J32. Brothers guard the night thief, ATU 530 (310?).

.11.13.-.17.22.23.27.-.35.

At night, someone regularly steals animals (horses, sheep, etc.) or crops (apples, hay, peas, flowers, etc.). Guards (usually older brothers) miss the kidnapper and only the hero (usually the younger brother) discovers him.

Swahili, Kordofan, Sudanese Arabs, Western Sahara, Moroccan Berbers, Kabilas, Algerian Arabs, Catalans, Basques and Spaniards {probably}, Portuguese, Maltese, Sicilians, Corsicans, Italians (Ticino, Veneto), Ladins, Germans, Alsatians, Walloons, Scots, Irish, Palestinians, Arameans, Syrian Arabs, Iraqi Arabs, Mehri, Shans, Arakans, North India (Hindi), Agaria, Santals, Tamils, Maldives, Hungarians, Bosnians, Serbs, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Albanians, Romanians, Moldovans, Gagauz people, Slovaks, Czechs, Poles, Luzhitans, Russians (Teresky Bereg, Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Pskov, Moscow, Voronezh, Kursk), Belarusians, Ukrainians (Kholmshchyna, Transcarpathia, Galicia, Volyn, Podolia, Kievskaya, Chernigov), Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Abkhazians, Abazins, Adygs, Kabardian, Karachai and Balkarians, Ossetians, Ingush, Chechens, Nogais, Avars, Gunzibs, Lucks, (Dargins), Tatas, Swans, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Persians, Tajiks, Parya, Yagnobs, Ishkashim, Uzbeks, Norwegians, Danes, Western Sami (Varanger), Finns, Veps, Setus, Estonians, Lutsies, Livs, Lithuanians, Latvians, Chuvash, Mari, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Komi, Udmurts, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Kyrgyz, Shors, Buryats (Khorin), Mongols, Mansi, Nenets.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Swahili [every year, when the Sultan's palm brings dates, they go missing; six sons take turns guarding, they don't see the thief; the sultan dresses them with women; the youngest, who lived in the kitchen, grabs a bird; it carries it, he does not let it go; she gives a pen to summon it if necessary; once the sultan's cat grabbed and ate a calf; then devours other animals and people, including the three older ones Sultan's sons; the youngest goes in search; seeing another animal (dog, civet, elephant, etc.) kills each time, but the mother explains that this is not a monster; finally, together with slaves, she also kills a cat; after the death of parents is made by the Sultan, and the younger brothers are appointed vizier, commander and secretary]: Okhotina 1962:123-154.

Sudan - East Africa. Kordofan (language not specified) [the king's apricot tree bears golden fruits; the bird steals them; the youngest of three sons {not mentioned about the elders} volunteered to guard; grabbed the bird, it escaped, but the feather remained in his hand; no one saw a bird with such feathers; the king wants to have it; the youngest son went to pick up the bird; the elders too, because everyone wanted to become king, and the father had not yet chosen I made; at the fork there is an inscription: whoever walks on the right road will die, on the middle road he will lose his horse, on the left road he will get to the giants buried under the mounds; the older brothers decided to stop and wait the youngest, and he drove along the middle road; met the gin, ate the horse, the young man walked; the gin apologized: he hadn't eaten for two years, horses were his food, otherwise he would die; now he will be an assistant; one king has a bird ; it's easy to take it, but you can't say a word; but the young man exclaimed, "This bird!" , she woke up and gave a voice, the young man was captured; the local king is ready to let him go with the bird, but let him get him a horse that can be summoned and sent away by rubbing his hair; he is from another king; gin: not touch the leash on which the horse is tied; take the hairs, sit on the horse, rub it, and you will be wherever you want; but the young man untied the leash, is caught; the horse owner promises to give it back if the young man gets the box , in which another king keeps all the servants, dancers, drummers and trumpeters; genie: when the king sleeps, he holds the box in his teeth; I will become a mouse, I will tickle him; but don't open the boxes; the young man took it away but opened the box, the musicians and dancers jumped out, began to play and dance around, but nothing back; a year later, the genie found it; came to the owner of the box under the guise of another king and found out what was needed three times say "showlim" for the musicians and others to return to the box; this happened; gin a copy of the box in exchange for which the young man received a horse; then the gin became a horse, the young man received the bird and kept it for himself as well horse; came to the brothers; when he fell asleep, they threw him into the well and took the box, the horse and the bird; the gin came, lowered the bucket to collect water, the young man clung to him and got out; came to his father, told him everything, offered to gather people in the morning; the older brothers are afraid of the box; when they saw the youngest, who was called dead, turned pale; the younger told the inhabitants of the box to go out, the dancers began to dance, the warriors killed the elders brothers; the youngest said "showlim", those who came out fled; the king handed over power to his youngest son]: Frobenius, No. 13:134-147; Sudanese Arabs (Jaaaliyin) [the Sultan has two wives: a slave who has two sons, and free, with a son Muhammad; every year a palm tree harvests dates, and the snake devours them; the sons of the slave went to guard, did not notice anything; M. cut off the snake's head; two feathers fell from her head: gold and silver; M. brought silver to his father, gold disappeared; the father sends his sons to find him; at the crossroads, a woman gives them food, explains: one road - if you go - you will not return, and the other is the road peace; M. went the road of peace; the same snake appeared at the edge of the forest, ate the dates that M. took with him, spat in the water; turned into a man with a sword; he said that the road would lead to the local sultan; he will give two chickens, black and white; they must be caught with his eyes closed; a man with a sword will kill someone who catches a white one, but lets go if he catches a black one; M. caught a white one, but asked him to let go: he himself - Sultan's son; M. returned to the snake; she sends to the Sultan, who will offer, closing his eyes, to catch horses with gold and silver harness; whoever catches a horse with golden harness will be punished; (the same as with chickens); the snake sends back to the Sultan: he will give the girl, but her whole body must be carefully wrapped in cloth; if even her little finger is visible, she will burn the village, and the Sultan will punish M.; fingers are visible, the village has burned down; The Sultan let go again; M. took the chickens, horses and the girl, finds the brothers who have gone the road of non-return; they ask them to go down to the well for water; there are black and white sheep; if you say "white will knock down black", Allah will save; if, on the contrary, you fall down 7 worlds; M. said just like that, the white ram threw him down; there the old woman, M. asked for water, she gave it, a fly in the water, M. splashed out the water, the old woman scolds him: there is not enough water, a crocodile holds her, gives her one a day in exchange for the girls, the king will give her daughter to whoever saves her; M. fell asleep, the princess's tear fell in M.'s ear, he jumped up, cut off the crocodile head; so all 7 heads; each was marked with blood; exchanged rings with the princess; the king checked whether the rings were the right, ordered M. to raise his severed head; making sure that he was the hero, the king, passed off his daughter as M. ]: Hurreiz 1977, No. 9:85-87.

North Africa. Western Sahara [a rich man has a garden with valuable apples; someone steals apples; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep; the youngest grabs a bird with a basket, the bird escapes leaving a feather; father sends sons to search, each goes in their own direction; the elders converge together, do not search; the youngest horse is eaten by a lion, promises to be a servant of a young man; takes him to the palace of the Emir, whose daughter owns a bird; orders take the bird, but without the cage; he takes the cage, he is grabbed, the emir promises to give the bird in exchange for a horse owned by hostile emirs; the lion carries it to the horse, tells him not to take the golden harness; the young man takes him they grab and promise a horse if he gets the daughter of another emir; a young man gets, wants a girl for himself; a lion turns into a girl, then a horse, a young man returns with a girl, a horse and a bird; at night, brothers they cut his throat; the lion revives him, he forgives his brothers; the father makes his youngest son heir]: Aris, Cladellas 1991:76-81; the Berbers of northern Morocco [a seven-headed demon ravages the Sultan's garden; Muhammad, the youngest of two sons, wounded the demon, walked along the bloody trail to the well, his brother lowered him down; M. frees the two princesses, the youngest gives him a ring (if you turn, a white dog will appear and will carry it to the ground) and a rod (will call a black dog that will carry it down)]: Cosquin 1922:493-494; kabila [the king has three wives: a black woman, an Arab woman, a cabin; an apple tree in the garden blooms in the morning, bears fruit in the evening , but the apples are missing; the son of the cabin is guarding, did not notice anything; the son of an Arab woman is the same; the son of a black woman grabs a bird by the tail, the feathers remain in his hands; they bring them to his father, everyone sings; the father demands get the bird itself; the mother gives a ball to follow; the brothers refuse to follow the son of a black woman; meets an old woman; she teaches her to go to town, take the bird, but without a cage; he takes a golden cage; ghoul orders to get a spirit horse; the old woman teaches not to take bridles; the young man took it; the king of spirits orders to get the cannibal's daughter; the old woman teaches her to venerate the cannibal's breasts; the cannibal demands a hundred camels and a hundred camels for her daughter ; the old woman teaches to take no more than a hundred; he brings camels to the cannibal; she gives a daughter and leaves the camels to the young man too; the same with everyone, he gets everything he gets; meets brothers; they lower him into the well get water; there's a different world; women are afraid that the cannibal will eat the young man; one warns that the ogre will give a choice of two daggers: with a golden handle and a wooden one; the young man took a gold one and cut the ogre in half, refusing to strike a second blow; the young man sends the woman upstairs; she gave her ring: the brothers will betray you; they really cut off the rope; the young man comes to the old woman; her goat has black milk: she eats coal and earth, nothing else; tells not to herd it on foreign land; the young man goes there with the goat, the milk has turned white; the eagle's nest, the snake crawls to eat the chicks; the young man killed the snake with a knife; the bird tells to prepare meat, carried the young man to the ground; he came to his father; the brothers were tied to the horse's mane; their heads were used to make stones for the hearth, and coal mixers from their hands]: Rivière 1882, No. 10:235-244; Arabs Algeria: Belamri 1982 [Ghoul steals apples from the Sultan's garden; three sons are guarding; the youngest shot at the ghoul; the brothers came on a bloody trail to a crevice in the mountains; the youngest was lowered on a rope; below ghoul palace, with three kidnapped princesses; ghoul offers a bet to drink a pool of water and eat a couscous pool; the prince prays to Allah, his pools are empty; the ghoul decides that he and the prince are equal; the prince hacked gulya; sends the princesses upstairs; the youngest gives her ring; if you turn it, white and black rams will appear, they will start butting; you have to jump on white's back, while black will take you to the seventh lower world; The brothers did not pick up the young man, told the princesses to confirm that he had been killed by a ghoul; the young man accidentally jumped on a black ram, was downstairs; came to an old woman, she has 7 sons; has lived there for 7 years, became bored; seven asked the eagle to take the guest to the ground; the old woman cooked 7 pancakes and 7 servings of meat; with each underground tier, the eagle should be fed; the young man dropped the last portion, cut off and gave the eagle a piece of his flesh; eagle: the last portion is fresh, I would throw you off if I hadn't promised to bring you to earth; on earth, the young man saw the Sultan's daughter by the cave, she was given to be eaten by a 7-headed snake; every year, having received another victim, the serpent gives the townspeople a portion of water; the young man falls asleep, the girl's tear woke him up; after each head cut off, the snake says that the young man cut off only the first (the second, etc.), and the one that is the serpent received only the first (second, etc.) blow of the sword; the girl picked up the shoe lost by the young man; after killing the snake, the young man came to the city and stayed in a madrasah; the sultan promises a reward to whoever proves that he killed snake; many come, but the shoe does not fit them, they cut off their heads; when a young man in one shoe came, another came to him, the sultan gave him a daughter and half a kingdom; unrecognized young man came to his hometown; there just as his brothers married the rescued princesses; the sultan recognized his son; expelled his older brothers; the young man received all three princesses, began to live with four wives]: 36-45; Cosquin 1922 (Blida) [three princes by queues guard an apple tree from which someone steals fruit; the younger one injures efreet, comes to the crevice, goes down; freed princesses advise you to get up by yourself first, but the young man sends them first; brothers cut off the rope; one gives a ring, tells him to return to the palace, there are two goats, you have to jump on white; the young man accidentally touches black, enters the lowest world, comes to the old woman; a bird brings a young man to the upper world]: 493; Desparmet 1910 (Blida) [the king has 4 sons, there are 7 wonderful trees in the garden; every night a ghoul uproots one and takes it away; the three elders take turns guarding, but ghoul is frightened; the youngest is a hashish smoker, cut off the ghoul's hand with a knife; a bloody trail led the brothers to the well; the elders lowered the youngest on a rope; at the bottom of 14 palaces, each with a kidnapped girl, they are daughters good genies; one said that ghoul could only be killed with his sword; indicated the room in which the sword hung from the ceiling; the young man knocked down the sword with a stone, cut the sleeping ghoul in half; went upstairs, told me what had happened, went down again, sent girls and treasures upstairs; the main rescued girl was the girl who was lying next to the ghoul; when she was taken to the king's palace, she turned the ring, There were plenty of food for the feast; his younger brother told him to go down again to pick up the stolen trees; the lady with the ring turned into a bee and told the young man that his brothers wanted to leave him in the well; he went without them; the lady became a lion; they took out trees; then the lady became a fly, helped the young man go down again to end the other gulas; when he returned, he received the throne from his father and married a lady with a ring and three more girls]: 397-406; Desparmet 1910 (Medea) [the king has 7 daughters and a peach tree; guli got into the habit of stealing peaches at night; the king sent his eldest daughter to guard; she put on a military suit outfit, but fell asleep; same with the other five; the youngest consistently cuts off the heads of the ghulas who approach the tree; but from the seventh she only cut off the scalp, the ghoul ran away; as a reward, the king is going to give her away marry first; to the one who guesses what object is hanging on the window; this is the skin of a huge lice, which the king fed and then stabbed; that ghoul took the image of a handsome man; when she saw him, the princess showed with signs that there is a louse on the window; having received his wife, the ghoul sent the royal retinue halfway, only the maid remained; the ghoul gave the keys to 7 rooms, forbiding him to unlock the seventh; the princess unlocked: there a terrible ghoul devours a donkey; The princess lost consciousness; when she came to her senses, the ghoul in her husband's guise asks what is on his crown; there is a scar, but the princess replies that nothing; then the ghoul tied her to a tree and went to buy firewood so that burn her; the maid freed her and carried her on her back; the lion met them, invited them to his place, fed them; the ghoul demanded his wife, but was forced to leave; by the merchants from the girl's father's kingdom; she was all for them said, asked to send sheep and camels as a gift to the lion; the king sent it; his people took the princess; the lion gave her a lion cub: if the ghoul comes again, the lion cub will kill him; the ghoul came in the form of a beggar, The princess lowered the lion on her, the lion ate the gulya; but it was the one who ate the donkey in the seventh room; when the princess remarried, her ghoul husband appeared; bribed the maid to add to the dishes sleepy powder to everyone except the princess; took the princess away; she convinced him that she would not run away again and offered to take his father's treasures; found a lion, let him go on a walk, he ate him; called the people and doctors, those revived those who fell asleep; the soothsayer said that the princess was betrayed by her maid; she cut off her head]: 407-422; Filleul de Pétigny 1951 [Emhammed, the youngest of the Sultan's three sons, brings lions from hunting and panthers, the elders are partridges; the brothers are jealous of him; they tell his father that he can bring an apple stalk whose fruits are rejuvenating; the father sends E., who brought a stalk, the apple tree soon grew, brought three apples; the sultan ate and became younger; by the end of the year he grew old again, but new apples arrived in time; once someone stole apples; the eldest son guards, efreet takes away both apples and himself; a year later, the same with the average son; when E.'s turn, he cuts off Efrita's hand, but he took the apples away; on a bloody trail, E. comes to the hole; goes down the rope; there is a city; E. consistently meets three beauties, each on a golden bed, kidnapped on her wedding day; E. cut off Efrita's head, freed his brothers, whom he had beaten and walled up; found nine stolen apples, divided them between beauties; sent brothers upstairs, then women; the youngest gave a ring: if E. is not picked up, let him open the chest, with two reeds in it, they must be thrown to the ground, they will turn into black and white goats; white will carry them to the ground, black will lower it even deeper; the brothers cut off the rope; E. touched the black goat, which carried it down; there is an old woman, with her a dog, a donkey, two goats and a goat; in front of the dog there is straw, in front of the donkey bones, in front of the goats thistle; E. gave thistle to a donkey, straw to goats, bones to a dog; the old woman said that goats should not be taken to good pastures, they have owners; E. began to herd goats there; lions, panthers, jackals attacked, but E. killed them all; saw the snake crawl to the vulture nest; chopped it into 7 pieces and gave them to the chicks; the mother bird is grateful, the snake was her worst enemy, the mother bird carries E. to the ground; three the rescued women do not want to marry the E. brothers, who called themselves saviors; the youngest demands a caftan sewn without scissors or needles, let her stand and dance; the sultan tells the tailor to make a caftan; E. lives with a tailor, turned the ring given to him, 7 girls appeared, they all perform; now the girl demands a silver chicken with golden chickens; the same; the girl agreed with E. that she would leave at the wedding the apple is not to the Sultan's eldest son, to whom he wants to give it, but E.; E. appeared on a white horse, cut off two fingers to his elder brother; the next day against his middle brother on a black horse; the sultan slightly wounded E. with an arrow to identify them later; everything was clarified; the Sultan gave the throne to E.; he forgave the brothers, married them to older beauties, and married the youngest]: 39-63.

Southern Europe. Catalans: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 301A (same Basques and Spaniards in Salamanca, Seville and the Canaries) [the father has three sons; at night someone steals fruit from a wonderful pear by as they ripen; the older two fall asleep before midnight, the ripe pear disappears; the youngest sees something black picking a pear, runs away, hides in a deep hole; the older brothers try go down, but immediately the bell rings to be pulled back; the younger one goes down, there is an old woman with big fangs; a young man makes her tell her where the pear thief is; kills a black man, frees her the princess, sends her upstairs, the brothers throw him down; he cuts down the old woman's fang, she turns into a beautiful woman, explains that the exit is through a narrow hole in the distance; the young man returns to his father; there is the eldest the brother is going to marry the rescued princess; the youngest marries her himself], 530 (including Mallorca) [three brothers take turns guarding the field; the older ones fall asleep, the younger one catches a horse that poisons crops; that asks him to let go, promises to help; the same with two more horses; three brothers went on a journey; while sleeping in the forest, the youngest overhears the conversation of three giants; the king will give his daughter to someone who three times he will win; thanks to the help of horses, the younger brother wins three times and gets a princess]: 21-23, 117; Maltese (many options; according to the paraphrase, it is difficult to restore specific ones in detail texts) [someone steals golden apples; the elder, middle princes fall asleep (or for some other reason I can't grab the thief), the youngest injures a many-headed monster, follows a bloody trail to a cave, a failure, etc.; brothers bring him down on a rope; brothers go away and carry the rope; or companions, not brothers, they throw a rope, but the hero tied a stone for himself just in case; the shepherd tells the hero to jump on a white ram, but he accidentally jumps on a black one, falls even lower; he feeds the hungry chicks of the mighty eagle, they explain how to open the heavy iron door; or their grateful one explains everything mother; this eagle is the guardian of three girls; one of them tells you to choose the rusty sword to fight the monster; his body glitters because he eats gold; the eagle takes the hero and girl to the ground, he feeds and wateres her, the last piece is cut off from his leg, the eagle puts it back; the elder prince wants to marry the youngest of the rescued girls; she demands a seamless dress from the groom, etc. (the hero has it); the king asks The youngest son is punished by the elders; they are boiled alive or peeled off their skin, used as a rug or napkins]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 301:33-41; Portuguese: Cardigos 2006, No. 301 [hero is different by force; he is the son of a bear by a woman kidnapped by him; he is fed by donkey milk; when he leaves home, he tells him to make an iron club; he meets and companions heroes with unusual abilities ( pulling pine trees; comparing mountains, etc.); they live in a house in the forest, each one cooks in turn, the monster defeats the cook and spoils the food; when it's his turn, the hero defeats the monster; goes down into the hole for him in the ground; or someone steals apples from the royal garden; older brothers fail, the youngest manages to see the kidnapper, he follows him into a hole in the ground; below are three kidnapped princesses ; the hero defeats several monsters, uses a rusty sword instead of a new one; the brothers take the princesses upstairs, leave the hero below; he enlists the help of the spirit whose ear he bit; or flies up to a huge bird, cuts off a piece of his flesh and feeds it; the hero returns to the princesses's scheduled wedding day; they recognize him by his ring, etc., or only he can raise a rusty sword; he punishes traitors and marries one of the princesses], 530 [at night the monster ruins the garden (or whatever); only the youngest of three brothers stops him; or at night he sees three horses (three clouds; St. A virgin with three magic wands); with the help of horses (clouds, wands) wins challenges and gets a princess], 550 [at night someone ruins the royal garden; or a sick father (king) needs a magic remedy; three sons go in search; only the youngest is kind to the animal (old woman), they help him; if the option is a ruined garden, only the youngest does not sleep and finds a thief; the youngest gets a bird, but must also complete other tasks; he is helped by an animal; he gets living water; his brothers take everything away, throw the youngest into the well; the fox pulls him out, everything to him returns; she is beheaded and turned into a prince; younger brother marries a princess]: 56-57, 133, 137-138); Sicilians [someone steals apples from the royal garden; the eldest son guards, falls asleep; the same middle; the youngest cuts off the hand that stretches across the fence; in the morning the brothers see a well, only the youngest decided to go down; killed a sleeping giant, freeing three princesses; brothers pick them up on a rope; when a young man should get up, the rope is cut off, but he tied a stone; the younger princess must wait for him a year, a month and a day; the old king is blind from grief, he will be healed by the water of Fata Morgana; brothers we went to look, they didn't find it; in the lower world, a horse (this is FM's brother) teaches his younger brother to put an iron rod into a gate that opens and then slams; a roll of wet paper into moving scissors; throw half a goat to two lions; FM water is her sweat pouring from the spring; next to pomegranates, three fruits must be picked; the young man did everything, and also went into the castle, kissed the sleeping FM; FM and the lions are chasing, but the horse tells you to throw grenades; they turn into a river, a mountain, a mountain of fire; FM returns; the young man meets his brothers, they take a bottle of water, the king sees the light, divides the kingdom between his eldest sons; the youngest is imprisoned with a horse; he orders to beat and cut him; a young man appears, the brother of FM; the younger one smashes enemies, forgives his brothers, but takes the kingdom for himself; is FM, admits in the young man whoever kissed her husbands her, marries her brother to a young man's sister]: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 36:234-242; Corsicans: Massignon 1984, No. 42 [on Christmas night someone steals oranges from a tree in royal garden; the eldest, middle sons hide from the thunderstorm in the house; the middle shoots at a white eagle, which falls somewhere in the meadow; the brothers raised a stone, the youngest went down the rope; successively meets girls in marble, silver, gold palaces, sends them upstairs; the youngest gives her ring, tells them not to hug anyone, otherwise she will forget everything; when she wants to get up by himself, the brothers throw the rope; youngest finds the girls' father {is this the same eagle?} , heals his wounds with ointment, he promises to raise him to the ground, tells him to shoot a stock of thrushes; returns for the first time; the second time he reaches the ground, but the young man cut off the last three pieces of meat from his own calves , then cured him with ointment; when he returned, his mother hugged him sleeping; but when he saw the ring given in the bowl, he remembered everything; the wedding, the younger queen and his wife receive the crown], 71 [someone steals pears at night; the eldest, middle sons guard and fall asleep; the youngest sees his hand reach out, cuts it off, follows it into a hole under a stone; there is the sorcerer's palace, the princess he kidnapped, and both brothers (whose hand is also his hand pulled underground); princess: when the sorcerer's eyes are open, he sleeps (and vice versa); you have to change your sword and his sword, which is under the sorcerer's pillow; the young man did so, they began to fight, he killed the sorcerer; the same in the next underground tier (there is another princess kidnapped by another sorcerer); in the third (this sorcerer has 7 heads); the older brothers pulled the girls out and left the brother downstairs; the dog pulled the young man to land; at this time, older brothers are arguing about who will take the younger princess; she points to her real savior; wedding]: 93-97, 157-159; Italians: Keller 1981 (Ticino) [someone at night tramples on the meadow; the peasant tells his eldest son to guard, he falls asleep; the middle son is the same; the youngest Vittorino sees three white doves at dawn; they take off their feather clothes, turn into girls, dance on meadow; V. hid the most beautiful clothes; she promises to love him; they live in Sun Castle, where none of the people have been; V. gives her clothes, says at home that he slept all night; the fairy comes back, the wedding; but she must return to the castle in the morning; there she is guarded by the monster Orco; she leaves V. a ring; he goes looking for her; two giants fight for speed boots, an invisible cloak, a sword (her touch revives her dead); agree to give it to V. so that he can return his wife; V. comes to the old woman, she calls the animals, but no one knows where the Suncastle is; she sends it to her sister, she asks the fish - the same; she - to the eldest sister, she calls birds; the phoenix is late because he lives far away, in Sun Castle; the old woman tells him to take V. there; he meets his wife, kills Orco with his magic sword; revives his wife's father and brother, whom O. killed; stays with his wife in the castle]: 298-308; Widter et al. 1866, No. 4 (Veneto) [the king ordered three wonderful trees to be planted in the garden, but someone pulls them out of the ground every morning; the eldest son guards; at midnight, the trees jump out of the ground themselves, the coffin arrives accompanied by 4 men; the queen runs away in horror; the middle son is the same; the youngest is not afraid, asks what it means; man replies that treasures are buried in this place; in the morning, the brothers dug up a coffin full of treasures; the youngest went down the underground entrance, came to the palace; there were three beauties in the courtyard; the young man sent them upstairs, and his the brothers decided not to pick it up, cut off the rope; the old woman gave him a ring that fulfilled his wishes; he wanted to return to earth, but not to the palace where his brothers were; became a jeweler; the king promises girls winners of the tournament; the young man asked for a horse and a combat outfit from the ring; was the winner, got the most beautiful girl; when he knelt in front of the king, he recognized his son by his mole; older brothers expelled]: 20-23; ladins [the father planted an apple tree on St. Martina (November 11); every year on this day she brought an apple, but someone stole it; the eldest, middle sons are guarding, falling asleep; in the third year, the youngest went, pricked himself with a needle to stay awake; in At midnight, a dove flew in to peck for an apple; ordered not to shoot at it: the young man's father bought this apple tree from a sorcerer who stole his mother's tree; she, pigeons, has the right to these apples; the dove turned into the girl, promised to marry a young man, gave 4 apples for him, his brothers and sons and a ring that would show the way to her; disappeared; the ring sparkled and showed the way; by the forest the old man ordered to fill game and, walking through the forest, throw meat to predators, otherwise they will be eaten; the young man came to the plain, where the castle where his fiancée is; everything is made of gold, silver and precious stones; they stayed there to live]: Uffer 1973, No. 13:40-42 ( =Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 97:257-259).

