K100C. A snake bites a girl's grooms, ATU 507 (main part, variant 2) .14.17.23.27.29.-.33.

A woman (rarely a young man) does not know that there is something dangerous for her marriage partner (usually a snake) inside her (usually a snake), or that she will turn into a snake on her wedding night, or that a snake crawls on the wedding night. The hero or his companion eliminates the danger. {The K100C motif is similar to the F9F1, but it is cosmological and etiological and is related to the idea of a dangerous woman, and the K100C is adventurous}.

Kabila, Arabs of Morocco, Algeria, Arameans, Arabs of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kashmiris, Bengalis, Sindhi, Oraons, Baiga, Bulgarians, Serbs, Romanians, Albanians, Russians (Karelian Pomorie, Olonetskaya, Vologda), Eastern Ukrainians (Kherson), Abkhazians, Abazins, Karachays, Balkarians, Nogais, Stavropol Turkmens, Avars, Tabasarans, Rutultsy, Tsakhurs, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Talysh, Kurds, Persians, Turkmens, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Baluchis, Estonians, Latvians, Maris, Mordovians, Karakalpaks, Kyrgyz, Uighurs.

North Africa. Kabila [the king keeps his son Mehend in a secret room, tells him to feed him boneless meat; M. finds bone in the lamb, breaks through its wall, runs out to the market square; witch Settuta asks if he was married to Hamisha, Hitina's daughter; he asks S. to cook soup for him, puts her hand in boiling water, S. shows that H. lives in the east; M. saves the fisherman caught fish, exchanging it for their horse; the fish turns into a young companion; after 7 years they arrive in a city where mourning: the princess is sick; the king promises to pass her off as someone who will cure her; companion M. is summoned do it; in the princess's room tells stories; three brothers wandered, spent the night in the forest, took turns keeping the fire; the youngest saw a tree resembling a human figure, carved out a figure women; the elder dressed her; the middle one turned to God and revived her; the brothers began to argue who she should belong to and killed each other; she was an evil fairy; she loved only the one who revived her and saw him dead, began to take revenge on people; the prince's companion tells the fairy to leave Sumishi; S. belches a black snake; she swallowed it quietly while drinking water from the spring; general glee; a wedding is scheduled, but instead the one who expelled the snake comes to S.; his companion says that he cannot be her husband, because he is the spirit of water, who took the form of a fish and was saved by Mehand; disappears, M. marries S., returns with her to his mother , leaving her young son to her father]: Taos Amrush 1974:99-110 (=Grim 1983:49-61); the Arabs of Morocco [the son of a wealthy merchant almost ruined 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; after that, the merchant shot the monkey and began to raise his son strictly; he grew up to be a noble young man; bought the deceased, who creditors did not allow burials; the merchant praised his son and ordered him to pay for a memorial meal as well; the dead man looked bald, came to the meal, but ate only lentils; the merchant asked him to be a friend and a 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 fire; there were 40 robbers; each went to watch the tent and then rob it; 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 fatal blow; hit 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; the Arabs of Algeria [hate the wives of seven brothers Brothers' sister Aisha; they let her eat snake eggs under the guise of pigeons; her stomach began to swell; the brothers buried A. alive, but a passerby heard moans and dug her up; wise El-Moudjarrab advises feeding A. salted lamb and hang them by the legs above a basin of water; snakes crawled out of her mouth to get drunk, the man killed them and married A.; she gave birth to a boy named Hab-Hab-Roumann; when he plays with others children, they laugh at him: why does he not have a maternal uncle; A. reports that he has an uncle; negotiates with his son that he will lead him to his brothers and begin the story as if about strangers, but in reality about myself; see how the brothers react; they cry, A. opened up to them; the brothers beat their wives for a long time, then buried them alive]: Belarus 1982:46-51.

Western Asia. Aramei [the fisherman caught but released the fish; the next day he pulled out a chest of pearls; went to Istanbul with his son to sell pearls; another young man joined them on the way; many men marry the king's daughters, but in the morning everyone is found dead; the fisherman's son asks his father to marry her; at night a snake crawls out of the girl's mouth, wraps around the young man's neck and wants to strangle him, but the companion stood nearby and killed a snake; the king is happy; a year later they go home; the companion offers to share everything; swung his sword to cut the woman, she is frightened, snakes crawled out of her mouth; the companion said that he does not need a woman or money, and that he is the fish that the young man's father let go; everything is fine]: Bergsträsser 1915, No. 17:55-57; Iraqi Arabs (Shiites on the Lower Euphrates) [Sultan asks for a son to marry, but he refuses: all women are vicious; the Sultan imprisoned him in a prison palace; one fisherman caught a fish - gold on one side and silver on the other; brought it to the prince; he let it into the pool; understood that the fish also suffers in prison; released into the river; the fish returned to his lover; he took the form of a dervish, came to the prince; he actually has a lover, but he refused to marry because his father wanted to marry him to his cousin (ideal marriage); the prince and the dervish came to the girl, took her away; the dervish demands to share what he had earned; swung his sword, and a long one crawled out of the girl's mouth the snake and disappeared into the desert; the prince and the girl returned to the Sultan father; the wedding, everyone is happy]: Campbell 1950:11-17; Saudia [two friends went to the poet Hatam - one to ask for money and the other for his wife; the old man in rags asks to take him with him; H. gave money and gave his wife; each of the friends wanted everything, they stabbed each other; the woman said she would stay with the old man; the ruler's son sick, a snake has settled in it; a woman accidentally sees her crawl out of the mouth of a sleeping prince and crawling to another; says that she is lying on seven jugs of gold, and the second says what if the prince drinks vinegar, the first to die; the woman told the old man to call himself a healer; he said that his daughter would be treated; the woman gave the prince vinegar, the snake crawled out, the old man killed her; asked the king to give the "daughter" to the prince; the woman found the place where the second snake lived; she crawled away herself, saying that the owner of the treasure had come; the old man was Khidr]: Juhaiman 1999:50-53.

