H49D. An innocently killed parrot, ATU 916 (4) .17.21.23.29.30.33.
A character (usually a bird) brings healing (rejuvenating) fruit (seed, branch). Incidentally or by malicious intent, poison enters the fetus. A person to whom the person who brought fruit wanted to do good kills or is about to kill his well-wisher, and then finds out about the mistake.
Aramaians, Tibetans, Meitei, Kashmiris, Rajastans, Oriya (dombo), Tamils, Balkarians, Kurds, Baluchis, Tajiks in Sistan, Uzbeks, Kazakhs.
Western Asia. Aramei [one of two plug-in stories, see H49C motif; the parrot asked the king to let him go to his relatives's wedding; the housekeeper bet the parrot would not return; when he was ready to take the king's property, the parrot flew in and gave the king three seeds; a tree grew with three apples; the housekeeper asked for one apple to his son, who was seriously ill; the gardener gave, and the housekeeper quietly made an incision on the apple, dripped poison into it and returned it to the gardener; when a piece of apple was tested by the dog, it died; the king killed the parrot; the gardener, out of grief, decided to take his life, ate a piece of another apple from the same tree and became 14 years old; everyone tried the pieces and got younger too]: Belov, Wilsker 1960:303-305.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. The Tibetans [the beggar dried rice, the parrots pecked it; they made 100 snares, they caught 100 parrots; the parrot king offered to pretend to be dead; the beggar unleashed 99 snares, but when he became take the parrots out of the king's snare, dropped the stone and 99 parrots flew away; the parrot king persuaded the beggar not to kill it, but to sell it; he himself called the high price when the merchant began to buy it; a couple of years later, the parrot asked the merchant for permission to let him see his relatives; when he returned, he brought the seed of a tree whose fruits were rejuvenating; when the first fruit fell, the merchant decided to wait for it to eat; at night around the fruit a poisonous snake wrapped around; when the dog took the fruit in its mouth, it died; the merchant killed the parrot by pouring boiling water on it; two poor and sick old men decided to eat these fruits - if they die, the better; but they became young; the merchant bitterly repented that he had executed the parrot]: Shelton 1925, No. 40:159-162; the Meitei [elderly spouses, they have a favorite parrot; she talks and thinks like a person; brought them a fruit from the forest that brings back youth; before that, it left it on the shore to swim in the river; the snake mistook the fruit for a diamond, tried to take it in its mouth, but spit it it out; half of the fruit became poisonous; the old people gave the dog a taste of the fruit - it immediately died; killed the parrot, and threw the remaining half into the backyard; a few years later a tree grew; after a quarrel with the old man, the old woman decided commit suicide and ate the fruit from this tree; became young; the same old man; he bitterly repented that he had killed a parrot]: Oinam et al. s.a.
South Asia. Kashmiris [leaving his parents and wife, the young brahman went begging; the king hired him; the wife came and said that there was nothing to eat; he wrote 4 tips, ordered them to be sold; she sent 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) do not sleep in an unfamiliar place; the prince stayed in the robbers' house; does not sleep, snatches the sword out of 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 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 parrot; a year later the old man ate the fruit and became younger; the king regretted that he had killed the parrot; on 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 debt and gives more; the first merchant did not look and killed the dog, thinking that the second sent her to demand a 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 comes to his sister, reproaches her; arrives at his parents, they are blind with grief; the king realizes how wrong he was in rejecting the brahman's advice]: Knowles 1888:32-41; Rajastans [the king talks to his beloved parrot for a long time; a flock of parrots flies over the palace; alone envies the king's happiness, but others consider him an unhappy prisoner; the parrot asks the king to let him go for two years; when he returns, brings a mango seed, the fruits of which are rejuvenated; when the fruit is rejuvenated almost ripe, the wife tells the gardener to visit relatives, and she goes to bed under the tree; the fruit has fallen, the cobra has sucked the juice, rejuvenated, and injected poison into the fruit; one of the courtiers advises to give the first the brahmana's fruit as a mercy; he bit it and fell dead; the courtiers strangled the parrot; the old despised laundress