K102. Demon's Mistress, ATU 315, 590.

.13.-.17.21.23.27.-.37.39. (.49.)

A woman who is friendly to the hero at first tries to destroy him by becoming an accomplice (usually a mistress) of a demon he has defeated, or (rarely) a person who seeks get rid of the hero

Somalis, Oromo, Sudanese Arabs, Masai, Kabila, Arabs from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Spaniards, Catalans, Portuguese, Italians (Piedmont, Veneto, Emilia Romagna, Tuscany, Lazio, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Calabria), Sardinians, Corsicans, Ladins, Irish, Scots, French, Bretons, Flemish, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg, Pomerania, Hesse), Palestinians, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Mehri, Jibbali, (Socotra), Mustang, Bhutan, Khasi, Kachari, Kashmiris, Nepalese, Ho, Condas, Sinhales, Hungarians, Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, Albanians, Romanians, Moldovans, Gagauz people, Bulgarians, Greeks (Lesbos), Slovaks, Czechs, Poles, Russians (Teresky Bereg, Arkhangelskaya, Olonetskaya, Karelia, Novgorod, Pskov, Vologda, Moscow, Tula, Voronezh, Oryol, Kursk, Ryazan, Bryansk), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Kholmshchyna, Ugric Russia, Transcarpathia, Hutsulshchina, Galicia, Volyn, Podolia, Pokutye, Kiev, Yekaterinoslavshchina, Chernihiv, Kherson, Kharkiv), Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Urums, Kalmyks, Stavropol Turkmens, Abkhazians, Kabardians, Adygs, Abazins, Karachays, Balkarians, Ossetians, Ingush, Gunzibs, Kumyks, Dargins, Megrelians, Georgians, Svans, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Tajiks, Mountain Tajiks, Uzbeks, Bukhara Arabs, Yagnobes, Shugnans, Yazgulyam, Norwegians, Danes, Finns, Karelians, Estonians, Setu, Veps, Lutsis, Latvians, Lithuanians, Eastern Sami (Baba dialect), Mordovians, Mari, Komi, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Chuvash, Udmurts, Komi, Kazakhs (Turgay, East), Kyrgyz, Dungans, Khakas, South Altai Tuvans, Darkhats, Khalkha Mongols, Mongols of Ordos, Oirats (Olets), Mansi, Northern, Eastern and Southern Khanty, Southern Selkups, Central (?) Yakuts, Baikal and Amur Evenks, Evens, Nanais, Nivkhs, Forest Yukaghirs, Coastal Koryaks, (Northern Payutes in Owens Valley, Southern Payutes).

Sudan - East Africa. Somalis (recorded in Arabic) [wife is dead, son and daughter ask father to marry; new wife takes an oath from him and it turns out that he has sworn to sacrifice a son and daughter; the son still heard told his sister to comb her hair, grabbed her comb, she seemed to run after the comb, they galloped away; the sister forgot the comb at the place of the night, the brother came back, the demon's comb, he gave it away; brother and sister came to demon's fortress; the young man agreed with the demon that he would stay in the room under lock and key; told his sister not to open the room; she opened it, asked the demon to lie down with her; he reluctantly agreed; sister asks demon, how can they kill her brother; he: he will be killed by a snake under a certain tree; the sister pretends to be sick, asks for a branch of this tree; there the brother begins to fall into the ground, but manages to hack a snake; brings a branch; the demon advises to ask for water from the source of life; the brother goes in search; asks the old woman for water, she gives only a little; the demon has closed the water, gives on Fridays for cattle and for the princess; the young man falls asleep on the girl's lap, wakes up from a fallen tear; cuts off the demon's head, refuses to hit him again; the young man sees a man with huge ears wrapped in; he sends to his Brother, his ears are even bigger; the young man took water while the guards were sleeping; hid in the ears of a big-eared man; he did not give him to his pursuers; the king will give his daughter to someone who jumps to the high mark; only a young man jumped, got a wife; half a month later he went to his sister, his wife warns that it was dangerous; he left 16 vessels of living water to his wife, took one with him; fell asleep with his sister, who told the demon to kill him, She threw the chest with the body into the sea; the chest sailed to the young man's wife, she found the body, revived it; the young man came to his sister, told the demon to kill her, killed the demon himself, burned the bodies, returned to his wife]: Reinish 1900, No. 2:277-287; Oromo [when going to war, the father leaves his wife and son to give birth; tells the son to kill the child if a girl is born and bring him her blood, and if a boy is born, kill a black sheep and bring it too his blood; the young man felt sorry for the newborn and deceived his father by bringing him the blood of a ram; when the father returned, the son warned his sister not to show that she was his daughter and immediately took her away; in the forest he killed the sorcerers and He lived in the house with his sister, but one sorcerer survived and persuaded the girl to kill her brother in order to marry her; she pretended to be sick, she would be cured by witchcraft food; the young man came to the sorcerer (another), who gave her food, but told me what was really going on; the sister pretended that what she ate was better, and offered to play - tie each other to a pole at home; tying her brother, she called a sorcerer; the brother asked tie his body to a mule and let go of the mule; that other sorcerer found a mule and revived the young man; he shot the sorcerer and brought his sister to his father, told him everything]: Reuss-Nliba, Reuss-Nliba 2016:96-100; Arabs Sudan [husband, pregnant wife, son Mohammed and daughter Fatma come to the cannibal, the husband leaves the family there; while F. took M. to play, the cannibal killed her mother, began to cook, and ordered to cook porridge; answered the children that their mother had given birth; F. lifted the lid of the boiler, saw the remains of their mother; took her brother and ran away; they got to the old woman; there the cauldron, F. found it full of gold; asked her brother what do it with gold; he ordered him to buy him a scourge, a sword and a horse; they built a house; returning from hunting, M. asks F. to open the door every time; the ghoul heard it; pretends to be M., F. replies that the voice is like that donkey; ghoul told the blacksmith to change his voice; he changed, but warned that the ghoul should not eat carrion; the ghoul ate, the voice is like a donkey again; the same again; F. opens; the ghoul asks if he should eat it or M.; she replies that M., let the ghoul hide in addition; the ghoul attacked M., but he called animals {which ones?} , ordered to eat ghoul, dog, throat (dog and turtle came to see) and F., leaving only tendons; F., dog and turtle say this is unfair]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 5:68-69; Maasai [in the drought, the bird brought a green blade of grass; brother and sister went and found land where it rained; brother grazes cattle, hides his sister in a hole under the floor under a flat stone; he has a calf he leaves at home, he tells him everything; each time the calf asks if he should drink milk first or tell him first; the young man replies that he should get drunk first; two men come; sister sitting in a hole stabs the man who sits on a stone with a needle; he finds a girl; they agree to marry and kill her brother; each time the calf tells the young man everything, he avoids danger; 1) milk prepared for his brother poisoned, the calf seems to accidentally overturn the vessel; 2) poisoned arrows are stuck under the dung on the road in front of the house, the calf tells the donkeys to be driven away first; 3) when the brother drinks milk, he will weaken, at this time, the enemies will attack; the brother only pretends to drink, kill all the attackers; decides to return to his country, forgets the arrow to open the veins of cattle (to extract blood); the calf runs after the arrow , a dorobo hunter hits him with a poisoned arrow; the calf tells the young man to fry his meat and leave it, the cow will give birth to a new calf; they eat the meat, then eat their children and each other; Returning to his country, the young man tells his sisters to be married: they are enemies, loyal to their beloved ones, not brothers]: Kipury 1983, No. 6:34-37.

North Africa. Arabs of Morocco: Bushnaq 1987 [brother and sister; sister found a zest on the floor and ate it; a snake crawled out and demanded his zest back; refused to take others - let the girl be his now husband; she agreed; gave birth to a boy Smemi' an-Nada (SN); his hearing is so sharp that she hears dew falling on the ground; the sister asked the snake to hide in the wineskin; she will ask her brother to give her water, snakes will bite him; SN hears and when his mother asks his brother for water, she calls to do it himself; the snake asks if he was really going to kill his uncle; serpent: I just took refuge in a wineskin from the heat; now sister asks the snake to hide in a quilt; SN and his uncle brought a blanket and other bedding to the river to knock them out and wash them; began to hit the blanket with sticks; the sister cooked the meat the snake killed and offered to his brother; mother's dream: eat first; sister ate and died; SN told his uncle how his mother and her snake husband tried to kill him; they went on a journey together; broke up with fig trees; SN warned his uncle to be afraid of a bald man; he met a bald man, refused to hire him; but the bald man covered his head and the man was hired; he must herd sheep and catch 7 chicks a day for 7 children bald; if a bald dog comes home first, it can eat both its own and the worker's food, and if the worker comes first, it can eat what is left for the dog; for now the worker caught the chicks, the dog ate everything; soon the man died of hunger; SN came to the fig tree and realized that his uncle was dead; hired a bald man on the condition that whoever was angry would be beheaded by another; SN did not lets the dog into the tent where there is food; caught 6 chicks and a viper; the seventh child put his hand behind her in a bag, is bitten, dies; so every day, the last boy Kharouf ("lamb") survived; all this time the bald man says he is not angry; ask him to cook lamb for the guests; SN killed Haruf; the bald man agreed with his wife: let the SN lie between them at night in the pasture and, at the signal, the wife will put a belt around his neck, they will strangle CH; at night, SN swapped places with his wife, bald man strangled his wife; bald man invited SN to leave and he left]: 367-370; El Koudia 2003 [one wife is childless, the other has a daughter and is pregnant again; husband every the day brings two pigeons, tells them to cook one or the other; the daughter accidentally releases her mother's pigeons; the shepherd catches them for promising to give one, the woman does not give them, he releases them again; a woman and daughter follow them, find themselves in the forest; the mother does not pay attention to the dog, cat, donkey (the daughter says they come to show the way back); sees a lion; tells her daughter to climb a tree; if the lion starts eating it on the right, then she has a son, let the daughter cover the child with leaves; if on the left, she has a daughter again; the lion eats on the right, the girl sheds its leaves, the lion does not notice the baby; the crow promises to help if the girl will give her half of her mother's clothes; brings the red-hot share of the plow; asks the lion to open its mouth, she will jump into it; throws a share, the lion dies; the girl gives the crow what she promised, takes the baby away; helps to give birth to a she-wolf, tigress, lioness, monkey, bear, leopard, hedgehog; each feeds her brother, gives birth to her newborn; on the mountain, a girl and animals ask God to make a boy adults; it happened; they met a ghoul, called them to live with him; the young man fell in love with a shepherdess; the sister is jealous, promises to marry him if he kills her brother; the ghoul asks the young man not to take today animals to hunt; at home, the sister puts them to sleep with singing; the ghoul wants to eat the young man, he asks for permission to say three words before his death; the ghoul allows them to say seven; the young man calls his seven animals; at home the sister rubs the grain, accidentally shoved the hedgehog into the eye, he woke up, woke up the others, they rushed to help the young man, tore the gulya; at home, the sister cries, says that the hedgehog pricked her, asks her to show where he buried the ghoul's bones; his brother married, his sister put seven ghoul bones in his bed, they pierced him to death; he is buried, the animals dig up his body, take out the bones, the young man comes to life; the leader is his father wives tell her sister to be buried with ghoul's bones]: 7-14; Kabila: Frobenius 1922a, No. 2 [a sick father tells seven sons to bring the hearts of their wives - he will eat them and recover; only the youngest refuses, leaves with his wife; going for the fire, he comes to 99 Wuarssen (devas), who cook 99 dead people in the cauldron, offer to remove the cauldron from the fire; the young man picks up and overturns the cauldron, kills devas, throws it into a hole; brings his wife into the house of the devas, tells him not to go into the same room, goes hunting; the wife comes in, sees that one deva has only been wounded, heals him, converges with him; the young man comes to the cannibal teriel, is attached to her breast, now she is his mother, promises to help; to get rid of the woman's husband, dev advises that she ask him to bring rejuvenating apples from overseas; T.: meat in front of the ox, change straw in front of the dog; there is a black bull nearby, he will throw horns furiously, fly across seven seas, fall on an apple tree, pick apples; an eagle's nest on an apple tree, give meat to the chicks, the eagle will bring back ; when he returned, the young man gave 4 apples to T. and 4 to his wife; dev to the woman: tell your husband that you are afraid, let him be tied; when he cannot break his fetters, I will get out and kill him; he tears all his fetters; T. young man: They'll kill you, ask you to put your bones in a bag, put it on a donkey, he'll come, I'll revive you; when he came back to his wife, she offered to tie it with her hair, he couldn't escape, the devil killed him and ate him, but the bones were sent on a donkey; T. folded her bones, covered him with wool and silk, poured milk on his body, her body recovered, she revived him with a rejuvenating apple; allowed him to return home when he could easily lift it up a bag of salt and a bag of iron; he comes disguised as a beggar, Dev lets him in; offered to tell a fairy tale; while he is telling his story, Dev and his wife sink into the ground, he cuts off their heads; kills their deva son; wants to return to his father, T. gives them a box (not open on the way) and a black man; he opens them outside the house, there is a beautiful daughter T., she has a ring that creates a palace; the young man's father sees his wife, wants to himself, promises a Jew a reward for killing his son; he leads the young man to hunt, feeds salty meat, gives water in exchange for his eyes, brings them to the father of the young man; he and the warriors go to take his wife, but the black man does not lets in, kills everyone; the young man hears the conversation between the old eagle and the chicks; the old one has lost his feathers, asks him to hide; chicks: suddenly our father will treat us like a man with his son who is under a tree; eagle: let the young man rub his eyes with the leaves of the tree; the young man saw the light, the chicks covered the eagle; the young man came to the old woman, changed his clothes, his father did not recognize him, promised to give him his power as an elder if he killed a black man alone; The young man agreed with his wife that the black man would be tied to blood, blood would be shed, he would fall; witnesses: this man killed a black man; the father handed over power to his son, not knowing who it was; before that he asks the wise men Can a father marry his daughter-in-law; 6 say yes, seventh, but no; father tells him to kill, young man kills him, orders him to kill a Jew and punish 6 wise men]: 11-24; Dermenghem 1945 [man sure that the boy born to his wife is not from him; decides to kill his wife, but still hesitates; when the boy is 10 years old and strong as a 20-year-old, the man locked his wife, promised to kill him in the evening; the son released his mother, rode with her to the mountains; he killed six cannibals there, but did not cut their leader's neck; threw them into a hole, told his mother not to go there; ceriel lives in the forest with a goat, which has black milk, because she feeds on coals, I'm afraid to graze because predators; the young man exterminates predators, ceriel is grateful; the mother has found the cannibal, cured, they agree to kill the young man; the mother pretends to be convinced of her son's strength, whether he is able to protect her; he ties his hands, he cannot break his bonds; the cannibal is ready to kill him; the young man asks him to pack pieces of his body in a bag, load it on his horse and let him into the forest; the horse came to Ceriel, she revived the young man; he came to his mother disguised as a beggar, grabbed his sword from the wall, killed the ogre and mother]: 69-75; Algerian Arabs: Belamri 1982 [wanting to test their obedience, the Sultan tells his seven sons to shave their heads his wives; younger Ahmed refused and was expelled with his wife; after killing what he thought was a gulya in his castle, A. left his body in distant rest and settled in the castle with his wife, allowing him to go everywhere, but not to go into that peace; hunting, he always left half of the prey to the old woman whose son died; A.'s wife went into that room, found the wounded gulya, cured him; they decided to get rid of A.; the wife offered a game: she would to tie A., and he broke the fetters; when he could not break them, Gulya called; A. asked him to put his remains in a bag, load them on his horse and tell the horse to go where he always went; he delivered A.'s chopped body to the old woman; the old woman folded the pieces of her body, revived A.; under the guise of a wandering musician, he entered the castle, cut off the gulya's head at night, tied his wife, began to fry her, forcing her to eat pieces own meat]: 80-86; Scelles-Millie 1963 (Souf) [the king keeps his seven sons in the palace, wanting to protect them from everything bad in the world; they are given boneless meat, almonds without shells, skinless watermelons; one day a black maid forgot to take out the bones; the young men began to play by throwing the dice at each other, broke the window and saw the outside world; told the maid to tell everything about her birth, love, death; sent to his father asking him to let them go; the king married sons; his daughters-in-law annoyed him, he decided to get rid of them; the Jew advised him to be sick, let the sons bring the blood of their wives; six wives were killed, and the youngest Ali brought the blood of the gazelle, ran away with his wife; they came to the house of 40 blind gulas; they made 40 cakes and 40 servings of meat; Ali quietly took one; the ghuli got into a fight, Ali killed them and threw it into the well; the wife heard a moan, pulled out and hid one gulya who had just been wounded; the ghoul advised me to send Ali for golden rejuvenating apples; the old woman teaches Ali: we must slip between rugged mountains; have time to jump over the garden fence (as soon as the wall sees Ali's horse, it will begin to grow); picking apples, galloping away without turning around; Ali turned slightly to his voice, the horse's tail was cut off; the old woman tells her to give the rejuvenating apples to her and his wife to bring the usual ones; the ghoul advised Ali to play chess for a living; Ali let his wife win, believing it was a joke, but she killed him, pieces of his body put it in a bag, attached his horse to the saddle and told the horse to ride to where it came from; the old woman put the pieces together, but her heart and liver were missing; she sent the cat to the ghoul, who brought her heart and liver; The old woman revived Ali with the juice of rejuvenating apples; he came to Ghoul disguised as a dervish, hacked him at night, stabbed his wife, returned to the old woman; she turned the cat into a beautiful woman, Ali married her, returned to his father , he handed him the throne]: 313-316; Algerian Arabs (Blida) [the couple has a son; the husband asks his wife to take the drug to conceive again; she prepared the potion, went to the bathhouse; the husband accidentally ate it himself; the wife returned, a quarrel began, a few days later my wife died {from beatings?} ; the husband's leg was swollen, a girl came out of the tumor; he told his son to get rid of it; he left the child in the tree; for three years an eagle fed the girl, then the young man took her and went on a journey; he had three dogs with talking names (the last "Pulling the lungs out of her shoulders"); the girl's name is Bent essaq ("Foot Daughter"; B.); they came to Ghoul's house; he left with the key in the door; they began to live in this house; until the brother was gone, the ghoul returned; B. did not unlock it, the ghoul broke the door; B. called the dogs, they did not come; the ghoul married B.; the brother returned, began to fight the ghoul, called the dogs, they tore the ghoul (the third dog pulled out her lungs); but his sister cured him; his brother returned again, cut the ghoul in half; left, leaving B.; in one area people are thirsty; the dragon closed the water, demands a bowl of couscous, ram and every year a girl; a young man cut a dragon, the water poured out abundantly; the girl exchanged shoes with her savior; all men are told to bring their shoes; the young man comes last, the princess threw it at him apple, recognized her shoes; wedding 7 days and nights; B. came, persuaded her to forgive her; collected dragon thorns, put her brother in bed; he died and buried; dogs removed the body, pulled out the thorns, young man came to life; sister crucified at the city gates so that everyone passing by would spit on her]: Desparmet 1910:140-149; Tunisia: El-Shamy 2004, No. 315:138-142; the Arabs of Egypt [father died; three brothers built palace for mother and sister; the old woman advises the girl to ask her brother to bring a singing nightingale; the elder leaves the brothers a rosary - if they decrease in size, then he is dead; the counter teaches him to wait until the nightingale will return to the cage and fall asleep, not show himself to him sooner; but the young man hurried, the nightingale shook off the sand on him, he died; the rosary clenched; the same with his middle brother (left the ring); younger Mohammed waited for the nightingale to fall asleep, ban the cage; ordered the brothers to be revived; he revived many blacks and Turks who had died earlier; M.: where are the brothers? then the nightingale revived the others; the brothers returned home, brought the nightingale; the man tells Mohammed that his turban is dirty; the mother explains: this means that the sister will behave unworthily, she must be killed ; M. refuses, leaves home with his sister; M. entered the cave of 40 thieves; they divide the food into 40 servings, M. quietly takes one; after confusion, the robbers realized that they had a young man with them; M. said he was a thief; volunteered to be a servant, stabbed sleeping robbers, brought his sister; found and brought two lion cubs; his sister found that one of the robbers, a black man, had just been wounded, went out and became with him to live, gave birth to two children; to get rid of her brother, she asked him to get the grapes of paradise; M. greeted the cannibal, she gave a balloon, he rolled, we must follow him; M. reached the Garden of Eden, brought grapes; the black man advised to send M. for live water; M. hears the conversation of two turtles: only living water will heal the princess; M. filled the vessels with living water, immersed them on a donkey, came to the king, cured the princess, married her; left her one vessel of living water, the other took her sister; she spoke to him, and the black man came up from behind and decapitated her; the lions ran away; the black man put the pieces of his body in a bag, loaded her on donkey, let him go; disguised as a black man, M. came to his sister, killed her lover and children, buried his sister alive; his father had already died and he moved all the property to his wife's house]: Spitta-Bey 1883, No. 10:123-236.

Southern Europe. Spaniards (Extremadura) [a dog man has Iron, Lead, Steel (or Sun, Moon, Star); he chases away a giant seeking his sister's hand; sister lures brother to collect for she has fruit from an orange tree; a giant runs up, shakes him, a man calls dogs, they come running, drive away the giant; next time the giant lets his sister add poison to his brother; dogs feel poison, cat tries, dies; then a man saves a princess from a seven-headed serpent, dogs kill a snake]: Parsons 1922:8-9; ladins [the son chose to be a hunter, his parents gave him hunting equipment and Curasch dog; once he killed a fish, a duck and a hare with one shot; the old woman told her not to give them to his mother to cook, but to take them with him tomorrow; he went into the hut; the girl said that robbers would come; on the second floor there are two beds - don't lie in them; she told the robbers that she sheltered the beggar, they pulled the rope, knives fell on the bed; he agreed with the girl, they filled the robbers with boiling water, he finished them off with a knife; the old woman said that the leader was saved and now with the girl; the girl would pretend to be sick, ask for milk from the owner's cows, who has 70 cows; there is a bear as watchmen (throw a duck for him) and lion (throw the hare); they will serve him; fish should be given to the dog; return to the girl, say that he did not bring anything, hide the animals; the girl will say that her chest hurts, send him to the damn mill for flour ; the ladies will be given a stone to grind, a bear, a lion, a dog must be lowered on them, they will tear everyone apart; the girl will say that her chest has passed, ask permission to tie her thumbs; a robber will break in, his young man's animals they will tear it up; he will kill the girl himself; the young man forgot to give fish to the dog, she almost died, but he fed the fish in pieces, the dog recovered; the young man did not take the robbers' money, but went to tell the king about it; in town mourning: the seven-headed dragon demands a girl every year, now it is the turn of the king's daughter; the young man let his animals on the dragon, cut off his tongues, promised the princess to return in a year and 3 days; when he returned, he they said that tomorrow was the princess's wedding with the coachman: he allegedly killed the dragon; the young man sent the dog with a note to the maid; the princess told her father that she was released by a hunter, not a coachman; the young man showed his tongues, The coachman was torn by four horses]: Wildhaber, Uffer 1971, No. 56:194-203; Italians: Gubernatis 1872 (Piedmont) [Giacomo herds sheep; the hunter gives them three dogs: Iron Gnawing, Fast like the wind passing everywhere; the father drives J. away, he leaves with his dogs, goes to the sorcerer's castle, brings his sister there; to marry her, the sorcerer wants to get rid of J.; K. pretended sick, wants flour, the miller gives flour in exchange for the dog; the other two were also removed; the sorcerer tries to strangle J., but he whistles on the whistle, the dogs have come running, tore the sorcerer to pieces; J. comes to the city where the princess is going to be given to the seven-headed dragon; with the help of dogs, J. kills the dragon, the princess ties a flap of her shirt around the neck of the Iron Snatcher, promises to marry J.; he leaves for a year, because he is in mourning for his sister; the chimney sweep (black, Saracen, Turk, gypsy, monster) claims that he has defeated the dragon; the princess asks for a year and a day's delay; J. returns, the princess sees a bandage on dog neck; J. showed dragon tongues; wedding; chimney sweep burned]: 36-37; Calvino 1985, No. 48 (Emilia Romagna) [when dying, the father left his son and daughter three sheep; a man exchanged one of them from his brother for the dog Lomayiron; the sister threatens to kill his brother for this; the next day, the second sheep for the dog Gritzicepen; then the third, the Krushisteny; the brother was afraid to return to his sister; at night he came to the palace; destroying a wall, an iron door and a chain, dogs made their way inside; everything is prepared for the young man and his dogs, including a horse and a hunting rifle; brother brought his sister to the palace, but she continues to hate dogs; once she picked an orange, a dragon jumped out of it; to save her life, her sister promised to give her brother to the dragon to lock up the dogs; she asked her brother to tie the dogs and pick an orange; the brother realized that his sister betrayed him, called the dogs; they broke the wall and broke the chain, tore the dragon; the young man came to the king, whose daughter should be given to another dragon; killed the dragon and got the princess; sister reappeared, volunteered to make her brother's bed, put a saw under bed, cut the young man in half; the dogs brought the ointment and revived him; her sister was executed; and the dogs disappeared; then on three ships Three nobles sailed: they were the enchanted dogs; after the peasant (i.e. the young man) became king, the spell broke]: 145-152; Italians: Cerise, Serafini 1975, No. 315 (Tuscany, Molise, Basilicata, Calabria), 590 (Veneto, Tuscany, Lizio, Molise, Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria): 67, 139; Sardinians: Cerise, Serafini 1975, No. 590:130; Catalans [at the instigation of a giant sister tries to kill her brother several times; three brave and loyal dogs save him every time]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 315:74; Portuguese [brother and sister run away after learning that their father is going to eat one of them (after tasting their wife's meat); they raise three dogs (lions, snakes) who are dead turned; a man (great) seduces his sister and they make plans to kill their brother; his beasts save him; his sister and her lover are punished or his lover is killed and his sister is forgiven]: Cardigos 2006, No. 315:73-74; the Portuguese (Abrantes) [the princess has an affair with a servant; after learning that her daughter pregnant, her father told her to be left in the forest, cutting off her tongue; but the servants brought him the dog's tongue; the girl gave birth, the boy grew up, they were met by a hunter; the mother wanted to stay in the forest, and the hunter baptized her son and kept it; the young man asked for a horse and a gun; the forest came across the giant's palace, defeated it, left it in one of the rooms; found his mother and settled in the palace, forbidding him to enter this room; she went in and became the giant's mistress; to get rid of his son, he suggests pretending to be sick and ask him to bring porcupine fat {porco espinho; or is it a boar?} from the estate of the Wise King (na quinta do Rei Sabio); the king gave him a sword, taught him what to do; changed fat; his mother requires water from the estate of the Wise King; he teaches him to take water not from clean, but from muddy pond; changed the water again; told the young man that if he was killed, let pieces of his body be tied to the horse and the horse released; his mother wanted an orange from the garden of the Wise King; he told him to pick the green one, not a mature orange, replaced it; the mother invited the young man to put her head on her knees, cut off her hair; he lost his strength and the giant defeated him; the young man asked to cut it into four parts and tie it to the horse; that came to the Wise King; the King folded the pieces, smeared it with that fat, sprinkled it with orange juice, the young man came to life; his hair grew; the king said that the young man's mother gave birth to a daughter from the giant; the young man came to the giant and killed mother and her daughter, defeated the giant and got the eyes of the Wise King, whom the giant blinded; the King put them in for himself, sprinkled them with that water, regained his sight; the young man married his daughter; all is well]: Coelho 1879 , No. 60:134-138; Corsicans: Uther 2004 (1), No. 315:201-203.

