F70. Potiphar's wife, K2111, T418, ATU 318.

.11.-.17. (.19.) .22.-.24.26.-.35.41.-.47.58.

A woman falsely accuses a man of assaulting her.

Mbundu, kikuyu (?) , Zigula, Soninke, Songhai, Dogon, Mofu-Gudur, Somalis, Ancient Egypt, Western Sahara, Spaniards, Italians (Campania), Irish, French, Walloons, Old Testament, Arabic Written Tradition, Arameans, Yemenis, Socotra, (Vedau), Khmers, Ancient India, Kashmiris, Punjabi, Hindi, Himachal Pahari, Bengalis, Sinhalese, Gondas, Baiga, Santals, Kannada, Tamils, Bali, Ancient China, Koreans, Ancient Greece, Russians (Olonets), Ukrainians, Crimean Tatars, Adygs, Abazins, Georgians, Armenians, Turks, Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Avesta, Shah-name, Lurs, Tajiks, Tajiks, Tajiks of Sistan, Mountain Tajiks, Vakhans, Ishkashim, Persians, Baluchis, Pashayas, Turkmens, Uzbeks, Bukhara Arabs, Danes, Icelanders (?) , Lithuanians, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Karakalpaks, Kyrgyz, Kazakhs, Dungans, Trans-Baikal Buryats, Khalkha Mongols, Mongols of Inner Mongolia, Yugi, Beaver, Tsimshian, Western Sakhaptin, Ne Perse, Cree, Ojibwa , algonquins, kickapoos, steppe crees, oriental crees, nascapi, montagnier, seneca, sarsi, blacklegs, assiniboine, hidatsa, santi, teton, tunic, biloxi, warrau.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Mbundu [women are infertile in one area; an old woman gives a drug, each of the wives of five men gives birth to a boy; they are all Lau brothers, the most beautiful Lau Kimalaueso (K. is the name of his mother's wife, she died herself); the ruler of Angola summons him to him, he leaves his wooden image to his father (K.); K.'s new wife falls in love with him; L. confesses this through a messenger; he is married and does not react ; she persuades K. to call him home; wounds herself, accuses L. of assaulting her; he is silent; L.'s four brothers take turns telling stories in which a man dies due to a woman's fault; the last L. himself says; the woman is executed]: Nekrasova 1975:20-35; kikuyu [when dying, the father bequeaths his son not to meddle in other people's affairs, not to trust his wife's secrets, not to miss secret men's meetings, not to go to bed sleep at the bottom of the valley; bury his finger; a beautiful tree grows out of his finger; everyone wants to know its secret; one person tells his daughter to marry a young man; the one who, when the wife gives birth to a boy, agrees tell her the name of the tree - "My father's finger"; the wife leaves, taking the child, tells the father, he tells everyone; the young man leaves, stays with the rich shepherd, he has a young son; when everyone stays overnight in valley, the young man leads the owner to the mountain; at night, the remaining in the valley washed away the mudflow; one day he accidentally sees the shepherd's wife with his lover; is silent, but the wife thinks he will tell; accuses him {it is not said what specifically}, but the husband immediately agrees to destroy the young man, although he has previously fallen in love with him {it is very likely that the accusation of sexual harassment}; the owner tells the shepherds to dig a hole and bury someone in it who He will be the first to come in the morning; sends a young man; but he sees a secret meeting of men, stays with them; the master sends the son, the shepherds bury him alive; the people investigate the matter, everything is explained; the master executes the wife, leaves property to a young man, commits suicide]: Gagnolo 1953, 18:11-14; zigula [the merchant has a son; the teacher dreamed that the merchant is going to kill his son; advises the young man to remain silent when he goes to to the father; he is silent; the father's wife complains to her husband that his son tried to seduce her; the father sends a servant to kill the young man, he let him go; told the merchant the story of how the couple began to work in the fields, leaving a baby in the shade; a snake crawled towards him, but the dog killed her; the wife saw the dog's bloody mouth, thought it had killed the baby, the husband killed the dog; another servant spoke about a man riding a donkey on deserts; saw dripping {off a cliff?} liquid, was about to drink; the donkey knocked over the bowl, the man killed the donkey in anger; then realized that it was pus flowing from the corpse of a snake; the young man spoke, talked about the teacher's dream and his stepmother's attempt seduce, father admitted he was wrong]: Arewa 1961, No. 3506:176-178.

West Africa. Soninka [the older brother's wife tries to seduce her younger brother, who rejects her; she complains to her husband that the younger brother tried to take possession of her, tells him to tear him up; the elder tries to approach him twice at night to the youngest, the dogs raise the alarm; the third time the dogs do not bark, the elder splits the youngest, brings his genitals to his wife; the youngest recovers and leaves, and the eldest and his wife soon become poor and blind; the king's daughter falls in love with the youngest, tells her father to marry him; two nights the young husband does not touch his wife; the slave examines him sleeping, the wife tells the father that the husband is castrated; the father tells the servant to check promises to execute either a son-in-law or a slave if she lied; the spirits tell the youngest to catch a beast; in exchange for a promise to let him go, the beast gives him a choice of 7 copies of his genitals, suggests choosing; the shattered becomes a man again, kills the beast, takes all his genitals, meets his wife 7 times in a row at night; she gives birth to a son; the royal son-in-law with his wife, cattle and gold returns to his homeland; no need listen to women and get paid if you're on good terms with blood relatives]: Dantioko 1978:109-119; Songhai [Kelimabe's ugly older brother is married, his wife offers love Kelikelimabe, the handsome younger man, promises the cattle, takes him into the bedroom; when he refuses, he makes a mess, tells her husband that his brother wanted to rape her; the elder cuts off the younger penis, runs away into the forest; the youngest goes to look for him, comes to the village; the chief's maid is amazed at his beauty, his daughter asks her father to marry him; Kelikelimabe is forced to agree; tries to drown himself; the man leads his spirit, restores his penis; he is happy with his wife; she gives birth to a son, he is given the name Kelimabe; lets her husband find his brother; Musa Nyame finds, tames the dryad he is married to; brothers meet and reconcile, MN kills Kelimabe's first wife]: Belcher 2005:24-30; mofu-gudur [in the absence of her husband, the wife does not feed his younger brother; one day she cooks a good dinner, calls a young man; he does not believes in her kindness, invites friends to dinner, does not eat herself, hides her portion in calebas; an enraged woman makes a mess like she was raped, complains to her husband; he waits for her brother, overwhelms her him; the young man tells how it was, calls friends to witness, shows the calebass with untouched food, leaves; he is joined by the daughter of darkness, the daughter of the moon, the daughter of the spirit of the waters (for the right to join she creates there is a dry corridor across the river), the daughter of the sun (the heat moderates); in the forest these women create a rich household; they are surprised that the young man does not sleep with them; he hides his impotence, runs away, meets an old woman; she consistently shows him 4 boxes of penises: old people, children, adults, boys; tells him to take from the latter, attaches him a new penis, tells him to meet her first, he does it; she tells him to bring it his first child born, she will eat it as a reward for this penis; he and his wife bring the child; as soon as the old woman brings the knife to his neck, the baby laughs; the old woman decides not to cut it, returns it parents; Djalo tells people that their leader is not real, but the real leader lives in the forest; people come there, they are well fed, and the mountain chief does not feed well; he calls the young man, demands 1) split round stone into two equal parts (the daughter of darkness splits); 2) divide sesame seeds and sand (wives tell ants); 3) bring a long, even spear (wives give); 4) identify the leader's last wife and favorite horse ; the daughter of darkness comes to the leader disguised as an old woman, finds out what handkerchief her beloved wife has, that the horse is gray; the answers are correct, the old leader is killed, a young man is chosen; wives always tell them to leave them the liver of the dead animals; the servant persuades them to give them simple meat; the wives tell everything to disappear, the young man has only his skin to cover himself; he apologizes, his wives return everything, now he listens to them]: Sorin-Barreteau 2001, No. 25:200-226; Dogon [the older brother is married, the younger brother is single; the elder's wife offers herself to the youngest, he refuses; she stains her handkerchief with a white adhesive mass of baobab fruit, says to her husband that his brother raped her; at night the elder scoped the youngest; in the morning he left; in a distant village he hired a rich man who gave him his daughter as his wife; she told the old woman that her husband did not sleep with her, she said to her father; the father took the young men to the forest to find out the truth; everyone chased the monitor lizard, fell behind, and only the shattered man caught up with him to the hole; the monitor lizard promised to fulfill his wish; the young man spoke about his problem and the monitor lizard gave a choice of 30 penises; the young man chose and became a man again; killed a monitor lizard; everyone saw that the rich man's son-in-law was a full-fledged man; he killed an old woman; when the wife gave birth to three children, the father-in-law gave his son-in-law a lot of cattle, and he and his family came to his older brother; he ripped open his wife's stomach and took a new one; the brothers began to live with their families]: Paulme 1976:77-78.

Sudan - East Africa. Somalis [the king's wife invites the young slave to sleep with her; he says that if she talks about it again, he will inform the king; she herself tells the king that the slave has invited her to sleep with him; the king asks the other wife if a young man molested her, he says not; tells him to call the young man; the first wife tells him to run, supposedly the king wants to execute him; the young man hides in the cave; a lion comes there with a thorn in his paw; a young man takes out a splinter, a lion carries him meat; once he finds himself in a pen surrounded by soldiers; a young man went to look for him, he was also caught; the king tells him to leave the young man with a lion; the lion does not gnaw, but licks him; the young man explains that an innocent person will not be eaten; the king orders to give a ram to the lion every day, treats the young man well]: Reinish 1900, No. 39:145-148.

North Africa. Ancient Egypt [(papyrus d'Orbigny, first published by Vicomte de Rougé in Revue archéologique 1862:385f; Anepu and Batau); Anubis's older brother is married, the younger Bata lives in his at home and works for him; the brothers worked in the fields; A. sent B. to bring seeds; at home, A.'s wife invites B. to get along with her; B. refuses, but promises to remain silent; in the evening, A.'s wife pretends to be beaten, that B. tried to rape her; cow B. warns him that A. was going to kill him; B. is running, A. pursues him; B. asks the Sun God, who creates a reservoir in the way A.; in the morning B., standing on on the other side, screams, telling his brother how it was, splashes himself, throws his severed penis into the water, swallowed the catfish; B. goes to the Valley of the Cedars (Pines), telling A. to come for him if he finds out that something has happened to B.; in this case, the beer in the mug he holds will begin to wander; A. returns home, kills his wife, leaves the corpse to the dogs, mourns his brother; B. comes to the Valley of the Cedar, puts your heart to the top of a cedar flower (?) , hunts; god Hnum creates a woman for him; B. warns her not to leave the house, because the Sea can swallow her, and he, B., will not be able to save her, because he is "a woman himself like her"; a woman violates the ban The sea tries unsuccessfully to carry it away, tells Cedar (Pine) to detain her, but he only grabs her curl; the sea brings it to Egypt and leaves it where the laundresses wash the pharaoh's clothes; the aroma of the curl remains on underwear; scribes explain to the pharaoh that the curl belongs to the daughter of the Sun; Pharaoh sends people to the Valley of the Cedar to bring a woman; B. kills them; Pharaoh sends other warriors and a woman, giving her all kinds of things women's jewelry; this time B.'s wife comes to Egypt; she succumbs to Pharaoh's persuasion and advises to cut down the tree on which B.'s heart is located; the tree falls down, the flower with B.'s heart falls, B. dies; at home, A. sees that the beer in the mug has fermented; comes to the Valley of the Cedar, finds B. dead on his bed, unsuccessfully searches for his heart for three years; on the fourth, intending to return to Egypt, he finds fruit - B.'s heart; he puts it in a vessel of cold water, at night the heart absorbs water, B. comes to life, A. gives him water to drink, B. swallows his heart and it returns to its place in his body; deciding to take revenge to his wife, B. turns into a beautiful bull, whom A. brings to the Pharaoh's palace; he accepts the bull as a "miracle"; when he enters the kitchen, the bull finds his ex-wife there, reproaches her; the wife asks the pharaoh slaughter a bull and cook its liver for it, two drops of blood fall on the sides of the palace gate, from which two Persea Mimusops Schimperi trees grow); when the pharaoh and his wife sit under them, one of them tells the woman that it is B., reproaches again; the woman orders to make furniture out of wood; a sliver flies into the mouth of Pharaoh's wife, she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son; he grows up (obviously in the form of B.) after death Pharaoh takes the throne, sues his former wife; after 30 years he dies, A. takes the throne]: Lichtheim 1997:85-89 (Russian per. Livshits 1975:87-102); Western Sahara [stepmother fell in love with her stepson, tried to get along with him, he ran away, she had a piece of his shirt in her hand; she told her husband that her stepson had encroached on her; father furious, but the judge found out that a piece of shirt from the back, not from the front, the father was guilty to his son; the young man decided to leave, met and accompanied the other two; they came to the city, destroyed by the earthquake, there are two girls, they married the young man's companions, he went on his own; he comes to a girl whose four brothers kill 400 warriors every day, and again in the morning; they first throw the young man in prison, then released, he goes with them, one kills 500 warriors; sees an old man reviving those killed with living water; kills him and the lively, the girl's brothers no longer have to fight; a young man takes a girl to wives; the king sends warriors to pick her up because he believes that the man who marries her will be younger; the young man easily exterminates warriors; the old woman trusts the young man's wife, finds out that her husband's strength is in the knife; says that her husband another woman tries to seduce, his knife must be taken away, at this time to break the spell; throws a knife into the sea, the king takes the young man's wife, she asks to postpone the wedding while mourning for her ex-husband; two the young man's companions come, take a knife out of the sea, the young man stays in the city with a woman, dresses himself as a woman, under the guise of an outfit saleswoman, penetrates his wife; kills the king during his wedding, goes out to to the people under the guise of a younger king; all is well]: Aris, Cladellas 1991:47-60.

