Ginó has lost everything, including himself; in a year, 3 months, 3 days and 3 minutes he must appear to the winner; on the eve of the expiration of the term, he leaves; comes to the old man, asks him for gold; he refers to to her older brother, and brother to their older sister; she shows the lake where 10 doves fly to swim; you have to wait for the eleventh and hide le chiavi, return it when she agrees to become a wife; the prince does everything, comes to the sorcerer (orco); he demands to raze the valley, demolish the mountain, build a palace in the middle of the sea; the dove maiden (she is the sorcerer's daughter) does everything - the third task, dismembering herself; the prince must identify his wife among doves, finds out on a predetermined basis; the spouses flee; turning into a church and sakristan, a vegetable garden and a gardener; without catching up with the fugitives, the sorcerer's wife tells the prince to forget wife when someone kisses him; that's what happened; the prince and two friends come to his forgotten wife's house; hoping to spend the night with a woman, everyone spends her hard work; the prince remembers his wife]: Aprile 2000:274; Maltese [K80]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 408:99-101; ladins [father planted an apple tree for St. Martina (November 11); every year on this day she brought an apple, but someone stole it; the eldest, middle sons are guarding, falling asleep; in the third year, the youngest went, pricked himself with a needle to stay awake; in At midnight, a dove flew in to peck for an apple; ordered not to shoot at it: the young man's father bought this apple tree from a sorcerer who stole his mother's tree; she, pigeons, has the right to these apples; the dove turned into the girl, promised to marry a young man, gave 4 apples for him, his brothers and sons and a ring that would show the way to her; disappeared; the ring sparkled and showed the way; by the forest the old man ordered to fill game and, walking through the forest, throw meat to predators, otherwise they will be eaten; the young man came to the plain, where the castle where his fiancée is; everything is made of gold, silver and precious stones; they stayed there to live]: Uffer 1973, No. 13:40-42.

Western Europe. Germans [14th century, "Friedrich von Schwaben"; the princess has a spell; she must find a lover who will sleep with her for several nights but will not break her virginity or see her; when the deadline is coming to an end, the evil wizard makes the young man light up and looks at the girl; she flies to the cleanest pond in the world; the prince sees three turtledoves fly to the pond, leaves clothes on the beach, swimming; he hides one of them's clothes; makes her marry him (the princess does not recognize her lover), breaking the spell]: Hatto 196:346; French (Dauphine) [prince refuses to marry, cuts his finger, blood drips on the cream, he promises to marry the one who is like blood and milk; his father sends him to look for his wife; he sails to a barren island, where a woman lives Death sends him to another, rich in vegetation, Life lives there, she refers to Youth, she gives three lemons and a knife; you have to cut a lemon at the spring, a girl will come out, give her water right away; After cutting the first two lemons, the prince is so fascinated by the beauty of the girls that he does not have time to drink them before they disappear; the third drinks; he goes to tell his father about it, in his absence the girl climbs a tree; the black woman sees her reflection in the source, thinks that she is so beautiful herself; breaking the jug, she notices a beautiful woman; she pierces a pin into her head, she flies away like a dove; the black woman tells the prince that a black woman was turned into an evil fairy; a wedding is being prepared; a dove arrives, sings, the servant grabs her, cuts her, three drops of blood grow a lemon with three lemons; the prince cuts lemons, the girls from the first two disappear, in the third his fiancée; they want to burn the black woman, the bride asks her to simply expel]: Joisten 1991, No. 16.1.: 137-139.

Western Asia. The Arabic Written Tradition (One Thousand and One Nights) [false story; King Taygamus had no sons; the stargazers said he would only have a son from King Khorasan's daughter ; King Khorasan agreed to marry; stargazers predicted misfortunes for his son after 15 years; his name was Janshah; at the age of 15, D. chased the gazelle, the gazelle jumped into the boat, she was caught, but D. and his servants went to by boat to an island at sea; the father sent letters about his son to all the islands; D. went to land on the wrong island to which he sailed; sent half of the servants deep into the island, remaining in the boat; he was taken to the palace; the island belonged to monkeys; the monkeys sank the boat, made D. king; he ordered his servants to help the monkeys defeat enemies; found a stove with a prophecy: the one who became king of the monkeys will be able to get out from islands only after passing to a city where there is not a single believer of the true faith; the monkeys chased the prince, but they were destroyed by ants; in the city of infidels, D. hired a merchant, received a payment in advance; his they sewed the donkey in the belly and the bird carried the carcass to the nest; precious stones were around; D. threw stones to the merchant, and he left without showing how to go down; D. went to look for a way out, came to the palace; the owner forbids open one door; D. opened and saw three girls dressed as pigeons coming to swim; a year later they flew in again; on the advice of the owner of the castle, D. hid one of the girls's clothes; this is Sitt Samsha, she agreed to become the prince's wife, he returned her feather clothes and they flew to the prince's country; Taigamus built a palace for D. and the secondary school; the secondary school smelled her clothes hidden under the floor of the palace, ordered D. looked for her in the Takney jewelry fortress and flew away; D. came to a man with whom he already lived, hired the same job, was sewn into a horse's skin; refused to throw stones out of the merchant's nest; came again to to the owner of the palace; he does not know about the fortress T.; one of the birds took D. to the king of animals; he called on the animals to ask about T.; the animals do not know; he sends D. to his older brother; the brother does not know, sends to The sorcerer, to whom animals and mountains are subordinate, called animals and genies; one bird said that it knew where T. was, took D. there; the king of jinns, i.e. the father of the secondary school, ordered that every person be brought to him; wedding; the couple were taken to the kingdom of D.]: Salya 2010 (2), nights 499-530:64-101; Palestinians [the king promises that if his son grows up safely, he will fill one watercourse with honey and the other with ghee; every day a boy meets an old woman, she tells him to remind his parents of his promise, otherwise he threatens to kill him; he forgets, she puts pebbles in his pocket, his mother finds it, he remembers, the king builds watercourses, fills with honey and oil; the old woman comes when almost everything is sorted out; picks up the last drops, the boy throws a pebble, breaking her vessel, she tells him to fall in love with Lolabe, Lolabe's daughter; he goes looking L., she lowers her hair out of the window, he climbs it; when her witch mother gets up, the daughter turns the young man into a pin, she senses the human spirit, tells her to give her the pin to take out the splinter, and the daughter gives another one, turns the young man into a melon, the mother tells him to give the melon, the daughter hides one seed, revives the young man from it, tells him to run away, spraying all objects except a mortar and pestle with henna; everyone says to the mother that the daughter is here a mortar and a pestle give it away; a witch chases the fugitives, a dog with her; a daughter throws a comb (a forest, a witch and a dog gnaw), a brazier (fire, a witch and a dog extinguish urine), a mirror (a lake, a witch with a dog they drink, they burst); at the house, a young man tells L. to wait for him to prepare everything for the wedding; L. climbs a tree, the maid takes her reflection in the well for her own, throws a jug (such a beauty should not serve); L. laughs, the maid asks her to go down, pierces her pins, turning her into a dove, puts on her clothes, explains to the groom that she cried waiting for her, so she changed; the dove cries for the palace's kitchen, tears turn into pearls, corals, the cook picks them up, every day the food burns, the prince calls him, finds out about the dove, catches him, takes out his pins; the maid from behind now pierces them into him, turning him into a dove; for the third time L. catches him, takes out his pins; wedding; the maid is burned]: Mubawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 18:159-166; the Arabs of Qatar [father and mother are dead; sister heard about the man by named Al-Khadrabouna (H.) and fell in love without seeing him; brother hears her say his name, goes in search; when he comes to H., he says that when his sister steps, {to the ground} falls stuffed when the chicken laughs, pearls fall from her lips, and when she cries, it starts to rain; H. gives his brother a cloth to give it to her sister; she must wash it, pour water in front of the house and grow up in this place wood; when H. comes and sees the tree, he will understand that the bride is here; the neighbor overheard the brother-sister talking; changed the water, poured the one that X. washed the cloth in front of her own house; H. marries a liar; his sister sends his brother to him, but H. puts him in prison; the sister turns into a turtle; flies to the guard guarding her brother, talks about everything; falls stuffed chicken, pearls fall, a storm begins with rain; H. notices oddities in the guard's behavior, eavesdrops and spies, catches a throat, {she turns into a girl again}; H. divorced the liar married a betrothed]: Abu Shehab 2019:59-62; Yemenis [a man hung a sword from the ceiling: which of his sons can grab a sword; sons of two wives failed, concubine's son grabbed; elder wife poisoned food, handed it through the son of another wife to the son of the concubine; the bird, the dog tried it, died; the son of the concubine and the son of the second wife leave; they come to the city where Afrit kidnapped the princess and gives water in exchange on girls; the son of a concubine forces Afrit to bring him to where his lair is; kills him; frees 14 princesses kidnapped and hanged by the hair; after the king's death, people choose the first the person he meets; the concubine's son leaves his younger brother as king there, leaves himself; the Hindu invites him to go to India; there he leads to the mountain, tells him to climb the killed camel; the eagle will lift the carcass to the mountain, it is necessary throw off dry brushwood from there; once on the mountain, the young man sees three dead and half alive; he explains that the Hindu told them to throw off the firewood, but in fact the gold lying everywhere; but he did not let it go back; the young man jumped off a cliff into the sea, sailed to the island; there is the palace of the seven daughters of the king of the genies of the West; they make him a brother; when they fly away, they tell him not to go into the garden; he comes in, there is a pond, they swim in it, taking off their clothes doves, seven daughters of the king of the genies of the East; he hides the youngest's clothes; the daughters of the king of the genies of the West return, telling this girl to marry the young man; transferred to the city where the young man's brother is king; then he she goes to see his father, but everyone is dead there and only his mother is alive; he is building a palace, telling his mother not to show his wife her pigeon clothes; the king next door kidnaps the young man's wife, tells her to dance; she says that if her mother-in-law brings her pigeon clothes, the dance will be better; the servants bring the clothes; the maiden flies away with the children, asks her mother-in-law to tell her husband to look for her on Waq Al Waq Island; the son's mother At first he lies that his wife and children are dead, but he opens the graves - it is empty; the young man meets two sons of Afrit arguing over the invisible kufia, sword and staff (summons genies helpers); the young man throws a stick - whoever brings it first will receive a kufia and a staff; puts on the kufia, becomes invisible, calls the genies to move it to Wak Al-Waq Island; there he applies to the old genniha's chest; she tells to turn to the queen of the island - she knows all the women there; he does not find a wife among the gathered; the queen put her in prison because she married a mortal; using the kufia, the young man enters the prison; he is seen sons, his wife agrees to return to him; genies defeat the queen's warriors; a young man and his family return home, kills a Hindu, burns pigeon clothes]: Daum 1992, No. 13:130-145.