Western Europe. Walloons [golden apples from the royal apple tree disappear; the eldest, middle sons go to guard and fall asleep; the youngest sees the apples plucking off a huge hand leaning out of the ground, cutting off his hand; digs a well, enters an underground palace; there is a kidnapped princess; the prince cuts off seven heads of a sleeping dragon; brings the princess to earth, marries her, reigns after the death of his father]: Laport 1932, no.* 301D: 39-41; Germans [an apple disappears in the royal garden every morning; the eldest, middle queens fall asleep; the youngest sees a bird with golden plumage, fires an arrow, one feather falls; the king sends sons to get a bird; the fox tells the eldest to go not to a good tavern, but to a poor tavern, he does not obey; the same average prince; both stay in the tavern, wasting money; the youngest does, as the fox tells, grabs it by the tail, she brings him to a poor tavern, then to the castle, tells not to take an expensive cage; the queen takes, is captured, released for promising to get a golden horse; the fox tells not to take the saddle; the same; get queen; you must kiss the queen in the bath, do not allow her to say goodbye to his parents; the young man allowed, captured; the king tells you to dig the mountain in 8 days; the fox does the job; tells you to give the girl for a horse, but immediately grab it and ride away; the same goes for the bird (grab it and ride away); the fox tells her to cut off her head and legs, the Queen refuses; then tells her not to buy meat from the gallows or sit at the edge of the well; the queen bought the brothers they were going to hang for crimes; they pushed him into a well, the fox lowered its tail and pulled him out; the queen returned as a beggar; the girl recognized him and that's it told; the older brothers were executed, the youngest married a girl, inherited the throne; the fox tells her to cut off her head and legs; turns into that girl's brother - he was bewitched]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 57:199- 204 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:159-164); the Alsatians [someone steals hay, the father asks his three sons to guard; the elders are afraid, the younger Jean-the Fool goes all three times; he catches a bay, black, white horse; the king will give the gold nut and daughter to the best rider; Jean wins every time in the guise of a prince; the princess is upset that the groom then disappears every time; she scratches his ear, goes around all men, finds out Jean; he marries but continues to sleep in ashes; incognito smashes enemies, is wounded in the leg, his wife sees a wound, heals Jean, he remains a prince]: Lefftz 2006, No. 3:159-165; Irish [{first page in pdf missing}; someone steals golden apples from the royal garden; the gardener's eldest son missed a bird emitting light; the same middle one; the youngest knocked down a golden pen; without taking an apple, the bird flew away from with a deafening cry; the king promises a daughter to the one who will catch the bird; the eldest son has gone, stopped eating, the fox asks to share it with her; he shoots in response; out of respect for his younger brother, the fox nevertheless advises in the village to stay not in a lighted house where they dance, but in a dim light and a modest family lives; the guy stayed where they danced; the same with his middle son; the youngest shared with fox; stopped in a modest house; went on in the morning; fox: a bird from the Spanish king; tells her to sit on her tail and instantly brings it there; everyone in the palace is sleeping; a bird in a wooden cage, next to it is golden ; contrary to the fox's warning, the guy decided to transplant the bird into a golden cage, she began to scream; the Spanish king promises freedom and bird if the young man gets the horse of the king of Morocco; same (boy tried to replace the usual saddle with a gold one); get Goldilocks, the daughter of the King of Greece; the guy should not wake her up and she should not touch the door jambs; but he kissed her, she agrees to go, but must kiss the father; he will give his daughter if the guy removes a mountain of clay in front of the palace; previously, two new ones appeared instead of each pile thrown away; the fox helped again, in the morning the mountain disappeared; {page missing}; son the gardener married the daughter of the King of Greece, and her brother married the daughter of the king {whom?}] : Kennedy 1875:47-56; (cf. Scots (recorded in 1859) [the widow has three daughters; a gray horse comes to the garden to eat cabbage; the eldest daughter goes to guard; hit the horse with a spoke from the wheel, stuck to it, he brought her to the hill, ordered open it to the royal son; in the morning, the prince left her keys, told her not to unlock one room; she unlocked, there were women's bodies, she stained her leg in blood; the cat asked for milk, promised to clean her leg, but the girl She drove her away; the prince came back, saw blood, cut off the girl's head, threw her into that room; the same with her middle sister; the youngest gave milk to the cat, she licked the blood; the next day she ordered the girl to asked the prince to take three chests to her mother; they cannot be opened - she will see them from the tree; let the girl revive her sisters with a magic club, each sit in her own chest, take silver and gold; prince he will rush, he must cut off his head, the spell will fall apart, he will marry the girl; that's what happened]: Campbell 1890 (2), No. 41:279-284).

Western Asia. Palestinians: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 3 [a man has two sons with his beloved wife, one from an unloved one; someone steals sheep every night, sons guard from his beloved, fall asleep; chews from an unloved one melon seeds, sees a rumble (an evil spirit) carry the sheep to the well and, pushing the stone away, goes down; in the morning he asks his brothers and father to help move the stone, goes down the belt (the brothers refused to go down); There are three kidnapped girls downstairs, the youngest says that the ghoul sleeps when his eyes are red; tells Gulya that he brought the smell of man with him; the young man cuts off the head of the ghoul, the girls are raised; the younger father wants to herself, cuts off his belt; the young man finds a way out of the dungeon; the youngest girl agrees to marry the boy's father if he brings the same bracelet as hers; in the dungeon she gave the pair bracelet to the young man; he shows him, kills his father with a sword, marries]: 62-65; Lebedev 1990, No. 19 [the tsar lets his barren wife eat three apples, she gives birth to a son three times; three apple trees grow out of seeds; every year the wind breaks petals from them; the eldest sons Raid and Zaid are guarding, fleeing from the cloud; the youngest Said shoots, follows the bloody trail to the well, descends; the kidnapped princess Dumia explains that the sleeper a wounded giant can only be killed with his sword; S. kills; D. gives his dress and ring, tells him to sit on a white ram; S. sends D. and treasures upstairs; when they see D., R. and Z. throw a rope; S. accidentally sat on a black ram, entered the seventh lower world; kills a snake that tried to kill piglets; the pig promises to take S. upstairs if he prepares 40 rams and 40 wineskins of water; the evil efreet covered the water, gives for girls; S. kills and., saves the princess; the pig takes S. to the ground; he puts lamb on his head, is hired as an apprentice; R. became king, expelled Z., is preparing a wedding with D.; she demands to make ring, clothes; S.-apprentice gives them to the owner, D. recognizes them; during the wedding, the elephant trampled R., S. killed the elephant (and the bear), D. recognized him, he reigned]: 109-117; Palestinians [the king has a tree with with three branches: red, green and blue; every night someone rips off one of the branches; king to the vizier: find out in 14 days, otherwise the execution; the vizier's daughter advises asking three princes to guard; the eldest two fall asleep ; younger Hasan grabs a red horse; the next nights green; blue; the latter says that they are three brothers; they extracted this tree from the spirits and planted it here; each has its own branch, the color of which he dresses; the king hands over power to H., the brothers are jealous, but he renounces power and all three of them go to another city; the brothers take H. as a groom; the youngest Almaza is unmarried, she will marry the one to grab her a necklace on display in the window; the brothers leave X. home; he summons a green horse, jumps high in the form of a green knight and carries away the necklace; the next day, the second necklace, on a red horse; the third blue; at home he pulled a bestial stomach over his head, as if he was bald, hired the king as a gardener, but A. saw it; asks her father to gather all the men, she will throw an apple at her chosen one; no only the gardener and his bald assistant; A. threw an apple at H., the king placed them in the stable; he fell ill, the meat of the gazelle would cure him; H. called the red horse, asked him for a castle with servants; any animals were there including gazelles; older sons-in-law came; he gave them gazelles, but kept his lungs, heart and liver, and stamped his sons-in-law; food made from gazelle meat was inedible, and food made from giblets, which the youngest daughter brought - extremely tasty and the king has recovered; the neighboring king demands tribute for 7 years, the war has begun; H. smashes everyone on a red horse; the wife and her mother see him change clothes; the king He comes to ask him; he refuses: I am a prince myself, and the husbands of your other two daughters are slaves; they have to show stamps on their bodies; the king cut off their heads; H. gave their wives to his brothers ; new wedding feast 40 days; king handed over the throne to X.]: Littmann 2016:183-204; Arameans [someone steals goose from Pasha's poultry house; Pasha, his brother, elder son are guarding, falling asleep; youngest son scratches his hand, injures a flying giant, a blood trail leads to a well; only the youngest son did not suffocate from the stench, went down to the bottom; consistently meets three girls, the first of them orders to hit the giant with a sword on the leg, not on the neck; the young man finishes off the wounded giant, sends girls and treasures upstairs; the third, the most beautiful, knows that the young man's brother will cut the rope, gives three rings and a bird; when he falls, the young man will fall even deeper, must pull hairs out of the tails of three horses (will be on the ground), tell the bird to take itself to the right place; pulls a goat bubble over its head; participates in competitions on the occasion older brother's weddings; causes her winged horses with her hairs, wins by ripping a turban off her uncle's head; the bride says she will marry Pasha's eldest son if he gets a golden chicken with silver chickens pecking pearls, a magic dress and a shoe; these items come out of the rings given to the young man; they are brought by a jeweler; everything is explained; Pasha punishes his brother and eldest son]: Belov, Wilsker 1960:398-404; Syrian Arabs: Bushnaq 1987 [The king has a rare flower garden with an unusual only flower in the world; every night someone picks a flower; three princes take turns guarding; the two elders fell asleep; the youngest cut his hand and rubbed salt into the wound; a huge marid appeared, the prince wounded him with a sword; in the morning, the brothers came on a bloody trail to a bottomless well; the older brother begins go down, frightened, asks him to pick him up; the same middle; the youngest goes down to the bottom; in the marble palace there is a girl: stolen flowers on her chest, the head of a sleeping marid is on his knees; the prince cut off his head; an old man appeared: you have to sit on a ram to return to earth; the white and black sheep began to butt; the prince put the girl on a white one and he took her to the brothers' father's palace; the prince sat on the black and that took it seven tiers down; the prince lay down under a tree; a griffin's nest on the tree; the snake crawls to eat the chicks; the prince cut off the snake's head and fed the chicks its meat; the griffin mother flew in, wanted to throw it on The prince who fell asleep is a stone, but the chicks explained that the prince saved them; she agreed to raise the prince to the ground - you need to eat a sheep to reach every next tier; after the sixth, one sheep slipped and the prince cut off his leg for the bird; on the ground, the griffin put her leg back and it grew; the prince married the saved princess, and the older brothers were disgraced]: 104-108; Kuhr 1993 [the king has a tree with gold, silver and diamond leaves; a falcon comes to tear them up; the king tells his sons to guard; the eldest two fall asleep, the youngest Aladin, the son of a black concubine, sprinkles salt on the cut so as not to fall asleep knocks down three falcon feathers; brothers go after the falcon, break up at the well; A. kills a male snake chasing a female; she turns into a girl, promises to help, flies with him to heaven, tells him to swallow the seed pistachios (he will find the falcon speech), take the falcon but not take the cage; A. takes the cage, but the local owner lets him get the horse; A. again violated the ban (not to take the stirrups); bring a sword ( do not sheath); bring King's daughter Fatima, who was carried away by a ghoul; F. explains that Gulya can only be killed with his own sword; A. gets a sword, kills a ghoul, takes F., also receives a sword, horse and falcon; brothers they throw him into a well; below a genie, who has a black and white woman, A. chooses a black one, for he himself is a black son; calls a snake girl, she takes him to her father; he gave him the throne, executed his eldest sons] : 134-143; the Arabs of Syria [the king is blind, the soothsayer tells him to smell an apple that ripens in his garden once a year; his older brothers fall asleep that night, efreet steals an apple; younger Aladin poured salt to the cut so as not to fall asleep, hacked down the efreet; the king saw the light]: Kuhr 1993:165-166; the Arabs of Iraq [the king has a tree with wonderful flowers, someone steals flowers; three sons take turns guarding; Ahmed, Mahmood falls asleep, younger Muhammad sees Marid (evil or good spirit) tearing flowers, following him to the well; the elder sons are lowered, they ask them to be raised back; the youngest goes down to the girl, whom the bouquet; she points to the sleeping marid and the sword, the young man kills him; they go to meet the old man, he explains that the white ram will lift to the ground, the black sheep will lower him to the seventh lower world; the girl sat down On white, her older brothers took her to her father, said they had released her; she asked for the wedding to be postponed; Muhammad sat on a black ram; in the lower world he killed a snake trying to swallow an eagle; an eagle wants to kill M., the eagles explain that he saved them; she takes him to the ground; the older brothers run away, Muhammad marries the rescued girl, gains the throne]: Yaremenko 1990, No. 17:103-105; mehri [when the dates are almost ripe, someone ripped them off; soothsayer to the owner: these are three Ginny girls, they come to swim, we must hide their clothes; the man hides them, returns two, takes the third away, takes them away, marries; gives three sisters to marry three genies who came for them; leaves leaving his wife in the care of her mother; it was a holiday, people asked this man's wife to dance too; she says she needs her for this clothes; people persuaded her mother-in-law to give clothes; the woman danced and flew away; people buried the lamb, told the returning husband that his wife was dead; but he opened the grave, made the mother tell me everything; soothsayer: feed brown, black, white camels for three years; then don't let them eat; the one who jumped over the fence will take them; the brown one jumped; ride it to the sunrise until she is exhausted; then three days on foot; every day he stays with his sisters, three genies give a hair to help; he sees his wife, she opens it to his father after he has promised not to harm; The wife's father demands: drink a stream, run from a bowl of water to the mountain and back without splashing, eat two camels; genies perform everything, man gets a wife]: Stroomer 1999, No. 37:99-104.

Burma - Indochina. Shana [the leader has an apple tree with golden apples; the golden goose eats them; the eldest, middle sons go to bed; the youngest shot the goose with a poisoned arrow; became heirs, and the eldest sons are the chief expelled]: Milne 1910:260-261; the Arakan people [the king has seven sons with seven wives; someone steals fruit from a mango tree; brothers take turns guarding; the elders see nothing, the youngest sees how they have arrived winged horses, aims his bow; horses promise not to steal mangoes anymore; the young man gave them some fruit and they flew away; the king fell in love with his youngest son and drove away the elders; but the youngest did not want to part with brothers, left with them; the king of another country promises a daughter to the one who will overtake her at the races; the youngest put on a royal outfit, summoned a flying horse, overtook everyone, remained unrecognized, returned to his brothers; all It was explained that the younger prince inherited both kingdoms]: Konow 1903:9-12.

South Asia. Northern India (translated from Hindi) [Indra's horses trample on the royal garden at night; three princes take turns guarding; the youngest sprinkles salt on the cut, does not fall asleep, catches the horse, he gives hair to cause a magic horse of any suit; the older brothers want to leave, return on the condition that the youngest becomes the Groshov Servant (GS); the princess will marry someone who jumps on horseback to the roof of the palace and hits her with a ball; On horses of seven colors, HS jumps seven times, the last time allows the princess to scratch him with a sword; HS appears in the guise of a lousy beggar, but gets a princess; the princess's seven brothers cannot get game, HS easily extracts, leaves his wife's brothers, cutting off each animal's tail, claw, etc.; next time he stamps them with a hot coin for giving them water; shows claws, etc. to the king, says that his sons robbed him and were branded for this; the king gave the GS half his kingdom]: Zograf 1962:383-397; Agaria (God-dhuka Lohar, Chhattisgarh Center, Raipur District) [wild boars at night they ruin the Raja field; he consistently sends seven sons to guard; each falls asleep, only the youngest hurts his fingers, rubs pepper, catches one of Bhagavan's seven horses, who tells her to let her go, will come when necessary; the Raja drives away the eldest sons, but the youngest leaves with them, they make him their servant; the Raja promises a daughter to whoever rides the palace on horseback; the youngest is sent to water the horses, but He hires a woman for this purpose, and he rides Bhagavan's horse; the Raja orders all men to be brought; the young man appears as a beggar, but the princess chooses him three times; the brothers pushed him into the well, covered with earth, took the princess; seven Bhagavan horses dug up a well; the Raja executed six brothers, gave his daughter a lavish wedding]: Elwin 1944, No. V.2:170-171; Santals [at Raja Po two sons with two wives and one with a third; his name is Lelha ("fool"), his brothers despise him; Jugi (something like a dervish?) tells the Raja that if his garden is filled with flowering plants, the whole city will be fascinated; the Raja refuses food, his wives, then his sons come and persuade him; the older brothers have set up a garden; Jugi wants so that the branches have precious stones; the older brothers promise this too; but at night someone cuts off the flowers; the elders guard, fall asleep; L. takes 4 servings of roasted beans with him, eats slowly; in heaven four heavenly maidens descend successively, L. grabs each, she leaves her curl to call her if help is needed; in the morning, the Raja sees a blooming garden; but Jugi talks again about gems; older brothers go in search; L. easily catches up with them by summoning a heavenly horse, then hides it; cooks for brothers; a heavenly maiden will marry someone who jumps a certain distance over a certain distance time; L. summons her horses four times, each time she wins, jumping faster; marries a heavenly maiden; she teaches how to get stones; they are from her sleeping older sister; we must give grass to an elephant, a goat to a tiger, a shoe for a dog, the same on the way back; there is a tree on the island on which these stones grow; L. and his brothers mine stones, back the brothers sail in one boat and L. in another; the Raja demands to show the stones, in The fruits picked by the brothers do not turn out to be anything, the brothers are thrown into prison; the Raja promises to give L. his daughter and the estate if he shows the stones; when he sees the stones, he gives them; frees the brothers; the same for another Raja ; the brothers push L. into the water, but he is safe, returns home before them; the brothers are forced to bring L.'s wives back; the heavenly maiden who slept came with the army; the brothers said that only L. knew about the stones ; L. asked his wife four times as large an army, took her older sister as his fourth wife; L. became Raja, his brothers became his servants]: Campbell 1891:65-89; Tamils [mother to son: if you get it from the owners some good flour, I'll bake delicious cakes; the mother baked one big cake and one small one for her son and went to work; and he sat all day thinking out loud: eat a small one or a large one first; his mother came back and drove him away; in the forest he kept thinking; two heavenly maidens thought they had a monster in front of them who thought they should eat; they gave them an inexhaustible purse: you can ask for rice for 10 rupees , and they are always in her purse; only hetera had so much rice, and he started buying it from her; Hetera watched, looked into her purse, but it was empty; sent her lover to steal it; the boy thought the purse designed only for a few days and returned to the forest, repeating the same words; the heavenly maidens gave a goat that litters gold; hetera noticed again and her lover stole the goat; the heavenly maidens gave wire and a hoe; the wire tied the hetera, and the hoe began to beat; she returned everything; the young man came to another kingdom, went to an old woman; she tells her not to go out anymore; at three o'clock an elephant comes, kills and devours people; The Raja promises a daughter and half the kingdom to whoever kills an elephant; he must show the tip of his ear and tail; the young man went to the pond where the elephant came, told him to tie him with a wire and beat the hoe; brought the old woman a piece of ear and the tail, saying that he had killed the elephant; the laundress found the carcass, also cut off a piece of ear and part of the tail, and brought it to the raja; the wedding was being prepared; the young man was not allowed in, he screamed; it turned out that the laundress brought the wrong thing what was needed; the young man showed authentic trophies, and the laundress was burned in a lime kiln; the princess married the young man but refused to sleep with him: she saw him collecting garbage in the garbage dump; the young man decided his mother and wife went with him to visit; in one kingdom, someone steals flowers from Raja, he promises a daughter and half a kingdom; two heavenly maidens steal flowers for the gods; one is entangled in the bushes and tore her clothes; The young man persuaded the Raja to let them go; he came to his mother, giving her both cakes; and added: big and small, my two wives, and he himself was the Raja of the two kingdoms]: Blackburn 2005, No. 55; (cf. Goa {apparently Portuguese source}: Davidson, Phelps 1937, No. 2:12-17).

