H6C. The Immortal Raven. 12.13.15.16.17.22.27.-.37.39.

The raven (crow, vulture) is associated with death or is opposed to man as immortal to mortals (sent to bring the elixir of immortality or water that revives the dead; himself drinks this water; teaches people funeral rites; etc.).

Diola (?) , Somalis, Italians (Menton), Bretons, Irish, Germans, Arab literary tradition, Palaung, Bosnians, Gagauz people, Russians (Novgorod Bylina; Tersky Bereg, Arkhangelskaya, Novgorod, Pskov, Moscow, Voronezh, Kursk, Tomsk), Ukrainians (Podolia, Kharkiv, Kherson), Belarusians, Czechs, Slovaks, Crimean Tatars, Ossetians, Ingush, Kumyks, Talysh, Persians, Tajiks, Latvians, Lutsi, Setu, Finns, Danes, Bashkirs, Kazan Tatars, Mari, Mordovians, Udmurts, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Khakas, Buryats, Khalkha Mongols, Northern Khanty, Evenks (Baikal, Amur), Central (?) Yakuts, Udege people, tundra Yukaghirs.

West Africa. Diola (? ; in any case, Senegal; Jacklyn Ndiaye informant, recorded in France; a note to one of her texts states that "probably a diola"; in any case, diola is Christian, like informant) [God wants to know who on earth is willing to come to terms with the fact that there is death; a vulture dies; other vultures gather, cry; God decides that it is difficult for vultures to come to terms with death; man dies; others cry and then begin to dance and laugh; God has made death the lot of people; when he gets old, he sheds, losing feathers, and after the other brings him to some food on the beak, turns into a chick and starts a new life]: Reuss-Nliba, Reuss-Nliba 2018:30.

Sudan - East Africa. Somalis (recorded in Arabic) [the man took an Arab wife and an Ethiopian slave; both gave birth on the same day, the slave died in childbirth; the husband gave birth to a second child to an Arab woman, said she gave birth to both; the boys grew up; an old woman came and told the Arab woman that one of them was not her son; offered to check: lie naked in front of the house door as if she had fallen asleep; the son who would cover his mother was real; son An Ethiopian woman (SE) told the son of an Arab woman (SA) to cover his mother; he covered it, his mother scratched him to find out who had covered her; the father tested the sons; told the mother to say that their father would give them breakfast; said that breakfast was in the stove, and he hid a lion in the oven; the lion bit the SA, who complained to his mother; and SE killed the lion, his father praised him, gave him a sled mare; the Arab woman was offended, asked the old woman to bring poison, put SE in food; tells her son that he must eat separately today; SE gives food to the cat, which is dead; next time the mare warns SE that the poisoned needles are placed on 14 steps, they need them jump over everything at once; he jumps over; the old woman advises the woman to pretend to be sick - supposedly she will recover by eating the mare's liver; the father tells SE to sell him a mare, which requires a lot of money, a spear and a sword; when the time comes, asks for permission to ride the mare for the last time, he jumps away; he planted a tree, SA came to him; SE ordered him to watch the tree: if it dries up, then he is in trouble; he comes to see the girl threatens her father, he has to let SE sleep with his daughter; the light is on the horizon, this is the daughter of Voskhod; SE comes to the fortress, reads the Koran, gets inside; the girl says that the demon will eat them; SE teaches hide it, explain to the demon what the smell is from the prince yesterday; when the demon falls asleep, the girl explains to SE that a demon can only be killed with his own sword when his two little eyes are closed and open two big ones; hit with his left hand; SE cut off his head; the demon asks to hit him again, SE refuses, the demon dies; SE has been living with Voskhod's daughter for 10 years; while swimming, she lost her hair, the water brought him to to the king, he sent an army to bring the owner of the hair, SE killed everyone; the old woman promises to bring a woman to the king; comes disguised as a beggar; his wife does not want to let her in, nor SE insisted; she gave him coffee with poison, he died; the warriors took the woman away; SA saw that the tree had dried up; came to SE's first wife, sleeps at night with his back turned to her; finds SE's body; sees how one raven brought the corpse of another, revived it by dipping it in the water; revived SE; the brothers, disguised as dervishes, came to SE's wife kidnapper; lured the old woman to a skinned hole, threw earth; came to the kitchen, the wife recognized SE; the king invited them to serve as his warriors; gave weapons, offered to choose horses; SE recognized his mare; they killed the king and his warriors; SE returned his wife and gave his first wife to an Arab son]: Reinish 1900, No. 1:259-277.

Southern Europe. Italians (Menton) [the poor man cannot find a godson for the child; asks a person to agree; after christening, he gives a purse of gold and a letter; a young man, when he grows up, must With this letter, come to him and inherit the English crown from him; on the way you can't take cross-eyed, lame, lousy, etc. as companions; the young man grew up and set off; the young man got rid of the scythe and lame, agreed to the offer of a man who looked healthy; at night he stole money, a letter and a horse at the inn; the young man caught up with the thief, but he forced him to call himself a servant at gunpoint , and on the satellite to recognize the heir to the English throne; he took off his wig and it became clear that he was a bastard; the king received the impostor and asked for the release of his kidnapped daughter from the island where she was being held; the impostor sent a servant; an old bearded sailor advised to demand a three-deck ship from the king; load cheese on one deck, bread crumbs on the second, carrion on the third; do not recruit commands, we'll sail together ; they took cheese on rat island, bread crumbs on ant island, rotting meat on vulture island; rats, ants and vultures promised to help any minute; on the last island the Sibiana fairy promises to free the princess if the visitors meet three conditions; 1) level the mountain (the rats have leveled); 2) separate the peas from the lentils (the ants separated); 3) get a barrel of living water; a young man he tied a cup to each vulture's neck, who brought water and filled the barrel; the young man brought the princess to his father, but the impostor sent murderers to slaughter him; but the old sailor brought that barrel of living water and revived it a young man; a young man told the impostor that he had bathed in a barrel of boiling oil; the impostor stabbed a dagger into his heart and threw himself into the oil; the wig surfaced and a bad head appeared; "This is my old enemy," exclaimed king; married a young man to his daughter and appointed him heir]: Calvino 1980, No. 3:7-12.

Western Europe. The Bretons [the son of the French king got lost hunting, spent the night with a coal miner whose wife had just given birth; left a letter that the boy Louis (Petit-Louis) should bring him when he grows up - he will be admitted to the palace; when sending his son, his father tells him not to deal with the humpback, lame, leper; L. left the first two; contrary to the horse's advice, he picked up a shining feather; when he leaned to the spring, The leper pushed him, took the horse and the letter, was received at the palace; L. hired a groom there, found his horse; the leper notices the light spreading from the pen; tells the king that L. boasted that can get a princess with golden hair; various animals join L. on the way; with their help he completes the princess's tasks; she, when she arrives at the king, demands that her silver castle be delivered to her ; she threw the keys to him into the sea; the king of fish pulls them out; the princess demands that the groom be young, this requires living and dead water; the horse teaches L. how to make the crow bring them; the princess sprinkled king dead water and married L.; (hereinafter referred to as a cliff, living water does not appear)]: Luzel in Cosquin 1887:294-295; Irish [stepmother drives away stepson; he is hired by the owner for promising to give a horse; the blind man teaches him to take a plain bay; the horse tells the young man not to pick up shining hair, he picks it up and has dinner in the light of it with the new owner; this is noticed by the king's son; tells the young man to get a woman with similar ones hair; the horse frolicks in front of a woman's palace, she sits down for a ride, he takes her away; she promises to marry the king's son if he gets three bottles of water from a cow spring; the horse tells the young man to kill him from seashore; crows fly, hang bottles around the necks of three, they will bring water from across the sea; the horse himself rushes to the sword; with this water, the young man heals the crows worn out from the rope, revives the horse; the woman sprinkles himself with the same water, bathes in boiling water, promises to marry someone who also swims; the king's son is cooked, the young man, sprinkled with water, is not injured, marries a woman with shiny hair; the horse too turns into a woman (she was bewitched), disappears]: McManus 1915:182-185; Germans [the king's servant tastes white snake meat, gains knowledge of animal language; learns that the Queen's ring has swallowed duck, receives a horse as a reward; on the way saves three fish, ants that have fallen from the crow's nest; with their help, completes the king's tasks, gets the princess; 1) fish pull the ring from the bottom of the sea, 2) ants collect millet scattered in grass, 3) ravens bring apples from the tree of life; a young man and a royal eat half an apple, live happily ever after]: Shustova 1994:322-326.

Western Asia. The Arab literary tradition (tafsir to the Koran) ["Kabil and Habil are characters in Muslim legends, Adam's two sons, the biblical Cain and Abel. Their names are not in the Koran, but there is a story about how Adam's sons made a sacrifice that was accepted only by one. <... > Commentators give names - K. (var. Kane), H. and report the reason for the quarrel. Each of the brothers had a twin sister. Adam ordered them to marry each other's sister. K., however, wanted to marry his own sister, beautiful Aclima, and not to his ugly sister X. Labuda. This dispute was to be decided by lot in the form of a sacrifice. Since the murder that followed him was the first death on earth, K. did not know what to do with the corpse, and carried it on his back in a sack for a year before burying it when he saw the crows tear the ground. Tradition connects the descendants of K. with the invention of musical instruments, games and entertainment that distract people from piety and work. South Arabian folk legends place K.'s grave in Aden"]: Piotrovsky 1994:124.

Burma - Indochina. Palaung [orphan Maun Yan works for a wealthy owner who tells him to drive the mice out of the barn; M. hides, closes the entrance, demands that the mice dig his underground passage to the Buddha statue; hiding behind her, tells the hostess, the owner, that they must marry him, M., their daughter; marries her; in the forest sees the Raven and Voronikha climbing into the elephant's carcass; closes the hole, tells the Raven to bring living water while Voronikha remains hostage; Raven brings, M. releases Voronov, revives the elephant, rides it with his wife to the city, restores health to the dying king, who makes him an heir; M. reigns, takes 6 more wives]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 138:316-319.

The Balkans. Bosnians (? Srebrenica) [the king has an apple tree with golden apples, every night the apple disappears; the elder, middle princes fall asleep, the youngest fool sees the firebird, it flew away, but he pulled out the pen; the king sent her sons to search; they came to another kingdom, there was a palace, a cradle in the courtyard, there was a firebird in it; they wanted to take it, but the bells rang, and the princes were brought to the king; he agreed to give the bird if he got a daughter another king; the wolf turned handsome, the princess went out to him, he became a wolf again and brought the princess to the princes; they exchanged her for a firebird; but asked the wolf to get the princess for them; he was without her He grabbed and brought labor; at the night, the elder brother killed the younger brother so that he could get the princess; the wolf noticed vultures flying, grabbed the chick and told the mother to bring live water; the lively younger The Tsarevich came home, married the princess, and the tsar executed his older brothers; everything is fine]: Eschker 1992, No. 33:164-167; Gagauz people: Moshkov 1904, No. 44 [the king's tree brings three apples a year; their bird kidnaps; the eldest son guards, falls asleep in the morning; the same middle son; the youngest, sitting in ash, snaps nuts all night, pulls out the bird's feather; the father sent all three sons to look for the bird; Cinderella on the way fed the hungry eagle, the crow, the wolf; the brothers left on three roads, leaving a knife at the crossroads; the rescued wolf takes him to the bird, tells them not to take nests; Z. took, knock and ringing, he is caught, the guards they tell you to bring a greyhound in return; the same (the wolf does not tell you to take the belt, Z. took it); the horse (the same, takes a bridle); they tell me to bring the girl; the wolf plays the violin in the reeds, the girl went out to listen, was caught; the wolf himself took the form of a girl, exchanged for a horse, returned; also with a greyhound, with a bird; the brothers decided to kill Z., take everything for themselves; the wolf and the eagle tell the crow to bring water from God's well, resurrected Z.; the king executed elder sons, handed over the kingdom to Z.]: 71-75.

