J51a1. Assistant girl: dismembered and reassembled.

.14.-.16.31.

To get an object out of a hard-to-reach place, the girl tells her to dismember (or just cut off her fingers), then collect it, and then comes to life.

Kabilas, Spaniards, Portuguese, Basques, Italians (Liguria, Miran), Sardinians, Ladins, Walloons, Bretons, Irish, Scots, British, Swedes, Norwegians.

North Africa. Kabily: Frobenius 1922a, No. 4 [Chief's son (Agelith) is smart but unbusy, in bad company; black woman: your father could be the new chief, or better yet you, but you're wasting his money; the young man vows to return rich, leaves, enters the country of Wuarssen (devas); the deva has three daughters, the youngest's fingernail on the little finger gives advice, and the deva's wife has all her nails like this; dev tells the young man 1) to sow the field , harvest fruits in the evening; the eldest, middle daughter refuses to bring dinner to the young man, the youngest brings, they eat and make love, she creates a garden with a magic wand, the young man brings fruit to the deva; 2) bring water from the sea to the spring with a sieve so that the bottom of the sea is exposed, the sand dries, bring dry sand (the same, the young man pours sand on the deva's head); 3) get an eagle's nest with chicks by evening, it's on a steep cliff; the deva's wife hides a magic wand; the daughter tells me to chop it into pieces, throw it against a rock, they will turn into a ladder, get a nest, fold the pieces, smoke it with incense, she will come to life; the young man and does, forgets his toe; Dev promises to give him his youngest daughter if the young man identifies her among his sisters; he recognizes her by her missing finger; at night the girl tells him to run, take the worst looking horse, the young man takes the good, the devil catches up; she turns 1) the horse into a hut, herself into a melon, a young man into an old man; 2) the horse on the road, herself into a basket, the young man into an employee; the devil does not recognize, returns; for the third time he catches up deva wife; a girl creates a board, they swim across the sea on it; mother: if your husband is kissed by relatives, he will forget you; on the other side, a young man finds gold, his wife creates a palace; he goes visit parents, bring gold, as he swore; father becomes chief; son is kissed by his mother's sister, he forgets his wife; she comes, buys a coffee shop, everyone goes to the beautiful woman; she consistently promises night for two friends of the young man and him, if everyone pays 500 coins and does a little job while she sleeps; 1) close the window (the window closes, the hand sticks, so all night; 2) pour water from the jug ( as soon as you touch the jug and it is empty); 3) close the door; the young man breaks the door, recognizes his wife; everyone is happy; after the death of his father, the son becomes the leader]: 30-48; Dermenghem 1945 [the Sultan has two wives; when one gave birth, another persuaded an old woman to replace babies with kittens; the sultan sent the woman in labor to live in a stable; the babies were thrown in a box into the sea, the fisherman caught them; the boy was named El Goul Amelloul ("big white"), the girl Hadezzine ("the limit of beauty"); E. built a palace and laid out a garden; the old woman recognized them, advised them to get the Singing Bird, then the Golden Tree; E. brings both times; marry the king's daughter guley; the youngest of 7 daughters gulya agrees; ghoul requires 1) uproot the forest in a day, set up a garden, collect mature figs (the girl does everything with a magic wand); 2) bring a bag of feathers (the girl calls birds); 3) climb a rock and tell me what you saw there; girl: you have to dismember her body into pieces, throw them against a steep wall, they will turn into steps; E. did it, brought 3 eggs from the cliff; collected pieces in a bag, the girl comes to life, but she does not have enough ear; she tells her to run, let E. take the thin horse; the ghoul pursues, the girl turned herself, E. and the horse into pieces of wood, the ghoul passed by, the fugitives returned to X .; the Sultan and all the people came to the feast; the angel told the whole truth; the sultan returned his wife, the fisherman was made a vizier, the other wife and old woman were tied to the tails of horses; everything is fine]: 49-55.

