K100D. The assistant turns out to be a prince, ATU 314. .15.16.28.31.

At the end of the story, an assistant animal (horse, lion, etc.) automatically turns into a prince (princess).

Sicilians, Italians (Tuscany), Maltese, Portuguese, Irish, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Pomerania, Hesse, Grimms, Austria), Bretons, French (Upper Brittany), Russians ( Voronezh), Latvians, Lutsies, Estonians, Finns, Karelians, Norwegians, Icelanders, Swedes, Danes, Western Sami.

Southern Europe. Sicilians [someone steals apples from the royal garden; the eldest son guards, falls asleep; the same middle son; the youngest cuts off his hand that stretches across the fence; in the morning the brothers see a well, only the youngest decided to go down; killed the sleeping giant, freeing three princesses; the brothers pick them up on a rope; when the young man should get up, they cut off the rope, but he tied a stone; the younger princess must wait for him a year, a month and a day; the old king is blind with grief, he will be cured by Fata Morgana's water; the brothers went to look, they didn't find it; in the lower world, a horse (this is FM's brother) teaches his younger brother to put an iron rod in gates that open and slam shut; a roll of wet paper into moving scissors; throw half a goat to two lions; FM water is its sweat flowing from a source; near grenades, it is necessary pick three fruits; the young man did everything and also went to the castle, kissed the sleeping FM; FM and the lions are chasing, but the horse tells me to throw grenades; they turn into a river, mountain, mountain of fire; FM returns; young man meets the brothers, they take away a bottle of water, the king sees the light, divides the kingdom between his eldest sons; the youngest is imprisoned with the horse; he orders to beat and cut it; a young man appears - FM brother; younger smashes enemies, forgives brothers, but takes the kingdom for himself; is FM, recognizes the young man as the one who kissed her, marries her brother to the boy's sister]: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 36 : 234-242; Italians (Pisa): Calvino 1980, No. 76 [the king and queen learn that when their son reaches 20 years old, he will marry and immediately kill his wife or turn into a dragon; they are preparing a wedding with English princess; her mare teaches her to ask her to come to the wedding on horseback; takes the princess away; the prince became a dragon and flew away; the princess changed clothes with the peasant; she was hired under the guise of a young man a groom to another king; the prince suspects that this is a girl; the Queen Mother offers various challenges (the woman will collect the bouquet, and the young man will pick a flower and take it in his teeth; etc.); the latter is fencing; the imaginary groom falls from fatigue, the prince sees a girl in front of him; marries; goes to war on his wife's mare, she leaves her three hairs; the dragon replaces letters; the queen supposedly gave birth puppies, and the prince orders her and children to be burned; the prince's parents sent their daughter-in-law with their grandchildren on a ship, and burned wax dolls; a dragon towards the princess; she tears her hairs, a forest appears; a river; fire; a dragon every time she overcomes obstacles; a mare runs up, kills the dragon and dies herself; the princess comes to the castle, she is beautiful in it: she is disgraced after she killed the dragon; the prince also comes; everything happy], 79 [Prince Fioravante is in love with the weaver's daughter Sandrina; to distract him from the thought of marrying a bump, the king sends him to his brother in Paris; on the way F. entered the house, where a robber lived, he forced him to change clothes and call himself a servant, but he took the place of F. himself; in Paris, the local king appointed F. to serve in the stable; the deceiver tells the king that the servant boasted to bring horses that no one can tame; F. goes to the pasture, a mare comes up and tells her to sit on it; F. brings horses; the deceiver persuades F. to send back Princess Isolina, who disappeared when she was 14; the king considers her dead; F. with a mare on the ship, tells the mare to catch fish, put it in a crystal goblet; when they sailed to India, the mare orders to catch the bird, place it in a golden cage; in the monastery of F. asked him to show him S.'s grave; dug it up - I. is imperishable in gold and diamonds; but it is impossible to separate it from the plate on which she lies without finding the lace that was on her head; abbess: the lace fell into the sea; mare: throw the fish into the sea, it will bring a lace in exchange for freedom; the bird took the lace from two dolphins and brought it; F. pulled I. out, but her soul was on a high mountain; the released bird brought a vial with her soul I., I. has come to life; the king is happy; the mare orders to accept the king's invitation to the feast on the condition that she, the mare, will also come; F. is silent at the feast, and the mare tells everything; advises to tie the robber to her tail; galloped, the robber died; F. marries a princess, the mare says he forgot her; asks to cut off her head; he did this, the first people F. - S. came out of the mare's body; F. regrets that he is already married , gives S. a rich dowry and marries a merchant]: 277-280, 288-293; Maltese [the sorcerer promises childless spouses the birth of a son with the condition that the boy be given to him after a certain time; prince gets to the sorcerer, who tells him to take care of horses, except for one; this horse is an enchanted prince; the prince runs on this horse; a magical escape (abandoned blade, glass fragments, crest turn into rain, fire, darkness, lots of iron combs, glass fragments, blades); the prince saves fish, ants, lions, is hired as a gardener to the king, hiding his golden hair under a lamb bubble; the younger princess sees his golden hair, chooses him as a husband; the prince wins competitions three times incognito; advisers suggest getting rid of the gardener by offering difficult tasks (sleeping with lions; sort the grain); in the guise of a gardener, marries a younger princess; incognito defeats enemies; the prince and his wife return to the sorcerer, destroy his outer soul, spell everyone's end with living water; gets medicine for the blind king; the horse turns into a king who was bewitched]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 314:68-74; the Portuguese [stepmother tyrannites stepdaughter, father's bull protects her; he has ear or horn - magic tablecloth; either it helps her find food or helps her spin; stepmother watches the bull; pretending to be sick, asks him to slaughter; stepdaughter runs away with him; the bull carries her through a copper, silver, golden forest; tells you not to touch the trees, but she accidentally touches them and takes them with her; because of this, the bull must fight demons every time; the girl lubricates his wounds; he tells Kill him and bury him, this is where everything a girl needs appears; or the dead bull turns into a prince and marries the girl]: Cardigos 2006, No. 511A: 126-128.