Central Europe. Russians (Novgorod) [the epic "Hoten Bludovich"; Bludov's widow asks the widow for her son Hoten's widow for her daughter; she rejects the offer, calls the groom a freak; H. himself goes to C.'s widow, calls her mother-in-law; she sends her nine sons to him, he defeats them, kills them; C.'s widow calls H. her son-in-law; H. kills a horse, hides in his womb, catches a crow that has arrived, tells the crow to bring alive and dead water, revives his horse and brother-in-law, marries K.]: Putilov 1957:428-432; Russians (Pskov) [when dying, the father tells his son Panteley to pass off three sisters as the first to marry; he gave it away, came to the copper kingdom, took his wife; his wife tells me not to enter the building in the garden; P. went in, there a nine-headed serpent is boiling in the resin; asks for a drop of water; P. dripped, the snake flew out and took away P.'s wife; he consistently comes to the husbands of the sisters, this is Thunder, lightning (the silver kingdom) and the bird Agei, the main bird over animals and fish (the golden kingdom); she gave a ball to follow him, and her feather to summon her, if trouble; on the way P. spared two wolves, fish and cancer, bees, they promised to help; P. reached the house by a snake, took his wife away; a blue westunok reports this to the snake; he asks his horse if we will catch up; the horse: if we sow wheat, squeeze it, bake bread, we'll still have time; the snake took his wife, but forgave P. for releasing him; chopped it to pieces for the second time; the witch's grandmother burned the feather, the bird A. flew in and collected pieces, sent two crows for living and dead water, revived P.; first you need to know from the witch's grandmother where to get the same horse as the snake's; the witch's grandmother says that there is a witch more cunning than her; she turned her three daughters into mares; the witch grandmother gave a ball that would lead to a black girl, Baba Ega's shepherdess; the girl explains that Baba Ega demands that her mares be herded without loss; whoever can, will take any foal; the girl gave the pipe to lure the horses in the evening; the pipe helped twice; on the third day, Baba Ega threatens to kill horses if they return, but they were driven back by wolves, bees and pike with crayfish that promised T. their help; baba ega allows you to choose a foal; the girl teaches you to ask for the thinnest and most wool pud; the girl teaches the snake to kill a West dove first; the foal quickly got enough to become, took P. from his wife; the serpent caught up, but the horse killed him and his horse; P. and his wife returned home]: Smirnov 1917, No. 108:342-348; Russians (Teresky Bereg) [King Gavrilo's sons, Peter, Ivan; someone steals apples; G ., P. overslept; I. grabbed the Firebird, pulled out the pen; the king tells you to get the Firebird itself; on the pole there is an inscription on one side: you will be full, the horse will be hungry, on the other hand you will be alive, the horse is dead; I. turned to where the horse is dead; the wolf jumped out, tore the horse, told I. to sit on it; tells me to take the bird without a cage; I. took a golden cage, he was grabbed; sent for a golden-maned horse; to take without a bridle; the same; get the princess; the wolf grabbed the princess himself; then left her I., turned princess himself, I. got a horse, the wolf returned; the same with the Firebird; now I. has a princess, a horse and a Firebird, he has come to his brothers; when he fell asleep, they cut off his head, took everything away; the princess ordered him to take the dress out of her country; the wolf caught the crow and the crow, forced the crow to bring living and dead water, revived I.; he returned everything, brothers were expelled from the country]: Balashov 1970, No. 153:406-407; Russians (Arkhangelsk) [the tsar orders to kill the child if a girl is born; the queen gives birth to a daughter, hides it, giving birth to a nanny; having reached the age of 17, a girl asks for permission to walk around the yard, drinks twice from a well, becomes pregnant, gives birth to two boys; these are Fedor Vodovich and Ivan Vodovich; they grow up, go wandering; at the fork there is a stone with the inscription: in one way to walk with red girls, not to be alive on the other; EVE goes to where the girls are, FV goes where death is; she comes to town, stays with her grandmother's backyard; she says that it's time give the snake the eldest of the king's three daughters; PV tells the princess to look in his head, falls asleep, wakes up from her tear, cuts off the heads of the three-headed snake, leaves; the cow shepherd makes the princess say that he is the savior; the same with the middle (six-headed) and younger princess (nine-headed serpent); the youngest gives PV her ring; encircling the guests with a spell at the wedding, the princess sees him; all three princesses tell the truth, three shepherds were shot at the gate, PV received the youngest princess and half the kingdom; PV sees the bird, runs after it, gets to Baba Yaga, who turns it into stone; Eve comes to the stone, it says that his his brother is dead, he goes looking for him; he is mistaken for PV; he goes after the bird, turns Baba Yaga herself into stone; slaughters a horse, hides in giblets, grabs a crow, promises to let go if his mother will bring living water; she brings, EVE kills the crow, revives, lets go; revives PV; they cannot be distinguished; PV stays with his wife, EVE returns to his mother]: Onchukov 1906:16-23; Russians ( Arkhangelskaya, Leshukonsky district, s. Vozhgory, 1928) [Pop got lost, met a bear, helped arrange a den, and winters in her. Palfil Popovich (PP) was born to a bear. In spring, pop returns to the village with his son. Popadya does not immediately recognize her husband, she is happy. PP is large, eats a lot, it is difficult for parents to feed it, they send it to the forest to herd cows. PP catches a bear who wants to pick up a cow, brings him to the village and locks him in the barn. The maid comes in when the bear eats the last cow. Pop sends PP to the king for tribute, he rides a bear, meets an enchanted man. To break free from the spell, he must "bring the mountains to one place." PP helps him, they go together. It's the same with having to uproot an oak tree. The three of them and the bear come to the king, the PP demands tribute, the king pays to leave as soon as possible. PP gave one bag of gold to his ass, and left with the other four. The three of us stayed in a hut, catching bulls. Two go to town for food, Gornik stays to cook, an old man appears from under the floorboard, demands a treat, the man refuses, the old man beats him, eats everything. It's the same when Dubnik stays to cook. PP defeats the old man, reproaches his comrades for not admitting why the food was not ready. PP wants to know if there's any other ground under the floor. He cuts bulls, makes belts, and his comrades pull him down. PP enters a copper, silver and gold tower, meets three girls, reports that the old man who stole them is dead. The girls are happy and ask to take them with them. It's a pity for PP to leave the tower. Everyone throws the ring from her hand onto the roof, the tower turns into rings, they are given to PP. Satellites lift the girls, but the PP is too heavy, the companions cut off their belts, the PP falls, goes waist-deep into the ground. He is hired by a blind old man to herd cows. He shows the border of the Baba Yaga glade and forbids herding cows there. The PP complies with the ban three times, and the fourth time she drives cows to Baba Yaga's land, she is angry, he promises not to bring cattle to her anymore. The cows are full and roaring. PP takes the herd back to Baba Yaga's meadow. She says she would fight with the PP hero and hear about his strength. We agreed to hit three times. Two PP blows do not harm Baba Yaga, then PP hits the mortar, Yaga becomes a woman, he puts her in a bag and tramples her, lets the old man feel at home, who makes sure that Yaga has been killed. PP kills one of the bulls, climbs into his skin, catches a crow that has flown up, sends the other for living and dead water. After receiving water, he tests it: he tears the bird, then revives it. He offers to cure the old man's eyes, sprinkles dead and living water, he sees the light, and in gratitude promises to bring the PP to the ground. His witch daughter does this, she eats people and knows how to turn into a bird. Orders to tie an iron spear and prepare 40 barrels of meat and 40 water. There was not enough meat, PP cut off its calves. The bird says its meat is sweet and would eat it, but his father's request doesn't allow it. Spits out swallowed, PP's legs are intact again. After 10 years of absence, PP returns to his kingdom, the girl from the golden hut is waiting for him, he marries her. PP punishes his comrades: he cuts off one arm and the other's leg. He puts up a silver and gold tower, lives in them]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 109, 272-278; Russians (Olonetskaya?) [someone steals golden apples from the garden of the formidable Tsar Vasily; Tsarevich Fedor, Peter fall asleep, the younger Ivan pulls out the feather from the firebird; V. sends him for a bird; at the fork the inscription - who is right - will die with as a horse, to the right - he will die, but the horse will remain, whoever to the left will lose the horse; I. turns to the left, the wolf eats the horse, carries I., tells him to take the bird without a cage; I. takes it with a cage, he is grabbed, told get a golden-maned horse; the wolf tells you to take it without a bridle, I. grabs a bridle, he is told to get Elena the Beautiful; the wolf takes her away, takes her form to exchange the princess for a horse, then the appearance of a horse is to get a heat- bird; returns, I. gets everything; his brothers kill him; the wolf grabs the crow, makes the crow bring alive and dead water; I. marries EP, the elder princes are expelled]: Karnaukhova 1948:253-261; Russians (Moscow) [the old man weaved bast shoes, sold it; 12 brothers are dragging a mare; the old man gave for her what he took for bast shoes; the mare has a pearl tail, a golden mane; tells me to sit on it, but not cling to the clouds with his head; at home, the mare immediately necklaced and gave birth to a foal; the landowner bought it for 500 rubles; the mare to the old man: he forgot about me; he fed her, she flew to the steppe and gave birth to Ivan- Kobylin's son (IK); he went to rescue the princess, she was carried away by a 12-headed serpent; met and accompanied Gorynya and Dubynya; they were afraid to go down to the snake kennel, IK descended; the princess's serpent was on her knees, she looking for lice in his heads; tells him to change power with impotence; the serpent drank impotence; they fight with sabers; IK: Serpent, look around, your kingdom is burning" the serpent looked around, IK cut down all heads; the princess gave their ring; the companions picked it up; IR tied the stone, they cut off the rope, believing that they were raising the IR; 12 cabbage rolls promised to bring IR to the ground, told them to prepare water and meat; the last portion was not enough, he cut off the eggs from his right leg, divided it into 12 parts, gave it to cabbage rolls; on the ground, the birds coughed up pieces, put it back; the mare's mother came running, hit the stone, the crows began to peck at it; IR grabbed the crow, ordered the crow to bring alive and dead water, revived his mother; dressed as a beggar, he came to the princess's wedding with Dubynya; the bride recognized her ring; Dubynya was opened across the field, IK received the kingdom]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 23:58-61; Russians (Voronezh) [an elderly priest's daughter drinks two bottles from a well, after 40 hours she gives birth to twins: Ivan and Fedor Vodychey; in three weeks they grow up, they go hunting, want to shoot a hare, fox, wolf, bear, lion, tiger, falcon, etc., but the animals ask for mercy, promise that they will be useful to their brothers; after 12 days, the brothers go again hunting, collecting animals, drawing lots at the crossroads: Ivan walks along the road where "death will be", Mikhail, where "to be rich"; brothers share animals and guns, agree that they will come to rescue each other; if one gun will turn black, which means that the second brother is dead; Ivan enters a pub in the field, finds out that Serpent Gorynych eats all people in the kingdom, that today it is the turn of the king's eldest daughter; sends him to the tower, where she is waiting for the Snake; the Serpent arrives, asks whether Ivan has come to reconcile or fight; opponents are fighting on the bridge, in 2 blows Ivan cuts down three heads, buries bones, receives a personalized handkerchief from the princess; the princess sees Chugunkin, a gypsy, finds out how she escaped, makes her imagine him as a savior; the same with her middle daughter; on the third day, Ivan asks the kisser he stayed with to release the animals, when the water in the glass boils; comes to his youngest daughter, asks him to look in his head, hangs a three-pound stone above him on a rope, orders him to cut down the rope if he does not appear she will wake up; the princess cannot wake Ivan up, she feels sorry to cut the rope, she cries, a tear wakes up the man; with three blows he cuts off the Snake's 6 heads, he waves his tail, new heads grow three times, he grabs Ivan's hand in his mouth; the kisser wakes up (the glass splits from boiling water, the fragment falls into the kisser's face), sees that the water in the glass is boiling, releases animals because of 12 the doors (6 have already gnawed), they tear the Snake apart; the younger princess bandages Ivan's hand with her towel, gives a personalized ring, he hides the Snake's bones under a stone; Ivan returns to the pub, drinks vodka, orders the kisser not to sell vodka to anyone; the princess meets Chugunkin a gypsy, he forces him to present him as a savior and marry him; the king is preparing for his daughter's wedding, but cannot buy The kisser has vodka, he says that he "has his own king" (Ivan), the royal daughters know who they are talking about; the tsar goes for Ivan, but he sleeps, the royal daughters recognize their savior, see towel, handkerchief and rings; they bring a "gun" (military and wind musical instruments), "hit it", well done; he wakes up; finds out that they have come to him for vodka for Chugunkin Gypsy's wedding, asks the gypsy cannot lift the stone under which the Serpent's bones lie. Ivan picks up, throws the gypsy to the bones, covers it with a stone; marries the youngest princess, after a while goes hunting with his animals, catches and releases the golden hare (he chases all day long after the golden hare, wanders, loses her way, spends the night in the forest; an old woman comes up to him, asks him to tie the animals, because he is afraid of them, he ties him and the animals into stones; the old woman turns out to be a mother The snake, the "sorceress berry"; Mikhail Vodovich sees that his sword has turned black, follows his brother, the kisser, the tsar and the princess take him for Ivan; he goes hunting, meets the same old woman, she gives a belt and asks Mikhail to hunt him; he throws his belt into the fire, the yaga witch rushes at him, the lion and bear stop her; she brings Mikhail to his petrified brother, he takes it from the old woman a bubble, sprinkles animals, they come to life; then he digs up his brother, the animals lick his wounds, on the advice of an old woman, catches magpie, tears it up and sprinkles it with Ivan's blood, he comes to life; the old woman kills, buries it ; Mikhail Vodovich boasts that he was mistaken for a brother in the kingdom, that he spent the night with the younger princess; Ivan is jealous, cuts off his brother's head; when he returns, he learns from the princess that his brother cried all night and is not with her talked, regrets what he did, digs up his brother, revives him; orders the falcon to catch the crow, but he persuades him to spare him and in return brings an oak apple (var.: live drops), from the juice whom Mikhail comes to life; marries an elder princess, each brother gets his own state]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 1:31-42; Russians (Kursk, Solntsevsky district) [Father bequeathed to his son before his death to his son sisters for anyone who marries, he is looking for a bride in the 29th kingdom. The brother gives three sisters for a train, a potter and a guide for a blind man. Then he goes to Kingdom 29, wants to give his horse a drink and sees a boy who looks like his sister, realizes that he is in a train's house, told his sister that he wants to marry beautiful Elena, the daughter of Tsar Dodon. Then, when she wants to get drunk, she meets her sister's daughter, finds herself in the potter's house, then she finds herself with her third son-in-law. Once in Kingdom 29, he sees Elena walking with her nanny and taking her away. The royal horse Polkan Polkanych catches up with Ivan and tears him apart, and returns the princess to the kingdom. The sons-in-law find Ivan, collect them piece by piece, sprinkle them with water brought by a crow, and he comes to life. They advise him to take away from a wolf who steals foals in the forest from a mare, a foal. He performs, the foal gives him three hairs from his mane so he can call him and goes to his mother for milk. A mare returns to Ivan, "from the mouth of the flame, fire from under his hooves", he carries Elena at night, Polkan Polkanych cannot catch up with him. Ivan marries a beautiful woman ("fulfilled his will")]: Aristov, Pavlov 1939:85-87; Russians (Tomsk, Biychsky U.) [The tsar has a little son, Neugomon Tsarevich, he is lulled in his cradle, saying that when he grows up, Rusuya Rusu, thirty brothers and sister, will marry him. She grows up, goes looking for her, comes to her palace. She knows that she is her betrothed, treats her and shows her wealth: the first closet contains silver, the second is gold, the third has precious stones, fruit trees grow in the garden, and birds of paradise sing. She flies away for thirty days to ask her brothers for permission to marry, and leaves the prince with the keys, except for one pantry covered with cow manure. Out of curiosity, the prince opens the pantry, where the gray-haired old man boils in resin, each vein is locked with a lock, the key is on the window. He says he doesn't know what he's suffering for and asks him to open at least one vein. N. took pity, the old man turned into Koshchei the Immortal and flew away. The mirror that the PP left is getting darker, which means that it is in trouble. The brothers who arrived explain that Koschey took her away. N. goes looking, comes to Koshchei, picks up the RR and drives him back. At this time, Koschey is walking in the field, asking his horse if everything is alive and well at home. Horse: It's all right, only N. took RR away. Koschey goes home, demands: "Seven children! Bring me seven pitchforks, raise my heavy eyebrows. I'll see how far the Rebellion Tsarevich is going." The children raise their eyebrows with a pitchfork, Koschey looks, announces that there is nothing to hurry, they must plow arable land, sow bread, reap, threshing, grind flour, bake bread, then he will go. After what has been done, Koschey goes, catches up with N., takes away the PP and does not order him to steal it anymore, otherwise he will severely punish her. N. takes RR away for the second time. The horse reports this to Koshchei. Koschey goes home, demands: "Seven children! Bring me seven pitchforks, raise my heavy eyebrows. I'll see if N is going far." The children raise their eyebrows with a pitchfork, Koschey looks, announces that they need to grind flour, bake bread, and then he will go. He catches up with N., whips him, does not tell him to return, otherwise he pulls one leg and tears him apart. N. takes RR away for the third time. The horse reports this to Koshchei. Koschey returns home, everything repeats itself, this time Koschey tears N. apart, throws, RR takes him away. The RR brothers see that the necklace left by N. has turned black, and one of them goes to look for it. A crow hit the body. He catches a crow, asks a crow to let him go, he tells it to bring alive and dead water, and ties bubbles to its wings so that it can collect from the dead sea and the living sea. Dead water makes the body grow together, N. gets up alive and says that he slept for a long time, but soon got up. The brothers persuade him not to save the RR, he does not agree, they teach him to go to the hero's widow, get her horses for three days, and get the worst foal. On the way, the Restless Prince stings the gadfly, asks him not to kill him, let him drink, then he will come in handy. N. wants to kill the wolf, catches pike, but releases them in exchange for a promise to come in handy. The widow has chained heroes who used to herd horses. She sends N. to watch 33 mares, who lie quietly in the field. N. falls asleep. When he wakes up, there are no mares. Gadflies, led by the one N. released, bring mares. He gives them back to her widow: her three daughters and 30 black girls. She scolds her daughters for not being able to escape, executes her eldest. The next day, N. falls asleep again, but wolves, led by the one he decided not to kill, bring mares, and the widow executes her middle daughter for this. On the third day, N. falls asleep, the mares disappear, but the pike causes a flood, horses float up and can only go ashore where N. The widow executes her third daughter, allows N. to choose from good stallions, he asks for a lousy foal, carries him on his shoulders, this is the elder brother of Koshcheev's horse. The foal asks him to let him go to his mother for a drink of milk to become stronger, and when he returns, throw his hat at him to stop him. The first time N. hits the neck with a hat, the second time the horse can walk by himself when he returns, N. hits his hat in the side, the third time he can already ride a horse, he rode from his mother, raising dust. N. takes N. to a cauldron with strong water, N. drinks, feels that there is no stronger hero, at the behest of the horse he drinks more, feels that he can pull the earth and sky into one place. The horse tells me to drink half more, N. says that he has lost half his strength, the horse says it's good, otherwise the earth would not wear it. The horse runs to the hero's widow, deceives her, saying that N. could not ride it, fell and died. She asks him to wear her husband's armor so that he can run in them, otherwise he will become a thin foal again, returns with them to N., who puts on armor and goes to Koshchei. On the advice of the horse, he sets a fire in the field, comes to Kashchei's house, takes the RR away. Koschey returns from the field, discovers the loss, and goes in pursuit. When N. comes to the fire, the horse rises high above it. Koschey makes his horse stand up. He says he can't get so high because his older brother is under N. Koschei tells him to rise, at this time N. attacks him, his horse also hits the rider with his hoof, Koschey falls right into the fire, burns]: Potanin 1902, No. 55:111-114; Western Ukrainians (Podolia) [someone steals golden apples from the royal apple tree; the elder queen guards, falls asleep; the same average; the youngest fool put a wreath of thorns on his head and began to read the book; as soon as he bites his nose, so thorns they prick, he reads further; a bird flew in, he pulled out its tail; the queens left on different roads; the youngest horse was eaten by a wolf; the queen complained see. Mykolay; he gathered the wolves, asked who ate the horse, told that wolf to take the queen; the wolf brings him to where the beautiful horse is, tells him to take it without a bridle; the queen took the bridle, was caught; he will be given the horse if will get a greyhound; the wolf brings it to the greyhound, tells you not to take the lantsukhiv (?) , he takes it, he is told to get the girl; the wolf: but don't kiss her; the cage with that bird, and the girl is sleeping next to him; the queen takes the cage and the girl, sits on the wolf; he chipped in as a girl, the queen got a greyhound; then but with the horse; sending the queen home, the wolf warns not to tell his brothers anything - they will kill; the wolf found the body, ordered the crow to bring live water; he brought it, the