Southern Europe. Spaniards: Malinovskaya 2002 [childless king and queen want a child, even if the Devil gets it in 20 years; the young man grows up, loses his soul to the Devil, goes to him; the old woman advises hide the clothes of Blancaflor, the youngest of the Devil's three bathing daughters, pigeon girls; the other old woman, the mistress of the birds, sends to her Moon Sister, she to the Sun Brother; only the Limp Eagle is summoned take her to the Castle Where There Is No Return, tells her to feed her meat on the way; the meat runs out, the Queen is ready to cut off from himself, but the Eagle still arrives; The devil tells 1) to process the plot in a day, bake it from harvest bread; 2) grow grapes; B. does everything; 3) bring the ring dropped by his grandmother into the sea; B. tells her to kill, collect blood in a jug, throw her body into the sea; the young man sheds a drop of blood; B. goes out from the sea, carrying a ring, she lacks the edge of her little finger; 4) recognize B. among the sisters; the girls put her little finger in the crack, B. has a scar; B. tells the Queen to take a bad horse, a rusty sword, to run; leaves responsible for saliva, puts two wineskins on the bed; the devil pierces them, thinks he has killed his daughter and son-in-law; the Queen has taken a good horse, a steel sword, the Devil catches up with them; B. throws a comb (forest), salt (mountain) ); the horse is made a chapel, B. a statue, the husband a hermit; the devil does not recognize them, at home the wife explains that they were fugitives; the Queen leaves B. at the source, comes home, is hugged by an old nanny, he forgets B.; prepares to marry another; B. is hired as a maid, asks for a stone of sorrow, a dagger of love; the Devil sells them to the Queen; B. asks them if she helped the Queen; those confirm, the Queen recalls B.; the dagger tells B. to plunge it into her heart, the Queen stops him; the wedding]: 268-276; Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 313C (Salamanca) [Lisardo young man plays cards and always loses; the demon offers a condition: he will always win, but in 5 years he will go to the castle Go Don't Come Back (PN); in 5 years he goes, asks the eagle for directions, he refers to another who is older, it brings to the castle, tells the PN of the three bathing daughters of the PN, who is a saint, her name is Blancaflor, to hide the clothes; he hides and returns clothes, the girl promises to help; PN tells 1) scatter a bag of rice in the forest, bring it safe the next day (B. does everything); 2) arrange a field on the site of the forest, collect wheat, bake bread, all in a day (the same); 3) the same - vineyard, wine; 4) get the ring lost by his great-grandmother from the river; B. tells her to cut it, put it in a vessel without spilling a drop of blood, throw it into the river; in the evening he brings the ring, says that a drop has been shed, but from his little finger; 5) tame the horse; this is the PN himself, his wife and daughters, B. will be on the right, not hit on the right side; 6) three daughters will stretch out their arms, and L. is blindfolded a, you must choose the bride's hand; B. can be recognized by the missing the phalanx of the little finger; B. tells you to leave the spits responsible for them, choose a skinny oath Thought, not a plump Wind; L. does the opposite; the father chases, B. throws a comb (thicket), a handkerchief (lastral), a garter (river); PN comes back every time, his wife sends him again; B. turns the horse into a vegetable garden, L. into a peasant, herself into a lettuce bed; a chapel, a hermit, an icon; the PN's wife decides not to chase herself, but to make L . forgot B. if he kisses someone; B. warns, but some old woman kissed him from behind, L. forgot B.; she comes and stays under the guise of a prostitute; L. comes to her three times before the wedding, but she every time he tells him to do something (like serve coffee), and he freezes until morning; at the wedding, he tells two dolls to pretend to be themselves and L., they tell me everything, L. remembers marrying B .]: 85-95; Portuguese [prince goes on a journey; on the way he meets a man with whom he plays cards and loses everything; he keeps him on bread and water for three years; after that, conditionally contracts, he must go to him (i.e. to the king) and be a servant there for another three years; on the way, the young man gives his bread to a woman with a child; she teaches one of the pigeon girls who arrive to hide the clothes of swim and take off his clothes; let the girl give him a ring, a necklace and a feather; when the young man came to the king, he ordered 1) to sow three types of grain, and in the morning to have bread; with the help of a pen, the young man calls a dove , she does everything; 2) get the ring from the bottom of the sea; they got into the boat, swam, the girl tells her to cut off her head and throw it into the sea, but so that not a drop of blood is lost; the girl took out the ring; 3) tame the stallion; this is the king himself, the saddle is the girl's mother, she herself is a bit, her sisters are stirrups; by evening they are a little alive; the girl tells you to use it and run; tells you to take the thinnest horse (jumps like a thought) and the young man took the most well-fed (jumps like the wind); the girl's mother sends her father in pursuit; the girl turns the horse into a chapel, herself into a saint, the young man into a hermit; next time, a garden and a gardener; when mother chased - lake, eiró (duck?) , turtle; mother told her daughter that the young man would forget her; so it happened, but the dove showed him a ring, necklace and feather, he remembered everything; wedding]: Braga 2002:171-175; Portuguese [prince hits to hell, he gives him difficult assignments; 1) plant a vine in the morning, wine is ready in the evening; 2) get the ring from the bottom of the sea, to do this, you need to dismember the girl; 3) sow wheat in the morning, bake bread in the evening; 4) tame the horse (that's the devil himself); 5) build a palace in a day; 6) disassemble the mixed seeds; something else; he