E9i. The magic wife is a swan, a goose, a duck, a crane.

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A person marries (makes his assistant) a woman who looks like a swan, goose, duck or crane (him. Zugvögel). See motif K25.

Ladins [swan], Irish [swan], French (recording location?) [swan], French (Upper Brittany) [duck], Bretons [swan], Germans (Swabia, Austria) [swan], Ancient India [swan], Minahasa [goose], manobo [duck], Ancient China [crane], Hungarians [swan; duck], Czechs [swan], Luzhitans [swan; duck], Poles [goose; duck], Russians (Teresky Bereg) [swan], Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia [swan; rarely duck], Russians (Vologda) [swan], [swan], Russians ( Voronezh) [swan; spoonbill; {spoonbills do not live north of Kuban}], Western Ukrainians [duck], Kalmyks [swan], Nogais [swan], Kumyks [swan], Karachayevts/Balkarians [swan], Turks [swan], Scandinavians [ swan], Danes [swan; duck], Norwegians [swan; duck], Finns [swan; goose], Karelians [swan], Lithuanians [swan], Latvians [duck], Estonians [swan; duck], Setu [swan], Western Sami [duck], Komi [swan] swan], Chuvash [swan], mari [swan; duck], Mordovians [duck], Bashkirs [swan], Kazakhs [swan; goose], karakalpaks [swan], yellow Uighurs [swan], Buryats [swan], Oirats [swan], Siberian Tatars [ swan], Chulym Turks [swan; duck], Khakas [swan?] , Altaians [swan; goose], Tuvans [swan; duck], South Altai Tuvans [swan; duck], Mansi [swan], northern Khanty [swan], southern Khanty [swan], Nenets (Gydan) [swan], dolgans [sterkh], north- Eastern Yakuts [Siberian], Western Evenks [swan], Baikal Evenks [swan], Far Eastern Evenks [swan; goose], Evens [swan], Nanai [swan; duck], Orochi [swan], Udege [duck], Ancient Japan [swan], Japanese [crane], tundra yukaghirs [swan], Chukchi [duck; goose], Kodiak [goose], central Yupiat [goose], Bering Strait inupiat [goose; Siberian], [goose], North Ayaska Inupiat [goose], copper [goose], netsilic [goose], polar [goose], igloolik [goose], Baffin Earth [goose], Labrador Eskimos [goose], West Greenland [goose], Tlingit [goose], haida [goose], sheta [duck], mokovi [duck].

Southern Europe. Ladins: Uffer 1973, No. 3 [=Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 30:91-93; the merchant's son set off on a ship with goods; a black ship under the red flag sailed in the sea; the captain offered playing cards; the young man lost the goods, the ship and himself; the captain returned everything, but demanded that the young man come to America by a certain day; when he learned about this, the merchant sent his son to a hermit; he advised me to sail to the island where swans fly; when they throw off their swan clothes and become girls, you should hide one of them's clothes; he chose the most beautiful one; she promised to marry him and help him ; gave a wand; when he touched the sea with it, it retreated and it went dry; the black man showed 60 boxes; 59 on the human head, and the sixth for the young man's head; 1) gave a glass ax to cut down the forest; the ax immediately crashed; the swan girl told me to go to bed, and when the young man woke up, the forest was felled down; 2) remove the mountain and set up a vineyard there (the same); 3) get a ring from the sea, which was placed on a paper boat and let her go on the waves; the girl tells her to cut off her head; the severed head rolled into the sea, three drops of blood and a ring with them rose from the water, followed by a revived girl more beautiful the same; they both came to the black captain, the girl's father; he greets them with a smile, gives them a lot of gold; they returned to the boy's father; wedding], 10 [=Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 67:185-187; seven soldiers were returning from the war; they saw a castle, with a table full of good food, seven beds; at night there was a girl next to each; they said they were bewitched; to break the spell, soldiers for years and two days should not see or touch girls; on the last day, soldiers go hunting and see seven swans coming to swim; guessing that they are their girls, they agreed at night light a fire; saw that the girls had swan legs; the girls ran away and the soldiers woke up in an unfamiliar place, the castle was gone; a year later, another soldier found the same castle and waited for the deadline; swans became girls forever, the soldier married the one who came to see him]: 9-11, 30-32.

