I113. Pig is a golden bristle, (ATU 530A).

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A pig or boar made of gold or with golden bristles is a precious item. (In ATU, "gold-bristled pig" is one of the possible wonderful items; having the appropriate number on regional signs does not necessarily mean an image; only cases where the look is taken into account directly named).

The Dutch (?) , Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Vologda, Vladimir, Novgorod, Pskov, Moscow, Ryazan, Voronezh, Kursk), Ukrainians (Ugric Russia, Transcarpathia, Volyn, Poltava), Belarusians, Adygs, Ossetians, Terek Cossacks, Scandinavians, Setu, Latvians, Veps, Chuvash, Komi.

Western Europe. The Dutch {author's borrowings from Edda are not excluded} [the fairies decided to send an animal with strong fangs so that it can loosen the ground and people can farm; the fairy Nerthus's son Fro was born; he should have given something by heart; the giant fairy heard the king of underground dwarfs arguing with another dwarf who is the more skillful blacksmith; when the dwarf king walked away, the assistant continued to inflate his fur, although the fairy in the form of a gadfly began to bite him; a boar with golden stubble named Gullin (i.e. golden) came out of the horn; when Fro grew up, he began to ride it; from Gullin all wild boars happen; when they saw them loosen the ground, people also began to loosen it; Fro also had a Sleipnir flying horse]: Griffis 1918:49-56.

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelian, Vologda, Vladimir, Novgorod, Voronezh, Kursk, Ryazan), Ukrainians (Ugric Russia, Transcarpathia, Volyn, Poltava), Belarusians [Golden bristle pig: the king instructs three sons-in-law - the youngest is considered stupid - to extract curiosities (pigs with golden bristles, golden-haired deer or sea cows, wild boars, etc.); catches curiosities are stupid, but inferior to their other two sons-in-law for cutting off fingers and skin from the back; at a feast where they are honored, the evidence presented by a fool exposes the deceivers]: SUS 1979, No. 530A: 151; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [Sagittarius Andrei is going to shoot a falcon; she asks to be brought home and thrown out the window; turned into Elena Krasa golden braid; weaved a carpet, told me to sell it; the minister wants another one, comes to E., tells the tsar about the beauty; the old woman advises sending A. to the kingdom of far away to bring the lamb a golden head; E. sent three fellows, gives A. a head in the morning, teaches pretend to follow her on a ship; pig golden bristles (same); I don't know where to go, I don't know what to bring her; E. tells A. to go for the ball, and when it comes, show her towel; old woman I recognized my son-in-law, called the animals, only an old frog knows the way; began to drink fresh milk, grow up, A. sat on it, she jumped across the river of fire; let A. go into a strange house (a bathhouse is not a bathhouse), hide behind the stove; come, they say, Brother Reason, feed us; and A.: Brother Reason, sit with me; Reason comes with A.; captains of three ships, they have an ax (Tyap-blooper, make a ship!) , a tube (an army with guns will appear), a saber (wave - the silver bridge); A. gives Reason for these items, and he returns to him; everything is burned at home; A. tells the ax to create a palace, and in it E.; A. summoned an army, spared the tsar, ordered the cows to herd for 30 years; he still herds; A. built the same palace for Razumova and a silver bridge between them]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:35-42; Russians (Vologda) [ Fedor Tsarevich has three maids; if he gets married, the first promises to bake bread, the second to sew, the third to give birth to 9 sons, each has the sun in his forehead, a star on the back of his head, a month on the back of his head, arms up to the elbow in gold, knee-deep in silver; when she gave birth to the first three, the mother of the first maid was a midwife, carried the children to the field, replaced them with puppies; the same for the second time; the third time F.'s wife hid one child up his sleeve; F. ordered her to be put in a barrel, let her go to sea, married the first maid; when the barrel was washed ashore, the son knocked down the bottom, put up a tent, created a well in which any food; sent the kalikov to the way to F., he hid himself as a fly in their basket; after hearing the story, F. wants to look at the well with food, but his new wife advises him to get mumps - golden bristles; the young man hears and catches the pig himself; Kaliki tell F. about the pig, and next to the