K100. Loyal servant, ATU 516. .11.-.17.21.-.23.26.-.34.

A person learns of the dangers facing another (and usually that by warning his friend/master, he will become petrified). A person eliminates dangers, despite the fact that his behavior outrages the rescued person.

Digo, Mamprusi, Amhara, Arabs of Egypt, Libya, Algeria (?) , Kabilas, Spaniards, Catalans, Portuguese, Italians (Veneto, Tuscany, Abruzzo, Molise, Basilicata, Puglia), Ladins, Bretons, French, Irish, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Pomerania, Grimms, Austria), Frisians, Palestinians, Bahrain, Kuwait, Syria, Saudia, Socotra, Kirati, Meitei, Khmu, Kaya, Shans, Punjabi, Nepali, Marathi, Bengalis, Oriya, Baiga, Tamils, Koreans, Hungarians, Moldovans, Romanians, Albanians, Bosnians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Czechs, Poles, Slovaks, Russians (Terek coast, Arkhangelsk, Tula, Voronezh, Orel), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Galicia, Transcarpathia, Ugric Russia, Pokutye, Kievskaya), Belarusians, Abkhazians, Balkarians, Ossetians, Ingush, Chechens, Avars, Kumyks, Tatas, Georgians, Megrelians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Turks, Uzbeks, Baluchis, (Yazgulyam), Finns, Karelians, Estonians, Livonians, Eastern Sami, Karelians, Swedes, Latvians, Lithuanians, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Khakas, Tuvans.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Digo [Hebu's father is rich, his friend Kama is poor; they slaughter a dead antelope, two monstrous birds arrive, one predicts trouble; the next day he arrives again: let the seven-headed one appear snakes to make K. petrified; at night, the snake crawls to the sleeping X. and his wife; K. cuts off the heads, accidentally cuts off the tip of X.; K. is forced to tell everything (not everything is clear in the paraphrase), consistently stones; H. cries; wife H. tells her father that (spirit?) comes at night K., his father tells him to put a noose on him; K. is no longer stony, but breaks off relations with X.]: Arewa 1961, No. 3027:141-142.

West Africa. Mamprusi [after the death of the naba (ruler), the servant shows his son the inheritance, except for the chest, which the naba asked not to open; the son opens a portrait of the beauty in it; the son of naba finds the princess , lures him onto the ship, brings him to his place; on the way, the servant hears three vultures talking; 1) when he meets the naba sits on a horse, 2) wears a wedding dress, 3) sips a golden glass feast, he will die; if anyone tells him, he will be petrified; the servant does not allow the naba to sit on his horse, tears his dress, takes away the goblet; naba orders him to be executed, he says he is stony; three years later the stone says he will come to life, if naba sprinkles his son's blood on him; naba kills the boy, the servant comes to life, revives the child with magic powder; everyone is happy]: Anpetkova-Sharova 1966, No. 46:84-89.

Sudan - East Africa. Amhara [the mother helped the prince find a faithful friend, even if he came from a poor family; another king marries her daughter; a ransom must be paid (the king generously provided his son with treasures) and identifying the bride among beauties; the prince is drunk twice, he does not notice the bride; a friend finds out that the fault is sleeping pills, tells the prince that he is getting married; they all sail home on the ship; white, red, goldbirds report to the prince's friend, that if the prince 1) shoots the gun that his father gives him when he meets him, 2) sits on the horse served, he will die; if a friend shoots or jumps on the horse first, the spell will pass; 3) what a snake lurks in the newlyweds room; if a friend talks, he will be petrified; a friend shoots, jumps on a horse, the king is surprised; at night he kills a snake, everyone thinks he hid to kill the prince; before A friend explains everything by execution, he is stony; the bird tells the prince's son that if the father donates his life, the friend will come to life; the prince feels sorry for his son; the youngest son was born, the prince discussed the case with the wise men, the boy was killed ; a friend came to life, touched the victim, he also came to life]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:375-380.

North Africa. Arabs of Egypt, Libya, Algeria (?) [Devoted Servant Petrified (Killed) and Then Restored to Life]: El-Shamy 2004, No. 516:274-275; Kabily [the prince drove up to the spring to give the horse a drink; the old woman tries to fill the jug with water; refuses to give way; when the prince begins to swear, she tells him to get the Sun Maiden; the prince fell ill with love; called that old woman, asked for forgiveness and offered hot broth; put her hand in boiling water, forcing her to tell her where to look for the Sun Maiden; old woman: where the mountains are high, the king of blacks married her; the prince goes there, redeems the convicted of theft; brings her to the king; he says that this man deserves to die for crimes, but the prince insists that he is noble; the king agreed to let him go for gold, four times more than a man's weight; the rescued man calls himself Ali Demmu, promises to help find the Sun Maiden; a month later they arrived in her city in the mountains; the black king was so afraid that she would be kidnapped that he tied her to his leg, belt and neck for the night; Hell entered the palace, stabbed her to death king; the beautiful woman advised me to put on his clothes; they left the palace together, came to the prince, AD put the beauty in the chest and they set off; one day HELL went to fetch water, telling the prince not open the chest; he opened and the spirit kidnapped the beautiful woman; Hell and the prince went in search and met the shepherd; he replied that he served the spirit that kidnapped women he had just brought; he lives overseas, through which you can swim across on a black sheep; Hell changed clothes with the shepherd, who explained what he should do and say; imaginary shepherd: whose turn is it to milk? spirit: new wife; Hell puts the sheep head to the woman; beauty: sheep are standing wrong; Hell reproaches the beauty, but she proves that she is innocent; they agreed; the beauty promises to spend the spirit with it is night for him, if he tells him where his soul is; spirit: on a rock in the sea, a dove is sitting on an egg, life is in an egg; the beauty promises to unite her soul with the soul of the spirit by the next night, but not this night; Hell swam on the sheep and took out an egg; the spirit is bad; he realizes that he has told the woman his secret in vain; Hell came to the spirit, broke the egg, strangled the dove; but the spirit did not completely die, because there was a second egg inside the dove; he still sometimes he kills brides; Hell gave all the property of the spirit of hell to the shepherd; on the way home, Hell hears two doves talking: at night a snake will crawl to Hell, turn it into stone; to revive it, the prince will have to strangle his children over the stone; Hell tells the prince about this, turns into stone at night; when the prince had a son, he brought him to the stone and strangled him; Hell came to life; hears the conversation of the same doves: if smear the boy's neck with droppings from their nest, he will come to life; and so it happened; Tsarevich and AD remained inseparable friends, AD also married]: Grim 1983:99-119.

Southern Europe. Spaniards [the widow's son rejects the crafts offered by his mother; wants to become a painter, his mother apprentices him to the master; the prince dreamed of the Flower of Beauty, tells the master to paint it portrait; he is desperate, but the student performs the task overnight; the prince is happy, but wants the painter to go with him to pick up the beauty; the student advises taking him with him under the guise of a son; old master soon he was tired and the prince agreed to let him go; the prince and the young man stayed in a house in the woods; the table was set, the beds were ready; while the prince sleeps, the young man hears Juan and Pedro talking; finds out that the Central Committee is overseas, it is necessary throw un cuerno de llave into the sea, a bridge will appear; the Central Committee is guarded by a giant and lions, we must find them sleeping; after taking the Central Committee, the prince and the young man run away; the giant does not have time to cross the bridge, but orders that on the wedding night of the Central Committee wolves ate, and if this does not happen, let her petrify after the birth of her first child; when he gets home in the forest, the young man does not sleep, hears H. and P. talking again, learns from him about the giant's curse; in wedding night, in order to fight off wolves, the king must surround the city with an army; wolves were slaughtered, but after the birth of a child, the Central Committee became petrified; the young man goes back to the house in the forest; finds out that the woman will come to life if marble was rubbed with her son's blood; the prince agreed, the woman came to life and they had new children; the painter's apprentice stayed in the palace]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 516:444-450; Catalans [king tells the faithful servant not to show the prince a portrait of a beautiful woman; the prince finds a portrait and goes in search with his servant; after getting a beauty, they go home; the servant hears animals talking: if the prince's wife tries to sit on a horse, eat a fruit or catch a bird, it will die, and whoever tells about it will become petrified; the servant prevents a woman from doing these actions every time; the last time he injures her and is sentenced to death; the servant explains what's going on and turns into a statue]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 516:116; (cf. Corsicans [when the son was born, the father looked at the stars and replied to the person who was born that he would be king; the one who arrived himself was king; promising to raise the boy, he took him and threw him into waterfall under the mill; he was immediately picked up by a miller, whose wife also gave birth to a boy; the adopter grew up hard-working and intelligent; his own son, the miller reproached him for his origin, the young man left home; stayed with childless spouses; brilliantly graduated from school, then went to college, where the prince himself studied; they became friends; when he saw the portrait of the "maiden of the three mountains of gold", the prince went looking for her, his friend with him; in the hotel room in which they spent the night, has two armchairs; one has the inscription "The Legal King" and the other has "The Miller King"; the prince falls asleep, and the young man hears a voice from the magic book he opened: "Let's eat them, because they want to take the maiden of the three mountains of gold; she is guarded by lions, but at noon they fall asleep; she has to remove the pin from her head, then the witchcraft will dissipate and the girl wakes up"; they took the girl away, but At night, one of the sorcerers caught up with them and turned the young man into stone; the prince returns to that room, which now has only one chair with the inscription "The Legal King"; the book says that it takes three days to fish caught on the third day to fry and grease the petrified one with it; the young man came to life; the prince married the maiden of three mountains of gold and handed the crown to the miller's receptionist]: Massignon 1984, No. 14:31-33); Portuguese: Braga 2002 (Algarve) [the prince is friends with the shoemaker's son; the king does not like it, he gives the shoemaker's son money to leave, but the prince leaves with him; they release the princess tied to the tree, prince on she marries; when lovers sleep, the shoemaker's son hears three doves sitting on three crosses standing side by side; first, when the prince sees an orange tree and eats the fruit, he will die; second: when he will drink water from the spring, he will also die; at night, a seven-headed monster will climb into the newlyweds room and kill them; and whoever hears and tells will turn into marble; the shoemaker's son did not let them eat an orange or drink water; a monster killed at night, but a drop of blood fell on the princess's cheek; the shoemaker's son tried to wipe it off, and the princess decided he wanted to kiss her; the prince wanted to kill him, he had to tell everything, he petrified; the prince put a statue in his garden where his children played; cried and asked how to revive a friend; voice: kill children and sprinkle the statue with their blood; the prince did so; a friend came to life and the children too]: 128 -131; Pedroso 1882, No. 6 [the prince went on a journey with him and his friend Pedro; one day they stopped, the prince went to look for water and disappeared; P. hears the conversation of the laundresses, they are witches, discussing this story; one felt sorry for him, brought him to the palace, where orange and lemon trees were everywhere, but there were no people; P. began to pick the fruits and throw them on the ground, they turned into princes and princesses; the prince served by P. , also took on a human form; immediately fell in love with one of the princesses; P. does not sleep at night; hears the witches talking: the princesses will see a pretty mule, ride him, and he will throw her off; who hears and tells turn into marble; the princess will see a pear tree, pick and bite the fruit, immediately die of poison; whoever reports it will become marble; the same: he will step on the bridge, the bridge will collapse; the fourth witch: at night I will turn into a ghost, enter marriage through the window, decapitate the prince and the princess; on the way, P. killed a mule, picked and buried pears, paid the workers - let them destroy the bridge; demanded permission to spend the night in the same room as the newlyweds; after striking the ghost with a sword, P. hit the princess's face, bleeding; the prince accused P. of trying to kill his wife; P. asked permission have a feast before his death; told me, turning into a stone, starting with his feet; the prince ordered to leave the statue in his room; a year later, the prince's wife gave birth to a boy; witch to the prince: to revive P., you must wash the statue with the blood of his murdered son; the prince told his wife that their son fell and died; a mausoleum was built for him; during the celebration of P.'s revival, the boy also came to life]: 25-29; Shishlova 1971 [Miguel is the son of a shoemaker, the royal son became friends with him, the king told M. to leave, the prince left with him; they released the princess, who was robbed and tied up by robbers, the prince decided to marry her; M. hears three pigeons talking; if the princess bites an orange in the grove, she dies; if the prince scoops water from the spring, he dies; if they stay alive, a seven-headed serpent will crawl into the bedroom on the wedding day and eat both; if M. says, it will turn into stone; the princess wants to pick an orange, M. whips her horse, he takes her out of the grove; M. splashed water, did not let the prince drink it; M. kills a snake, bloody and enters the bedroom with a sword, he is accused of intending to kill the prince; M. tells everything, turns into a statue; in the garden, the prince hears a voice: M. will come to life if the prince gives his life; the prince wants to be stabbed, M. comes to life, stops him] : 228-236; ladins [the king educated his son Giuan; Prince Gundi knew three words more; the king sent Jiuan to Gundi to learn these words; Jiuan said he loved Gundi so much that he would rather kill him than break up with him; both came to Jiuan's father; he promised to marry his son a princess of old times, did not tell him to go into the same room; Jiuan decided to enter, Gundi had to follow him; there was a book on the table in the room; at that time the king came in: if they hadn't opened the room, he would have brought the princess, and now let them go after her themselves; they stopped in a hut where the fat lamp was on; Jiuan fell asleep, Gundy overheard the three girls who came in; the eldest told the youngest that the princess of yesteryear lived in such a castle, the doors were open from 11 pm to 12 pm; The next day, Gundi brought Jiuan to the castle, they took the princess, returned to the hut; Jiuan and the princess fell asleep, Gundi did not sleep; those sisters came in, the eldest told the younger that the young men were at the entrance to the palace they will offer clothes, they are poisoned, they must be thrown away; in the palace there are cups of wine, the same; on the wedding night, a black bird will fly in, mutilate the princess's face with its claw, wipe her face with a handkerchief, otherwise she will become a freak; Gundy's older sister: you're awake; if you tell me what you've heard, you'll be petrified; Gundy threw away his clothes and cups; a gust of smelly wind carried away the sorcerer king; on her wedding night, Gundy hid by the bed, flew in a bird, he wiped the princess's face, Jiuan accused him of wanting to take his wife, promised to execute him; Gundy told everything, petrified; the princess gave birth to two sons; Jiuan went to that hut, found out from the conversation sisters; if Jiuan slaughters the children and sprinkles blood on the stone, Gundi will come to life; now Gundy, who has come to life, has gone to the hut to learn how to revive the children; older sister: we must sew up the wounds, sprinkle water on a certain rock ; the sisters asked Gundi to spell them out; let him come back to the hut; there will be no lamp or beds, but a chair; you have to sit down, a snake will appear, rush at him, you have to kiss her tongue, she will become a girl; so three snakes will be sisters; let him marry anyone, but take the rest to the palace too; he married his youngest]: Wildhaber, Uffer 1971, No. 55:186-194 (=Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 10:40-50); Italians (Tuscany, Abruzzo, Molise, Basilicata, Puglia): Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 516:122; Italians: Calvino 1984, No. 33 (Veneto) [=Cotrelev 1991:57-61; parents childless, the sorcerer gives an apple, his wife ate it, and the maid ate the peel; both gave birth to boys; Apple and Peel grew up together and loved each other brotherly; they decided to take possession of the sorcerer's daughter; they climbed inside the bronze horse, driving it from the inside; they began to blow the horn and play the violin; when the girl was alone, they got off the horse and promised to leave if she didn't like them; she too I climbed inside the horse and went with them, or rather with the Apple; the sorcerer father cursed her daughter three times; there will be her three favorite horses, white, bay and crow, let her sit on white and die; the same with dogs - let her take a black woman and die; let a snake crawl into her marriage and bite her; three fairies heard this and began to talk at the inn; added: you can kill a horse, a dog, a snake; and who heard and He will tell, he will petrify; Apple and his fiancée were sleeping, but the Peel cut off the head of a white horse, a black dog; when Peel killed the snake in marriage, the bride woke up and decided what he wanted kill her or her husband; Peel was forced to tell everything, petrified; a sorcerer appeared, his daughter begged him, he brought Peel back to life; all is well]: 95-98; Crane 1885, No. 17 (northern Italy) [senior the prince does not want to marry, the youngest cannot find a bride to his liking; sees a statue, promises to marry someone who looks like her; the older brother goes in search; buys a dancing mouse, a singing bird; finds a girl, lures her to the ship; a bird that has arrived screams that when the younger brother gets a mouse, a bird, they must be killed; after handing over the girl, you must remain silent, otherwise you will petrify; the younger brother does so; the elder thinks that the youngest wants a girl for himself; the youngest talks about everything, turns into stone; the sorcerer says that the statue will be revived by the blood of the children given birth to by the young queen; she is distracted, the children have been killed, The king's brother has come to life; the mother is terrified, but the children come to life]: 85-87 (also versions from Veneto, Siena, Florence, Mantova, p. 88, from Pentameron, p. 88-89).