Western Europe. Irish, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg): Uther 2004 (1), No. 315:201-203; Germans (Pomerania) [a noble man died leaving his wife and 16-year-old son in poverty; they went to wander; on the way, the young man, in the absence of his mother, found a vessel of strong water; after drinking it, he became a strongman; they came to the castle of 12 giants; the young man pulled back the heavy bolt, the table was laid inside; when the giants they came, they decided that the one who pushed the bolt was stronger than them; they sent the youngest to scout; the young man was not there, and his mother took the giant as her husband; he offered to pretend to be sick and send his son for living water; the young man met a couple of lions and killed the lion with his fist; the lioness carried him to living water and the lion came to life; the young man collected water and the lions went with him; now the giant invited his wife to send his son for partridges, and when will come back, give her wine and ask what his strength is; on the way, the young man freed the princess, walled up by giants under the floor; telling her to wait, he came to his mother, became intoxicated from wine and sleeping pills; confessed to his mother, that his strength lies in the hemp lace on his body; the giant took off his lace, took the young man into the forest and blinded him; the lions brought him to the princess; she ordered him glass eyes and brought him to his father; the general noticed that the young man had glass eyes, said to the king, the young man was thrown into prison; the princess took him out, and they came to the forest with the lions; they saw a blind bird plunge into the stream and saw the light; the young man washed his eyes, also saw the light; the princess brought him to the king and he was convinced that his son-in-law was sighted; now the general was thrown into prison for lying; the king ordered the destruction of a giant castle; they came to where the boy's mother and her husband were; when they saw lions , he was frightened and returned his lace; the young man took the giant into the forest and blinded him as he blinded him; the giant starved; the young man's mother was executed; he married a princess and received the throne]: Jahn 1891, No. 36:194-202; Germans (Pomerania) [the forester has a daughter and a son; parents do not allow the children to find a mate; they sit on horses, gallop away; telling his sister to wait, the young man makes a noise: three giants share his father's inheritance, ask for help; the young man wants to try, these are really valuables; puts a ring on his finger, tenfold; puts on an invisible cloak; takes an inexhaustible purse and all the cutting sword; speaks the giants who go to heaven to their father for advice disappears himself; he did not say anything to his sister; they reached an endless stone wall; the young man hit her with his fist and made his way; behind the wall, a country of giants ; her king is smaller than others (giants: so smart); he fell in love with a girl, and she does not mind, but her brother interferes; giant: let the girl pretend to be sick, ask her brother to bring 1) two golden fruits with an orange tree guarded by giants; a young man cut off the heads of 48 giants (two begged them to spare them), brought oranges; 2) living water from a well guarded by lions; a young man killed a lion, and a lioness replaced him with a dog; the young man found a tower in which the king of giants imprisoned the kidnapped English princess; the young man freed her, signaled the ship on the shore, gave the captain money to take her the princess to her father; the captain and navigator forced the princess to call them her saviors; but she refused to marry and set up an almshouse; the sister tells the young man that she will recover if he says what his power; handed the magic objects to the giant; he summoned the two remaining giants, ordered the young man to be taken away and his tongue and eyes cut out; the young man begged them to leave their tongue, so that they brought the giant a tongue lionesses; the giant and the young man's sister celebrated the wedding; the young man was given milk by a lioness, and wild animals brought him berries and roots; the sailors who sailed ashore agreed to take the young man to England, but let him send him away a lioness; however, she swam caught up with the ship and showed that she was not dangerous; the sailors left the young man and the lioness in that almshouse and the princess recognized him; when he married the princess, the young man became a prince himself; once his wife took him into the forest, he fell into a stream whose water healed blindness; began to see better than before; leaving his wife in the care of a lioness, he sailed on a ship to take revenge on his sister; when he went to the wall, he saw that giants they repaired the break; because of such a failure, he wanted to stab himself, but accidentally caught the mouse king; he promised to tell his subjects to dig under the wall; the mice performed, took out the ring and brought it to the prince; he again broke through the wall, found his sword, purse and cloak; forced those two giants to carve out their tongues for his sister and king of giants and gouge out their eyes; and the blinded were eaten by beasts; left the country to those two giants, taking from their promise to behave well, and returned to his wife]: Jahn 1891, No. 37:202-208; Germans (southern Hesse) [the childless king promised to godson a poor man if he had a child; after birth the son came to the forest; the old man became a godson; when the prince grew up and hunted, he met his godson; he gave him a book to hold on his chest - it gives strength; gave a heavy dagger, which was light for the prince; one day, the king sent his wife and son to visit their grandfather; in the forest they came across a giant castle; the prince killed five and made the sixth a servant; the mother became the giant's mistress; pretended to be sick: her the rose will cure 12 giants from the castle; there the young man met the kidnapped princess, received a rose from her and brought it to his mother; mother: I will recover altogether if you tell me what your strength is; the prince admitted that in the book; how as soon as the prince fell asleep, his mother pulled out the book, and the giant blinded the prince, cut off his arms and drove him into the forest; the prince thought to the godfather, who immediately came and healed him; when he learned about the princess that the prince saw at giants; her godfather brought her; they arrived at the castle where the prince's mother and her giant were; the prince killed the giant, his mother was tied to the wagon by the legs, and the coachman drove the horses]: Wolf 1851:250-257; the Scots [Finley's sister falls in love with a younger giant, promises not to help her brother; an old sorceress warns F.; F. attacks a giant who runs away with his sister; an older brother comes a giant, F. and his dogs kill him; the same is the father of the giants; their mother Kaillich takes the form of a decrepit old woman, asks for dogs to be tied, gives her hairs for this, but F. only pretends to tie it; together with dogs defeats an old woman, kills her; marries the daughter of a sorceress, the younger giant and sister F. run away]: Kharitonov 2008:405-410; the French (Dauphine) [dying, parents leave their daughter home, the son is a herd; the brother sells it, keeping three sheep, changing them for three dogs; settles in an empty castle owned by someone who can spend the night in it; those who tried to do so before died; at night, the devil rushes at the young man, the dogs drive him into the closet, the young man becomes the owner of the castle; he also puts his sister there, forbids him to open the closet; she opens, takes the devil as a lover; dog I know everything turns over the dish with the poison that his sister tried to feed his brother; the devil advises sending the young man to climb the tree to pick pears, he will knock down the tree; the young man calls the dogs, who drive the devil into the closet, the young man drives his sister there, the devil and the girl disappear into the flames]: Joisten 1991, No. 8:95-96; the Bretons [the king orders the execution of the first woman to give birth to an illegitimate child; the king's daughter is pregnant by her own brother, both fleeing to a deserted area, building a hut, a princess gives birth to a son named Mabic; he grew up; when his father was hunting, a black horse ran up and told him to sit on him, brought him to the giant, who killed him, throwing his head against the ice into the frozen pond; M. went in search, the black horse took him too; he saw his father's body; the giant said that he had no power over M., but left him himself; M.'s mother also came; the giant said that he had no power over her either, but imprisoned her in a cage surrounded by tips, forbidding his son to complain; promised to marry her if she asked M. to bring rusty things out of hell sword; M. went there on a black skate; he does not recommend entering the glass castle of the giant's 12 brothers, but M. comes in; the giants ask them to come back when he gets a sword; the same in the silver castle has 30 giants; there are 40 giants in gold; each time you hear a roar and scream from the castles, but it is quiet inside; 40 giants give a golden ball, it rolls, M. follows it to hell; the skate remains at doors, explains that the devil will offer to choose any treasure, but you only have to take a sword; the devil takes M. as a groom, tells you to feed one horse well, give others only thorns; forbids unlocking one the room; M. unlocks, there is an exhausted, thin horse; she is a Spanish princess, teaching you to find the devil's magic book and spell it; then explains where the saber hangs, teaches you to plug the bell with straw, warning the devil of danger, fill their pockets with gold and diamonds, take a scraper and a bag of straw with them; they gallop away on a black skate; the bell still rang, the devil rushes to catch up; seeing an approaching storm cloud, the princess orders to pour out straw, a wooded mountain appears; next time a scraper, a chapel appears, M. is a priest, a princess and a horse are two saints; the devil did not understand it, stopped chasing; the princess returned to Spain, and M., going to the giants, cut off their heads with a sword; kills an old woman, the mother of giants; another old woman gives a buton {i.e. a button?} to call her for help; at home, his mother steals her sword while M. was sleeping; the giant cut off his hands, placed him on his shoulders in an ice pond, tied to a pole; M. touched the button with a stump of his hand, and an old woman appeared, returned her hands, freed him, M. went to the sleeping giant, cut off his head with a sword, cut off the head of his traitor mother; the black horse explains that he is the spirit of his father, who will now go to heaven; indicates where are the papers confirming that M. is the king's grandson; the king is happy to have an heir; died soon, M. reigned]: Luzel 1887 (2), No. 1:3-19; the Flemish [shoemaker tyranite a disciple, he leaves; in the forest he hears a bird talking about a wonderful sword hanging from a tree; takes a sword, it says that its owner is invincible; a young man meets a woman, they come together in castle; there a young man kills 250 warriors who attacked him; one hides, promises a woman to marry her, asks her to know what the young man's strength is; he does not reveal secrets, brings an assistant lion; he helps To exterminate 500 warriors in another castle, the young man frees the princess, she gives a ring; the warrior guesses that the young man's strength is in his sword, stole it at night, gouged out the young man's eyes; the lion threw him into the well, the young man again He saw the light, found the princess, showed the ring, the king made him his son-in-law; let the warriors return the sword; the young man pretended to be a warrior who also suffered from that sword; when the woman's lover went for wine, he grabbed his sword; A warrior and a woman had their ears cut off; a young man inherited the throne]: Mürk 2012:40-55.

Western Asia. Palestinians, Lebanon, Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen: El-Shamy 2004, No. 315:138-142; Iraqi Arabs [Sultan killed wives every week; the vizier's daughter remains; she ran away, found an empty castle, gave birth to a son there, he grew up; the young man hunts, shares his prey with lions every time, they become his friends; he unlocked all the rooms in the palace, in one he found a chained black man with a lip that he covered himself like a blanket; in the absence of her son, the mother frees the black man and lives with him, and when the son arrives, he shackles him again; to get rid of the young man, the mother and the black man agree that she will pretend to be sick, let the son bring 1) grenades guarded by cannibal eagles; the young man's lions killed eagles, the young man brought pomegranates; 2) water from rivers in which the dragon gives water to the residents of the city in exchange for girls; the young man comes to the old woman, who says that the dragon has already eaten all the girls, it is the turn of the sheikh's daughter; the young man killed the dragon, the girl anointed with his dragon blood; the slave claims that he killed, the sheikh is ready to give him his daughter; she says she has noted her savior; the sheikh gathers all the men; the young man is the last to be brought, he gets a wife; goes to visit mother; wife gives a ring, she has another: if it turns yellow, her husband is in trouble; the mother offers her son to play chess and when she finally wins, she gets the right to shackle him; he replies that it is possible to tie him up only with his own hair; she does so; the black man refuses to kill him, his mother kills him, throws his body away; the lions came running, one began to lick his wounds, the other brought the caravans; the young man was still alive, his went out, he returned to his wife; killed his mother, scoped a black man]: Weissbach 1908, No. 8:43-53; mehri [the sultan told five sons that he would kill their mother because she took the Jew as a lover; youngest son Muhammad warned his mother, they left; there was no fire, M. saw a fire in the distance, seven were sitting there, cooking a camel, telling him to cut the meat; he took his share and the fire, but on the way the rain extinguished the fire; M. returned, those they were angry, M. killed them, began to live with his mother in their castle; one demon was alive, his mother found him, cured him, took him as a lover; to get rid of M., the demon suggests sending him to the garden for olives, where are lions and snakes; the mother was sick, olives would cure her; M. met a man, brought him water, he gave him hair - if burned, he would come to the rescue; became a horse, took M. to the garden, M. let the chained lion go, took olives, brought it to his mother; she sent him to bring clothes; he went on horseback to where the Sultan's daughter was given to be eaten by a 7-eyed, seven-horned snake; killed the snake, breaking its horns with stones, gouging out its eyes with a spear; put his head on the mountain; sultan: whoever takes off his head kills the snake; M. takes off, gets the princess; returns to his mother again; she ties him up - to see how strong he is; tells the demon to kill him; but he is afraid; then he throws him out of the castle; the caravans find him, release him; M. kills the demon, the two children that his mother M. gave birth to him, throws him away; under the guise of a dervish, comes to the Sultan, who gives off his youngest daughter; she sees M. hiding his horse and sword; throws a lemon at him; other daughters married wealthy merchants; the Sultan's eyes hurt, he will be cured by wild goat milk; M. milks a wild goat and hyena, gives hyena milk to his elder sons-in-law, for which he burns their scrotum; hyena milk made the sultan worse, and the goat milk brought by M. cured him; M. defeated the attacking enemies; injured his arm, it was tied with a handkerchief; the slave recognized the handkerchief; the sultan saw the stamps on his older sons-in-law; made M. sultan, became a vizier himself]: Jahn 1902, No. 7:21-37; jibbali [when leaving, the sultan tells his son to kill the child he should give birth to a wife if a girl is born, save if a boy; the wife gives the girl to an old woman, the brother buries the sheep; the girl grows up, the old woman tells her not to leave the house, she goes out to drive away the chickens from the grain, the sultan sees her, wants to marry her; the deception is revealed; the sultan tells his son to kill his sister; he leaves with her; they live by the stream, the brother hunts; the sister's hair goes with the flow, picks him up an old woman; an infidel tells her to find a girl; they come to her; she tells her to kill her brother; invites him to play, the loser will be tied to a bench; he binds him tightly, the infidel blocks the young man, takes his sister away; the cat gnaws through the fetters; the young man recovers, leaves; the Sultan's daughter sees him, agrees to marry him, even if he is a castrato; an infidel meets a young man, tells the Sultan that his son-in-law is castrated; he promises execute the infidel and his wife if it is a lie, or let him and his son-in-law be executed, if true; in the evening, the wife lets the young man down from the window, he leaves; three angels promise to restore his courage if he gives them half of his future children; they tell them to wake them up when the sea is not white or black, but green; he wakes him up, he is thrown into the green sea, his genitals recover; at night he sleeps with his wife; cuts off head to a sister and an infidel; a wife gives birth to three children; when he shares them, he cuts one, leaves, carrying half; angels call out to him, connect the halves, lets him go to his wife with three children; everything is fine]: Mü ller 1907, No. 22:102-110; (cf. Socotra [the wife gave birth to a son and after 3 years a daughter; the father killed the newborn and drank her blood; the son grew up, the mother is pregnant again; the father leaves, tells his son, if a girl is born, to kill her, collect her blood into the vessel, show him when he would return; the brother took the girl to the old woman, and collected the cat's blood into the vessel; gave the vessel to his father, went to where he left his sister; she grew up, swam in the river, the water took her hair away; the sultan picked her up, looked for the girl to marry her, the old woman said that she had the girl; her brother refused to give her back, the sultan sent soldiers, they took her sister and thought they had killed her brother; but his old woman went out; disguised as a beggar, he came to the Sultan; the sultan offered him to become a warrior in his service; the young man killed his sister and sultan, returned to his father; father: I should not let his sister grow up]: Mü ; ller 1905, No. 3:57-63); Palestinians [Hassan rides with his mother to the fork; rejects the Path of Safety, the Path of Regret, chooses the Path of No Return; meets a giant, hits him on the legs with a sword, that gives him the key to the palace; mother X. heals the giant, gives birth to two sons; the giant offers to get rid of H.: the mother says she is sick, needs a grenade, next time melons from a neighboring garden; sheikh tells X. to go, despite the sides, H. brings grenades and melons; the mother demands living water to cure the burnt finger; H. washes, cuts the drone, he refers to his sister, her youngest son brings X. to the upper the world (the earth seems to be the size of a coin), tells the dogs to transfer meat from horses, barley, on the contrary, to fix the door (after that they do not obey the drone's order to grab X.), H. brings a jug of living water, The princess replaces his paths; when she learns that X.'s strength is in his 7 hair, the mother pulls it out, the hum cuts him into pieces, puts them in a box, throws them into the sea; the servants bring the box to the princess, she revives H. with living water; the eyes of H. Brothers born from the hum took him away, the princess tells them to exchange them for bracelets; H. cuts the giant and his children into pieces, then his mother, sends the treasures to the princess; comes among the suitors, putting on a sheep's stomach; the princess chooses it, the king tells them to live in the hut; taking on their true form, H. smashes the king's enemies three times, opens to him; a lavish wedding]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 22:188-198.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Mustang [the old woman who sheltered the boy Lhawa Döndrub said that a demon killed his father and took his mother away; the boy goes for revenge; another old woman tells the demoness to fall to his chest and name her mother; she tells you to put the demon's thumbs in her mouth, then he will not eat it; he tells him to go only during the day, the mother of the young man across the river; the demon senses that his wife's son has come, advises him to pretend to be sick, send his son 1) for the tiger's milk; after shooting at the tiger, LD shot him off a goiter, a grateful tiger gave him milk and a medium tiger cub to boot; 2) behind Garuda's pen; LD killed a snake that was about to eat four Garuda's chicks; she gives a pen and one chick; 3) a golden pen from the demon's brother's forehead; the tiger jumped on his chest, Garuda grabbed the pen, the demon screamed that he would go; they brought him in, LD killed his mother and her demon husband; went to look for a bride; the king has three daughters, LD chose the youngest when they came for water, but the king did not give it up; Garuda found the home of a heavenly fairy, LD married her; they planted two trees: if with anyone the trouble is, it will dry up; while the LD was hunting, an old woman came to the fairy to look after the dogs and cattle; she guessed that LD's life in a golden dagger threw it into the fire, LD fell dead; then the old woman offered the fairy feed rice to the fish, drowned them; Garuda saw that the trees had dried up, a friendly demon (who had a feather on his forehead) threw the amulet, found out that the old woman was to blame; she was tied, nailed to a tree, the remains the golden dagger was taken out of the hearth; everything is fine {no details}]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 28:165-168; Bhutan [the widow has a strong and hard-working son; he met the spirit, he was going to eat it; guy: without martial arts are not allowed, we'll meet tomorrow at the appointed place; the spirit hoped to catch the guy by surprise, but he shot him in the heart, chopped his body to pieces, and his head went home, forbidding his mother to look at her; one day she looked; the spirit persuaded her to believe that he was not an ogre, but a rich man; his body would grow and he would marry the widow; let him take him to a forest cave and bring him food; the son must be disposed of: pretend to be sick, go get the lioness's milk; the guy killed a lion cub, put on his skin, stuck to the lioness with other lions, brought milk; now the mother demands fruit from a tree in the land of spirits; a tree on island; the spirits have a captive girl; they put her to sleep with a golden whip and wake her up with silver for a while to sit on a golden frying pan, swim to the island, pick up fruit; the guy spied on everything; woke her up the girl, they sailed to the island together, he shot the guard snake, she picked fruit, they flew away together in a golden frying pan; while living with the boy, the girl overheard and spied on the conversation between her mother-in-law and the demon; they are preparing to poison the guy; the girl told him everything; the guy quietly poured poison; put a frying pan with butter on fire; lit a lamp; the demon thought it was a signal: the poisoning was successful; the guy threw the demon in a frying pan; mother repented; son told her to find a teacher and repent; lives with his wife; the demon's remains are buried at an expensive crossroads, where the forces of passers-by suppress his strength]: Choden 1994:15-56; khashi [only one family sheltered the wanderer; he leaves the animal; if you eat his meat, you will get rich; mother-in-law cooks meat, daughter-in-law comes in, mother-in-law scolds and chases her; she accidentally eats a piece; leaves the evil mother-in-law with her husband; the husband swallows the pond, he is swallowed by the dragon U Yak Jakor; the wife finds her husband's clothes; the little son U Babam Doh cries with her, his tears turn into gold , because he has received the blessing of the wanderer; the boy has grown up, beats the leader's heir, wins his right to inherit; he says that UBD was conceived by his mother by a dragon; the mother has to talk about her father, she gives her son his clothes and brass vessel; UBD lured the dragon to land, where he loses his strength, lured him into a chest, brought him home, forbid his mother to open it; she opened it, the dragon took the image her husband, said that he would recover from the tigress's milk, but the one who brought the milk should not know what it is for; 1) the mother pretends to be sick, asks her son to go get milk; he treats the tiger cub, the tigress gives milk; 2) the same with the task of bringing fresh bear fat (son catches and brings a live bear); 3) fresh python skin; son spies, sees the mother open the chest, kills the dragon, says his story, inherits the throne]: Rafy 1920, No. 23:140-160; kachari: Anderson 1895:15-18 in Thompson, Roberts 1960, No. 315:50-51.

South Asia. Kashmiris [the king reviews the troops, a seminoid beast appears, the king chases him, the beast turns into a genie, eats the king; the prince inherits the throne, everything repeats; the angel orders to aim with an arrow with two tips in the genie's eyes (if a drop of blood falls to the ground, it turns into a new genie); after cutting off the dead man's head, the young king hides it in the back room; his mother comes in there; the genie says he is her husband and her son is a genie who is going to eat her; offers to pretend to be sick, send her for 1) tigress's milk; the king hits an abscess on the tigress's chest with an arrow, the pain goes away, a tigress gives him milk, promises to help him; 2) a princess from a distant castle (her touch will heal); a tigress helps to break an iron beam at the entrance to the castle, milk a cow guarded by genies, and make him fall in love princess to king; he brings the princess, mother and son talk, both learn the truth; the king's wedding with the princess]: Knowles 1888:1-7; Nepali [the king learns that water will appear in the dug well only if a man who has 32 happy marks on his body will be sacrificed; these are only himself, his son and daughter-in-law; the son finds out about this, takes his wife, jumps away; in the forest he goes hunting, chases a doe, she brings him to the ogre's palace, he kills the doe, defeats the cannibal, locks him in the basement; feeds his wife with fallow deer meat, brings him to the palace; she opens the basement; the cannibal advises to influence the sick, let the husband will bring 1) the tigress's milk; the cubs promise to help, ask their mother for milk for the day, give them to the prince; 2) part of the monster's fang (to grind the fang into powder), which has one fang to the sky and the other to the sky underworld; the prince hides in his fur, stabs with a sword; the monster agrees to go to the palace, hit the gate with its fang, the piece breaks off; the demon advises the woman to feed her hero husband, adds poison; when he dies, the prince tells his wife not to eat his flesh, throw his heart and liver into the river; the princess finds them; in a dream, the prince asks her to make his figure out of cow manure, put her heart and liver into it; comes to life; takes the princess as his wife; kills the monster and his first wife; comes with his wife to his father; he says that when the unfaithful wife was killed, water appeared in the well]: Heunemann 1980, No. 8:84-91; ho [man he plowed with a spear stuck in the ground; every time he leans towards the tiger, he is afraid to approach; the plowman's son and daughter brought lunch; after shooting at the bird, the young man hit the tiger in the eye and killed it; the children thought that the father deliberately ambushed the tiger and wants to kill them; they ran away with the tiger's eye; the young man threw it at another tiger, killing him; a hare came out of one tiger, two dogs from the other; the hare took a spear; attacked rakshas, but the hare started poking his spear in his mouth, Rakshas surrendered and became an ally; they caught the monkey, she went with him, filling the drum with bees; the Raja met the girl, who said that her brother would not give her back, they decided to destroy him; his sister was sick, sent him to get a flower growing in a pond with terrible fish; the fish swallowed the young man, but the Rakshasa drank the pond, pulled the living young man out of the fish's belly; all together they defeated the Raja's army (the monkey released bees at the warriors), the young man married a Raja's daughter]: Bompas 1909:467-469; Kondas (Kuttia) [one brother has two sons and two daughters, the other has two sons and two daughters, the other has the wife is pregnant for the first time; the children did not give her vegetables, her face was swollen, she complained to her husband; he took vegetables from the tiger's garden, the tiger found him; let him go on the condition that if a girl was born, he gave her to him she will give it back, and if he is a boy, let him keep it for himself; the woman gave birth to a daughter and later a son; when the sister was sent to the tiger, her brother went with her and shot the tiger; cut it off, put it in a pot and took an ear with him and tail; brother and sister decided not to go back to their parents; two months later, the ear and tail turned into two tigers; they were joined by a rat and an asur (demon), they began to live together; Raja saw a girl and wanted to be a wife; she said she should ask her brother; the Raja advised: Tell your brother that you want fish, he will go catch it, the fish will swallow it; and so it happened; but the rat found out that asur drank water from the pond, the rat's stomach was ripped open and the young man was taken out; asur said how it was, the brother killed his sister; the fly began to drink blood; from it, the tigers learned that human blood was tasty; so the flesh was even better; they ate the girl's brother; then rat, tigers and asura separated]: Elwin 1954, No. 116:410-413; Sinhalese (Western Province) [Parker 1910-1914 (3): 78-83; king orders to raise a son but bury the baby alive if a daughter is born; son had already grown up when the queen gave birth to a girl; took her when the old woman took her to the cemetery, raised her; promised to marry her first and only then marry her; takes a leopard, a parrot, a kitten as his companions; in the forest the house kills robbers, one wounded man hid; became the lover of the prince's sister; invited her to get rid of her brother; we must pretend to be sick, send for the lotus, and on the lake a crocodile, he will eat the prince; the crocodile swallowed the prince, and the prince's sword pierced his belly; the apsars who came to swim see the animals cry, asked the guardian spirit of the lake to revive the prince; he brings lotus broth; finds it in the house a robber, kills him and his sister; marries a princess, gets a kingdom; comes to his father; tells him that he violated his order, but now he has realized his wisdom]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 123:296- 300.