oak is a bayun cat; the young man, becoming a fly, overhears; F.'s wife advises that it is better to get a goldentail mare and 31 stallions (the same); for the third time, the wife says that the field is 8 tents, well done in each one], the sun in his forehead, etc.; after overhearing in the form of a fly, the young man tells his mother to bake 9 koloboks with her milk; 8 leaves them well done, and bit off the ninth; well done understand that their brother was here; he brings the brothers to their mother; the Kaliki tell F. about extraordinary young men; F. goes there, the son meets them: his wife put stakes for F. to run into them; F. from 9 his sons and first wife returns to the palace; the second wife was put on the gate, cut, and the pieces were burned]: Smirnov 1917, No. 27:158-163; Russians (Pskov) [two smart brothers, and Ivan is a fool; dying, the father tells him to take turns guarding his grave for three nights; the older brothers entrust it to I.; the father gives the goat golden horns, the golden bristle pig and Sivka-Burk; when you get into one ear, get out of the other, you are doing a good job, handsome; whoever jumps up to the third floor and pulls out her portrait, she will put her ring on his finger; I. rode on Sivka-Burka three times, jumped to the first one, the next day until the second, finally to the third floor, received a ring; in his cabin it shines with fire, I had to tie my finger; I. was found with the ring, but he was in the form of an old fool; war began, I. smashes enemies on a heroic horse; against him an orphan (hero), who was fattened for 12 days; he wounded I. in the arm and horse in the leg, the princess bandaged him; and I. immediately killed him; when I. fell asleep (not in a heroic form), the princess saw her chain and scarf; leads to the king for a treat; the king tells her sons-in-law to get goats, golden horns; I. gives her older sons-in-law a goat, for which she cuts off her little fingers from her hand; for a golden pig bristle - with feet up to the little finger; now the king demands a mare and 12 sons with her; Sivka-Burka: this is our mother; we must dig a hole, 12 skins on him and pour 12 barrels of resin; Sivka-Burka's mother will recognize his voice, come running and bite 12 skins, but not himself, and he will push her into a hole, let I. put a bridle; 12 stallions followed her; gave them to his sons-in-law, for which he ripped off his skin belts from his back; when the king wanted to write off the kingdom to his sons-in-law, I. he showed his little fingers and belts; his sons-in-law were torn on horse tails, Vanya and his wife remained in the state]: Ploshchuk 2004, No. 39:112-124; Russians (Vladimirskaya, Pereslavl-Zalessky y.) [The sorcerer tells his sons to bury him in a boundary hole at the crossroads; they asked a soldier to do so; on the advice of Nicholas the Wonderworker, the soldier hit the sorcerer in the teeth with oak stakes and he did not eat him; the elders sons refuse to guard the coffin, Ivan the Fool comes all three nights; his father gives him a prophetic kaurka, a deer gives him golden horns, a pig a golden bristle; the king will give his daughter for someone who drives through the steep the crystal bridge and will break through three doors, receiving a gold seal on his forehead and a ring on his hand; I. overtook the brothers, and then climbed the sivke-burke into his left ear, took on a stupid look, brought his mother a bag with toadstool; so three times; I. marries a princess, but looks like a fool; sells sivka-burka brothers, then a deer, then a pig by the thumbs on the left hand, then on the right hand, then for the belts from the back; attacked by enemies, I. them smashed, wounded in the leg, the tsar bandaged, I.'s wife recognized the handkerchief; everything became clear; the brothers were driven away, I. began to rule the kingdom]: Smirnov 2008, No. 8:71-73; Russians (Moscow) [dying, father commands three nights to be at his grave; the older brothers are afraid, Vanyushka goes all three times; on the third night, the father gave a golden-haired deer, a golden bristle pig and a mare about 77 foals; the princess on the porch will marry the one to whom will put his seal; V. climbed into one ear of the mare, got out of the other, did a good job, jumped up to the princess, she put a seal; V. was found in his miserable appearance, the princess wants another groom; the tsar promises her to the one who brings the golden-haired deer; V. gives a deer to another groom, for which he cut a belt out of his back; gold pig bristles (the same - cut off a toe); a mare (the same finger from his hand); V. the cut off presents