The Balkans. Hungarians [every night the fruits of the magic tree disappear; the owner's three sons are consistently guarded; the elders fall asleep, the mouse helps the youngest to stay awake; he grabs and marries a maiden- swan; she forbids him to tell anyone about her; the young man violates the ban, the wife flies away as a swan; the young man goes to look for his wife, but falls asleep three times when he must meet her; supernatural creatures help him achieve his goal]: Domotor 1988, No. 400A ^x: 458; Serbs [the king's apple tree blooms and bears fruit in one night, but the fruits disappear; two sons guard, fall asleep; the youngest sees 8 peacocks coming down to peck apples, the ninth turns into a girl; gives the young man two apples - for him and for the king; like this every night; envious older brothers send an old woman, she cuts off a lock of peacock girl's hair; peacocks fly away; the prince orders the old woman to be tied to the horse's tail; goes to look for a girl; in the castle, the old woman offers him her daughter; lets the fur servant blow over the prince's ear; because of this, the prince falls asleep; the peacock wife cannot wake him up three times; the prince cuts off the servant's head, the hermit sends him to the dragon city, the prince finds his wife; she tells him not to unlock the twelfth the room; there is a barrel in it, someone in it asks for a drink; the prince gives, the dragon flies out, takes the prince's wife; the prince saves the fish, the fox, the wolf on his way; finds, takes his wife, the dragon on his horse easily them catches up, spares the prince, takes his wife away; she learns from the dragon that his horse's brother is a lousy foal from an old woman; she gives the task of herding her mare with a foal for three nights; from this herd there is a dragon horse; prince comes to an old woman, only one cola has no head yet; a fish, a fox, a wolf helps to find a mare with a foal that turned into fish, foxes, wolves; the prince chooses a black foal, takes his wife away; a horse the dragon says that they cannot catch up with the prince, throws him off, the dragon crashes, the prince's wife sits on this horse]: Karadzic 1854, No. 4:23-40 (=Mijatovies 1874:43-58, =Ashliman 2002, =Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:18-25); Bosnians [the king has an apple tree with golden apples, every night the dragon takes them away; sons take turns guarding; the older brother saw the dragon and was frightened; the middle brother too; the younger took it with him nuts, began to eat so as not to fall asleep; wounded the dragon, a blood trail to a deep hole; the brothers began to lower the elder on a rope, he was frightened; the same middle one; the youngest came down, the three daughters of the dragon are ready for him help; he finished off the wounded dragon with a club; sent the girls upstairs; seeing that the youngest was the most beautiful, the brothers cut off the rope; the youngest noticed the door, went out; there the snake was going to eat the chicks an eagle; killed the snake and fell asleep; the eagle wanted to peck out his eyes, but the chicks told him everything; the prince asked the eagle to take him to his city; there was not enough prepared food, the prince cut off a piece from his buttock; when they arrived, the eagle put what was cut off back; the prince immediately met his betrothed; wedding]: Eschker 1992, No. 27:140-144; Bosnians (? Srebrenica) [the king has an apple tree with golden apples, every night the apple disappears; the elder, middle princes fall asleep, the youngest fool sees the firebird, it flew away, but he pulled out the pen; the king sent her sons to search; they came to another kingdom, there was a palace, a cradle in the courtyard, there was a firebird in it; they wanted to take it, but the bells rang, and the princes were brought to the king; he agreed to give the bird if he got a daughter another king; the wolf turned handsome, the princess went out to him, he became a wolf again and brought the princess to the princes; they exchanged her for a firebird; but asked the wolf to get the princess for them; he was without her He grabbed and brought labor; at the night, the elder brother killed the younger brother so that he could get the princess; the wolf noticed vultures flying, grabbed the chick and told the mother to bring live water; the lively younger The prince came home, married the princess, and the king executed his older brothers; everything is fine]: Eschker 1992, No. 33:164-167; the Serbs [father and son mowed the meadow; after salted cheese, the guy went for a drink; spring was under an apple tree; when he leaned to the water, an apple fell on his head; second; on an apple tree an old woman on a goat; invites him to his place; the guy went, he was tired of mowing the meadow; when leaving, the old woman leaves the keys to 7 rooms; in the first is a child's finger; the guy recognized the fingers of the missing brother; the second is a rooster with his legs tied; in the last one, a pitchfork in shackles and a horse; the pitchfork offers to run, otherwise he will be eaten like the brothers; let him take it meat on the road, comb, mirror, scraper; a young man carries a pitchfork on his back, an old woman chases a goat; a pitchfork tells you to throw a comb (thorny thickets), a scraper (thicket), a mirror (ice surface); a goat slipped and broke his leg; Vila took the boy to the royal palace, and flew to her friends; the king has 5 sons and a daughter; someone steals millet at night; the princes take turns guarding, but when they see that old woman on a goat, they run away in horror; the king promises a daughter to the one who will kill the monster; the boy began to guard, cut off the old woman's head, put on her clothes and came to the king on her goat; he was frightened at first; gave his daughter; the boy's father found him and his son and wife came to live with him; if they died, it's good, but alive, it's even better]: Eschker 1992, No. 5:41-45; Macedonians [someone steals apples; older, middle brother guard, they fall asleep, the younger one injures the thief; the brothers go to the hole in the ground; they begin to let down the older, middle, they are afraid; the younger one goes down, kills the lamia, sends the gold, the harvest, the girl stolen by the lamia; when the brothers begin to pick up the young man himself, cut off the rope; he kills a snake that devours the eagle's chicks; the eagle tells him to prepare meat and wine for a month; takes the young man to the ground, the last piece of meat is that cuts off from the leg behind the heel; the eagle heals the wound, but the recess on people's leg remains; the young man returns his treasures and his wife; (var.: a young man gets three girls in the lower world for himself and his brothers)]: Tsenev 2004:16; Bulgarians: Daskalova-Perkovska 1994, No. 301 [lamia, a snake steals golden apples (grapes, hay, etc.); two older brothers guard and fall asleep; on the third night, the younger brother (sitting on ash) has time To injure her, goes to a hole, a well, where she goes to the lower world; she goes down, there is a girl or girls, the most beautiful gives him a ring; a young man kills a lamia; brothers take the girls upstairs, leave the young man below; by mistake, a young man jumps on a black (not white} ram, finds himself in a world even lower; there he kills a snake (lamia, challah), which annually devours the chicks of a large bird (usually eagles) ; the bird takes the hero upstairs, in flight he feeds her meat, cuts off the last piece from his own leg, from his thigh; the young man shows who he is by showing the princess's ring or getting magic items; marries the youngest saved princess], 530 [at night, the horse tramples the field (vineyard, meadow) of the peasant; the eldest sons fall asleep, the youngest (fool, Cinderella) catches the magic horse; he gives him hairs from manes to summon him; or the father tells three sons to guard his grave for three nights before death; only the youngest son fulfills the request, finds three magic horses; the king will give the daughter to the one who jumps up on horseback to the balcony and take off the princess's ring from her finger (or jump a hole on horseback; win horse racing); a young man unrecognized by his brothers performs the task]: 96-98, 194-195; Shereshevskaya 1957a [the king has an apple tree, bringing golden apples; who steals them; the elder, middle brother guards, falls asleep; the younger cut his finger, smeared them with salt; sees a bird with golden feathers, shoots, the bird flew away, one feather fell; the king tells the sons to get the bird; the elders respond ruelly to the old man they meet, the youngest is kind to him; he tells him to take a different path than the brothers; tells them to take the bird in the palace without touching the cage; the young man took cage, captured; released for promising to get a flying horse; the old man indicates the city and palace, tells him not to take bridles; the young man does not take it, returns on a flying horse, receives a bird with a cage and a royal daughter, a ring, the bride's clothes in a nutshell; finds the brothers in the inn; they tied him in the forest, told his father that they had caught the bird themselves; the shepherd found and untied his younger brother; the bride promises to go out only for the one who will bring her nutshell dress; the youngest gets a wife and half the kingdom, the older brothers disappeared]: 79-89; Bulgarians [nine pav steal apples at night in the royal garden; only the youngest of the three princes does not fall asleep on guard, falls in love with the younger pava, who becomes a girl; flying away with others, she leaves him a golden apple (pen), tells him where to look for her; the prince comes to the lake (pond, spring), where pavas come to swim; when the pavas have arrived, his companion puts him to sleep; with the help of an elder (grateful animals), he enters the pavas palace, marries the youngest; the absence of a wife unlocks the door to the forbidden (9th, 12th, 40th) room, involuntarily freeing the snake (lamia, challah) imprisoned there; he takes the prince's wife; grateful animals (fox, eagle fish or raven) they promise to help; the prince takes his wife twice, but the kidnapper catches up with him on his horse each time; he learns that the only way to escape from the chase is riding the kidnapper's brother's horse; grateful animals help the prince herds the old woman's horses for three nights in a row; the prince receives a horse from her, on which he leaves the chase, the kidnapper dies]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No.*550**: 204; Greeks: Megas 2012, No. 300 [general description of the plot, many options]: 21-23; Paton 1899, No. 1 (Lemnos) [the king's tree brings three apples every year; someone steals them; only the youngest son is not afraid of the roar, cut off the ogre's hand, brought her and the last apple to his father; the brothers are on a bloody trail, the youngest asks him to be lowered on a rope into the dungeon; consistently meets three girls; each says that the cannibal sleeps with open with his eyes; the young man cuts off the head of cannibals, contrary to request, does not hit twice; the last girl warns that if the brothers do not pick him up, he must jump on the white ram, he will take him to the ground; gives three nuts, wearing dresses with flowers, fish, stars; a young man jumps on a black ram, falls even lower; an old woman says that a seven-headed monster gives water in exchange for girls; a young man cuts off all seven heads, cuts off his tongues; the king wants to marry him off his rescued daughter, but he asks to be taken to the ground; spends the night under a tree where all the birds rest at night; kills a monster crawling to the birds ; birds carry him to the ground; he sits on an eagle, supplies run out, he cuts off a piece of his own leg; on the ground, an eagle puts it back on him; the young man's older brother wants to marry a third rescued girl; she demands dresses with flowers, fish, stars; the young man pretends to be a merchant, hangs out dresses; this is how the bride knows he is back; wedding]: 495-498; Albanians [monster (lamia) crawls out of the well, eats golden apples; the king promises his eldest, middle, youngest son to marry him if he kills the monster; the arrows of the elders break against the monster's skin, the youngest kills him with a club, it falls into the well; the Queen asks to be lowered on a rope, finds the Beauty of the Earth at the bottom, sends it upstairs, then the dead monster; when he gets up himself, the servants cut off the rope; the Queen goes and sleeps under an oak tree, a snake that has come to eat eagles kills; a grateful eagle takes the queen to the ground, he feeds her on the way, cuts off the last piece of meat from its own caviar, the eagle regurgitates a piece, puts back; gives red (a winged horse will fly), white (a palace will appear), black (servants will appear) hair; the king has locked the Beauty of the Earth in the palace, gives it to whoever jumps over the ditch and fence; the queen jumps on a winged horse; the king gives him a girlfriend, recognizes his son at the wedding, executes servants]: Dozon 1881, No. 5:35-39 (=Serkova 1989:33-36); Albanians [dying, father tells three sons to guard an apple tree, the fruits of which are stolen by an evil spirit; the older, middle brothers are afraid, the younger Kjelani injures the kidnapper; on the trail of blood, the brothers come to the crevice; the older ones are afraid to go down, K. goes down rope; three kidnapped girls give white, red, black scarves; fighting the spirit, you have to wipe the sweat off your face with them, the spirit will lose its strength; K. cuts off his head; sends the girls upstairs; when he gets up himself, the brothers cut off the rope; old woman: the white goat will take it to the ground, the black goat will lower it even lower, there is still a red one; two slip out of their hands, K. grabs the black one, falls deeper; kills a snake that was going to eat the chicks; Corshun mother is going to eat K. first, the chicks explain who their savior is; K. asks to take him upstairs, the bird tells me to prepare meat and wine; K. meets the princess, she is given to eating Kutschedra (a woman with a tail and 9 tongues, connected to black clouds), which closed the water sources; K. cuts off her head, the water is free; the grateful king gives meat, wine; there is not enough meat, K. cuts off a piece of calf from his leg; on the ground, the bird puts a piece back, gives the pen to summon it; K. is hired as a servant; girls refuse to marry until they are given breastplates made without scissors and needles jewelry (they gave it to K. in the lower world); K. gives them; tells the bird to give him a white horse, clothes and a sword, wins the older brother's competition; the same goes to the middle brother (red horse, etc.); appears on white horse, marries the youngest girl]: Lambertz 1952:37-49; Romanians [golden apples disappear from the royal garden; two older brothers fall asleep, the youngest shoots birds, finds gold on the ground pen; goes with his servant in search of a bird; a wolf with a steel head asks not to shoot at him; says that the king of birds always sends them to rob gardens; takes a cage with a bird, but is captured; the king the birds promise to give it in exchange for the horse of the neighboring king; caught again - must bring the divine Craiessa; the wolf with him; took K. out of her garden; the wolf takes the form of K., gets a horse, runs away; then takes looks like a horse, takes on a bird; the prince now has a girlfriend, a horse and a bird; he returns to his father, wedding]: Kúnos 1901:244-259; Romanians [the king has a pear tree, three birds with iron at night they eat fruits with their beaks; the older princes fall asleep; the younger mouse asks for crumbs; wakes up when birds arrive, he catches one, brings it into the house, she turns into the Beauty of the World, they sleep together; the maid cuts off her golden curl; the Beauty of Mira is offended: let the prince look for her on a glass mountain; fly away as a bird; Beauty of Mira is the daughter of another king; he demands one of the princes as her husband; the eldest, father, goes puts on bear skin and scares him, he turns back; the same with the middle one; the old woman advises the youngest to choose a horse that eats hot coals, take the sword and armor that his father used when went to marry; the prince was not afraid of his father; he ordered to avoid the red-bearded and beardless; the beardless imposed himself on companions; rejected twice, but the third time convinced that everyone here was beardless; descends and refuses to raise the well before the prince does not agree to change roles; calls it the White Moor (BM); at the court of the Red King, the beardless sends BM for a precious stone from the lion garden; then after the gold-haired deer; the horse kills the beardless, the prince regains his status and marries the Beauty of the World; after the wedding, he takes his wife home, with them the Destroyer of the Nine Lands (RDZ) to the horse The prince was able to climb a glass mountain, shoves him with puddy horseshoes, and blindfolds all the wedding guests; one untied the bandage, the horse fell to his knee; during this time, BM's mother died, his father remarried; stepmother put poison in BM's food and on the bridge he should ride on; RDZ leads past the bridge, throws food to pigs, burns the clothes offered; he has to explain and as he tells the story stony; KM gives birth to a beautiful child; spouses dream that RDZ can only be revived with the blood of their child; three drops of blood fall on a petrified person, he comes to life]: Bîrlea 1966:431-433; Moldovans : Botezat 1981 [someone's horses trample on millet; the father sends his sons to guard; the elder, the middle fall asleep; the younger Talaesh grabs one of the horses; he tells him to take three hairs from his mane; king will pass off his youngest daughter as someone who jumps down the narrow stairs to her balcony and takes off the ring; T. first rides a white horse, his brothers overtake him and beat him; then summoned his horse Gaitan, who tells him to do one enter the ear, leave the other, T. turns into a dressed groom; G. asks: to drive like the wind or as a thought? T.: in the usual way; seeing the rider, the brothers politely ask where he comes from; T.: from Slap in the face; almost went up to the balcony, but returned; the next day the same (T. tells the horse to lead him like the wind; answers the brothers that he was from Kulakov); on the third day: as a thought; from Knutovsk; the princess gave T. the ring, touched his hair with her hand, it turned gold; the tsar ordered to check all the guys; when the kushma was pulled off T.'s head , everyone saw golden hair; the king moved his daughter and T. to a hut outside his possessions; but G. built a palace for them; war broke out, T. sat on a 105-year-old donkey, got stuck in the mud, ripped off the donkey's skin, this was seen by the king passing by; then he called G., defeated the enemies; the same second time (he sat on a nag, slightly wounded, the king bandaged his hand); the queen went into her daughter's shack, saw her son-in-law's handkerchief; the king went to see and went blind; he would be cured by the lioness's milk; G. brought him to the sleeping lioness, T. fed up with milk; G. turned T. into an old man, he met his sons-in-law, said that when he was young he went to buy milk, and only now he is returning; gave milk (it's cow's) to his sons-in-law for permission to stigmatize them; sons' milk did not help, and what his youngest daughter brought back their sight; everyone gathered, T. about everything told, ordered his sons-in-law to show stamps, the name "T." on them; the tsar gave him the throne]: 157-169; Moldovan tales 1968:222-231 [the herd eats the peasant's millet; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep, the youngest Vasile- the fool puts nettles and blackthorns next to him, does not fall asleep, catches bay, black, damn horses; the king will give the princess for someone who jumps to her window in a high tower and changes the ring on his finger; V. he gets into the ear of a bay (next time a black horse, etc.) horse, comes out as a hero and with a weapon; only the damn jumped; the tsar gives his daughter V., settles in a hut; the enemy attacked, V. smashes enemies, the king tied him wounded hand, at a feast he sees his handkerchief at V.; orders to build a crystal palace and a bridge, next to trees with golden fruits and birds; horses perform everything, turn the king into a pig], 266-275 [=Botezatu 1981: 200-210; when she dies, the mother tells her daughter to marry the one who fits the ring; the monster The peasant with the nail found out the size of the ring, forged a finger for her grandson; the girl complains about her mother's grave that she must go for the Snake; she advises to demand a dress from the groom like sunset, noon, dawn; like morning; like night; the serpent brings three times; on the advice of the mother, after the wedding, the girl says, Light ahead, darkness backwards and, disappears; spends the night in the forest; Snakes find her with dogs, cut off her hands, give her to dogs; the girl tries to cover the fallen chicks, the grateful bird turns her into a chick, raises her with others; chicks peck apples Green King; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep, the youngest is an armless beauty; the prince goes to fetch water from under a dragon rock; three traits fight over boots to walk on the water, invisible hats and musical instrument (transfers them to any place); the prince invites them to race, takes away wonderful objects; at the spring, an invisible prince hits snakes, they think at each other, fight; the last The prince puts her in prison, brings water to the girl, her hands grow; the prince finishes off a snake, the girl manages to tear off her ring from his finger, the snake turns to dust]; Gagauz people: Moshkov 1904, No. 44 [the king's tree brings three apples a year; the bird steals them; the eldest son guards, falls asleep in the morning; the middle one; the youngest mess, sitting in ash, snaps nuts all night, pulling out the bird's feather; father sent all three sons to look for a bird; on the way Cinderella fed the hungry eagle, the crow, the wolf; the brothers left on three roads, leaving a knife at the crossroads; the rescued wolf is taking him to the bird, tells not take nests; Z. took, knock and ringing, he is caught, the guards tell him to bring the greyhound in return; the same (the wolf does not tell you to take the belt, Z. took it); the horse (the same, takes the bridle); they tell me to bring the girl; the wolf plays reeds on the violin, the girl went out to listen, was caught; the wolf himself took the form of a girl, exchanged for a horse, returned; also with a greyhound, with a bird; the brothers decided to kill Z., take everything for themselves; the wolf and the eagle tell the crow bring water from God's well, resurrected Z.; the king executed his eldest sons, handed over the kingdom to Z.]: 71-75; Syrf 2013 [someone spoils barley; the eldest son guards, falls asleep; the same middle; younger Kl Ashes ("ash and ash") sees three horses descending from the sky at midnight, one is enough; each horse gives hair (gray, white, bay; the boyar will give his daughter to someone who jumps to the second floor; KP rides a donkey, calls a gray horse, rides unrecognized, grabs the girl's handkerchief; at home he replies to his brothers that he saw the competition from the top row of a folded dung; the brothers destroyed the dung; again the next day - white horse, grabs the ring; saw from the top of the skrida; the brothers destroyed the ricks; the boyar sends to look for the owner of the ring, they find the KP; he orders the boyar to make a stone road, an iron bridge; boyar Does, KP, in the guise of a handsome man, comes in a phaeton drawn by three horses, gets a wife; plays in ash again at home; comes again; the boyar wants to be transported across the house and back; KP carries, The boyar dies of fear, KP stays in his house]: 184-188.

