J32E. Kidnapped foals. 29.30.32.-.34.
Thehero manages to establish who is kidnapping newborn foals.
Kalmyks, Kabardian people, Nogais, Avars, Parya, Yagnobes, Uzbeks, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Khalkha Mongols, Buryats, Dagurs.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. The Kalmyks [only the youngest of three brothers, Nusah Mu ("bad jerk"), spends the night at the grave of their deceased father, gets three hairs; if they are burned, they turn into the end; the khan gives his daughters away the unrecognized NM wins competitions three times; the eldest daughters choose beautiful knights; the youngest recognizes the NM, chooses him; the khan sends them to live in a house made of grass; an unrecognized NM smashes attacking enemies, khan bandages his wound with his silk cape; the wounded khan will be cured by saiga meat; look, an unrecognized NM catches saiga, gives his older sons-in-law a poisonous upper layer of meat in exchange for an earlobe and little finger; the meat of his elder sons-in-law makes the khan worse, from the cooked inner meat served by his youngest daughter, he recovered; a black cloud carries away the foals of the mare; NM shoots, picks up a fallen gold ring; on a herd drives a winged horse from the sky, killing the sleeping kidnapper; older sons-in-law push him into a hole; he sees an ant heal its leg, heals its broken bones with the same grass; he rises up the wolf's tail to the surface; khan understands who his younger son-in-law is; executes older sons-in-law]: Basangova 2002:106-114; Kalmyks [a mare of three brothers gets married three times a day, but a foal born in the morning, someone- he always kidnaps; the youngest, Burgin-Tsagan cuts off the foal's pearl tail and coral mane with an arrow when it is carried away by a whirlwind; consistently kills three mangas, takes everyone's wife; this daughters of the sun, moon and night sky, who were grabbed by the mangas when they flew in the guise of swans to swim; older brothers envy that the youngest's wife is more beautiful, leave a sword at the entrance; to the legless they come blind and armless; they kidnap the khan's daughter, make her sister; her fire goes out, she comes to the old woman for him, she puts the coals in the hem, finds a house on the ash trail, drinks the girl's blood with her copper with their beak; brothers guard, beat the old woman, make them swallow and regurgitate everyone, they recover; B. are not regurgitated, the sparrow screams that he is in the old woman's finger; under the guise of gelyunga, B. comes to the brothers, wife recognizes him; they play cards for his younger brother's wife; B. cuts off their heads]: Vatagin 1964:106-115; Kabardian people [when dying, father tells three sons to guard a mare once a year, whose foals are kidnapped ; the older brother falls asleep, the middle brother does not dare to fight the seven-headed frost; the younger Zaur repulsed the foal, cut off one head; on the horse he follows the trail of the frost; the old woman says that the hoarder kidnapped her daughter, gives scissors, a mirror, a comb; Z. takes the girl away, throws a comb (barbed fence), scissors (seven fortresses), a mirror (the ground is covered with ice); the other fell, Z. cut off his heads; took the girl in wives]: Aliyeva, Kardangushev 1977:98-99; Nogais [every year someone takes the newborn foal of a Bayskaya mare; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep, the younger Kara-Batyr does not allow the black cloud to carry it away the foal becomes his heroic horse; helps werewolves divide the bull's carcass, who ask him to kill the serpent padishah to get the khan's daughter; KB consistently cuts off the heads of all werewolves, and then a serpent padishah; kind to an old werewolf woman; she teaches him to let the young man's horse 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, in a casket a sparrow, breathing in it the Azdaa that carried the foals; after killing Azdaa, it brings foals, shows the head of the padishah of snakes and the ears of werewolves, gets the khan's daughter]: Nogai 1979, No. 17:83-86; 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 him off leg; 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 the horse stops in front of the bridge, 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 other two wives to his brothers; the brothers leave a sword at the entrance to the cave, M. cut both legs to the knee, the brothers take good and women away; the Blind and the Bald come to live with M.; they kidnap the khan's daughter to cook for them; the fire goes out, she came to Hart for fire , she gave, 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 him swallow the Bald and the Blind, belch healthy; warns that she will not belch him, because he killed her sledge sons; each of her organs will have to be cut; Blind and Bald find M. in the little finger of Hart's legs, 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 Bald whether to shoot a chicken or a rooster, he replies that the chicken has nothing to do with it , M. kills brothers with an arrow; M. marries a sledge girl and a kidnapped cook, M.'s father marries two other sledge girls]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 32:311-316.