denies that the girl helped him; must identify the girl among several the same (only on the arm; the girl does not have enough finger, so he recognizes her); the spouses run, the wife leaves saliva responsible for herself; the wineskin is left in bed; the young man chooses a fat horse, he like the wind, you had to choose a skinny one, he was like a thought; a horse turns into a church, a girl into an image, a young man into a hermit; a garden, a salad (flowers) and a gardener; a river, a boat, a boatman; throw objects: ash (occurs fog), needles or pine needles (thorny thickets), salt or water (sea), sand (hill); the devil's wife cast a spell: after kissing his mother or grandmother against his will, the hero forgets his wife; she attracts him attention (many options), he recognizes her]: Cardigos 2006, No. 313:68-69; Basques [young man lost; someone Castillo Branco tells him to come to him to carry out assignments, then he will reimburse the lost; young man goes to the animal house, the deer refers to the lion; the lion orders to cook the carcasses of four bulls, carries a young man on his back, eats carcasses along the way; KB has two devil daughters and one of divine nature; KB requires 1) for cut down the forest a day, plow, etc. - grind flour, bake bread (KB's daughter performs); 2) pacify three horses (he and his two eldest daughters, the youngest helps); 3) get the youngest daughter's ring from the bottom of the sea; she teaches her body to pieces, fill a bottle without spilling blood, throw it into the sea; the bottle came back with a ring; you have to pour blood on the pieces of her body; the girl came to life, but the young man shed a drop, so he did not grabs a little finger; KB gave money, promised his daughter, let him choose blindfolded; the young man felt the girls' hands, chose the one who does not have a little finger; got a wife; they run, the wife left the spits responsible for her; left her wineskin in bed; KB asked until the saliva dried; broke into the room, pierced the bed, mistook the wine for blood; then chased a horse as fast as thought, and the young had a horse like the wind ; asks the reapers, who say that the young people passed 9 months ago; the KB decides that if so, he will catch up; when she sees the chase, the girl becomes an onion field, the young man digs bulbs; next time the horse turns himself into a church, an image, a young man into a priest; KB is back with nothing]: Barandiaran 1962a, No. 4:17-25; the Basques [the poor young man leaves home, is hired by Tartaro; he tells him to hide the feather the clothes of one of the three pigeon girls who will come to swim in the lake; return for promising to help; the dove maiden tells her father to go to hire her father; he demands 1) uproot the oak grove, sow, collect harvest, bake bread; the dove maiden tells her crest to do everything; 2) get the lost ring out of the river; the dove maiden tells her father to ask her father for a rusty sword, chop it to pieces, throw it into the river, goes out whole and with a ring; the young man has lost her little finger, she pretends to slam his door; 3) tame a horse with three foals (this is the owner with three daughters, you have to beat them with a club, and you just have to pretend to beat her); in the morning, the owner and daughters look beaten; 4) choose a wife with her eyes closed (she does not have a little finger and she will give her hand twice); the young man gets a wife, she tells him to run, leaves the spit responsible for himself; father chases, the daughter throws the comb (fog, hail), throws again - the river, the father drowns; on the border of the land of Christians, the wife tells her to go get a priest to baptize her, not to kiss anyone, otherwise her husband will forget her; old his aunt kisses him; his wife creates an inn, her husband and two friends come in; she promises to spend the night with everyone; she asks the first to comb his hair first, otherwise he has powder in his hair since childhood, she does not like it smell; the guy combs his hair before the morning; tells his comrades that it was great; the second wife asks to wash his feet first; the third is her husband, she tells him to turn off the lights and he tries it unsuccessfully until morning do; magical power is given to a woman by her comb; she opens to her husband; he brings a priest; everything is fine]: Webster 1879:120-130; Italians: Andrews 1892 (Liguria), No. 8 [timid young man comes out at home only with his mother; to stir him up, his mother gave him money and sent him to the city; he lost all his parents' property, was afraid to return, went to the forest; the old man gave him money to win back everything, but for that the young man must come to him over the highest mountain; after playing back what he had lost and went home, the young man went to look for the old man; in the hut there were pigeons, they took the young man to the old man; the first task was to cut down the forest in a day, to plow field, grow wheat and bake bread; the old man's daughter gives a box of powder; if you ask for powder, everything will come true; second task: tame the horse; girl: it will be the old man himself, you have to beat the horse with a stick; third: get a ring with a diamond dropped into the lake; the girl tells me to cut it into small pieces and throw it into the lake, but not a single drop of blood should spill on the ground; one drop fell to the ground; therefore, the girl did not revive immediately and the tip of her little finger is not enough; the old man tells her to identify the blindfolded assistant among her sisters; the young man feels his hands, chooses the one with a defective little finger; the hermit married them; at night, the wife tells them to take the books and ride away; the old man finds one book forgotten by the fugitives and sets off in pursuit; the wife creates a river; the old man cannot cross it and tells the young man to forget wife as soon as someone hugs him at home; mother hugged him; forgotten wife became an inn cook; father marries a young man to another girl; forgotten must cook everything, but she does