Central Europe. Slovaks [someone crumples oats; two older brothers guard, drink wine, fall asleep; the youngest eats apples, tames the horse, he gives a halter, promises to help; so three times; the king promises home to someone with the sky will be torn off by a gold ring on a gold cord, an apple, a shawl; the younger brother wins three times on a copper, silver, gold horse; the king is looking for a winner, he is handsome, gets a princess]: Bogatyrev 1955:117-122 (=Gorbov 1949:119-124); Czechs: Erben 1976 [someone steals apples from an apple tree in the royal garden; the king promises half a kingdom; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep, the youngest is knocked down the feather of the Firebird (Ohnivák, PO), that flew away, the apple remained; parting at the intersection of three roads, the brothers stick their rods: whoever sprouts took out a bird; Liska-ryzhka (KH) asks each of the brothers to share their food; the elders shot her, the younger fed her; she brought him to the castle, ordered him to take a wooden cage, the Queen took the gold one, the PO squeaked, the guards woke up; the king agrees to give a bird if the queen brings the horse Zlatograv; the same with a horse: he takes not a leather bridle, but a gold one; its owner demands Goldilocks in the Black Sea for the horse; she is the youngest daughter of the sea queen; the LR orders to choose the easiest dressed girl; he chose; the girls' mother now tells Z. to be identified among the three sisters; a fly is spinning around her; the queen tells her to scoop out a pond with a sieve; Z. began to scoop out instead of him; LR brought a horse, ordered to take Z. and jump away; LR takes the form of Z., then a horse, then a bird, each time he becomes a fox again and runs away; the queen returns with Z., a horse and a bird; the owner of the bird has a copper one, the horse is silver, mother Z. has gold locks; at the fork, the queen fell asleep; the brothers came up, cut his body into pieces, Z., took the horse and bird; but Z. is silent, the horse does not eat, the bird does not sing; the LR found the remains , the crow grabbed, the crow had to bring alive and dead water from the Black Sea, the LR revived the Queen; when he saw him, the horse rose up, the bird sang, Z. told everything; the king executed his eldest sons, gave him youngest Z., half the kingdom, and after death another]: 22-31; Nemtsova 1978 [the king wants to know the name of the tree in his garden and why it does not bear fruit; old man: the tree blooms and bears fruit before midnight, someone picks off the fruits, so no one sees them; the king tells three sons to guard the tree; the elder sees the golden apples appear, but the storm hits, it has become dark, the apples are gone; the middle one is the same (frost suddenly hit); the youngest is playing the flute; Beron appears in a gold dress, with 50 girls; tells the young man that she is tearing apples at midnight and he will be at noon; she lives in Black City; after that, apples can be picked at noon, but the Queen died with love and went to look for the Black City; came to the castle, where the witch is B.'s mother; tells the servant to play the flutes when B. appears so the prince fell asleep; seeing that the young man did not wake up, B. leaves; the same again; for the third time, B. asks the servant to tell the prince to hang his hat one carnation lower; the prince realized that he had cut off the servant's head; three features fight for an invisible cloak, shoes that you can see everything on, and a whip that will take you where you need to go; prince: I'll give it to whoever comes first; picks it up himself and flies to Black City; becomes husband B .; the devils came running for wonderful objects, the prince returned them; B. and the prince, if they hadn't died, could still live]: 191-200; Němcová 1990 [the fisherman sees a huge bird fly out of the reeds; swims there to ruin the nest; bird: do not spoil what you find; he finds 9 huge eggs, brings them home; so three times; 27 young men appear from eggs, the father appoints the youngest chief; sends it to the king; he orders to mow and remove hay in the meadow; at night one guards, falls asleep, in the morning the haystack is scattered across the field; the same the next night (four fall asleep); the younger brother goes to the third, does not sleep; 27 horses come running; white the skate says that the young man's name is Sternberg, and he will serve him; the brothers take black horses; return to their father; 26 brothers decide to leave, but S. catches up with them; on the way, S. frees the tied greyhound, eagle, carp aground; brothers remain with the king, whose fiancée Velenka was kidnapped; brothers say that S. can return her; a white horse brings him to V., kidnapped by the witch; tells him to pretend to be a merchant, offer golden shoes; V. gets out of the boat on which she came, S. grabs her, carries her away, the witch can't catch up; V. is in love with S.; says that she needs the witch's remaining dress to marry the king; king asks S. for help; the witch will give the chest of dresses if S. tames three mares (these are her daughters); the first runs away with a hare, the greyhound catches up with him; the second with a crow, catches up with an eagle; the third with fish (catches up with the carp); the witch wanted to hit S. with a rod, but he pulled him out, hit it, turned it into stone; brought a chest; the third task: the key to the chest; the horse tells him to take the magic rod with him; S. turns them into stones lion guards, takes the key from the latter's mouth; V. unlocks the chest, takes out not his dress, but his sword: I will cut off the heads of both the king and S., whose blood is nobler, will come to life; S. came to life, the king is dead; the brothers Sh. (they are now dukes) are jealous that he became king; they turned to the witch, who turned S. into a nightingale; the horse took V. to the forest, explained that the nightingale should be sprayed three times with water from the spring; the nightingale turned into Sh.; he caught up with the fleeing brothers, turned him into stones, threw the rod into the fire, a cliff grew; a white horse tells him to cut off his head; a dove flew out of his body and flew away; S. ruled happily ever after]: 77- 99; Poles [retelling Kozlov 2006:330; a golden life has grown in the shepherd's field; he tells his three sons to guard him; when it's the youngest's turn, the bird carried away the sheaf; the young man behind her; a house in the forest, by the fire on an old man lies in that sheaf; the young man invited him to be his son; the old man's blind wife agrees; the old man gives sheep to herd, does not tell them to be allowed into the dry pond - the Rock Spirit will take away; gives a violin; the spirit drove the sheep; the young man gave him the violin to play, he broke the string; the young man promises to teach him to play, first he must straighten his fingers; the spirit put them in the split trunk; the young man let him go for promising not to touch the sheep; the spirit points to grass that will restore blind vision; old people promise to get a girl for their adopted son; you have to ride a goat to the sea; three ducks will fly, throw off their clothes, become girls; you have to hide your shirt the one he likes; the guy succumbed to persuasion, gave his shirt, the duck flew away; a year later the old man sends the guy again; after bringing the girl home, the guy took pity again and returned his shirt; the third time was the last; the goat (this is the old man) is carrying to another sea; the young man did not give his shirt, the old man gave the maiden a cape; the young man, his wife and newborn daughter went to visit his real father; having a golden life, a shepherd became a prince; at a feast, his daughter-in-law asks his father-in-law to get her best outfit - her husband hides it in a chest; she became a duck and flew away with her duckling daughter; that old man gives the young man a masm to become a hare, fish, fly; the young man reached the top of the glass mountain; overheard that his wife was grieving without him, became human again; his wife's parents gave him the throne; he sent for his real father and for that old man, made them ministers]: Shcherbakov 1980:115-125; Poles [every night a witch in the form of a huge falcon breaks the church windows; the older, middle brothers guard, but the witch sleeps and they fall asleep; the younger one puts thorns under his chin and wakes up if he starts to bite his nose; a shot hits a falcon in the wing, which falls on a stone, a hole opens in it and the witch goes underground; the young man tells his brothers to lower it on rope; in the castle, the princess combs her golden hair; explains that a witch can only be killed with a heavy sword that hangs on the wall in the next room; there the second sister combs her silver hair; the third leaves the third room and gives the young man drops that make him strong; now he can raise his sword, kills the witch; sends princesses and treasures upstairs; fearing betrayal by his brothers, instead of himself He puts a stone; lifting it to half, the brothers let go of the rope; the young man walks along the blooming plain, towards a magician; he will carry the young man to the ground if he helps him save his children; they are on an apple tree; A young man climbs an apple tree; at midnight a huge worm crawls down the trunk to devour the children in the nest; the young man cut off the dragon's head; then the man put the young man on his back and carried him to the ground; the young man returned home, only the bride recognized him; the brothers returned the treasures and fled; the young man returned them, divided them all equally, and married the princess from the golden room]: Woycicki 1920:71-74; Luzhitans [at night, someone eats grass in the meadow; the older, middle brothers guard and fall asleep; younger Hans brought a bag of thorns as soon as he fell asleep, fell on thorns and woke up; caught a horse coming graze in the meadow]: Veckenstedt 1880, No. 4.1:57; the Lusatians [the king's apple tree brings three apples a year, but they are kidnapped each time; a brave soldier guards, sees a cloud that has disappeared in a thorny bush; the king tells you to dig there, the entrance to the abyss opens; the elder queen descends; there are three princesses below; they show where the sword and strong water are to drink; he kills evil spirits; sends princesses upstairs; one gives a ring with the sun, the second with the sun and moon, the third with the sun, moon and star; the other brothers did not raise the elder; he found a good spirit that brought him to earth; settled down an apprentice to a jeweler; the king orders to make the rings asked for; the young man shows them as if he made them himself; marries his youngest, older brothers to older princesses]: Veckenstedt 1880, No. 16:244-249; Belarusians (western in Bryansk governorate) [The mink beast destroys cattle; only the king's youngest third son goes to guard, fights the beast, which goes underground; brothers on a rope bring the prince down; there a horse is waiting for him; he comes to the princesses in copper, silver, gold (younger) palaces, they teach their brother Norka to cut off his head; he sleeps on a stone in the middle of the sea, the prince kills him; the sisters place their palaces in three eggs, give it to the prince; brothers they raise their sisters, cut off the rope; the prince suspected this, tied a stone to it, did not break; during a storm, he covers the chicks of a mighty bird from the rain; their mother takes it to the ground, on the way he feeds the bird ; is hired by a tailor; he says that the princesses agree to marry only the one who sews the dress they used in their kingdoms; the prince pulls everything out of the eggs; the youngest identifies him among the beggars by the ring; three weddings]: Afanasiev 1938 (1), No. 132:247-251; Belarusians [childless grandfather dreams: collect bird eggs and sit; he collected 31, the woman sat out, boys were born; everyone was baptized, the last name it was not enough, they called Mal-Malyshok; the sons went to mow, M. broke the oak tree, mows it; every night one haystack disappears; ten brothers are guarding, they did not notice anyone; M. orders to forge an iron club, threw it up , put his forehead, she split; the 40 pound did not split; M. hits the mare with a club, she gave him foals, M. took the worst; the brothers left; after the death of his parents, M. caught up with them; The first Baba Yaga has 29 daughters, she refers to her sister, she has 30, she has the other, she has 31; the horse tells M. that at night the brothers quietly put their hats on the brides and tie their scarves for themselves; Baba Yaga cut off with a sword- with his daughters heads; Baba Yaga catches up on a goat, M. killed him; brothers hired the king, M. the elder, the brothers persuade the king to order M. to bring Baba Yaga's self-seated sword; M. took it away; brothers: get the harp -samogudy; M. took away; brothers: M. can find out why the sun stood in one place for three hours; M. goes to the sun; whale fish asks to know why it lies on the shore; M. arrives by the Month, he first hides it from Sun brother, then M. opened; Sun: looked at the Bagpipe Girl as she was sailing in the golden shuttle; let the whale spit out 40 swallowed ships; the king orders to get the Bagpipe Girl; M. offered V. wine, that got drunk, he took her away; V. tells me to get a chest of her clothes from the bottom of the sea; M. sends a self-propelled sword to cut fish, the whale fish asks not to do so, pulls out the chest; V.: now the keys to the chest are from the bottom of the sea; the last cancer brought the keys; V. to get married, build a church of gold and silver bricks and the same bridge; and to make the resin boil in the cauldron; V. did everything herself, the king fell into the resin, M. became king, married V.]: Vasilenok et al. 1958:94-109; Russians (Teresky Bereg) [King Gavrilo's sons, Peter, Ivan; someone steals apples; G., P. overslept; I. grabbed the Firebird, pulled out the pen; the king orders get the Firebird itself; on the one hand there is an inscription on the pole: you will be full yourself, the horse will be hungry, on the other hand, you will be alive yourself, the horse is dead; I. turned to where the horse is dead; the wolf jumped out, tore the horse, told I. sit on it; tells you to take a bird without a cage; I. took a golden cage, he was grabbed; sent for a golden-maned horse; take it without a bridle; the same thing; get the princess; the wolf himself grabbed the princess; then left her I. he turned into a princess himself, I. got a horse, the wolf returned; the same with the Firebird; now I. has a princess, a horse and a Firebird, he came to his brothers; when he fell asleep, they cut off his head, took everything away; the princess tells get the dress out of her state; the wolf caught the crow and the crow, forced the crow to bring living and dead water, revived I.; he returned everything, the brothers were expelled from the country]: Balashov 1970, No. 153:406-407; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, 1908; Lapinskaya volost, now Karelia, 18-year-old girl A.S. Filatova, lived as an employee in various villages in Pomorye, composes ditties and songs/"folk poetess"/, illiterate) [The king and queen notice that someone steals turnips in their garden at night and sends their sons to watch. The two eldest sons didn't see anyone. The youngest Ivan sat on the fence, "sings songs, counts the stars", sees a man with a hump tearing his turnips, comes up and helps him pick up. The man invites Ivan to his dungeon, Ivan takes his brothers with him. They stay at the entrance, Ivan comes in, beats the man at cards, the man invites Ivan to guess which of the birds is a parrot, a bird, a white swan. Ivan goes out to think on the porch (smoke), the Mukhtotska dog suggests that it is a fly, a mosquito and a louse. The old man gives Mary Tsarevna for Ivan with a large dowry. Ivan's brothers lift Mary in their belts, as soon as they started lifting Ivan, cut off his belts, and he fell into the dungeon. She walks into her grandmother's backyard hut, asks how to get home, she shows the way past Jaitsna Babitsna's hut, warns that she will want to eat Ivan, put it in the oven and advises her to ask show how to sit in the heat properly. He gives Ivan a brush, a comb and a mirror to escape from Jaicna-Babica's chase. Ivan followed his grandmother's advice, put Yaitsna in the oven and ran away. She knocked out the stove flap with her feet and chased Ivan. He throws a comb, a forest grows, Yaytsna gnaws through it, throws a brush - a mountain appears, it gnaws through it, throws a mirror - a river of fire appears, it rushes into the river and burns down. Ivan comes to his city, goes to his grandmother's house, who says that Maria-Tsarevna visits her. The grandmother puts Ivan in the closet and asks where her longing is, the princess replies: "The ram has a horn", the grandmother has gilded her horn. She put it on the table, then Marya said that her longing was in the lake, in the stone chest, duck, egg, and longing in it. Grandma and Ivan caught a stone and took out an egg. Ivan drops it and can't find it, the hare brings the egg. My grandmother put Ivan in the closet, made scrambled eggs out of eggs, and treated Mary to her. Marya's longing passed, Ivan came out of the closet, they told the truth to the tsar, expelled the brothers from the kingdom and got married]: Tseitlin 1911, No. 10:5-7 (=Azadovsky 1947, No. 15:102-105); Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Kanalak Bay of the White Sea) [Three brothers went to cut firewood, the younger Ivan cannot find large enough trees twice, and the third time he has prepared a lot of firewood. Someone steals, brothers take turns guarding. The elders fall asleep, I. grabs the thief, he pays off with magic flint, I. clicks the raft on the flint, two fellows pop up, ask what is needed. I. orders to cut off the thief's head. Brothers can't lift their bodies and throw them into the lake. I. orders the fellows to do this out of flint. They are building a city, and brothers and father move there to live. Well done, I. bring horses and a carriage, dress them as a "prynets", I. goes to marry the king, receives consent. The princess's former fiancé is at war. I. helps: well done, they cast fog on the army, the soldiers killed each other, the king's army is feasting. His wife gave I. a drink, found out the secret of his cunning, changed the flint, and sent a letter to the former groom to go to war again. The king's drunken army dies, his wife flies in bed with her beloved. I. teaches the king a curse and orders him to turn him into a stallion, sell his daughter to his current husband, but without a check; the king forgot, sold him in bridle; the ex-wife recognizes her former husband and orders him to be killed. The horse is hung by the neck and suffocates; asks the girl who comes to feed the horses to cast off her blood when he is killed under the queen's window; pluck the upper apple from the tree that grows (in it) wedding ring), wrap it in a handkerchief, pinch off a piece of bark when the tree is cut. The girl does everything, throws a sliver into the water, the sliver turns into a golden-fin goose. The king (i.e. the current husband of I.'s wife) undressed, climbed into the water; the goose lures him further from the shore, takes off, grabs the flint left in his clothes, regains his human appearance, forgave that king, He tied his ex-wife to a stallion, marries a girl who helped him]: Onchukov 2008, No. 58:187-189; Russians (Pinega, p. Poganets, 1927, E.F.Fofanova, 12 years old) [The king takes turns sending his sons to watch the garden where apples are missing. The elders fall asleep and don't see the thief. The youngest sees that the apples are being stolen by a polar bear. He asks his brothers to let him down into the hole from which the beast comes out. He finds himself in a copper hut, the girl transfers threads from ball to ball, feeds and poit-puts to bed (at the request of the guest), learns about his goal and says that there are 2 more girls and a grandmother ahead. In a silver hut, a girl winds silver threads, everything repeats itself, and the same goes in a golden hut (a girl with gold threads says that the bear lives with her grandmother). He promises to marry each of the girls. Ivan turns his hut on his chicken foot, the old woman tells him that the bear will force him to heat the bathhouse, and then ask him to give it up, but this cannot be done, otherwise the beast will eat him. He follows the old woman's advice, does not give up when the bear asks, the beast writhes and dies. Ivan rips off his skin, picks up his grandmother and three girls. Every girl twists the hut into a ball and puts it in her pocket. They go to the hole, Ivan warms the crows with a bear skin, sends them upstairs to the girls' brothers, and they start fighting over them. The brothers raise Ivan, but not completely and throw him back into the hole. The raven brings Ivan to the surface of the earth, and on the way, the bird eats the bull's meat it brings, which Ivan throws into his beak when it ends, cuts off the meat from his legs. The raven sees that the prince is limping, spits out his meat and putting it at his feet. He returns to his kingdom during the wedding of a girl from a golden hut, marries her, she develops a hut out of a ball]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 77:175-178; Russians (Pskov) [two smart brothers, and Ivan - fool; someone got into the habit of eating oats; the smart go to guard, overslept; I. grabbed Sivchik-Burchik; let her go for promising to serve; the king put his daughter on the second floor, whoever at gallop removes the ring from her hand, he will marry; I. got it on Sivchik-Burchik; came to the tsar, showed the ring, became Ivan Tsarevich]: Ploshchuk 2004, No. 37:108-109 (approximately the same No. 38:109-112); Russians (Moscow) [someone tramples wheat; the eldest son guards, falls asleep; the same average; the youngest fool grabbed the goblin and began to beat; he paid off with gold, silver and copper and gave a pipe; if you play, the pigs dance; the princess bought one a pig, showed herself knee-length for this; next time she bought a pig and two piglets, undressed naked; the king will give it to whoever shows signs; fool: golden hair under his right shoulder, golden hair under his left shoulder silver, gold star on the back; wedding]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 59:162-164; Russians (Voronezh) [An old man kills a bird with 21 eggs while hunting. The old woman orders him to incubate them. After 21 weeks, 20 sons hatch, and a week later, the last son, Ivan the Boltun, appears. The old man gets rich, notices that someone steals ricks, sends his sons to guard at night, the older brothers fall asleep and do not see the thief, and Ivan's turn comes the last night. He prepares a hammer and iron bits. Ivan does not sleep and catches a mare and its 21 foals (hit between his ears with a hammer). The father praises Ivan, takes the mare, the brothers sort out the foals, Ivan gets the weakest. Father and sons go hunting. Four times Ivan lets the foal go into the field to gain strength (he bends first at hand, then under his foot, under a sitting rider). Ivan catches up with his brothers, sees fire on the third day, finds a golden pen, despite the skate's warnings, and takes it with him. The father orders all horses to be cleaned, Ivan waves his pen - his horse turns gold. The father praises Ivan and shames the rest of the brothers. The brothers are jealous and tell their father that Ivan boasts to catch a toy cat, a dancer gander and a tsimbalka fox, the father sends his youngest son for animals. With the help of a horse, he does everything. The brothers tell their father that Ivan can get samogudes. Ivan finds himself at Baba Yaga, who gives him a ball, he brings him to Yaga's middle sister, the mother of Snake Gorynych, who keeps harps. The mother feeds her son, puts him to play cards with Ivan, and the players agree that the winner will eat the loser. Ivan wins in two days, asks to give him the harp, the Serpent gives it back, rejoices that he remains alive and has not been eaten. The father again, out of slander of his elder sons, orders Ivan to get Mary Queen. He sails by ship, lures the princess to him by playing the harp (I've never heard it), and brings it to his father. The father then gives all orders to his son at the request of the bride and demands to bring her box. Ivan distracts the palace guards by releasing his golden horse, pulls out the box and bringing it back. He hunts 12 mares on his father's orders: he wraps his horse with twine and pours resin over him - he drives horses out of the sea, his protection is torn by the teeth of horses. By order of his father, he milks mares, boils their milk and jumps into it after the horse's conditional signal. Ivan is getting handsome. Marya demands that her father also swim, but he dies in boiling milk. Ivan marries Mary]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 17:97-105; Russians (Kursk, Timsky, etc.) [The Tsar has three sons - Vasily Tsarevich, Dmitry Tsarevich, Ivan Tsarevich. Someone mows the grass every night. The king and older brothers are on guard, they can't catch anyone. I. catches a peasant - himself from his fingernail, a beard from his elbow, brings him to his father, who puts him in prison. The next day, I. plays, shoots an arrow, and she ends up in prison. The man asks to let him out, promising to come in handy. I., while his mother searches in his head, steals the keys. The king, wanting to show the prisoner to the guests, discovers the loss, orders I. The princes propose to expel him. Ivan Tsarevich is given to Uncle Ivan. They go, they want to get drunk, they find a well in the woods. The uncle, threatening to drown I., forces him to recognize him as a prince, exchange clothes and horses, signing an agreement in blood. They come to see the prince. The false prince goes to the palace, and I. is sent to the bird's yard. The prince's sheep fell ill. The uncle says that I. He drives them into the forest, sits on a stump, complains about the peasant, because of whom he is suffering. The little man shows up, blows at the sheep, heals them. He leads I. to himself, in the glacier he gives a bucket of mash to drink, from which I. becomes strong. The peasant's mother gives a magic tablecloth and a stone that will glow brighter than 20 candles. I. are made a senior groom. He uses a tablecloth to treat the rest of the grooms. The next day, the prince orders the cows to be healed. Likewise, a man gives two buckets of braga to drink, and his mother gives a cane that can summon 12 musicians and 5,000 soldiers. I. walks and has fun. The next day he is ordered to cure sick horses. Same thing, three buckets. I.: If there were a pole, one end in the ground and the other in the sky, it would turn all the light. The little man gives half a bucket of braga of powerlessness. He gives three horses: "Gay, sivka-burka, eternal kaurka! Stand in front of me like a leaf in front of grass!" They served him for 33 years, tells them to serve I. as well, says goodbye. Prince gives I. a glass of vodka as a reward, I. drinks and goes to bed. When he wakes up, the windows of the wards are covered with black cloth. An old woman and an old man from the kitchen explain that a strong army rises to the prince, 3 inches in his forehead and 3 arshins in his shoulders. I. calls a horse, breaks the army. He calls the hero a broad-minded pig. The enemy hero shouts that he had no opponents in the world and demands: "Raise my eyebrows!" Fifteen people lift him up, I. cuts off his head. Sleeps 6 days and 6 nights. When he wakes up, the barn blows down with his spirit. The old man reports that a soldier of 6 inches in his forehead and 6 arshins in his shoulders rises to the prince. I. sits on the second horse, breaks the army. Sleeps 9 days and 9 nights. The windows are black again. Old man: A soldier with 9 inches in his forehead and 9 arshins in his shoulders rises to the prince. I. sits on his "heroic horse". He calls the hero a broad-minded bull. The hero tells you to raise your eyebrows. Fifty people raise his eyebrows. They come together, they don't hit each other, both swords break in half. I.: "My father is riding your father to fetch water." The hero turns around, I. cuts off his head. He returns, marries his prince's daughter, leaves his uncle]: Belkin 1853, No. 10:533-536; Ukrainians (Tarnov, Kholmskaya Gubernia) [The king has three sons, two clever, and the third one is stupid. He owns a garden that wild boars invade and cause damage. The king promises half a kingdom to whoever kills a wild boar. Sons hear this, they go to the garden to shoot the boar. They get followed by a silly man, they laugh at him. They come, sit in an ambush, the elder shoots and misses, the middle one too, the stupid one shoots and kills a wild boar. They are sorted out by anger. The eldest decides to kill him so that he does not get half the kingdom, the middle asks not to kill him, because this is also the soul. But he shoots a fool and kills him, wraps him in a corner and sprinkles him a little bit. They go back to their father, who asks who killed the boar. The elder says he is. His father gives him what he promised but asks him where the fool is. They say that they have gone to Volyn. My father is worried if they did something to him, but they say that nothing happened, he left because he was stupid. In spring, a shepherd chases sheep in the field behind the garden. While they are grazing, he is lying on the ground, seeing a plant next to him. That's how a soul came out of the grave, but he mistook it for a plant. He cuts off his pipe to play it, but only brings it to his lips when she starts playing: "Little by little, vlach, play, ah, don't hit my heart completely, in the meadow, in the meadow, in the meadow, my brother killed my brother, for that boar that dug in the garden." He gets scared, comes home and tells people. Someone reports to the king that Vlah has found a plant that plays. He calls for everyone to be convened: both the army and all commanders. When everyone agrees, the king takes the pipe in his hand, she starts playing and calls him father. The mother takes to play, she treats her like her mother. The middle brother takes: "Little by little, robber, play, ah, don't hit my heart completely, you were also there when my brother killed me for the boar he dug in the garden." The king orders the oldest to play, he does not want to, he is afraid. He plays like this: "Little by little, robber, play, ah, don't hit my heart completely, in the meadow, in the meadow, you killed me for the boar you dug in the garden." The king is furious and tells him to go where Vlach cut this plant. Everyone comes there, the army is all around, raking the ground, there is a surviving corpse. It becomes clear that the killer is an older brother, who no longer denies it. The king orders death to be repaid by death so that the warriors stab him and bring his heart and little finger. They cut off his finger and asks him not to be killed. The eldest, with mercy on him, they carve out the heart of the dog that follows them and, along with his little finger, take him to the king, and let him go. He runs away, moves away, far away to Volyn, where he establishes a kingdom and dominates. Years go by, the king has a daughter growing up, she is incredibly beautiful, she does not want to marry anyone but someone as beautiful as herself. The eldest son hears about this, who is as handsome as she is because she is her own brother. He comes, doesn't say who he is, they don't recognize him, the Queen likes him right away, but she wonders why he never takes off his gloves and eats like that, which gives her doubts. One day he takes her to the garden for a walk, and they walk and say that they are about to get married. She says she would give him a ring by now and put it on his hand herself. He gives a hand, she quickly takes off her glove and discovers that he doesn't have a finger. She says he should be her brother. He confirms and asks what to do now to somehow convey this to his father so that he does not hold a grudge against him. At dinner, the Queen tells her father that it is her brother, whom he, the father, ordered to be killed, begs her not to be angry with him. The king decides that he was also furious then, because both the child and the child, should not be resurrected, but that one should be killed, let him live. Korolevich gives money to all troops and commanders for releasing him, then dominates with his father]: Kolberg 1964, No. 10:98-101; Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Mukachevo District, p. Puznyakovtsy) [The tsar has a vegetable garden with golden carrots, it is stolen, the soldiers cannot protect it. The gypsy woman is guessing at the maps: only one of his three sons will cut carrots. The elder takes corned beef, bread and wine with him. The mouse asks to share, he kicks her. He falls asleep at midnight, the carrots are eaten in the morning. It's the same with the middle son. The younger one treats the mouse. She says that golden carrots are eaten by a golden bear. When she comes, she will bite the sleeping prince's ear, he will wake up and must shoot without looking. The prince injures a bear and follows the bloody trail with his brothers to the hole. They chain the elder, he does not return, then the middle one (the same). The youngest comes down, walks across the field, sees a hut. There's an old woman on the stove, he bows to her. Baba thanks and says she would have eaten it otherwise. I haven't heard of the gold bear, she gives me a bottle of strength and a ring that calls 12 devils to help. The prince comes to another hut, where a woman is older than the first one on the stove. Thanks for the welcome, otherwise I would eat it. I haven't heard of a golden bear, she gives me a bottle of strength and a ring that summons 24 devils. She sends her to her sister, who is so old that her eyelids are covered with brines. Baba thanks for the greeting, otherwise she would eat it. I've heard about the bear, but I don't know where it is now. It gives a bottle of strength and a ring. The prince comes to a bridge made of braids, 12 devils fight on it, and he cannot cross. At this time, the girl rides on a wagon drawn by two dogs. This is the first woman's daughter. Dogs enter the swamp and cannot pull out the wagon, the prince pulls it out. The girl gives the boat, she carries the prince herself and returns to the owner. The prince comes to the bridge with razors, with 24 traits fighting on it. She can't cross, the second woman's daughter is riding the wagon (all the same). The prince comes to the hut, where there is a snake (shuffling). She is not at home, and the third woman's daughter cooks food, she's a snake cook. He tells me to run, the prince is not afraid. Snake: It smells like a sinful soul. The prince drinks a bottle of strength, defeats the snake, which promises to tell you where the golden bear is - the wounded man is lying at home. And the prince's brothers are hanged upside down in her chimney. She revives them with live ointment, and the prince goes to the golden bear. She drinks a second bottle of strength, starts to fight, whistles at the ring given by the first woman, 12 devils help defeat the bear. The prince rips off his skin with gold fur, cuts off the tip of his tongue, puts it in his pocket. The snake is calling to fight again. The prince drinks the third bottle of strength, the snake overcomes, he whistles at the first ring, 12 devils come running, and help kill the snake. He takes all three girls and brothers with him, comes to a hole in our world. First they raise girls, then brothers with bear skin, and the younger one puts a stone in his place because the brothers have an unmarried relative, a third girl for him. The basket with the stone is raised to the middle and released. The prince remembers his second ring and whistles. 24 traits come. He orders them to make an invisible hat, a boot that carries where they need to go, and a sword to cut everything he commands. The boot brings it to his father. There's a wedding, the prince takes off his invisible hat and is hired by a servant. He puts the rings of their mothers on plates for the girls and tells the king everything. The king allows him to treat his brothers as he pleases. He puts them in prison, marries the most beautiful of the three girls]: Day 1981:45-50; Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [the king has a meadow of silk grass; someone grazes on it; the king promises a daughter to him what he finds out; three sons of an ordinary man undertake to guard; the middle, the youngest did not see; the youngest Ivan the Fool feeds the mouse; she says that these are silver, gold, diamond horses; everyone needs remove the bridle and not give it back; I. hid the bridles in the hollow, did not tell anything; the grass is intact; the king does not want to give his daughter for I.; will give it to the one who jumps to the third tier {tower}; each of the horses orders to remove a harness and a sword (silver, gold, diamond) from her left ear; the princess gives I. a handkerchief, then a ring, then hit I. in the forehead with a royal seal; he hides the gifts in ash, pulled a stocking over his forehead, but they found him; the young were settled in a goose stable; enemies attacked, unrecognized I. smashes them; replies to the king that he was from Libovaros (Hungarian: goose town); so three times; the king bandaged the knight's wounded finger; recognized his handkerchief; handed it to I. the crown]: P. Literature in Pankeev 1992:112-122; Ukrainians (Kolomyia, Galicia) [Father and Mother. They have three sons, two are smart, and the third one is stupid. They have a garden and that garden has a wild boar that digs a lot. A father is walking, two smart brothers are walking, they can't kill him. On the third night, the foolish man asks his father to let him kill the boar. His father calls him a fool and doubts him. But he begs his father, his father says he should go to hell, and if he doesn't kill the boar, there's nothing to come home. He aims, kills the boar, brings him home in the morning. The father does not believe that it was a stupid son who killed, his mother believes he sends him to take food in the field to his brothers who plow. He brings food, they ask him what it is, they find out that it is the meat of a wild boar that has dug a lot in their garden. They eat meat, send their brother to guard the horses. They decide to kill him, because his father will love only a foolish man. And he didn't come to them to say that my brother had gone somewhere. Killed and buried under an elderberry. The guy grazes cattle there, makes an elderberry pipe, plays, the pipe says, "Oh play, son, play! One enemy killed, the other tried to persuade him for digging in the kindergarten." The guy keeps playing, the pipe repeats the same thing. He comes home and lets the hostess he served with play. The pipe calls her mom. Gives the brothers who killed him the pipe says, "Oh you enemy, play! And you, the enemy, killed, and he tried to persuade him for digging in the kindergarten." Then the brothers give it to their sister, the pipe turns to her. A father who was looking for that stupid son and couldn't find him realizes that they killed him and buried him. He asks the guy where he got the pipe, the guy shows that the old man finds the victim in the hole. Gives her other sons to prison for twenty years]: Bugiel 1910:238-239; Ukrainians (p. Brodsky's Berlin, Galicia) [The king has three sons: two smart, the third stupid. He owns a garden, a wild boar got into the garden and started digging. The king says that whoever protects the garden will sit on his throne. The eldest son calls in, goes, but doesn't kill. The youngest goes and doesn't kill. The average decides to go. They laugh at him like he's a fool. A foolish man goes to the garden, makes his own bed, goes to bed and sleeps. He finds a thorny thistle, sticks it in his heads, and it prevents him from falling asleep. A boar comes, starts digging and picking apples, a fool kills him with a gun. He goes to his father very happy, reports. The brothers laugh at him, call him a fool, He swears. Father and brothers go to see it and make sure it's true. His father admires him and tells his brothers that he is smarter than both of them. They advise him what to do, decide to go for a walk and kill him there. Mikhasia's name is to go out with them. They find a fish pond in which the water has dried up, but there is silt. Little brother doesn't agree to kill. The older brother punches the stupid man in the nose, then on the back of the head, he loses consciousness and falls. The elder grabs a stick for the tanning tank and beats the youngest to death. They unfold the fabric, bury it in the mud and stick a stick in that place. The stick is accepted, a golden stalk grows, golden apples on it, a golden violin and a bow hang on it. The shepherd drives the herd, drives him to the pond. He has a son, and he sends his son to wrap his herd from the pond so that someone doesn't get stuck. The shepherdess goes to wrap, sees a golden apple tree, a violin and a bow, gets out, picks apples, takes off his violin and bow. He wraps the cattle, starts playing, the violin says: "Little by little, little by little, my shepherdess, play, only mine, just don't cut my heart! For in the meadow by the branches, my brother killed me for the veprik that dug in the garden." The shepherdess comes running to his father, says he plays. The violin speaks to him. He brings the cattle to the king, comes to the rooms, brings the violin, kisses his hand and tells him where he got it. The king plays, the violin calls him father. The king is crying, the queen is playing, the violin calls her mother. My little brother comes and asks me to play, the violin says: "Little by little, little by little, my brother, play, just mine, just don't cut my heart! For in the meadow by the branches you said: "Don't hit!" , for the veprik who dug in the garden." My older brother comes and asks for a violin, she says: "Little by little, little by little, my brother, play, just mine, just don't cut my heart! For you killed me in the meadow by the branches, because of the veprik that dug in the garden." They go with the shepherd, the shepherd shows the place where the apples were picked, they begin to dig a hole, and find the victim in the mud. The king orders that the stallion from Staney be brought and the eldest son tied to the tail. He is allowed into an open field: where he hits his head, there is a valley, and where he hits the rear, there is a mound]: Franko 1895, pp. 221-222; Ukrainians (p. Terebovlyansky Street, Galicia) [The king has three sons. He owns a large field and takes great care of it. A pig comes to that field and digs. He tries different ways to banish that boar, but it fails. The king promises a reward to whoever kills this boar. He promises half a kingdom. Everyone is starting to claim it, but no one succeeds. The youngest princess kills a boar. When his oldest brother finds out, he prevents him from reaching the king, kills him, buries him in the same field, and boasts that he killed the boar. The king is very happy with this and gives him half his kingdom demanding that he marry immediately. He starts questioning him where his youngest son is. He replies that he has gone somewhere around the world, and the king believes him. Tsesarevich invites tailors to sew clothes for the wedding. The tailors finish their work, he buys them vodka to treat them. One tailor gets very drunk and starts walking around the field and singing in a way that everyone can't admire it. The tailor says she can not only sing but also play. He asks him to make him a pipe, and he will play with it. But no one can make a pipe. He gets angry, goes to the field and starts looking until he finds a great wand on the grave. He sits on that grave and makes a pipe for himself, tries to play, and the pipe sings: Little by little, tailor, play, and don't interrupt my heart's paradise! My brother killed me, hid me in the field, because of the veprik he dug in the garden. The tailor gets very scared and sobers up with fear. He goes to the king, says that he saw a beautiful willow, took a knife, cut off a twig, saw a stone, sat on it and started playing, and the pipe sang. The king says that if that's true, he'll give him four oxen, and if it's not true, he'll get five beeches. He agrees. The king picks up the pipe and starts playing. Dudka calls him a priest. He gets very scared and tells his oldest son to play. Dudka calls him a thief. When everyone hears this, they take out a wild horse and tear the elder queen with harrows]: Zdziarski 1903, No. 2:155-156; Western Ukrainians (Podolia) [someone steals golden apples from a royal apple tree; the elder queen guards, falls asleep; the same middle one; the youngest fool put a wreath of thorns over his head and began to read a book; as soon as he bites his nose, the thorns prick, he continues to read; a bird has arrived, he pulled out her tail; the queens parted on different roads; the youngest horse was eaten by a wolf; the queen complained see. Mykolay; he gathered the wolves, asked who ate the horse, told that wolf to take the queen; the wolf brings him to where the beautiful horse is, tells him to take it without a bridle; the queen took the bridle, was caught; he will be given the horse if will get a greyhound; the wolf brings it to the greyhound, tells you not to take the lantsukhiv (?) , he takes it, he is told to get the girl; the wolf: but don't kiss her; the cage with that bird, and the girl is sleeping next to him; the queen takes the cage and the girl, sits on the wolf; he chipped in as a girl, the queen got a greyhound; then but with the horse; sending the queen home, the wolf warns not to tell his brothers anything - they will kill; the wolf found the body, ordered the crow to bring live water; he brought it, the wolf revived the queen; tells pretend to be a doctor; at home the girl is sick, the bird does not sing; as soon as they saw the queen, the girl recovered, the bird sang; the queen told his father everything; he married him to the girl he had received, and his brothers ordered to be shot]: Levchenko 1928, No. 492:357-359; Ukrainians (Podolsk Gubernia), Nemirov [Husband and wife, they have three sons - two smart, and the third is a fool. Smart scientists, well-dressed, don't do anything. A fool at work does not dress well and does not want light bread. My father has a very nice garden, but something is starting to damage him. My father says that if anyone were to track down the enemy who was emptying the garden, he would give him half of his farm. The eldest son is called in. He brings pillows and covers to the garden, lies down and sleeps until morning. Even more damage is being done to the garden that night. My father is crying. The middle son goes the next night, lies under a pear tree and sleeps until morning. My father is upset. On the third night, Stupid asks to be allowed to guard the garden. When it gets dark, he ambushes him in the ditch. At midnight, a hefty boar comes into the garden, begins to dig the ground and eats young roots. A fool crawls up to him, kills him with an ax on the head, and only then goes to bed. In the morning, smart brothers get up to watch and laugh at the Stupid, what kind of guard he is. But when they see a wild boar, they turn pale. They resent that Stupid will get parental goodness, and why did they study then? The elder takes the axe lying near the boar, kills the Stupid, the other brother drags the victim into a hole, throws rose hips and thorns. They come to their father and say they've caught a pest. The father is very happy, he asks where the Stupid is, and the sons jokingly say that he must have taken a stupid path. Dad says that once he's gone, let him be kind of silly. One day, a shepherdess drives cattle near that garden, jumps over the ditch, cuts a pipe for himself, puts it to his mouth, and she plays: "Slow, slow, shepherdess, play; don't hit my heart completely: brother He killed me; the younger one hid me, covered me with thorns, because of the veprik that dug in the garden." And my father is at the gate listening. He asks what kind of pipe he has. He replies that he carved it in his garden. The father asks me to play, and the pipe calls him father. The father is amazed, calls his educated sons, makes him play. The pipe says, "Slowly, brother, play; don't hit my heart completely: you killed me; the youngest one hid me, covered me with thorns, because of the veprik he dug in the garden." They knit it it. The father is calling his youngest son. As soon as he puts a pipe to his mouth, she says: "Slowly, brother, play; don't hit my heart completely: my brother killed me; you hid me, covered me with thorns and rose hips, so the veprick that dug in the garden." They also link this up, they take both to prison. That man gives the shepherdess his best horse and that pipe to go and bring revitalizing and healing water. A shepherdess brings it from afar. They're digging up the Stupid. They pour healing water on his head, his skull grows together; they pour revitalizing water, the guy begins to breathe. The father rejoices, lives out his life with the Stupid and the shepherdess, who got all his father's goods [Gribinyuk 1908:13-17]; Ukrainians: Rudchenko 1869, No. 55 (Kievskaya, Umansky u.) [Man, he has three sons: two smart, the third one is a fool. That man's garden, where a wild boar is used to, eats apples under an apple tree and digs. The eldest son says he will go to the garden with the intention of killing the boar. She goes, sits under an apple tree, falls asleep. The boar comes, eats apples, digs in the garden, leaves. He wakes up, sees traces of the boar's presence, goes home, boasts that he hasn't lost his life. His little brother goes to the second night, but he can't kill himself either. A fool goes to the third night. He comes to the garden, paves thorns under an apple tree, takes a large poppy pestle and sits on thorns. The thorns keep him awake. At night, a wild boar comes, goes under an apple tree, a fool sneaks up quietly and kills him on the head with a pestle. He comes to the house, asks the brothers to put the oxen in the cart to go and pick up the wild boar from the garden. They're laughing at him. He harnesses the oxen himself and goes, the brothers follow him. They come to the garden and see a wild boar lying under an apple tree. The two brothers try to roll it on the cart, but they can't move it. The fool asks them to stand in front of the oxen, picks up the boar under his belly and pulls them to the cart. The brothers see that he is so strong, and he also killed a wild boar, they envy him, they say that if they bring this boar home, his father will see him and then he will pay him, but they don't, it's better to kill him and say at home that he went looking for another one. They kill him and bury it under an apple tree. They bring the wild boar home, the father asks them where the fool is. They say he went to look for the second boar, he said that two of them came, but he killed one and the other ran away, so he went after him with the intention of killing him. They fiddle around the boar, smear it, salt lard. On the grave where the fool was buried, a kupyr grows (lat. Anthríscus); a shepherd grazes cattle there, cuts off that kupyr, makes a pipe out of it. When he starts playing, the pipe sings: "Little by little, shepherdess, play, don't hit my heart completely: my brothers killed me, killed me from the light because of the wild boar that dug in the garden." He walks near cattle, plays. A Cossack goes, hears him playing nicely, asks him to sell this pipe. The shepherd sells. The Cossack is driving along the road, playing, the pipe turns to him. He comes to the village and asks that family to spend the night. He plays there, then lets the owner play. The pipe refers to him like a priest. That man asks where he got it, the Cossack says he bought it from a guy, and that guy says he carved it in your garden. The boys confess that they killed their brother. The father tells them to be sent to prison, the fool is dug up and buried in the cemetery. The fool's father celebrates lunch on it], 56 (Romanovka Novograd-Volynsky at. Volyn Gubernia) [Three brothers, two clever, and the third is a fool, they have golden apples in their garden that a boar is used to. A father sends his sons to guard. The elder goes, does not wait, falls asleep. A boar comes, digs, eats an apple, leaves. Dad gets up, counts apples, there's no one. He sends the middle man, he waits, he falls asleep. A boar comes, digs, eats an apple, leaves. Dad gets up, counts apples, but there's no one again. The fool says he'll go. My father doubts him. The fool asks for a gun. The father does not want to, the fool takes it himself, goes to watch. He breaks the thorns, stumbles them around them, sits. When he sleeps, he stabs him. He hears a boar coming. Only he wants to dig, a fool shoots at him. Brothers hear and come. They see that the boar is lying and they say that they will get it. The elder suggests killing a fool, burying it in a hole and saying that they killed a boar. They kill, bury them in a hole, take a wild boar themselves, go, wake their father up, say they sit on the doorstep, when suddenly a boar comes and they kill him. One master is driving, seeing that a beautiful viburnum has grown on the mound. He gets out, walks, cuts, makes a pipe and plays. She plays and sings herself: "Play, master, play, just don't hurt my heart! My brother killed me, my brother buried me, but because of the wild boar he dug in the kindergarten." I went to the tavern, where the father of the victim was. Pan says he was driving, cutting a pipe, and she was playing herself. Dad takes him, plays, she calls him dad. She brings her home, lets her mother play. Dudka calls her mom. Dad lets his brothers play, but they don't. He orders. The youngest takes it, the pipe calls him brother. The father lets the eldest who killed him play, he doesn't want to, the father yells at him. He takes and plays: "Play, brother, play, just don't hurt my heart! You killed me, you buried me because of the wild boar you dug in the kindergarten." Dad wants us to take you to where he killed him. My brother is driving. They dig up, bury the dead in the cemetery, tie the older brother to the stallion, who even breaks his bones]: 156-158, 159-161, 160 (Chernihiv Gubernia) [The fairy tale is completely identical to No. 56, they only sing: "Little by little, master, play, don't hit my heart completely: that brother killed me, stuck a knife in my heart because of the veprik who dug in the garden"].