Iran - Central Asia. Parya [every day the padishah's mare gets screwed, every time the foal is carried away by a dev; the eldest son went to guard, did not notice anything; the middle son cut his finger, sprinkled salt on the wound; Dev appeared, the guy defeated him, took a foal; went to look for his horses {the text ends}]: Vinnikov 1977, No. 14:164-165; Yagnobtsy: Andreev, Peshereva 1957, No. 31 [someone kidnaps foals; the eldest, middle princes fall asleep, the youngest sees the dragon swallowing the foal, tearing off the foal's tail; the brothers go along three roads; the youngest comes successively to three women, each the 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 women, cuts belts out of dragon skin; finds and buys the ruined 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 cook; they tell him to give the cat one of the two highlights they find on floor, otherwise she will extinguish the fire; the girl eats both, the cat fills the fire with urine; the girl comes to the dragon for fire, she tells her to throw barley grains on the way back; on this trail she comes to suck blood; blind, armless guard, but are afraid to stand up for the girl; the dragon is lame, tells everyone to be cured; the dragon consistently swallows everyone and regurgitates whole; the lame man does not regurgitate, he warned what will happen in the finger; the former blind and armless cut down the dragon, the young man comes out of his finger; the king went blind during this time, but saw the light when the youngest son gave the handkerchief to wipe his eyes; ordered the eldest sons to be tied to horses, gave their wives to the companions of his youngest son], 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; a stone with an inscription at the fork, the upper and lower roads are safe, the middle one is 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 the herd, the young man takes the tailless foal and the whole herd; the older brothers leave a sword at the door, the youngest is left without a leg; they come blind and armless, bring the girl to cook, they tell you to share the zest with the cat; the cat lingers, extinguishes the fire, the girl goes for fire to the female diva, she gives a handful of barley, comes on the trail, sucks blood; blind, armless guard, afraid; young man the diva wins, makes him swallow and regurgitate whole; he himself is in his little finger; the king is blind in grief, the young man rubs his eyes with a handkerchief, he sees the light; the older brothers are tied to horses; the prince returns wife and foal, sisters pass off as former blind and armless]: 157-163, 192-196; Uzbeks (Tashkent) [after the birth of his third son, the king drove his wife away, took a young one; someone kidnaps foals from his beloved mares; the eldest, middle prince falls asleep, Yalmauz-Kampir takes a foal every time; the youngest shot her little finger on her arm; that same evening the young queen gave birth to a daughter and fled; the prince noticed that she had there is no little finger; the father did not listen to him, he drove him away; he stays with the 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 wand where he will turn his blade, go there; he found his mother, bought it out of slavery; she died; he went to visit the house; he sees his sister in the guise of Yalmauz-Kampir through the crack, she goes through the heads of the parents and brothers eaten; the fox tells him to run, remains to hit the drum for him while the YAK goes for poison; the prince runs away, throws a comb (thicket), a razor (mountain), a bar (sea; YAK swam, but the fish dragged it to the bottom, and then transported it prince ashore; ordered the merry wand to be protected; the young king finds that old woman's daughter, marries her; when he sails across the sea over the place where the fish monster crushed the YAK, the storm sinks the ship, but they they swim out on fish; feast]: Ostroumov 1990, No. 3:13-20.
Volga - Perm. Bashkirs [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 that takes him away 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 a piebald mare; tries to get a golden sword from the bottom of the lake; the mare explains that the reflection of the sword is in the water, he himself is pierced into a pine trunk that split the sky and goes further up; K. climbs the pine tree, squeezes into another 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 they have attacked enemies, K. runs out, the sword cuts off his legs; he sees a deer carrying the sun on his horns, a man runs after him; says he sees only when he is near the sun; the 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 armless man's hands froze; three companions decide to get a woman- cook, the khan's daughter is kidnapped, told not to let the fire go out; the fire goes out, the girl comes to the old woman for fire; she gives coals, finds a girl on an ash trail, asks to look in her hair, sucks she has a 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 the girl, blind, armless; regurgitated are healed; after swallowing K., 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 to the khan; K. marries a woman from the golden house, gives the other two to his companions, makes her brothers servants]: Barag 1988, No. 38:252-267.