South Asia. Kashmiris: Knowles 1885:32-41 [After leaving his parents and wife, the young brahman went begging; the king hired him; the wife came and said there was nothing to eat; he wrote 4 tips, told them sell; she sent the paper to the king; he ordered the brahmana to be beaten and driven away; then she met the king's son, who bought advice; for this, the king drove him away; 1) don't sleep in an unfamiliar place; the prince stayed in the house robbers; does not sleep, snatches the sword from the hand of the girl who threw herself at him; tells her how the king's favorite parrot asked for time off for his son's wedding, brought two tree shoots; one tree makes him young, the other was old; the hurricane broke off the branches, the snake hiding under them poisoned the leaves; the king gave fruit to the dog, it died; the king killed the dog; a year later the old man ate the fruit and became younger" the king regretted that he had killed the parrot ; the next night, the prince talks about a merchant who borrowed money and gave his dog to another; the dog found property stolen by thieves; the owner, grateful for the dog, wrote a note: forgives the debt and gives more; the first merchant did not look and killed the dog, thinking that the second sent her to demand the debt; the girl says that now her father will kill her because she did not kill the prince; runs away with him; he becomes a yogi; 2) if you come to a married sister rich, she will accept him with honor, and if poor, she will not recognize him; the king's sick wife {i.e. the prince's sister, did she not recognize him?} came, healed, lost his necklace; the necklace was found, the king wanted to execute yoga, but he fled; the potter says that the princess takes husbands, everyone is dead in the morning; now it is the turn of the potter's son; prince Instead, a young man comes; at night two snakes crawled out of the girl's nostrils, he killed them; the king gave him his daughter, made him an heir; at the head of the motorcade he comes to his sister and reproaches her; comes to his parents, who are blind with grief; the king realizes how wrong he was in rejecting the brahmana's advice], 184-186 [the girl did not scoop up water with her hand, but began to drink directly from the lake; she crawled into her unnoticed the snake stayed inside, unnoticed by the girl; she got married; at night the snake crawled out, bit her husband, and crawled back, her husband died; Ali Mardan Khan, the ruler of the Mughals, stayed at night to watch, saw a snake; ordered push the woman into tone; when she burned down, there was a stone that turned any metal into gold; after his death, A. ordered that the stone be thrown into the Indus; only the youngest of four sons agreed do]; Stein, Grierson 1923, No. 10 [four travelers decided to brighten up the road with stories; met the fifth; he promised to tell them 5 things and let them give 500 rupees for it; travelers: four of us, with a hundred each, and a hundred more from you; fifth: 1) money for the road; 2) a friend when there is no money; 3) a close relative - when there is money; 4) call a woman a wife only while she is around; 5) Vikramaditya's daughter only the awake will receive; four: where are the stories themselves? went to the king to sort it out; he also paid, and then dressed as a poor man and went to check; sent him to tell his sister that he was broke; she told him not to come to her, sent some rice sealed with her with a seal; the king hid it; came to a friend, who received him royally; then the king in disguise stayed with the old woman, asked for a sickle, and began to mow the grass on the other king's property; he was seized; the woman brought rice to the owner of the horse, they turned out to be lovers; the woman asked the prisoner to repair the bed and recognized him as her husband; asked for the prisoner to be executed immediately; but he paid off the guards with rubies hidden away; To test the fifth truth, the king, dressed as a beggar, came to Vikramaditya; his daughter's suitors are dying; the imaginary beggar put his clothes on the bed - as if his body had not slept himself; a snake crawled out of the princess's mouth and began to bite what she thought was a body; an imaginary beggar hacked her; got a princess; went home, receiving a sign from V. confirming her marriage; again dressed as a king, called her sister and showed her a plate of rice with her seal; feasted with a friend again; summoned his wife and her lover, they were stoned to death; Vikramaditje opened]: 63-77; baiga [widow Raja asks two sons whether to marry or marry them himself; sons ask their father to marry; one day the stepmother pretends that her stepsons are raping her; the father of the sons expels; they spend the night in the forest; while the eldest sleeps, the youngest hacked down a snake that devoured the chicks that lived on a couple of birds in the tree; grateful birds threw two chicks to the brothers so that they could eat; now the youngest fell asleep, and the eldest left unnoticed; came to the city, where the wound has a new husband every day, who is in the morning found dead; the young man married, killed two snakes that crawled out of the nose of the wound at night; stayed with her; the younger brother began working for a potter, found a beautiful wife; the potter threw the young man under the potter circle, replaced by her freak son; wife found her husband and they ran away; came to their older brother; everything is fine]: Elwin 1944, No. 22.3:448-449; Bengalis: Bradley-Birt 1920, No. 6 [the queen's life is in a set of dice; the king went hunting, Prince Dalimkumar played dice with friends; Rakshasi took the form of a beggar, asked for dice, and transferred them to her kingdom, where her sister ruled Pashabutty; the queen fell breathless, the Rakshasi took her form, hid her body in the back room; the imaginary queen gave birth to 7 sons; they went on a journey, taking D. with them; the imaginary queen asked a snake that she kept in a box where D. lives; the snake: in grenade seeds; sent a snake to kill D. and tell her sister to pass 7 beauties off as her 7 sons; the snake bit D. and he went blind; hid for the night in an apple; it was eaten by a local princess, swallowing a snake and a letter from the imaginary queen to her sister; P. offered those who came to play dice; if they won, she and her 7 sisters were in their power, and the losers would be killed and eaten; she always won because the mouse quietly turned the bones; the brothers lost, they were eaten; blind D. was chosen as the next fiancé of the local princess: all her suitors died on their wedding night; at night the snake got out from the princess's nostril, but D. hacked her; immediately he regained his sight; there was a letter with the snake, everything became clear from it; D. went to play dice with P., but released the kitten and the mouse did not dare to leave; recognized a set of bones - his mother's life in them; 7 brothers and their horses came to life; two kingdoms joined; Rakshasi no longer appeared]: 174-178; Day 1914, No. 5 [the merchant's son takes an egg from the warbler's nest, puts it in a locker in a niche in the wall, forgets; a girl is born from an egg; grows up; in the absence of a young man, she goes out, eats the food he has brought him, returns to the niche; after 16 years, the young man notices this; the mother advises him hide; he finds a girl; takes her as his wife; their sons Swat (in Russian transcription Sheth) and the younger Basanta (Boshonto); the elder merchant, his wife, the wonderful wife die; the merchant (i.e. the husband of a wonderful wife) takes a young wife; his son's wife S. is older than her; stepmother hates stepsons; fisherman brings fish; if you eat it, jewelry will fall from your lips, if you laugh, from the pearl's eyes if you cry; merchant tells her daughter-in-law to fry it for him; she gives fish to her husband and his brother; Boshonta's dove flew to her stepmother, who hides it under her dress, S. takes it away; the stepmother promises that her husband will kill her stepsons as soon as he returns; both brothers and wife S. leave the house on a fast horse; spend the night in the forest, S.'s wife gave birth; S. goes to look for fire; in the city he is elected king, married; the previous king was found dead in his wife's chambers in the morning; so everyone day; S. does not sleep , sees a long hair crawl out of his sleeping wife's nostril, turns into a snake, S. kills him; S. forgets about his first wife, remains king; B. comes to the river, cries; A merchant who swims by takes him away; keeps him locked up, hits and tickles to get pearls and precious stones; in the forest, S.'s wife falls asleep; the chief of police (he is from the lower caste) sees her, he has his own dead a baby; he replaces a woman's baby; she goes to drown, she is saved by a brahmana, she lives with his family; the kidnapped baby grows up to want to marry the brahmana's adopted daughter; he refuses; the young man is going to kidnap her; hears the conversation of the calves, learns the whole story; comes to the king (i.e. to his father Sh.); he confirms everything; the family is reunited; the merchant who tortured B. is buried alive in a hole with thorns ]: 93-107 (translated into Zograf 1976:133-138); Oraons [a person goes on a journey, picks up a crab; when he sleeps in the forest, a snake crawls to bite it, a crab grabs her neck, kills it; a man comes to robbers, he sits not in the middle, but on the edge; not him, but the robbers fall into a prepared trap pit; he wants to cook food, goes to buy a pot, the potter is in mourning: today is his son's turn to become a husband princesses, all grooms die on their wedding night; a man goes instead of a potter's son; at night he sees a snake crawl out of the princess's mouth; he kills her, gets the princess as his wife, returns home with her]: Hahn 1906, No. 38:71-73; Sindhi: Schimmel 1995, No. 3 [the son of a deceased merchant takes 500 coins, goes wandering; buys 5 simple tips from the dervish; 1) travel with as a companion; 2) when staying in an unfamiliar house, be on the lookout; 3) when going to bed, try this place with your foot first; 4) do not talk to strangers; 5) do not act in a fit of anger; in a deserted place, a young man the hedgehog picks up - this is his companion; he spends the night in a tree, tying a hedgehog below, that night he kills poisonous snakes; in the city a young man stays with an old woman; she cries and laughs; to whoever cures his sick daughter, the king will give her and half the kingdom, the losers are hung; no one can cure, it is the turn of the old woman's grandson; the young man is invited to go instead of him; the young man remembers the advice to be on the lookout at night; the rat: in the stomach princess snake; snake: the rat itself sits on a pile of treasures, she needs to pour buffalo fat into the hole; the young man returns to the old woman, she gives medicine, the snake comes out of the princess's belly piece by piece, that recovers; a young man marries a princess, pulls out a rat's treasures; envious courtiers build a palace with a hidden well, disguise the hole, put a bed there; the young man tries first with his foot, the bed fails; the king drives away the perpetrators; the young man asks permission to visit his homeland; he met a woman who asked her to take it; the young man remembered the advice not to trust strangers, went on; followed him the traveler took the woman; the horsemen jumped up and cut him to pieces; it was the prince's daughter, who had run away from home, who was forcibly married; at home the young man found his wife and a boy; he wanted to kill them, but restrained himself , and the mother said it was his son; the young man was the first to take the family, returned to the princess's father, inherited the throne], 23 []: 29-36, 147-158; gondas [Raja has two sons, their mother is dead; Raja asks sons, whether he should marry himself or marry them; they respectfully answer that he himself; after the wedding, the Raja kisses his wife, dies immediately; the woman was taken by her older brother; a thin-thick snake crawled out of her mouth , became huge, swallowed her older brother; the younger brother saw it, cut the snake, but one leg of the older brother was also severed; he put this leg in his wife, his leg grew to him back, the wife died, but her leg could not be pulled out of the corpse; the youngest ripped open the woman's stomach, freed her brother, they ran into the forest; there they killed Dana (forest spirit); when he died, he ordered his daughter to be killed; she is across the 7 seas and 16 rivers; the elder brother swam across the sea, married Dano's daughter; the youngest was transported by a turtle, he honored her as a god]: Elwin 1944, No. 9:320-323.