The Balkans. Greeks (Lesbos) [a woman has a son and daughter, a daughter gives birth to a girl; at night a monster devours cattle; a young man takes off his little finger, in the morning a baby girl cries, her little finger is torn off; the young man demands from the sister to kill the monster, she refuses; he takes the mother, leaves; they stop in the cannibal's cave; he agrees with the young man's mother to kill him; the mother pretends to be sick, asks to bring her 1) cannibal milk, 2) the melon of life, 3) the water of life; each time the fairy helps to get what she is looking for, replaces horse urine, plain melon, plain water; the sister asks what her brother's life is like; he answers what's in the broom, in the joint (she adorns them); in the golden hair on his head; she pulls out her hair, she and the cannibal eat it; the fairy sends two young doe cubs brought in (they are described as dogs) bring all the bones eaten; first the little finger is missing, then it is found; revives with milk, melon, water of immortality; the young man kills the cannibal and mother; comes to his sister, she ate everyone, tells him to ring in the bell while the water is boiling; the mouse rings instead, it runs away; climbs three trees that grew from the nuts given by the fairy; the deer cubs come running, eating the monster; the young man marries a fairy]: Paton 1900, No. 12: 340-344; Albanians [brother and sister live in the castle; brother defeated the diva, imprisoned him on the upper floor of the castle, went hunting again; sister found a diva, took her as lovers; they want to get rid of their brother; by The diva suggests, the sister pretends to be sick three times, sends her brother for milk Muscha, Bokschi's mother, Tokschi's mother; these are strongmen, each tells his mother to give milk, promises to come to the rescue for a special sign; then the sister provokes her brother to show his strength, break the iron beam in the castle; after breaking it, the brother is weak, lost consciousness; three days later she wakes up, asks for him before death smell an apple, wipe the sweat off his forehead with a handkerchief, play the flute; then three strongmen appear, who have become the young man's sister and diva; he asks his sister and diva whether to burn them in tar or tear them apart by horses; they they chose horses; after distributing property to his brothers, the young man went on a journey; on the seashore, a gold-dressed girl is given to Kulchedra to be eaten by Culchedra, who demands a new sacrifice every day; the young man wakes up from a girl who has fallen tears on him, kills K., cuts him off nine tongues, hides him under a stone; a wild man kills him under a tree, makes the girl call him her savior; finds no hidden tongues carves out 9 tongues from K.'s base; the horse guards the young man's body for three weeks; three brothers reappeared, revived the victim (one fixed the bones, the other flesh, the third regained his breath); the young man killed a wild man, showed the king the tips of his tongues, married a princess]: Lambertz 1952:55-66; Moldovans [the girl conceived from the smell of a basilica, went to the old man in a cave, gave birth to a son Basilica of Fat Frumos; FF found a palace, killed six dragons - the sons of the witch Cloanza, the seventh cannot be killed, he drove him into a mortar and locked the door, brought his mother to live in the palace; K. released the seventh dragon, took the form of FF's mother, pretended sick, sent for bird's milk; FF came to Ilyana Kosynzyan, who sent her brother Sun; he lets the horse go to the copper mountain to a giant bird feeding the chicks with milk; FF quietly framed jar, galloped away; IK replaced milk with cow's milk, kept poultry water; 2) wild boar meat; FF extracted, IK replaced domestic pig; 3) living and dead water; FF killed a 10-headed dragon, brought water, IR changed the flasks; at home, the mother (i.e. K.) suggests trying to tear the rope; then two; three FF can't tear, the dragon cut it, collected the remains, put it on the horse and drove it; IR joined the pieces, She made up for the shortcomings with wild boar meat, revived it with live water, gave him bird's milk; FF burned the dragon and K. in the oven, hugged his mother, married IK]: Moldovan tales 1968:334-345; Gagauz people [while brother on hunting, a giant came to his sister; advised him to pretend to be sick, ask for wolf's milk; the she-wolf gave her brother milk and one wolf cub; the same lion's milk, bear milk - the lioness gave her lion cub, the bear bear cub; the guy found two giants at home; they wanted to execute him, but he called his animals, they broke their bonds and tore the giants to pieces; his brother stabbed his sister and left]: Moshkov 1904, No. 76:138; Bulgarians [brother and sister go to live in the mountains (from an evil stepmother, cannibal parents, etc.); brother does good to animals, they give him a lion cub, a wolf cub, a bear cub, a fox, a bunny; they grow up and help him; the sister takes a snake (dragon, arap) as her lover; he, wanting to destroy the young man, teaches his sister to ask his brother to lock up animals; rushes after him; the young man climbs a tree, calls his animals with a song, those came running, a snake (and sometimes a sister); a young man saves the princess from the dragon; the sister puts the snake's bones in his brother's bed, he lies down on them, dies; animals revive him (take him out of the coffin, take him out of the coffin, take him out of snake bone bodies)]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 315:116-117; Hungarians [the king placed his daughter in a tower to isolate her from men; one of the two wanderers raised a stem up to the window, from the girl became pregnant with his smell; his father put her in a barrel, threw her into the sea; the barrel was nailed to the island, the girl got out, gave birth to a son, he grew up, began to swim across the strait to the mainland, bring his mother from there apples; his mother herself baptized him in the name of his father of the sun, his godfather of the month and his star cousins; his name is Beautiful Szérus; a hussar costume and sword fell from the tree to him; on a tree trunk he transported his mother across the strait; to meet the giant, S. hacked him; brought his mother to the giant castle; the king of giants met with mother S., they decided to get rid of S.; the mother pretended to be sick: we must bring a bear cub and eat his heart; the bear gave a bear cub; when she saw him, the mother said that she had already recovered; the same with the wolf cub; the lion cub; the mother suggests that S. jokingly tie his thumbs - will he be able to break; cannot; the giant agrees to fulfill his last wish; S. asks to put three whistles in his mouth, given by a bear, a she-wolf and a lioness; the lion grabbed the giant, the wolf, the woman, the bear tore fetters; S. cut the giant, pieces of meat into the trough, the second - water, the mother left between the troughs; left with his animals; a bride is needed; the bear advises you to ask the sun - Father S.; the lion brought them all to sky; the sun does not know about brides, advises you to turn to the month; the month to the stars, or rather the Morning Star; neither star knows, let the winds ask, they blow everywhere; they replied that his betrothed sleeps in a golden cradle at the bottom of hell, she is rocked by 42 features; S. and the animals returned to earth; the count himself tried to get this girl, promised to help; S. grabbed the girl, the devils in pursuit; the lion threw a brush (forest), a handkerchief (sea); the bear threw three pins (three mountains to the sky); the devils could not overcome them; the count took the girl; she would marry only someone who could milk three golden mares; the animals milked; she will marry someone who buys in their milk, heated to a boil; the animals cooled it, S. swam, became handsome; the count also wanted to swim, the animals heated the milk, the count cooked; the girl got ready marry S., he went out into the garden, fell asleep, the count's younger brother cut off his head; the animals saw a snake, whose snake was cut in half with a scythe, carrying healing grass; the lion stepped on the snake's head, the animals took the grass, the snake hit the lion with its tail, ripping off its hair, leaving only its mane; first their head was attached backwards, had to be redone; at this time, the count's brother was preparing the wedding; the lion and the wolf tore him apart; wedding; S. dug up his mother, who ate the giant's meat, took a sharp bone, put his son in bed, she pierced his heart; the animals revived him with that elixir taken from the snake, tore his mother; a son was born ; when he is 7 years, 7 months, days, hours and minutes, three stones must be sprinkled with blood; S. did this, his three animals became princes again, the castle of the giants is their castle; S.'s son did not die, they only took him blood; they are all alive if not dead]: Dégh 1965, No. 8:109-126; Romanians [stepmother has two children of her own, she demands that her husband save her children from his first wife; the boy heard, said sister; they took ash and flour with them, poured them on the ground on the way; the father tied an empty pumpkin to the tree, it knocks in the wind, and he does not cut wood, but is long gone; the children returned home in the footsteps; the same in next time; the third time the father took the children further, and the rain soaked the flour and the birds pecked it; the boy made an bow, the sister got a friction fire, they began to eat birds; the fox tells her not to shoot at her, gave her fox; then the same thing with the she-wolf and the bear; the children came to the palace, where there was a giant chained to the wall behind a steel door; he asked for water; the boy did not give it and told his sister to unlock any doors except for steel; the sister opened the door, brought the giant three mugs of water, who broke the chains; the sister is ready to be the giant's mistress and destroy her brother; to do this, she must eliminate his animals; to do this, she asked leaving them with her when he goes hunting - she is bored alone; they have locked the animals in a room with a steel door; the giant chases the young man; he climbs a tree; throws the giant's hat, one sandal, the second, each time he sings, calling on his animals, while the giant devours what was thrown; first only the fox, then the wolf cub finally hears; the bear broke the door; the animals decided to run like the wind for if, as a thought, they were too tired to fight; the giant chipped in with a log, but the beasts ate it, and the young man took his heart and liver; he told his sister to cook them; left 9 barrels for her filled them with tears and left]: Mawr 1881:52-56; Slovenes, Croats, Serbs: Uther 2004 (1), No. 315:201-203.

