K100B. Thankful dead, ATU 505.

.12.14.-.16.17.23. (.26.) .27.-.33.

A person helps to bury a dead man (pays his remaining debt, pays tribute to the saint). A living dead (saint) helps him overcome difficulties. See K100A motif.

Diane, Moroccan Arabs, Spaniards, Catalans, Portuguese, Basques, Italians (Istria, Menton), Maltese, Corsicans, Ladins, Bretons, French (Upper Brittany), Irish, Scots , Walloons, Frisians, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Pomerania, Hesse, Swabia, Switzerland, Austria), Old Testament, Hindi (Mirzapur), Konkani, Sinhalese, (fox), Hungarians, Serbs, Croats, Greeks, Czechs, Poles, Russians ( Terek coast, Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Vologda), Eastern Ukrainians (Kherson), Kalmyks, Abkhazians, Karachays, Balkarians, Ossetians, Nogais, Avars, Udis, Georgians, Megrelians, Persians, Tajiks, Vakhans, Norwegians, Icelanders, Danes, Swedes, Finns, Karelians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Bashkirs, Kyrgyz, (Kazakhs).

West Africa. Dian [a man digs out of the grave, beats the corpse of a deceased friend who did not have time to repay his debt; the young man pays the debt, puts the grave in order; the king will give his daughter to someone who can guess which shoe he wears it is a pin; the magic pin moves unnoticed, it is impossible to guess; when a young man should guess, a dead man whispers a spell to him; the young man guesses, gets a wife; the dead man then appears again tell about yourself; the young man organizes the first holiday in honor of the dead]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:156-157.

North Africa. The Arabs of Morocco [the son of a wealthy merchant almost broke him when he begged for a monkey and tied it at the entrance to the shop where customers used to gather; then the monkey scratched the merchant's wife; then the merchant shot the monkey and began to raise his son strictly; he grew up to be a noble young man; bought the deceased, whom the creditors did not allow to be buried; the merchant praised his son and ordered him to pay as well memorial meal; the dead man took the form of a bald man, came to the meal, but ate only lentils; the merchant asked him to be a friend and mentor to his son; things went uphill; the young man decided to go with a caravan; In a parking lot in the desert, a bald man noticed a fire; there were 40 robbers; each went to follow the tent to rob it later; the bald man killed them one at a time, took the treasures and returned to the merchant's sleeping son; The caravan came to town; it was empty, everyone was eaten by a ghoul, leaving one beautiful girl; the bald man began to fight the ghoul and hit him fatally; hit him again! - My mother taught me not to do the same thing twice; when they returned, the bald man offered to share the money, including the girl; he and the merchant's son took her by the different legs and swung his bald sword; three fell out of her The eggs were the product of a ghoul, the bald man crushed them; went towards the cemetery; the merchant and his son caught up with him at the grave, but he turned to dust]: Bushnaq 1987:124-128.

Southern Europe. The Spanish [the king is sick, he will be cured by three wonders of the world; the eldest son goes in search, is captured by the robbers; the same with the middle one; the youngest comes to the cave of the winds, where the mother of the winds hides him; The wind comes back, his mother tells him about the young man, the Wind does not know about miracles, tells him to his older brother the Sun; there is the same old woman, also hiding the young man, the Sun sends to her sister Moon; The moon sends birds to his brother; he called a pair of birds of each species; the last was the lame eagle, only he knows about miracles; tells him to prepare meat for the journey; it is not enough, the young man is going to cut off a piece from his leg, but the eagle tells him to throw his pen into the sea instead; after flying across the sea, the eagle shows the path to the castle; meets a woman who says she has no money to bury her deceased husband; a young man gave her money; a fox appeared; said that there would be a bird, a horse and a girl in the castle room, you can only take one thing; he takes the bird, the cage asks him to take it; as soon as the young man takes the cage, to meet her a giant, throws him to the lions, but the fox saves him; says he can save only three times; next time the young man takes the girl, she asks to take her clothes, then the giant meets her again, the same; on the third once he takes a horse; the blanket asks to take it too, he does not take it, jumps away, taking a bird in a cage and a dressed girl; on the way back to meet her, the brothers took their money, came to their father, took credit for themselves, they said that the younger brother had become a robber; the king ordered him to be found and hanged; then a fox appeared in the form of a man and told everything; he was the dead man for whose funeral the young man gave money; the king handed over the throne to the younger, married the girl he received]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 550:516-523; Catalans (including Mallorca) [the hero buys and buries the dead man; he promises to help, but demands half of what the hero will gain as a result of marriage; the hero marries a princess and they go to the country of the hero's parents; a relative of the princess throws the hero off the ship and convinces her that her husband dead; miraculously escaped hero comes to the palace and discovers himself; during this time the wife has given birth; the assistant requires half of the baby; the hero is going to cut the child, but the assistant stops him: he is only tested the hero's honesty]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 505:107-108; the Portuguese [the hero buys the deceased from creditors and buries him; or buys holy relics; buys out of slavery a princess on which marries or cares about; or, seeing the princess woven cloth in the hero's hands, the neighboring king sends the hero to save the princess, who flees her from the hands of the robbers; {a discrepancy of options, coherent the plot cannot be restored}; the opponent drops the hero off the ship (or he is dropped during a storm); a grateful dead man saves him and delivers him to the princess on the condition that they divide what they have obtained in half; the hero is recognized by the ring (or otherwise); the assistant demands his half of a princess or child, but refuses the requirement and tells us who he is]: Cardigos 2006, No. 505:119-120; Basques [king will see the light if you get a white crow (blackbird); the eldest, middle sons leave, play cards; the youngest does not play, pays the brothers' debts, they are not executed; the owner of the black crow asks to get it for him, a princess; a fox (this is the spirit of a dead man whose debts the young man paid) teaches what to do; the princess sings, people run, her father agrees to give her back if the young man gets another king's white horse; a horse laughs, but people allow the young man to take him away; he asks for permission to put the princess on his horse, takes him away; the white crow flies to the princess's knees, the young man takes everyone away; the brothers throw the youngest into the water tank, they take the crow away; the fox pulls out the young man, the crow flies to him by itself; the young man returns to his father, the princess and the bird sing, the horse laughs, the old king sees the light; the young man tells everything, marries the princess; Father drives his eldest sons into the desert]: Webster 1879:182-187; Italians: Andrews 1880 (Menton) [the merchant's son went on business; saw the debtor's corpse thrown on the road; paid it debts to be buried; the next time he bought two women from Moorish captivity, one of them young and beautiful; she refused to give her name, and her governess Isabel; her father gave no more money He only lodged his son, wife and I. in a peasant house; the young man built the ship himself, the wife attached a portrait with her son to the stern, ordered him to sail to Portugal and pull the ship ashore aft; the king found out daughter, sent ships to pick her up; one of them was the princess's former lover; on the way back, he pushed her husband into the sea; someone on the boat rescued him; promised to take him to Portugal for promising to divide him in half the most expensive thing; the husband came to his wife's wedding; she made it so that the fiancé's exchanger flew into the air when he set fire to the fireworks; everything is fine, but the stranger asks for half of the most expensive; the man wants cut his son, but a stranger stops his hand and explains that he is that buried dead]: 48-52; Crane 1885, No. 35 (Istria) [=Calvino 1980, No. 45:138-141; the merchant's son received money from his father, bought the debtor for burial; told his father that pirates took everything from the sea; next time he buys the sultan's daughter from pirates, makes them Christian, marries them; father drove them away; wife draws paintings, husband sells; Turks come to buy, see a girl, take them to Turkey; a young man comes to live with a fisherman, takes the boat to Turkey, they are enslaved, made gardeners; a fisherman makes musical instruments, the young man plays, the wife recognizes his voice, the maids secretly bring it to her in the basket; they pick up treasures, sail away on the ship, return to pick up the fisherman, sail again; the fisherman demands everything split in half, including his wife; the young man is ready to give everything but her; the fisherman says he is dead, disappears; with his wife and wealth, the young man returns to his father]: 131-135; Maltese [eldest son Tillu tells his father that there is a bird that makes old people younger, goes in search; comes to the palace, where the girl offers to play cards; T. loses everything, becomes a servant; the same with Guttu's middle son; when the youngest Giuseppe rides, he smells decay: the unburied body has been lying for months; he is explained that the locals do not have the money to build a cemetery and chapel; J. gives money and orders that everything be done by his return; that deceased caught up with J. and warned him not to play with the landlady, but with his cards; J. played everything, left the palace to his brothers and went on; the deceased met him again: there are many golden cages with birds in the palace made of gold and diamonds, take over the dirty wooden one; there are two lions as guards, they sleep if their eyes are open; along the way the brothers threw J. home into the sea; he became dead a rock with a tree on it; they noticed J. from the ship, took him home; at this time the brothers gave the bird to his father, but she is silent; the names of the noble gentlemen, but no one can make a bird sing; J. comes, covered with coal, in dirty clothes - the bird sang; then washes, his father recognizes him; asks to make him not 20, but 30 years old; the brothers were expelled]: Stumme 1904, No. 12:39- 45; Corsicans [the king is sick, you need to get a horse that is fast like the wind, a bird that sings and plays, a beauty seven times more beautiful than beauty (la donna di sette bellezze); the elder departs son, sees the inscription "the one who goes will not return", at the inn lost everything at cards, remains an employee; the same with the middle son; the youngest does not stop, but pays the debts of the deceased, whose body is mocked ; the road is over, the young man is walking, the fox invites him to sit on it and carries him to the owner of that horse; let the young man refuse to spend the night in the room but ask him to leave him in the stable; around midnight, the fox tells you to jump on the horse and ride away: the owner is going to eat the visitor; the young man on horseback and the fox have reached the house where the bird is guarded by lions; the fox tells him to let the lion take the horse by the tail, then he will allow him to take the bird's cage; the lion coughed and released his tail, they galloped away; the sorcerer owns the beauty; while he thinks that his horse and bird are now, the young man takes the beauty, jumps away, the sorcerer before he had time to detain them; the fox warns that the young brothers went to prison for theft, and she herself is the dead man he bought; if anything, she can be called again; the brothers pushed the youngest into the