J32F. Stolen apples. 11.13.-.17.22.27.-.32.

While on guard, the hero finds out who is stealing fruits (usually apples) from the garden.

Swahili, Kordofan, Sudanese Arabs, Western Sahara, Kabilas, Algerian Arabs, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalans, Basques, Sicilians, Corsicans, Italians (Veneto), Ladins, Maltese, Walloons, Germans (Grimms), Irish, Syrian Arabs, Mehri, Shans, Arakans, Hungarians, Serbs, Bosniks, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Albanians, Hungarians, Romanians, Moldovans, Gagauz, Czechs, Luzhitans, Russians (Terek coast) , Pinega), Western Ukrainians (Podolia), Abkhazians, Adygs, Karachays/Balkarians, Ossetians, Nogais, Tatas, Swans, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Persians, Tajiks, Norwegians, Finns, Setus, Livs, Latvians, Kazan Tatars.

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 his direction; the elders come 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; the young man gets, wants a girl for himself; the lion turns into a girl, then into a horse, the young man returns with the girl, the horse and the bird; at night the 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 down 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 been living there for 7 years, he has been 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; the 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 the white one; 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 it's okay; 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 envy 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 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 elders fall asleep, the youngest 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 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 grenades, 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 out land; at this time, the older brothers are arguing about who will take the younger princess; she points to her real savior; wedding]: 93-97, 157-159; Italians (Veneto) [the king ordered three to be planted in the garden wonderful trees, but every morning someone pulls them out of the ground; the eldest son guards them; at midnight, the trees jump out of the ground themselves, the coffin arrives accompanied by 4 men; the queen runs away in horror; the same middle son; the youngest is not afraid, asks what this means; the 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 palace; there are three beauties in the courtyard; the young man sent them upstairs, and his brothers decided not to lift them, cut off the rope; the old woman gave him a ring that fulfilled his wishes; he wished to return to earth, but not to the palace where his brothers became a jeweler; the king promises girls to the winners of the tournament; the young man asked for a horse and a combat outfit from the ring; was the winner, received the most beautiful girl; when he bowed knees in front of the king, he recognized his son by his mole; the older brothers were expelled]: Widter et al. 1866, No. 4:20-23; 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); Irish [{first page missing in pdf}; someone steals golden apples from the royal garden; the gardener's elder son missed a bird that radiates light; same middle; the youngest knocked down a golden pen; without taking an apple, the bird flew away with a deafening cry; the king promises a daughter to the one who will get the bird; the eldest son went, stopped to eat, the fox asks her share; he shoots in response; out of respect for his younger brother, the fox still advises the village to stay not in a lighted house where they dance, but in a dim light and a modest family lives; the guy stopped where they were dancing; the same with the middle son; the youngest shared with the fox; stayed in a modest house; went on in the morning; the fox: the bird of the Spanish king; tells her to sit on her tail and instantly brings 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 a bird if the young man gets the horse of the King of Morocco; the same (the guy tried to replace the usual saddle with gold); get Goldilocks, the daughter of the King of Greece; the guy should not wake her up and she does not must touch the doorposts; but he kissed her, she agrees to go, but must kiss her father; he will give her daughter if the guy removes the mountain of clay in front of the palace; earlier instead of every pile thrown away two new ones appeared; the fox helped again, the mountain disappeared in the morning; {page missing}; the gardener's son married the daughter of the King of Greece, and her brother married the daughter of the king {whom?}] : Kennedy 1875:47-56.

Western Asia. The Arabs of Syria [the king is blind, the soothsayer tells him to smell an apple that ripens in his garden once a year; older brothers fall asleep that night, efreet steals an apple; younger Aladin added salt cut to avoid sleep, he hacked down efrita; the king saw the light]: Kuhr 1993:165-166; mehri [when the dates are almost ripe, someone ripped them off; soothsayer to the owner: these are three Ginny girls, they fly in to swim, we must hide their clothes; the man hides, returns two, takes the third away, takes them as wives; gives three sisters to marry three genies who have come for them; leaves, leaving his wife in the care of his mother; was holiday, people asked this man's wife to dance too; she says she needs her clothes for this; people persuaded her mother-in-law to give clothes; the woman danced and flew away; people buried a lamb , told the returning husband that his wife was dead; but he opened the grave, made his mother tell them everything; soothsayer: feed brown, black, white camels for three years; then don't let them eat; jumped over she'll take you over the fence; brown jumped over; take it to the sunrise until you run out of strength; then three days on foot; every day she stays with her sisters, three genies give a hair - they will come to help; he sees his wife, she opens it to her father after he has promised not to cause harm; the wife's father demands: drink the stream, run from the bowl of water to the mountain and back without splashing, eat two camels; genies perform everything, man gets 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.