The Balkans. Romanians [the fisherman's son agrees to let the fish king go; his father beats him, he leaves; meets a dwarf, takes him as a sister; the dwarf notices that one owner has a new worker every day; watches when he tells the worker to climb a rope up a tree, lower the basket of gems from there, place the empty basket back, drops the rope, the snake swallows the worker, spews gems into the basket; the dwarf is hired by the owner, refuses to climb again, saying that he is dizzy, the owner climbs himself, the snake swallows him, the dwarf receives gems, takes treasures from the owner's house for the fisherman's son ; the princess married 99 times, in the morning the groom has only bones; the dwarf enters marriage, goes to the place of the fisherman's son at night, does not sleep, kills a snake that crawled out of the princess's mouth; threatens Cut her in half, she regurgitates three snake eggs, the dwarf breaks them; says he is that fish king; the fisherman's son and the princess are rich and happy]: Sadetsky 1973:212-220 (the same or very similar text in Nortines 1935:125-136); Hungarians [the queen hears three sisters talking; the eldest promises to weave clothes from one hemp stem for the whole country and the entire army; the middle one is to bake bread from one hemp stem grains; the youngest is to give birth to two children with golden hair; while the king is at war, middle sister Wheat and grandmother Iron Nose replaced children with puppies, threw cows under their hooves; cows gave them milk ; the same with horses; with pigs; then they lowered the box down the river; the king orders his wife to be walled up in a wall so that everyone would spit on her; the fisherman pulled out the box, containing a boy and a girl; they grew up, realized that their parents are not their relatives; the brother goes to look for a new place; the dragon wants to learn to play the clarinet; the young man suggests straightening his fingers, let him put logs in the crack, knock out the wedge, the dragon remains clamped; about gold-haired, Iron Nose found his sister, persuaded her brother to bring a lilac bush with singing leaves; the young man came to the mistress of the raven demons, brought him, helped him get the bush; get it all-seeing mirror; the same; beautiful Erzhik, whose fortress revolves in the boiling sea; the same; the old woman tore E. in half, reptiles climbed out of her, the old woman washed her, revived her, now she is safe; brother with E . and came to see their father and mother as a sister]: Ortutai 1974, 3:92-112; Serbs (Mala Kopashnica, Leskovac; western from a factory worker born in 1927, heard from her mother) [the princess fell in love with the devil; he appeared to she disappeared in any form and at night; the guard at the door of her room does not notice anything; the king promises a daughter to marry someone who solves the mystery; the soldier undertakes to find out; one night a soldier stood outside the window and I noticed a gadfly into the princess's room, and then two gadflies out of the room; the soldier followed and watched as the gadflies flew to the house, and later the princess returned; the next night in the house a devil of soldiers hid under the bed; the devil had a blind father; he told him to bring him 12 stakes, support his eyelids, then he would see who was in the room; but the young devil and the princess only laughed; while the princess was eating, she drops pieces, a spoon, a fork; the soldier quietly picks everything up and hides it in his pocket; before going to bed, the devil from the princess began to throw a golden apple - the soldier hid it; when they fell asleep, he hid the golden shoe; he delivered everything to the king; in the morning the king demands his daughter to answer; she confesses and says that she will die now; let the soldier come to church for dinner three nights in a row; each time the old man teaches him what to do; at first in the evening, the princess came out of the grave to eat the soldier, but did not know to look behind the altar; at midnight she lay down again in the grave and said that she was starving; the same the next evening (the soldier hid behind door); on the third evening - on the bell tower, on the fourth - behind the cross at the princess's grave; when she got up, the soldier lay down in her coffin and closed the lid; when the rooster screamed, a snake crawled out of the princess's mouth and she She became a lively and beautiful girl again; they walked hand in hand in hand around the church; the king saw them, arranged a wedding, and the soldier inherited the throne]: Eschker 1992, No. 10:61-64; Albanians [two sister cities decide to marry the wife of the giant Vampiri and a woman from overseas; they meet V., who swallowed them, then belched them, brought them to him; they agree with his wife V. that she will find out where V. keeps his life; V.: in garden; in the door; wife covers the garden, the door with a handkerchief; V.: in the mountains in the heart of the bear; the brothers cut off the bear's head, a fox jumped out, a hare in the fox, two doves in the hare, they brought them to V., killed, one married his wife V., both went to pick up his wife for another; they eavesdrop on the hell in the hole telling his son to throw 3 black and 3 white stones into the sea, a bridge will appear; forgets to say "Who will hear, petrified"; they returned with the woman Beauty of the World (Kleine Schöne der Erde); only the eldest went to listen to the devil's conversation with her son again; hell: the bride has 3 snakes in her stomach, they will kill the groom on her wedding night, and whoever hears and tells will become petrified; during the wedding comes to listen again; hell: the bride has already killed 30 suitors; snakes must be killed when they start crawling out; whoever hears and gives will petrify and will go blind; the brother demanded that the groom not go to the bride on the first night, but leave him in the room; kill the serpent; in the morning he told everything, became petrified; a year later, after giving birth to a son, the wife sends her husband to listen devil; hell: if you kill your son, the brother will come to life; the wife killed the baby herself, blood dripped on the statue, the brother comes to life and the baby too]: Lambertz 1952:21-29; Bulgarians [the prince releases fish that should serve as a cure for his father; the king drives him away; a young man meets a man who becomes his companion; marries a princess whose suitors die on the first night; he guards his brother with a knife, kills a snake crawling out of the mouth of a sleeping princess; on the way back, his brother cuts goodbye in two, snakes appear in her stomach; he explains that there is a young man saved fish, becoming fish, disappears in the river]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, № 507C: 182.

