F9F. Asmodeus. .17.22.23.27.29.-.33. (.34.39.45.)
Ademon, without a woman's knowledge, regularly kills her suitors on their wedding night.
The book of Tobit, Socotra, (Burmese), Kashmiris, Bengalis, Sindhi, Oraons, Santals, Gondas, Sinhales, Serbs, Bulgarians, Albanians, Romanians, Abkhazians, Avars, Tabasarans, Rutulans, Tsakhurs, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Talysh, Kurds, Persians, Tajiks, Norwegians (Estonians, Eastern Sami), Mari, Uighurs, Dungans (South Altai Tuvans, Yukaghirs, Passamakvoddies).
Western Asia. The Old Testament (Book of Tobit) [the pious Tobith is taken prisoner by the Assyrians to Nineveh; buries the executed, goes blind; prayers to God; in Ekbatans he offers the same prayer Sarah's niece; S. loves the evil spirit Asmodeus, who kills her suitors out of jealousy; T. recalls the silver he left in Mussels, sends his son Tobia for him, hiring Azaria, who is in In reality, there is an angel Raphael; when crossing the river, Tobiah tries to swallow fish; he catches it, saves his heart, liver and bile; Azariah encourages Tobiah to marry S.; Tobiah burns his heart and fish liver, Asmodeus flees from this smell to Egypt, where Raphael binds him; returning with his money and wife to his father, Tobias puts fish bile to his eyes, Tobit sees the light; Azariah refuses awards, announces who he is]: Meilah 1981:516-517; Socotra [anyone who marries a witch's daughter is found dead in the morning; a young man from the Ether tribe is about to marry, a father tells his eldest son accompany the youngest; at night he sees a snake crawling into the newlyweds tent, cuts off her head; in the morning, the witch complains of a headache, asks a young man from the Ether tribe to come to treat her; she is told that the young man is gone, she dies; when they dig a grave, his father is told that his son is dead; he laments: you can't escape fate; but in fact, his son stayed with his wife, people have stopped dying untimely]: Kogan MS, text 1.
Burma - Indochina. Burmese: Aung 1957 [After leaving university, lazy Mong Paung Chin learns that the princess's husbands die on the first night; marries a princess, puts two of his own in return a banana trunk; Naga crawls out from under the roof, pierces his teeth into the trunk, they get stuck, the MPH kills him with a sword; Naga was the princess's lover; she pays the hunter a thousand coins to rip Naga off skin, seamstress - a hundred for sewing a pillow, makes a hairpin out of a bone; tells you to figure it out in 40 days: it was torn in a thousand, sewed for a hundred, made a hairpin out of a bone; the parents of the MPC hear how Raven tells Voronikha that they will soon enjoy the eyes of the MPH, because he will not be able to solve (describes the riddle); parents answer on the last day; the MPH gains the throne, does not execute, but expels the princess] : 65-69; Aoun 1965 [the king does not allow women to enter the palace, for he promised his deceased wife not to marry again; the gardener who brought flowers to the prince is ill; his daughter wore a man's dress and brought flowers instead of her father; remained the prince's squire; after learning about the distant beauty, the prince goes to get her; the beauty gives the grooms sleeping pills, releases snakes, they kill the grooms; the squire does not drink poisoned wine, kills snakes; the beauty orders to get an all-seeing mirror; from the conversation of the grooms, the squire learns that only a woman can enter the castle, where the mirror is, a man will turn to ashes; as if by accident he wounds the prince with an arrow, she brings a mirror herself; in it, the prince sees his betrothed, a squire; everything is explained; the subjects of the evil beauty rebelled, the snakes crawled out and ate her]: 32-39; Brown 1921 [Kin Saw U is the wife of King Thado Saw; from thickening on the main pillar of the palace, a dragon jumped out, met with the queen, bit to death the king; the TS brother married the KSU, died the same way; this is how all six brothers of the king died; this is how all six brothers of the king died; the KSU gave birth to a son Pauk Tyaing, he was abandoned in the forest, brought up by foster parents; palace ministers are looking for a spouse for the KSU; PT offers himself; does not sleep at night, kills the dragon; the dragon becomes natom (spirit), he is revered under the name of the Great Father; The KSU asks PT a riddle, he guesses when he hears an answer from a crow; gives birth to him two sons; because of his mother's previous relationship with the dragon, they were born blind; they were lowered down the river; they saw the light, founded Prom city (Prome)]: 93-94.