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Novgorod, Pskov, Vologda, Tula, Voronezh, Oryol, Kursk, Ryazan), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Kholmshchina, Ugric Russia, Transcarpathia, Hutsulshchina, Galicia, Volyn, Podolia, Pokutye, Kiev, Yekaterinoslavshchina, Chernihiv, Kharkiv region), Belarusians: SUS 1979, № 315 (=AA 315A) [Animal milk: sister (mother) Conspires with his lover (robber, sorcerer, snake, devil, Kashchei, Iron Wolf) to kill a young man and sends him for milk from a she-wolf, bear and lioness, pretending to be sick; connects him; hero saved with the help of animals - a wolf cub, a bear cub, a lion cub; deals with the enemy, punishes the pretender; this is the seventh most recorded plot (67) of a Russian fairy tale]: 315-316; Russians (Teresky Bereg) [the shadr wolf devoured everyone, brother and sister are left: Ivan Tsarevich and Marfa Tsarevna; the bull offers to sit on his back, takes the children away; they throw a comb (forest, wolf gnawed), flint (mountains, the same), a "raft" - fiery river; the wolf remained on the other side; the bull tells him to be slaughtered; the dog Heavy will jump out of the first blood, Light from the second; make a hut out of bones; I. goes hunting, M. at home; wolf seduces her from the other side, turning into a man; tells her to throw a bull bone, there was a boat, he swam across it; M. pretended to be sick, sent her brother for the wolf's milk; she gave milk and gave her milk wolf cub; then the same thing - bear (gave a bear cub); lioness (lion cub); wolf to Marfa: you can't take him with animals; M. to brother: animals went far away to the kingdom of far away; there is a lake, a duck on it, in a duck an egg - let them bring it; I. sent dogs and animals; the wolf came out; I.: let it evaporate in the bath, the meat will be softer; the wolf allowed it; the bird to Ivan; quieter swamp, your dogs are just running there; just ran ; they just began to run back; not far away; near; the animals tore the wolf to pieces; I. found a queen, and M. became a seamstress; hid a wolf tooth in the feathers of Ivan's pillow; the tooth entered I.'s head, he died and was buried ; the animals escaped from the barn, dug up the grave; began to rub heavily against I.'s head, the tooth entered T., he died, and I. came to life; He began to rub easily against T., L. died, and T. came to life; then the wolf cub; the bear cub; the lion cub; steel rub on the ground: and the lion cub came to life; Marfa was burned at the stake, shot with ashes with a cannon]: Balashov 1970, No. 64:217-220; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [an old hunter bequeaths a towel and 7 dogs to his son; Do not let your younger sister wash the towel; if you need to cross the river, wave in the other direction, a bridge will become; one day my sister sees a line on the other side; he advises you to take a towel without asking and make a bridge ; she did so; to prevent his brother from noticing him, the hell turned into a broom when he entered the house; the dogs rushed to the broom, but the sister persuaded them to recall: there would be nothing to pay for revenge; the next day, the brother suspects amiss; can't find towels; hell advises you to pretend to be sick and ask for bear milk; the bear herself gave milk and a bear cub to boot; the same with lion's milk (lion cub); hell suggests send to an iron mill, where they grind in three minutes; brother jumped out, and dogs and animals remained behind the iron door; sister asks her brother to heat the bathhouse (she is going to burn it in the bathhouse with hell); bird: not hurry up, your animals only gnawed through two doors; when my brother went to the bathhouse, the hunt came running, tore the line; the brother gave his sister three tubs of water and three shocks of hay: when I eat the hay, I'll let go; my brother went to city, where people are crying: the serpent got used to it, today it will eat the king's daughter; the hunt rushed, gnawed off the head of the three-headed snake, the brother cut off and hid its tongues; the same with 7- and 12-headed and snakes; the water carrier attributed everything to himself, but the guy showed his tongues; forgave his sister (she managed to eat two shocks of hay and drink two tubs of water)]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:86-90; Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [stepmother did not like stepsons: a girl and a boy; their father took them to the forest; they came to the river, on the other side the old man waved his handkerchief, became a bridge; began to live with him; brother and sister grew up, the old man died; on the other side a boy; teaches the girl waved that handkerchief, crossed the bridge; before her brother arrived, the boy turned into a pin and ordered him to be plugged to the ceiling so that her brother's dog would not get it; the next day, the sister pretended patient: goes to the Wolf Islands for she-wolf milk; the she-wolf herself gives milk and the wolf (obviously her wolf cub); bear's milk (the same); lioness (the same); to the Falcon Islands, the falcon's egg (the same); bring flour from the damn mill; the animals came in, the iron doors closed, only the young man and the falcon stayed outside; hell is going to eat the young man, he asks for permission to heat the bathhouse first and wash himself; falcon: turn down the swamp, your hunt has already gnawed two doors, started the third; the animals came running, broke the line; "How the lion beast grabbed him and the bear, how they began to soften it, and the wolf and bear tore him into the mold é sya"; the sister put a line under her brother's pillow, he died, she threw the body into the water; the falcon noticed at the bottom, the wolf, the bear could not pull it out, the lion pulled it out, but they could not remove the tooth themselves; the wolf dragged the hare, he does not understand what they want from him, it was torn apart; the wolf dragged the fox, she understood, pulled out the tooth, the young man came to life; buried his sister on the chest, put two barrels: to cry on it and to hell; if there is more tears in his barrel, he will let go; tears were only hell; brother buried his sister with his head and the barrel with her]: Smirnov 2003 (1), No. 7:76-85; Russians (Olonetskaya) [Tsar and Queen hid their son and daughter in a hole from King Samoyed; he found them, promised to return; the lioness gave crest and flint; they threw a crest (forest), flint (river of fire); began to live across the river; until his brother's flint, S., could not cross the river ; S. did a great job, persuaded his sister to steal flint; once with his sister, offered that she start playing cards with her brother, the loser would be tied; S. ate the bound; then the girl disgraced S. and he became a Russian man, began to make good money]: Vlasova 2011, No. 19:50-51; Russians (Pskov, Pushkinogorsky districts) [grandfather and woman have a mill with 12 gates; she herself took flour, grinded, closed and opened by the hour; she was hysterical, the man was looking for a help; the naked promises to do everything, but tells them to give it back, which the man does not know at home; the wife gave birth to twins: Nastya and Vanya; the father gave them a needle without ears and told him to run; told the naked that they had run to him; N. threw her comb (the forest, naked came back for the ax, cut through the course); N. waved her handkerchief, they flew across the lake; came to the hut: turn your back there, here in front; an old man came with a gun and a dog; told them to serve I. and died; N. came to the river, naked with an accordion on the other side, offered to marry, told them to wave his handkerchief; she waved, he flew to her; advises to ask I. to get hare's milk; the hare fed up and gave the bunny; N. poured out milk; the same with the fox, the she-wolf, the bear, the lioness; naked: let him go to your father's mill, his animals will remain locked; while walking, naked and N. weaved three ropes: silk, hemp, hair; N. suggests I. tear them; hair I. could not tear them; hair I. could not tear; asks permission to heat the bath before death; the raven is flying, reports how many doors the animals gnawed; the animals came running, tore her naked, N. tied two naked teeth in a handkerchief; I. chained her to an oak tree, put two barrels; let her cry naked in one, and two times over him; not far from the lake, an underdog with seven heads came out; he was just convicted of the Tsareva's daughter; (hereinafter in square brackets: I. saves her, marries; his wife feels sorry for N., asks to dismiss; N. throws them to the head - they die; animals revive with living and dead water; N. was torn, tied to the tails of horses)]: Chernyshev 1950, No. 43:86-89; Russians (Vologodskaya; d. Terekhov-Malakhov, Belozersky U. of the then Novgorod Province) [The Tsar dies. Young Ivan Tsarevich has heroic strength and lives with his mother. From another land, its ruler Burzachilo Poganoe writes to fight against him. An/ is looking for a horse. Lots of horses, but whoever she sits on will fall. He puts his finger down and then falls. She walks through the city in sadness, meets an old woman: why did she think about it. I. replies that how does she, an old witch, know the royal thought. He changed his mind, returned to the old woman, tells his misfortune. Old woman: His grandfather's horse is standing in the earthen stable. He's already eaten the ground knee-deep. We have to go out into the green garden, shout well done, whistle like a hero, the horse will give a voice. I. tells her mother everything, she is happy. I. goes to the garden, screams, whistles - the horse responds. I. finds a shield in the ground, goes down the stairs, where a horse is chained 12 chains. When he sees I., he breaks his chains. I. asks the horse to serve him as he served his grandfather. The horse asks him to let him go for 7 days to walk in green meadows and silk grasses, and during this time get a golden saddle. The saddle is made by a hundred craftsmen, but it is either small or large, not suitable for a horse. I. is walking around the city, the same old woman advises you to take the saddle hanging in the corner on the left in the corner, which is covered with moss, and gilding it, it will do. After 7 and I. days, he goes out into the open field, screams well done, whistles like a hero, the horse comes running, the ground trembles, the saddle is just right. I. goes to war without troops. The horse helps by trampling enemy troops with its hooves. I. takes Burzachilo Pogany prisoner, who asks not to kill him, but to tie him to a stirrup, take him to his kingdom, imprison him and feed him meager food. I. puts him in prison, maids bring him food. BP suddenly refuses to take food from them, demanding that the sovereign herself bring it. When she hears a sigh, she brings BP, falls in love with him, begins to feed him better, and plans to kill her son with him. BP is a terrible sorcerer, he knows everything, tells I. to find a three-headed snake and bring his liver lungs to heal the queen. I. agrees, calls the horse, who informs that his mother has fallen in love with BP, tells him to wear three cast-iron lats and go to his mother for a blessing, although she will not give it. The mother refuses to bless; he goes to his godmother for a blessing. The horse is running, the earth is trembling, mountains and valleys jumping, rivers and lakes are covered with its tail. They don't reach three miles, they start baking with fire. Molten first armor flows down from I., the second verst, and the third at the last. The horse tells you to look at the golden hair in his mane: when it starts writhing, cut it to the left with a sword. I. cuts off the snake's three heads, takes the lungs and the liver. The horse says his mother sent him to death on purpose. Upon returning, I. first of all goes to the PSU, he unlocks it. The mother throws away the liver lungs, the PSU advises her to send I. bring the lungs of the liver of an 8-headed snake. The mother again refuses to bless her son; he goes to his godmother for a blessing. The horse tells you to wear 6 cast-iron lats on him and himself. When they drive 6 miles, the fire melts all the armor one by one. The horse tells you to look at the golden hair in his mane when it starts writhing - cut it to the right with a sword. I. cuts off the snake's six heads, takes the lungs and the liver. When he returns, he goes back to BA, he denies it. The mother throws out the lungs, the liver, on the advice of the PD, sends I. to bring the lungs of the liver of a 9-headed snake. He refuses to bless I. again; he goes to his godmother for a blessing. The horse tells you to wear 9 cast-iron lats on him and himself. When you drive 9 miles, the fire melts all the armor one by one. The horse tells you to look at the golden hair in his mane when it starts writhing - cut it to the left with a sword. I. cuts off six heads of the snake, but he waves his trunk and knocks I. out of the saddle. I. falls down and falls asleep in a heroic dream for 9 days and 9 nights, and the monster suffers from him. The horse decides that I. is dead and flees to their kingdom. The mother rejoices, releases BP from prison, brings her to the palace, drinks and has fun. Iyu wakes up, throws off her monster, grieves that there is no horse, goes wherever her eyes look. It comes to a hut in the woods. A blind old man is sitting in it. Without seeing I., he recognizes him and says hello. Says he knew his dad. He explains that he was wounded in one battle, after which his eyes were covered with wild meat. He could behold Ivan Tsarevich if he was tied up with wild meat with something. Ivan Tsarevich blindfolds his eyes with his belt. The old man takes him to the vast realm. I. gives him some money and leaves his belt at his request, or he won't make it back. She asks to spend the night in the kingdom. The king allows it. It is announced to give up any of the three daughters if I. solves their dreams, otherwise he will cut off his head. I. does not sleep at night, watches. The princesses get up, wash, drink from one bottle - they are covered with feathers, from the other they become winged and fly away. I. uses the same bubbles to go after them. The third sister is more cunning, noticing that it is noisy and loud today, the other two decide that it is because they ate and dressed up. They fly to another realm to visit their lovers, three brothers princes, and their father is told that they are dreaming about it. I. steals the personalized rings of princesses and princes. Watching princesses get rid of their feathers and wings with bubbles, does the same. In the morning, the princesses tell their father that they flew to another kingdom in their dreams and sat there with the princes. I. says what he saw and shows his rings. The king allows you to marry any daughter, I. chooses the youngest, beautiful, and gets half the kingdom. His wife gives birth to him two sons. I. goes to his kingdom with his wife and sons. She discovers that the mother and BP live in the palace as husband and wife, hangs BP, and the mother forgives. The horse comes running, rejoices, I. caresses him, keeps him at home. Sons grow up to be heroes, everyone respects them. Mother dies, I. happy with his wife]: Sokolov, Sokolov 1915:29-34; Russians (Vologda) [father is old, does not bless Dmitry's son to fight with the filthy idol Ared; D. went, won A., put him in The mother took off the dungeon, A. liked it, decided to lime her son; A. advises her to pretend to be sick, send D. to bring 1) 12 apples from 12 apple trees, which 12 heroes (heroes gave apples); 2) to Batu hero beyond living and young waters; towards a horse, then a dog, D.: I'll eat you; those: don't eat, I'll come in handy; B. is not at home, he went to fight with 12 heroes, his parents gave water, D. anointed the chicken, he was torn apart; D. forced him to give the right water, revived the kurek, blinded B.'s parents, ruined his house, rides away on horseback, then on the dog, that into the bushes, B. did not notice, galloped by, D. then killed him , said this to 12 brothers; 3) a jug of 12 stigmas with drinks from Koshchei the Immortal; Marya Koshcheevna wanted to marry D.; when D. returned to his mother, she asks what his strength is; D.: in three gold hairs; his mother began to look in his head, cut off his hairs; released A. into the wild - let him be recognized as tsar; D.'s hairs grew, he found Marya Koshcheevna, A. killed, his mother cracked to death]: Gura 1965, No. 30:246-248; Russians (Moscow) [brother and sister went into a rich house; no one; robbers arrived; brother killed them one by one; chieftain maimed but did not kill, locked them in a room; gave them to his sister keys, did not tell me to go into one room; she went in, the chieftain showed where the medicine was, he was safe and well; the sister pretended to be sick, she needed the wolf's hair and milk; the she-wolf also gave a wolf cub; the same bear ; lioness; chieftain teaches to send his brother to the mill, the iron doors will close; the hare and the fox are also with animals; they broke the doors, tore the chieftain; the brother left his sister a pound of bread and a pound of water, locked it; came to the king, the princess fell in love; the wedding; he was told to bring his sister; she put a magic tooth in bed; a tooth stuck in her forehead, the young man died; his sister ordered him to be buried in an oak coffin with three iron hoops; animals throw a hole of fried chickens, they will rush and fill the hole; the animals, led by the fox, got out, the coffin was lowered from the oak tree, the wolf stole the mites and the hammer; the tooth jumped out, hit the hare; the wolf; the bear; the lion; the fox she covered her forehead with a frying pan, and all the animals too survived; Ivan Tsarevich went to his wife]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 27:69-73; Russians (Ryazanskaya) [after the death of her mother, the elder brother expelled Ivan and their sister; they live in a bathhouse, I. hunts and picks mushrooms; went to the big house; went in, drank vodka, began to sing; 36 robbers came; the chieftain sends a man to kill I., he kills the robber himself; so he killed everyone one by one, the chieftain hid; I. brought his sister there; she saw the chieftain, fell in love, he tells him to pretend to be sick, send I. for special apples, where he will be killed by robbers; I. killed 300 robbers, brought apples and brought the princess kidnapped by the robbers; the princess hears how the chieftain and sister I. agree that his sister should play cards with I., the loser to tie his hands; I. tore two other ropes, he could not break his hair; the sister called the chieftain, but the princess cut off his head; sister I. tore it in half; I. and the princess came to the tsar and married]: Smirnov 1917, No. 229:115 -119; Russians (Voronezh) [Brother and sister lived, they had a gun and a goat. My brother was going hunting and met an old man who offered him to exchange his three dogs for his goat. He told them to be Buffalo, Wind and Frost, share a loaf of white bread with bacon and summon them with a pipe wherever they were. My brother went hunting for 2,000 km, found an uninhabited house with ready-made meals on the table (which were also hunted ducks), began to live in it, sent the fastest dog, Vetra, for his sister, who came to see him. When a sister is alone in the house, a devil comes to marry her, threatening to give her to the devils if he refuses to break her up. The devil suggests that she get rid of her brother by putting him to sleep in the bed he specified. My brother came back, lay down on his bed and stabbed himself, but the dogs rescued him - they took him out into the yard, and he came to life again. Next time, the devil told my sister to stop sick and ask for fresh muffins. The brother goes to the mill near the house to buy a pound of flour, but the miller only agrees to exchange it for dogs, so his brother has to give them back. The devil locked the dogs on 35 cast-iron doors, and met his brother on the porch arm with his sister, threatening to summon devils to tear his brother apart. He asked for permission to play the pipe, but the hell wouldn't let him, but his sister persuaded him. Hearing the pipe, the dogs began to rush to their owner, Buffalo broke the cast-iron doors, and for the third time they found his brother and saved his life by breaking the line. The frost froze the devils. The brother drove his sister out of the house, went to the village, got married and began to have fun]: Pukhova 2006, No. 12; Russians (Voronezh, Bobrovsky y.) [The girl runs into a forest dwelling, enters rooms, and sees the Beast on a chain in the third. It asks for two vats of blood, drinks, gains strength, frees herself and makes the girl live with him ("or else I'll eat you"). Ivan hunts in the deep forest. He does not kill animals, but enhances his hunt - each animal gives its own cub. I. gathers a wolf cub, a bear cub, a lion cub, a crow, and a falcon. I. walks into the hut, meets a girl, finds out about the Beast. It sees the hunt and decides to put up. Three people live. I. takes care of the girl like a sister. The monster persuades her to pretend to be sick and send I. hunting to the mill for water and supplies so that the Beast can lock up loyal I. animals there. I. draws water, calls animals, but they're locked behind 12 doors. I. thinks the animals will catch up with him and returns home. The monster asks I. to heat the stove. A crow, a falcon, an eagle fly to I., tell him not to hurry, and report how many doors the hunt has gnawed through. The monster sends the girl several times to find out if the bath is ready. I. replies that one, two, three corners are flooded, delaying the moment when the Beast appears. She goes to the bathhouse, is going to grab I., a hunt appears, pushes the monster into the oven. I. leaves the girl on a chain, promises to forgive when she cries a vat of tears. She goes to another state, stays with an old woman. She is afraid of hunting, talks about a princess who cannot marry: a giant defeats grooms, but she does not want a giant. I. leaves the old woman hunting, tells her to watch his knife: if she is covered in blood, it's time to let the animals go. She comes to the capital city, invites the princess ("her height was heroic, her face was white as snow, her eyebrows were black as velvet, her cheeks were scarlet like cherry blossoms, her chest rises high") to marry him, she agrees. I. fights the giant, he grabs his hand, blood flows, the old woman starts hunting. Animals come running and tear the giant, I. cut off his head, marries a princess. She goes to visit her named sister (she sat on a chain for a year), finds an empty vat, lets her go, and invites her to go to her maid. The girl finds the Giant's tooth in the oven, sews it into a pillow and puts it in Ivan. The tooth gets into his ear, he dies. The princess buries him in a high tower (with the inscription "There is no stronger and braver than the Russian hero Ivan"). Hunting climbs into the tower, the bear removes the coffin lid, the hare pulls a tooth out of Ivan's ear, I. comes to life, plays the pipe, the animals dance, the princess rejoices]: Korolkova 1941, No. 8:45-49; (cf. Russians (Voronezh) [Three hunting brothers are chasing a golden hare in the forest, getting lost. The older brothers go hunting, the younger one stays to cook porridge. A giant comes into the house, asks him to feed him, his younger brother refuses, the giant hits him in the forehead with a ladle, eats porridge and leaves. The same thing happens with the middle brother. When the older brother stays at home to cook, he treats the giant, and he invites him to visit him in gratitude. The hunter does not drink his vodka when the giant hands the hunter a piece of watermelon on a knife, he realizes that they want to slaughter it. He hands out a knife to the giant himself and kills him. The hunter finds copper, silver and gold rooms in the house, in the last girl of "written beauty". He says that he killed a giant and brings her a handkerchief from the victim's pocket as proof. The girl is happy that she is free and agrees to marry him. The hunter brings her to her brothers, loses her handkerchief on the way, returns for it, but cannot find her brothers and brides in their original place. He is hired as a guard, the owner forbids him to enter the barn, but the hunter opens the door and "bastards and beasts" run free. The owner drives them back and pays the hunter, gives them a horse and a rusty sword. A hunter comes to the bride on her wedding day, shows her handkerchief, and she marries a true savior. Three years later, the wife goes to live with a rich man. She asks her new husband to buy a horse, who buys a hunter turned into a horse. The wife guesses and orders to kill the horse. The cook hears about this and warns him. The horse asks her to take his bone and bury it in the red corner. It does. An apple tree grows in this place, and the wife realizes that this is what she orders to cut down the tree. The cook again warns and completes the apple tree's task: she throws a sliver from the apple tree into the bath. The hunter becomes a drake, a rich man tries to catch him and drowns. The hunter turns into a rich man, comes to his wife, talks about the drake, who warns that the bird is dead and must be killed. The hunter cuts off his wife's head with a rusty sword, throws it into the water (she was the sister of a giant, she was afraid of the hunter and wanted to kill). A hunter marries a cook]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 88:246-250); Russians (Bryansk, Karechevsky district) [iron wool bear eats people; the tsar ordered to build a high pole; placed Ivan- Tsarevich and Elena the Beautiful with a supply of food for 5 years; the bear ran to the palace, began to gnaw on a broom with annoyance; he told him to go to the field, there was a pole; the bear began to rock the pole, I. threw him food, he fell asleep; I. and E. ran, sat on the horse, the bear easily caught up with him, tore it, brought I. and E. to the pole in their mouths; the same for the second time (the geese carried them, the bear scorched them); the third time I. and E. carried a third goby; he covered the bear's eyes three times with droppings; swam across the river, and the bear drowned; the goby tells him to slaughter him, collect his bones, hit him, a fist man will come out of them - himself from his fingernail, a beard from his elbow; the peasant brought I. and E. to the robbers' house, interrupted everyone and locked everyone in one room without telling E. to go there; she went and fell in love with the chieftain's head; asked I. to get living and dead water, revived the chieftain; to lime I. sent him for wolf's milk; the she-wolf gives with a wolf cub to boot; the same with a bear; a lioness; E. sends a firebird for eggs; she swallowed a fist man; E. and the chieftain were going to kill I.; that asked permission to wash himself in the bathhouse; the animals came running and told I. that the fist man had escaped; he ordered the animals to tear the chieftain apart, and E. tied the naked woman to the tree to be eaten by flies and mosquitoes; led I. to heroic girl; I. hardly defeated her, married her; at night she put her hand on I.'s chest, it's bad, he called the peasant; the man beat the girl until he tamed her; his wife persuaded I. to release E.; she began to look in I.'s head and let a dead tooth into his head; the lion cub saw, pulled it out, began to die himself; then the bear cub; then the fox, but she threw the tooth into the pan and it crumbled; I. ordered E. to be tied to the tail horse and open across the field]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 202:94-97; Belarusians [the tsar and queen died, the children walked around the world, came to the hut on chicken legs, with a baba-yuga, an iron leg; in the morning she ordered the girl to weave crosns, and the boy to cut firewood, ordered the cat to guard; they gave the cat meat, he gave them a ball and a khust, sat down at the crosns himself; when Baba Yuga understood this, she sat in a stupa, drove a poker; brother and my sister came to the Sea of Fire for a ball, waved a khust - the bridge; on the other side they waved again - the bridge was gone; they saw the hut, began to live; while Ivan Tsarevich was gone, Kashchei the immortal came to his sister; taught pretend to be sick - let the brother bring animal milk; the hare gave milk and a hare; the same with a fox, a she-wolf, a bear, an elk, a lioness, a resin (?) ; the sister pours out milk every time; now I. has 7 animals; his sister sent him to the damn mill; I. went out, and the animals were left outside 12 doors; at home I. asks Koschey to let him wash in the bathhouse, and then eat; the animals came running, melted the bathhouse, the lion threw Kashchei into the fire; his sister found his fang, put his brother in bed; the fang pierced his head; the fox ran to get fuel and tenacious water, and the hare noticed in his head fang; pulled out - a fang into a hare, now he is dead; so from one animal to another, but the fox is only on the tail; the lion threw his sister into the oven; Marya Tsarevna was given a snake with 6 heads; I. and the animals killed him; I.'s wedding and M.; and I was there, it flowed down my mustache, I didn't get into my mouth]: Romanov 1887, No. 3:45-49; Belarusians [the tsar's most beautiful ship sank; he promises half the kingdom to whoever returns the ship; evil spirits: You don't need half the kingdom, give what you don't know at home; it turned out that the wife gave birth to a son and daughter at home; they grew up, a snake flew for them, brought them to the forest; the boy talks about barrels, the girl talks about watermelons; snakes I realized that these were not princes; I had to give them back; once a serpent told the boy to separate the poppy from the ash, and the girl to embroider a towel; the vorn took them under his wings, carried them from the snake; he caught up, took them away; the next day, the ox tells the girl to take a brush and a comb, and the boy a bar and a handkerchief, sit in her left and right ear; the serpent catches up, they throw the brush (forest), the comb (earthen mountain), a bar (stone mountain); waving a handkerchief by the sea is a bridge, on the other side there is no bridge; the ox tells us to cut it into 12 parts, they turned into 12 dogs; they began to live; brother does not know what to do with his sister snakes began to fly; sister asks for bear milk; bear gave milk and bear cub; same with the she-wolf; dogs were left outside 12 doors; sister tells brother to warm water; raven: take your time, dogs 9 doors gnawed; brother asks for permission to blow the trumpet before death; dogs heard, the snake tore; sister took a snake tooth; brother and sister began to live with their parents; sister put a tooth in her brother's bed; he died, my sister died in a barrel and at sea; the wolf took out a barrel, the bear knocked out the bottom, found a tooth, took it out; began to live happily ever after]: Romanov 1887, No. 7:63-65; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [a widower marries a neighbor; she makes it a condition that he gets rid of the children Ivan and Marika; he takes them to the forest, leaving the deck beating against the tree in the wind as if he were cutting wood; they returned home; next time the father took them on, children stayed in the forest; they bake wild horseradish, go to bed with their heads in different directions; bear, wolf come, are surprised at the outlandish beast, leave; in the morning there is good bread in ash; on sycamore there is a magic shirt, a gun, a saber ; I. gets them, becomes a strongman; breaks into the robber's lair, there is a princess; kills 11 robbers, the 12th pretends to be dead, I. left the body, lets the girl go to her father, leaves; the robber asks M. bring live water, pour it into the keyhole; the door opens, the robber's severed ear grows, M. takes the robber as her husband; to destroy his brother, pretends to be sick, asks for a wolf, then bear meat and other meat; the she-wolf, then the bear and other animals ask them not to kill, gives them a wolf cub, a bear cub, etc.; the robber suggests that M. send his brother to fetch water from a spring between the mountains; in noon they stop, I. took out water; bring flour from mills that grind human bones, open every 12 years; I. picks up flour, manages to jump out, doors slam shut, his animals stayed inside; M. bathes I. in fresh milk, he was confused, she tied him with horsehair, the robber took his shirt with strength; they gouged out I.'s eyes, threw him into the well; people pulled him out; he wandered through the forest, fell his head into the swamp, there was living water, he saw the light; he bought good clothes, changed clothes with his grandfather; he gave him bottles of water, one was young, the other was old; he came to M. and the robber under the guise of beggar; when they fell asleep, he took their shirt, sword, gun; ordered him to be given his pipe; he began to play, the animals escaped from the mill, ran, tore the robber; left M. two barrels to cry, one to cry for him, the other for the robber; in the neighboring kingdom of snakes locked the water; I. killed him, freed the princess, whom the gypsy was carrying the snake, cut off snake tongues, the gypsy cut off a piece from each tongue, demanded that the king's princess as a wife; at home, almost all tears are cried out for the robber; I. shows the king not the tips of his tongues, but the tongues themselves, the animals tore the gypsy, I. took the princess; M. came, poisoned I., locked the animals; those escaped, Lisa brought living water; next time M. locked her verey again, put I. pitchforks in bed; the same; the animals tore M.]: Verkhovyna's Tales 1970:232-243; Western Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina) [stepmother tells her husband to take stepdaughter and stepson to the forest; for the first time, the girl sprinkles ash; the father hangs a piece of wood on a tree, she knocks in the wind as if he is cutting wood and has left; brother and sister are back on the trail; the second time there was not enough ash, the girl took dust, the wind blew her away; the boy noticed fire from the tree; brother and sister came to the fire, there were two loaves and two eggs; then they came to the house; there were 24 robbers, 12 come at night, 12 in the afternoon; the boy cuts off everyone's head as they push her out the window; only one is wounded, asked the girl to bandage his head, married him; to get rid of his brother, the sister pretends to be sick: wolf's milk will help; now you need live water; old woman: water beyond the mountains, you have to run back; the old woman tells her to leave living water, and take the one that will give; sister: a sea pig is needed; old woman: he is also beyond the harsh mountains; keeps it with him, tells his sister to take the simple; sister: let's tie my fingers if you can tear it; the robber came in, chopped The young man put it in pieces, put it in a bag, threw it into the forest; the old woman's horse picked up the bag and brought it to her; she folded her body, revived it with live water; cooked the pig, let it eat, the young man felt great strength; the old woman turned him into a bird, he flew to the robber, sat down on a tree; the robber climbed to pick the bird, leaving his sword on the ground; the bird flew off, became a young man, he chopped the robber; put a bag on the horse, He tied his sister alive behind a horse; her horse dragged her, trampled the remains of the robber]: Zinchuk 2006a, No. 91:267-272; northern Ukrainians (Volynskaya, Dubensky u.) [summary of the fairy tale from Mikhail Krivoshapkin's manuscript "About Volyn and Minsk Polesie" (1898-1899): Ivan the merchant's son "was born after a merchant ate half of an apple given by a desert; from the other half an apple was born to a mare's foal Khudko; his mother and lover want to kill Ivan three times, but the horse saves him; they are fleeing, and the old man he meets gave Ivan a sword, a mace and a bear, and he asked Ivan push him into the hole. Lykhody (mother's lover) was frightened of the bear and went to the daw; Ivan is sent across the mountains of fire to the tank for two apples; the old woman on the way gave him a rosary, a white dog, sacred water and a handkerchief, and On the way back, she changed his apples; the bear remained in the garden; Ivan's houses were hacked down, his bones were tied to his horse's tail, and the horse was let in. An old woman in the forest revived Ivan, gave him those two apples and two bears; the bear tore the rooster that the villain turned to; Ivan bent over a tall birch tree and tied his mother to the top by the braids"]: Zelenin 1914, No. 12:295-296; Northern Ukrainians (Chernigov, Nezhinsky U.) [The king, queen and one daughter died, leaving the second daughter and son; when the father died, he buried them to hide them from the snake; the serpent flew in, asking the pomelo, pokers, hooks, axes, shelves where the king is hid the children; everyone replies that the king or queen was kind to them; he will drown (bury the heat, take the pots out of the oven, chop them, etc.) and put them (put them), so I stand (lie); but the snake insists that the chisel shows signs of work (wrinkles); it agrees and tells you to go out, throw it behind you and dig it where it falls; the snake dug up the children and carried them into its hole; on the way, Olenka invites you to look for the snake lice; the snake fell asleep, Ivan cries; the bumblebee puts the children on his back, carries him away, but the snake caught up and returned; next time the goby offers to help; carries children, the snake catches up; the goby tells I. to climb into him right ear, get out of his left ear, he has a scallop and a handkerchief in his head; I. waved his scallop - a thicket, a handkerchief - the sea parted and the goby ran dry; the serpent was afraid, built a house for himself and stayed in it; brother his sister and his sister came to another house; the goby tells him to slaughter him, hang his legs in different places; in the morning they appeared dogs Protyus and Nedvyus, a sword and a gun; his sister went to the river to wash, snakes from another the shore asks to get a handkerchief and wave to cross it; O. told I. that she wanted to wash the handkerchief, waved, the sea parted, the snake passed; O. agreed to pretend to be sick, ask the animal milk; when I. comes up, the serpent turned into a needle, telling O. to stick it into the wall, otherwise the dogs would tear it; the dogs caught up with the hare, she let her milk, gave a bunny; the same with the fox, the she-wolf, a bear, a lioness, a tigress; the serpent offered to send I. to the mill so that the animals would remain locked behind 12 doors; when I. left the mill, the doors closed; I.'s houses asked permission before death climb the ash tree; magpie: don't go down, the dog's three doors have already gnawed; dogs have come running, tore O. and the snake]: Malinka 1902, No. 16:277-282; northern Ukrainians (Chernigov, Konotopsky y.) {the end is crumpled, with obvious passes} [the queen remained a widow, she has a son Mytut; they went to the forest, M. noticed a light, there was a house of 8,000 robbers; M. killed everyone, began to live with his mother; snakes went to his mother, they they survived the child, left him under the oak tree, M. found him, brought him to his mother; said that he would be his brother, the name Netuta; the king would give his daughter to the one who would defeat the snake; the serpent whistled - the silver bridge became 12 miles, and M. whistled - the golden bridge; M. cut off the snake's head and tongue, received the princess; they began to live in the robbers' house, and N. became a prince for teaching (?) M. kill the snake]: Malinka 1902, No. 18:277-282; northern Ukrainians (Chernigov) [after the death of their parents, Ivan and Hanna went to live in the forest, set up a dugout; snakes began to fly to G.; offers to get rid of from I.; let G. pretend to be sick, ask for fox milk; the fox gives milk and a fox; the same she-wolf, bear, lioness; then the serpent offers to send I. for living (aiming) water to Baba Yaga; around 12 snakes were chained to the well; I. tried to approach, but the snakes spewed smoke, I. fell dead; the dogs began to push I., he came to life {we are talking about dogs; usually animals that were presented as dogs act as dogs fox, she-wolf, etc.}; magpie has taken out water, tells him to return through the sands and rivers, otherwise it will not reach; the serpent offers to send I. to the mill at sea, which grinds and bakes itself; there are 12 doors; I. will come out, and dogs will stay outside the door; I. goes to the house, and forty every day reports how many doors the dogs have gnawed; when the sister is about to slaughter I., the magpie shouts that the dogs are about to come running; I. asks allow him to climb the oak tree and hang down; the dogs ran up and tore the snake; I. shackled his sister, put him in the cellar, left a tub (ceber): when he filled it with tears, he will come out; since then the sister has been crying underground, her tears come to the ground - it's dew; G.'s tears are sinful, the tree does not accept them, they fall to the ground]: Rudchenko 1869, No. 50:130-139; Eastern Ukrainians (Kherson) [Ivan goes to see world; wanted to shoot at the viper, she asks not to shoot; wrapped around her neck, tells her to take her to the destroyed castle; the cow asks his horse to tell I. to buy it; showed the way; in the castle, the snake turned into a girl; she has two older sisters; they ask to serve every year; they give speedboat boots, an invisible hat, a shirt that protects him from a bullet; in one hut he is given only dirty water; a snake covered clean; I. killed a snake, buried it, put a pole on top of the sky; the king passed off his daughter as I., but she loved the snake; asked for I. (supposedly to wash), gave the snake; he put it on, tore out the pole, chopped I. into pieces, tied it, tied it to the tail of his horse; the horse came to those three sisters; the eldest revived I.; gave the trick to become a drake; the serpent saw a drake, took off his shirt, climbed into the water to catch; I. became a man again, put on a shirt, killed a snake; in another version, I. kills a snake that ate the girls; marries the rescued one]: Yastrebov 1894, No. 14: 143-145; Eastern Ukrainians (Kharkiv): Grinchenko 1895, No. 157 [A woman gives birth to a son, at the same time a horse gives birth to a foal, a father gives it to a newborn son, dies. My son grows up and visits a stallion every day. A snake flies to her mother, confesses to her that she is afraid of the boy, offers to kill him: she gives lard, on which she cooks borsch. On the advice of a horse, the boy pours borsch out the window, is eaten by a dog, and dies. The snake gives the mother powder to pour it into her son's tea, who is warned again, pours tea out the window, the dog licks and dies. The snake gives bacon, on which the mother makes pies, the horse advises the boy to eat the smaller of the two pies, throw the other out the window, he performs, the dog eats the big cake, dies. The serpent realizes the horse's help, the mother pretends to be sick, asks her son to slaughter the horse as if his heart will heal her. The son promises that he will ride his horse around the yard three times before stabbing him, but the third time he curses his mother and jumps away. On the road, he lies down and wraps himself in his skin, the king drives by, asks three times what is in his skin, the guy answers "I don't know", the king takes him to the cart, leaves him in the palace in the oven ("on a jump"). The guy falls in love with the elder princess. The serpent demands three carts of gold from the king or the princess to eat, there is no money, the princess is brought to the field. Ivan gets out of his skin, whistles, his horse appears, comes to the princess, asks her to look in her head and wake him up, when the serpent appears, to hit him with an awl. The princess's tear falls on Ivan's face, he wakes up. The serpent fights Ivan on the mountain, with three blows Ivan drives the snake into the ground knee-deep, waist-deep, neck and cuts off his head. The princess bandages Ivan's hand with a red ribbon, he leaves, wraps himself in his skin, hides in the oven. The same thing happens with the next two snakes (when Ivan defeats the snake, the middle princess puts a green ribbon on his hand, and the younger princess puts a blue ribbon on his hand). Ivan hammers the third snake into the ground, then tramples). In the palace, Ivan seems to accidentally flaunt his hand, the princesses recognize their ribbons, the tsar gives her daughter for Ivan], 158 [The princess gives birth to a son, her parents drive her away, cut off her hands, and tie the child to her back. She wants to get drunk at the well, her son asks her to put her hands in the water - she lowers her hands, her hands grow back. They live in an empty forest house. Ivan examines the house, finds a 12-headed snake on 12 chains in the barn ("tied with a bast, but covered with feces"), the snake asks him to drink - buckets of water and blood are next to him, Ivan refuses, forbids his mother enter the barn. In his absence, she comes in, gives water to the snake, he becomes handsome, convinces her to destroy her son - send her for rings, which can be obtained by driving between two shifting mountains. On the way, Ivan enters the hut, where the girl embroiders, she gives her horse so that Ivan can get to the mountains, and by the mountains, the horse orders him to fit into his right ear. Ivan takes out a bandura from there, puts it between the mountains, the mountains stopped playing bandura, picks up his rings. The mother pretends to be sick again, sends her son for snake fat, he gets the girl's horse again, who tells me to hit the snake when he wakes up (?) , she has been "cowardly" for 11 days and dies for 12 days. Ivan cuts out lard, brings his mother, she demands bear milk, he takes the girl's horse again, the horse advises to tie his sword "ear to ear", the bear asks not to kill her, and milks milk for Ivan. The horse jumps 12 miles in one jump, Ivan sees a mother with a dove in the house (a snake turned around), a bird flies out the window, Ivan chases her, his mother asks her son to throw his sword so as not to hurt himself, he listens, a snake takes on his form, kills Ivan, throws bones in the field. He is seen by three mermaids, the girl's sisters from the hut, each of them steps over Ivan's bones, heals, gets up, then speaks (the ability to speak as a stage in returning to life; then it's not clear - something cut off and made the biscuit and ate it). He marries a girl from a hut, kills a snake, puts his mother in front of two buckets - him and a snake - to see who she cries more about - him or a snake. He comes back, sees that a bucket of snake is full, leaves his mother]: 149-155, 155-159; Eastern Ukrainians (Kharkiv, p. Nizhnyaya Syrovatka, Sumy University, 1878-1893) [A woman gives birth to a son, at the same time a horse gives birth to a foal, a father gives it to a newborn son, and dies. My son grows up and visits a stallion every day. A snake flies to her mother, admits that she is afraid of the boy, offers to kill him: she gives lard, on which she cooks borsch. On the horse's advice, the boy pours borsch out the window, the dog eats it and dies. The snake gives the mother powder to pour into her son's tea, who is again warned, pours tea out the window, the dog licks and dies. The snake gives bacon, on which the mother makes pies, the horse advises to eat the smaller of the two pies, throw the other out the window, the dog eats the big cake, dies. The serpent realizes the horse's help, the mother pretends to be sick, asks the horse to be slaughtered, his heart will heal her. The son wants to ride his horse through the yard three times before slaughtering him, the third time his mother curses and jumps away. On the road, he lies down and wraps himself in his skin, the king drives by, asks three times what is in his skin, the guy answers "I don't know", the king takes him to the cart, leaves him in the palace in the oven ("on a jump"). The guy falls in love with the elder princess. The serpent demands three carts of gold from the king or the princess to eat, there is no money, the princess is brought to the field. I. gets out of his skin, whistles, his horse appears, comes to the princess, asks him to look in his head and wake him up, when the serpent appears, to hit him with an awl. The princess's tear falls on I.'s face, he wakes up. The serpent beats I. on the mountain, with three blows I. drives the snake into the ground knee-deep, waist-deep, neck and cuts off its head. The princess bandages I.'s hand with a red ribbon, he leaves, wraps himself in his skin, hides in the oven. The same applies to the next two snakes (when I. wins the snake, the middle princess wraps his hand in green, the youngest with a blue ribbon). I. hammers the third snake into the ground, then tramples. In the palace, it seems that he accidentally flaunts his hand, the princesses recognize their ribbons, the tsar is one of his daughters for I.]: Grinchenko 1895, No. 157:149-155; Eastern Ukrainians (Kharkiv, Lebedinsky, ca. 1878) [A widow enters into a relationship with a snake, gives birth to a boy, his mother rides him in a stroller until he is 12 years old, then he gets up and turns out to be tall and strong. The serpent does not want the boy to live, convinces his mother to pretend to be sick and ask her son to get berries from the snake garden. The boy goes on a journey, goes to the girl Sereda's hut, she knows about his grief in advance, calls him his brother, tells him the truth about his mother and the snake, puts him to bed, gives her horse, living and dead water. He says that, in order not to be afraid of vipers, he revived the murdered Russian near the snake garden, he will lead him to a garden where nothing can be touched, otherwise all the bells will ring. The boy flies over the fence, takes berries, touches an aspen branch on the way back, is a snake, but cannot catch up. He returns to Sereda, she feeds him, replaces berries with berries from her garden, insists that the snake should be fed them. The boy brings his mother's berries, asks her to eat them right away, then notices that devils have settled in the house. The snake eats berries, and so does the mother. The serpent convinces the mother to send her son for the golden bristle pigs so that she can recover, the son asks who she talked to, the mother answers - with God, the son doubts - with the devil. The boy comes to Sister Sereda, she gives a horse and 2 bottles, explains that under two sliding mountains you need to collect healing (healing) and living water, and catch one of the 12 piglets near the mountain. On the way, the pig runs away, the boy leaves the horse, and when he returns missing, he no longer finds the horse, it is eaten by wolves. She goes back through Sereda, she changed the pig, his mother cooks him, gives her son vodka, asks if he can break the iron chain, he suggests checking if he can't break it. The mother calls a snake, together they cut the boy, put the pieces in a bag, tie him to a horse, let him go into the field to scatter the pieces. The horse jumps to Sereda, she uses water to revive the boy, gives him a "beer" (?) hops, he can't lift. Then he gives berries from the snake garden, the boy was able to lift the sheet. He roasts the golden bristles, he is gaining strength - if a stake was hammered into the ground and sky, the light would turn upside down. Sereda gives him a sword and says that his mother and snake are now feasting. The boy appears, cuts off both their nose and ear and cuts the snake, the mother ties the horse to the tail and lets them go into the field. She goes to live with her sister Sereda. Proverb]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 75:285-290; Poles [Jozefek decided to travel, his mother went with him; they stayed in the woods with the robber; his mother invites him to marry her; the robber Y. is afraid; invites a woman to pretend to be sick - she needs the meat of a wild animal; Yu brings wild boar meat, lionesses; he took the lion cubs for himself; the mother sends them to the robbers for wine; Yu and the lions killed them; Yu took the wine, freed the queen; she gave her cloak and ring; his mother invites Yu to look in his head, asks what his strength is; in three hairs; she cut them off; Yu weakened, his eyes gouged out, taken to the road to beg; the queen tells all the poor to drink wine; found her ring in an empty mug, took Yu; the king agreed to marry, but lodged the young in a hut outside the city; the queen brought the lion cubs to the robber and told me how to heal a blind man; robber: there is a well with magic water; they came to the well; two birds are fighting, one pecked out the other eye, she dipped her head into the well, saw the light; Yu also saw the light and three hairs grew; Yu defeated the king's enemies, he gave him half his kingdom; at the wedding, the narrator was shoved into a gun and shot; gunpowder is still in his ass, no, he will shoot]: Shcherbakov 1980 : 76-81; Poles [{not everything is clear}; father leaves son and daughter in the forest; sister becomes the mistress of an iron wolf; brother receives cubs of different animals, they become his assistants; they bring the medicine that brings him back to life; he marries a queen; his sister is torn apart by horses]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 315:99-100; the Czechs [the soldier returns, the father is dead, the sister is promiscuous, he beats her, binds, goes through the forest to the castle, the captive queen shows where the treasures, the self-made sword of the cannibal robbers, he kills them; the sister pours water on the chieftain's head, which grows to the body, they decide lime brother; sister pretended to be sick, demands to get a wolf cub (the she-wolf gives), the same bear cub, a lion cub; the cannibal advises inviting his brother to swim, take his sword; the soldier managed to jump out of the water, call animals, killed an ogre, tied his sister to a tree, to another - a horse's carcass to eat and suffer longer; a soldier kills a dragon to whom the queen is given, cuts off tongues, the queen hangs chains on his animals, gives him a ring; the servant takes the heads, says he has killed the dragon; the soldier returns a year later, shows his tongues; the servant was executed on an iron mare; the queen returns her husband's sister, that puts a poisonous trap on his brother, animals revive him, brother tells him to cover his sister with sand; animals are beheaded, they become knights]: Bogolyubova, Talova 2000:195-217; Slovaks [mother three times He has been breastfeeding his son for seven years; when he is convinced that he is able to uproot a beech, he says that it is enough to take care of it now and provide it with housing; the son found a dragon castle in the forest, broke in at him, killed dragons; in the tenth room, another one is chained to the wall; asks for his release, he has been chained by other dragons; the young man refuses, brings his mother to live in this castle; forbids entering the tenth room; she comes in, agrees to release the chained; to do this, you have to bring wine from a barrel in the basement; after each cup, one of the hoops falls; to get rid of her son, the dragon advises the mother pretend to be sick, bring an earthen pig; the young man came to St. For a week; she tells her to sit on her horse named Tatoshik, gives the pig a pig to prick; he screams, the pig will chase him; the second time the pig will not scream for fear of the pig, it can be taken away ; next time, the mother, on the advice of the dragon, asks for living and dead water; The week teaches: the water of life is on the right mountain, it will rise at noon; death is on the left, will rise at midnight; the mountains are almost squeezed out the young man's hands; Week left alive and dead water for themselves, and gave the young man an ordinary one; the dragon offers to send a pelican for the bird; Week: the wind pulls trees from the flapping of the wings of the pelican; the young man brought a pelican, Nedelka kept it for herself, and gave the young man a simple eagle for his mother; bring a golden apple from the dragon garden; A week gives a ring: if you turn and think about it, you will have a hundredfold strength more; the horse carried over the garden wall; apples are guarded by a princess kidnapped by dragons; if stolen, she will be killed; she also gives a ring that multiplies strength by a hundred times; dragon under the apple tree; began to fight, dragon drove the young man into the ground up to his ankles; raven: who will I help? dragon: to me, promises gold; young man: to me, promises the carcasses of all horses grazing in the meadow; the raven jumped the young man with water so that he would not be burned by the heat of the dragon; when the young man turned the second ring, he drove the dragon into the ground up to his shoulders; cut his head; the princess picked an apple for the young man herself; the young man promises to come for her in a year; brought his mother a golden apple; she offered to tie him: is he strong like his father? young tore the rope; then tied it with a silk cord: he did not tear it; the dragon cut it to pieces, loaded them on T. and drove him away; T. came to the Week, she revived the young man with dead and living water; but hearts no: his mother took it out and hung it from the ceiling; a week told him to dress up as a beggar, come to the castle to play the bagpipes and ask for a heart as a reward; the mother began to dance with the dragon; the bagpiper said that too old to take money, but his heart would like; a week washed his heart with living and dead water and told the pelican bird to put it in its place; then let the pelican go; turned young man into a dove: let him fly to find out what the mother is doing; to become human again, you have to think about her; the mother tells the dragon to shoot the pigeon, but he turned into a young man and cut off the dragon's head; mother He took her out into the court, threw his sword; when he fell, he pierced her heart; the young man came to the king, whose daughter he saved, and married her; if they did not die, they are still alive]: Wenzig 1857:144-156.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [padishah has a son; when a daughter was born, he ordered her to be killed; son grew up; padishah: I don't want daughters; son: if another one is born, give it to me; the young man gave the girl to an old woman for upbringing, he wandered himself, defeated everyone; his sister grew up, he took her; in the palace of robbers he killed 16 while they were sleeping, threw the 17th into a well in room 31 and covered it with a stone; one day the girl entered room 41st, I saw the robber, offered to become her husband; he advised me to pretend to be sick, ask for grapes; the brother flew into the garden in his flying duldula; his owner was Azhdakha with 41 heads; drove the young man into the ground is knee-deep, and he is waist-deep; his ajdaha is waist-deep, the young man Azhdahu is up to his throat; he cut off 40 heads, left the last one to die in agony; a girl came out of the palace: you saved me; he took her to Istanbul to see her Padishah father, she gave him a ring; his sister invites her brother to tear the ropes with which she would tie him; he could not tear the rope out of his horsehair; cut out his eyes, the robber was frightened of him kill him, they threw him into a well in the forest, leaving his hands tied; the padishah's hunters pulled him out, sold him to a lame man; he left the blind man at the spring; the maid of the padishah's daughter came up, and the blind man asked for water, threw up the ring; the padishah's daughter found it, ordered it to be brought; the fool saw in the forest how the wolf knocked out the fox's eye, chewed the leaves, put it on the eye socket, saw the light; the fool healed the young man, passed it off as he is a daughter; they achieved their goal; the young man asked permission to go to kill his sister - otherwise he would die; cut his sister's head into pieces, let the robber go]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 5; Urums ("Greeks g. Mariupol"; judging by fragments of the original texts and other lexical materials available in the notes, these are urums, not rumei) [the widow's son beat the padishah's son and the vizier's son in the bones; the vizier's son hit the widow's son; he gave back, but missed and killed the padishah's son; the padishah wanted to execute the widow's son, but the dignitaries dissuaded him (minors cannot be executed) and advised him to send the murderer to the forest, to who lives the monster; the padishah did so; the widow's son came to the forest, straightened the bulls from the arba, went to buy firewood; when he returned, he saw that one of the bulls had only his head left; went into the thicket dragged the monster from there, harnessed it into the arba and went to the padishah; the padishah hid under the sofa and told the widow's son to leave his kingdom; the widow's son and his mother found a palace in the forest owned by the 40s the head of the serpent; the widow's son waved a piece of dagger and cut off 39 heads; the serpent asked to cut off the last one, but the widow's son dragged him into the back room and piled a millstone on him; a few years later, The widow found this room; the serpent said, "Who's there? If you are older than me, then be my mother, if you are middle-aged, be my wife, and if you are smaller than me, be my sister"; the widow opened the door, brought the snake a fragment of a dagger; the serpent licked its heads grew up again; he and the widow began to live together in secret from her son; they had a child; the widow put him on the road; the eldest son saw the child, brought it home and let his mother feed; the child grew up and became make a snake hiss; the widow gave her eldest son poisoned dumplings, but the youngest warned him of the danger; the eldest son killed both the mother and the snake; before going in search of his wife, he stuck him in the ceiling a dagger and said to his brother: "If honey flows through the dagger, it means that my journey is safe; if blood flows, it will be a sign that I am in danger"; the eldest son arrived to the city, stayed with an old woman; she said: there is a well near the city, the owner of which is a 6-headed serpent; every year he is given lot by lot; this year the lot fell on the royal daughter, tomorrow hers they will be taken to the well; the eldest son killed a snake, saved the king's daughter and married her; one morning he saw two suns in the sky; the wife explained: a padishah lives in the west, he has a beautiful daughter, this is her hair so they are burning; the eldest son went to that beautiful woman; she was sitting on the balcony, he went into the garden and began to eat fruit there; because of this, he was exhausted; the padishah threw him into the cellar; the younger brother noticed that the dagger was coming from the dagger blood, and rushed to search; did not eat fruit in the garden and grabbed the padishah by the beard; he let his older brother go; he returned to his former wife, and the youngest married a beautiful woman]: Markov 1892, No. 5:24-30; Kalmyks: Basangova 2002 [Sharvada hunts, he has an Alya-Sonkhor falcon, two horses, dogs Khasar and Basar, sees a black man at the bottom of the pit, refuses to pull him out; tells his mother to take a knife, if she goes to collect a dung; the mother sees that man, refuses to pull it out when he offers her to become her son, younger brother, daughter; pulls it out when she offers to become her old man; Sh. a black man rushes at him, his mother throws millet under his feet, he falls, he was cut to pieces, thrown into the lake; the falcon flew to heaven to the sisters Sh., who collected the pieces, their little finger was missing, H. and B. found his little finger in ash; S. came to life, killed a black man, threw pieces into the lake]: 97-98; Egorov 1978 [Juruk is the son of Khara-batyr; warns his father not to go to the mountain; he is driving, mortally wounded by an enemy with an arrow; D. leaves; grandfather at a quarter, a three-quarter beard warns that the one who goes to the left will meet the manguses; the girl let him get drunk from the golden bowl, did not let him out of the silver bowl, disappeared; D. looks into the crack yurts without doors, there are Black Moose and Grandma on the throne; tells you to guess riddles; 1) why the wind is from the east and then from the west: two giants blow from towers in the west and east); 2) the wife gave birth to twins, which of Elder brothers: who came out second, because the youngest comes out of the yurt first; 3) which animal the dog will say that they are of the same bone: a fox; Black Moose did not solve D.'s riddles, he cut off his head; looks From above into her mother's kibitka, who counts the last cakes, D. threw her a sheep butter bubble; went in, said he had killed Black Musa; tells her mother not to go to the mountain; she goes and sees the head and body of Black Musa; refuses to take him as a son or brother, takes him by her husband; he teaches how to connect his head to his body, remove the stone with which he is crushed; from him, the woman gave birth to a son Aldarya, threw him on the road, D. picked up; Black Moose offers lime D., let the mother pretend to be sick; D. brought the liver and kidneys of the Black Camel, the bird's golden egg (fell into the sea, but the pike brought it); D. lay down and lost strength, Black Moose wanted to break his back, but A. managed to feed the golden testicle; D. regained strength; they threw Musa into the pit, tied his mother to a horse and let him into the steppe; D. went to marry Alachi Khan's daughter; he suggests to play chess, won, D. was thrown into the dungeon; A. saw that D.'s arrow turned black; came, beat Alachi Khan; ordered the khan's daughter to put a braid into the dungeon, D. climbed the spit, took the khan's daughter to wives; she says that Khan Tsagan-Beard has a daughter, Kuji-Bral, she and her swore to marry together; to get her, you have to get three apples; Aldarya won the race, killed 25-headed Musa, fired an arrow into the cloud so that she returned, got Tsagan Beard's daughter]: 60-73; Stavropol Turkmens [after the death of a rich man, his children remained: a gray girl and a gray boy; their mother met with the diva; he persuaded her to invite her son to try his strength: she would tie his thumbs with a belt; he stretched the belt; then she tied it again; a diva appeared, cut off his head; his head and threw her torso into the steppe; the sister found, sewed the remains, put them on a tree, changed clothes with her brother; went to the city; the king would give her daughter to the one who knocked down the ring from the pole; the imaginary young man knocked down, received the princess; promised not to touch his wife until they came to his house; went forward, telling him to get to the tree: he would sleep in the branches; the girl herself changed clothes with her brother again; the wife saw how a saiga ran into a sharp branch and another cured him with some grass; the wife cured the young man with the same grass; he learned what had happened from a note left by his sister; the sister herself fell into a hare trap, became a hare; when the hunter took it out, the hare became a girl again, the hunter married her; the gray young man joined his wife, told her everything and went to look for his sister; hears the boy playing with money, says: I throw her with the hand of a gray uncle; this is how he found his sister; then he went to find out what happened to his mother, saw her in the arms of a diva, killed both; everything is fine]: A. K. 1875, No. 5:29-33; Abkhazians: Shakryl 1975, No. 18 [sister got acquainted with an owl, a snake and a wolf], 73 [the hunter Chis-Ikuatla saw a 7-storey house, a tree and a bed nearby, he lay down on the bed; the younger one came out of 7 adaua, CHI squeezed him out and threw it away, then hacked the others; lodged his sister on the upper floor, began to live with his mother downstairs; smells the smell of adaua; it turns out that the youngest adaui survived, his mother took him as her husband; he advises her to pretend to be sick, send CHI for the heart and liver of a special kite; he gives a pen, tells her to kill another kite; the same goes to a bull (gives a hair); a wild boar (bristle); then the mother persuaded CHI allow her to bathe him, and the Adaui poured a cauldron of hot wax on him; stabbed the remains in a trough and threw him into the sea; his sister in men's clothes went in search of CHI, hired the prince as a servant; his daughter, believing that this is a man who wants to take him by her husband; she asked for a wait; she accidentally pulled a feather, fur, bristles by the sea; the kite is looking in the sky, the boar is in the ground, the bull pulled the trough out of the sea; the sister went to get her own" bride", took her to the sea, overtook her, put her clothes on her brother; when she saw the dead, the princess wiped him with a handkerchief and CHI came to life; tells the bride's retinue to go to his mother, and he and his sister will appear as beggars; no one can raise CHI's spears; only an imaginary beggar picked up, killed the Adaui; utters a spell, CHI's mother burns; CHI's wedding with the princess]: 76-78, 333-341; Abazins [the widow's son hunted, went into the house Another, one of them is sitting in a hole where his brothers had thrown him; a young man killed six other people who came one by one, found out from the person sitting in the hole where the treasures were, brought his mother, told him not to open one door; the woman opened, she pulled the other man out when he promised to be her husband; gave birth to a son, threw him on the path, the young man found him, called him brother; he grew up, heard his mother and wife going to kill the young man, told him; the young men began to fight, the boy gave water to his brother, not his father, who killed the other man by driving him into the ground up to the neck; they drove his mother away]: Tugov 1985, No. 50:144-146; Kabardian people [should bring a good guy to the bride; someone shouts that everyone in the village will die; the guy goes to search, lies down with his skull under his head; he turns into a scary dog; the guy asks to let him live for three more days; after three days they bring the bride, the dog appears, the shots do not harm him; the guy runs, hides in the house; there the girl says that there were three sisters, the father wanted to get along with them, but God turned him into a dog; he exterminates good people and horses; the girl gives a towel to create a bridge across the sea, a whip (destroy it), two chureks; halves of the second turned into dogs Jansit and Myrsit; the guy settled with an old woman, she became his mother; a dog from the other side asks to steal a towel from the guy, make a bridge; the old woman agrees when the dog promises to be her husband; the dog hides under the bed to eat the guy, but dogs attacked him and bit to death; the guy returned home to his bride; everything is fine]: Sokolov, Broydo 1936:113-117; Adygs: Khut 1987:124-137 (Abadzekhi) [Tleubokozh and the millet who called him on a hike are stolen a herd of three different brothers; each time Pshi does not hold a stallion who runs home and informs him about the kidnappers; T. consistently kills three other people; dying of his wounds, tells Pshi to go and shout, T. is dead; then comes to life; someone kidnaps foals; T. cuts off the kidnapper's leg with an arrow; T.'s mother and sister find crippled frost in the reeds, take them as husbands; on the advice of a hoarder, the sister pretends to be sick, asks T. to bring an apple from the beauty's garden; T. kills three-, six-, nine-headed dragons, which were carried to be eaten by a girl; each gives birth to him a son, their mares from T.'s horse for a foal; the last wife advises giving a hundred eagles guarding the garden a chicken, a hundred shooters on the arrow (they fight for arrows with each other), take hay from the dog, give the horse, take the horse meat, give it to the dog; the owner of the garden calls the guards, they let T. with apples go back; his grown sons meet him; at home, T.'s mother and sister gave birth to 25 others, they ate almost everyone; T.'s sons kill these Frost and sister T.; mother and her husband T. throws into reeds], 185-200 (bzhedugi) [serf millet goes to look for gold for him, disappears; a grown son offends Psha's son, his mother says he is better found out where his father is; the boy asks his mother to cook corn broth, puts her hand in the hot, making her talk about his father; pshi gives a horse and a sword; the young man finds a golden castle, defeats seven seven-headed damn; his mother brings him there; one bastard is alive, the young man's mother pulls him out of the hole when he promises to be her husband; gives birth to a son from him, the young man picks him up, not knowing that it is a damn son; in martial arts, a young man the bastard wins, and the son of the bastard, being loyal to his brother, kills his father with a gun; he talks about everything to his brother; the young man ties his mother to 12 horses; the younger brother's hearth goes out, he goes for fire to the others; they they let him go for promising to get the daughter of the Nogai Khan for them; he promises to open a small gate for them, kills one at a time, cuts off their ears; gets the khan's daughter as a wife to his older brother]; Karachays: Aliyeva 1994, No. 118 [Chuerdi kills emegenes, throws one into a hole; C.'s mother releases emegen when he promises to become her husband; tries to poison C. khychins, he guesses, changes the poisoned and ordinary khychins in places, eats ordinary ones; C. kills another emegen who kidnapped Yoryuzmek's daughter, changes rings with the girl; the mother seems to be jokingly fighting C., emegen removes tilsim from his wrist (?) , in which his strength was, drives her away; under the guise of a beggar, C. comes to Ë., his daughter identifies him by the ring, E. passes her off as C.; under the guise of a beggar, C. buys his tilsim and sword from emegen, kills emegena and mother], 119 [starting at (118)]: 540-542, 542-545; Karachays, Balkarians [sledges go elsewhere, leaving a pregnant widow; she gives birth to Chuerdy, who quickly becomes a hero ; drives five-headed ermegen into the ground, pressing his heads with stones; emegen promises C.'s mother to become her husband, she frees him; hides him in his palace, where she moved with her son; gives birth to Allahberdi; agrees with emegen to kill C., pours jam on the floor, C. falls; A. asks for permission to slaughter C., instead kills emegen, the woman dies herself; leaving her brother at home, C. comes to the sledges; consistently obtains megen go; hides him in his palace, where she moved with her son; gives birth to Allahberdi; negotiates with emegethree wives, winning a shooting competition; the Emegenes take him prisoner; A. sees that it is not milk that is dripping from the ring, but blood; he consistently comes to C.'s wives, who take him for C., but he does not touch them at night; he releases C.; he does not believe that A. did not touch his wives; they shoot at the sky, falling, C.'s arrow pierces him (because he is wrong); A. destroys emegenes, comes to sledges]: Lipkin 1973:148-153; Balkarians: Malkonduev 2017:450-452 (western 1965) [the king killed every wife after 40 days; the last one is pregnant; asks if there is a law that allows killing two people; the king did not find such a law; the son grew up; they ran away; the son cut off four heads of a five-headed emegena, drove him neck deep into the ground, covered him with a stone slab; told his mother not to go that way; she went; agreed to save Emegen when he promised to be her husband rather than son or brother; emegen offered to kill her son; she pretended to be sick, asked for milk from the milk lake and cucumber; the young man broke into the fortress, met the daughter of the king of jinns, kidnapped by emegen, took out milk and cucumber; towards emegen; the young man asked him to throw him up and open his mouth; falling, he ripped his emegen with a sword; at home, his mother lured her son into a trap (not described); they pulled him out his eyes, threw him in a bag at the fork roads; he was picked up, brought to the king of genies; his daughter recognized her ring; took the young man away; the bird: the blind man will see the light if washed with spring water, wiped with a feather; the young man saw the light; his mother gave birth to emegen children; a young man killed emegenes and burned his mother; began to live with the daughter of the king of jinns], 470-472 (western 1959) [the wife died, the husband looked for one, did not find it, decided to take the daughter who most resembles her mother; the daughter ran away, climbed an apple tree, ate an apple, became pregnant, gave birth to a son, he grew up quickly; deer He told him to be killed, a house would come out of his skin, greyhound dogs from his kidneys, a bridge from his tail, if necessary; across the river, emegen asks a woman to bring him to her place; she does not want to take him as a son, she agrees to take him husband; put her deer tail, emegen crossed the river across the bridge; emegenes taught the woman to pretend to be sick: you need 1) lamb tour meat; the young man got it; 2) water from a rock that opens and then closes (one girl helped to get it); 3) swim in the cauldron (the emegens covered the second, began to cook the young man; the tour hit the upper cauldron, the girl pulled out the young man; the young man killed the emegenes and his mother, married a girl ]; Ingush [cannibal Akhkepig ("half a penny") killed his father, mother and two brothers; the third brother and sister fled into the forest; the bull put them on his back, went across the sea; A. tried to draw in the sea; the bull went out, but lost his strength, ordered him to be slaughtered, his skin put his hair out, his legs hooves down the four corners (there will be 4 towers), his ears should be thrown into the sea (people will appear), two eyes will become two hounds, a liver and Throw your heart into the sea (weapons and gunpowder, as well as gold will appear), bile will become a hatred for enemies; there will be a girl in one tower; when you gather to her, throw her kidneys on the ground, a horse will appear; that's what happened; A. asks his sister to swim, promises to become a father, mother, brother (she rejects him); agrees when he promises to be her husband; sister hides A. in her tower; he rushes with a dagger at his brother; he asks not to injure his body; A. pierces him with a bear's claw, the young man dies, they bury him; the hounds dug up the grave, one pulled out its claw, the young man came to life, the hound died; the other pulled someone out of her - herself died; the first pulled out her claw with a stick, everyone is alive; the brother tells her sister to become a thorn growing in abandoned places; the hounds tore A.]: Malsagov 1983, No. 35:156-159; Kumyks [the wolf ate everyone; the rich man hid his son and daughter in a hole under the hearth; the wolf ate him and his wife, heard voices, found the children, left them on the roof of the house; the gray horse invited the children to sit on it, flew to the sea, the wolf caught up with her, ate her, brought the children back; the black horse carried her across the sea; brother and sister live there, the girl goes to the sea to fetch water; the wolf sees her, asks her to look in the mirror, then he will fly across the sea, promises to marry; she hides the wolf in a chest, who advises to treat the sick, send her brother seven mountains away to bring milk from the old women; the old woman explains that her sister has a lover; tells her to walk 40 doors in the cave in 20 minutes, if not You won't go out in time; the young man passes, carries milk, but his dogs are left outside the door; he brings milk, the wolf rushes at him, the swallow flies to the dogs, says that the owner is in trouble; they break out, they kill a wolf; the brother walled up his sister in the room, promised to let him out when a puddle appeared in front of the window, reeds on it, ducks would swim in the reeds; many years later this happened, the brother released his sister, on her the tsar married]: Bagriy 1930 (2): 35-38 (=Khalilov 1965, No. 65:195-199); Dargin residents [father killed daughters; son saved the newborn, left with her, she immediately grew up; they began to live in the house of seven Azhdakh, those They came, the young man killed them; the sister saved one wounded man, began to live with him; gave birth to a baby, threw it to her brother, who brought it to her; the boy grew up, warned his uncle not to eat porridge poisoned by his sister, not to drink water, do not wear shirts; the brother almost died when he touched the poisoned gate, but the boy brought him medicine; the brother killed his sister and ajdaha; calls his sister's son younger brother; when leaving, he tells him to come to the rescue if a green flower, not a red flower, will open; kills a seven-headed azhdah who has closed the water, gets a girl for it; defeats the hero, his wife's cousin, marries her younger brother]: Ganiyeva 2011, No. 27:275-278; Ossetians [a young man and stepmother remained after the pestilence; the giants could not pull out the young man's arrow that hit the pole, were frightened, left; the eldest returned, conspired with his stepmother, she hides it in chest; to get rid of a young man, a giant teaches a woman to pretend to be sick, ask 1) wild boar liver from a milk lake (kills a wild boar); 2) giant apples; a young man kills giants, frees girl; 3) the giant teaches his stepmother to ask where the young man's soul is; he says that he is wearing a bow string, offers to tie him with this bowstring; the giant beats him, the young man's eyes pop up, he is buried under a stone; father-in-law finds him, his wife puts her eyes on him (they were in his pocket), lubricates him with live water; the young man killed the giant, dragged his stepmother by the hair until he had it in his hands]: Byazirov 1971, No. 32:247-256 (= 1972:228-236); the Gunzibs [the dragon killed a peasant; his son grew up, defeated the dragon, imprisoned his castle in the dungeon, moved his mother there, went hunting for a long time; the mother saw the dragon, that promised to marry her, she released him; she is pregnant; tells the dragon to kill her son, otherwise she will tell him everything herself; they agree that the mother will pretend to be sick, the medicine is black grapes in the garden a seven-headed dragon; a young man wounded a tiger on the way, a tiger cub asked not to kill his father, went with the young man; the young man defeated the seven-headed, brought grapes; the dragon gave his mother intoxicating wine, the son drank and fell asleep, The dragon pulled out his eyes, put him in his pockets, threw him into the abyss; the tiger cub took care of him, brought him game; the hunter found him, found his eyes in his pockets, restored the young man's sight; he threw his mother, hers, into the oven newborn son and dragon himself; presented the seven-headed castle to the hunter]: Berg 1995, No. 20:207-218; Megrelians: Petrov 1890, No. 1 [Tsar Muzarbiy is immensely rich, frightens from the roof of the palace at night with a cry ndemi monsters; died leaving her daughter and pregnant wife; wife in love with a 12-headed ndemi flint; gave birth to a son half gold, half silver, shoved it under a stone; first she was silent, then answered a daughter who gave birth to a freak; she found a boy, he grew up in 10 days, began hunting, his name is also Muzarbiy; he saw a city and a palace from the mountain; he does not know that this is his father's city; there is only an old woman, almost Ndemi everyone was eaten; M. killed the first Ndemi who came up with an arrow, then the second; each ndemi came up, who has 12 heads; M. cuts them down, new ones grow; wren: "hot ash"; the old woman sprinkled the stumps with hot ash, their heads no longer grew; people gathered, everyone was happy; but M.'s mother revived the ndemi with her urine; turning them into a fly, hid them in a chest; invited her son to wear his father's shoes; they were small for him; trying them pull, M. broke his leg; the mother released the ndemi, M. grabbed and picked him up, but the mother poured flaxseed under her son's feet, ndemi tore it; the sister collected the pieces, irrigated him with tears, prayed to God; after 3 M. rose again; cut off his head again, and the old woman sprinkled them with hot ash; burned the killed Ndemi; his sister brought his father's horse to his brother; M. tied his mother to his tail and galloped; three apples, three pomegranates; May God not take away what you have collected by your hands]: 265-277; 1894 (p. Chakvinji, Zugdidsky University) [{subline; sometimes not entirely clear}; the visitor promises the childless king that he will have a son Jimushieri, but he should not see an egg or hear such a word in his life; one day J. hears the word, tells Tell her parents everything, leaves; the girl will marry someone who explains that there are "roses of hearts and longing hearts", the loser is head on the stake; J. comes to the sad king, who will talk about it, but then he will cut off his head; the horse promises to carry J. over the wall; the king says that his wife fell in love with a 12-headed giant; the king's sister found out, his wife turned her into a white dog; the king cut off the giant's head, turned his wife into a falcon; J. rode away, married that girl, returned to her parents]: 78-89; Teptsov 1894, No. 7 [the king forbids three daughters to eat more than one apple in the garden; the youngest ate, became pregnant, the king kicked her out, in the forest she gave birth to strongman Peter; he found the house of 9 devas, killed eight, the ninth fled, P. settled in that house with his mother; the escaped deva secretly marries P.'s mother, advises pretend to be sick, the bile of the queen of pigs will cure her; the queens of bison, buffaloes; they advise her to take another bile, promise to help; the mother offered P. to swim in the cauldron, the devil covered it with a lid and filled it up with stones; the cooked P. was thrown into the river; the queens of pigs, bulls, buffaloes laid down P.'s mows, revived; P. came under the guise of a beggar; crushed the deva's head with his ball, pierced his mother with an arrow]: 16-20; Georgians (Imereti) [the king puts his daughter and nanny on the island; they eat the rolled apple, the daughter gives birth to a son named Hvtisavar, the nanny - 8 clever puppies; the king orders them to be executed, the servants kill them instead hares; H. kills 8 giants, moves with his mother and nanny to their house; the ninth was just wounded, becomes the lover of mother H., they come up with difficult tasks for X.; to get the horn of a dangerous deer, stubble wild boar, hawk feather; they themselves give, promise help (H. kills a snake intending to devour the giant hawk's chicks); mother and giant lock H. in a cauldron, throw them into the sea; deer, boar, hawk free him; H. kills his mother, giant, nanny; a young man of equal strength becomes his sister; at the fork he goes to the left (you will find happiness), H. goes to the right (you won't come back); H. jumped over the river on horseback , for this he received a princess; in the forest, an old woman turns H. and his four dogs into stones, swallows them; her brother cuts her stomach, swallowed dead; she tells her to take a towel from the box in the corner of her abdomen , wipe H. and dogs, they come to life; brother kills her; H. and his wife return home]: Glushakov 1904, No. 2:17-27; Svans [hunters Devtag and Tskhetag killed the maiden, took his property; their sister a maiden fell in love with another, pretended to be sick, asked for a peacock chick first, then a wild boar cub as a medicine; the brothers saw how the dragon grabbed a wild boar, killed a dragon, and gave it back cub; at home, brothers found a sister with a three-headed maiden; they killed him, heated a stone, put a sister on it; she sat on it until she died]: Gren 1890, No. 2:78-79; Armenians [dying, husband tells the pregnant wife not to go to Black Rock; the young man grows up, goes, kills the demon; takes the treasures of his castle, marries 40 gurias captured by the demon; the mother revives the demon, pretends to be sick, asks her son to get 1) a melon of immortality; the old woman tells 40 demons to fall to her mother's breast first; she hides him, demons recognize him as a relative; only a lame demon knows how get a melon of immortality; tells you to take a jug, comb, razor with them; running away with a melon, they throw a jug (lake), a comb (thicket), a razor (glass fragments); the stalker demons did not catch up, the young man sleeps at the old woman, who replaces the melon, the son brings a false mother, the mother recovers; 2) lion's milk; the old woman teaches to cut an abscess on the lioness's paw, she gives milk, also her lion cubs; along the way, the old woman replaces goat milk, but the young man's mother says that she has recovered; 3) living water; at the spring, the young man falls asleep, but his lions kill the snake, scorpion, beast that has come; the old woman will change the water again; the mother pulls out the sleeper the son is three hairs, he dies, the demon cuts the body into pieces; the lions bring the remains to the old woman, she revives the young man with living water; the lions tear the mother and the demon apart]: Wingate 1912, No. 9:94-102; Azerbaijanis : Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 13 (Shushi District, Elisavetpol Gubernia) [King Melik-Nadir orders to kill daughters; when he leaves, he tells his son Ghazanfar to kill his sister if he is born; he felt sorry for the girl; MN returned, orders them to be executed, the nobleman persuaded them to be sent to the desert; G. kills seven divas, throws them into the well; the sister throws the leftovers there, one diva survived, became strong; agrees with sister G. to lime him - pretend to be sick, ask him to bring 1) melon from the diva garden; G. defeated the hero, she fell in love with him, gave him a flying horse, G. brought a melon; 2) apples from the diva garden; his heroic wife tells him to feed the terrible dog, greet the bridge; the seven-headed diva tells the bridge and the dog refuses to stop the kidnapper; the wife changed the apples; 3) the sheep tail with branched horns, which lives in the north; G. brought it, but his wife replaced the usual one, kept the magic fat tail; sister invites G. to tie his hands to test his strength; when G. cannot tear the rope, the diva cut it to pieces, put it in a bag, tied it to a donkey, drove him into the forest; G.'s dogs guarded the donkey, his wife found it, revived it with a medicine made from fat tail and magic apples; G. cut off the diva's arms and legs, burned his sister; returned to his father; found a portrait of the beautiful Shahbaz-Pari in the chest; G. follows her; takes giant Kara-Kulamali as his companions, who killed all the babies in the village; he smashes the army, gives beautiful G., warns not to step on the carpet that the father will spread out (he himself wants to take possession of the beauty), not to untie the old man's hands - this is a seven-headed diva; G. untied the old man, he took the beauty; G. summoned K., who brought him to the beautiful woman, she found out that the diva's life was in a bottle, G. had broken it; the father sends a vizier from G. with an order to destroy G.; in the desert, the vizier pulls out G.'s eyes in exchange for water; K. saved him (two pigeons: you can regain your sight with my pen), burned his father and vizier, married a beautiful woman]: 109-120; Stamboliev 1896, No. 2 (Borchalinsky County) (Tiflis governorate) [The king wanted to kill his wife, her son Aslan took his mother away, they stay in the diva's house; the mother takes him as her husband, seeks to lime her son; says he will recover, 1) if she eats golden grapes; A. kills lion watchmen, lion cubs become his assistants, kill divas; 2) mother asks to get grapes from divas; lion cubs defeat them, their sister Inchina-Guzeli becomes A.'s wife; at home, the mother offers to tie them up the son's hands, he tears all the ropes; he cannot tear the strings, tells the wonder to kill him; the diva blinds him, throws him; he is picked up by the caravans, he gets to D., puts her ring in a glass; D. listens to his story; two frogs got into a fight, one blinded the other, cured the other with grass; D. cured A.; he killed her mother and diva, burned the corpses]: 8-12; Turks [when the king's daughter was 3 years old, he ordered his son to kill her and bring her a cup of her blood; the young man felt sorry for the girl, gave her old woman to raise him, brought rabbit blood to his father; he suspects deception, predicts misfortune for his son; the king is blind, he will be healed by a precious box from the country fairies; the son went to get the box; the sister followed him; reluctantly, he put her on his horse; they came to an empty city; the residents were eaten by a giant, a black Arab; the young man defeated him, hung him on tree; planted three cypresses at the spring; the sister freed the Arab, they became lovers; the sister fed the Arab with the game that his brother brought; asks the Arab to kill his brother; the Arab is afraid of him; offers the girl pretend to be sick and send his brother to buy black and light grapes to 9 Arab brothers and mother; the young man fed the fox, who advises him to approach the giantess from behind and venerate her chest; the giants gave grapes ; next time: lion's milk in a wineskin from a lion's skin; fox: go to the pond where lions and their mother drink; clean the pond, pull out the splinter from the lioness, she will give milk; the lioness allowed me to make a wineskin from lion skins; gives the young man two lion cubs; the Arab tells his mistress to pour lead into the ears of the young lions brought in; but one shook off the lead and kept his ear; the Arab tells his mistress to hit his brother from behind with an ax, when he began to fight with him; when he saw an Arab and his sister, the young man climbed one of the cypresses he had planted, called lions; when an Arab cut down one cypress, the young man moved to the second, then to the third; the third The lions heard the call, tore the Arab to pieces; the brother cut his sister to pieces; sent the lions to their mother; he went to look for the box himself; the fox teaches how to take the box from the fairies; they want a sword stolen by giants in return ; he is from the mother of giants; the young man managed to take it out of its scabbard; fox: do not give up the sword until you get the box, and then take the sword; asks to wave his sword over her head; the fox has become a young man; this is his sword the fairy was kidnapped, turning the young man into a fox; leaving the sword to the young man, the prince returned to his father and he saw the light]: Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 10:90-103.