Western Europe. The Irish: Curtin 1975 [The king of Ireland chased a black pig; she threw herself into the sea, he followed her to the island, ended up in a castle with food and drink, a woman with him at night; on the third day revealed to him; she was that pig, Queen of Lonely Island (OO); only her son from the King of Ireland will free her and her two sisters from spell; she sent the king home, gave birth, raised a son; Ireland was attacked by the king of Spain, the son of Queen OO (SKOO) killed the enemies alone; the king's wife said that her eldest son did it; threw the intoxicated SCOO into the sea, who swam onto a rock in the middle of the sea, the sailors brought him to his mother; the son of the King of Spain comes with an army, SCOO again destroys enemies, and the king's wife again called her son the winner; she smeared the chicken's lips with blood, said that blood from her heart, she will be cured by three bottles of water from the burning Tube Tintye spring; SCOO goes to get water, both sons of the King of Ireland are with him, but soon returned in fear; SCOO comes to Queen OO's sister, She sends to another sister; she says that the Queen of TT Island, her 12 maids and an army of animals and monsters have been sleeping for 7 years and awake for 7 years; summons the birds, the eagle says they are just asleep; Queen OO's sister tells SCOO to choose a horse that will meet him, that nondescript; carries the SCOO across a river of fire and poisonous trees; SCOO collects water from TT, leaves a letter to the sleeping Queen TT; brings water, the Queen of Ireland says the hero is her son; the horse tells SCOO to cut him into four pieces, who turn into four princes who have been bewitched; Queen TT woke up, next to her a boy she was born; she finds a letter, proud that the boy has a hero father; comes to Ireland with an army of animals and monsters, tells me to call the one who got TT water; the Queen of Ireland sends her sons; the horse throws off one and the other, they break; SCOO prances; Queen TT puts a tightening belt on the Queen of Ireland; she admits that her sons are from a gardener and brewer; the king tells you to quit her into the fire; Queen TT marries the King of Ireland to Queen OO, marries SCOO herself; removes the spell of animals and monsters]: 49-64; McManus 1915 [stepmother drives away stepson; he is hired by the master for a promise give a horse; a blind man teaches him to take a plain bay; the horse tells the young man not to pick up shining hair, he picks it up, has dinner in the light of it with the new owner; this is noticed by the king's son; tells the young man to get a woman with like hair; the horse frolicks in front of a woman's palace, she sits down for a ride, he takes her away; she promises to marry the king's son if he gets three bottles of water from a cow spring; the horse tells his young man kill near the seashore; crows fly, hang bottles around the necks of three, they will bring water from across the sea; the horse himself rushes to the sword; with this water, the young man heals crows worn off the necks, revives the horse; a woman sprinkles himself with the same water, bathes in boiling water, promises to marry someone who also swims; the king's son is cooked, the young man, sprinkled with water, is not injured, marries a woman with shiny hair; the horse too turns into a woman (she was bewitched), disappears]: 182-185; Germans (Pomerania) [the main hunter is dead; the king will appoint a new one who will bring more game; a young hunter sees how an underground dwarf fights a bear; cut off the bear's veins; a dwarf leads him into the mountain: his father will reward the hunter; we must take the most unsightly; the hunter took a rusty gun, a dirty horn and chose plain skate; mountain will attract any game, the gun does not need gunpowder and bullets, the horse talks; the hunter brought 4 carts of game, was appointed senior; other hunters are dissatisfied with its elevation; they say to the king that the hunter promised to dig three tons of gold from under the gazebo; the horse digs up; hunters: the chief promised to put a glass bridge instead of an iron bridge overnight; the horse does it again; hunters: the chief can bring the king a bride; the horse brings the air hunter to the castle of the robbers who captured the princess; the robbers agree to give the princess if the hunter can hide from them; the horse hides him from themselves under their tail; now the robbers command to bring a mighty mare that grazes 10 miles from the castle; the horse helps to tame her; the robbers are preparing to pick up the mare and not give the princess away; but the hunter takes the princess away, putting her on a mare; the king demands her for himself; the horse tells her to give, he cannot defeat the royal army; the king of dwarfs appears: let the hunter declare war on the king; appears an army of dwarfs, the king gives the hunter a woman and a throne; the mare asks the new king to cut off her and the stallion's head; they turn into a prince and princess; they are brother and sister, whom the sorcerer has turned into horses]: Jahn 1891, No. 2:9-19; Germans (Pomerania) [the peasant has three sons; they went to serve the king but soon escaped from duty; they spent the night with an old witch in the forest; she tells her to sleep with her; the youngest refuses ; the elders hunt and bring game for three days, and the youngest only sees a deer; on the morning of the fourth day, she orders the witch to be shot, her heart cut off and thrown into the forest, and his heart pulled out and cut into pieces; the deer turned into a princess and told her to come to her golden sun castle; when the young man asked the giant boatman to transport him across the river, he saw coins that only his mother had witches; rushed there, but did not find a head and heart, so he could not revive it; the young man found the princess's castle; wanted to see the brothers; the wife did not let alone; summoned her dwarf brother from the ground - let will be an escort; they spent the night in the robbers' castle, the dwarf easily killed them; the young brothers wanted to slaughter him at night, the dwarf stopped them, the brother forgave them; when they returned to the princess, the dwarf tells cut off his head; then became a prince]: Jahn 1891, No. 57:312-317; Germans (southern Hesse) [the king is sick, but will recover when he hears Felix's bird singing; whoever of his three sons gets it is will inherit the throne; the brothers parted at the crossroads by the tree; who returns first will wait for the others; the elders meet the bear and refuse to answer him, the younger Ferdinand tells him everything; the bear indicates the castle where to hire; take a wooden cage with a bird, not to transplant the bird into another cage; for his diligence, the prince was appointed chief of birds; but F. transplanted Felix into a golden cage; as soon as he was outside the castle gate, Felix screamed, F. was captured; a bear appeared: promise the king to get the most beautiful girl for him; the king let F. go, the bear put him on his back and quickly delivered him to another castle; the local king has three daughters, the youngest is the most beautiful; you recognize her: she is wearing the poorest dress; and don't try to take her brocade dresses with you; F. regretted leaving expensive outfits, princess screamed, F. was captured; the bear teaches again: promise the king to get the fastest horse for him; the bear brought F. to the third city; take a horse with a wooden saddle, not to take gold; but F. again did not I listened, the horse yells "Thief!" , F. was captured; begged the bear to help