Western Europe. The Bretons [prince goes to marry King Dahlmar's daughter; in the forest, a servant hears demons talking in a tree; one says that the prince could create a bridge across the river from a branch from a hedge; to dress up as a woman, to introduce himself as a princess's friend, the king would let him into the tower; the prince gets the princess, brings down the bridge when a chase enters him; D. threatens from the other side; at night in the forest demons it is said that robbers will undress the newlyweds, who will resist, who will take clothes from the old woman's hut, who will help the drowning person, who will tell the prince everything in less than a year and a day, will be petrified; the servant sets fire to the old woman's house, drowns the drowning woman; at home, the prince makes the servant tell everything, he becomes stony; the prince listens to demons talking in the forest that he must slaughter his son, sprinkle blood on his servant's figure, then pour blood into the baby's mouth, both will come to life; that's what happened]: Luzel 1995:67-77 (=2016:124-135); French: Carnoy 1885, No. 16 (Lorraine) []: 115-123; Millien 1908 (Nivernay) [mother asks prince Émilien to marry, but he refuses; after her death, he sees a portrait of the beautiful Émilienne, goes in search; Jean is a loyal servant with him; hears 30 characters talking to his "father Rocklor" ( Roquelaure); he tells them about the dangers that await the prince and what he must do; to cross the river, you have to rub the carriage wheels with moss, a bridge will appear; the princess is guarded by a witch and one hundred sorcerers in the form of predatory animals; she should be given a gold spinning wheel and sleeping pills; drivers will offer their carts to the prince, drink sellers will offer them to the thirsty princess - all of them it must be chopped; the drowning person in the pond should be shoved away from the shore; whoever talks about what he heard will become petrified; Jean does everything; the princess thinks he is a sorcerer himself and asks the prince to conclude when he gets home Jean is forever in prison; Jean is forced to tell everything, turned into stone; when his son was born, the old woman says that if he is killed and blood is sprinkled on the statue, Jean will come to life; the prince does so, old lady revives the boy]: 27-34; Germans (Pomerania) [the king complains to the peasant that he is childless; the peasant: you will have a son; the son Charles is born, the king asks the peasant how to reward him; the peasant : I also had a son Friedrich, let him be brought up with yours; once F. threw a bird shot by Charles into a stream and it came to life; F. remembered that there was a source of living water; the king built a palace; on the wall The last room depicts how the enchanted princess became a rock for the days of the sea; K. fell in love, went with F. to save her; they spend the night in a house in the woods, where everything is done by themselves; at night F. does not sleep ; a woman in black enters, with her father; says that at one of the corners of the castle there is a golden ball (Gotsel) that will lead to the target; the next night: at a different angle, the sword: if you hit the water with it, the sea will part; in the third: the golden rod, it will open 12 doors, the princess will throw herself around K.'s neck; that's right, they have returned to that castle; for three nights, a woman in black again informs her father that will happen to the princes; F. must step on the wooden bridge, and if K. steps, they will all fail and die; during their absence, their father married a witch; she will serve poisoned wine, F. must Hit the tray with that sword, it will be the fault; a horse will approach the princess; if she sits on it, he will carry her further through the air than she was; F. must stab him with a golden dagger; that's what happened; the dog licked the wine and died; K. married a princess, they have children; but the queen turned F. into stone; K. himself arrives at the house in the woods; on the first night, a woman in black reports that the Queen turned F. into stone; second, that if K. slaughtered his eldest 12-year-old daughter with a golden dagger and smeared the stone with blood, F. would come to life; third, that the dagger was too heavy, but there was a bowl nearby; if you drink it off, you would have strength; When F. came to life, he dipped the girl's body in a source of living water and she came to life; the brothers ask the witch queen if she wanted to drag the tail by leaps and bounds all her life {to be tied to a horse's tail? Leben lang einen sieben Meilen langen Schwanz nachschleppen} or die 9 times; she chose the latter because she can only die once; but they revived her in living water each time and then executed her again]: Jahn 1891, No. 7:36-44; Germans (Pomerania) [after hearing about the beauty of the English princess, the king's eldest son began to wither away from love; the king allowed him to go to England; the younger brother arranged everything; three the princes dressed up as merchants, showed jewelry and precious dresses, the princess wanted to see more, boarded the ship, he sailed; when he learned that the prince had taken her away, agreed to marry him; the king sent the fleet is in pursuit, but the younger prince made holes in advance all the ships and they sank; three witches promised to return the princess; flew in the guise of ravens; the younger prince is awake and hears their conversation; one will take the image a beautiful horse, the princess will sit on it and he will fly with her to her father; the second will poison wine for the princess; third: if the young enter the bedchamber, they will fall dead, for the air is poisoned; witchcraft will dissipate if someone enters before them and draws the sign of the cross three times in the air with a dagger; whoever hears and tells will be petrified; the younger prince stabbed the horse, splashed wine, broke in front of newlyweds in a bedchamber; the king imprisoned him; a year later he told the king everything; petrified to his knees, then to the chest, then whole; the princess gave birth to two children; her husband dreamed that if he He will slaughter them and sprinkle them with the blood of the petrified, he will come to life; the younger brother has come to life and the older's children too]: Jahn 1891, No. 8:44-48; Germans [the son goes on a journey, the father gives him a loyal servant as his companion; they live with an old woman in the forest; she tells the servant to prevent the master from shooting three brown deer, but if he says, she will die; the servant frightened the deer, the master is dissatisfied; the same applies to black and white deer with deer; the master shot the servant, horrified by what he did; three girls accuse him of ruining everything, could free them; give them a sword, an inexhaustible purse, a ring; with a sword, a young man kills a snake that fought the lion; the lion becomes his companion; they swim across three seas, win, kill giants; with the help of a donated ring, a young man breaks a sedated castle, where those three girls and their mother- queen; the lion has brought the remains of a murdered servant, who is revived by living water; the lion asks to cut off his head, turns into a queen who has been bewitched; a young man, a servant and a former lion marry three princesses] : Cerf 1992:37-51; Irish, German (Schleswig-Holstein, Pomerania, Grimms, Austria), Friezes: Uther 2004 (2), No. 516:303-304.

Western Asia. Palestinians [the fisherman caught a huge fish; she tells him to take it to the Sultan; give the water in which it will be washed to the mare, let the sultan and his wife eat the meat, and the fisherman and his wife; then children will be born; fish It smells bad, but the fisherman talked about its wonderful properties; count the eggs in the pan, but do not count the months of the pregnant woman; the mare gave birth to two foals; the king gave his son to the fisherman's wife to feed both; the prince is Hasan, the fisherman's son is Hussein, he is smarter; when are they 15 years old? his mother is unhappy that he is holding the fisherman's son by his brother; they sat on horses born at the same time as them and went on a journey; they stayed with an old woman; she says that the local sultan is evil; his daughter's suitors give impossible assignments, the failed ones are cutting their heads; more than 300 princes have already died; the old man teaches Hussein to gain trust in the guards, they will miss, then wait until he falls asleep a man with a big mustache, steal his key and go to the princess; when Hussein entered, the princess mistook him for Hassan; gave her ring, necklace and curl; the king demands signs from her daughter; Hussein brings ring; necklace; curl; king: this is not a princess's curl; Hussein: if we do not give your daughter, we will defeat your kingdom; the vizier advises you to give it away; old man: on Hasan's wedding night, my wife and I will die; bury; you will see so much gold, how much coal; on his wedding night, Hassan left Hussein alone, but he secretly went to the old people; after the funeral, the brothers built a mausoleum over their grave and took the gold; one day Hassan began to watch what kind of dowry did the wife bring in the chest; a bird flew in and took the necklace; Hasan ran after her barefoot and in his underwear; found himself at the old woman's house; spent the night there; found a necklace in the bird's nest; sold from he had one stone, bought clothes with this money; hired a job; Hussein dressed Hassan's wife Kadiem, became an assistant himself, and they began to go to cities to find out about Hassan; Hassan came and did not recognize him in the kadia Hussein; said he returned 10 gold to the jeweler, to whom he sold the necklace stone, but he said he knew nothing (the stone costs 10,000 gold); Hussein sent for the jeweler; he denied everything; Hussein ordered write a letter to his wife and seal it: give him the stone from that necklace; the stone was brought; the kadiy imprisoned the jeweler for three years and Hussein for 4 days; this is to prevent him from going anywhere; Hussein came to prison and explained to Hassan that Kadi was his wife; everything is fine; they returned to their father king; Hussein hears doves talking under the tree: if Hussein does not sleep, it's good; he must stay alone for the night Hassan ; a demon will come to kill Hassan, Hussein will kill him; otherwise he will be accused of killing Hassan; if Hussein talks about something, he will become petrified; he killed the demon, put the body in a bag and went to bury him; he was grabbed guards, accused of murder; the king ordered to tell, he turned into a stone pillar; Hassan put up a tent next to the stone to die there; sitting in a tent, he hears the doves talking; tomorrow the wife will give birth; if To kill a newborn on that rock, Hussein will come to life; if you put a loquat branch (Eriobotrya japonica) around the child's neck, he will also come to life; Hassan did so, everyone is alive and well; Hussein married his daughter Vizier]: Littmann 2016:160-183; Bahrain, Kuwait, Syria, Saudi Arabia: El-Shamy 2004, No. 516:274-275; Socotra [to choose a friend, Sultan's son Muhammad calls a young man, offers food, leaves himself; he does not touch the food, M. rejects it; so with many; only Saleh has eaten everything, M. makes him his friend; they go hunting gazelles; they notice the ship, who is a beautiful girl; they look for her everywhere, they find her in a distant land; this is Einá (Eyna), the daughter of the ruler; she comes to young men, but M. sleeps; twice; the third time Saleh manages to wake M., E. teaches how to find her room; the upper floor is built from the skulls of suitors who tried to do this before; S. finds E., gets it, but gives it to M.; on the way home, E. and M. spend the night under the same tree, and S. under the same tree to others; hears three birds talking; the snake will crawl up, spit on E.'s cheek, if the poison is not erased, E. will die, and if S. tells, he will petrify; S. erases the poison, M. almost killed S., thinking he tried to kiss E .; the next night; M. wants to drink, towards a man with a bucket of milk, he is poisoned; S. knocks the vessel out of M.'s hands, E. again prevents M. from attacking S.; at the third night: M. finds a golden rod if he will hit the horse with them, the horse will die; S. puts his hand, the rod breaks; at home, M. arranges a trial against S., S. tells everything, turns into stone; the wife gave birth, three birds told her that if the baby was slaughtered, S. will come to life; E. did so, S. came to life]: Naumkin, Kogan 2013, No. 22:186-187 (with additions to the full English translation).

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Kirati [the judge's son and the minister's son are friends, born on the same day; the judge's son married; he wants to find a bride for the minister's son; friends travel, spend the night under a tree; the judge's son sees a serpent swallowed their horses, but lost the jewel in which his life was; the judge's son took the stone, the serpent died, the judge's son cut his stomach, the horses came out alive; with this stone friends come to the lake, water they retreat, they see the palace, marry the daughter of the serpent king to the minister's son; she goes to mourn the serpent father; the other king hunts, sees the girl, is blind with love; the old woman finds a girl, calls soldiers, they take her to this king; the judge's son finds out that the old woman's son is a fool, covered in ash; takes his form, takes the girl away; both friends and the girl spend the night under a tree; the judge's son sees a snake crawling to the falcon's nest, kills a snake; falcons tell their mother about it; in response, she talks about the threats that await the young; a tree will fall on them, a bridge will collapse under them, they will be buried by a landslide, trampled by elephants, wedding food poisoned, a snake will crawl into the bedroom at night; if the hearing tells, he will turn to stone; the judge's son forces the minister's son and girlfriend to travel before dawn, wade across the river, etc.; son the minister is dissatisfied every time; the judge's son broke into the bedroom, killed a snake, the minister's son thinks he wanted to kill him; the judge's son says everything, gets stony; manages to say that he will come to life if the minister's son will shed his first child's blood on him; his wife killed the newborn, the judge's son came to life; went to live in another country]: Heunemann 1980, No. 5:67-75; Meitei [the widow has a son, Chandrakangnan; he cut down a tree and made it out of he had a couch that moved on its own; the king bought it, promising to pay the widow tomorrow; that night the king's beloved servant named Selungjao lay down on the couch; heard four legs talking, then the fourth left; after that, three said that the king would be bitten by a snake and only by killing her could he be saved; S. hid in the royal chambers with a knife in his hands and killed a snake; at first it caused anger, but then everything became clear; C . awarded and a widow's son too]: Singh 1993:10.

Burma - Indochina. Khmu [an orphan serves the ruler; he tells him to give a massage, promises to tell an old tale, but falls asleep and says nothing; the spirits hear it; the next night the story repeats; the spirits believe that the ruler is unfair to the orphan and are going to destroy him when he comes to the city gate - they will slam shut and crush him; the orphan hears this; when the ruler arrives to the gate, the orphan hit his horse with a whip, he slipped through before the gate slammed shut; next time the spirits are going to bring down a banyan branch on the ruler; the orphan again whipped the ruler's horse, a branch fell behind him; for the third time, spirits plan to let boas; the ruler wonders why an orphan sharpens his sword; three boa constrictors go down to the room to eat the ruler and his wife, an orphan kills them; a drop blood splashed on the chest of the ruler's wife; the orphan decides to lick the blood with his tongue, the ruler accuses him of assaulting his wife; brings him to a judge; the orphan tells everything, accusing the ruler of dishonesty ( He did not say anything, only promised); the orphan made the ruler's wife his wife]: Lindell et al. 1978, No. 13:108-111; kaya [the king allows the princess to choose her groom herself; she goes from house to house throws up a handkerchief; where he floats in the air, there is the groom; the handkerchief soared near the poor hut; the princess gave the young man a precious ring; he said he saw such stones in the forest, led to diamonds; the king gathers everyone to hunt; the princess does not tell her husband to overtake the king; cooked porridge from beans, makes a hat out of it - if her husband is hungry, let him bite off; the king is hungry and exchanged his a golden hat on a bean; lay down and asked for a massage, promising to tell stories; he was known as a wonderful storyteller, the spirits gathered to listen; but the king fell asleep without telling anything; perfume they were offended and cursed: let a broken branch fall on the king's head on the way home; if this does not hurt, the bridge collapsed; the staircase in the palace will collapse; the doors will be crushed; the snake will sting in bed; the husband the princesses overheard it, rides with the king, they have time to slip through before the branch falls, etc.; he kills a snake in bed; the king promised the princess to a young man, but she said they are already married]: Zapadova 1977:327-330; the Shans [the king defeated the neighbors; at the festival, daughters are told how he ensured their fate; only the youngest seventh says that her fate does not depend on her father; he tells her to give her for himself poor man; this is an Ai firewood collector; he did not even have his own machete; the king took his daughter's robes, gave her a new name Nang Kam Ung ("a woman whose luck depends on her"); the princess hid a ruby sent A. to sell it, no one wanted to buy it, he threw it away; his wife said that they would give a lot of money for this stone; husband: there are many of them in the riverbed; when the daughter brought rubies, the king drove the counselor away A., who proposed the candidacy, is not poor; the golden deer ruined the garden, the king ordered the deer to be driven, A. was given a horse, he turned out to be an excellent rider; the next day he rode with the king; the deer disappeared into cave; the exhausted king fell asleep under the banyan; A. hears the serpent promising to knock down the top of the tree on them; if the king remains alive, cut down the bridge supports; bring down the gate arch; if the king asks for a drink, the water in the cup would turn into needles; a huge rat bit to death in the king's bedroom; in the morning A. told the king to obey him; they escaped danger, the guard killed the rat; the king appointed A. heir, admitted that his daughter was right] : Griggs 1902:44-56.

