F9f1. There is a snake inside a woman. .17.23.27.-.33.

Inside the woman is a snake (snakes, scorpions, just poison) that comes out of her mouth. {The F9F1 and K100C motifs are almost identical, but the former may be included in the cosmological and etiological category and is related to the idea of a dangerous woman, while the latter is adventurous}.

Arameans, Iraqi Arabs, Kashmiris, Bengalis, Sindhi, Oraons, Santals, Gondas, Baiga, Bulgarians, Albanians, Serbs, Romanians, Hungarians, Russians (Karelian Pomorie, Olonetskaya), Abkhazians, Abazins , Karachays, Balkarians, Nogais, Avars, Tabasarans, Rutulans, Tsakhurs, Georgians, Megrelians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Talysh, Persians, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Baluchis, Estonians, Latvians, Maris, Uighurs, Karakalpaks.

Western Asia. Aramei [the fisherman caught but released the fish; the next day he pulled out a chest of pearls; went to Istanbul with his son to sell pearls; another young man joined them on the way; many men marry the king's daughters, but in the morning everyone is found dead; the fisherman's son asks his father to marry her; at night a snake crawls out of the girl's mouth, wraps around the young man's neck and wants to strangle him, but the companion stood nearby and killed a snake; the king is happy; a year later they go home; the companion offers to share everything; swung his sword to cut the woman, she is frightened, snakes crawled out of her mouth; the companion said that he does not need a woman or money, and that he is the fish that the young man's father let go; everything is fine]: Bergsträsser 1915, No. 17:55-57; Iraqi Arabs (Shiites on the Lower Euphrates) [Sultan asks for a son to marry, but he refuses: all women are vicious; the Sultan imprisoned him in a prison palace; one fisherman caught a fish - gold on one side and silver on the other; brought it to the prince; he let it into the pool; understood that the fish also suffers in prison; released into the river; the fish returned to his lover; he took the form of a dervish, came to the prince; he actually has a lover, but he refused to marry because his father wanted to marry him to his cousin (ideal marriage); the prince and the dervish came to the girl, took her away; the dervish demands to share what he had earned; swung his sword, and a long one crawled out of the girl's mouth the snake and disappeared into the desert; the prince and his girlfriend returned to their Sultan father; the wedding, everyone is happy]: Campbell 1950:11-17.

South Asia. Kashmiris: Knowles 1885:32-41 [After leaving his parents and wife, the young brahman went begging; the king hired him; the wife came and said there was nothing to eat; he wrote 4 tips, told them sell; she sent the paper to the king; he ordered the brahmana to be beaten and driven away; then she met the king's son, who bought advice; for this, the king drove him away; 1) don't sleep in an unfamiliar place; the prince stayed in the house robbers; does not sleep, snatches the sword from the hand of the girl who threw herself at him; tells her how the king's favorite parrot asked for time off for his son's wedding, brought two tree shoots; one tree makes him young, the other was old; the hurricane broke off the branches, the snake hiding under them poisoned the leaves; the king gave fruit to the dog, it died; the king killed the dog; a year later the old man ate the fruit and became younger" the king regretted killing the parrot ; the next night, the prince talks about a merchant who borrowed money and gave his dog to another; the dog found property stolen by thieves; the owner, grateful for the dog, wrote a note: forgives the debt and gives more; the first merchant did not look and killed the dog, thinking that the second sent her to demand the debt; the girl says that now her father will kill her because she did not kill the prince; runs away with him; he becomes a yogi; 2) if you come to a married sister rich, she will accept him with honor, and if poor, she will not recognize him; the king's sick wife {i.e. the prince's sister, did she not recognize him?} came, healed, lost his necklace; the necklace was found, the king wanted to execute yoga, but he fled; the potter says that the princess takes husbands, everyone is dead in the morning; now it is the turn of the potter's son; prince Instead, a young man comes; at night two snakes crawled out of the girl's nostrils, he killed them; the king gave him his daughter, made him an heir; at the head of the motorcade he arrives to his sister, reproaches her; arrives at his parents they were blind with grief; the king realizes how wrong he was in rejecting the brahmana's advice], 184-186 [the girl did not scoop up water with her hand, but began to drink directly from the lake; a snake crawled into her unnoticed and stayed inside unnoticed by the girl; she married; at night the snake crawled out, bit her husband, and crawled back, her husband died; Ali Mardan Khan, the ruler of the Mughals, stayed at night to watch, saw a snake; ordered to push the woman into tonur; when it burned down, there was a stone that turned any metal into gold; after his death, A. ordered that the stone be thrown into the Indus; only the youngest of four sons agreed to do so]; Stein, Grierson 1923, No. 10 [four travelers decided to brighten up the road with stories; they met the fifth; he promised to tell them 5 things and let them give them 500 rupees for it; travelers: four of us, one hundred each, and a hundred from you; fifth: 1) money for the road; 2) a friend when there is no money; 3) a close relative - when there is money; 4) call a woman a wife only while she is around; 5) Vikramaditya's daughter will receive only awake; four: Where are the stories themselves? went to the king to sort it out; he also paid, and then dressed as a poor man and went to check; sent him to tell his sister that he was broke; she told him not to come to her, sent some rice sealed with her with a seal; the king hid it; came to a friend, who received him royally; then the king in disguise stayed with the old woman, asked for a sickle, and began to mow the grass on the other king's property; he was seized; the woman brought rice to the owner of the horse, they turned out to be lovers; the woman asked the prisoner to repair the bed and recognized him as her husband; asked for the prisoner to be executed immediately; but he paid off the guards with rubies hidden away; To test the fifth