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 one 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; Macedonians [someone steals apples; older, middle brother guard, fall asleep, younger injures a thief; brothers go to a hole in the ground; begin to lower 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 start 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, he cuts off the last piece of meat from his leg by the leg by 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, her younger brother (sitting on ash) manages to injure her, goes to holes, wells where she goes to the lower world; 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, hala), which annually devours the chicks of a large bird (usually eagles); the bird raises the hero goes 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 peasant's field (vineyard, meadow); the eldest sons fall asleep, the youngest (fool, Cinderella) catches the magic horse; he gives him hairs from his mane 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 someone who rides on horseback to the balcony and will remove the princess's ring from her finger (or jump a hole on horseback; win horse racing); a young man unrecognized by his brothers completes the task]: 96-98, 194-195; Shereshevskaya 1957a [the tsar has an apple tree that brings gold 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 his sons to get it a bird; the elders respond ruelly to the old man they meet, the younger one is kind to him; he tells him to take a different path than the brothers; tells him to take the bird in the palace without touching the cage; the young man took the cage, is captured; released for promising to get a flying horse; the old man indicates the city and the 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, and a bride's clothes in a nutshell; finds brothers in an inn; they tied him up in the forest, told his father that they had caught the bird themselves; the shepherd found, untied his younger brother; the bride promises to marry only the one who would bring her walnutshell 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 falls asleep on guard, falls in love with her younger pava, who becomes a girl; flying away with others, she leaves him a golden apple (feather), 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 palace of the pavas, marries the youngest; in the absence of his wife, unlocks the door to the forbidden (9th, 12th, 40th) room, involuntarily releasing the snake (lamia, chalu) imprisoned there; he takes the prince's wife; grateful animals (fox, eagle fish or raven) promise to help; 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 for three nights in a row herd an old woman's horses; the prince receives a horse from her, on which he escapes the chase, the kidnapper dies]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, № *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 was not afraid of the roar, cut off the ogre's hand, brought it and the last apple father; brothers follow 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 his eyes open; the young man cuts off cannibals, contrary to request, do not hit the head twice; the last girl warns that if the brothers do not pick it up, they must jump on the white ram, he will take it to the ground; gives three nuts, their 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 tongues; the king wants to marry him his rescued daughter, but he asks to be brought to earth; spends the night under a tree where all birds rest at night; kills a monster crawling to the birds; birds take him to 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 boy's elder brother wants to marry the third girl saved; she demands get 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 [the 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 him 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, sleeps under the oak tree, kills a snake that has come to devour eagles; 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 it back; gives red (a winged horse will arrive), 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 to 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, the father tells three sons to guard the apple tree, fruits with who is kidnapped by an evil spirit; the older, middle brothers are afraid, the younger Kjelani injures the kidnapper; on a bloody trail, the brothers come to the crevice; the older ones are afraid to go down, K. goes down the 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, brothers cut off the rope; old woman: the white goat will carry it to the ground, the black one will lower it even lower, there is still a red one; two slip out of her hands, K. grabs the black one, falls deeper; kills the snake that was going to devour 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 them to prepare meat and wine; K. meets the princess, she is given to be eaten Kutschedra (a woman with a tail and 9 tongues, connected to black clouds), who closed the water sources; K. cuts off her head, the waters are 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 birds promise to give it in exchange for the neighboring king's horse; 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 the form of K. 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 [when she dies, the mother tells her daughter to marry whoever the ring fits; 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 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]: Moldovan tales 1968:266-275 ( =Botezat 1981:200-210); Gagauz people: Moshkov 1904, No. 44 [the king's tree brings three apples a year; the bird steals them; the eldest son guards, fell asleep in the morning; the same middle one; the youngest is a mess sitting in ash, nuts snapping all night, pulled out the bird's feather; the 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 them on at the intersection at the knife; the rescued wolf is taken to the bird, tells him not to take the 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); horse (the same , takes a bridle); they tell me to bring the girl; the wolf plays the violin in the reeds, 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; brothers decided to kill Z., take everything for themselves; the wolf and the eagle tell the crow to 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 son; the youngest Kl Pepeleshka ("ash and ash") sees three horses descending from the sky at midnight, one is grabbed; 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, jumps unrecognized, grabs the girl's handkerchief; at home he answers the brothers that he saw the competition from the top row folded dung; brothers destroyed the dung; again the next day, a white horse, grabs a ring; saw from the top of the skrida; the brothers destroyed the ricks; the boyar sends to look for the owner of the ring, find the KP; he says for the boyar to make a stone road, an iron bridge; the boyar does, the KP in the guise of a handsome man comes in a phaeton pulled by three horses, gets a wife; at home plays in ash again; comes again; the boyar wants to be moved across the house and back; KP carries, boyar dies of fear, KP stays in his house]: 184-188.

