J26B. Well, there is such a miracle in the world. .28.29.31.32.35.

A powerful character tells the wife to be thrown away with her son (children; usually in a barrel into the sea). Thanks to their son's unusual abilities, they are saved. The son himself (in the form of a bird, animal, insect, or flying on a wonderful object) or his puppy brother comes to his father and learns from his conversation with his new wife or someone else about the existence of wonderful objects. When he returns, he gets them or initially owns them and demonstrates them when he meets his father (the objects may include young brothers).

Russians (Vologda), Belarusians, Terek Cossacks, Setu, Latvians, (Lutsi), Mordovians, Mari (?) , Bashkirs, Mansi, Northern (?) Khanty, Southern Khanty.

Central Europe. Russians (Vologodskaya): Gura 1965, No. 24 [the merchant and the merchant have a son Ivanushko; he hears three girls talking outside the window; one promises to cover the whole of Russia with one needle, the other to feed one with a grain, the third is to give birth to 9 boys elbow deep in gold in silver, the sun is red in the forehead, a month in the eyes; this is the smaller one, Masha; the guy married her; she gave birth to three promised boys, Yaga- the woman was a midwife, took them to the swamp under the well, replaced them with puppies; I. forgave his wife; the same for the second time for the third time, I took two; I. ordered M. and her son to be stabbed in a barrel, let them into the river; the barrel was carried to the sea, washed ashore, the guy knocked out the bottom, began to live with his mother; the sailors told the king that the king wanted to visit that place, I. advises not to go; the guy became a fly, flew, saw everything; tells his mother to bake pies, brought them to eight brothers who are under the well; they came to his mother, she told them everything; the sailors tell I. again, he is going, his wife forgives him, they have all arrived to I.; yagu-baba with his mother (? - with her daughter, who became a wife instead of Masha?) I. put him on the gate and shot]: 238-239; Smirnov 1917, No. 27 [about the same No. 37:199-201; Fedor Tsarevich has three maids; if he marries, the first promises to bake bread, the second to sew, the third to sew, the third to give birth to 9 sons, each with the sun in his forehead, a month on the back of her head, gold on the back of her head, legs knee-deep in silver; when she gave birth to the first three, the mother of the first maid was a midwife, carried children in the field, replaced them with puppies; the same for the second time; the third time F.'s wife hid one child in her sleeve; the bucket ordered her to be put in a barrel, let her go to sea, married the first maid; when the barrel was nailed to the shore, the son knocked down the bottom, put up a tent, created a well in which any food; sent the kaliks on the road to F., hid himself with a fly in their basket; when he heard the story, F. wants to see the well with food, but the new wife advises to get a pig - a golden bristle; the young man hears, catches the pig himself; the kaliki tell F. about the pig, and next to the oak is a bayun cat; the young man, becoming a fly, overhears; F. advises that it is better to get a golden-mare and 31 stallions (the same); for the third time, the wife says that there are 8 tents in the field, well done in each], the sun in the forehead, etc.; after listening in the form of a fly, the young man tells his mother bake 9 koloboks with their milk; 8 leaves them well done, and bit off from the ninth; well done, they understand that their brother was here; he brings the brothers to their mother; Kaliki tell F. about the extraordinary young men; F. goes there, son meets: his wife put stakes for F. to run into them; F. returns to the palace with 9 sons and his first wife; the second wife was put on the gate, cut, and the pieces were burned]: 158- 163; Belarusians: Romanov 1901, No. 19 (17) (d. Nikolaevsk, kr. Aniken Kavunov, 50 years old, illiterate) [The tsar lived, wanted to marry - went to foreign lands. I traveled to other kingdoms three times and did not find a wife. He returns from the third kingdom, goes to the village, sleeps with a man. The horse coachman took him to water and let go of the bucket. He looks - it's dark everywhere, only the hut is shining. I went there to get a bucket, went to the window, saw three girls sitting talking. They say about the king and groom and that he will not find brides more beautiful than them. The eldest says that if she married her, she would feed his entire army with bread alone; the middle says that if she took her, she would cover his entire army with one needle, and the youngest says that if she took her, she would she gave birth to 12 falcon sons: "A month in his forehead, a star on the back of his head, and