truth, the king, dressed as a beggar, came to Vikramaditya; his daughter's suitors are dying; the imaginary beggar put his clothes on the bed - as if his body had not slept himself; a snake crawled out of the princess's mouth and began to bite what she thought was a body; an imaginary beggar hacked her; got a princess; went home, receiving a sign from V. confirming her marriage; again dressed as a king, called her sister and showed her a plate of rice with her seal; feasted with a friend again; summoned his wife and her lover, they were executed with stones; Vikramaditje opened]: 63-77; Bengalis: Bradley-Birt 1920, No. 6 [the queen's life is included in the kit dice; the king went hunting, Prince Dalimkumar played dice with friends; Rakshasi took the form of a beggar, asked for dice, and transferred them to her kingdom, where her sister Pashabutty ruled; the queen fell breathless, the Rakshasi took her form, hid her body in the back room; the imaginary queen gave birth to 7 sons; they went on a journey, taking D. with them; the imaginary queen asked the snake, which kept in a box where D.'s life was; the snake: in grenade seeds; sent a snake to kill D. and tell her sister to pass 7 beauties off as her 7 sons; the snake bit D. and he went blind; hid in an apple for the night; his was eaten by a local princess, swallowing a snake and a letter from the imaginary queen to her sister; P. offered those who came to play dice; if they won, she and her 7 sisters were in their power, and the losers would be killed and eaten; always won because the mouse quietly turned the bones; the brothers lost, they were eaten; blind D. was chosen as the next fiancé of the local princess: all her suitors died on their wedding night; at night the snake got out of her nostril the princess, but D. hacked her; immediately he regained his sight; there was a letter with the snake, everything became clear from it; D. went to play dice with P., but released the kitten and the mouse did not dare to leave; recognized the bone set - his mother's life in them; 7 brothers and their horses came to life; two kingdoms joined; Rakshasi no longer appeared]: 174-178; Day 1914, No. 5 [the merchant's son takes an egg from the warbler's nest, puts it in a locker in a niche in the wall, forgets; a girl is born from an egg; grows up; in the absence of 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 the 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 wife; his wife Sh.'s son is older than her; stepmother hates stepsons; the fisherman brings fish; if you eat it, jewelry will fall from her lips, if you laugh, from the pearl's eyes if you cry; the merchant tells his daughter-in-law to fry it for him; She gives fish to her husband and his brother; Boshonta's dove flew to her stepmother, who hides it under her dress, S. takes it away; her stepmother promises that her husband will kill her stepsons as soon as he returns; both brothers and wife S. leave home 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 how the nostrils of a sleeping wife crawls out a long hair, turns into a snake, S. kills him; S. forgets about his first wife, remains king; B. comes to the river, cries; a merchant who has swam takes him away; keeps him locked up, hits and tickles to get pearls and gems; in the forest, S.'s wife falls asleep; the chief of police (he is from the lower caste) sees her, he has his own dead baby; he replaces the woman's baby with it; she goes drowns, she is saved by a brahmana, she lives with his family; the kidnapped baby grows up to want to marry the brahmana's adopted daughter; he refuses; the young man is going to kidnap her; hears the calves talking, finds out 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 pit with thorns]: 93-107 (Zograf translation 1976:133-138); Oraons [a person receives advice (it is not said from whom): do not travel alone; when you are going to sit, see where you are sitting; look carefully at an unfamiliar place; a person goes on a journey, picks up a crab - let him be a companion; when he sleeps in the forest, the snake crawls to bite him, the crab grabs her neck, kills her; a man 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 grooms die on their wedding night; the man goes instead of the son potter; at night he sees a snake crawl 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, the 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, the jackal is wounded by a sickle, is hit with a hammer; A. agrees with his mother that he will pretend to be dead; the 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 is swollen; tells the leopard that he is well fed; the leopard asks to change seats with him; T. beat a leopard, made a scarecrow, showed him for money; overheard two horses talking, one has a thorn in his hoof, if removed, he 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 is behind him, he slaughtered the dragon; visited his mother with his wife; all is well]: Bodding 1925, No. 9:111-121; baiga [widow raja asks two sons whether to marry them or marry them himself; sons they ask the father to marry; one day the stepmother pretends that her stepsons are raping her; the father of the sons expels; they spend the night in the forest; while the elder sleeps, the youngest hacked down a snake that devoured the chicks of a pair of birds living in a tree; grateful birds threw two chicks to the brothers so that they could eat; now the youngest has fallen asleep, and the eldest has left unnoticed; he has come to the city, where Rani has a new husband every day, who is found dead in the morning; the young man married, hacked two snakes that crawled out of the wound's nostrils at night; stayed with her; his younger brother began working for a potter, found a beautiful wife; the potter threw the young man under the potter's wheel, changed by their freak son; the wife found her husband and they ran away; they came to their older brother; all is well]: Elwin 1944, No. 22. 