decided to end her life, ate the mango and became young; the king and the courtiers also ate and rejuvenated; the king bitterly repented of killing a parrot]: Mathur 1995:40-42; oriya (dombo) [king, minister, scribe and messenger married at the same time and each had a son; sons grew up together and decided to leave to earn money and get rich; hired another king; they must guard his bedchamber; first of all, a prince; he sees a snake crawling towards the baby; killed a snake, but a drop of blood splashed wound on his chest; the prince decided that the baby would start sucking and get poisoned, wiped off a drop; at this time the king woke up but did not understand what was going on; called a new guard, the minister's son; when he saw the victim the snake, who understood everything and told the king a story; the river overflowed and those living near the bank asked the merchant to shelter them; among them was a heron; she bore fruit and said that it was amrita, who brings immortality ; the heron does not want it only for himself, let the merchant and his wife also taste it; the merchant laid the fruit for a while; at night the snake injected poison into it; the merchant's wife gave birth and he wanted to give a piece of fruit as well to a newborn; but still started with a rooster; he pecked and died immediately; the merchant twisted the heron's head; then it was the turn of the scribe's son; he tells how a peasant stopped under a tree and began to strangle him boa constrictor; the dog was afraid of the boa constrictor, but the owner sent her to bring a knife and cut the snake; when the owner left, the dog tore the deceased boa constrictor and returned with a bloody face; the owner thought it had lifted it up and killed a cow; the messenger's son tells how a woman went to the river to wash and left the cat to watch the baby; when she saw the snake, the cat killed it, and the child started screaming; the cat went after the owner; she saw blood on the cat's face killed the cat; in the morning the king wanted to fire four guards, who called him ungrateful; only when he saw the snake did the king understand everything; he generously rewarded all four, married the prince to his own daughter, minister's son to minister's daughter, son of a scribe to a scribe's daughter, son of a messenger to a messenger's daughter]: Tauscher 1959, No. 42:93-95; Tamils: Kingscote 1890, No. 13 [(continued, beginning in M198; in town Alakapuri was ruled by the just king Alakesa; one of the four ministers heard crying in the temple of Kali; the goddess herself cried - the king is in danger; rice will be brought in the morning, he is poisoned with snake venom, only dangerous the first handful; the king of Vijayanagara will send a basket with arrows in it; the king will ask it to open and die; a snake will enter his bedroom; if the king avoids these dangers, he will live to be 120 years old; Minister put the royal outfit on the servant; he went to the basket under the guise of a king, arrows pierced him, the king escaped; when he was about to eat rice, the minister asked for the first handful, the king was offended; the minister climbed into the bedroom, killed the snake, a drop of blood dripped on the queen's chest, he wiped her off with his little finger and cut it off; the queen woke up, asked the king to execute the minister; three other ministers ask the king to consider the solution and give examples haste; 1) the hunter owes the merchant, paid the dog as a debt; she bit to death the merchant's wife's lover, showed him the place where the wife buried the body; the merchant kicked his wife out, sent the dog back to the hunter as a sign thanks; the hunter met her on the way, thought that she had run away and strangled her; when he found out what was going on, he bitterly repented; 2) the brahmana had a long-awaited son; a snake crawled to the baby, her homemade mongoose killed; seeing blood on her face, the brahmana's wife decided that he killed her baby, killed the mongoose; understood the mistake; told her husband everything, committed suicide; the husband killed the child and also committed suicide; 3) the wife left a blind brahmana for his lover; a brahmana was saved by a husband and wife from a low caste, the husband told his wife to be a guide; but when they began to think about how to live a blind man, he began to scream that the man was from the lowest the caste wants to take his wife away from him; the Raja ordered his husband to be hanged and his wife burned; the brahmana deeply repented, the Raja found out about this, the execution of the spouses was canceled, the brahmana was burned; 4) the brahmana's pet parrot asked him to let go, brought mango seed, whose fruits rejuvenate; the brahmana took the seed to the king; a tree grew; the king gave fruit to an old servant who died; his wife