to the tsar, receives the princess and the kingdom]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 49:107-110; Russians (Voronezh) [The Tsar puts his unmarried beautiful daughter in the tower, promises her hand to someone who jumps to her window and kisses her. Before he dies, the old man asks each of his three sons to guard his grave for one night. The elder Vanya the fool guards all 3 nights instead of his brothers. His father brings him a goat, golden horns, then a pig, a golden bristle, and on the last night a horse - "a golden mane and a golden bridle". The father orders the animals to be released into the field. On his father's advice, Vanya climbs his horse into one ear and crawls into the other, becoming handsome. The brothers go to fight for the princess's hand and refuse to take Ivan with them. Three times Vanya on a golden horse ("smoke is coming from his nostrils, fire is burning from under his hooves") jumps to the princess's windows, kisses her for the third time, and gets a stamp on her forehead. Mary the princess leaves the tower, waits for the groom, but he does not appear. The brothers realize that Vanya the Fool kissed the princess, and they force him to the king. The stigma is revealed and he is married to Mary. Vanya and the princes go hunting, catches magpies and crows on horseskin in the field, and brings them to the palace. The princes say that they saw the goat golden horns and the pig golden bristles, but could not catch it, Vanya boasts that he could. When they go hunting for the third time, Vanya calls a goat and a pig ("stand in front of me like a leaf in front of grass"), gives the animals to the princes, takes each finger and a belt from the back. At the royal feast, he proves that the princes did not catch animals and keeps them at home. With the help of a horse, he turns handsome and lives happily with his wife]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 23:118-123; Russians (Voronezh, until 1938, Bogucharsky District, recorded by Tonkov with peasant T.A. Safonov) [ Poor peasant Ivan shoots at a hawk that bites a white swan, she promises that she will not forget her savior. At home, Ivan discovers treats and new elegant clothes. The king is jealous of him, and they will find out where Ivan's wealth comes from. The Tsar demands that Ivan get the same clothes for him. A farmer comes to the blue lake, tells the white swan about his task, and she promises to complete it. She helps the king complete his second task: she pulls out bristles from the kingdom of far away from the kingdom of far away. For the third time, the Tsar demands that Ivan take out the white swan, Elena the Beautiful. The swan does not appear on the lake, a pike appears, tells Ivan that Elena ran away from the Idol King, turning into a swan, but dropped the ring. The fish gives Ivan a ring and orders him to follow him. He finds himself at the yard, walks into a beautiful garden (golden apples on trees, birds of paradise), a swan flies up, takes a ring and turns into a beautiful woman. Ivan recalls the king's order, grieves and does not want to give it to Elena. She reports that the king's death is in a duck (containing an egg) guarded by three snakes. She gives a self-propelled sword, kisses Ivan. He comes to royal lake, cuts off the heads of all three snakes; shoots a duck, hits the head the third time, the bird falls, drops the egg, it sinks. The pike carries an egg. He waves an egg and the royal palace crumbles, Ivan beats the tsar and his servants]: Novikova et al., 1940; Russians ["the golden pig (var. sharp) bristles trembles" - fire]: Afanasiev 1994 (1): 770-771; Russians (from the Pyotr Kireevsky collection, Western Yakushkin) [before his death, the father tells his sons to sit in his grave for three nights; the first time the youngest fool comes; the other two times he is the same (the elders do not want, promise gifts to the fool); the father gets up from the grave, gives three horse hair; the fool burned them, the sivka-burka runs, the prophetic kaurka, the fool got into one ear - got drunk, ate, in the other - became handsome; the princess is sitting on the third floor; the king promises it to whoever he will kiss her on horseback; the fool rides to the first floor on the first day, on the second to the second, on the third day he kisses the princess, she hits him with a gold ring; the brothers tell the fool every time how well done; the fool comes to the feast blindfolded, the princess recognizes him, takes him as a husband; the king asks his sons-in-law to get golden feathers for the duck, gives the fool an old oath; he kills her, calls Sivka- burka, pulls