J32B. Extended night .15.27.29.

To have time to do what he wants, the hero extends the night, changing the character's behavior, on which the alternation of time of day depends.

Spaniards, Portuguese, Bulgarians, Moldovans, Albanians, Greeks, Megrelians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks.

Southern Europe. The Spaniards (Granada) [when dying, the father tells each of his three sons to go water the flower garden at night after his death; the father was buried in the crypt; the elder went to water the flowers there, the roof of the crypt became beating against the floor, the walls against each other, the young man ran away; the middle brother did the same; the younger one watered until everything calmed down; a beast came out of the crypt and turned off the lantern; the young man saw a light in the distance and went there; I came across an old night woman, politely asked what she was doing; "I'm shortening nights and lengthening days"; he pushed the old woman, she fell down and the night continued; the young man went to the fire of 41 sleeping robbers; lit the flashlight, the robbers woke up and wanted to burn the person; but when they found out that he had been able to lift la cardera {cauldron?} , made him chieftain; vowing to return, the young man came again to his father's grave; there the beast crumbled into pieces; the father promised his son good luck; came to the old woman, picked her up from the ground, dawn came; brothers the young man did not say anything; he got on his horse and returned to the robbers; persuaded them not to steal wine from the poor, but to rob the palace; he climbed first and, as the robbers got up, cut off them heads; in one of the chambers, a young man saw three princesses sleeping; the youngest took off the ring from his finger and cut off a piece from her skirt; the king wants to know who killed the robbers; many noble imposters have come; the princess said that someone had visited her; decided to have a tavern where they drink and feed for free, but let the visitors tell stories; the brothers also came there, the younger one told everything; the elders are ashamed of not fulfilling their father's requests; the youngest showed his princess ring and became the royal son-in-law]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 304:43-47; Portuguese [young man with brothers and the father leaves home; they spent the night in the palace, where invisible hands serve food, etc.; kill the monster; the fire goes out, the young man goes after the fire; the old woman (sun and moon) gives two threads: one to create a day and another night; teaches how to find light; a young man meets robbers (giants) and, thanks to his ingenuity, defeats them; throws them into a well; killing snakes, giants, etc., he saves three sleeping princesses; the third kisses, pulls out fire; picks up various items belonging to each princess; saves their parents, the king and queen; returns to their sleeping father and brothers; shows items taken, recognized as a princess and {princess's parents?}] : Cardigos 2006, No. 304:63.

The Balkans. Bulgarians [the youngest of three brothers on guard at night, kills a monster (lamia, dragon); fire (covered in monster blood) goes out; sees fire on the mountain and goes there, meets an old woman (named Day and Night, Evening Star), she spins; he makes her spin only black yarn until he returns; by the fire, robbers, they test the young man (they tell her to get a boiling pot out of the fire), admit in it a strongman; ordered to help rob (kill) the king (kidnap the princess); after entering the palace, the young man kills incoming robbers one by one; kisses the sleeping princess, takes her ring, kills a snake, or lamia who was ready to kill the princess; to find the hero, the king sets up an inn, feeds visitors for free, but for this they must tell stories; the young man talks about what happened, shows a ring and his knife stuck in the wall; the king gives his daughter for a young man (and his eldest daughters for his brothers)]: Daskalo-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 304:106-107; Moldovans [three fellows three princesses have been kidnapped; the king promises a reward to whoever finds his daughters; Calin the Fool and his two older brothers go in search; K. guards at night, kills three-, four-, eight-headed dragons; the last blood filled the fire; K. goes into the light, meets, binds Evening, Midnight, Dawn so that the day does not come until he returns; 12 dragons and their mother sleep around the fire; K. takes coal, but also meat; dragons wake up, tell them to bring the daughter of the Red King (they themselves cannot, because they are afraid of a puppy with a rooster); K. leads dragons with him, kills one at a time when they climb over the city wall; K. took off the ring from the princess's finger; cut off the dragons's tongues; killed one dragon