South Asia. Kashmiris [the girl did not scoop water with her hand, but began to drink directly from the lake; a snake crawled into her unnoticed, stayed inside; the girl got married; at night the snake crawled out, bit her husband, and crawled away Back, her husband died; Ali Mardan Khan, the Mughal ruler, stayed at night to watch, saw a snake; ordered the woman to be toned; when she burned down, there was a stone that turned any metals into gold; after death, A. ordered the stone to be thrown into the Indus; only the youngest of four sons agreed to do so]: Knowles 1885:184-186; the Bengalis [the merchant's son takes an egg from the warbler's nest, puts it in the locker in a niche in the wall, forgets; a girl is born out of an egg; grows up; in the absence of a young man, she goes out, eats the food he has brought him, returns to the niche; after 16 years, the young man notices this; his mother advises him to hide; he finds a girl; takes her as his wife; their sons Swat (Sheth in Russian transcription) and the younger Basanta (Boshonto); the elder merchant, his wife, the wonderful wife die; the merchant (i.e. the husband of a wonderful wife) takes a young woman wife; his son's wife S. is older than her; stepmother hates stepsons; fisherman brings fish; if you eat it, jewelry will fall from your lips, if you laugh, from the pearl's eyes if you cry; the merchant tells to his daughter-in-law to fry it for him; she gives fish to her husband and his brother; Boshonta's pigeon flew to her stepmother, who hides it under her dress, S. takes it away; stepmother promises that her husband will kill her stepsons as soon as he returns; both Brother and wife Sh. Leave the house on a fast horse; they spend the night in the forest, Sh.'s wife gave birth; S. goes to look for fire; in the city he is elected king, married; the previous king was found dead in his wife's chambers in the morning; so every day; S. does not sleep, sees a long hair crawl out of his sleeping wife's nostril, turns into a snake, S. kills him; S. forgets about his first wife, remains king; B. comes to the river, cries; a merchant who swam takes him away him; keeps him locked up, hits and tickles to get pearls and precious stones; in the forest, S.'s wife falls asleep; the chief of police (he is from the lower caste) sees her, he has his own dead baby; he replaces them with them a woman's baby; she goes to drown, she is saved by a brahmana, she lives with his family; the kidnapped baby grows up to marry the brahmana's adopted daughter; he refuses; the young man is going to kidnap her; hears the calves talking, learns the whole story; comes to the king (i.e. to his father Sh.); he confirms everything; the family is reunited; the merchant who tormented B. is buried alive in a hole with thorns]: Day 1914, No. 5:93-107 (translated into Zograf 1976:133-138); Oraons [the person receives advice (it is not said from whom): do not travel alone; when you are going to sit, see where you sit; look carefully at an unfamiliar place; a person goes on a journey, picks up a crab - let it be a companion; when he sleeps in the forest, a snake crawls to bite it, a crab grabs it by the neck, kills it; a person comes to the robbers, sits not in the middle, but on the edge; not him, but the robbers fall into a prepared trap pit; he wants to cook food, goes to buy a pot, the potter is in mourning: today it is his son's turn to become the princess's husband, all the suitors die in wedding night; a man goes instead of a potter's son; at night he sees a snake crawling out of the princess's mouth; he kills her, gets the princess as his wife, returns home with her]: Hahn 1906, No. 38:71-73; santals [Turta plows, his mother brings him food; every time the jackal threatens to bite her, eats most of it; when he finds out, T. dresses as an old woman, hits the jackal, tears off his tail; ties a razor to a plow, a jackal wanted to wipe his ass on him, cut himself; hides with a sickle in a chicken coop, with a hammer in a goat pen, a jackal was wounded by a sickle, hit by a hammer; A. agrees with his mother that he will pretend to be dead; mother calls that jackal, he brings the others; the mother ties the jackals to fight over food; T. hits them, they break out, run away; T. tied a tailless jackal, beats them regularly, he swollen; says a leopard that he is well fed; the leopard asks him to change seats with him; T. beat a leopard, made a scarecrow, showed him for money; overheard two horses talking, one with a splinter in his hoof, if taken out, he overheard a splinter in his hoof will be able to fly through the air; T. buys a lame horse cheaply, agrees to marry a princess with a dragon in her body; when he comes out of the princess's nose, his fall from earth to heaven; kills grooms; at night the dragon came out, T. flew on horseback across the sky, the dragon followed him, he slaughtered the dragon; he and his wife visited his mother; all is well]: Bodding 1925, No. 9:111-121; (cf. singhi [the son of the deceased merchant takes 500 coins, goes on a journey; buys 5 simple tips from the dervish; 1) travel with a companion; 2) staying in an unfamiliar house, be on the lookout; 3) lying down sleep, try this place with your foot first; 4) do not talk to strangers; 5) do not act in a fit of anger; in a deserted place, a young man picks up a hedgehog - this is his companion; spends the night in a tree, tying a hedgehog below, that at night he killed poisonous snakes; in the city a young man stays with an old woman; she cries and then laughs; whoever cures his sick daughter, the king will give her and half the kingdom, losers are hung; no one can cure it is the turn of the old woman's grandson; the young man is invited to go instead of him; the young man remembers the advice to be on the lookout at night; the rat: the rat itself sits on a pile of treasures, she needs to pour fat into the hole buffalo; the young man returns to the old woman, who gives medicine, the snake comes out of the princess's belly piece by piece, she recovers; the young man marries the princess, pulls