him out again: promise the king to get the most expensive gem for him; the bear brought F. to the mountain, which opens for one hour; there is no need to be afraid of lions and tigers; you must take a stone in a simple wooden box; but F. took the gold box and filled all his pockets with gems; an invisible hand gave him the back of the head and F. flew out of the cave; bear: I'm the one who pulled you out: a minute later the cave would close; now select the best stones for the king; the king gave the horse; when the princess came out to look at the horse, F. picked it up and carried it away; having received the bird for the princess, took the princess away again; the bear warned him not to stop home, but F. stopped under that tree and fell asleep; the brothers came, took everything for themselves, and Ferdinand was thrown into the lion's lair; the bear took pity again and brought F. to his father's castle; unrecognized F. got a job at the stable; his dull horse immediately rejoiced; when he saw F., the silent phoenix bird sang; F. married the princess, his brothers were expelled; his wife gave birth to a son; the bear came joyfully accepted; asks for repay: cut your son in half with your hand to make it easier for me to swallow him; F. closed his eyes and raised his sword; immediately the bear's skin fell and he himself turned out to be a prince; got his kingdom, and then built a castle next to Castle F. and began to live there]: Wolf 1851:229-242; the Germans [an apple disappears in the royal garden every morning; the eldest, middle queens fall asleep; the youngest sees a bird with golden plumage, fired an arrow, one feather fell; the king sends his sons to get a bird; the fox tells the eldest to go not to a good tavern, but to a poor tavern, he does not obey; the same average prince; both remain in tavern, wasting money; the youngest does as the fox tells, grabs it by the tail, she brings it to a poor tavern, then to the castle, tells her not to take an expensive cage; the queen takes it, is captured, released for a promise get a golden horse; the fox tells you not to take the saddle; the same; get the queen; you must kiss the queen in the bath, not allow her to say goodbye to his parents; the young man allowed, captured; the king orders to tear it off in 8 days mountain; the fox does the work; tells you to give the girl for a horse, but immediately grab her and ride away; the same with the bird (grab and ride away); the fox tells her to cut off her head and legs, the Queen refuses; then He tells him not to buy meat from the gallows or sit at the edge of the well; the Queen bought the brothers they were going to hang for crimes; they pushed him into the well, the fox lowered its tail and pulled it out; the queen returned in the form of a beggar; the girl recognized him and told him everything; the older brothers were executed, the youngest married a girl, inherited the throne; the fox orders her head and legs to be cut off; turns into a brother that girl - he was bewitched]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 57:199-204 (=Grimm, Grimm 198:159-164); Germans (Schleswig-Holstein): Uther 2004 (1), No. 314:198-199; Germans [son departs to travel, the father gives him a faithful servant as his companion; they live with an old woman in the forest; she tells the servant to prevent the master from shooting three brown deer, but if he says, she will die; the servant frightened deer, master is dissatisfied; same with black deer, with white deer; the master shot the servant, horrified by what he did; three girls accuse him of ruining everything, could free them; give them a sword, inexhaustible purse, ring; with a sword, a young man kills a snake that fought a lion; a lion becomes his companion; they swim across three seas, win, kill giants; with the help of a donated ring, a young man shatters a sedated castle, where those three girls and their mother queen; the lion brought the remains of a murdered servant, who is revived by living water; the lion asks to be cut off his head, turns into a queen who has been bewitched; a young man, a servant and a former lion marry three princesses]: Cerf 1992:37-51; Bretons [Péronic is the son of a poor widow; he is about 10 years old; a golden carriage descended from the sky in the spring, the princess gave it to his mother she put money with her, brought it to the castle; ordered him to feed one horse and not take care of the other; gave the keys to all the rooms, told him not to enter one; P., so that he would not be bored alone, asked princesses gold and silver bowling balls and a singing golden thrush; on the eighth day he unlocked the forbidden room, there was a skinny horse with thorns in front of him, clover behind him; P. gave him a clover; the horse said that the princess is the queen of sorcerers, she will also turn him into an animal; tells him to run, taking treasures, a linen shawl, balloons, a thrush and a magic book from the mistress's table; the dog is the mistress's sister, she must be worn muzzle; the dog chases, the horse turns himself and P. into two frogs; next time: two statues in the chapel; the fugitives crossed the river, then the sorceress has no power; the horse tells P. to kill him, turns into prince; calls to go to his father in Turkey, gives his sister as his wife, but the young man wants to see the world first; is hired as a gardener in Paris, in good standing; plays with his silver ball at the festival, sells to a princess for a kiss; next time sells a golden ball for a chance to look at the princess's knees; next time sells a songwriter's golden thrush in three nights with the princess; 9 months later no one understands what the princess is sick with; a young man teaches one person to pretend to be a knowledgeable doctor and name the true cause; the king passes off his daughter to a young man, and after the death of his father-in-law, he becomes king]: Soupault 1959, No. 15:177-192; French (Haute-Brittany) [Jean's mother is sick; a big man (this is the devil) tells his father to give his wife a drink of meat broth from a seven-year-old child; Jean runs to the godmother; she takes him back to his parents, he sees his sister in the cauldron; runs into the forest, meets a giant (it's the devil again) whose horse is as tall as a dog and a doe; he brings Jean to his underground castle; tells him to watch behind the fire under the cauldron; in the cauldron sinners, including Jean's godmother, she tells him not to drown until the devil is gone; the skate tells Jean that he himself will turn into the same skate; the skate, following the doe, carries Jean away , the devil pursues; they throw the scraper (river), the crest (lattice), reach the holy land; in the forest, Jean, despite the horse's prohibition, picks up something shining; the horse tells you to hire a groom to work in the castle, promises to appear on demand; the pen illuminates the stable, the servants tell the king that Jean can bring the bird itself; on horseback and with a doe, he comes to the spring, tells him to cut off his head, throw him into the water, a bird Carrion arrives to peck, Zhat grabs her, the horse is reborn; the servants persuade the king to tell Jean to bring the princess; he takes her by ship, she throws a ring into the sea; she will marry only if the ring returned; the horse tells him to cut off his head, throw him into the sea, the fish splash, he pulls out the swallowed ring, is reborn; the princess tells the king to kill Jean, revives his pen; now tells Jean to kill the king, does not revive him, marries Jean; the horse and the doe turn into a prince and princess, get married; (ending)]: Sébillot 1894, No. 32:275-277.

