I13D. Wintering with snakes .11.17.21.27.-.34.

A person enters a snake's home, spends a long time there, is released back or runs away. While in the abode of snakes, he usually licks a stone that relieves thirst and hunger.

Swahili, Arab literary tradition, Tibetans (Amdo), Bhutan, Slovenes, Slovaks, Ukrainians, Crimean Tatars, Georgians (Khevsurs), Kurds, Yazgulyams, Swedes, Finns, Estonians, Mari, Kazan Tatars, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, (Salars), Khakas, Buryats of the Irkutsk Region

Bantu-speaking Africa. Swahili [when he dies, the witch doctor tells his pregnant wife to name her son Hassib Karimaddini; he reads his father's books; neighbors ask the boy to let go to help them carry firewood; finds a deep well with honey; when almost all the honey is taken out, the other boys refused to pull out HC, share the money among themselves; mothers say that the son was eaten by a lion, they take care of her; HC sees a scorpion, finds a hole through which he falls into a hole, comes out into the world; a palace, gold, pearls everywhere; the sultan of the serpent has come to tell stories; one about a man to whom the other offers a job: wrap himself in the skin of a dead camel, a bird raises him to the rock, he must throw off the gems from there; after receiving the stones, the owner leaves; the man goes, sees the old man's house; he allows him to enter all rooms except one; the person has come in, there is a garden and river; three birds flew in, took off their clothes, became girls, swimming; the old man advises to hide the clothes he liked best, gets married; hid the clothes in a hole, but the wife finds them, flies away, passing them through a slave that her husband can follow her; he finds a wife; she dies soon; he dug a hole near her grave and stayed there; the serpent sultan sends HC home to his mother, warning that he will return and kill him; in order for the sultan (people) to recover, it is necessary to eat the meat of the sultan of snakes; the vizier beat HC, forced the snakes to show the way to the Sultan; he orders to give the vizier the first foam when he is cooked, take the second one for himself, Give the Sultan a third; the Sultan recovered, HC became a doctor, the vizier died]: Okhotina 1962:112-122.