nothing; in the last moment of the food appears on the table; the forgotten one asks the young man to give her his wedding ring, throws it into a vessel of water; takes a pigeon, cuts it into pieces, throws it into the water; half an hour later, a wild pigeon brings a ring from the bottom of the vessel; the young man remembered everything; the judge decided that he should stay with his first wife], 34 [the fisherman has three sons; the catch is scarce; there is a place where there are many fish, but the father forbids his sons to go there , for hell there; the youngest son has gone, the hell took him to him, sets difficult tasks; 1) scoop out the lake with a basket; tells the youngest daughter to take lunch to the worker; when she sees the young man, she tells her ring to dry lake; 2) get eggs out of the nest on a high cliff, and the stepladder is only a meter high; the girl tells the ring to get the eggs; 3) get the ring from the bottom of the well, if she gets it, she will marry one of the seven daughters line; the girl tells me to cut it into pieces and throw it into the well; he forgot to throw the bone from the little finger on his leg; the girl took out the ring and was whole again, but the little finger on her leg was not enough; she said that on this basis, the young man will be able to identify her among her sisters; and that he must spend the night on the window of the room because his father will throw a millstone on his bed; in the morning the young man says the line that a rat fell on him at night; the young man identified his youngest daughter as a trait; the girl tells him to run and take the skinniest oath in the stable; but the young man took a well-fed horse; the girl says that this is the worst, but now it's too late to change; hell chases, the girl turns the horse into a chapel, the young man into a priest and herself into a servant; hell does not recognize them, the devil's wife calls him a fool, sends him again; a rose bush, a hunter, a bird; a river, a fisherman, an eel; they they manage to cross the border of possessions, he gets only the back half of the horse; everything is fine]: 34-42, 155-160; Calvino 1980, No. 22 (Milan) [=Calvino 2017:85-88; a young man wins billiards against a person who calls himself the Sun King, the bet is the daughter of that; the young man goes in search; asks the old man, he does not know; in another city he asks another one - he does not know either; an old man in a third city says that There are no doors in the Sun King's palace, but his three daughters come to swim in the lake; the young man hides one of them's clothes, promises to return him for promising to bring him to their father; the young fall in love and the girl taught: when a father demands to identify a bride with her eyes closed, you need to feel your hands: she will miss one finger; on the night after the wedding, the wife tells the young man that her father is is going to kill him; they run, his father-in-law sends soldiers in pursuit; the wife throws the comb; he turns into a forest where a man and a woman make stumps; when asked if they saw the fugitives, the workers say that as soon as they uproot a full cart, they will go home; the Sun King tells the returnees that they were the fugitives; the next crest abandoned turns into a vegetable garden where a man and a woman dig radishes (same); the third crest is a church and two servants; {apparently there was a sequel; p. 720: The aborted ending is my own}]: 65-67; the Sardinians [Prince Ginó lost everything, including himself; after a year, 3 months, 3 days and 3 days, 3 days, and 3 minutes must come to the winner; on the eve of the expiration of the term, he leaves; comes to the old man, asks him for gold; he refers to his older brother, and the brother to their older sister; she shows the lake, where 10 doves fly to swim; you have to wait for the eleventh and hide le chiavi, return it when she agrees to become a wife; the prince does everything, comes to the sorcerer (orco); he demands to raze the valley, demolish the mountain, build a palace in the middle of the sea; the dove maiden (she is the daughter of a sorcerer) does everything - the third task, dismembering himself; the prince must identify his wife among the doves, finds out in advance this sign; the spouses flee; becoming a church and a sakristan, a vegetable garden and a gardener; not catching up with the fugitives, the sorcerer's wife tells the prince to forget his wife when someone kisses him; and so it happened; A prince with two friends comes to his forgotten wife's house; hoping to spend the night with a woman, everyone spends her hard work; prince remembers his wife]: Aprile 2000:274; ladina [the merchant's son went on a ship with goods; a black ship under a red flag sailed in the middle of the sea; the captain offered to play cards; the young man lost the goods, the ship and himself; the captain returned everything, but demanded that the young man on a certain day he should come to America; when he found out about this, the merchant sent his son to a hermit; he advised him to sail to the island where swans fly; when they throw off their swan clothes and become girls, we must hide one of them's clothes; he chose the most beautiful one; she promised to be his wife and help; gave him a wand; when he touched the sea with it, it retreated and he went dry; black man showed 60 boxes; 59 on the human head, and the sixth for the young man's head; 1) gave a glass ax to cut down the forest; the ax immediately broke; the swan girl told me to go to bed, and when the young man woke up, the forest fell down; 2) remove the mountain and set up a vineyard on this place (the same); 3) get a ring from the sea, which was placed on a paper boat and let go along the waves; the girl tells her to cut off her head; the severed head rolled into the sea, three drops of blood and a ring rose from the water, followed by a revived girl more beautiful than the old one; they both came to the black captain, the girl's father; he greets with their smile, gives a lot of gold; they went back to the boy's father; wedding]: Uffer 1973, No. 3:9-11.