3:448-449; Sindhi: Schimmel 1995, No. 3 [the son of the deceased merchant takes 500 coins, leaves travel; buys 5 simple tips from a dervish; 1) travel with a companion; 2) stay in an unfamiliar house, be on the lookout; 3) when going to bed, try this place with your foot first; 4) don't join talking to strangers; 5) do not act in a fit of anger; in a deserted place, a young man picks up a hedgehog - here is his companion; he spends the night in a tree, tying a hedgehog below, that night killed poisonous snakes; in the city, a young man stops at the old woman; she cries and then laughs; whoever cures his sick daughter, the king will give her and half the kingdom, the losers are hung; no one can cure, it is the turn of the old woman's grandson; the young man is summoned go instead of him; the young man remembers the advice to be on the lookout at night; the rat: there is a snake in the princess's stomach; the snake: the rat itself sits on a pile of treasures, she needs to pour buffalo fat into the hole; the young man returns to the old woman, she 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 build a palace with a hidden well, disguise a hole, put a bed there; the young man tries with his foot first, the bed fails; the king drives away the perpetrators; the young man asks permission to visit his homeland; he met a woman who asked her to take it; the young man remembered advice not to trust strangers, went on; the traveler who followed him took a woman; the horsemen jumped up and cut him to pieces; it was the prince's daughter, who had run away from home, who was forcibly married; a young man at home found his wife and a boyfriend; wanted to kill them, but restrained himself, and his mother said it was his son; the young man was the first to take the family, returned to the princess's father, inherited the throne], 23 []: 29-36, 147-158; gondas [ Raji are 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 the wedding, the Raja kisses his wife, dies immediately; the woman was taken by the elder brother; a thread-thick snake crawled out of her mouth, became huge, swallowed her older brother; her younger brother saw it, cut the snake, but one leg of her older brother was also severed; he shoved this leg in his wife, his leg grew back, the wife died, but her leg could not be pulled out of the corpse; the youngest ripped open the woman's stomach, freed her brother, they ran into the forest; there they killed Dana (forest spirit); dying, he He also ordered his daughter to be killed; she is across 7 seas and 16 rivers; his elder brother swam across the sea, married Dano's daughter; the youngest was transported by a turtle, he honored her as a god]: Elwin 1944, No. 9:320-323.

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 bed in 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); Serbs (Mala Kopashnica, Leskovac; western from a factory worker born in 1927, heard from her mother) [the princess fell in love with the devil; he appeared to her in any form and at night she disappeared; the guard at the door of her room does not notice anything; the king promises a daughter to marry someone who solves the mystery; the soldier undertakes to find out; one night a soldier stood outside the window and noticed how to enter the princess's room a gadfly in, and then two gadflies out of the room; the soldier followed and watched as the gadflies flew to the house, and later the princess returned; the next night in the house, the soldier's devil hid under bed; the devil had a blind father; he told him to bring him 12 stakes, support his eyelids, then he would see who was in the room; but the young devil and the princess only laughed; while the princess eats, she drops the pieces, the spoon, fork; the soldier quietly picks up everything and hides it in his pocket; before going to bed, the devil from the princess began to throw a golden apple - the soldier hid it; when they fell asleep, he hid the golden shoe; delivered everything to the king; in the morning the king demands that his daughter answer; she confesses and says that she is about to die; let the soldier come to church for dinner three nights in a row; each time the old man teaches him what to do; on the first evening, the princess became the grave to eat the soldier, but did not know to look behind the altar; at midnight she lay down again in the grave and said that she was starving; the same the next evening (the soldier hid behind the door); on the third in the evening at the bell tower, on the fourth, behind the cross at the princess's grave; when she got up, the soldier lay down in her coffin and closed the lid; when the rooster screamed, a snake crawled out of the princess's mouth and she was alive again and a beautiful girl; they walked hand in hand in hand around the church; the king saw them, arranged a wedding, the soldier inherited the throne]: Eschker 1992, No. 10:61-64; Hungarians [the queen hears three talking sisters; the eldest promises to weave clothes from one hemp stem to the whole country and the entire army; the middle one promises to bake bread from one grain; the youngest is to give birth to two children with golden hair; while the king is at war, middle sister Wheat and Grandma Iron Nose replaced the children with puppies, threw them under the hooves of the cows; the cows gave them milk; the same with horses; with pigs; then they lowered them in a box along the river; the king commands walled his wife in a wall so that no one would spit on her; the fisherman pulled out a box with a boy and a girl in it; they grew up and realized that their parents were not their own; the brother goes to look for a new place; the dragon wants to learn to play on the clarinet; the young man offers to straighten his fingers, let him put logs in the crack, knock out the wedge, the dragon remained clamped; when he learned about the gold-haired, Iron Nose found his sister, persuaded him to ask his brother to bring a lilac bush with singing leaves; the young man came to the mistress of the raven demons, the jackdaw brought him, helped him get the bush; get an all-seeing mirror; the same; beautiful Erzhik, whose fortress revolves in the midst of boiling seas; same; the old woman tore E. in half, reptiles climbed out of her, the old woman washed her, revived her, now she is safe; brother, E. and sister came to her father and mother]: Ortutai 1974, 3:92-112; 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 to him; they agree with his wife V. that she will find out where V. keeps his life; V.: in the garden; in the door; the wife covers the garden, 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, two doves in the hare, they brought them to V. , killed, one married his wife V., both went to pick up his wife for another; they eavesdrop on the hell in the hole telling his son to throw 3 black and 3 white stones into the sea, a bridge will appear; forgets to say" whoever hears will petrify"; 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 her son again; hell: the bride has 3 snakes in her