immolated himself; the man who brought the seed The brahmana's eye was taken out; the brahmana and his wife killed a parrot and went to repent; an old woman decided to commit suicide, ate the fruit and became young; it turns out that the snake's venom fell on a mango eaten by the servant; The king returned the brahmana, who became young, saw the light; but you can't return the parrot; {two more stories; the king admits that he was in a hurry}]: 140-186; Robinson 1885, No. 7 [the parrot brought fruit to the king from heaven and ordered to plant a seed; a tree with the fruits of youth would grow; when the tree grew and the fruit was ripe, the king gave it to the old man; but before that, the hawk, who had previously grabbed the poisonous snake, touched the fruit and gave him poison; the old man died; the king killed the parrot; the old woman hit by her son decided to commit suicide, ate the fruit and became young; the king rejuvenated the other old people; repenting of Killing a parrot, stabbed with a sword]: 231-233.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Balkarians (Western 1958) [In the city of Iran, the padishah has 19 wives; from the very first daughter and three sons, and 18 are childless; the latter tears her clothes, cuts her hands, accuses her husband's sons of attacking in order to belittle the honor of the padishah himself; he orders to hang his sons; the vizier offers to kill them in the forest, he will bring their blood; he lets the young men go, brings the hare's blood; at night, the elder brother kills a lion, the middle brother kills a snake, they don't talk about it others; the youngest goes to the light of the fire, there are 60 robbers; he is called to spy for them; the robbers ask to know where the padishah has the money; raises the robbers one by one on a rope, cuts off each head, penetrates the padishah's three sleeping daughters; returns to the brothers without telling anything; the padishah is looking for the one who killed the robbers; the younger brother confesses; the padishah marries them to his daughters; the younger the brother gave medicine to the padishah and his wife; the vizier is jealous, replaced the medicines with poison; they gave it to the dog, she died; at this time the younger brother was on guard, killed the snake, began to wash the blood from the knife; the padishah was convinced that his son-in-law wanted to kill him; but he showed the medicine he had left, showed the snake he had killed; the padishah executed the vizier; a few years later the brothers fled; they were surrounded by an army - it turned out to be their father's army; all gathered, the elder brother told everything; the padishah's youngest wife was executed; feast]: Malkonduev 2017:523-528; the Kurds [the fisherman has a son Mirza, the padishah has a daughter Golnar; G. has 40 maids, one of them a young man in disguise; no one understands that he is a young man, and five-year-old M. welcomes him as the padishah's son-in-law; G. tells his father that he will die if he does not eat M.'s cooked head; the padishah sent the vizier to buy M.; he tells the vizier to hide it, he will come in handy, bring the head of his friend who died yesterday; the fisherman caught a beautiful fish, gave it to the vizier; M. tells the vizier to give it to the padishah; the padishah is happy, wants to give it to the vizier daughter's fish; G.: if female, I will accept the gift, but if male, then not, because everyone should be only female on my half; at these words, the fish put its head out of the pool and grinned; the padishah tells The vizier will find out in 40 days why, otherwise he will cut off his head; M. brought the vizier to the padishah, asks him to cede the throne to him for an hour so that the padishah, angry, does not kill him; tells a parable about how the falcon The padishah was sad, the vizier advised him to let go; he brought two grains, of which grew an apple tree with two apples; the padishah's wife fell ill; one apple fell, the snake bit it; the padishah ordered to give half a dog, half a cat, both died, the padishah killed the falcon; he ordered the second apple to be given to his wife to get rid of her torment and die; she recovered and became more beautiful than before; the padishah repented that he had killed falcon; so you will repent, insisting on finding out about the fish; M. called G. and the maids, said that his knife had been stolen, let everyone undress; G.: alone so shy that she even sleeps without undressing; the lover is exposed; the padishah ordered to put his daughter and lover on a donkey face to tail and drive them around the city, then drive them out of the country; made M. a vekil]: Rudenko 1970, No. 48:136-140; (cf. Turks ["surprisingly, Turkey doesn't have this story"]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 44V: 55).