Central Europe. Russians (Karelian Pomorie) [when dying, the tsar tells his son to marry the one that fits the ring; he only suited his sister; the sister ran away, began to live with a widow, started a trade, the widow boy salesman; he reached the age of 20 and married her; his son Skip was born; immediately spoke and learned to read and write; an old man arrives, and S. is in a cradle; tells him to take him, will be an assistant; the king put money on a pole, who he will take it, he will take it; Sh. Teaches the old man to throw a thread there, then to get a rope; the king (this brother of mother Sh.): who taught; ordered to deliver the boy; he took him to him; made a devil how to build a ship; tells me to equip the ship to pick up the bride; Skip is 7 years old, but he is already an adult; they sailed to another kingdom, lured the princess to the ship; she turned into a swan, but S. did not let her fly away; chase, but the ship Skipa swam underwater; brought the bride to the king, but the first night he wants to sleep with her himself; the king does not agree; at night she put her hand on him, it's hard for him, he fell asleep, she flew away like a swan; S. agrees to try again, now you should go to the princess dry, not by sea; S. agreed with the army; the princess recognizes him, orders him to be executed, and he will ask permission to smoke a pipe and whistle; let the army come; and so it was; S. killed the king and took the princess; at night S. lay down with her, threw away his arm and leg, tore his wings and cut it in half; squeezed out the reptiles, washed the halves, united, revived; everyone reconciled, Sh. married a peasant daughter]: Nechaev 1938:39-58; Russians (Olonetskaya) [the old man wants to test his three sons; gives each a hundred rubles and tells them to buy a mind; the eldest bought a dog, the middle one a bird (her singing makes them fall asleep), the youngest paid the dead man's debt and buried the body; the older brother and the dog hunt, the middle brother shows an outlandish bird for money; then all three went into the world and They left; the elder sees an inscription on the pole: there is soon, but not 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, piled stones on him, sped off; the middle brother sees the inscription: you will take happiness, and you will die with him; in the lake a snake, every day demands the girl to feed, the princess's turn; the middle one let the bird sing, the snake fell asleep, he killed the snake, married princess; she leaned to the water for a drink, the snake slipped into her mouth, she soon died; the bird also died; her middle brother came to where the elder was petrified; Baba Yaga turned him and his horse into stones; younger brother's road inscription: you'll see a lot of wealth, but only you'll take the dead; a man catches up, offers to divide everything equally; drove up to the iron wall, the satellite gnawed at her teeth; the same - locked the door; the chains with which the old man is bound; he says that the sorceress chained him 40 years ago; they took the gems, went; the sorceress catches 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 to guard her in church; the companion tells her to take the book, the rooster and the harp; the rooster sang, the princess again she lay down in the coffin, her 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 next to her, the sting leaned out of her mouth, the younger brother pulled her out the snake's mouth, as the companion taught me; princess: how long I slept; they came to the petrified brothers, revived them and the old man with bottle water; the companion splashed from the other on Baba Yaga, who became a snake, then a frog , with a pebble, the companion put it in a bottle; the brothers returned to their father; he told how the youngest's companion, i.e. that dead man, brought him gems; everything is fine]: Onchukov 2008, No. 251:447-425; Russians (Vologodskaya) [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 being pulled; I. bought him for 300 rubles; he was baptized and died of wounds; the merchants sketched out money for the ceremony, but I. did not take anything, went on; some man offers to go together; asks to call him uncle, listen and divide everything in half; the non-Russian king has a daughter, who 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; a snake flew in at night, his uncle cut off his head, threw him into the 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 are sleeping, his uncle cuts off the heads of those who come in one, the rest fled; the gold went to Ivan; at the bridge where I. met his uncle, he offers to part and divide his wife; cut her in half, snakes went out of her; uncle washed everything, revived the princess; everything is fine]: Burtsev 1895, No. 3:9-13; 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; Eastern Ukrainians (Kherson) [the poor man borrowed money, and He 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 neither, but 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 well I slept! the old man left, the guy started selling the imported goods]: Yastrebov 1894, No. 5:126-129.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians: Bgazhba 2002 [the prince lets go of the goldfish, the king expels him; he meets another young man, they come to the king, each of whose daughter's 300 suitors died on the first night; friend hid under the ottoman; at midnight, three snakes crawled out of his wife's mouth one after another, each cut off their heads, hid them; the prince sees a friend with a sword, thinks he was going to kill him; a friend demands that he separated the woman; swings his sword, three decapitated snakes crawl out of her mouth; the friend turns into a goldfish again; the prince and his wife return to their father, who arranges a wedding]: 159-161; Khashba, Kukba 1935 [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 gave him away daughter for the 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: 9 previous husbands princesses were found dead in the morning; a man with a hatchet demands to separate his wife, swings, the girl cried out, the snake crawled out, he killed her; said that he was the ransom dead man, and disappeared]: 114-119 (=Shakryl 1975, No. 34:174-176); Abaza: Tugov 1985, No. 77 [the young man gave the remaining money from his father to those in need; the old man promises to make him rich on the condition of dividing his acquired in half; tells him to buy a cat, burn the hairs from the tail, cure the prince's eyes with this ash; the grateful prince married him to his daughter; the old man demanded to divide her, waved his sword, a snake crawled out of the girl's mouth; all good]: 265-266; (cf. Tugov 1985, No. 70 [dying, Zan bequeathed his son to marry Dzhankulyaz; he goes in search; the shepherd teaches: D. will offer horse racing, her two eagles must peck out their eyes, we must have time to cut off their wings; when D. enters Kunatskaya, two snakes will come out of her mouth, you have to dodge, the snakes will break against the wall; then you have to beat D. until she swore to be a faithful wife; that's what happened; on the way home, the rider wanted to repel D.; they they fought for a long time; the young man saw how the wounds of the "rival" were being healed in the hut, it turned out that she was a girl; he beat her with a dogwood stick, knocked her hat, and also married her]: 214-216); Karachays [father promises be the first to marry the one of the three sons who will do a good deed for people; the elders spent money, the youngest bought the dead man whose body the lender is going to drag around the village; the father tells his son to take as companions of a man who eats hominy's cauldron in one sitting; this is the little man Chuyunkak ("hominy's cauldron"); the father sends his son to pick up the bride, telling him not to spend the night where there are three hills; they they stop; each time C. defeats a woman, follows her into the hill, puts wealth in a chest; they come to the girl, her suitors have always been found dead in the morning; C. kills three at night snakes crawling out of the girl's mouth; khan married his daughter 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 1965) [khan fell ill; witch: we must catch goldfish; the prince caught it, but regretted it and let go of the fish; the servant reported this to the khan; the khan expelled his son; the man met him, they went together; another khan: all my suitors daughters died the first night; the khan's son married a girl, and the companion hid under the bed; saw a snake crawl out of the girl's mouth and began to crawl into the guy's mouth; the servant prevented it; so three nights; son Khan received a girl; when parting, her companion tells her to divide; a snake crawled out; companion: both good and the girl are yours; I was that fish; and your father died]: 394-395; (cf. 