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [Sultan Reshid has 4 sons, the youngest is 12 years old; the Sultan sowed golden wheat, poured the harvest into ingots; someone steals wheat; the eldest son went on guard, fell asleep; the same second; the third saw an arap, which jumped off his horse and began to mow wheat; the young man grabbed him by his long white hair, causing the arap to lose his strength; he was lowered into the cellar, tied to each hair with an iron weight; R. notified the neighboring kings, inviting them to look at the monster; the youngest son Kerim played the ball, he fell into the cellar to the arap; K. found the key from his father, went down; the arap asked for the release of 10 hairs; then shook off the rest of the weights, summoned the winged horse; when he flew away, he promised K. to help him; the assembled kings asked R. not to kill his son, but only to expel him; K.'s mother wrote to her relative Dervish Sultan a request to shelter boy; Kerima was caught up with rider Ali, changed food supplies; K. ate salty cakes, wanted to drink; went down to the well; Ali made K. swear that they would change names and statuses; D. appointed the deceiver was his heir; he was going to marry D.'s daughter, but she disgusted him; the deceiver said that his servant could get 40 horses with golden manes and tails; K. drove the data he did not know where to go, he fell asleep; the arap carried him to his palace; the Arap's wife gave him a box in which a winged duldulle is easy to fly around the universe; the eldest daughter is a walnut, in which a table is magic; the youngest is hazelnut, wearing festive clothes; the arap himself gave three glasses of water, K. became one of the strongest heroes in the world; 40 days later K. flew on a duldula to D., with him 40 horses with gilded manes and tails; the princess saw K. feast alone, fell in love; that night the capital was flooded with light; deceiver: the servant can find out where the light source is; K. came to the arap; he sent in search of eagles and nocturnal birds; it turned out that the sorceress's bird of paradise dropped its pen; K. spoke about this and was sent for a pen; he brought it; the deceiver sent for the bird itself; K. and the arap feasted for 35 days, then we went to the sorceress; at the gate there is a lion and a horse, they should be given meat and hay; they must drink from a rotten stream, praise the water; eat wormy pears, praise them; if after the third attempt you do not grab the sorceress will turn the cage with the bird into stone; the tree on which the cage dodged, but the third time K. grabbed the cage; the pear, the stream, the lion, the horse refuse to detain K. - he praised them; the old woman advises the deceiver to tell K. to get the sorceress herself; arap: now in the palace of the sorceress who will sleep, you must lubricate each door with fragrant oil; take an oath from the sorceress with all the sanctities of the world and heaven; her dwarf servant flew for the mistress; when they arrived, Kerim's oath expired; Ali was tied to 40 horses; D. married K. to his daughter and sorceress; the wedding was 40 days and nights]: Kondaraki 1875, No. 6:68-82 (=1883a: 21-31); Kalmyks [a mare of three brothers gets married three times a day, but someone always kidnaps a foal born in the morning; the youngest, Burgin-Tsagan cuts off A foal with an arrow has a pearl tail and a coral mane when it is carried away by a whirlwind; successively kills three mangas, takes everyone's wife; these are the daughters of the sun, moon and night sky, whom the mangas grabbed when they arrived in the guise of swans to swim; the older brothers envy that the youngest's wife is more beautiful, leave their sword at the entrance; blind and armless come to the legless; kidnap the khan's daughter, make him a sister; the fire goes out, she comes to the old woman for it, she puts the coals in the hem, finds a house on an ash trail, drinks the girl's blood with her copper beak; the brothers guard, beat the old woman, force her to swallow and regurgitate everyone, they recover; B. is not regurgitated, the sparrow screams that he is in the finger of an old woman; under the guise of Gelyunga, B. comes to his brothers, his wife recognizes him; they play cards for his younger brother's wife; B. cuts off their heads]: Vatagin 1964:106-115; Abkhazians [the bird steals the prince's apples, there are three left; three sons remain guarded, the eldest fall asleep, the younger Hajarat sees the bird take the apple away, but fascinated and does not interfere with her; the brothers go in search, hiding their penknives at the fork; the youngest's horse is dead, but God sends him another; in the cave, the Agulshap eats the horse, tells him to sit on it, brings it there, where is the bird; the local prince asks to get a horse for the bird; the agulshap brings the horse to the owner, H. quietly pulled out the horse's hairs, he follows him, they pick up the daughter of the prince, the owner of the bird, return to cave, H. comes home with a horse, a bride and a bird; after a while he goes to look for brothers; both are simple shepherds, H. returns them]: Shakryl 1975, No. 10:42-53; Abazins: Tugov 1985, No. 29 [horses disappear in the village at night; the khan sends his eldest son, who hides in horror when he sees a terrible rider; the same youngest son; young servant Murat guards three nights, kills horsemen on white, bay, raven horses, hides horses; Khan is dissatisfied that the servant, not sons, defeated enemies; adopts M., but sends sons with him to return the kidnapped horses and kill M.; all three on broken horses they come to the village of kidnappers, marry their widows; when leaving, M.'s wife tells them not to look through one window; he looks at the room and golden shoes outside the window; when he returns, the wife explains that the heavenly maiden left them, which her first husband tried to catch in vain; a black horse teaches M. not to stop in a hot village, to stop where the frost is, to grab the hair that causes flies to fight, exchange it for fly wings, in the form of a fly to the sky, bite that girl, promise to return her shoes; M. brings the heavenly girl into a second wife; the brothers are jealous, they cut off M.'s legs in the forest, his wives are turned into maids; M. meets a blind, armless man, they were also maimed by their brothers; all three bring the girl to cook and wash; her fire goes out, she sees smoke, comes to the old woman; the old woman walks on the ash on the trail, sucks the girl's blood; the brothers guard, grab the old woman, force the girl to swallow and regurgitate, making her healthy; the same with cripples; M. does not regurgitate; the bird tells the old woman to be burned, found in ash finger, M. in it; brothers return the girl to her parents; unrecognized M. comes to Khan, where a feast and an archery competition; kills brothers with arrows, Khan dies of fear, M. becomes khan], 47 [every year, someone steals a millet harvest in the Ishak field; the eldest son, Hajibekir, goes to guard and falls asleep; the same middle Mhamat; the younger Solman hooked the stallion, the leader of the herd; he gives for himself three horses, hairs, if burned, will come to the rescue; S. horses are bought for a lot of money; the prince calls him to him, S. summons his magic horse; on the way, despite the horse's warning, picks up a pen eagle; prince likes S.; an envious adviser suggests that S. give him a pen; then 1) bring that eagle; the horse orders to dig a hole, pour grains, all the birds flock, S. catches an eagle; 2) a golden fat tail of a ram living in the river; the horse teaches you to lure a ram with salt, cut off the tip of the fat tail; 3) a puppy of a female who sits between two seas; the horse teaches you to throw pieces of cloth to the bushes, saying that it is for them pants and a shirt, like walking across a bridge through the bushes, picking up a puppy; 4) the daughter of the Sun and Moon, living in the womb of a whale; she leaves the whale to watch the goods brought by S., he brings it to the prince; 5) the chest of the daughter of the Sun and the Moon; S. climbs into the whale's mouth when he returns the next day, takes out the chest; 6) the bride makes a condition to bring her the golden ring of her Sun Father and Mother Moon; the horse advises what to do; over the sea bridge fish; agrees to walk along it if S. asks how much longer it has to hang like this bridge; Summer and Winter fight, let them pass between them if S. asks how much more they have to fight; the moon first hides S. , then shows her husband; they say that Summer and Winter will fight forever, the fish will always hang as a bridge; S. gives them answers after passing between Summer and Winter, across the fish bridge; the bride tells the groom to swim in boiling milk; prince tells S. to swim, the bride gives him her ring, he leaves the cauldron unharmed; the prince is cooked; S. marries the daughter of the Sun and Moon, becomes a prince]: 54-66, 131-138; Adygs [every day, a sledge apple tree brings an apple from which infertile women conceive, but someone takes the apples away; Pidgash and Pidge, sons of Dad's sledge, are guarded; Pidgash sees a pigeon carrying apples He wounds him with an arrow, moistens his handkerchief with blood; the brothers follow a bloody trail to the sea; Pidgash descends to the bottom, asking his brother to wait for him for a year; comes to the palace, two girls serve him the same apple; They explain that by stealing apples, they were looking for worthy suitors; their third sister Migazesh was injured, only her own blood collected by a sledge will heal her; Jacket touches her wound with a bloody handkerchief; M. He recovers, becomes his wife; a year later, Pijash goes out to look for his brother; they miss each other; Pidge goes down to look for him at sea, M. takes him for her husband; Pidshage sees it, commits suicide, throwing an arrow up and letting it fall on her head; seeing his brother dead, Pidge stabbed himself; pregnant M. wants to return to sea, but her mother refers her to sledges, where she gives birth to sons Imys and Uazirmes]: Lipkin 1951:329-338; Kabardian people [when dying, the father tells three sons to guard the mare once a year, whose foals are kidnapped; the older brother falls asleep, the middle brother does not dare to grab seven-headed new; younger Zaur repulsed a foal, cut off one head; on a hunted horse he follows the trail of a frost; the old woman says that the other kidnapped her daughter, gives scissors, a mirror, a comb; Z. takes away a girl, throws a comb (barbed fence), scissors (seven fortresses), a mirror (the ground is covered with ice); the frost fell, Z. cut off his heads; took the girl as his wife]: Aliyeva, Kardangushev 1977:98-99; Karachays or Balkarians [the old man's apple tree bears fruit every year that brings youth; someone kidnaps him; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep, the younger Hasan knocks down the thief's pen with an arrow the golden bird apple; H. goes to the fork: you will die to the left yourself, the horse to the right; the horse turns right; it is eaten by the wolf; carries H., tells you to take the bird, not to touch the nest; H. takes the nest, captured, the khan promises a bird for the gold-maned stallion Clay Khan; the wolf brings, tells not to take bridles and saddles, H. takes, is captured, the Clay Khan promises a horse in exchange for goldfish from Khan Dadiyan's lake; the wolf brings fish himself, H. makes exchanges, brings poultry to his father, apples no longer disappear]: Aliyeva, Kholaev 1983:61-64; Ossetians [one golden apple ripened on the sledge apple tree a day; it healed people from diseases and healed wounds, although it did not save them from death; at night someone stole an apple; sledges took turns guarding, but to no avail; it was Warhag's turn; he sent his sons to guard Ahsara and Akhsartaga; if an apple is stolen, one of them will be beheaded by sledges, the other's hand will be put on stakes; Ahsartag guarded until midnight, but then told Akhsar that he could continue sleep; at dawn a dove flew in; Ahsartag cut off half of her wing with an arrow, the apple fell to the ground; the brothers followed the bloody trail to the sea; Ahsartag descends into the sea; if the bloody one immediately rises foam, then he died; if white, then let Ahsar wait for him for a year; in a house at the bottom, 7 brothers say that they have 3 sisters; one of them Zerassa got into the habit of stealing sledge apples in the guise of a dove; if you apply cut off her wing and letting her eat an apple, she will recover; whoever cures her, she will marry her; Ahsartag healed Dz.; a year later he remembered to return to her brother; Z. turned herself and her husband into fish and they surfaced; they came to Ahsar's tent, but he was just hunting; Ahsarsag went to look for him, they missed each other; Z. mistook Ahsar for her husband, they looked so similar; Ahsar put him in bed sword; Dz. got up, was offended; Ahsarsag returned, thought that his wife had changed; Ahsar fired an arrow into the sky: let him hit me at the place that Dz touched; the arrow hit Ahsarsag in the little finger and he died; Ahsartag stabbed with a sword; Uastyrzhi descended from heaven with a three-legged horse, promised to bury his brothers if Z. went for him; when he did, Z. said that she must wash herself first, went to the sea, went to her father; Uastyrji promised to find Dz. in the world of the dead; her mother sent Z. to give birth to sledges, otherwise they would not recognize their children as their own; Dz. gave birth in the lower tier of the Warhaga family tower; were born Uryzmag and Khamyts twins; they grew up quickly; H. broke the girl's jug out of mischief; she advised him to find his grandfather Warhag, who grazes sledges; W. recognized them, brought them upstairs to the ancestral towers; married Dz.; died a year later, Dz died a year later; before her death she ordered her sons to guard her tomb for three nights; H. went to guard, but heard music and went to the wedding; at which time Uastyrji entered , revived Dz., got along with her, she gave birth to a girl, died again; Uryzmag heard crying, took out a girl, she was named Shatana; the same in Kaloev 1980:375; addition: On the third night, Uastyrdzhi came to the crypt to D., then let his horse and dog go. A year later, dead D. gave birth to Satan, the foal of Arfan, "the eldest of horses," and the puppy Silam, "the oldest of dogs." D. left offspring that formed the powerful Nart family of Akhsartagkat)]: Libedinsky 1978:50-64; Ossetians [someone's horse poisons millet; three brothers decide to guard one by one; the elders are sleeping, younger Funukts (Cinderella) caught a horse, who gave him a bridle to summon him when necessary; Aldar's daughter is in the tower; he will give it to someone who rips the ring out of her hands; the horse tells F. to pull the saddle out of one of his ears, and from different clothes; F. flew past the tower twice; the third time he tore off the ring; Aldar called the men to identify the groom; F. came in beggar clothes and covered the ring with a rag; but Aldar's daughter noticed the ring and gave the bowl to F.; F. appeared at the wedding in his heroic appearance]: Dzagurov 1973, No. 36:108-113; Ingush [the prince has a copper tree with golden leaves; someone kidnaps them at night; the eldest son goes guard, frightened by the clouds and the wind, says that he did not see anything; the same middle; the youngest began to cut the cloud with a sword, cut off his black finger, followed the bloody trail in the morning; met and took the puller as a companion trees drinking the sea, an arrow that catches a bullet fired by him; the prince's son descends into a hole in the ground; a girl at the spring says that she and her two sisters were carried away by a three-headed eagle; so that they would not missed them, brings them golden leaves; yesterday he returned without one head and without a finger; the prince's son teaches to ask the eagle what his death was; beyond 7 mountains there is a huge ram, there is a hare in it, a duck in a hare, 3 chicks in a duck with with his soul; the prince's son caught the chicks, the eagle died; the prince's son sent the girls upstairs; the youngest gave a ring; 3 horses will appear at noon; if you touch the white one, you will find yourself in the upper world, the red world will remain Here, to black, you will find yourself in the lower world; at the top, the brothers decided to take the girls home, threw the rope down; the young man touched the black one; in the lower world, the Sarmak blocked the river, gives water for the girls it is the turn of the stepfather's daughter; the young man took water several times, then killed Sarmak, nailing him with a sword: no one can pull it out except the one who stuck it; everyone tries, but only the young man pulled it out, gives half the kingdom and daughter; the young man refused: he must go upstairs; stepfathers: the eagle's chicks are eaten by a snake; the young man cut the snake, the chick hid it under its wing so that the eagle, without understanding, would not kill him; the eagle orders to cook carcasses bulls and barrels of water; supplies ran out, the young man cut off the meat from his left game, right hand; left hand; hands; right hand; no more meat; the eagle threw off the young man, caught it, carried it to the ground, put it muscles, they grew; dressed as a shepherd, the young man came to the wedding of his companions with the rescued girls; the youngest recognized his ring; the prince killed insidious friends, the young man married the youngest girl, her sisters passed off as his brothers]: Tankieva 2003:159 (=Malsagov 1983, No. 1:23-29); Nogais: Nogai 1979, No. 10 [father sends sons to guard a thief stealing golden apples; older, middle brother they fall asleep, the youngest grabs the feather of a golden bird; the elder, middle brother goes to look for it, disappear; the youngest comes to the fork, "you will die on the right road, the horse on the left"; walks on the left; the Wolf eats a horse; a young man is lucky; tells him to take a bird without a cage; he takes a cage, raises the alarm; the king promises to give the bird for a horse with a golden mane; the wolf tells not to take the bridle; the young man takes it, the king promises to give horse for gold-haired girl; a young man kills Azdaa with one, two, etc. (up to seven) heads; The wolf pretends to be a girl, a horse, a young man returns with a girl, a horse, a bird; meets brothers; they throw it into a hole; a seven-headed serpent gives water in exchange for a girl; a young man kills a snake; the king puts the young man on an eagle, food and water for seven days; it is not enough; the young man cuts off the meat from his hips, gives his eyes instead of water; on the ground, the eagle returns everything; in the guise of a beggar, a young man comes to the wedding of a gold-haired and older brother; shows a firebird feather; brothers are torn by horses], 17 [every year someone takes away the newborn foal of the Bai mare; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep, the younger Kara-Batyr does not allow the black cloud to carry the foal, it becomes its heroic horse; helps werewolves split the bull's carcass, they ask him to kill the serpent padishah in order to get the khan's daughter; KB consistently cuts off the heads of all werewolves, and then the serpent padishah; kind to the werewolf old woman; she teaches to allow The young man's horse should fight with another who comes out of the lake; when he is tired, he can swim across the sea, there is a tree, a casket on it, a sparrow in the casket, breathing in it the Azdaa that carried the foals; killing Azdaa, brings foals, shows the head of the padishah of snakes and the ears of werewolves, gets the khan's daughter]: 34-45, 83-86; Chechens [the prince has a tree with golden leaves, someone steals them; three sons in turn they guard; only the youngest does not fall asleep, cuts off someone's finger and head; follows a bloody trail; takes a sharp shooter pulling trees, drinking the sea, as companions; they lower the prince's son into the hole; the girl says that they are three daughters of a three-headed eagle, someone cut off one head and finger for their father; she asks her father what he can kill him; he answers that there is a ram around the corner, a hare in it, a duck in a hare, there are three chicks in the duck; the prince's son kills them all, the companions raise the girls upstairs, the youngest leaves the prince's son a ring; tells him to touch the white horse, he will take them to the upper world; red - you will stay here black - you will find yourself lower; companions cut off the rope; the prince's son touches the black one; the old woman says that the Sarmak (dragon) has closed the water; the Sarmak gives water three times, then the prince's son kills him; the padishah sends him to an eagle on a black mountain; a young man kills a snake that eats chicks every year; the eagle takes him to the ground; there is not enough meat, he cuts off his flesh from his leg, from both hands; the eagle regurgitates the meat, puts it back; under the guise of a shepherd, the young man comes to the wedding of the rescued princesses; the youngest recognizes him by the ring; the young man kills traitors, marries, and marries two princesses to his brothers]: Malsagov 1983, No. 1:23-29; Avars [Khan's mare gives birth to gold-tailed and gold-maned foals, someone immediately steals them; the eldest, middle son falls asleep, the youngest Muin sprinkles salt on the wound, tries to snatch the foal from the kidnapper, tears off his leg; the brothers go in search, the elders stay in the cave, the youngest hides under the bridge three times, each time defeats a sledge jumping on a stolen foal; each time in front of the bridge the horse stops, but the sledge says that M. is not here, and if he does, he will kill him; the last sledge is on a three-legged foal, the fight with him was the hardest; M. takes the wife of that sledge for himself, the wives of the other two - brothers; brothers leave their sword at the entrance to the cave, M. cut both legs to the knee, brothers take good and women away; Blind and Bald come to live with M.; kidnap Khan's daughter to cook for them; the fire went out, she came to Hart for fire, she gave it, but began to come to suck blood from her head; Bald, Blind remain on guard, afraid of Hart, do not say anything to Muin; M. grabs hart, makes her swallow Bald and Blind, belch healthy; warns that she will not belch him, for he killed her sledge sons; every organ of hers will have to be cut; Blind and Bald find M. in the little finger of Hart's leg, his his legs are healthy; M. comes to the brothers' wedding, only the youngest girl caught from the sledges recognizes him; no one can pull a bow, pulls only M., asks Pleshivy whether to shoot a chicken or a rooster, that replies that the chicken has nothing to do with it, M. kills the brothers with an arrow; M. marries a sledge girl and a kidnapped cook, M.'s father marries two other sledge girls]: Ganieva 2011b, No. 32:311-316; Lucky [by at night a horse tramples on the peasant's field; the eldest, middle son sleeps, the youngest sprinkles salt into the cut on his little finger, tries to grab the rider, he disappears, leaving a golden shoe; goes to look for a pair; the old woman says that in the city at night someone kills passers-by; a young man sees a creature with a whip hitting the grave, a dead man comes out, it hits again, the dead man returns to the grave; the young man takes away whip; in another city people are naked, for all ships with goods sink at night; a young man sees a hand stretching out of the water, grabs it, tears off the golden ring; goes down to the palace at the bottom of the sea, finds a pair in the chest shoe; three doves fly in, turn into girls; they are daughters of a sea king, they own a shoe, a whip, a ring; a young man takes one as a wife, brings the other two to his brothers; wedding]: Khalilov 1965, No. 43: 101-104; taty [the royal apple tree brings one apple a year, but someone steals it; the eldest, middle son is guarding, did not catch the thief; the youngest hit him with a dagger; on the trail of blood, the brothers reached wells; the elder, middle brother tells them to lower them, immediately shout, "I'm burning!" , they are pulled out; the youngest goes down to the bottom, kills the seven-headed diva, takes his gold and horse, returns to his brothers; their father married, the youngest later became tsar]: Lopatinsky 1894:26-27; Svans [Satana's three sons agree to guard Bagatvir's golden apple tree; the elders fall asleep, the youngest injures the three daughters of heavenly Lord Chirkhaili, moistens their scarves with blood; comes to him treats girls by mixing their own blood into milk; receives medium blood, although C. warns that she is the bride of St. George; at night, the elder brother kills the younger, the middle elder, commits suicide; the bride of St. Giorgi asks to let her go to the water, turns into foam, returns to a woman at the mill, gives birth to three sons; they offend the other boys; the old woman says that their grandmother is poor Satana; they ask an adoptive mother bake khachapuri, presses hot khachapuri to her chest, who admits that their fathers killed each other; Kintiz cuts off all three heads, but one (Badrild) lost a tooth and became a woman , a woman with a stone; K. hit the stone with a sword, Soslan fell out of it, K. considers him a son; S. killed K. with his own sword, came to his grandmother; she orders to tie a bell to each fur of the horse; their ringing frightened Yerechhava's horse, S. killed J.; S. descends to the lower world to the devas; does not burn in the fire, is not crushed by a rock, does not cook in boiling water; S. killed the devas by colliding them with their foreheads]: Jidziguri 1973, No. 11:86-92; Georgians: Glushakov 1905, No. 4 (Imereti) [one apple ripens on the royal apple tree every day; someone is in the habit of plucking; three princes take turns guarding; the eldest, the middle one fell asleep; the youngest also overslept, did not dare to return to the palace and went on a journey; at the crossroads there is an inscription: if you go straight, you will not return back, to the right you will drown, to the left you will lose your horse, but you will find happiness; the prince went to the left; a wolf ran out, ate the horse, ordered him to sit on it, said that the apples were stolen by a hawk; brought him to the palace: take the hawk so that the bells on his feet did not ring; the bells rang; they promised the prince hawk, if he gets Ivan the Tsar's horse; wolf: don't touch the saddles; the prince wanted to take the saddle, was caught, he was told to get David the king's daughter; the wolf gives a piece of wool, he opens the doors and puts the princess to sleep; on the contrary the wolf turned into a princess, the prince received a horse, and then the wolf ran; the same with the hawk; the wolf sends the prince with the princess, the horse and the hawk home, promises to catch up; the king sent his elder sons to look the youngest; they found him sleeping, killed him, took everything away; the wolf senses bad things, revived the prince with live water, drove him to the palace; the prince entered under the guise of a beggar, asked the king what he would do with the murderers (says his story); the tsar says he would hang; the prince opened up, the wolf and the princess who came running confirmed the story; the prince married the princess and persuaded his father not to execute his brothers]: 35-40; Kurdovanidze 1988 (2 ), No. 74 [someone steals apples from the royal garden; the elder, middle princes do not notice the thief, the youngest grabs the bird; she tells it to let it go and follow its footsteps, comes to the tower, where the bird becomes human , does not tell you to unlock one room, flies away to get a wife for the young man; the young man unlocks the room, there are women chained there, hay in front of them, and a horse, meat in front of him; the bird returns, promises to kill next time young man; so twice; the third time the horse tells him to release him and the women; swim under muddy and blue water to increase strength and hair turn golden; take a saddle and armor, kill a decrepit mother a sorcerer; the horse brings the young man to the builders of the wall; it collapses every time, for the horse's brother is underground; the young man digs the ground, the second horse jumps out, follows the young man; he pulls an oxen's stomach over his head, hired the king as a gardener, the youngest princess noticed his golden hair, he tells her to keep silent about it; the devil tells the king to send him his eldest daughter to eat; the young man removes his cowhide, calls the horse, kills a deva; the same with the other two devas, with the middle and younger princesses; to fight with the sorcerer bird, the horse orders to take his brother, cut the sorcerer's head into four parts; the king gathers the male suitors; the elder princesses sit on the knees of noble young men, the youngest on the gardener's knees; they are accommodated in a goose; the king is sick, sends son-in-law to fetch the water of immortality; the younger son-in-law gives it to the elders for permission cut off their little fingers; the king sends them to bring the liver of a guinea pig; the horse descends into the sea: if blood appears, he has wounded the pig, if foam, it must be rescued; blood appears, the young man gives the elders sons-in-law a piece of liver because his horse could kick them; the enemy attacked, the young man defeated everyone, the king bandaged his hand, sees his handkerchief on the gardener's hand, everything turns out; the elder sons-in-law were driven to the lower floor, the youngest was brought closer]: 14-25; Chikovani 1954, No. 3 [someone steals wonderful apples from the royal garden; the elder, middle princes are guarding, sleeping; the younger injures the deva with an arrow, a bloody trail leads under the stone ; the older brothers are afraid to go down, the youngest mother of the deva tells that her son is injured; the young man advises to pour boiling oil into the wound, takes out his arrow; dev dies, the young man kills his mother, frees three beauties; the youngest warns that if his brothers betray him, he should sit not on a black sheep, but on a white sheep; she will carry him to the underworld, it must be said, "Babkin's roof is soft, cotton", will fall on a soft one; brothers pick up beauties, cut off the rope; on a sheep, a young man gets to a crooked old woman, eats porridge from the side where she has a blind eye; the old woman adopts him, says that dev took the water; the young man cut off his head; asks the king to take him upstairs; he says that only Pashkunji can do it; P. constantly eats gveleshapi's chicks; one chick cries, it will be eaten today, the other laughs tomorrow; a young man kills Mr. with an arrow; there is thunder, it rains, it is the mother of the chicks who cries, thinks that the children have been swallowed; the children first hide the savior, then show their mother; she tells them to stock up meat; in flight it ends, the young man carves meat from under his knee; P. says he would eat it if she knew that people's meat is so tasty; heals the young man's wound; the swineherd says that the king's eldest son marries the youngest's bride ; the young man asks for his clothes, he can pull on his bow alone; the bride recognizes him; he kills his brother with an arrow, marries]: 28-33 (=1985, No. 3:19-22); (cf. Dargins [to marry him, a witch sends an old fortune teller to the widowed Khan to say that he is marrying a beauty living in a forest house; Khan finds a girl in the woods, marries; at night, mares disappear; Khan's son guards and injures a bird; in the morning the stepmother is pale and with a bandaged finger; at night he sees a bird penetrate the ground; the khan's son finds his stepmother and an old fortune teller in the dungeon; the witch flies away like a bird, the fortune teller rushes at the young man, but he kills her; around the bones of the people eaten; the khan drives away the son; the young man comes to the old woman; she says that the daughter of a local khan will marry someone who will be able to hit the target three times with a bow; the losers are fed lions; the young man dresses up as a poor man, hits the target; leaves the khan's daughter an expensive ring; the young man kills Azhdah, who was given to pieces people; marries the khan's daughter, the impostors burn the brand; a young man and his wife come to his father, lions have been lowered on his stepmother; his father gives him the throne]: Khalilov 1965, No. 56:156-162); Armenians: Bogoyavlensky 1892b, No. 9 [someone steals apples from the royal apple tree; the eldest, middle princes fall asleep, the youngest Hyn-kyr-kösa; he hides in a well; the brothers are on a bloody trail; only the youngest descended to the bottom, freed three princesses; the youngest says that H.'s life is in a bottle; the young man broke it, cut off X.'s nose, lips and ears; sent the princesses upstairs, the brothers left it below; seeing his nose cut off, etc. H., his horse lifted the young man to the ground; the young man was hired by a jeweler; makes wonderful items that the princesses demand from the grooms for the wedding; killed brothers, opened up to his father, married the younger princess]: 107-116; Ganalanyan 1965 [=Nazinyan 2014:117-129; someone steals fruits from the Magic Apple Tree from the king; the eldest, middle son falls asleep, dev eats apples; the youngest sprinkles salt on the wound, injures the deva, he disappears into the well ; the older, middle brothers can't go down to the well, it's hot there; the younger brothers come down despite his screams; he kills 7, 12, 24-headed devas, frees three princesses, brothers pick them up upstairs, the youngest gives a talisman, tells me to snatch black, red, white horses through the hair; brothers throw a rope; contrary to the warning of the younger princess, the younger brother jumps on Friday not on black, but on a white sheep; she throws it on the red sheep, the red sheep on the black one, that into the dark realm; there the old woman says that the 7-headed vishap took the water, they give him girls to eat; the young man kills the vishap, saves the princess; The king says that only the Emerald Dove can carry it to the ground; the vishap devours its chicks every year; the prince cuts the vishap into pieces, lets the chicks eat; they explain to the Emerald Dove that the young man saved them; the dove orders to take 40 wineskins of water and 40 fat tails with him, brings them to the ground; the prince changes clothes with the shepherd, pretends to be bald, wearing sheep giblets on his head; the girl promises the king to go out marry if the groom brings three gold trays; the prince hires a jeweler, pulls out a talisman, creates trays; before the wedding, the girl burns red hair, wins the red horse; marries, asks father to pardon brothers]: 22-36; Dirr 1920, No. 30 [the old man has three sons, the youngest Jahannes is a fool and a lazy person; someone poisons crops; the eldest, middle sons guard, fall asleep; the youngest cut his finger, poured salt; a horse with fiery wings came down from the sky, J. put a bridle on him, tamed him; the horse promised to be a servant; to call him, you have to whistle and call him three times; the brothers did not believe about the horse; the king will give it back daughter, who will jump on horseback to her balcony on the tower; J.'s horse almost jumped twice, on the third day J. took off the ring from the princess's finger; at home he wrapped his hand with a rag, otherwise the ring shines with fire; everyone gathered to the princess; she untied the dirty rag, the ring shone; Y. washed, dressed, married the princess]: 142-147; Azerbaijanis: Akhundov 1955 [Shah's apple tree brings one rejuvenating apple every year, someone then takes away; the eldest, the middle fall asleep, the younger Melik-Mamed injures the diva, the brothers are on a bloody trail; the elders cannot go down to the well because of the heat, MM consistently meets three girls at the bottom and three divas; each points a bubble with a diva's soul, MM breaks it; sends the girls upstairs; the youngest says that if the brothers cut the rope, MM must jump on the white ram; cuts the rope , the white ram drops MM on the black one, which takes it to the realm of darkness; there the dragon devours the chicks of the Zumrud bird every year; MM kills him; the bird promises to take MM upstairs if it gets forty cows carcasses and forty wineskins of water; MM kills the dragon that covers the water, gives it for the girls; the king gives him meat and wineskins full of water; the last piece of MM cuts off his thigh, the bird puts it back; MM is hired by a tailor; in his true appearance, he cuts off the head of his older, middle brothers on horseback; opens, marries, gives two other girls for courtiers]: 50-63 (=Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (2): 463-474) ; Bagriy, Zeynally 1935 [someone is ruining the royal vineyard; the eldest, middle prince falls asleep, the youngest shoots an arrow at the diva, who has disappeared into a hole under a stone; the prince asks the brothers to lower him into the hole; there three girls; the prince broke the vessel in which the soul of the diva, the diva died; the prince sent the girls upstairs; the youngest warns that the brothers may try to get rid of it; if you sit on a white ram, he will throw him into the world of light, and black into the world of darkness; the brothers cut off the rope; the prince accidentally sat on a black ram, found himself in a world of darkness; there the dragon closed the water, he is fed, they collect water while he eats; the prince killed him; the girl who was carrying food to the dragon dipped her hand in blood, left a mark on the prince's back; the prince fell asleep under a tree; killed a snake that crawled to ruin the nest; mother's chicks: this man He saved us; the bird told us to cook meat and milk to feed and water her on the way up; the prince asked the local king for the girl who left the mark; the king was convinced that there was a mark and gave it back; The prince cut off the last piece of meat from his thigh; on the ground, the bird put it back; the wedding; the king punished his older brothers]: 103-110; (cf. Azerbaijanis [Para-Bash finds a diva's home and while he sleeps, he takes away treasures; when he went again, the diva swallowed him; son Shamil grew up, went to look for a deva; killed a snake that crawled to eat the chicks birds of Zumrrud-gushi; Z. gives his pen; S. hit a rock with them, formed a passage to the diva's house, where he forced his daughter to tell him where her father's soul was; in the bank; S. broke the jar, the diva died, S. took his living father out of it; on the way home, the father pushed S. into a hole to take possession of everything; S. got out, cut his father, came to his mother; the king will give his daughter to someone who jumps to her on horseback; S. calls the horse with a pen, gets into his ear, does handsome, admits that he killed the terrible diva; wedding]: Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 8:65-71); Turks [apples disappear from the padishah's garden; the eldest, middle son is afraid of the storm, the youngest amazes one head of a double-headed dragon with an arrow; the brothers follow the footsteps to the well; the eldest, the middle one is told to drag them back, the youngest goes down to the bottom, cuts off the other head of the dragon; three girls are pulled out of well; the youngest warns that if the brothers abandon the young man, he must fall on the white ram and climb it to the ground; it falls on the black one, falls seven layers down; the old woman says that every year they give the dragon a girl while he eats her, take water; it is the turn of the padishah's daughter, the young man cuts off seven heads of the dragon; the girl identifies the savior, the young man asks the padishah to take him to the ground, he is not able; the dragon eats the Sumuranka bird's chicks; the young man kills him, the chicks tell their mother that the young man saved them; S. tells them to immerse 40 rams and 40 wineskins of water; the young man cuts off the last piece from his foot, Sumuranka puts it back; the young man pretends to be a bald poor man; the sisters agree to marry if they get a gold spinning wheel, a hoop, a hen with chickens (they had it, now the boy); the young man does The sight of what these objects are doing, the sisters understand that he is back; he looks like a handsome man in green clothes, comes to the palace, receives a wife and kingdom from his father; brothers are forgiven]: Dmitriev 1967, No. 1:31-39; Turks [the horse tramples on the peasant's field; the elder brother did not notice anything, the younger brother watches closely; three times a year, he meets the horse, receiving more and more luxurious clothes from him; the princess whoever climbs her glass mountain will get; she must put a ring on his finger; the hero succeeds twice; he bandaged his finger and ring with a rag; the king called all the men, the hero is recognized]: Eberhard , Boratav 1953, No. 73:82; Kurds [older and middle brother fall asleep, only younger Kuchuk Avdla cuts off the tail of a dragon that has ruined the garden; with his brothers he follows him into the gorge, they lower him on rope, the dragon's youngest daughter teaches that her father only has to be hit with a sword once; he kills the dragon, the brothers raise three dragon daughters upstairs, cut off the rope; before that, the younger sister explains KA, that black and white sheep will eat grass, black sheep will turn white and white sheep will turn black, you have to jump on white's back; the KA does the opposite, the ram does not lift it up, but lowers it even lower; the dragon hides the water, gives halva and a girl in exchange for two cauldrons, the KA kills him, marries the Shah's daughter, whom the dragon was supposed to eat; another dragon eats Simr's chicks every year; the KA kills him, the bird agrees raise it to the ground, tells him to prepare seven lamb fat tails, bread, and wineskins of water; KA drops one fat tail, cuts off the meat from his thigh; when he arrives, Simr returns the meat to him, it grows; the KA takes shape pleshivets, wins competitions incognito, comes to his fiancée's wedding, marries, kills enemies]: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 2:46-59.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Osmanov 1987 [Malek-Mohammad, Malek-Jamshid, Malek-Khorshid are sons of the Shah; MM's mother is dead, others are alive; someone steals grenades; MM cuts off a finger stretching from clouds; on a bloody trail, the brothers reach the well; only MM goes down to the bottom, kills three divas, frees three girls, marries a third; brothers pick up treasures and girls, cut off the rope; betrothed before that tells the white ram to jump on the back, it lifts seven tiers up; MM jumps on the black one, falls seven tiers down; the lion lets him approach the water if given that day girl; MM harnesses a lion into a plow; a plowman says that only a Simorg bird can help him; MM kills a lion; kills a dragon crawling to eat Simorg's chicks; chicks tell their mother that MM is not an enemy, but deliverer; on the way, MM throws Simorg meat, gives water; cuts off the meat from his thigh, Simorg hides it under his tongue, puts it back on the ground; gives MM his feathers, if burned, he will come to the rescue; named MM they marry a vizier's son; MM pretends to be a tailor to sew dresses for brides; Simorg sews his youngest dress for him; girls recognize MM, forgive his brothers]: 56-71; Romaskevich 1934a, No. 18 (Jews of Isfahan) []: 97-103; Tajiks [padishah sends his eldest, then middle son to guard a thief who steals apples; only the youngest son from his youngest wife does not fall asleep, tears off the tail of a fiery bird; playing with money, breaks the spindle an old woman; she advises him to go looking for a thief like his brothers; chooses a skinny horse, a rusty dagger, catches up with his brothers; the stone says that whoever goes left will return, but not to the right; the young man turns to the left, brothers to the right; the wolf eats away the front legs of the young man's horse, then the back legs, the torso, the head; each time he asks if the horse was two-legged, without legs, etc.; the young man says he was; the wolf brings to Padishah Misra, tells him to take a bird without a cage, he takes a cage, is captured, the padishah tells him to get the horse out of the country of Chin; the wolf tells him not to take harness, the young man takes it, the padishah Chin orders to bring the daughter of the padishah Machin; the wolf gets everything, puts the guards to sleep each time, the young man returns on horseback with the girl; the wolf is going to stab a girl, a horse, a bird with a dagger; everyone gets poison from his mouth; brothers cut the young man into pieces, they take everything away; the girl promises to marry the padishah when her severed braids grow; the wolf resurrects the young man, who wears a bull rennet, is hired as a servant to the cook; the sister and bride recognize him The brothers are driven away, the young man marries, receives his father's throne]: Amonov 1972:116-126; parya [every day the padishah's mare gets screwed, every time the foal is taken away by a deva; the eldest son went to guard, nothing noticed; the middle one was the same; the youngest cut his finger, sprinkled salt on the wound; Dev appeared, the guy defeated him, took the foal; went to look for his horses {the text breaks off}]: Vinnikov 1977, No. 14:164-165; Yagnobtsy: Andreev, Peshereva 1957, No. 31 [someone kidnaps foals; the elder, middle princes fall asleep, the youngest sees a dragon swallowing a foal, tearing off the foal's tail; brothers disperse three roads; the youngest comes successively to three women, each wife of one of the three dragons; he fights everyone on the bridge, the woman throws Jugara under the dragon's feet, the young man wins, takes the women , cuts belts out of dragon skin; finds and redeems broken brothers; they leave a sword at the door, throw their crippled younger brother; they come to him blind and armless; they stole the girl to cooked; they tell the cat to give one of the two highlights that it finds on the floor, otherwise it will extinguish the fire; the girl eats both, the cat fills the fire with urine; the girl comes to the dragon for fire, she says on the way back to scatter barley grains; on this trail comes to suck blood; the blind, armless guard, but are afraid to stand up for the girl; the dragon grabs the lame, tells everyone to be cured; the dragon consistently swallows and regurgitates everyone whole; the lame man does not burp, he warned what will be in the finger; the former blind and armless chop the dragon, the young man comes out of his finger; the king has gone blind during this time, but I saw the light when the youngest son gave a handkerchief to wipe his eyes; ordered the elder sons to be tied to horses, gave their wives to the youngest son's companions], 43 [divas carry the foals of the royal mare; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep, the youngest grabs the foal by the tail, the tail breaks off; the brothers go in search; at the fork there is a stone with the inscription, the upper and lower roads are safe, the middle roads are dangerous, the youngest rides on the middle; the elders become apprentices, the youngest meets the wives of black, yellow, white divas, kills divas; White's wife teaches to kill a herdsman, the young man takes the tailless foal and the whole herd; the older brothers leave the doors are a sword, the youngest is left without a leg; blind and armless come, bring the girl to cook, tell her to share the zest with the cat; the cat lingers, extinguishes the fire, the girl goes for fire to the female diva, that gives a handful of barley, comes along the trail, sucks blood; the blind, armless guard, fear; the young man defeats the diva, makes him swallow and regurgitate whole; he himself is in his little finger; the king is blind in grief, the young man wipes his eyes with a handkerchief, he sees the light; his older brothers are tied to horses; the prince returns his wife and foal, passes his sisters off as former blind and armless]: 157-163, 192-196; Ishkashim [someone pulls trees in the royal garden; two older brothers are guarding, they do not see anyone; the younger Bald cuts off the hand of a woman who comes, the woman hides in a cave under a stone; the brothers let Pleshivets down with a rope, he kills that woman, sends the girl upstairs, the brothers leave Pleshivets in a cave; he spends the night with an old woman; on the one hand you can hear crying (there the dragon takes the girls), on the other hand, fun (he finished there take); Plesivets cuts off 7 dragon heads; the grateful king says that there is a bird that will take him to the upper world; on the way, Plesivec feeds it with meat; returns to his father]: Pakhalina 1959, No. 1:113-117; Uzbeks: Ostroumov 1990, No. 3 (Tashkent) [after the birth of his third son, the tsar expelled his wife and took a young one; someone kidnaps foals from his beloved mare; the eldest, middle prince falls asleep, Yalmauz-Kampir each time she takes a foal; the youngest shot her little finger on her hand; that same evening the young queen gave birth to a daughter and fled; the prince noticed that she did not have a little finger; the father did not listen to him, drove him away; he stays with an old woman, she has a daughter for marriage; he goes to look for his mother, the old woman gives a comb, a razor and a whetstone; gives a merry stick, where he turns with a blade, to go there; he found his mother, bought it slavery; she died; he went to visit the house; sees his sister in the crack in the guise of Yalmauz-Kampir, she goes through the heads of her eaten parents and brothers; the fox tells him to run, remains to beat the drum for him until YAK goes for poison; the prince runs away, throws a comb (thicket), a razor (mountain), a bar (sea; YAK swam, but the fish dragged her to the bottom, and then transported the prince ashore; ordered the merry wand to be protected; young The king finds that old woman's daughter, marries her; when he sails across the sea over the place where the monster-fish crushed the YAK, the storm sinks the ship, but they sail out on fish; feast]: 13-20; Afzalov et al. 1972 (1) [shah tells the craftsmen to make plane trees: the trunk is made of yakhonts, branches from chrysolites, leaves from emerald, fruits from pearls; after 7 years, the plane tree is ready; the Shah put a bed under it, the sky is not visible behind the emerald leaves; but one day a ray of sunlight fell on his cheek: someone stole leaves; the Shah promises to cover the thief with gold; the guards around him fell asleep at night; the eldest, middle sons were also planted to prison; the youngest sees a nightingale, tears his pen off his tail; sons go to look for a nightingale; reach a fork; whoever goes one road will return, the other will face danger, the third - will not return; the youngest chose the third path, the elders the first; everyone ate, began to work in the tavern; the youngest monkey eats the last cake; promises to help; tells you to take a nightingale with a cage, but not take off the veil; the prince takes it off, he is grabbed; the king promises to give the nightingale for the girl; the monkey orders to take the girl quietly, the prince kisses her; her father agrees to give her if the prince gets Kara's horse Kardylgoch; the monkey helps to get it, turns into a horse, the prince gets the girl, the imaginary horse (monkey) returns, the prince rides the KK horse, carries the girl and the nightingale; the monkey leads turns into a peri; promises to help; the prince finds brothers; they cut off his legs, gouge out his eyes, take everything away; the nightingale refuses to sing; peri (a former monkey) makes the prince whole and healthy, brings home; the nightingale tells the whole story, the princess is dancing, the Shah and her elder sons are fleeing, the prince reigns]: 81-94.