South Asia. Punjabi [while hunting in the forest, the king sees a portrait of a beautiful woman; a faithful vizier goes to look for her; at night, the king notices the radiance; it is a serpent crawling out of a well who puts a precious stone on the grass; The king covers the stone with ash, the serpent dies; going down into the well, the king finds the beautiful woman whose portrait he saw, takes her as his wife; she loses her shoe in the river, the laundress finds it, brings it to another king; he sends an old woman, she lures the beautiful woman into the boat, takes her away, steals a gem; the kidnapped woman promises to marry the king in three months; the vizier finds her; the cat and the mongoose, with the help of rats, find and the stone is taken away from the old woman's house; the vizier and the kidnapped run to the river, the stone separates the waters, they cross the dry; the husband of the rescued woman, brought by the vizier, offers two swords or two horses; an old woman chooses horses, she is torn apart, tied to them; on the way home, the vizier hears birds talking warning of dangers for the king; prevents them (kills a white horse that would kill the king; does not let you drink from the spring; removes the gate that would press down those who entered; kills the snake in the couple's bedroom; a drop of snake blood falls on the queen's cheek, the vizier washes her, the king thinks he is encroaching on his wife's honor; The vizier tells everything, turns into stone; in a dream, the king learns that his son's blood will revive the transformed man; accidentally scratches his son's hand with a sword, blood falls on the stone, the vizier comes to life]: King 1926, No. 14: 84-89; Nepali [every evening the king falls asleep before hearing the fairy tale; the goddess of fairy tales appears to the minister in a dream, telling him to listen to the end; the king falls asleep again; the goddess in a dream tells the Minister that he will kill the king: He will put a needle in his food; if the king avoids, a tree will fall on him while hunting; if he is alive again, she will let a poisonous snake come to him; if the minister speaks, he will turn into stone; the minister finds a needle in his food, manages to push the king away before a huge branch falls on him; kills a snake in the bedroom, a drop of blood fell on the queen's cheek, the minister reached out to brush it off, the king woke up, told hang the minister; he told everything, was petrified; the king no longer listened to fairy tales, and when he listened, to the end]: Sakya, Griffith 1980:25-27; Marathi [Raja's son is friends with the vizier's son; rani is not I like it, she pays the old woman to quarrel with them; the old woman comes to the vizier's son, who asks her what she needs, she says nothing; Raja's son does not believe it, thinks that a friend is hiding something, they quarrel, Raja's son tells his father to kill the vizier's son; he hides him; Raja's son repents; the vizier's son goes after the girl in a glass palace, the vizier's son is with him, he gets a beauty by jumping over a horse across the river; on the way back they spend the night under a tree, the vizier's son overhears the conversation of two owls; a tree and the vault of the aisle will fall on the newlyweds, but the vizier's son will have time to push them forward; at night a cobra will crawl out, the vizier's son will kill her, a drop of blood will fall on the young wife's forehead, the vizier's son will try to lick her, will be accused of trying to take possession of a woman; everything will tell and turn into stone; a boy born at 8 years old touches the statue and the vizier's son will come to life; so it happened]: Frere 1868, No. 5:72-86; Bengalis [(Russian translation in Porozhnyakov 1990:30-47); the prince and the minister's son travel, spend the night in the forest, see how a snake crawls out of the pond with a jewel on its head; leaves a stone, crawls away to hunt; they hide the stone in horse manure; the serpent dies; they see a palace in the pond, they go down, there is a beautiful prince on she marries; the minister's son goes home for his retinue; another prince sees the first wife when she goes ashore; the old woman lures her, she is taken away with the treasure; the minister's son enters her, He takes him to her husband; in the forest he hears two birds talking; the king will send an elephant to his son, who will sit on him, fall, crash to death; if he enters the palace through the lion's gate, they will collapse and crush him; at a feast he chokes to death with a fish head; a cobra will bite the prince on his wedding bed; whoever told the prince about this will become petrified; he will come to life if he is sprinkled with the blood of a baby to be given birth to the prince's wife; the minister's son himself He sits on an elephant, tells him to destroy the gate; takes his head off the prince's plate with a fish at a feast; hides in the bedroom, kills a snake, a drop of blood falls on the prince's wife, he licks her; he has to say everything he turns into marble; the prince cuts the newborn in half, the minister's son comes to life; after taking the remains of the child, he returns to his wife; she asks the goddess Kali for help, because the husband is always gloomy; she revives child; everyone is happy]: Day 1914, No. 2:17-52; Oriya [the prince's friend is the son of a clergyman (mantri), sees a pool in the forest and a painted female portrait; tries to hide it from the prince, but he sees falls in love; a snake with a diamond on its head crawls out of the pond, leaves it, swallows horses, rushes at the prince, a friend kills a snake; with the help of a diamond they enter the pond, there is the prince's daughter, she promised marry someone who sees her portrait; the prince takes her as his wife; the king sees her, demands that a ship be built under water, otherwise he executes carpenters; the vulture tells his children that such a ship can be built make from the wood they sit on; the ship is built, the king takes the prince's wife; a friend finds the prince's wife, takes him back in a self-propelled ship; the guru's two heirs share his property: sandals, who will take you to the right place, a pot that gives food, a cane that can hit the ground to create a village with people; a friend invites the arguers to race, take property with the prince and his wife; a friend hears celestials talking; when the prince enters the palace, he will be crushed by a wall; he can be knocked down in advance, but the one who discovered the secret will petrify; spirits from the land of the dead: the prince will be thrown off by a horse (killing a horse is the same); people from the mountains: a cobra will crawl into the newlyweds room (the same); a friend tells them to destroy the wall, kill the prince's horse; the stepmother gives the prince rice, a friend tells him to bury it; a friend kills a cobra, a drop of blood fell on the prince's wife, a friend tried to wipe it off, the prince woke up, demands an explanation; the friend told everything, petrified; the prince sees the snake crawling to eat the vulture chicks, kills the snake; the vulture mother: the friend will be revived by the ground from under of this tree; a friend has come to life, everything is fine]: Mohanti 1975:24-29; baiga [after dinner, the farmhand asks the gonda peasant to tell a fairy tale; he is too lazy, he goes to sleep; the farmhand sees and hears like 4 fairy tales came out of the womb of the gonda and decided to kill him because he is too lazy to tell them; first, when the gondas come to his son, the first sip of food will turn into needles, he will swallow them and die; second: I will become a tree, I will fall on him ; third: I will become a snake, I will bite him; fourth: I will find water, when he crosses the river, it will wash it away; the servant snatches out food, tells him to run quickly past the tree, kills the snake, pulls the owner out water; he demands to tell us what was going on, the servant was petrified; the gonda's daughter-in-law threw her child against this stone, the farmhand came to life; but the gonda drove him away; so "do not believe the gonda, the woman and the dream"]: Elwin 1944, No. 1: 302-303; Tamils [(continued, beginning in M198; Alakapuri was ruled by the just king Alakesa; one of the four ministers heard crying in the temple of Kali; the goddess herself cried - the king is in danger ; rice will be brought in the morning, it is poisoned with snake venom, only the first handful is dangerous; King Vijayanagara will send a basket with arrows; the king will ask to open it and die; a snake will enter his bedroom; if the king will avoid these dangers, he will live to be 120 years old; the minister put the royal outfit on his servant; he, disguised as a king, went to the basket, arrows pierced him, the king escaped; when he was about to eat rice, the minister asked himself the first handful, the king is offended; the minister climbed into the bedroom, killed the snake, a drop of blood dripped on the queen's chest, he wiped her off with his little finger and cut it off; the queen woke up, asked the king to execute the minister; three others the minister is asked to consider the decision and give examples of haste; 1) the hunter owes the merchant, paid the dog against the debt; she bit to death the lover of the merchant's wife, showed him the place where the wife buried the body; the merchant kicked his wife out, sent the dog back to the hunter as a token of gratitude; the hunter met her on the way, thought she had run away and strangled her; when he found out what was going on, he bitterly repented; 2) the brahmana had a long-awaited son; a snake crawled to the baby, the pet mongoose killed her; when she saw blood on her face, the brahmana's wife thought that he had killed her baby, killed the mongoose; understood the mistake; told her husband everything, committed suicide; the husband killed the child also committed suicide; 3) the wife left the blind brahmana for her lover; the brahmana was saved by a husband and wife from a low caste, the husband told his wife to be a guide; but when they began to think about how to arrange a life the blind man began to shout that a man from the lower caste wanted to take his wife away from him; the Raja ordered his husband to be hanged and his wife burned; the brahmana deeply repented, the Raja found out, the execution of the spouses was canceled, burned brahmana; 4) the brahmana's pet parrot asked him to let go, brought mango seed, whose fruits rejuvenate; the brahmana took the seed to the king; a tree grew; the king gave fruit to an old servant, who died; his wife did self-immolation; the brahmana's eye was taken out; the brahmana and his wife killed a parrot, went to repent; an old woman decided to commit suicide, ate the fruit, became young; it turns out that the snake's venom got for a mango eaten by the servant; the king returned the brahmana, who became young, saw the light; but you can't return the parrot; {two more stories; the king admits that he was in a hurry}]: Kingscote 1890, No. 13:140-186; Tamils [Raja's son and the minister's son went hunting; when he entered the temple on the mountain, the prince saw a portrait of a beauty with a bouquet in her hands; he was stunned: he must get a woman and a bouquet; the priest sent the minister's son to the artist; he said that he bought a radiant female nail from a hunter and recreated the appearance of someone who could own the fingernail; the hunter pointed it to the banyan, under which he found a fingernail; the minister's son remained under the banyan; every day, a snake eats eggs in the nest while parent birds fly across 7 seas for food; the minister's son hacked a snake, the chicks told her mother about this; she told how she picked up a shining nail across the 7 seas ; took the young man there; he picked up diamonds and gold on the roof of the palace; the bird gave a pen to summon her when it was time to fly back; the young man began selling jewelry near the Raja's house; dug a secret passage there; told the Raja that he would leave for a week, and he snuck into the palace, made an agreement with the princess, and the Raju warned him that he would bring his wife to his place; Raja's face seemed familiar, but when he went to the palace, his daughter he was there again; the minister's son flew away in a male bird and the princess on a female; to test the prince, the minister's son told the princess to say that he had been torn to pieces by animals; the prince immediately cut off his head, and the princess was stabbed to death; the minister's son brought the coffins home; the minister's son and the prince had wives at home; the minister's son's wife promised to cut off her right hand in the temple of Kali if her husband returned alive; Kali stopped her and, for her piety, gave her strength to raise the dead; the prince's wife thought that the minister's son killed her husband and demanded his execution; the minister's son warned his wife that the birds had taken him vow; if he talks about what happened, he will fall to pieces; but if they are folded, he will come to life; the minister's son is forced to tell everything; his wife revived him and revived the prince and princess; his The former wife was burned alive in a lime kiln]: Blackburn 2005, No. 47; (cf. Tamils (informant: I read this story from the book) [when Raja's son and vizier's son grew up, the fathers handed over their posts to them; but first they went on a journey; once a young vizier went for food; a young Raja saw a snake crawling, killed it, put a ring on his finger that fell out of its mouth; this ring spreads the waters, he went into an underwater tunnel; there was a girl; a snake killed - the Rakshasa who kidnapped her; she becomes the wife of a Raja; tells her not to leave their refuge; the husband does not listen; the other Raja sees them; the old woman pretended to be an unhappy widow; the Raja took her to their shelter, although the wife did not wanted; the old woman gave the young man a potion, put his body in the coffin, took the ring; before that, the young man told his wife how he and the vizier had lost each other; and that the vizier's son was able to revive the dead; the wife promised The Raje, who sent the old woman, to become his wife, but in the meantime, asks to feed 1000 people for free and send everyone who has lost a friend to her; the vizier returned 4 days before the deadline; pretended The old woman's long-missing son, lured her ring; he was brought to the girl, everything turned out; at night they went down to the underwater tunnel, the vizier revived the raja, all three jumped into their kingdom; at night The vizier hears two parrots talking; now a banyan will fall on the raja; and if he survives and climbs the platform, the platform will collapse and the Raja will die; and if he is saved, the cobra will bite him on the bed; who says petrified; can be revived by sprinkling the stone with the blood of his only son; the vizier dragged the sleeping raja from under the banyan, he fell; the horse jumped over the platform; in marriage, the vizier hid under the bed, killed a snake, a drop of blood fell on Rani's chest, the vizier wiped it off with his finger, and then the Raja woke up; the vizier was sentenced to burn; he told everything and petrified; the couple cut off his son's head; the vizier came to life and revived the boy] : Blackburn 2005, No. 5).

China - Korea. Koreans: Cho 2001, No. 111 [the boy loves stories but keeps notes in pumpkins hung on the wall; grows up, prepares for the wedding; the servant hears stories preparing to kill the young man; promise turn into various objects that death will bring contact with; a stream (if a young man drinks from it, he dies), berries by the road (dies if he eats), a sword on the wall (falls on the young man's neck during weddings); the servant drives the horse without letting him drink or eat; pushes the groom away when the sword falls; does not allow stories to be burned, but advises them to be printed out so that everyone knows]: 212-214; Ząng 1952, 68 [approximately as in Cho 2001]: 154-156; Park 1991 [about the same; after entering the owner's marriage, he kills a snake]: 212-215; (cf. fox [Abep's older brother is dead, Alep's younger is alive and married; his wife wants to take his spirit away; another spirit offers his help: he will become a poisonous caterpillar and bite Alepa; the same is a snake; both times The deceased brother overhears and tells Alepa to throw the caterpillar into the fire, crush the snake; the falcon offers Alepa's wife to become a spirit: to do this, he will shout "ngao" three times; the woman immediately fell dead ; Abepa praises the falcon's abilities and asks if he can revive the dead; the falcon shouts "ngao" three times in another language, the woman comes to life; Abepa asks to show his tongues, tears off the one that kills grabs a falcon and brings it to his brother; he tied it over the hearth for three days, since then some of the falcon's feathers have turned black]: Dessaint, Ngwâma 1994:192-194).