Western Asia. Arab literary tradition (One Thousand and One Nights) [the sage has no sons; he prays for a child; during a shipwreck he loses all books except 5 sheets; before his death he bequeaths more unborn son; stargazers predict a long life for the boy if he survives trouble as a child; the child does not learn a craft; grows up; he is married; woodcutters hire him; he finds a well with with honey; lumberjacks go to sell honey; leave the young man in the well; take his share; tell his mother that he is dead; the young man finds a hole from which insects crawl; in front of the palace; he falls asleep in it; wakes up to the hiss of snakes; the biggest one gives him a dish with a queen, a snake with a human face; the young man tells her his story; the snake promises prosperity if he listens to her; story Queen of serpents: before death, the king entrusts his only son to the nobles; the son finds a book from which he proofreads knowledge about faith and the prophet who will appear at the end of times; the young man orders to burn his father's corpse because he did not open this book to him during his lifetime; the nobles resist; goes to look for the prophet; wakes up on the island; sees snakes praising God; snakes are inhabitants of hell and are created in punishment for sinners; Gehenna sighs twice a year in summer and winter, spreads heat, and throws out snakes; giant snakes live in hell; on another island, a young man meets the queen of snakes; she is white colors; sends a greeting to the prophet; the elder tells the young man about the ring to which all creatures will obey; no one can remove this ring and cannot travel across the seven seas on which the coffin was carried its deceased owner; there is grass that needs to be smeared on your feet to cross the sea; only the queen of snakes can reach it; the elder puts two goblets in the snake cage: with milk and wine; feeling the smell of milk, the snake drinks wine, drowns in a cup; the snake shows herbs; each herb talks about its beneficial properties; people find grass, smear their feet, keep them in reserve; the snake reproaches them for wanting break the divine will by taking possession of the ring after the king; men are ashamed; leave; the son of a sage asks to bring him to the surface; the snake refuses; finds the owner of the ring; the king's son casts spells while the old man takes the ring; the snake threatens to burn the men, they do not notice it; after the second threat, the king's son is frightened and stops reading; the snake burns the old man; the angel saves the young man; the young man comes to the island from spices and jewelry; at night, sea animals go to the ground carrying jewelry; communicate with terrestrial animals; on another island, sea maidens perform the same actions; on one island, a young man they forbid eating fruits, because his ancestor has fallen from sin; he goes through seven seas; meets righteous genies who fight against the unrighteous; the king of the righteous talks about the seven layers of hell, dividing genies into righteous and unrighteous; genies cannot return the young man to his country; give him a magic horse; in the desert he meets an angel praying in front of a half-white and half-black board ; an angel, commanding day and night until resurrection; a young man meets four angels in the form of a man, a bull, a lion and a bird; ascends a mountain from where everything on earth is ruled; an angel from this mountain by God's will sends good luck and trouble; talks about the white and endless land of angels, about a mountain of ice and snow that protects the world from hell, about colorful lands for angels, about a snake that swallowed hell; a young man reaches the gate, guarded by creatures in the form of a bull and a lion; only the messenger of God can open the gate; the king's son asks God to send a messenger; the messenger opens the gate; behind them there are two mountains and a sea half salty and half bland; a young man meets angels; a young man crying between two tombs; a sage's son asks again to bring him to the surface; snakes ask for him; the queen takes him an oath not to go to the bathhouse for the rest of his life; the young man tells his story: the king had no sons; the stargazers said that he would have a son only from the daughter of King X.; King H. agreed to marry; stargazers predicted misfortunes for his son after 15 years; at the age of 15, the son chased game; the game went to sea; after catching a gazelle, he went with his subjects to the island at sea; the father sent letters about his son to all islands; the prince went to land on the wrong island to which he sailed; sent half of the servants deep into the island, remaining in the boat; the prince was brought to the palace; the island belonged to monkeys; the monkeys sank the boat; brought the prince of meat; made his king; he ordered his servants to help the monkeys defeat their enemies; found a stove with a prophecy: whoever arrives on the island will become the sultan of the monkeys and will be able get off the island only by walking east or west in a mountain for three or four months, past enemies to the sea, the world around you, or to a river that dries up once a week, to a city where there is no supporter true faith; the young man decided to go to the city of people of unrighteous faith; the monkeys saw him in the ant valley leading to the city; chased; were killed by ants; the prince reached the city alone; in the city found out about a caravan in his land; hired a girl and a thousand dinars; received a payment in advance; he stabbed a mule on orders; took off his skin; separated his limbs; he was sewn into the belly of a donkey to make him recounted what he saw; a huge bird took the young man to the nest; he threw precious stones from the nest to the merchant under the