Central Europe. Russians (Voronezhskaya, 1965, p. Pike in Ertil District) [The merchant suspects his non-native son of stealing, says that it would be better to take him the hell. The hell takes the boy, raises him. The hell goes away and leaves the guy with his keys, but won't let him go into the same room. He comes in, sees a skinny horse on chains, gives him 3 buckets of water, the horse breaks his chains, invites the boy to run away, he does not immediately agree. The hell catches up with them, scolds the guy, puts the horse on a chain. The hell goes away again and promises to kill the guy if he goes into the forbidden room. The guy goes to the horse, which is completely exhausted, gives him more water, the horse escapes, they decide to run. The horse advises you to take the hell with a towel, comb and brush. He gets up in his face to the east, orders to dig a hole - gold is boiling in it, the guy gives up - they turn gold, then digs a hole under the horse's hind legs - there's silver, he lets his legs down, they stand up silver knee. The devil catches up with the fugitives, the guy throws in the towel, a river appears, then a comb appears, a forest grows, and a brush - a wall of fire grows. The devil can't get over it, turns back. The guy finds himself in a foreign kingdom, calls to save the princess stolen by the Turkish padishah. The guy returns the girl, but does not confess, he kills the bull, rips off his skin and wraps him in it, the princess sees him and falls in love, asks his father to marry them. The king does not like the boy, he promises to marry his daughter if he defeats the Turkish army, because the Turkish padishah, who has lost his princess, declares war. The boy defeats the Turkish army, his squad dies, he alone saves the king's daughter and her maid (her tent is captured by a Turkish squad). The horse asks to cut off his head, the guy doesn't want to, but he insists. The horse turns out to be a good fellow, bewitched by the trait, now that he's broken, the devil is dead. The king marries his daughter to the guy, well done marries the princess's beautiful maid]: Kretov 1977, No. 32:54-56.

Baltoscandia. Latvians [three owners drive the shepherdess away without paying; the fourth leaves for three days, tells them to burn the fire under the boilers, not to look into the well; those three owners are in the cauldrons; the shepherd shoved hand into the well, the finger is covered with blood, it cannot be wiped off; the owner beats a shepherd who has violated the ban, next time does not tell him to enter the room; there is a horse, oats behind him, candles in front of him, the young man gives oats to the horse , he tells you to run, take a comb, a handkerchief, a bottle; they turn into a forest, into rocks, into a sea; hell stops chasing; the horse tells you to call silver, gold, diamond, black horses if necessary; a young man is hired by a water truck to the king; consistently calls horses, goes to smash enemies; the servant claims that he saved the kingdom; the king discovers a fragment of his spear in the leg of a water carrier; a water carrier marries a princess, a servant is tied to the tail of a black horse; the horse tells him to cut off his head, turns into a prince bewitched by the devil]: Aris 1971:167-175; Lutsie (West 1893) [the king held a son behind 10 castles; but he is strong, escaped; in the forest an old man in a house; teaches and feeds him, forbids him to enter a room with a bast door; a young man enters, there is a horse, meat in front of him, and a lion, hay in front of him; the young man shifted; the old man is angry; after a while the young man enters that room again; horse: hold my face; shakes my face, the young man falls; horse: take a sip of water from the bottle; same; more; on this one once there is so much strength that you can hold on; take a brush and a whetstone; the horse is flying, the old man is chasing, his mouth is open; the young man throws the brush (forest and mountain), the whetstone (mountain); the old man makes his way; the horse tells you to wave his right rein - the bridge over the river of fire; they skipped along it; on the left: the old man was on the bridge at that time, the bridge collapsed, the old man burned down; the horse went to graze, the young man built a house and a garden near the royal palace, in it silver and gold apples; the younger princess noticed him; the grooms have arrived; the king: whoever is given a cup will be a husband; the elders brought it to the visitors, the youngest to the gardener; the elder grooms do not want this son-in-law, came with an army; the young man called the horse, defeated everyone, disappeared again into his house; a new fiancé came to the youngest, the young man defeated his army; then he led the terrible horse out of the high mountain, and on it old man; hard battle; the young man is wounded in the arm, asks the king for a blessing (the king does not understand that this is his younger son-in-law), then killed the old man and the groom is walled up; the young man falls asleep for 12 days, the king recognizes his bandage; after 12 days, the young man wakes up healthy; at the feast, the horse tells him not to drink the first cup; the young man sipped, the horse burst, the bowl fell, broke; the horse tells him to take the queen's handkerchief and wipe his lips young man and himself; turns into a young man's brother who's long gone; I drank and ate there, it flowed down my lips, didn't get into my mouth]: Annom et al. 2018:135-139; Estonians (Ambla) [12 sons of a poor man went to look for service; the king promised everyone a horse if they worked for him for a year; a year later, 11 brothers chose good horses, and the youngest a thin skate; if no one sees, the horse turns into a heroic horse; When they returned to their father, the brothers left again to look for brides so that they could all be sisters; the old woman has 12 daughters; the younger brother goes to bed with her youngest; she reports that she was kidnapped as a child, and the rest the girls are the daughters of an old woman; his strong point is her bewitched brother, they are royal children; at night the old woman will cut off the heads of those who come; the youngest told the brothers to swap places with the old woman's daughters and ride away; the old woman cut off the heads of her daughters; the old woman chases on horseback, the horse tells the youngest to throw a broom (dense forest), a brush (thicket), a rose hip flower (rose hips); the fugitives jumped to houses where the witch has no power; the horse