Melanesia. Admiralty Islands [E9]; Tanna [K25].

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans (Amdo) [K25]: Kajihama 2004, No. 28:117-123; Mustang [K25]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 17:111-114; garo [E9]; Meitei (ranks) [two wives, each with a boy and a girl; husband died; 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 her fruit; she threw snakes and eels into her mouth, the eldest turned into a turtle and swam away; her youngest took her fish; the eldest daughter, Shandrembi, saw her mother in a dream; she talked about what had happened; let S. catch her, keep her where the rays would not fall on her sun and moon, and in 7 days it will be reborn as a man; but the son of his youngest wife noticed the turtle, began to demand that it be cooked for him; in a dream, my mother appeared again Sh.: put my bones in the basket, after 7 days I will become a woman; but S. opened the basket on the 6th day, and a swallow flew out from there; S. and her younger sister's daughter, Chaisra, went to get water; S. in rags, C. in beautiful clothes; the king turns to S.; they 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, occupied them 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 the curry woke up, a plant grew and a fruit grew 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 her, 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.

South Asia. Kashmiris (Muslims) [Prince Bahramgor chases a golden deer, grabs it by the horns; he offers treasures, then offers to sit on it, brings it by air to an unknown country; the old demon Jasdrul promises to protect the prince, gives the keys to a hundred palaces and gardens; B. falls asleep, the Shahpasand fairy, who has arrived in the guise of a dove, sees him, they live as spouses; B. wants to visit his family, J. gives him his hair to call for help; his parents died at home, the usurper seized the throne; B. and his wife live with a poor hunter; the chief of security sees S. in the window; the king sends soldiers, S. flies away with a dove, saying the hunter's blind mother, that you should look for her from her father on Mount of Emerald; J. gives the prince a magic wand, sends Nanak Chand to his older brother; he gives powder, sends it to his older brother Safed; S. gives an invisible hat, B. penetrates it through seven constipation, for which his father holds S.; he married him to his daughter and made him the heir to Emerald Mountain]: Steel, Temple 1984, No. 3:27-39.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Bow [seven doves came to swim, Kasimbaha hid one of them's clothes, got married; her name is Oetahagi; she has white hairs on the top of her head, you can't tear them out; he pulled her hair out, a storm O. took him away, their son Tambaga remained; taking him, K. climbed the vine into the sky (the rat gnawed the thorns from the vine), fell to the east; the sun was too hot, the Month helped to reach the sky; the bird showed where W.'s house was; the firefly warned that there are 7 rooms in the house, each with a sister; he will sit on the door behind which W.; Brother W. says that K. is not immortal and therefore cannot marry W.; suggests trials; rice in 8 vessels, something else in the ninth; if K. touches the ninth, then he is the son of an earthly woman; husband: I will consistently climb into all the vessels and cure him back; I will not cure him from the unclean, he will not touch; K. is recognized as the son of the immortals, he is allowed to marry W. and stay in heaven; but they decided to return his son to earth; T. grows up, goes down, marries, comes from him a bow]: Spreeuwenberg 1845:25-28 in Bäcker 1874:98-99; Solor [Doni Bélen's seven daughters in the form of turtles descend from the sky to the spring; old woman Wae Bélek grabs one of them, taking her wings (not it is said exactly how); gives Pati Kopo Nama as his wife; she hides her name from him; he lies under a palm tree, pretends to fall and crash; mourning him, the wife calls herself Péni Buka Tapo Lolong; the imaginary dead man gets up; offended, the wife leaves their baby milk in a vessel from the shell, flies to heaven; the husband finds her sisters, asks him to take him to heaven; animals help to complete difficult tasks her father; husband and wife return to land where the wife is turned into stone]: Arndt 1938:7-8.

Taiwan - Philippines. Ifugao [Bugan has a Dulnuwan child; B. went to the back for rice; Magapid offered to help her understand the basket and attach a belt to her forehead; but first offered to swing on the swing; let B. take off jewelry; M. rocks B., she falls, breaks, M. puts on her jewelry, comes to her husband B. Aliguyun disguised as his wife; black turtles revive B., give her feathers, she flies with them; in the form of a turtle, she flies to the field where A. and M. (in the form of B.); Gorlinka-B. says that M. works in her field, wears her jewelry; B.'s son sees a turtle, his father catches it for him in a snare; in addition to B., he takes off his feathers and takes on his former appearance; opens to her son, he secretly brings her food; A. watches, sees hungry B. eats greedily and her son sucks her chest; then B. flies away again with his throat; next time A. grabs her; rolls M. over the thorns while she does not die; gives his wife the stolen jewelry, M. throws the corpse down somewhere]: Lambrecht 1955, No. 15:186-189.