wolf revived the queen; tells pretend to be a doctor; at home the girl is sick, the bird does not sing; as soon as they saw the queen, the girl recovered, the bird sang; the queen told his father everything; he married him to the girl he had received, and his brothers ordered to be shot]: Levchenko 1928, No. 492:357-359; Ukrainians (Kharkiv) [Elena the Beautiful is stolen by a snake, her sister, Ivan Tsarevich's wife, becomes angry, the serpent "makes her a snake" (metaphor). Ivan asks the mighty hero Churila for help, who agrees to come instead of him at night and teach her a lesson. At night, C.'s wife takes C. for her husband, he beats her (while her husband hides). She asks to let her go, promises to be kind and obedient again. Asks her husband to return her sister Elena. C. promises to do everything instead of Ivan. On the way, he sees two snakes attacking one, helping the latter because he stole Elena, then protects him twice from other snakes. She comes to the beautiful tower where Elena is hidden and takes her away. The pigeon flies to the snake, reports the incident, the snake asks the horse if he will be able to catch up with the fugitives, the horse says that first the snake must sow life, collect, grind grain, brew beer, and drink horse. The serpent follows the instructions, catches up with C. on horseback - he has no weapon, he is forced to give it to Elena, the serpent recognizes him and promises to let him go alive three times (how many times he has been saved). C. steals Elena again, everything repeats itself twice (the horse orders the snake to sow buckwheat, etc.), the snake warns that it will no longer spare H.. He steals Elena for the third time, catches up with the serpent, cuts him up. Three days later, the wolf, Brother C., finds the body, grabs a crow that bites the dead body, demands that the crow bring healing and living water, and he brings it in 3 days ("as I slept!"). The wolf advises C. to take a foal from the snake mare, hide it on Tsar Mountain from wolves (they eat them), who digs a hole and hides it in it. When the wolves leave, the foal asks to let him go to his mother, C. lets him go for 3 days, the foal gains strength and grows up (the snake horse is three-legged, one leg was eaten by wolves). C. takes Elena on a new horse (she thought C. was dead and did not want to go with him). The pigeon tells the snake about the escape, the horse warns the snake that it is unlikely to catch up with the fugitives. C.'s horse asks why the three-legged horse carries a "reptile" (he did not let him "feed to his mother", did not save him from wolves). The horse drops the snake "the bones themselves are left", C. puts Elena on it. He leaves her and his horse to Ivan, his wife rejoices and arranges a feast]: Grinchenko 1895, No. 159:159-165; Ukrainians (Kherson) [the old people have three daughters; the grandfather asks to bring him lunch to the field, promises on the way cut a stick and throw chips; the serpent found out, put the chips on the path to his house; the snake ordered dinner, the salted meat was human; in the morning the serpent gave the keys, forbade entering one room; she entered, there dead and blood vessels; she dropped the apple given by the snake, the blood cannot be washed off; the serpent cut off her head, threw it into that room; next time her youngest daughter, father sprinkles ash, the same; middle daughter, father sprinkles potatoes; she did not drop an apple, the serpent believed that she had not looked into the forbidden rooms; she caught a crow, forced her to bring living and dead water, revived her sisters, put it in a chest, told a snake take the gift home; a few years later she gave birth to a half-snake half-human; ordered the snake to take gold home; cut the child, threw her into the forbidden room, sat down in the chest herself; the serpent returned - no wife]: Hawks 1894, No. 15:145-148; Belarusians (Grodno) [two brothers go to plow in the forest, mark the road with straw, the sister must walk along it to bring them lunch; the seven-headed Serpent overheard, changed the signs, the girl came to the Snake; one, then the second brothers come, the Serpent shows his wealth, offers iron bread, hangs the brothers on a beam; their mother's pea turns into a boy Pokatypea (P. ), he grows up, the blacksmith makes him a seven-pound mace, he throws it to the clouds, it falls, breaks; he orders stronger; comes to the Snake, eats iron bread, breaks the deck without an ax, burns without fire; P. and the Serpent drive each other into the ground, P. drives him whole, kills him with a mace; kills a horse, hides in a carcass, grabs the Crow that has descended, orders him to bring living and dead water; he brings, P. tears the Raven in two, glues it together, revives the brothers with water; revives the brothers; on the way back, the brothers tie him to the oak tree, not believing that he is their brother; he drags the oak tree to the house, leaves parents, leaves; meets, comrades Vyrvigora, Vyrvidub; P. kills a six-, seven-, nine-headed snake, brings tongues to the king; the wives of the Snakes turn into a bed, into an apple tree, P. cuts them without giving them his comrades sit down and eat apples; the third Snake has a mouth from the ground to the sky; P. throws three kani (stones?) into her mouth , three falcons, comrades; each time she Snake returns to drink; P. hides with blacksmiths; they tell the Snake to wipe the doors with their tongue, grab her tongue with ticks, P. kills her]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 134:254- 263; Belarusians (Mogilevskaya, Gomel district, d. Kupreevka, 1888-1891) [Ivan Tsarevich plays cragley together with the lads. He throws a stick at cragley, the stick hits the grandmother, hits the leg. Grandma says that Ivan should not walk with her, but Tsar Kirbit has a daughter, Kirbitovna. Ivan decides to find her. He goes for several days without knowing where. On the third day, he drives past the forest. There is a hut by the forest. Ivan sends a footman to ask where Princess Kirbitovna lives. Ivan does not wait for a footman and goes to ask himself, go into the hut, there is a grandmother there. She asks her about Princess Kirbitovna, she promises to teach him how to find her. He says that King Kirbit has a good fellow Bulat, who wants to beat Kirbit, break it and stab Kirbit. Kirbit will sell Bulat at the bazaar. Grandma tells Ivan to go to the bazaar and buy someone who will be iron-clad. Ivan goes to the bazaar, looks for Bulat and finds it. Ivan asks Kirbit how much he sells Bulat for. For 100 rubles. Ivan says it's expensive and doesn't buy it. Ivan returns to his grandmother, who asks if he bought Bulat. Ivan says it's expensive. She says she has to pay and puts him to bed. In the morning, my grandmother feeds and sings Ivan and tells him to go to the bazaar and buy Bulat. Ivan goes, meets Kirbit, asks how much he sells Bulat for 200 rubles. Ivan says it's expensive and doesn't buy it. Ivan returns to his grandmother, she scolds him for buying Bulat and puts him to bed. In the morning, she feeds him, sings and says that he should go to the bazaar and buy Bulat, and if he does not buy him, he will be beheaded. Ivan comes to the bazaar, finds Kirbit, asks how much he sells Bulat for - 300 rubles. Ivan buys Bulat and brings him to his grandmother. Bulat asks if Ivan wants Tsarevna Kirbitovna. Ivan says he doesn't know how to get it. Bulat says Kirbit has a seven-winged horse outside the twelve gates. If Ivan gets a horse, he'll also get the princess. Bulat instructs Ivan how to get to the stable: come and tell the guards that Kirbit told Ivan to go to the stables. That's what Ivan does. The guards don't believe it at first, but then they let Ivan in. Ivan reaches the last gate. The guards don't want to let him in, Ivan replies that since the others let him in, so should they. They agree and let Ivan in. Ivan takes a horse and leaves. She comes to her grandmother and asks how to get Princess Kirbitovna. Grandma replies that Kirbit will go to church to pray that he sold Bulat, Ivan should also go to church, and he will see Kirbitovna there. Ivan goes to the church, waits for everyone to leave, and sees Kirbitovna. Asks her if she'll go for him. The princess replies that she will take a towel down from the tenth floor for him. Ivan comes home, tells Bulat, and Bulat tells him to go to her. Ivan arrives at the princess's window, she smells it and goes down on the towel. The princess sits on a horse and they leave together. Night falls, Bulat feeds them and puts them to bed. Bulat puts on his armor and stands on guard. He hears Kirbit's army is following them. Meets them. The soldiers ask if he saw Ivan and Tsarevna. Damask smashed everyone and left five people behind. He tells them to go to Kirbit and tell him not to send any more troops. He wakes Ivan and the princess up, feeds him and puts him on a seven-winged horse. Day goes, night falls, Bulat feeds them and puts them to bed. Bulat puts on his armor and stands on guard. This is the second time Bulat hears that Kirbit's army is following them. Bulat defeats everyone again, except a few, tells them to go to Kirbit and tell them not to send any more troops. Again, Bulat wakes Ivan and the princess up, feeds him and puts them on a seven-winged horse. Day goes, night falls, Bulat feeds them and puts them to bed. Bulat puts on his armor again and stands on guard. For the third time, Bulat hears Kirbit's army is following them. He meets them and breaks them all but five people. Again, Bulat wakes Ivan and the princess up, feeds him and puts them on a seven-winged horse. Day goes, night falls. Ivan asks to stay for the night, Bulat refuses and says that we should continue to go. Ivan is demanding an overnight stay. Damask is angry, but he feeds and puts Ivan and the princess to bed. Damask does not take armor and goes to the road with his bare hands. Hears Kirbit's army again, six regiments. They ask him where Ivan and the princess are. Damask grabs an oak tree in 4 girths and breaks everyone, leaving only ten people. He sends them to the king to tell them not to send an army. Bulat wakes Ivan and the princess up, feeds him and puts them on a seven-winged horse. Day goes, night falls. The second time Ivan says it's time to spend the night, Bulat refuses. Ivan insists, Bulat agrees, puts him to bed. Damask again goes out onto the road with his bare hands, hears Kirbit's army, ten regiments. They meet the army, they ask where Ivan and the princess are. Damask grabs an oak tree in eight girths and kills everyone, leaving only the blind and lame alive, and sends them to Kirbit. Bulat returns to Ivan and the princess, and the horse is seven-winged without a head, Ivan is headless, but the princess is gone. Damask rips open the horse's belly, pulls out the demand, and sits inside himself. Two crows, young and old, are flying. A young man sits down to peck a horse. Damask grabs it on his leg. The old crow asks to let his son go, Bulat asks him if he knows where the living and dead water is. The old crow says Bulat should tie him two bottles under his wings: for dead water under his right wing, for living water under his left wing. Dead and alive water outside twelve gates. A raven arrives at a dead water jar, and the guards want to catch it. The raven is collecting dead water. Then he also collects living water and returns to Bulat. Damask tears up the crow's son, smears it with dead water, then alive, the crow's son comes to life. Bulat lets them go. Damask revives Ivan and then the horse. He scolds Ivan for not listening to him before. They sit on a horse, they go. They come to the snake house on twelve sticks. Ivan walks into Tsar Idol's house, where the princess is. King Idol asks Ivan why he has come. Ivan takes Idol by the hair, puts it in the palm of his hand, and the other claps and throws it out the window. Ivan takes the princess, puts her on a horse, and they leave. They go, night falls. Bulat is in custody. Birds fly by, singing a song that Ivan's stepmother is preparing poison for him: whoever eats it will disappear, and his wife will herd pigs. And whoever tells us will be made of stone. Bulat will be Ivan and the princess, he feeds him, they will go on. Night is falling. Bulat wants to stop, Ivan refuses, Bulat again says he should spend the night, Ivan refuses. The princess urges Ivan to listen to Bulat. They spend the night. Damask puts them to bed and stands in custody. Birds fly by, singing a song that Ivan's stepmother is preparing him a fur coat with a gold and silver star, with creeping and flying reptiles. Whoever wears this coat will be lost, and his wife will herd pigs. And whoever tells us will be made of stone. Bulat returns, there will be Ivan and the princess, he will feed him and go on. They come to Ivan's house. Mother meets Ivan and wants to wear a fur coat. Bulat wears a fur coat instead of Ivan. Kills bastards who were wearing a fur coat. Servants bring food to Ivan. Damask takes food from the servants and drops it on the floor. Bulat wants to sleep in Ivan's room. Ivan resists, Kirbitovna urges him to listen to Bulat. At night, the mother sends three idols to tear Ivan's head off and steal Kirbitovna. Damask rips three idols off their heads. He wants to remove blood from the floor, Ivan wakes up thinking that Bulat wants to kill them. Ivan orders Bulat to be shackled and killed. Bulat asks for a prayer, and he talks about the birds that warned him about Ivan's mother. Bulat is stony. A year later, Ivan and Kirbitovna had a son. Ivan has a dream: Bulat asks him to take out his son's heart, anoint himself with it, then Bulat will come to life and his son will be alive. Ivan sends Kirbitovna to the church, and he tells him to cut off his son's head, cut his chest, take out his heart and anoint Bulat with it. Damask comes to life. Ivan and Bulat go to Kirbitovna's church. Servants bring a son. They put their hearts in, put their heads on, poured dead water, poured live water. A feast for the whole world]: Romanov 1901:7-14; Czechs: Erben 1976:22-31 [someone steals apples from an apple tree in the royal garden; the king promises half a kingdom; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep, the youngest knocks down the feather Fire birds (Ohnivák, PO), that flew away, the apple remained; parting at the crossroads of three roads, the brothers stick their rods: whoever sprouts took out a bird; Liska-ryzhka (KH) asks each of the brothers share food; the elders shot her, the younger fed her; she led him to the castle, told him to take a wooden cage, the Queen took the gold one, the PO squeaked, the guards woke up; the king agrees to give the bird, if the queen delivers the horse Zlatograv; the same with the horse: he takes not a leather bridle, but a gold one; his owner demands Goldilocks in the Black Sea for the horse; she is the youngest daughter of the sea queen; the LR tells you to choose it easier the girl dressed all; he chose; the girls' mother now tells us to identify Z. among the three sisters; a fly is spinning around her; the Queen tells her to scoop out a pond with a sieve; Z. began to scoop out instead of him; the LR brought a horse ordered to take Z. and jump away; LR takes the form of Z., then a horse, then a bird, each time he becomes a fox again and runs away; the queen returns with Z., the horse and the bird; the owner of the bird has a copper, a horse silver, mother Z. has gold locks; at the fork, the queen fell asleep; the brothers came up, cut his body into pieces, Z., took the horse and bird; but Z. is silent, the horse does not eat, the bird does not sing; the LR found the remains, the crow grabbed, the crow had to bring alive and dead water from the Black Sea, the LR revived the Queen; when he saw him, the horse rose up, the bird sang, Z. told everything; the king executed his eldest sons, gave him youngest Z., half the kingdom, and after death another], 38-42 [the old woman gave the king a snake (hereinafter referred to as fish): if you eat it, you will understand the languages of animals and birds; the king told Jiri to fry the fish, he himself licked; the king feels that I. received this gift, is trying to destroy it; two birds got into a fight over three golden hair, one fell, I. picked it up; the king tells him to bring him golden-haired; I. saves ants from a burning stump; fed crows whose parents flew away; bought from fishermen, released goldfish; the king of the crystal castle promises to give his gold-haired daughter if I. 1) collects the scattered in the meadow beads (ants collect), 2) will get a ring lost in the sea (the fish got it), 3) will bring living and dead water; the crows brought; on the way I. sprinkled dead water on the spider, revived the fly with living water; the king tells Goldilocks to be recognized among her sisters, shows her husband; having received Z., the king ordered I. to cut off his head; Z. revived him with living and dead water; I. became handsome; the king wanted too; but he was only raised up head back, and living water has already been used up; I. became king]; Slovaks [the queen gets the sea princess; the king wants it for himself, tells the Queen to get living and dead water; that gets it with the help of crows; a young panna tells the king to cut off the Queen's head, revives him with living water, which becomes even more beautiful; the king asks to cut off his head, the panna does not revive him, goes out for the Queen]: Afanasiev 1994 (2): 128.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [(zap. Sergei Tumanov in Feodosia); when he dies, the tsar tells his three sons to marry their three sisters; they are taken by the Leo, the Tiger, the huge Raven; each time the girl is given away only at insistence younger brother; sitting by the window, the younger brother shoots through the wineskins of the girl who comes to the well; she curses him, telling him to suffer from love for the daughter of the sun and moon; he goes in the direction indicated by the girl; the old woman says that Raven lives there; this is the young man's son-in-law; his house is guarded by forty lions and forty tigers; the young man buys meat, the old woman goes and throws it to everyone; cuts off the last piece from her leg; the young man's grateful sister made the lion regurgitate the meat, put it back, sends an invitation with the old woman; the brother comes, his sister hides him; eclipsing the sun, the Raven arrives, becomes a man; convenes creatures find out where the daughter of the sun lives; the latter knows; the prince sits on her with his horse, feeds her meat and water on the way; leaves her in his nest; every year the snake kills her chicks; the prince cuts the snake, feeds the chicks; the bird swallows and regurgitates them, allowing them to fly; the king catches the princess bird, gives them to his daughter; at night he turns into a man, drinks her sorbet; she guards; he becomes her lover; marries; they go to his house; at rest, a Black Arab takes her away on a tripod horse; the prince comes to his city, stays with an old woman; she receives the keys to an Arab, releases the prisoner, the prince takes her away; the Arab asks the horse whether to go now or after he is drunk; the horse: I will have time to sleep; Arap catches up, cuts the prince into pieces, puts him in a bag, the horse takes the bag to the Raven; the mother The crow glues the pieces with pomegranate juice, revives them with pomegranate; the captive pretends to love an Arab, he talks about a tripod horse; in the ninth meadow, a mare runs north, gives birth, four wolves come demand food; the Arab is not enough for the fourth, he has eaten the leg of the foal; the prince feeds all four, receives a four-legged foal from the same mare, takes his wife; the tripod throws off the Arab, he is killed ]: Potanin 1883:725-729; Ossetians [Aldar has 3 daughters, he keeps them in an iron tower; later Soslanbek's son was born; the widow's daughter went to fetch water; S. fired an arrow and smashed her jugs; the widow teaches The next time the girl told S.: I would find it better than my sisters; the mother had to confess, S. came to the sisters, they asked him to beg his parents to let them go to church for the holiday; after the service three monsters kidnapped the girls; parents tell S. to find them; while S. was sleeping, an elephant came out of the river, swallowed S.'s horse and told him to sit on it; consistently brings him to his three sisters; they give a ring, a knife , the purse to call them if necessary; S. refuses to marry beauties whose portraits are shown and seeks to be shown the hidden portrait; the father-in-law of the S. sisters is the dragon Zaliag Kalm; he sleeps, surrounded by an iron fence with his body; S. cut the dragon, entered, to meet his daughter, beautiful Sugar; she gave him sleeping pills, ordered him to be thrown into the tower; S. summoned the horsemen from the ring, they released him, but when he saw Sahar, S. lost consciousness and Sahar took his ring; the same with a knife; the heroes came out of his purse, and S. hid him in advance; after that, Sahar agreed to marry S. ordered not to unlock the seventh room; S. unlocked, the giant Khatag-Barag and his horse are chained there; HB asks to throw them bread and hay, promises to provide three services; after being free, HB took Sugar; S. comes three times He takes him to her, but HB catches up every time; for the fourth time he chopped S. to pieces; his sisters caught a crow; told his mother to bring living water, otherwise they would tear the crow to shreds; reviving S., sisters they told him to get the half-brother of the horse HB; the owner of the herd tells him to herd him without loss: either he will give the horse or cut off the shepherd's head; on the way, S. wanted to kill, but let the wolf, the fox and the wasp go; each of A herd gathers them in the evening; the mare must give birth, the witch beat her; in revenge, the mare told S. that it is necessary to choose the foal she will give birth to, although he seems weak; the foal tells wait three days, becomes a heroic horse; tells you to get into one ear, get out of the other - S. became a hero in a golden robe; S. took Sugar away; when HB caught up and took off to hit S. From above, S.'s horse was taller and S. killed HB; everything is fine]: Dzagurov 1973, No. 32:80-91; Ingush [when Adam and Eve were expelled from paradise, they became husband and wife; each time Eva gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl who also married each other; but one day a young man from one twin fell in love with his sister from the next, but the brother resisted, a fight broke out, the youngest died; this was the first to die and no one did not know what to do with him; the elder began to carry the body of the victim on his back; the crow taught him how to bury the dead; when the crow's chick died, she dug a hole in front of the fratricide and covered the body with earth; with Since then, it has become a custom to bury the dead]: Dakhkilgov 2006:306; Kumyks: Spivak 1989 [mother Eva gave birth three times a day: brother and sister in the morning, cousins and cousins at lunchtime, and in the evening - second cousins and sisters; twins, after a certain feather, were supposed to form three married couples when the autumn apples ripened; but the brother, born in the morning, fell in love with his cousin, born at lunchtime; the brother who was supposed to marry her killed her morning brother; this was the first death; people don't know what to do with the dead; a black raven arrives, spins, buries it in the ground walnut; people follow his example]: 153; Khalidova 2012, No. 49 [in ancient times, if a person died, they did not know what to do with him; two brothers lived with his mother; they did not love each other; the youngest killed in a fight the eldest; raising her dead son on her back, the mother walked for three weeks; one day she saw one raven kill another in a fight; then began to bury the dead: he dug a hole with his claws, laid a crow there and buried it; the woman dug a hole with her hands, put her son there and buried it; after that, people began to bury the dead]: 69; Talyshi [Did Saint Hizr give water from the paradise spring to the Earth's crow? Did the crow sprinkle it on people's heads so that they could find eternal life; did the crow take water and fly? I sat on a boxwood tree, decided to pour water on my head, but the water spilled onto the boxwood, which became evergreen]: Asatryan 2005:20.