well, they took the horse, the bird and the beauty; the horse bites, the bird is silent, the beauty has become a freak; the fox pulled the young man out; when he arrived home, the horse was happy, the bird sang, the beauty became beautiful; the elders The king ordered the sons to be smeared with resin and burned]: Massignon 1984, No. 4:7-10; frets: Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 79 [(approximately the same in Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, No. 61 and No. 87:312-322, 383-388 ); the merchant sent a son named Pieder overseas with his friend; they stopped at an inn; at night P. hears moans; this is a dead unpaid debtor; P. paid for him; the father was furious; in next time P. hears a woman crying; bought two princesses kidnapped and enslaved; they and P. did not return home, they live by their own labor; the princesses gave a box with a portrait of their father; show; this is how P. found the king, whose daughters were kidnapped; the king sent him for his daughters, promising the eldest to be his wife; as a companion to the minister; when they sail back on the ship, the minister pushed P. into the sea; P. he got to the island, he was allowed to herd goats; the redeemed dead man became a fox, told him to grab his tail, carried P. by air to the king, who gives his eldest daughter for a minister; P. hired in the kitchen, put it the princess gave him a pie ring; the princess recognized the ring; everything was clarified; at the feast of the imaginary groom, they ask how to punish such a crime; the minister: to tear it with horses; they did so to him; at the feast, I was so given in the ass that it flew to you]: 213-219; Uffer 1973, No. 9 [=Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 65:178-184; the king will be cured only by the singing of a bird living in the land of the Moors; the eldest son went and did not return; the middle one was the same; the youngest came to a city, paid off the debts of a dead man whose body was dragged through the streets; when he went on, the frog told me to take it with him - she is the soul of that dead man will teach you what to do; in the tower of the King of the Moors, you only have to take a bird and nothing more; but he also took the cage, the guards woke up; the frog teaches you to promise to get a horse from the neighboring king; the same (the young man took a blanket, released for promising to get a princess guarded by 10 dragons; this time the young man took only the princess; when he changed for a horse, he asked permission to kiss her, grabbed her, rode away; getting a bird for the horse with the cage, asked permission to take a last ride and rode away; the frog said goodbye, telling him not to take meat from the gallows; on the way home, the young man sees his brothers, who are going to be hanged for stealing and deception; the young man bought them, and then they pushed him into the well, when they came to his father, attributed all the exploits to themselves; the older brother was preparing to marry the princess; the frog pulled the young man out and gave speeding boots; the young man hired the kitchen at the palace, put half of the ring she gave him in the princess's food; the princess recognized the ring; the frog came and told everything; the younger prince received the crown and the princess, the elders torn by horses], 35 [Barba Giatken's younger brother married a rich, childless, rich; the elder Barba Gionlin has many children and is poor; his son asked the priest godfather for 2000 ducats; when asked about bail, pointed to the crucifixion; with this money he and his uncle went to Turkey to buy fabrics; spent the night in a hotel, someone was threshing all night; this dead man, who owes 500 ducats, will be threshing at night; a young man (his name is Gion) paid for him; at another inn he buys a princess and her maid for 500 ducats, who are captured and forced to sing at night; after learning about the senseless expenses, my uncle went home, leaving his nephew in Turkey; he bought goods for 500 ducats, brought him and became rich; one woman worked in a warehouse, the other was his cook; my father overheard that the princess was the one Warehouse, Gion married her; she gave birth to a son Franz Gisep; Gion came by ship to his father-in-law, the King of Amsterdam, told him everything, and on the way back, the chief clerk (Hofschreiber) pushed him into the sea, he was swallowed by a fish; he invited the princess to marry him, but she asked for a delay of 7 years; Gion swam out, hired to herd goats; when 7 days were left until the age of 7, the fox told him to hurry - his wife's wedding with the clerk is being prepared; if he gives her half of what he has saved in a year, she will take him immediately to Amsterdam; he hired a kitchen, threw a ring into the princess's omelet; she recognized the ring; Gion came to work for the mason and sprayed the groom's solution; he told him to be grabbed; at the wedding table, the king asked what to do with someone else's wife; groom: break horses; Gion opened; a year later, the fox demanded that the baby be separated; Gion grabbed his sword, but the fox stopped it: it was the dead man bought, she also became the fish that saved Gion from the sea] : 26-30, 131-139.

Western Europe. The Bretons [the king will be healed by touching the bird Dredane, she is with Princess Marcassa across the Red Sea; the eldest, middle sons left, did not return after wasting money; the youngest was sitting in ash Ludoin's mess went on a camel, found his brothers, they took his money, he drove on; buries the dead husband of a poor old woman; Lisa explains that before midnight you can go to the castle past the guards and take away the cage with the bird; he did so, took possession of the sleeping princess, took the cage; on the way he sold indestructible bread and a jug that did not run out of wine; he won with a saber taken away from the castle enemies of the King of Saxons for promising to release his brothers (they were taken into custody for debts); the brothers pushed L. into the well, took the camel and the bird; the birds are sad, the king is only worse; the fox descends into the well his tail, L. gets out; the fox tells him to change clothes with the poor; explains that she is the soul of the poor man he buried; L. got a job with the king as a swineherd, became a groom, the brothers recognized him; when he saw L., a bird sang, the king almost recovered; Princess M. gave birth to a son L., who grew up, went to look for his father, M. with him; demanded the return of bread, a jug of wine, a magic sword (L. gave it to the King of Saxons); M. comes, L . tells his story; the king finally recovers, his older brothers are burned in the oven; L. marries M., the king is dead, L. gains the throne]: Lopyreva 1959, No. 27:93-104; the French (Upper Brittany) [the three sons of a rich man go in search of a whitebird whose voice rejuvenates; the eldest two remain in the tavern; the youngest buries the deceased, who is mocked, for during his lifetime he is mocked did not pay the debt; fox: a thrush in the forest under the protection of three sleepless giants; take a thrush, but not the luxurious cage that is nearby; the young man takes a cage, the giants grab him, let him go for promising to get a donkey "Step - 7 Leagues"; fox: we must take a worthless saddle; the young man takes the best, is captured by giants and released for promising to get a gold-haired girl; now the young man does not break the prohibitions, brings the girl; the fox advises ask the giants for permission to ride a donkey with the girl, takes her away; then the thrush takes her away; the fox tells her not to stop in the city, but the young man frees the brothers, and they throw him into the well and houses take credit for themselves; but the thrush does not sing and everyone is sad; on the third attempt, the fox, with its tail down the well, pulls the young man out; the young man gets home: the gold-haired girl breaks the silence , the thrush sings, the father is recovering; the father wanted to shoot his older sons, but the young man begged him not to do so]: Sébillot 1894, No. 10:174-176; Irish: Curtin 1975 [king of one of four parts of Ireland send a son to school; the sons of the kings of the other three parts send a young man to his father for his father to kill him; otherwise they will kill both father and son; the son goes on a journey, takes five with him pounds; in the cemetery, two people try to put the coffin in the grave, and the other two prevent it from doing so; they demand 5 pounds from the dead man; the young man gives them his money; soon the Shaker approaches him The head (TG, Shaking-head) becomes his companion; they consistently come to three giants; TG forces them to give up a black horse that the enemy will not catch up, a sword that kills everyone, a cape of darkness, which makes the person wearing it invisible; the young man marries the princess, the heads who have not met the matchmaking conditions on the stakes; the princess gives a ring, the young man must return it in the morning; he puts it by the cheek, but the princess puts everyone to sleep, turns the maid into a rat, she tickles the young man in the nose, he sneezes, the rat takes the ring; the princess brings it to the giant, gives it to him; sees all this invisible to others TG, takes it the ring returns it to the young man; the second night, the comb; the maid in the form of a cat takes it, the giant throws it into the sea, but TG intercepts it, brings it to the young man; the third task is to show that head in the morning which the princess will kiss in the evening; TG cuts off the giant's head, brings; wedding; upon returning to Ireland, TG explains that he is the redeemed dead man, disappears; kings of the three parts of Ireland they go to war; TG reappears, brings the young man's father-in-law's army, it smashes enemies, the boy's father, and soon he becomes king of all Ireland]: 121-134; Larminie 1893 [the prince paid for the dead buried; in the morning he shot a crow, which fell into the snow; the prince decided to marry only a woman whose hair was black as a raven's wing, her skin was white as snow and her cheeks were blush as blood in the snow; went to look like a woman; a red-haired man hired him for a year and a day on condition that everything they got should be divided in half; he asked him to wait until he went to see a relative; naming the giant to his uncle, said that the king of the East goes to kill him; the giant asked him to be locked in an iron house; the red-haired man demanded that he tell him where the dark cloak was; the giant had to say, but the red-haired man still didn't released, he tried to get out and died; red-haired prince: there are trees around that woman's palace, each head, the last one is not yet; they came there; the princess gave the prince a comb: if not in the morning will return, be executed; the comb is gone; the red-haired man put on his dark cloak, followed the woman; she made a boat out of the shell, sailed to the giant on the island, gave him the comb, promised to give the prince in the morning eaten; when the giant put the comb in the chest, the red-haired man immediately took it; the woman spent the night with the giant and returned; along the way, an invisible red-haired man splashed water on her; in the morning, the prince showed the comb ; told the king that he had obtained a third of his daughter; the next day the same, scissors, not a comb; king to the prince: I hope you will get the last third; woman: get the last lips I have that night I'll kiss, otherwise I'll execute; these are the lips of a giant; the red-haired cut off the giant's head and brought it to the prince; ordered the woman to be tied up and that the king father and prince beat her; demons came out of her, she became an ordinary woman; she married a prince and gave birth to a son; the red-haired man offered to share what he had begun; the prince was ready to share his son, but the red-haired did not; said that he was that buried dead]: 155-167; Scots ( Guel) [Iain, the owner of the ship, sailed to Turkey and buried a Christian there; bought the Spanish princess, returned home with the princess and gold; she sends him to Spain, where the king, having recognized the clothes, a ring, a book and a whistle, realizes that the young man brought news about his daughter; he returns home and marries a princess; they are sailing to Spain; the general left him on an island; he was saved by a man in a boat, for this required giving half of his wife and half of the children if they appeared; in Spain he whistles on the whistle and his wife recognizes him; the wedding, the general was burned alive; three sons were born; a savior comes and demands half; I. agrees; after that, the comer explains that he was that dead, disappears]: Gerould 1908:85-86; Walloons [Prince Jean sees the body of a dead debtor mocking, pays his debts; buys the Portuguese princess from the hands of robbers; the rival throws Jean off the ship, makes the princess say that he saved her; Jean gets to the cliff, the raven brings him food; agrees to take him to Portugal on condition that he give him half of his blood; the princess recognizes Jean, the deceiver is hanged; the young have a son; the raven demands blood, Jean is ready to decapitate his son, but his raven stops; it is he who is the dead]: Laport 1932, no.