turned to the prince; the younger brother married the rescued princess]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 55:142-145; the Finns [hell turned the prince into a fast horse; ordered The groom guy should live in the stable and not enter the house; when the hell was gone, the Konb told the guy to go into the house; there he saw a bottle of blood, a huge sword on the wall, and in the chest in the corner there was a white stone, a green branch, and a cup of water; hell knew the guy came into the house, promised to kill him for it next time; but as soon as the hell was gone again, the horse told me to go try to raise his sword and, if it was too heavy, sprinkle it himself with blood from a bottle; the guy felt a surge of energy, easily raised his sword; the horse ordered to take items from the chest, sit on it, galloped away; hell chases, the horse tells me to throw a stone (rocks; hell ran away for with an ax, cut through the passage; fox: if you throw the ax, I'll take it; the line had to waste time taking the axe home), a green branch (a copper forest; the same episode with an ax and a fox), a bowl of water (lake; hell tried to drink it, girded himself with a hoop so as not to burst, the fox ate the hoop, the devil burst); they rode to the king, the father of the enchanted prince; the horse ordered him to be hidden in the beech forest; war began; the boy rode on an old mare, and then changed his clothes, sat on his horse, slaughtered enemies with a sword; was wounded and the princess noticed him bandaging the wound; he told the king everything; the horse ordered him to be cut off head, a prince came out of his horse's body; he inherited the throne, and the king married the boy to a princess]: Salmelainen 1947:47-52; Karelians (Kalevalsky District): Onegin 2010, No. 17 [dying, parents advise the son should not marry, the daughter does not marry, but live together quietly; after eating all the supplies, they went on a journey; the sister is thirsty; the brother went to the waterfall to get water, took a hat of water, there is a pike; asks her let go, teaches you where the golden sword is between the stones of the waterfall; you can't lift it, but if you "turn the screw", it will become easy; do not show your sister; they come to a house where the table is set for nine; 9 demons come in the young man cuts off their heads with his sword, throws their bodies underground; it turned out that one did not die without death; asks the girl to let him go, make him husband; let him know what his brother's strength is; he replies that he is naked, in pomelo; the sister and the demon burn them, the brother is unharmed; the young man's sword is unable to lift the demon; then the sister pretended to be sick, asked for bear milk, then lion's milk; the bear, the lioness, laugh, give milk; the sister asks the devil leader for the gallbladder across the nine seas; the bear and the lioness go with the guy; they hide it in a hole, and then barked so that the squirrel captain carrying that devil on the ship could hear; even in a hole, the guy almost became deaf from such a scream; the squirrel brought the guy, tells him to hide in the underground, the princess will put the demon to sleep, he needs to cut off his head, a ring will roll out of his throat, cut him in two, one Throw half into the fire, the other into his pocket; there was the life of a demon in the ring, the boy took bile; the princess gave her ring; at home, the sister persuaded her to say where his brother's life was and how to make the sword light; without taking the sword, the guy was blinded and driven into the forest; he came to the city, the princess saw her ring, told her father to pass her off as a blind man, he drove them away; the blind man hears the birds talking; the first time they say that if you enter the hut, it will explode; the blind man did not let his wife go there; the second time: if you wash his eyes with dew, the man will see the light; sending his wife to her father, the man with his animals came to the demon; the squirrel went down the chimney, unlocked the door; the man took his sword, blinded the demon and sister, drove him into the forest; the couple came to their animals; they tell his wife and them to cut off their heads, throw them into the spring, throw their sword there and jump themselves; squirrel, a lioness, a bear, and a sword turned into four princes - brothers of a man's wife; when he sees the missing children, the king asks forgiveness from his son-in-law and daughter, gives his son-in-law the throne], 21 []: 201-209, 237-241; Norwegians: Asbjíørsen, Moe 1960:49-55 [The king's golden apple ripens every year, someone steals it; he promises the kingdom to the son who has caught the thief; the elder sees a golden bird, gets scared, the apple disappears, but he goes in search of a bird; refuses to share food with the fox, stays drunk in the inn; the same middle son; the youngest tears off the bird's feather; shares with the fox; she warns not to go inn; he comes in, forgets everything, but the fox comes back and takes him out, leads him to a golden linden tree, teaches him to grab the bird but not to touch the branches; the young man breaks the branch, the troll grabs it, lets him go a promise to bring a horse stolen by another troll; the fox teaches not to take bridles, the young man takes it, the troll grabs him, lets him go for promising to bring the girl stolen from him by the third troll; the fox herself gets, they leave, taking the girl, horse, bridle, linden tree and bird; trolls chase; the fox wears rye straw clothes, replies that her grandmother's grandmother saw the passers-by; trolls refuse chases, decide to continue to sleep; the young brothers throw him in a barrel into the sea, take everything, but the girl is sad, the horse is losing weight, the bird is silent, the linden tree withers; the fox finds a barrel, saves the young man; when she sees him, the girl said that he saved her, the horse recovered, the bird sang, the linden tree turned green; the older brothers were thrown off the cliff in barrels; the fox asks the king to cut off her head, turns into a prince - the brother of the rescued princess], 139- 149 [two older brothers go looking for happiness, refuse to share food with the old woman; the youngest, sitting in ash, shares; she gives a ball; advises not to look for the beauty whose portrait he found; he is hired in the same castle as the brothers; they are jealous, they say that the brother worships an idol; the king recognizes the portrait of the youngest of his