out the rat's treasures; envious courtiers they build a palace with a hidden well, mask the hole, put a bed there; the young man tries first with his foot, the bed fails; the king drives away the perpetrators; the young man asks permission to visit his homeland; he met the woman who asked her to take it; the young man remembered the advice not to trust strangers, went on; the traveler who followed him took the woman; the horsemen jumped up and cut him to pieces; it was a daughter who had run away from home a prince who was forcibly married; at home, the young man found his wife and a boy; he wanted to kill them, but he restrained himself, and his mother said that it was his son; the young man took the family first, returned to the princess's father, inherited the throne]: Schimmel 1995, No. 3:29-36); gondas [the Raja has two sons, their mother is dead; the Raja asks his sons whether to marry himself or marry them; they respectfully answer that he himself; after weddings, the Raja kisses his wife, immediately dies; the woman was taken by her older brother; a thread-thick snake crawled out of her mouth, became huge, swallowed her older brother; the younger brother saw it, cut the snake, but One leg of the older brother was also severed; he put this leg in his wife, his leg grew back to him, the wife died, but the leg could not be pulled out of the corpse; the youngest ripped open the woman's stomach and freed her brother, they fled into the forest; there they killed Dana (forest spirit); when he died, he also ordered his daughter to be killed; she was across 7 seas and 16 rivers; the elder brother swam across the sea, married Dano's daughter; the youngest was transported by a turtle, he became honor her as god]: Elwin 1944, No. 9:320-323; Sinhalese [the prince did not learn to read and write, his father wanted to execute him, but his mother sent him away; in one village, a dying astrologer gave advice: in someone else's house see if the chair is strong; do not eat right away, give a piece to an animal; don't sleep in a dangerous place; don't believe what they say; the prince stayed in the same house, he was put a chair above the trap pit, he did not sat down; in another house, the prince gave a piece to the dog and cat, they died; the prince came to another king, who married him to him, but warned that the previous suitors were found dead in the morning; the prince did not fall asleep, he saw a cobra coming down from the ceiling, hacked it down; the tsar sent his son-in-law to war; 12 years later he returned, saw a young man next to his wife, but did not kill it; it was his son; father-in-law handed over a crown to his son-in-law]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 82:186-187.
The Balkans. Romanians [the fisherman's son agrees to let the fish king go; his father beats him, he leaves; meets a dwarf, takes him as a sister; the dwarf notices that one owner has a new worker every day; watches when he tells the worker to climb a rope up a tree, lower the basket of gems from there, place the empty basket back, drops the rope, the snake swallows the worker, spews gems into the basket; the dwarf is hired by the owner, refuses to climb again, saying that he is dizzy, the owner climbs himself, the snake swallows him, the dwarf receives gems, takes treasures from the owner's house for the fisherman's son ; the princess married 99 times, in the morning the groom has only bones; the dwarf enters marriage, goes to the place of the fisherman's son at night, does not sleep, kills a snake that crawled out of the princess's mouth; threatens the princess cut it in half, she regurgitates three snake eggs, the dwarf breaks them; says he is that fish king; the son of a fisherman and a princess are rich and happy]: Sadetsky 1973:212-220 (the same or very similar text in Nortines 1935:125-136); Albanians [two brothers decide to marry the wife of the giant Vampiri and a woman from overseas; they meet V., who swallowed them, then regurgitated them, brought them home; they negotiate with V.'s wife, that she finds out where V. keeps her life; V.: in the garden; in the door; the wife covers the garden and the door with a handkerchief; V.: in the mountains in the heart of the bear; the brothers cut off the bear's head, a fox jumped out, a hare in the fox, there are two doves in the hare, they brought them to V., killed them, one married his wife V., both went to pick up his wife for another; they eavesdrop on how the hell in the hole tells his son to throw 3 black and 3 white stones at sea, a bridge will appear; forgets to say "who hears, petrifies"; they returned with the woman Beauty of the World (Kleine Schöne der Erde); only the eldest went to listen to the devil's conversation with his son again; hell: The brides have 3 snakes in their belly, they will kill the groom on their wedding night, and whoever hears and tells will petrify; during the wedding they come to listen again; hell: the bride has already killed 30 suitors; you have to kill snakes at that moment when they begin to crawl out; whoever hears and gives will be petrified and blind; the brother demanded that the groom not go to the bride on the first night, but leave him in the room; kill the snakes; told everything in the morning, petrified ; a year later, after giving birth to a son, the wife sends her husband to listen to the devil; hell: if you kill the son, the brother will come to life; the wife killed the baby herself, blood dripped on the statue, the brother comes to life and the baby too]: Lambertz 1952:21-29; Bulgarians [the prince releases fish that should serve as medicine for his father; the king drives him away; the young man meets a man who becomes his companion; marries a princess whose suitors are die on the first night; his sister guards with a knife, kills a snake crawling out of the mouth of a sleeping princess; on the way back, his sister cuts the princess in two goodbye, snakes appear in her stomach; he explains that there is a fish saved by a young man, becoming a fish, disappears into the river]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 507C: 182; Serbs [the king promises to marry three sons if they bring 1) a beautiful handkerchief (the youngest comes to the princess, whose deceased father, becoming a vampire, kills grooms; is not afraid to spend the night in the palace, receives a handkerchief); 2) a long chain (the same); 3) the bride; first the youngest son comes to the triple wedding in poor clothes, then appears in all its splendor]: Karadzich 1856 in Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:66-70.