I25B. Wipe the oven with your hair. .15.16.27.29.-.31.

It's about women who work without simple tools, but using parts of their bodies instead.

Italians (Piedmont, Tuscany), French, Serbs, Armenians, Tajiks, Eastern Sami, Danes.

Southern Europe. Italians (Piedmont; 717-718: Calvino added the old lady's motif; the original assistant is the enchanted queen) [the pear tree owner sends 4 baskets to the king every year pears; once there were not enough pears and a man hid his little daughter under the pears; in the palace they noticed that someone was eating pears, they found a girl, called Perina ("Grushka"); she grew up, everyone likes it, maids they envy, they tell the king that P. boasted to get the witch's treasures; P. walked past an apple tree, a peach tree, reached a pear tree and climbed on it to sleep; in the morning, the old woman under a pear asks where P . goes, gives them fat, bread and millet; P. comes to three women who wiped the oven with their hair; gave them millet for this purpose; gives them bread; comes to the blood-red river; the old woman taught them to say:" Wonderful red water, I'm in a hurry and I'll try you"; the waters parted, P. crossed to the other side; the door to the palace constantly opens and slams shut, P. greased it, passed, grabbed the box with with treasures, ran; the witch tells the doors to slam shut, the river to drown P., the dogs to grab, the stove to burn; the door, the river, dogs, women at the stove praise P. and refuse to prevent her; on the way, P. opened the box, the chicken with the golden chickens ran away; P. reached the pear tree, where the old woman placed the runaway back; advised her to ask the king for a chest of coals in the basement as a reward; she they brought a chest, a prince jumped out of it, married P.]: Calvino 1980, No. 11:35-37; Italians (Florence) [a pregnant woman steals parsley from the sorceress's garden; they catch it, let her go for a promise call the child Petrushka, gives it to them; the woman gave birth to a girl, called Petrushechka; when she grew up, the witches reminded her mother of the promise, she had to agree; 1) the witches brought P. into the dark the room, told to make it white, paint the walls with birds; the witch's cousin Meme suggests doing everything if P. lets herself be kissed; she refuses, M. is happy, does everything anyway (the same when each new act of help); 2) the witches are told to bring a Belle-Jullar box from the witch Morgana; M. gives two pots of lard; tells you to lubricate the hinges of Morgana's gate, throw bread to the dogs, give an awl and give the shoemaker (he pulls his hair out of his head and beard, sews Morgana's shoes), give the cook a panicle so she doesn't shovel the ash with his hands; P. takes the box, Morgana's guards refuse to detain her; along the way opens the box, little men and the orchestra jump out of it; Meme appears, puts them back; 3) the witches are going to cook P., tell them to boil the pot; M. advises to say that there is not enough firewood; P. and M . lights blow out in the barn are the souls of sorcerers, the last is Morgan; they take possession of all the sorcerers' property; they got married, began to live in Morgana's palace]: Kotrelev 1991:101-105.

Western Europe. The French (Nièvre) [the prince smashed a jug of butter carried by the old woman with a ball; she wished him love for three oranges; the prince fell ill with love and went in search with two companions; they they come to the south, east, north wind; the mother of the winds hides them every time and teaches them what to do next; they come to the castle; they oil the rusty door and it opens; they throw them to predatory pigs acorns, give giants ropes to get water out of the well (they took it out using their hair instead of ropes); let other women sweep the heat out of the oven (they did it with their bare hands); sweep a dusty dirty staircase; they comb a lousy old woman, who falls asleep for the first time in many years; the prince sees and picks up three oranges, runs away with her companions; the old woman tells the stairs, etc., to detain the fugitives, but they refuse, because those who came cleaned them, fed them, etc.; on the way back, the prince opens one orange, a beautiful woman comes out, asks for a drink, dies; the same with the second; the third opens at the spring; brings a beauty to a king who knows the prince's father and dreamed of marrying a prince to his daughter; sends the prince for jewelry and clothes for the beauty he brought in, and his daughter stabs a pin in her head and the girl flies away with a dove; the liar says she has darkened by the sun and wind; the prince's father and courtiers are surprised that his fiancée is ugly; on the eve of the wedding, the dove talks to the cook; sits on The prince's hand; he groped and took out a pin; the wedding; the liar was burned at the stake]: Delarue, Tenèze 1964, No. 408:59-63.

The Balkans. Serbs [by old age, the king was deaf and blind; there is a well with rejuvenating water; the eldest son sailed by ship to another kingdom, rude to the local king, thrown into prison; the same middle son; the younger one is polite and kind; the local king directed him further; the hermit sent him to the hunter, who asked the birds; only the eagle knows the way, tells him to take supplies; throw 12 lions at the ram; give two girls a broom, they collect garbage with her hands; the third carries water on her hair, she must be given a rope; she must get to the city at noon when the queen is sleeping; the young man collected water, took the queen's ring and slipper, put it knee stamp; girls and lions answer the queen that she did not care about them, and now they were given brooms, rope, etc.; the king, whose brothers are young, freed them, bathed in the water brought, is younger; on the way home, the older brothers changed the water; the king drove away the youngest son; the queen is looking for someone who took her wonderful water; the elder brother cannot answer what else he took; the same middle son; the queen threatens to destroy kingdom; drew a portrait of her son and ordered him to look for someone who looked like him; the elder recognized his shepherd in the portrait; the prince agreed to return when he found out that it was his son; wedding; the younger prince became Tsar of Two Kingdoms]: Karadzic 1856 in Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:43-50, in Arkhipova 1962:185-191, in Tesic 2017:10-18).