The Balkans. Hungarians: Ortutai 1974, No. 11 [the son of a farmhand grew up, went on a journey; people are carrying 12 carts of reeds, he asked for a reed, did not find what he needed; he found two reed bushes by the sea, made it out of reeds rifles and sabers; now his name is Maly with the Kamyshins (K.); came to the king; it turned out that he could not be distinguished from the queen; tells him that he met a girl, whom her father would give only for someone who just as rich; the king also does not marry his son to someone who has less money than the king; K. brings the Queen to the girl, they lured her to the ship, took her away; K. hears the vultures talking at night; the horse will throw off Queen, he will be killed; a faithful servant will shoot a hare, hit the queen; the 12-headed dragon will take the bride away on the wedding night; whoever tells will petrify; K. shot the horse, the servant; asked for permission to remain in marriage; cut off the dragon's heads; he is asked to explain; he told and petrified; two sons were born; the beggar orders to sprinkle the stone with the blood of these children; K. came to life; the king gave him the keys to 99 rooms, he did not give up the hundredth; K. spies through the keyhole; there are three baths, swan maidens arrive, take off their clothes, bathe; they say that if you hide the clothes, you won't come back; K. made the key hid the youngest's clothes, gave her another one, married her; the wife warns not to give her her old clothes if others ask; they are invited to a wedding, everyone asks for his wife to dance in her old clothes, for will dance even better; K. brought it, his wife put it on and flew away, ordered her to look for her in a fortress on a high mountain, a star above her; K. comes to the mother of the Sun; the Sun is back, does not know about the mountain, advises to ask his uncle Wind; The wind tells him to follow the thorn bush {tumbleweed?} ; at the mountain, the miller put K. in a barrel of flour, which the neck raises to the top of the mountain every day; he picked it up, he opened himself to his wife, stayed with her on the mountain]: 251-264; Shustova 1994 [Korolevich Yanko despite At the will of the father, he goes to look for the bride, marries the Golden Flower; the faithful servant hears the conversation between crows (the evil king will cut the bridge), pigeons (send an enchanted carriage), eagles (will send robes that will burn them wearing); whoever tells will become petrified; the servant does not allow him to cross the bridge, cuts the carriage, tears his robes; at home, when he learns what the servant has done, the old king tells him to hang; the servant explains everything, stones; I. goes to look for Happiness and Good Luck to revive the servant; on the way, the miller asks to know why he is poor, three girls, why they are not married, the river, why there are no fish in it; Happiness and Luck tells you to revive the petrified with drops the blood of a newborn son, someone must drown in the river (I must cross first, then say it), girls should not take revenge on the garbage in the face of the Sun (i.e. when it has already risen), the miller should not be stingy, angry; horse thief drowns in the river, girls get married, miller gets rich; the old king dies of fear when he sees a servant come to life]: 158-168; Moldovans [boy Petraeus is lost when his mother went with him to the forest for mushrooms; the old man brought him to him and when P. drank the milk of a red cow, he became like a 20-year-old; the old man and his wife send P. to herd goats, but not to take over the wolf; P. entered, ripped off and brought the wolf's skin to the old people; the next day - the same (bear possessions); P. did not cross the border of Forest Witch's possessions; the witch decided to destroy him and said that he would look good with Ilyana -Kosynzyana, who is always 16 years old; the snake asks to lift the rock that has crushed her; there is an inscription on the rock: if you rescue Sugur-Mugur from the Black King's dungeon, he will help get IK; P. worked for two years, until The CC did not agree to give him the key; SM was barely alive, P. fattened him, the blacksmith shod his horseshoe horse 25 pounds each; they drove into a glass mountain, where IC; SM made P. invisible; P cut off half of the sleeping IR hair, stole a golden apple, changed rings; IK agreed to become his wife; on the way back, SM does not sleep, hears birds talking: the matchmaker will serve poisoned wine (it was prepared by the Forest Witch), and who will tell , petrifies; SM specially dropped a flask of wine, the grass charred, P. cut off the matchmaker's head; the next night: they will meet with flowers, wolf teeth in flowers; SM grabs, throws flowers, they failed into the ground, burdock grew; P. chopped imaginary friends and best men; on the third night: The Forest Witch will come with 12 snakes, chop P. and IK; SM chopped the snakes, the Witch became a puddle of resin, but injured P. with the handle of the saber; he requires an explanation; SM said, petrified; grandfather orders to sprinkle the stone with the blood of a red goat; SM came to life and the goat was also unharmed; SK and P. were thrown at the golden apple, of which a castle and a garden grew]: Botezat 1981: 46-58; Romanians [the king has a pear tree, at night three birds with iron beaks eat fruit; the older princes fall asleep; the younger mouse asks for crumbs; wakes up when the birds arrive, he catches one, brings her 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 Peace is a daughter another king; he demands one of the princes to be her husband; the elder goes, the father puts on a bear skin and frightens him, he turns back; the same with the middle woman; the old woman advises the youngest to choose a horse that eats hot coals, take the sword and armor that his father used when he was on his way to marry; the prince was not afraid of his father; he tells him to avoid the red-bearded and beardless; the beardless man imposed himself as companions; rejected twice, but the third time he convinced that everyone here is beardless; lowers him into the well and refuses to lift him before the prince does not agree to change roles; calls him the White Moor (BM); at court The beardless Red King sends BM for a jewel from the lion garden; then for a gold-bearing deer; a horse kills a beardless man, the prince regains his status and marries the Beauty of the World; after the wedding takes his wife home, with them the Destroyer of the Nine Lands (RDZ) so that the prince's horse can climb the 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, the father remarried; the stepmother put poison in BM's food and on the bridge he should ride on; the RDZ leads past the bridge, throws food to the pigs, burns the clothes offered; he has to explain and as the story progresses he becomes stony; KM gives birth to a beautiful child; the couple dream that RDZ can only be revived with the blood of their child; three drops of blood fall on petrified, he comes to life]: Bîrlea 1966:431-433; Greeks: Uther 2004 (2), No. 516:303-304; Albanians [two brothers decide to marry the giant Vampiri's wife and a woman from overseas; they meet V., he swallowed them, then belched them, brought them home; they agree with his wife V. that she will find out where V. keeps her life; V.: in the garden; in the door; the wife covers the garden, the door with a handkerchief; V.: in the mountains in the bear's heart; the sister brothers cut off the bear's head, a fox jumped out, a hare in the fox, two doves in the hare, they brought them to V., killed them, one married his wife V., both went to pick up his wife for another; they eavesdrop on the devil in the hole telling his son to throw 3 black and 3 white stones into the sea, a bridge will appear; forgets to say "whoever hears will petrify"; they returned with the woman Beauty of the World (Kleine Schö ne der Erde); only the eldest went to listen to the devil's conversation with his son again; hell: the bride has 3 snakes in her stomach, they will kill the groom on the wedding night, and whoever hears and tells will petrify; during the wedding again comes to listen; hell: the bride has already killed 30 suitors; we must kill the snakes when they start crawling out; whoever hears and gives will be petrified and blind; the brothers demanded that the groom do not go to to the bride on the first night, but would leave him in the room; killed a snake; in the morning he told everything, petrified; a year later, after giving birth to a son, the wife sends her husband to listen to the devil; hell: if you kill her son, the brother will come to life; the wife herself killed a baby, blood dripped on the statue, her sister came to life and the baby too]: Lambertz 1952:21-29; Bulgarians [seeing a portrait of a distant beauty, the prince and his servant set off; on the way out of conversation birds (crows, eagles, sparrows), the servant learns how to lure the beauty out of her house; from the conversation of birds, he learns about the dangers facing the prince and that the one who discovered the secret will petrify; averts dangers, prince demands to explain his strange actions to the servant, he says he turns into stone; the prince finds out that the servant will come to life from the blood of the prince's child; kills the child, both the servant and the child come to life]: Daskalova -Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 516:192; the Bosnians [the sultan went blind; found out in a dream that he would see the light if he rubbed his eyes with the fat of the king of fish; he has a crown on his head and stripes on his body; Sultan's son Rahman along with they go to the sea as a servant, they catch the king of fish; he asks R. to let him go, promises to help; fearing his father's anger, R. runs away; meets a stranger, they go together, his name is Schahbas; at night it is the turn to guard R.; he chased the hare, he disappeared into failure, a giant jumped out; everything repeats itself, this time two warriors and a beautiful woman are in failure; they say that it is their sister, they have been sitting here for 8 years; they give R.'s sister is married, but ordered to be guarded; at night she is carried away by a giant; the brothers are going to cut off R.'s head; S. asks to wait two weeks, he will return them to his sister; he found the giant's palace, killed him, hiding behind by the door, returned the girl; in the city shows shoes taken from the giant's palace, they go to the daughter of Sheikh al-Islam; the Sultan's daughter wants the same, S. returns to the giant's palace, brings another pair, for this, the Sultan agreed to give his daughter for R.; R. and his wife and S. go to Father R.; stay in the city; while R. and his wife are sleeping, S. hears a conversation between four forks: 1) the Sultan father will send Rahman a horse, he will become the cause of his death; 2) Rahman will be given a goblet, if he drinks, dies; 3) Rahman will be swallowed by a dragon; 4) whoever tells will petrify; S. cut off the horse's head when she fell on the grass, the flame rushed; cuts off his hand The Tatar, who held out the goblet, falls, the flame again; at night, in the room where R. sleeps with his wife, a spider came down from the ceiling, became a snake, the snake was a dragon, S. cut off his head, threw him into the sea; in the morning no one knows where the Sultan went (he was that spider and dragon); S. talks about everything to R. and is stony; R.'s wife gave birth to a son; in a dream, a voice told her to kill the baby and smear the stone figure with his blood; S. came to life and the baby too; S. gave his three hairs to call him for help if necessary, left; he was the king of fish]: Schütz 1960, No. 38:278-292.