in their lair, and the other ran away; fed and let go of the bound Evening, Midnight, Dawn; passing through the golden one, a silver, copper forest meets three kidnapped princesses, each cooking for her dragon; kills two dragons; when fighting a third, both call a crow, but K. calls him a blessed king, a raven pours water on the flame of the dragon, he dies; when K. falls asleep, his brothers cut off his legs; he was found by an armless one; K. grabbed the runaway dragon, she showed the lake; when K. and his sister plunged, their legs and arms grew up; they killed a dragon; the princess is given to a gypsy who allegedly killed dragons; K. sends his ring, recognized, showed his tongues; a gypsy with a bag of nuts was tied to the horse's tail; where the nut fell, there a piece of body fell off; K. gave the princess to his former betrothed; K. came home, his wife was made a maid; he offered to throw the core up; when it fell, it crushed his brothers]: Moldavian tales 1969:158- 168; Albanians [three siblings have sisters married to the Sun, Month and South; they decide to visit them; they spend the night three times, each time one brother guards the others; the elder killed the lamia, did not tell the brothers about this; the same middle; the youngest too, but the lamia managed to extinguish the fire with her tail; the young man sees the light in the distance, goes there; on the way he meets the mother of the night, asks her to prolong the darkness; she promises to do it, but he does not believe and binds it; when he goes to a light source, he sees a huge cauldron on fire with 12 ears; picked it up, lit the torch, and put it in place; 12 robbers are amazed by this force: they can To raise the cauldron only together; they led the young man to rob the king; after breaking through the wall, they climbed into the stable; the young man stayed outside; raised the alarm, cut off the thieves as they got out; left his knife there; on the way back he freed the mother of the night; the king found the dead robbers and the knife; ordered a tavern where food is free, but let everyone tell us what they did; the elder and the middle brothers described how each killed a lamia, the youngest also about robbers; the king gave his daughter for him; on the occasion of the royal wedding, prisoners were released; half of them were made of iron; a young man persuaded the king to release him too; as soon as the king broke his shackles, the monster swallowed the princess and flew away; the young man asks the king to give iron shoes and a staff, promises to return the princess in a year; comes to his sister, whose husband Sun; she hid her brother, the Sun senses man, but promises not to touch her brother-in-law; advises you to ask the Month; he sends to the South; the South also does not know where the Iron Man is, directs him to the huge falcon tells him to come up from behind and threaten to slaughter him if he does not tell him where the Iron Man is; the falcon tells him to prepare meat and fix his wings - he is too old; they fly to a high mountain, the last piece of meat the young man cut off his thigh; when he reached, the falcon regurgitated this piece and grew it back; the wife hid the young man, but the iron found him, drank blood, and spit out his skin and bones; the falcon saw, flew between the crusaders mountains, took swallows milk into his beak, revived the young man with it; he taught his wife to pretend to be dead and ask her husband where his strength is; iron; in a broom; the wife burned the broom, but nothing happened; pretended again sick; iron: there is a boar on the mountain, he has a silver fang, a hare in his fang, there are three pigeons in the hare, they are strong; the young man came to the shepherd, began to ask about the boar, he heard, the young man began to fight with him; boar: I would like to sharpen my fangs racine de gouet; young man: I would have flour, fried fish and wine; the shepherd brought everything, the young man killed the boar, took out pigeons; turning his two heads, the young man came to the Iron Man, killed the third, the iron died; the falcon brought the young man and princess to the king; everyone is happy]: Dozon 1991, No. 15:121-134; Greeks: Legrand 1881 [father tells three sons to pray at his grave for three nights and give away their three sisters for the first to marry them; after reprimanding a prayer, the eldest returns to the house; at this time a strange-looking man comes, almost a freak; only the younger brother insists on giving him his sister; the same with middle brother and middle sister; a woman comes to the youngest with two balls of thread, black and white; it depends on her whether it will be night or day; the young man asks to unwind the black thread more slowly so that he could finish reading the prayer before dawn; she refused; then he tied it to a tree and went to the place where the light