Western Europe. The Irish [Swan]: Larminie 1893 [the prince lives with his father and young stepmother; one day he hunts, sees three swans on the lake, they threw off their hats, became girls, approached the hunters, the most beautiful to the prince; when the hunters returned, the Queen heard from one of them what they had seen; asked this guy to put a sleeping pill in the prince next time; the swan maiden did not wake up to prince and said that she would come only once more; the same the next day; the swan maiden asked to tell him that the prince would not see her again; the prince went to look for her; came to the house, his nine-legged horse hid it; three seals came in, became young men; first: I have an apple, if you throw it, I will have a lock; I have a ring: it will blind and kill enemies; third: I have a nine-legged horse; everyone would like to give it to the prince; the prince opened, got everything; the horse: first I must throw you to the ground three times; the prince passed the test; now the horse will carry it where it needs to go; brought it to the king; he will give his daughter if the young man fulfills conditions; clear the island of Owases; the horse jumped to the island, the prince killed Owases (some demons or cannibals); when the prince returned, the servant (butler responsible for food and wine) changed with him clothes; the king is going to give his daughter for this deceiver; they all lost their way in the fog; the king promised a daughter to the young man, believing that he would be the servant if he saved them; he was not going to keep his promise; the young man threw an apple, a castle appeared; the princess says that she will marry someone who rides a 9-legged horse; the servant tried it, the horse killed him immediately; the same with others who tried; the prince easily saddled the horse ; the princess recognized the young man, dressed like a king; the horse turned into a princess, those three young seals were her brothers; witchcraft fell apart]: 219-231; McManus 1915 [the queen plays cards with an old man, he puts a spell on him not to eat twice at the same table, not to sleep in the same bed twice; the sage explains that the old man lives at the bottom of the sea, says where his four swan daughters will fly; queen she hides the youngest's clothes; gives it for a promise to help; she sticks a sleep pin in her father so that he does not hack the young man at the entrance; the young man comes in, says, Save all God here; this phrase has broken the spell but the old man gives instructions; 1) build a house; 2) clean the house of garbage; 3) build a roof; 4) cover it with the peace of wild birds; the old man's daughter does everything for the young man, tells him to take a horse, run; a father with an army they chase, the wife tells him to splash after him, then the horse taken from his ear appears, the sea appears; the old man drains it with three plates of water; the daughter pulls a duck out of a tree, an egg from a duck, hits her father in his left leg with an egg, he dies; the wife tells the Queen to come home first; he will forget her if he kisses anyone; he is kissed by a greyhound, he has forgotten his wife, he has married a princess; the old man's daughter is hired as a laundress; the princess enters the laundry room, falls dead; the laundress tells the rooster and the chicken to tell a story about her and the one who forgot her; the queen remembers everything, calls the old man's daughter his wife]: 191-195; French [knight sees in the forest, a swan girl who took off her robe]: Grimm 1883 (1): 430; the French (Haute-Brittany) [the man lost cards to Bluebeard; he said he must now serve him for 7 years and while he is his will not find, will not fall asleep day or night; a person goes in search; meets three old women consistently; the first has not seen people for 100 years, the second for 40, the third knows where the Security Council lives: we must cross three seas: red, white and blue; when three SB daughters arrive to swim, we must steal the garter; three ducks flew in and became girls; the man hid the garter alone, she promised to take it to her father, but She did not keep her promise; the same with the second; the old woman teaches her to take an oath; the third swore and took the man to her father's kingdom; the SB orders to scoop out the pond with a thimble; hide a monstrous amount wool; get eggs from the bird's nest in a tall tree without stairs; the SB daughter tells her to be chopped to pieces to make a ladder; then the little finger was not enough; the SB orders to identify the bride among her sisters; man identified by missing little finger; wife sisters want to kill a man out of jealousy; wife tells him to break the egg in which his life lies on SB's chest]: Sébillot 1894, No. 1:167-168 ; Germans (Swabia) [the hunter's wife died; the old man advises hiding the clothes of one of the swan girls coming to swim in the lake; the wife gives birth to several children; after 15 years she finds a swan the robe flies away; the old man sends her husband to the miller, who loads flour on the donkeys that take her to the castle where the swan maiden lives; the husband persuaded the miller to hide it in a bag; the wife tells her husband to remain silent when three Three dragons will fly for an hour and torture him; on the first day they are snakes, then turtles, then snakes again; the husband is silent; the dragons turn into three noble women, they were swans; they and the couple remain in the castle]: Meier 1852, No. 7:39-42 (=Ashliman 2002); Germans (Swabia) [the beloved wife is dead, the hunter is wandering through the woods; the old man in the hut advises to hide the clothes of one of the three girls- swans who come to swim; this is how the hunter got his wife; the old man warned me to hide her feather clothes; they have many children; after 15 years he forgot to close the room in which he kept his wife's clothes; the wife flew away; the children do not know anything; the old man: the wife in the castle, from which a donkey is sent every day to the mill for flour; the hunter hid in a bag, the donkey brought him to the castle; the wife is happy to see her husband again; to get it, he must silently endure the suffering caused by dragons arriving in different guises three times for an hour; snakes appeared the first time, toads the second, and snakes again the third time; he held back the scream; three snakes turned into three women, they were those swans; the hunter stayed with his wife in the castle]: Meier 1852, No. 7:39-42; Germans (Austria) [young man sees swimming in the forest on the lake three girls put on swan clothes and fly away; the mother tells me to build a hut near the lake and guard; the young man hides the average girl's clothes, brings her to the hut; goes after his mother, forgetting to lock the chest; a girl finds her clothes, flies away, telling her to look for them on a glass mountain; an old man calls animals, only a three-legged hare knows the way to a glass mountain; a young man divides a horse carcass between a bear, a wolf, a crow and an ant; each gives his own hair (ant-paw) to take the form of this animal; a young man flies up the mountain to the girl as a crow; she warns that her mother is a witch; she sets conditions weddings; 1) drink an egg without breaking the shell (the young man makes a tiny hole with an ant); 2) cut down the forest in three days, turn it into piles of firewood (the wife does everything); 3) set fire to firewood and jump into fire; he jumps, there is a palace on the site of the fire; the young man began to live in it with his wife and her sisters]: Cerf 1992:123-128; Bretons [Pipi Menou shepherd sees swans fly to the lake, take off their clothes from feathers, bathe; his grandmother explains that these are the daughters of a sorcerer, whose castle hangs high above the sea; we must hide the virgin's clothes, let them take them to her castle and become a wife; PM hid the youngest's clothes; maidens they took him to the castle, leaving him in the garden; when the gardener loaded the vegetable and fruit basket, the PM hid there, the maiden picked it up, he stayed with her overnight; two sisters were envious, threatened to open everything; wife The PM put him on his back, they went down to the ground and stayed there; they have many children]: Luzel 1887 (2), No. 7:347-354.

South Asia. South Asia (Shatapatha Brahman) [Apsara Urvashi seduced many ascetics and sages with beauty; Mitra cursed her by sending her to live on earth; W. agreed to marry the first king of the Lunar Dynasty Pururavasa on condition that she would not see him naked; when the heavenly Gandharvas decided that it was time for W. to return to the upper world, they stole two of her favorite lambs lying at her bed at night; P. chased with them, the Gandharvas flashed lightning, W. saw her husband and disappeared; P. came to the lake, where the Apsars bathed in the guise of swans; W., who he recognized, told him to come a year later when she would give birth to his son; A year later, the lovers united after P. himself became one of the Gandharvas; to do this, he had to make a sacrifice and make a wish; to sacrifice, the ganharvas were given a brazier with heavenly fire, which P. immediately lost; but he obtained fire by friction, thereby establishing a rite of obtaining sacred fire]: Grintzer 1982b: 350-351.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Minahasa [Goose].

Taiwan - Philippines. Manobo (agusan) [duck].

China - Korea. Ancient China (? ; a 9th century AD manuscript from the Dunghuang cave complex, prov. Gansu) [Crane].

The Balkans. Hungarians: Ortutai 1974, No. 11 [the son of a farmhand grew up, went on a journey; people are carrying 12 carts of reeds, he asked for a reed, did not find what he needed; he found two reed bushes by the sea, made it out of reeds guns and sabers; now his name is Maly with the Kamyshins (K.); came to the king; it turned out that he was indistinguishable from the queen; tells him that he met a girl whom her father would give only for someone who just as rich; the king also does not marry his son to someone who has less money than he; K. brings the Queen to the girl, they lured her to the ship, took her away; K. hears the vultures talking at night; the horse will throw off Queen, he will be killed; a faithful servant will shoot a hare, hit the queen; the 12-headed dragon will take the bride away on the wedding night; whoever tells will petrify; K. shot the horse, the servant; asked for permission to remain in marriage; cut off the dragon's heads; he is asked to explain; he told and petrified; two sons were born; the beggar orders to sprinkle the stone with the blood of these children; K. came to life; the king gave him the keys to 99 rooms, he did not give up the hundredth; K. spies through the keyhole; there are three baths, swan maidens arrive, take off their clothes, bathe; they say that if you hide the clothes, you won't come back; K. made the key hid the youngest's clothes, gave her another one, married her; the wife warns not to give her her old clothes if others ask; they are invited to a wedding, everyone asks for his wife to dance in her old clothes, for will dance even better; K. brought it, his wife put it on and flew away, ordered her to look for her in a fortress on a high mountain, a star above her; K. comes to the mother of the Sun; the Sun is back, does not know about the mountain, advises to ask his uncle Wind; The wind tells him to follow the blackthorn bush {tumbleweed?} ; at the mountain, the miller put K. in a barrel of flour, which the neck raises to the top of the mountain every day; the neck picked it up, he opened it to his wife, stayed with her on the mountain]: 251-264; Domotor 1988, No. 400A ^x [ every night, the fruits of the magic tree disappear; the owner's three sons are consistently guarded; the elders fall asleep, the mouse helps the youngest to stay awake; he grabs and marries a swan maiden ; she forbids him to tell anyone about her; the young man breaks the ban, the wife flies away as a swan; the young man goes to look for his wife, but falls asleep three times when he must meet her; supernatural creatures help him achieve his goal]: 458; Ortutai 1974, No. 10 [the poor man told his wife to cook meat; she left, the children ate everything, the wife cut off the meat from her legs, cooked her husband; after learning how delicious man is, the husband offered to slaughter two older children; the boy heard everything, he and his sister ran away; his sister told me not to drink from a wolf, bear trail - you would become a wolf, a bear; the brother drank from a deer, became a deer; they hid in a haystack, the king found them, took the girl as his wife; she gave birth to a son, the king went to war; the cook pushed the queen into the sea, replaced her daughter; the queen became a golden duck ; the deer carries the baby to the sea, the duck goes out, becomes a woman, feeds the child; the king spied, hugged his wife; tied the cook and daughter to the horses, what was left was burned]: 231-251.