*506:60-61; the Friezes [three sons of a peasant, the youngest of them, Gjalt, goes to seek happiness; I see a coffin dug out of the grave in the cemetery; wants to bury, a giant comes up, says that the deceased owes him a thaler, he will not let him be buried; I give a thaler; a two-headed giant comes up, requires 2 thalers; the three-headed 3; I bury the dead, is left without money, breaks up with his brothers; an old man comes up to him, says that he is the brother of the deceased, will serve out of gratitude; I.: I will be the Big Me, and you will be the Little Me; they come to the castle one-headed giant; I teaches me to say that they were sent by the giant's brother: the peasant army is going to kill the owner of the castle; the giant agrees to hide in the well, gives up his sword, inexhaustible purse and receipt for the sale of the BYA castle; companions pull a ladder out of the well, cover the hole with a stone; the same with a double-headed giant; with a three-headed giant; he took a mirror showing the truth and wings to fly; the princess gives the grooms impossible errands, all those who fail are executed; the king's tasks for the BIU: 1) playing cards with the wizard who runs out of money first; 2) race, bring an eagle egg from a nest on a sky-high mountain; 3) defeat the wizard and bring his head; BU wins thanks to an inexhaustible wallet and ME, which shows him his partner's cards in the mirror and helps to stay awake; BYA overtakes the wizard on his wings; wins with a giant's sword, and MYA hides the BU under a dark veil and the wizard does not see the enemy; BYU marries a princess, gives parents a home, himself lives in a castle, his treasurer]: Mürk 2014:38-50; Germans (Schleswig-Holstein): Uther 2004 (1), No. 505:289-291; Germans (Pomerania) [a young merchant equipped three ships; arrived in the country, Ged flood, gave one ship to save people from starvation; then another (in another country where there is also famine); paid the hanged man's debts and buried him; the captain of the last ship was afraid that with such a generous gentleman he would lose his ship; so he left the merchant in a foreign harbor and sailed away; the merchant went and saw a plowman whose plow was being dragged by two naked girls; there are no cattle in this country, so there are no cattle in the bazaar they buy girls; the merchant bought the girls: they are the princess and her maid of honor; they were spotted on the shore from the ship, taken to their homeland, to meet the ship sent by the king in search; all three moved there; the savior was promised the hand of the princess; the admiral pushed the merchant into the sea, and made the women swear that he was their savior; the princess asked to postpone the wedding for a year; the captain grabbed the floating mast into the sea, reached the island; a big bird put it on its back and took it to the place where the admiral's wedding with the princess was being prepared; the merchant sent a letter to the princess asking for a roasted lighthouse and wine; the princess immediately sent and then sent a carriage; wedding; the admiral was hanged]: Jahn 1891, No. 35:190-194; the Germans (southern Hessen) [the merchant sent his son to trade to the East; seeing the Turks mock the corpse a black slave, the young man gave all his gold to buy the body and bury it; when the son returned empty-handed, the father decided not to send him again, but his wife persuaded him to try again; now a young man bought the captive woman and brought her home; fearing her father, hired a separate dwelling for her, as reported only to her mother; the father abandoned his son; the wife made a beautiful saddle and sent her husband to sell it; the saddle was bought by none other than the young man's father; the young man and his wife sailed to her father, the king; but three on the ship threw the young man into the sea to pretend to be the princess's saviors; the black man, whom the young man took for the devil, did not let him sink and brought him back to the ship; the villains again threw the young man into the sea and sailed away by ship; the king believed that they saved the princess; she demanded that the walls of three chambers be painted for her before the wedding as she intended; the black man saved the young man again, but demanded that when his son was born and reached the age of 12, he would pick him up; the young man found himself in a hut by the sea, food, wine and everything he needed they appear on their own; then the black man took him to the princess's city; the young man became successful at the baker; the king saw his buns and offered to paint the princess's rooms with them; probably this would answer her thoughts; the young man did it, everything was clarified, he married a princess; when their son was 12 years old, the husband told his wife about the contract with the black man he held by the line; the black man appeared and said he was not damn, and that buried black man who paid back kindly for the good]: Wolf 1851:242-250; Germans (Switzerland, Canton of Valais) [the father sent his son to collect rent; the crowd beats the debtor's corpse, the young man bought it and buried; the father was furious; the following year he gave the money again, rescuing the prisoner; after that, the father drove the son away; the girl was kidnapped by the princess, her father sent money; they went by ship to her country; during the storm, capital pushed the young man overboard; pretended to be a savior, but the princess persuaded his father to postpone the wedding for a year; the young man clung to the board and swam to the island; a hare came out of the water, told him to sit on it and asked him where he needed to go; brought the young man to the princess's town; began playing the flute melodies he played for the princess on the ship; she recognized them; at the wedding, the king tells everyone tell stories; young man: what does an oathbreaker deserve? captain: quartering; the young man told everything, pardoned the captain who was just expelled; wedding]: Jegerlehner 1913, No. 142:118-120; Germans (Swabia) [merchant in England; his son Karl dreams go to Italy; father let go; K. stopped at an inn; hears a noise: people drag the body of a bankrupt merchant hanged for debts; K. paid his debts; returned to England; began to play and won all the money from two men; with them, two women, a young man brought them to his father's house; they were sisters, began to help run business and household, K. became rich]: Meier 1852, No. 42:143-153; Germans ( Austria) [the count is blind, learned about the songbird doctor; the eldest, middle sons go in search, lose, stay to work their debt; the youngest goes, pays for the funeral of the unburied; the fox says he freed her from the curse, promises to help; he helps ants in their work; gives sugar to bees; the bridge over the river guards soldiers; the young man lets ants and bees at him, crosses the bridge, goes into the cave after him fox; takes a cage with a bird while the dragon sleeps, the fox carries it back; goodbye, the fox tells him not to buy hangman meat; the young man bought the brothers, they pushed him into the well; the fox lowered him into the well tail, pulled out the young man; the brothers do not sing, the father does not see the light; the youngest son came to the count unrecognized, the bird sang, the father drove away the eldest sons]: Cerf 1992:137-142.

Western Asia. Old Testament (Book of Tobit) [Pious Tobith was taken prisoner by the Assyrians in Nineveh. He buries the executed, goes blind, prays to God. His niece Sarah offers the same prayer in Ekbatan. Sarah is loved by the evil spirit Asmodeus, who kills her suitors out of jealousy. Tobit recalls the silver he left in Mussels, sends his son Tobiah to pick it up, hiring Azariah, who is actually the angel Raphael, as a guide. When crossing the river, Tovia tries to swallow fish. He catches it, saves her heart, liver and bile. Azariah encourages Tovia to marry Sarah. Tobias burns the heart and liver of the fish, and Asmodeus flees to Egypt from this smell, where Raphael binds him. Returning with his money and wife to his father, Tobiah puts fish bile on his eyes, and Tovit sees the light. Azaria refuses the award, announces who he is]: Meilah 1982:516-517.

South Asia. Northern India, Mirzapur, Hindi [poor sepai boy goes to seek happiness; mother gave money; he paid the dead man's debt, the lender allowed him to be buried; returning to his mother, the young man said he bought property and asked for more money; when he came to the burial site, another sepai was there; he called himself Murdan Khán, they went together; the city was divided by a river, all the ships were sinking; MH took his sword, cut off the hand that leaned out of the water and tried to sink the ship; explained that the daughter of the genies had so got her husband, gave birth to a daughter, and she was now also looking for a husband to her liking; on her severed hand it turned out to be a bracelet and three rings; the jeweler said that they were priced; MX explained everything to the king, who gave his daughter a bracelet, and she demanded a second one; MX dived into the river; there the genie woman suffers without an arm; MX returned his hand and it grew; received a second bracelet and other treasures; then the king gave his daughter to a young man; MH explained that he was dead; the young man built him a rich tombstone and told him to read the Koran there]: Crooke 1892-1893, No. 450:119-120; Konkani (Goa) [On the sixth day after the birth of the king's son, the goddess of fate came to write on the baby's forehead about his future; the guard grabbed her and made her confess that when the prince is 20 years old, he will die from lightning; the tsar recorded; the prince grew up and accidentally found the recording; decided not to die in front of his parents, went on a journey; the lenders did not they allow the debtor to be buried; the prince pays the debt; settled in a house by the river, played the violin; the local princess heard and fell in love; but the prince refuses, knowing that he has only a few days left life; a few minutes before midnight, he asked the carrier to transport him to the other side of the river; there was a thunder, but the carrier rejected the lightning with an oar, the prince survived; the prince recognized in the carrier that the debtor; the carrier and the boat have disappeared; the prince brought the princesses by his wife to his parents' house]: Rodrigues 2020:113-117; the Sinhalese [the prince does not study well, the king drives him away; four bully the dead with the debtor's body, the prince buys it; the dead man is reborn in the guise of a fish; the prince buys the princess, whom the king sells; the prince sells coconuts, the wife weaves scarves, they are paid dearly; the king who sold the princess now he is looking for her, the one who finds her promises her as a wife and a crown to boot; the minister, having learned about expensive scarves, finds the princess, takes her and her husband on a ship, pushes the prince into the sea; fish (former dead man) He takes him ashore, he promises half of what he gets first; finds a wife, gets a kingdom, the minister is beheaded; the fish demands a reward, the prince's wife offers to cut off her half; the fish says that it only needs a promise that the prince does not demand an initial debt from him; the prince, of course, agrees, the fish is swimming away]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 73:152-156.