Western Asia. Old Testament [Joseph dreams; in the first he and his brothers knit sheaves; their sheaves stand around and bow to his sheaf; in the second he is worshiped by the sun, moon, and eleven stars; his father scolds him because he thinks his parents and brothers should bow to him; his brothers throw Joseph into the ditch and sell him to merchants; in Egypt, Pharaoh's chief of bodyguards, Potiphar, buys Joseph; P. offers herself to Joseph, I. refuses; she tears her dress, accuses I. of violence; in prison, I. solves the dreams of a butler (in three days she will be released, held in high esteem), a baker (will be executed); solves the Pharaoh's dream, is appointed to oversee Egypt; the older brothers come to Egypt for bread; I. tells them to return for Benjamin; releasing him, I. puts a bowl in his things; V. is accused of stealing; I. opens to his brothers, Jacob brings the people to Egypt]: Gen. 37-46; One Thousand and One Nights: Salya 2010 (1), Nights 217-225 [from the king's two wives, sons Al-Amjad ("the Most Glorious") and Al-Assad (" happiest"); they grew up, each woman fell in love with the other's son; the king leaves, tells his sons to rule one by one every other day; the king's wives send love letters to the young men, the princes kill messengers, tell each other what happened; wives complain to the king that his sons raped them; the king orders their sons to be killed, their blood brought in a jug; the treasurer binds the brothers; each will ask them to be killed him first; the treasurer goes into the thicket without a sword; the young men untie the bonds, save the treasurer from the lion; the treasurer fills the bottles with animal blood, brings the king the clothes of young men; the king finds both sons in their clothes notes of his wives, builds tombs in memory of his sons, retires (hereinafter about the adventures of the brothers; after all, they are made kings themselves)]: 760-774; 2010 (2), night 578 [the childless king asks God to grant him son; a son is born; the king gives him up to the sage As-Sindibad; the young man becomes learned and skillful in battle; once S. warns that if a young man utters even a word throughout, then in this word he will die; the king entrusts his son to the slave; she tries to seduce him, the son threatens to bring him to his father; the slave slander the prince; the king orders the execution of the son; the nobles prevent this; the viziers tell the king stories about women's cunning, and a slave answers every time; as a result, the prince is acquitted]: 206-207; Forty Slaves (manuscript of the late 13th - early 14th centuries) [A beautiful baby has been thrown into Harun al-Rashid's garden; he was named Muhammad al-Maujud, raised and raised; he considers himself the son of a caliph; a Rumian slave offers him love, he refuses; then , in order to lose her virginity, she forces a black slave to get along with her, tears her clothes and accuses M. of violence; Caliph Masroor's servant let M. go, brought the Caliph the severed head of a black man, which he took M. for his head in the dark; the Caliph repented, Masrur told him everything, M. began to search; after many adventures, M. returned to Baghdad; asked not to execute the slave, but to sell her]: Osmanov, Yusupov 1962:333-360; Aramaians ["The Tale of Sinbad and the Philosophers"; there is Arabic (The Tale of Princes and the Seven Viziers), Persian (The Book of Sinbad), Hebrew (Proverbs Sandabara"), Greek, Georgian, Armenian, Turkish and a number of later versions); sage Sinbad teaches wisdom to his only son Cyrus in six months; he must remain silent for the last week; young wife K. persuades the young man to kill his father and marry her; when refused, tears off her clothes, accuses him of trying to take possession of them; the king wants to execute his son; philosophers they argue in his defense, tell stories about women's cunning; an angry wife answers stories about the cunning of men; (the manuscript ends; obviously, the week is over, the young man makes excuses, the wife executed)]: Belov, Wilsker 1960:41-72; the Arameans [{the story of Joseph the Beautiful}; the father has three sons; he loves the younger Joseph the Beautiful more than others, does not send him to work; the elders refuse to go in the field, if I. also did not go with them; he went, they pushed him into the well, told his father that I. separated from them along the way; the caravans pulled I. out after he had collected water for them all; each gave he had money; he came with a caravan to Baghdad; the sultan took him into service; the Sultan's daughter fell in love with him, he refused, she accused him of stealing the treasury, the sultan threw him into prison; the Sultan dreamed of 7 skinny cows were devoured by seven obese cows; no one can solve the dream; they remembered I., he guessed it, rose again; his brothers came to buy wheat, did not recognize I., and he recognized them and threw them back money; when he found the money, the father ordered it to be returned to I.; he revealed who he was, ordered him to give the money to his father; the father was blind from tears, and now he has recovered; the brothers and father have come to live with I.]: Bergsträsser 1915, No. 5: 13-18; South Yemen [after the death of his wife, the Sultan remarried; the new one fell in love with his stepson; he avoided her, she told her husband that her stepson was bothering her; the sultan told her son to leave; the daughter of the king of the jinn promises to help the young man, but he will be his sister, not his wife; the young man puts on donkey skin, comes to the Sultan's city; when he bathes, taking off his skin, the sultan's youngest daughter sees him; the sultan gives him seven daughters, in order for sons-in-law to help fight the neighboring sultan; summons men, daughters must throw an apple at the chosen ones; the youngest throws them into Donkey's Skin; the sultan settles them in a stable; the neighboring sultan demands tribute; the daughter of the king of genies gives the young man a horse and a sword, he smashes enemies, then puts on donkey skin again; wins the tournament, the sultan inflicts a minor wound on him to identify him later; everything is explained; the sultan gives his throne]: Daum 1992, No. 8:84-96; Socotra: Müller 1905, No. 16 [the younger single brother replies to the elder that they can be separated by a woman; to check, he invites his brother to leave for 2 years, leaving his wife with him; she offers her husband's brother her love, he refuses; when the husband returns, she tears off her clothes, accuses her husband's brother of trying to rape her; when the youngest milked the cow, the eldest cut off his penis; the youngest brings the severed penis to the old woman, asks him to heal; she sends him to 4 cannibals with their breasts on their backs; tells him to venerate the breast alone; cannibal says she would otherwise eat it; when her son comes and sniffs, feeling a man, she says that his brother has come; the cannibal's son took the young man to another cannibal; she restores him masculinity for promising to bring the first child she will eat; he marries a girl, there are two more suitors; the father will give his daughter for someone who cooks food in the bare desert; two can't, the young man fills a vessel with camel saliva, boils, burning his staff; gets a wife; takes the born child to a cannibal; comes with his wife to where his brother stayed; he does not like that his wife jokes with his brother, he talks about this in verse]: 89-95; Naumkin, Kogan 2013, No. 19 (written in 1980 from a young illiterate woman) [the two brothers loved each other; the youngest replied to the eldest that they would be separated by a woman; the eldest married, the wife wanted to get along with his brother; he refused; she tore her clothes, told her husband that his brother tried to rape her; demanded that he cut off his penis when his brother milked the cow; the elder the brother did so; the younger brother left; the sultan calls the men to let the daughter throw a pebble at her chosen one; she throws and hits the young man three times; on the wedding night she makes an incision in her thigh so that blood remains in the sheet; tells her husband not to worry about his situation; the servant notices that the Sultan's son-in-law is castrates; the sultan tells him to swim naked to check; the young man runs away, meets old people, they restore his penis for promising to give the child he will have; the sultan sees a healthy son-in-law, executes a servant; his son-in-law takes a newborn to the elderly; they stabbed the boy, gave a piece for my father; he threw it at his wife, the child was born again]: 186 (with additions to the full English translation).

(Wed. Melanesia. Vedau [after leaving, the older brother leaves his wife in the care of the younger brother; when he returns, the wife says that the younger one behaved badly {obviously molested her}; the elder swims with the youngest to boat, drops his suspension, invites the youngest to dive after it, sails away; the youngest assures that he is innocent; the elder throws him a bunch of coconuts, swims home, finds out that his wife lied; wanted to kill her, spared her; when I returned, I did not find the youngest; he was carried to an unfamiliar shore; there a girl went out, took him as her husband, their son; her witch sister wanted him for herself; if she did not receive him, she stabbed him in her sleep; his wife grieved]: Ker 1910 : 103-116).

South Asia. Ancient India [the sons of a brahman from Malawa (probably Punjab) went on a journey; the elder Yaśodhara, the youngest Lakshmīdhara; spent the night in a tree above the lake; saw how people come out of the lakes, arrange everything they need for a feast and love; then a handsome man comes out with a sword, and the servants return to the water; the man takes his two wives out of his mouth; the first is more modest, and he loves the second more; when I fell asleep, the brothers went down to the women to ask them; the second offered me my love; let her not worry: she had a thousand lovers, each gave a ring, here they are; I rejected her: you are the wife of another, and to me like a mother; the woman woke her husband up and said that the young man raped her; he wanted to kill me, but the first one stopped him and told him everything; the man was convinced that she was right when he saw those rings; she was all I knew it before, but wanted to disturb the master, and now I must save the life of an innocent man]: Tawney, Penzer 1926a, No. 132:120-124; Ancient India (Jataki) [Prince Padma's mother died; the king took a new wife; she offers herself to Padma, who refuses; she tears her clothes, tells her husband that P. tried to rape her; the subjects do not believe, but the king orders P. to be thrown into the abyss; the spirit of the abyss picks him up, the naga king shares power with him for a year; then he becomes a hermit in the Himalayas; one person recognizes P., the father comes, offers him power; P. refuses; the king throws him into the abyss wife, rules righteously]: Jataki 2002, No. 472:120-125; Kashmiris [the king and his wife listen to the chirping of the chicks, then find them dead; the female died, the male took another, killed the chicks; the wife died, the king took another one, she fell in love with his two sons; they refused to get along with her, she accused them of encroaching on her; the king orders the execution of his sons, but the vizier tells them to flee, they bring the queen the hearts of dogs; another king took the young men as guards; the elder brother guards, sees a snake, cuts into pieces, erases blood drops from the body of the royal wife; the king sees this; when it comes to the younger brother's turn, he replies to the king that traitors should be executed, but first tells the story; one king took water, but his falcon knocked over the bowl; the king killed the falcon, and then noticed a snake whose poisonous saliva was dripping into the water ; let the king find out first; after the younger brother, two more old warriors are on guard; one tells how one merchant bought a dog from another; at night this dog did not stop the thieves, but in the morning led to The merchant became rich in the place where the thieves kept the loot; sent the dog with a note to the former owner, who thought the dog was guilty and killed him; then read the note; the fourth guard tells the whole the story of young princes up to the murder of a snake by his younger brother; the king appoints one of them as a vizier, the other as Pasha]: Stein, Grierson 1923, No. 8:45-57; Punjabi: Steel, Temple 1884, No. 22-25 [y Raja is the son of Puran from her eldest wife, the youngest is childless; out of envy, she accuses her eldest son of an attempt on her honor; the father ordered the young man to be cut off and thrown into the well; the guru found the young man, healed him, he himself became a fakir; when he returned home and found the garden dried up, made it green; restored the sight of his mother, blind with tears; Lona's youngest wife asks for a child; P. demands that she confess her crime; forgives her, lets her eat rice in order to conceive, but let her son make her cry as much as P.'s mother cried; when the boy Prince Rasalu was born, three yogis ordered that by 12 His parents did not see him for years, otherwise they would die; a 12-year-old boy with servants, a parrot and a foal born on the same day was imprisoned in the basement; but R. leaves after 11 years; smashed jugs by the river who came for water women; they complained to the Raja; fearing to see his son, the Raja ordered the women to take jugs of iron and brass; R. also smashed them, rode to the Raja, but he turned away; offended R. with his horse, a parrot, taking the son of a carpenter and the son of a jeweler, went on a journey; while the others were sleeping, the Carpenter won and killed the snake, hid the body; then guarding R. the serpent is huge, he killed him; after that, the companions were frightened, R. went alone; the giant demands sacrifice, killed the old woman's 6 sons, the last one left; R. killed him and the other giants; their sister disappeared into the cave; R. put a scarecrow similar to him at the entrance, a giantess scared, starved to death; {further adventures to p. 280}]: 247-262; Kudryavtseva, Rabinovich 1967 [Raja Puran's son treats his stepmother Lunan like a mother; she tries to seduce him; he refuses; she tears her clothes, accuses P. of trying to rape her; the Raja orders her son to be killed, but the torturers threw him alive into a well in the desert; followers of Gorakhnath's doctrine pulled him out; he became a yogi, but Rani Sunduran fell in love with him and the teacher let him go; however, P. rejected her and she killed herself; the teacher sends him back to his father; he comes unrecognized as a yoga; L. and Father P. childless, unhappy; L. was guilty of accusing her stepson in vain; he gave her a seed to give birth to a son; opened himself to his own mother and father; renounced the throne - let his future son L. take him]: 28-45; northern India, Mirzapur, Hindi (recorded by a Christian from a Muslim cook) [the king has sons Sit and Basant; their mother sees a sparrow nest; when the sparrow died, the sparrow brought another wife, and They threw the chicks from the first out of the nest; the queen asks the king not to marry after her death; but the sons themselves persuaded their father to marry; the father placed them on the second floor, and he and his wife stayed on the first floor; they the ball was playing, the ball fell into the queen's room; S. invites B. to go get the ball, but B. sends S. to cover her face with a cloth; in the evening the queen complains to the king that his sons molested her; the brothers left, spent the night in the forest; S. went to look for food, he was captured and made king (after the death of the former, you must go to the forest and bring the first person he met); B. hears a conversation between a parrot and a starling (myna); the parrot tells the story of S. and B.; realizing that his brother would not return, B. hired a grain dryer; S., becoming king, promises a reward to whoever tells the story of S. and B.; B. sent the owner to tell it; S. sent for his brother, did not immediately recognize him, but from his story I was convinced that it was him]: Crooke 1892-1893, No. 334:81-82; himachali plowmen [in the shoemaker's garden, the fairy tore her wing against a thorn, the shoemaker adopted her, passed him off as Raja; Raja Puran's son had just come out of 12 years in prison (the fortuneteller ordered to spend 12 years without people; when she saw R., the king's wife decided that she should have married him, not Raja; therefore decided to lime R., accused her of encroaching on her; the Raja invited her son to put his hand in boiling oil, he lowered it, his hand was unharmed; but Raja's wife still demanded that R. tear out his eyes and cut off arms and legs; the servants brought Raja the animal's eyes, and R.'s arms and legs grew back when he was thrown into a dry well; the guru pulled him out, he did not return to the raja; (further story); the guru did not tell the disciples go to the witches, they went, the witches turned them into bulls; the guru dried all the wells but one; the witches came there, the guru turned them into donkeys; then disgraced the disciples; everyone hit the donkey with a stick, that became a woman again; but 5 donkeys remained donkeys as a reminder]: Dracott 1906:186-193; Bengalis: Day 1914, No. 4 [a godly but poor and foolish brahman goes to the palace on the wrong road goes to Rakshasi; she says that she is his first wife, gives a generous gift, asks to bring his second wife; seeing that her husband has returned rich, the woman goes with him; sees Rakshasi devouring a raw antelope; the woman feels that the Rakshasi jaws extend from the ground to the sky; she gives her son Champa Dal her milk - if he turns red, his father dies, if he turns red even more - and so does she; the rakshasi swallows both, BH jumps away; Sahasra Dal, the son of a Rakshasi from a brahman, saves his half-brother, kills his Rakshasi mother, joins the BH; they come to a city where residents leave in the temple every night a person to be eaten by another Rakshasi; go instead of a victim; SD kills Rakshasi, gets the daughter of the king and half the kingdom; BH lives with him; the maid is a rakshasi in disguise; BH sees her devouring food; to get rid of him, the maid complains that he is encroaching on her honor; the Queen Mother orders him to be driven away; he comes to a distant country; Princess Keshavati sleeps there, BH touches her with a golden stick, she comes to life; Rakshasi everyone has been eaten; every morning Rakshasi touches the princess with a silver stick, she loses consciousness before she returns; K. finds out that Rakshasi's life is in two bees at the bottom of the reservoir; BH kills them, all Rakshasi die; K. bathes, her swam hair finds SD; wants to find an owner; Queen Mother sends a Rakshasi maid, she lures K. to the ship, takes her away; BH comes, tells her story; SD orders the maid to be placed standing in a hole, covered with thorns, buried alive], 10 [the king complains about criminals; the eldest, middle sons go to the city at night, do not notice anything; the youngest meets at the palace goddess Rajlakshmi; she says that the palace no longer needs her protection, because the king is going to die today; the young man persuaded her to return; he killed a cobra in his father's chambers; blood splashed on his stepmother's chest, he leaned down to lick her, she complained to her husband that his youngest son had attempted on her; before executing his youngest son, the king asked the elders for advice; they tell stories in which the hero kills innocent, regrets what he did; the king asks his youngest son; from now on he loves him more than others]: 64-92, 147-159; gondas: S. Hyslop in Zograf 1971:8-11 [gondas multiplied, killed animals, lived in the mud; Mahadeo imprisoned them in a cave, four remained outside; born from a flower, Lingo taught them how to farm, hunt, and use fire; the youngest gondas could not steal fire from the ogre Ricad Gavadi; L. himself came to the WG, played the violin, got his seven daughters for it, gave them to the gondas; the youngest got one wife, the others two; the wives flirted with L., he rejected them; they accused him in an attempt to rape them; the brothers killed L. with arrows, began to play with their eyes out; the Creator sent the Raven with live water to revive L.; M. agrees to release the gondas if L. brings the birds Bingo; L. killed a sea serpent eating chicks; adult Bingo brought the brains of elephants and camels to the chicks; agreed to take L. and the chicks to M.; the gondas came out of the cave, L. became their priest, then god], 25 [ Elwin; Gunjhi's dove laid 106 eggs, two large ones, from which princes elder Gunjmara and younger Gunjhira came out; spent the night with the old woman; the youngest learned from her that at night the bod fish came out of the lake, carried away people; killed her, ears, fins, tail, hid a piece of liver; the king will pass off his daughter as a hero; the village guard says he killed the fish; cannot confirm, he is shackled; Gunjhira shows his tail and etc.; Raja's daughter wants for him, but he refuses in favor of her older brother because she does not want to part with him (communication with the younger brother's wife is forbidden, the older brother is allowed); she smeared herself with sour cream to cats almost licked her to death all day; accused Gunjhira of assaulting her; to prove that he was right, he hugged a hot pole, nothing was done to it; and went to the forest, cursing the women]: 99- 105; baiga [widow raja asks two sons whether to marry them or marry themselves; sons ask father to marry; one day stepmother pretends to be raped by her stepsons; father expels sons; they they spend the night in the forest; while the eldest sleeps, the youngest hacked down a snake that devoured the chicks of a pair of birds living in the tree; grateful birds threw two chicks to the brothers so that they could eat; now the youngest has fallen asleep, and the eldest left unnoticed; came to the city, where Rani has a new husband every day, who is found dead in the morning; the young man married, slaughtered two snakes that crawled out of the wound's nostrils at night; stayed with her; the youngest the brother started working for a potter, found a beautiful wife; the potter threw the young man under the potter's wheel, replaced his freak son; the wife found a husband and they ran away; they came to their older brother; everything is fine]: Elwin 1944 No. 22.3:448-449; Santals [after the death of his wife, the king chooses a bride who promised to take care of his son; the new wife also gives birth to a boy, hates her stepson; makes her scratched by a cat, accuses her stepson, promises to leave if the king does not kill him; the father leaves his son in the forest, brings his wife clothes moistened with dog blood; the old woman takes the boy to the village, he is adopted by a brahmana, gives the name Lela; daughter the brahmana makes a date in the forest, the lover does not come, by chance L. is there, the girl runs with him, sees a mistake in the morning, decides to stay with L.; both are beautiful, the king gives L. difficult tasks to pick up his wife; 1) bring a flower (the wife says her younger sister has it; she lives in the cannibal's house; the cannibal smells a man in the house; the girl says you have to sit over boiling oil to get rid of this smell; the young man pushes the cannibal into oil, she burns; brings a flower, the king, as promised, gives him a sister and half a kingdom; L. now has three wives - the first, her sister and the king's sister; L. s wives and men come to his father; he went blind when he left him in the forest, now he saw the light; the evil wife hanged herself, L. reigns]: Bodding 1927, No. 64:317-365; kannada [Alakanna's older brother went to war; his wife began to seduce his single younger brother Malakanna, but he refused; she turned to the sorcerer; the sorcerer gave jasmine, which M. smelled, and a thorn; when M. realized that his brother's wife was in front of him again, who stuck a thorn in his forehead, turning him into a dog; when A. returned, his wife said that M. had molested her; A. caressed the dog, felt for the thorn, took it out, the dog again turned into M.; A. whipped his wife and her maid, kicked them out of the house, found another wife]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 14:46-50; Tamils: Natesa Sastri 1886 []: i-xl; 1884-1888, No. 15 [elderly The brahmana regularly comes to the king to show respect; the king sends him to his bedroom to bring a sword, the brahmana finds the queen with the vizier there; leaves silently; the queen tells her husband that the brahmana is on her attempted, demands his execution; the king tells the servants to prepare a pot of boiling oil and throw someone in the morning to ask if everything has been done; in the morning the brahmana went where the king told him, but a friend invited him to eat breakfast; and the brahmana's father told him never to skip his morning meal; at that time the minister came to the torturers and asked if everything had been done, he had been cooked in butter; when with the same question A brahman came, the torturers ordered him to tell the king that the order had been executed; the king ordered his wife to be hanged and appointed a brahman minister]: 185-182; the Sinhalese [parents died; the younger prince returned from monastery and prays; the eldest married; his wife's pestle fell on a pot of water; she told her husband that his brother had attempted on her; the elder called the youngest into the forest, cut off his arms and legs; the youngest asked him to leave a holy book for him; seven widows heard him read sacred texts; 6 left, the youngest brought him home; told the king that there was a holy man in her house, he would find out who was stealing flowers from the royal garden; 5 The naked girls came to pick up the flowers, heard the cripple read; four returned his arms and legs, he hid his fifth dress, married her; the king made the young man chief gardener, gave him the province]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 126:307-309.