Western Europe. The French (Haute-Brittany, 1879) [a boy {rather a young man} was collecting firewood in the forest; the gentleman gave him money on the condition that he would come to the same place in a month; a month later the young man did not find gentleman, and there are three girls on the pond: in white, gray and blue robes; the one in white sent me to the master and taught him to refuse when he offers food: I must serve you, not you; sir satisfied; in the morning she gives a lead ax, a paper saw and a wheelbarrow made of oak leaves; you have to cut down the forest in a day and stack logs; a girl in white gives a magic wand, by her wave everything comes true; next day: in a day, there should be an orchard and a duck pond on the site of the hill (same); then: get a dove from the top of a marble tower with steep walls; girl: cut me to pieces, cook me in a cauldron and make a step out of each bone; the young man did not put the little finger of his left foot in the cauldron; when he came down, the girl was safe; the young man admitted that he had hidden his little finger and she allowed him to keep it; when the master offered to choose a bride among three sisters, the bride taught the young man to recognize her by not having a little finger; after the wedding, the gentleman hung the newlyweds bed over the failure; asks three times: son-in-law, are you sleeping? the wife will tell her not to answer for a third time, and then race away on a horse named Little Wind; then the master asks her daughter; the third time she did not answer, ran away, and the master and wife cut off the ropes; Having caught up with the young man, his wife reproaches him: you have saddled the Big Wind, now someone will die; chase; the wife has turned the horse into a garden, herself and the young man into gardeners; the gentleman and his wife ask if they have seen the fugitives; in answer: three pears for su; - That's not it! - Four for soo! next time: the church, the altar and the priest; he mumbles when asked by the persecutors: Dominus vobiscum; for the third time the river, the boat and the carrier; -Just transported them; the gentleman and his wife got into the boat, she sank and they drowned; the couple rode home safely]: Sébillot 1880, No. 31:197-205; the French (Haute-Brittany) [the man lost cards to Bluebeard; he said he was now must serve with him for 7 years and until he finds him, he does not fall asleep day or night; a person goes in search; meets three old women consistently; the first has not seen people for 100 years, the second is 40, the third knows where the SB lives: we must cross three seas: red, white and blue; when three SB daughters arrive to swim, we must steal the garter; three ducks flew in and became girls; the man hid the garter alone, she promised deliver him to her father, but did not keep her promise; the same with the second; the old woman teaches her to take an oath; the third swore and took the man to her father's kingdom; the SB orders him to scoop up the pond with a thimble; hide a monstrous amount of wool; get eggs from a bird's nest on a tall tree without stairs; the SB daughter tells me to cut it into pieces to make a ladder; then the little finger was not enough; SB tells the bride to be identified among her sisters; the man identified by his missing little finger; the wife's sisters want to kill a man out of jealousy; the wife tells him to break the egg in which his life lies on SB's chest]: Sé billot 1894, No. 1:167-168; the French (Haute-Bretagne, 1885) [in the absence of his father, the son spent all the money; a young man invited him to come to the Castle of the Golden Mountains a year and day later - there he will receive unlimited money; the young man agreed, unaware that he was talking to the devil; a year and a day later, the young man went to look for a castle; in front of him was a deep old man with a vegetable garden (jardin) on his head; finding out where he was goes, the old man did not eat it, but gave a note on a cabbage leaf to his older brother, who has two vegetable gardens on his head; this one wrote on a cabbage leaf to the oldest, who has a bread field on his head with reapers, and shepherds herd cows; this old man decided not to eat the young man, since he brought him a cabbage leaf from his brother - therefore he is alive; shows the way to the castle; three girls are swimming; a young man hides a blue dress and returns it to the owner only after she hugged him; in the castle, the devil asks what the young man likes; when he finds out that the logger tells him to cut down the forest with a glass ax; the girl does everything with help his magic wand; create a castle with a river and boats; get an egg from the tower; the young man cuts the girl to pieces and creates a ladder from her bones; forgot about the little finger; finds the bride by the missing little finger, when the hell tells a young man to do it blindfolded; a young man and a girl ride away on a white horse; he jumped over the tower for the third time - otherwise he would not ride away; the wife pursues the devil; the girl throws bouchon d'écurie - a horse turns into a church, a girl into a priest, a young man into a singing boy; next time he throws a scraper: a vegetable garden, a carrot, a gardener; then a comb - a river, a duck, a drake; then there is holy land, there is no road line; the girl created a castle, and the young man went to his parents; she did not tell anyone to hug, he broke the ban and forgot her; brings friends to the girl; one of them is ready to pay 200 francs per night; she asks to close the door and he stood at the door until morning; the same with the second; when the young man goes to bed with his wife, he remembers everything]: Sébillot 1894, No. 2:169-170; French (Dauphine): Joisten 