(Wed. China. Lisu [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: Gidash 1953 [when the old man hears the bird singing, he is younger and asked his sons to catch it; the eldest, middle sons let dogs on the fox, which turns them into stones; the youngest invites it to have dinner, the fox turns into a young man, leads the bird to the Blue Kingdom; teaches him to take a bird but not to bite pears; the youngest son bites, the king has mercy on him if he gets a girl; the fox turns into a shoemaker, lures the girl to try on shoes, carries her across the sea; the youngest son takes her as his wife, the fox takes her form, marries the Blue King, runs away; revives the petrified, they cut off the younger brother's head, the fox revives it with the drug taken from the snake; the youngest brings the bird, forgives the brothers, the father is getting younger]: 95-102; Gerould 1908 [the merchant's son pays the debts of the deceased in Turkey, over whose corpse they mock; returns home, then goes to England and saves the French princess with her two maids; she asks him to go to Paris and tell her father about her salvation; on the way back, the general leaves the young man on a deserted island to take possession of the princess himself; he is saved by an old man who is dead; in Paris, a young man throws a ring into the princess's cup, she recognizes him; when she comes to to him, the young man chases her cursing, but then says that he only tested her loyalty; everything is fine]: 78-79; Serbs [the middle son of the poor man married an ugly girl; the day after the wedding he left travel; hired an employee; after 16-17 years, asked the owner to calculate it; he asked if he wanted 100 ducats with a curse or three with a blessing; the man chose a blessing; in the mountains he went to house where noise and loud conversations were heard; came in; everyone was talking and one was silent; the traveler asked why; he replied that every word (statement} he said was a dukat; the traveler gave the ducat, and then second; St. Thomas (it was him): Don't go into the muddy water; Don't do what you think; the traveler went to the river, but saw that it was muddy, and sat on the shore; three Turks rode up, another horse was loaded with money; they asked the traveler to hold her while they were looking for a ford; the water took them away, and the horse with the money went to the traveler; the next day the water came down and the traveler crossed the river; got home; his wife did not recognize him ; when my son returned from work, the man mistook him for an attacker and was going to hack him with an ax; the wife cried out: This is my son! The man remembered the advice he had bought, opened himself to his wife and son, stayed with them; the son asked for money to trade; the father gave; the son equipped and sent three ships with grain; met a robber ship; two grabbed to death trying to bite each other; two prisoners are barely alive from hunger; a man bought the girls, giving the robbers ships full of grain; at home, his father did not reproach him; the following year, ships with salt; man sailed to a kingdom where there was no salt; the king bought salt by giving ducat ships for them; while eating, the queen noticed a stranger wearing a handkerchief to her kidnapped daughters; promised three more ships with ducats, if a stranger brings her daughter; the man went home to bring the princesses to his parents; a naked corpse on the shore; people: this scoundrel was killed for the cause; the man dressed and buried the dead man; asked for it a passenger; on the way back, he threw a man into the sea, telling the girls to call him their savior; the one thrown into the sea was picked up and brought ashore; demanded that when the rescued man became king, he He would have to give him what he wanted; the rescued man came to the palace when the king was passing his daughter off as a deceiver; in the kitchen he threw his ring into the bowl of soup that the bride had carried; she found out ring; the deceiver is hanged; the king married the eldest daughter to the savior and made him heir; they have a son; a man appeared demanding that the promise to give what they asked for (he was that eagle) should be fulfilled; demanded a son; father agrees; came: it was just a test, I am that buried dead man; everything is fine, the man brought his parents to live with him as well]: Eschker 1992, No. 16:84-89; Croats [ In a dream, the king is told to build a church; after the third dream, the king builds a church, but the same old man tells him to get a cage with a bird from the garden of the Persian king, otherwise the church will collapse; three sons go to pick up the bird; the eldest two lost cards; the youngest buys the hanged debtor to bury him; in a deserted area he meets a man; he says that he is the dead man bought by the prince, promises help; tells him to take a cage with a bird, but nothing more; the young man takes a sword and dagger, is captured; the Persian king tells him to get King Wasan's horse; the companion and the prince sail in a boat across the sea, the companion tells him to to take a horse without a bridle and saddle, the prince violates the ban, is captured; the local king orders him to get the daughter of the Greek emperor; the companion teaches him to take away the emperor's three daughters; King Wasan gives him a horse for them, but The prince and his companion manage to sail away, keeping both the horse and the princess; the same with the bird; the companion breaks up with the prince, leaving him everything he has earned; the prince meets the brothers, they kill him, take everything for themselves; But the king's bird does not sing, the horse is sad, the princesses cry; the companion sends the spirit of the wind for living water, revives the murdered younger prince; he returns, the bird sang, the king wants to execute his eldest sons, but the youngest forgives them, everyone gets a princess]: Schütz 1960, No. 20:159-177; the Greeks [the poor man sold his son to Pasha to buy oil for a lamp in the name of the saint; Pasha fell in love with the boy and promised him their daughter; but then they decided to marry the son of another Pasha, and the young man was sent to herd sheep; Pasha's daughter gave him her wedding ring; offered to give both applicants for her hand 1000 piastres and pass her off as the one who would bring more money; Pasha's son spent money in town; the shepherd came to the old man; he gave him money to buy a monkey, prepared an eye ointment from her brain and took it from the shepherd a promise to split everything he gets in half; the shepherd received a great reward from people whose blindness he cured, including 30 ships; met Pasha's son in the city; he allowed him to burn on his arm stigma for the shepherd paying his debts; Pasha's son returned faster than the shepherd and said that he was dead; the shepherd showed up on the wedding day, showed the ring and stamp on his opponent's hand, received Pasha's daughter; at night That old man came and demanded half his wife; the shepherd agreed, but the old man explained that he only wanted to test him; he was God and helped him because of his father's piety]: Hahn 1864, No. 53:288-295 (retelling in Gerould 1908:29-30).

Central Europe. The Czechs [the king is almost blind, consistently sending three sons for living water; the eldest, the middle loses all his property and himself; the youngest saddles a horse named Siwák; buys the debtor's corpse, which is mocked; the wolf asks him not to kill, tells him to leave the horse, sit on it, brings him to the silver castle on a glass mountain, tells him to collect living and dead water there; entering the castle, the queen killed the 12-headed dragon, got along with the sleeping queen, leaving her belt and wearing it; wolf: I'm the dead man you bought, now go alone and don't buy meat from the gallows; queen saw his brothers being taken to the gallows and bought them; while he was sleeping, they replaced living water with poison; when the Queen gave it to his father, the brothers offered to try it on the dog, she died; the king ordered him to imprison a son in the tower without food or water; the wolf began to bring them to him; the queen gave birth to a son, he grew up and asked about his father; the Queen wrote a letter to the king demanding that she send the son she had; the elder, middle brothers do not ride on a gold bridge, but on an iron bridge, answer incorrectly, are put in a tower; the king has to send his youngest son, he is going to send bones, but it turns out that the son is alive; his wedding to the royal, his father is happy]: Erben 1976:16-21; Poles [the poor young man paid for the burial of an unburied dead man; when he woke up, he found money in his pocket; asked to transport him through the river, the carriers took the money and threw the young man into the river; the buried dead man turned into a board, helped him swim out, made it possible to turn into a chamois, a pike, a crow; the queen lives on the island, with her an all-conquering sword; enemies have attacked, a sword is needed; the young man became sulfur, a pike, a crow, came to the queen, liked her, she gave a sword and a letter for his father; when the young man returns in the form of chamois, the shooter shot her, took her sword and letter; the dead man resurrected the young man, told her to hurry - the king passes his daughter off as a shooter; the young man came and married the queen, the shooter was executed]: Woycicki 1920:74-79 (=Lifshitz- Artemyeva 2017:228-231, =Wratislaw 1890, No. 18:121-125); Russians (Terevsky Bereg) [the elder prince asks to let him down for a walk on an open field; disappeared; the same middle; younger Ivan: Let him down - I'll go, and don't let me go; I got to the brothers, the forces are dark and dark against them; I. went around her, entered the house, there the girl weaves a krosna; she will click with stuffing {the kind of surf comb duck} - a horse and a man will jump out and He went to the service; 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 in she put her pocket; the brothers picked up 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 times (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, a whale sailed, he limited it with his hand, became a ship; sailed, the servant does not sleep at the wheel ; three birds arrived; 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, Onega y., Savinskaya vol.) [the soldier left the service, bothered the robbers; they have a cook girl; an old woman came to Easter, gave her an outfit; as she put it on, she died; the robbers left (the coffin) hanging on the poles; the prince found brought her home; the old woman pulled off her sundress, the girl came to life; the wedding; the soldier chased the hare; some house; a woman covered in a golden carriage arrives; asks her to "scold" for three nights leaves a book, bottles, he must read inside the circle; evil spirits rush, but then disappears; the girl's hair has come down to her shoulders; after the next night, to the navel; after the third, everything is clean; she asks the soldier not to go away, but he wants to take a walk; if he does not return in an hour and a half, she will fly to the kingdom of far away; he returned in one and a half; slept with a Jew at night, went to the pier in the morning; there by ship That girl sailed, but a boy sent by a Jew stuck a pin into the soldier's overcoat and he fell asleep, the girl did not wake up; so three times; after the third time she left a note: to look for her in a kingdom far away; the soldier sailed to the city, where the princess in the tower, who rides, will receive her, otherwise he will be executed; three executed heroes are exhibited; where the soldier served at the tavern, his daughter gave an inexhaustible purse; the soldier filled three barrels of gold, the king allowed the heroes to be buried; horses consistently jump out of the graves to the soldier: in copper, silver, gold armor; the princess stamped his forehead with a