Caucasus - Central Asia. Armenians [the king tells three sons to fire arrows on whose court he will fall, from there to take his wife; the elder's arrow falls into the vizier's courtyard, the middle son falls into the Nazir's courtyard, the youngest at the cliff; it moves apart, there old woman, gives his beautiful daughter; the old king wants his daughter-in-law for himself, his wife dies of grief; he sends his youngest son to his deceased mother for the keys to the treasury; the wife tells him to go to her mother, she sends her take the prince to the next world; on the way he sees an obese ox in a rocky pasture, thin on juicy grass (the first was thin during his lifetime, the second fat), an old woman who cleans the walls with her chest tonira (she cleaned them with rags during her lifetime); the mother reports that the keys are under the balcony pole, curses her husband; at home, the prince finds his father petrified, elected to the kingdom]: Harutyunyan 1986:95-97.

Iran - Central Asia. Tajiks [the old man has three daughters but no son; he is blind; the eldest daughter dresses up as a man, visits an old woman who says that many brave men died looking for a cure, the girl returns ; the same middle daughter; the youngest is not afraid; the old woman sends her to the healer; he will ask for the seed of the tree that the three-headed diva has for medicine; in the monastery, the diva must do good to everyone; the old woman gives a mirror comb, bar; girl cleans and adjusts the gates of the fortress, shifts hay to horses and bones to dogs; sewed sleeves for baking bread, gave them to girls who put cakes in tone with their bare hands; divas sleeps with her eyes open; the girl pulled a bag from under his head and ran away; the maids, dogs, horses, the gates refused to grab her; she threw a mirror (river), a bar (mountain), a crest (forest); divas stops chasing; the healer gives seeds; his friend says that the hero is a girl; chrysanthemums are placed at her head (if a woman withers); the girl got up at dawn and picked fresh ones; but the healer's son I saw this and went with her; the father saw the light, the young man married his daughter]: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1957:77-83 (=Amonov 196:365-372).

Baltoscandia. The Eastern Sami [two brothers tell her sister not to leave the house; once they did not leave her wood or water; she went to get water; a man came out of the lake and carried her away; when they found a bucket by the shore, the brothers weaved a rope of birch branches, the youngest went down to the bottom; tells the hut to turn to the forest with windows, to it with a door; the old woman says that the meat has come; lets him eat half a pig; he throws a ring on the floor, the dog barks, the old woman goes out to see what's going on, he hides the meat; the old woman gives a ball of wool, rolls to the old woman's younger sister; she sweeps the floor with her tongue, takes bread from the oven with her hands; gives a ball, that she goes to her older sister (the episode with the pig, the ring and the dog is repeated); the old woman tells me to take the first horse, it is small, ugly; the man takes another one, comes to his sister, there are three boys they shout that an uncle has arrived; takes his sister away; Stallo-steel catches up with a man, kills; the old woman revives; the same with the second horse; the third time a person takes a little one; the old woman gives two dogs, tells leave them halfway, throw them bread; sister tells them to leave, S. almost catches up, but dogs grab it, eat it; brother and sister kill two children, take the third with them; brother and sister get up; when Son S. climbs, the rope is cut off; in the lower world, the younger brother of the rescued sister meets son S., brings him back; brothers kill him by knocking down a tree on him]: Kharuzin 1890:353-354; Danes [translation from Grundtvig; the king asks his daughter to see what's in his hair; she takes off the big louse; they put it in oil, it grows; when the barrels are small, the louse is slaughtered, the skin is removed; the king is dissatisfied that the princess rejects all suitors; promises to pass her off as saying which animal the skin was removed from; the wolf sniffs and tells the king that it is the skin of lice, tells her to give the princess; brings her to luxurious castle, forbids lighting a fire; at night the wolf turns into a man, but the princess does not see him; when she gave birth to a son, the wolf immediately took him away; allows him to return to his parents for three days under the condition Do not take anything with you from their house; but the mother gives the knife to be put on the bed; the husband will be scratched; if he screams, he is a troll, and if he moans, the man; he groaned; forgave his wife, but since then he has been limping on right back leg; when the wife gave birth to a daughter, the wolf also took her away immediately; the wife visited her parents again; the mother gave a box of matches and a candle; the wife lit a candle; the husband said that the witch bewitched him for 7 years because he refused to marry her daughter; became a wolf and ran away; she came to Sister Wolf's castle, where her son was; the second sister had a daughter with a wet nurse; the wife went to the glass mountain, saw the Wolf on she climbed; she also slides; the old man gave iron shoes to climb the mountain and ointment, heal her cuts; on the mountain in the castle, a woman was hired in the kitchen; a local young housewife would soon marry the Wolf; the witch tells wash the daughter's white flannel and black white (the old man performs); tells him to bring jewelry from his sister for the bride; a young man gives a ball to follow; the rod is put in the door, which is all time claps; give a bag of grain to geese; tongs to two people who move the heat with their bare hands; ladles to give to girls who interfere in the cauldron with their bare hands; two loaves of bread are given to watchmen dogs; a pot of fat - lubricate the door hinges; the witch's sister can't eat anything, not look back on the way back; the witch's sister gave her leg to a calf, the woman threw it under the bench, she answers from there; The second time she hid it under her clothes, the witch's sister believed that the woman had eaten her leg; when the woman runs back, the witch's sister tells the guards to hold it, but everyone refuses because she treated them well; the witch's sister warned not to open the box on the way, but the woman opened it, the bird flew out and disappeared; the young man asked for the calf leg that remained under the woman's clothes, sent it again to bring jewelry, her leg ran and brought it; after receiving the box, the witch allowed the woman to attend her daughter's marriage; the witch gave the woman two torches; she could not move, can burn; the prince grabs them and hands them into the hands of a witch and her daughter; they burned down along with the castle; a meadow on the site of a glass mountain; the couple took the children, returned to the woman's parents]: Mulley 1878:225-236.