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); Nogais [Khan Atay is ill; healer: we 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 healer told the khan about this, who drove his son away; a young man Asa met him at the bridge, they went together; the khan gave his daughter, and the groom died; Musa and Asa are each ready to marry her; the lot is small for M.; after the wedding Asa ran into the bedchamber, cut the snake crawling towards the sleeping ones; the front part whizzed into the bride's mouth; on the way back, the friends decided to share the treasures and the bride; M. swung his sword, the girl vomited, the snake went out; Asa explained that he was that catfish, went under the bridge; seeing his son, Khan Atay saw the light]: Kapayev 2012:69-73; Stavropol Turkmens [fisherman caught a golden carp; left his son to follow the net, went call the Shah to see the miracle; the son felt sorry for the carp and let him go; there was no carp, the shah ordered the fisherman to put his son in a leaky boat and let him go to sea; the young man sailed to the island, met a good man there; they together we learned from the shepherds that the local king would give his silent daughter to someone who could get her to talk; well done, he came to the princess, began to tell how his elder brother carved a girl out of wood, and the middle brother dressed , and he himself prayed to God and revived it; one maid replied that the girl should be given to the elder, the other to her younger brother; the princess opened her mouth for the first time and said that the younger one was; they told the king that he had come, asked the young man where his brothers were; he: the eldest is you, the king, the middle one is the queen; the king gave a feast, gave his daughter; well done, invited the young man to share everything; swung his sword to cut the princess; in fear she was afraid A snake came out of his mouth, the young man hacked it; well done, explained that he was the carp, the only son of the king of fish, he was the one who supported the boat so as not to drown; well done, he went to sea, sent a big fish, she took the young man with his wife and property to his father's house; the young man told the Shah about everything, who forgave him, arranged a wedding and gave him a house]: A.K. 1875, No. 2:14-18; Avars [a young merchant buys from a moneylender debtor; soon an unknown young man joins the caravan; at night, while others are sleeping, he kills the witch Hart, drives Azhdaha away; marries the khan's daughter for the merchant; kills a three-headed monster that attacked the grooms on their wedding night; before parting, he admits that he is a 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; Tabasarans [the padishah is ill, he will be cured by the blood of a marine inhabitant; son Ilyas sees how the old man caught a girl with a fish tail; she asks her let go, I. lets go; father expels him; mother gives an apple - whoever divides it equally is a true friend; I. meets a young man who divides the apple equally; the padishah's daughter is numb; a friend sends I. her cure, teaches how; she has a mirror, carpet, necklace; I. tells the story of these objects, the girl screams; drops the necklace, talks a little; this necklace is an old viper; I. marries, friend demands to divide the bride, swings, the girl regurgitates the snake, then speaks normally; the friend was the siren that I. let go; I. brings medicine to his father; feast]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 25:264-266; the Rutultsy [the padishah is blind, the eldest sons, then the youngest went to look for a cure; the old man sends the youngest to three alims, those to another old man, he explains what to burn padishah of fish, anoint his father's eyes with ash; the blind padishah tells everyone to fish, the padishah of the fish is caught, the young man felt sorry for him, let him go, the father kicked his son out of the house; some old man becomes a companion; leads where a good story is rewarded; a young man is given money, an old man is given a girl; she agrees to go with him if he finds her sister; leaving a young man, an old man comes to a man next to whom an owl and another bird; man's story: he watched a wife come to three people, secretly decapitated people, put one head under his wife's pillow, his wife and head became birds; the old man restored the birds to their human appearance, explained that those three people were holy elders; turned into an owl is the sister they are looking for; the old man brings her ring to her father and sister, everyone is happy; the old man gives the girl he received to the son of a blind man padishah; they have two children; the young man decides to return to his father; the old man stays at the spring, tells them to separate the children and his wife, swings his dagger, a snake crawls out of the girl's mouth; the old man explains that now you can live peacefully with your wife; gives medicine to cure a blind father; {the old man was a fish padishah}]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 30:295-298; Tsakhurs [the king went blind to old age; only blood will cure him" red fish" with a horn on his head; the prince caught a fish, but it was so beautiful that he let it go; once he offended a black slave, he told the king everything, the king expelled his son; the mother tells the prince how recognize a stranger as a faithful friend; the stranger turned out to be him (he guarded the prince's peace at night, etc.); the tsar has a dumb daughter, he will pass her off as someone who can get her to talk; in the presence of the princess, a companion tells how the tailor, carpenter and mullah spent the night on the road, taking turns awake; the carpenter slaughtered the girl, dressed her as a tailor, the mullah revived her; who will get the girl? Everyone is silent, the princess says that the mullet; the prince gets a wife; the companion tells not to lock the bedroom door; at night she enters, kills a snake crawling into the bedroom; everyone goes to the prince's homeland; where he met companion, who tells me to divide everything in half, including his wife; the companion pretends to cut the girl, snakes crawl out of her mouth; he explains that a snake fell in love with the princess, slept with her at night; his breathing made her pregnant and numb; to cure her father's blindness, you have to smear his eyes with earth from under the hooves of his companion's horse; the companion himself is that fish; the prince returned with his wife and property, cured his father]: Dirr 1922, No. 18:93-96); Georgians (Tbilisi) [the merchant sends his eldest son to sell, he is afraid of losing, brings gold back; the same with the middle one; younger buys a dead man with his ear cut off, who is beaten by his lenders; erects a monument to the mono-eyed man, spending all the money and asking his father for more; the father is satisfied, tells his son to take an assistant who will keep himself dry the crust, and he will 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; first condition: ask the king for permission to sit with the caravan in the courtyard in the shack; tells the young man not to look out of the shack, he goes to buy a magic bird himself; the young man looked out and saw the princess; the king will pass her off as whoever can get her to talk, executes those who fail; 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, the princess is indignant out loud; the king kills the vizier, believing that it was all his fault; the Arab hid the bird in the curtains (same thing: they don't clean me; princess: what's that?) ; 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 it; everything is fine]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 81:59-71; Megrelians [the merchant's son squandered the money twice; the third time he bought the deceased, who was beaten by the 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 swung his sword, she jumped out of her mouth some reptile is the cause of her illness; the boy explained that he is the dead man whose debts were paid by the merchant's son]: Stepanov 1898, No. 14:43-46; Armenians (Turkish Armenia) [the ruler of Mysra is blind; Dr. Ginjin, who was discharged from Inglisia, orders golden-headed fish to prepare medicine; the prince releases it, flees from his father's anger; an Arab is hired for him; the ruler of the island promises his daughter whoever kills a dragon; an Arab kills, says that the prince killed, he marries; an Arab advises putting another on the throne, going to marry the daughter of the ruler of the Franks; her suitors died; an Arab hides in the marriage chambers, at night he kills a snake crawling out of his young wife's mouth; after the death of his father, the prince and two wives return home; as payment, the Arab asks to separate the wives; hangs the daughter of the ruler of the Franks, swings his sword , a snake crawls out of her mouth, an Arab kills her; explains that he is the fish saved by the prince]: Harutyunyan 1986:44-47 (=Khachatryants 1933:73-77); Azerbaijanis: Bagriy 1930 (1) ( Nukha District, 1899) [=Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:133-137; the king is ill, the dervish orders to get the blood of a white snake; the servants do not dare to kill the snake, it is too beautiful; so does the prince, the king expels him; to him a young man joins, saying that he heals silence; another king will give his daughter for someone to make her speak; the prince takes a talking parrot with him, the king hears a dialogue, believes that his daughter spoke, gives her for the prince; on the way home, the young man demands that the princess be divided, pretends to cut her in half, she regurgitates the snake that caused her silence; the young man tells her father to drink blood to this snake Prince, he will recover; says that he himself is the white snake he regretted]: 27-30; Bagriy, Zeynally 1935 [when he went into his son's tent, the king saw a snake, let it drink, she crawled away; dying, the mother advises the prince to leave, because he will not get along with his father's new wife; the prince meets and takes as his companions a young man named Takhta-Klyj; falls in love with the princess; the tsar demands to build a palace, because he creates it, the prince receives princess; TC is the first to come to her, blows into her mouth, 11 snakes came out, and the 12th harmless remained inside; the king is happy, because the previous suitors died; on the way home, TC demands to divide the princess, brings his sword, the last snake crawled out; explains that he is the snake that the prince's father let drink; the king solemnly greeted his son; three apples fell from the sky; one belongs to me, the other to the narrator, and the third to the one who listened]: 133-138; talish [a rich brother has a daughter, the poor has three sons; a rich man promises a daughter to one of his nephews who will bring a hundred mists in a year; the eldest became a doctor's apprentice, the middle one is left by a man who later promised to give him something that will take him to any country; the youngest remains with the old man; he sends him to talk to the ruler's dumb daughter; we must ask the nargile with With a soft pipe, turn to the ruler, say, "Mr. Nargile, tell us a story that would make the ruler's daughter speak." 