Burma - Indochina. Khmers: Marunova 1972 [King Sanghachak was a sweetheart and despot; his two bodyguards were naga warriors; S.'s 500 wives hated them because they constantly punished them; bodyguards warn S. not to swim on the lake. Tonle Sap is in the flood; he does not listen to them; they sail away to bring the boat; the wives accuse the Nagas of attacking their honor; S. cuts off the head of one of them; splashing blood covered S.'s body with leprosy; the wizard tells S. to go into boiling water; he is afraid, tells the wizard's assistant to climb, but does not revive him, but turns the cauldron over; the magician in anger makes leprosy incurable]: 48-52; Foshko 1981, No. 15 [y Prince Worowong and Sorovong, king from his first wife, Prince Waywongs from Montae's second youngest wife; M. decided to get rid of her rival's sons, wrapped around both, shouted that she was being raped; the torturers gave them opportunity to escape; Indra turned into black and white chickens; black: whoever eats me will ascend to the throne in 7 years; white: who am I in 7 months; chickens killed each other; older S. ate white, younger V. is black; one king died, an elephant was let in, he stopped in front of S., he was made king; Worowong went on a journey, saw a ring on his finger, accused of stealing; but only he knows how to let him down water ships when enemies attacked; defeated the yaksha; he was given two princesses and two kingdoms; with his wife Kehkesey he set off on flying jasper; the hermit stole it, died, jasper fell; V. and K. tried cross the river, they were carried to sea, they lost each other; after the adventures, both ended up in Sorovong Palace; the brothers defeated Waywongs, to whom their father gave the throne, told their father about what happened; Montaye was executed]: 160-167.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Bali [Ktut Láyang is rich, offers herself to marry handsome Hee Lingg; he says he is a poor orphan, refusing her; KL breaks his jug in his hearts, scratches against a bush, accuses HL of assassination attempt on her; KL's relatives kill HL with arrows; in the next world, HL sees parents in hell (wife cheated, husband killed her); they repented, HL refuses to go to heaven without them, all three are taken to heaven]: Kahlo 1967:56-59 (=Braginsky 1972:110-113).

China - Korea. Ancient China [by Fêng shen yen I); Bo Ikao (Po I -k 'ao), the eldest son of Wen Wang, ruled the kingdom while his father He was held captive by tyrant Zhou for seven years; tried to free his father; sent ten fat women to the tyrant's harem, seven chariots made of fragrant wood, a clever white-faced monkey, a rug on which is recovering from a hangover; Zhou's favorite concubine, Ta Chi, began to seduce him; he rejected her harassment, she decided to kill him; the monkey sent rushed to T. for sweets and scratched; C. ordered the monkey to be killed, B. proved he was innocent; but advised C. to leave his unfaithful mistress; she became angry, he hit her with a lute, she ordered him to crucify and cut the meat into pieces, from they were made cutlets, sent to his father to eat it; he guessed, ate three cutlets in the presence of envoys, thus escaped execution; Bo Ikao was canonized and appointed ruler of the northern circus Tzŭ-wei constellations]: Werner 1922:192-194; Koreans [the old man predicts the young man that he will be able to avoid dying in the fire if he is decent; the young man stays in a house where the hostess offers to him, says that her husband has left for a long time; the young man rushes out, encounters her husband in the doorway; the wife complains that the young man tried to rape her; the husband knows the truth; two fires are burning in the yard; if the young man agreed to fornication, the owner would burn him and his wife]: Shkurkin 1941:143-145.

Southern Europe. The Spaniards [a poor girl dressed as a young man is hired to the palace, heals the king and he makes the imaginary young man chief physician; the queen falls in love, rejected, accuses her of an attempt on her life; St. Peter helps complete the tasks offered by the king; she whistles and the fish brings the ring that the king has dropped into the sea; brings a dumb girl out of the castle or from the robbers; shares mixed wheat, barley and rye; asks why the girl does not speak, but only groans and cries; she talks all about the queen and the imaginary young man; the king executes or expels the queen, marries heroine]: Boggs 1930, no.*515:68-69; Italians (Campania: Naples) [the king prays for the sending down of a child; a voice from heaven: a daughter who will leave or a son who will take a soul out of you; it is decided that a daughter will bring personal suffering, but her son will ruin the country; the king asks for a daughter; Marquette grew up, on her wedding day she was carried away by a whirlwind to the orc's house; an old servant teaches her to clean the house without showing her eyes; go out only after the orc swore not by anything, but by three crowns that she would not cause harm; the orc gave the key, ordered not to unlock one room; M. unlocked the three daughters of the orc; she locked her daughters because she knew that they would be in danger when they were released by the Queen; the orc drove M. away but gave a ring to help summon her in case of danger; M. dressed up as a man; the king hired the imaginary young man, the Queen confessed her love; M. refused, the Queen accused the imaginary young man of an attempt on himself; when M. is executed, an orc appears; the king left his wife at sea with a millstone around his neck, married M.]: Basile 2018, No. IV.6:407-417.

Western Europe. The French [Dolopathos novel, 13th century; during Augustus, King Dolomat of Sicily sent Lucinian's son to study in Rome with Virgil; he taught him all sciences, especially astronomy; D.'s wife died, he married another, sent for his son; V. found out from the stars that the young man was in danger at home, ordered him to remain silent until he allowed him to speak; the Queen tried to get L. to talk; offered her love; not When she met an answer, she complained to her husband that he tried to rape her; a sage appeared, thanks to his story, L.'s execution was postponed; one by one new wise men come, each time the execution is postponed; V. comes as a witch, allows L. to speak; the queen was burned alive; later D. and V. die; Christ appeared, L. is baptized, dies saintly]: Potanin 1899:571-572; Wallons [15-year-old princess for the first time left the palace to the seashore; the sailors kidnapped her; the king summons the Marquises; the Marquis Matacon is too old, replaced by his daughter, who pretends to be a man; the Queen fell in love with an imaginary young man, the refused; then she told the king that M. volunteered to save their daughter; the hunchback tells M. that the princess is in a golden castle in the middle of the sea; M. saves a fly from a spider; saves a pig; pushes it into the water fish caught on land; a pig puts M. on its back and brings him to the castle; he is brought to a room full of girls, each saying she is the daughter of a French king; a fly sits on the real cheek princesses; the pig transports M. and the princess back; the princess loses her shoe, but the fish pulls it out; the queen again in vain seeks M.'s love; tells her husband that M. boasted to get Turkish treasures Sultan; on the advice of the hunchback, M. takes the Strong Back as his companions; a logger throwing a pole for 300 leagues; the Listener; the Runner; the Blowing; the Sultan tells, overtaking the old woman, to fill the bottle with water from the spring, over 700 leagues; The runner at the spring falls asleep, the listener learns about it, the Blower throws the old woman 300 leagues beyond the spring; M. takes the treasure, but the sultan sends an army after him; The blowing scattered him ; now the Queen accuses M. of trying to seduce her; he is taken to the scaffold, but the hunchback reports that M. is a woman; the queen has been beheaded, the king married M.]: Laport 1932, no.*514A: 62-63; Irish [Potyphar's wife. Irish myth: *Cross {what this link means is impossible to determine from the version available to me}] Thompson 1932-1936, Vol. 4, No. K2111.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece. 1) Astidamia, Acast's wife, fell in love with Peleus, but could not seduce him; then she sent a message to P.'s wife that he was going to marry Sterop, A.'s daughter; A. also said that P. tried to seduce her; A. did not want to kill the one he had just cleared of the filth of murder, took P. to hunt in the mountains; when the competition between hunters began, P. carved out the tongues of the animals he had killed; A.'s companions gathered the dead, mocked P. that he had not obtained anything; P. showed his tongues; when P. fell asleep, A. abandoned him, hiding his sword in cow dung; centaurs attacked, but Chiron found P. and gave it to him; (Peleus later looted Jolk along with Jason and Dioscuri, cut Astidamia to pieces)]: Apol. 1972, 3, XIII, 3:69. 2) Ftia (or Cletius), the concubine of King Amintor of Boeotia, accuses him Phoenix's son. Amintor blinds (or only curses Phoenix, making him infertile), who runs to Peleus, where he raises Achilles. 3) Sphenebey, the wife of King Tyrinth Proyt, accuses Bellerophon (Glavka's son, grandson of Sisiphus) who is visiting her husband to cleanse himself of the filth of his brother's accidental murder. Past instructs Bellerophon to deliver a letter to King Lycia Iobat asking him to kill Bellerophon. Iobat sends Bellerophon to kill Chimera. 4) Philonoma, the second wife of Poseidon Kickn's son, slandered Tenes, Kikn's son by his first wife. Kickn put Tenes and his sister (his daughter) Gemitea in a box and threw them into the sea. The box was nailed to Tenedos Island, and Tenes became its king. Kickn found his son, and Philonom buried him alive in the ground. Kikn ordered the flutist Eumolpus, who testified in favor of Philonomus, to be stoned (Apol.:84). 5) Phaedra, the second wife of King Theseus of Athens, slandered Hippolyte, the son of Theseus with his first wife, the Amazon Antiopes (or Hippolytes; Melanipps). Theseus was not actually Aegean's son but Poseidon's son. So Theseus asked Poseidon to kill Hippolyte. He sent the bull out of the sea, frightened horses carried Hippolyte's chariot and dragged him along the ground. Artemis (revered by Hippolyte) revealed the truth to Theseus and reconciled her dying son. Phaedra hanged herself (Apol.:78). 6) The idea, the second wife of Phineas, king of Salmidessa in Thrace, slandered his sons by his first wife Cleopatra (who was the daughter of Boreas and Orithia). Phineas blinded his sons; Boreas's children Zet and Kalaid later punished him (Var.: they, on the contrary, drove away the harpies that tormented Phineas) (Apol:73).