stomach, they will kill the groom in wedding night, and whoever hears and tells will petrify; during the wedding comes to listen again; hell: the bride has already killed 30 suitors; snakes must be killed when they start crawling out; who hears and will hand over, petrify and go blind; his brothers demanded that the groom not go to the bride on the first night, but leave him in the room; kill snakes; told everything in the morning, petrified; a year later, after giving birth to a son, the wife sends listen to the devil; hell: if you kill your 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, which should serve as a medicine for his father; the king chases him away; a young man meets a man who becomes his companion; marries a princess whose suitors die on the first night; brother guards with a knife, kills a snake crawling out of the mouth of a sleeping princess; on the way back, his brother cuts the princess in two goodbye, snakes appear in her stomach; he explains that there is a young man saved fish, becoming fish, disappears in the river]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, № 507C: 182.

Central Europe. Russians (Karelian Pomorie) [when dying, the tsar tells his son to marry the one that fits the ring; he only suited his sister; the sister ran away, began to live with a widow, started a trade, the widow boy salesman; he reached the age of 20 and married her; his son Skip was born; immediately spoke and learned to read and write; an old man arrives, and S. is in a cradle; tells him to take him, will be an assistant; the king put money on a pole, who he will take it, he will take it; Sh. Teaches the old man to throw a thread there, then to get a rope; the king (this brother of mother Sh.): who taught; ordered to deliver the boy; he took him to him; made a devil how to build a ship; tells me to equip the ship to pick up the bride; Skip is 7 years old, but he is already an adult; they sailed to another kingdom, lured the princess to the ship; she turned into a swan, but S. did not let her fly away; chase, but the ship Skipa swam underwater; brought the bride to the king, but the first night he wants to sleep with her himself; the king does not agree; at night she put her hand on him, it's hard for him, he fell asleep, she flew away like a swan; S. agrees to try again, now you should go to the princess dry, not by sea; S. agreed with the army; the princess recognizes him, orders him to be executed, and he will ask permission to smoke a pipe and whistle; let the army come; and so it was; S. killed the king and took the princess; at night S. lay down with her, threw away his arm and leg, tore his wings and cut it in half; squeezed out the reptiles, washed the halves, united, revived; everyone reconciled, Sh. peasant daughter]: Nechaev 1938:39-58; Russians (Olonetskaya) [the old man wants to test three sons; gives each a hundred rubles and tells them to buy a mind; the eldest bought a dog, the middle man wants to test a bird (from her Peña fall asleep), the youngest paid the dead man's debt and buried the body; the older brother and the dog hunts, the middle one shows an outlandish bird for money; then all three went into peace and left; the elder He sees an inscription on the pole: it will be there soon, but not back; yet he goes on; the old man hides him from Baba Yaga, turning him, his horse and the dog into stones; I killed the old man, threw stones on him, rushed off; middle brother sees the inscription: you will take happiness, and you will die with it; in the lake a snake, every day demands the girl for food, the princess's turn; the middle one let the bird sing, the snake fell asleep, he killed the snake, married the princess; she leaned to the water for a drink, a snake slipped into her mouth, she died soon; the bird also died; her middle brother came to where the elder was petrified; Baba Yaga turned him and his horse into stones; on the road younger brother's inscription: you will see a lot of wealth, but only you will take the dead; a man catches up, offers to divide everything equally; drove up to the iron wall, the satellite gnawed at her teeth; the same is a locked door; the chains with which the old man is bound; he says that the sorceress chained him 40 years ago; they took the gems, went; the sorceress catches up; the companion gnawed her throat, took two bottles; they come to the city where the princess married by her middle brother should be buried; the youngest had three nights to guard her in church; the companion tells her to take the book, the rooster and the harp; the rooster sang, the princess lay down again in the coffin, the younger brother plays the harp; the same on the second night; on the third, the younger brother does not hide under the throne, but in the coffin; the princess lay down next to her, the sting leaned out of her mouth, the younger brother pulled the snake out of her mouth, like the companion taught me; the princess: how long I slept; they came to the petrified brothers, revived them and the old man with bottle water; the companion splashed from the other to Baba Yaga, who became a snake, then a frog, a pebble, the companion put it in a bottle; the brothers returned to their father; he told how the youngest's companion, i.e. that dead man, brought him gems; everything is fine]: Onchukov 2008, No. 251:447-425; Russians (location records are not a decree.) [Tsar Khotey has three sons, the youngest is Sila Tsarevich; they ask their father to let them see the world; S.'s ship is the last to sail, only he picked up the coffin floating on the waves, brought it ashore, buried it; leaving the ship waited for him for three years, went on foot; Ivashka caught up with a white shirt, he was in that coffin; promised to help; at the royal palisade, on every stamen on the head, these are all those who married; the king gave his daughter to Sila; I.: on her wedding night, the bride will put a heavy hand - you have to jump up and beat her with a stick until she loses her feelings; a six-headed serpent, the royal's lover, will arrive, I. will fight him himself; that's it it turned out, I. cut off two heads of the snake; the next two nights, two more; a year later S. and his wife went to see his parents; on the way I. cut off Sila's wife, there were reptiles inside her, I. burned them, joined the parts of the body, revived him with live water; after that I. said that S. would not see him again; S. began to live well with his wife]: Afanasiev 1958 (3), No. 575:368-370.