out a duck, gives it to smart sons-in-law, for this he cuts off their little finger on the right hand; the same pig a golden bristle with 12 piglets (on the toe); a golden-maned mare with 12 foals; the horse tells beat her with copper, iron, tin rods; a fool cuts his sons-in-law out of his back with a belt; at a feast he shows what was cut off, everything grows, the fool calls a sivka-burka, since then he has been recognized, lives royally]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 182:10-15; Russians (Voronezh, Bobrovsky District) [Tsar promises his daughter to whoever kisses her through 12 glasses; younger brother Ivan the Fool whistles a sivka-burka, fits into one the ear, gets out of the other handsome, breaks 6 glasses, comes back, fits into the horse's ear takes its original form; the brothers tell him what a good man they saw; the same next time, breaks 12 glasses , the princess stigmatizes his forehead, when he returns, he ties his head with a handkerchief; the king is looking for a labeled man, the princess is presented as a fool, the other two marry smart, laugh at her; the king tells his sons-in-law to get the golden pig bristles; a fool calls a horse, two fellows jump out, ask what is needed; fool: for a tent to be pitched here, a crib in the tent, and a golden bristle pig walking nearby; the brothers ask to sell a fool in the form of a handsome man gives his legs for the severed little fingers; the same: a golden-haired, golden-tailed deer, hand to finger; the same: a golden-maned, golden-tailed horse, cut belts from the back; a fool tells his brothers undress, proves that he won the trophies, remains handsome]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 183:15-20; Ukrainians [(no place of recording); before death, the father tells his sons to sit not for three nights grave; elder sons feast, every time the youngest fool goes; the father rises to their graves, gives a bridle for black, bay, blue horses; the king promises a daughter to whoever jumps to her on horseback; every fool once he calls one of the ends, enters one ear, comes out of the other handsome, jumps to the princess, takes her handkerchief the third time, she puts a stamp on his forehead with a gold ring; the king sends him to search a man with a seal, a fool is found, married to a princess, settled in a separate hut; the king asks for a goat with golden hair; a fool tells his wife to beg his father-in-law for a nag, kills her, calls a black horse, is made handsome, catches a goat, gives another seeker for the joint of the finger on the right hand; the same is a wild boar in gold and silver (a bay horse, the opponent cuts off another joint); a mare in gold and silver ( blue horse; third joint); presents the cut off at the feast, summons horses, gets the kingdom, makes brothers lords, marries, builds a church over his father's grave]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 184:29-34; Ukrainians (Kharkiv, Lebedinsky University, c. 1878) [The widow enters into a relationship with a snake, gives birth to a boy, his mother rides him in a wheelchair until the age of 12, then he gets up, turns out to be tall and strong. The serpent does not want the boy to live, convinces his mother to pretend to be sick and ask her son to get berries from the snake garden. The boy goes on a journey, goes to the girl Sereda's hut, she knows about his grief in advance, calls him his brother, tells him the truth about his mother and the snake, puts him to bed, gives her horse, living and dead water. He says that, in order not to be afraid of vipers, he revived the murdered Russian near the snake garden, he will lead him to a garden where nothing can be touched, otherwise all the bells will ring. The boy flies over the fence, takes berries, touches an aspen branch on the way back, is a snake, but cannot catch up. He returns to Sereda, she feeds him, replaces berries with berries from her garden, insists that the snake should be fed them. The boy brings his mother's berries, asks her to eat them right away, then notices that devils have settled in the house. The snake eats berries, and so does the mother. The serpent convinces the mother to send her son for the golden bristle pigs so that she can recover, the son asks who she talked to, the mother answers - with God, the son doubts - with the devil. The boy comes to Sister Sereda, she gives a horse and 2 bottles, explains that under two sliding mountains you need to collect healing (healing) and living water, and catch one of the 12 piglets near the mountain. On the way, the pig runs away, the boy leaves the horse, and when he returns missing, he no