Central Europe. Czechs [two magi ask for permission to spend the night when the princess gives birth; until midnight they look at the stars - only gallows flash; after midnight everything is fine; the princess gives birth to a handsome boy with a golden star in his forehead; the prince called the travelers to their cronies; they called the prince Worldly beauty as his wife; the young man grew up, saw the book with this record and went for his betrothed; he came to the Sun - he does not know, sends to the Wind, the Wind by the Month; it leads to the bridge and tells the horse to cross it; a dragon appeared from under the bridge, ate the horse and fell asleep; after that, the young man crossed the bridge; in the forest hut his godchildren descend a young man in a hole in the ground; he left them a handkerchief: if he stained with blood, they must hurry to help; the young man came to the sorcerer; she says that worldly beauty is on the top of the mountain in a glass castle; with 12 maids goes down to the lake to swim; puts his golden crown in the grass; you have to shoot one of the maids; worldly beauty will lean towards her, at which time you have to grab the crown and run without looking back; but he looked around, turned into a deer; the handkerchief was stained with blood; the godchildren came to the sorcerer; she said that a golden bullet should be shot at a star on the deer's forehead; he grazes among others, they were also young men; the godchildren shot, the young man became human; the sorcerer again tells him not to look back; he looked around and became a bear; (same); sorceress: become a beetle and hide in a horse's skull; the young man grabbed the crown, not looked around, his godchildren took him upstairs; worldly beauty followed by 12 maids, agreed to become the young man's wife; while they were sleeping, the maids became doves, the godchildren heard what they were talking about; the prince father will send a golden carriage to the young, by the will of the dragon it will fall into the abyss; next time: the father sends wine, the dragon will poison him; on the third night: when the young go to bed in the upper room, the dragon will get to them and will kill a young man; whoever tells will petrify; the godson tells him not to sit the carriage, not to drink wine; in the castle he stayed at the newlyweds bed, killed the dragon; did not say anything and left]: Nemtsova 1978:140-152; Poles [the queen falls in love with a girl than a portrait he sees or dreams; with the help of a servant or brother, he finds her and takes her away; when he hears birds or demons talking, the servant learns about the dangers which threaten the Queen: dragon poison, poisoned clothes, drown in the river, a snake in the royal room, a mad horse, etc.; he eliminates threats, but is forced to explain his behavior and turns into stone; he will be revived by the blood of his master's child or by a remedy brought from afar; the Queen kills the child, the servant comes to life and the child too]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 516:167; Slovaks [two pilgrims They spend the night in the prince's house, where his wife gives birth; the elder says that the stars are favorable; the prince makes him the godfather of the newborn; he promises the boy that he will marry the most beautiful girl in the world; the son grows up, goes to look for the betrothed; the Sun King sends him to the King of the Wind, the King of the Month; the King of the Month helps to cross the bridge, leads him to the forest, where those pilgrims are already waiting; they bring the young man down to a rope to another world; he leaves them a handkerchief - if he turns red, he is in trouble; in the lower world, a woman teaches them to quietly steal a crown that a beautiful woman who comes to swim with her friends will put on the grass; after grabbing the crown, the young man runs away; the first time he turns around, turns into a deer, the pilgrims restore his appearance; the second time he turns into a bear; the third time he becomes an ant, hides in a horse's skull, girls do not find him, pilgrims lift him to the ground, the beauty and her girls follow him, agrees to become his wife; at night, the pilgrim hears her friends who have become pigeons beauties say that the young man's father prepares a carriage for him, which he will fall into and crash, and whoever tells will become dumb; on the second night, his father will give him poisoned wine; on the third night, to the newlyweds bedroom the dragon will crawl; without explaining why, the pilgrim does not allow the young to get into the carriage, pours out the wine, demands that it be left in the bedroom; kills the dragon; everyone is happy, the pilgrim leaves]: Nmcová 1970 : 186-199; Russians (Arkhangelsk, Tula, Voronezh, Orel), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Galicia, Transcarpathia, Ugric Russia, Kiev), Belarusians [Faithful Servant: The prince falls in love with the princess from the portrait; finds her and takes her away by ship; the servant hears about the dangers threatening the prince and warns him; for this he is turned into stone; the prince revives him with his blood children; children also come to life]: SUS 1979, No. 516:147-148; Russians (Terevsky Bereg) [the elder prince asks to let him down for a walk in an open field; disappeared; the same middle one; younger Ivan: Let me go, and don't let me go - I'll go; I got to the brothers, the forces are dark and dark against them; I. drove around her, entered the house, there the girl weaves a crumb; she will click with stuffing {the kind of crest for the surf is a duck} - a horse and a man will jump out to service went; I. cut off the stuffing, shot the girl; the brothers beat the force and burned the house; they are going - the stove, under it a hole; I. asks him to lower, there are three houses and three girls, each wiped her kingdom into an egg and pocket put it down; the brothers raised two girls; the third to Ivan: they argue over me; stayed with I. in the lower world; I. sees a man, the other hits him on the head with a hammer, the man asks him to redeem him; after the third time ( the price is first 100, then 200, 300 rubles, I. bought and brought him to the ground; he promises to bring him to the ground; led to the sea, the whale sailed, he limited his hand, became a ship; sailed, the servant does not sleep at the wheel; three birds flew in; first: I. went to the earth horde, took his beautiful wife and a prudent woman; second: why happy, his own mother died, his father married Baba Yaga, his stepmother would give him wine, he he will drink it and tear it apart; the third: and whoever hears and retells, will petrify knee-deep; the next night the same (the stepmother will bring her shirt; he will petrify up to the waist); on the third night: the stepmother will bring a silver spoon, I. He will sip and tear it apart; he who told everything will be petrified; they sailed; the servant threw wine on the dog, he disappeared; threw his shirt on the goat, he disappeared; and threw the spoon out the window; after telling everything, he petrified; the old man: the son will be born, releasing blood from under his throat on a stone, the servant will come to life; the son also came to life, only the scar remained]: Balashov 1970, No. 40:126-133 (=1991:86-101); Russians (Arkhangelskaya: Severnaya Dvina) [y Tsar's son Ivan (Vanyusha); the tsar locked one of the rooms; I. took the keys, broke into the room, there was a portrait of a beautiful woman, he fell in love with her; went to pick up the bride, with him a faithful servant, also Ivan; they came to the ship to the country where the princess lived; they sell mirrors; the princess came to the ship to see, they sailed; the princess likes I.-Tsarevich; the servant hears the crow's prediction: they will come home, sit in a stroller, it will explode, and whoever tells will petrify knee-deep; they will give a poisonous shirt (petrify to the waist); they will go to bed and, if they do not smear their eyebrows with blood, they will not wake up (it will petrify completely); the servant chopped the stroller, burned shirt; smeared the princess's eyebrows with blood, began to lick, I. woke up and decided that the servant was kissing the young woman; I had to tell everything; "the statues were placed in the room"; I. had a son; I. had a dream: the servant will come to life, if you slaughter his son; they did so; I. came to life, followed by a boy]: Mitrofanova, Fedorova 1966, No. 9:117-118; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pinega, d. Lebskaya. AND. Golchikov, born in a village, runs a cooperative in Mezen, "apparently read a lot", 1927) [The Tsar's eldest son Egor the Brave goes to look for a bride, finds himself in a forest hut, an upper room with "velvet removed, sewn in gold", Egor chooses the eldest of two pigeon girls. Baba Yaga treats gingerbread, mash and wort, Egor gets drunk and falls under the table. Baba Yaga gets angry, calls him a drunkard and throws him and his bride into the cellar. The royal's middle son Fedor the Important goes after the bride and finds himself in a golden palace, sees a poor room and a girl inside a dirty shop, marries her, Baba Yaga treats him and a drunk with throws a girl into the underground. The youngest son, Ivan Tsarevich, wants to go to look for his brothers, but his father does not let him in. The old woman advises to tell her father that he dreamed of a thin royal cellar, and behind 12 doors and locks there is a horse the same age as Ivan, in front of him is heroic armor. The king realizes that someone told his son about the basement, but gives him a horse. Ivan raises the cellar by the front corner and pulls out a kladenets sword, a long-lasting spear and heroic armor. Ivan comes to Baba Yaga's hut (leaves a spear and sword on the floor - no one can lift it anyway), asks about his brothers, refuses to eat Yaga's treats, throws the table through the window with his right hand, knocks out the frames. She pulls out two snakes burning with fire, and Ivan cuts off their heads with a sword. He tries out Baba Yaga, where his brothers are, cuts her head off, sends her brothers to go to their father. Ivan goes on to "get the betrothed". In the field, he frees the hero for beating the royal daughter, promises to marry her himself, "if she is a good girl", the hero promises to be Ivan "Oron Faithful to death". Ivan sees the princess, has been looking for a more beautiful girl for 5 years, but he does not find it. He sees a tent in the field, brings his horse to someone else's, they eat together, he decides that sleep will get along with the owner of the tent. He goes inside and falls asleep. Both heroes snore. No one wants to kill another at night in their sleep, waiting for the morning for a fair fight. In the morning, he sees Oron Verny in front of him, who says that Martha the Beautiful-Golden Breast is the most beautiful. Ivan spies on her walk in the garden, jumps over the wall on horseback and carries her away. Koschey the Immortal catches up with them, cuts Ivan, takes Marfa. The raven kills the bull and hides under its skin, crows fly in and it catches the crow, does not let go until its crow brings alive and dead water. It revives Voronenka and Ivan Tsarevich. They come to Marfa the Beautiful, who lives in a stone house in the swamp. She turns the Raven into a fly, she hides Ivan in a chest. When Koschey appears and senses the Russian spirit, she says that a well-fed bird flew from Russia, dropped its scythe (bone) into the pipe, which is why it smells from the oven. Marfa feeds, gives water to Koshchei, asks where his death is, he deceives her twice ("Stupid woman! Who will throw death in a holic/box?"). He admits that death in an egg-bunk-cellar on the island of Buyan. She asks Koshchei to bring her a Russian cook, Ivan gets out of the chest and goes with Oron for Koshchei's death. When we were swimming across the sea, Ivan wanted to shoot the pike, but Oron felt sorry for it. He also stops Ivan on the island when he wants to kill a gyrfalcon. Oron pulls out the oaks above the cellar, Ivan opens the box, catches the hare, an egg falls into the sea, and a pike carries it out. Ivan breaks the egg, Koschey dies, Marfa says his house needs to be burned; while the house burns, a gnat comes out of it. Ivan's native kingdom is captured by Baba Yaga, turns into a queen, and Ivan's parents gouge out their eyes and puts them in prison. It forbids residents to tell Ivan the truth, whoever says will turn into stone. Approaching his kingdom, Ivan spends 3 nights in a tent. Every night, pigeon girls, the wives of Fedor and Egor, arrive and say that Baba Yaga wants to destroy him with her gifts. Oron hears this and asks Ivan to give him his gifts in gratitude for his help. The queen offers Ivan a cup of wine, he gives it to a friend, who pours it out, the wine eats away at the floorboard. The mother gives a black horse, Oron beats him to death (this is a snake), she is offended that her son gives gifts to his servant. Gives him a golden carriage, Oron cuts it. Queen and Ivan want to execute Oron, who tells the truth about Ivan's parents and he turns into stone. He tears Baba Yaga, frees parents, brothers and their wives, smears his eye sockets with live water, and they see the light. Ivan misses his friend, puts a stone at the head of the bed. At night, he dreams that his son's blood can bring Oron back to life. She kills her son, collects blood and cries. Oron revives, he smears Ivan's son with live water and he also comes to life]: Karnaukhova 1934, No. 141:280-287; Russians [promise nannies to the little prince Vasilisa Kirbityevna (V.) as his wife; he grows up, goes for his wife; the debtor is beaten on the square, whoever buys it, the Immortal (K.) will take his wife from him; Ivan Tsarevich (I.) buys him, this is Bulat well done (B.); B. brings V. for I., returns twice, smashing the chase; at night, K. kidnaps V.; I. throws his ring into the milk with which V. washes, asks him to know where K.'s death is; he first replies that he is in a broom, in a goat (V. decorates them); on the island oak, a chest under the oak tree, a hare in it, a duck in a hare, an egg in a duck, there is the death of K.; I. spares the dog, eagle, cancer, they grab a hare, duck, egg, K. dies; B. hears the conversation of 12 cabbage rolls that have turned into girls; dog, horse, cow I. will attack him, kill him; whoever tells him will petrify; B. kills animals, I. orders him to be executed, he says he is stony; two years later, a voice made of stone asks I. to slaughter his son and a daughter; their blood makes B. come to life, children also come to life]: Afanasiev 1958, No. 158:369-375; (cf. Russians (Voronezhskaya, 1969, p. Krasovka, Gribanovsky District) [Vanyushka remains an orphan. He goes to "look for happiness", sees how people lead the foal to kill, asks him to give it to him. The horse and Ivan grow up a lot, Vanya is hired to work with the horse for the king. The queen does not love her stepson and stepdaughter, she wants to destroy them, Baba Yaga advises to give them special belts when they leave the bathhouse. The horse finds out about this, tells Vanya, tells them to put these belts on dogs, dogs die. Baba Yaga gives the queen a jar of jam for children, Vanya throws her away on the advice of the horse and the place where the jar falls falls falls falls ("dragged into the ground"). Baba Yaga understands that it is necessary to destroy the horse, the queen pretends to be sick and only the heart of a Vanyushkin horse can heal her. The king demands a horse, Vanya does not immediately agree to give it back, but asks for permission to ride it for the last time. The horse flies across the seas and mountains, enters another kingdom, where Vanya marries and lives happily]: Kretov 1977, No. 30:51-53); Ukrainians (Pokutye) [mother died, pan took another; son sees a portrait mother and goes to look for a bride who would be just as beautiful; he did not find it; Mr. has a well with good water; everyone who comes for her is shown a portrait; one person says he knows one beautiful; goes with a young man; does not sleep at night, hears three doves talking; the king has a golden daughter; whoever looks her in the eye will become petrified; you have to go to her on a straight road, and she must not drink wine; the companion teaches the young man looked only at that girl's feet; and only after tasting, but not much, the food offered; the young man did everything and said that in front of the girl's throne, the stones were loser grooms; in the second once you can look to the waist; the third time you can drink wine and look into the face; the girl is happy, the wedding; the young man with his wife and companion go home; the healer teaches his stepmother to serve young poisoned wine, and the stepson - a mad horse; the companion ordered not to drink wine, not to sit on a horse; the companion protects the peace of the newlyweds; killed a snake that crawled out of the crack, blood splashed on the lady's face, he erased the blood; the watchmen peeked, said stepmother that stepson's companion kissed the lady; the healer gave the stepmother poison: the drunk will become a stone wall; the voice from the wall: tomorrow's christening; we must take the baby out of the stroller and put it under the wall; the child he cried, the father wiped his tear and wiped his finger against the wall; the companion came to life, a whole and healthy baby in his arms]: Zinchuk 2005b, No. 48:319-325; Belarusians (d. Demyanki, howling. Ox. Gom. y., kr. Stepan Grigoriev) [The merchant dies, the pregnant wife will soon give birth to seven children. Children grow up and go to plow "in one plough". The king passes by and sees that seven are plowing on one horse. Sends the gendarme to find out which one is the oldest. The gendarme asks who is older, and all seven unanimously shout "I'm the oldest!" The gendarme reports to the king. The king asks me to know their names. The gendarme asks. Everyone says, "I'm Simeon!" The gendarme reports. The Tsar orders Simeons to be taken to the palace. At the palace, the king asks what the brothers will do. The first says what the ship will do, the second says that it will lead this ship anywhere. The third is a blacksmith, and the fourth is that his brother blacksmith heats his gun, and he will kill everything he sees with it. The fifth says that the fourth will hit the birds, and he will pick them up and carry them. The sixth is that brother blacksmith will cut the pole "to the clouds", and he will sit on that pole and watch what is being done "in other kingdoms." The seventh is asked, and he says he will be the first thief. They judge him and tell him to hang him. But the queen feels sorry for her seventh brother and tells him not to destroy him in vain. They left everyone behind, everyone does their own thing. The sixth brother on the pole sees the beautiful Nastasya in the ninth kingdom and notes her for the single king. The king calls on the seventh Simeon, the thief, and orders him to take Nastasya to the palace. Simeon agrees and asks the two brothers to help them - what the ship will do and what will sail on it. The three of them go on a journey. The thief takes a Navy SEAL with him. The cat is trained to do what they tell you to do - sing, dance, tell stories. They approach the shore of the ninth kingdom. The first brother makes ships on the shore ("knock and blunder, so ship"), forced the entire pier with ships. The second Simeon drives them in different directions. The girl Nastasya is walking around the garden, marveling at who runs so many ships. The cat walks on the deck, sings songs and dances. The princess admired the cat, asks who its owner is and wants to buy the beast. A thief brother is announced, saying that he will give a cat without money if they are allowed to sell their goods in the ninth kingdom. The princess wanted to look at the goods and boarded the ship. As soon as she set foot, the thief tells his brother to give her sleepy drops and drive the ship from the shore as soon as possible, and he put the princess to sleep on his lap. They arrive at the court, the brother on the pole gives a sign to the king. They approach the thief - the princess sleeps, then wakes up. As soon as he saw her, the king was delighted and soon married. And the king had a stepmother, a great sorceress. The king ordered the thief to become governor for his good deed. Once the beautiful princess Nastasya asks the Tsar to visit her in the ninth kingdom. The king listened to her, took Ivan the footman with him and set off by ship. We stayed with my father-in-law, and two boys were born there. And they wanted to go back to their kingdom and sent their ships back. The king tells Ivan Lakey to come to drink tea with them in the evening. Ivan comes and drinks. The king tells him to go to bed with them. Ivan refuses, goes to bed on deck, listen to "new things from the world, ali chudovin". An angel comes to him from heaven. He sits on his face and says: "Well, the king got married, but not for long! When you arrive at the court, the damned stepmother will take out three glasses of wine, whoever drinks will die! And whoever smells and says will become a stone knee-deep." And he pretended to be sleeping and heard it all himself. The next night everything repeats itself, angel: "Well, the king got married, but not for long! When you arrive at the court, the damned stepmother will carry three pieces of roast, whoever eats will die! And whoever smells and says will become a stone to the waist." On the third night, it's the same: "Well, the king got married, but not for long! When you arrive at the court, the cursed stepmother will bring the stallion out. It's not a stallion, it's Satan. Everyone will be dead as soon as he snorts! And who knows, he'll say he'll be a rock up to his throat." Same on the fourth night. Angel: "Well, the king got married, but not for long! When you arrive at the court, the damned stepmother will take their room to bed. When they lie down, Satan will come out with twelve heads and devour them. And whoever knows and says so will become the whole stone!" They arrive at the yard in the morning. Their stepmother meets them and brings out three cups of wine. Ivan footman jumped up, grabbed a dish of wine, slipped and fell - everything crashed. The stepmother was angry: "Son, you're not holding a footman, but some fool!" She can tolerate roast food. Ivan jumped up again, snatched the dish, stumbled, the dish fell and crashed. The stepmother calls their stallion to watch, and Ivan loads his gun with gold bullets. Satan seemed to think that Ivan shot him with three bullets and he died. The stepmother is again for her: "My children, I will give you a room." And Ivan the footman hurries to sharpen his sword by midnight. Only midnight has come, Satan comes out with twelve heads. Ivan is fighting Satan. He cut off six heads. He pleaded for mercy. Ivan did not let him in and cut off all his heads. The king woke up, followed by the queen, and they saw Ivan with a sword. They say: "Everyone forgave you, Ivan, but we won't forgive that! You wanted to slaughter us!" "No," Ivan replies, "I'll die and tell you. And keep your damn stepmother for now, so she doesn't run away, put a gold ring in her lip!" Ivan began to tell him what the angel talked to him about at night, talks and stony. He was already up to his throat - the king and queen cried, but nothing could be done. Ivan told me about the last night and Satan about twelve heads, and he was all made of stone. And they cried near this stone all night, both the king and the king's men. They were sad that such a person had died. And they prayed for the Lord to make him alive again. The Lord came to them, turning to them as a man, and said: "Sovereign, he saved you from death. Slaughter both your sons and rub the stone with their blood, and Ivan will be alive again." The king of the Lord asks what he should do with the bodies of his sons afterwards. The Lord answers him: "Put them in coffins, and place the coffins next to the stone. And go to bed yourself, because morning is wiser than evening." He did so: he cut his sons and anointed a stone with their blood, and put their bodies side by side. The next morning the king wakes up, and Ivan is alive, and his living sons hold hands. The stepmother was tried and killed with an aspen stake]: Romanov 1901, No. 11:101−105; Belarusians (Mogilevskaya, Chaussky U., p. Radomlya, 1888-1891) [The Tsar asks God to have a son. The son appears, Ivan Ivanovich. It grows not by the hour, but by the minute. Parents promise to marry Elena the Beautiful. Ivan is seventeen years old and wants to get married. Parents do not allow: "I'm still young". Ivan gets angry and goes to another city where Elena lived. She comes and asks where she is. He is told that she is being guarded by a good fellow Pilach. The merchants want to take Elena away from him, for this purpose he is taken to the square and attacked. The next day, he should be given a hundred blows. And he'll ask for a hundred dollars for it. To whoever does this, he promises to give Elena. Ivan is advised not to give money right away. On the first day, he is taken to the square, given a hundred blows, but no one pledges money for him. The old woman warns Ivan that on the second day P. will be taken out, given 200 blows, and he will ask for 200 shots, but they should not be given. On the second day, P. is taken out, given 200 blows, and no one gives money for him. The hostess warns Ivan that on the third day, when P. asks for money, it should be given. On the third day, P. withdraws, Ivan offers money, and P. takes him to Elena the Beautiful. P. brings Ivan to Elena, Elena is not interested in Ivan. The three of them spend some time. After a while, Ivan wants to walk or take a ride. He asks P. to do this, and P., together with Ivan and Elena, are leaving the city. Ivan's father wants to take him away from P. and sends an army after them. P. knows that there will be a chase, but doesn't say anything about it in advance. P. deceives Ivan and Elena, saying that he is a good coachman, but he does not have a coachman's hat and he should go after her. He leaves Ivan and Elena and goes to meet with the army. The army asks him if he has seen Ivan, P. and Elena. P. says it's him. The battle begins. P. kills everyone with a stick except one soldier, who is punished to return to the king and telling him that there should be no more chase. In response, the king sends twice as many troops in pursuit. P. feels that they are being chased again. He deceives Ivan and Elena for the second time, saying that he is a good coachman, but he does not have a coachman's belt. P. leaves Ivan and Elena and meets the army again. The army asks him if he has seen Ivan, P. and Elena. P. says it's him. Kills everyone again with a wooden stick except two soldiers. He punishes them to tell the king to stop chasing. For the third time, P. feels chased, saying that this time he lacks long-booted boots. He goes to meet the army. The army asks him if he has seen Ivan, P. and Elena. P. says it's him. Kills everyone but three. P. returns to Elena and Ivan, but they are not there. The horses carried them to Koshchei the Immortal. The KB takes Elena to her rooms, puts Ivan in special rooms and orders her not to feed her, and leaves himself. P. comes to the design bureau's house. He asks Elena where Ivan is. She tells her to steal food for him and feed him, and ask him where Koshcheev's death is. P. leaves. KB is returned. Elena weeps and asks her to tell her what his death means. Koschey says he's in a broom and leaves home. P. comes, asks Elena, says that the KB is lying, and tells her to decorate the broom with ribbons and put it by the closet. P. leaves, KB returns. He sees a broom, orders it to be burned. Elena asks for the second time what his death was. The KB says he's in a goat and leaves. P. comes and asks Elena. She tells her to decorate the goat with ribbons and flowers, and gild the horns. Elena does as he says. KB comes back, gets angry, tells me to give the goat to the dogs. Elena asks for the third time what his death was. Koschey tells us where his death is: three years to go to that place, there is an oak on the sea, a hollow in the oak, a chest in the hollow, a duck in the chest, an egg in the duck, the death of KB in the egg. KB leaves, P. comes, finds out everything. He asks Ivan for money for three years, and Ivan gives it. After two and a half years, P. was hungry. I met a cat, wanted to eat it, but the cat asks not to kill it, promises help. Then he meets the wolf, wants to eat, but the wolf asks not to kill and promises to help. Then he meets the dog, wants to eat, but the dog asks not to kill and promises to help. P. reaches the sea, sees the island, doesn't know how to get there. There is a wolf, the wolf takes him to the island. A cat appears and pulls the chest out of the hollow. P. sits on a wolf and returns to the seashore. P. breaks the chest, a duck jumps out of it. The dog helps to catch a duck. P. tears a duck, an egg falls out and falls into the sea. P. thinks what to do. He pulls out his hair, makes a fishing rod, throws it into the sea, catches goldfish. The fish asks not to kill and promises help. The fish goes looking for an egg. He asks fish, asks crayfish. The fish finds the egg and gives it to Pilach. P. returns with him to Koshchei's house, throws an egg on the stove, KB wants to grab it but cannot, the egg burns/roasts, the KB dies. P., together with Elena and Ivan, go to Ivan's kingdom. Ivan and Elena feel sleepy on the way and fall asleep. P. lies under the carriage. Three pigeons arrive and discuss that Ivan's father is happy to return, and Ivan's mother wants to poison him and Elena the Beautiful. She will make tea, and she will not be able to drink it, she will have to pour it on the floor, where this tea will be spilled, and it will catch fire. And whoever hears and says will become a knee-length stone. Only P heard it.. Ivan and Elena wake up and move on. Elena and Ivan want to sleep again, fall asleep, and P. lies under the carriage. Three pigeons arrive again, saying that Ivan's father is waiting for him, and his mother wants to poison him. She will cook the roast, you can't eat it, you need to scatter it on the floor. Wherever this roast hits the floor, the floor will burn. And whoever hears and says will become a stone to the waist. Only P heard it.. Ivan and Elena wake up and move on. Elena and Ivan want to sleep again, fall asleep, and P. lies under the carriage. Three pigeons arrive for the third time, saying that Ivan's father is happy to return, but his mother is not. She wants to put knives and sabers in bed and cover them with beautiful pillows. You can't go to such a bed, you have to lie down on the floor. She'll see them lying on the floor and she'll climb through the window to strangle them. When she climbs through the window, she should cut off her fingers. And whoever hears and says will be all stone. P. tells Ivan and Elena everything on the way. Ivan and Elena come to visit their father. The father is happy, and their mother sings tea, but they pour this tea on the floor, the floor lights up. Mother brings roast food, they don't eat, they scatter it on the floor. Their mother makes a bed for them, but Ivan and Elena do not lie down in it, but lie down on the floor and see their mother climbing through the window. Ivan cuts off her fingers, she falls down and shouts: my father's son stabbed me. In the morning, the public gathered and wanted to execute him - shoot him. Ivan says that one person told him everything, so he did so. People ask Ivan who this person is. Ivan calls P.. P. is asked how he found out. P. talks about pigeons: pigeons arrived for the first time, they said: Ivan's mother would make tea, and it would be impossible to drink it, it would be necessary to pour it on the floor where such tea would spill, and it would catch fire there. And whoever hears and says will become a knee-length stone. And P. becomes knee-deep stone. P. says further: pigeons arrived for the second time, they said that Ivan's mother would cook the roast, you can't eat it, you need to scatter it on the floor. Wherever this roast hits the floor, the floor will burn. And whoever hears and says will become a stone to the waist. And P. became waist-deep stone. P. talks about the third time pigeons arrived and said that Ivan's mother wanted to put knives and sabers in bed and cover them with beautiful pillows. You can't go to such a bed, you have to lie down on the floor. She'll see them lying on the floor and she'll climb through the window to strangle them, and then she has to cut off her fingers. And whoever says it will be all stone. P. becomes all stone. Ivan is acquitted, he marries Elena the Beautiful. They are having a son. Ivan has a dream. In a dream, P. tells him that in order to resurrect him, you need to cut the baby's little finger and anoint the stone crosswise with blood. Ivan goes to Elena, says Elena agrees, they cut their finger, collect a drop of blood and smear the stone crosswise. The stone falls apart, P comes out of it.. He still lives with Ivan and Elena]: Romanov 1901:1-7.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians: Bgazhba 2002 [{another text on the same story}]: 128-131; Inal-IPA 1977 [the son of a sledge's sister (brother) was brought up with a dog's human son; on a hike they entered a deserted house; the nephew of the sledges fell asleep, and his friend was awake; the angels who arrived predetermined the fate of the sleeper: he would burn on his way to his beloved, drown, the dragon would devour him on his wedding night; into stone will turn into someone who, hearing this, gives it to another; the dog's son saves a friend from death twice; hiding in the newlyweds house, kills the dragon; the nephew of the sledges, not understanding what is going on, grabs him; he says, he is stony; the nephew of the sledges kills his son, cooks in milk, pours it on a stone; both a friend and a boy come to life]: 33; Shakryl 1975, No. 26 [the prince has three sons; the eldest dreams of a beautiful woman, asks allow his father to go after her; the prince gives him a man named Swarthy Hajjaja as his companion; they come to the Adaoua Palace, the CX kills him, hides the corpse, puts the severed ear in his pocket; princely son gets a girl, on the way back they spend the night again in the Adaua Palace; CX hears three angels talking; they say that 1) tomorrow at the crossing, the wind will tear off the prince's wife's hat, he will rush after her, drown; 3) if not, he will fall off his horse in a clearing, crash to death; 3) if he reaches home and shoots in joy, the devils will turn the bullet back at him; whoever hears and tells will petrify; CX persuades the prince does not rush for his hat, do not race, do not shoot; at a feast, the prince offends him with a word; CX tells him everything, shows Adaua's ear, becomes stony; the prince goes into the forest; in a dream a man tells him to cook his son, throw the cauldron on a stone; the prince throws the child into boiling water, pours the contents of the boiler onto the stone; in the morning both the child and the CX are alive; the prince adopts the CX]: 132-139; Balkarians [no one knows why the prince is losing weight; the old woman promises to find out; brought fat and thin sheep into the sleeping prince's room; when he wakes up and sees sheep, the prince speaks to himself; a skinny ram is like himself, love for an unknown beauty exhausts him; the king let his son look for a beautiful woman, a slave with him; at night he hears a conversation between two spirits, mother and daughter; mother: to get a beautiful woman, you have to turn to such to an old woman; a slave brought the prince to the old woman; she explains that the maiden and the dragon who guards her sleep for 7 days; you must tie the sleeper to the bed and take it away; untie it after the girl swears with his black horse; the horse must also be picked up; the dragon did not catch up with the fugitives, only tore off the black horse's tail; the slave hears the spirits talking again; the prince marries, a son will be born; a snake will come out of the pole in the bedroom , will swallow everyone; the snake can be killed; whoever talks about it will petrify; the slave cut the dragon, took out the pieces; the prince woke up, began to demand explanations; the slave spoke and petrified; the wife demanded that The prince learned from those spirits how to help, otherwise he would leave him; mother spirit: you must spray the stone with her son's blood; the prince's wife stabbed her son, the slave came to life; they found a living baby in the cradle of the couple; everything is fine]: Tulchinsky 1903:76-80; Ossetians [the girl rejects her son Aldar, offers to marry God's Beloved Beautiful Doe; this is the daughter of Donbettyr; a young man with a tutor go in search; smoke is under the ground, they call the woman "mother", so she did not kill them; sends them to her middle sister, who is to her older sister; the eldest: the LBPC will fly over the sea, we must grab her right wing; the teacher hears how three angels lament that a mountain man is taking away the LBPK; first: when meeting with relatives, a gun will accidentally shoot, kill a young man; second: a snake will swallow in the bedroom; third: stubble will appear in the young man's hair and will strangle him and his wife; whoever tells will be petrified; the teacher took the boy's gun; killed the snake before the young entered the bedroom; the stubble became an iron ring, the teacher cut it with a diamond knife; the young man found out that the teacher was in his bedroom, he had to tell him everything, he was petrified; his wife orders to whip the petrified man three times, he came to life; everything is fine]: Sokayeva 2012, No. 7:74-78; Ingush: Malsagov 1983, No. 36 [brother got married, called spinners, spinners and sister asked him to tell a fairy tale, he refused, went to bed; his sister looked to him and saw three spirits condemning him him for refusing to tell a fairy tale; the first will send him to his aunt tomorrow for a fur coat, become a hound, bite him, he will die; the second will become a snake, crawl into the left sleeve of his fur coat, bite him when a person tries to wear it; third: whoever heard and told will petrify; the sister went with her brother, killed the hound with scissors; cut off the fur coat's left sleeve; the brother tells me to explain, the sister told me, petrified; the brother lay down by the stone; in a dream I heard: kill my son, fill his blood with a stone, his sister will come to life; the wife held the child herself, the husband slaughtered, the sister came to life; when they returned home, they were met by a revived child]: 159-160; Tankieva 2003 [son from the womb his mother asks her when he will be born; she postpones childbirth, he tore her stomach, got out; at the age of 16 he demands him to marry; the neighboring prince is afraid of a young man; at his request, the healer offered the boy's mother to get it a bride living just around the corner in a golden tower; only the four-hearted black Nege {Nogai} is suitable for companions; the young man sleeps, N. hears the conversation of doves: these people have planned an impossible task for them; 7 brothers of the girl they were well received; told the young man not to open one door; he opened, behind her, a walker on chains who tried to steal the girl; the young man released him; he chained him and took the girl away; X. sleeps seven days, 7 awake; N. comes, tells the girl to find out where H.'s soul is; on Mount Sarmak, his hare is in his head, there is a box in the hare's head, there are three chicks in it; but Sarmak can only be killed with a sword moistened with H. urine; N. moistened H.'s sword with his urine, killed Sarmak, brought chicks, H. died, the brothers passed his sister off as a young man; on the way back, N. hears pigeons talking again; H. has three brothers, one will become an apple tree, the other a spring; the third you can kill only with the same sword that killed H.; N. does not let him drink, cuts an apple tree; the young man tells him to petrify, the girl refuses to live if N. does not live; the healer tells the young man to sprinkle blood on the statue his son; a young man stabbed him, N. and the boy came to life]: 284-288; Chechens [Movsur dreams that beautiful Zhovar promises to marry him; with his friend Magomed goes in search; they spend the night in the empty at home, Mansur hears someone talking, J. lives overseas, you have to throw an oak branch into the sea, you will get a bridge who tells the secret will become a block of ice; an old woman helps Movsur meet J.; he twice falls asleep when J. comes, takes her away for the third time, Magomed makes a bridge again; in the same house he hears that after the wedding, the young will be strangled by snakes; a snake breaks in, kills; Movsur orders to explain, Magomed is all it says it becomes ice, and when Movsur wants to stab himself, he comes to life]: Kibiev, Malsagov 1981:137-145; Avars [son refuses to lie down with Halun, his chosen father, promises to marry Queen Gunzari, whose portrait his father showed; beauties in bird clothes fly to swim in the lake, the young man sits on G.'s clothes; she promises to marry him, but must first fly home; when the young man comes to the appointed place, H. tells the servant to stick a needle into his clothes, the young man falls asleep, G. flies away, telling the servant that his master cut the stake and bolt; this is the servant and H., the young man kills the servant, drives away H.; goes with the vizier to look for G.; they stay in the house; the young man sleeps, the vizier hears the conversation between the old owner and the girl; by the seashore under a brushwood stone, you have to hit her on the water, the sea will part, get to G.'s palace; whoever gives the story to another will become petrified; on the way back, the young man will die from a stallion and a snake; the vizier kills a stallion, a snake, licks a blood stain from G.'s cheek; the young man thinks that The vizier kisses her, promising to execute the vizier, makes her tell the truth, the vizier becomes stony; G. gives birth to a son, kills him, smears him with the blood of a petrified vizier, both come to life]: Saidov, Dalgat 1965:198-207; Kumyks : Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 35 [the merchant finds a golden shoe, hides it in a chest, his son finds it and wants to marry the owner; Bavt's friend accompanies him; the young man falls asleep twice in the girl's garden, on the third night puts salt on the wound, does not sleep, takes the girl away; B. hears Satan saying that on her wedding night the girl will be eaten by a snake, and whoever tells will petrify; B. hides in the bedroom, killed a snake, the young man sees a sword, thinks that B. wants to kill him; B. explains everything, has become a stone; the young man goes to look for a cure, hears Satan's words: we must slaughter his two-year-old son, smear the stone with his blood; the young man only touched his son's neck with a knife, a drop of blood fell on a stone, B. came to life, his son survived]: 332-337; Khalilov 1965, No. 66 [Khan's son is losing weight; to find out the reason, a neighbor slaughters a thin ram for him, hides; the young man wonders aloud why did the ram become thin, because there are plenty of herbs; he himself became thin because of love for Bermes, the daughter of Almas Khan; the khan lets his son look for B., the khan's stepson accompanies him; they spend the night in the house, the stepson does not sleep, hears devils talk; after capturing B., we must throw nuts to the ants; on the way, the stepson collects nuts, throws them on ant piles; when they bring B., the brothers spend the night in the same house; hell says that when they return, they must destroy the Kunatskaya room, protect B. from Azhdah, who is in love with her, who will arrive on her wedding night; if someone overhears and passes the words of the devil to another, he will turn into stone; stepson hides in Tickets that when they return, they must destroy the Kunatskaya room, protect B. Nshchikhudal the ram, for the herbs are abundant in peace, Azhdakh kills; the khan's son thinks that he was going to kill him, the stepson has to tell everything, he turns into stone, the khan's son grieves]: 178-180; taty [the khan's own son is losing weight; the old woman shows him the carcass of a thin ram; the young man says out loud that he does not understand why the ram he was exhausted, and he himself is losing weight because of his love for Bermes, the daughter of Almas Khan; the khan allows his son to go in search of B., the khan's adopted son accompanies him; hears the devils talking: if you pick nuts and throw them ants will get B., and whoever overhears and passes the words will petrify; collects and throws nuts on the way; B. listens to the young man playing on the cumuz; agrees to go with him; again the devils talk: we must destroy Kunatskaya's room and protect B. from Azhdakh, whoever overhears will become petrified; at night, the khan's adopted son runs into the newlyweds room, cuts off Azhdakh's head; the khan's son thinks he wanted to kill him; the foster I have to explain, he is stony]: Khalilov, Osmanov 1989:154-156; Georgians: Bogoyavlensky 1894a, No. 7 (Imereti) [angels tell the girl that her three brothers will soon die: the eldest is hunting, the average is fishing, the youngest on the wedding day - a snake will crawl out of the new shoes; if the sister tells, he will turn into a pillar of salt; the eldest was killed while hunting by a deer, the middle one drowned in the river; before the wedding, the sister throws his brother's shoes into the fire, a monster screams; his brother's wife considers his sister a sorceress, his sister says he is stony; the brother goes to find a way to revive her; on the way he sees a thin bull grazing on the juicy grass; a woman with bread in her hands but screaming in hunger; another woman sweeps rubbish and the wind brings it back into the house; a deer with one horn in the clouds and the other in the ground; he commands him horns to climb into heaven; a young man comes to an old woman; she promises to ask the angels about the fate of the young man's sister and those he met along the way; the bull did not work well, let him drink from the spring; the woman did not let to the poor, let him give all his bread; the other did evil, we must take the garbage out the back door; the deer killed his older brother and other people, let him put his upper horn behind his back, then pull out the lower one; young man sprinkled his sister with water, which the angels used to wash her feet, she came to life]: 56-65; Chikovani 1986:51-57 [the widow took her little son to a deer, asked him to feed him with milk; the prince saw the boy in the forest, asked him to catch him he was caught with a chain, but he easily tore it; the same with the second chain, the third, the strongest, he was caught; the boy was named Irmis, he became a friend of the prince, but refused to kill the animals; the prince and I. got lost, come to an apple tree on the seashore; three devas come out of the sea one by one, I. defeats them, they invite them to feast; I. warns not to drink wine; when the devas fall asleep, I. and the prince leave; I. He nails the door of the house where the other 7 devas live with an arrow; they warn of a hundredhead; I. defeats him, makes him give up the princess and his strength; Devkazhiani takes the girl; I. kills him, returns him girl; sleeping under a plane tree, I. hears evil kaji telling 1) the prince to stumble and crash to death near his house; 2) the girl broke her leg when she wears gold shoes; 3) at night on Gveleshapi flew into the palace, swallowed everyone; whoever heard and told must petrify; I. did not let the prince fall, snatched out the girl's gold shoes, trampled them into the ground, killed Gveleshapi at night; the prince was offended, that I. does not explain to him what was going on; he explained, petrified; the girl cried, from her tears I. is alive; he sends four mares, tells him to guess which of them is the mother, the eldest, middle, youngest daughter; S. ut] 196-208 [similar story to the Deer Brother]; the Megrelians [were attacked by the Turks, one daughter-in-law left the baby in the forest, ran away; the king's son, who liked to hunt, saw Ndemi playing on his chest a boy his age; asked the king for an army; ordered him to cover the clearing with straw and burn it; Ndemi ran away, the boy stayed; he was taught to live like a human being; he was smart and strong; the king forbade his son to enter the same room. Ndemi's pupil broke down the door, there was a portrait of the beautiful daughter of a black ndemi; the king had to let his son go, Demi's pupil went with him; black ndemi gave his daughter, but warned that the white ndemi was from the lower world may kidnap her; the prince sent the Ndemi pupil to inform his father about the wedding; at this time, the white ndemi took the bride; the Ndemi pupil ordered him to be lowered through the hole into the lower world; swineherd said that the white ndemi was having a wedding feast; disguised as a beggar, Ndemi's pupil approached the bride; advised him to find out what the soul of black ndemi was; he first said that in the dog, his wife began to caress a dog; then: in a deer in the forest; a pupil of Ndemi shot a deer, a hare jumped out of it, a box in the hare, containing two flies; the pupil of Ndemi blinded them; he came to the black ndemi, tortured the flies, he died; Ndemi's pupil sent the princess and gold to the ground in a basket; when the servants picked him up, they cut the rope; he clung to the stones, climbed to the ground; he and the young went to the prince's kingdom; At night, Ndemi's pupil does not sleep; three angels in the tree: the young's father will give him a gun, it will shoot him; he will give him a young dress, it will burn it; whoever reveals the secret will petrify; Ndemi's pupil ordered to give it a gun and a dress to the servant and maid - both died; the young had a son; the pupil Ndemi exposed his sword and looked; the boy shouted that he wanted to kill him; he told everything and petrified; the old woman: weld a hundred ears of Ndemi and a son, pour it on a stone; the Ndemi pupil came to life, and the king's son also recovered]: Petrov 1890, No. 2:279-291; Armenians (Mox) [the son of the Eastern Tsar goes to marry the daughter of the Western King; They buy the man who is beaten, he becomes the prince's servant; while he sleeps, hears the old man talking to his sons, he explains how to get the girl; whoever says the words will turn to stone; The prince and the servant get the girl, return; the servant hears the old man talking again; the king wants to take the girl for himself, pour poison around the saddle; a bird will rush at the young man in the room; at night he will be swallowed by a vishap; the servant kills a horse, a bird, a vishapa; a piece of meat fell on the face of the prince's wife; when the servant took it off, the prince woke up, thought he wanted his wife; the servant had to tell everything, he turns into stone; the wife rejects the prince until he revives the servant; he stops under the plane tree, hears the old man talking; we must pick up herbs, pour the broth on the petrified; the servant comes to life, he was given seven cities]: Orbeli 1982, No. 51:90-95; Azerbaijanis: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935 [childless king Mamed-Hasan hears orders in a dream to cut an apple floating in the pool in half, eat half with his wife, and the other give to the shepherd; the king was born Melik-Mamed, to the shepherd Melik-Ahmed; the king keeps them locked; one day the cook left a bone in the dish, the boys began to play with it, broke the window, saw the sun; asked the king allow them to go hunting; chased a gazelle, ended up in a castle; there the young man gave MM a portrait of a girl, MM fell in love; king: this is Gully Gah-Gah, sister of seven diva brothers; MM and MA come to see her; she says that her brothers tell the grooms to float the board down the river to prevent it from touching the water; fill a cauldron with water in which the 7 blacksmiths sitting in the corners do not hear each other's hammers hit; teaches that say that the work should be done by itself; the divas gave sister MM; she asks not to unlock the 40th room in which the diva, but MM unlocks, the divas took the wife MM; MA met two companions, they lowered him into the diva pit, he killed him, they picked up the girl, left MA in the pit; the girl had time to tell him to play the flutes: a dwarf would come, want to listen, and for it he would take him out of the pit; at this time Ahmedi-Kemkorek (one of the two companions) wants to marry a girl; she tells her to deliver the jewelry she was carrying; MA hired a jeweler, sent a dwarf to bring jewelry; MA killed AK, took AK's girlfriend and sister; the girl warns: the king will send a horse to kill MM, a falcon to peck out his eyes; in the form of a snake he will crawl into marriage; they must be killed; MM needs an explanation, MA said, petrified; MM's wife gave birth to: swallow: if the wife kills son, MA will come to life; she killed; the second swallow gave a feather, the child came to life; three apples fell from the sky: one is mine, the other is yours, the third to the one who told it]: 155-167; Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 1 (Chayly, Kazakh district, western Azerbaijan near the Armenian border) [the dervish gave the king two apples for the queen and wife of the vizier, both gave birth to a son; in the room where his father did not want him to let him in, Tsarevich Kush saw a portrait beauties; went in search, Vizier's son Agil went with him; he bribed the old woman, she helped K. enter the princess's garden, but he fell asleep; then A. spent A. under the guise of a girl; K. and the princess are running away, A. catches up with them; while K. is sleeping, A., and then the awakened princess, smash the army of pursuers; A. hears the conversation of three doves; if K. and the princess catch a golden horse, then a golden dog, they will petrify; in marriage they will be devoured by a boa constrictor; whoever hears and gives them will petrify; A. killed a horse, a dog, K. is dissatisfied; A. killed a snake, but K. did not believe his explanations; he told everything, became petrified; the princess told K. to go where they were doves; one of them: if K. kills his son and stains the stone with blood, A. will come to life; the princess ordered to kill her son, A. came to life, followed by the child; everyone is happy]: 26-34; Turks [prince and friend come for the princess; she already has a fiance; the friend stays in women's clothes so that everyone thinks that the princess is there and the prince is running with her; then a friend and sister of the princess catch up with them; a friend learns of the dangers, but if he tells, he petrifies; a friend eliminates dangers, but is forced to talk about it, turns into stone; the prince has a son; the prince finds out that the friend will be revived by his son's blood; blood has been shed, both friend and son come to life { many options, one close to Azerbaijani}]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 214:254-258; Kurds: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 10 [brothers Mir and Meshtari go for their brides Sugardan and Nazlibadav; by the way back and forth spend the night at Peri's house; The world is sleeping and Meshtari listens to what they say; on the way there: everything will be fine; on the way back: the brothers' father is in love with N., will try to kill his son; 1) will offer artificial horses sitting on such a horse will burn; 2) send greyhound dogs when the World puts a rope around the dog's neck, burns; 3) sends Mira and N. wolf to the room, he will swallow Mira; dangers can be eliminated, but the one who discovered the secret will petrify; Mashtari killed horses, dogs, wolf; The world thinks he wants to take possession of his wife and kill him; Meshtari told and petrified; S. and N. drove Mir away: until Mashtari comes to life, not come back; The world stays at Peri's house, hears their conversation; if Mir marries the ugly daughter of an old witch woman, brings them both, and the daughter kills her mother near Mashtari, he will come to life; The world has come to her daughter the witch, but refused to marry her, she hit him with a stick, turned him into a donkey; a year later, the donkey nodded, he regained his human appearance, he fulfilled the requirement; the witch's daughter killed her mother with a potion, became beautiful, Meshtari came to life, and Mir now has two wives]: 129-134; Rudenko 1970, No. 58 [the padishah has a son Mokaddam (MD), the vizier has Mohammad (MM); MM studied, MD dropped out of study; MM fell in love with the daughter of a distant padishah , MD went with him to get it; MM pulled the splinter out of the leopard's paw, helped the ants cross the stream, they promise to help by hitting the hair; MM and MD stopped at the old woman; she tells me to work for the gardener , he will inform the padishah about the matchmakers; the padishah demands: 1) get a dog to defeat his dog (MM brought the leopard); 2) separate wheat from millet in the barn (ants separated); 3) eat the salt barn; MM did digging into the padishah's daughter, learned from her that I should say: "What a whole barn of salt, what a pinch"; MD gets married, they go back; MM went forward, hears three doves talking; 1) if MM and his wife come to tower, they will burn; 2) if they sit under a tree by the spring, they will turn into wolves; 3) MD's father poisoned the horse's stirrups, if MD puts his foot into the stirrup, it will burn; if MM reports all this, it will petrify; MM destroyed the tower, he stirred up a spring and cut down a tree, killed a horse; MD is angry, but then his father died of love for his wife, MD forgot about MM; MM hears the doves again: the dragon is coming to eat MD; MM killed the dragon at the entrance to the palace, with He entered the chambers with a bloody sword, MD thinks that MM wants to kill him and his wife; MM told everything, petrified; wife gave birth to a son; pigeons: if she stabbed her son at MM's feet, he will come to life, and if she does, he himself petrified; the wife stabbed, MM came to life; the dove threw a feather, MM ran it around the neck of her son, who also came to life; feast]: 210-218.