Iran - Central Asia. Baluchi: Longworth Dames 1902 [the author heard the story about the grave in which a faithful dog is allegedly buried; this is a story about a wolf and a dog that is almost the same as Beddgelegt's, especially It's amazing because the Indian version in Hitopadesa talks about a snake and a mongoose]: 266; Porozhnyakov 1989 [Tsarevich Nigal pays the fisherman to let go of the fish; the king drives his son away; a young man joins N.; they hired another king; his fate goes away, for in the evening the king will be bitten by a snake; N. hides under a bed, kills a 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 the goblet was poison dripped from the snake's mouth; 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 passed him off as N.'s daughter; on the way home, a companion demands to separate the woman; swung his sword, two snakes came out of her mouth; the companion left N., saying that he was the fish N. saved]: 40-45; Tajiks [dying, the father tells each of his three sons dig a korchaga with gold, do not tell the brothers; he was upset to learn that they did so; while they were burying his father, the younger brother hid the gold; the brothers went to the judge; the elder sees the camel's trail: the camel is blind to one eye, thorns are united on one side of the road; middle: on the left side of the camel there is a jug of honey (wasps are flying on the left), and on the right side with vinegar (midges are flying); younger: there was also a rider, here is a crumpled grass, where he cried to rest; the camel owner met, did not believe the brothers that they knew the signs of the lost animal without seeing it; the judge asks to guess what was under the handkerchief; the older brother: it is round; medium: sweet; younger: apple; brothers are cleared of kidnapping a camel; the judge brought them to the padishah; they guard his sleep; the elder, the middle did not notice anything, the youngest killed the snake, hid it under bed, the padishah woke up, saw a man with a sword, ordered to be executed; the elder brother tells the story of a parrot that brought a seed to the padishah; an apple tree grew, an envious vizier poisoned an apple, offered to give the dog died; the padishah killed a parrot; the gardener's parents tasted the apple, were younger; the padishah also ate, younger, spoke in a hurry; the middle brother talks about a falcon that spilled water; the owner killed a falcon, and then saw the venom of a killed snake dripping into the spring; the youngest talks about the snake he killed; the brothers came to the girl; she tells the story of a girl with whom a merchant is a padishah and the robber treated nobly; younger: better than others, a robber; girl: so you hid your father's gold; the youngest shared it equally with his brothers]: Ulug-zade 1967:235-243; Uzbeks [Tonguch- batyr is 21 years old, Ortancha Tabyr is 18 years old, Kenja-batyr is 16 years old; their father instructs them and sends them on the road; after spending the night in a deserted place, the brothers take turns awake; T. killed a lion, girded himself with a piece of skin, did not say anything to the brothers; the next night, O. killed the serpent Azhdar Sultan, who had crawled out of the cave (the same); at the third night, K. went out to the house, where 20 robbers were cooking soup; asked him to join the gang; he was helped to climb the wall, he called the robbers one at a time, cut off each's head; entered the palace, took off his ring, bracelet, earring from three sleeping beauties; returned to brothers; in the morning, the Shah demands all the men to find out who was in the palace; the brothers were brought food, the vizier began to eavesdrop; T.: the lamb is fed by a dog; the bekmes (condensed syrup) smells of blood; K.: the cakes are packed as only a baker can put; the brothers told each other about their adventures, the vizier and the shah found out everything; the shepherd admitted that the sheep died and the lamb was fed by a female; the gardener killed in the thief's vineyard and buried the body; the Shah himself laid the cakes, his father was a baker; the Shah married his brothers to his daughters; once K. slaughtered a snake that was about to bite the sleeping Shah; he thought that K. was going to kill him, the vizier supported this idea, K. was thrown into prison; K.'s wife persuaded his father to ask his son-in-law; he told the story of a parrot; the parrot asked the Shah to visit his relatives in India for two weeks ; the mother of the parrot gave her son the fruits of life, which make the old people younger; the envious vizier injected poison into the fruit, advised him to give the peacocks, they died; the Shah tore off the parrot's head; decided to execute one old man by giving his fruit; the old man became young; the Shah let all three brothers go home, his wives went with them]: Afzalov et al. 1972:95-104 (=Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:306-308); Tajiks of Sistan [dying, the Tsar orders three sons share the wealth fairly, and if they argue, contact their uncle (i.e. the king's