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, and a scorpion and a snake crawl out of Y.'s mouth ; the dervish explains that it was otherwise impossible to extract them; F. and J. live happily ever after]: 33-47; Osmanov 1987:230-235 [a young fisherman asks an old man to help pull out the net; but the fish is too heavy; the fisherman went to call someone else; at that time the fish leaned out of the water and laughed; the man let her go; the fisherman drove him away; met a young man named Mota; and he himself was Moti; Mota began to get meat, and Moti sold it; Mota ordered him to go to the Sultan and promise him to get his dumb daughter to talk; teaches him to put the padishah's daughter behind the curtain and ask him to talk flowers on the carpet; 1) the first story of flowers; instead of money the gardener asks the vizier to promise that when his daughter gets married, let her come to his garden first; her husband let her go, the gardener too; on the way back she met robbers; when she found out what was going on, The thief let go too; who is nobler? Sultan's daughter: husband; 2) second story; the sons of three viziers want to marry the Sultan's daughter; one bought a bowl, the water from which revives the dead, the second - a flying carpet, the third - an all-seeing mirror; when he saw that the princess is dead, the young men flew in and brought her back to life; who should she be? princess: the owner of the mirror; Moti got the Shah's daughter; Mota tells me not to touch her for three nights; then say he should have the wedding at home; drove to the place where Moti first saw Motu; mota took out his sword and told him to share everything he had acquired equally; Moti swung his sword, and a worm fell out of his wife's mouth; Mota: take everything for yourself; if the worm stayed in your wife, you would fall ill; I'm that fish released; Mota disappeared], 365- 368 []; Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 27 (Kerman) [chief merchant Malik ut Tujjar sent his son to the bazaar after giving a hundred mists; he sees how the debtor's corpse was hung and beaten at the crossroads, gives lenders all his money, the body is buried; the young man received money from his father again and went to trade; wanting to test the reliability of his companions, he deliberately leaves the caravan and he leaves; the same second time; the third time his waiting; a young man comes out of the desert, becomes a servant of the merchant's son; undertakes to guard the caravan alone at night on the condition that no others will interfere; one day he sees a fire, comes up, there are 40 robbers; he pretends to be a robber, proposes to rob the royal treasury; lifts everyone on a rope against the wall and cuts off his head; kills the chieftain last; places the bodies in the treasury, the chieftain in the middle; in the royal the bedchamber finds a lion, manages to kill him before he rushes at the sleeping king; putting a sign on the king's leg with kalam, tasting royal dishes, drinking water and lighting the royal pipe, quietly returned to caravan; on the way, a diva woman who devoured 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 robbers; many try to attribute their exploits to themselves, but their stories are unreliable; the son of a merchant who has just arrived is summoned to the king, the servant goes with him, tells him to obey him; talks about how it happened but attributes exploits to the son of the merchant; he receives a princess with a rich dowry; on the way back, the servant offers to take the diva's treasures and divide everything; brings a sword over the wife of the merchant's son 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; Turkmens [the padishah overheard a conversation between three poor people; Haman would like the padishah to give him his beloved wife, Shakurban to give him gold and silver, Yolaman wants everything only by his work; the padishah gave A. and S. what they wanted to; A. tried to kill S. to take everything, but he also stabbed him, both died; his wife persuaded J. to take her, the horse and the money; they came to the house where the boy was sick; J. fell asleep and half asleep heard two snakes talking; a white one lives inside the boy, a black one in the cracks of the house; each tells how to kill another; if he regurgitates a white snake, the boy will recover; in the crack of the house where the black one lives, is hidden treasure; J. cured the boy, received that old house from his father, took the treasure; the padishah heard about the generous man, found out that it was J.; it's good that there are few of them, otherwise why padishah]: Stebleva 1969, No. 28:145- 151; Tajiks: Amonov 1972 [the padishah sends his eldest, then middle son to guard a thief who steals apples; only the youngest son from his youngest wife does not fall asleep, tears off the tail of a fiery bird; playing grandmas, breaks the old woman's spindle; she advises him to go looking for a thief like his brothers; chooses a skinny horse, a rusty dagger, catches up with brothers; the stone says that whoever goes to the left will return, but not to the right; the young man turns to the left, the brothers to the right; the wolf eats away the front legs of the young man's horse, then the back legs, the torso, the head; each time he asks if the horse was bipedal, without legs, etc.; the young man says every time that was; the wolf brings him to the padishah Misra, tells him to take the bird without a cage, he takes the cage, is captured, the padishah tells him to get the horse out of the country of Chin; the wolf tells him not to take harness, the young man takes it, the padishah Chin commands bring Padishah Machin's daughter; the wolf gets everything, puts the guards to sleep each time, the young man returns on horseback with the girl; the wolf is going to stab a girl, a horse, a bird with a dagger; everyone falls out of his mouth poison; the brothers cut the young man into pieces, take everything; the girl promises to marry the padishah when her cut off braids grow; the wolf resurrects the young man, who wears a bull abomb, is hired as a servant to cook; his sister and bride recognize him, the brothers are driven away, the young man marries, receives his father's throne]: 116-126; Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 1 (Sistan) [the barber shaved the king, but one hair remains; the king wants to execute him; the vizier advises to give him life, or rather to get a brown whale, his meat is getting younger; the king sent a son for the whale; people caught black, white whales; when they saw that the brown whale was crying, the prince let him go; fled from his father's anger; drives up to the fire, a diva sits by the fire, one lip on the ground, the other in heaven; he took a human form, tells him to be called not a brother, but a slave; the princess thinks riddles and sets conditions for marriage, those who have not met are executed; easily lowers the camel into the well and then throws it on a tree, destroys and restores the rock, the prince must do the same, eat a huge amount of food; the divas does everything; tells the prince not to touch his wife below the navel after the wedding; the prince puts his sword on the bed, says he must bring home a virgin; divas on the way home Demands to divide the princess, swings her sword, a dragon crawls out of the girl's mouth, the diva kills him; after that, the princess loses her inhuman power; the diva was that brown whale; gave his blood; after drinking it, the prince's father became young]: 14-24; Uzbeks [elderly parents have a son Sahibjan; releases the caught fish with a net; father is upset; S. goes on a journey; rejects two people they meet, who offer themselves as travel companions, accept Ahmadjan, who is a year younger than him (they are 15 and 16); they become brothers, agree to divide everything in half; they become famous as good workers; Padishah Karakhan orders to kill the dragon that his daughter must eat, another who eats figs that give youth to hold a canal; S. and A. perform this, S. gets the daughter of the padishah; A. hears three crows talking, one will turn into a horse, throw S. off, he will die; the other into a colorful bird (S. will take it, die), the third into a dragon, come out of the hearth, swallow S. and his wife; who will tell petrifies; A. breaks the horse's back, tears off the bird's head, kills the dragon; bends down to wipe a drop of dragon blood off the face of S.'s wife, who thinks A. wants his wife; A. says everything, gets stony; the old man he is revived; his brothers and the woman go home to S.; on the way, A. demands to divide the woman; out of fear, she regurgitates a clot of poisonous dragon saliva, now she is safe; A. says that he was the one rescued by fish, leaves; S.'s parents are happy]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1): 532-542 (=Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:234-246); Baluchi: Porozhnyakov 1989:40-45 [Tsarevich Nigal pays the fisherman to let go of the fish; the king drives his son away; a young man joins N.; they hired another king; his fate goes away, for in the evening the king will be bitten by a snake; N. hides under the bed, kills the snake, a drop of blood falls on the sleeping queen, N. washes her, the queen woke up; in the morning the king goes to kill N., but companion N. asks him to listen; tells how the falcon knocked out the goblet from the king's hands, into which he began to collect water while hunting; The king killed the falcon, and then saw that poison from the snake's mouth dripped into the goblet from the tree; another king killed a parrot that brought him fruit from the tree of life, but the snake managed to inject poison into the fruit; finding a corpse under the bed snakes, the king married N. a daughter; on the way home, the companion demands that the woman be separated; he swung his sword, two snakes came out of her mouth; N. left the companion, saying that he was the fish that N. saved] 69-73 [The shopkeeper warns the vizier's son that a snake crawls out of her mouth and the guest is found dead in the morning; gives a pipe; when the prince and his beloved fall asleep, you must put a pipe to the woman's lips and the snake will crawl into her; the vizier's son did so, the girl died; went to the forest, sees the Moor to whom the girl ran; he is dissatisfied that he had been waiting for a long time, bit off her nose; then the son The vizier saves the princess and exposes other criminals; all is well].