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, watched and shot 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; 1916, No. 11 (judging by place names, Karaganda district) [Koblandy's batyr robbed the khan, killed his young son Karaman in a duel, captured the people; the old man remained, covered in a cauldron, and a boy covered in straw; found K.'s bow; two strongmen wore it, and the boy picked up one; found a foal for himself; the old man named the boy Talas-pai and his horse Koschu-Gar'at; three days in a row, when T. leaves, three swans rip off the old man's face, tear his fur coat, beat him; K. put on the old man's clothes, went out by himself; squeezed the swans, but they put him on themselves, took off, but he jumped off; shot them, The gold ring fell; having prepared meat for the old man, K. set off; met a shepherd; he replies that he was herding Kadyr-kan's cattle; I must say, "Cross, the cows," they will cross the sea themselves;" Get attached, calves"; "Get it, cows"; the youngest of Kadyr-kan's three daughters lick her soles; T. killed the shepherd, dressed in his clothes, sat on his bull, did as the shepherd explained; he cut off the cow's tongue, in a yurt the girl began to stroke her feet with them; maiden: did your tongue crack? T.: yes; began to stroke softer; the girl does not tell them to go to where they swim tomorrow; he went; they flew in the guise of swans; the youngest noticed the shepherd's golden crest, realized that it was T.; in the evening she pomped, they slept together; girl: how to let my father know that I want to marry; T.: bake three loaves: burnt, half-burnt, good; Khan told daughters to choose their husbands themselves; the youngest chose T.; Khan gave them a small yurt; upset by his daughter's choice, the khan fell ill; the doctor: you need saiga meat; the brothers-in-law did not get anything, T. gave them meat, but the khan only got worse; T. kept his saiga intestines, from which the khan recovered; Khan's winged black mare brings a foal every day, it is carried away by the Alyp-Kara-Kush bird; the older sons-in-law fell asleep, T. shot, cutting off the foal's tail and the bird's silver feather with an arrow; older sons-in-law they took the tail, but did not give it back to T.; T. brought it himself, put it near the khan's yurt; on horseback, Kozu-Gar'at drove to the yurt, an old woman with 7 heads came out; T. did not eat, but invited him to his place; alone from the food human; they exchanged salt and agreed not to harm each other; T. reached the bai-terek tree, with a bird on it, he shot it, only his horse could carry the carcass; he was caught up by a girl, the daughter of a bird, offered to fight; three days later he defeated her and married her; prisoners in her house, they released them; after spending the night with an old woman with 7 heads, they moved on; T. saved the snake from the fire, which gave him the ability understand the language of animals; towards the bay horse - the horse's brother T., she ran away when Koblandy took everything; T. appeared to Khan in his real form; he called his daughter clever and himself a fool; T. came to his father , he was already starving; his grown-up son went to take revenge on Koblanda; before the fight, T. and Koblanda began to ask each other; it turned out that their mothers were sisters; they reconciled; came to take revenge on Ir- Kosai, defeated and killed Koblanda and son T.; T. and he have equal strength, they are reconciled]: 73-79; Tursunov 1983 [the youngest of nine brothers is gold-haired Totambay; every year a newborn foal is kidnapped black cloud; when T. was watching, he shot into the cloud, a woman's finger fell out of it; it turned out that their sister had lost her finger; the brothers did not believe it, they expelled T.; in the neighboring khanate he became a shepherd, married on the youngest daughter of the khan; the khan will recover if he eats 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; the khan asks to find his two daughters stolen dhow giants; T. killed the dhow, brought the women back; while sleeping, 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, handed them wealth to T.]: 191-193; Castagné 1932 [each the year of the mare is half golden and half silver 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, from the cloud a woman's finger falls; goes in search; a white rider comes to the grave of the deceased khan at night, tramples on her, the deceased suffers; the khan's daughter promises to marry someone who will save her father from suffering; a 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 drowns boats; the young man tears off her ring, her hand disappears; he comes to three tents, overhears the conversation of three girls; these are the ones who stole stallions, tortured the dead, drowned boats; each expresses a desire to marry her victorious young man; the young man enters, the girls agree, but we must kill their virgin brothers; a young man kills two; when he fights a third, a virgin sister throws wheat under her brother's feet and ash under her brother's feet; virgins fall, are killed, the young man takes wives and stolen horses]: 51-54.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khalkha 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"); the Chinese woman died; the evil spirit of shulam persuaded the Mongolian woman to find out which young man was her son; she pretended to lose consciousness, her sons put her on the bed, she pricked B. Alim with a pin, and he had a mole; this is a sign that B. - her son; since then she has begun to give I. leftovers; the young men have left home; on the seashore they ask the shepherd; he grazes the khan's cattle, who are overseas; I must say "Sea, part" and he gives up; at home tie some of the cattle, go to bed; 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 him looks; 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 takes them away every year 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, he became a mighty horse; I. caught the bird, drove the herd; the horse did not tells the brothers not to sit on the litter or drink tea in the yurt; but the brothers forcibly poured a few drops into I.'s mouth, threw them into the pit, covered them with a stone; three years later, the hangarid and the horse