could be seen; there were 40 dragons around a huge boiling cauldron; the young man picked it up and put it back; they ask them to help them steal the princess; going up to the tower, the young man tells the dragons to go up one at a time and kills each one; in his bedroom he kissed the princess and exchanged rings with her; returned home, untying the mistress of night and day; to identify the hero who killed dragons, the king tells everyone to come and talk about his life; the princess recognized the young man and her ring; the wedding; the young man noticed in a golden key in his wife's hair; opened the locked door with them, pulled the ring, a dark figure fell off it and took the princess away; the young man went in search; came to his older sister's castle; her husband called the birds but only the lame eagle knew where the sorcerer's castle was, and carried the young man there; taking the princess, they flew back, but the sorcerer, to whom his flying horse told everything, caught up with them, took the princess and cut the young man in half; the eagle brought halves, the sister's husband revived it with live water; the young man came to his middle sister; her husband explains that it is necessary to get the same winged horse as the sorcerer; the young man came to the mountain, tamed the horse, took him away wife home; the sorcerer's horse could not catch up with them]: 145-160; Hahn 1864 (1), No. 52 [the robbers stole the sister of three brothers; they went in search; they made a fire in the evening; the elder brother is on guard the first night; A lamia came, he killed her, did not say anything to the brothers; the second night he was the same with his middle brother; on the third, the youngest killed three lamias who had come; but the fire went out, the young man went to look for fire; saw light in the distance, went to him; met an old woman, who replied that a distant fire is a fire of robbers; and she herself brings the day into the world; the young man asked her to stay still while he goes to get the fire; she promised, but he did not trust her, tied her to a tree; 40 robbers are sitting around the cauldron with 40 ears; the young man took off the cauldron, took the fire and put the cauldron back; returning to the old woman, the young man untied her, came to brothers; it was dawn and they moved on; but the robbers brought the young man to their place, told him to climb into the royal treasury; he found a sword and cut off the heads of all the robbers who crawled into one by one hole; after drinking water from the bowl, the young man left; to find out who killed the robbers and saved the treasury, the king set up an inn where everyone was supposed to talk about their adventures; the young man also came and started tell; the king married him to his daughter, and his brothers to the daughters of noble people]: 286-288.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Megrela [Tsagareli, Megrelian Studies, vol. 1:10-13; when dying, the king orders him to guard his grave for three nights and pass off his three sisters as those who ask; the elder hears a rumble and sees someone dig up the grave, grabbed the corpse, cried over it, and then buried it and disappeared; the same with the middle brother; while they were away, the youngest gave the three sisters to those who came for them; the youngest cut the monster in two, but his blood filled a candle; the young man noticed the light, went to it, telling the rooster not to scream so that morning would not come; after crossing the river, the young man saw demi (=devi) sitting by the fire; grabbed a smut and ran; the smut went out when crossing; he returned but captured; the demis are told to get three princesses out of the castle; the young man climbed the wall and killed all the demis one by one as they got up; entered to the princesses, gave each a ring (his youngest), returned, took fire, plunged his sword into the stone, allowed the rooster to sing, returned to his father's grave; the king promises daughters to whoever pulls the sword out of the stone; he could only a young man married his youngest, gave it to his older brothers; the king gave the younger a flying carpet, the young and his servants flew it, but the flying monster took the princess away; the young man went in search; he came to three demi, married to his sisters; they said they saw Kazha-Ndii-Kerkun ("fast silicon-like demi") carry a gold-haired beauty and they only managed to tear out the curl of her hair; the young man recognized his wife's curl; demi- his sons-in-law gave him a horse and a dog; he came to K.'s house; when he was taking his wife away, the gate called K.; he easily caught up with the young man, chopped them to pieces; the dog collected them, loaded them on a horse, he came to the demy-sons-in-law; the youngest he revived him, gave him a three-legged horse; when K.'s horse caught up, the