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; Khashba, Kukba 1935 [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 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]: 114-119 (=Shakryl 1975, No. 34:174-176); Abaza people: Tugov 1985, No. 70 [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, it is necessary have time to cut off their wings; when D. enters Kunatskaya, two snakes will come out of her mouth, she must dodge, the snakes will break against the wall; then D. must be beaten until she swore to be a faithful wife; and that's what happened; on the way home, the rider wanted to repel D.; they fought for a long time; the young man saw how the "rival"'s wounds were being healed in the hut, it turned out to be a girl; he beat her with a dogwood stick, knocked down her hat, and married her too] 77 [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 his money in half; tells him to buy a cat, burn his tail hairs, and cure the prince's eyes with this ash; the grateful prince married him to his daughter; the old man demanded that she be divided, waved his sword, a snake crawled out of the girl's mouth; everything is fine]: 214-216, 265-266; Karachays [father promises to be the first to marry the one of the three sons who will do a good deed for people; the elders spent money, the youngest bought the dead man whose body the lender is going to drag around the village; the father tells his son to take him as companions a man who eats a hominy cauldron in one sitting is a little man Chuyunkak ("hominy's cauldron"); the father sends his son to pick up the bride, telling him not to spend the night where there are three hills; they they stop; each time C. defeats a woman, follows her into the hill, puts wealth in a chest; they come to the girl, her suitors have always been found dead in the morning; C. kills three at night snakes crawling out of the girl's mouth; khan married his daughter to a young man; on the way back they took treasure chests; C. disappeared; father explains: C. is a good doer]: Rumyantseva 1981:67-72; Balkarians ( (western 1958) [the poor man wants to marry his son; tells him to bring a friend; he finds a companion, the father asks him to share the food, the guest divides him into equal parts; the father sends him away; the same with the second candidate; the third time the young man sees two people wanting to dig up a dead man who owes them money; a young man pays the money himself; meets a young man named Ak; he gives the best parts of watermelon and bread to the young man's father; the father tells him not spend the night in the gorge; but the young man did not listen to advice; Ak does not sleep; Emegen came up, shot, missed, How did he hit him, came in the footsteps to the cave; there is dead emegen and treasures; in the village, the daughter of a rich man gives grooms hide three times; if they find, cut off their heads, 99 people have already been decapitated; Ak replaces the young man, the fox agrees to help; hid the groom in a hole under a stone; the girl searched three times (even in heaven and at home in her hair), but did not find it; agreed to marry a young man; the dead came to life, she began; on the way back, Ak gave the young man the treasures of emegen; pretends that the girl should be divided; when he swung a knife, she has A mirror and a snake fell out of her mouth; the girl recognized what was happening on the surface of the earth with a mirror, and what was underground with a snake; Ak returned to the grave; wedding, feast]: Malkonduev 2017: 381-386; Nogais [Khan Atay is ill; healer: they need gold-maned catfish fat with a red tail; the old man tells his son Musa that the catfish is at the end of the world under the Daua Bridge; the catfish persuaded M. to let him go; the healer told the khan about this, who drove his son away; a young man Asa met him at the bridge, they went together; the khan gave his daughter, and the groom died; Musa and Asa are each ready to marry her; the lot is small for M.; after the wedding Asa ran into the bedchamber, cut the snake crawling towards the sleeping ones; the front part whizzed into the bride's mouth; on the way back, the friends decided to share the treasures and the bride; M. swung his sword, the girl vomited, the snake went out; Asa explained that he was that catfish, went under the bridge; seeing his son, Khan Atay saw the light]: Kapayev 2012:69-73; Avars [a young merchant buys a debtor from a moneylender; soon joins the caravan unknown young man; at night, while others are sleeping, kills the witch Hart, drives Azhdakha away; marries the merchant's daughter; kills a three-headed monster that attacked the grooms on their wedding night; before by separation, he admits that he is a redeemed debtor; shares the treasures found; hits the merchant's wife three times, three ajdakhs jump out of her mouth; now his wife is safe]: Atayev 1972, No. 74:85-89; 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 an 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 cries out; 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 the snake, after this says 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 look for a cure; the old man sends the youngest to three alims, those to another old man, he explains that it is necessary to burn the padishah of fish, anoint his father's eyes with ash; the blind padishah tells everyone to fish, padishah fish 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 behind, the old man comes to a man with an owl and another bird next to him; a man's story: he saw a wife come to three people, secretly decapitated people, one He put his 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, she was the sister they were 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; the old man stays at the spring, tells them to divide the 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 a fish padishah}]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 30:295-298; the Tsakhurs [the king was 