China - Korea. Chinese (no place of recording) [Nyu-lan's younger single brother works hard, the older married man eats heartily; the ox suggests N. break the plow, plough, plough handle, return home early, eat the cooked; the elder offers to share, the ox tells N. to take only him, the ox, to go south; says that on the seventh day of the seventh moon, the Southern Gate of Heaven will open, Wan-mu's granddaughters will arrive wash clothes; the seventh from the west side is Ji-nyu; N. hides her clothes, C. becomes his wife, her sisters fly away as doves; when her daughter is 6 years old and her son is 3, C. offers N. return her clothes; N. returns, C. flies away; the ox tells him to slaughter, burn his bones, put on his skin, take his son and daughter in baskets; the guards of the heavenly gate (gold, silver lions, devil) say, I am the husband of your seventh aunt, and these are her children; you need to identify your wife among seven girls in the house; you have to let my son go, he will rush to suck his mother's breast; father-in-law suggests 1) hide; C. says that her father will first become a bug, then an apple in the chest; when it's N.'s turn to hide, C. turns him into a needle, her father-in-law does not find it; 2) race; you have to throw red seeds and sticks behind for food, father-in-law picks them up; at the end throw the hairpin in front of him; N. throws behind, a heavenly river appears; wife, children, mother-in-law remain on the other side; on the seventh day of the seventh moon, all birds rise to the sky, mother-in-law pulls a feather from each, builds a bridge from feathers - the Milky Way; N. (Volopas) and C. (Weaver); on the sixteenth day, C. returns, during which time he washes all the dishes (each item numbered 360), washes, darns the sky, an-mu's granddaughters will arrive to wash clothes; gray from the West]: Riftin 1972:294-303.

The Balkans. Moldovans [E9]; Greeks: Megas 1970, No. 28 [the king and priest agree that their future children will be married; the queen gives birth to a beautiful girl, the priest's wife is a crab; the crab grows up, tells mothers marry the princess; the king makes it a condition to remove the mountain that obscures the sun; at night, dragons (drakoe) do their job; the Crab gets a wife; leaves the shell at night as a man; tells us to keep a secret; the wife tells the mother, the Crab disappears; the wife has worn out three pairs of iron shoes; the blind and lame guided her; three pigeons flew in, dived into the pool, became young men; they usually drink for their health the beauty who let it slip, the windows and doors are crying; and then they laughed; the husband saw his wife, she threw his wings into the fire, the husband and wife returned home]: 65-70; Paton 1901, No. 23 [the priest's cattle died; he went to travel, met a carpenter and a tailor; they came to an empty house with food; after eating, they went to bed, the watchmen took turns; the carpenter carved the statue, the tailor dressed it, the priest revived it; Kady awarded the girl to the priest as a daughter; she promises to marry the one who brings her the handkerchief that the princess embroiders on the Death Road; the poor young man drunkenly agrees to go there, kills a seven-headed serpent in the forest, eagles who are about to eat; adult birds first want to kill him, the chicks explain that he is their savior; they agree to take him to the Death Road (they must be fed and watered on the way), leave their feather; in Everyone seems to be frozen in that country; he finds a princess, takes a handkerchief; only the priest is alive, asking the one who has exhausted them to return; when he returns, the young man talks about his adventures; after listening the girl flies away as a dove, tells her to be found; her soul was taken to revive the statue; when the young man comes back to Death Road, everyone is alive there, he marries a princess]: 317-320.