Central Europe. Czechs [someone steals apples from an apple tree in the royal garden; the king promises half the kingdom; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep, the youngest is knocked down by the feather of the Firebird (Ohnivák, PO), she flew away the apple is left; parting at the crossroads of three roads, the brothers stick their rods: whoever sprouts has taken out a bird; Liska-Ryzhka (KH) asks each of the brothers to share food; the elders shot it, the youngest fed him; she brought him to the castle, ordered him to take a wooden cage, the Queen took a gold one, the PO squeaked, the guards woke up; the king agrees to give the bird if the Queen delivers Zlatograv's horse; the same with 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 a sea queen; LR orders to choose the easiest dressed girl; he chose; the girls' mother tells now identify Z. among the three sisters; a fly is spinning around her; the Queen orders to scoop out the pond with a sieve; Z. began to scoop out instead of him; LR brought a horse, ordered Z. to take Z. and ride away; LR took the form of Z. , then the horse, then the bird, each time he becomes a fox again and runs away; the Queen returns with Z., the horse and the bird; the owner of the bird has a copper one, the horse is silver, the mother Z. has a golden castle; 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, grabbed the crow, and the crow had to bring it from the Black seas of living and dead water, the Lord revived the Queen; when he saw him, the horse rose up, the bird sang, Z. told everything; the king executed his eldest sons, gave the 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 cuts off the fruits, so no one sees them; the king tells three sons to guard the tree; the eldest sees golden apples appear, but the storm hits, it has become dark, the apples are gone; the middle one is the same (frost suddenly hits); the youngest plays flutes; Beron appeared 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 the Black City; after that, apples can be plucked at noon, but The Queen died of 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 flute when B. appears so that the prince falls asleep; seeing that the young man does not wake up, B. leaves; then 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 are fighting for the invisible cloak, shoes, all wearing apparently, and a whip that will take you where you need it; prince: I'll give it to the one who comes first; picks them up himself and flies to the Black City; becomes B.'s husband; the devils have come running for wonderful objects, the prince returned them; B . if they hadn't died, they could still live with the prince]: Erben 197:191-200; the Luzhitans [the king's apple tree brings three apples a year, but they are kidnapped every time; a brave soldier guards, sees a cloud, who 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 picked him up to the ground; got a job as an apprentice to a jeweler; the king orders him to make the rings that the princess asked; the young man shows them as if he did it himself; marries the youngest, the older brothers to the elders princesses]: Veckenstedt 1880, No. 16:244-249; Russians (Terek Coast) [King Gavrilo's sons, Peter, Ivan; someone steals apples; G., P. overslept; I. grabbed the Firebird, pulled out the pen; the king tells 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 (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, takes 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 the ball]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 77:175-178; Western Ukrainians (Podolia) [someone steals golden apples from the royal apple tree; the elder queen guards, falls asleep; the same average; the youngest fool put a wreath of thorns over his head and began to read the book; as soon as he bites his nose, the thorns prick, he he reads further; a bird flew in, he pulled out its tail; the queens left 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 shoot]: Levchenko 1928, No. 492:357-359.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians [the bird steals the prince's apples, there are three left; three sons remain guarded, the eldest fall asleep, the younger Hajarat sees how the bird has taken the apple, but is fascinated and does not interfere with it; the brothers are leaving to search, hiding his penknives at the fork; the younger horse is dead, but God sends him another; in the Agulshap cave he eats the horse, tells him to sit on it, brings him to where the bird is; the local prince asks for the bird get the horse; 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 the cave, H. comes home with the horse, bride and bird; after a while he goes to look for brothers; those are both simple shepherds, H. returns them]: Shakryl 1975, No. 10:42-53; Adygs [every day the sledge apple tree brings an apple, from whom infertile women conceive, but someone takes apples away; Pidgash and Pidge, sons of Dada's sledge, take care of; Pidgash sees a pigeon carrying apples, wounds him with an arrow, moistens his handkerchief with blood; brothers they 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; explain that by stealing apples, they were looking for worthy ones suitors; their third sister Migazesh is injured, only her blood collected by a sledge will heal her; Jacket touches her wound with his bloody handkerchief; M. recovers, becomes his wife; a year later Pijash goes out to look for his brother; they missed each other; Pidge goes down to look for him at sea, M. mistakes him for her husband; Pidshage sees this, commits suicide by throwing an arrow up and letting it fall on his head; when he sees dead brother, 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; 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 feather of the golden bird that stole the apple with an arrow; H. goes