silver on the elbow!" The coachman, without asking for a bucket, reports everything to the king. The king goes to marry, chooses a smaller one and takes her to his kingdom. Here they live, his wife is pregnant. "There's an alarm here," and the king must leave town. He punishes his wife to write to him if he gives birth to someone and leaves. Two months later, she gives birth to 12 falcon sons, writes a letter to the king and sends a messenger to him. The sisters found out that their sister had given birth and bought shanks for themselves on the way. A messenger comes to his older sister in a tire, she finds out what his errands are, sends him to the bathhouse, and replaces the letters herself, writing to the king that "I gave birth to you, my darling, 12 pieces - cat legs, mouse tails, dog mouths." The next night, a messenger stops in another shank, and the middle sister stops there. She also got him to the point, sent him to the bathhouse, and replaced the letter herself. She wrote even worse than the eldest one. A messenger comes to the king, the king reads a letter, cries, writes an answer - to wait for his wife. On the way back, the messenger visits both sisters again in their shanks, they send him back to the bathhouse and replace letters (one worse than the other) to ruin his sister and sons. The messenger brings a letter to the queen, she reads, cries, but there is nothing to do. He tells me to make a barrel with iron hoops, puts 11 sons there - "If I'm not a sinful soul, you will live!" − and lets them into the sea. She takes her younger 12th son, comes from the kingdom, finds a monastery and there she becomes a worker, and gives her son to study. He learns fast - "as he has learned in one year, as the other 10 years study." He grew up big and calls his mother from the monastery to make his own house. They came to the sea, built a house for themselves and started trading. Cabbies were walking that road, and their mare necklaces - they gave that foal to the prince. The sailors came, he treats them and greets them. He goes to see them off, goes to his horse. And he says to him, "climb on me and fall off me, you will turn into a dove, fly to the sailor, sit on his right shoulder, he will bring you to the royal chambers, and you listen to what the king and the queen are talking to will be (it was his older sister who became his wife). That's what he did. The sailor told the king about his widow and her son, who could not be more beautiful than that they had built a house for themselves on the other side of the sea. The king wants to go, but his wife dissuades him - is that marvelous! She talks about another wonder - an oak tree, there are 12 roosters on it, each rooster has a bright woman, each lady has 12 girls, they sew expensive clothes and throw them away - there is no one to wear them. The dove hears everything and flies back. He flies to a horse, sits on it and falls, turns into a human being. The horse asks what the king and queen talked about. Ivan recounts and asks the horse to help him get this wonder. The horse tells Ivan to ask for his mother's blessing and set off. That's what he does. Ivan comes on his horse to that oak tree, tells him that he is standing in the wrong place, and if he went to his kingdom, all these clothes would be worn there and "and they asked God for you!" Oak agrees and follows Ivan. Everyone marvels at the miracle. This story (the arrival of sailors - advice with a horse - flying a dove - an overheard conversation between the king, queen and sailor - the king's desire to go to watch the wonder - his wife's excuses and her story of a new miracle - the return of the pigeon - advice with a horse - receiving a mother's blessing - a trip for a miracle - a miracle willingly goes to Ivan's kingdom) is then repeated 5 more times (i.e. 6 in total). After (1) oak, other miracles: (2) a pole, a cuckoo on the pole: "what a kuknya, a soldier from yae fart" - with a horse, a saddle, and ready for war, but they have nothing to eat, they starve to death; (3) wild the boar plows its snout, harrows with its hooves, sows its tail, at 3 days bread ripens, but there is no one to eat it, and dies; (4) the river - jelly banks, "come - eat, and destroy your bags!" You eat it, it regrows; (5) 11 brothers in a cell by the sea live and do not know that they are brothers from the same mother and one father; (6) the bridge from the royal porch to Ivan's Palace, "the golden bridge yes silver, the poles are standing, the lanterns are burning, the firebirds are singing." The miracles collected in Ivan's kingdom no longer work idle: "The oak sews clothes, the cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo, the soldiers jump out, put on clothes, the boar sows bread, the soldier eats bread, goes to the river - he came, ate, I went to live, to the cagelnya (a