Central Europe. Russians: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 224 (Voronezh) [the mouse quarreled with V No. 224:197-204. The cat tells her to wait every time for him to eat bread, drink milk, etc., stealing grain from the barn, the animals began to fight birds; the wounded Eagle asks the merchant three times not to kill him, but to care for him; three years later he carries it on his back; drops it three times over the sea and catches the merchant He, the Eagle, felt afraid of being shot by him; the Eagle's sisters in the copper and silver kingdoms refuse to give the merchant a casket, his sister in the golden kingdom gives it; the Eagle tells him not to open it along the way, the merchant opens, a palace and servants appear from him; Unbaptized Forehead gathers everything in a casket for promising to give that he does not know at home; the merchant is met by his wife with his newborn son; Ivan grows up and goes to the NL; Baba Yaga advises to hide the wings of a colorful cabbage roll when three cabbage rolls arrive for a swim; this is Vasilisa Premudraya, NL's beloved daughter; his cook Chumichka lies as if Ivan promised 1) to cut down the forest in a day, harvest, bake pies out of flour; 2) make a flying ship; VP does everything, Chumichka is thrown off the ship; 3) NL tells him to go around the stallion; this is NL himself, Ivan hits him with a hammer; 4) choose a bride among three mares, three cabbage rolls, three girls (the VP has a dull glitter on the bridle; it will wave its wing; a handkerchief); after the wedding, the young run, the VP turns Ivan into a vegetable garden, himself into a head of cabbage; a well and a falcon; when NL himself is chasing, VP throws a brush (forest), comb (mountain), towel (sea); Ivan is the first to come home, kisses his godmother, forgets VP; she is hired as a worker, Ivan is ready to marry; VP comes to a wedding with a pie, a dove and a dove come out of it, the dove says that the dove will forget her, how Ivan forgot the VP; Ivan recalls]: 197-204; 1958 (2), No. 212 {for this and for one-story texts No. 213 and 214 the place of recording is not specified} [Sagittarius Fedot wounded a turtledove; she asks to bring her home, and when she finds a nap, hit her; became a girl, a wife; tells me to buy silk; calls two fellows, they weaved carpet; the commandant bought it for 10,000 rubles, and the king bought it from him for 25,000; the commandant sees the Sagittarius's wife, shows it to the king; he orders the Sagittarius to lime in order to take his wife; baba yaga advises the commandant should invite the king to send the Sagittarius to the island on a rotten ship for golden horns; the wife tells the fellows to bring a deer; Baba Yaga advises to tell F. to go there, I don't know where to bring something that I don't I know what; the wife gives a ball to follow and her needlework; the king tells his wife F. to follow him, she flew away with a turtledove; F. comes to three girls who recognize his towel, they are his wife's sisters; their mother summons animals and birds, only the frog knows about this wonder; jumped over a fiery river with F. hid in a cave; two elders come in, asking Shmat-mind to feed them; when they left, F. also called him offered to sit with him; he agrees to follow him; F. came to the old woman and her daughters, went on, tired, S. carried him; tells him to exchange him from the merchants for three curiosities, he will return; they have a box, in whose garden, the ax that makes ships, the horn from which the army leaves; S. also returned to F.; F. built a palace, defeated the king's army, became king himself, his wife was queen]: 134-145; Chernyshev 1950, No. 20 (Pskov) [poor Stepan the hunter; a dove flew through the window, became a girl; wife; weaved a carpet, ordered to sell it without bargaining; the general bought it, told the tsar, he sent a servant; when he saw, he reported to the king; the king, seeing the craftswoman, wants to get rid of S.; the sorceress grandmother advises to send S. for the golden ram; at night, the wife tells the wild winds to deliver this ram; grandmother: let him bring unknown what; the winds do not know; then the wife gives S. a ball, let him follow him; the ball led to the old woman, she asked the frog; the frog: it is not known what is overseas; swelled, told S. to hold on to her, swam across the sea; There is a mountain on the other side, there is a hole in it, a closet in the hole; you have to hide in it, listen; S. hid, hears people come in; "Brother matchmaker, light a fire!" ; the fire caught fire; then: gather it on the table; when they left, S. commands himself, but invited him to drink vodka with him; he is grateful, ready to serve him; they sailed across the sea in the boat, created an island, feast; the ship sailed, the general on it, proposes to change: it is not known what to a sword that will destroy any army; it is not known what he advises to agree, then return to S.; arrived at the tsar, S. shows how you don't know what he's gathering on the table; king to his servants: hack S.! S. sabre: ruby! the saber killed the tsar and all his people, S. returned to his wife]: 49-53; Russians (Vyatskaya, Sarapulsky, d. Bygi) [The glorious Tsar Rakit Timofeyevich and his wife Tykva Timofeyevna live in the Sabur Kingdom; they have no children. In another realm, a famous magician. King Rakit goes to him for an apple, which his wife will eat. The magician tells him to give half an apple to his wife and hold the other. Two sons will be born, the first one must be given to him. The queen gives birth to a son, a year later she gives birth to her second. The first grows for 15 years and is called Falcon (S.). His father sends him to a magician. In the forest, S. stumbles, falls, falls asleep until morning; so three times. He comes to the hut on chicken legs, tells him to stand in front of him, and back to the forest. In the hut, a beautiful woman (taken by the wizard from the king, trained in magic) warns that the wizard will bring a glass of rum. You can't drink, otherwise you'll eat it, I must say: "I'm not here to walk or feast, but to work." There'll be a lake on the way Twelve cabbage rolls will arrive, undress, become girls, they look the same, including her - she will begin to spread her wings on the shore. When the girls start swimming, let her sit on her dress. S. does it all. Eleven girls put on their dresses and fly away, the twelfth stays. S. kisses her and gives her dress. Girl: If the magician gives errands, let him turn to her; turn into a pigeon, fly away. S. comes to the magician, who sits in a chair. "Lackey servants! Lift my eyelids out of my eyes with an iron pitchfork: I need to see who's here." The servants raise their eyelids, the thorn opens. The magician recognizes S., tells him to bring rum, S. refuses. The magician tells us to build a bridge across the sea overnight. The girl tells her to take off her pants before going to bed. The bridge is ready in the morning The magician tells us to ride around his horse, he is fierce and ferocious. The girl gives S. an iron rod, tells him to go to bed with his pants off, and quilt the horse with a rod in the morning. The falcon hits the horse, he kneels, S. continues to beat, locks him in the stable, and goes to spend the night with the girl. The horse is a magician himself. In the morning S. comes to him, he groans in pain. His servants lift his eyelids with an iron pitchfork. He says he will now marry S. and he has 12 pigeon brides. Girl: A fly will sit on her forehead. The next day, a mare (she will throw back her back leg). The magician invites S. and his fiancée to celebrate their wedding the next day. Girl: He'll eat us, we gotta run. They spit in all corners in the hut and go out. In the morning, the servants tell them to get ready for the wedding, drool that they are going to; they dress; etc. The magician looks at the black book: S. and the bride ran away. Sends a chase. The girl wraps herself in a well, S. wraps herself in a scoop. Those sent drink water and come back. For the second time, a cow and a shepherd, the shepherd replies that he just woke up and did not see anyone. The magician goes by himself, the earth trembles. The girl by the lake makes herself a duck, and S. makes herself a drake. The wizard raises his eyelids, recognizes them, drinks all the water, the duck and the drake fly away. The magician throws thick smoke on them, the girl disperses him with a headwind. The wizard gnashes his teeth like Satan in the underworld, stays at the bottom of the lake, the duck and the drake fly to Father S., become human, get married]: Vereshchagin 2002, No. 12:36-40; Ukrainians: Ivanov 1894, No. 4 (Kharkiv) [The woman asks her husband to make her son out of the stick, he does it, they go to work in the fields, leave the child at home. Three elders come to the house, give the boy an apple, it rolls after the elders, the boy follows him. He finds himself in the woods, steals the dress from the most beautiful bathing pigeon, the girl asks for her dress back, he gives it back when she agrees to marry him. He hides his dress in a chest, parents are surprised at the girl's appearance. She asks her husband to show her dress, then hold it in her hands, flies out the window like a dove. Parents promise to marry their son again]: 143-144; Petnikov 1956 [grandfather and woman see a limp duck in the nest, bring it home; someone cooks and cleans, neighbors saw the girl; grandfather and woman waited, abandoned feathers into the fire; the girl says that she will now leave them, tells me to give her a spinning wheel and a spindle; refuses to fly with the first pack of ducks - you left me; with the second; but everyone throws her feather; with the third she flies away , covered with feathers and becoming a duck]: 17-19; northern Ukrainians (Chernigovskaya, Nezhinsky u.) [the hunter saw a well on the mountain, started drinking, someone grabbed his beard; he had to promise what he did not know at home; when he returned home, it turned out that his son was born; when Ivan is 7 years old, he went to the snake; woman towards: 12 doves will fly to the river; we must wait for another one, hide the shirt; the girl promises to call the one who took it father; brother; when she said that her husband, I. came out from behind the bushes; she is the daughter of a snake, they came to him; snake: to cut down the forest in a day, harvest, bake bread; the girl called her servants, did everything; teach the horse to fly (done); the bridge over the wide river (done); the girl tells him to run, ask for cherries be responsible for her; the serpent sent 12 doves in pursuit; the girl became a lamb, I. a shepherd; church and pop (I. each time pretends not to understand the questions of the pursuers and answers inadvertently); the snake flies by itself; river and ruff; the snake became a pike, did not catch up with the ruff; I. and the girl reached Ivan's father, got married, began to live happily ever after]: Malinka 1902, No. 17:282-286; Belarusians [Vasily Pepelyshka grew up quickly, ordered a 20-pound mace to the blacksmiths, it crumbled; ordered to make it stronger and heavier; went to wander; meets and companions Gorynya, Dubovik, Boulder; everyone says that not he is strong, and there is a VP somewhere; they live in a hut, take turns housework; four doves fly in, turn into beauties, soar in a bathhouse, one of them easily kills the hero with a roller, then the VP revives him; when he stays alone, he grabs women and hits them with a wire whip until they agree to become faithful wives; their father is Tsmok ("serpent"); sends an army several times, the heroes easily destroy him; he goes by himself, fights against the VP, kills him, for he is immortal and cut to pieces comes to life; the mare revives the VP, he revives his companions; comes to the kingdom of Tsmok, agrees with his daughter that she finds out where the father's life; he first says that in a goat, in a pig, the daughter begins to decorate them; then: in an egg-a duck-a hare - a stupa on the mountain; VP took out and broke an egg, married that princess]: Vasilenok et al. 1958:154-162.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kabardian people [K25]; Abazans [K25]; Abkhazians [K25]; Balkarians (western 1955) [the khan's son has three friends; they decided to travel; there is a forest and a mountain across the river; two disappeared during the crossing; the khan's son and a friend killed two tours, captured, the local ruler (wild animals are his cattle), threw them in prison, wants to execute them; his youngest son released them; the Khan's son's companion was shot dead while fleeing; the Khan's son himself met a girl; married; met a man who offered a job: slaughter the horse, climb into the carcass, the eagle will lift it to the rock, we must throw off the gold; the khan's son saw the bones, did not throw gold; he hardly got out of the cave; the man takes him to him; when leaving, forbids to unlock one room; the young man unlocked; there was a milk lake and a golden tree; three pigeons flew in, took off their clothes, became girls, bathed in a milk lake; the owner of the house explained that they were three daughters of the king of jinns; advises to hide clothes with whatever you like; the girl fell in love with him; when the young man asked, she transferred him to his father's kingdom; enemies attacked; the girl turned enemy warriors into gravestones; revived a promise not to come again; the young man hid his pigeon clothes in a chest on the roof; his wife was offended that he did not trust her, easily took her clothes and flew away; the young man went in search; her father was the king of jinns ordered the young man to be delivered to him, scolded his daughter; the young man and wife returned to their homes]: Malkonduev 2017:179-218; Ossetians [K25]; Ingush [the tsar sees the poor man and promises that he will give him whatever he wants; the poor man asks to fill his pouch with money; the king's men bring a handful, then a hat and a cart of coins, but cannot fill the pouch; as a result, it includes all the royal property; the king and his people attack the poor man, he kills them and becomes king; the children of the murdered king grow up, the poor man gives them all the royal property; after settling separately, he sows wheat; it is beaten by hail; the poor man is hired by a rider , says: "I will remove all your bread alone before sunset, for which you will give me part of your pens, but if I don't remove the bread before sunset, I'll lose my payment"; before he has time to remove one sheaf, refuses from payment; is hired by a shepherd on the condition: if after three years there is at least a small loss in the herd, he will not receive remuneration, and if there is a profit, he will receive part of the cattle; three years, the number of cattle increases; the herd is attacked by a wolf, a goat is carried away; the poor man keeps the wolf alive, returns the kid and refuses the reward for work; walks along the road, dies; the wolf finds and buries a corpse; three doves fly to the grave, pray, the poor man resurrects; a tower appears on the grave, the poor man lives in it with doves who have become beautiful; wives say:" You go to Mother of the Sun and ask her for a nice sofa for us. Mother of the Sun lives next to Mother Moon. Their hut doors are always locked. The Mother of the Sun sits above her baby's cradle and feeds him with one breast, while the other breast is thrown over her shoulders. As soon as you enter Mother of the Sun's hut, rush straight to her chest and start sucking it; if you can catch her breast and suck it, she'll give you a sofa"; poor man follows instructions, Mother of the Sun He calls him his third son; her son comes, moving the Sun; when he learns of the poor man's request, he says to him: "Tomorrow you will follow me to move the Sun around the world, and I will stay at home and make you a sofa. Mother of Thunder will bring you lunch by noon, and when you come to the sea, look at our vineyard there"; the next day, the poor man begins to drag the Sun across the world; by noon, Thunder's mother brings him lunch; he remembers how she beat his arable land with hail and pounding it; when he reaches the sea and finds himself near the vineyard, he remembers the loss of harvesting fees; as a result, he keeps the Sun for an extra hour above the vineyard; in the evening he tells the mother of the Sun that the journey was safe; goes home with the sofa; a man comes to him, from whom he herded sheep; asks to give one of his wives; wives turn into doves, fly away; the tower and other buildings disappear; the poor man is hired by the king, enters into a relationship with his daughter; the king throws him into a hole; a powerful neighboring king sends it the king of two identical roosters and tells him to find out which one is older; the poor man suggests: "You can find out about the seniority of roosters by age as follows: pour them red wheat and let them go to it in the wind roosters. The elder rooster will stand with his head against the wind, and the youngest with his tail"; the king follows the advice, performs the task; the neighbor sends two identical stallions and tells them to know which one is older; the poor man explains : "Give more salt to these stallions, then let them drink, the youngest will run forward to the water and start drinking greedily, and the elder will walk quieter and, when he comes to the water, overtake the younger stallion"; the king follows advice, performs the task; the neighbor sends a message: "Find out which of your people is able to shoot an arrow from your village to mine"; the poor man fires an arrow into a neighboring village; it falls into a chain on which the cauldron hung in the royal hut; a messenger arrives: "Our tsar invites you to come to our village and take one dog and one rooster with you to compete with our dog and our rooster"; poor man takes a falcon instead of a rooster, goes to the village; on the way he meets a man who sees a chamois on a distant mountain, a man who hears a snake crawling over seven mountains, a man trying to drink the sea, and a man who, with one foot in his belt, runs to the other for a hare; takes them with him; the neighboring king releases a rooster, the poor man's falcon pecked him; the neighboring king announces the beginning of a race, releases a witch; she offers the one-legged to drink a drink from a jug, he falls asleep; the one who hears snoring well, the shooter fires an arrow into the jug, the one-legged wakes up to the ringing of potsherds and overtakes the witch; the king locks the guests in a copper hut; it begins to fill with water; a person who wants to drink the sea drinks it; a strong king recognizes the neighboring king as an equal, the poor man marries the royal daughters]: Sadulayev 2004, No. 122:314-321; Chechens [K25]; Nogais [K25]; Avars [K25]; Lucky [K25]; Lezgins [E9]; Armenians: Ganalanyan 1965 [hunter brings dove; the house is tidy; the hunter's mother sees the dove turn into a girl; grabs her; the hunter marries her; the king demands 1) to bring what I don't know; the wife reproaches that he did not leave her feathers; sends to his sisters, gives him a towel, does not tell strangers to wipe themselves off, otherwise he will turn into a rope; they, King Kajatz, kings of Serpents, Mice do not know how to get it; the frog king calls Delagore; he takes him to the forest disappears; another person asks Afandi to serve food; she appears by herself; gives Afandi 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 did not find what he needed, A. kills the king, smashes his army; the hunter becomes king]: 114-120; Nazinian 1969 [the mouse and the falcon sowed wheat, and when they collected them, they began to divide; they could not divide one grain, turned to the eagle; the eagle to the falcon: you knock him away; the mouse: well, let's not quarrel; and at night I hit the sleeping falcon with a sword, he hardly managed to fly away; the hunter saw a falcon on the tree, pointed his gun three times the falcon asked him not to kill, to cure him; the hunter's wife went out; the falcon put the hunter on his back, carried him, threw him into the sea three times, picking him up above the water; ordered him to ask his father for a silk pouch; father the falcon gives a pouch, does not tell him to open it before reaching the house; the hunter opened it, found himself in the middle of a noisy bazaar; the lame man asks to give him what he does not know at home; the hunter promised to be at home; wife: what our son does not go home; it turned out that the son was born, but has now taken him lame; he left the boy lame on the island at sea; he has been fishing for 16 years, grew up; three heads flew to the island, threw off a bird's robe, became girls, went swimming; a young man stole one girl's feathers; she promised to be his wife; gave a ball, he rolled from island to shore, there was a road, they came to town; the husband was hired in laborers; the owner decided to lime him in order to take possession of his wife; one lame guest suggested 1) send a man for two storks, one has a golden beak, the other has silver wings; the wife calls an Arab and orders the storks to be reached, they bring them; the wife warned: if the owner says that storks are not needed, they must be released (as it happened); 2) bring the lion from Mount Aragats (the same); 3) bring the invisible Worker Murza; the wife gives a ball, it will lead to her sister's house; she calls the frogs, they don't know the way; the sister tells them to go to their mother's house for the ball; she collected snakes, they say that M. hired snake king; mother tells me to go to the house of the snake king and hide behind the stove; the king will come and say, "Murza, gather for the table"; when the king leaves, call M. for him; he is glad the king has already tortured him; the boatman offers M. a horn in which a foot army and a cavalry detachment; when a person receives a horn, M. also returned to him; the owner wants to cut off the man's head, he blows into the horn, the warriors cut off the owner's head; M. brought the couple to her husband's parents]: 33-42; Georgians [K25]; Azerbaijanis [K25]; Turks [K25]; Kurds [K25]; Abazins [one hundred horsemen marry the prince's daughter, but she chooses a cook named Guabanac ("felt"); riders take him hunting, dissatisfied with him; he rips the ring off the finger of the girl driving the herd, brings the herd; the same with the girl who drove two herds; people on They cry on both banks of the river: the river separated their village, and when they send the ship, someone turns it over; G. sailed on this ship, saw a girl in the water, grabbed her hair, a piece of hair remained in his hand, the ship could now sail; G. comes to a house with a table and three chairs; three doves fly in, turn into girls; two tell how their herds were taken away, and the third, how they prevented the ship from turning over; everyone dreams of marrying such a hero; G. returned their ring, and the third gave them their hair, they grew; married; at this time, a hundred riders staged a race, the winner will take his first wife G.; reports the third dove wife (the first two flew and said that his wife forgot G.); G. went, overtook everyone, brought his first wife; (lives with four wives)]: Tugov 1985, No. 34:80-83; Chechens [had 20 students madrasah and mullah; the best student died; one said he deserved the deceased; the mullah ordered to prove it by putting a knife on the grave at night; a one-eyed monster attacked the young man, he fought back, remained in his hand golden slipper; the rich man said that his slipper was stolen; judge: if you find a pair, take the rich man's property, if not, you will become his slaves; the young man climbed onto the ship, the ship stopped; they want the young man throw into the sea, he goes down to the water, tears off someone's ring, the ship sailed; the young man saw a pigeon playing with the child, snatched the pigeon's feathers from its tail, returns the child to his parents; comes to I tried the tower, where there are three beds and a table, from each plate, hid; three pigeons flew in, dropped their plumage, became girls; one tells how she wanted to admire the deceased young man, pulling him out of graves, the other to stop the ship, the third to steal the child; all three would like the hero to stay with them; the young man opens, shows his slipper, ring and feathers; sisters carry him to his village, giving a second slipper; young men expel a rich man]: Malsagov 1983, No. 18:108-111; Kumyks [a blind rich man sends three sons to places he has never been in his life to bring leaves that heal blindness; the eldest two return from the places where his father visited; the younger Shamshud comes to the palace, eats, hides; three turtles turn into girls, make him their brother; their deva brothers agree help, see him off to relatives, some to others, others to third; devas send him into the mountain where Azhdaha sleeps; Sh. Navas send him into the mountain where Azhdaha sleeps; Sh.Retyimatom was to bring leaves that cure blindness; takes leaves, kisses a sleeping beauty, puts on her ring, treats her father at home; a beautiful woman flies to Sh., becomes his wife]: Bagry 1930 (2): 38 (=Khalilov 1965, No. 39: 84-88); Kurds: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 8 [the dervish tells the childless padishah to eat an apple in half with his wife, the wife will give birth to twins, one dervish will take for herself; Mirza Mahmood goes with the dervish, Ismail stays with the padishah; the dervish tells MM to take a lamp from the cave, not to take gold; he takes it, manages to jump out, the door closes, the dervish dies; MM lives with the old woman; the lamp creates gold; you have to pay ten gold to see Princess Dunya Guzal's little finger; MM pays thousands to see her face for a month, wants to marry; she tells me 1) to find out why Useini-Kösa is in Istanbul feeds the horse with sea pebbles; he tells how his wife cheated on him with an arap, turned him into a dog; the neighbor's daughter takes W.'s wife's whip, turns him back into a man; he turns the arap into a donkey, his wife into a donkey, his wife into a man a horse, he eats pebbles, flies to Tehran in an hour; 2) why does a blacksmith break his sabers in Baghdad; he went to work for 15 years, returned, mistook his son for his wife's new husband, hacked both; 3) why Telavi mullah cries when he comes down from the minaret; three Peri sisters flew into the minaret in doves, took the mullah to be the youngest's husband; their father ordered him never to sigh around his homeland; he broke the ban he was returned, his wife flew back; MM married DG], 14 [(end of a long story); Padishah's son Mirza Mahmood was hired by a rich man; he takes him to the seashore, tells him to slaughter the mule, gives him sleeping pills, he sews him in his skin, the eagle takes him to the island; the rich man tells him to throw precious stones - then he will show the way; he tells him to look back; there is a hole and human bones, one person is barely alive; MM snuck through the fox Nora, came to an old man; saw a portrait of a beautiful woman, fell in love; old man: I am also young, but I have grown old because of my love for her; explains that there is a lake on the mountain, three doves will fly, throw off their feathers, become Gurias; it is necessary hide medium clothes; MM returned clothes after Guria promised to be his wife; he comes to her father's town; guria: if (another) person's hand touches me, I'll fly away; wedding; once MM's wife taken to the party; as soon as her hand touched another dancer's hand, she became a dove and flew away; MM hired that rich man again; asked him to come closer and killed him with a stone; MM hid Guria's clothes again and burned it; returned home with it]: 108-117, 167-185.