Iran - Central Asia. Tajiks (northern Tajikistan); Persians: Donaldson 1938:62 and 164 [Crow is considered immortal because he drank living water], 92 [in the west, in the area of Zulm&# covered in eternal darkness 225; t there is a spring of living water near Mount Kaf; the soil surface around is hot; you can only go there with the permission of Khawji Khizr; Alexander and 40 horsemen went there; XX. allowed me to pass, explained how not to burn your legs; A. filled the vessel; going out into the bright world, hung it on a branch; Crow flew in, drank water, knocked over the vessel, the liquid spilled onto the tree; the tree turned evergreen (p.142: therefore, cypress or pine is considered sacred), Raven is immortal, and A. did not drink living water; some of A.'s companions picked up stones in the dark land, they turned out to be gold; others decided to return and Take it too, but XXX did not meet them halfway anymore and they did not find a way].

Baltoscandia. Latvians [the person asks to be transported across the river; the elder queen moved, chose gold as a reward; the same average; the youngest chose horsehair, pigeon feather, fish scales, which turn into a horse, a pigeon, a fish and back into a man; a young man was hired by a king; an enemy attacked, the king needs his magic sword, a young man in the form of a horse, a dove, a fish got to the royal; explained to her the essence of magic, giving her hair, feather, scales herself; she gave him a sword; the cook asked for it for a moment, cut off the young man's head, brought the sword to the king, who promised him a daughter; that magician sent a crow for living water, revived the young man; he married the queen, the cooks were executed]: Grishina 1993:191-196; Lutsi (1893; the informant heard a fairy tale from people who did not know Estonian) [the spouses are childless, the husband died, the widow cried, and grew out of her tears peas, the only pea in the pod; she ate it, gave birth to it nine months later; the boy is a strongman; mothers: if she waited to eat, he would be even stronger; ordered a five-pound iron club from the blacksmith, threw it up, a day later she fell, he put his finger up, the club split; the 10-pound one bent; the 15-pound one remained intact, good; The pea meets, takes 1) pulling oaks as companions; 2) rearranging the mountains; they hired the owner for the right to carry what they could; he ordered the mountains to be leveled; they began to make ropes out of sand, throw them over the mountains, pull them off, now a flat field; one took away the owner all the flour, the other all the grain, the third of all the cows; they set up a farm in the forest; the demoness (mustabaaba) began to go to them, eat everything; he remained guarded by the tree pulling; she spat in his eyes, ate everything; the one who moved the mountains was the same; G. beat her with a club, she grew to the clouds, he continued to beat, she shrunk again, he tied her to the oak tree; she pulled out the oak tree and went to the lower world; only G. dared go down; killed the woman's five-headed son; the girl knits stockings, G. pulled the rope, both were picked up, he gave it to the oak puller, went down again; killed the 1-headed, gave the second girl to rearrange the mountains; the third time he fights with the 15-headed; drove him into the ground waist-deep, and he was up to the neck; agreed to take a break; G. drank strong water, and gave the enemy weak, killed him; went upstairs, but G. went down to the fourth once; it's a shame for the companions that G. took the most beautiful girl for himself, threw the rope down; thunderstorm, eagles on the Christmas tree say that whoever protects them from the weather will help their mother; he covered them; chicks: don't go away, until the mother arrives; eagle: I know G., when he was born, the earth trembled for three days; the eagle agrees to carry them across the Sea of Fire, but let him fill three barrels of forest bird; he spit them; in flight there was not enough meat, the eagle tells her to cut off and throw her little finger first, then the calf of her leg; then the little finger of the legs; flew; G. caught the little boy, began to twist; told the daw to bring live from the island in the Sea of Fire waters; my body healed with this water; came to my wife, forgave his companions, but drove them away; they began to live, they probably live now]: Annom et al. 2018:93-100; seto [the bird comes to peck apples; the king orders to guard; two clever princes, the third is a fool; the elder goes, falls asleep; the same middle one; the youngest climbed the apple tree, snatched the feather from the tail of the golden bird; the king promises the throne to whoever gets the bird; the youngest drove up to the fork: whoever to the right will lose his horse, to the left will say goodbye to life, straight will disappear with the horse; the prince went to the left; the wolf jumped out, ate the horse, told the prince to sit on it; the wolf brings to to the king, whose bird tells him to take it without a cage, the prince took the cage, was captured; the king will give the bird if the prince gets a horse with a golden tail and mane; the wolf tells him to take a horse without a bridle, the prince took with a bridle; that king will give the horse if the prince gets the gold-haired princess; the wolf grabbed and carried her away himself; the wolf took the image of a princess, then a horse returned; the prince returns with a bird, a horse and princess; met older brothers; they killed him and chopped him to pieces; at home, the elder is preparing the wedding; the wolf noticed the crows, ordered the bones to be collected; then told the crow to bring dead water, the body grew together; then alive - the prince came to life; came to his father, told everything; wedding; king to his son: do whatever you want with your brothers; he expelled them]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 77:237-240; Setu [dying, the king told his daughter rule until her brother grew up; she decided to lime her brother; pretended to be sick, told her to bring hare milk; the hare gave milk; next time a fox; a she-wolf; a bear; a tigress, a lioness; a sister She sent her brother to bring bread from the mill where the witch was; he went with all his animals that gave him milk; he took bread, and when he sent the animals to eat too, the witch slammed the doors shut; the sister put her brother in the cellar, the witch must eat it; at this time the animals break the doors one by one; this is reported by a raven, a dove, a swallow; each time the young man asks the cannibal to give him more time; for the last time he asks for permission light a pipe; animals break in, kill a witch; a young man, telling his sister to cry a bucket of bloody tears for his return, leaves with his animals; comes to a city where mourning; the man explains that everyone the year of the sea serpent demands a sacrifice, otherwise it will flood the city, the turn of the royal daughter; the animals tore the snake, the princess gave the savior her handkerchief; the coachman crept up, cut off the young man's head, told the princess to swear that she will declare him the winner of the snake; the animals mourn, the fox tells him to pretend to be dead, the raven comes down with the crow, the fox grabs the crow, tells the crow to bring water that connects the dicks and living water; he brings; the fox tore the crow for testing, glued it together, revived it; then the young man; the animals cast lots, falls on the bear, he brings the handkerchief to the palace, the princess recognizes him; meets the savior; the king tells him to tear the coachman apart by four bulls; the young man gets the princess; goes to visit his sister; she cries a bucket of blood; puts a witch's tooth into his brother's head, he falls dead; he is put in the tower; the hare comes, the tooth pierces him, he dies, the young man comes to life; the fox takes the tooth out of the hare, throws it into the bush, the bush has dried up; the beasts tore his sister; the young man became ruler over both kingdoms]: Sandra 2004:192-202; Finns: Concca 1993 [After the death of their parents, the brother took the cat and the sister took the goat, they went to seek happiness; the goat had to be stabbed and fried; they came to the giant; he agrees first fatten and then eat; the horse invites brother and sister to take them away from the giant, the giant easily caught up and killed him; the eagle is the same, the giant shot; the bull tells him to take a branch, a stone and a tin bottle with water, throw behind when the giant catches up; the branch turns into a forest; the giant cuts through the passage, the fox promises to steal the ax, the giant spends time taking the ax home; stone (mountain; same; fox promises to carry the hammer); bottle (sea, the giant tries to drink it, the fox advises you to gird yourself with hoops, gnawed them, the giant burst); the bull is about to die; tells you to keep the horns to summon it; brother my sister and I came to the copper castle, a dog got involved with them; the cat and the dog scratched the chest, but the brother did not open it; when he left, Satan came out of the chest in the form of a boy; the girl fell in love with him; he advises pretend to be sick, send a brother for wolf's milk; a she-wolf gives milk and a wolf cub; the same is a bear; Satan advises sending the boy to the mill for living and dead water, he will poison the springs along the way; a cat and a dog drank from the first, a wolf and a bear from the second; the boy revived them with live water; they tore Satan apart; the sister begged his brother to take it with him; they came to the silver castle, the guy married mistress princess; Satan came to life, brought his sister a tooth, told his brother to put him in bed; he died; the animals broke the coffin hoops, but fell dead themselves; two crows brought live water and revived the boy, and he animals; hitting his horn with his horn, the guy summoned the bull to the silver castle, Satan and his sister were killed; the spell hanging over the princess broke; all is fine]: 67-81; Salmelainen 1947 [someone kidnaps golden apples in the king's garden; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep; the youngest sees a glowing bird, which grabs an apple, the young man shot, only shot one feather; the king promises a reward to whoever gets it bird; the eldest, middle son leaves, does not return; the youngest takes the horse, goes to the fork; one road has an inscription that the horse will be full, the rider is hungry, the other has a full rider, the horse is hungry, the third has will lead to misfortune; the names of those who chose this or that path are written, the elder and middle brothers went along the first and second; the young man took the third; sat down to rest, the wolf appeared, he fed him; the wolf put him on his back, brought him to the castle; tells him to take a bird without a cage; a young man takes a cage, a bird screams, he is grabbed; the king agrees to give him a bird if he gets a horse who understands everything as a man; the wolf brings to the castle, tells you to take the horse without a bridle; he takes the bridle, is captured, released for promising to get the princess; the wolf turned into a merchant, laid out the goods; the princess came along with the others, a young man to her liked it, she agreed to run away with him, the wolf carried them both; the wolf took the form of a princess, the young man exchanged her for a horse, then the princess became a wolf again; the same with the horse; the young man returns with the princess, horse and bird; when parting, the wolf tells him to ride an old horse, and give the princess a smart one; tells him not to sleep on the way; but he fell asleep, the brothers killed him and his horse, took the princess, the horse and the bird; the king wants to marry the princess of the king's son; the princess is sad, the horse does not talk, the bird does not sing; the wolf found the body of a young man, caught a crow, the crow had to bring live water; the wolf first killed the crow and revived, then revived the young man and his horse; the young man came to his older brother's wedding, the princess laughed, the horse spoke, the bird sang; the young man persuaded the king not to execute his older brothers, but only to expel him, married a princess and inherited the throne]: 87-95; Danes [=1879:1-21; poor people have a son, they cannot find a godfather; the beggar agrees to be, gives the boy the name Willy Faith; leaves a rusty key; when a young man is 14 years old, a house appears, he opens it with a key, there is a talking horse; V. leaves in it; the horse does not tell you to pick up glowing feathers, V. picks it up; is hired by a groom to the king; he forbids lighting the light at night; the feathers glow like fire, V. paints a portrait of a beauty; the groom brings it to the king; the king: this is the daughter of the king whom I killed and who ran away; tells me to get it; horse: it became a bird, it was her feathers; she ordered the king to give a ship; worms are thrown to the fish along the way, barrels are thrown to the whales, meat to wolves and bears on the other side, bread to giants; there is a bird in the castle, turns into a girl; the dog helps to find her among fabrics, straw; on the way back she throws away the keys, but the fish find them and give them to V.; the girl demands that the king bring her castle to her; the king commands the same to V. (giants bring); girl: I need keys; V.: I have them; the girl demands the water of life and the water of death; the horse with V. jumps into the forest, tells me to kill the crow, the raven brings the water of life to revive it, V. takes the bottle ; the horse tells us to let the viper go to the nest; the raven brings the water of death to kill it, the young man takes it; the girl sprinkled V. with the water of death and then the water of life, he has become handsome; the king wants the same, she does it; he wants to do it again; but the water of life is over; V. becomes king, marries a girl; the horse tells him to cut off his head, turns into a prince - brother of his wife V.; everything is fine]: Grundtvig 1920:9-26.