Iran - Central Asia. The Tajiks of Sistan [the king has two wives, one has a son, Malik-Muhammad; the second wife offers herself to him, he refuses; she complains to her husband that his son wanted to take possession of her; the vizier stands up for him, his father expels him, but does not execute him; the pregnant mother leaves with her son; asks to catch the bird, he follows it, he is swallowed by divas; the mother gives birth to a son Hanjarsho ("king dagger"); his mother also tells him to catch the same a bird; he defeats a diva, throws it into the well; the mother finds a diva, raises it, takes it as a lover; to destroy her son, asks for 1) lion's milk (the son takes out a splinter to the lion, he gives milk); 2) dates from the White Diva Garden; H. kills the dragon, which eats Simurg chicks every year, the chicks eat meat, Simurg brings him to the White Diva, the defeated Div becomes his friend; kills his mother and her lover when she tried to poison her son; gives H. to his peri wife; the old woman kidnaps her for another king, breaks the dagger in which H.'s life was; the diva repairs the dagger, returns his wife H.]: Grunberg, Steblin- Kamensky 1981, No. 2:24-39; Tajiks (Gonchi) [mother and youngest son fell behind, and five eldest sons came to the seven-headed diva; he swallowed them, threw their heads into the hole; when the mother and youngest came son, he defeated the diva, threw him into the hole himself; told his mother not to pour water from washing her hair; the cat brought 40 keys, in one room there was a wind horse and a whirlwind horse; the mother pours water, the diva came to life; to make him pull it out, you need a wind horse; a young man rides it; a diva advises a woman to ask her son to take a whirlwind horse; the woman pulled out the diva, gave birth to a child from him; the diva left him on the road, the young man found him, picked him up; that grew up quickly; the young man saw him alive, they fought for a long time; the mother poured millet under her son's feet, he slipped, the diva knocked him down, but the diva's son killed him and his mother; the brothers were left alone; the elder went travel with his sword behind; every day a girl and two sheep are given to the dragon; a young man killed a dragon, left to cut out a strip of his skin, and the padishah's daughter returned to her father; the drunkard said that he killed the dragon , the padishah gives it to a drunkard; a young man has arrived; no one can lift a strip of dragon skin, only a young man picked it up and threw it on the floor; the drunkard was thrown into prison, the girl was given to the young man; the wife says that her friend Makhtob (moonlight) and she swore to marry her brothers; the young man went to look for her; she is the daughter of a strongman Korunbay; he defeated the young man and threw him into prison; the younger brother saw the sword drip from the elder pus; went in search; he was mistaken for the elder, but he refused to go to bed with the padishah's daughter; killed K., married M.; the brothers met, the youngest tells the eldest to shoot his finger: he pushed his wife away with them the elder, so the finger is sinful; both brothers are happy with their wives]: Amonov 196:68-79; Tajiks {perhaps a Persian fairy tale, there is no data on the origin of the texts in the collection} [Jamshed Shah ruled in Hindustan; while Shahzadeh Khurshed is hunting, his mother flirts with the vizier; D. orders her to be executed; H. managed to return and rode away, carrying his mother on horseback; looked into the house of 40 black cannibals; each goes out to kill him; H. is standing outside the door, cutting off everyone's head; mother H. saw a hole with the dead; the last cannibal is alive; the woman helped him get out and hid him; to get rid of her son, the mother pretended to be sick, to her a crying grenade will help; on the way, H. shot a lion and a pregnant lioness; took two lion cubs out of the lioness's belly, took them with him; brought a pomegranate; now the cannibal advises sending H. for a laughing apple; H. came to 40 divas who kidnapped a Yemeni princess; lions tore divas to pieces; H. has been feasting with malika for 40 days; she warns H. that his mother wants to kill him, but he does not believe him; brought apples; the cannibal advises to offer H. test his strength: will he be able to tear the silk lace with which he was tied; the hidden cannibal is still afraid of H.; the mother took the sword to kill her son, but the lions came running and broke the fetters; the mother ran away, and the lions they brought H. to Malika; he admitted that she was right; left lions with her, and dressed up as a calender; came to the ogre and his mother, they did not recognize him; asked for a spear, bow and arrow in the form of alms, which the cannibal still cannot lift him up; H. hacked the ogre and mother; the padishah of Yemen sent an army to return Malika; H. and the lions defeated him; the padishah sent the old woman; Malika senses bad things, but H. left her a maid; she gave them sleeping pills, kidnapped Malika, but felt sorry for H. and did not kill him; H. came to Yemen with lions and began to smash him; the padishah gave him his daughter and recognized him as his son-in-law]: Howary 1983:93-106; mountain Tajiks [one wife has two sons, one from the other; after the death of his father, the older brothers took the youngest's land; the youngest sees smoke rising from the house, then 41 divas come out of there; boy comes into the house, brings a gold bar to his mother from there; sharpened it, taking a bar from a neighbor, pieces of gold remained on the bar, the older brothers began to ask where the younger one got it; went to the dives' house, not noticed that the 41st divas stayed at home, he killed them; his younger brother defeated him, pushed him into a hole, killed the other divas one by one; when he left, he told his mother not to step on the garbage outside the threshold; she stepped on, saw a diva in a hole, agreed to release him when he called himself her husband; gave birth to a son, put it on the road, the human son brought it himself; the diva son grew up, heard divas and mother agree to kill a human son; divas decided to turn into a snake, sting the young man; the young divas carried his brother on the back, the divas stung his own son, but he did not die; the same for the second time; the third time the old woman locked the young man in the room where he hid diva; diva's son broke the door, helped brother kill diva and mother; brothers healed together]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 3:39-41; Uzbeks [only bai's last wife gave birth to a son; by the time it's time to do it On the occasion of circumcision, bai became impoverished; friends went to war against him; the son is strong, he moved his mother, father and all property to another place; the father died; the divas came to dig up the grave; the young man chased him, he disappeared into cave; at the entrance a young man found a baby; this is his mother's son from a diva, his mother has been in contact with him for a long time, hides him in a chest; the young man found him, killed him, made a leather belt, left; stayed with the robbers; the diva's son grew up, found brother; the young man left him two bowls of pilaf, which he will know if he is in trouble; left; came to a city where the dragon eats people, it is the turn of the ruler's daughter; the dragon is surprised that the young man is not afraid; tells show his hair; the young man shows his donkey tail torn off; the dragon runs away in horror; the bald man attributed victory to himself; but the daughter of a padishah is married only by someone who transplants 40 tall from the forest to the garden in a day trees, he will tie a pumpkin snuffbox to the top of one and knock it down with an arrow; the young man fulfilled the condition, married the daughter of a padishah; two moons have risen; one is the reflection of the face of the daughter of a padishah of another country; she batyr woman; the young man began to fight her, but she won and was thrown into zindan; the diva's son sees that pilaf turned into blood in one bowl and pus in the other; he came to the young man's wife, she thought it was The husband returned, so they are similar; he defeated the hero, married her, and the freed young man returned to his wife]: Afzalov et al. 1972:502-508; Baluchi [the king has a son Malek-Mamad and 40 pregnant wives; leaving, the king orders him to meet him with music if boys are born, but kill newborn girls and give him their blood to drink; all wives gave birth to girls; MM cut off the heads of 39 girls, but gave his sister to upbringing old woman; the shah came back and drank blood; someone reported that MM did not kill his sister; the shah was going to execute his son, but he was persuaded to simply expel him; he left with his sister; won and killed the white diva; then met another one, threw him into the well; MM's sister found him, cured him, made him a lover; the diva advised MM to lime, sending a white diva from the garden for grapes, and for this purpose to pretend to be sick; MM brought grapes; sister asks for fabrics that the caravan had recently carried; MM set off, his sister gave birth to diva; MM met a girl who was given to the dragon in exchange for water; the girl's tear was woken up by MM; the dragon swallowed MM, who cut it with a sword; cut out a strip of skin, told the girl to take it to her father and say that MM killed the dragon; the girl asks not to leave, but to marry her immediately; when MM returned to sister, the diva advised her to tie him with a rope out of her hair to find out his strength; the diva pulled out MM's eyes, the sister threw them at the hound, but she did not eat them, but hid them under her tongue; MM asked the diva to take him to the city from which he brought the fabrics; his wife recognized him, found the eyes that the hound had brought, MM saw the light again; MM came to his sister, killed her and threw her into the well; her son told her son everything from diva MM, he promised him help; MM cut a diva with a sword, brought his son home]: Zarubin 1949, No. 12:98-119; Bukhara Arabs [the old woman and son went to herd a cow, went into the yard; 40 divas are sleeping in the house; the young man untied two horses; divas go out one by one, the young man killed them all, threw them into the well, one was half-alive; the young man told his mother not to look into the well; she wanted to have a husband; the old woman throws them into the well clods of earth, while the divas says that she will be her younger, older brother, father; pulled it out when he promised to be husband; gave birth to a child with him, left him on the road, her son picked it up, brought it; the boy in 10 days at 10 He grew up years old; warns his older brother that the diva wanted to kill him; the diva attacked, the mother poured millet under his son's feet, the diva knocked him down, but the diva's son killed both him and his mother; the young man was afraid that his brother might kill him, went to wander; the brother ordered to plant two reed stems: if the deceased was in trouble, blood and pus flow; the young man met a girl given to be eaten by a dragon; taking his sword, he entered the dragon's mouth and got out of his ass , having cut the dragon; carved a belt out of the dragon's back as a souvenir; the emir's daughter throws an apple at it, the emir puts them in a stable; the son-in-law puts manure in the food he has prepared for the Emir; explains that it is dark in the stable; they are moved to the barn; to the house; the older sons-in-law did not get anything from hunting; the youngest gives them game, puts a seal on their backs; asks the emir to return his two slaves to him; everyone is convinced that the emir's son-in-law has a seal on their backs ; now the young man is the emir's recognized son-in-law; sees two moons; wife: the one in the west is Chulpan-Sulyuk, she shines like the moon; the young man goes to get it; her diva brother defeats him, pulls his eyes out; the boy's brother (i.e. son his mother's lover) comes to his wife, does not tell him to touch him in bed; defeats Brother C., makes him regain his eyes; the emir's son-in-law returns from C., receives the throne; they have reached the object of desire, you will also reach]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 12:84-88; Yagnobtsy [three brothers remain after the death of the father; two are killed by robbers, the eldest kills robbers one by one; tells the mother not to wash her hair in that corner; she washes, the robber comes to life, takes the mother as a mistress; they have a son; the mother smears poison the threshold to poison the eldest son, the youngest takes her brother across the threshold; does not allow him to eat poisoned pilaf; talks about intrigues mother and her lover; the elder brother kills them, leaves; if pigeons arrive, put gunpowder in the gun, he is in trouble; he comes to the dragon, he gives him pilaf, then they fight, the dragon kills him; the younger brother comes, kills the dragon, revives the elder, releases captive birds]: Andreev, Peschereva 1957, No. 2:27-31; Shugnans [the tsar is dead, his son and daughter were driven away; they began to live in ruins, sister I heard a voice, the diva freed; sister and brother found Jamshid's treasury, the sister settled a diva there; gives birth to a son with him, the diva advises to leave the baby on the road and then pick him up as a stranger; boy extremely strong, loves his uncle; the fire goes out, the boy comes to seven divas, raises a huge cauldron, takes fire; divas ask for help to get seven princesses; the boy takes turns killing the divas who come out, the princess lets go; hears how the diva's mistress asks him to kill her brother; he shot the diva himself; after defeating the strongman, he received the princess, gave her to his uncle]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 24:250-258; Yazgulyam [At night, the daughter gets up, eats all the food, puts a dung in the cauldron; the mother tells her husband to take the girl and her brother to the forest; the father hangs a snuffbox on the willow so that the children think he is still sitting on a tree, unnoticed goes home; the children come to the diva, the boy kills him, buries him under the floor; they live in the diva's house, the brother tells her sister to pour dirty water out the door; she pours it on the floor, hears the voice of the diva; she pulls out him after the diva promises to be not her sister, mother, brother, but husband; sister gives birth to a boy, divas offers to put him on the road for his brother to pick him up; he grows up, hears divas with the mistress agrees to kill her brother, the diva will become a snake; the boy asks his uncle to take him to the back, prevents the diva from biting him; the next day the div snake hides under the threshold, the boy undertakes to carry him uncle; the snake climbs into the boot, the boy changes boots with his uncle, hits him with his toe; the rat, the diva will become a snake; the atom, and the husband; c; the father hangs on the Ivory, the snake crawls out, turns into an eagle, attacks, the boy hurts him; the divas and his mistress agree to poison both, the boy changes food, they die themselves; the nephew decides to go right, uncle to the left; the uncle stops by the old woman, sees at night that half the world is having fun, half the world is crying; the old woman explains that today it is the king's turn to give his daughter to the dragon {apparently those whose turn does not come are having fun}; the uncle cuts off all seven heads of the dragon, gets the king's daughter ; the dragon's brother kills him; the nephew sees blood on the bullet left by his uncle, comes, puts the sword between himself and his uncle's wife (both outwardly indistinguishable, the woman mistakes him for her husband); makes the dragon to revive the victim, both kill the dragon together; the uncle kills his nephew when he finds out that he slept in his house; the wife puts a spinning wheel between herself and her husband; the husband understands everything, revives his nephew; makes him king]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 25:258-266.