to the fork: you will die to the left yourself, the horse to the right; the horse turns right; he is eaten by a wolf; carries H., tells you to take the bird, not to touch the nest; H. takes the nest, is captured, the khan promises the 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 her father, apples no longer disappear]: Aliyeva, Kholaev 1983:61-64; Ossetians [one golden apple ripened a day on the sledges apple tree; it healed people from diseases and healed wounds, although it did not save from death; at night someone stole an apple; sledges took turns guarding, but to no avail; it was Warhag's turn; he sent sons Ahsar and Akhsartag to guard; if the apple will be stolen, one of them will be cut off the head, the other's hand will be put on stakes; Ahsartag guarded until midnight, but then told Akhsar that he could continue to sleep; at dawn she arrived dove; 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 bloody foam immediately rises, he died; if white, then let Ahsar wait for him for a year; in the 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 put a severed wing and giving to eat an apple, she will recover; whoever cures her, she will marry; Ahsartag healed Dz.; a year later he remembered to return to her brother; Z. turned herself and her husband into fish and they surfaced on surface; 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 his sword in bed for the night; J. got up , offended; Ahsarsag returned, thought that his wife had been unfaithful; 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; his mother sent Dz. 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; the twins Uryzmag and Khamyts were born ; they grew up quickly; H. smashed the girl's jug out of mischief; she advised him to find his grandfather Warhag, who herds sledges; W. recognized them, brought them upstairs to the ancestral tower; married Z. He died a year later, and Dz died a year later; before her death, she told her sons to guard her crypt for three nights; H. went to guard, but heard music and went to the wedding; at which time Uastyrji came in, revived Dz., met 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. 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 Akhsartagkat)]: Libedinsky 1978:50-64; Nogais [father sends sons to guard a thief stealing golden apples; older, middle brother they fall asleep, the younger one snatches out 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 his gold-haired and older brother; shows the firebird's feather; the brothers were torn by horses]: Nogai 1979, No. 10:34-45; tatami [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 the well; the older, middle brother tells them to let them down, they 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, one can pull on his bow; the bride recognizes him; he kills his brother with an arrow, marries]: 28-33 (=1985, No. 3:19-22); Armenians: Bogoyavlensky 1892b, No. 9 [someone steals apples from the royal apple tree; the eldest, middle princes fall asleep, the youngest Hyn-kyr-kysa; he hides in a well; the brothers are on a bloody trail; only the youngest went down to the bottom, freed the three princesses; the youngest says that H.'s life was 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; when they saw 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 pardon father brothers]: 22-36; Azerbaijanis [Shah's apple tree brings one rejuvenating apple every year, someone takes it away; the elder, the middle fall asleep, the younger Melik-Mamed injures the diva, the brothers go a bloody trail; the elders cannot go down to the well because of the heat, MM consistently meets three girls and three divas at the bottom; each points a bubble with the soul of a diva, 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, he takes him to the realm of darkness; there is a dragon annually devours the chicks of the Zumrud bird; MM kills it; the bird promises to take MM upstairs if it gets forty oxen carcasses and forty wineskins of water; MM kills the dragon that closes the water that gives it for 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 form, on horseback, cuts off the elder's head, middle brothers; opens, marries, two other girls are given for courtiers]: Akhundov 1955:50-63 (=Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (2): 463-474); Turks [apples disappear from the padishah's garden; elder, the middle son is frightened by the storm, the youngest hits one head of a double-headed dragon with an arrow; the brothers follow the footsteps to the well; the elder, the middle one is told to drag them back, the youngest goes down to the bottom, cuts off the dragon the second head; three girls are pulled out of the 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; he falls on the black one, falls on the black one, falls through 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 unable; the dragon eats the chicks of the Sumuranka bird; the young man kills him, the chicks tell his mother that the young man saved them; S. orders to immerse 40 rams and 40 wineskins of water; The young man cuts off the last piece from his leg, 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 have it was, now the young man); the young man pretends to make these objects, 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.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Osmanov 1987 [Malek-Mohammad, Malek-Jamshid, Malek-Khorshid are the sons of the Shah; MM's mother is dead, others are alive; someone steals grenades; MM cuts off the finger of a hand that stretches out 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 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 [the padishah sends the eldest, then the middle son to guard the 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 out of 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.