ring; heroes came to life, came out of their graves, all four go to the mountain, where the soldier pulls out his shoes, a dress, a carriage; marries a princess]: Smirnov 1917, No. 9:94-108; Russians (the place of recording is not a decree.) [Tsar Khotey has three sons, the youngest is Sila Tsarevich; they ask their father to let them see the world; S.'s ship is the last to sail, only he picked up the coffin floating on the waves, brought it ashore, buried it; leaving the ship waited for him for three years, went on foot; Ivashka caught up with a white shirt, he was in that coffin; promised to help; at the royal palisade, on every stamen on the head, these are all those who married; the king gave his daughter to Sila; I.: on her wedding night, the bride will put a heavy hand - you have to jump up and beat her with a stick until she loses her feelings; a six-headed serpent, the royal's lover, will arrive, I. will fight him himself; that's it it turned out, I. cut off two heads of the snake; the next two nights, two more; a year later S. and his wife went to see his parents; on the way I. cut off Sila's wife, there were reptiles inside her, I. burned them, joined the parts of the body, revived him with live water; after that I. said that S. would not see him again; S. began to live well with his wife]: Afanasiev 1958 (3), No. 575:368-370; Russians (Olonetskaya) [the old man wants to test his three sons; everyone is given a hundred rubles and tells them to buy a mind; the eldest bought a dog, the middle one - a bird (they fall asleep because of its singing), the youngest paid the dead man's debt and buried the body; the older brother and the dog hunt, the middle brother and the dog hunt, the middle brother and the dog shows an outlandish bird for money; then all three went to the world and left; the elder sees an inscription on the pole: there is soon, but no way back; yet he goes on; the old man hides him from Baba Yaga, turning him, the horse and the dog into stones; I killed the old man, threw stones on him, rushed off; my middle brother sees the inscription: you will take happiness, and you will die with him; in the lake a snake demands a girl for food every day, the princess's turn; the middle one let the bird sing, the snake fell asleep, he killed the snake, married the princess; she leaned to the water for a drink, the snake slipped into her mouth, she soon died; the bird also died; middle brother came to the place where the elder was petrified; Baba Yaga turned him and his horse into stones; on his younger brother's road there is an inscription: you will see a lot of wealth, but only take the dead; a man catches up, suggests dividing everything equally; they drove up to the iron wall, the companion gnawed at her teeth; the same was the locked door; the chains with which the old man was bound; he says that the sorceress chained him 40 years ago; they took the gems went; the sorceress is catching up; the companion gnawed her throat, took two bottles; they come to the city where the princess married by her middle brother should be buried; the youngest has three nights in church to guard; the companion tells me to take the book, the rooster and the harp; the rooster sang, the princess lay down again in the coffin, the younger brother plays the harp; the same on the second night; on the third, the younger brother hides not under the throne, but in the coffin ; the princess lay down beside her, the sting leaned out of her mouth, her younger brother pulled the snake out of her mouth, as her companion taught her; princess: how long have I slept; they came to the petrified brothers, revived them and the old man with water from bottles; the companion splashed from another to Baba Yaga, who became a snake, then a frog, a pebble, the companion put it in a bottle; the brothers returned to their father; he told how the youngest's companion, that is, the dead man, brought him gems; everything is fine]: Onchukov 2008, No. 251:447-425; Russians (Vologda) [after the death of his father I. received 300 rubles from his uncle, went on a journey; the infidel was caught and his veins were pulled; I. he bought it for 300 rubles; he was baptized and died of his wounds; the merchants sketched money for the ceremony, but I. took nothing, went on; some man offers to go together; asks to call him uncle, obey and divide everything in half; the non-Russian king has a daughter, she has already handed over 6 husbands, but his uncle advises I. to try; when I. lay down with his wife, his uncle is at the doorstep; at night a snake flew in, his uncle cut off his head, threw him away at sea, washed everything; I. wants to see his relatives, his uncle indicates which horses to choose; stayed at the old man's house; the robbers returned at night; I. and his wife sleep, the uncle cuts off the heads of those who enter one by one, the rest fled; the gold went to Ivan; at the bridge where I. met his uncle, he offered to part and divide his wife; cut her in half, the snakes went out of her; the uncle washed everything, revived the princess; everything is fine]: Burtsev 1895, No. 3:9-13; Russians (Vologda) [a man borrowed money from a Jew, an icon of Nicholas the Wonderworker as a guarantor; a man does not give money, a Jew beats an icon, Ivan bought the icon; a gray-haired old man came, went to sell with him on ships; the Tsar's daughter died, 20 days in church, you have to be on duty for 3 nights, and everyone is found torn to pieces; each time the old man teaches him to read a book to a certain page and buy what the first to be offered; this is var, cheese, candle; the one who gets up from the coffin rushes every time for the abandoned; after the third night she came to life and healed, the Tsar gave it to Ivan; the old man orders to share what he had acquired together; cuts the princess in pieces, washed it, put it together, the princess came to life; the old man disappeared]: Smirnov 1917, No. 39:208-211; Eastern Ukrainians (Kherson) [the poor man borrowed money, and took St. Nicholas; died; the lender carries the body and the icon to be scolded, beats both; one guy paid the debt, buried the dead man, took an icon; merchants gathered for the goods, but the guy has no money; the old man volunteered to help, built a ship; in another country, the king orders to spend three nights in the crypt; an old man (who confessed that he is St. Nikolai) teaches you to draw a line around you by greasing honey and pouring poppy seeds, but not to look at the princess rising from her coffin; on the third night she will dismantle the roof and try to attack from above - you have to lie in her coffin; in the morning both went out, the old man blessed, the tsar did not go out to his daughter, he was frightened; brought goods with him; on the way, the princess flew into the forest and brought 4 apples; Nicholas tells me not to eat, say what she will eat after; cut apples, and they are teeming with reptiles; princess: how soundly I slept! the old man left, the guy started selling the imported goods]: Yastrebov 1894, No. 5:126-129.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. The Kalmyks [rich Altan örgözhik ("full of gold") lived to be 555 years old, and his old woman to 445, but no children; A. went to travel, went to a yurt, where a mánzhi boy ( the lowest level of Buddhist monasticism) is 10 years old; he asks if the one who came to know A.; he says no; Manzhi was surprised, but asked to tell A.: if he wants to have a son, let him give gifts to the poor, he will put a golden sum (idol), sacrifice to the fire and pray; his son was named Mánjin Zarlik ("the word Manzhi"), by the age of three he grew up strong and intelligent; went to trade; sees how another a man beats the body of a deceased debtor; M. paid the debt; M. returned, took the money again and went to trade again; another boy a little older than him was hired by him; M. told him to cook meat, invited him to eat; that happily began to eat; M. gave him all the meat and drove him away; the same with another boy: he refused to eat while the master was eating; M. took it; they came to A., he was happy {obviously with what his son now has reliable servant}, gave them a black dog as their companions; tells them not to spend the night near a black hill, on white sand and on a black salt marsh; then go to trade in the nomads of Kökshin Bural ("elderly with gray and gray" Khan; but they stopped just at a black hill; a black old man appeared and called to him; while M. was sleeping, the boy took his sword, went to the yurt, looked into the hole; 7 old men sharpen their daggers; each goes out to see what rustles; the boy killed them one at a time; human meat is hung in the yurt, gold, silver, and jewelry are piled up; the boy buried them, burned the rest; spent the night on white sand; an old woman hosh khubarak on goat legs with a copper snout approaches the boy, calls him to spend the night; the same: 7 old women sharpen their swords, the boy killed them one at a time; a girl fits on a black salt marsh; the same: 7 girls sharpen their swords, the boy killed them one at a time; a girl fits on a black salt marsh; the same: daggers, the boy killed them one at a time; they came to K. Khan; his son and M. became friends; one day a big cat came to eat leftovers; boys' dog: are you not enough of your own? cat: when your master marries, I will become a poisonous snake, I will bite; dog: you can't; but your bile will be a cure for your khan's daughter, who is dry; a boy killed a cat, took bile, ordered M. to offer to cure the khan's daughter; the girl recovered; the khan gave her daughter and half of the people; on the way back, they took the buried treasures of the killed demons; they began to lower the bucket into the well - every time a bucket comes off; the boy told him to let him down; there's a witch (mous emagan), a boy and a girl in front of her; that boy: is thought or wind faster? boy coming down: the wind is moving in one direction, and the thought is in four at once; that boy: the old woman kidnapped him and the girl, they are the children of Hormusta Tengria; when the water in the well is completely gone, their old woman will kill; the boy who came down killed the old woman, they all began to rise; as the body of the murdered old woman rose, the water also rose to the very top; the heavenly boy became a swan and flew to heaven, leaving his younger sister as his wife to the savior; he gave her to M.; on the wedding night, a snake crawls to bed, a boy worker killed her, blood dripped on the bride's cheek, he erased it; the girl to her husband: he kissed me on cheek; he tells M. that he is the ransom dead man; leaves; M. came to Erlik Khan for him; both of them were asked to walk on an iron wire as thick as their hair; they went and they were both released into the world alive; the boy worker took his daughter K.]: Pozdneev 1889:348-364; Abkhazians [the merchant's son pays the debts of the deceased, who is dragged along the ground, buries him; goes to the royal feast; a man with a hatchet lets him through on the condition that they share everything they receive; the king married a daughter to a young man; at night, a man with a hatchet hid in the newlyweds room, cut off the heads of two snakes that crawled out of the girl's mouth ; the third noticed him and hid; everyone is surprised: the princess's 9 previous husbands were found dead in the morning; the man with the hatchet demands to separate his wife, swings, the girl cried out, the snake crawled out, he killed her ; said he was that ransom dead man and disappeared]: Khashba, Kukba 1935:114-119 (=Shakryl 1975, No. 34:174-176); Karachays [father promises to be the first to marry the one of the three sons he will make for people good deed; the elders spent the money, the youngest bought the dead man whose body the lender is going to drag around the village; the father tells his son to accompany a man who will eat the cauldron in one sitting hominy; this is the little man Chuyunkak ("hominy's cauldron"); the father sends his son