1991, No. 1.1 [Jean loses, meets a man, gives him a mascot that allows him to always win, tells him to be on Black Mountain in three months; Jean is getting rich, but neither his mother nor others old people don't know where Black Mountain is; he comes to the old man, who calls birds, knows only crows, brings Jean to an old woman by the mountain, who teaches him to be modest in everything, there are three girls, one leads to the house; the owner waited Jean, tells 1) to cut down oaks, prepare firewood, collect a bouquet of flowers; Jean cut down only three trees; the owner's daughter tells him to fall asleep, everything is fulfilled (the girl's mother tells her husband every time that his daughter betrays him) ; 2) cultivate the land, harvest vegetables, fruits, flowers (the same); 3) get two eggs from the top of the pyramidal mountain from the goldfinch's nest; it's impossible to climb, Jean slides back; the girl tells throw her into a boiling pot, collect the bones, make a ladder out of them, then the bones back into the cauldron, she will come out whole; as it happens, Jean took out two eggs; the girl does not have enough little finger on her left leg (Jean forgot the bone upstairs); 4) identify the bride among her two sisters in the dark room; Jean identified it by groping for the missing little finger; the bride tells me not to go to bed (millstones will fall on the young), but run, choosing a thin skate; Jean takes a fat one; the girl's father easily catches up with them on a thin horse; the daughter turns 1) the horse into a laundry platform (lavoir), Jean in goulot, herself in cardaline, who sang, answered that she did not see anyone, the girl's father returned, the wife explained that they were fugitives; 2) the horse to the river, Jean to the ship, herself to the carrier; replies that he would transport him only for money, the father returned; it came day, the Devil is out of power; Jean and his bride came to the Holy Land; the girl must wait three years to enter there, for she is the daughter of the Devil; she told Jean to go to his mother but not to hug any woman; mother and others hugged him when he fell asleep, he forgot his wife; she comes beautiful, promises a night to someone who pays 3,000 francs; the first person who comes sticks to the door, sticks in the morning; the second to the night pot; third Jean, the girl says she is his wife, he remembers her; wedding], 1.2 [about the same as (1.1); the girl's name is Marie Petassole, the hero's name is Pierre]: 21-29, 29-40; French (Lorraine) [Jean gets to hell; his daughter Green Pen helps her father complete her father's difficult errands; get it (where from?) the spire for the castle to be built; to do this, he dismembers the girl, and when he reassembles him, his little finger is missing; he must identify the bride among several girls; finds her missing little finger]: Hartland 1891:293; Walloons: Laport 1932, No. 313 [the young man lost cards, decided to drown himself; someone helps him recoup on the condition that in a year and 6 weeks the young man will come to Mille Castle de Plomb; the young man came to the old man, the animals obey him; the pig carried him, he violated the ban on speaking, fell into the sea, swam to the shore; the giant is subordinate to the bird; he tells the eagle to take the young man; by On the way, the supply of food is running out, the young man cut off a piece of his caviar; by the pond he sees the three daughters of the castle owner bathing, steals the youngest's clothes, returning him for promising to become his wife; the owner says that the young man must redeem his soul, and to do this 1) get the ring from the bottom of the well; to do this, he cuts that girl in half, the upper part dives and brings the ring, connects to the bottom; because the drop blood was lost, one finger is missing; 2) squeeze, grind wheat from a huge field in a day; 3) create a sea with all types of fish (the girl helps to perform); you need to know the bride three times under a veil among her sisters; a young man recognizes by the missing finger; a wedding; the young flee; become peasants; a chapel and St. A virgin; a girl creates the sea, her father drowns in it; the young man's family does not recognize his wife, she disappears, he forgets her; she serves in a cabaret; the first person who wants to stay with her asks for a glass of water, he remains in this position and is released only in the morning; the same with the second; the third is her husband, he recognizes his wife; their wedding again], *313D [the poor young man goes to the castle of the seven mountains; the king of fish, the king of insects, the king of birds replies that they do not know where it is; the young man is led there by a swallow; he falls in love with the youngest of three girls; the king agrees to marry if the young man fulfills errands; build a feather castle over the pond ; knock down an oak grove with one blow; get the ring from the bottom of the well; the girl is divided in two, pulls out the ring, connected, but the finger on her left leg is not enough; the young man wants to visit parents; the girl does not tell him to hug his mother, he hugged him, forgot the bride; at the inn, the girl makes a date for men (see No. 313); her husband is third, he recognizes his wife and reunites with her]: 43-44, 44-45; Bretons (recorded in 1868) [Prince Charles asked his father to invite Henri, the son of the English king; the boys became friends; while hunting, S. chased a wild boar, got lost, came to the castle; the owner Barbeauvert, Barbe de verre) offered to play cards; S. lost everything, including his head; B. took him to the road and told him to appear in a year and one day; S. leaves in six months; the hermit gives a ball, he will roll to the mountain, to