Baltoscandia. Norwegians [the boy walks with his old mother through the forest; despite her prohibition, he picks up a blue belt at the crossroads, girds himself, becomes a strongman; they come to the troll's house; the son hears how the mother agrees to the troll's offer to marry him by getting rid of her son; the troll wants to roll a stone on the young man, the young man rolls on him himself, injuring his thigh; the young man brings him home; the troll offers to feed the young man to lions; the mother pretends to be sick, asks for lion's milk; the troll sends the young man to the lion's pen, he kills one lion, the others obediently let themselves milk; the troll does not believe, the young man He throws him to the lion who comes, takes him away while he is still alive; sleepy apples in the garden of the troll brothers; if he eats them, falls asleep, the trolls will kill him; the mother pretends to be sick again, wants apples; the young man eats apples, He falls asleep, but obedient lions guard him; trolls come in the guise of cannibal horses, the lions have eaten them; the young man wakes up, meets an Arab princess kidnapped by trolls in the castle; before going with her to Arabia, visits her mother, invites her and the troll to move to the castle; when she learns the secret of the belt, her mother tears it off, wraps it around her hand; the young man burns his eyes, goes down the river in a boat; lions they pull him ashore; one sees a blind hare seeing the light after swimming in a stream; the owner is treated, he enters the castle, grabs his belt, kills his mother, burns the troll's eyes, lowers the boat; swims in Arabia; on the island, an egg is cut, with a chick the size of an elephant; a young man tells me to sail to Arabia, where he clings to a spruce, others hide in the sand; a bird raises an island, throws it on ships; when it attacks a young man , he kills her with a sword; the princess's father will give her to whoever finds her; the young man dresses as a polar bear, dances; if anyone laughs, tears her apart; the maid laughs, is killed by a bear; the king leads the bear through the castle there where the princess is hidden so that he can dance for her too; he discovers himself; in the morning he finds a princess in the guise of a prince, gets married]: Dasent 1970:155-171; Estonians (Pärnu) [brother and sister get lost in forest; The devil (vanapagan) brought them to him, raised them; taught the young man the art of a hunter; he wanted to kill a bear, a wolf, a fox, a hare, a kite; everyone asks not to kill, gives his cub; the devil got along with the young man's sister, decided to get rid of his animals first; sent him to the barn for bread; the young man went inside with the animals, went out, the doors closed, the animals remained inside; the devil wants to kill the young man, he asks allow me to wash in the bathhouse, then climb the tree to pray; during this time, the animals escaped, ran, tore the Devil; the brother hung his sister by the legs in the bathhouse over two cauldrons - with coals and empty; he will let her go when she eats all the coals and fills the empty cauldron with tears; went to town; told the old woman to release his animals if they burst; he went to fight the 12-headed serpent, which every day ate a man; now it is the princess's turn; instead of a severed head, a new one grows; the young man threw his shoe, hitting the sleeping old woman, she released the animals, they ran, tore the snake; the young man cut off, hid the snake put his tongues, pieces under the stone; the princess tied a piece of her handkerchief to each beast; the officer forced the princess to say that he killed the snake; to the wedding, the young man sends a wolf, then a bear, then comes by himself; the officer cannot pick up the stone under which the pieces of the serpent are, does not know where the tongues are; the animals ordered him to be torn to pieces; after the death of the king, the young man reigned; the wife asks for his sister to be returned; she the Devil's hidden tooth pierces his sleeping brother's forehead; he is put in the coffin; the wolf licked, the tooth jumped into the wolf's forehead, the owner came to life, and the wolf died; so the animals took turns reviving each other; the fox hid behind the cauldron, the tooth missed her forehead, fell into the fire]: Järv et al. 2009, No. 3:41-46; Estonians [the childless king sets sail, the water stops the ship, lets go for promising to give someone who was born at home in the absence of the king; this is his son and daughter; the king secretly dug an underground shelter for them; he tried to give the foal, calf, lamb to the waterman who came; he himself looked for children; in the forge the hammer told him to take him and walk; fell where the shelter was, the water took the children away; they grew up, the girl married him; her brother shed tears, a wolf appeared, told him to sit on him and run; the young man enters the room where the water man and sister sleep, grabs his sister, sits on the wolf; at the direction of the wolf, he takes a stone from under his tail, throws it, grows a mountain to heaven; the water one returns for a hammer and a chisel, makes its way; wants to leave the tools, but the magpie starts screaming for them; the waterman takes them home, comes back, catches up and returns the fugitives; the young man cries again, the bear comes, everything repeats ; the young man throws the bear's bristles, wooded mountains appear to the sky; then the same episodes; the third time brother and sister run away on a fox, she tells them to throw flint; the water cannot overcome the sea of fire, he stops persecution; brother and sister build a house for themselves beyond the bubbling river; the wolf, bear and fox come to live with them; the sister throws stones into the river, the current calms down, the water crosses the river, lives with girl; during the day she turns into a pin, the girl hides it in the cracks in the wall; the animals feel it; the sister asks to lock the animals behind 9 iron doors for the night; the water man grabs the young man, throws it into a hot bath ; the animals break in, breaking one door after another; the raven tells the young man to hold out a little longer; at the last moment the animals break in, tear the water one to pieces; the young man asks his sister; she found a water bone in the ash, put her brother under his pillow; a bone pierced his head, his sister buried the deceased; the animals dug the body; the bear put his head on it, a water bone passed into it, the young man came to life; the bone passed from the bear into the wolf; the fox put its head up, managed to pull them back, the wolf came to life, the bone was stuck in the pine tree; they all came to the parents of the brother and sister, the young man rejuvenated them with live water; the father drove the traitor daughter, his son became king]: Goldberg 1953:170-186; Seto: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 52 [mother died; brother and sister went into the woods, came across a house, an old man there; began to live with him; dying, he gave them each with a handkerchief, they are tied together in a knot; if they untie it, trouble will happen; one day the sister decided to untie the knot; a handsome guy in white came, it was hell; offered the girl to lime her brother; let him pretend to be sick, ask for wolf's milk; the brother went to look for the she-wolf, she asked her not to kill, let herself be milked and went with him; the same with the bear; bring water from the lake to who is a huge snake; the young man, along with the she-wolf, the bear and his dog, was defeated by a snake, the young man brought water; bring flour from the damn mill; when the young man took the flour, the 12 iron doors behind closed and the animals remained with them; at home, the devil was going to kill the young man; from asking permission to wash in the bathhouse before death; drowns for a long time; the animals broke the doors, ran, broke the line; only tooth was left; the young man left his sister in a bathhouse with two barrels; let one cry for his brother, the other for hell; see where there is more; taught the animals to dance, went with them, showing them for money; the king will give his daughter for that who will make her laugh; when she sees the animals dancing, the princess laughed; the wedding; the young man is told to bring his sister; he went after her - the barrel with tears on the line is full; on the way back, sitting in a carriage, sister she put a damn tooth in her brother's ear, the brother died; the wife placed the body in an iron coffin on a pole; the animals howl at the foot; a stranger king who passed by saw it, ordered the coffin to be removed; the tooth fell out, the young man came to life, drove his sister away, inherited the throne from his father-in-law]: 127-132; Sandra 2004 [dying, the king told his daughter to rule until her brother grew up; she decided to lime her brother; pretended to be sick, ordered to bring hare milk; hare gave milk; next time a fox; a she-wolf; a bear; a tigress, a lioness; my sister sent her brother to bring bread from the mill where the witch was; he went with all his animals that gave him milk; he took bread, and when sent the animals to eat too, the witch slammed the doors shut; the sister put her brother in the cellar, the witch must eat him; at this time, the animals break the doors one by one; this is reported by a raven, a dove, a swallow; each once the young man asks the cannibal to give him more time; the last time he asks for permission to light the pipe; the animals break in, kill the witch; the young man, telling his sister to cry for his return a bucket of bloody tears, leaves with his animals; comes to a city where mourning; a man explains that every year a sea serpent demands a sacrifice, otherwise it will flood the city, the turn of the royal daughter; the animals tore the snake, the princess gave his handkerchief to the savior; the coachman crept up, cut off the young man's head, told the princess to swear that she would declare him the winner of the snake; the animals mourn, the fox tells him to pretend to be dead, the raven descends with a crow, the fox grabs the crow, tells the crow to bring water connecting the dicks and living water; he brings it; the fox tore the crow for testing, glued it together, revived it; then the young man; the animals cast lots, falls on a bear, he brings a handkerchief to the palace, the princess recognizes him; meets the savior; the king tells him to tear the coachman apart by four bulls; the young man gets a princess; goes to visit his sister; she cried a bucket of blood; a witch's tooth is injected into his brother's head, he falls dead; he is put in a tower; the hare comes, the tooth pierces him, he dies, the young man comes to life; the fox takes the tooth out of the hare, throws it into the bush, the bush dried up; animals tore his sister; the young man became ruler over both kingdoms]: 192-202; Lithuanians [an iron wolf (not just an ogre wolf) in 10 versions; the father has two children; he gave them a toy - the iron wolf; the father died, and the wolf came to life; the brother and sister rode off on horseback, the wolf caught up, tore the horse, returned the children; flew away on the voron, the wolf caught up again and returned; the goby put the children on his back, ordered to take a ball (the mountain, the wolf gnawed), a brush (the forest; the wolf ran for an ax; the crow screams that he would take the ax, the wolf had to cut the path and carry the ax back) and a sharpener (the sea ahead; the goby created a bridge , which was disappearing behind, the iron wolf drowned); the goby ordered him to be cut in half, two dogs appeared; brother and sister came to the robbers' house, killed those who came with a sword as they entered; 16 versions further, the plot of the insidious sister]: Kerbelite 2014, No. 49:113-116; Lutsie (1933; the informant heard a fairy tale in Kiev) [strongman Samson lived in the woods with his mother, the hell in lovers; hell Mother S.: How to try your son's power? mother with the same question to her son; S.: tie my hands; tied me, he tore the ropes; then the devil brought horsehair, S. could not tear; he was blinded and nailed to an oak tree; a year later he pulled out an oak tree, came to people he was released; the princess fell in love with him; the bird flew through the window, S. grabbed and crumpled her, blood in his eyes, he saw the light; came to his mother, tore both the line and her]: Annom et al. 2018:123-125; Latvians [ Angry sister (mother). The sister (mother) becomes the mistress of a trait (robber). He encourages her to kill her brother. The sister pretends to be sick, sends her brother for animal milk. The brother gets milk and gets animal cubs. My sister sends her brother to the damn mill. The animals remain trapped in the mill and can't help their brother. The hell wants to kill his brother, but he wants permission to heat the sauna. He heats the sauna very slowly, the animals break out of the mill, come running and lift the line. With the help of animals, the brother frees the princess. She forgives her sister, but she puts a damn tooth at his head. Brother dies, animals save him]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 315:275; Karelians (Kalevala District) [when dying, parents advise their son not to marry, their daughter not to marry, but to live quietly together; after eating all 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 to let her go, teaches where the golden sword is between the stones of the waterfall; do not pick it up, but if" turn the screw", it will become easy; do not show their 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 without death; asks the girl to release him, make him husband; let him know what his brother's strength is; he replies that in the naked, in the pomelo; the sister and the demon burn them, the brother is unharmed; the young man's sword is not to raise the demon in strength; 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 for the gallbladder of the leader of the devils beyond the nine seas; the bear and the lioness go with the guy; they hid it in a hole, and then barked so that the squirrel captain carrying that devil on the ship could hear; the guy almost made deaf even in the hole because of such a scream; the squirrel brought the guy, says hide in the underground, the princess will put the demon to sleep, he must cut off his head, a ring will roll out of his throat, cut it in two, throw one half into the fire, the other in his pocket; there was a demon's life in the ring, boy took bile; the princess gave her ring; at home, the sister persuaded him to tell me where his brother's life was and how to make the sword light; without taking the sword, the boy 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 hears the birds talking; the first time they say that if you enter the hut, it would explode; the blind man did not let his wife go there; the second time: if you wash your eyes with dew, the man will see the light; having sent 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 spouses They came to their animals; they told their wife and them to cut off their heads, throw them into the spring, throw their sword there and jump themselves; the squirrel, the lioness, the bear, the sword turned into four princes - the brothers of the man's wife; Seeing the missing children, the king asks forgiveness from his son-in-law and daughter, gives his son-in-law the throne]: Onegin 2010, No. 17:201-209; the Finns [the childless king sails, the water stops the ship, releases for promising to give back the one who was born at home in the absence of the king; this is his son and daughter; the king secretly dug an underground shelter for them; the waterman who came tried to give a foal, a calf, a lamb; he himself began to look for children; in the forge, a hammer told him to take him and walk; fell where the shelter was, the water took the children away; they grew up, the girl married him; her brother shed tears, a wolf appeared, told sit on it and run; the young man enters the room where the water and sister sleep, grabs his sister, sits on the wolf; at the direction of the wolf, takes a stone from under his tail, throws it, grows a mountain to heaven; water returns for a hammer and chisel, makes his way; wants to leave the tools, but forty starts screaming for them; the waterman takes them home, comes back, catches up and returns the fugitives; the young man again cries, the bear comes, everything repeats itself; the young man throws the bear's bristles, wooded mountains appear to the sky; then the same episodes; the third time brother and sister run away on the fox, she tells us to throw flint; the water cannot overcome the sea of fire, it stops pursuing; brother and sister build a house for themselves across the bubbling river; the wolf, bear and fox come to live with them; the sister throws stones into the river, the current calms down, the water crosses the river, lives with a girl; during the day she turns into a pin, the girl hides it in the cracks in the wall; the animals feel it; the sister asks to lock the animals behind 9 iron doors for the night; there is enough water a young man thrown into a hot bath; the animals break in, breaking one door after another; the raven tells the young man to hold out a little longer; at the last moment the animals break in, tear the water to pieces; the young man forgave his sister; she I found a water bone in the ash, put it under my brother's pillow; a bone pierced his head, his sister buried the deceased; the animals dug his body; the bear put his head on it, the water bone passed into it, the young man came to life; the bone passed from bear to wolf; the fox put its head up, managed to pull it back, the bone got stuck in the pine tree; they all came to the parents of brother and sister, the young man rejuvenated them with live water; the father drove them out a traitor daughter, his son became king]: Goldberg 1953:170-186; Danes [after the king's death, the Queen and her son go on a pilgrimage; in an empty house, a prince finds a sword and shirt; inscription says that they make the owner invincible; in another house, while the young man is away, the chieftain of the robbers meets the queen; persuades him to send the prince to the forest for apples, where the animals will tear him to pieces; but the animals they caress him and the apples fall by themselves; the dog leads him to a hole in the ground; there is a chained Arab princess; the prince frees her, puts her on a ship, promises that he will come to her himself in a year; she gives him a ring; when the prince returns to his mother, the thief persuades her to find out his secret; as soon as the prince fell asleep, the robber blinded him, took his sword and shirt; the captain found and recognized him, who took the princess; brought the prince to her; she recognized her ring; he hears someone talking: the local dew cures blindness; with his eyes moistened, he sees the light; the eagle took away the princess's jewelry; setting off in pursuit, the prince finds himself in the magic forest again; the princess follows him, is again in shackles; the prince and several tailors agree to spend a year in the house and then answer two questions; there is food and light in the house; the prince overheard the owner's conversation with another person: the house stands on three silver pillars, the light comes from the princess's stolen jewelry; answers questions correctly, is richly rewarded; a beggar who There was an eagle, reports that the princess was in shackles; with the help of a trick, the prince returns his sword and shirt, kills his mother, sends the robber to the forest where he was torn to pieces by animals; frees the princess, marries her, becomes king]: Holbek 1987:530-532; (Swedes have no motive: Liungman 196:61); Eastern Sami (Baba dialect, Akkala): Qvigstad 1925, No. 315:16; Veps: Vlasyev 1942:147- 153, 154-159.