brother), who is king in another city; the brothers went to their uncle; the person they meet is looking for the missing person camel; the older brother says that the camel was blind in one eye, the middle brother was carrying honey and molasses, the younger brother said that a pregnant woman was riding it; the camel owner goes with them to the local king; the king served pilaf and began to listen to what the brothers were saying; the elder: the meat in the pilaf is filthy; medium: wheat for bread grew on bones; the youngest: the king is the son of a shepherd; the king's mother admits that she gave birth to girls and exchanged children with the daughter of a shepherd; shepherd: a dog fed the sheep for pilaf; a stolnik: the wheat field was plowed in the cemetery; the king asks the brothers to protect it for three nights; on the third night the younger brother guards, kills the dragon, the king sees the sword, wants to execute the young man; the elder talks about a talking parrot: he warned about thieves, the king did not listen, killed the parrot, the thieves looted the treasury; middle brother: the king got lost on hunting, the falcon did not allow him to drink water, the king killed him, and then noticed that the blood and poison of the killed dragon were dripping into the water; the king apologized, the brothers went on to their uncle; he told him to settle the dispute her daughter's nephews; she tells the story of a young man letting a girl go in exchange for a promise to come to him the night after her wedding; her fiance let her go, her lover too; older and middle brothers they said that they would do the same, and the youngest would take the girl; girl: you want a larger share in the inheritance, marry me better; wedding; the elder brother became king, the middle and younger brother became viziers]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 11:141-149.
Turkestan. Kazakhs: Daurenbekov 1979 [the scientist's three sons are wise; the eldest is asked who owns the newborn camel; one camel gave birth to a living and the other to a dead one, but no one was present; the elder brother ordered the camel to be put in a boat and taken across the river; only the mother followed him into the water; the khan made the brothers viziers; the shepherd says that the thief stole from him money from his pocket, and the thief is his money; the elder brother tells him to throw the coins into hot water; they are fat, which means the shepherd is right; when the middle brother judged, buy came; the poor man borrowed a pound of meat from him for the sick the child, promising to return it even if you cut it out of your own caviar; the child died, but there is no meat; middle brother: you can cut it, but only for sure a pound, otherwise you will be beaten with whips; buy leaves; when the younger one judges brother, one person says that another took his gold; the judge tells them to fight; one is stronger than the other; so he took it away; the viziers are jealous, they want to destroy their brothers, let a snake into the khan's bedroom; younger brother He hacked her, threw her under the bed; the khan thinks he wants to kill him; older brother: the padishah let the talking parrot go to his sister's wedding; he brought a seed; an apple tree grew; the envious vizier smeared the fruit with poison, ordered to be given to the criminal, he died; the padishah killed a parrot; sees a younger gardener who ate the fruit, tasted the apple himself, is younger, bitterly repented; middle brother: the golden eagle splashed the bowl, when the owner wanted to drink from it in the desert; he killed the golden eagle, then saw snake venom dripping into the bowl; the khan found a snake killed under his bed; reluctantly let the brothers go]: 389-395; Malyuga 1962 [three brothers wander; see camel tracks; elder: the camel is tired; middle: blind in the left eye; the youngest: carried honey; the owner does not understand how the brothers could determine this, leads them to the khan; they give explanations ( dragged his legs, pinched the grass only on the right, flies flew to the honey); the khan made them his viziers; they make a fair trial; the former viziers want to lime them; threw a snake into the Khan's rest; younger brother hacked her, threw her body under the bed; the khan woke up, accused the young man of trying to kill him; the older brothers tell parables; the elder: Khan's favorite parrot brought a seed; the khan planted an apple, an apple tree grew; the servant carried an apple to the khan; the vizier told him to run away for a golden dish, smeared the apple with poison, the dog died; the khan killed the parrot; he did not recognize the gardener: he was younger after eating the apple; the khan also ate and was also younger; but the parrot cannot be resurrected; the middle brother talks about a man who hunted with his favorite golden eagle; leaned over a stream, the golden eagle prevented him from drinking, the owner killed him; then saw that water was flowing out of the snake's mouth; the brothers asked them to let them go, Khan reluctantly agreed]: 15-17.