longer finds the horse, it is eaten by wolves. She goes back through Sereda, she changed the pig, his mother cooks him, gives her son vodka, asks if he can break the iron chain, he suggests checking if he can't break it. The mother calls a snake, together they cut the boy, put the pieces in a bag, tie him to a horse, let him go into the field to scatter the pieces. The horse jumps to Sereda, she uses water to revive the boy, gives him a "beer" (?) hops, he can't lift. Then he gives berries from the snake garden, the boy was able to lift the sheet. He roasts the golden bristles, he is gaining strength - if a stake was hammered into the ground and sky, the light would turn upside down. Sereda gives him a sword and says that his mother and snake are now feasting. The boy appears, cuts off both their nose and ear and cuts the snake, the mother ties the horse to the tail and lets them go into the field. She goes to live with her sister Sereda. Proverb]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 75:285-290; Belarusians: Romanov 1991:199-201 [In a certain kingdom, the Tsarevich fell in love with a maid, began to marry, she promised that they would have 3 sons (one a month in the forehead, a dawn on the back of his head, the sun in the other's forehead, a star on the back of his head, and the third is a daring good man). The first two babies are replaced by a villain woman with ordinary children. The prince sends his wife and third son in a barrel by sea, the son deals with it and breaks the barrel. He carves twelve fellows out of his mother's flint. By order of a daredevil, they build a house out of gold and silver logs, cook a lot of food and drink, and make bridges to both banks from gold and silver boards. The sailors ask for lunch, bring the daredevil to the royal house as payment; he, wearing an invisible hat, overhears their conversation with the king. The king asks if they have seen the wreckage of a barrel on the sea, hears about the house made of gold and silver, and wants to go see it. Baba talks about a garden with golden and silver apple trees and a pine tree, where a red cat sings songs when it goes down and tells fables when it goes up. The daring man comes back and again carves twelve fellows out of the flint, who, on his orders, attach this garden to his house. He feeds the sailors again and gets to the royal house, overhears the conversation. The sailors talk about the garden. In response, the woman is about a pig with gold and silver hair that digs and falls wheat from under it - twelve fellows do not have time to shovel. He carves the fellows out of the flint again, they deliver them to the pig. The sailors next time tell the king about the pig, and the woman, in response to the garden with golden and silver apple trees, where there are two fellows - one has a month in his forehead, dawns on the back of his head, the sun in his forehead, at the back of a star's head. Well done, he orders the fellows to take the brothers to their home from the flint. The king comes, marvels at home, sees his wife and sons, cries, and his wife cries too. Daredevil: It was my grandmother who stole my brothers and I brought them here. They returned to the royal house, the woman was tied to a horse's tail as punishment, and the tsar moved to live with his family], 470-485 (Obchug ox.) [There was a heroic merchant who had three sons, two were married and smart, and the third was single and stupid. When he died, the old man said: come to my grave for 3 nights, the first night the eldest, the second night the middle, and the last night the youngest is a fool. And say: "Crumble yellow sand, come off the coffin, dad get up from the dead." The elder convinced the youngest to go instead of him. He came, said a spell, and my father got up. He says there is a sivka-burka, a prophetic kaurka. He told me how to get it. And he taught the spell "Dad lie down dead, clog the coffin, fall asleep yellow sand." That's what he said. He shouted in a heroic voice, and the horse came. He sat on it and became like a prince, like no one could find in the world. I let the horse go. I returned home to the stove and lay down. It's the second night. The middle one convinced the youngest to go instead of him. He came, said a spell, and my father got up. He asks "Where is the average?" - "They're scared of you, but I'm not, so I'm here." His father also gave him his second horse. My father's back in his grave and his horse back. It flew all over the world three times. And he let go of the horse, and went home to the stove. On the third day, it's his turn to go to the grave. The father got up and gave the third horse