Iran - Central Asia. Turkmens [K25]; Erberg 1953 [Bahaveddin gives his son Mamed-jan to herd camels, does not tell him to sell an old camel; M. sold, the whole herd went for the camel; M. finds a ruby necklace, gives the padishah, but he demands one more, otherwise he executes; M. comes to the gorge, where the blood of the dead beauty has turned into rubies; divas arrive, revives the beauty with a potion from a bubble, kills again, flies away; M. revives her himself; teaches the diva to know where his soul is; the diva shows a stream under the stone, there is a fish; M. kills the fish, the diva dies; M. brings the padishah a second necklace; the old woman reports that M. beautiful wife; the vizier advises to send M. for the lioness's milk; the wife orders to remove the splinter from the lion's paw, who tells the lionesses to give milk, M. brings the lionesses, the padishah in horror; the vizier suggests sending M. for the mascot that makes the apple cry, the pomegranate laughs; the wife gives a letter to her peri sister; she arranges that the "cruel peri" she serves gives a talisman; the padishah commands overnight build a castle; M. asks him not to shoot pigeons; peri arrive in the form of turtles, the castle is ready; the vizier advises sending M. to the next world to find out how the late parents of the padishah are doing; the wife advises asking the padishah to light a huge fire, the peri-dove turns M. into a straw, takes him away from the fire; Peri writes a letter on behalf of the late father of the padishah, who calls his son and his vizier; at night M. hides in ash, they find him there in the morning; after reading the letter, the padishah and the vizier behave to burn themselves, M. is chosen as the new padishah; peri-doves bring his parents to M.]: 50-67; Uzbeks [K25, peri-dove]; Persians [K25]; Bakhtiyars [peri-dove]; Lurs [Hasan did well at school; when he learns that his classmates are going to come to his feast, he runs with his parents to avoid shame: they have there is no means to receive guests; H. is a clairvoyant, he knows when a person will die; knowing that a shepherd will die in 14 days, he makes an agreement with him; the shepherd dies, his 6 sheep Hassan gets; his herd grows; he buys sleep from the thorn collector, giving 20 sheep; goes on a journey; at night he sees a rider in the ruins; a woman's voice calls: Hasan! H. goes with a woman, in the morning she realizes that she is a stranger; they have settled in the city; the barber told the king that H. has a beautiful wife; the vizier advises to send him for the leaves of the magic tree; H. killed the dragon, the local king (obviously king peri} married him a daughter, H. picked up tree leaves and returned with his second wife; now the king sends X. to bring water from a certain place; the second wife H. is a fairy; teaches you to come to the pond in the middle of the thickets; three doves will arrive, throw off their clothes, bathe; you must hide the youngest's clothes, take an oath from her; when you hear that Hasan knows about her abduction, a peri-dove stays with him because her reputation has already been damaged; they have collected water from a spring; the barber tells the king that H. has a third wife; the vizier advises to demand that H. make a bridge of gold and silver bricks from his house to the palace; daughter of King Peri: there will be a bridge; the vizier advises to lure H. to the bridge and push him into the river; wives: ask the king and all those close to him to gather on the bridge; we will overturn him, you let's save and the rest will drown; after that, the Peri told H. to marry the one he ran with first and marry them after her]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 5:29-34; Shah-name [K25, peri-dove]; Pashtuns [K25, peri-dove]: Lebedev 1958:121-126; Rushantsy [K25, peri-dove]; Yazgulyamtsy [K25, peri-dove]; Burish [K25]; mountain Tajiks: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 4 [the serpent puts edible kulches on the handkerchief of the Shah's youngest bathing daughters, pays the rich dowry, takes his wife away; sheds his skin in the room, becomes a prince; while hunting on Mount Kof, some the old woman burns her skin; the prince and his wife go to seek happiness; while the husband is hunting, the wife is sitting on a tree above the pond; the old woman sends three daughters to fetch water, each sees a reflection, thinks that she has become beautiful; the old woman locks the prince's wife in the dungeon, replaces her eldest daughter; makes the prisoner dance on needles; she flies away with a dove; the old woman asks the prince to kill the dove, with drops of blood a willow has grown; an old woman tells to split it into firewood, a sliver bounced, a poplar has grown; the old woman tells him to make it a cradle for her daughter's newborn; a sliver falls into the master's throat, he says her story in her voice; the old woman killed the master with a ladle, the sliver fell into the hearth; the neighbor took hot coals; when the prince came to her, his wife jumped out of the hearth; the couple returned home]: 41-44; Semenov 1900 (1) (Karategin) [The Serpent King defeats the peri, takes one of them, she takes the form of a dove; eventually becomes the prince's wife]: 25-33; Tajiks [padishah is ill; healer: let them catch a white gazelle, stabbed in the presence of the padishah, they will give him a drink of blood; the prince went with the soldiers, saw a poor girl, promised to send matchmakers, brought a gazelle, but her blood does not make it easier; doctor: at the right gazelle there is a necklace around her neck, a ring on the legs, she is guarded by 40 peri; the prince saw a gazelle, but the chief peri, Nigora, first ordered to meet the conditions: 1) run with the gazelle to Balkh and overtake it; 2) build a palace between heaven and earth; 3) sit in a hot tone for 7 days and cook pilaf there; if you do, we will become your slaves, and if not, we will die in prison and leave the bodies to snakes; 40 baklavons fled, not overtook the gazelle, thrown into prison; shepherd's daughter Nulsanam {the one the prince saw first?} put on men's clothes, came to the old man; three doves flew to his three sons, turned into peri, became wives of sons, took them away, the sons went in search and disappeared; in a dream an old man teaches G. to hit each other with three swords, a horse will appear, come to the cave, go down on a rope, the divas are sleeping at this time, take a ring from under his tongue, after which the diva will become a servant; three young men lowered G. at the cave, who took the ring, told the wonder to return the kidnapped young men and then take them all to the father of the boys; the young men became G.'s assistants; the elder overtook the gazelle; the divas took to the sky, and G. said to peri: let the diva now be served with stone and solution; peri: the second requirement is fulfilled; the third young man Bahrpakhlavon sat in good shape, cooked pilaf; Nigora G. gave the main peri to her brother, the rest to baklavons released from prison; the padishah recovered, the prince married G., received the throne, appointed brother G. as a vizier]: Osmanov 1989:371-379; Tajiks Sistan [the old man dreamed that the moon and two stars fell from the sky; he went to look for it; the pleshak shepherd Hasan bought this dream for a herd of sheep; only then remembered that he had not asked about the content of the dream; fell asleep under the palace wall; that night the princess and the son of the vizier agreed to run; the princess asked to wait for her to go to the bathhouse; the vizier's son saw H. sleeping, woke him up, asked him to watch for the horses, and he himself went to hurry the princess; at this time, the princess threw off H.'s bag, believing that her lover was next to the horses; she jumped off herself and they jumped; the vizier's son returned, found no one and stabbed himself; in the morning the princess decided that everything was God's will; the princess washed and clothed X, told him to buy a palace, bring a mullah and marry; the old woman saw H.'s wife and told the king; he told H. to bring the ivory throne ; H. met an old diva woman, got her drunk, she made him her son, hid him from the other 7 sons, turning him into a needle and sticking her collar; the divas felt the human spirit; swore they would not cause evil to the guest; the divas threw potions into the water that elephants drink; they began to fight and broke off tusks; the divas made a throne and brought them to the king's garden; the king rewarded H.; now the king orders to bring a laughing flower and a crying flower; H. came to the old woman; during this time one of the divas was captured by a two-headed divas; the divas lowered H. into the well; the diva's heads were on the knees of two pari girls; one laughed, the other cried; Flowers fell out of her mouth laughing, roses fell out of her mouth; one laughs when she saw H., and the other cries, regretting that the diva would kill him; H. noticed a vessel in the niche and realized that the soul was a diva in it; told the diva to take it out to the land of all prisoners and all the good; H. broke the vessel and the divas died; the bets flew away with doves, told H. to come to their Green City and be their husband; in the city of Bet X. learned from the footsteps that the girls left on his shoulders; when two days were left before the king's deadline, the bet's father gave H. Suleiman's rug; H. and his wives wore it to the divas and then home; the king received laughing and crying flowers; he tells us to visit his deceased parents; the pari wives wrote a letter on behalf of the king's father inviting him to heaven, dressed H. in clothes as if he were lying in it in the grave; let the king build a fire, we together with an old informer and vizier, we will stand on it and get to the royal ancestors; H. flew on a rug to the royal throne, and the tsar, vizier and old woman burned down]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 8:104- 117; the couple [the padishah tells his three sons to marry; each shoots an arrow, she hits the bride's house; the eldest married the daughter of the (other) padishah, the middle to the daughter of the vizier, and the youngest to monkey; father demands to show his wives; the monkey takes off his mask, becomes beautiful; the young man threw the mask into the fire; the wife flew away as a dove; the young man followed her for 40 years; once fell asleep at the house; peri came to dial water; it turned out to be his wife; they achieved their wishes]: Vinnikov 1977, No. 8:161.