mountain to show him the way; the merchant left without showing him; the young man found the palace; told the elder at the gate has his story; remains to live in the palace; he is forbidden to open one door; the owner of the palace has left; the young man opened the forbidden door; saw three girls dressed as cabbage rolls; fell in love with them; when they flew away, fell unconscious; refused to return to his country without them; a year later, the birds flew to the pool while the young man was sleeping; on the advice of the owner of the castle, the young man hid the clothes of one of the girls; she confessed to the prince in love; the owner of the castle took an oath of allegiance from her; decided to fly to the prince's country; the prince returned the girl's feather clothes; the girl with the prince on her back recognized signs on the ground; on the ground the prince recognized him two wars; they went to notify the tsar; the prince said that he would wait seven days; the girl met the prince's mother; the tsar ordered the construction of a palace at the place where they met; the girl by smell she found her clothes hidden under the floor of the palace; said goodbye to the prince; invited her to her city; flew away; the tsar attacked the neighboring king; the kings put the best knights to fight; Tsar K. called the neighboring king to help; the prince went to the battlefield; at night he went with a caravan to another city; the war of the kings lasted seven years; the young man came to a man with whom he already lived; was hired for the same job, that last time; this time he was sewn into a horse's carcass; he refused to throw stones from the merchant's nest; the owner of the castle said he did not know about the existence of the fortress, which the girl called her home; the bird girls also did not hear about this fortress; one of the birds took it to the king of animals; the king of beasts ordered to remember what was written on the boards; called on the animals to ask about the fortress; the beasts do not know; the king of animals sends the prince to his older brother; the brother does not know the fortress; sends him to a sorcerer and a monk, animals and mountains are subordinate to him, he has a staff of three pieces: meat and blood come out of one, milk from the other , the third is wheat and barley; he sent a young man on a giant bird that arrives twice a year; the monk did not know about the fortress; called all animals and genies; one bird said he knew where it was; a bird took the young man there; the father of the bird girl ordered each person to be brought to her place; marriage; they were carried into the kingdom of a young man; Tsar K. began to win the war; the prince's father decided to choke himself to not to be defeated; the prince's warriors on a flying bed went to defeat Tsar K.'s army; the princess stood up for Tsar K.; he was not killed; sent on a lame horse; one of the graves belongs to a bird girl, who was killed by a shark while swimming; another dug for him; the young man was waiting for his death; the son of a sage was walking by sea and found an island with a bird from paradise; the bird said: Adam took four leaves out of paradise to cover themselves with them, they fell to the ground, one of them ate worms and turned it into silk; the other ate gazelles, made musk out of it; the third was eaten by bees, made honey out of it; the fourth fell into India and appeared it is made of spices; the young man tells his story to a man on the island; asks him to be taken to Egypt; prays to God to get to death; closed his eyes; the man immediately carried him to Egypt; son the king once again swears that he will not go to the bathhouse; the snake returns him to his mother; the woodcutters give him half of their money; the young man becomes a rich merchant; refuses the bathhouse; the bathhouse attendant swears to divorce from wives, if he does not enter the bathhouse with him; in this case the bathhouse attendant agrees to take the sin; guards enter the bathhouse; take the young man to the Sultan; books indicate that only he can cure the king from leprosy; the hero does not know the cure; orders the hangman to beat him; goes to the well with the courtiers; summons the queen of snakes; the snake orders her to be hacked, as it is still inevitable; forbids him to kill her: tells him to do it so that the vizier hacks her; tells her to collect the first foam from her cooking meat; the foam will cure the disease; instead of this foam, give the vizier another; drink the fourth foam and become wise; give the meat to the king; then give wine to the king; the king will be cured; the young man does as the snake told; the vizier who ordered the snake to be killed dies; the hero becomes wise; studies his father's sheets; learns all sciences]: Salle 2010 (2), nights 483-536: 43-111.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans (Amdo) [the poor man falls into a deep hole; sees a worm licking something glowing; also begins to lick, ceases to feel tired, hungry and thirsty; the worm grows into a dragon He flies away, the poor man has time to cling to him, finds himself on the ground; now the people on earth do not see him; he lives in a rich house, eats up the owners; the monk expels him, he finds himself in his poor hut again ]: Tshe dbang rdo rje et al. 2007:178; Bhutan [In early spring, the pilgrim went to Tibet; he fell through somewhere, it was dark around; he groped that there was an animal nearby and had something like nipples; I sucked them for two or three months; the taste is incomparable and rather pleasant; one day there were thunder; the animal moved; the man grabbed his mane; it was the dragon that carried him to the ground; in this while dragons wake up after hibernation and cause thunderstorms and showers]: Choden 1994:172-175.