to his son. This is how he got three horses. The princess showed up, climbed into the tower on the third floor and said, "Whoever gets me and kisses me there, I will give him the whole kingdom, and I will become his wife myself." Brothers went. But they did not hire the youngest, they left him at home to do The youngest called the older horse to help. He crawled through his ear and became a prince. He jumped to the princess. The next day, average to help. He also crawled through my ear. I jumped again. I returned home and let the horses go. Let's go for the third time. It all worked out again. We got married. The princess's father said "there is a golden pig in another kingdom, yelling at its nose, knocking its feet, and bread grows from her ass, which the king can also eat." He demanded that he bring it to him a pig, and whoever brings it will give him everything. The husbands of his two daughters went to do their father's will. And the younger princess cries - where will she find a pig! Six months later, I decided that my little brother would go. I called the horses for help. Got to the pig. I fought with her until I won. He leads home on a lace. Meets brothers. They want to give the pig. He says cut it off on the finger. They cut it off. He gave the pig away. I waited for them to drive a mile away and called his horse. And he got home in an hour: they drove for six months, and he did it in three days. His wife scolds him that he returned without a horse and without a pig. The brothers are back for a feast. My father says again: there is a mare in one kingdom, and it has 12 foals. Bring her to me, your kingdom will be. Brothers went. And the youngest wants to. Asks his wife to beg his father to give him a filly. They gave a bad "He will die on the way, so he will return on foot," said the tsar. Came not far away. Tears from the filly. He shouted his horses. They tell him, "That mare is our own mother, we were excommunicated, and 9 are still with her." They sent him back to the king to ask for his grandfather's steelyard. The king gave it. They're going to see a mare. The elder horse says "you sit on it and hit it between your ears with a steelyard." That's what happened. She walked under his will, and now under his captivity. It's coming. He meets his brothers again. I exchanged the mare for my fingers again. Go straight home. He told his wife that the horse was dead, but he came back on foot. And the brothers did not arrive until a month later. The mare and 9 stallions were brought in. Feast again. The king again says: there is a lion in one kingdom, you will bring everything is yours, and the kingdom is yours. Brothers went. I waited a month and a half or two for them to get closer to the lion. And I was also going on the road. But this time they sent him on foot. He comes and asks that king to work for hire: instead of 12 people trying to drink that lion, he will do the job alone. Turn into a fly, steal your grandfather's hammer and bring it here, his eldest horse tells him. That's what he did. Killed all the guards with it. He flew into his ear again - he turned out well. He stole a lion. He meets his brothers again. They ask me to give it back, and he says, "Well, this is all for you and you, I'll bring at least one thing to my father myself." But they convinced them to give up the lion, and in return they cut off a piece of skin on their back from neck to toe. They brought a lion, a feast again. And the youngest doesn't go there. The king is calling for him. Says I'll give the whole kingdom to you. And the younger one is "And me?" - "And you don't care if you didn't work and did nothing." Well, the youngest said that he took the brothers' skin for a pig from foot to toe, for a mare from hand, and for a lion, skin from the back. The king checked it. It is true. And that filly's three foals, the youngest said he had it, and they helped him. Then the father of those two liars tied them to the horses and tore them apart. And he gave the whole kingdom to the youngest]; Belarusians [grandfather and woman have three sons; when he dies, the father orders to guard the grave: whoever will guard will catch a golden hog who digs the royal garden and the tsar promises reward; the eldest, middle son is afraid, they run home to the fullest; the youngest fool catches the hog in the bag; the eldest killed the youngest, brought the hog to the king, received the reward; after a while the reeds grew, the shepherds made a pipe, she sings: Play, play, shepherds! My brother killed me for the golden hog; let the tsar play; the tsar guessed it, executed the murderer]: Romanov 1887, No. 45c: 264-265.