Baltoscandia. The Danes [translated from Grundtvig; two princes sailed by boat, a storm began; an old woman appeared in kvashna, demanding that she be promised someone who the Queen would soon give birth, otherwise she would drown; I had to promise ; when the boy grew up, the old woman came for him, brought him to her place, ordered him to clean the pile of feathers, then split the logs into firewood; both times the dove did everything; the young man kissed her, she became a girl; said that the old woman kidnapped her and bewitched her until the first kiss; let her tie a red thread on her finger to identify her later, and ask her to marry her; she brought a donkey, a pig, but a young man sees a red thread; after the wedding, the wife tells me to run, left two logs in the room to answer the old woman; in the morning the old woman broke into the room, rushed in pursuit; the girl threw the flower pot (lion, old woman returns for an ax), a glass of water (a lake, an old woman runs after her sauerkraut); when the young reached the palace, the girl blew, a cloud of pigeons enveloped the witch, she scattered into small pieces; everything good]: Cramer 1919:100-108; Norwegians [someone tramples on the field at night; two older brothers did not know anything, the youngest sees three swan girls (-doves, -ravens), steals one of them's clothes, she promises to marry him]: Christiansen 1959:128; Seto [the mouse and sparrow shared the grain in the peasant's barn, quarreled over the last grain; because of this, the animals began to fight birds, lion left without hair, the eagle without feathers; the eagle asks the man to feed him until the feathers grow; when he has recovered, he put the man on his back, flew to his sisters; the first one has copper, the second silver, the third has a gold box; the first two were not given, the third gave as a reward for saving the eagle; the eagle tells not to open it on the way home, the man opened, a golden estate appeared; a black man put back for receipt what he does not know at home; the man thinks it is a dog, and his wife gave birth to a son at home; he grew up, the dog brought him to the sea, they boated to the island, hid in the bushes; two doves flew in, became girls, the young man hid his clothes alone, gave it for a promise to become his wife; she tells him to greet the old man loudly, he does not hear well; heard; promised the bride if the young man leads goose swim, eggshells in front, not lose a single egg; tame the stallion; the bride orders to make a nine-pound club and beat the stallion with it; in the morning the old man's head is bandaged; build a church from wax; the bride created a church and a bridge; they ran away, leaving the bird responsible for them; that answers for three days; then the old man sends her son to catch up with the fugitives; the girl turned herself and the boy into a priest and a chapel; pop replies that he has not seen anyone for three years; the other son; into a flower and a bee; the old man himself is chasing; the girl has turned herself into a lake, a young man into a fish; the old man began to catch and fell into the water; the girl tells the house not greet his younger sister; he violated the ban, forgot his bride; went to marry the colonel's daughter, chopped firewood all night, returned; to the general's daughter he carried water; to the king; he ordered to carry water; the young man I saw the girl's reflection in the water and remembered everything; gave the king a box, people came out of it; everything is fine]: Järv et al. 2015:25-29.