Volga - Perm. Bashkirs: Barag 1988, No. 46 [the late son of the elderly and the foal born at the same time constantly defecate; the old man leaves them in the steppe, the caravans pick them up and give them up to raise them old woman; children tease the boy with untidy; he asks his adoptive mother to eat peas, clamps hot peas in her hands; she admits that she is not his own mother; the boy leaves on his foal, who has become a horse; contrary to his warning, he picks up a golden pen; the king's servants notice the light coming from the pen, the king calls the young man to live with him; his associates say that he despises the king, boasted to get the whole bird; the fox shows the way to the bird; the young man catches it, the king covers the palace with his skin; the servants advise ordering the king to marry the daughter of the sea king; the wolf teaches her to catch; the sea maiden promises to marry the king if he gets her ring that has fallen into the sea; the young man saves the fish, which brings the ring; the maiden tells her to bring her sea stallion; the fox teaches him how to stick; first the young man's horse is bitten as a sea horse, dies; a young man hides in his belly, grabs a crow that has descended; returns to the crow when it brings living water, revives the horse; he defeats the sea; the king tells the young man to swim in boiling water and in boiling milk, if not cooked, he can take the sea maiden for himself; the young man bathes, becomes handsome; the king is cooked; the young man marries, becomes king]: 314-334; 1989, No. 5 [orphan Umis for the last I bought money from an old man; saved a girl from a burning haystack; she turned out to be the daughter of a snake king; tells her father to ask her father for old chekmen (protects from arrows), a hat (invisible), boots (speeders) and sword (burns with fire); the princess disappears at night; wearing an invisible hat, W. sees her being taken away; W. then waved his sword, Yeget returned the princess, the king passed her off as W.; W. defeated the army of devas; wife asks what the secret is; W.: in a shovel; she tells her lover to replace the shovel; then W. tells the truth, the wife replaces wonderful objects; the devas captured W.; he asks to cut it into pieces, put it in the shroud, put the shroud to the saddle, the horse will take home; the king of the devas took his wife W. his wife, imprisoned his parents; the snake princess caught the crow, forced the crow to bring living and dead water, raised her dicks dead, revived alive; taught him to turn into a drake; the drake lured the Deva king, who left wonderful objects, W. flew up to them, captured and executed the Deva king and a traitor wife], 41 [someone steals golden apples in the royal garden; the eldest, middle prince guards return with nothing, the youngest sees how the golden bird has taken the apple, goes in search; at the crossroads there is a pole with the inscription, to the right you will die, to the left - the horse you will lose it; the prince turns to the left; the wolf eats the horse, carries the prince himself, tells him to take the bird without a cage; the prince takes it with a cage, the guards orders to get a golden-tailed silver mane horse for the bird; the same - to take the horse without a bridle, the prince takes a check, he is told to get the princess; the wolf turned into a horse, the princess sat down, he carried her away; the wolf turned into a princess, then a horse, runs away from the new owners, everything goes to the prince; his brothers cut off his head, took everything for themselves; the wolf caught the crow, ordered him to bring alive and dead water, revived the prince; he married the princess, the brothers repented]: 54-61, 192-194; Kazan Tatars [ the hunter caught and tamed a bear, a wolf and a hare; came to four divas; defeated three, the fourth overcame him, the animals came running, killed three, the fourth was thrown into the well; the hunter's sister pulled him out, took him husband; brother saw, killed the diva, the sister hid the two tibia, put her brother in bed when he married; the animals ripped off half of the hare's skin, the magpie went down to peck, the hare grabbed her, let her go for promising to bring living and dead water; the young man came to life; cut off his sister's head]: Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 2:33-37; Marie (meadow) [dying, the father tells Ivan to pass off three sisters as the first to be them he will marry; they are taken by Raven, Kite, Hawk; I. finds a portrait of Maria Marievna in his father's chest, goes to look for her; comes to his first sister; her husband arrives, sits on three oaks, they go into the ground, he turns into a person; gives a magic towel, I. leaves his ring if it turns black, he is in trouble; the same with the other two sons-in-law; the Kite gives a magic tablecloth, the Hawk gives a ring; teaches first feed the captured MM suitors, she keeps them like pigs; locked with her suitors, I. opens a magic towel, everyone feasts; gives it to MM for permission to touch her breasts; a tablecloth for permission touch the hair; ring: MM lies on the bed, I. kisses her {presumably not only}; MM keeps I. at home; MM goes to war, leaves the keys, allows the grooms to be released, forbids to unlock One door with 12 keys; I. unlocks, there is a 12-headed dragon on chains; asks for a bottle of green water; drinks, breaks chains, flies away, takes MM, gives I. three lives; I. arrives, takes MM, takes MM away, answers to the dragon that we will have time to sow rye, make beer, drink it, then we will catch up; the dragon catches up, takes one life (century) and MM; so three times; the fourth time the dragon kills I., descends into the sea in a barrel; The Raven, Kite, Hawk rings have turned black; the Hawk finds a barrel, splices pieces of I.'s body, the Raven revives him with living water; the Hawk tells MM to find out from the dragon where he got it fast horse; brings to MM; I. overhears how the dragon explains: he herds 300 horses of Yaga Lamb; MM gives I. a tablecloth to make a bridge across the sea; I. is a good shepherd, Y. daughters persuade their mother to give I. a horse; I. MM takes away again, I.'s horse tells his brother to throw off the dragon, he dies, MM sits on his horse; wedding, I.'s son-in-law also feast on it]: Chetkarev 1941, No. 9:160-169; Mordovians [parents are dead, brother and sister fled from the war into the forest; the bear gave them honey, told them to shake the chest in which he went to bed; they ran away; the elk tells them to sit on it, takes them away; tells him to kill him, watch the grave, take a gun on the first night, the second dog; the brother goes hunting with the dog, the sister is at home; that bear came in the form of a man, became his sister's lover; to lime his brother, the sister pretended to be sick, asks for a bear; a bear asks not to kill him, promises to help; the same is a lion; the lover became a bear, killed his brother, then became human again; the dog, the lion and the bear are at the mill at this time; they broke the door, found the owner's coffin, the dog caught a crow, tells the crow to bring live water, revived the owner, tore her lover, the brother drove her sister into the forest]: Evseviev 1964, No. 30:227-230; the Udmurts [the couple are 70 years old; a passer-by came in and left; after that, the old woman and the mare became pregnant; the old people decided that their son could no longer be fed at their age, they threw him into the field with the foal; both grew up themselves, the boy rode a foal; the horse persuades him not pick up a golden pen, but the boy picked it up; joined the king's service; other servants, out of envy, told the king about the pen; the king demanded that the bird itself be brought; the foal brought the boy to the tree on which a hawk who had lost his feather sat; ordered to leave the wine trough, the golden hawk became drunk, the boy brought it to the king; the servants told about the foal, the king ordered to get a herd of the neighboring king; the foal took it there the boy, told him not to look while he was fighting the local stallion; the boy looked, the foal fell with its belly bursting; a crow flew into the carrion; the boy caught her; she asked her to let her go, brought live water, the foal came to life; after that, the boy did not watch the foal beat; he defeated the stallion, the boy brought the herd; then the servants persuade him to send the boy for the princess's ring the kingdom where the herd came from, and then behind the princess herself; then the narrator did not remember; in the end, the king tells the boy to dive into a cauldron of boiling resin; he dived with the foal, whose snot protected both from the resin ; then the king and the servants dived, died; the boy reigned and married the princess]: Potanin 1884:227-229.