three missing daughters; the brothers say that the youngest is able to bring them back; the old woman tells you to ask the king for a huge supply of meat, go to the Raven; the young man aims at him, he promises to help; raises him to the mountain where the troll's son has lost his way; for the saved son, the troll offers a reward he takes a gray donkey; a young man takes food to the ends of the world to silver, then gold, and gold castles; each has one of the princesses; the young man throws food to dragons and predators, they skip it; the eldest the princess gives strong water, the young man cuts off the heads of three-, six- and nine-headed trolls in the following castles; the middle sister sleeps, for the water of life and death, the young man comes to the youngest, it is her portrait that he saw; she gets pregnant from him, but promises to come in three years; at home, the older sister and her husband, the Red Knight, poured dead water on the young man; the youngest comes, rejects the applicants, demands that the young man be revived; he gives her a piece cut off from her dress, her son recognizes his father, gives him a golden apple; they ask not to execute the Red Knight and his older sister; the donkey tells him to cut off his head, turns into a prince, takes wife middle sister]; Hodne 1984, No. 511A (Nordland) [an orphan boy finds a caterpillar on his parents' grave and fattens it; it grows into a bull (ox); a young man sits on it, leaves; they drive through three forests - with brass, silver, gold leaves; each time the bull must fight monsters, because the young man violates the ban on touching the leaves; the bull orders him to be slaughtered, turns into a prince; a young man marries his sister and gets half a kingdom]: 119; Suritz 1991 [the king offers to herd 7 foals; whoever can say in the evening what they eat and drink will receive a princess and half a kingdom, and three will be slaughtered to those who are crazy a belt from the back; the older brother spent the whole day with an old woman who took out his lice; when the foals jumped back, gave water and cranberries, their food and drink; his belts were cut out; the same middle brother; the younger Askeladden does not stop with the old woman; the foal takes him to the underground room, tells him to take his sword to cut off their heads and drink strong water; on the way back he brings him to church , tells you to take wine and bread from the holy doras - this is drink and food; A. gets the princess and half the kingdom, cuts off the heads of foals, they turned into seven queens who were bewitched]: 195- 199; Icelanders [Queen Ring chased a doe, got lost in the fog, parted with his companions; on the shore there is a barrel, a woman next to him, a ring in the barrel; R. wants to take the ring, the woman offers to get it, pushes R. into the barrel, closes the lid, pushes him into the sea; when the barrel is washed ashore, R. went out; he was picked up by a giant, brought it to his wife; R. lives with them, helps; he is forbidden to go into the closet behind the kitchen; he sees that there is a dog, asks her for a reward; she says her name is Snati-Snati; came to live with the king, gained confidence; Raudur is jealous, advises to test Ringa; 1) who will cut down more trees; Snati tells you to ask the king for two axes, cuts together with the owner, cut twice as much as Raudur; 2) get two ferocious wild bulls, bring skins and horns; S. kills more, helps Ring kill less , the carcasses are fresh; 3) get a gold fur coat, a gold playing board and the usual gold that the king has lost; the king promises the young man a daughter if he gets everything; S. tells him to get a bag of salt; He takes the young man up the mountain, where in the cave there is a family of giants, in which a son and a daughter; the young man quietly sprinkles salt into the giants' soup; they are thirsty; the daughter went to get water after her parents gave her gold; S. and Ring push her into the water, take the gold; the same with the son of giants (they take her fur coat); the same with the giantess (the playing board); but the giantess got out of the water; they killed her by stabbing a hot rod and drenching boiling water; Raudur to the king: Ring cut off my hand; Ring testified that he had cut off the hand that reached out to kill him at night; S. shed his skin and turned into a prince himself - also named Ring; only one Ring could spell the other; the first Ring burned the skin; it was his giantess stepmother who bewitched him; she was also a doe, a woman by a barrel and a giantess in a cave; the first Ring married a princess and the second a sister first]: Poestion 1884, No. 21:171-186; Swedes [three princes hunt; when they arrive at the hut, they hear three girls talking; when the older brother is married, his mind will become clouded, he will throw himself with a knife on the father, but the youngest will take his hand away; and when the youngest is married, a polar bear will come for him; as it happened; the king appointed 300 warriors to protect his youngest son, the bear killed all but one, promised to come the next night; out of 600 warriors, two remained; the third, out of 900, three; the bear promised to return in a year; the prince decided to leave to avoid the death of the soldiers; he came to the first girl, she told the maid to feed the dog Hundshön, she fought off the bear; the hostess gave the prince a dog, a rod and a ball; the prince hit the water with a rod, the water parted, he crossed the river, followed the ball to The second girl, that Hundstark dog, two dogs fought off the bear together; the third Hundschlund fought off three, promised to come in a year; the sisters blew the prince a whistle to call the dogs; the prince came to another country, married a princess; someone sings across the lake, promises to teach the prince's wife; she takes his rod, hits the water, the polar bear goes dry, but the dogs tore it; the wife found a bear's tooth, I went to show the prince, dropped it on the sleeper, he died; they did not bury the coffin; the dogs took turns guarding; the first two fall asleep, Hundschlund sees the old man sprinkling one of the coffins in it comes to life; Hundschlund hardly begged the prince to sprinkle his coffin, he came to life; went on with the dogs; the giant asks to send dogs to fetch water, consistently throws it over each chain, is going to kill the prince; he asks to be allowed to blow the whistle, the dogs fell off, killed the giant; the prince takes the treasure, returns to his first wife; the dogs are