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. The Adyghe [the god of the forest is Mezyth; Khan Girey wrote in 1842 that the Adyghe people imagine him riding a golden-bristled pig and that, at his command, deer converge in the meadows, milked by "some maidens"] : Lavrov 1959:210; Terek Cossacks {all three sisters promise to have children} (v. Naurskaya) ["In the old days, when rivers were still flowing with milk and honey, and sheep grazed with wolves, when there was quiet and smooth everywhere, and God's grace, in a certain kingdom, an old man lived in a certain state with their old woman"; the old man and the old woman live in poverty, so they decide to leave their three daughters in the forest; the old man tells them to pick berries; says he will cut firewood; ties a block of wood to the tree, which swings in the wind and makes a knock; sisters think that the father is cutting wood; after a while they go in search of him; find a block; they reach the sea on which the king and his squad are traveling; older sister: "If only I was a royal wife, I would have given birth to a hero son for the king"; middle: "If I were a royal wife, I would give birth to three daughters for him: Hope, Faith and Love"; youngest: "If I were the king's wife, I would give birth for the king three sons: elbow length in gold, knee-length in silver, month on his forehead, stars over the body"; the king marries the youngest, takes the rest of the sisters as her assistants; goes on a campaign; the queen gives birth three sons: "gold up to the elbow, silver knee-deep, a month on his forehead, stars over the body"; midwife Baba Yaga kills babies, puts three puppies instead of them; writes to the king that puppies have been born; he is angry; the queen gives birth to triplets again; BYA replaces them with puppies, tells the king; he promises to punish his wife if everything happens again; the queen gives birth to three sons, hides one of them in the folds of her dress; BYA kills the other two, puts puppies instead of them and writes to the king; he tells him to leave the puppies until his arrival; BU manages to kill one of them; when he returns, the king sees a puppy and a son who does not have a moon on her forehead, no stars on her body (the queen erased these jewelry when she hid it from the BU); according to the king's decision, the queen is put in a barrel with her son and puppy and allowed into the sea; the king marries the daughter of the BYA; the barrel swims on at sea, the prince asks permission to turn over from one side to the other; the queen does not allow it; the barrel is stranded near the island, the prince turns, the barrel crumbles; the puppy brings bones, the prince makes them a house; elders passing by say they are going to remember the queen; the prince asks to take him with them, they refuse, agree to take the puppy; tell the king about the house on the island; the king wants it to see, but the wife dissuades: "Well, this is not a big wonder; that's a wonder: in a certain kingdom, eight falcons are sitting in a certain state, singing royal and sovereign poems"; the puppy talks about this to the prince; he brings falcons; the elders going to the wake again refuse to take him with them, but take a puppy; tell the king about the house on the island and the 8 falcons; he tells him to saddle horses, but his queen holds: "Well, this is not so wonderful; this is so marvelous: in some kingdom - in some state there is a pig - a golden bristle"; the puppy talks about what the prince heard; he brings a pig golden bristles {no details}; the elders agree to take only a puppy with them; tell the king about what they saw on the island; the wife tries to dissuade him from going there: "Well, it's not so amazing; in in some kingdom, in a distant state, there is a golden horn deer, stubborn in the sky"; the king does not give in to persuasion, goes to the island; the puppy warns the prince and the queen; she tells her son that the tsar is his father, and 8 falcons are his siblings; the prince manages to bring the deer golden horns; the king recognizes the queen as his wife and the prince as his son; 8 falcons turn into princes "elbow-deep in gold, knee-deep in silver, a month on his forehead, stars over the body"; the king returns with his family to the capital; BYA and her daughter are tied to the tails of wild horses that carry their bodies through forests and mountains; "Was feast like a mountain, I was there sometimes, I drank honey, a burner: it flowed down my mustache, but it didn't get into my mouth. The fairy tales are over for you, but I'm honored with a korets"]: Vostrikov 1904, No. 2:74-80.