to whom Castle B. gives scissors, they will pass through the thorny bush and return to the hermit; there will be a garden, a pond, three golden benches on the mountain; three birds, daughter B., will arrive, undress to swim; we must grab the youngest one, she will put on her feather clothes again and take her father to the castle; B.: it's good that you came yourself; Koantic (the maiden who brought S.) promises to help fulfill his father's difficult tasks; 1) to at sunset, cut down the forest with a wooden ax (K. hit one tree with it, the whole forest fell down); 2) raze the mountain with a wooden hoe (K. hit the mountain with it); 3) get it lost at sea a hundred years ago anchor; K.: cut off my head, throw it into the sea, drain the blood into the hole but not fall asleep; S. almost fell asleep, my head came back at the last moment; B. is ready to give his daughter, but the sisters demand that they become mice in a bag and S. randomly pulled out one of them; K. warned that she would sit quietly at the bottom of the bag; in marriage, K. threw a candlestick on the bed, there was an abyss with knives; on a flying chariot along on the way to Paris, S. and K. went down to the hermit, who christened K.; holiday]: Luzel 1887 (2), No. 8:355-369; the Irish: Curtin 1975:1-14 [the young son of the King of Ireland meets the giant of Lake Lé in the forest in; he offers to play cards, the young man wins two estates; next time, a hundred bulls in golden horns and silver hooves; on the third day he loses his head; comes to an old woman with with teeth sticking out of her mouth; she washes his feet, feeds him, gives him a rolling ball, he will lead him to her middle sister, who sends him to his elder; she says that around the giant's castle there are 700 iron stakes planted heads, the latter is free, tells the giant's three bathing daughters to hide their clothes, who will have a yellow lily on her chest (others are white and blue); the young man returns her clothes for promising to save him ; the giant will invite the young man to sleep in a pool of water, the Yellow Lily (ML) takes him out each time, puts him back before the giant wakes up; feeds, the young man should not eat the meat that the giant gives him; the giant suggests 1) finding a pin lost by the giant's great-grandmother in a 500-horse stable that has not been cleaned for 700 years (ZhL cleans, finds); 2) make a roof of bird feathers over the stable so that everyone were different (JL does); 3) get an egg from a crow's nest at the top of a giant tree, or rather a smooth pole; JL tells her to kill her, peel the bones from the meat, make a ladder out of the bones, then collect everything bones back; the young man does everything but forgets to take the last bone, the JL is reborn, but she does not have enough little finger; the giant lets the young man go; at home, the soothsayer advises the king to marry his son to his daughter King of Denmark; they come to the wedding, the giant and the JL also come; JL turns two grains into a pair of pigeons; the male bites the female, pushes him off the table, she says he did not do it when she helped him clean the stable; the same is about other episodes; the young man remembers JL, marries her, the king of Denmark and his daughter are guests at this wedding], 15-25 [the king of the Desmond region named Coluath O'Hara has three daughters; in the absence of a father, the eldest envelops herself in a veil of darkness, wants a handsome man as her husband; he immediately arrives in a golden carriage drawn by two white and two black horses and takes her away; the same middle daughter; arrives in a carriage with four black horses; the youngest wishes the best white dog in the world, who arrives with a servant in a carriage drawn by four white horses; husbands of older sisters are people during the day people during the day, seals at night, the youngest's husband is a dog during the day, handsome at night; when he leaves, he tells his wife not to shed tears if the child is born and something happens to him; she gives birth to a son, he is carried away by a crow; the same with second; when a daughter gives birth, a tear drips into the mother's handkerchief; the husband returns, scolds his wife for it; daughters and husbands come to their father; the mother spies, sees with two older seals, the youngest handsome man; throws a dog's skin into the fire; the husband says that if he spent three days in his father-in-law's house, he would remain human, and now he must leave; the wife follows; in the first house she meets the first kidnapped son, an old woman gives scissors that turn rags into a golden dress; in the second, he gets a comb that turns black hair into golden curls; in the third, a daughter, she has no eye, the mother pulls out a handkerchief, it does not wear a tear, and the daughter's eye, the girl, finds it; the hostess blows a whistle that calls on all the birds; the husband pulls out his reed, goes to the lower world, he must become the husband of the Queen of the Land of Youth who bewitched him (Tir na N-og); the wife pulls out the other, comes down after him; the woman turns the rags of her daughter henwife (poultry houses?) in a luxurious dress; she reports to the queen; the queen demands scissors, the dog's wife asks for a night with her husband for them, gets it, but the husband sleeps; the same is the second night (tidies up henwife's daughter's hair, gives it comb); the dog's wife whistles on the whistle, all the birds fly in, including the bird of song and new tales; the dog's wife asks the bird how to kill the queen; she says that there is a ram in the holly, in he has a duck, an egg in it, only the queen's husband can cut down a holly; the dog's wife hides a fox in a box, a hawk in the other; spends the