Volga - Perm. Marie (meadow) [the soldier returns home, leans to the pond for a drink, the devil grabs his beard, tells him to give what he does not know at home; the son opens the door in the oak tree, goes down to the lower world; the old man says that the devil is his older brother; we must hide the clothes of the twelfth dove girl who will fly to swim in the lake; the girl promises to marry Ivan; her house with the ribbon will be the third eighteen; in three years I. comes there; father-in-law demands 1) to uproot the forest; 2) to plow the field in the same place, harvest, bake bread; 3) make bricks, build a church; every time the wife does everything; A pig comes up to the church, I. hits her with a hammer, the father-in-law is blindfolded in the morning; 4) pacify the stallion (this is the devil himself, I. beats him); 5) identify his wife among 12 pigeons (she will go down and then rise); 6) 12 sheep (will be the third); 7) 12 dewdrops (the third is on the edge, swings); I. gets a wife, they run, tell the objects in the bath to be responsible for them; wife - church, I. - old woman; husband - lake, wife - ruff; hell not can catch a ruff, says that let their whole century pass in the lake; but they come back, marry at Father I.'s house]: Sabitova 1992:102-109; Mordovians: Evseviev 1964, No. 17 (erzya) [mouse destroyed the sparrow's nest, the trial began, the great serpent bit the falcon, which sat on a tree; the hunter shot him three times, missed him, then brought him home, fed him for 9 years until the falcon could easily pull out and carry an oak tree; the falcon put the hunter on his back, threw it off and picked it up three times along the way; the elder, middle sisters of the falcon do not want to give the chest, the youngest gives it away, it cannot be opened on the way; he discovered, the city appeared, he began to live in it, wants to go home; Saraydir promises to put everything back in the chest for promising to give what the hunter does not know at home; his son has grown up, goes to Saraydir; sister S. teaches: three pigeon girls will come to swim, you must hide your clothes in gray, give them for a promise to become a wife; tells the servants to do the work he offers her husband; 1) cut down the forest, etc. - up to baking bread; 2) an iron bridge with apple trees and birds; 3) tame the stallion (this is S., his daughter hits him with an iron hammer herself); leaves spits to answer, tells him to run; turns herself and her husband into a cow and shepherd, the church and ass, lake and ruff; S. turned his daughter into a female for seven years; husband kissed his younger sister, forgot his wife; after 7 years he marries; two pigeons tell everything at the wedding; the husband remembered everything, married his wife]: 132 -145; Samorodov 1972 [stepmother tries to lime the boy with his older sister; that dragonfly flies to Baba Yaga, brings food; brother also flies like a beetle; behaves noisily, B. wakes up; fattens children; those they let the stump feel, the boy then gives a finger; the girl asks to show how to sit in the oven, burns B. herself; the children take silver and copper jugs, forget the ring; the brother comes back, licks the ring, on he is fat B., he turns into a lamb; his stepmother pushes his stepdaughter into the well, tells her husband to slaughter the lamb; he complains to his sister, she replies that a stone around her neck is holding her; he tilts his head, girl grabs the horns, gets out; the lamb is cut, the bones turn into a pigeon, throws needles, hooks in the mouth of his stepmother, father, they die; the sister asks the sorceress to glue the window, catch the pigeon; he turns into spindle; sister breaks it, a living brother appears]: 108-115; Kazan Tatars [the dzhigit went to the forest, fell asleep, the snake wrapped around his neck; old woman: maybe she will bring happiness; the dzhigit went to the forest, there is a palace, the snake slipped down, became a girl; three turtles flew in, they also became girls; they were all sisters; the youngest forgot how to become a turtle, so she set it up so that the horseman brought it; the eldest gave it he has a mare, the second is an invisible hat, a third sword that can stretch to the end of the world, the youngest is an impenetrable chain mail; the horseman demands the daughter of a padishah, smashes his army; a daughter whose fiancé is the son of a padishah Timerjan, marries a horseman to find out his secret; replaces objects, gives it to Padishah's son T., who cuts the horseman into pieces, puts them in a bag, ties him to a mare, she comes to her sisters- turtles; they revived the victim with living and dead water, restored his memory, gave a pen that turns into any animal; the horseman stops with the old man, tells him to sell him in the form of a golden-maned stallion Padishah T. for gold; a prophetic old woman explains to his wife what is going on, advises him to pretend to be sick, demand the meat of a golden stallion; the stallion tells the maid to bury a drop of his blood; an apple tree has grown, an old woman tells her to demand a dish made of her wood; the apple tree to the maid: throw a sliver into the lake; the sliver became a duck, lured the padishah, became a horseman, he killed the padishah with an arrow; in his clothes he entered the palace, took possession of with magic objects, killed his wife with an arrow, married a maid]: Yarmukhametov 1957:79-90; Bashkirs [father tells three sons to take wives where everyone's arrow falls; the youngest's arrow falls into the swamp ; the frog tells the young man to go to rest; when he wakes up, next to the palace, the frog takes off his skin for the night, becomes a girl; appears in the guise of a beautiful woman to the wives of his older brothers; they envy, persuade the younger brother-in-law throws his skin into the fire, the palace disappears, the wife flies away as a dove; the young man comes to the old woman, she refers to his sister, she says how three doves fly to her, take off the plumage, one girl sad; tells you to grab the plumage hidden in the chest; the young man returns home with his wife]: Barag 1989, No. 21:121-125; Udmurts [K25].