Turkestan. Kazakhs (recorded by G.N. Potanin) ["From the late Kyrgyz Musa Ch. Chormanov (Chokan Valikhanov's uncle), in 1880, I wrote down the following legend, which he probably read in a Muslim book"; in the kingdom of Garun al-Rashid, it was a custom to kill people over the age of 60 age; the son took his father to the place where the elderly were killed; the father sat down on a stone and laughed; when asked by his son, he replied: "I led my father to death on the same road, we were both tired at this very stone, and now Like me, my father sat down on a rock to rest; I didn't think sixty years would come to me so soon. This is what I smiled at. Soon your son will lead you to death in a similar way"; the son took his father back, hid him and kept him a secret from everyone for twenty years; GR ordered to get living water (myangi su); the old man explained to his son, where and how to find it; they walked with the others for forty days, the water supply ran out; the old man, whom his son was carrying in the box, told the bulls to be released; they sniffed the ground, began to dig it; they found water there; the old man explained to the son: "Not all water is "alive". Throw dead fish into the water! Only a spring with "living water" in which fish come to life"; the son did so; people began to take stones from there; the son, on the advice of his father, took a whole bag; when they returned, the stones turned gold; the son carried his GR bag; GR decided to check the water he had brought him, began to throw dead fish into it; only the old man's son had water alive; it was hung in a bucket on a pine tree; the wandering Alimbet Khan said that he had drunk water and cannot die for a thousand years; GR decided not to drink; it was drunk by a flying crow, so he lives for a thousand years; drops fell from his beak; because of this, the pine tree does not rot; juniper grew under it, which also became a "strong tree"; Kazyr and Ilyas also drank water; both have not died so far; K. appears to every person three times in his life in a plain form; I. helps those suffering from water crashes; where he passes , there, in his footsteps, the grass turns green]: Gomboev 1890:143-144 (a handwritten and incomplete version of the same text was published in Potanin 1972, No. 8:99-100); Kazakhs (1901, recorded by Abubakir Divayev) [Allah warns Adam not to eat the wheat that grows on the tree or he will be expelled from the Garden of Eden. Shaitan tempts Eve to try it, and she, in turn, convinces Adam, says that she did not eat anything sweeter. Adam eats wheat bread and he and Eve are driven out of the Garden of Eden naked. They turn to all trees, but only figs give them leaves to cover their nudity. The Earth is shrouded in darkness, and Adam and Eve have been wandering apart in darkness for a hundred years. They're reunited in a hundred years. Eva gives birth to a boy and a girl, the boy is called Kabyl. After that, another boy and a girl are born, this boy is called Abil. Kabyl and Abil are coming of age. Kabyl says that he is marrying a beautiful woman; Abil, who is what Allah predestined. The girl born with Kabyl is ugly, and the one born with Abil is beautiful. During the argument, Kabyl kills Abil. Not knowing what to do with the body, Kabyl wears Abil dead on his back for 10 days. Two crows fight, one kills the other, buries a corpse. Kabyl, seeing this, understands what to do and buries Abila. Adam, upon learning about the incident, expels Kabyl along with two girls. They settle in the mountains, live hunting, and the Kara-Kyrgyz came from them. Those Kara-Kyrgyz women who came from being born with Abel are beautiful; from one born with Kabyl, they are beautiful. Where juice from plucked fig leaves dripped on the ground, cotton grew, so people now dress in cotton rather than fig leaves]: Tilegenova 2013, No. 48:122-124; Kyrgyz: Sabyr uulu 2008 [ The old sage has aged and is in the care of his only son and his wife. They take good care of him. An era of turmoil is coming - everyone is fighting with each other, rushing from place to place, people are exhausted. Even Khan is in trouble. The old man tells his son that it is the fault of a black moth, who haunts everyone and drives everyone from place to place. She undertakes to teach her son how to destroy this moth. He sends his son to the khan with this news, the khan is delighted, agrees, gives the old man's son gunpowder and a good gun. The old man teaches his son how to find a black moth - the son must separate himself from everyone and, when he migrates again, monitor the last rows of nomads, in which poor and disadvantaged people walk, who do not belongings, livestock, mounts and pack animals. They will be immediately followed by a frozen black, four-eyed dog, which is this haunting moth. The old man's son shot this dog and gave it to Khan; according to the old sage, this dog's skin and carcass are a very valuable medicine. Peace comes, the people are blissful. Khan generously gives Starikov's son, making him his horseman. After a while, the khan summons the horseman, says that he hopes for his prowess and the wisdom of his father, asks him to find a source of living water for him, and wants to become immortal. The old sage reluctantly shows his son the way to a source of living water. Dzhigit collects a wineskin of living water, when he leaves, stumbles upon a decayed corpse, which begs not to drink living water by example - he was mortal, drank water, and now he has not been able to die for many years. Dzhigit brings water to the khan, talks about a living corpse, the frightened khan does not drink water, and hangs his wineskin on a pine tree. Khan wants to see the immortal dead, and the horseman brings him to the place. Khan asks the corpse if it is possible to restore its human appearance. The skeleton asks for four fifteen-year-old girls, and the khan brings him four girls from poor families. Two are put in the arms of a skeleton, they are rapidly aging and dying. The skeleton grows flesh, becomes human, but very decrepit. Two more girls are put back in his arms, they also grow old, become old women, and the skeleton becomes a middle-aged man. The raven finds a wineskin, tears it apart, living water flows to the pine tree, the raven drinks it until it vomits, he feels sick of juniper, so the raven regains longevity, and the pine and juniper become evergreen]: 217-218; Ruslan Bayastanov, personal report. April 10, 2017 [Raven means "Kuzgun" in Kyrgyz. The word "kuzgun" literally translates from Kyrgyz as "puke"; apparently, because of this consonance, the fairy tale created a moment when a crow vomits on juniper. The association of a crow with longevity is a stable motive among Kyrgyz people; is there an expression "Kuzgundun kozun zhedimbi?" ("Did I, the crow's eye, eat something?") ; this is what old people usually say when they complain that they have healed in this world]; Kyrgyz [the old man had three sons and an apple tree; he ate these apples every year and got younger; once someone ate everything apples were still unripe; the following year, the eldest son went to guard and fell asleep; the following year the middle son was the same; in the third year, the youngest son did not sleep all night, played the flutes; a goldbird flew in , began to peck apples; the young man crept up, but the bird flew away, leaving a feather in his hand; the father sent his sons to pick up a bird; the eldest two went on good horses, the youngest was two years old; reached black a stone with the inscription: "Whoever goes to the left will die, whoever goes to the right will die"; foal: "Go right"; a wolf chased the young man in the forest, the young man jumped off his horse, ran away, the wolf attacked the horse; wolf to the young man: "Since I ate your horse, I will help you achieve what I want"; told him to sit on it and close his eyes; when the young man opened them, he saw that the ox had brought it to the city; wolf: "The bird is in this house, sneak in, grab it by the wings, not by the legs; the young man grabbed the bird by the legs, the bells rang, the horsemen woke up, the young man was brought to the khan; the khan promised to give the bird in exchange for a horse with a golden mane and tail; the wolf brought it to another city: "There is another palace behind 40 palaces, there is a horse in it, do not take it out as an excuse, but grab his mane"; the young man again forgot the wolf's order; the khan will give the horse in exchange for Khan Bunchy's beautiful daughter; she went out into the garden in the morning Forty girls were walking in front of her, with 40 more behind, left and right; the wolf took B.; on the way back, the boy and B. fell in love, the young man asked the wolf to come up with something; he turned out to be an even more beautiful girl than B., the young man took her to the khan, who gave the horse; when the khan entered the yurt, and there was a wolf, the khan fainted, the wolf caught up with the young man and B.; then turned into a horse, the khan gave the golden bird; the wolf regained his appearance from the khan, ate all the horses and caught up with the young man; when they reached the forest, where the wolf ate the young man's horse, the wolf gave the hair from his mustache and stayed there; when the young man and B. fell asleep at rest, the older brothers killed the youngest, took a girl, a bird, a horse; the wolf rushed, and his friend's corpse was pecked by crows; the wolf grabbed the ruler of the ravens, ordered him to get immortal water; he sent the crows for immortal water, they brought it to beaks; the wolf mixed it with the blood of the ruler of the ravens, smeared the young man's body, the young man woke up: "I've been sleeping for a long time"; at home, the elder brother is going to marry B.; the young man sent an old woman to his father: let him be allowed to play flutes; B.: "Here's a young man who took me, and these two killed him and brought me here"; the old man married his youngest son to B.; one day they were visited by a wolf in the guise of a wandering dervish; the young man recognized him, accepted him and spent with honor; the old man ate apples from his apple tree every year and grew younger]: Kebekova, Tokombaeva 2007:187-191.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakas: Dyrenkova 1929 (Sagai people) [Kudai created 10 men and 9 women; of all the birds, only the Raven agreed to fly for mogu su (eternal water) to revive them; on the way back tempted by carrion, spilled part of the water; as punishment he became black, and people lost their immortality]: 123; Katanov 1907, No. 397 [Kudai told the old man that there would be a flood, ordered to make a raft, put everyone on it creatures; the devil (Ainá) tells his wife to give him water, not to board the raft until he says in his hearts, "Sit down, hell"; the mammoth and the eagle refused to sit down, decided to pull it out anyway; but the birds and the eagle tired, they sat on a mammoth, he and the eagle plunged into the water; the old man sent a crow for living water; he did not carry it, spilled it on pine, rose hips, spruce trees and cedar; therefore the trees are evergreen]: 417-418; Buryats [The raven drinks eternal black water and is therefore durable; God sent him to take it to man; he sat on a pine tree on the way; the owl frightened him with a cry, he spilled water; since then the pine tree has been evergreen; from the spring you have to take water in the morning before the raven can get drunk; he arrives early and gains immortality]: Potanin 1883, No. 43:210-211; Khalha Mongols: Benningsen 1912 (Dunsurun) [dying, father tells three brothers learn something; they go three roads; the eldest has become a master, the middle has become a scientist, the youngest is a thief; the khan demands that he steal a golden vessel guarded by two lamas; a thief he replaced the guard horses with bags of dung, the shooters' weapons with rotten sticks; gave salt to the camel, meat to the dog, the horse's hay and the bull, they missed it; wrapped the heads of the sleeping llamas in pieces of bacon, put it the intestines between the two khatun, took the vessel away; the khatun began to argue about which of them gave birth, then saw dirty intestines; everyone began to swear; the khan married the thief to his daughter; the brothers are jealous, they say that the thief promised to get the golden stallion Hormusto-Tengria; the wolf tells you to leave the horse, ride it; the wolf tells you to take the golden bird and the golden yurt, but not to take the golden lasso; the young man takes, is captured, runs away; take the stallion, but I will not check; the young man took a check, is captured, runs away; the second time the thief safely took the yurt, the bird and the stallion; he met the brothers, who stabbed him in the back, brought the stallion to the khan themselves; the wolf grabbed the kite, forced the kite to bring live water from Mount Sumbur-Ula; the young man came to life, the wolf invited him to his place; then the young man came to the khan; the people given to him by the wolf slaughtered his brothers; the young man forgave his wife for marrying one of the brothers ; stayed with her]: 68-75; Yongdong 1989 [the gods and asuras frothed the ocean of milk, from there the sun, the moon, the jug of nectar came; the asuras took the nectar, Hormusta and Vishnu stole it from them; the king of the asuras Rahu became one of the gods, took a place among the celestials; when nectar was offered to him, the moon god recognized him, Vishnu cut off his head; garlic appeared from drops of blood, and juniper nectar; the etiological ending is characteristic of the Mongolian text (apparently absent in Indian and Tibetan versions)]: 54-56; Potanin 1881, No. 25c [In ancient times, there was only water: there was no land. One llama descended from the sky and began to interfere with the ocean with his stick... Because of that interference, a ball of earth thickened from the middle of the ocean: further interference hardened the earth into a quadrangle. After that, two swans descended to that land: the llama turned the female's nail into a woman, and the male's leg into a man. In ancient times, there was a llama (the narrator thought it was the one that interfered with the ocean with a stick). He created all animals and birds, including the crow. After drawing beautiful water in a cup, he gave it to the crow and said, "Put a drop of this water on every person's head so that they are immortal." The crow flew and sat in one place on the cedar. Croaking - a precious cup fell out of my mouth, water spilled: three plants grew in that place, eternally green, always fresh, not dying: kosh, cedar, dzergen and artsa, juniper... The crow returned to the llama . He asked her, "Where is the water?" - "Spilled". Then the lama said to the crow: Well, let you have Hara-kire (Black Crow) for this name: You will have no other food but the eyes of dead people]: 166-167; 1883, No. 43c [Burkhyn-Bakshi gave the Raven his drink of immortality, arashan, ordered him to pour it on the man's head; she sat on a spruce tree, waited for a man; Owl frightened her with a scream, she spilled arashan; since then, the spruce has been evergreen]: 210.