Central Europe. Russians (Olonetskaya) [Forty Kalik; 40 wanderers led by Thomas Ivanovich go to worship in Jerusalem; decide that the person who committed theft or adultery should be beaten with keys and snatched out tongue through the back of his head, pull out her eyes and bury her chest in the ground; they come to Prince Vladimir in Kiev, but he is not at home; Queen Opraksna offers herself to FI, who refuses; in revenge she hides in his belongings the princely cup; when the wanderers leave, she orders them to be searched; sent by Churila Plenkovich, then Alyosha Popovich, did not find the bowl; Dobrynya Nikitich found; FI subjected to the execution agreed upon by the wanderers ; when the wanderers approached Jerusalem, they lost their way and lost their sight; God sent two angels to revive FI by returning his eyes (and tongue); he asks wanderers why they go off-road; they they are responsible that God saved him for his truth, and he let them know for their lies]: Hilferding 1983:99-103; Ukrainians (Bukovina, St. Kitsman, Chernivtsi region) [The emperor doesn't have children. He is worried and goes hunting to forget himself. One day she sees a house with a middle-aged woman in it. When asked by the emperor, she says that her children have gone all over the world. The emperor replies that he has no children and that he cannot live without them. The woman says she knows a healer who has every potion, but she needs a lot of money. The emperor gives a handful of gold and promises more when a child is born. The woman tells me to come in a year and goes to the healer. She replies that there is an apple tree in the imperial garden, and it has six apples, three low and three taller. They must be ripped off and let the emperor's wife eat them. A woman goes to that garden, picks apples, puts them in her bosom, but decides she'll eat them herself. He eats three and throws three to the mare. Less than a year later, she gives birth to a boy with golden hair, and a mare gives birth to a skate with a golden mane and tail. The emperor arrives, looks at the handsome boy, asks whose he is. The woman says it's hers. He asks where his son is. The woman explains that, according to the healer, the emperor's wife is important and needs a potion from three years ago. The emperor tells him to send him a boy when he grows up and has golden hair to live in the palace. My son is already big three years later. His mother sends him to the capital with his skate. The young man lives in the imperial chambers, walks in the garden, and everyone loves him. The emperor does not want another son, tells the young man to call him father, since he does not have his own father, promises to hand over the throne after his death. When the emperor and his army go to war, the wife finds a lover. The guy sees it all and walks sad. The lover persuades the Empress to get him out of the light. He promises that when a gold-haired man sits on his bed, he'll turn to dust. The guy goes to the stable to his skate. He asks why he's not happy. He replies that the emperor's wife is lying to him with a crappy man. The horse tells about the danger waiting for the owner, tells him not to sit on the bed. The young man throws his clothes on the bed, they turn to ashes. The next time, the skate tells you to take an armful of firewood when the door is opened, throw it at the door, not open the door yourself. The wood turns into a pile of ash. The Empress and lover can't figure out how to kill a guy. Meanwhile, the emperor, having defeated the king, returns. The lover invites the Empress to scratch her face, go to bed and moan, and when the emperor comes in and asks what's wrong with her, say that the guy beat her. That's what she does. The emperor promises to hang the boy tomorrow and tells three torturers to prepare a gallows. When a gold-haired man is brought under a noose, he asks the emperor for permission to say goodbye to his skate. The emperor wants him brought in. Ten soldiers go to the stall but die from horse hooves. A hundred soldiers go, then a thousand - the same. The gold-haired man asks permission to go by himself. He sits on a horse, jumps to the gallows. She announces that she never hit the Empress, she scratched herself because she has a lover, and he, the young man, knew about it. The horse takes off and carries the young man through the air for three days, and on the fourth he says that there is another state under them. There, the horse says he must leave the owner, but let him whistle three times and he will fly in. The guy makes a pipe, comes to the capital, walks the streets and plays. The king of that state has three beautiful daughters. They hear a pipe, the older one comes out and asks why he plays so sad, he doesn't answer, the middle one doesn't answer either, the youngest asks why he's so handsome and his pipe plays so sadly. He replies that she can play more fun if she gives him her own ring. The girl gives him a ring, takes his hand and leads him to the palace. A few days later, the pipe plays merrily at their wedding]: Ivasyuk 1973:122-126.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars (Buyuk-Khozhalar {steppe Crimea?}) [The Coplands are Khan Mamai's best warrior; he rejected Khanshi's love; in winter, she ran barefoot around the palace three times, complained about K. Khan; he sent K. to Petropolk with a letter to the king; in the letter, a request to leave the applicant to prison; K. spent years in prison, his wife is being bullied; friend N. Kazim Myrza came to visit him; his wife told him everything and gave an ax from the nose of Albanasta, which K. once caught in the mountains; tells him to make a file out of this steel and dip a bear in the urine; file wife put it in a cake, asked the caravans to take it to Petropolka and hand it over to her husband; K. sawed the shackles, ran out, rode away; put the khan's head between the spokes of the wagon and drove the camel; he and his wife ran away]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 46; Adygi: Kerashev 1957 [a peasant one-year-old son pshi buys three old man's advice for an expensive price; 1) do not disdain poor treats, 2) do not marry a brunette with gray eyes, 3) do not prevent lovers from getting married; Pshi's son goes to marry him, the bride is a brunette with gray eyes; after the wedding she wants to marry him, the young man refuses, she tears her clothes, accuses him of attempted violence; asks her husband to burn the young man; he gives him a letter ordering him to burn the first one who comes to the fire, sends him to the place where the pit with dry bushes is made; the young man stays with the poor ploughman and falls asleep late; at this time, Psha's wife came to the pit, she was thrown into the fire; the young man arrives at the place where the girl should marry the turtle; persuaded her to do it; at night the turtle burst, a handsome man appeared, said that the spell has been removed; helps the young man make peace with his son Psha]: 165-176; Lipkin 1951 [Imys is married, his brother Uazirmes is single; while her husband is away, I.'s wife offers herself to W.; he refuses and goes to live in the forest; his wife tells I. that his brother wanted to rape her; in the woods, a giant with the body of a beast comes to the fire W.; W. puts a stump on his bed for the night, wrapped it in a burka, hid himself with a bow; the giant again came, pierced the stump with a sword, and W. knocked out both eyes with arrows; W. follows the giant, he dies at his cave, frees the girl Dadukh, lives with her like a sister; sledges come, D. answers that she more beautiful than I.'s wife; and since W. did not touch her, he could not have encroached on his brother's wife; I.'s wife is sent to her relatives, I. marries D.]: 342-345; Tambiev 1896, No. 2 (Kabardian people) [from the old man bulls fell; he exchanged new ones from the young man for three tips; 1) not to marry a gray-eyed brunette and not let those you love marry; 2) do not disdain anyone's bread and salt; 3) do not drag anyone's wife; absence of a young man, his widowed father marries a gray-eyed brunette; she offers herself to his stepson; he refuses, she tears her clothes, accuses him of violence; the father tells him to prepare a hole, burn it fire, throw into it the first person who comes in the morning; tells the son to go there and ask the torturers if they have obeyed the order; on the way, the peasants ask the young man to have breakfast with them; he became drunk and fell asleep; when came to the torturers, who replied that they had thrown the young man who was the first to come to them into the pit; the young man left home, stayed in the house, where the beautiful woman offered him love; her husband was a huge frog; but the young man I still disagree; well done from the frog's skin; he killed 99 young men who succumbed to the spell, and did this as a friend and brother]: 175-181; Huth 1987 (chemgui) [atalyk (the one to whom he was given up) son of Pshi says that the young man must remain silent for 40 days, otherwise he will die; the stepmother invites the young man to poison his father, make him pshi; he beats her; she tears her clothes, accuses her stepson of trying to rape her; pshi tells her hang a son; someone says you can't kill a person because of a woman's words, tells the story of a traitor wife; an atalyk runs up, tells the young man to speak; Pshi tied his wife to the horse's tail]: 180-185; Abaza people: Tugov 1985, No. 85 [when dying, the father gives his son advice; 1) do not feed a thin relative, it is better to feed a thin sheep; 2) do not act dishonestly with someone who trusts you; 3) do not give up treats; the first advice is broken: the son took a boy relative with a bad character; hired a prince as a farmhand; his wife began to bother him, the young man refused; she accused him of harassment; the prince asked who was ready to execute the young man, a relative boy volunteered; the bakers were told to light a fire and throw at it the first person to come in the morning; the farmhand was allegedly sent to buy bread, but he stopped at workers who invited him to breakfast; the prince's wife went to see, was the first, she was thrown into the oven; the prince believed the farmhand, married him to his daughter, drove the farmhand's relative out of the village], 86 [at insistence the prince's son, the poor man buys two oxen from the prince for three advice; 1) do not marry a gray-eyed stepmother; 2) go to someone who says "You will be a guest"; 3) do good; the prince took a gray-eyed stepmother, she became unsuccessful to harass her stepson, accused him; the prince ordered him to dig a hole, make a fire, abandon the first to come; sent his son, the shepherds invited him to visit; then the wife went to see, she was thrown into the fire; the prince was convinced that the advice was fair]: 262-263, 264-265; Georgians [the king's servant inherited a snuffbox to his son; the king's wife wanted the young man, he refused; she accused him of trying to seize it ; the king ordered the torturer to execute the first person who came to him, and the second to hand over the head of the executed; the young man went to church; another servant appeared first; the young man brought his head to the king; the queen demanded that he be expelled; he came to a kingdom where the queen demands to force her to answer three questions, otherwise he executes her; the young man opened his snuffbox, a ball and two candlesticks jumped out of it; they begin to tell stories; 1) a ball: the robbers cut off the heads of the husband and the guest; the wife put her heads and they grew, but she was mistaken: the husband's head to the guest's body and vice versa; who should be her husband? candlesticks: whose head; princess: the head is smaller than the body, whose body; ball: the carpenter made a wooden figure, the tailor dressed, the priest revived it with prayers; who owns the person? candlesticks: priest; tailor; princess: carpenter, he made a man; ball: the one who had a mirror saw that the prince was being buried; the plane who had a carpet brought there; the owner of the medicine revived the prince; who should receive the main award? candlesticks: medicine holder; carpet; princess: mirrors; this is the third time, wedding]: Bogoyavlensky 1894b, No. 6:119-123; Armenians: Melik-Oganjanyan 2004, No. 6 [Sarie, Hovana Dzenov's wife, asks David , his nephew, to come to her bedroom; he refuses, calling him "aunt"; then she asks D. to come to her to pour water while she washes her hair; however, D. closed his eyes and does not look at her body; after this S. tells Ovan that he sent her not a son, but a husband; Ovan Dzenov put a door in the aisle and did not let D. into the house; he says that he is not angry with him, the hooker is to blame for everything; leaves], 42 [something like that same; she tore the collar of her shirt, the hair on her head was ruffled, her face scratched into blood], 50 [about the same]: 34-35, 77-78, 163-164; Nazinyan 2014 [dying, the father tells his son, when he hears the bells ringing, to go immediately pray in church; do not cross the river without fording; wait for a knowledgeable person, even if you lose a few days; do not travel at night, wait out the night where darkness has found; the young man became a merchant; the roads from Tiflis insisted that the river should not be waded; another merchant did not listen and drowned; then a local resident showed a ford; a rich merchant takes a young man into business; sends him to his wife in Ganja; she seduces him, he refuses; when her husband returns, the woman complains to him that his partner has attempted on her; the merchant tells the baker to throw the first person who comes in the morning into the oven; the young man hears the bells ring, does not go to the bakery, but to the church; the merchant's wife comes to the bakery, thrown into the oven; everything is clear, the merchant paid the young man but asked him to leave; the young man tells the drovers to spend the night not in the village, and nearby, where darkness found; at night he sees a robber dragging something to the cemetery; finds a wounded girl there; healed her, married her; she turned out to be a princess who refused to marry the son of a treasurer, he sent to kidnap her; one day she asks her husband to sell a gem; he sells it to the treasurer's son without knowing who he is; after visiting the treasurer's son, the young man invited him to his place; at night, his wife stabbed him and told her husband to bury the corpse in the cemetery where they wanted to bury it; the couple flee; at night, the husband sees a red cloth in his wife's hair with jewels sewn on, takes it off to sell it, the crow takes it away; the husband goes to Istanbul alone, is hired as a gardener, finds a cloth under the poplar on which the crow's nest; left alone, the wife, disguised as a man, started a caravanserai; without recognizing the woman, her husband came there and , her father and treasurer came in search of her daughter and son; everything turns out, everyone is reconciling, the young man's wedding with the princess]: 94-105; Turks, Azerbaijanis [from the 10th to the 20th centuries 117 Arab-Persian-Turkic-speaking poets addressed the history of Yusuf, 45 of them are Turkic; the Turkish folk version of Yusuf il Zileikha has details that go back not only to the Koran and Kysas al-Anbia, but also to the Bible]: Korogly 1985:20; Azerbaijanis [the king has a son Lala and a daughter Nargis; their mother died, the king took another wife; she demands that L. become her lover; L. hit her, his stepmother accused him of trying on him, the vizier advised to expel the prince; N. left with her brother; they stopped in the forest; at night N. hears two birds talking; from him he learns that the one who eats the head of one will become king, and the one who eats the heart of the other will be found under the other in the morning gold with a pillow; N. killed birds, ate her heart, gave her head to his brother; the diva reached out his hand from the sky, carried N.; said that his soul was in a bottle; G. broke it, the dead diva fell from the sky; L. woke up in the morning and ate a bird's head, went to look for N.; a king was elected in the city, a bird of wealth sat on L.'s head three times, he was made king; N. came to the city, but the watchman did not let her in; it seemed like a monster, N. killed him with a sword, but she became weak, lay down in the chest; the watchman took the victory, but the vizier did not believe it, ordered the king to put the watchman in prison; the poor husband and wife found the chest; N. was cured, every morning she had gold under her pillow; the watchman met N., changed clothes, tricked her into leaving her in prison, and left himself; the whale sinks the ships if a man is not abandoned to him; N. decided to throw him; she orders to tie a rope to her: if any red foam, then the whale is killed, and if it is black, it died; N. killed the whale with a sword from within; the merchant adopted her; the king gave N. his daughter; the merchant decided to take possession of her, threw the chest with N. into the sea; his gardener caught; {confusion and contradictions; eventually L. met N., the merchant and prison warden were beheaded, mother L. and N. were hanged}]: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:195-205; Turks [older brother married, younger poor and works for him; the elder's wife offers herself to him, he rejects her, she accuses the young man of trying to rape her; the youngest leaves, saying that his heart is in a certain acacia if she is cut down, he will die; his brother finds out when he is served milk; the youngest gets a beautiful woman, she cuts down a tree, the elder revives him]: Eberhard, Boratav 1952, No. 221:268; Kurds: Jalil 1989, No. 60 [ similar to Rudenko (similar text or the same text in another translation)]: 311-317; Rudenko 1970, No. 43 [Baghdad Caliph Balul-Zan's brother built a shack by the sea; the Caliph's elder wife asks for a shack in exchange for food , B. agrees, the youngest laughs; later comes to buy a shack, B. does not sell; she tears her clothes, tells her husband that B. encroached on her; B. digs his grave, invites the Caliph who has come to put up, throws him to a distant country; in search of a way to Baghdad, the Caliph visits three old men; the first wife must be beaten with a stick, she is a donkey breed, the second has a dog-breed wife, grumpy, the third has a wife all herself does; this old man tells the Caliph to grab the bird by the leg, which brings it back to Baghdad at the cemetery; B. suggests that the Caliph kill him if he obeys his wife; the Caliph orders his youngest wife to be torn apart with camels]: 103-107; Hittites [(no beginning); Ashert told Baal that since he opposed her, she would satisfy her hatred for him; then V. came to Elkunirsha (wife A.), addressing him "my father "; said that A. sent maids to pick him up with a request to come and get along with her; he refused, then she started threatening him; E. advises V. to go to sleep with A. and humiliate her; V. says A. that he killed her 77, her 88 sons; A. in grief; Ishtar turns into a bowl, into an owl, overhears E. telling A. to go to bed with V., then takes her to bed; I. flies to V. and speaks to him (the text ends)]: Ivanov 1977:167-169.