told to cut each into three parts, they turn into princes themselves]: Stier 1971, No. 3:15-21; Danes: Bødker 1964, No. 7 [A rich and childless man meets an old man who promises him a son on the condition that he be named Hans and godfather is made the first oncoming; had to make a beggar; G. grew up, went on a journey; sees a house in the forest without doors and windows, climbs over the roof, there is a horse under the saddle with spikes; G. leaves in it; the horse tells me not to pick up a pen with a portrait of a beauty painted on it, G. picked up; comes to the king, is hired by a groom; he sees G.'s pen, it has a portrait of the missing queen, the king sends G. for her; the horse orders him to take pearl barley (birds, they promise to help, the main one is the Fanus bird), bread (giant guards), meat (bear guards); on the way, she helps a marine woman return to sea, she promises to help; in the Queen's castle, a horse tells me to take food only from the middle of the table, sleep in his stall; otherwise the spirits would kill G.; the Queen agrees to go if G. finds her in one of the three silk dolls, in straw sheaves; the horse says where to look tells her to pretend that G. wants to pierce the doll, the sheaf; the Queen tells her to get the Bissefalius horse, he jumps both underground and on the water; the horse tells her to ask for a bridle, says which one to choose; the horse comes running G. throws a bridle; they leave; the queen orders her castle to be moved to the king's castle (the giants perform); the queen says she lost a bunch of keys along the way; the assistant mermaid calls fish, herring says that she slept on these keys; the Queen demands living, dead and beautiful water; the bird Fanus brings; the king drenched himself in beautiful (prettier) water, then alive, then dead; the Queen doused G. dead water, then alive, then beautiful; became his wife, he became king; the horse tells him to cut off his head, turns into a prince; he was bewitched by his stepmother, and his bride into a pillar of salt; the bride Failed to spell], 38 [two older brothers are smart, the younger Christian is a fool; someone steals hay; the elder, the middle see the monster, run away; K. falls asleep in a haystack; the mountain man took him away with the hay; the mountain man has white, bay and black horses; the black one tells K. to drink from three bottles to increase strength, take his sword, knock on the master's room; he looked out, K. cut off his head, collected treasures; returned home, silent about what had happened; the king's daughter on a glass mountain; the king will give her to someone who jumps up there and waves his sword over his head three times; unrecognized K., wearing a white, red, black outfit on white, red, black horse wins the competition three times, the last time he reaches the top of the mountain; the king orders to seize the winner, manages to cut his half of his clothes with a sword; all this time the father and brothers they think that K. herds sheep, he keeps the horses with the old man; after receiving the princess, K. comes home in all its splendor; the black horse tells you to wave his sword, the mountain turns into a castle, the horse turns into a prince; he was bewitched witch stepmother; everything is fine]: 57-68, 244-255; Cox 1893, No. 162 [father wants to marry his daughter; she leaves for a brown cow; the cow tells the girl to hire in the palace, she serves in the kitchen; the cow gives magic dresses; wears them to church three times and leaves before others; loses a shoe; everyone is told to try it on; wedding; brown cow is bewitched by a prince]: 63; Cramer 1919 [=Grundtvig 1878:16- 28; the poor young man was hired to serve in the palace; he was in good standing; the valet, out of envy, says that he boasted to pay interest from hell on what he had loaned to hell; on the way, the raven tells us to dig a sword, from whose touch falls apart, do not turn off the main road; the devil's mother tries in vain to persuade him to turn; with a sword, a young man kills multi-headed monsters, freeing 12, 24, 36 girls; mother the devil advises his son not to get involved and give money; when the young man comes out of hell, the dragon turns into a princess, they ride away on a goat; the devil and his mother chase; the princess spits - the lake; throws the bead is a glass mountain; the pursuers turn back; the raven asks to cut off his head and put it backwards; turns into a young man - the princess's brother; the prince and princess are kidnapped the king's children; the young man married a princess and became king]: 38-44; Holbek 1987 [the father makes and sells sieves, but drinks everything; the son goes to sell the sieve instead of him, gets lost in the forest; sees a portrait on a tree beautiful, but unable to reach it; a horse appears, tells him to obey, then the portrait falls into his hands; in the castle, the young man is hired by a groom; his purse is filled with money, and his doodles turn into portraits; the servant sees a portrait of a long-missing princess - the one that was found in the forest; the king does not believe that the young man did not see her, since he has her portrait, sends her to get it; the young man goes to the phoenix bird; along the way, the horse turns into a dog; people he meets ask to know 1) why the pear does not bear fruit; 2) where the missing princess (the other) is; the young man throws meat to two struggling snakes; millet to two struggling swans; they they let him in; at the lake crossing, the ferryman asks him to know how long he has been a ferryman; in the phoenix house, the princess (the one in the portrait) hides the young man under the bed; asks the phoenix questions from by his name; in the morning, the young man and the princess, taking gold, run away; after crossing the lake, the young man says that the ferryman should tell the person he is transporting to take his position; a phoenix in the form of a dragon pursues, but attacks the nails that cover the ship; swans bring the princess (the one they asked to find), she was in a castle hanging in the air; the young man tells me to dig a huge toad from under the pear, generously rewarded; when the young man returns, the princess from the hanging castle visits him; the king is told about this and he tells him to get the castle, for the princess misses it; swans raise snakes into the air, they snack on gold chains, the castle falls on the ship, is delivered; the servants continue to slander the young man, he and his dog are about to be burned; the dog tells us to take