Western Siberia. Northern Khanty: Lukina 1990, No. 85 (b. Kazim, 1961) [two brothers are hunting, the third youngest, Ratparho-Hishparho, is sitting in ash; the eldest went to look for people; when the arrow he left bleeding, the middle one went; same; RK went to look for them; Kirp-nyulup-im carried him in a boat, told him not to sit in the middle of the boat, but he sat down; sees human bones in her hut; she threw a hare head at him; RK caught her on the fly, threw it at K., hit, K. was killed; RK burned her and scattered the ash; chicks are screaming in the eagle's nest, the RK fed them fish; they tell them to hide, their parents will arrive now; they are surprised that the chicks do not want meat; they talked about RK; grateful eagles offer help; RK asks to revive the brothers; the eagles grabbed the crow's chicks, ordered them to bring living and dead water; she brought it; they tore the crow, revived it, then released the chicks; brought water, revived the brothers of the Republic of Kazakhstan; brothers live together]: 211-213; Steinitz 2014, No. 28 (Sherkal dialect) [husband and wife bought their son and daughter a toy - an iron horse; the horse destroyed the city and killed the couple; children hid under the floor; the horse asks where they are; the comb, the flint, the skin scraper do not answer, it breaks them; leaves; the cow tells me to sit on it, takes it to the sea, tells her to slaughter it there, wrap it guts, get into her stomach; horse chases, sister throws flint (fire), crest (forest), whetstone (mountain), flint again (horse burned down); brother and sister killed a cow, woke up in the house, there are many food; they live on an island; a dog jumps out of a ball of foam; tells his brother that his sister will send him for fox milk; his sister sends him - he will recover from the milk; the fox gave milk: if his sister does not drink, give it to my cub; my sister did not drink, the fox drank; the same with the blue fox; the dog to the young man: the sister hid the iron horse under your bed, lie down on the side; next time wolverine's milk and cub, you have to lie back to bed, and under the bunk there will be an iron horse; then a wolf; a bear; a horse under the threshold; in front of the doorstep; my sister sends them into the house behind seven locks; there the old man lets the animals pass through, closes the door; the young man returns alone; his sister tells him to wash in the bathhouse and then the iron horse will kill him; the bird reports three times that the animals are digging an underground passage; the animals have come and killed an iron horse; brother he nailed his sister's hands to the floor, vessels near his eyes: if necessary, a brother must fill his vessel with tears, and if an iron horse, then hers; brother married the king's daughter; took his sister to him; she put him in an iron horse's tooth in bed, his brother died; he was buried in an iron coffin; the animals dug, broke it; the dog found a crow's nest: bring the grass of life, otherwise I'll eat eggs; the crow brought, the dog crushed one the egg, restored it with grass; revived the young man; he let the animals go, left only the dog; tied his sister to two sledges, tore it with horses; threw one leg into the forest, from which a swamp willow grew, the other on a hill, a forest tree has grown; my brother lives well (with his wife)]: 169-185.