The Balkans. Slovenes [the boy fell into a hole where snakes, their queen is a white snake with a diamond crown on his head; 7 years later, the queen lets him go, tells him not to talk about what he saw; boy says to his parents, brings people to the hole; the Queen knocked down 9 beeches, but the boy climbed to the tenth, survived]: Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:246-247.

Central Europe. Slovaks [in autumn, a shepherd (bacha does not herd sheep himself, but makes cheese in mountain pasture) sees snakes crawl to the rock, lick the grass, touch the rock, it opens, they crawl inside; shepherd He does the same thing; there is gold and silver inside, a huge snake sleeps on the golden table, the rest are around; the shepherd does not know how to get out, he also goes to bed; when he wakes up, it's spring and the snakes crawl out; the chief serpent lets the shepherd go after a triple oath that he will not tell anyone anything; the shepherd comes to his wife; hears her complain to the master who comes up that her husband is missing in the fall, the dog has brought sheep; the shepherd says he slept in a cat; the wife is furious; the master says that this is a lie, demands the truth; turns into a sorcerer with a third eye on his forehead; tells him to take him to that rock; crawls out of it a fire-breathing dragon; the sorcerer tells him to tie a leash; the shepherd tries to do so, finds himself on the dragon's back, which rises to the zenith of heaven and freezes; the shepherd asks the lark to fly to God, ask help; the lark came back, threw God's letter at the dragon, he went down to earth; Bacha found himself at his house, next to the Danube dog]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 46:235-239 (=Němcová 1990:120- 127); Ukrainians [while picking mushrooms, the girl saw a moving mass of vipers; on the way back she fell into a hole with snakes; they did not eat anything, but only licked the glowing stone; the girl licked, she was gone hunger; in the spring, the snake queen with golden horns told the snakes to make stairs out of their bodies, got out with the girl, said that she would understand the language of herbs if she did not say the word Chernobyl; who someone runs after her, asks what kind of black grass is; she replies that Chernobyl forgets everything she hears from herbs and trees]: Bulashev 1909:354-355.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [Padishah Daniel went in search of a cure for death; to meet Jebrail; there is no remedy either on earth or in heaven, the prescription is written on J.'s forehead; Daniel realized that his Death was near and told him to give his books to his son Jamisap; Jamisap could not learn anything, he went on a journey with three friends, they took refuge from the rain in a cave; there is a marble slab, under it a well with honey; they chose honey, lowered Jamisap to pick up the remains, threw a well for days; Azhdaha crawled out of the hole, Jamisap killed him; climbed into the hole, where the palace of the padishah of the serpents Shahmeran; he did not let him go for 7 years, because he would cause his death; finally he brought him to the ground, promising not to tell anyone about him or go to the bathhouse; one padishah fell ill, his meat will heal him; the doctor tells everyone to be invited to the bathhouse; When Jamisap was brought in, a sign was noticed on his body - a trace of communication with S.; under threat of execution, Jamisap led people to that well; S. tells him, when he is cooked, to keep the first broth for himself; after drinking the second and the third broths, the padishah and the doctor died, Jamishap drank the first one, became very smart; he was made padishah]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 20; Georgians (Khevsuri) [Torgwa went hunting, fell into a crack in the ice; there the dragon let him lick a gem; gave him an impenetrable chain mail; but one day T. swam, took off his chain mail, the river carried it away and he died from the arrow of a bloodman, Pshava Chota]: Virsaladze 1973, No. 67: 119-120; Kurds [motive present]: "The Legend of the Shahmaran". A fire in my heart: Kurdish tales. Retold by Diane Edgecomb; with contributions by Mohammed M.A. Ahmed and Çeto Ozel. Westport CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2007.

Iran - Central Asia. Yazgulyam [the hunter entered the cave, lived with dragons for a year; licked a wall of candy with them; returned, but kept a secret; one mullah guessed that the dragons had the hunter; the hunter became hang up and he confessed; the mullah went to the cave, began to read prayers; two smaller dragons burst, but the bigger one killed him; chased the hunter, licked his cheek, the meat came to the bone, so the bone remained dry]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 3:326-327 (=Edelman 1966, No. 8:200).

Baltoscandia. Swedes [in autumn, a person went and fell into a hole with snakes; sees snakes licking a stone; decides to try it too, after which the feeling of hunger disappears; in the spring, man and snakes climbs to the surface on the back of a huge snake, the king of snakes]: Klintberg 2010, No. R123:329; Finns [a person accidentally enters a snake cave; spends the winter there; he does not feel hungry, so what licks a white stone or hibernates by smelling a flower]: Jauhiainen 1998, No. K31:320; Estonians [the owner drives the cook away; he is looking for a place to overwinter in the forest, falls into a snake hole, the snake king tells him to lick a stone with other snakes, a person falls asleep with snakes until spring; in spring he goes out, understands the language of birds and animals; one rook says that the wells in the city are dry, because the stone has crushed the currents of water; The second is that the ring lost by the princess must be looked for under an apple tree; a man digs under a stone, freeing water, finding a ring, and receiving a lot of money from the townspeople and from the king]: J.Parijõgi in Raud 2004:289- 291.