Central Europe. Czechs [poor Tunda was hired for a hundred gold a month; there is no job; at the end of his term, the master takes him to the sea, hits the water with a twig, the waters part, they go dry to the castle, T. climbs through the window, master tells you to throw money, i.e. refuses, the window shrinks, closes; someone black shows 99 corpses of those whom the master lured earlier; because T. did not take the money, black leaves him to watch a pair of horses and goat; T. asks for cards, then his wife; tells him to snatch three feathers from one of the three swans who will come to swim; the swan turns into a girl; T. asks for permission to see her parents, the owner allows, but does not advise; at home, T. opens the chest he has brought, the wife grabs her feathers, flies away; T. returns, the goat takes him to the pond where the swans swim; the witch sends her daughter Amalka, that T. puts him to sleep every time, the swans do not wake up, they fly further and further; in the last castle, the princess (this is T.'s wife) throws the ring, T. catches it three times with her sword, each time she leaves; the princess finds, the spouses unite; T. cuts it down the heads of the black lord and the goat, they turn into king and queen]: Bogolyubova, Talova 2000:307-317; the Luzhitans [the drummer soldier came out of the fortress and saw three fall into the water in the moat swans, took off their feather clothes, became girls and began to swim; he quietly hid one of them's clothes; married her; once forgot the key in the chest lock; the wife opened the chest, put on her feather clothes, left a note and flew away; the note said that you should look for them on a certain mountain; the drummer must go into the cave, pick three flowers, hammer them into a drum; a castle appeared on the site of the mountain and three princesses came out who were swans because of witchcraft; the drummer stayed with them]: Veckenstedt 1880, No. 13.2:120-122; Luzhitsy (Upper Lusatia) [mother died, father married godmother, she began to tyrant her stepdaughter, she had 4 daughters: with 1, 2, 3, 4 eyes; stepdaughter herds a cow; she is prettier, although her stepmother gives her clay rolls; the stepmother consistently sends her daughters to spy; The stepdaughter puts them to sleep every time (sleep a peephole, sleep with the other), but forgot about the fourth eye; the four-eye says that the cow gives her stepdaughter food from one horn, a drink from the other; the stepmother is getting ready slaughter a cow; she tells her stepdaughter to ask for her udder, there will be a pebble in it, it must be planted, a ringing glass stick will grow, and a dog will yap under her; the master saw the girl; the stepmother told wrap the sticky in chains, but she escaped and jumped on the wagon on which the master took his wife; when she gave birth, her stepmother came, pushed her into the pond, replaced her with her daughter; the woman turned into a duck; husband I am surprised why the wife became ugly; at night a duck flew in, became a woman, fed the child; says that the lipka does not ring, the dog does not yap, the son cries; on the third night the husband managed to grab his wife; she tells cut her belt in one fell swoop; her husband took a dagger, cut it; the wife remained human, told everything; her stepmother was tied by her hair to the horse's tail; the lipka rang again, the dog yapped, the son smiled]: Erben in Lifshits-Artemyeva 2017:183-188; Poles: Lifshits-Artemyeva 2017 [the childless king returned to the castle, wanted to drink; the scoop at the well is not being handed over; the king leaned to the water, Koschey grabbed him by the beard, let him give him what he did not know at home, and when he returned he would immediately find it; the king promised that the well had disappeared, the king caught up with the squad; he found his newborn son at home; his name Nenadalek ("unexpected") ; when he grew up, he met an old man with green eyes, he reminded him of his promise; N. went, found 12 girlish shirts by the sea, and saw 12 jaws in the water; hid one shirt; the jaws became girls, dressed and flew away; the 12th asked to return her shirt, promised to help; she is Koschey's youngest daughter; ordered K. to crawl to the throne on her knees; they fell into the underworld; K. laughed, did not kill N., promised give tasks; 1) create a palace with a garden overnight (the girl created it); get to know the youngest daughter (girl: you will notice the sun under your right eyebrow); in the presence of K., sew a pair of shoes while the straw is burning; the girl tells me to run, leaves the spit responsible for herself; K. sends servants; the girl turned herself into a river, N. into a bridge, a horse into a crow; into a forest with many paths; into a church, a priest, a bell tower; K. not I found out, came back; the girl tells me not to enter the city: if R. kisses the child who came out to meet her there, he will forget her; so it happened; the girl became a cornflower in the field; the old man found him, transplanted him, brought him to for himself; someone cooks and cleans; the fortune teller advised me to guard, the old man found the girl; on this day the Queen is getting married; the girl speckled the cake, asked the cook to serve; two doves jumped out from there, they began to tell how N. forgot the girl; the Queen remembered everything, came with his girlfriend to his father's country; wedding]: 209-221; Shcherbakov 1980 [the shepherd's three sons take turns guarding the sheaf raised by their father with golden ears; a sheaf is stolen by a bird; the youngest goes in search, lives with an old magician and his blind wife; deceives the rock spirit, receives a means to restore vision; the wizard's wife promises get a bride for the young man; tells him to go to the sea, where three duck girls swim; he hides the feathers of one of them, then returns it, she flies away; the same again; the third time he does not return, takes the girl as his wife, they are a daughter; she goes with his wife to visit her parents; the wife complains to her father-in-law that her husband does not give her favorite dress; her father-in-law takes her key out of the chest, she puts on her shirt, flies away with a duck; the husband returns to An old magician who helps to reach the glass mountain and return his wife]: 115-125 (retelling Kozlova 2006:330); Belarusians (Grodno) [duck]; Russians (Terek coast): Balashov 1970, No. 22 [The princess laughs - gold is falling, crying is pearls; one step is gold, the other is silver; the king is dead, the prince is going to the city, the princess tells him not to brag about her; he drank, bragged, the local king tells him not to brag about her; he drank, bragged, the local king tells him not deliver her sister; the tsar sent a ship; the old woman took the princess's clothes, pushed her into the water, she flew away like a swan; the old woman replaced her daughter; gold does not fall, the prince was put in dungeon; sister arrives, sheds her wings, cried pearls; the watchman watched, burned the swan wings, grabbed the princess, who turned into a snake, a spindle, everything; the king took his real wife, and her brother gave up his kingdom], 145 [the queen gave birth to a son Evryukh, a stukolnik, and the nannies said it was a calf; the tsar put her in the basement; E. broke through the wall, left his mother with the old woman, went on a journey, met her, took her Two more; they came into the house, there were many cattle inside, slaughtered a bull, took turns cooking meat; the old man beats the cook, hangs him by his hair from the ceiling; when E.'s turn, he beat the old man, burned it in the fire; swans flew in, became girls, began to wash in the bathhouse; the first bro tries to close the door to the bathhouse, he is thrown out; the same with the second; E. holds the door; the girl calls E. the groom, she is Kashchei's daughter, in the summer will come by ship; E. waits, the old woman pierces a pin into his head, he falls asleep; so three times; E. found the old woman, burned it; found the bride; she promises to find out where her father died; he replies that he was in the broom ( gilded the broom); in an egg; she handed the egg to Evryukha, who smashed it on Kashchei's forehead, he died; he came home with his wife, killed the tsar and nannies]: 78-80, 394-397; Russians (Karelia) [well done to catch fish, saw three swans, they took off their skins, became girls, started swimming, he hid one skin, the girl agreed to be his wife; getting into the boat, well done gave his wife a skin to prevent her from getting wet; she put it on and flew away; told me to look for her three years later on Lake Ilmen, ask the port lady; she brought him into the house; his wife's father greeted his son-in-law, the wife took her son out; they began to live well]: Azadovsky 1947, No. 44:186-187; Russians (Karelian Pomorie, Virma; a brief summary of a text from the archive of the Karelian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences) [a young man hides the dress of one of the swan girls; while meeting her, his uncle puts her to sleep nephew with a sleepy pin, the swan girl disappears, the hero finds her, their wedding will take place]: Razumova, Senkina 1974, No. 215:380; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [the tsar and queen are dead; the prince Sister Nastasya sails, promises to marry Zorya Tsarevich; sister has grown up, asks to fulfill her promise; brother tells Z. that her sister will laugh - gold winds, cry - pearls fall, set foot - alone the trail is golden, the other is silver; they swim to Z.; from the cape a woman screams, asks her to take it; sister: do not take it; from the third cape, the brother took it, this is Baba Yaga; she comes to the cabin and says her brother's words: undress and throw yourself into the water; for the third time N. listened and became a duck; Baba Yaga dressed up in her dress; Z. is disappointed in the bride, threw her brother in prison; Z. comes to the cook; he says that A duck arrives, becomes a girl, gold curls and pearls fall, asks about Z. and her brother; she flew in again, Z. grabbed her and kissed her, N. remained a girl; wedding]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:202-205; Russians (North - Arkhangelsk?) [Ivan Tsarevich wounded a swan, brought it to the tent; someone cooks and cleans; for the third time I. finds and grabs the girl; she resists, turned into a golden spindle, I. broke it, threw his heel in front of him (be young), and the tip behind his back (be a scarlet flower); they have a son; in the spring, the backyard grandmother tells I. to guard his wife; swans are flying, everyone offers to shed his wing; wife answers her father and sister that she has Ivanushka here; tells her mother to throw off her wing, his wife picked it up, but I. grabbed her; she cried]: Karnaukhova 1948:173-177; Russians (Vologodskaya) [Egor The unfortunate man tells two merchant sons that by shooting at flying geese, he will shoot down four at once; so it happened; the king took him; E. wants to shoot at the swan; she tells not to shoot, he becomes beautiful, promises to deliver as many birds as necessary; the king agreed to marry them, but he is envious, wants to get rid of E.; senators do not know what to recommend; Vanyushka-Pyanchuzhka offers to order for uproot the forest at night, etc., and by morning bake pies from harvested wheat; the wife tells the spirits, they have done everything; bring a golden bristle pig with 12 piglets; bring perfume; go there, I don't know where, bring something I don't know what; the wife gives a ball and a handkerchief; the ball will bring her to the middle sister, and she recognizes her son-in-law by the headscarf; the middle one sends to the eldest; the eldest to their mother, and the father will not show up, for decorated the pig belonged to him; Kashchei the Immortal told his wife where to go at night, gave a ring; she gave it to Egor; he swam on a dolphin; the sea king comes: Kukhta-mukhta, I want to eat; when he left, E. asks , somewhere I don't know what; KM: it's me; went with E.; at this time the tsar tried to take possession of his wife E., she flew away as a bird; E. returned; first the tsar had a feast, then E.; the king was beheaded]: Sokolov, Sokolov 1981, No. 30:116-122; Russians (Voronezh): Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 130 [the queen was carried away by an evil spirit; the eldest, middle son went to search, disappeared; the youngest sees 33 spoonbills fly to the sea, become girls, began to swim; Ivan hid the most beautiful sash; returns when she tells him that his mother lives with her father, Raven Voronovich; follows the bird, meets the brothers, they let it down into the underworld; there are three spoonbill girls; the princess of the copper kingdom gives a ball, it leads to the silver princess, she gives another to the princess of the golden kingdom, the one to the pearl where her mother and father live; ordered to replace the barrels with living and dead water; Ivan receives a feather road from Raven Voronovich; kingdoms roll into a ball, roll after him; brothers pull out the princesses and their mother, cut off the rope, pulling Ivan out; the feather helps him return to earth; there his father is going to marry the princess of the golden kingdom; she demands that her shoes be sewn without a measure; Ivan dissolved the golden kingdom, took his shoes from there; the same a dress without a measure; the princess tells Ivan to be cooked in milk, he comes out handsome; the father rushes into the cauldron, cooked; Ivan reigns]: 239-243; Korolkova 1969 [Ivan hunts for his master; sees twelve swans; they take off their birds' clothes, become girls, swim; he hides his shoe alone, she agrees to become his wife; cleans his poor house; the master demands either Ivan's wife or 1) bring all the animals a menagerie; the wife tells him to follow the rolling ball; the beast rushes at I., but gets stuck in an oak tree with its horn; I. brings him behind his wife's leash; the master is frightened, asks to take the beast away; 2) get a self-play goose; the ball rolls to the wife's mother, she gives a harp; 3) bring neither one nor this; the wife asks, only the frog knows how to get it; in the lake there is a crystal palace, there is Orlets; I. tells him to arrange at the master's feast, then drive the master and his men out]: 130-140; Ukrainians (Pokutye) [pan bent over to the well to drink water; the underground king grabbed him by the beard: give him what you don't know at home; when pan returned, it turned out that his wife had given birth to a son; he grew up, went to the forest at the age of 15; a voice came out of the fire: remind his father of his promise; the guy went to look for the underground king; there were 12 white shirts by the river and 12 ducks in the water; he hid one shirt; the ducks went ashore and became girls; the one whose clothes he hid says they are 12 daughters of an underground king; stomped, a passage to the lower world opened; teaches her father to approach her father on her knees; he gives 3 tasks; 1) build a castle overnight; the girl tells me to go to bed, the castle is ready in the morning; 2) identify the youngest daughter among 12, otherwise she will be given to live pigs to eat; girl: my ear will be the fly is spinning; 3) sew boots; the girl cannot, they run, her spit is responsible for the young man; the chase; the girl has turned herself into a field, the young man into a sower; the lake and the fisherman; the tavern and the tavern; now the girl throws the comb is a thick forest; they have almost reached; the young man goes forward, the girl tells him not to kiss the child, otherwise she will forget her; he kissed; a wedding is being prepared with a girl; the girl has hired a cook, baked a loaf and two doves; a dove and a dove exchange phrases about how the young man forgot everything; pan is glad that the son has returned, and with the bride; the cook became a dove, flew for the young man; {it is unclear, he still married the daughter of an underground king or an earthly girl}]: Zinchuk 2005b, No. 88:392-401.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks [Swan]; Nogais [the legend about the origin of Aegis, the founder of the Nogai rulers; the shepherd found a skull with the inscription in the steppe; ground it into flour, hid it in a chest; his daughter found it the bundle, licked, gave birth to a boy Bar-Kai; living away from people and hunting, B. marries a swan maiden; she gives birth to his son Kutla-kaya (Edige's father) and leaves; in another version, to the lake shore three swans flew in, took off their clothes, became girls, swam; Kutly-kaya hid her youngest's clothes, married her]: Kapaev 2012:257-258; Kumyks [Swan]; Turks [Swan]; Karachays or Balkarians [Aladin asks his father to get him a good horse; he brings a plain horse; the horse got stronger, rushed further at the races, ended up on the seashore, disappeared into the sea; A. sees three bathing girls, hides their swan clothes; promises to give them back if they help get the prince's daughter to talk; you have to touch the fur coat with a wand, she will tell a fairy tale, there will be an argument in the fairy tale, it is wrong to resolve the dispute, then the girl will start talking; the brothers for three have one bull; the elder pass the head, the middle one has the belly, the youngest thinks that the bull was sick, went to consult middle brother; late at night I reached the bull's belly, both went to the eldest, reached the bull's head late at night; the brothers took the bull to a watering hole, he drained the sea with a sip; the brothers decided to leave the bull at on the island, it turned out to be the back of the fish; the fish swallowed the bull; the eagle took the fish; in the steppe, the shepherd sat down to rest in the shade of his goat's beard; the eagle fell on the goat's horns, ate the fish with grass and trees that grew on her; a bull's shoulder fell out of his beak, hit the old man's eye; he asked his daughter to take it out; she drove her father's eye up and down in a boat, picked up his shoulder blade with her little finger fingernail, threw it out the window; the shovel fell at the well where a caravan of ninety camels had stopped; the caravans spread fire on the bull's shoulder blade, and a fox ran past, smelled the smell, began to gnaw on the shoulder blade, and the caravans thought that an earthquake began; a woman hit the fox with a rocker arm, killed her; the caravans removed half of the skin and half did not - 90 people could not turn the fox to the other side; they decided to sew 90 fur coats from half the skin; the woman pushed the fox with the dude's toe, turned it over, wondered if half the skin would be enough for a hat for her newborn son; which of them is bigger? ; Aladin: fish; she could not stand it: more and more children; A. got a wife]: Aliyeva, Kholaev 1983:90-97.