night in exchange for a whistle, leaves a letter to the servant for her husband; he wakes up, cuts the holly , the fox grabs the ram, the hawk the duck, the egg breaks, the queen dies; the former dog and his wife remain to rule the country Tir na N-og]; the Scots [sparrow and mouse quarreled over the seed; began the war of birds and animals; the Queen of Tetertyne came when the battle was over, the Raven and the Serpent remained; the Queen killed the Snake when she was ready to kill the Raven in a duel; the grateful Raven plants him on his back and carries him across valleys and lakes to his first, second, third sisters, the third becomes a young man (he was cursed); gives a bag, tells him not to open it on the way; the young man opens, appears a palace with a garden; a giant puts everything back for a promise to give a son who will be born when he is seven years old; a young man becomes king, marries, seven years later his son is a giant; mother the boy gives his son to a cook instead of his son; the giant asks what his father would do if he received a rod; he replies that he would drive dogs and cats away from treats; the king has to give his promise son; a young man grows up in a giant's house, who offers him a choice of one of two daughters; the young man demands a third, Red-haired Mary; the giant demands 1) clean the barn (M. does everything), 2) cover the house with birds with feathers (the same), 3) get magpie eggs out of the nest and cook magpie eggs (M. cuts off his fingers and toes, they turn into steps of the stairs, the young man pulls out eggs, his fingers grow, except for his little finger, which the young man did not touch when he climbed); 4) recognize the bride among her sisters (she does not have a little finger); M. tells me to run, leaving apple slices to answer; M. tells you to get the mare out of her ear, throw it behind 1) a twig of thorns (thorny thickets; a giant runs home for an ax, then carries the ax back, because the crow promises to steal the ax), 2) a pebble (a mountain, a giant runs home for a pickaxe and a hammer), 3) a bottle of water (lake, giant drowns); M. tells the house not to kiss anyone, the young man is kissed by a dog, he forgets M.; M. hides in a tree, the shoemaker's wife and daughter see her reflection, take it for their own, refuse to carry water, since they are so beautiful; the shoemaker takes M. into the house, says that the Queen is marrying, takes M. with him to a feast; two pigeons fly out of her glass, tell the story of M.; the Queen marries M.]: Campbell 1890 (1), No. 2:25-38 (translated to Shustov 1994:363-373; =Kharitonov 2008:383-394 with minor differences; there is no quarrel between a mouse and a sparrow, a magpie's nest on a spruce tree, not on a pine tree); the British [the king left, for this while the queen gave birth to a boy, decided not to baptize, but to call him Nix Nought Nothing; when the king went home, the giant offered to move him across the river, said that in return he needed only nothing or nothing; when he returns, the king found out about his son; decided to give the giant the son of a poultry house; the giant carried the boy, asks what time it is; he replies that just at this time his mother is collecting eggs queen for breakfast; the giant killed him; next time the same time (the gardener's son; mother is picking vegetables for lunch); when the queen is carried, he replies that the king father was sitting down for dinner at that time; daughter the giant fell in love with NN, helps him; the giant demands: 1) clean the stable (animals and birds did); 2) drain the lake (the fish drank water); 3) get 7 eggs from the nest on top of a smoothbore tree 7 miles tall; the girl cut off her fingers and toes, made steps out of them {how exactly did her fingers reappear, it is not said}; NN took out her eggs, but one broke; the girl tells me to run, giant catches up, she tells me to throw a comb (thorny thickets), a dagger (fence), a bottle (wave, the giant drowned); leaving the bride, NN went to the castle alone; the poultry house bewitched him, he fell asleep, his parents did not know the king orders him to marry someone who can wake him up; the giant's daughter climbed a tree, the gardener's daughter saw a reflection in the spring, decided that she was her own and that she should try to marry a sleeping young man; the poultry house taught him to spell for a while; the gardener also saw the giant's daughter, brought him to see his daughter's fiancé; he is sleeping, the giant's daughter is trying to wake him up; tells their story out loud naming the young man NN; the king and the queen hear, forced the gardener's daughter to spell NN; the poultry house was executed]: Jacobs 1890, No. 7:33-39 (translated to Shereshevskaya 1957b: 102-107).

Baltoscandia. Swedes (Westerjotland) [{obviously like the Kabiles; the demon gives the young man difficult assignments that the demon's daughter helps him complete); one of them is to get griffin eggs from the cliff; for this purpose, the girl tells you to dismember it into pieces, make steps out of them, and when you go down, reassemble it; the young man did it, but his little finger is missing]: Liungman 196:59; Norwegians: Christiansen 1959:84 [owner { the sorcerer} suspects that his daughter is helping the hero and is convinced that she is right when she sees that she is missing a finger - going down a tree and stepping on the girl's fingers like crossbars of stairs, the hero breaks one of them], 103-104 [one of the hero's tasks is to climb a tall tree whose trunk has no branches, get eggs from under the bird and bring them without crushing them; to do this, the hero makes a ladder from girl's fingers and toes; failing to touch one step in his descent, he gives uncontrollable evidence of her assistance].