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians: Bgazhba 2002 [the prince lets go of the goldfish, the king expels him; he meets another young man, they come to the king, each of whose daughter's 300 suitors died on the first night; friend hid under the ottoman; at midnight, three snakes crawled out of his wife's mouth one after another, each cut off their heads, hid them; the prince sees a friend with a sword, thinks he was going to kill him; a friend demands that he separated the woman; swings his sword, three decapitated snakes crawl out of her mouth; the friend turns into a goldfish again; the prince and his wife return to their father, who arranges a wedding]: 159-161; Shakryl 1975, No. 34 [the merchant's son pays the debts of the deceased, who is dragged along the ground, buries him; goes to the royal feast; a man with a hatchet lets him through on the condition that they share everything they receive; the king gave him away daughter for the young man; at night, a man with a hatchet hid in the newlyweds room, cut off the heads of two snakes that crawled out of the girl's mouth; the third noticed him and hid; everyone is surprised: 9 previous husbands The princesses were found dead in the morning; a man with a hatchet demands to separate his wife, swings, the girl cried out, the snake crawled out, he killed her; said that he was the ransom dead man, and disappeared]: 174-176; Abaza [the young man gave the rest of his father's money to those in need; the old man promises to make him rich with the condition of dividing what he had acquired in half; tells him to buy a cat, burn the tail hairs, cure him with this ash eyes to the prince; the grateful prince married him to his daughter; the old man demanded that she be divided, waved his sword, and a snake crawled out of the girl's mouth; everything is fine]: Tugov 1985, No. 77:265-266; (cf. Abaza [dying, Zan bequeathed his son to marry Dzhankulyaz; he goes in search; the shepherd teaches: D. will offer horse racing, her two eagles must peck out their eyes, they must have time to cut off their wings; when D. enters Kunatskaya, two snakes will come out of her mouth, you have to dodge, the snakes will break against the wall; then you have to beat D. until she swore to be a faithful wife; that's what happened; on the way home, the rider wanted to repel D.; they they fought for a long time; the young man saw how the wounds of the "rival" were being healed in the hut, it turned out that she was a girl; he beat her with a dogwood stick, knocked her hat, and also married her]: Tugov 1985, No. 70:214-216); Avars [ a young merchant buys a debtor from a moneylender; soon an unknown young man joins the caravan; at night, while others are sleeping, he kills the witch Hart, drives Azhdakha away; marries the khan's daughter for the merchant; kills a three-headed monster that attacked grooms on their wedding night; before parting, he admits that he is a redeemed debtor; shares the treasures found; hits the merchant's wife three times, out of her mouth three Azhdakhs pop up; now the wife is safe]: Atayev 1972, No. 74:85-89; (cf. Tabasarans [padishah is ill, he will be cured by the blood of a marine inhabitant; son Ilyas sees an old man catch a girl with a fish tail; she asks her to let go, I. lets go; father expels him; mother gives apple - whoever divides it equally is a true friend; I. meets a young man, he divides the apple equally; the padishah's daughter is numb; a friend sends I. to cure her, teaches her how; she has a mirror, carpet, necklace; I. tells the story of these objects, the girl screams; throws off the necklace, talks a little; this necklace is an old viper woman; I. marries, a friend demands to separate the bride, swings, the girl regurgitates snake, then speaks normally; the friend was the siren that I. let go; I. brings medicine to his father; feast]: Ganieva 2011b, No. 25:264-266; Rutultsy [padishah went blind, elder sons, then the youngest went to look for a cure; the old man sends the youngest to three alims, they to another old man, he explains to burn the padishah of fish, anoint his father's eyes with ash; the blind padishah tells everyone to fish , the head of the fish is caught, the young man felt sorry for him, let him go, the father kicked his son out of the house; some old man becomes a companion; brings him to a place where a good story is rewarded; a young man is given money, an old man is given a girl; she agrees to go with him if he finds her sister; leaving the young man, the old man comes to a man next to him with an owl and another bird; a man's story: he watched his wife come to three people secretly decapitated people, put one head under his wife's pillow, his wife and head became birds; the old man restored the birds to their human appearance, explained that those three people were holy elders; turned into an owl is the sister they are looking for; the old man brings her ring to her father and sister, everyone is happy; the old man gives the girl he received to the son of a blind padishah; they have two children; the young man decides to return to his father; an old man at the spring remains, tells him to share his children and wife, swings a dagger, a snake crawls out of the girl's mouth; the old man explains that now you can live peacefully with his wife; gives medicine to cure a blind father; {the old man was the padishah of fish}]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 30:295-298; Tsakhurs [the king became blind by old age; only the blood of a "red fish" with a horn on his