Baltoscandia. The Scandinavians (Song of Wölund) [Slagfid, Egil and Wölund, sons of the Finns king, build a house, hunt by the lake; see three Valkyries taking off their swan clothes and spinning linen; they take them away, get married; after 8 years, the Valkyries flew away, leaving their husbands; the brothers go to look for them, V. remains to wait for his wife; King Nidud ties him up, tells him to cut B. tendons under his knees, settle him on a deserted island far from people, where he must create metal jewelry for N., his wife and children; V. made wings from the feathers of birds that Egil killed for him (this is explained in Norwegian Tidrexage of the late 13th century). E. is the first to try to fly and dies. V. flew away, decapitating N.'s two sons and raping his daughter. V. - Alva ruler]: Andreev 1989:45; Meletinsky 1968:272-273; Elder Edda 1963:68-72; Swedes (Blekinge) [swan]; Danes [Swan]; Danes: Holbek 1987 [to to get rid of her stepdaughter, her stepmother sends her to a mound with dwarfs for berries; on the way, the old man gives the girl food - let him feed the dwarfs; they are grateful; let her become more beautiful day by day; roses and lilies grow up where she steps; gold and silver fall off her hair when she combs her hair; her stepmother sends her own daughter to the dwarfs not with food, but with a stick; they make her spit they turn into frogs and toads, a calf tail grows on her forehead, she emits gases at every step; the heroine's brother is in the king's service; she sends him her portrait, the king wants to marry her; on the way, her stepmother throws her off the ship, turns her into a duck, replaces her with her own daughter; the king is furious, throws the heroine's brother in prison for deception; in the form of a duck, the heroine enters the kitchen, asks about her brother and half-sister, says he can only come twice more; the king tells the maid to catch the duck; draws a cross on her beak, she becomes a girl again; the king is on her marries, frees her brother, stepmother and daughter put in a barrel of nails]: 523; Norwegians [someone tramples on the field at night; two older brothers do not know anything, the youngest sees three girls- swans (-doves, -ravens), steals one of them's clothes, she promises to marry him]: Christiansen 1959:128; Karelians [Swan]; Finns: Concca 1993 [Swan]: 17-28; Schreck 1887, No. 5 ( Esterboten) [Goose]: 35-44; Lithuanians [Swan; Goose]; Latvians [Duck]; Estonians: Järv et al. 2009, No. 14 (Rannu) [when he dies, the forester bequeaths his son to take care of the landlord's forest, but not go to one place; he goes, there the devils are fighting over bast shoes (speeders), hats (sees everything), a sheepskin coat (makes him invisible); the forester shoots, promises to award things to the one who brings the departed earlier pellets; six swans fly by, he wears bast shoes behind them; they swim in the lake with their feathers off; he hides clothes alone, takes them as wives; they have a son; the wife laughs; promises to tell what if he shows where her clothes are; tells a funny story about the devil; the husband opens the chest; the wife grabs her clothes, flies away; he comes to an empty house, there is food, drink, goes to bed; six come in Swans; each says that someone ate her bread, slept on her bed; the wife finds her husband in her bed; flies away for her son, tells her husband not to go into the same room; he comes in, there is a chained old devil; asks for water, the forester gives, the devil drinks three times, breaks chains, waits for the forester's wife, takes her away; the forester finds, takes his wife, catches up with the hell, takes him away again; so twice, the third time he kills; previously the forester picked up and saved a half-dead wolf; now the vorons and vorons flocked to peck the forester's corpse, the wolf caught the crow; promised to return the crow if it brought live water; he brought it, the wolf revived forester; the forester's mother sends him to a far clever old man; he says that a witch lives overseas, her white mare brings 12 foals every year; there are human heads on stakes, one empty stake; if you herd for 3 days, you will get a foal, you need to take the most inconspicuous one; the king of midges, the king of horseflies and Vähjäkuningas (?) ; the forester does everything, takes his wife away; the horse says he will not catch up, because his brother is stronger than him; both horses kill the line, the forester and his wife come home to them]: 78-84; Mälk et al. 1967, No. 61 (southern Estonia; also Saarema, central northern Estonia) [the widow asks the girl to persuade her father, who is also a widower, to marry her; he sets the condition: bring water in a leaky boot; but the water does not flow out, because the widow is a witch; now the stepmother tyrants her stepdaughter, cares for her own daughter; in winter she sends for strawberries; she comes to the house where the old people are; shares the dry crust that her stepmother gave; old people tell me to take a shovel with a broom, clear some ground from the snow, there are strawberries; goodbye, one of the old men wants gold to fall from the girl's lips; others: to make every day prettier; marry the king; every day would be the best of yesterday; to wear warm clothes; the stepmother asked everything kindly, sent her own daughter; she is rude to the old people, she grabs what they eat, refuses to remove the snow; they do , so that toads would fall off her lips, so that every day she would not get married; the king saw the girl with gold on her lips, married; she gave birth to a boy; the stepmother was hired as a maid, turned the queen in the duck, replaced it with her own daughter; the servant noticed a duck flying in at night, becoming a woman and feeding the child; she teaches the servant to tell the king: when the duck flies in, it is necessary cut off the duck's head; this can only be done the next night, there is no further salvation; the king did so, brought his wife back, stepmother and daughter were lowered down the mountain in a barrel of nails]: 160-164; setu [Swan] ; Western Sami: Klaus 1995 [the king married Princess Nävenšanmaa; Hähttešan came, gave N. clothes, she dressed, turned into a merganser duck, H. took her to jump into the sea, she jumped, did not return; H. put N.'s clothes on her daughter, the king did not notice the change; the softer the bed, the more the imaginary wife complains about the rigidity, and when they put the logs, she said which is soft; the shaman advised to prepare a hole with resin and firewood, push daughter H. there, set it on fire; she burned down; the shaman ordered to burn everything that daughter X. used, go to the shore where the real N. goes out to babysit her remaining child; she went out, took off X.'s clothes, became a woman, put her clothes under a stone; the king quietly took the clothes away, gave it to the shaman; she had difficulty persuading his wife to return, she did not want to; when she entered the house, she smelled a beetle larva; the servants found a piece of hair imaginary N., burned it; then N. was able to enter; gave birth to the king many children]: 23-25; Pollan 2005, No. 15 [Njávešeadnidattera met the prince, he fell in love with her; the ugly Háhcešeadnidattera tried in vain to seduce the prince; before the wedding, the king: the one who picks the berries faster will receive the son; H. filled the basket with stones , put berries on top; but the king exposed the deception and chose N.; N. and his brother sailed on the ship; H. bent from the shore to the ship, sat between N. and her brother; brother tells her sister to dress well; N. did hears, asks again; H.: brother tells you to dress and jump into the water as a duck; H. cut off her legs, then she was able to put on N.'s shoes; crow: why is the blood flowing? H. was brought to a dark room, but it was not light; H. complains that the bed was hard; the prince ordered to bring the softest underwear; H.: sticks, etc.; then said it was soft; but the prince could not lie on it, and the bride smells bad; the brother said that H. is not his sister; the healer tells me to play the violin on the shore for three evenings; the mermaid raised N. above the water; she asks for closer - water in her ears, the sound of the sea in her ears; brother grabbed the girl; she turned into different objects and creatures; when she became a spindle, my brother broke it, threw half into the sea, and the other became N.; N.: I will not return to the castle until H. is burned; H. almost extinguished the fire was burned with his urine, but still it was burned, and there was no trace left; N. was brought into the room, it was lit up]: 76-79; Poestion 1886, No. 6 [brother and sister live alone; prince arrived, fell in love with a girl, left for a year, told the girl, along with her brother and child, to come to him by that time; they are sailing in a boat across the lake; on the shore, Attijis-ene asks to take her as a maid; her sister does not want to, her brother takes it; A. Sits in the middle of the boat, and sister and brother are at the ends; they do not hear each other, A. supposedly gives her brother's words to her sister, but distorts them; brother tells me to wear the best dress; A.: give the dress to me, throw myself in lake, you will become a golden duck; sister threw herself into the water, A. picked up the child; prince takes A.; brother at the shore calls his sister - the baby cries; the sister went out, fed the baby, became again duck, swam away; next time another man hid behind her brother, grabbed a young woman; she turned into a worm, a mole, sea grass, a mosquito; finally remained a woman; A. prince pushed into a hole with burning resin; wedding]: 39-42.