Eastern Siberia. Central Yakuts (no place of recording, links to archival materials): Ergis 1967, No. 108 [a young merchant has been feeding a wounded eagle for three years; the eagle carries it to a country with golden vegetation; the eagle's parents give the box, they don't tell me to open it on the way; the merchant opens, the box breaks, Satan collects it for promising to give his son; he comes to Satan; with the help of the girl, he performs tasks: feed animals, build an iron basement, get a flying horse; the guy runs away, the girl locks Satan in the basement; tells the guy to burn her, collect bones; the guy kills the moose, catches the Raven, threatens to kill her his cubs, the Raven brings live water; the guy revives the bride, brings him to his parents, they became the ancestors of the Yakuts], 118 [the abaas ate the fisherman's cattle, himself, his old woman; boys and girls run away, the calf covers the stalker's eyes with its manure; tells the children to look for lice on him; they kill the louse in which his soul is; the house and dogs appear from the calf's body; the boy hunts, the abaas ate his sister ; dogs descended to the lower world, brought her skull; wounded crows, Raven brought living water to revive them; the remains of the dog resurrected the girl; everything is fine]: 184, 187; Baikal Evenks (Baikal region, c. Karama) [the husband, then the son of a pregnant woman leaves, does not return; a boy is born, grows up right away, tells his mother to give him three curls mixed with her breast milk; meets a hero, fights with him, lets him eat a curl three times, he learns the taste, recognizes the boy's younger brother; the boy dreams of a monster, warns him of his approach in the morning, tells him not to give him anything; the old man threw him deer, the younger brother immediately fell ill, died; the elder shot the monster's hand with the deer, the youngest came to life; the brothers go to look for his father; the elder finds his bones, collects his bones, lies down, puts pieces of meat on his forehead ; Voronikha warns Voronyats not to peck, they bite, the hero catches them, promises to let them go if Voronikha brings live water; Voronikha brought two bottles; watered from one, Voronenok died, from the other - came to life; the hero poured on his father's bones, he came to life]: Titov 1936, No. 4:168-169; Amur Evenks (Charo-Olekminsky Basin) [older brothers - Delonoy, Sikteney, younger - Chinanay; the elders tell him set up a camp on the river; he puts pebbles in the middle of the river, rips off the horses so that they do not soak their boots, the water takes away the poles; the brothers tell them to check the loops; they are caught by a bear, a red deer, he is theirs lets go by slapping his ass; since then, the bear's ass is wide, the red deer is white; he is told not to let anyone go; he kills mice, birds, then his mother; he is sent to his mother's sister for matter for funeral clothes; C. kills his aunt's child, hangs cloth on trees (he thinks they are asking); he is asked to bring tree roots, he cuts off and brings the heels of the children; their fathers attack, C. easily defeats them; together with his brothers he climbs three trees, falls, the enemies run away in fear; he catches up with them, kills them; the brothers come to the shiteke, who has three daughters; each in turn calls one of brothers lie down on the bed; each time C. goes, sees skulls and bones, kills a girl; later with. finds their heads; Evenks come from C., Yakuts from the middle brother, the elder brother of the ray became the root (?) ; C. goes to marry the daughter of the Month; the frog laughs at him, he cannot hit her with a stone, pulls out a tree, drags him, paving a new river; the daughter of the Month will go beyond the cliff, the rock will become lower if anoint her with blood; C. rubs two people against her; on the rock the house, the hostess says that she is the daughter of the Month, lies down with C.; C. hears the voice of the real daughter of the Month, demanding that the maid open the door; throws the maid away, tells H. to ventilate in the storage shed for three days; when leaving, tells C. not to open one of the barns; he opens it with a sitke; c. sticks C. into the ground, pulls out the maid's eyes; she blindly begins to cut C.'s legs; C. gets out of the ground, chases s., sees his wife hanged from a tree by her legs, does not take it off, continues to chase; after defeating s., finds his wife's bones; Raven brings medicine, his wife comes to life; when C. is old, his wife gave birth to him two boys; they throw them on the ground, they are the Evenks]: Varlamova 2002:183-211.

Amur-Sakhalin. Udege people: Arsenyev 1995 (2) [the man decided to go to the ends of the earth and sky; overtook flying hazel grouse, black hazel grouse, killed them; ordered skis to fly like a bullet; saw that the sky was beating against the ground; when It rises, becomes lighter and quieter, when it goes down, it becomes dark, the wind increases; the half-human stone half-animal wants to kill him, he hits him with an arrow; pulling out an arrow, he breaks his knee; asks the Raven to fly to his house for medicine; returning, the Raven sits on cedar, oak, etc.; as a result, nuts, acorns, blueberries and all other berries and fruits appear; the person recovers, promises The crow, that he will not be killed, that he will always find meat; returns with his wife; their third child Manga waits three years in the womb for the father to say that the earth is ready; born a little earlier time, so the land is not arranged in the north, it's winter there; M. goes there]: 169-172 (quail in Lebedeva et al. 1998, No. 105:471-473); Nikolaeva 2003, No. 4 [the boy grows rapidly, wears old father's clothes, goes skiing to kill his enemy; kills Iron Bird with an arrow, noticing a hole in her neck; taking out an arrow, accidentally injures himself in the knee; consistently asks animals and birds to bring medicine for parents; Mouse, Fox, Raven answer that it is better to eat him when he dies; the Raven flies, gets medicine, sprinkles it over the cedars, brings the rest to the young man; he recovers, marries; parents' homes No, but two aspens have grown; the young man tells his wife not to cut or cut them; she tries to cut them with a knife; when he returns, the young man sees his father's head bandaged; the wife explains that she cut unintentionally]: 28-29; Podmaskin, Kireeva 2010 [Egdiga leaves her parents to destroy Salemkoi's cannibal iron bird; three times she defies the spell of the frog girl (does not drink from her bucket, pierces it with an arrow, kills her hazel grouse brother); kills S. with an arrow; taking out the arrow, scratches himself, the poison penetrates his body, E. begins to become covered with moss; Fox, Raven, Rook refuse to bring medicine from E.'s parents, they answer that they will eat his meat, peck his eyes; The raven flies, but on the way back, part of the medicine drops, lingonberries, blueberries, and medicinal herbs grow from the scattered ones; E. gets up and walks, but half overgrown with moss and became a devil; kills a frog girl; girl Bole ran away from him with roe deer; came back; he asks for help, she cuts him in two (vertically) with an ax, cutting off the damn half; the second half becomes a normal person; E. takes B. as his wife, leads to his parents; no, alder and birch have grown near the house; the wife pulls bark from them, blood flows; the parents come to dinner with their cheeks torn off; then they are again made trees, B. takes care of them]: 131-136.

SV Asia. Tundra Yukaghirs [(summary); hell comes to a rich old woman, eats up venison, then bursts, and everyone but the old woman runs away into the sky; the old woman finds three partridges, they turn into boys; a rich Yakut man takes all three as workers; kills the eldest two, but dies at the hands of the youngest; the boy makes the crow find living water and revives his brothers]: Gogolev et al. 1975:240-241.