Volga - Perm. Komi [someone gave an egg to a wealthy childless merchant: let his wife and mare eat him; his wife gave birth to a son Vasily, a foal mare; the father is always traveling; V. grew up, his mother has a lover; he orders to kill her son, otherwise she will kill her; when V. returned from school, the horse warned that his mother wanted to poison him; V. quietly poured out the poisoned soup; mother's lover: you fed the soup under the bench, the poison is there burned a hole; the same the next evening; the dog tried it spilled out, died; horse: tomorrow the mother will even poison the bread, you have to run; the horse tells him to get bored three times, turn, sprinkle dew on three trees; after that, he is able to jump from one hill to another; they went to get living water overseas; they rode to the hut on a chicken leg, the hut rotates, there is a witch in it; from her they rode to another of the same , there is a second witch, she teaches: there will be three pillars, three gates, a key hangs on the middle one, you have to grab it; "soon the fairy tale affects, it's not done soon" {this proverb is inserted several times}; third the witch in the third hut tells her to leave her horse, gives her own; hit him on the shore, he will become a crow, carry him across the sea; on the other side you will become a dove, steal living water from the girl; when you fly a crow, cut off the meat from the calf, feed it; when V. flies, the crow gets tired, sits on the bapka-kotil plant in the middle of the sea, V. gives her a piece cut off from her leg; so several times, they stayed on their feet only bones; V. first flies in as a dove, hears the girl saying out loud that she will not sleep that night, she will guard the water; V. became a man again, put the guards and the girl to sleep with this witch with this potion, took water, kissed the girl and wished her wife; across the sea back on a crow horse {it does not say how her legs are overgrown with meat again}; the girl's brother is pursuing; one of the three witches replies that V. galloped by for a long time; brother: to whoever took water and kissed my sister, I will send her as a wife; gave V. a letter to prepare to receive the bride; she appeared, they live poorly, they want to take his wife away; the king orders to create a golden one by morning palace; wife creates; golden passage to the royal palace (same); third time: set up a water supply and telegraph; at night, the wife called her workers again, everything is ready; everything is fine, wedding]: Fokos-Fuchs 1951, No. 1:11-35; Mordovians: Anikin 1909 (Erzya) [dying, the father blessed his son with two dogs, the mother blessed the daughter with a comb and a spindle; her sister is angry, her lover is seven-headed Meker; pretended sick, sent to the dugout in the ravine for snake fat; there the door was constipated, the dogs gnawed, ran in, the door slammed shut; but they broke the constipation, came back; the same again, there were 7 constipation; brother thinks that the dogs cannot be returned; his sister sends him to take a steam bath in the bathhouse where Meker hid; the magpie tells him not to hurry, do everything slowly; the dogs broke the constipation, ran, tore Meker; the brother left, met a girl given to Meker to be eaten; said Meker was killed; they exchanged rings; wedding]: (p.?) ; Evseviev 1964 (Erzya), No. 25 [(same motives as in other texts)], 30 [parents died, brother and sister fled from the war into the forest; the bear gave them honey, told them to swing the chest in which they went to bed; they ran away; The elk tells him to sit on him, takes him away; tells him to kill him, watch the grave, take a gun on the first night, take the second dog; the brother goes hunting with the dog, the sister is at home; that bear came in disguise a man who became a sister's lover; to lime his brother, the sister pretended to be sick, asks the bear meat; the bear asks not to kill him, promises to help; the same is a lion; the lover became a bear, killed his brother, then became human again; dog, lion and bear at this time at the mill; broke down the door, found the owner's coffin, the dog caught a crow, tells the crow to bring live water, revived the owner, tore the lover, tore the lover, brother drove his sister into the forest]: 201-204, 227-230; Samorodov 1972 [=1985:279-283; dying, the old man tells his son to slaughter a heifer, her heart and liver will turn into two dogs; sister pulls a snake out of the well; both decide to lime her brother; the sister pretends to be sick, sends a lion, a tiger, for milk; to the mill for flour; the old woman tells me to take flour so that one leg comes in and the other leaves; the doors slam when dogs inside; a young man climbs a birch tree, dogs manage to gnaw doors, kill a snake; the princess is eaten by a 12-headed snake; the young man's dogs kill him, he hides his heads under a stone; the soldier says that he killed the snake; the young man shows the princess's ring, the soldier is beheaded; the sister puts a snake tooth in the pillow; the young man's body in a barrel is thrown into the sea; the old woman finds her, revives the young man with living water; brother ties his sister to the horse's tail]: 293-299; Kippar 2002 [Maskeev 1966:143-153; as in Samorodov 1972, but other details; mother dies, wants to bless children, son comes up; father dies, orders to stab Put the calf, heart and liver in the stomach, leave it under the stove; three dogs will appear: Mastordonga ("heavier than the ground"), Warmadonga ("stronger than the wind"), Komladonga ("lighter than hops"); no bird leaves dogs, not an animal; the sister is at home; the snake in the well asks him to get him, promises to become a groom; at home offers to get rid of her brother; the sister pretends to be sick; 1) asks her brother to bring lion's milk; to meet the mistress of the Virbaba forest; teaches the guards to say that he came by order; lions give milk; the serpent tells his mistress not to drink it - the lions have bewitched milk; 2) the same is tiger milk; 3) bring flour forever a working mill; V. teaches: when entering one leg, put one leg forward, the other with his toe out; the young man took the torment, went out, the doors slammed shut, the dogs remained inside; in the yard to meet the snakes, his sister was wearing, they say that the young man will be killed now; the brother asks for permission to wash in the bathhouse; the magpie tells him to drown slowly: the dogs gnawed through one door, 11 are left; this is what he says after each door; when the last one, the brother asks allow him to climb a birch tree, say goodbye to everyone; the snake knocked down the birch tree, the young man knocked down the other, the third, the dogs broke in, killed the snake; the young man takes the dogs and leaves; gently greets the three-toothed old woman Virbabu; she says that she would have swallowed it otherwise; asks her to tell her stories, otherwise she will not fall asleep; the young man tells his own story; V. fell asleep; the next day the young man returned from hunting - V. sleeps; on the third day, neither V. nor prey; V. went to kill him for killing animals and birds; revived the prey, let him into the forest; enters and wants to eat, the young man again tells a fairy tale - how dogs caught game without his knowledge; V. fell asleep; the young man buried his prey and also lay down; in the morning: what's the sound? V.: this snake is going to eat the princess; the young man leaves, leaving the dogs; if they worry, let them go; the young man falls asleep on the princess's lap, wakes up from her tears; calls the dogs, they tore the 18-headed snake, the young man hid his heads under a stone; leaves for 3 days, the princess gives him a ring; the soldier says that he killed the snake; the princess promises to confirm in 3 days; the soldier cannot move the stone under which the heads; the young man returned, the soldier was beheaded, the wedding; sent for his sister and V.; V. did not come - she cannot leave the forest, otherwise he will dry out; the sister has a pillow with a snake tooth inside; brother lay down and died; sister: Our custom, the dead is thrown into the sea in a barrel; the barrel is washed ashore; dogs cannot be opened; V. opened it, sent a black grouse for living water; the young man moved, the snake tooth fell out of his mouth; the young man returned, sister She asks for forgiveness, but she was tied to the horse's tail; wedding again; V. is waiting for the young man to come to tell a third fairy tale]: 137-145; Paasonen 1941 (erzya) [the older married brother kicked out the youngest unmarried and sister; they began to live in a bathhouse; the youngest killed the devils in the forest house, brought their property; then killed others, brought his sister to live in their house; one devil hid, invited his sister to pretend to be sick, ask for black wolf milk; brother brought it, sister drank it, became a she-wolf]: 215-217; Marie: Chetkarev 1948:45-54 [=Tudorovskaya, Eman 1945:49-59; dying, the father tells his son Ivan to cut him head, dogs Katay and Valyay come out of it; sister I. Avdotya sees a guy behind the lake; he tells her to whip her father's whip on the water, a bridge forms; the guy becomes A.'s lover, asks her to kill I.; teaches her to pretend to be sick, ask her to bring 1) bear milk, 2) lionesses (they give, the bear gives the bear cub), 3) grind flour in the mill that she grinds herself; I. leaves with flour, and the animals that remain licking the flour remain locked up; A. with her lover I. is preparing to eat; he asks to let him take a steam bath; the cuckoo says that the animals have already broken 11 of the 12 doors, tells him to wash more slowly; dogs and a bear have torn his lover to pieces; I. chained A. in the bathhouse, promised to let go when she eats the coals, spits on a vat of saliva; comes to the city, where 3-, 6- and 9-headed snakes are given the royal daughters; I. kills snakes, hides their heads, the coachman makes the princess say that he is the savior; the coachman was exiled to hard labor, I. takes the younger princess; I. brings A.; she kept her lover's tooth, puts I. in her ear; I. is buried, the animals tear the body out, the old woman takes a tooth out of her ear, I. comes to life ; the old woman warns that A. will appear as a wife, try to give him a child, cannot take him; I. takes it, turns into a dog; she is sold to a merchant, animals beg for the dog, the old woman returns I. the appearance of a person; he beats A. with this whip, she turns into a horse; then again into a sister, ties a horse to the tail], 69-77 [a childless wife eats the onion given by the healer, the mare eats the peel, the woman has a childless wife Ivan is born, the mare has a foal; the husband leaves for business, the wife takes a lover, who offers to lime her son; the mother gives poisoned cake, shirt, horse teaches them to throw them away; the wife pretends to be sick, asks to slaughter the horse; the father returns, I agree, the son asks for permission to ride for the last time, leaves; the horse does not tell you to drink twice from the well, I. drinks, the girl appears; the horse disappears, promising to come to the rescue; I. comes to the king under the guise of an arap; the king orders to pull out the dry apple trees, I. pulls out everything, the king demands to plant a new garden; the horse fulfills; the younger princess asks to pass her off as an arapa; I. he fits into one ear of a horse, crawls out into the other, smashes enemies, whips his older sons-in-law with a whip; so three times; the younger princess shows her fiancé in his true ob does not tell him to drink from the well twice, and son asks for political, I. gets half the kingdom]; Beke 1938, No. 7 [a man has a wife, she has a lover; he is dead; the devil took his form and began to come to the woman; she decides to get rid of her husband; pretends to be sick, consistently asks him to bring milk from a wild dog, a hare, a she-wolf, a bear, a lioness, a tigress; an old man in the forest gives him a horn; if you blow, animals come; each female gives milk and a cub; the animals grew up, entered the house, sniffed out the line under the floor in the hallway, tore it; the man told them to tear his wife and his wife apart]: 20-30; Chuvash [dying, the priest's wife gives him her ring, tells him to marry someone to whom suitable; does not suit anyone, her daughter accidentally put it on, the pop wants to marry her, she runs away; the royal son marries her, a son is born; when the prince left, the pop came unrecognized, stabbed the baby; the king the father tells his son, the son writes in response, the pop replaced both letters - allegedly the prince orders to cut off his wife's hands, tie the dead baby to her and drive her out; the woman leaned to the river, the baby fell out, her hands grew up, the voice said how to revive the baby with plant juice; he grew up, killed the youngest, middle son of the old woman; only maimed the eldest; the old woman arranged that the mother of the prince's son took the old woman's son to lovers; pretending to be sick, gives his son difficult tasks; he defeats the heroes who guarded the garden and spring; the old woman's son steals the cross in which the strength of the prince's son is; drives him away; he meets the princess, she promises to marry him; meets a blind and legless man; in the palace she throws the princess's ring into a bucket of water; she recognizes the ring, the king allows marriage, but the prince's son must return his cross; he steals the cross, kills his mother's lover, and tied her, two barrels nearby: for tears for it and for tears for her lover; gathers people, tells everything; mother cried for her son, he freed her]: Chuvash fairy tales 1937:237-247; Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 1 [my brother has three dogs: lighter than the wind, lighter than hops, heavier than the earth; the sister has taken the yukha snake as a lover; he offers to poison her brother; one dog overturns poisoned water, the other breaks a bowl of porridge, the third breaks the bathhouse in which Juha wanted to burn the young man, carries him to the river, the young man comes to life; leaves his sister to fill the barrel with tears, dry like ray, gnaw a brick; kills 6-, 9-, 12-headed ajdaha, to whom the eldest, middle, youngest daughter of the padishah was given; each gives her own ring; the watchman says that he saved the princess, but cannot lift the stone , under which heads; he was shot, the young man took the middle princess, lives with her in the forest; a sister came, put Yuha's two teeth in his brother's bed; the dogs found, pulled his teeth out of the young man's ear (forced the bear roar, and put the hare to put his ear to the young man's ear); the young man cut off his sister's head], 2 [the hunter caught, tamed a bear, a wolf and a hare; came to four divas; defeated three, the fourth overcomes him, animals They ran, killed three, the fourth was thrown into the well; the hunter's sister pulled him out and married him; the brother saw, killed the diva, the sister hid the two tibia bones, put his brother in bed when he married; the animals ripped off half of the hare's skin, the magpie went down to peck, the hare grabbed her, let her go for promising to bring living and dead water; the young man came to life; cut off his sister's head], 15 [the padishah has a son and two daughters; grooms are denied; the eldest was kidnapped; the mother died of grief; the padishah married a young man; the stepmother tells her stepson and stepdaughter to be driven away; they came to the house in the woods; nearby is a dugout, where 12 robbers and the eldest sister; she got them drunk, brother killed; sister regrets life with robbers; one is still alive, she went out; they agree to get rid of her brother; she pretended to be sick, sends for a hare, fox, wolf, bear, lion, tiger milk; all animals give milk and cub; the younger sister takes care of them; the eldest offers to play cards, the loser will be tied; tied up the brother, the robber is ready for him kill him, but the animals have torn him to pieces; brother and younger sister come to another country; there Azhdaha devours girls, turn for the padishah's daughters; brother kills him with the help of animals; the blind man says he scored double-headed ajdaha with a bucket, demands the princess as his wife; the next day the same (three-headed azhdakha, middle princess, imaginary savior - one-armed); then fire-breathing azhdaha, younger princess, lame; dzhigit comes to the wedding, shows the heads crushed by the stone and the rings given by the princesses; crushed the impostors with stones, married the younger princess; returned his older sister; she put her brother's tooth in bed robber, brother died; animals pulled out his tooth, master came to life; animals lifted up older sister]: 25-32, 33-37, 133-153; Bashkirs [mother is dead, father wants to marry daughter, daughter ran away; Khan's son saw and married her; a boy was born; his wife's father found a daughter, told her husband that she was a liar, the Khan's son expelled her; she lives in the forest with her son; the son grew up; saw the house, where Pyariy, well done, locked him in a cage; settled in this house with his mother; gave her the keys to the rooms, forbade her to enter one; the woman looked there, pulled the pyaria out of the liquid, washed it, they decided to kill her son; the mother pretended to be sick; asked the fruit from the mountain that Azhdaha wrapped around; well done, went to the old woman; she tells me to wait three years: her foal will grow up, you have to go to the mountain on it; the foal galloped, well done, took the fruit and kidnapped by Azhdakha khan's daughter; the khan gave her to him; the wife gave her ring; well done, he came to his mother, noticed her in the arms of the pyariah; the mother invites her son to test his strength; wrapped her hands in a rope, he tore her; pyariy offered make a rope out of hair that a woman must cut off from the top of her head; well done, the man could not tear these fetters; the pyarius pulled out his eyes, took him away and threw him on the bank of a swampy stream; the servant came for water; well done, asked me to let him drink, threw that ring into the bucket; the khan's daughter recognized her husband, told me to bring it to her; he dreamed that if you shoot the arrow three times, she would return and revive the blind man; well done he saw the light and went to kill the pyariah; his horse went into the ground with his hooves; well done cut off his mother's head, threw the pyaria up, he crashed into the dust; returned to his wife, became khan himself]: Bessonov 1941, No. 46: 245-248.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Daurenbekov 1979 [Khan has a son Kuleken, he wants more sons, if a daughter is born, promises to kill; K. does not allow murderers to see his newborn sister, runs away with her; she grows up; father sends the army, K.'s horse sneezes, the army is defeated; the sister picks up the wounded, makes him a secret lover; the brother leaves the born son in the way, he picks him up; when the lover and sister are going to kill K., the boy stops his father, K. kills his sister and lover]: 223-224; Ethnographic materials 1898, No. 4 (Turgay) [Kara-Khan invited only those who have a son or daughter to a feast; insulted Kobyl-bai in vain donates animals to saints; when his wife tripped over someone's grave, K. sacrificed the last animal, a ram; the saint promised 40 daughters and 40 sons, but K. asked for one son as 40 sons and one daughter like 40 daughters; at a feast he fell off his horse and was killed; when the children were 15, K. demanded Razia as his wife; her brother Iskander killed ambassadors, then defeated the army; when K. himself came, cut off his arm, cut off his ears and nose, threw it into the well; R. all this time tries to destroy I., but he is too strong; she came out K.; when she became pregnant, K. offers to destroy I. with cunning; R. affected the patient, he needs live water; I. came to the witch; she sews up the holes in the earth; says that R. hides his lover in a chest; I. did not believe it; brought living water; next time: get the heart of a seven-headed old woman; I. came across a tied Gul's girl to the tree; a 7-headed old woman kidnapped her to eat her; I. killed the old woman, brought her heart; R. suggests that I. tie it to test his strength; I. admits that he can't tear only the strap tied to the bow of his horse; and he can only be killed with his own sword; R. released K. from the chest, which cut off I.'s head; G. gave birth to I.'s son Omar; when he learned about his father's fate, he found I. moistened I.'s bones with living and dead water taken from home, I. came to life; by this time R. had given birth to 40 sons and 40 daughters, all without ears, noses and right hands; I. easily killed them, brutally executed K., asked his sister, Does she want 40 knives or 40 mares; she wants mares; I. tied her to them, they tore her into 40 pieces; I. became khan and married G.]: 15-29; Potanin 1916, No. 36 (east) [Temir-gendik ("iron navel" ) killed enemies; his sister found him crushed by a stone; married; hid it in a chest; tells his brother that she is sick, tells him to get black saiga milk with a ringing around his neck; the counter advises T. to give meat from the thigh to the dogs, the camel to the whip, saying "get on a leash"; they let him pass it, he kills three dhow (devas), cuts off their ears; gives out milk, runs away; the old woman calls a dow, T. throws her ears; the camel tells the old woman that he did not supply him with a leash, the dogs did not feed them meat; T. opens to his mother, kills his sister and her hero, becomes the khan of two nations]: 142-143 (=1972, No. 3:112-113 ); Tursunov 1983 [giant Uzyn-Sary comes for Naran; she and her brother Yerkem-Aidar are hiding in a well, the US ruins the village; N. makes his brother invulnerable; in his absence, the US comes, she agrees to become his wife, lime brother; pretends to be sick, asks to get 1) the heart of the seven-headed Zhalmaus; EA goes, consistently meets three sisters, they fight with J., who killed their father; EA brings the heart of J., the eldest sister replaces him with bovine, N. does not notice the deception; 2) the milk of God's white camel, whose male is ferocious (the same, replaces milk); 3) the bile of God's blue short wolf (the same); mustache rushes to EA, sister sprinkles peas under his brother's feet; gives a mustache a knife that can only kill a brother; the horse jumps to her older sister, who revived EA with J.'s preserved heart, camel milk, wolf bile, the horse pulled the rope out of the body EA is a steel knife; disguised as a bald boy, EA comes to his mustache; breaks all his bows, gives him his ex-bow, he kills 500 people, kills a mustache, ties his sister to a horse's tail]: 86-93; Kyrgyz [y rich bai Kozhomberdi has son Janadyp and daughter Karlygach; J. has Koektelka's horse (Gray Roe Deer), a white falcon and a white gun; he hunts on lakes Aydin-Kol and Jackendyu-Kel (a transparent lake and a lake overgrown reeds); the sister asks her brother to give her his horse, falcon, gun, allow her to hunt in the same place; her brother does not tell her to go to the Kyok-Beles spur; she went, there Chekirkan Khan Kalmakov, hostile to her brother; he frightened when he thought J. had come, but calmed down when he realized that it was his sister; she agreed with him; C. says that her brother would not give her well; the sister pretended to be sick, asking for the old man's living water Muryoke; those who went for her did not return; K. told her brother that she was late because the giant swan almost carried away the falcon that clung to him; his wife advises J. not to go to M., but he is going; At this time, C. slaughtered his people, made his father, mother and wife his slaves - his father herds cows, the mother of calves, his wife delivers brushwood in the wild with torn nostrils; at this time the horse tells J. that M. has spy fox; it must be fresh alive, starting from the tail; when J. ripped off the skin to the neck, the fox admitted that it was necessary to grab the crow - only he would tell; J. killed one crow, wounded the other, he ordered prepare two bundles of thorns, two tendon ligaments, two bags of meat, give them to two camels, two old camel masters (demonets), two dogs; J. took water, M. threw a knife to peel the skin, cutting off the horse had caudal vertebrae; at the burnt camp, the horse found a mirror, J. looked - he had become an old man from a young man; after drinking living water, he regained his youth; gave the horse, which was also younger; the horse says that in the womb sisters J. - 40 black starlings; they must be destroyed before they are born; mother and father did not recognize J.; sister came up and yelled at her slave parents; J. shot her, there was a chest in her womb, starlings in her womb; J. killed 39, fought with the 40th for 14 days; the horse tore off his thigh, helped kill him; after that J. killed C.; after drinking live water, the old people and J.'s wife also became younger]: Kebekova, Tokombaeva 2007:11-17; Kyrgyz [while shepherdess Duishen was sleeping, the wolves stole a flock; D. decided not to go home, met another young man; they were invited by a one-eyed cannibal; he had many people connected in his yurt; he ate one, left, came back, fell asleep; D. burned his eye with a hot wire and pushed him into the well; took possession of the ogre's wealth; D.'s parents died, he brought his brothers and aunt to the ogre's yurt; ordered him not to go to the well; aunt I looked in, helped the cannibal get out, hid it, gave birth to a boy from him; he became attached to D. and his brothers; overheard the ogre talking to his mother; started a quarrel with his mother, the cannibal ran in, he was stabbed to death, and his aunt driven away]: Muchnik 1944:95-96; Dungans [after the death of his father, the eldest, then the middle son go over the mountain, 40 robbers kill them; younger Losan broke the swords of the robbers, killed those leaving the house alone; threw the leader into the well; brought his mother, began to live with her in their house; the mother found a living robber, married her; picked up a boy named Shysan, raised her; he found out that the mother and the robber wanted poison L., told him everything, helped kill them; let L. marry the emperor's daughter only after he had learned to lift weights; the emperor fought with L. and won; princess advised not to cut off L.'s head, but to wrap it in leather; S. saw that blood was dripping from L.'s whip, came to the emperor, defeated him, released L., who married a princess; S. defeated another emperor, also married a princess]: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 67:295-300.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakasy: Katanov 1907, No. 428 [the old man's eldest daughter is not married, he kicked her out, she saw a tree in the taiga, potatoes on it, fell alone, she became pregnant from her, returned home, gave birth a boy; this is Ivan Tsar; he kills and maims other children, they complained about him to the king, I. and his mother put him in a stone house; he broke it, went out, brought a whole tree for firewood; went to get his daughter Morte king; defeats him, lives with his daughter like his sister; brings his mother; she resurrected Morte King, made him her husband; pretends to be sick, asks for milk from a bear, a striped leopard, a son brings; the mother asks for living water and live potatoes from the King of Fire; a severed head tells them to dig a golden sword, teaches them to cut off the head of the King of Fire, take away elixirs; with them I. connects his head to the body, revives; mother persuades I. to drink more and more wine, break the heavier iron fetters; when he can no longer, Morte Tsar burns his eyes, but I. broke his bonds; asks Morte the King's daughter to help, she leads him to larch, he pulled it out, found a toad under its roots, regained his sight with its bile; tore his mother in half, threw the bottom of her body to Morte the King, carried the top to the mountain; comes to the king of the Sun; his daughter says that her father lost cards to a 9-headed dragon; kills three dragons, the last one about 12 heads; hides heads, the soldier says he killed the serpent; the soldier was shot; I. became king instead of the Sun, the daughter of Morte the King made older sister]: 428-439; Torokova, Sychenko 2014, No. 16 [the elderly have a son (he is younger) and a daughter Altyn-Tana; the old man is dead, his mother is also preparing to die and tells them not to go to the Ah-Tag mountain in front, not to extinguish You can't light the fire again; but brother and sister went; only AT went up to the top, there was a house with a black woman in it; AT asked for fire, but she asked to go into the house first; AT did not go in, ran away; when the children ran across the taiga, they were chased by Hara-Khashta, black, with a long beard and huge eyes; brother and sister reached the old woman's yurt; she replies that she will not be able to resist the Aina, refers to the middle sister, she to the eldest; this eldest gives AT a golden shawl: if you wave, the waters of the river will part, you can cross to the other side; brother and sister have crossed, XX could not cross and returned; brother and sister put up a house; the boy is learning to hunt, asks his sister what the animals are called; three geese are flying and shouting: there is a baby on the other side of the river, you have to pick it up, he will be an assistant; AT went to the other side but the child turned into the 20th century and made her a wife; began to live with her in the same house as her brother; XX gave the boy the name: Adygchy-Ool; the white dog overheard XX tell AT to put him in the one prepared for his brother fang soup; it will pierce the boy's throat; we'll eat him and his dogs; the white and blue dog agree to pretend to fight: the cauldron will be knocked over and the fang falls to the ground; when the fang falls to the ground, it caught fire; next time XX and AT agreed to bring his brother to a house in the woods, where XX would be waiting for him to kill; the boy managed to climb onto the roof and called the dogs; they jumped out of the ground, bitten to death ; blue dog: We'll tie AT to the wall, let the bowl be white under the right eye, blue under the left eye; if AT feels sorry for her brother, her tears will fill the white bowl, and if XX, the blue one; then Adygchi-ool and the dogs came to aal; the old people took him to their son; one day the cattle stopped mooing, people began to scream; the dogs ran away and brought blue and white wolf skin; the old people are happy - these wolves destroyed cattle; Khan gave AO only daughter; when they came to see AT, only tears from her left eye filled the bowl (i.e. she grieved for the demon); AO brought her home; she gave him a poisonous araki and he died; the dogs were brought body up the mountain; blue ran for a reviving potion; brought arrows in her ear, but she had arrows in her sides, she died; white revived both her and her owner; Altyn-Tan was tied to the tails of three mares]: 321-335; South Altai Tuvans [Gunan Chara Baatyr lives with his mother, older and younger sisters; one day he is met by Chödöönüng Gök Bugasy, says he will kill him; G. drove him deep into the ground and covered the hole with a stone the size of a camel; when he returned home, he told his mother and younger sister not to go north; the mother went, heard C.'s voice from the pit, asked her youngest daughter bring the mare to drag the stone away; she could not; they brought a camel, who dragged the stone; they hid C. in a yurt under the bed; the mother pretended to be sick: let G. get her the milk of a camel who is not an island in the middle of a lake in the northwest; the local khan warns of a mortal threat; but G. became a wolf, then a fox, an eagle, went down in the fog, took out milk, gave the camel a pearl, he and a camel became friends; on the way back, G. stayed with the khan and his wife changed his milk; and his fallen drop burned the ground; his mother pretended to drink milk, was healthy the next day, and then sick again; you need the lungs and hearts of a pair of leopards in the south; likewise, leopards give their lungs and hearts {sic!} ; for the third time: the lungs and heart of the 9-headed mangys (Andalva) living in the east; khan: if G. defeats mangys, let him bring skin from the forehead of his middle head; and during the battle, he turned to the Father and ask the strength of 30 husbands from above, 60 from below; along the way, G. sees the hooves of a giant mangys horse; there are no doors in the 9-story glass palace; G. broke through the wall; Mangys's wife says he is in the south; G. came, with He killed mangys eagles and dogs with difficulty; they fought for a month; the mangys began to prevail, but G. asked for strength, his body became like bronze, he knocked down the mangys; he ordered him to be killed with a knife in his hair under a scythe; After killing Mangys, G. hacked his wife, took the cattle, brought the skin from his forehead to the khan; his wife changed the heart and lungs of Mangys; when G. fell asleep at home, his mother took his weapon, and C. attacked him; when they were fighting, mother and sister poured peas under G.'s feet, and flour under C.'s feet; C. killed G., took his cattle, but the horse ran to G.'s older sister; she rode and found her brother's bones, but the ribs were missing; she became a worm went downstairs, those people regained the rib; the older sister went to see the fiancée G. (this is the daughter of the khan who helped him), she revived G., covering him with a beaver blanket and telling G.'s horse to jump over the master's bones three times; disguised as a poor young man, G. came to the old shepherd and his wife; they recognized him by signs (a tricolor rainbow rises from the horse; when G. sleeps in a yurt, his leg is outside; drinks tea from a wooden mortar cup); C. celebrates his wedding with G.'s mother; G., unrecognized by him, asks allow him to participate in an archery competition; breaks several bows; then C. gives him a bow G.; G. pulled his bow for three days, took his shape, fired an arrow into C.'s cervical vertebra; asks the mother, what she wants; mother: a mare; he tied her to the tail of a mare and let it into the steppe; younger sister wants scissors; G. killed her with a sword; took his men and cattle and returned home]: Taube 1978, No. 24:50-63; darhats (somon Khujirt, Uburkhangai aimag) [older brother Altan-Minjin had a Silver-red horse, his younger Mungun-minjin had an amber-red horse (var.: their horses are Red Fox and Red Lamb, dogs Asar and Basar; they tied dogs to the Golden Cola (North Star); their sister Sarisva-Dagina was 18 years old, she decided to marry, told her brothers to bring a hare with black eyes and ears the size of an inch, do not take a hare with brown eyes and ears in the span; A. brought a hare, S. drew herself, put the picture together with the hare in a basket, let it into the river; the hare sailed to Khan Erg; the khan saw the picture and sent two people to S., who ordered them to tell E. to come with 50 warriors; she would drink her brothers drunk, destroy them together with E.; A. became very drunk, but M. was not very drunk, took A., red horses, snatched out a stake, to which the dogs were attached, led and ran away; one dog ran away by itself, barking; M. came to one mountain and fell asleep; when he wakes up, A. calls, he replies that he is underground, M. dug it up; brothers they go, meet, take as companions 1) an antelope fishing on the run, 2) a thief capable of pulling out an antelope's tongue and feathers to a bird, 3) hearing what is being done in the upper and lower worlds, 4) drinking the ocean, 5) mountain-raiser; runner, thief, listener, ocean drinker, mountain lifter, Altan-minjin, Mungung-minjin went further in every way...; tied two red horses and became 7 stars of the Ursa Major; they told S. to become the moon, so the Moon always looked at the stars of the Ursa Major; they drove the Golden Stake into the sky and tied their two red horses; This stake is now the Polyarnaya Star; and two horses are two stars are nearby; there is a black-eyed hare on the moon, it looks like spots; Mongols, when they carry babies at night, smear their noses with soot, like a black-eyed hare; this custom is associated with the black-eyed hare from legend about the Big Dipper]: Mongolian Expedition of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Western August 20, 2006, No. WS 30011, 21.08.2006, No. WS 30028; the Mongols [Tonji Mergen has dogs Asyr and Basyr, sister and mother; sister and mother have come to know a hero and planned to kill T.; the mother pretended to be sick, the sister asks for the heart of Horton-Mogai (the poisonous snake); the horse says that the mother and sister met Shar-buho; but T. killed the snake and brought the heart; his mother gave it to S., because the one who ate this heart becomes stronger; they tell him to get foam from the Hatha-Dalay sea; T. brought it, beat S., put it under the camel; the camel got up when the fire was laid out under him; mother and sister they hid Sh.; he killed T. because his mother put a camel horgol under T.'s feet and flour under S.'s feet (and not vice versa); T. was buried, his dogs and horse ascended to heaven, returned, revived T.; he killed Sh. suggested that mother and sister: wear 80 arcana or milk 80 mares a day; they chose mares; the mares were wild and killed them; T. married a girl with sun around her neck, a month on the back of her head]: Potanin 1883, No. 117:399-401; the Mongols of Ordos [Ondey, the best of men, is immensely rich in cattle; someone abducts the foals that his mare gives birth every year; he is going to give birth to Hormusta; the mare gives birth, but the yellow rainbow carries him away; O. fired an arrow, the foal fell, the mare licked it; the long yellow llama also fell; said that he stole foals on the orders of the Burkhan; O. dug a deep well and lowered it there Long, put a bull and a camel on the hole, telling them not to get up, even if they were beaten and the brushwood and stick broke; went to inspect the herds; O.'s wife went out to look for fire, she hears song, comes to the well; Long advises to offer animals herbs and water - O. did not tell them about it; the animals got up, Long got out, the woman brought him to her; says that he will not return to her husband again ; Long advises to pretend to be sick, ask for the heart of a monstrous snake; O. took his dogs Arja and Barja, a peacock and a parrot, went in search; came to a black yurt, gold and silver in front of her horseback riding, O. tied the mare to the gold one; the girl called to the house, the old woman fed and paid tribute; when he reached the mountain, behind which the serpent, the horse teaches to close his eyes, the horse will ride, thunder, the snake in fear will close its mouth, you have to shoot, swallowed people will come out of its mouth, then insert an arrow, enter the snake, cut off the heart; the snake's upper lip is flush with the mountain in the west, the lower lip is flush with the mountain on east; when O. pulled out his heart, blood flowed, causing a flood; when he reached the yurt, O. lost consciousness; the old woman tells her daughter to throw a snake's heart into the abyss, replace the bull with her heart; at home Long advises a woman to feed a snake's heart to her husband - it's poisonous, he will die; O. is not dead; Long advises to look at the patient again, ask the brain of a 12-headed black mangus; O. goes to a black yurt, there are other girls and old woman; old woman tells the girl to cook a bull for a guest, keep her brain separate; the horse trampled on the mangus, O. collected her brain; the old woman tells her daughter to replace the mangus brain with the brain of a bull; the wife only pretended to eat brain; gave her husband a drink to the point of insensitivity; Long got out of the chest, cut O. into pieces; a mare, a peacock, a parrot and both dogs grabbed and carried away pieces; the wife gave birth first to son O., and then to son Dolny; animals protect O.'s severed body, Naran Gho (daughter of an old woman from a white yurt) found them, his mother gave a magic object to revive O.; marries him a daughter, gives him a new name Shudurg Mergen Chagadai Khan (Chagadai Mergen); The long one flew to heaven; the World Cup (i.e. former O.) arrived when only his son was at home; opened up to him; took the animal's meat out of the cauldron, cooked Long's son; asks his wife if she wants to live with five jings or with to those she does not love; she: with jings; he tied her to five horses; when the World Cup mare started, her son, on whom Long was sitting in the sky, rushed carrying a rider; S. cut it into 5 pieces and cooked it; lives with wife, her mother and son; by order of Hormusta, he became the son of Genghis, became emperor]: Mostaert 1937, No. 1 in Solovyov 2014; Oirats (olets, Huhunor) [Donchi-molum-erdeni is 721 years old, he has a wife and her younger sister; he won, maimed and threw the monstrous hero Shara-bokö into the pit; the women found him and secretly got him; the wife pretended to be sick: you need the heart of a blue heavenly bull; D. s Kharchin and Barchin dogs and birds Kharidyk and Nestyk came to the blue bull; consistently says that the bull does not like horns, and he does not like a hat, a bull has hooves, and he has shoes, etc.; takes off his hat, shoes, etc., and the bull, horns, hooves, dies; D. took his heart; animals that came from the bull's womb roamed for three months; the girls Nogon-Dareke and Tsagan-Darek replaced the bull's heart with the heart of a sheep; his wife and her sister poisoned D.; his two horses, dogs and birds came to those girls; the girls revived D. with the heart of a bull; he came unrecognized; killed S. with an arrow; cut both women, tied pieces to the tails of foals, and began to live with N. and Ts.]: Potanin 1893, No. 9:157-160.