brick factory or a clay quarry - K. B.) do different jobs." Differences in cases (5) and (6): (5) After listening to Ivan's story about a miracle with 11 brothers in the same cell, the horse advises him to ask his mother not just for a blessing, but for her to bake her breast milk from her breast milk Ivan comes to his cell, the horse advises him to go inside and instead of the sweep that will be on the table, put his own, from breast milk, and hide himself. That's what he did. A barrel comes from the sea, 11 fellows come out of it, go into the cell, the elder divides the swirl into 11 parts, everyone eats, looks at each other, cries, recognizes themselves as brothers, asks the one they want to leave Ivan brought it, Ivan comes out, everyone is kissing, and now there are 12 brothers together; Ivan sits on a horse, the brothers in a barrel, and go to his kingdom, his mother meets them, a feast. (6) The sailor tells the king that there is no longer 1 wonderful cotton in Ivan's kingdom, but 12, the tsar wants to go, his wife says that it is dangerous for them to go by sea, they will drown, and if there was a bridge... (see description above); after listening to Ivan's story about this task, the horse advises him to go to his brothers and tell them to "read old books before dawn and pray to God faithfully", and he himself should "take an ax, step into the yard, cut colas, drive colas into the ground, try so that blood from it was flowing." So he did - the bridge was ready by dawn. The king father harnessed his horses and drove across the bridge, greeted him with bread and salt, he was about to leave, and the mother of 12 heroes gives him a book that she wrote herself, how she left his court, the king reads and cuts off his second wife head - life got better], 21 [In a certain kingdom, the prince fell in love with a maid, began to marry, she promised that they would have 3 sons (one has a month in his forehead, a dawn on the back of his head, the sun in his forehead, the back of the star, and the third one is great). 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]: 169−178, 199-201 (similar version in Romanov 1901, No. 18 (20): 178−188); Romanov 1901, No. 22 [Three sisters lived, went for a walk in the grove, where the queen, footman and coachman were there and heard them talking. The eldest said: if I married a footman, I would carve it out, plow it, sow it with millet, and bake a cake in one night. When he got up he would eat it. The average one promises to plant linen, soak it, dry it, sew a shirt if she marries a coachman. The youngest is to have three sons: elbow deep in gold, knee-deep in silver, forehead with a star, and back of her head for a month. The eldest and middle married the footman and the coachman and fulfilled their vow. The youngest married the Queen and became pregnant. Korolevich went on a seizure, putting grandmothers on his wife. The sisters gave their grandmothers a drink, stole the baby and threw him behind the clouds, and the prince was told that his wife gave birth to neither an animal nor a dog, but a simple stick. This is the second time. For the third time, the Queen fights back "chysakom". The sisters deceived the Queen, and he let them get rid of their sister themselves. They put her and her baby in a barrel and let her into the water. The baby grew very fast. The barrel was nailed to an island on the sea, and it "slaughtered" it from the inside. The Queen and her son go outside, the son asks her mother to bake three pies with her milk, and she does so. After picking up pies, he goes and finds a hut, puts pies on the table and hides. His brothers come, eat pies, feel their mother's milk, he goes out and the brothers are reunited with their mother and live together. Korolevich, meanwhile, married the Queen's older sister. I heard sailors' stories about an island where a city appeared, where three panics live up to the elbow in gold, knee-deep in silver, in the forehead for a star, on the back of the head for a month, and began to persuade my wife to go she doesn't want to see it. For the first time, she tells the panichi to put up an oak tree - twelve females, twelve bells and a bell. In the second, to put a bison, which, when it goes uphill, plows its snout, goes down - interferes with the snout, lowers the seeds from the tail, and harrows its feet. The third time is to build a bridge from the city to the Queen's Palace. Fourth, to put stone walls, golden lanterns and wax candles (on the bridge). The brothers do all this. Korolevich and his wife get equipped and go. The Queen meets his sons and first wife, stays with them, and orders his second wife to be tied by the legs to the tails of two horses, which only bring back legs]: 202-204.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Terek Cossacks (art. 