Iran - Central Asia. Lura [the king has three sons, the youngest Jahantigh; his father's wife offered him love, J. refused; the woman grabbed him by the clothes, he cut off the piece of dress that was left in her hand, ran away; she accused him of an attempt on her honor; the king wanted to execute her son, but the vizier advised him to simply expel him; the older brothers left with the youngest; at night they take turns keeping the fire; when J. the wind blew out the fire; J. came to 16 demons; they cannot get the princess, because there are bells everywhere, which start to ring when they approach and the guards wake up; J. suggests stuffing them into the bells cotton wool; then tells the demons to go up one by one and kills everyone; kisses the princess and changes rings with her; brings a brazier to the sleeping brothers; in the city everyone claims that he destroyed it demons; when J. came, the king wants to give him his daughter, but he gives her older brother and moves on; in another village, the inhabitants are exhausted; the dragon closed the spring, every day gives water for sheep, bread and girl, turn of the royal daughter; clenching the back of the sword with his teeth, J. and the girl rushes into the dragon's mouth, ripped it apart with the blade of a sword; the girl marked the savior with dragon blood; all sources are here But they were filled; the men gathered, the princess found her savior; J. gave in to her middle brother, went on; J. comes to a city whose inhabitants are invisible; the fairy saw J. in a dream and will break the spell, if J. comes to her; when she saw him, she made everyone else visible; J. married his servant to the fairy and came to a city where there are only women; the fairy king invites everyone to overcome him, but no one can and he killed all men; the old woman teaches: we must take possession of the king's seahorse; hide in the stable; the horse will light up, the king will come to give him sugar; so twice; the third time the king whips off the horse and leaves; then J. the horse will be pigeon; after defeating the king, he can be released only after he says "with my mother's milk and father's pain"; the fairy king gave his daughter J.; once his wife combed her hair and her hair fell into the river; his prince picked it up, the old woman promised to get the owner if she was given as much gold as she weighs herself; she came to J.'s wife; she did not want to keep her, but J. ordered her to keep it; the old woman persuaded J. to find out what his strength was; his wife pretended to be offended, J. admitted that his strength was in his hand (blade in his arm); when he fell asleep, his wife took out the blade, gave it to the old woman, who threw it into the river put the woman to sleep and took her to the prince; J.'s wife told him she was in mourning for 40 days; his older brother J. saw that his star had set and the middle one knew how to be underwater; they came, the middle brother took out a blade from the bottom of the river, J. regained consciousness; the brothers bribed an old woman to take J.'s wife out of town; J. returned his wife, ordered the old woman to be burned]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 1:1-9; Tajiks: Amonov 1960 [the padishah has sons Gul and Bulbul; after the death of his wife, he took a new one; the stepmother offers himself to Gulu, who refuses; she tears his clothes, accuses him of trying to rape her; vizier: if his clothes are torn from behind, G. ran away from the woman; the padishah released his son, but drove him away, B. left with him; in the morning G. cannot wake up, B. left, a falcon sat on his head, he was elected padishah Misra; the merchants woke up Gula, in in the country of Chin, he was hired as an assistant pilaf seller, gold was on his bed in the morning, the seller became rich; G. goes with merchants to Misr; in one city, for delicious pilaf, the padishah fulfills Gul's wish: a palace with with a tower of gold and the daughter of Padishah Baghdad; B. and G. met; at night the merchant wants to take G.'s wife and kill him; the wife proposes to lower G. in the chest into the river; the gardener picked him up, he pulled him over his head mutton abomb, sent Bulbula bouquet of flowers; everyone tells stories, G. - his own, takes the baby off his head; the merchant was tied to the stallion's tail]: 113-119 (=Osmanov 1989:506-512); 1980 [the merchant's son married, but continues to study; his father gives him 100 gold three times, tells him to trade; he spends money buying advice from an old man three times; 1) if you eat someone's bread, remember this; 2) do not give up the fact that they suggest in the morning; 3) if you raise your right hand against someone, think and stop it with your left hand; the father kicked his son out, he went to the baker; his wife began to seduce him, he refused; she told her husband that the worker wanted to dishonor her; the husband tells the bakers to throw the first one who enters the bakery in the morning into the oven; in the morning, the owner sends the merchant's son to pick up the flour from Somon and take it to the bakery; S. invites first to drink tea, the merchant's son remembers that it is impossible to refuse the invitation in the morning; the baker's wife decided to go stop the murder, but she herself was thrown into the oven as if she came first; the owner awarded the merchant's son and sent them home; there he sees a man sleeping next to his wife; wants to kill them, but stops and finds out that it is his son]: 250-255; Tajiks Sistana [the king has two wives, one has a son Malik- Muhammad; the second wife offers herself to him, he refuses; she complains to her husband that his son wanted to take possession of her; the vizier stands up for him, his father expels him but does not execute him; the pregnant mother leaves son; asks to catch a bird, he follows it, he is swallowed by a diva; mother gives birth to a son Hanjarsho ("king dagger"); mother and tells him to catch the same bird; he defeats the diva, throws him into the well; mother finds The diva, raises, takes it as a lover; to destroy her son, asks for 1) lion's milk (the son takes out a splinter to the lion, he gives milk); 2) dates from the White Diva Garden; H. kills the dragon, every year Simurg, who devours chicks, the chicks eat meat, Simurg brings him to the White Diva, the defeated Div becomes his friend; kills his mother and her lover when she tried to poison her son; gives H. peri wife; an old woman kidnaps her for another king, breaks the dagger in which H.'s life was; a diva repairs a dagger, returns his wife H.]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 2:24-39; mountain Tajiks [at the Shah sons Gul-podsho and Sanavbar-Podsho; S. goes to visit his fourteen-year-old aunt (var.: stepmother); she tells her to lie down with her, otherwise she will write to the Shah that he attempted on her; the Shah orders her to be executed his son, the vizier saves him by showing the Shah a shirt soaked in the blood of a dog; G. finds his dead brother bitten by a snake; G. comes to the country where he is elected Shah; Kalandar revives S., brings him to the country , where Shah G., guards throw S. into a hole; an old man and an old woman save him, sell him to a merchant, S. serves as a camel driver; on the way he pretends to be dying, stays with the mufti, marries his daughter; a merchant returns, takes S.'s wife, throws him in a chest into the river; the chest sails into the country of S., the old man saves him; S. dresses up as a woman; the old shah is dead, the vizier rules, finds out S.; the brothers meet , reward helpers, aunt runs]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 16:74-78; Vakhans [the poor man had a dream: the sun is on his right shoulder, the moon is on his left; he told his wife that he was going to wander; shepherd bought him a dream for the herd; the merchant gave him a bucket for a broken jug, the poor man sold milk and became rich; the shepherd came to the kingdom, where the king has a daughter and the vizier has a son; the vizier's son spoke to the royal's daughter to the slave , asked where the mistress was; she answered rudedly; the vizier's son said that although she was beautiful, she was still a slave; she scratched her body, told the king that the vizier's son had dishonored her and the king's daughter was also pregnant; the king tells them to tie the daughter and son of the vizier to the mouth of the gun and shoot; the nurse tells them to run; the vizier's son was captured, and the princess mistook that shepherd for him; they came to another kingdom; the princess tells the shepherd do not take anyone as a sister; he takes the royal groom; when he sees the shepherd's wife, he told the king that the king ordered the viziers to kill the shepherd and take his wife; the shepherd says that his name is Bogatyr Zamchi (BZ); the vizier advises you to take the BZ hunting in the Mazendaran forest; wife: there are tigers and lions, you have to take the Steel Sword and the Wind Horse with you, they will do everything themselves; the sword cut down the entire forest; the vizier to the king: go BZ to Mount Kof for A mare with 40 Foals; wife: a horse and a sword will kill 40 divas; killed: a bet teaches how to ride a mare at the source; BZ brings her, followed by foals; vizier to the king: send BZ to bring news from the dead the king's parents; bet: I must say that the news was brought, tell the king and vizier to climb on a pile of firewood, set fire; they burned down, the BZ became king, his first wife and bet with him]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 13: 163-172; Persians: Carnoy 1917:336 in Thompson 1932-1936, K2111; Tawney, Penzer 1924 [numerous Arabic and Persian versions, including Sindbad. Story of the King, his Son, the Damsel and the Seven Vazirs; after many failed attempts, wise Sinbad teaches his only son; says he will die if he says a word within seven days; the king wants the son to speak; one of the wives asks to leave her with him, offers to meet with her and poison the king; he refuses; she tears her clothes, accuses the young man; the 7 viziers take turns talking about the insidiousness of women and men; seven days pass, the young man tells everything]: 122; Braginsky 1977 [the serpent turns first into a lion, then into a girl; the girl tells two brothers that the lion has tore her husband to pieces; The eldest takes her as his wife; she sends him to get water, offers herself to the youngest; he refuses; she tears her hair, accuses the youngest in front of her husband of trying to rape her; brothers kill each other]: 146-147; Shahname [Shah Kai-Kavus marries Sudab; she falls in love with Siyavush's stepson; he refuses her; then she tears her dress, accuses S. of trying to rape her; KK does not know who to believe; S. agrees to go through the fire, safe, proving his innocence; asks his father not to execute S.; in the end S. is forced to go to Turan; King Afrosiyab patronizes him, but then executes him because the machinations of envious people]: Ulug-zoda 1989:146-158 (retelling in Korogly 1985:21-22); Zoroastrianism [Pahlevi texts; Avesta is about the same, but the story was not fully reached; Kavi Usana's wife died; their son Syavarshan rejects the love of his father's new wife; she tears her clothes, says that the young man molested her; KU expels her son from Aryanvej; King Turana Frangrasyan is going to hand over power to him, but S. is slandered, executed]: Cancer 2006:182-183; Baluchi [from the king's deceased wife, sons Gul and Momin; stepmother invites elder Gul to get along with her; he pretends to agree, but leaves; (apparently stepmother accuses sons), the king orders them to be killed; then agrees to expel G., leave M.; both flee; Gulya kills the dragon; in one city M. is elected king; the dervish revives G., he converges with the girl; some people they lure him into a boat, put him in a box, let him down the river; a man catches him, leads him to the king, he turns out to be M.; G. celebrates that girl]: Zarubin 1932, No. 7:90-96; Turkmens [according to Abulgazi (Khan of Khiva in the 17th century), "Turkmen Genealogy"; according to the author, he recorded his work from the words of Turkmen elders; Bogra Khan has three sons; when he grew old, he handed over the kingdom the middle, Kuzy-Tegin; when B.'s wife died, KT advised him to take a new one, married Körkeli-Yahshi of the Avshar tribe; she began to lure CT; he threatened to execute her; then KY scratched her face told the maid to walk in CT boots through the fresh snow from her chambers to the KT tent; made a fuss accusing the ruler of violence; the maids confessed to what they had done under torture, KY was torn by horses]: Kononov 1958: 62-64; (retelling in Korogly 1985:21); Bukhara Arabs [bai and his son went to the bazaar; son asked to buy him a skinny horse; father was ashamed, but bought; bai left, his wife began to offer herself to the young man; horse warns to disagree; the young man went to bed with her twice, but refused to get together; horse: your mother will give you poisoned soup; the woman heard the horse's words, pretended to be sick, told her husband to slaughter the horse what to eat his meat; the horse teaches the young man to ask his father to let him ride a horse for the last time; the young man sits on his horse, jumps away; the young man shot the gazelle three times, fed the fox, the wolf, the bird Simurg, they stayed with him; they built a house together; the fox decided to get a wife for the young man; there were 40 girls in the emir's garden; the fox began to dance, the wolf played; the emir's daughter came up, Simurg took her away; the old woman promised the emir return her daughter; taking two steps, flew in an arba, spoke to the young man's wife, offered to sit on the arba, took her to the emir; Simurg took her back; the emir goes with the army; the fox ordered to gather all the wolves, foxes and Simurgs; Simurgs threw warriors off their horses, foxes and wolves tore their bellies; wolves, Simurgs and foxes ate meat for six months]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 24:159-163; (cf. Bukhara Arabs [(retelling Joseph's Old Testament Story)]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 28:174-178); Uzbeks [the widow bay has sons Gul (elder) and Sunbul; bai's new wife offers herself to Sunbul; he refused, his stepmother accused him of an attempt on her life; her father kicked S. out of the house, G. left with him; S. went to buy bread; at this time a white bird sat on G. and stretched out his soul; S. stoned his body, came to the city; the bird sat down three times on his head, he was made a shah; the hunter shot a white bird; his soul returned to G. and he got out from under the stones; the hunter brought him to the city; G. left at night, he was thrown into the zindan; after learning from the hunter that G. - Shah's brother, the guard, decided to get rid of the young man and throw him into the oven; the hunter agreed; but G. did not have time to burn - he was pulled out by a random woman; the hunter and guard recognized G. when he was selling at the bazaar the threads were accused of insulting, thrown into the zindan, given to the caravan to throw the dragon; the merchant G. liked it, he threw the dragon a camel; G. saw apples floating along the river, went up the stream, met a girl; she taught G. where to get 7 jugs of gold, what her father would demand for her; G. married a girl; the merchant saw her and wanted her for himself; put G. in a chest and threw her into the river; Shahsky the gardener picked him up; said that the merchant brought the girl and wanted to marry; the girl recognized the bouquet prepared by Gul; G. taught her to ask: before the merchant marries her, let her tell the story about G. and S.; G. told and discovered; villains punished, good rewarded]: Westerman 2009:370-377; Pasha'is []: Morgenstierne 1944, No. 11:77-82.