Western Siberia. Muncie: Kannisto 1956, No. 11 (b. Pelymka) [the king has a son, his wife gave birth, the baby was in bed with his parents, he fell asleep; the king ordered her son to be cut off for this; the mother took her son's body, came to the hut on the seashore; saw how the snake took the grass, the serpent revived the deceased; the woman revived her son with the same grass; (did the son grow up?) ; the son comes to an empty house, there is food and wine; returns to his mother; so three times; the third time the owner comes, the young man hits him, he hides in a hole; the young man brings his mother to live in this house; she (became snake's mistress), ties his sleeping son with copper, iron wire, every time says that he tries his power; pretends to be sick, asks for living and dead water; he goes to the old woman, she sends him to the other, second to third, each gives a horse; on the last, the young man jumps over the fence, there are heads on stakes; he takes Marpita prikasna tievitsa, her father Jīki Pokān Pochotyr is chasing, young man throws him a barrel of wine, he drinks; the young man comes back, cuts off his head, brings his mother; the serpent tells her about it; the mother gave her son a drink, tied him with a rope, they blinded him, hung him upside down by the shore seas; the wife sent the magpie and the heron to reach for her eyes; while the magpie screamed in the fir, the crow broke the window, brought her eyes, the wife put them in to her husband, poured them with dead and living water; the son returned, killed the mother and the snake]: 118 -126; (cf. Soldatova 2008, No. 11 (Berezovsky district) [a woman without a husband gave birth to a boy with wings, this is Tovlyng ("winged") Pastor; he flew to Berezovo, brought bread to his mother; mother took her stepfather; TP and stepfather drove a six-legged moose, TP cut off his two legs: when there are people, they will not catch up with the six-legged; TP returned to his mother without a stepfather; she began to hang the remnants of yarn and any rubbish on her son to make him heavier; TP began to cross the river, the ice broke, it drowned]: 115-116); northern Khanty: Baulo et al. 2005, No. 1 (son) [Porne has a daughter, Moshne has a daughter and a son; P. calls M. to roll down the mountain, puts a knife on the mountain, carries the corpse home, eats; promises her daughter that she will eat M.'s children; M.'s children run away, throw a firestone (fire to the sky), a comb (forest), a sharpener (river); P. cannot cross it; contrary to the ban, the brother drinks out of a puddle, sinks into the ground, his sister can only grab his eye; touches a rotten birch stump, a new P. comes out from under it; offers to swim, puts on the girl's clothes, gives her hers; both they come to the house, P. marries the son of Voshan Kurtan, the old man, the young M. for the son of Tonton, the old man; the daughters-in-law go home; where his brother is missing, M. sees the house, there is a woman; his brother comes, M. gives him his eye; sending her sister home, the brother tells her not to look back; she looked back when her eyes fell, those deer were gone, the others were following her; argish P. was not carried by deer, but by fish, she lets them go into the lake; at night P. pokes her husband a nail in his ear, he dies; M. hears P. singing about it, talking about it; the nail is removed, the man comes to life, P. was torn apart by deer]: 236-239; Steinitz 2014, No. 28 (Sherkal dialect) [husband and wife bought a toy for their son and daughter - an iron horse; the horse destroyed the city and killed the couple; the children hid under the floor; the horse asks where they are; the comb, the flint, the skin scraper do not answer, it breaks them; leaves; the cow tells her to sit on it, takes her to the sea, tells her to slaughter her, wrap her intestines, climb into her stomach; the horse chases, the sister throws flint (fire), the crest (forest), the whetstone (the mountain), again flint (the horse burned down); brother and sister killed a cow, woke up in the house, there is a lot of food; they live on an island; a dog jumps out of a ball of foam; tells his brother that his sister will send him for fox milk; sister sends - she will recover from milk; the fox gave milk: if my sister does not drink, give it to my cub; my sister did not drink, the fox drank; the same with the blue fox; the dog to the young man: the sister hid the iron the horse is under your bed, lie down on the side; next time, milk and baby wolverine, you have to lie back to bed, and under the bunk there will be an iron horse; then a wolf; a bear; a horse under the threshold ; in front of the doorstep; the sister sends him into the house for seven locks; there the old man lets the animals in, closes the door; the young man returns alone; the sister tells him to wash in the bathhouse, and then the iron horse will kill him; the bird reports three times that animals are digging an underground passage; animals came and killed an iron horse; brother nailed his sister's hands to the floor, vessels near his eyes: if necessary, his vessel must be filled with tears, and if necessary, his vessel must be filled with tears, and if the iron horse was hers; the brother married the king's daughter; took his sister to him; she put the iron horse's tooth in his bed, his brother died; he was buried in an iron coffin; the animals dug, broke it; the dog found crow's nest: bring the grass of life, otherwise I'll eat eggs; the crow brought, the dog crushed one egg, restored it with grass; revived the young man; he let the animals go, left only the dog; tied his sister to two sledges, tore it with horses; threw one leg into the forest, a swamp willow grew out of it, the other on a hill, a forest tree grew; the brother lives well (with his wife)], 29 (son dialect) [the king made an iron one for his son and daughter a toy horse; she ate the city and the king and the queen; she tells her brother and sister not to be afraid; they filled the trough with wine, the horse is drunk, they sat on a donkey, the horse is chasing; across the river a donkey tells him to kill him, A dog jumped out of his belly; they came to the cannibals, hid in the barn; the cannibals climbed there, the prince killed them; one robber remained under the floor; invites the prince's sister to pretend to be sick, send a brother to an iron wolf for milk; the she-wolf gave milk and a cub; the same was a bear; a lion; now the prince has a dog, a wolf, a bear, a lion; the sister asks for flour from a barn with seven sections; The prince went out, the animals remained in the barn; the cannibal robber tells us to wash in the bathhouse; the bird reports three times that the animals are about to get out; the animals tore the robber; the prince: when the age of puppeteers comes ( people), let there be nothing so terrible {in the sense of monsters}; tied his sister to horse riding: if she needs him, let her drink a barrel of clean water, if she does not need it, a barrel of alkali; the prince put one boot on the road, then another; the coachman stopped, went to get the first boot, the prince took the royal daughter to him; freed his sister, who drank a barrel of alkali; prepared his brother's bed, put a needle into his ear, and the brother died; the animals dug up the body, pulled out the needle, the wife is happy; the sister was put on a pole, shot with guns]: 169-185, 185-196; Eastern Khanty (b. Vasyugan) [the son is gone, a daughter was born; the old woman gave birth to a girl with golden hair; the old man tells her to be taken to a place where people's heads are cut off; the old woman carried the girl, met her son, ordered not to kill, to bring father a spoonful of dog blood; the son's wife does not want his sister, he built his sister a separate house; the sister hears the noise in the underground, Savs-iki went out, she began to live with him, he offers to lime his brother; let him pretend sick, send for bear milk; the bear gives milk and a button from her ear; the same is a moose; the buttons turned into a bear and a calf; brother overheard S. talking to his sister, shot both of him heads, burned his body, ashes turned into midges and mosquitoes; sister found S.'s teeth, put her brother in his pillow, at night his teeth crawled into his ear, he died; the coffin was placed in the seventh room behind seven doors; dog, the bear cub and the calf broke the doors, the dog pulled his teeth out of his ear, the young man came to life; his sister died of fear]: Lukina 1990, No. 89:237-239; Southern Khanty [the hunter's dogs are bear and wolf; when leaving, he does not tell take revenge on the floor and scratch her head; she does this, filled the dogs ears with tin, put them on a chain; her lover, a seven-headed menkv, comes; then chases her brother, who climbs the larch; the menkv cuts , tired; the hare offers to chop it for him, the larch becomes stronger than it was; the same fox brought land and sand, the larch has become even stronger; the same otter; the brother asks the sparrow to call his dogs; the bear and the wolf do not hear; the raven hear; the bear fell off the chain, helped the wolf fall off; after a three-year battle, the wolf, bear and their owner killed the menqua, burned the corpse; the prince gave the hunter the youngest of 7 daughters; sister put a menqua tooth in bed; the hunter was buried, the animals dug his, pulled out his tooth, tore his sister to pieces]: Patkanov 1999, No. 3:328-330; Southern Selkups (Markovo, Ket, 1980) [Itte lived with her sister, Puneguse began to visit her, they decided to kill I.; her sister pretended to be sick; asks to get a revitalizing putur ointment from the bear's hat, and if he does not, from the hat of a one-eyed giant (Oxai-Vine); I. knocked down the bear, he asks him not to kill, gives him a basket, and his son in it; helps to put a noose on O., he gives a basket, his daughter in it; both warn that I.'s sister lives with P. and they want to kill I.; sister sends I. for putur to the cave behind 7 stone doors, which will press down, in it the king of the Cave Kon; I. opens a basket on the way, including Y.'s boyfriend and bride; they say he opened them too much early; they open 6 doors, the seventh pressed down; I. got out, but lost strength, the boy and the bride remained in the cave; I. came to his sister, she told him to undress, cook it; bird: take your time, guy with the bride will now get out; the bride comes up, smears I. with confusion, his strength returns; I. goes fishing, the wife advises to take an assistant guy, I. does not take it; his sister and P. ate him; the wife tells the mice to find bones, revives I.; he goes to fight with P.; sister sprinkles ash under P.'s feet, I. ice; I. ate again, the bones were thrown into the water; he swallowed the burbot, broke P.'s top, hit the top of I.; the wife sent her son, he brought burbot, she revived I. from the bones, but did not fully recover; burbot let him go above the top, he is now cunning; I. fights again, sister and son came running, stabbed P. and sister I.; her planted on an eastern spruce, it on a western spruce; when the wind from the east, my sister reaches P., will not reach it; when the western one, P. reaches for her]: Tuchkova, Wagner-Nagy 2015, No. 36:152-155.

Eastern Siberia. Yakuts (summary of the archival text, place of recording not specified; central?) [the old man cuts an ice-hole, a half-bear half-wolf jumps out, demands that his son and daughter be handed over; the old man sends them to the ice-hole, the abaas carry them away; the bull, the horse, try to save, the abaas catch up, return them; they are carried away by a deer; When the Abaas girl catches up, they throw a comb (forest), an igloo (iron wall), a handkerchief (river); they move to the other side, run away; the deer dies, tells him to throw his ribs, they turn into a house, a barn ; the head is the stove, the lungs are a guard dog, the heart and liver are wolves; while the brother is hunting, the sister hides the abaas, digs a hole under her brother's bed; the brother kills his sister, leaves; meets three companions; each cooks one by one, a man in Doha squirrel does not let him cook dinner; a young man defeats it, descends to the lower world, takes wealth and women, gives them to his brothers; comes to an old man and an old woman, tells everyone stick to their beds; sticks them off for a promise to marry him; marries, lives richly]: Ergis 1967b, No. 127:190; Ingarigdov Evenks (Barguzinsky Range): Vasilevich 1936, No. 50 [y Muchuna's elder brother and younger Bercoltun is a six-headed sister; she decided to marry the demon Chulugda; sent them to bring a bear, they brought them; she drank them drunk, put them in two iron boxes, drowned; brothers woke up, broke boxes, went to the ground; killing larger birds and animals, making increasingly powerful onions; came to Manga (=H.), killed him and his six-headed sister], 51 [eight-headed the sister gave three brothers drunk, let them raft along Lake Baikal; three years later, the youngest woke up, woke up Bercoltun, then woke up the third; found a farce, killed his sister]: 66-67, 67; Amur Evenki (Tynda) [sister asks her brothers to catch her bunny, takes off his skin, writes a letter on it asking Kurengoy to marry her, kill his wife, descends the river in a box; tells the brothers that the bunny carried away the hawk; K. kills his wife, comes to the girl, blocking the exit with a net; the younger brother flies out with a fly, the elder gets stuck with a butterfly; he is killed, one eye is pulled out; the youngest finds the grave of his wife K. pulls the woman out of her, she finds, pulls out, revives her older brother; she lacks an eye, she inserts the eye of a beast in him; brothers meet, take as friends 1) a stone-thrower, 2) a drinker the river; K. gives them water in the house, locks them, sets them on fire; the drunken river is flooded with a fire, the stone-thrower knocks the door; the brothers kill K. and his sister; the younger brother flies out with a fly, the elder gets stuck with a butterfly; his kill, c]: Vasilevich 1966, No. 17:272-276; Evens (Olsky District of Magadan Oblast) [a man does not kill a duck, it promises to help; his dog tells you to see what is crawling on it; cut it into six parts; a man presses a flea, a dog dies immediately, he cuts it, these parts are eaten by two bears, two wolves, two foxes, become helpers; Cholare with one hand, one leg, one eye in the man's sister asks the man's forehead how she crosses the river; the girl: the brother has a handkerchief, he will wave - land will form; C. asks to steal the handkerchief; she steals, C. crosses, marries; persuades him to send brother to the barns behind the yucola; the barn doors cannot be opened, bears, wolves, foxes are sitting in the barns; when a person returns, he sees C.; he tells him to wash himself in the bathhouse first, then he will eat him; animals tell him to call him to the bathhouse C. himself; they tear him apart, the man burns the remains, leaves his sister tied to a tree, two cauldrons under her eyes; if the right one is full, then she mourns her brother, if the left is C.; leaves, marries; when the ropes are rotten, the sister picks up C.'s teeth, comes to her brother, puts his teeth in bed; he dies; the sister offers to burn the deceased, the wife to leave the coffin in the tree, bury the animals nearby; foxes, bear break through, duck pushes the coffin off the tree, the wolf brings live water, the rest lick the owner's wound, he comes to life]: Novikova 1987:66-69 (=1958:60-65).

Amur - Sakhalin. Nanais [the boy looks through the window to the old man, who eats a man; crushed the old man with firewood, brought his mother to live there; the mother secretly freed the old man and became his wife; he advises to pretend sick, send your son for medicine; 1) the boa constrictor eats snake's children, bring snake skin (kills the boa constrictor, the snake gives her); bear hair (takes out a splinter, the bear gives her hair); 3) iron dog hair ( removes a man's skull from her throat); the dog comes with a young man, eats his mother and old man, turns into a beauty, brings many people, the young man marries her]: Kile 1996, No. 27:291-301; nivhi : Bereznitsky 2005, № (?) [the older shaman sister tells her brother that she is sick, sends him to the iron larch to ask the cuckoo how to recover; on the way, the tit, the kuksha warn the young man that his sister has sent him into the trap of hell, to marry the son of the master of heaven; he does not believe, sticks to a stone at the butt of the larch; a devil with two and a devil with three heads bring him inside the rock; he is teased like a bear; an iron rat gnaws his fetters, he comes out of the cliff, kills a pig, pulls out a box with eggs in it, presses them, killing the devils; frees the daughter of the water owner captured by them; flies to heaven, kills his sister and her husband; when he returns, shoots a cuckoo, she turns into a woman, he marries her]; Panfilov 1965:230-240; Pevnov 2010, No. 5 [sister made a bow, brother hunted, got nothing; sister: when you go around seven capes, there will be a stream flowing with blood; brother is walking; at the capes, a crow, a kuksha, a fox regret his imminent death; he lay down in a recess in the size of his figure, could not get up; cilantro flew in the form of a bird, took him away, his cilantro ate it; the crow took the little finger bone, brought it to the two sisters, who rocked it in the cradle, the young man was born again; he came to the old woman, who said that his sister had a fiance; the young man nailed his sister to the wall]: 115-119.

SV Asia. Forest Yukaghirs (p. Ridiculous Verkhnekolymsky District) [the old man drinks water from the ice-hole, the fabulous old man (SS) grabs his beard, lets him go when he promises to give him his two children; the old man and the old woman run away, hide their children under the floor; only the jar answers the UK where they are; he asks the children to remove his lice; these are mice and ermines; the foal takes the children, the SS regurgitates the ax, throws it, kills the foal; next time children takes the calf away; tells him to kill a louse, he will die, make a fence out of his skin and hooves, lie in the middle; brother and sister wake up in the house, there are also two dogs on an iron rope; brother hunts with them, the sister takes the SS as her husband, hides it in the house; both think how to kill her brother; the SS promises to spit in the food to poison him; the dog hears, warns the brother; the dog kills the SS, the brother kills the sister with an arrow]: Nikolaeva et al. 1989 (1), No. 25:79-83; coastal Koryaks (villages. Palana, Western 1958. Zhukova) [the old man puts a chiruch (fishing gear), falls to the water to drink, he was pressed against the sand; let him go when he promised to give the children; sent his son and daughter to the chiruch at home; they ended up at the kele; they they try to leave on their own; they ask for a deer, he takes them away; the bear is the same; every time Kele catches up and returns; a pot-bellied calf offers to take them, Kele kicks him sleepily, the calf flies to the sky descends overseas; turns into a house; in one room two dogs become friends with her brother; sister sees a kele on the other side, throws a comb, it turns into a bridge, the kele crosses, becomes the girl's lover; on his advice, she serves her brother poisoned food, the dogs splashed a bowl; the wolf gives the young man two cubs as companions, the bear two cubs, the fox goes with the young man himself; Kele asks to heat the iron bath, the Fox tells not to heat it hot; the young man manages to get out of it, the dogs stayed inside, but broke through the iron door; Kele washed himself, it turns out that dogs, wolves, bears tore it; the corpse was burned along with bathhouse; sister finds kele's fang, put her brother in bed, he died; Fox wolves, bears pull the fang out of the young man's body, he comes to life; brother hooked his sister with a fang, burned it in the house]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 137:422-430.

(Wed. Big Pool. The woman's relative is the Serpent; he lives nearby; she comes to scold him, but their meeting ends in copulation; the doorway in the Snake's house disappears; through a hole in the roof, the younger brother first, and Then they both see lovers; they kill them. See Motive F30. North Payutes in Owens Valley; Southern Payutes (Shivwitz).