Iran - Central Asia. Uzbeks [elderly parents have a son Sahibjan; releases the caught fish with a net; the father is upset; S. goes on a journey; rejects two people he meets who offer themselves to fellow travelers, accepts Ahmadjan, who is a year younger than him (they are 15 and 16); they become brothers, agree to divide everything in half; they become famous as good workers; Padishah Karakhan orders to kill the dragon that should be eaten by his daughter, the other who eats the figs that give youth, hold the channel; S. and A. perform it, S. gets the daughter of the padishah; A. hears the conversation of three crows, one will turn into a horse, throw S., he will die; the other into a colorful bird (S. will take it, die), the third into a dragon, will come out of the hearth, swallow S. and his wife; whoever tells, will petrify; A. breaks the horse's back, tears off the bird's head, kills the dragon; bends down to wipe a drop of dragon blood off the face of S.'s wife, who thinks that A. wants his wife; A. tells everything, becomes stony; the old man revives him; brothers and woman they go home to S.; on the way, A. demands to divide the woman; out of fear, she regurgitates a clot of poisonous dragon saliva, now she is safe; A. says that he was that rescued fish, leaves; S. happy]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1): 532-542 (=Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:234-246); Uzbeks [Khan Kagar sees a girl by the river, she hides in the water; later his son Tursun sees her; on the advice of a fisherman, T. and his friend Gayrat swore that whoever refuses another would petrify; they descend a reed into the underwater world; there, instead of donkeys and horses, catfish and beluga, instead of cattle, flocks of fish, instead of evil dogs - pike; through an old woman, an underwater peri passes a fragment of crystal and coal to T. and G. explains what it means to invite him to come at night; T. arrogantly drives G., Tursuna is grabbed, and thrown into dungeon; G. changes clothes with peri, convinces the king that he was captured by mistake; T., G. and Peri flee to the ground to K.; he intends to kill his son in order to take possession of the peri; offers a bed, G. cuts it, there are snakes; pilaf, G. drops the tray, the dog eats, dies of poison; the dragon crawls to the peri, G. kills him, drops of blood fall on peri's cheek, G. licks them, T. accuses him of assassinating his fiancée, is going to execute both; G . refuses T., becomes stony; peri cries, G. comes to life, takes her away; T. becomes a dervish]: Rogov 1980:84-95; Uzbeks [Shah ordered to throw the net, but not pull the fish out; when everyone is gone, the son of the vizier Kasym pulled out: his head was golden and his body was silver; let go of the fish, put a millstone in the net; the Shah wants to execute him, the teacher begged K. to be expelled into the desert; his mother teaches him to choose someone who would reach out to the desert as his companion in small pieces of cake, and he will be left with large ones; K. rejected one man and the other took small pieces, his name is Kalandar, he is a released fish; a black diva kidnapped the Shah's daughter; the brothers came to the witch, killed her, freed the girl from the chest; she tells her to wait under the bridge for the yellow diva; they drove him waist-deep into the ground, cut off his head, took his beak, unlocked the palace, and the yellow cat's keys to 40 rooms; the girl killed her, they unlocked the rooms; in one there were chained women, the other was children, the third was old, the fourth was men; everyone was released; they met a green diva, killed; waiting under the bridge for a black diva; that knows about them; they have been fighting for 40 days, his captive threw millet under his feet, he fell, his brothers cut off his head, but the divas lived; found the key from a black cat, opened a gold chest, in it one in the other 40 boxes, in the last blue and black pigeons, they were strangled, the divas died; the Shah married his daughter to Kasym; at the night, the parrot sprayed the girl's face with poison: whoever tells will petrify; Kalandar began to wash the poison, Kasym decided that he wants his wife, he said he was petrified; the girl smeared the stone with blood from her little finger, Kalandar came to life, became that fish and went into the water]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (2): 65-71; Baluchi [the fakir gave the childless king two fig fruit, let him eat one, the other wife; a son was born; the king decided to raise a boy born on the same day with him; this is the son of a shepherd; they grew up, both went to live with a shepherd; the prince did not wanted to return; the old woman promised to settle the matter; called the shepherd's son to her, but said that she did not want to say anything - tomorrow she would tell a story; the prince believed her and decided that the shepherd's son was from him he hides something; so three times; then tells the prince that the shepherd's son wanted to make the prince's sister his concubine; the prince returned to his father and ordered him to kill the shepherd's son, bring him his eyes; but the king ordered the vizier to bring the kid's eyes; the prince regretted what had happened, the shepherd's son returned; the prince saw a beautiful woman; she gave signs with her hands, but he did not understand; the shepherd's son explained: she says where lives, from which caste, her name is Naina Bai; the prince and the NB met in the temple; the ruler of the city was also in love with the NB; the fortuneteller told him that she is now in the temple with a man; the temple was surrounded; the son of a shepherd got there in women's clothes, gave it to the NB, she went out, but the shepherd's son and prince remained in the temple; the ruler wants to execute the soothsayer, but he asks the NB to test: let him go over hot coals; the son of a shepherd disguised the prince as a fakir, ordered me to rush to the NB and hug her as if he were crazy; NB: no one touched me except my husband and this fakir; passed the test; the shepherd's son disguised the prince as a woman, left her father-in-law in the NB house; her husband returned, fell in love with an imaginary NB girlfriend; the prince killed him and fled; the shepherd's son told the NB father-in-law that his son had fled with that woman; his father-in-law told him to remain silent; The prince (now in men's clothes) and the shepherd's son came to pick up that woman; the father-in-law gave the NB instead of her and more money for silence; in a dream, the shepherd's son learns that the prince would be bitten by a snake; he would be poisoned by milk; will die from a snake bite on the first night after returning home; and whoever tells will petrify, but will be reborn if he is sprinkled with the blood of a newborn kid a year later; the shepherd's son kills a snake, breaks a jug with with milk, kills a snake in an alcove; a drop falls on the NB; the shepherd's son told and petrified; a year later he is revived]: Porozhnyakov 1989:49-58; (cf. Yazgulyam [two brothers went to bed under a tree; (one brother) hears a parrot saying: Whoever kills me and eats my meat will become king, and whoever reveals the secret will be petrified for 7 days; when my brother woke up, the parrot lies with his head severed; the brother could not find anyone to bury another brother, leave him under a tree; he was chosen king himself - the falcon of reign sat on his head; the deceased brother came to life seven days later, took up the taxi, came to the palace; met his brother, told him everything, the king made him a vizier, gave him a wife; during the goat he fell off his horse and was killed; the king left the kingdom, went on a journey and lost]: Edelman 1966, No. 5:194).