Turkestan. Kyrgyz [K25]; Uighurs [K25]; Dungans [K25].

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Mongols (Khalkha) [K25]; Mongors [E9, K25]; Baraba Tatars [K25].

(Wed. Eastern Siberia. Evenki of the Baikal region (many unclear places; the text is clearly borrowed and not fully understood) [two guys learned to read and write, that bird was eaten; their younger sister's merchant husband ordered them to be brought in; she admitted that he wanted to carve a duck out of their bellies; they ran away; three doves became girls on the shore; one of the guys hid the youngest's skirt; she showed the way; the khan tells me to identify that girl among the three doves; she says that he will be middle, he will wave his wing; the khan gives him the girl, tells him to bake bread; they run away; the swan is chasing, they have become fish, the swan has returned, the khan sent the bear, he sees the house, they pray in it; Khan is chasing himself; they returned to their land with a broken wing]: Titov 1936, No. 60:205-207).

Mesoamerica Nahuatl Veracruz [K25].

Guiana. [K25]. Carinha in Orinoco [the man is jealous of his wife, she leaves; he comes to her father, lies down in a hammock; his son finds him dead; tobacco grows on the grave; the young man hides the wings of pigeons that have arrived; doves take it to heaven; there the old man and the old woman tell me 1) make a stone bench decorated with copies of the heads of the old man and the old woman; 2) dry the pond; 3) make a bridge; everything is done by an assistant spirit; reports that these old man and old woman killed the young man's father; when the young man knocked down the trunk to make a bridge, the chips turned into piranhas; the old man and the old woman stepped on the bridge, he fell, they were eaten by piranhas, their heads remain; the old woman's head went up to heaven, became the Morning Star; telling her daughters to avenge her; they gave the young man a drink, lifted the sleeper high up a tree; the eagle asks how he got here; a vine appears from the eagle's bowel movements, a man descends it; the eagle wanted to kill him, but he hid in the water, returned to his mother, gave her an eagle chick; he grew up to bring deer and fish to the woman; she organized a party clearing the site; people came to help, one asked the eagle to bring him an old woman, the other a young woman; so the eagle began to drag people; in one village they made a trap, a bait girl into it, the eagle was caught, killed; a woman came, an avenger feather fell on her chest: all his fibers became diseases; the woman blew on them, they scattered around the world]: Civrieux 1974:104-108.

NW Amazon. Chikuna [O'rëtana lived in heaven with her parents, brothers and sisters; invited her sisters to take a young man from the ground; the son of an old woman heard the voices of turtlenecks and wanted to shoot birds instead of turtles O. and her sister turned out to be; they painted him uruku like a dove; the sarbakan became a snake, the quiver became a hornet's nest; the young man chose O., they rose to the sky; the people in the sky are beautiful; the beer was made from two tubers on one coal; O. wiped the young man's face with cotton wool, he heard his mother crying; they went down, he killed a tapir for his mother, then they returned to heaven; O. gave birth to a son, took her mother-in-law to heaven; washed her with water, taken from ta-ë (female deity), turned her into a young woman; they are all still in heaven]: Nimuendaju 1952:111-112.

The Central Andes. Uarochiri (dep. Lima) [Kahui Lyaka rejects suitors; eats the fruit into which Cooney Raya Vira Kocha, taking the form of a bird, injected his seed; KL gathers male first ancestors to find out who the father of her child is ; Kuniraya comes in the guise of a beggar; a boy crawls towards him; Cavillaca considers himself disgraced, runs to the sea; KR puts on his golden robe, runs after him, but she does not look back; KL turns into a rock into the sea; the Kyrgyz Republic asks Condor, Skunsiha, Puma, Fox, Falcon, Parrots and other oncoming birds and animals (not named) how long has KL passed by; Condor, Puma, Falcon answer that he will soon catch up with her; Skunciha, Fox, Parrots - what is not; KR gives a good share to the first, evil to the second (the condor will always find food, they will not kill him; if Puma or Falcon is killed, their heads will be worn in time hat dancing; the falcon who killed the falcon will sacrifice a llama; the skunk will hunt only at night, smell bad; the fox will be despised if killed, it will be thrown away; parrots will be driven away with contempt fields like thieves; the Kyrgyz Republic came to where Pacha Kamaka's two daughters protected by a snake lived; their mother Urpay Huachak just went far to sea to meet in KL; KR seduced (or raped) the eldest daughter; tried to sleep with the youngest, she flew away as a dove; so the name UU means Dove Born; all the fish were at the UU in the pond; the Kyrgyz Republic released her into the sea, saying, Why did she go to KL, a marine woman depths? Ooo chased him, looked in his head; was about to push him into the abyss; KR said he would go to ease and ran away; continued to deceive local wakas]: Salomon, Urioste 1991, ch. 2:46- 50.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Chacobo [a girl came to the station; it was actually a gorlinka; he brought her home, but when he left, his mother beat his daughter-in-law; she left with her children; her husband brought her back, but that's it It happened again; he found them again in the forest, but they became turtles and flew away]: Kelm 1972, No. 18:243-244.

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.