Baltoscandia. Danes [the king of Spain's wife is dead, he took a new one; stepmother seduces his stepson, but he refuses her; then she accuses him of trying to rape her; before his execution, he can walk three days in in the garden; every 7 years a white horse appears; this time it is here again, the prince rode away; it goes to Constantinople; the horse shows a hollow, it wears ordinary clothes and a vessel; when the prince has moistened his hair with liquid from it, they turned gold; he hides them under his hat; he hires a gardener for three years and must answer all questions "I don't know"; the youngest of the three princesses sees a young man's golden hair; tells the sisters that it's time to marry; they must throw golden apples at selected suitors; the youngest threw it at the gardener; unrecognized, in his true form on a magic horse, young man Smashes enemies three times; the king deliberately wounds him in the leg to bandage the wound with a handkerchief and then identify him; the young man appears in all his splendor, takes his wife and returns to his father; the stepmother is burned]: Holbek 1987:564-565; Icelanders: Boberg in Thompson 1932-1936; Lithuanians [stepmother tries to seduce a prince, he rejects her; she slander him; when they are going to hang him, prince, taught by his tutors, proves that among the Queen's maids there is a man in disguise; the queen and her lover are hanged]: Balys 1936, no.*656:65-66.

Volga - Perm. Tatars [the padishah's wife is dead; he is offered to marry the daughter of Padishah Almas; she is in love with the padishah's son, so she agrees; offers herself to the young man, he refuses; then she tears her apart clothes, accuses the young man of trying to rape her; he is expelled; he comes to a house in the forest, tries food there, hides; three hawks flew in, became horsemen; found a young man, hired him as a cook; taught him to turn into a crow, a hawk, a pigeon; he flies like a hawk to the island to the padishah's daughter (the condition for marriage is to bring a note from her); the old man teaches him to turn into a nightingale, sing under the princess's window; she let him in, he became a crow, a dove, then a man; met with the princess; she sent him to his father with a note demanding that she be given off as a giver; a horseman in the form of a bird fell asleep in the garden; the gardener killed him, took a note; three bird horsemen revived him with live water; all four come to the princess's wedding with the gardener; he was executed, the dzhigit married the princess]: Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 17:158-170; Bashkirs: Barag 1990, No. 81 [the queen is dead, the new one offers herself to her stepson, who hits her in the face; she says that the prince tried to rape her; 40 viziers tell edifying stories to the king, but he still wants to execute his son ; the prince's mullah mentor and he himself tell us what happened; the king executes his wife], 82 [the young queen is dissatisfied with the elderly king No. fell in love with the soldier; he refused; she accused him of trying to rape her ; senators advise not to execute a soldier, but to send him to count who is more women or men; the old woman teaches that if men who care about their wives count as women, then there are more women; the king let the soldier go to the wild, punished his wife]: 232-233, 233-235.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [khan and vizier are friends, their sons are fed together; the khan's wife is dead; the new young one wants to get together with his son; he refused, she tore her clothes, accused him of trying to do it dishonor; the vizier tells the khan's son to leave with his son for 40 days; the khan's son wants to get drunk; one, then the other falcon knocks the cup out of his hands, the khan's son killed them; the vizier's son brought water: and it flows from herd a dead dragon; the khan's daughter makes signs, the vizier's son explains that she invites the khan's son; he overslept, the girl put an apple in his pocket; the same for the second night; on the third they met; theirs they found them, they were going to hang them; the vizier's son entered the prison under the guise of a girl, helped to escape, pretending that he ("her") was found sleeping together and that he was the sister of the khan's son, they were tired from the road; all explained; the khan returned his son, hanged his young wife]: Zhanuzakova 1977:240-245; Kazakhs [the young man gave a herd of horses to some person in return for three wise advice; where he tasted bread and salt, be it not opponent; if you get ready to eat in the morning, do not refuse (even if you are full); if your right hand starts a fight, let your left hand separate; for losing the herd, the father expelled the young man; he became the khan's bodyguard; Khan's wife fell in love with him; the young man remembered the first advice, refused; she complained that the young man was bothering her; the khan ordered the stokers to throw the first person who came in the morning into the hot coals; sent the young man to buy a bag coals; on the way I met an old woman, she asked for bread and salt; at this time, the khan's wife ran to the stokers to see the young man for the last time, she was thrown into the coals; the young man explained to the Khan how it all worked out; he rewarded him and let him go; the young man (now not so young) came home and saw a man next to his wife; wanted to hack him, but made a deal; the man turned out to be his son]: Sidelnikov 1974:29-32; Kazakhs (Transcaspian Region, Fort Alexandrovsky; apparently, it began as in Zhanuzakov, but with abbreviations) [the tsar is widowed; the eldest son Shakurat is 16 years old, the youngest Shakur is 14; the new wife slandered the younger stepson, the king ordered the guards to kill him; the guards felt sorry for Shakur, gave him a piece of gold, soaked his shirt with the blood of a ram; he met Shakurat, who ordered him to be handed over to his father that he also died; Shakura was bitten by a snake; Shakurat left gold with him and a note asking him to bury the deceased; he himself came to the city where the serpent ate people; Shakurat agreed with the snake that he would only be take a young man and a girl every year; the worshipers found the dead Shakur and revived him; he gave them gold, came to the old people, their daughter should be given to the snake tomorrow; he tells him to dress him up as a girl and leave him where the serpent will appear tomorrow; the serpent swallowed Shakur, and he cut him from the inside with a dagger, went outside, lost his senses; the nobles buried the body of the imaginary girl, attributed the snake to themselves; the old men accidentally found Shakur half-alive and revived it; the nobles found out everything, sold Shakur to the caravans; they had to cross the sea, they wanted to sacrifice Shakur; Shakur begged them to leave him on the shore, cut him off He threw his little finger into the sea, the waters parted, the caravans dried to the other side; Shakur was gifted; he bought a chest, a girl was inside; she told Shakur to describe her life and leave her a note; the caravans were jealous, they took the girl, Shakura was thrown into the sea in a chest; he was caught by one king, made Shakur an heir; the caravans sold the girl to King Shakurat; he read a recording of Shakur's life; Shakurat sent ambassadors, found Shakur; caravans and nobles were punished; the brothers found his father deprived of the throne; he was freed from the spell of his witch wife, put him back on the throne; everything is fine]: Stamboliev 1896, No. 9:68- 76; Karakalpaks [when dying, the king gives his son advice: 1) go to bed on a hill on the way, not in a ravine; 2) do not do bad to someone from whom you ate bread and salt; 3) do not give up morning meals; during the famine, the young king led a camel caravan with jewelry to buy food from the merchant with whom the king father did business; at night he lay down on a hill, while the others in a ravine were soaked in the rain and smeared themselves in mud; the merchant had two wives, the youngest began to seduce the king, who refused; she scratched her body, accused the king of trying to rape her; ordered the tandoor to light a fire and throw him there who would come first; the husband agreed; the youngest wife sent the king to the tandoor; on the way, the old woman asked him to come in to eat; the youngest wife, in order not to be recognized, put on an old robe and came to see the king's ashes, the day laborers threw her into the fire, ran away; the tsar found the burnt corpse, explained to the merchant, brought food to the starving]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:110-113; Kyrgyz: Brudny, Eshmambetov 1963 [first person they met teaches the young man to call beautiful not a beauty, but his beloved; the second is not to be a rival to someone who has tasted bread and salt; the third is not to give up morning meals, not to wait for evening meals; the young man is hired caravans; a bucket lowered into the well, the worker who climbed after him disappear; a young man climbs, sees a diva and two women, a diva asks which one is more beautiful, the young man answers according to the advice, the diva gives water; the merchant rewards him; he stays with a friend, his wife tries to seduce him, he refuses, she slandered him in front of her husband; the husband asks his baker friend to throw a man into the oven who tomorrow he will come for bread; on the way, the young man comes to a friend's house for breakfast; the owner's wife comes to the baker first, she is thrown into the oven; the husband realizes that the young man is not to blame; wiser and rich, the young man returns home]: 237-240; Brudny, Eshmambetov 1981 [=1989:75-88; the Khan of Osh has sons Shakir and Shakiret and a daughter, his wife died; the khan remarried; the new wife began to molest Shakir and offered to poison his father; in response, Shakir hit her; the woman accused Shakir himself of offering to poison his father and marry her; Shakiret suggests that the guards kill better than him; they released both brothers they brought Khan their shirts soaked in hare's blood; Shakireta was bitten by a snake; Shakir thought he was dead, left gold to the one who would bury him and a note; came to the city where the dragon wanted to eat everyone; Shakir came to the dragon and spoke to him in the snake tongue he had learned from the mullo; the dragon agreed to leave in six months if a ram and a girl were brought to him every month; Shakiret's body was found by the elder, revived it; Shakiret came to the old men, whose daughter should be eaten by the dragon; wearing a woman's dress, went in her place; cut the dragon with two sabers, but lost consciousness; the horsemen brought the dragon's head Khan and told that they were the heroes; the khan appointed them judges; the girl found Shakiret alive, brought him to his parents; the judges saw him, led him to the river to execute him; the caravans bought him to sacrifice the river for the opportunity to cross; Shakiret put his finger into the water, cast a spell, and a ford opened in the river; the caravans left Shakiret at home; he bought a chest, there was a girl in it; her caravans they took it away and sold it to the khan, i.e. Shakir, and Shakiret was thrown into the river in a chest; Shakir understood everything, ordered him to look for a chest in the river; he was caught by a fisherman, gave Shakir to another khan, who decided to transfer power to Shakir; brothers, now both khans have found a sister; stepmother tied to a horse's tail]: 69-80; Dungans: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 16 [the emperor's wife gives birth to seven sons, but parents want a daughter; the werewolf fox hears them conversation, throws up their daughter, they are happy; when the girl reaches seven years old, horses begin to breathe; on the advice of the teacher, the imperial son spies, sees her sister turn into a white fox , sucks the horse's blood; the next night her brother hits the fox with a sword, but only cuts off his fingers; the girl tells her father that at night her brother tried to rape her, but when refused, wanted to hack her; the emperor prepares to throw stones at his son in the well; the teacher tells him to run; he helps the little tiger cub and the little golden eagle, which the older cubs push away from food; the young man becomes a scribe, an accountant, the emperor's son-in-law; the emperor allows him to visit his relatives; the young man leaves his wife a cup of tiger milk; if it turns red, she will lower the tiger and the golden eagle; the young man finds his country empty; the sister says that everyone was eaten by an ogre; eats away the horse's leg, asks why his brother's horse has three legs; goes out to boil tea; the mice tell him to escape; the young man climbs the poplar; the sister turns into a white fox The size of a camel; sister chews on a trunk, brother moves to another poplar; wife releases a tiger and a golden eagle, after a long struggle they kill a fox; the emperor gives the throne to a young man]: 126-133; Yusurov 1970 [wife gave Honglin 10 coins, sent him for shopping; at the bazaar he bought advice from the old man: work everywhere, never be lazy; next week: if you are rude and the work is hard, still be patient; for the third time: when you meet feasting, go, eat and drink with them; H. hired a caravan, who sent him to get water, H. remembered the advice not to be lazy, went down to the well, there were three grenades; he remembered that his wife asked him to buy her grenades, sent his wife with a caravan he met; hired the old owner of porcelain workshops; his young wife offered him to kill her husband and take her; H. was not rude, but refused; his wife accused H. that he had molested her; the owner sent H. a letter to the workshop ordering the bearer to be put in the oven; on the way, H. met the feasts and stayed with them; the owner's wife felt sorry for H., she came and volunteered to take the letter instead of her; she was burned; the owner understood everything, paid H.'s salary and let him go; H. saw the palace at home; his wife: pomegranates were cured of diseases, she sold a grain, became rich]: 178-182.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Trans-Baikal Buryats (Selenginsky, Dzhidinsky District of Buryatia, 1973) [Bogdo studied with the llama; the llama's wife seduced him, he refused her; she tore off her lunch, told her husband that his student had molested her; the llama bewitched B., ordered that a hundred people be killed with a sword, made them out of them rosary fingers; he killed 99; his mother came out to meet him for the hundredth, asked him not to kill her, pointed to another; this is a burkhan bagsha, the weapon does not harm him; he tells B. to throw the rosary on the ground, the spell dissipate]: Tugutov, Tugutov 1992, No. 13:57-58; the Mongols [Khan's eldest son is in charge of internal affairs, the youngest is in charge of external affairs; the khan wounded a red fox, this is the father of the Shulams, the youngest daughter of Shulam decided to take revenge, but the eldest does not care; the eldest turned into a beautiful woman, settled in the house where the khan noticed her, fell in love, married her; she pretended to be dying, ordered ministers to be sent to her one by one - say goodbye; asked the Khan's eldest son to rub her back, taking off her shell and helmet; shouted that he wanted to rape her; the youngest beat off the eldest, both ran away, fought off the chase, but lost each other out of sight; the elder was filled with the magician Obedist Bator; his daughter freed the young man; after learning his story, W. decided not to harm him; gave an army; the youngest defeated the heroic girl, married, and she also gave an army; Khan's first wife is pregnant; the khan wants to execute her, but one person helped her escape; she settled with old people, gave birth to a boy; he grew up, went looking for his brothers, he was captured by two cannibals, their sister his freed; he asks about his brothers, the city ruler captured him; let him go for promising to marry his ugly daughter; the youngest found one of the older brothers; the brothers led the troops, did not recognize each friend, many warriors died; but everything was clarified; the shulam and his sister put the heroes and W. in a bottle; but the eldest dropped it; the ugly wife of the younger brother descended from the sky, killed the shulam (she fell on the ground and broke), became beautiful herself; her younger brother became khan, the eldest two became ministers]: Mikhailov 1962:148-154; the Mongols of Inner Mongolia: Gomboev 1858 [anonymous chronicle "Altan Tobchi" (" The Golden Tale"), probably dating back to the first half of the 17th century. (translated from Beijing): "After him {Dzoriktu Khan}, Elback Khan sat on the throne, the year of the dog. This Elback Khan once on a raid, when he saw the blood of a dead hare in the snow, asked: "Is there a woman who is white as snow and cheeks like this blood?" Oirat Tafu-Huthai replied: "Well, there is one!" - "Who is she, can't we see her?" - "If you really want to see her, I will say: this is your daughter-in-law, Ulzetu-Gua, the wife of your son Hagurtzak Dugureng Huntaizi." Seduced by the beauty of his daughter-in-law, Elbaek Khan said to Huthei-Tafu: "Oh, showing what you have never seen, combining what is far away, satisfying your thirst for desire, you, my Tafu, go!" He told Bageji Khan's words: "He sent me to see your beauty." Bageji was angry and replied: "Can the earth connect with heaven, can Khan take her daughter-in-law? Let his son, Duguren-Temur, see that Khan, his father, has become like a black dog." Ignoring his daughter-in-law's words, the khan killed his son and took her for himself. After that, Tafu came to ask the khan to be awarded the title of darugi; but as Khan was not (at home), he sat in front of the house. At this time, Hung-Bageji sent an ambassador to him and asked him to visit her and wait for her khan along with the gifts. Tafu showed up. Bageji brought him a bowl (of wine) with the following words: "You made my unimportant person important, made my small body great, and Bageji made Taihu (Empress) the name." Then she took a voluminous leather dish, divided into two halves: she poured water into one and strong arzan (wine) into the other; she drank water herself, and gave Tafu a strong arzan until she dropped. Then she put carpets in her sleeping yurt, put pillows, curtains, and put Tafu on this bed. Having disheveled her hair and scratching her face, she sent for the khan. Before Khan arrived, Tafu managed to escape. Khan chased him and in this fight his little finger was shot off. After killing Tafu, Khan ordered Suni Jamin-Taif to cut the belt out of the victim's back and sent him to his wife. Mixing Khan's blood with Tafu's fat, she licked, saying: "The blood of the khan who killed his son, the fat of Tafu, who caused the death of my master (husband, lord), which I received as a gift - that's success a woman's revenge! I don't care about dying." Although Khan recognized Bageji's indignation, he, realizing his guilt, did not say anything to her about it"]: 156-158; Lubsan Danzan 1973 [Altan Tobchi chronicle compiled by Ordos Lama Lubsan Danzan in literary middle-aged language and dating back to the middle of the 17th century (translation from a list purchased in 1926 in eastern Mongolia from Taiji, whose ancestors migrated to Khalkha from Chakhar in the 17th century): "After that, in the same year, dogs {in 1394} sat on the great throne Elbag-Hagan. Elbag-Hagan, while hunting in a raid, saw the blood of a dead hare falling drops on the snow and said, "Is there a beauty with white skin like snow with her cheeks as rosy as blood?" Elbag-Hagan said so. Oirat Huhai Taiu said: "There is a woman of similar beauty. Yes!" - "Who is she? Hagan asked. "Can I see her?" I would like to see it!" - [Hagan said]. "If so, I'll say it. Your son's [wife] Khargutsug Dhreng Temr-Huntaiji Ldzate goa-hunbegichi, your daughter-in-law, is just so beautiful," he said. Elbag Niglesgchi-hagan, burning with a passion for the beauty of his daughter-in-law, commanded Oirat Huhai Tai: "You, allowing you to see [not yet] seen, allowing you to connect with what is far away, wish-satisfying, my Taiu, go!" On this order, the Hagan went and handed what he said to the Bagichi. "He sent me wanting to see your color and brilliance!" Bagichi, angry, told me to say: "Can Heaven be connected to Earth? Can high khans look at their daughter-in-law? Did your son Dgrang Temr-Huntaiji die? Did the hagan become bad?" That's what she said. But Hagan did not take those words, killed his son, [and] married his daughter-in-law. After that, Huhai Taiu came to ask for tarak. "There is no Hagan," said [Taiu], and while he was sitting in front of the yurt, the Hunbegichi sent a servant to him. "I'm waiting for a hagan for my feast. Come to the yurt before he does." Tahiu came, and when he came in, the bagichi, holding the bowl, said: "You made my bad person good, /You made my insignificant person great, /I made my bagichi the title of daihu." She filled a leather vessel of two bags with one hole - one bag of strong vodka and water into the other. She drank water herself, and Tyu let him drink strong vodka and gave him a drink, [so] he fell down. Wanting to avenge him for her taiji, she ordered Taya to be placed on her carpets and pillows and the canopy pulled. After scratching her face and releasing her hair, she sent a messenger to the hagan. While Hagan hurried [to her] when he heard this, Tyu ran away. When the Hagan chased him and they fought, Taiu shot his little finger across the hagan. Hagan killed Taya and, with the help of his servant named Zhashin Daibu from the Sunite, took the skin off his back, took it and, when he came to the bagichi, gave it to her. After mixing Taiu's fat with hagan's blood, she licked it and said: "The blood of Hagan, her son's murderer, was a gift for me; I am pleased with Taiu's fat, who sought to harm his lord's soul. Although I'm a woman, didn't I take revenge with this? Wouldn't it matter if I die?" Having learned about the Bagichi deception, the Hagan, realizing his mistake, did not say anything to her"]: 257-258; Zheleznyakov, Tsendina 2005 [1) the anonymous chronicle "Altan Tobchi", probably dating back to the middle of the 17th century. (translated from a list found in a private library in Beijing as part of the Genghis Hagan-u Chadig collection and published in Tokyo in 1941): "In the Year of the Dog [1394], Elbag- Nigulesegchi Khan. One day, during a cloud hunt, Elbag Khan saw a dead hare shed in the snow. He said, "Is there a beautiful woman with the same white face and scarlet cheeks like that?" Oirat Huhai-Tayu replied: "There is such a beautiful woman." "Who is she?" , - the khan asked him. [Huhai] replied: "Although you can't talk, I will. This is your son's wife, Hagurtsag-deguren-Temur-Huntaiji Ould-zeytu-Goa-Bigichi. Elbag-Nigulesegchi Khan wanted a beautiful daughter-in-law. He gave Oirat Huhai-Tai the following order: "Showing the invisible, bringing the distant closer, fulfilling wishes, my Taya, bring her to me!" After receiving the order, Tayu went and said to Bigichi like this: "I was sent to you by a khan who wants to see your beauty!" As soon as he said this, the Bigichi became angry and replied: "How can Earth and Sky connect? Do great khans see their daughters-in-law? Has his son Deguren-Temur-Huntaiji already died? Does Khan want to be like a black dog?" Khan ignored these words, poisoned his son and married his daughter-in-law. He then returned to his home. After a while, Huhai-Tai went to Khan to ask for darkhanism, but the khan was gone, and he waited for him. Bigichi sent a servant to pick him up and told him to say: "While waiting for Khan, come to me for a treat." After Tayu entered the yurt, the Bigichi handed him a bowl and said: "You made my low lady noble. You made my little lady tall. You raised the name Bigichi to Taihu." She filled the vessel, which consisted of two separate halves but had one neck, with vodka and water. From one half, where there was water, she drank herself, and Taya was offered vodka. She gave him a drink that he fell. She tousled Taya's hair, unlocked the curtain and laid it on the felt spread out. She combed her face on her own, pulled out her hair and sent for Khan. Before Khan heard about this, Tayu woke up and fled. Khan ran in pursuit. [Tayu] fired an arrow and wounded Khan in the little finger. Khan killed Taya and ordered Sundi Janshin Taiba to cut a piece of skin from his back and hand it over to the bigichi. Bigichi, mixing Khan's blood with Tayu's fat and licking them, said: "The blood of Khan, who, seduced by beauty, killed his son, was a gift to me. Tayu's fat, who harmed his master, became a pleasure for me. This is my woman's revenge. Now if I'm going to die, there's nothing to regret." Khan, although he learned about the Bigichi's deception, did not punish her, realizing that he was guilty"; 2) the chronicle "Bolor Toli" ("Crystal Mirror"), compiled by Da-Lama Jambadorji from the middle Urat Khoshun in 1830-1840s: "After that, Elbag-Niguleshu became Khan. After seven years of Elbag-Niguleshu's reign, one day, when he was hunting and saw drops of blood in the snow, he asked Huhai-Taihu in Oirat: "Is there a woman on earth with a white face like this snow? and scarlet cheeks like this blood?" When he said so, Huhai-Taihu in Oirat replied: "The beauty of Ulzeitu, the wife of Khagurtsag-Duguren-Huntaiji, exceeds your description." Elbag Khan, very happy, said: "Oh, Huhai-Taihu, if I see her with my own eyes, I will make you a chinsan and appoint you to rule the Four Oirats." Then Huhai-Taihu immediately went and arrived at the Khagurtsag-Duguren-Huntaiji yurt, who was hunting at that time. When Huhai-Taihu saw Hanshu Ulzeita and told her the purpose of his visit, Hansha Ulzeitu became very angry and said to him, "Why did your khan need to see me? If he, a great man, has no shame and is like cattle, then you should not intervene between the two sides like a donkey." With these words, she spat Huhai-Taihu right in the face. Very ashamed and embittered, Huhai-Taihu left. When he reported everything to his khan, Elbag Khan was filled with passion and anger. Elbag Khan ambushed Khagurtsag-Duguren Khuntaiji and killed him, and took his wife, who was three months pregnant, for himself. Elbag Khan then asked Hanshi Ulzeita: "Did you get pregnant with my younger brother Huntaiji, or by someone else?" Hansha, out of revenge, deceiving him, replied: "This is from Huhai Taihu. I've been living with him for a long time. That's why, even though I've wanted to see you for a long time, he wouldn't let me in, and he didn't lie to you like I was so angry." When she said so, Khan fully believed her and ordered Huhai Taihu to be killed without any interrogation"]: 41-42, 95-96.