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 let it go; once offended a black man the slave, who 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, etc.); the tsar has a dumb daughter, he will give away her for someone who can get her to talk; in the presence of the princess, the companion tells how the tailor, the carpenter and the mullah spent the night on the road, taking turns awake; the carpenter carved the girl, the tailor dressed her, the mullah revived; 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 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; Megrelians: Mingrelian Tales 1890, No. 3 [the young man caught a beautiful fish, regretted it, let him go; for this his father kicked him out; he met a shoemaker, a doctor; they They decided to divide everything they had received equally; the king would give the sick daughter for the one who would cure her; the doctor came to the king, swung his sword over the girl and told the snake to go out; the serpent left the sick, the king passed her off as a doctor, he handed it over to the fisherman: I was the fish released; disappeared]: 325-326; Stepanov 1898, No. 14 [the merchant's son squandered the money twice; the third time he bought the deceased, who was beaten by the lenders; went again a boy went with him to travel; he cured the princess, she and the dowry were given to the merchant's son; the boy offers to share the girl with all her property; when he swung his sword, from her mouth A reptile jumped out - the cause of her illness; the boy explained that he was the dead man whose debts were paid by the merchant's son]: 43-46; Armenians (Turkish Armenia) [the ruler of Mysra went blind; discharged from Inglisia Dr. Jinjin orders to catch golden-headed fish to prepare medicine; the prince releases it, flees from his father's anger; an Arab is hired to him; the ruler of the island promises a daughter to whoever kills the dragon; an Arab kills, says that the prince killed, he marries; the Arab advises putting another on the throne, going to marry the daughter of the ruler of the Franks; her suitors died; the Arab hides in the marriage chambers, kills a snake at night, crawling out of the mouth of a young wife; after the death of her father, the prince returns home with two wives; in payment, the Arab asks to separate his wives; hangs the daughter of the ruler of the Franks, swings his sword, from her mouth A snake crawls out, an Arab kills it; explains that he is the fish saved by the prince]: Harutyunyan 1986:44-47 (=Khachatryants 1933:73-77); Azerbaijanis: Bagriy 1930 (1) (Nukha District, 1899) [=Bagriy, Zenals 1935:133-137; the king is ill, the dervish orders to get the blood of a white snake; the servants are hesitant to kill the snake, it is too beautiful; so does the prince, the king expels him; he is joined by a young man who says that he heals silence; another king will give his daughter to make her speak; the prince takes a talking parrot with him, the king hears a dialogue, believes that his daughter has spoken, gives her for the prince; on the way home, the young man demands to divide the princess, pretends to cut her in half, she belches the snake that caused her silence; the young man orders the prince's father to drink blood to this snake, he will recover; speaks that he himself is the white snake he regretted]: 27-30; Bagriy, Zenalli 1935 [when he entered his son's tent, the king saw the snake, let it drink, it crawled away; when dying, the mother advises the prince to leave, for she will not get along with his father's new wife; the prince meets and companions a young man named Takhta-Klyj; fell in love with the princess; the tsar demands to build a palace, TC creates it, the prince receives the princess; TC is the first to come to her, blows 11 snakes came out into his mouth, and the 12th harmless remained inside; the king is happy, because the previous suitors died; on the way home, TC demands to divide the princess, brings the sword, the last snake crawled out; explains that he and there is the snake that the prince's father let drink; the tsar solemnly greeted his son; three apples fell from the sky; one belongs to me, the other to the narrator, and the third to the one who listened]: 133-138; Stamboliev 1896, No. 6 (Kazakh district of Elisavetpol governorate) [Jamal-Eddin caught fish in the Nile; his father is going to give it to his son a Caliph, but DE let her go out of pity; his father drove him away; young Ibrahim offered to go with the Chin State; there the emperor will pass off his daughter as someone who will cure her from silence; losers are executed; in the presence of Princess I. speaks to a parrot; three princes marry Mariam; one has learned to find out what happened in a remote place, the second got a flying carpet, the third learned to revive the dead; the princess is dying, who should I give her to? parrot: to the one who brought all three to her; princess: revived; the emperor demands that the princess speak again; the mullah, carpenter and tailor spend the night in the forest; one made the figure of a girl, the other dressed her , the third one revived; who should I give the girl? parrot: tailor; princess: mullet; I. received the princess and treasures; on the way back he offered J to divide everything; swung his sword at the princess, a lizard fell out of her mouth - the cause of the disease; I. gives all DE , says that he is the fish he saved]: 51-56; talyshi [a rich brother has a daughter, the poor has three sons; the rich promises a daughter to one of his nephews who will bring a hundred mists in a year; the eldest became as a doctor's apprentice, the middle one stayed with a man who later promised to give him something that would take him to any country; the youngest stayed with the old man; he sends him to talk to the ruler's dumb daughter; it is necessary ask the nargile with a soft pipe, turn to the ruler, say, "Mr. Nargile, tell us a story that would make the ruler's daughter speak." 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.