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 signs 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 BU; 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. The network [the father disappeared in the swamp; three sisters are crying, the king saw a stream of tears, 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 fur, the youngest is to give birth to a son with the sun on the back of her head, a month in her forehead, stars on her 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, replaced them with puppies; the second time, a crow flew; the third time, one son asked his mother to hide him under her arm, the king ordered throw his wife in a barrel into the sea; the barrel was nailed to an empty island, the son knocked down the bottom; the old man gave them a willing staff, a feather to fly on; the royal nobleman visits the island three times; each time a sister the wife says that there is a greater miracle; a young man who has arrived on a feather overhears, tells the staff to carry this miracle to his palace; 1) a golden pig with silver pigs; 2) an oak tree on which the cat tells fairy tales; 3) a window in the swamp, from which there are five paths, each with a boy walking along with the sun on the back of his head, a month in his forehead, stars on his body; a nobleman talks about six such boys on the island, king He goes to see for himself, brings his wife and sons; his wife's sister was left in a barrel into the sea]: Normann, Tampere 1989:73-81; Latvians [three girls promise if they marry the king: the first is to dress all subjects with linen fiber, the second is to feed the entire kingdom with one grain, the third is to give birth to many sons; the king marries a third; when sons are born, sisters report that little animals have been born; the queen and her last son are put in a barrel and thrown into the sea; the son grows up rapidly and gets out of the barrel with his mother to the island; receives magic items from the old man, builds a house, a bridge; sailors they tell the king about the miracles on the island; the son, wrapped in a fly (bird), goes with the sailors; the sister of the queen thrown into the sea, now the queen herself, says that there are even greater miracles in other parts of the world : a magic tree on which a cat sings songs when he goes up, and when he goes down, makes riddles, tells fairy tales; a magic hog that fattens himself, 11 magical sons you need feed cakes mixed with breast milk; the son takes all these miracles to his island; 11 sons are missing brothers; after eating cakes, they recognize brother and mother; the king goes to see miracles, finds wife and sons; sisters punished]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 707:312; (cf. Lutsie (Western 1933, told in Russian) [the tsar was walking playing the cantel; once he did not return; three daughters went looking for them, found their father dead; they began to cry, a river formed from tears; the prince cannot to cross, sends servants to find out where the river flows from; they tell; the prince asks what each of the sisters would do if he took it; the eldest: one pea would feed the whole country; the middle one: one oatmeal - all horses; youngest: would give birth to 12 sons; the prince married her; her sisters called her a sorceress, but the prince did not listen; the prince joined the army; the wife gave birth to 12 sons, wrote letter; the messenger stopped in the hut, the enchantress changed the letter: she gave birth to children with pig heads, etc. (as she could compose); the prince writes in response: let them live; the enchantress changed the letter again: let 11 be killed and the one who looks like his father be left; the queen and her 12th son were lowered into the sea in a barrel; when they arrived to the island, the mother allowed the boy to knock out the bottom; on the island there is a palace, fruits and everything else; the young man went to shoot the ducks, sees a swan, she asks not to shoot at her, but to go to the shore, there is a thread, you have to pull it out the ship on which his father is; with his father, his new wife, the queen's sister; the king does not recognize his son; wants to see the beauty on the island, his wife does not allow him; the next day the swan tells him to take 12 pebbles, Put one in your pocket and throw 11 into the sea; 11 young brothers will come out of the water; again the father's ship, the young man asks what the news is; father: her 11 missing sons came to the island to the beautiful woman; the wife again does not let the king ashore; on the third day, the swan tells us to throw the hook, catch the goldfish, and his father's ship will come for it; this time the king went with his son; everything was clarified; he drove his new wife away and stayed in a palace on the island with her former and sons]: Annom et al. 2018:157-161).