Baltoscandia. Norwegians: Asbjíørsen, Moe 1960 [the king's golden apple ripens every year, someone steals it; he promises the kingdom to the son who has caught the thief; the elder sees a golden bird, is frightened, the apple disappears, but he goes in search of the bird; refuses to share food with the fox, stays drunk in the inn; the same middle son; the youngest tears off the bird's pen; shares with the fox; she warns not to enter the inn; he comes in, forgets everything, but the fox comes back and takes him out, leads him to a golden linden tree, teaches him to grab a bird but not to touch the branches; a young man breaks a branch, a troll grabs him, lets him go for promising to bring a horse stolen by another troll; the fox teaches him not to take bridles, the young man takes it, the troll grabs him, lets him go for promising to bring what he stole from him as a third troll the girl; the fox gets her own, they leave, taking the girl, the horse, the bridle, the linden tree and the bird; the trolls chase; the fox puts on clothes made of rye straw, replies that her grandmother's grandmother saw them passing by; trolls refuse to chase, decide to continue sleeping; the young brothers throw him in a barrel into the sea, take everything, but the girl is sad, the horse is losing weight, the bird is silent, the linden tree withers; the fox finds a barrel, saves the young man; When she saw him, the girl said that he saved her, the horse recovered, the bird sang, the linden tree turned green; the older brothers were thrown off the cliff in barrels; the fox asks the king to cut off her head, turns into a prince - brother rescued princess]: 49-55; Christiansen 1959 [someone tramples the field at night; two older brothers did not know anything, the youngest sees three swan girls (-doves, -ravens), steals one of them's clothes, she promises to marry him]: 128; Dasent 1970 [on Ivanovo night, someone eats grass in the meadow; the eldest, middle son guards, when they hear a rumble, run home; the youngest sees the horse, the harness, copper armor, catches and hides his horse and everything else; a year later he hides silver armor, a year later he will give his daughter for someone who jumps up a glass hill and takes a golden apple from the princess's hands; three times this an unknown rider makes; the king orders all men to be gathered to find the owner of the apples; he turns out to be the youngest son, gets a princess and half the kingdom]: 92-103; Danes: Bødker 1964, No. 38 [ two older brothers are smart, the younger Christian is a fool; someone steals hay; the older, the middle see the monster, run away; K. falls asleep in a haystack; the mountain man takes it along with the hay; the mountain man is white, bay and black horses; black tells K. to drink from three bottles to increase strength, take his sword, knock on the master's room; he looked out, K. cut off his head, collected treasures; returned home, kept silent about what happened; the king's daughter on a glass mountain; the king will give her to someone who jumps up there and waves his sword over his head three times; unrecognized K., wearing a white, red, black outfit on a white, red, black horse He wins the competition three times, the last time he reaches the top of the mountain; the king orders to grab the winner, manages to cut his floor of his clothes with a sword; all this time, his father and brothers think that K. is herding sheep, that keeps the horses with the old man; having received the princess, K. comes home in all its splendor; the black horse tells you to wave his sword, the mountain turns into a castle, the horse into a prince; he was bewitched by the witch stepmother; everything is fine]: 244-255; Holbek 1987 [the grass does not even grow in the field; the eldest son is guarding, frightened of the hurricane; the same average; the youngest waited for the wind to subside; three girls came down, took off their hats and started dancing; young man hid one hat; returned the girl's promise to marry him and return in a year; money under a stone in the field, let the young man build a castle and invite everyone but the king to the wedding; but he invited the king; the king recognizes a magical bride as a daughter, tells the young man to bring gold coins from the top of a glass mountain; the girl gives a mare and teaches him what to do; if he fails, he must look for her in a castle in the middle of the world south of the sun, north of the moon; it didn't work out, the mare is gone, the young man goes in search of the castle; two are arguing over his father's inheritance; these are speed boots; the young man throws a stone: whoever gets first will receive inheritance; puts on boots himself; in the same way he receives a magic tablecloth and a sword that kills and revives; there is a terrible hunger in the house of the animal lord; the young man fed everyone, the lord tells the animals to find out where the castle is located; they did not know, the lord of the animals sends a young man to his brother, the master of the fish, who is the master of the birds; the last is the old eagle, only he knows, carries the young man to the castle, teaches how to kill animal guards; the princess promises to appear in six months and again asks not to invite her father; on the way back, the young man revives the dead guards; invites the king to the wedding, kills him, then revives; after that, the king is powerless to prevent marriage]: 572-573; Grundtvig 1920 [=Grundtvig 1879:23-44; elder sons Peter and Paul are smart, younger Esbeen lazy; the elders decide to master the rocky a plot on the farm; but every year on Ivanov's day, the sown is trampled; Peter, then Paul, guard, run away in horror; E. sees three swan maidens descending; while they are dancing, he hides their robes; returns when the youngest Lena, Zondervand's maiden, agrees to marry him; they are three princesses kidnapped by a witch and released once a year; L. teaches how to build a castle by hitting a stone with a tree branch; tells not invite the king; but the brothers' father invited him; when he learns that the king would come, L. flies away, tells her to come to her castle, which is north of the sun, west of the moon; E. goes in search; two fight over invisible hats, E. suggests that the winner get it, wears it himself; the other two because of the speeding boots; E. offers them to race, takes their boots; two more because of the knife, who If you direct, he falls dead; E. takes a knife, points at the fighting; E. comes to the old woman, she is the owner of the animals, they do not know about the castle; sends the same thing to her sister, the mistress of the fish; she comes to the other sister - the mistress of the birds; the lame eagle arrives later than anyone else, he flew just from this castle; the hostess tells him to take E. there; they fly through a hole in the ground, then in the water, in the fire; E. throws it into the goblet, brought by a maid, a ring given to him by L.; puts on an invisible hat, kills a witch with his magic knife; wedding]: 27-41; Western Sami (Varanger) [someone steals turnips from the king's garden ; the eldest, middle son is guarding, hearing a noise, running away; the youngest sees three maidens arrive, take off their winged robes, start digging turnips, he hid his clothes alone, she agrees to marry him on condition that he will go with her; the young man went to say goodbye to his father, the king does not let him in, demands that he 1) cut down the entire forest, 2) cut off branches on the felled trees, 3) restore the forest; each time the wife tells do this with one tree, the rest fall, lose branches, get up again; the king has let his son go, but the heavenly maiden has already flown away, the young man has gone to look for her; meets an old woman, she gives speeding boots, sends her to the middle sister, the middle sister gives an invisible hat, sends it to the eldest sister, she sends an eagle, the third time the eagle knows where to fly; the old woman gives a staff, if you turn the end up, the dead will rise from the graves if down - they will return to the graves; gives three pebbles; the eagle carries across the sea, gets tired, the pebble thrown every time turns into an island to rest; overseas, the young man finds his wife and son; the father-in-law asks his son-in-law with a staff bring back his dead warriors; they rush at the king, the young man turns his staff, the dead return to the graves]: Lagercrantz 1961, No. 294:132-140 (=Klaus 1995:31-38); Finns: Konkka 1993 [father 10 years old plows the field near the shore, but each time the storm destroys the crop; the attempts of the older and middle brothers are just as unsuccessful; the youngest (he is a soldier) sees swans coming down from the cloud, turning into girls, dancing, trampling the field; a soldier hid a girl's swan robe, she had to marry him; she explained that the witch had turned her and her sisters into swans and only the grass that grew in the field could destroy spells, so they trampled on the crops; the king found out that the soldier has a beautiful wife; orders all the creatures to be brought in pairs by tomorrow; the wife tells them to wave a handkerchief - the animals have appeared; all the birds are the same; get lost keys; wife: they are behind the altar in the church, we must take it and run without looking back; the soldier looked around, immediately fell from his horse against a stone and lost consciousness; the horse brought the keys to his wife, who gave it to the king; to avoid his harassment, the wife told her husband's parents that they should look for her across the black and white sea in a copper castle at the bottom of the Red Sea; put on swan plumage and flew away; when he woke up, the soldier saw three dead fighting over an invisible hat, leaps and bounds of boots and a self-cut sword; tells them to give him curiosities and go to the graves themselves; went east; stayed in a pagan house, where not began to be baptized; the owner showed three barns with copper, silver, gold coins; the soldier took away gold coins; reached a spinning hut on a chicken leg; the soldier told her to stop; an old woman in the hut, nose in three cubits; she agreed to transport her across the Black Sea on the condition that she would then cut off the soldier's hand; when he reached the other side, the soldier put on an invisible hat and fled; there was another hut on a chicken leg, the hostess moves the coals in the oven with her nose; the same (transports across the White Sea); the third hut is spinning and does not want to stop; the soldier threw the net under the crane's feet, the hut stopped; the old woman collects birds, then fish; only the whale knows about the copper castle, its tail is entangled in the teeth of the wall; the whale brought the soldier to the castle; the soldier cut the chains, the castle surfaced; the soldier threw a ring into his wife's bowl; she brought him to his house on her swan wings; the king sent an army, but the soldier sent a samob sword, the king and his army fell into the ground]: 17-28; Salmelainen 1947 [=Concca 1993:29-41; someone steals golden apples from the king's garden; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep; the youngest sees a glowing bird, which grabs an apple, the young man shot, only shot one feather; the king promises a reward to whoever will catch a bird; the eldest, middle son leaves, does not return; the youngest takes the horse, goes to the fork; on one road there is an inscription that the horse will be full, the rider is hungry, the other has a full rider, the horse is hungry, third, which will lead to misfortune; the names of those who chose this or that path are written, the elder and middle brothers followed the first and second; the young man went to the third; sat down to rest, the wolf appeared, he was his fed him; the wolf put him on his back, brought him to the castle; tells him to take a bird without a cage; the young man takes the cage, the bird screams, he is grabbed; the king agrees to give him a bird if he gets a horse that is all understands how a person is; the wolf brings to the castle, tells you to take a horse without a bridle; he takes a bridle, is captured, released for promising to get a princess; the wolf turned into a merchant, laid out goods; along with others the princess came, she liked the young man, she agreed to run with him, the wolf carried them both; the wolf took the form of a princess, the young man exchanged her for a horse, then the princess became a wolf again; the same with a horse; a young man returns with the princess, horse and bird; when parting, the wolf tells him to ride an old horse, and give the princess a smart one; tells him not to sleep on the way; but he fell asleep, the brothers killed him and his horse, took him a princess, a horse and a bird; the king wants to marry the princess of the king's son; the princess is sad, the horse does not speak, the bird does not sing; the wolf found the body of a young man, caught a crow, the crow had to be brought alive water; the wolf first killed the crow and revived, then revived the young man and his horse; the young man came to his older brother's wedding, the princess laughed, the horse spoke, the bird sang; the young man persuaded the king not to execute older brothers, but only to expel, married a princess and inherited the throne]: 87-95; Veps [three brothers guard the royal garden; the youngest manages to injure the beast; the prince goes to look for him, falls into underworld; with the help of the queen of the golden kingdom, he kills the beast (the polar bear); the prince lifts the girls upstairs, and under his weight the rope breaks off, but the firebird brings him home; they play three weddings]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 41:204; setu [a bird comes to peck for apples; the tsar orders to guard; two clever princes, the third is a fool; the eldest goes, falls asleep; the same middle; the youngest climbed on an apple tree, pulled the feather out of the tail of a golden bird; the king promises a throne to whoever gets the bird; the youngest drove up to the fork: whoever loses the horse to the right, says goodbye to life to the left, right away with as a horse; the prince went to the left; the wolf jumped out, ate the horse, told the prince to sit on it; the wolf brings him to the king, whose bird tells him to take it without a cage, the prince took the cage, was captured; the king will give the bird if The prince will get a horse with a golden tail and mane; the wolf tells you to take a horse without a bridle, the prince took it with a bridle; that king will give the horse if the prince gets the gold-haired princess; the wolf himself grabbed and carried it away; the wolf took the form of a princess, then a horse returned; the prince returns with a bird, a horse and a princess; met his older brothers; they killed him and chopped him to pieces; at home, the elder is preparing the wedding; the wolf noticed the raven, ordered to collect the bones; then ordered the crow to bring dead water, the body grew together; then alive - the prince came to life; came to his father, told everything; wedding; king to his son: do whatever you want with your brothers; he banished them]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 77:237-240; Lithuanians: Kerbelite 2014, No. 74 [someone poisons three brothers' oats; two clever ones guard, haven't noticed anything; a fool catches a horse every night; they're horses suns, moons, stars; brothers do not take a fool to a wedding; he climbed into the ear of a sun horse, appeared handsome, let the bride carry a haze handkerchief, took it for himself; the same with the horses of the moon and star; gave his brothers a horse and a girl], 154 [after the death of their father, 7 sons drank the estate, were hired as laborers; someone steals mowed hay; only the youngest Jonas manages to catch a mare with seven stallions; J. got the most inconspicuous; decide to marry the 7 daughters of the Bone Woman, who is on the island; the horse teaches Y. to wave his handkerchief, the waters have parted; tells them to exchange blankets with the girls at night; the saber cuts off their heads; the skate tells them to run; the sea has parted and closed behind, the Bone Woman cannot cross; the skate does not tell you to pick up a feather, J. picked it up; the brothers, out of envy, tell the king that 1) J. can also get a bird; a bird from the Bone Woman; J. became a cat, a bone woman brought him into the house, he took a cage with a bird; 2) a sword that cuts and defeats the attacking enemies; J. became a bird, the bone woman brought it into the house, she took her sword; 3) the sea maiden (while she was at the ball, I could not see the moon and sun for three days); the horse teaches me to put a table of wine on the shore, the maiden came out of the water, got drunk, fell; maiden to the king: I'll go out when you're handsome, you have to swim in boiling milk; J. jumped and became handsome, the king dissolved in milk; J. married a virgin, became king]: 164-167, 401-408; Latvians (Courland) [the king has an apple tree with golden apples, every night one disappears; the eldest, middle sons are guarding, falling asleep; the youngest fool grabbed the bird, leaving a golden pen in his hand; the king orders his sons to get the bird; at the tavern, the brothers separated, deciding to meet through year; the youngest fed a fox, a hare, a wolf, a bear; the bear teaches to take a bird in the palace, but without a cage; a fool takes a cage, is caught, the local king promises a bird instead of two dogs; the bear teaches to take dogs, do not take chains; the fool again did not listen; the local king demands a stallion; not to take the bridle, the fool took it; to get the princess; the bear teaches him to appear as a groom to the princess, let him drink until he falls asleep, and not to drink himself; on the way back, the fox chipped in as a princess, the fool got the stallion, and the fox then returned; the bear turns into a stallion, the fool got dogs, the bear returned; the third king has a wolf and a hare turned into dogs; the bear tells the fool not to wait for the brothers at the crossroads; the fool did not listen, his brothers killed him, the body was hidden under the bridge; but the princess is sad, the bird, the dogs and the stallion also do not eat or sing ; the bear distracted the giants who were guarding living water, collected water together with the fox and the wolf, revived the fool; ordered him to appear under the guise of a doctor; the princess and others recognized him, cheered, the fool told everything father; he married him to a princess, burned his eldest sons]: Brivzemniaks 1887, No. 118:211-222; Latvians [the king disappears in a pile of hay every night; he tells three sons to guard the meadow; the eldest, the middle one falls asleep; the youngest fool climbs under the haystack; a white mare with two foals woke him up, he grabbed the reason and tamed the mare; she tells him to give it to his older brother, the older foal to the middle, take the youngest for yourself; the elders sold their horses, and the youngest takes care of his own; the witch gives the queen poison: if you don't make a fool, he will kill you; the foal warns the owner twice; the witch tells To slaughter the foal; he advises the young man to ask permission to ride for the last time; the foal has risen to heaven and descended in another kingdom; tells him to dress in a fur coat with wool outside and answer everything." I don't know"; the king gave the idiot to the gardener; the young man shakes his bridle, any work is done immediately; he tied the forest with a rope and drags it all with him; the king tells three daughters to choose suitors; the youngest does not know who, the king passed her off as a fool; but they live well; the devil demands to eat people, turn for the royal daughters; every time the young man calls a horse, climbs into his ear, goes out in a luxurious outfit, kills devils (they have 3, 9, 12 heads; a sword, a horse are silver, gold, diamond); each time he climbs into the horse's ear again, regains his former form; the last time a giant demands a younger one for 12 heads Queen, the horse warns that 12 blacksmiths will come out with him; we must kill the blacksmiths first, because if they manage to hit the anvil, 12 more will come out, etc.; the young man managed to kill the blacksmiths, but the giant drove twice he was waist-deep into the ground, and the horse pulled him out twice; the young man cut off the giant's leg and then his head; the wife bandaged the wound with a handkerchief; in the evening he sees his fool husband's handkerchief; the fool became his favorite son-in-law, inherited the throne]: Alksnite et al. 1958:135-142; Latvians [younger brother pulls a feather from a golden bird that has come to steal apples; father sends sons to look for a bird; wolf (bear) eats his younger brother's horse, promises him his help; takes him to the bird, but tells him to take it without a cage; the fool, without heeding advice, falls into the hands of the guards; the king promises to give the bird if the fool gets the golden horse; the wolf helps a fool to get a horse, a bird and a princess; older brothers kill a fool, take possession of a bird, a horse and a princess, return home; a wolf revives a fool with live water; when he returns home, a bird starts singing, the horse laughs, the princess rushes around his neck; the brothers are punished]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 550:229-300; the Livs [someone steals golden apples from the palace garden; the young man grabs the wonderful a bird, but it manages to fly away; when he searches, he hunts for a bird with frogs and insects, escapes the chase and gets a princess]: Loorits 1926, № 541B': 17.