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Jaliashvili, Faras 1967 (Isfahan) [a dervish gives an 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 old; 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. that that son is not a dervish, but a 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; a dervish explains that it was otherwise impossible to extract them; F. and J. live happily ever after]: 33-47; Osmanov 1987:230-235 [a young fisherman asks an old man to help pull out the net; but the fish is too heavy; the fisherman went call someone else; at that time the fish leaned out of the water and laughed; the man let her go; the fisherman drove him away; met a young man named Mota; and he himself was Moti; Mota began to get meat, and Moti began to get him sold; Mota ordered to go to the Sultan and promise him to get his dumb daughter to talk; teaches him to put the padishah's daughter behind the curtain and ask him to talk flowers on the carpet; 1) the first story of flowers; instead of money the gardener asks the vizier to promise that when his daughter gets married, let her come to his garden first; her husband let her go, the gardener too; on the way back she met robbers; when she found out what was going on, The thief let go too; who is nobler? Sultan's daughter: husband; 2) second story; the sons of three viziers want to marry the Sultan's daughter; one bought a bowl, the water from which revives the dead, the second - a flying carpet, the third - an all-seeing mirror; when he saw that the princess is dead, the young men flew in and brought her back to life; who should she be? princess: the owner of the mirror; Moti got the Shah's daughter; Mota tells me not to touch her for three nights; then say he should have the wedding at home; drove to the place where Moti first saw Motu; mota took out his sword and told him to share everything he had acquired equally; Moti swung his sword, and a worm fell out of his wife's mouth; Mota: take everything for yourself; if the worm stayed in your wife, you would fall ill; I'm that fish released; Mota disappeared], 365- 368 []; Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 27 (Kerman) [chief merchant Malik ut Tujjar sent his son to the bazaar after giving a hundred mists; he sees how the debtor's corpse was hung and beaten at the crossroads, gives lenders all his money, the body is buried; the young man received money from his father again and went to trade; wanting to test the reliability of his companions, he deliberately leaves the caravan and he leaves; the same second time; the third time his waiting; a young man comes out of the desert, becomes a servant of the merchant's son; undertakes to guard the caravan alone at night on the condition that no others will interfere; one day he sees a fire, comes up, there are 40 robbers; he pretends to be a robber, proposes to rob the royal treasury; lifts everyone on a rope against the wall and cuts off his head; kills the chieftain last; places the bodies in the treasury, the chieftain in the middle; in the royal the bedchamber finds a lion, manages to kill him before he rushes at the sleeping king; putting a sign on the king's leg with kalam, tasting royal dishes, drinking water and lighting the royal pipe, quietly returned to caravan; on the way, a diva woman who devoured and robbed caravans; a young man kills her, frees her prisoners, locks her treasury, returns to the caravan again; the king promises a daughter to the one who killed the lion and robbers; many try to attribute their exploits to themselves, but their stories are unreliable; the son of a merchant who has just arrived is summoned to the king, the servant goes with him, tells him to obey him; talks about how it happened but attributes exploits to the son of the merchant; he receives a princess with a rich dowry; on the way back, the servant offers to take the diva's treasures and divide everything; brings a sword over the wife of the merchant's son to cut her in half; a black snake crawls out of her mouth; the servant gives the merchant's son all the treasures and his wife, says that he is the dead man whose debt he paid]: 169-175; Tajiks: Amonov 1972 [the padishah sends the eldest, then middle son, to guard a thief who steals apples; only the youngest son from his youngest wife does not fall asleep, tears off the tail of a fiery bird; playing with money, breaks the old woman's spindle; she advises him better go looking for a thief like his brothers; chooses a skinny horse, a rusty dagger, catches up with brothers; the stone says that whoever goes to the left will return, not to the right; the young man turns left, 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; each time he asks if the horse was bipedal, without legs, etc.; the young man every time says he was; the wolf brings him to Padishah Misra, tells take a bird without a cage, he takes a cage, is captured, the padishah tells him to get the horse out of 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 gets everything, everyone once he puts the guards to sleep, the young man returns on horseback with a girl; the wolf is going to stab a girl, a horse, a bird with a dagger; everyone gets poison from his mouth; the brothers cut the young man to pieces, take everything away; the girl promises to marry the padishah when her severed braids grow; the wolf resurrects the young man, who wears a bull rennet, is hired as a servant to the cook; his sister and bride recognize him, drive the brothers away, the young man marries, receives his father's throne]: 116-126; Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 1 (Sistan) [the barber shaved the king, but one hair remains; the king wants to execute him; the vizier advises giving him life, or rather getting him a brown whale, its meat makes him younger; the king sent a son for the whale; people caught a black, white whale; when he saw that the brown one was crying, the prince let him go; fled from his father's anger; he drove