head will cure him; the prince caught a fish, but it was so beautiful that he was hers let go; once offended a black slave, he told the king everything, the king expelled his son; the mother tells the prince how to recognize a stranger as a faithful friend; the stranger turned out to be him (he guarded the prince's peace at night and etc.); the king has a dumb daughter, he will pass her off as someone who can get her to talk; in the presence of the princess, the companion tells how the tailor, carpenter and mullah spent the night on the road, took turns awake; the carpenter carved the girl, dressed her as a tailor, the mullah revived her; who will get the girl? Everyone is silent, the princess says that the mullet; the prince gets a wife; the companion tells not to lock the bedroom door; at night she enters, kills a snake crawling into the bedroom; everyone goes to the prince's homeland; where he met companion, who tells me to divide everything in half, including his wife; the companion pretends to cut the girl, snakes crawl out of her mouth; he explains that a snake fell in love with the princess, slept with her at night; from in his breath, she became pregnant and numb; to cure her father's blindness, you must smear his eyes with earth from under the hooves of his companion's horse; the companion himself is that fish; the prince returned with his wife and property, cured his father ]: Dirr 1920, No. 18:93-96); Georgians (Tbilisi) [the merchant sends his eldest son to trade, he is afraid of losing, brings gold back; the same with the average; the youngest buys the dead man with with a severed ear beaten by his lenders; erects a monument to the one-eyed man, spending all the money and asking his father for more; the father is happy, tells his son to take an assistant who will keep a dry crust and give him back crumb; only a one-eared Arab fulfills the condition; agrees to divide the proceeds in half and meet its three conditions; goes ahead of the caravan through the forest, exterminating predators; the first condition is to ask the king permission to sit with the caravan in the yard in the shack; tells the young man not to look out of the shack, goes to buy a magic bird himself; the young man looked out and saw the princess; the king will pass her off as someone who can do it get to talk, execute those who failed; the Arab put the bird under the pot, asks if it is being cleaned; the pot (i.e. the bird) replies that they are not cleaning, the princess is indignant out loud; the king kills the vizier, believing that he is in it's everyone's fault; the Arab hid the bird in the curtains (same: they don't clean me; princess: what's it like?) ; the third time the same (the bird answers on behalf of the throne); Arab to the king: I want a princess not for myself, but for a rich young man; the Arab tells the young man to celebrate only his engagement and until he returns to his father to his betrothed not approach; on the way back, the Arab orders to separate the bird (tears it in half) and the princess; waves his sword, a snake crawls out of the princess's mouth; the Arab says that he is the dead man whom the young man bought; all good]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 81:59-71; Armenians (Turkish Armenia) [the ruler of Mysra is blind; Dr. Jinjin, who was discharged from Inglisia, orders to catch golden-headed fish in order to prepare medicine; the prince releases her, flees from her father's anger; an Arab is hired to him; the ruler of the island promises a daughter to the one who kills the dragon; the Arab kills, says that the prince killed, he marries; the Arab advises to put her in jail the throne of another, to go to marry the daughter of the ruler of the Franks; her suitors died; an Arab hides in the marriage chambers, kills a snake crawling out of his young wife's mouth at night; after the death of his father, the prince and two wives returns home; as payment, an Arab asks for his wives to be separated; hangs the daughter of the ruler of the Franks, swings his sword, a snake crawls out of her mouth, an Arab kills her; explains that he was saved by the prince fish]: Harutyunyan 1986:44-47 (=Khachatryants 1933:73-77); Azerbaijanis [each of the three sons of the padishah renounces the throne in favor of the brothers; all three leave; saying goodbye, the father advises 1) do not neglect what has happened; 2) do not hurry; 3) when it is tight, seek advice from the elders; brothers come to another padishah; they say that meat is dog, that wine is human blood, and the padishah himself is the son of a cook; cook: a female fed the lamb; winemaker: there was a cemetery on the site of the vineyard; the padishah's mother changed her newborn girl for the cook's son; the padishah gave her daughter to the eldest of the brothers; the middle brother saw a portrait of another padishah's daughter; he and the vizier test the groom; when the young man pulls out a knife, the padishah accuses him of theft; he makes counter-accusations ( long story); all the princess's suitors had previously died; a young man kills a dragon, cleverly answers the girl's questions, wedding]: Nabiev 1988:187-199; (cf. Azerbaijanis (Nukha District, 1899) [the king is ill, the dervish orders to get the blood of a white snake; the servants do not dare to kill the snake, it is too beautiful; the prince, the king expels him; to him a young man joins, saying that he heals silence; another king will give his daughter for someone to make her speak; the prince takes a talking parrot with him, the king hears a dialogue, believes that his daughter spoke, gives her for the prince; on the way home, the young man demands that the princess be divided, pretends to cut her in half, she regurgitates the snake that caused her silence; the young man tells her father to drink blood to this snake prince, he will recover; says that he himself is the white snake he regretted]: Bagriy 1930 (1): 27-30; talyshi [a rich brother has a daughter, the poor has three sons; the rich promises a daughter to that of nephews, who would bring a hundred