Volga - Perm. Marie [the shepherd fell into a hole with snakes, licked a stone with them, lost hunger and thirst, began to understand the language of birds and animals; in spring, the queen of snakes lets him go, tells him not to share by his secret, otherwise he will die; smiles like a crow says to another that a treasure is buried under an oak tree; gets rich; laughs at the words of gelding; the wife demands an explanation; the rooster tells the chickens that he feels sorry for the owner; a man takes a whip, his wife promises not to ask any more questions]: Aktsorin 1984:238-241; Kazan Tatars [a poor woodcutter found a chest of honey in the forest; when the honey ran out, he went again, opened the door, there are snakes behind her; Shahmar tells him to lick a white stone - hunger and thirst disappear; once he began to beg him to let him go to his wife and children; the padishah swore not to talk about what he saw ; the padishah on the ground is ill; healers: we need a person who saw Sh.; everyone is led to come to the bathhouse, the lumberjack's body is spotted - a sign that he saw Sh.; under torture he is forced to confess; sent to bring Sh. he forgave him, taught him how to cook his body, drink not the first broth himself, but the third one; the healer drank the first broth and burst; the woodcutter drank the third, began to understand what the pieces of snake body were saying in the cauldron; the padishah ate his head - his head was gone, his torso - the abdominal pain was gone, etc.; the poor man himself became a healer, knew how to treat all diseases, understand animal languages]: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 50:223-229.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [when dying, the mullah predicted that his wife would have a child stronger than him; you should hang a tumar (amulet) on the right side of the body, if it is a boy, and if a girl, then on the left; a few years later he was born boy; from the age of 7 to 14 he studied with a mullah, but did not learn anything; he did not even learn to stick an awl from a shoemaker; he began to sell firewood; once he picked the ground, found a millstone, a well of honey under it; scooped up honey, his comrades let him get the leftovers and cut off the rope; he came to the palace; he ate, went to bed; heard the dragons going to eat him; their king Shayamardan is a little serpent with a yellow head; a boy to him liked it; one day the boy asked S. to let him go; S. agreed that the boy would not talk about him even under threat of death and would not go to the bathhouse {where others would see him naked}; gave a bag of gold; did not leave the house; one day he went to the bazaar; the viziers grabbed him and took him to the bathhouse: the padishah fell ill, he would be cured by the broth from S.'s meat; who saw Sh. the boy told him where S. is; S. demands that this boy and no one else take it, stab it, cook it; teaches him: when the broth boils for the first time, drink it yourself, when the second time give it to the ruler, and the broth, and third, I'll drink it myself; the meat was divided between me and the ruler; already in the cauldron, S. changes the order: when I cook, give the first broth to the mullah, the second to the ruler, and drink the third yourself; my meat was stripped with the ruler and eat; after drinking, the mullah went crazy, the ruler recovered, the boy mastered the language of all living beings and became the most knowledgeable mullah in the world, achieved what he dreamed of]: Babalar Sozi 2011 (74), No. 36:171-174; Kyrgyz [Mullah Daniyar taught a son named Jansha; but he did not study, he began to collect firewood in the mountains, feed on it; found a hole, honey in it; he scooped it out, sold it; went down to this well opened the door; the snakes took him to the golden throne, we have a small white serpent, the lord of the snakes Shaimaran; D. lived with snakes for three years; he is not released because it will cause them trouble; finally, S. agreed to let D. go, but tells no one to tell or wash with other people; the padishah is ill, he will be cured by broth from the cooked snake lord Shaimaran; everyone is told to wash in the bath; D. found and saw signs on his body; under the threat of the gallows, D. confessed; S. teaches not to drink the first broth; the mullah will drink it, die; pour out the second broth, give the third to the padishah - he will be cured; Oh D went to fame as great scientist]: Sabyr uulu 2008:124-126; (cf. Salary (Kombach, Xunhua-Salar Autonomous County) [Kombah Ahun went to do the Hajj; in one area the sky darkened and, having lost his way, fell into abyss; there was a black cow that lived licking the stone; K. also began to lick the stone; on the seventh day, clouds gathered over the abyss; K. came out, holding the cow's tail]: Tenishev 1964, No. 28:68).

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakas [the snake kingdom is ruled by the crown snake king; he lives in a palace where snakes spend the winter; the story of the battle between the snake khan and the frog king is one of the most common Khongors; the battle takes place on a foggy morning on the shore of the lake; the snake king appears as a red flame or red foam, and the frog king appears as a white flame or white foam; the snake khan helps Defeat the Khongor shooter with a shot from a rifle loaded with a bronze button; in gratitude, he treats the hunter in his palace; offers to lick a white stone that serves as eternal food; if lick, you will be full all winter, and the man who licks him will recognize the language of snakes, birds and animals; then the snake khan took the man home and told him not to tell anyone about what happened; the hunter's wife gave him an araka and he spilled out; the snake khan flew in for reprisal, but the hunter treated him to Araka as well, the serpent fell unconscious; the snake khan cannot resist the wine invented by the woman]: Butanayev 2003:71-72; Buryats (Bayandaevsky District, Irkutsk Region, 1975) [a man fell into a snake hole, stayed there for three years; licked a white stone and ate so on; the serpent khan told him to sit on his back, brought him outside, gave a piece of your golden horn; you will understand the language of animals until you tell others; a man hears a rooster: I control many wives, but the owner can't handle one; at night he heard one mouse held the other by the tail while she was drinking milk, then dropped it; laughed; the wife demanded that her husband explain himself; he told everything and lost his ability]: Bardakhanova, Gympilova 2008, No. 7:45-46.