Baltoscandia. Estonians (Jüri) [the mother gives her son money, sends it to the bazaar, he gives everything to the poor; so three times; the old man offers him a job as an employee for a year; they sail to another with a load of bricks the city; everyone who comes brings gifts to the king; the young man brings two bricks, but the king is happy; from every ship that comes, someone must spend the night in the church, where evil forces are at the mercy of evil forces behind the altar princess; the young man spends three nights for himself and for others, does not pay attention to evil spirits; two in the morning a puppy approaches him, the princess comes out on the third; the king gives her to him as his wife; they swim on the ship back; the owner demands half of his wife for help; cuts her in half, removes snakes, frogs and lizards from the inside, makes her whole and healthy again; gives the ship, disappears himself; bricks turn to gold]: Järv et al. 2009, No. 22:104-107; Latvians: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 307 [Girl in a coffin. A dead girl demands a person every night. One young man agrees to guard for three nights and save the girl. The old man gives advice on where to hide when the deceased runs around looking for food. On the third night, when the girl gets up from the coffin, the young man lies down in the coffin and does not let her in until she reads a prayer. A rooster sings, a girl frees herself from spells and marries a young man. An old assistant tears the girl in half, shakes out all the evil spirits - different reptiles - out of her and puts the parts together], 507C [The guy buys the dead man, escapes the storm and stays with the 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, aka dead, 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]: 273, 294.

Volga - Perm. Marie {Aktsorin probably has the same text as Chetkarev, but more processed}: Aktsorin 1984 [a childless queen finds a child on the porch, the tsar suggests calling him Babin son; he takes companions of two soldiers, goes after the samogut; while the companions are sleeping, the BS guards the bridge, kills enemies who have arrived three times; then overhears the conversation between the three demon sisters and their mother; the sisters promise 1) create a desert with a meadow and a stream, eat those who stop to rest; 2) put a tea room in the desert; 3) a beer and tea room; the mother promises to catch up and eat the murderers of her sons; information security cuts a meadow, a teahouse, etc. kills demonets; the old woman catches up, eats BS's companions, he himself hides with blacksmith Ilya Murovin; grabs the old woman's tongue with ticks, clamps it in a vice, she dies; BS works for IM, gets samogudes; IM warns of cow guts on the road, they do not need to be cut; the guts are asked to cut them, the BS cuts, the bag of harps disappears; THEY say that you can only get the harp by taking out the girl; 11 IM brothers drink a 40-bucket barrel of wine (IM extracted the wine in advance); the same is to eat a barrel of porridge; scattered the heat in the bath, where he is told to wash; BS gets the bride; THEY go to bed instead of him on the first night, hangs the bride for legs, hits, snakes, lizards, frogs come out of her; the same on the second night - pieces of heavy blood; otherwise the wife would run over her husband; on the third night, the wife puts her breasts on her husband, almost ran over them, IM beats, bread comes out, wife becomes a normal girl; BS brings his wife home]: 118-126; Chetkarev 1948 [a childless queen finds a baby in the restroom, the king calls him Babi Son; he asks his father for two comrades, leaves; they stay in an empty house, where there is a lot of food, they take turns watching; at midnight, the enemy arrives on three, six, nine horses, the BS kills everyone, his comrades are sleeping; eavesdropping how the sisters and mother of opponents agree to kill BS and his comrades; the younger sister turns into sand for a hundred miles and a stream, the middle sister turns into 200 versts and a tea room, the eldest into three hundred versts and a pub; BS does not give comrades drink, cuts demons with a sword; their mother pursues, BS and comrades are hiding in Ilya Murovin's forge; he offers to stick out his tongue, clamps his vice, the demoness is burned; THEY ask them to bring self-playing harp; BS brings, violates the ban not to cut cow's intestines, he cuts, the harps disappear; IM and his brothers are looking for a wife for BS; her father demands 1) drink 40 buckets of wine, eat the same amount of porridge (IM does everything); 2) wash in a hot bath (they are unharmed); BS gets a wife, they tell them not to touch her for three nights; she puts her arm, leg, chest on the BS, he starts to suffocate, IM hides, hits a woman every time, she lizards, snakes, frogs, caked blood vomits; after the third night, the wife is safe; BS returns to his father]: 20-28; Mordovians (Erzya) [Andiamo came to the house, there is a girl, they got married; his wife tells do not leave a hat in the village, a handkerchief in it, they will recognize him, it will be taken away; A. left his hat, went to bed, the women recognized the handkerchief, their husbands stole A.'s wife; the old man tells me to meet his wife in the garden, not to fall asleep, he twice fell asleep; tells everyone to drink, play the harp, everyone fell asleep, A. took his wife; the old man demands half, tore the woman in half, then revived; otherwise she would have turned into a snake three years later and ate A.]: Evseviev 1964, No. 38:270-272; Bashkirs [40 sons, younger Altynduga; one did all the work that the father and his eldest 39 sons used to do (return the herds from the pasture and lock them in stalls); chose an inferior haircut, he turned out to be a heroic horse; brought a sword to the rock, where there is a sword above the door: take it, your soul is in it; next to the girls% horse: one of them is your bride; A. asks father to find them 40 sisters as wives; the father met an old man: he has 40 daughters; the father left A. at home; he told them where to go; on the way back, do not stop in the garden or pick berries there, owns a garden the seven-headed monster Yalmauz (cannibal sorcerer or snake); they began to tear berries, Y. demands that A. get him the daughter of a deva from behind Mount Kaf, take his fiancée hostage; A. goes, meets along the way, takes him satellites 1) shooter (an arrow fired into the sky falls three days later); 2) drank (drinks the lake, letting water through his teeth, the fish remains in his mouth); 3) a runner with millstones on his legs; the king will give his daughter to someone who he will climb onto a pole without splashing a glass of honey on his head (A. climbed, saw his house from the top, cried, but proved that the drops are not honey, but a tear); 2) shoot an arrow through the golden ring (the shooter fired) ; 3) overtake the old runner, run for 13 days; the old woman put the Runner to sleep, covered it with a pot; A. saw from the top of the pole, the Shooter woke him up, hitting the pot with an arrow; 4) survive in a stone house, and around - burning firewood with 40 soot (Drinking filled the fire); A. and his companions go to Mount Kaf, and the princess will be picked up on the way back; at the top of Kaf A. leaves kurai: if blood flows from him, not milk, then trouble; himself then one goes; the old woman sends to the older sister, she to the oldest; she says that the deva has 3 heads, his brothers have 6 and 12; offers to remove the kamcha, A. cannot; gives a drink of strength - then he could; this Hit the girl's house with a kamcha, a ditch will appear, hide in it; the girl will howl animals - there is no one; so several times; she will kill all the animals and go to bed; she must be beaten with a kamcha until will submit; having become the wife of A., the girl advises to wait for her deva uncles under the bridges they will cross; A. killed the devas, settled with his wife by the sea; an old woman sailed on the board: everyone drowned, left alone; stayed live with A. and his wife; advises to ask her husband what his soul is wearing; A. in the insole of his boot; the old woman burned the insole, A. did not notice; in a sword; the old woman threw her sword into the sea, A. died, the old woman lured the girl into the boat, brought her to the king, who sent her; A.'s friends on Mount Kaf: blood instead of milk; Drinking saw bloody fish; fish: cut her eyes on the sword (since then these fish have been red-eyed); I drank water, my sword found, A. came to life; friends came to the kidnapper, destroyed the king, his army and old woman, shared the loot; A. offered to divide the girl; in fear she vomited blood; so he purified her bad blood; on the way home he took the princess given to him by the king; killed Yalmauz and took the princess intended for him; stayed with three wives]: Barag 1988, No. 34:219-234.