mists in a year; the eldest became a doctor's apprentice, the middle one remained with a man who later promised to give him something that would take him to any country; the youngest remained with the old man; he sends him to get the ruler's dumb daughter to talk; we should ask the nargile with a soft pipe to turn to the ruler, say, "Mr. Nargile, tell us a story that would make her daughter Speak the ruler." Nargile will start telling. After each story you tell, ask council members to make a conclusion. None of the audience will be able to do this, and the ruler's daughter will start talking from behind the curtain. There will be a turmoil, we must return home right away; Nargile's story: there was a carpenter, a tailor and a mullah; they decided to go to another city; spent the night in the deserts, stayed in turn to guard and made the figure the woman, the tailor dressed her, the mullah asked God to revive; the audience wondered who the girl should belong to; the king's daughter said from behind the curtain that she was a carpenter; the old man tells the young man to repeat everything the next day ; "There were three brothers and all three wanted to marry their cousin. They went in different directions, earning a hundred mists to give their uncle for their daughter. Before leaving, they left a sign near one spring, thinking that whoever made the money first would pick up the tag. After a year of work, it turned out that none of the three brothers were able to raise so much money. One brother studied medicine, another received the Prophet Solomon's carpet, and the third became a fortuneteller; the doctor was the first to return to the spring, then the other two came up. No one had money, but the first said he had learned medicine, the second said he had the Prophet Solomon's carpet, and the third said he had learned divination; the fortuneteller found that the cousin was only that she was dead, the second brother gave a carpet, the doctor revived (cured); the padishah's daughter said that the girl belonged to a fortuneteller; the old man ordered to go again, ask the ruler to tie the girl to a tree, whip her with a whip , a worm will fall out of her mouth, she must kill him, then the girl will speak; the old man sent the young man to meet his brothers, it happened as in the story; the younger brother married his uncle's daughter]: Asatryan 2005:41 -50); Kurds [Krale Kafyr agrees not to kill orphan Zal and his sister; Zal defeats a sea monster, beautiful Rudabe is under the skin of the beast; KK is afraid of the monster, everyone goes to Z., he establishes Islam; passes off his sister as Kambar; R. cannot be born, the Simurg bird gives a sword to cut R.'s stomach, Rostam is born; K.'s wife gives birth to a son named Bedran; K. is the patron and companion of R.; until R. sleeps, the dragon draws K., who cuts him with a sword from the inside; the next night K. kills the diva, cuts off his ears; R. does not believe, offended K. leaves; Div Heungrman hides R. in a dungeon on the seashore; Orynj R.'s son goes in search; the old woman gives urine instead of water, the dragon closes the water, gives it for the girls; O. kills the dragon; the king says that only Simurg knows where Divas H. is; O. kills the dragon crawling to the chicks Simurg; she brings O. to H.; O. turns H. into a mule, R. rides it, Simurg carries O. by air; the husbands of the padishah's daughter are found dead after the wedding night; O. remains instead of the groom, cuts off the steel the hand of a diva, during the life of the diva, his sister releases 300 petrified horsemen; O. and R. release Bedran, imprisoned in the dungeon by enemies; exterminate the infidels]: Rudenko 1970, No. 51:155-174.
Iran - Central Asia. Persians (Isfahan) [the dervish gives the aged childless padishah an apple to eat in half with his wife; if a boy is born, he must give it to him in 14 years; Feridun is born; the dervish agrees to go with him voluntarily; shows a portrait of Yasaman, the daughter of Padishah Chin; agrees with F. that they will divide everything in half; J. falls in love with F.; after learning that that son is not a dervish, but Padishah of Iran, Padishah Chyna gives him a daughter; her former suitors died; the dervish demands to separate the girl, swings an ax, a scorpion and a snake crawl out of Y.'s mouth; the dervish explains that otherwise they it was impossible to extract; F. and Y. live happily ever after]: Jaliashvili, Faras 1967:33-47; Tajiks [padishah sends his elder, then middle son to guard a thief stealing apples; only the youngest son does not fall asleep from his youngest wife, tears off the tail of a fiery bird; playing with money, breaks the old woman's spindle; she advises him to go looking for a thief like his brothers; chooses a skinny horse, a rusty dagger, catches up brothers; the stone says that the one who goes to the left will return, but not to the right; the young man turns to the left, the brothers to the right; the wolf eats away the front legs of the young man's horse, then the back legs, the torso, the head; every time asks if the horse was bipedal, without legs, etc.; the young man says he was; the wolf brings him to the padishah Misra, tells him to take the bird without a cage, he takes the cage, is captured, the padishah tells him to get the horse from the country of Chin; the wolf tells not to take harness, the young man takes it, the padishah Chin orders to bring the daughter of Padishah Machin; the wolf pulls everything out, each time puts the guards to sleep, the young man returns on horseback with the girl; the wolf gathers stab a girl, a horse, a bird with a dagger; poison falls out of everyone's mouth; brothers cut the young man into pieces, take everything away; the girl promises to marry the padishah when her severed braids grow; the wolf resurrects A young man wearing a bull rennet is hired as a cook's servant; his sister and bride recognize him, his brothers are driven away, the young man marries, receives his father's throne]: Amonov 1972:116-126; Baluchi []: Porozhnyakov 1989:63-69.