Volga - Perm. Mordva: Anikin 1909 in Aleshkin 1989 (Erzya) [the royal son overheard the conversation of the poor widow's three daughters; the eldest says that if the royal son married her, she would dress a regiment from one spindle soldier; medium: she would bake bread that she would feed two regiments in one piece; youngest: she would give birth to 12 sons, the sun was in her forehead, the moon at the back of her head, stars at the ends of the hair, iron strength, the will is stone, the heart waxy; the royal son married her; when he went to war he was looking for a midwife, met Vedyava by the river; the queen gave birth 11 times, V. each time writes that a puppy was born; for the 12th time the prince is angry, orders to shackle the queen and the child in an iron barrel, let them go to sea; V. sent 11 sons somewhere; after the death of the tsar, the Tsarevich himself reigned; the barrel at the bottom, the son asks his mother, causes a storm, throws the barrel ashore, causes heat, the barrel bursts; the son builds a house; two old men fight over an ax (he builds himself), a handkerchief (turns it into anything), batons (he hits herself); orders a baton to beat the old people, takes away the wonderful objects; the son invites fishermen to the table; then, becoming a mosquito, he sails on their ship to his father; the queen hears the fishermen's story, realizes that the former son has been saved; the king wants to go with them; the queen dissuades: this is not a miracle, there is a pig that plows its feet, harrows its tail, sows its snout; the young man caught a pig; next time: there is a mare that will give birth to a foal at every step; the same; a tree with silver bells instead of leaves; 11 fellows with the sun in his forehead (etc.); the young man goes to look for his brothers, meets a bird, which brings him to the hut, he hides, puts 12 pies on the table; the brothers recognize each other, they return to their mother, the king comes there, returns his wife, drives the liar away with a samobile baton]: 231-237); Marie [Wonderful children: the prince overhears the conversation of three girls; marries a girl who promised to give birth to 12 heroes; the children born by her are replaced by a sorceress, the mother of one of the girls, with puppies; the prince orders his wife and newborns to be put in a barrel and throw it into the sea; the barrel sails to the island, where the son, with the help of a girl swan released by him, establishes a kingdom of miracles; the prince goes to see miracles and meets his wife and children; the guilty are punished]: Chetkarev in Sabitov 1989, No. 707:41; Bashkirs [when leaving, bai asks four wives what they will prepare for his return; 1) every day I will shoot a sparrow with 40 ribs, feed him one hundred servants with meat; 2) I will sew sandboots; 3) I will sew gloves made of lice leather; 4) I will face two sons with golden heads, pearl teeth, silver hair; all fulfilled their promises; before the return of bai the babies were replaced with a black puppy, his mother and 40 servants were sent to the forest, the children were thrown under the feet of mares; the youngest wife comes to breastfeed the puppy, finds a mare that feeds her babies; returned children, let the puppy go; babies were thrown to the cows - the same; geese - the same; thrown into the water; bai ordered his youngest wife to break her arm and leg, gouge out her eye, lock him in a deaf log house; the puppy got out saw a man looking for his way to bay; a woman promises to show the way if he cuts a hole in the log house; the puppy led the man to the bay, hid and overheard the conversation; the person talks about the log house; older wife: it's not a miracle, near the lake a mare gets screwed at every step, drinks on the lake at a watering hole; a black puppy returns to his mother, asks for a halter, brings a mare, followed by a herd; everything repeats; second wife: diamonds and yakhonts at the top of the mountain; the puppy overhears again imperceptibly; asks his mother for a tablecloth, brings gems; the third time the traveler cut through the door in the log house; the third wife: in Two boys go out to the river to play in the sand; mother's puppy: give me a nightmare, four horns of milk: goat, cow, mare, their own; the boys began to play a nightmare when they drank mother's milk, fell asleep; the puppy brings their mother, the baja is invited to visit, he understood everything; the eldest wife was offered 9 mares or 9 arb firewood; she likes mares better, her hair was tied to them, where her back touched the ground, stood there mountain ranges, where the hair is marsh grass hummocks, where the back is lakes; the second wife chose firewood, it was burned; the third was tied to the tails of 9 mares]: Barag 1989, No. 70:336-343.