three-legged one burst and K.'s horse slowed down; the young man cut K. in half and returned his wife]: Wardrobe 1894, No. 2:112-118; Armenians [the boy tied the old man, who shook black and white yarn - night and day]: Gullakian 1983:195; Azerbaijanis [the king's 40 sons are going to marry 40 sisters; the king orders not to spend the night in the destroyed building and in steppes; the brothers spent the night at the dilapidated minaret, where the white diva; only the younger Melik-Mamed is awake; killed the diva, refusing to hit again, hid the corpse; elsewhere the same, black diva; at the third night MM came to the old man, he winds threads around black (night) and white (day) balls; MM tied the old man to make the night go on, came to the house where the wedding of 40 giants with 40 kidnapped princesses - sisters; MM bribed an old woman, who gave cotton wool to prevent the watchman bell from ringing; MM killed the giants who came out one by one, plunged a sword into marble in the palace of the princesses's father, returned to the brothers; no one can pull out the sword, only MM himself; the king gives his daughters to his brothers; on the way back, the serpent king brought MM to him, ordered Sanam with 40 braids, the daughter of the underground king, to be kidnapped; having received a magic tablecloth from the snake, MM the paths fed the lion, the ant, the Zumrud gushi bird, they gave fur, etc.; the underground king has 99 heads on the roof; he tells 1) to defeat the lion (the lion that MM fed won); 2) collect the sown millet ( the ants collected); the last seed was brought by a lame ant); 3) hang the scales in the air (MM agrees with the old woman that she will cut off one of the princess's braid, the Zumrud Gushi bird hung the scales on it); MM received the princess; freed Dzhansyn-Kos on the bridge; he pursues, took the princess, disappeared; Zumrud-gushi revived MM with live water; explained that J.K's death was in a needle, in a needle, in a sparrow, in a cage, in an elephant in the forest; MM took it out, broke the needle, J.K. died; the king of the serpent gave way to Princess MM; a feast at home, MM lives with two wives]: Bogoyavlensky 1892c, No. 6:308-318; Turks: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, â„– 213.III.2 [the young man goes out fire; he goes after the fire, meets an old woman who spins and then spreads yarn; 40 giants agree to fire if the young man gets them three daughters of Padishah Peri; either 40 giants or robbers cannot enter the palace; the young man climbs there and then cuts off the heads of each of the robbers who enter]: 251; Kunos 1901 [when dying, the padishah tells him to guard his grave for three nights; who's with it he will cope, will receive the throne; three sisters must be passed off as the first to come to marry; the eldest son hears roars and noise at night, runs in fear; the middle one is the same; the younger Mehmed kills the dragon; he asks to hit with his sword for the second time, M. says that his mother gave birth to him once; saw an old man with white (day) and black (night) balls; tied his hands so that he would not let go of the day, came to 40 robbers, offered to help them steal the treasures, killed them one at a time as they went up the wall; cut a snake; saw three princesses sleeping, fell in love with the youngest; returned, cutting off the dragon's nose and ears; untied the old man ; the elder brother has already become the padishah; at the insistence of the younger, the sisters were given to the lion, the tiger, the bird Anka (he is the padishah peri); the king of the castle, where M. killed 40 robbers and a snake, agrees with the vizier to identify hero, having arranged a bathhouse for all men; M. is identified: he does not have a sword; he asks the younger princess; the king: but the demon whirlwind wants her, so she sits in a steel room; M. received the princess, and his brothers received her sisters; as soon as M. went to the forest, a whirlwind carried his wife; M. goes in search, visits three sisters, each husband shows the way; M. takes his wife, jumps away; the whirlwind wakes up on the fourth day, does not he packed up in a hurry, caught up easily, tore them to shreds; allowed his wife to collect the bones; she loaded them on her horse, told them to go where they should go; he came to Anka's wife; Anka gathered all the birds; the old owl was the last to appear she was alone in the Garden of Eden; from there she brought living water, Anka revived M.; he returned to his wife: let her know what the whirlwind's life is; he confesses: at the seventh sea level there is an island, there is a bull, a box in it, dove in the box; there is a spring on the mountain, once a year 40 sea horses come to him, we must tame one, he will deliver it to the right place; M. took out the box, took his wife, killed the pigeon, the whirlwind died, M. became a padishah]: 112-133.