moved the stone, the horse lowered tail, I. rose on it; I. returned, the khan ordered six sons-in-law to be tied to the tails of horses]: Mikhailov 1962:142-147; Khalkha-Mongols (recorded by C.J. Zhamtsarano) [the best of the husbands Adazudai Mergen (D.) lived in Ara Khorgolji; herd Asagaldai noticed that the mare in front of the herd jumped from the water, where his lungs and heart were swimming; the old man grabbed them, they turned gray and white hares, and ran; the old man killed them; a 15-headed mangus appeared: the old man killed his children, who took the form of hares; demanded that the old man kill D. for this; D.'s wife had a dream: a shepherd in a contract with a mangus; but D. did not noticed; when his horses came down from the sky, D. could not ride them, because the harness and armor were damaged by the shepherd; D. runs, the mangus took his wife and property; D. lived hunting, three years later I returned, the fire is still glowing in the hearth: a good sign; under the hearth there is a letter from his wife; it says where the new armor and food are hidden; let him marry Princess Naran Gua (NG); she will sew the last a button to his shirt, which his wife did not have time to sew on; D. wanted to pick up his wife, but the sea was poisonous on the way, so he went after NG; looking like a bad boy, D. waited at the gold and silver well; a servant came, then NG herself; they played chess, then spent three nights together; the khan allowed them to live in a hut; 6 older sons-in-law did not kill anything while hunting, and D. returned with rich prey; gave brothers-in-law carcasses, but took his legs; made sure that his brothers-in-law were poisoned with the meat of the carcasses; cured them with a piece of meat left for himself; Khan sent them to search for hundreds of golden horses stolen by Garuda; D. turned into horse manure, hid; the mare necklaced, the garuda carried away the foal; D. managed to shoot the foal's tail, the garuda's pen; gave the tail and feather to his wife; in the morning his brothers-in-law quarrel over the remaining on the ground shmetyev pen; khan sent him to the garuda for stolen horses; D. also wants; he is offered to get a horse on the border of earth and sky; he got it and tamed it; while he slept, the horse ran home; everyone decided that his horse was his threw off, but D. rode his horse Ezen Sharga, leading the second on the lead; in the middle of the plain, a yurt with a cup, an old woman with a finger; she sent him to the garuda; D. shot the garuda, drove the herd home; the old woman warned: his brothers-in-law wanted to destroy him; D. told his brothers-in-law that the wings he was carrying were the wings of a lark; he was forced to sit in a corner of honor, fell into a hole; his horses stole the herd brought in to Brothers-in-law did not get it; they brought a dagini with a 99-planted scythe; the braid did not reach the bottom of the hole; to lengthen the braid, she began to comb it; this requires a lake; the horses urinated, creating it; sent a lark for with eternal water and revived D. raised by it; a feast at the khan; D. beat his brothers-in-law, cutting them apart; NG begged them to be resurrected, D. did it; NG sewed up his shirt collar in an instant, and D. shot 80 in an instant carts of firewood, a black boulder and shot a silver needle through the eye; they returned home, where there was nothing left of their former home; while hunting, D. shot the maralikha, and a boy immediately took her away; the same time again; On the third day, D. brought the boy; horse: this is your son; D.'s wife gave birth to him after the mangus took her away; the boy recognized his father by the mole on his back that his mother said; D. and mangus are struggling; mangus asks his wife put flour under the feet of the one she loves, and the one she does not love, black pebbles; D.'s wife poured flour to D., pebbles to mangus; M. killed the mangus, cut off his fingers from his finger, an iron boy appeared, he too killed, but with difficulty; at home M. executed the traitor old man Asagaldai, married his son to NG, healed himself with his wife]: Poppe 1936:79-82; Buryats (Khorin) [the wolf ate the orphan's horse; he goes to look for him; old man: when If you defeat Shono Khan ("shono" is a wolf), ask for the red dog and the blue chest; he did it; he returns to the yurt - the corner of the chest is burnt, one leg of the dog is broken; the next day, the second corner, second leg; fourth leg; he hits the dog; wakes up in the palace in the morning (came from the chest), next to a beautiful woman (that dog); S. calls for a wedding; wife warns not to step on the carpet (under it pit), do not sit on the bed, eat nothing; the orphan touched the food with his finger, died; the 25-headed Hongil Shara Shebshehei put it in the coffin, threw it into the sea; mangadhayu wife: if you catch the coffin, put it on the shore; the coffin is found by three daughters of the khan, inside there is a baby, growing rapidly; every day the khan's mare is stabbed with a golden foal, he disappears; the khan asks the grooms of his daughters to guard; they fall asleep, the foundling shoots at a cloud that descends, a bird's feather falls to the ground; the foundling gives it to the grooms, for which he cuts off everyone's ear; the 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 fly, the chicks are eaten by a fire serpent (the crying person will be eaten today, the singer tomorrow, the laughing one the day after tomorrow); they deliberately steal gold foals in the hope that the strongest of people goes looking for them; the foundling is killed by a snake with an arrow, Khan Garaudy gives 9 foals; the foundling gives them to the grooms, for which he cuts their 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 his belts; the khan hangs the grooms alive on the branch to feed the crows; the foundling smashes Sh.'s army, crushed him himself, clamped him in the crevice for food with insects; he fought for 4 months with Hongil Shara Shebsheheem, the son of the foundling grew up, came to the aid of his father, the body of the SHSH was burned]: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 5:93-109; 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 at the moment 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.