Baltoscandia. Norwegians [a young man dreams of a princess, goes to look for her; pays for the burial of a man executed for diluting wine and leaving him in a block of ice; someone catches up with him, becomes companion and assistant; opens the rock, invites the trollich to sit down, she sticks to the bench; takes the sword she wields with her two sisters, for which she frees the trollich; the second the trollich has a ball of gold thread; the third has an invisible hat; a ball thrown across the fjord turns into a bridge; on the other side they wind it up, the stalker trolls drown; in the palace, the princess suggests 1) hide the scissors from her and return it at noon the next day, otherwise she executes her; slowly picks them up; the companion threatens the ram in which the princess rides to her troll lover with a sword, when she comes; wearing an invisible hat, the companion flies with the princess on the same ram; when she gives the scissors to the troll, the companion picks them up quietly; in the morning the young man returns them to the princess; 2) the same with her with a golden ball; 3) bring what she thinks; the companion flies with the princess to the troll; the troll flies back with her on his ram; the companion kills the troll, tells the princess to give his head in the morning - she thought about a troll; a companion teaches a young man to pretend to be asleep on his wedding night, and when his wife takes out the knife, cut off his head, beat her and rip off her troll skin; they fly home on the troll's rams, taking everything wealth; the companion promises to come in five years; comes and demands to divide everything, including the young man's son; he brings his sword, his companion stops him; says that when the young man freed him from blocks of ice, he was just as happy as he is now when he stopped his hand with his sword brought in]: Asbjíørsen, Moe 1960:84-96; (cf. Estonians (Jüri) [the mother gives her son money, sends it to the bazaar, he gives everything to the poor; so three times; the old man offers him to hire an employee for a year; they sail to another city with a load of bricks; Everyone who comes brings gifts to the king; the young man brings two bricks, but the king is happy; from every ship that comes, someone must spend the night in the church, where the princess is at the mercy of evil forces behind the altar ; the young man spends three nights for himself and others, does not pay attention to evil spirits; two in the morning a puppy approaches him, caressing him, the princess comes out on the third; the king gives her to him as his wife; they swim on the ship back; the owner demands half of his wife for help; cuts her in half, removes snakes, frogs and lizards from the inside, makes her whole and healthy again; gives the ship, disappears himself; the bricks turn into gold]: Järv et al. 2009, No. 22:104-107; Eastern Sami (Kilde dialect) [son grew tall (and strong), his father could not find his clothes, decided to push him into the water; the boy fell, pulling the whole pier behind him; the father drowned, and the guy - now his name Pop Float - sailed on a log; he was picked up by a ship; the prince sails on him to marry the daughter of another king; when he returns with a young man wife, a little alive in the morning: she pressed him down, putting a river on him, then her leg; P. calls to take his place, throws away his arm and leg; tells the prince that it is safe now; having found out who slept with her, the girl invited P. to turn over three times on the shore and touch her chest with her feet, cut off his legs with a knife; sailed back to the ship; P. crawled, got into the house of a legless and blind man; a mistress was needed; the king would give his daughter to him who will take off her ring when she is at the window on the upper floor; the blind carries P., throws it up three times, the third time P. takes the girl away; Baba Yaga comes to her, asks her to remove the lice, falls asleep with his head down on her knees; when the men return, the girl is pale; when they found out what was going on, they told her to put Baba Yaga's head on a bench; they tied her by her braids, began to beat her to give her living water; she gave it, they tried It is impossible to revive the duck; they beat them again, Baba Yaga gave another water; they revived the duck; smeared their legs, arms, eyes, became whole and healthy; P. married that princess]: Kert 1961, No. 34:120-124).