Volga - Perm. Komi [Swan]; Chuvash [Swan; Goose]; Marie: Aktsorin 1984 [Toydemar's stepson caught Lebedushka in his snare, brought her home; stepmother plucked her, burned her feathers; T. fell on Lebedushka, she became beautiful, married T.; in the fall, the swans threw her feather, she flew away like a swan; T. cried, the swans threw off their feathers and he became a swan, flew away after his wife]: 132-145; Tudorovskaya, Eman 1945 [an old man and an old woman have a son; someone is ruining oats; a son guards, sees a swan, scorched her wings with a burning spruce branch, she became a girl, he married her; when she She goes to get water, the swans call her every time and throw her pen off; she leaves her clothes on the stump, attaches feathers, flies away like a swan; the son goes to the stump with a silver whip, but his wife is gone; he cried]: 36-38; Chetkarev 1948 [Mouse and Sparrow were friends, shared food; Sparrow swallowed a seed alone, they quarreled, Mouse called animals, Sparrow called birds, Leo broke Eagle's wing; the hunter began to aim at Orel, agreed to take him home and feed him; the Eagle ate all his cattle, flew away, returned, carried him for his reward; dropped it on purpose, then picked him up to show how afraid he was at gunpoint; younger, middle the eagle's sisters in bronze and silver palaces answer that they love their father and mother more than their brother; the youngest in gold says that there is more brother; gives a parcel, tells them not to open on the way; the Eagle carries the hunter back over the mountain; he opens the bundle, the golden palace appears, the sorcerer gathers the palace back for promising to give what he does not know at home; a son was born at home; goes to the sorcerer; the old woman gives a skein of thread, he leads to her older sister, who explains how to take the clothes of one of the twelve duck girls who come to swim; the girl tells her to hire her father (this is the sorcerer), identify among 12 doves (she will bite harder); in a hot bath, young people turn into flies, fly away, spit is responsible for them; a girl turns into a herd, a guy into a shepherd; a monastery and a priest; into a lake and goose; sorcerer stops chasing]: 19-36; Mordovians [Duck]; Bashkirs [Swan].