Volga - Perm. Chuvashi: Grigoriev 1971 [=Eisin 1993:261-265; the tsar asks his sons to see who is stealing his horses; the youngest of three sees a copper bear hiding underground with a horse; brothers they dig a well, lower the hero; he meets the princesses of the copper, silver and golden kingdoms; kills a bear, the brothers raise the princesses upstairs, raise the hero, think it is a bear, throw a rope; the old man gives the hero a sword, he kills a snake crawling to the oak tree, saves the eagles; the eagle takes him to the ground; on the way, the hero feeds and water her, finally cuts off a piece of his flesh, the eagle heals him; the brothers marry him three princesses; they throw wonderful testicles taken from the underworld, from which copper, silver, gold palaces grew]: 57-64; Chuvash tales 1937 [someone tramples on wheat, father tells sons to guard; the eldest, the middle fall asleep, the youngest Ivan catches a horse; sells to the king for 3 carts of gold; picks up a golden pen; hires the king as a groom; cleans the horse with a golden pen, he becomes prettier; another groom to the king: I. boasts get the goldbird itself; the horse advises to put wheat and a barrel of wine on the bird, she was intoxicated, I. brought it; the groom: I. boasts to get the daughter of water; the horse orders to make a ship moving on water and on land ; the water's daughter enters the ship, he takes her away; the water's daughter refuses to go out without a dowry; I. returns to the water, he turns into a bull, I. defeats him, brings his whole herd after him; the daughter of the water tells me to swim in boiling milk; I. takes 3 hair from the horse's tail, unharmed; the king is cooked; I. became king, married the daughter of water]: 280-283; Marie: Aktsorin 1991, No. 35 [man sowed oats and peas; the daughter of heaven began to herd her cattle in the field; the eldest, middle sons fell asleep; the youngest fool grabbed the girl by the braid, married her, brought her home with cattle; at first she was not allowed to herd cattle, then let them go; she asked her father to lower the silk swing from the sky, went to heaven with the cattle], 36 [Yumo's daughter drove the herd to the ground, met a young man; gave birth to a child; they came to Yumo, he is happy; Yumo's brother Keremet is jealous, threw his son-in-law Yumo to the ground, oaks and birches appeared from the fragments; Yumo threw Keremet and his angels, Yumo and Keremet became enemies]: 76-77, 77-82; 1995 (mountain) [the horse tramples wheat; the elder, middle brothers fall asleep, the younger one catches the horse, which promises to come at his call; the king will pass off his daughter as someone who jumps on horseback to the third floor, where the daughter will sit; younger brother everyone once she fits into one ear of a horse, gets out into the other, becomes handsome, jumps for the third time, receives a ring, a handkerchief, a note from the king promising to marry him; in the morning the princess searches among the audience betrothed; cries when he learns that the beggar has the ring; he turns handsome with the help of a horse, marries, reigns]: 62-83; Chetkarev 1941, No. 10 (meadow) [father asks three sons to know who eats in the field wheat; the elder, the middle go to their mistresses, the youngest Ivan consistently catches two horses, then the humpbacked horse, puts it in a stall; the brothers stole two horses to sell at the bazaar; I. caught up on the humpbacked, The firebird's feather picked up the ways; the humpbacked tells the horses to be sold to the king; they do not let the grooms come, the king has to take I. to the grooms; other grooms, seeing the pen, persuade the king to send I. for the firebird; the horse takes her to the apple tree, where the firebird, I. brings her; to bring the princess to the king's wife; the humpbacked helps to grab her and bring her; the bride demands that the king take out the wedding crown from her father's church; brings her; the princess demands to bring the ring she threw into the lake; the humpbacked tells her to beat the lake with chains, the king of fish sends for a ruff, he brings a ring; the princess promises to marry the king if he becomes handsome; jump into boiling water, then into boiling milk, then into cold water; the humpbacked brings the grass to cool the boiling water, I. comes out handsome; the king is cooked; I. married the princess, became king]: 169-173; Beke 1938 , No. 50 [the peasant has three sons, the youngest is a fool; the father orders to clear the forest (the fool uproots fir trees), plow the field (a fool first of all), buy seeds that will quickly yield a harvest (brothers do not know what to buy, a fool buys turnip seeds); turnips quickly degenerated; someone tears it up at night; the eldest remains to guard, the witch (osda) hits him; the same with the middle one; the youngest helped her carry turnips to her house; beats her; she gives a horn, the sound of which makes everyone dance; the father tells the youngest to herd a pig with piglets; the popovna sees, wants to buy a pig; the fool asks to lift his skirt for this; next time to burn on the chest; let yourself be felt for the third time; a fool sees golden hair under her right arm, silver hair under her left arm; pop promises a daughter to someone who says her peculiarity; a rich landowner gives the fool a lot of money, for him to reveal the secret; the fool told, but tells him to go together; the fool talks about the hair, the landowner repeats; pop: let all three sleep in the same room, with whom the daughter will lie down, he will go out for it; popovna lay down with landowner; the fool and the landowner both coped with the need; then the fool ate the prepared candy, and the landowner believed that he ate his crap; ate his own and the fool too; the popovna feels the stench, lay down in a fool; went out married him; the bishop went with him, shot the hare, went to pick him up, the fool blew into his horn; at home, the bishop said that the priest's son-in-law hit him; they want to hang the fool, he blows into the horn again; the bishop He ordered himself to be tied to a pole in advance, but the pole broke out of the ground; the fool was released], 51 []: 498-514, 514-526; Kazan Tatars [someone steals the padishah's golden apples; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep; the youngest throws a 15-pound weight at the bird that has arrived; the bird becomes human, runs away, disappears in failure; the older brothers remain, the youngest descends; at the intersection of the inscription: "death road"," satiety", "the road of hunger"; the young man is on the road of death; there is a girl padishah of a copper treasure; the young man finishes off the diva, the girl gives him her seal, sends a silver treasure to the padishah girl, so to the girl the padishah of gold treasure, they also give seals; the older brothers pulled out the girls, left the youngest one below; he came to the blind old men; they do not tell the diva to herd cattle on earth; the young man goes there, brings the living water, restores sight to the elderly; revives the tree-turned warriors of the old man who was a padishah himself; he gives the young man a mare that takes him to the ground; only he gave the clothes they required girls; came to the wedding naked or naked, wrapped in a net; showed seals; took a girl of gold treasure; gave the other two brothers whom he forgave]: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 46:190-199; Bashkirs: Barag 1988, No. 38 [the mare gives birth, but the foals disappear every time; the eldest, middle son goes to guard and falls asleep; the younger Kyran-Batyr rips his hair off his head with a sword, does not sleep, cuts a cloud carrying a foal; follows a bloody trail to copper, silver, golden houses; each has one of the kidnapped foals and a woman; K. consistently fights three devas, kills them; tames them piebald mare; trying to get a golden sword from the bottom of the lake; the mare explains that there is a reflection of a sword in the water, he himself is pierced into a pine tree trunk that split the sky and goes further up; K. climbs the pine tree, squeezes to the other side of the sky (after that, a pile of stars remains in the sky), brings a sword, rolls three houses into three eggs, gives two wives to their brothers; they are jealous, hang their sword in front of the tent, shout that enemies attacked, K. runs out, his sword cuts off his legs; he sees a deer carrying the sun on its horns, a man runs after him; says he sees only when he is near the sun; a blind man puts legless K. on his back, goes, K. sees an armless man chasing the same deer; he explains that the deer promised to bring it to people the sun, but did not bring it, people froze, the handless man's hands froze; three companions decide to get it a female cook, the khan's daughter is kidnapped, ordered not to let the fire go out; the fire goes out, the girl comes to the old woman Ubir for fire; she gives coals, finds a girl on the ash trail, asks to look for her hair, sucks her bone marrow; the girl turns yellow, her companions take turns guarding, only K. hits her so that she cannot withstand the blows; K. makes her swallow and regurgitate a girl, blind, armless; regurgitated are healed; after swallowing K., he does not want to regurgitate him; the former blind and armless cut her into pieces; the sparrow screams "little finger", the companions cut his little finger, K. comes out, he has legs again; returns his daughter Khan; K. marries a woman from the golden house, gives the other two to his companions, makes the brothers servants]: 252-267; 1989, No. 41 [someone steals golden apples from the royal garden; the elder, middle prince is guarded they return with nothing, the youngest sees how the golden bird has taken the apple, leaves in search; at the crossroads a pole with the inscription, to the right you will die, to the left you will lose the horse; the prince turns to the left; the wolf eats the horse, carries the prince himself, orders to take a bird without a cage; the prince takes it with a cage, the guards tell him to get a golden-tailed silver mane horse for the bird; the same is to take a horse without a bridle, the prince takes the bridle, he is told to get princess; the wolf turned into a horse, the princess sat down, he took her away; the wolf turned into a princess, then a horse, runs away from the new owners, the prince gets everything; the brothers cut off his head, took everything for themselves; the wolf caught the crow, ordered to bring alive and dead water, revived the prince; he married the princess, the brothers repented]: 192-194; Komi-Perm [someone poisons wheat; three older brothers go to guard, fall asleep; the fourth Ivan catches a white horse, he promises to help him; the king will give his daughter to whoever rips the gold ring off the cross in the chapel on horseback; I. calls the horse, he tells him to enter in one ear and leave the other, becomes handsome, tears off the ring; the king tells everyone to get together; I. shows the ring; the tsar gives him nice clothes, marries his daughter]: Ariste 1978, No. 3:86-88; Udmurts: Kralina 1960, No. 55 [ someone steals a peasant's peas; the eldest, middle son falls asleep, the youngest pulls two feathers from the tail of a golden bird; the father tells us to find a bird; the eldest, middle son go, rude to the old man he meets, he directs them to walk along the road, they are torn to pieces by a bear, a wolf; the younger one is polite, gets a broom and a flying carpet; flies to the palace on a cloud, tries to unlock the bird's cage, caught, the owner tells them to get it golden-maned horse; caught again, the owner orders to bring a golden perch; the broom took the young man to the underwater world; caught again, must get the daughter of the master of the world; the young man takes her on a flying carpet; she turns his pigeon into a girl like her, exchanges a perch, then a horse, a bird; a wedding], 76 [someone steals turnips; the elder, middle sons fall asleep, the youngest bald calls his father and brothers to beat Satan; goes to look for him; meets him, takes with him a twig, crayfish, salt, an awl, a cow's cake, a baton; when he sees a bald man, Satan hides in the underground of his house; a bald man puts cancer in a bucket of water, an awl on a chair, a baton to the floors, a twig and a cow cake at the door, salt in the hearth; Satan pulls his hands to the hearth, salt burned him, an awl pierced his ass when he sat down on a chair, a club hit his forehead, on a flat cake Satan slipped, a twig began to beat him; the bald man brings Satan, also taking turnips and gold; invites his wife to cook Satan, he runs away]: 148-152, 225-228.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Potanin 1893 [Naarun-Zarkum owned many horses; a black mare brought a foal every night, but someone always kidnapped him; young Gali, N.'s son, guarded and shot him a monstrous bird; grows up, rides that mare's foal to marry the bride; puts an iron stake in the field, ties a horse to it, puts seven scarecrows (jety karakchi) around; every day he finds a horse on the spot and thieves only find a stake and a scarecrow; one day everything disappears; the bride says that the thieves, through prayer, approved the stake (North Star), the horse and the scarecrow (Little Dipper) in the sky; the horse is waiting for the owner; when he comes, the world will end]: 321; Tursunov 1983 [the youngest of nine brothers is gold-haired Totambay; every year a newborn foal is kidnapped by a black cloud; when T. is watching, he shot at a cloud, a woman's finger fell out of it; it turned out that their sister had lost a finger; the brothers did not believe it, they expelled T.; in the neighboring khanate he became a shepherd, married the youngest daughter of the khan; the khan will recover if will eat wild goat meat; only T. caught goats, gave it to his two older sons-in-law for the right to put a brand on their bodies; Khan asks to find his two daughters stolen by dhow giants; T. killed a dhow, returned the women; until slept, their older sons-in-law took them away; T. came, showed the brand on the backs of his older sons-in-law, the khan drove them away, gave them wealth to T.]: 191-193; Castagné 1932 [every year the mare is half golden half the silver one brings the same foal, but a cloud descends and carries it away; the eldest, middle son cannot protect the thief, the youngest shoots, hears a scream, a woman's finger falls from the cloud; goes in search; a white horseman comes to the grave of the deceased khan at night, tramples on it, the deceased suffers; the khan's daughter promises to marry someone who will save her father from suffering; the young man guards and whips a woman in white, she hides; the daughter of the deceased offers herself to the young man, but he promises to think; on the river, a hand sticking out of the water sinks the boats; the young man tears off her ring, his hand disappears; he comes to three tents, overhears the conversation of three girls; these are the ones who stole stallions, tortured the dead, sank boats; each expresses a desire to marry her victorious young man; the young man comes in, the girls agree, but their brothers must be killed- virgins; a young man kills two; when fighting a third, a virgin sister throws wheat under his brother's feet and ash under his brother's feet; virgins fall, are killed, a young man takes wives and stolen horses]: 51-54; Karakalpaks [from The eldest wife is sons Asen and Usen, from the youngest Esen; someone eats grapes, the father asks his sons to guard; A., W. fall asleep, E. pulls the feather out of the bird's tail; the father sends the brothers to search, the elders go to one direction, E. to the other; the wolf invites E. to sit on it, resorts to King Amir's fortress, tells him to take the bird without a cage; E. takes the cage, is caught, King Amir promises to give him a bird with a cage in exchange for King Rahim's tulpara; the wolf orders not to take harness, E. takes it, is caught, Rahim promises tulpara in exchange for King Gafur's daughter; E. gets the girl, the wolf takes her form, tells him to exchange himself for tulpara, then tulpara for a bird comes back every time; when E. met his brothers, they killed him and took everything for themselves; the wolf forced the magpie to bring a drop of the juice of a miraculous plant, revives E.; the father gives power to E. he forgives his brothers, gives a girl to one, a tulpara to another, takes a bird that has become beautiful]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:169-173; Kyrgyz [the old man has a mare made of gold and silver; every year he brings the same foal, but a cloud descends and takes it away; the old man promises an inheritance to the one of the three sons who find the kidnapped foals; the older brothers did not save the foals, the youngest shot; the cloud cried out in a woman's voice, a shot finger fell to the ground; the young man goes in search; in one place the subjects of the late khan would like to save him from his torment; every night at his grave a man in a white robe appears on a white horse; a horse jumps over the grave, the khan comes to life and beats his head against the rocks before dawn; the khan's daughter promises herself to the one who will save her father from the torturer; his young man he waited, pulled out his whip from his hands, a woman screamed, the man in white disappeared; now the young man has come to the people gathered by the river; every time the ship reaches the middle, his hand sticks out of the water and pulls him to the bottom; the young man tore off his ring, a woman screamed; the young man came to three white yurts; the third one hears women's voices; one girl would like to marry the one who shot her finger; the second took revenge on the khan who was pursuing her and would like to marry the man who took her whip; the young man came in, the girls warned that before marrying them, he must kill their evil brothers; killed two quickly, and struggles with the third for a long time; the sister of the evil spirit threw millet under his feet and ash under the young man's feet; the spirit slipped, fell, killed; the young man returned home with herds and three wives]: Muchnik 1944:15- 18.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Shors [the youngest of three sons, Alyg Ool, a stupid boy, lay at the hearth until the age of 40; father tells us to watch wheat from birds; there is a lush birch tree on the edge of the field; the elder brother fell asleep when he woke up, the top of the birch tree is pecked; the same with the middle son; AO does not sleep, a golden bird arrived at noon, began to bite the leaves like hazel grouse; AO is afraid of damaging the feathers, shooting, grabbed the bird by the tail, it escaped, the tail remained in his hand; the father sold the pen to the merchant for a price; after that, AO was fed fatty food, he got stronger; AO grabbed the bird by the tail again, the father sold the pen again; gave AO money to buy the horse; he sat on a twig, galloped, met a man with a lousy foal, bought it, went out; rode to the hero's palace, where his father did not order him to go; around the bones of the heroes; that hero killed them with a whistle; AO dragged him out and killed him; he jumped across the river on horseback, came to the city at night, began to take the bird, but he also took the bell, they rang; Kaan let him go for promising to help him marry Altyn Tarak; the horse carried him across the sea to her city; AO became dry grass, the horse ran up to the girls, AT sat on him, he took it away, pulled dry grass into his nostrils on the way, then he went out; the horse made the same girl out of clay, gave him a kaan, and the real AT took AO; at night, the clay girl broke up, the kaan went to shepherds out of grief; the horse warns that the brothers would want to take away AT, sleep with her one by one, ordered not to drink; the brothers still persuaded her, pushed her into the hole they dug; they argued all night who AT would sleep with; went hunting; the horse pulled out AO; says that the brothers left AT the key to the coffin, their souls in it; AO took it out, began rubbing their souls against the edge of the coffin, brothers died; wedding; AO and AT led the people]: 77-85; Dagurs [Olkhan Ulan Uldey Khan has only a daughter; the spouses ask for a son from heaven; Hormusta's four daughters go down to swim, see smokes; H. asks who will give the son to the worshipers; only the youngest agrees, approaches O.'s wife in the form of a boy, hits her thigh, her thigh swells (abscess?) , O. cuts him, a boy runs out, gets the name Altan Galburt; he grew up, his father does not tell me to go north; AH goes, swallowed by a wild boar, comes out of the ass; swallowed again, hurts the heart and lungs of the boar, does a cut in the ribs comes out, brings the heart and lungs of the wild boar to his father; no horse can withstand hypertension; the father says that the salt mare brings foals, but the Khan Garuda bird kidnaps them; AG shot the bird tamed the foal; he promises to come to him as soon as necessary; in a dream, the old man tells him to get trees for arrows (growing in the West Sea), Khan Garud feathers for plumage, and the skin of a variegated boar for bowstrings; the horse teaches you to grab trees when the arrow fired seems to stop before starting to fall down; then a serpent rushed, poisoned it with its blood; Hormusta went down and revived AG]: Poppe 1930:31-48; Buryats (Khorin) [the wolf ate the orphan horse; he goes looking for him; old man: when you defeat Shono Khan ("shono" is the wolf), ask for the red dog and the blue chest; he did so; returns to the yurt - the corner of the chest is burnt, one leg of the dog is broken; the next day - the second corner, the second leg; the fourth - four; he beats the dog; wakes up in the palace in the morning (came from the chest), there is a beautiful (that dog) nearby; S. calls for a wedding; the wife warns not to step on the carpet (there is a hole under it), not to sit on the bed, eat nothing; the orphan touched the food with his finger, died; 25-headed Khongil Shara Shebshehei put it in a coffin, threw it into the sea; mangadhayu wife: if you catch the coffin, put it on the shore; the coffin is found by the khan's three daughters, inside the baby grows rapidly; every day the khan's mare gets screwed as a golden foal, he disappears; the khan asks his daughters to guard; they fall asleep, the foundling shoots into the cloud that has descended, the bird's feather falls to the ground; the foundling gives it to the grooms, for which he cuts off everyone ear; khan sends for the bird; the foundling sees the nest, one chick laughs, the other sings the third cries; while Han Garaudy's father and mother are flying, the chicks are eaten by a fire serpent (the crying will be eaten today, singing tomorrow, laughing the day after tomorrow); they deliberately steal gold foals in the hope that the strongest man will go looking for them; the foundling kills the snake with an arrow, Han Garaudy gives 9 foals; the foundling gives them to the grooms, for this he cuts the belts from their backs; they throw it into a hole; the horse digs it up, revives the foundling with his tear; he comes to the khan, shows the belts; the khan hangs the grooms alive on the branch for food crows; the foundling smashes Sh.'s army, crushed him himself, clamped him in a crevice for food with insects; he fought with Hongil Shara Shebshehei for 4 months, the foundling's son grew up, came to his father's aid, the body of the HSH was burned]: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 5:93-109; Mongols [Mongolian and Chinese are friends; one has a son Ih-Alim ("Many Berries", he brought a lot of berries when he picked), and the other has Baga-Alim ("Few Berries"); a Chinese woman died; the evil spirit of the Shulam persuaded the Mongolian woman to find out which young man her son was; she pretended to be unconscious, her sons put her on the bed, she pricked B. Alim with a pin, and he had a birthmark; this is a sign that B. is her son; since then she has been giving I. leftovers; the young men have left home; on the seashore they ask the shepherd; he is herding the khan's cattle, who is overseas; I must say "Sea, part" and it parts; tie some of the cattle at home, some of the cattle; then "I eat husam (burnt foams), drink haram (boiled water with milk), go to bed"; I. threw the shepherd into the sea, dressed in his rags, came to the khan under his guise; pretends to be fooled by the smell of onions (he does not know where husam and haram are; they explained to him); the khan has six daughters, I. went to the seventh; the khan gave them a yurt; the hangarid bird every year he takes the foal of the khan's mare; six sons-in-law overslept, I. knocked down the bird's feathers and a piece of the foal's tail with an arrow; I. went to look for a thin foal, which became a mighty horse; I. caught a bird, drove the herd; the horse does not tell the brothers not to sit on the litter in the yurt, not to drink tea; but the brothers forcibly poured a few drops into I.'s mouth, threw them into the hole, covered them with a stone; three years later, the hangarid and the horse were moved a stone, the horse lowered its tail, I. climbed it; I. returned, the khan ordered six sons-in-law to be tied to the tails of horses]: Mikhailov 1962:142-147.