Western Siberia. Mansi (Konda) {mostly Russian borrowing} [three girls decide not to sacrifice to patron spirits; one hears spirits negotiating to kill them; when the spirits come, hides, the other two spirits have been eaten; the girl comes to the elderly, becomes their son's wife; when she gives birth to a child, that spirit takes away her mind, she puts the baby on a stick, puts the baby in the hearth; the husband speaks parents that he would not do anything until the wife gave birth a third time; the second, the third time the same; the husband buried his wife chest in the ground; she had a crow under her arm, he dug it up at night, in her beak I carried it across the river, they began to live in a hut; he hunts successfully; a ship sailed, the crow suggested: if I guess, all the goods are mine, and if not, your worker for life; guessed everything, took the goods; became a fly, flew to that old spirit; shipbuilders tell an old man in spirit about a rich man (i.e. a crow); old man: my mother has three birch trees, three black grouse on them, when earrings bite, they fall silver and gold; when a squirrel runs up there, sings, and when down, he tells fairy tales; a crow found birch trees, transplanted them to his house; the same with two ships; a ragged old man (apparently that spirit): mine Aunt is a bull, he has a bathhouse in his ass, one-legged will wash himself in it, become whole, one-eyed will become visible in both eyes; three nightingales sing in his ear; the crow found a bull, brought him; the same is three ships; old man: the owner of the lower world is a golden cuckoo, who will get it, will become rich; the crow has passed through a hole into the lower world; sees suffering people there, everyone asks to know when the torment is over; 1) three men run backwards, three girls follow them; 2) a man runs around the house, the body is frostbitten and injured; 3) a man is tied to a millstone; 4) a man pours milk; 5) a man is glued to a boat; the owner of the lower world lies, his son writes on paper, the cuckoo at the opening of the box; the owner answers questions; 1) during his lifetime, they thought a lot about sex, they will be released; 2) did not let people into his house, he will be released; 3) did not let use the millstone, will be released; 4) mixed milk with water when separated, released; 5) stole the hay that people put on the bottom of the boat to sit, will not be free; the crow threw the cuckoo into the box, grabbed it, ran, told all the suffering what awaits them, returned home; again an episode with the ship that had sailed; again a fly to the old man spirit; there the ex-husband of the crow's mother promises to come look at what the sailors saw; he comes, his son tells him everything, takes his house and wealth, moves with his mother to his father; the old man's spirit was torn apart by two horses]: Kannisto 1951, No. 49: 114-127; northern (?) Khanty [the king's son is married, children are born in the absence of a father; three women replace the birth letter and father's answer; children and their mother are put in a barrel, thrown into the water, they swim ashore; they come merchants; the boy's first trip to the royal city in the guise of a snotty boy; he overhears women's story about the miracle axe, returns to the city, gets a miracle ax; the second trip is the same, miracle cows; the third is miracle squirrels; the fourth is in its present form; they find the culprits, pay everyone what they deserve]: Kim 2008:75 (Moldanov 2003:51); Southern Khanty (Irtysh) [three princes come to the city; they eavesdrop on three girls promising to have children; the youngest promises to have a daughter and two sons with stars on the top of her head, the sun on her forehead, a month on the back of her head; princes marry them; the youngest wife's children are born in the absence of a father; older sisters replace them with puppies; at the suggestion of their father-in-law, their mothers broke their arm and leg, tore their nose and mouth, nailed them by the arms and legs in the church, everyone spits on her; children thrown into the river, they are raised by the water king, then they are caught by an old man and an old woman; brothers and sister have grown up; merchants come; one of the brothers turns into a dog, goes with merchants to the royal city; overhears the story of his aunts about a birch tree from which silver is falling; returns home, the brothers catch a birch root; on the second trip, the young man turns into a dog, and then into a gadfly; hears about a reindeer bull, whose horns have 40 shoots and people sell; brothers get the tip of the bull's horn, the bull came by himself; the third time the dog turned into a gadfly again; aunts say there is a girl who has a star on the top of a star , the sun is on the forehead, a month is on the back of her head; the older brother, then the younger brother, go to look for her, disappear; the sister finds a woman, they become sisters, she resurrects the brothers; they all come to the king, the girl talks about what happened; makes the mother healthy, her milk splashes into the children's mouths; her sisters are tied to one wild and one humble horse, torn]: Patkanov 1999, No. 4:331-346 (brief retelling in Kim 2006:76).