Baltoscandia. Norwegians [the king's golden apple ripens every year, someone steals it; he promises the kingdom to the son who caught the thief; the elder sees a golden bird, gets scared, the apple disappears, but he goes to looking for a bird; refuses to share food with the fox, stays drunk in the inn; the same middle son; the youngest tears off the bird's feather; shares with the fox; she warns not to enter the inn courtyard; 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 the bird but not to touch the branches; the young man breaks the branch, the troll grabs him, lets him go for promising to bring a horse stolen by another troll; a fox teaches not to take bridles, a young man takes it, a troll grabs it, lets him go for promising to bring the girl stolen from him by a third troll; the fox gets it by itself, they leave taking a girl, a horse, a bridle, a linden tree and a bird; the trolls are chasing; the fox puts on rye straw clothes, replies that her grandmother's grandmother saw the passers; the trolls refuse the chase, decide to sleep further; 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 the barrel, saves the young man; when she sees 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 - the brother of the rescued princess]: Asbjíørsen, Moe 1960:49-55; Finns [=Conca 1993:29-41; someone steals golden apples from the king's garden; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep; the youngest sees a glowing bird, that grabbed an apple, the young man shot, only shot one feather; the king promises a reward to whoever gets the 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, and the third one is unhappy; the names of those who chose this or that path are written, the elder and middle brothers went the first and second; the young man went to the third; sat down to rest, a wolf appeared, he 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 give him a bird if he gets a horse that understands everything as a person; the wolf brings him to the castle, tells him to take the horse without a bridle; he takes the bridle, is captured, released for promising to get the princess; the wolf turned into a merchant, laid out the goods; the princess came with the others, liked the young man, she agreed to run away 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 has become a wolf again; the same with the horse; the young man returns with the princess, the horse and the bird; when parting, the wolf tells him to ride an old horse and give the princess the smart one he has received; tells him not to sleep on the way; but he fell asleep, his brothers killed him and his horse, took the princess, horse and 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 crow, the crow had to bring live water; the wolf first killed the crow and revived it, 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 his older brothers, but only to expel him, married a princess and inherited the throne]: Salmelainen 1947:87-95; Seto [a bird comes to peck for apples; the king orders to guard; two clever princes, the third is a fool; the elder goes, falls asleep; the same middle one; the youngest climbed the apple tree, snatched the feather from the tail of the golden bird; the king promises the throne to whoever gets the bird; the youngest drove up to the fork: whoever to the right will lose his horse, to the left will say goodbye to life, straight will disappear with the horse; the prince went to the left; the wolf jumped out, ate the horse, told the prince to sit on it; the wolf brings to 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 gets a horse with a golden tail and mane; the wolf tells him to take a horse without a bridle, the prince took with a bridle; that king will give the horse if the prince gets the gold-haired princess; the wolf grabbed and carried her away himself; the wolf took the image of a princess, then a horse returned; the prince returns with a bird, a horse and princess; met older brothers; they killed him and chopped him to pieces; at home, the elder is preparing the wedding; the wolf noticed the crows, ordered the bones to be collected; then told 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 expelled them]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 77:237-240; Latvians [younger brother pulls them out]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 77:237-240; Latvians [younger brother pulls them out the feather of a golden bird that has come to steal apples; the father sends his sons to look for a bird; the wolf (bear) eats his younger brother's horse, promises him his help; takes him to the bird, but tells him to take it without cages; a 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 the fool get the horse, the bird and the princess; the older brothers kill the fool, they take possession of a bird, a horse and a princess, return home; the wolf revives the fool with live water; when he returns home, the bird starts singing, the horse laughs, the princess rushes around his neck; brothers punish]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 550:229-300; the Lives [someone steals golden apples from the palace garden; the young man grabs a wonderful bird, but manages to fly away; when he goes in search, he catches a bird with With the help of frogs and insects, he escapes the chase and gets the princess]: Loorits 1926, № 541B': 17.

Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars [someone steals 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 has become human, runs away, disappears in failure; older brothers remain, younger ones go down; at the crossroads there are inscriptions: "road of death", "satiety", "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 A diva, the girl gives him her seal, sends a silver treasure to the padishah girl, so to the padishah girl of gold treasure, who also give seals; the older brothers pulled out the girls, left the youngest one below; he came to blind old men; they do not tell the diva to herd cattle on earth; the young man goes there, brings living water, restores sight to the old people; revives the tree-turned warriors of the old man who was padishah; he gives the young man a mare that takes him to the ground; only he gave the clothes the girls demanded; came to the wedding naked or naked, wrapped in a net; showed the seals; took it for himself a girl of a golden treasure; he gave the other two to his brothers, whom he forgave]: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 46:190-199.