Volga - Perm. Marie {Aktsorin probably has the same text as Chetkarev, but more processed}: Aktsorin 1984 [a childless queen finds a child on the porch, the tsar suggests calling him Babin son; he takes companions of two soldiers, goes after the samogut; while the companions are sleeping, the BS guards the bridge, kills enemies who have arrived three times; then overhears the conversation between the three demon sisters and their mother; the sisters promise 1) create a desert with a meadow and a stream, eat those who stop to rest; 2) put a tea room in the desert; 3) a beer and tea room; the mother promises to catch up and eat the murderers of her sons; information security cuts a meadow, a teahouse, etc. kills demonets; the old woman catches up, eats BS's companions, he himself hides with blacksmith Ilya Murovin; grabs the old woman's tongue with ticks, clamps it in a vice, she dies; BS works for IM, gets samogudes; IM warns of cow guts on the road, they do not need to be cut; the guts are asked to cut them, the BS cuts, the bag of harps disappears; THEY say that you can only get the harp by taking out the girl; 11 IM brothers drink a 40-bucket barrel of wine (IM extracted the wine in advance); the same is to eat a barrel of porridge; scattered the heat in the bath, where he is told to wash; BS gets the bride; THEY go to bed instead of him on the first night, hangs the bride for legs, hits, snakes, lizards, frogs come out of her; the same on the second night - pieces of heavy blood; otherwise the wife would run over her husband; on the third night, the wife puts her breasts on her husband, almost ran over her husband, hits him, goes out bread, the wife becomes a normal girl; BS brings his wife home]: 118-126; Chetkarev 1948 [the childless queen finds a baby in the restroom, the king calls him Babi Son; he asks his father for two comrades, leaves; they stay in an empty house with plenty of food, take turns watching; at midnight, the enemy arrives on three, six, nine horses, BS kills everyone, his comrades sleep; overhears the sisters and the mother of the opponents agree to kill BS and his comrades; the younger sister turns into sand for a hundred miles and a stream, the middle sister turns into 200 versts and a tea room, the eldest into three hundred versts and a pub; BS does not give comrades drink, chop demons with a sword; their mother pursues, BS and comrades hide in Ilya Murovin's forge; he offers to stick out his tongue, clamps his vice, the demoness is burned; THEY ask them to bring self-playing harps; BS brings, violates the ban not to cut cow's intestines, he cuts, the harps disappear; IM and his brothers are looking for a wife for BS; her father demands 1) drink 40 buckets of wine, eat the same amount of porridge (IM does everything); 2) wash in hot bath (they are unharmed); BS gets a wife, THEY tell them not to touch her for three nights; she puts her arm, leg, chest on the BS, he starts to suffocate, IM hides, hits a woman every time, she vomits lizards , snakes, frogs, caked blood; after the third night, the wife is safe; BS returns to his father]: 20-28.
Turkestan. Uighurs [Mulukdar gets married; soon learns that deceivers and parasites live in the city in the east; goes there; saves a fish on the way; a young man becomes his companion; while spending the night M. sleeps, the satellite grabs something that fell from the sky (it was lightning that would kill M.), kills the yalmauz, the dragon (he sucks everything in, the young man cuts through it from the inside); in both cases frees the prisoner; parasites who marry a girl in a city pay dowry, die on their wedding night; the old woman explains that a snake crawls out of the girl's mouth; M. puts sleeping pills into the wine, kills a snake; together with a companion returns; the companion explains that he was that rescued fish guarded M.; M. takes the girls to their parents, stays with his first wife]: Kabirov 1963:249-256; Dungans [Mungutzi about seven heads sucks the princess's blood, preventing her from getting married; Duanzhan thinks to fight him, but his mother advises sending his stepson named Ponzhyr; the princess gives him a ring; P. wakes up to her tears, kills a monster that comes in the morning; gets a wife; she is kidnapped by a werewolf; D. pushes P. into the abyss, the princess rejects D. because he does not have her ring; P. kills the werewolf, returns his wife; D. is buried up to the neck on the road, the stepmother was tied to the horse's tail]: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 7:69-73; (cf. karakalpaks [a fisherman catches three carps every day; the son caught them and a ruff, released a ruff, the old man drove him away for it; the young man began to work for the old woman; the khan will give his dumb daughter for someone to talk to her; the young man goes to the khan, takes another young man as his companions; he tells us how three brothers lived under the princess, the elder fed the bull, the middle one cleaned the manure, the younger one cleaned the manure, it takes 6 days to walk from head to tail, brothers we met every 3 days; the bull drank the lake at the watering hole, but the catfish living in the lake swallowed it; the black bird took the catfish away, began to eat, the fox crept up and ate the bird; the hunters killed the fox, half of everyone's skin hats were sewn to the inhabitants of the village, and the other half was taken by a shepherd, but only half a hat was enough; people began to think who was bigger; princess: shepherd; khan gave his daughter to the young man's companion; on the way back he offered her to divide, held his sword, a snake jumped out of the girl's mouth, she was killed, and she prevented her from speaking; the companion said that he was that ruff, gave the girl to the young man, disappeared]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:53-55).
(Wed. Southern Siberia - Mongolia. South Altai Tuvans [silver and golden frogs closed the spring; the old man says they will discover the water by drinking the blood of two khan's twin sons; the boys swallowed the frogs themselves, the river brought them to a country where khans die on their wedding night; the eldest twin becomes a khan, the youngest sees an old woman next to his brother, and the wolf rides in ash three fathoms, runs away; the old man says it Shulmus's soul ran for the means to kill the khan; the youngest kills the wolf with an arrow, he falls into the ground, the old woman is dead; the brothers are married to beauties]: Taube 1994, No. 28:234-236.
SV Asia. Probably Russified tundra yukaghirs [a girl kills men every time they fall asleep exhausted on their wedding night; the hero himself drives her to exhaustion; when she falls asleep, he finds an iron awl and a knife under her pillow; stabs a knife into her heart, an awl into her anus, they pierce her through, she dies]: Bogoras 1924 ("Tales of Eastern Siberia"): 97-98 in Elwin 1949:358-359.
Northeast. Passamaquoddy [a woman marries five times, her husbands die every time; the sixth watches her; she calls a snake from the lake with a song, copulates with him; at night her husband refuses to lie down with her; poison the snake is not passed on to her husband, the woman dies herself]: Leland 1968:273-274.