Western Siberia. Yugi [Shaman Osmolka has two married sons and an unmarried daughter Kargin; the eldest daughter-in-law thought that her father-in-law had healed, said that he had molested her; people decided to kill him, told him to do so his youngest son, otherwise he would be killed; O. made his body firm, he did not take his weapon; then he allowed his son to kill him, but not to kill K. {it is not clear what she had to do with it}; O.'s body was burned, and K. was also killed; O. came to life, began to come to people, from which they immediately died; after that, the area at the mouth of the river. Dupches (a tributary of the Yenisei near the village of Vorogovo) was depopulated]: Werner 1997, No. 16:261-263.

Subarctic. Beaver [the Swan boy lives with his parents; the mother dies, asks his father to take a new wife from the south, not from the east or west; the father takes him to the west, from the seashore; she asks the Swan to get a rabbit, puts a live rabbit under her clothes, complains to her husband that her stepson raped her; father takes his son to an island at sea, sails off in a boat without listening to explanations; voice (Sitting in Heaven?) tells the Swan to spread resin on the stones; ducks and geese stick to it; thanks to the feathers and meat of the birds caught, the Swan survives the winter; in the spring the father comes to see his bones; the son sails away in his boat; returning ten days later, he sees his father dead, with feathers in his mouth; the Swan fires an arrow in front of his stepmother; the ground lights up; the stepmother rushes into the water; the swan makes the water boil, firing another arrow; Stepmom dies; Swan kills monsters]: Ridington 1981:354-355; 1988:126-136.

NW Coast. Tsimshian [the chief loves his young wife, her four (or ten) brothers supply her with abundant provisions; the first wife is jealous; one of the brothers plays with the chief, paints his face with red paint, to be lucky; the first wife sends a maid asking her to send her paint to meet her; the young man refuses, reluctantly gives the maid some paint; the wife rubs her face with it, complains to her husband that the young man tried to rape her; the chief kills all her brothers; loses interest in the young wife because she is now poor; the son of the Sun gives her leggings, moccasins, snowshoes, tells her to bring them to the leader; when she does does, lightning strikes those present; the son of the Sun revives the dead; they leave, become atapaski tsetsot]: Boas 1916, No. 30:781-782; Haida (Skythgate) [beginning like the Tsimshians; the leader destroys everything the youngest wife's tribe; a boy comes out of her mother's thigh; this is the Month; he gives his sister a copper neckband and bow, tells her to give them to her husband; these objects light up, people die; the Month spits on them, reviving them] : Boas 1916:783.

The coast is the Plateau. Western sachaptin [Valetitsa is married to Tiptiptyay (a bird); his younger brother is single; T. asks a young man to shoot her bird, scratches her face with his claws, says W. that his brother tried rape her; V. throws his brother's arrows into the fire; he leaves, his dog (this grizzly) follows him; the young man climbs the trunk to heaven, to the house of the Spider (Spider?) , no longer returns; the grizzly stays in the forest; A. repents, looks for his brother, the grizzly tells him the truth; V. kills his wife with an arrow; swallows things, becomes small and ugly; see motif K27] : Farrand, Mayer 1917, No. 9:157-159; ne perse [woman asks her husband's younger brother to shoot a bird for her; scratches her face with a bird's claw; husband throws brother's arrows into the fire; brother leaves; with him the bear, who was the brothers instead of the dog, leaves; the bear tells the truth first to his younger brother, then to his older brother; the elder kills his wife with an arrow]: Phinney 1934:163-165.

The Midwest. Eastern Cree (Quebec, Lac Hameçon) [one of the two wives hates the other's son; asks for a live partridge, puts her under her clothes, scratched, accuses the young man (his name Ayatz) of trying to rape her; his father takes him to the island to collect seagull eggs, throws him; A. puts on the skin of a seagull, flies over the water, falls on a rock; the water serpent Pisikiv plants him between the horns, tells him warn if thunderclouds appear, takes him to the shore; A. passes the Earth's mouth, throwing stones at it; flies as a bird to his mother, takes the form of a human being; fires an arrow, setting fire to the world; those who were kind to him]: Petitot 1886, No. 1:451-459; Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [Wai-Mishus has two wives; one scratches her body with raspberry stems, accuses the other's son of trying rape; the young man's name is Iyas; V. leaves him on the island, tells the seagulls to kill; The seagull carries I. on his back, defecates on V., returns to the island; the Green-horned serpent carries I. to the other side; asks to let me know if a black cloud appears; I. is silent, the Thunderbird carries the snake, I. manages to jump ashore; revives the snake from pieces of his skin; the fox helps I.; the old man with a huge leg presses sleepy travelers; The fox bites his leg, pus pours out, the leg becomes normal, the monster dies; ropes hang from the sky between the two rocks; I. throws them roots, runs himself; the woman and her three daughters teeth in vaginas; I. sticks a stone, breaking their teeth, women are grateful; two blind old women with sharp elbows kill travelers; I. throws clothes between them, old women pierce each other; I. revives them, cuts off her tips, heals her eyes; comes to the mother; tells her to throw another wife's child into the fire, who mocks her; lights the ground with arrows, he and his mother are unharmed, V. burns; I. turns the mother into robin, herself in a toad]: Ray, Stevens 1971:112-120; Ojibwa: Radin 1914, No. 14 [a woman invites her husband's younger brother to become her lover; he refuses; she tears her clothes, accuses young man; people do not believe, but the husband takes his brother to hunt on the other side of the river, leaves him there; the old woman brings the young man to her place, feeds him, warns of dangers on the way home, gives dogs; shaking, they they become big, they kill enemies; a young man kills giants and monsters who meet so much; at home his parents are happy to return], 15 [as in (14); the woman herself rushes her husband's brother on the other side of the lake]: 27 -31; Algonquins (the band is not a decree.) [Nopatsis's wife hates his brother Akayan; tears her clothes, says A. tried to rape her; N. takes his brother on a raft to the island to collect bird feathers, leaves them there; A. spends the winter with the Beavers, learning medicine from them; having received the right to choose any gift, takes his youngest son Beaver with him; N. comes to look at A.'s bones; A. sits on his raft, sails to people Bobrov teaches them songs and dance (the origin of the Beaver Ritual); after visiting the island again, he returns his son Beaver in exchange for a sacred pipe; sees N.'s bones]: Spence 1985:184-187; kickapoo [the leader has two wives; one does not love the other's son; he shot a bird; the woman puts it between her legs to scratch it; complains to her husband that the young man wanted to rape her; the husband tells everyone to sail overseas, leaving her son one; a young man climbs a tree; an ogre comes up with his dogs; these are cougars; he climbs after a young man, he pushes him, shouts to the dogs to grab their prey; cougars devour the owner instead of the young man; two blind old people sing: This is how I will hit the Abandoned; the young man ties the ropes on which they walk to the water; the old people fall, accuse each other, fight; the young man offers them attack him from both sides; they kill each other; garfish transport a young man across the sea; he meets his mother, tells her to burn her baby; except her, burns everyone in his father's village; one person turns into a crow]: Jones 1915, No. 10:75-89; Steppe Cree [the chief has three sons, the youngest is single; the elder's wife tries in vain to seduce him; she accuses him in front of her husband; the husband stabs him; the young man comes to an old woman; she teaches him to defeat the Master of the Horses; a young man brings home a herd (the origin of horses); the father makes him the leader instead of himself; the older brother finds out the truth, kills his wife with a knife; the middle brother finds out the truth, kills his wife with a knife; the middle gives a young man one of his two wives]: Bloomfield 1930, No. 28:268-279.