Western Siberia. Mansi: Kannisto 1956, No. 16 [someone ruins the turnip garden; the father tells three sons to guard; the eldest, the middle fall asleep, the youngest grabs the copper man (MCH); he tells the horse to go home and tell the sisters that his brother is in trouble; the father and sons send news to the tsar, who pays 300 rubles for turnips, puts MCH in prison; the royal son Vanya fired an arrow with a toy bow, she fell on the roof of the prison; MCH teaches: roar and stomp your feet, you will be offered different things, calm down when they give you a bunch of keys; open a prison, get you an arrow; once free, MCH promises to help the boy when will be required; disappears; neighboring kings who came to see the MCH; dissatisfied; decide to give V. the coachman and expel him from the state; the coachman is Senpalt's uncle; V. wants to drink, S. lowers him into the well; promises raise if V. agrees with him to change roles and names and sign his blood; now S. rides in a carriage, and V. is a coachman; they come to another tsar, the imaginary prince asks to give his daughter; tsar: feed 30 stallions three days and three nights; imaginary prince: my uncle S. will herd; V. calls MCH, he takes him to his place, his older sister gives him a handkerchief (wave - dancers, musicians, food); then back, MCH gathers horses, they became 60; the same the next day (the middle sister gives a box, people come out and ask for work; horses are 90); on the third day (the younger sister gives an egg (it contains food, drinks, dancers, warriors); MCH is a horse Hiiro and sword; horses 120); the princess sees this, understands that the shepherd is a real prince, not S.; S. demands a wedding the next day; the three-headed devil demands that the princess be given to him; V. kills him, S. says he killed he; the same with 6- and 9-headed lines; the princess bandaged the wound, then sees her handkerchief on the hand of an imaginary shepherd; at the wedding, the princess showed the second half of the handkerchief; S. was driven away, V. took the princess and inherited kingdom]: 154-176 (=Kippar 2002:212-228); (cf. Kannisto 1951, No. 4 (Upper Lozva) [the nephew lives with his aunt, hunts; invited her to sow grain; someone ruined the field, the nephew grabbed the crane; he asks him not to kill, to go where he goes; there is a house in it, an old man with an old woman, an old man gave him a squirrel skin, his nephew brought it home, in the morning the house is full of fur; the mayor came to ask for flour; asked for a skin; the next morning no fur, nothing; nephew goes to the same house, gets an ermine skin; the same; wolverine tooth; goes to the mayor to ask for flour, puts a wolverine tooth in a bag, puts all the flour of the bins in the bag; the head gives the skins, for this his nephew gives him back some of his torment; he's rich again]: 41-47; Munkácsi 1995 [someone ruins a turnip field; an old man goes to guard, a bear kills him; an old woman goes, a bear takes her away, she gives birth son, he is a bear below the waist; they run away, the son kills a chasing bear; goes to look for a wife, meets a noseless man on the way, then a madman, both hear the voices of women from the lower world; the bear's son asks Take him down a rope into a hole; there's a dragon, he cuts off his heads with an ax; sends three girls on ropes up; when he gets up by himself, his companions cut off the rope; he asks the eagle to lift him to the ground; prepares meat, feeds in flight (three months); drives away satellites, marries]: 118-120); Nenets (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District) [the Russian Merchant has three sons; the elders have earned money, the youngest fool; someone stole all the gold, killed the cows; there is larch in the garden, gold grows on it at night, someone eats it in the morning; two sons are guarding and falling asleep; the fool fills his pockets with gold, sees a bird, pecking gold, pulls out her golden pen; her father praises him, the family is rich again, the older brothers go to look for the golden bird, disappear; the fool goes to look for brothers, he is covered with snow; the Eight-eyed Bear- A mother with eight legs arrives and saves him, they treat each other like mother (grandmother) and son; he climbs her back for three days; she brings him to church by air, where he takes a bird; when wants to take the cage, the bells ring; they grab him, lead him to the Fire King, who agrees to change the bird to a Gold-shaped horse; (the same as when he takes a bridle, the bells ring); the Tsar agrees to change it to The Sun is Beautiful; contrary to warning, he also takes a ring; tells her father the Sun King that he himself is the son of the King of Heaven; he orders to bring the Beast, this is the Eight-eyed Mother Bear with eight legs; she is locked in a chest, he gets a wife, leaves; she catches up with them by air, they change to her; she takes the form of a Beautiful Sun, changes herself for a horse; the same with a bird; at the bus stop, the brothers cut off a fool his head, the Bear revives him, makes him a snotty boy; he comes to his wife's wedding, opens up to her; the brothers are expelled]: Pushkareva, Khomich 2001, No. 4:177-219.