up to the fire, by the fire a diva sits, one lip on the ground, the other in heaven; he took on a human form, tells him to be called not a brother, but a slave; the princess makes riddles and sets conditions for marriage, those who have not fulfilled are executed; easy lowers the camel into the well and then throws it on a tree, destroys and restores the rock, the prince must do the same, eat a huge amount of food; the divas does everything; tells the prince after weddings do not touch his wife below the navel; the prince puts his sword on the bed, says he must bring home a virgin; on the way home, the divas demands to separate the princess, swings his sword, from the girl's mouth The dragon crawls out, the divas kills him; after that, the princess loses her inhuman power; the diva was that brown whale; gave his blood; after drinking it, the prince's father became young]: 14-24; Uzbeks [among the elderly parents have a son Sahibjan; releases the caught fish along with the net; the father is upset; S. goes on a journey; rejects two people he meets, who offer themselves as travel companions, accepts Ahmadjan, who is a year younger than him (they are 15 and 16); they become twin brothers, agree to divide everything in half; they have become famous as good workers; Padishah Karakhan orders to kill the dragon who must eat him the daughter, the other, who eats figs, gives youth, hold a channel; S. and A. perform this, S. gets the daughter of a padishah; A. hears the conversation of three crows, one will turn into a horse, throw S. off, he will die; the other into a colorful bird (S. will take it, die), the third will come out of the hearth, swallow S. and his wife; whoever tells will petrify; A. breaks the horse's back, tears off the bird's head, kills the dragon; bends down to wipe a drop of dragon blood off his wife S.'s face, he thinks that A. wants his wife; A. tells everything, gets stony; the old man revives him; his brothers and woman go home to S.; on the way, A. demands share a woman; out of fear, she regurgitates a clot of poisonous dragon saliva, now she is safe; A. says that he was that rescued fish, leaves; S.'s parents are happy]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1): 532- 542 (=Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:234-246); Baluchi: Porozhnyakov 1989:40-45 [Tsarevich Nigal pays a fisherman to let go of the fish; the king drives his son away; a young man joins N.; they were hired to another king; his rock goes away, for in the evening the king will be bitten by a snake; N. hides under the bed, kills the snake, a drop of blood falls on the sleeping queen, N. washes her, the queen wakes up; in the morning the king goes to kill N., but companion N. asks him to listen; tells how the falcon knocked out the king's goblet, into which he began to collect water while hunting; the king killed the falcon, and then saw that poison from the snake's mouth dripped into the goblet from the tree; Another king killed a parrot that brought him fruit from the tree of life, but the snake managed to inject poison into the fruit; when he found the corpse of a snake under the bed, the king gave him his daughter as N.; on the way home, the companion demands that the woman be separated; swung his sword, two snakes came out of her mouth; the companion left N., saying that he was the fish N. saved], 69-73 [the shopkeeper warns the vizier's son that the woman selling her love has her mouth a snake crawls out and in the morning the guest is found dead; gives a pipe; when the prince and his beloved fall asleep, you must put a pipe to the woman's lips and the snake will crawl into her; the vizier's son did so, the girl died; went to the forest, sees the Moor to which the girl ran; he is dissatisfied that he has been waiting for a long time, bit off her nose; the vizier's son comes to the mazar; there is a feast in it, seven thieves brought him treasures, and then the princess; the prince kills thieves one at a time; the prince and his two companions are accused, but everything turns out].

Baltoscandia. 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 a job as an employee for a year; they sail to another with a load of bricks the city; 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 evil forces are at the mercy of evil forces behind the altar princess; the young man spends three nights for himself and for others, does not pay attention to evil spirits; two in the morning a puppy approaches 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 itself; the bricks turn into gold]: Järv et al. 2009, No. 22:104-107; Latvians [A guy buys a dead man, escapes the storm and stays with a fisherman. He marries a princess whose suitors all died after the first night. At midnight, a fisherman comes and wants to cut the princess in half. A snake crawls out of her mouth. A fisherman, aka dead, kills a snake and disappears]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 507C: 294.

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 tsar 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; Karakalpaks [fisherman every day catches three carps; the son caught them and the ruff, released the 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 him as companions another young man; he tells under the princess how three brothers lived, the eldest fed the bull, the middle one cleaned, the younger cleaned the manure, you have to walk 6 days from head to tail, the brothers met every 3 days; at a watering hole the bull drank the lake, but the catfish living in the lake swallowed it; the black bird took the catfish, began to eat, the fox crept up and ate the bird; the hunters killed the fox, sewed hats from half the skin for all the inhabitants of the village, and the other half was taken by a shepherd, but it was only enough for half a hat; 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 to divide her, carried his sword, from the girl's mouth A snake jumped out, 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.