Turkestan. Kazakhs, Karakalpaks [in the epic "Edigei" among Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, semi-nomadic Uzbeks, Bashkirs, Siberian Tatars, etc., the youngest of the virgins flying in the form of swans agrees to become the wife of St. Baba Tuklas, provided that he does not look at her head when she combs, under her arms when she takes off her shirt, at her legs when she takes off her shoes; BT violates the ban, sees a transparent skull, lungs, translucent under the arms, bird legs or hooves; the wife flies away, telling me where she will leave the baby; BT finds Edigei there]: Abramzon 1977:159-160; Kazakhs: Benningsen 1912 (recorded in Verny a student, so Semirechye) [the khan has 7 beautiful daughters; finally, a son was born, but ugly; the khan ordered him to be left in the desert near the lake; 40 geese flew in, became girls, raised him a young man, while remaining young; he married each of them, they were descended from the Kyrgyz people; the Kyrgyz call themselves Kyrgyz Cossack, i.e. Kerek-Kyz-Kaz-Ak ("40 white geese maidens")]: 3; Potanin 1916, No. 11 (Aralo- Irtysh watershed) [Koblanda's hero robbed bay; the son of that youngster Karaman offered martial arts; after a long struggle, Koblanda killed him, stole people and property; the old man and the boy remained under the cauldron Talas-pie under straw; Karaman's bow was worn by two strongmen, T. brought one; three swans torment the old man every day; T. tells him to tell, puts on his clothes, shoots swans, falls his ring; comes to the lousy shepherd, who replies that he is herding Kadyr Kana's cows; explains that according to him, cows and calves cross the sea themselves, tie up, milk; that he licks the heels of the youngest K.'s daughters; T. killed the boy, put on his clothes, told the cattle to do what they needed, came to K.; his daughters were those swans; he became ill to stay with the youngest; began to stroke her heels with the tongue of a cow; answers yes, his tongue cracked; she gave honey, he stroked softer; swam where the girls flew in with swans; the youngest recognized T., took her to bed; T. explains how to let the khan know that it is time for the daughters marry: let one bread burn, the other burn, the third be baked properly; the khan told the daughters to choose suitors, the youngest took the lousy guy; the khan fell ill, they needed saiga meat; only the lousy one killed, gave to his older sons-in-law, he left giblets for himself; only from them did the khan recover; the cherry plum kara-gus ("huge black eagle") annually carries the foal of a winged mare; older sons-in-law fall asleep, a lousy arrow the tail of the foal, one feather of a bird; the sons-in-law took their tail, could not raise the feather, only the lousy one brought it; three sons-in-law go to look for the bird; the lousy one comes to the seven-headed cannibal, she promises to help; the bird sat down on the bai-terek tree, the lousy man shot her, only his horse was able to carry the carcass; the girl daughter of the bird pursues, the lousy one defeated her, married her, released the bird's captives; saved the snake, she gave him the gift to understand speech animals; a bay horse came running, this is the mother of the horse T., she escaped from Koblanda; T. appeared to his father-in-law in his real form, who gave him half of the cattle, he returned to his father (i.e. to the old man with whom he lived after Koblanda's raid); T. and his son went to Koblanda; it turned out that their mothers were sisters, they fraternized; Ir-Kosai, avenging his father, attacked and killed Koblandy; T. reconciled with him, became khan]: 73-80 (=1972, No. 6:123- 130); Kazakhs [son of Aleke Aleuko (Ali-ükö?) He dreams of the khan's daughter, goes to look for her, went to look for her, put 40 watchmen to sleep, found her sleeping, moved the candles in her heads and legs; the girl woke up, ordered the guards to be executed; the same for the second time; A. came to her and they met; Aleuco tells his father to marry her; Khan demands to fill all his wintering and summers with cattle; A. brought cattle, but the khan managed to migrate overseas, is going to give his daughter for the blind dhow (giant) Karké; A. crossed where bai-terek grew up; at the wedding, brother K. went out to fight; A. turned into a bad boy, killed brother K.; won the races; Khan's daughter saw the lousy boy's hand was given the ring that A. gave; they run (or rather fly), K. catches up; A. killed K. with an arrow, got the khan's daughter; once A.'s wife came to the sea, the maid pushed her into the water, she became a swan; the maid put on her clothes, came under her guise; but the real wife spits gold, but the maid cannot; the wanderer says to A. that a swan was flying, said: How stupid A. is, does not know that he lives with a fake wife; the imaginary wife pretended to be sick, asked for swan meat; A. shot the swan, one feather flew off and became a camel; the maid asked for camel meat; one bone flew off, turned into rose hips; the maid ordered to be cut down, the thorn became a hawk; A. caught it, brought it into the house; everything in the house becomes tidy, the clothes are repaired; the maid orders to kill the hawk, A. refuses; waited, saw how the girl took off her hawkish skin, began to sew a dress; A. hid the skin, the girl admitted that she was his wife; A. brought her to his parents; his wife ordered him to wash it with milk and grease the mares so that get rid of the bad smell he had when living with his maid; she was asked if she wanted 40 horses or 40 scissors; she said both; she was cut into 40 pieces with scissors, tied they were carried to the tails of 40 mares across the steppe; that 40 days]: Potanin 1916, No. 14.1:95-97; Karakalpaks [in the Edigei epic among Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, semi-nomadic Uzbeks, Bashkirs, Siberian Tatars, etc. the youngest of the virgins, who arrive in the form of swans, agrees to become the wife of St. Baba Tuklas, provided that he does not look at her head when she combs, under her arms when she takes off her shirt, at her legs when she takes off her shoes; BT violates the ban, sees a transparent skull, lungs, translucent under her arms, bird legs or hooves; wife flies away, telling me where she will leave the baby; BT finds Edigei there]: Abramzon 1977:159-160; yellow Uighurs [swans flock to listen to singing a young shepherd; stays alone, they become friends; one day he finds her corpse torn to pieces; the skeleton turns into the first six-string musical instrument; the shepherd touches the strings one by one, as it starts raining, then a downpour turns, a rainbow appears, singing is heard, a horse comes running, a beautiful girl comes down from the sky; this is the Swan who has fallen in love with a shepherd; they both fly to heaven and the musical instrument stays human]: Stuart, Jhang 1996:74.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Buryats [Swan]; Oirats [Swan]; Khalkha Mongols: Potanin 1881, No. 25a [there was only water; the llama descended from the sky, began to interfere with the ocean with an iron stick; in the middle of the ocean it thickened a ball of earth; from further mixing, the earth hardened in the form of a quadrangle; two swans (hong) descended on it; the llama made a woman out of the female's nail, and a man from the male's nail; they come from people; Mongols don't kill swans; swans have yellow cheeks, so Tangut lamas have yellow clothes; the body is larger than the head - so the White Khan (Russian tsar) rules over ten tongues; legs are black, so people on the seashore don't know much about books; the Tanguts know the most, because the language is closest to their heads (=Potanin 1886, No. 24:26)]: 166; Poppe 1981 [1) zap. 1927 near Ulan Bator; beggars have been caught and want kill a swan, Mani Badar buys it from them, the swan turns into a girl, she creates a golden palace; Khan sends MB on a difficult assignment, tells his wife to come to him; she turns into a turtle, flies to his palace; Khan tells him to burn him with Gorlinka, she escapes; MB returns, meets his wife, his dogs tear Khan apart; 2) the epic "Old Dansaran riding a white horse"; poor Dansaran catches a swan with a snare, he asks him not to kill him; every morning he finds food cooked; on the third day, the swan turns out to be a girl, D. marries her; two generals send D. on an assignment, try to burn his wife in a cast-iron house, she flies away like a sparrow; D. returns, finds his wife, burns generals in a cast-iron house]: 101-102; Tobolsk Tatars [Swan]; Chulym Turks [Swan, Duck]; Khakas [probably Swan], Altaians: Garf, Kuchiyak 1978 [old Tanzagan sees two giant frogs fighting; kills a brown arrow; at the request of a white horse, cuts his blood, hitting the lake, kills other brown frogs; the white frog sends T. whatever he wants; he asks his wife, sees a white goose, she turns into a beautiful girl, Kurbustan's youngest daughter; people set fire to the house out of envy T.; wife and three children rise to the sky in geese, turn into a constellation of the White Goose; T. makes a wife for himself; the head turns into an old woman, gives birth to T. Altaians]: 205-212; Sherstova, 227, 232 Sagalaev, October 1990 [Böö-kan, son of Kaldan Khan, saw three swans on the lake; caught one who turned out to be the daughter of Uch-Kurbustan; became her husband, went up with her to heaven; one day he went down to earth, despite his wife's ban, went to his earthly wife; she sewed a red thread to his clothes; when he returned, his heavenly wife drove him away; said that she would soon give birth to a son Shunu, whom BH will find on a full moon night under a birch tree wrapped in wolf skin, fed with milk from three maralukhs]: 70; Tuvans [Swan, Duck]; South Altai Tuvans [old woman Deptegen with a camelskin bag goes in search of sour god and a thick hoitpack; picks up the last mare, a poisonous snake, three chicken eggs, an awl, dried skin, a deer antler mallet; hides in a hole in the yurt; beautiful Shinak enters, stabs her awl, stings a snake, eggs buried in ash burst into her eyes, she falls at the end of her skin; D. finishes her off with a mallet, puts on her clothes, body throws it into the water; her young husband is surprised that his wife does not look good; she replies that she was ill; the camel, the stallion, the ram, the bull are crying, the name is S.; the imaginary S. orders to kill the animal every time; the husband stabbed with a knife his son's thigh, began to rotate him on a knife; the boy's cry awakened his mother, she flew in a golden swan; the husband asks D. what she would take; she chooses seven mares, she is tied to them, break up; spouses are happy]: Taube 1994, No. 29:236-238.