Baltoscandia. Finns, Estonians, Livons: Uther 2004 (2), No. 516:303-304; Karelians (but maybe Finns) [the old man carved a doll out of an alder chock; the old woman put it in the cradle for three years rocked; the chock became a boy, he immediately asked his mother for bread; became a handsome and strong man; the sun, month and dawn are gone, people live in darkness; the king has a potion; the one who drank three bottles will be able to free dawn, six - a month, nine - the sun; 9 only Alder Chock (PTS) could; those who drank 6 and 3 bottles went with him; woman: the evil man is to blame; he cursed the sun for being hot, a month - prevented him from stealing, dawn - woke up early; they were taken by 9-, 6- and three-headed snakes; half of the city cries, half laughs; the king must give the eldest daughter to the three-headed snake to eat; if he does not give it, the snake will eat half of the city; the hero, who drank three bottles, cut down two of the snake's heads; threw his shoe, his companions lowered the dogs, they tore off the third head; dawn has risen; half is crying again, half laughing; the middle daughter; a six-headed serpent from the sea; the sixth head was torn off by dogs; the month has risen; the third day is the same; the youngest daughter; PTS cut down 7 heads; the snake: look, the sun is rising; the snake turned around, PTS cut down another head; look, your house is on fire; the serpent did not look; your wife was disgraced; looked, PTS cut off her head; the last one was torn off by dogs when OCH threw his shoe; on the way back, OCH, turning into an ermine, eavesdropping conversation (with female snake wives?) Syuoyatar snake mothers; will starve, cover the tables; if they hit the cross with a sword, then there will be no hunger or tables; thirst (forest lake is the same); sleep (bed); whoever repeats my words will turn into blue cross; PTS destroyed tables, a lake and one bed; the companions have already rushed to the other two, S. ate them, took their horses and chained them; walking through the forest, PTS sees 9 blind girls and an eye on a stump; S. girls dazzled, leaving them one eye for everyone; he gave them back their eye, they taught them to get the horse back from S.; PTS cuts chains; S. gives all the girls eyes to see who is there; but they say no one; S. came by herself , grabbed the OCH; first ate the girls for deception; will let the PTS go if she gets Katrina from the beautiful Kii River; OCH sails in a boat, meets, takes five with him: Psar, Spoon Khrapun, Vaper, Eater, Aqudier; Kennel pacified the dogs; Spoon Khrapoon protected from the fire when they set fire to the barn where the visitors slept; The vaper froze the hot bath; the Eater ate cows and sheep; Wonos brought water in the sieve; PTS received K.; Through clothes, wine leather/The body glows under the skin/The bones under the body can be vised/In the middle, the heart beats; on the way back, the companions, one by one, remain where the PTS picked them up, and pick them up from parts of the boat; a narrow hollow remains; so that K. does not soak the hem, PTS raised it with his little finger; S.: if you even touched K. with a finger, let him break off; gnaw off his little finger; PTS: if you tormented blind sisters, let the sword cut you into 10 pieces; cut you; PTS burned parts of S.'s body, took the horse, silver and gold and K. as his wife; when they saw the PTS, the parents are younger; PTS ask where his comrades are; I had to tell, he became a blue cross; Katrina was married by the king, she gives birth to healthy sons and daughters; the storyteller was given a waxhorse, a turnip saddle and a pea whip at the wedding]: Concca 1991:134-154; oriental Sami [the old prince has three sons; he sends them to sleep in a new house and asks them to tell them what they dreamed of; the elder: the house is full of water, I drank it; father: why didn't it burst? the son burst; the same with the middle son (the house is full of bread, he ate it); the youngest saw a poisonous snake crawl towards him, but the old man whipped her and drove her away; the young man refused to tell a dream until he came true; the father got angry, sold his youngest son to Ivan Tsarevich; the young man did not tell him the dream either; they went to get the daughter of the Swedish king; she sets the condition: to break his father's gold ring and pole, both magpies; a young man disguised as I. came to the princess, threw his pole so high that he flew for a day, and when he fell, both the pole and the ring broke; the second task was to ride his father's horse to death; the same ( a young man in the guise of I. flew it and she crashed); the princess demands that her father's head be brought to her from across three seas from 40 ships; the young man sees the princess become a dove, followed by an eagle; she talked to her father, flew back, and the young man cut off her father's head and brought it; the princess is preparing the wedding; the young man asks I. to get permission to let him into the doorstep; after the wedding they go home; at night, the young man hears a bird: the young go to his father and stepmother, the stepmother sent a gift, whoever takes it will burst, and whoever tells will petrify; the gift is a hat, the young man persuaded him to give it to him; the same for the next night (the gift is bread); on the third day, a golden carriage with horses and a coachman, the young man again begged him to give it to him; at night, Baba Yaga climbs into the young's room, gnawing through the doors, the young man cut off her head; I. thinks that he wanted to kill him, take possession of the princess; the young man told everything and became petrified; it turned out that Baba Yaga was Father I.'s new wife; the statue was watered with living and dead water, the young man came to life]: Kert 1961, No. 38:142-151; Karelians [when leaving, the tsar leaves his wife the key, orders his son not to enter one of the rooms; he notices a keyhole, asks his mother to look in his head, quietly takes out the key, unlocks the door, in the room there is a portrait of a beauty with the caption "Beautiful Skaton"; the prince withers, he has to let go look for the COP; he goes to the widow, she tells him to buy the first thing she meets; three men carry his grandfather on a sleigh, he yells, and they beat him; the prince wanted to buy it, but his grandfather rushes at him with an ax; widow: if you don't buy a grandfather, you won't get the COP; the prince bought it, the grandfather became an assistant; sends gifts to the COP, arranges her wedding with prince; on the way back she hears birds talking; the prince's mother died, he took Syuoyatar, she will add poison to the prince's tea; who tells, will petrify; the same: S. will give the prince and his wife new shirts after the bath, they are poisoned; when they go to bed, S. will turn into a snake and kill them; the old man threw his glasses on the floor, threw his shirts into the oven; in the bedroom of the young, cut off the head of a snake with a sword; told how things happened as told, turned into stone; the prince inherited the throne; when his wife gave birth, killed the child and smeared the statue with blood; the old man came to life, brought living and dead water, revived the boy]: Onegin 2010, No. 33:310-315; Swedes [the prince fell in love with a beautiful woman when he saw her portrait; his faithful servant lured her to the ship and brought her to the prince; he hears birds talking, predicting that the prince and his wife would die because of a horse, food, etc., and whoever tells them about this will become petrified; the servant eliminates dangers, but is forced to explain his strange behavior to the prince and turns into stone; the young spouses agree to sacrifice their children, to revive the statue; a servant comes to life and children too; in Norway, the plot seems to be unknown]: Liungman 1961, No. 516:139; Latvians [Faithful Servant. The prince, seeing the portrait of the princess, falls in love with her. She and her loyal servant are going to look for her. After luring her to the ship, she goes home. At night, the servant overhears three crows talking about the dangers that threaten young people, they will be served poisoned wine, a shirt, a damn horse, the bride should not dance on the wedding night, etc.). The servant prevents all misfortunes, but the prince suspects him of malice and is going to execute the servant. The servant says everything, turns into stone. He is revived with the blood of a prince's child, then a child comes to life]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 516:296; Lithuanians [father gives his son to study a magician; in three years he must recognize his son among 1) bulls (one will step aside), pikes (splashes out on the edge of the tub), pigeons (sit on the stove); how to identify, the shepherd teaches, the father takes the son; asks to say what the raven is shouting about; "That the father will bow to his son"; offended father He pushes his son into the sea, he is swallowed by a fish, in her stomach there are two fishermen with a shuttle; they make a fire, fry fish meat, she dies, pops up, they go out; the prince goes to marry the queen, takes the student the wizard as companions; the king sets riddles, the unguessed person will be cut off; the young man wears the prince's dress, solves riddles (the king releases a goat with goats, the young man releases the wolf who tore them apart; the same - chicken and hawk; then tells the prince to release the nightingale and the lark himself {all this is not explained directly}); the prince gets a wife; the young man hears the conversation of two birds: 1) the stepmother princess will bring it to the young poisoned wine, 2) will send you to ride on immense horses, 3) snakes are hidden in the bedchamber; who tells, will petrify; the young man seems to inadvertently pour wine, kills horses, kills a snake; a drop of blood drips on the young woman, the young man wants to erase her, the princess shouts that he wanted to kill the bride; at the place of execution, the young man tells everything, turns into stone; after the birth of his son, the father finds out in a dream that his You have to anoint the stone with blood; the baby's finger is pricked, the young man has come to life; beggars come to his wards, it turns out his parents; the raven told the truth]: Lebite 1965:206-211.