for the bride, telling him not to spend the night where there are three hills; they stop; each time C. defeats the woman follows her into the hill, puts her wealth in a chest; they come to the girl, her suitors have always been found dead in the morning; H. at night kills three snakes that crawled out of the girl's mouth; khan married his daughter to to a young man; on the way back they took treasure chests; C. disappeared; father explains: C. is a good doer]: Rumyantseva 1981:67-72; Balkarians (Western 1958) [the poor man wants to marry his son; tells him to bring a friend; he finds a companion, the father asks him to share the food, the guest divides him into equal parts; the father sends him away; the same with the second candidate; the third time the young man sees two people wanting to dig up a dead man who owes them money; a young man pays the money himself; meets a young man named Ak; he gives the best parts of watermelon and bread to the young man's father; the father tells him not spend the night in the gorge; but the young man did not listen to advice; Ak does not sleep; Emegen came up, shot, missed, How did he hit him, came in the footsteps to the cave; there is dead emegen and treasures; in the village, the daughter of a rich man gives grooms hide three times; if they find, cut off their heads, 99 people have already been decapitated; Ak replaces the young man, the fox agrees to help; hid the groom in a hole under a stone; the girl searched three times (even in heaven and at home in her hair), but did not find it; agreed to marry a young man; the dead came to life, she began; on the way back, Ak gave the young man the treasures of emegen; pretends that the girl should be divided; when he swung a knife, she has A mirror and a snake fell out of her mouth; the girl recognized what was happening on the surface of the earth with a mirror, and what was underground with a snake; Ak returned to the grave; wedding, feast]: Malkonduev 2017: 381-386; Ossetians [every evening a poor man flew across the sea on his gelding, kidnapped a girl and a young man from the khan, married them, and thus created his own people; when he learned that the poor man decided to get the khan's daughter, hers the servant warned that to do this he must fly on horseback to the top of her tower; the young man did this, the khan's daughter became his wife and gave a whip: if she was kidnapped, the whip would fall; the whip falls three times, each time further and further, but every time the young man meets people he must bring to his house, following the laws of hospitality; then jumps in search; consistently sees the corpse of a white, black greyhound, a horse, man, boar; buries all the first, and the boar cuts to pieces, for he killed the others; a buried rider comes out of the mound, becomes an assistant; in the distance there is light, it is Khan who takes the kidnapped; the rider from the crypt offers the khan a ransom: a goat and a lamb; then a bull and a buffalo; the khan does not give; they destroyed his army, then killed the khan; the dead man returns to the crypt and tells him to go without turning; but the young man returned to find out the name of the assistant; he replied that he was Barastor, the lord of the afterlife; he gave a knife and ordered his wife to be slaughtered, but not to want her; the young man heard the child crying and turned into a crevice; entrance closed, the child became a cannibal woman; the young man called for help from the dogs he had buried, they could not gnaw through the mountain; then the horse, which broke two holes, the dogs came through them, began to gnaw the woman, the young man stabbed her; the dogs and the horse returned to the mound; the young man returned to B., looked out the window and saw the light: B.'s wife's neck opened and the light flooded the room; when the woman fell asleep, the young man stabbed her, but could not resist and kissed; this place on her body turned black; at home he told his wife that he had committed a terrible sin: B.'s wife would be in hell until the blackness came off her lips]: Dzagurov 1973, No. 121:510-518; Nogais [Khan Atay sick; witch doctor: you need gold-maned catfish fat with a red tail; the old man tells his son Musa that the catfish is at the end of the world under the Daua Bridge; the catfish persuaded M. to let him go; the witch doctor told the khan, who drove his son away; a young man Asa met him at the bridge, they went together; the khan gave away his daughter, and the groom died; Musa and Asa were each ready to marry her; the lot was small for M.; after the wedding, Asa ran into the bedchamber, cut it crawling to the sleeping snake; the front part whizzed into the bride's mouth; on the way back, the friends decided to share the treasure and the bride; M. swung his sword, the girl vomited, the snake came out; Asa explained that he was that catfish went under the bridge; seeing his son, Khan Atay saw the light]: Kapayev 2012:69-73; Avars [a young merchant buys a debtor from a loan shark; soon an unknown young man joins the caravan; at night, while the rest sleep, kills the witch Hart, drives Azhdakha away; marries the khan's daughter for the merchant; kills the three-headed monster that attacked the grooms on their wedding night; before parting, he confesses that he redeemed debtor; shares the treasures found; hits the merchant's wife three times, three ajdahs jump out of her mouth; now the wife is safe]: Atayev 1972, No. 74:85-89; Udins [the tsar gives money to three sons so that they could dispose of them smartly; the older money was spent, the youngest saw a man hitting the grave with a stick: the deceased owed him money; the prince gives this amount, tells him to leave the deceased in rest; the king scolds his eldest sons, praises the youngest; advises to hire a servant who refuses the offer to share the meal; the prince goes to the bazaar, the third candidate refuses to eat with him - will eat what remains; advises the caravan with goods to take a short route, although none of those who went back; at night, the servant is awake, hears someone inviting the dog to remain silent: its owner he will kill soon, let him take possession of the goods; the dog continues to bark; the prince sold the goods profitably, the servant ordered him to return the same way; again the dog barks, the servant runs to his voice, someone runs away, hides underground; the servant tells the prince to lower him down on a rope; there are three princesses kidnapped by seven divas; the servant cut the divas into pieces, put the severed ears in his bag; the prince lifted the women upstairs, treasures and servant, the caravan moved to the house; there the king father went blind from grief, the sister went crazy: everyone thinks that the prince is dead; the servant kills the same dog, moistens his bag with blood; says that everyone one of the princes marries one of the rescued princesses; leads him to a fresh grave; she is just the size of the grave; gives the money that the prince paid to the defiler of the grave; orders his father to be cured by blurring with their blood dogs, and their sister's mind by giving a decoction from the dives' ears to drink; let the king give the prince the throne; then the grave closed]: Dirr 1922, No. 17:88-93 (=1920, No. 17:88-93); Georgians (Tbilisi) [merchant sends his eldest son to trade, he is afraid of losing, brings gold back; the same with the middle one; the youngest buys a dead man with his ear cut off, who is beaten by his lenders; puts a mono-eared man the monument, having spent all the money and asking his father for more; the father is happy, tells his son to take an assistant who will keep a dry crust and give him the crumb; only a one-eared Arab fulfills the condition; agrees to divide the proceeds in half and meet its three conditions; goes ahead of the caravan through the forest, exterminating predators; the first condition: ask the king for permission to sit with the caravan in the courtyard in a shack; orders The young man does not look out of the shack, he goes to buy the magic bird himself; the young man looked out and saw the princess; the king will pass her off as someone who can get her to talk, who could not execute; the Arab put the bird under the pot, asks if it is being cleaned; the pot (i.e. the bird) replies that they do not clean it, the princess is indignant out loud; the king kills the vizier, believing that he is to blame for everything; the Arab hid the bird in the curtain (same: I am not they clean; princess: what's it like?) ; the third time the same (the bird answers on behalf of the throne); Arab to the king: I want a princess not for myself, but for a rich young man; the Arab tells the young man to celebrate only his engagement and until he returns to his father to his betrothed approach; on the way back, the Arab orders to separate the bird (tears it in half) and the princess; waves his sword, a snake crawls out of the princess's mouth; the Arab says that he is the dead man whom the young man bought; all good]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 81:59-71; Megrelia [the merchant's son squandered money twice; the third time he bought the deceased, who was beaten by lenders; went on a journey again, a boy went with him ; he cured the princess, she and her dowry were given to the merchant's son; the boy offers to share the girl along with all her property; when he fell asleep with his sword, a reptile jumped out of her mouth - her reason illnesses; the boy explained that he is the dead man whose debts were paid by the merchant's son]: Stepanov 1898, No. 14:43-46; Talyshi [a rich brother has a daughter, the poor has three sons; the rich promises a daughter to that of nephews, who would bring a hundred mists in a year; the eldest became a doctor's apprentice, the middle one remained with a man who later promised to give him something that would take him to any country; the youngest remained with the old man; he sends him to get the ruler's dumb daughter to talk; we should ask the nargile with a soft pipe to turn to the ruler, say, "Mr. Nargile, tell us a story that would make her daughter Speak the ruler." Nargile will start telling. After each story you tell, ask council members to make a conclusion. None of the audience will be able to do this, and the ruler's daughter will start talking from behind the curtain. There will be a turmoil, we must return home right away; Nargile's story: there was a carpenter, a tailor and a mullah; they decided to go to another city; spent the night in the deserts, stayed in turn to guard and made the figure the woman, the tailor dressed her, the mullah asked God to revive; the audience wondered who the girl should belong to; the king's daughter said from behind the curtain that she was a carpenter; the old man tells the young man to repeat everything the next day ; "There were three brothers and all three wanted to marry their cousin. They went in different directions, earning a hundred mists to give their uncle for their daughter. Before leaving, they left a sign near one spring, thinking that whoever made the money first would pick up the tag. After a year of work, it turned out that none of the three brothers were able to raise so much money. One brother studied medicine, another received the Prophet Solomon's carpet, and the third became a fortuneteller; the doctor was the first to return to the spring, then the other two came up. No one had money, but the first said he had learned medicine, the second said he had the Prophet Solomon's carpet, and the third said he had learned divination; the fortuneteller found that the cousin was only that she was dead, the second brother gave a carpet, the doctor revived (cured); the padishah's daughter said that the girl belonged to a fortuneteller; the old man ordered to go again, ask the ruler to tie the girl to a tree, whip her with a whip , a worm will fall out of her mouth, she must kill him, then the girl will speak; the old man sent the young man to meet his brothers, it happened as in the story; the younger brother married his uncle's daughter]: Asatryan 2005:41-50.