Northeast. Naskapi [Chief Ayashi has two wives; the youngest is afraid that he will make the eldest son heir; asks the young man to shoot the partridge, puts it between her legs, scratched; Ayashi is lucky the son collects the eggs of birds, throws him on the island; his mother expels him, showering her with hot coals; the Seagull is unable to lift the young man; the Horned Serpent (catfish) carries him; he lies as if the sky is clear; jumps off ashore, Thunder hits the Snake; a hook hangs above the path; the fox rises to the sky, pulls up the hook, the young man runs past; two dogs guard the path; the fox turns into a weasel, the dogs bark, Ayashi them kills for unreasonable anxiety; a young man comes to two women; they have toothy wombs; he first introduces flint, breaking their teeth, then copulates; returns home; turns his father into a frog, his mother into robin]: Speck 1915c, No. 1:70-74; Montagnier [like Nascapi; Chief Ayasheu; Raven, two Loons unable to carry a young man, a horned creature transports; a fox digs an underground passage under the lying across the path with his Big Leg; under his clavicles hanging on a rope; a hook crawls after the young man, he throws his caribou leg at him; in the house of two blind old men with sharp elbows, he throws his jacket at the door; old people they pierce each other; a young man sends his mother to hit his father with her head; shoots, the ground lights up, a father and his younger wife die in the fire; a young man turns his mother into a robin, himself into a hawk]: Desbarats 1969:6-12 ; Seneca [the witch's daughter comes to marry the youngest of seven brothers; mistakenly sits on the elder's bed; the youngest rejects her love; she scratches her legs with thorns, accuses the young man of trying violence; the brothers want to cut off his head, their knives do no harm; the young man tells his sister to cut off his head, put him back around his neck; tells him to leave him and his sister in a house made of solid logs; the witch sends a storm; the brothers disappear, the youngest and sister escape, but the wind blows his eyes away; the sister marries the witch's son, gives birth to twin sons; the grandmother gives them the ball to play; following the ball, they they come to their blind uncle; they put in the eyes of owls, eagles, they are not suitable; each one gives one eye; they come to their aunts (the daughters of a witch); turn into fleas, bite their feet; each The aunt thinks the other is pinching her; they fight, they kill each other; the twins find a baby girl decorated with human eyes; they send eyes to their owners; the girl has the life of a witch; twins kill a girl, a witch dies]: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 114:543-555.

Plains. The woman tells her husband that the young man tried to rape her. Sarsi: Curtis 1976 (18) [woman tries to seduce her husband's younger brother; he rejects her; she is afraid he will tell her husband; scratches her legs, accuses the boy of trying to rape her; husband asks his brother to climb to the eagle's nest in a tree above the river; cuts down the lower branches, then knocks down a tree, the young man falls into the river, swims in a tree; husband and wife live downstream; buffalo are called dogs, they eat the meat of reptiles and water monsters; their daughter sees a young man who looks like foam; the father orders to place the foam on a wooden tray, places it in four steam rooms one by one, the young man revives; does not eat meat reptiles; first forcibly pushes bison meat into his wife's mouth, then she likes it; throwing a sharp stick into the water, accidentally kills a water monster; father-in-law is happy; the young man with his wife, son, buffalo returns to people; kills brother and wife; hunger stops, now people have bisons]: 141-143; Dzana-gu 1921, No. 22 [woman tries to seduce her husband's younger brother; he rejects her; she scratches herself, says to her husband that his brother tried to rape her; he asks his brother to get the eagle's chicks from the top of the tree, cuts off branches, then knocks the tree into the river; he is carried far downstream, he becomes small, the girl picked him up from the foam, her father prepared a steam room, the young man recovered and regained his former appearance, married a girl; he is offered to eat snakes and frogs, he refuses, gets bison, his wife is afraid try meat; he roasts his bison tongue, puts it in her mouth, she likes it, since then she and her parents have been eating meat; the wife has given birth to a son, the husband misses his parents, the father-in-law sends a herd of buffalo with his daughter and son-in-law, tells me not to look back; the daughter looked around, they were in the same place; for the fourth time they brought the buffalo to the place; the husband sent his son to his parents, they are happy; people gathered, the man told his the story, cut the brother and his wife into pieces]: 22-24; blacklegs [the wife does not like her husband's younger brother; tears her clothes; the husband takes her brother to the island to collect feathers of geese and ducks, throws it there; the young man spends the winter at Beaver's house; learns rituals, receives a sacred pipe; when the husband comes to pick up his bones, the young man and son Beaver sail away on his raft, come to people, teach them rituals; husband dies on an island]: Clark 1966:254-259; assiniboine [woman asks her husband's stepson or younger brother to shoot a partridge; puts a wounded man between her legs to be scratched]: Lowie 1909a, No. 7a [the husband takes his son to the island to collect seagull eggs, throws him there; the young man collects feathers, flies across the strait; on his way there are two chasms that close and open; he runs past, throwing them at them fish; meets a mother who is mistreated by her husband; tells her to throw the second wife's baby into the fire; lowers the sun from the sky beyond the rays; father burns], 7b [older brother's wife tries unsuccessfully to seduce younger; the elder sends the youngest to get the eagle's chicks out of the nest; cuts a tree; the young man falls into the river, stays alive; the woman repents], 7c [(no details about the episode of alleged rape); older brother leaves the youngest on the island; he kills the enemy; gives a scalp to a horned water snake and an old woman, the snake's wife; he swims on a snake; he advises him to hide under a log; the older brother sends a huge mosquito; the mosquito sting gets stuck in a log; the hero kills his sister's husband, who mistreated her; produces heat, the older brother dies; the brother's wife scratches the back with a badger's claw, makes her his slave parents]: 150-154; hidatsa: Beckwith 1938 [the chief's wife offers his younger brother a drink of water (a sign of amorous interest); he tears her hair, everyone laughs; she accuses the young man of trying rape; the husband takes him on a hike, leaves him on the other side of Missouri; the husband is the son of the Water Serpent, the young man is the son of the Thunderbird; the bird teaches him to lure the Snake with a shell (the son of the snake wants to get it), feed him with cornbread as he carries him across the river; a young man lies that there is not a cloud in the sky, jumps ashore, the Thunderbird kills the Snake; birds from four corners of the world teach the young man to defeat his brother; he returns to his camp, tells the spirits to burn everyone but his brother's younger wife]: 81-91; Bowers 1965 [same]: 299-300; Santi: Riggs 1893 [the older brother's wife wants to sleep with the younger brother, he refuses; she asks him to shoot the partridge, scratches his thighs with a claw, accuses the young man of trying to rape her; the husband promises Unktomi to marry his sister, tells him to take his brother to the Unvisited Island Collect bird eggs, throw them there; a young man is attacked by a large mosquito, killed by a huge crane, a young man kills a crane; turns into a fish, the Bear swallows it, the young man cuts his heart, cuts his side , comes out; comes to two blind people (?) old women who have awls throw a blanket between them, they pierce each other; a man whose dogs are all wild animals does not harm a young man; two good old women Gopher and Badger teach him that do when he comes to two young women; they offer him a man, he asks old women to help, a mouth appears from the ground swallowing meat; women lie down with him covered with a heavy blanket; he he pierces a hole with Gopher's tooth, does not suffocate; women become good, he marries them, he has two sons with them; he wants to return home; wives ask his mother to call his father; this is a horned water monster Unktelia; they put hot stones in the monster's eyes, hang a basket with her husband on his horns, he takes them to the mainland; asks for warning if they notice a cloud; daughters do not warn; when the monster turns back, the Thunder kills him; the monster is immortal, reborn; the hero meets his sister; Unktomi tortured her by throwing hot ash in her face, killing all the people in the village; the hero's wives heal her; the hero tells Unktomi to eat his crap, smokes to death over the fire, pushes his heart to powder; with this powder, the hero's sons shower the village, reviving people]: 139-143; Wallis 1923, No. 17 [woman messes up his clothes, accuses her husband's younger brother of attempted rape; the husband marries Spider, tells him to take his younger brother to the island and leave it there; the young man gives the water an eagle feathers monster, he takes him ashore; asks for warning if a cloud appears in the sky; the young man does not warn; the thunder kills the monster, the young man manages to jump ashore; on the way home he marries two cannibal daughters; they give birth to him sons; a spider tortures his wife; a young man burns him alive; a young man's sons set fire to the ground, his older brother and his men burn]: 78-83; teton (oglala) [a young man kills an owl; his older brother's wife asks for it to be given to her; he does not give it; she scratches her face and hips with a sharp stone, accuses the young man of attempted rape; the elder brother tells his friends to leave the youngest the island; the youngest eats berries, three tubers give him food for many days; he catches and paints the opossum, asks for help; the opossum hides in the lake; the Horned Serpent appears from the waters; transports him ashore; asks me to say if a cloud appears; the young man does not speak, he jumps ashore, the Thunder kills the Serpent; on the way home, the young man sees a bison skull with mice in it, they sing that their grandfather is dead; the young man kills them; comes an old woman, who calls him a son; at night he sees an old woman rubbing her leg with paint, her leg gets longer; he killed an old woman with a crane's beak (always with him); burned it with his house; another woman a hole in the top of her head, she pulls her brains out, mixes it into food; the gopher helped gnaw a hole in the pot; the old woman fell asleep, the young man threw a hot stone into her hole in her head, burned it along with the house; The next old woman has two daughters, their vaginal teeth are gnashing; the young man kills both by inserting a crane's beak into their vaginas; since then, women are not dangerous; the young man sees animals chasing him, pretending to be an old man, the old stalker did not recognize him; the young man comes to his sister, her husband beats her, the young man kills him; comes to his father, who dies of joy; the rest of the people are eaten by birds and animals]: Wissler 1907, No. 7:196 -199.

Southeast USA. See motive K1; woman asks her husband's nephew to kill a squirrel; scratches her body with a squirrel claw; accuses the young man of assassinating her; uncle gives her nephew difficult errands; leaves on the other side seas; a crocodile carries him back; a young man kills his uncle and his men; becomes thunder. Tunic: Haas 1950, No. 4:31-57; Swanton 1911 [the uncle left the orphan nephew to fast in the house; his sister brought him food; the uncle's wife lured the young man out of the house in vain to kill the white squirrel; then asked kill a squirrel through a hole in the house; the young man pulled out the squirrel's claws, one did not notice; the woman scratched her body with it, told her husband that the young man went out and did it; the uncle demands to bring 1) arrow reeds ( dangerous creatures live in reeds; the rabbit pulls out), 2) the feathers of a dangerous fishing bird (the young man climbs into the nest, the eagle gives him feathers and one chick, ordered him to be released at home; the chick takes his uncle's child); 3) the uncle takes the young man to hunt deer on the other side of the freshwater ocean, sails away in a boat himself; the young man wanders through the forest, curses owls, woodpeckers; the woodpecker asks not to curse, brings him to his house in a hollow; for the young man to get up, make a ladder out of mushrooms; the cannibal brings her dogs (cougars, jaguars, wolves, raccoons) to the tree; climbs a tree, the mushroom step breaks, she falls, shouts "It's me", her "dogs" she was almost bitten to death; a young man goes to the water, climbs a tree; two women catch his reflection; he spits, they see him, take him home as a husband, give him a mirror; these women were stolen as a child by a cannibal; when she came in , the young man let the bunny in a mirror, the cannibal liked it, she did not kill him; the young man and his wives ran to the shore, began to sing; sends turtles, catfish, garfish, and garfish, agrees to swim on crocodile; puts arrows forward; the crocodile swims up to them, bites; the young man throws skins, cakes, the crocodile swallows them; the last arrow falls at the shore, the young man and his wives have time to jump off; sister recognized her brother's arrow; nursed her uncle's child; threw him into boiling water; her uncle told two people to kill her with batons away from home; her brother fired lightning, people turned into a vulture and an opossum, their batons ( paddle and pestle) became their tails; brother began to go up to heaven, told his sister to grab his leg, she failed, became a forest night chicken, sings before dawn; brother became thunder]: 319-322; biloxi [Uncle Tuche tells him to be in ritual isolation in the house; his uncle's wife asks to shoot her squirrel; T. shoots through a gap in the wall; his sister pulls out the squirrel's claws, one forgets; wife The uncle scratches his body with it, accuses T.; the uncle tells him to bring special arrowpoles, white turkey feathers, deer tendons; Rabbit, Deer help T.; he kills the evil Old Man who unfastened him; the uncle asks the Eagle's chick to play with it; the eagle gives the chick, which devours the baby; the uncle takes T. to the other side of the sea to burn grass, leaves it; the woodpecker lowers T. his tongue like a rope to climb on a tree when a cannibal approaches; an owl makes a ladder out of tree mushrooms, one mushroom attaches weakly; a cannibal climbs mushrooms, falls, her dogs rush at her, thinking it's T. {this episode on p.103}; they let her go in the morning; T. comes to her, marries her daughters; she tries to kill him; he falls into her trap; she asks where to strike; he replies that head; she does not believe, wants to hit her ankle; he hits her with an ax, cooks her body; she comes to life; her daughters put hot iron into a hole in her head, she dies; T. and his wives swim across the sea to crocodile; T. throws him food, then fires arrows in front of him, then flies ashore with his arrow; tells his sister to throw his uncle's baby into boiling water; kills his uncle's people; turns into thunder, sister - into a snipe; toads sing in the rain as T. told them]: Dorsey, Swanton 1912, No. 28:99-107.

Guiana. Varrau [while swimming in the river, a woman offers herself to her husband's nephew; he rejects her, goes to live with her elder uncle named Light and the Heat of the Day; the younger uncle accuses him of assassinating his wife; they they fight, the nephew knocks the uncle down; the elder uncle takes the young man in a boat to the island; when he returns, the uncle's head bursts, from there the sun comes out]: Roth 1915, No. 197:255-256.