Volga - Perm. The Bashkirs [son has learned the bird language; father and son are sailing on a ship; the son has to convey the words of the birds: the father taught his son, and he will drive him to death; the father pushed his son into the sea, swallowed him whale; the young man had a mandolin, he made a fire out of it, cut off and baked the whale's heart; he died, threw it on the island, the young man cut a hole, went out; the prince's ship sailed to the island; the birds said that his father the prince's bride will require a beautiful carpet, and this carpet in the forest for the old man and the old woman; who tells, the legs will petrify; the second condition: let nightingales sing in the garden (petrify to the knees); third: during the wedding the king will hit the table, the groom and friends will petrify; whoever tells will petrify to the waist; the young man took out the carpet, sang like a nightingale himself; he was the first to hit the table, the king and his men were petrified for three days; the prince took the bride away , the young man sent the ship of the pursuer-king in the other direction; on the shore, the stepmother will put him in a stroller, the horses will be carried into the abyss; he will put a nine-headed maiden in the basement of the bedroom; the young man hit the horses, killed the deva, but when he licked drops of blood from the forehead of the prince's wife, he thought that the servant was encroaching on his wife; he had to tell everything, he was petrified; the old woman in a dream told the prince to wash the statue, his son under his son's blood bury it; both the boy and the child came to life]: Barag 1989, No. 62:291-295.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Daurenbekov 1979 [=Tursunov 1983:276-273; Khan's son steals the key to the fortieth room from his father, sees it as a portrait of Malkhuan (she is the daughter of Kalmyk Khan); he goes with the vizier's son look for a beauty; one, the second cannibals show the way; M. changes clothes with the vizier's son, stays with the khan's son; the vizier's son stays with M.'s people, falls in love with her sister, takes her away; hears the conversation between the two raven; one says that the khan himself will try to kill his son in order to take possession of M.; showers poison on his horse, his beloved kitten, will poison the food; whoever says will become coal, a stone; the vizier's son kills a horse, overturns food, kills a kitten; a drop of blood falls on sleeping M., the vizier's son bends to erase it, the khan's son accuses him of assassinating his fiancée; they want to hang the vizier's son, he tells his history, turns into stone; the vizier gouges out the eyes of the khan's son, loads a black stone on him, drives him away; he comes to the stream, his water restores his sight, revives the vizier's son; both come to Khan's wedding with M., their wives are returned, the khan is turned into a wolf, the vizier into a dog]: 206-212; Kanbak-Shal 1985 [Shah Nugman's son Bakir gave the beggar gold, she wished him to marry Sahibzhamal; he grew up and became to wither away; the beggar explained that out of love; B. and the vizier's son went to look for S.; she is the daughter of Kahila Padishah, she is seen only by a jeweler from whom she orders jewelry; B. was hired as an apprentice; having penetrated into the first time to S., fell asleep; the second time the maids noticed sleeping lovers, took them to the bathhouse; the vizier's son replaced them with a couple of old men; hears the conversation of three turtles; Father S. will let the falcon after the fugitives, then a black dragon will descend from the ceiling of the yurt on the wedding night; everyone brings death, and whoever tells will become petrified; the vizier's son killed a falcon, a black falcon; married sister B. Zere; cut the dragon, a drop of blood fell on S., he started washing it, Z. found him, told his father that her husband was kissing S.; the vizier's son had to tell everything, he was petrified; B. took his body, retired to desert; hears pigeons talking, petrified can be revived in three streams in the west; both returned to their wives]: 61-68; (cf. Sidelnikov 1962 [there is a custom on the night of the wedding, before the bride and groom return to their parents' mail, to tell each other stories; the groom refuses to tell, everyone is dissatisfied; the bride's sister thinks that now the groom is telling stories to the bride; goes to the yurt to listen and sees two spirits; the fairy tale of insects promises to be a stream, the groom gets drunk, turns into an insect; a fairy tale about weapons promises to become a golden knife, the groom will cut himself, turn into a knife himself; in the morning, his wife's sister was the first to jump to the stream, dirty the water; broke the knife; told the groom's father everything, she was gifted]: 159-161 (=1971 (2): 139-141); Kyrgyz (p. Budzhum, Batken District, Batken Region) [Bekjan is the khan of the city; elderly spouses live on the river bank, their son Izmail; the old man caught a goldfish; ran to tell the khan; I. released it, put a stone on the net; Khan came with horsemen; for deception promised to hang the old man with his family; the mother tells her son to run, teaches him to check those he chooses as companions; do not take someone who takes more than half of the cake broken in half; along the way pretend to be relieved; if he waits, then a friend, if not, do not go with him; I. tested everyone, no one fits; a young man caught up with him near another city; he is 16, called Israel, fulfilled the conditions set by Ishmael's mother; at the bazaar, the locals mock those who came; Israel maimed them; they complained to the khan, the khan ordered the ragged men to be brought; Israel cut off the heads of five soldiers, the other 5 ran away; the vizier advises not to attack the young men, but to recruit them; only 40 horses managed to pull the wagon in which the young men boarded; every year the dragon is given one sheep and one girl, it is the turn of the khan's daughter Guljamal; Israel cut the dragon, lost consciousness himself; Ishmael washed him and he came to life; the khan gave his daughter to Ishmael; between a lake of milk and a lake of butter, he built an ak-yorgyo wedding yurt, healed well, Forgetting Israel, he appeared dressed as a dervish and cursed: "Are there any among you who have forgotten their homeland, their parents, and have settled among strangers? If so, know that they know neither conscience nor shame, they are completely lost"; G. understood everything, Israel agreed that it was time to visit their parents; Israel and G. went on a journey, spent the night in a yurt by the spring under the plane tree; Israel hears pigeons talking - these are dragon spirits; if a pigeon key touches the sleepers, they will die, and whoever tells will become petrified; Israel ran into the yurt; the pigeon's beak managed to touch G. , Israel began to lick the poison, Ishmael thought that he was kissing his wife; Israel told everything, petrified; G. caught up with one pigeon on a white tulpar, washed his blood on a stone, Israel came to life; began to destroy the soldiers Khan B., who handed him the throne; Israel proposes to divide all property, including G.; when he swung his sword, G. fell, and something like a mouse jumped out of his nostrils; Israel chopped her, it was her soul dragon; he said he was that fish released]: Kebekov, Tokombaev 2007:50-59; Kyrgyz (Chuy Oblast) [Khan is strong and glorious; went hunting with the vizier; decided to spend the night in the first dwelling they met; in the hollow there are white and black yurts; two dogs ran out of them; the vizier understood the language of animals and plants; the dog from the white yurt barked: Khan and the vizier will spend the night with us; the owner will slaughter the sheep, I will find blood and guts, I will sleep until dawn; the dog from the black yurt: Khan and the vizier will spend the night in our yurt; the owner he will slaughter the only bright white one, I will find blood and guts, I will guard the horses of the khan and the vizier until the morning; and you will fall asleep, then the horse thieves will steal; the khan went to the white yurt, but the vizier seized his reason and turned to the black one; the khan became angry, but decided to talk later; the poor man bred his only sheep's lamb; mother sheep: I gave birth to 11 lambs, none of them gave birth, even if they left it; because the beginning one bright white gives an offspring of a thousand heads; it's better to let me be slaughtered; the vizier to the poor man: Do not slaughter lamb, slaughter it for a sheep; the khan became even more angry; after eating, the owner and guests began to tell stories; Khan softened himself and wanted to tell him three tales he knew; but decided that it was not appropriate to tell his tales in a bad black yurt; three khan's tales began to consult each other; first: Khan I offended me, tomorrow I'll turn into a karakurt, crawl into the toe of his boot, sting him to death; second: If he can survive, on the road, when Khan is thirsty, I will turn into a poisonous spring on his way; he will do sip and die; third: If he survives you, I will descend from the poles of the yurt as a dragon, he will definitely die; in the morning the vizier cut off the toe of the khan's boot and gave him his own in return; the khan thought that when he returned pull the vizier up on the gallows; on the way back he is thirsty; the khan sees a spring; the vizier lets the horse go there to muddy the water and urinate in it; went to bed; at home, the khan decided to hang the vizier in the morning, and fell asleep ; the vizier stood at the door with a sword; after midnight, the dragon began to slide down the poles of the yurt; the vizier cut off his head; a drop of blood hit the hansha's chest; the vizier fell his lips to and licked the dragon's blood; khan woke up, saw and ordered the vizier to be grabbed; standing at the loop, the vizier told how it was; the khan was ashamed and gave him the throne]: Mukasov 2018:579-582.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakasy [the man's wife's younger sister hears someone on the street saying: this person will lean over to drink from the spring, we will press him down, and whoever tells him will petrify to the waist; we will tear out the cedar along with him - whoever tells, will petrify to the chest; if he sits on a horse under a silver saddle, breaks his back - whoever tells, everything will petrify; when a person comes, his sister-in-law told him everything, petrified]: Katanov 1907, No. 305:359-361; Tuvans: Potanin 1883, No. 162 [Noyon's son knows the languages of birds and animals; together with the khan's son he stops under a tree; hears a raven explaining to the crow like a son Shurindyn Khatyn will be able to take possession of Khan; you need to make an unusual cart, the school will go out to look, we must take it away; friends take the ShK, and then walk under the guise of beggars; the same raven tells the crow that they can't pick up boots, fur coats, sit on horses he meets; and then there will be Abyrga-moga 10 fathoms long; Noyon's son cuts boots, fur coats, horses; kills a snake, but blood splashed on the SHH; if you wipe it, then the black spot will remain, we must lick it; the khan's son reproaches his comrade for wanting to kiss SHH; Noyon's son explains everything, turns into stone; SHH holds a cup, waits for living water to drip from the sky; gave hold her husband; he fell asleep, spilled; the ShK began to hold again, but only one drop fell; with it she revived Noyon's son, but he no longer knew languages and crafts; if the khan's son hadn't spilled living water, all people would be knowledgeable]: 542-544; Samdan 1994, No. 4 [the eldest daughter and her husband came to visit the elderly and younger sister; the son-in-law knows three tales but does not want to tell; the younger visionary sister sees how the spirits are the hosts of three fairy tales sit on the doorstep arguing about who to start with; without waiting for the story, they promise to turn into a bow, arrow and knife in their son-in-law's way; and if the one who sees and hears us warns us, let them turn into a stone sculpture; a girl goes with her older sister and son-in-law; when she sees a bow, she tears a bowstring; an arrow breaks the tip; a knife breaks; the girl was beaten, tortured at home with work; father and mother arrived, too they scold; she grabbed the goat's tail and told me everything, the goat was petrified; the girl is thanked]: 271-275.