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Jaliashvili, Faras 1967 (Isfahan) [a dervish gives an aged childless padishah an apple to eat in half with his wife; if a boy is born, he must give it to him in 14 years old; Feridun is born; the dervish agrees to go with him voluntarily; shows a portrait of Yasaman, the daughter of Padishah Chin; agrees with F. that they will divide everything in half; J. falls in love with F. that that son is not a dervish, but a padishah of Iran, Padishah Chyna gives him a daughter; her former suitors died; the dervish demands to separate the girl, swings an ax, a scorpion and a snake crawl out of Y.'s mouth; a dervish explains that otherwise it was impossible to extract them; F. and J. live happily ever after]: 33-47; Persians: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 27 (Kerman) [chief merchant Malik ut Tujjar sent his son to the bazaar, giving a hundred mists; he sees how the debtor's corpse was hung and beaten at the crossroads, gives the lenders all his money, the body is buried; the young man again received money from his father and went to trade; wanting to check the reliability companions, he deliberately leaves the caravan and he leaves; the same second time; the third time they are waiting for him; a young man comes out of the desert, becomes a servant of the merchant's son; undertakes to guard the caravan alone at night with the condition that others do not interfere; once he sees a fire, comes up, there are 40 robbers; he pretends to be a robber, offers to rob the royal treasury; lifts everyone on a rope against the wall and cuts off the head; kills the chieftain last; places the bodies in the treasury, the chieftain in the middle; finds a lion in the royal bedchamber, manages to kill him before he rushes at the sleeping king; inflicting kalam the sign on the king's leg, having tasted the royal dishes, drinking water and lighting the royal pipe, quietly returned to the caravan; on the way, a diva woman who ate and robbed caravans; a young man kills her, frees her prisoners, locks her treasury, returns to the caravan again; the king promises a daughter to the one who killed the lion and the robbers; many try to attribute their exploits, but their stories are unreliable; the king is summoned The merchant's son who has just arrived, the servant goes with him, tells him to obey; talks about how things happened, but attributes exploits to the merchant's son; he receives a princess with a rich dowry; on the way back, a servant The diva offers to take the treasures and divide everything; brings her sword over the merchant's son's wife to cut her in half; a black snake crawls out of her mouth; the servant gives the merchant's son all the treasures and his wife, says that he is the dead man whose debt he paid]: 169-175; Tajiks [bai gave his son 40 coins to buy a slave; with this money he buys and buries the deceased debtor; the father again gives 40 coins, the son buys and buries the deceased debtor; the father again gives 40 coins, the son buys a slave, he promises to let him go when he helps him out of trouble; the son goes with a caravan, a woman comes to the night, gives everyone a drink, the slave does not drink, watches the woman, kills giants in a cave served by a woman; at a new night, she overhears a conversation between a dog and a dragon (the dragon's skin will cure the padishah's daughter; the dog's eyes can be inserted in a bay if he goes blind); a slave kills a dragon, heals the padishah's daughter, tells her to give her for his master; bai at first does not believe that the son has returned with his wife and wealth; blind from tears, lamenting his beloved dog, sees the light thanks to dog eyes; slave tells him to be buried, he was the same dead]: Amonov 1980:199-202; Vakhans [an elderly merchant sends a 10-year-old son to trade; he buys, buries the dead man (he owes, the creditor drags corpse from place to place); a year later, the father tells his son to find a good servant; the son finds, goes on a journey; wants to shelter the dog; the servant watches it, overhears the conversation of three peri: this dog is dangerous werewolf; kills her, makes her meat a cure for all diseases; the king promises his daughter to the one who will cure her; the servant cured her, gave the girl to the merchant's son; left, saying that he was the ransom dead]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 45:383-389

Baltoscandia. Norwegians [a young man dreams of a princess, goes to look for her; pays for the burial of a man executed for diluting wine and leaving him in a block of ice; someone catches up with him, becomes companion and assistant; opens the rock, invites the trollich to sit down, she sticks to the bench; takes the sword she wields with her two sisters, for which she frees the trollich; the second trolls are a ball of gold thread; the third has an invisible hat; a ball thrown across the fjord turns into a bridge; on the other side they wind it up, the pursuer trolls drown; in the palace, the princess suggests 1) hide the scissors from her and return it at noon the next day, otherwise she executes her; slowly picks them up; the companion threatens the ram in which the princess rides to her troll lover with a sword, when she comes; wearing an invisible hat, the companion flies with the princess on the same ram; when she gives the scissors to the troll, the companion picks them up quietly; in the morning the young man returns them to the princess; 2) the same with her golden ball; 3) bring what she thinks; the companion flies with the princess to the troll; the troll flies back with her on his ram; the companion kills the troll, tells the princess to give his head in the morning - she thought about a troll; a companion teaches a young man on his wedding night to pretend to be asleep, and when his wife takes out the knife, cut off his head, beat her and rip off her troll skin; they fly home on the troll's rams, taking everything wealth; the companion promises to come in five years; comes and demands to divide everything, including the young man's son; he brings his sword, his companion stops him; says that when the young man freed him from blocks of ice, he was just as happy as he is now when he stopped his hand with his sword brought]: Asbjíørsen, Moe 1960:84-96; Icelanders [after the death of his parents Prince Thorstein all squandered and went on a journey; in one place he saw peasants digging up a grave; the man said that the deceased owed him 200 coins; T. paid them; on the advice of a peasant, he turned at the crossroads to the west, but then changed his mind and went east; drove up to the fortified castle; the door was unlocked, the room had 7 beds, there were 7 plates on the table; T. put food on each meal, made all the beds; the giants came in, one of them advised not to harm the guest since he cleaned the house; let him stay; after a year the giants are very happy with the servant; he is entrusted with the keys to all but one of the rooms; T. managed to print the key in the test, he made a copy and unlocked the door; there was an exhausted kidnapped princess tied by her hair; he began to feed her daily; after another 4 years, T. asked permission to leave the giants, and as a reward, in the forbidden room - no matter what is there; the giant agreed; but soon chased him; T. hacked three giants; then two more; then the chief and his brother; T. killed his brother, but the giant knocked him down; the princess killed the giant; in the castle of the giants they waited for the ship; the captain was the brother of the princess's father and his minister Raudur; at sea he left T. in the boat and took an oath from the crew: he was the savior; T. I heard a voice: I will help you; it was that dead man; they arrived on princess island before the ship; T. was hired by the groom; he and the princess told the king everything; the sailors were imprisoned, Raudura executed; upon the death of King T. inherited the throne]: Poestion 1994, No. 33:274-284; the Danes [when he died, the father gave Johannes 7 marks; he bought them a dead man, whom the lenders threw out of the grave; a man went with him in the forest, asking him to be called Friend; the old woman carried brushwood, broke her leg, the Friend cured her with wonderful oil; the eagle and the falcon began to fight, fell dead; The friend took eagle wings with them and the falcon's legs; the princess demands to guess what she thinks three times, hangs unlucky applicants in her garden; while I. sleeps, the friend turns into a falcon, flies after the princess, hits her with brushwood, she thinks it's hail; when she leaves the palace, she flies to the mountain, knocks, opens a terrible troll; in the hall on the throne, a troll and a princess, animals and reptiles dance; the troll advises the princess to think about her gloves, A friend hears this; says I., who answers the princess; next time he talks about shoes; the third time the troll flew after the princess, told her to think about his head, his friend cut her off, hid it in a bag, gave it to I.; And . opened the bag, it has the head the princess thought about; gets a wife; A friend tells me to put a tub of water by the bed; I. dips the princess in it, she turned into a duck, a swan, I. did not let go, she became human, the spell dissipated; A friend says he is that dead man, disappears]: Suritz 1991:54-58; Swedes [Pelle Koch has been swimming cocom for many years; his sailor friend fell overboard and drowned; after a few years at this place, the PC asked the captain to pay him and let him go in the boat; the ship saw that sailor come out of the sea and get into the PC's boat; they sailed to the island, the sailor died again, his PC buried; the princess said she was kidnapped by 12 thieves; the PC pretended to be a robber too, got them drunk and killed them; with treasures and the princess sailed to her country; she gave the PC half of her ring ; two bastards overheard their conversation, beat up the PC, told the princess to say they were the ones who rescued her; she must marry one of them as soon as her king father recovers; that sailor appeared again took the PC to the doctor, who cured him, ordered him to be hired in the king's kitchen, taught him how to heal; thanked the PC again for the good, disappeared forever; the PC threw half of the ring into the glass, the king saw the other half of the princess, everything was explained; the PC married the princess, the liars were imprisoned in a tower]: Stier 1971, No. 36:149-155; the Finns [after serving, Imanti went to Riga because he dreamed that there a fried hazel grouse jumped into his mouth from the window; found this house, hired a merchant, became a captain; one day a storm brought the ship to an unfamiliar harbor; I. saw a coffin being taken to the square and everyone beat it with chopsticks; this is the debtor, I. paid his debts and buried him; when the coral went to sea, two cauldrons of gold clung to the anchor; in another city, I. fell in love with the princess, lured him to the ship and took him away; the princess agreed to exchange rings with him; the helmsman and his henchmen tied I., put her in a boat and let him go to sea; the princess was brought to her father, the helmsman said he had saved her; I. sailed to the island; from there the dead man carried him back to the princess in his coffin; she recognized her ring; the king asked how to execute the man who left another at sea; the helmsman: tie him to a board and throw him into the sea; and they did so; I. married a princess]: Conca 1993:51-59; the Finns [after squandering wealth and youth, the king went on horseback to another country; it is a custom to throw away the bodies of those who did not leave a legacy (to pay for the funeral); for the remaining three stamps, the king buried one of the dead; to meet the guy, asks to take him as a servant; we will agree on a salary later; everything arranges in the