Western Siberia. Mansi [Swan]; Nenets (Gydan) [Swan]; Northern Khanty (Obdorsk, Son's dialect) [three brothers live in a hut, take turns staying to cook; the elder hears three arriving swans; three women come in, scooped hot meat on the cook's stomach; when the brothers returned, he replies that the cauldron overturned; same with his middle brother; younger Kemyas hid between the beams, burned swan clothes, three women became brothers' wives; when they leave, men tell them not to play cards; they play, the seven-headed Menk-Iki comes, plays, wins, takes the women away; K. goes in search, He consistently sleeps with three old people, each forging iron; the latter says that M. has a man the size of a squirrel tail, he has an iron club; I must tell him that he is lost, throw a club at him, take his form, bring seven sledges of firewood into M.'s house in armfuls; it happened; he feeds M.; he put a ring into a cup of water, the eldest woman recognized him; in the morning, the woman ran away; K. fed M. so much that he went crazy; seven knives hung in the sky, K. cut them off, M.'s heads fell; his torso is chasing K.; those old men pierce him with iron walks; then they put them on the iron top, people throw her into the Ob; the brothers got their wives back; they were beaten, a white pebble fell out of the eldest and middle, not from the youngest - she is not to blame; K. and his wife went down the Ob, the middle one went up, the eldest went to the Urals] : Steinitz 2014, No. 3:219-226; Southern Khanty (Verkhne-Demyan Volost) [After returning from hunting, the two brothers did not find a third in the house, there was blood on the floor; but the brother only wanted to make sure they loved him; the other two became angry and threw him into the forest; he came to the city, only two houses had light; he was promised the most beautiful of three daughters to save him from the ogre; at night he cut off the leg of a black rider with a shovel; but his wife did not give him; in the second city the same (a gray horseman, an ear with a gold earring); in the third city, five houses had light - four rejoice, in the fifth they cry, 20 girls and a mother; the same (white rider, three fingers with a ring); the young man came to the tower, ate, hid; three swans flew in, took off their swan skins, became girls, began to feast; they tell how they lost their leg, ear, fingers; the young man tore his skins, took youngest girl for wife]: Patkanov 1999:386-389.