the dragon fat that the young man has kept to the fire; smeared with it, the young man and the dog do not feel the heat of the fire; both turn into handsome men; the servants themselves throw themselves into the fire, but burn; the young man marries the princess from the padlock, and his assistant marries the one who was kidnapped by a phoenix; the king objects and goes to the phoenix; remains a ferryman]: 567-568; Danes [=1879:1-21; the poor have a son, they cannot find a godfather; the beggar agrees to be, gives them the boy's name is Willy Faith; leaves a rusty key; when the boy is 14 years old, a house appears, he opens it with a key, there is a talking horse; V. leaves in it; the horse does not tell him to pick up glowing feathers, V. picks up; is hired by the groom to the king; he forbids lighting the light at night; feathers glow like fire, V. paints a portrait of a beauty; the groom brings it to the king; the king: this is the daughter of the king whom I killed and who ran away; tells me to get it; horse: it became a bird, it was her feathers; tells the king to give a ship; worms are thrown to fish along the way, barrels are thrown to whales to play, and wolves and bears on the other side are thrown meat, bread for giants; in the castle, a bird turns into a girl; the dog helps to find her among fabrics, straw; on the way back, she throws away the keys, but the fish find them and give them to V.; the girl demands that the king he brought her castle to her; the king also tells W. (giants bring); girl: I need keys; V.: I have them; the girl demands the water of life and the water of death; the horse with V. jumps into the forest, tells me to kill the crow, the raven brings the water of life to revive it, V. takes the bottle ; the horse tells us to let the viper go to the nest; the raven brings the water of death to kill it, the young man takes it; the girl sprinkled V. with the water of death and then the water of life, he has become handsome; the king wants the same, she does it; he wants to go again; but the water of life is over; V. becomes king, marries a girl; the horse tells him to cut off his head, turns into a prince - brother of his wife W.; everything is fine]: Grundtvig 1920:9-26; Western Sami: Klaus 1995 [the giant {probably Stallo in the original} has a lion to whom he gives hay and a horse to whom he gives meat; worker S. changes food; says he cut down the poles to poke out S.'s eyes; they they carry a tree home, S. is afraid to look back, does not see that the worker is not carrying a tree, but is sitting on it; the worker pretends to throw S.'s axe on the cloud, that he can break his boat and oars, that brings an ax, rows himself; offers to pierce trees with his head; the worker makes holes in the trees in advance, S. gets stuck with his head; the worker replies that he is fast asleep when he looks like a bag, like a stone , puts a bag, a stone on his bed instead of himself, S. hits them at night; replies that he is fast asleep when frogs jump out of his nose; the worker cuts off S.'s head; the horse tells them to run, taking a comb, flint, wet rag; S. (obviously alive) catches up, abandoned objects turn into a thicket, mountain, lake; S. returns for an ax, for a drill, then loses time carrying them back, as the sparrow threatens to pick them up; S. tries drink the lake, tells the maid to close his ass so that the water does not pour out; the fox tells him to hold it tight, the maid laughs, S. bursts; the young man washes his hair, it turns silver; he hides it under his hat, but the princess notices, takes him as her husband; the horse tells him to cut off his head, he also becomes a young man, he was bewitched before]: 55-63; Kohl-Larsen 1982, No. 7 [the young man met a giant (Jettanas) in the forest and agreed serve him while the giant sleeps; it turned out to be six months; the young man must feed the horse; the horse tells him to take the giant's treasures and ride it away - he will find the way himself; they rode to a girl whom the young man could not marry before because he was poor and now he is rich; after staying with the girl, the young man almost forgot about the horse; when he returns to him, he tells him to cut off his head, otherwise he himself will kill; the young man obeyed, the horse turned into another young man - the giant bewitched him; the young man marries a girl, the disgraced remains his friend]: 66-70; Poestion 1886, No. 21 [the guy was hired as an employee for giant; chose the biggest tree; the giant climbed to the top, the guy sat on the butt; replies that he is not tired at all; bringing the tree, the giant tells the guy to go into the stable, but not the stable; horse: tomorrow you will be asked to launch the boat; say that if you venerate it, the boat will fall to pieces; the giant lowered it himself; asks you to take the oars; guy: if I take it, they will break; same on (all fishing gear will tear); when they return, the horse tells you to go into the barn, slaughter the cow, cut the heart in half; the cow is the life of a giant; if not dead, cut it into small pieces; then they will jump away, taking a box (Bühse), a sword, a piece of sulfur, a flint, a comb; when they gallop, the horse asks if the guy hears and sees anything behind him; like the wind is whistling; horse: this giant has come to life; throw sulfur: water area; the giant ran home for a ladle, drank water with a ladle; wanted to leave it to pick it up on the way back, but the bird: if you leave it, I'll take it; I had to run home again carry; flint is a mountain; a giant runs after a storm (again about a bird); the crest is a forest, ran after an ax (bird); the guy on horseback rode to a world where the giant does not go; there is a copper forest ahead, you can't break branches; the guy broke the last one, a giant in copper clothes appeared, the horse defeated him; the same with the silver forest and the giant; with the gold one; now the horse told the young man to hire the king; he always wears a copper hat, so that gold (Goldhut) could not be seen; told the king that he had scab; became a gardener, the youngest of the three princesses saw him take off his copper hat; she asked her father to pass it off as a young gardener; her sisters chose noble young men; the younger son-in-law called a horse, shot a lot of birds, gave them to the elders, and brought them only an owl; wedding; horse to a young man: you forgot about me, cut off my head; he cut off, the horse himself turned into Prince Charming {the end without the details common in one-story fairy tales}]: 84-92.