Baltoscandia. Scandinavians [Loki cut off Siv's hair. Thor caught him and he swore to get the black alvas to make gold hair for Siv that would grow like real hair. The dwarf sons of Ivaldi made this hair, as well as the Skidbladnir ship and the Gungir spear for Odin. Loki argued with Karl Brock and pledged his head that that Aitri's brother ("poisonous") would not make other treasures like this. Eitri put pork skin in the horn and told Brock to blow it. Brock's hand is stung by a fly, but he works nonstop. A boar with golden stubble was taken out of the horn. The next time, Aitri put gold in the horn and took out Draupnir's gold ring (the fly bit twice as hard). The third time he put iron in the horn and took out a hammer. A fly bit Brock in his eyelid, blood filled his eyes, he loosened his bellows for a moment, and everyone almost died]: Younger Edda 1970:71; Seto [father disappeared in the swamp; three sisters cry, saw a stream of tears the king went to the source, brought the sisters to him; the eldest promised to feed the army with rye grain, the middle one to dress him with wool, the youngest to give birth to a son with the sun on the back of his head, a month in his forehead, stars on his body; the king marries her, she gave birth to two twins with the promised signs, asked the birds to convey the message to the king, the raven flew; the older sister took the children to the swamp window, where the girls' father disappeared, changed puppies; the second time, a crow flew; the third time one son asked his mother to hide him under her arm, the king ordered his wife to be thrown into the sea in a barrel; the barrel was nailed to an empty island, the son knocked out the bottom; the old man gave them a willing staff, a pen to fly on; the royal nobleman visits the island three times; each time his wife's sister says there is a greater miracle; the young man who has flown on the feather overhears, tells carry this miracle to his palace with a staff; 1) a golden pig with silver pigs; 2) an oak on which the cat tells fairy tales; 3) a window in the swamp, from which there are five paths, each a boy walks with with the sun on the back of his head, a month in his forehead, with stars on his body; the nobleman talks about six such boys on the island, the king goes to see for himself, brings his wife and sons; his wife's sister was thrown into the sea in a barrel ]: Normann, Tampere 1989:73-81; Latvians [The king orders to get a silver roe deer (hare), a golden pig (ram), and a diamond horse. The younger brother gets it all, but gives it to the brothers in exchange for fingers, toes and skin from the back. The brothers brag to the king that they have completed all the tasks, but the fool shows his fingers and skin. Brothers punished, fool marries princess]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 530A: 297; Veps (told in Russian) [out of three brothers, only Ivanushko comes to his father's grave, gets a magic horse; with his She transforms with help, jumps three times to the princess in the tower, she gives him a ring, recognizes him by her ring among the poor; only I. catches a ram with golden horns, a pig with golden bristles, a golden-maned mare; sells to older son-in-law for little fingers, belts from the back; everything opens, the tsar hands over the kingdom to I.]: Vlasyev 1941, No. 1:7-14.

Volga - Perm. Chuvashi [the forest is empty, I. comes to a tree with all the birds on; shoots a big white one, she falls, he brings her to the hut, she turns into a beauty; wife weaves a magic tablecloth, husband carries to sell, the king sees, comes to find out who the craftswoman is; the wise men advise sending I. for a goat with golden horns and hair; the wife sends him to go for the ball, he leads to a goat; the same boar with golden horns and hair stubble; sent for Sharapchyk the invisible; the wife gives a towel, sends her older sister for a ball; there is a girl in a silver palace recognizing her younger sister's towel; she gives her ball and ring, the ball leads to the oldest sister in the golden palace; she leads to the river, followed by S.; the frog asks for milk, I. brings it, the frog jumps, carries her across the river; three robbers enter the triangular house , they tell S. to set the table; when they leave, I. suggests that Sh. Go with him, he agrees; tells him to exchange him from the robbers for crossing the river, chest, ax, pipe; returns to I.; I. goes to the king by war, dudit - ships, from the chest - soldiers, axes make fortresses; I. kills the king, gets the throne, as well as a goat and a wild boar]: Eisin 1993:129-138; Komi [dying, the father tells three sons three nights queues to come to his grave; the elders Vasily and Fedor send a younger one named Sedun (always on the stove); he receives a horse three times: bay, gray, golden-maned; hides them; the king's daughter Marya, Vasilisa, Marpida, they have blue, yellow, red scarves; whoever takes a handkerchief from the roof will marry the princess; S. enters the horse's ear, becomes handsome, jumps incognito three times on horseback, but takes only M. The king summons all men, telling his daughters to marry those who have their scarves; the elders find the overseas queen and prince, M. Seduna; the king puts them in a stable; the king orders them to catch a doe; S. catches, gives them to his older sons-in-law, for this he cuts off the big toe; the same is the golden bristle of the pig, removes the skin from the back with a belt; the mare with 30 foals; the horse tells S. to cover it with skins, pour resin, shower it with needles; the mare hits the horse, but wounds himself against the needles, S. tames her; leads her; calls the king to the bathhouse, shows the leather belts and severed fingers; S. appears handsome; the tsar drives away his older sons-in-law with his wives]: Plesovsky 1975:77-91.