Eastern Siberia. Dolgans [white Crane]; northeastern (Verkhoyan) Yakuts [white Crane]; Western Evenks (Podkamennaya Tunguska) [the man sold fur and drove home; leaned over the ice-hole to drink, someone grabbed his beard; I had to promise a son, whom my wife was to give birth to; the boy Goodey grew up instantly; the father brought an iron staff with him; came to the lake; three swans took off their outfit, became girls; G. hid her clothes alone, gave it for a promise to become his wife; gave a ball that would lead to three plague; where white dresses are a witch with daughters, where black dresses are a water man who kidnapped her, where red dresses are she myself; I must say, "Ayalik, open it"; the water tells the plague to have 1000 deer by morning (A. performs); go around the deer (this is the water himself, you have to beat it with an iron hammer, he died from blows); A.: we must run away from witches; left two thimbles with saliva responsible for them; the witch's daughters are chasing, A. turned G. into a wolf, herself into a bear; then an ant pile and a frog; a hunter and a hut; a witch is chasing, A. became lake, G. - perch; the witch became a bull, drank the lake with the perch; he ripped his belly with needles, went out with water, the witch died]: Suvorov 1956:7-14; Verkhnelensky Evenks [Swan]; Evenks Baikal Region [Swan]; Evenks Zeisky [Swan]; Amur Evenks [Goose]; Evens [Swan].

Amur - Sakhalin. Nanais: Medvedev 1992 [Latherken is the younger brother, Mergan is the elder; M. has gone hunting, L. sees seven swans, invites them to go down; they took off their swan clothes, combed their hair, they washed L., told M. to answer that he did everything himself; M. does not believe, L. says how it was, M. told me to stick his finger in the hole on his younger sister's robe; M. hid her swan clothes; six pudines flew away, M. married the seventh]: 149-151; Kiel 1996, No. 43 (Komsomolsky District) [the old man dug a vegetable garden, found a cradle, a baby girl in it, he raised her; Mergen came to marry, the old man took five buttons in his dowry; the new wife gave birth to a son, the husband went hunting; M.'s elder wife did not like the new one, sewed the image of her husband to the sole, he is ill, the wife says that the new and her evil spirits are to blame; makes a fire, a new rushes at him; M. began to hate his old wife, miss his new one; her son comes to the place of burning, his mother flies in with a duck, repairs his clothes, does not tell his father to speak; the boy said tied his mother's hair to a bush, M. grabbed his wife, but she went to his father; now the father demanded a rich dowry; M. cut off his old wife's head, burned the corpse, brought a rich dowry, a feast for three days and three nights]: 389-395; Orochi [Swan]; Udege people [Duck].

Japan. Ancient Japan: Miller 1987 [ancient fudoks (8th century); eight heavenly maidens flew like swans to swim in a lake in Omi Province; they were spotted by Ikatomi and sent his white dog to steal the youngest's feather clothes; he built a Kami-no-ura house there, lived in it with his heavenly wife, her sisters returned to heaven; they had two boys and two girls; the mother found her clothes, returned to heaven] : 68; Baksheev 2004 (ancient fudoks): 447 [Omi-fudoki, cf. Miller 1987], 446 [Hitachi-fudoki, 713-720; during the reign of Emperor Suining, orphans ("white birds", swans) descended from the sky every morning, turned into girls, collected stones, and built a dam (for swimming?) , they flew away in the evening; but the dam was constantly falling apart, they sang a song, flew away forever; the village was named Shirotori; in ancient Japan, place names associated with swans are everywhere from Kanto to Kyushu]; Japanese [in the mountains, a poor man saw a crane pinch by a fallen tree; he saved her, and soon a beautiful woman came to live with him; she put only two grains in the cauldron to cook rice; weaved an extraordinary cloth and She ordered her to be sold for 300 gold; gave birth to a daughter; when she grew up, her wife said that she was weaving the cloth by pulling out her feathers; she became a crane and flew away]: Markova 1956:44-47.

SV Asia. Tundra Yukaghirs [Swan]; Chukchi [Duck; Goose; Swan].

The Arctic. Kodiak [Goose]; central yupik [the foreman has three sisters, the youngest has one eye in the middle of her forehead; brother goes hunting for a long time; keeps a goose in his parking lot; someone cooks and washes it clothes; he is waiting for a girl, she agrees to live with him, hiding her gooseskin; they have a child; one day, a younger sister said that her brother's wife did not dress the skins well, they were covered with blood; and in general she goose, eating dirt; the wife found her skin, put it on, took her son and flew south, putting one feather from her wing under the door; the man scolded his sister, went looking for his wife; found her in the bird world with her new husband crane; son recognized him; the crane had to leave, the man stayed with his goose wife; flew north with them in the spring; warned of traps]: Burrows 1926:80; Bering Strait Inupiate [Goose, Crane]; Northern Alaska Inupiate (Noatak) [Goose]; Copper [Goose]; Netsilic [Goose]; Polar [Goose]; Igloolik [Goose]; Baffin's Land [Goose]; Labrador Eskimos [Goose]; West Greenland [Goose].

NW Coast. Tlingit [Goose]; Haida [Goose].

SE Brazil. Sheta [Duck].

Chaco. Mokovi [Duck; Karau waterfowl].