inn, cooks for the king has a proper dinner; asks the owner to give him an old hat; the same at the next inn; takes a rusty sword; on the third, an old purse; in the city of mourning, the monster demands a royal daughter as his wife; she is ready to marry the king who has arrived if he brings her a ring thrown under the table and then tells her who she kissed in the evening; the servant puts the ring in the king's pocket; wearing an invisible hat, he sees that the princess did not go to kiss her parents, but met the monster in the garden; cut off the monster's head with a rusty saber and hid it in her purse; in the morning the bridegroom king showed his head; the princess is happy because she did not kiss voluntarily; wedding, son was born; servant demands payment: son's life; cut off the boy's head, but he is alive and well again; the servant was the spirit of that buried tramp]: Concca 1991:228-238; Finns []: Löwis of Menar 1922, No. 35:102-108; Karelians (Kalevala District) [poor brother asked the rich man to buy a horse for 6 rubles; promised that if he did not repay the debt, Saint Miikkula would repay; returning three ruble, died; at the funeral, the rich began to beat the deceased and the image of the SV; the son of a third, also a deceased brother, paid off his debt; met an old man who asked for a laborer, although the poor did not have jobs for a farmhand; ordered to buy nails, turned the bottom of the old boat into a golden ship; went with the young man to sell goods, agreed to divide everything in half; the rich brother sent three ships; sailed to the royal shore; the king says that his daughter needs one person in church every night to eat; if you send, you can trade; the rich brother invites the guy to go; the old man tells the rich man to demand one from the rich a ship with goods; the old man tells you to sit on the choir, draw a book around three lines, three iron fences will appear; the girl gnaws on the fences with iron teeth; the rooster sang and she disappeared into the basement; the second night after the second ship is the same; the third is for the third ship; old man: when the fences gnaw through, you have to hit the girl in the forehead, iron teeth will fall out; the disgraced girl explains that she refused the prince from the filthy the country and his mother bewitched her; the king gives her daughter and nine ships of dowry; the old man demanded half of his wife; split her body in half, washed it, combined it, she became more beautiful than before; the old man said that he SM, disappeared; the young man brought home 13 ships and his wife]: Onegin 2010, No. 14:160-166; Estonians: Järv et al. 2009, No. 22 (Jüri) [mother gives her son money, sends him to the bazaar, he distributes everything to the poor; so three times; the old man invites him to hire him as an employee for a year; with a load of bricks they sail to another city; all those who come bring gifts to the king; the young man brings two bricks, but the king is happy; from every ship that sails, someone must spend the night in a church, where a princess is at the mercy of evil forces behind the altar; the young man spends three nights for himself and others, does not pay attention to evil spirits; two in the morning, a puppy comes up to him, caressing him, the princess comes out on the third; the king gives her to him as his wife; they sail back on the ship; the owner demands half of his wife for help; cuts her in half, pulls out the snakes, frogs and lizards, makes him whole and healthy again; gives the ship, disappears himself; bricks turn into gold], 24 (Kodavere) [the merchant sees a man beating God's image, for his debtor took him to guarantors, but he died; the merchant pays the debt, takes the image to the church; the old man tells the merchant where to get the ship, loads broken bricks and firewood there; but in the city where the ship sailed, all this was sold for big money; the rich man's daughter died, told her to spend three nights in church at her coffin before her death, then she will come to life; no one comes back alive; the old man teaches the merchant what to do, spends three circles, then nine laps around the coffin; on the third night she gives the merchant iron nuts; when the dead woman crosses the seventh line, the merchant throws nuts, she starts picking them up, morning comes, she does not go to the coffin; comes to life; her father gives a merchant's daughter as a wife; on the ship, the old man tells him to divide his wife, cuts him in half, cleans snakes and lizards, revives him again; says that he was God's way]: 104-107, 110-112; Latvians: Arys, Copper 1977, № 507C [The guy buys a dead man, escapes the storm and stays with a fisherman. He marries a princess whose suitors all died after the first night. At midnight, a fisherman comes and wants to cut the princess in half. A snake crawls out of her mouth. A fisherman - a dead man - kills a snake and disappears], *507D [The merchant buys the dead man. A dead man helps him in matchmaking to the witch's three daughters. A merchant should spend the night with everyone. A dead man replaces him, takes half the life of his witch daughters. The merchant gets his youngest wife. On the way home, the wife turns into a squirrel; she is thrown into the fire, and various creeping creatures appear. The dead man tells the merchant to keep his handkerchief on fire, a moth appears on him, he turns into a girl. The merchant marries her]: 294; Brivzemniax 1887, No. 126 [when old, the rich merchant sent his son overseas with goods; he raised a lot of money, the local king greeted him; a young merchant sees a coffin in the cemetery , who they spit on; king: this is a debtor, they will spit on him for a year and six weeks; the merchant paid the debt, the debtor was buried; the king gave the merchant his ring as a keepsake; the father began to reproach his son, but sent him again goods; this time he bought two women who were saved by the royal people, and they refused to satisfy the king's wishes; the king gave the merchant a watch; for extravagance, his father drove him away along with the women; those they began to earn money by handicrafts, the merchant married the one that was more beautiful; the wife sent the merchant with a load of stones to the ground, where the stones were expensive, attached a ribbon with her name to the mast, and gave a letter to the local king; it turned out to be her father, he is happy that his daughter taken to sea is alive; he appointed the merchant as his heir; the merchant went to pick up his wife, but on the way back the minister pushed him into the water; he grabbed the swan; he was saved dead, brought the merchant to the father-in-law king; he was preparing his daughter's wedding with the minister; the merchant came in the guise of a beggar; the king, who gave the merchant a ring and a watch, was visiting; he recognized them, became ask the beggar; the merchant was married to the king's daughter again, the king died soon, he reigned; the minister was executed]: 248-256; Lithuanians [the prince gave all his money, paying the debts of the deceased and burying him him; becoming a merchant and once on the island, he meets the princess brought there by the storm; the prince marries her, brings her to the city; the king sends a servant to give the prince a reward; he confronts the prince with a ship at sea, attributes a feat to himself; a man in a boat saves a prince; says he is the dead man whom the prince buried; teaches to return his wife; everything is fine]: Gerould 1908:78-79.

Volga - Perm. The Bashkirs [on the way to the bazaar, Abdullah finds a dead man and buries him; meets a man named Baigush, they agree to divide everything they have obtained in half; taking the guise of A., B. performs the tasks of the tsar and gets the princess; after the wedding, A. leaves; he turned out to be that buried dead]: Khusainova 2014:57.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [bai consistently sends three sons to search for the missing herd; turns into six wolves who go out to meet the young man; the eldest, then the middle sons flee; The father comes out to meet the youngest in the guise of six tigers, but he is not afraid; his father tells him to spend the night near the graves; the young man sees a fresh grave, says "suilam" 15 times; a young man comes out of the grave, they become friends; the dead man tells us who he was killed; tells them to go to his village, there are missing horses; gives them a knife, tells them to rip two horses, but not show them - the sister will find out and will be bad; young man He kills horses, he is beaten, they see a knife, they prepare to beat him to death; he leads the relatives of the dead to his grave, he goes out; his sister dropped a tear at him and he disappeared; people believed the young man, gave him horses; he hardly summoned the dead: his sister's tear turned into a sea through which he was supposed to sail; teaches him to go hiking, kill his murderer; kill a young woman in a yurt newlyweds and two girls; one of them the young man kissed; during the storm, others lose what they had earned during the raid, and the young man fastened a bag of droppings and a poplar with a rod, cattle came out of the bag, the poplar turned into gold and silver; the young man sees a dead friend those women whom he stabbed; the one he kissed left a dark spot; the dead gave her to him; then Azrail-Jebrail comes for the young man, but the dead man did not give him; he complained to God, but God left the young man alive]: Valikhanov 1985:65-70; Kyrgyz [rich blind Sokurbay ("blind buy") sent his son to the bazaar, giving him a thousand gold; he met people who were beating the dead man - he he owed them; the young man paid the debt and buried the dead man, giving all his money; S. told his son to find a good companion; he brought 12 people, S. felt their hands, drove them away; the young man brought another; S.:" This one fits"; S. sent his son with a caravan; ordered not to drink from a spring in the desert; the bashi caravan-bashi is that companion; he stopped at the spring; an old woman came up and gave her food for her children; but secretly followed to her; when she entered the cave, the old woman says to her five children: "The sons of the same bay I once dazzled have arrived and settled for the night by the spring. I'll cook poisons for them"; the caravan-bashi changed his wineskins; when the old woman came and gave her own wineskin with poison, she and her children went blind; the bashi caravan-bashi took the old woman's treasures from the cave and closed the exit; There is a yurt nearby, where 40 girls and 40 sheep are tied to be eaten by a dragon; a caravan-bashi killed a dragon with a sword; he tied a dragon skin around the waist of the khan's daughter; the khan wants to give her for a savior, but he promises to take her on the way back; seven robbers are rampant in another city; the caravan-bashi tells them that he is also a robber, promises to help rob the khan's treasury; calling robbers to alone, kills everyone; the khan is looking for a hero; many come, but only the caravan-bashi brought the robbers' ears cut off; promises to take the khan's daughter on the way back; in another city, caravan-bashi 12 times sends his son S. to the saddler, each time he must ask him to make a new saddle even better than the previous one; after the 12th saddle, the saddler cannot do better; he goes across the river, the caravan-bashi watches him; he comes to the yurt where the girls are; S.'s son fell asleep, the khan's daughter put a mark on his cheek; the caravan-bashi tells his son S. to ask the girl for her fur coat; the khan sees the caravan-bashi in this fur coat; he assures that it is not a fur coat Khan's daughter, and he has 40 of them; Khan gave him his daughter; on the way back, son S. and his companion took those two girls and the old woman's property from the spring; he saw the light; rejoiced; the satellite says he is the one dead, and leaves]: Kebekov, Tokombaev 2007:169-175.