Turkestan. Karakalpaks [a fisherman catches three carps every day; the son caught them and a ruff, released a ruff, the old man drove him away for it; the young man began to work for the old woman; the khan will give his dumb daughter for who her talk; the young man goes to the khan, takes another young man as his companions; he tells the princess how three brothers lived, the eldest fed the bull, the middle one cleaned the manure, the younger one cleaned the manure, you have to go from head to tail 6 days, the brothers met every 3 days; the bull drank the lake at the watering hole, but the catfish living in the lake swallowed it; the black bird took the catfish, began to eat, the fox crept up and ate the bird; the hunters killed the fox, half hats were sewn for all the inhabitants of the village, and the other half was taken by a shepherd, but only half a hat was enough; people began to think who was bigger; princess: shepherd; khan gave his daughter to the young man's companion; on the way back he offered to divide it, held his sword, a snake jumped out of the girl's mouth, she was killed, and she prevented her from speaking; the companion said that he was that ruff, gave the girl to the young man, disappeared]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959: 53-55; the Karakalpaks [three friends went to the khan; to understand what kind of people they were, the khan instructed the senior horseman to take a beautiful slave named Gul on a pilgrimage and gave him a frisky horse; The second gave a thousand gold and told him to become a friend to the first; the third did not give anything; the first planned to kill the second and take the money, and the second to kill the first and take the slave; at night the third heard a noise, both of his comrades are dead in blood; he buried them, and G. called them sister; stayed in a wealthy house, the owner's son is sick; the horseman lay down in the garden under a tree; at night he hears the conversation of two snakes, white and black; white: to get hold of two pots of gold, you climbed into this man's son, which is why he has been ill for 12 years; greed will destroy you; the snakes have crawled away; in the morning, the horseman ordered the cow to drink melted fat, who did not calve for 7 years in a row; a black snake crawled out of the boy's mouth; buy killed her, the boy recovered; bai gave the horseman cattle and goodness; the dzhigit took Gul on a pilgrimage and returned to his country, put up a yurt; the ruler drove up, did not recognize the horseman, said that the dishes served were similar to those prepared by G.; the dzhigit brought G. and told everything; the ruler made him a vizier]: Aimbekov 2014a: 29; Kyrgyz: Kebekov, Tokombaev 2007 (p. Budzhum, Batken District, Batken Region) [Bekjan is the khan of the city; elderly spouses live on the river bank, their son Izmail; the old man caught a goldfish; ran to tell the khan; I. released it, put a stone on the net; Khan came with horsemen; for deception promised to hang the old man with his family; the mother tells her son to run, teaches him to check those he chooses as companions; do not take someone who takes more than half of the cake broken in half; along the way pretend to be relieved; if he waits, then a friend, if not, do not go with him; I. tested everyone, no one fits; a young man caught up with him near another city; he is 16, called Israel, fulfilled the conditions set by Ishmael's mother; at the bazaar, the locals mock those who came; Israel maimed them; they complained to the khan, the khan ordered the ragged men to be brought; Israel cut off the heads of five soldiers, the other 5 ran away; the vizier advises not to attack the young men, but to recruit them; only 40 horses managed to pull the wagon in which the young men got; every year the dragon is given one sheep and one girl, it is the turn of the khan's daughter Guljamal; Israel cut the dragon, lost consciousness himself; Ishmael washed him and he came to life; the khan gave his daughter to Ishmael; between a lake of milk and a lake of butter, he built an ak-yorgyo wedding yurt, healed well, Forgetting Israel, he appeared dressed as a dervish and cursed: "Are there any among you who have forgotten their homeland, their parents, and have settled among strangers? If so, know that they know neither conscience nor shame, they are completely lost"; G. understood everything, Israel agreed that it was time to visit their parents; Israel and G. went on a journey, spent the night in a yurt by the spring under the plane tree; Israel hears pigeons talking - these are dragon spirits; if a pigeon key touches the sleepers, they will die, and whoever tells will become petrified; Israel ran into the yurt; the pigeon's beak managed to touch G. , Israel began to lick the poison, Ishmael thought that he was kissing his wife; Israel told everything, petrified; G. caught up with one pigeon on a white tulpar, washed his blood on a stone, Israel came to life; began to destroy the soldiers Khan B., who handed him the throne; Israel proposes to divide all property, including G.; when he swung his sword, G. fell, and something like a mouse jumped out of his nostrils; Israel chopped her, it was her soul dragon; he said he was that fish released]: 50-59; Sabyr uulu 2008 [the girl was collecting a dung, saw two snakes, one white and the other speckled black; the white one managed to hide in a hole, a speckled black snake the girl killed; when she grew up, the groom brought cattle for dowry, but died in bed without getting along with his wife; so 7 suitors; the mullah ordered to remember how the girl killed the snake; she remembered it in a dream; the mullah promised to resurrect a husband if a girl gives him 1,000 gold; met with the lord of the snakes and offered that he resurrect the man, and he would resurrect the snake; he replied that this was impossible, and ordered the mullah to sting; when the mullah fell dead, a gold bar and a silver bar the size of a horse and a sheep fell from his bosom; the snake wrapped around the bars; since then it has been said that every snake has gold]: 292-293; Uighurs [Mulukdar gets married; soon learns that deceivers and parasites live in the city in the east; goes there; saves a fish on the way; a young man becomes his companion; during During the night, M. sleeps, the satellite grabs something that fell from the sky (it was lightning that would kill M.), kills the yalmauz, the dragon (he sucks everything in, the young man cuts through it from the inside); in both cases frees captive; parasites marrying a girl in the city pay dowry, die on their wedding night; the old woman explains that a snake crawls out of the girl's mouth; M. puts sleeping pills into the wine, kills a snake; returns with his companion; the satellite explains that he was that rescued fish, guarded M.; M. takes the girls to their parents, stays with his first wife]: Kabirov 1963:249-256.