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A man tells the boy's sister, wife or mother to be killed. The young man does not allow such an order to be carried out, and then repents of it.

Oromo [sister], kabila [wife; mother], Algerian Arabs [wife], Egyptian Arabs [sister], Mehri [mother], jibbali [sister], Socotra [sister], Nepali [wife], Sinhalese [sister], condas [ sister], (Greeks), Crimean Tatars [sister], Dargin [sister], Azerbaijanis [sister], Turks [sister], (Persians [sister]), Baluchi [sister], Pashtuns [sister], Kazakhs [sister], Eastern Khanty [sister].

Sudan - East Africa. 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 ram, too bring 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 exterminated sorcerers and began to live with his sister in the house, but one sorcerer survived and persuaded the girl to kill her brother to marry her; she pretended to be sick, she would be cured by witchcraft food; the young man came to the sorcerer (the other), 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; brother asked him to tie his body to the mule and let the mule go; 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.

North Africa. 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 fire, comes to 99 Wuarssen (devas), who cook 99 dead people in a cauldron, offer to remove the cauldron from the fire; the young man picks up and knocks the cauldron, kills the devas, throws him into the hole; brings his wife into the house of the devas, tells them not to go into one the room, goes hunting; the wife comes in, sees that one dev is only injured, heals him, converges with him; the young man comes to the cannibal teriel, puts on her chest, now she is his mother, promises to help; to get rid of a 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 is furious throw horns, fly across seven seas, fall on an apple tree, pick apples; on an apple tree, an eagle's nest, give meat to the chicks, the eagle will bring it back; when he returns, the young man gave 4 apples to T. and 4 to his wife; dev to the woman: tell your husband that you are afraid, if he is not weak, let him tie himself; when he can't break his fetters, I'll get out and kill him; he tears all his fetters; T. young man: they will kill you, ask me to put your bones in a bag, load it on donkey, he will come, I will revive you; when he returned to his wife, she offered to tie him with her hair, he could not escape, the devil killed him and ate him, but the bones were sent on a donkey; T. folded her bones, covered him with hair and silk, poured milk, his body recovered, she revived him with a rejuvenating apple; allowed him to return home when he could easily lift 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 wife sink into the ground, he cuts their heads off; kills their deva son; wants to return to his father, T. gives a box (not open on the way) and a black man; he opens 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 her for 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 boy's father; he goes with the warriors to take his wife, but the black man does not let him in, kills everyone; the young man hears the old eagle talking to chicks; the old one has lost his feathers, asks to cover him; chicks: suddenly our father will treat us like a man with a son under a tree; eagle: let the young man rub his eyes with the leaves of a 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 with blood, blood will be shed, he will fall; witnesses: this man killed a black man; the father hands over power to his son without knowing who it is; before that he asks the wise men if the father can marry his daughter-in-law; 6 say yes, seventh, what is not; the father orders him to be killed, the young man kills him, orders him to kill a Jew and punish 6 wise men]: 11-24; Dermenghem 1945 [the man is sure that the boy born to his wife is not from him; decides to kill wife, but still hesitates; when the boy is 10 years old and strong as 20 years old, the man locked his wife, promised to kill him in the evening; the son released his mother, rode with her to the mountains; there he killed six cannibals, and their leader did not have a neck cut them; threw them into a hole, told my mother not to look there; ceriel lives in the forest with a goat, who has black milk, because she feeds on coals, I am afraid to graze because of predators; a young man exterminates predators, ceriel grateful; the mother has found the ogre, cured her, 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; she 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 him 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 him from the wall his sword, killed the ogre and mother]: 69-75; the Arabs of eastern Algeria (Souf) [the king keeps his seven sons in the palace, wanting to protect them from all the bad things in the world; they are given boneless meat, inshell almonds, skinless watermelons; once 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 world; told the maid to tell everything - about birth, love, death; sent to his father asking him to let them go; the king married sons; daughters-in-law annoyed him, he decided to get rid of them; the Jew advised him to be sick, let his sons bring blood wives; six wives were killed, and younger Ali brought gazelle blood, ran away with his wife; they came to the house of 40 blind gulas; they made 40 tortillas and 40 servings of meat; Ali quietly took one; the ghuli got into a fight, Ali them killed and threw it into the well; the wife heard a groan, pulled out and hid one ghoul who had just been wounded; the ghoul advised me to send Ali for golden rejuvenating apples; the old woman teaches Ali: we must slip through between the moving mountains; having 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 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 She put the body in a bag, attached his horse to the saddle and told the horse to ride to where he came from; the old woman put the pieces together, but her heart and liver were missing; she sent the cat to the ghoul, she 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, who handed him the throne]: Scelles-Millie 1963:313-316; the Arabs of Egypt [father died; three brothers built a 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 you decrease in size, then he is dead; the oncoming one teaches him to wait for the nightingale to return to the cage and fall asleep, not to show him earlier; 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); the 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 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; he 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.

Western Asia. Mehri: Jahn 1902, No. 7 [the sultan told his five sons that he would kill their mother because she took the Jew as a lover; the youngest son Muhammad warned his mother, they were gone; there was no fire, M. saw fire in the distance, Seven people sat there, cooked a camel, told him to cut the meat; he took his share and the fire, but on the way the rain put out the fire; M. returned, they were angry, M. killed them, and lived with his mother in their castle; alone the 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 a garden where lions and snakes for olives; his mother is sick, olives will 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 go of the chained lion, took olives, brought it to his mother; she sent him to bring clothes; he on horseback he arrived to the place where the Sultan's daughter was given to be eaten by a 7-eyed, 7-horned snake; killed a snake, breaking its horns with stones, gouging out his eyes with a spear; put his head on the mountain; sultan: whoever takes off his head killed 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, they release; M. kills the demon, the two children that his mother M. gave birth to him, throws the mother herself away; under the guise of a dervish, she comes to the Sultan, who gives her youngest daughter; she sees M. hiding his horse and sword; throws lemon at him; other daughters married wealthy merchants; the Sultan has eye pain, wild goat milk will cure him; M. milks a wild goat and hyena, gives his older sons-in-law hyena milk, 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 hand, tied her with a handkerchief; the slave recognized the handkerchief; the sultan saw stamps on his older sons-in-law; made M. sultan, became a vizier himself]: 21-37; Müller 1909 [two girls did not save the herd from wolves and were expelled from the tribe; one of them becomes the wife of the ruler of the country where they came; her husband raises sons, but kills newborn daughters; when leaving, the ruler tells his wife to continue doing what he did, but she kept her daughter by giving it to her sister; the ruler revealed the deception, the daughter ran away with their brother; another ruler wants to marry a girl, they decide to kill her brother; an old woman picked him up and left; (the informant got confused and continued to tell other stories)]: 20-28; Stroomer 1999 [the fortuneteller told the ruler that he would have a daughter who would betray him; when leaving, the ruler tells his wife to kill the child if a girl is born; the wife secretly raised her daughter dressed as a boy; The governor found out about this and promised to kill the girl tomorrow; at night she told her brother about it and they ran away; one day she was met by a local ruler; she fell in love with him and said that her brother was interfering with their marriage; she fraudulently tied his brother, and the ruler cut off his penis with his men; the snake licked the wound, and two angels restored his penis; the young man came to the city where his sister was married to the ruler, hired a merchant and married his daughter; the people who scoped him told the girl's father that his son-in-law was a castrate; it turns out that this is not the case, his accusers have been executed; the brother forgave his sister, but she leaves the palace and lives in brother's house; tries to poison him, but a magic cat saves him; he returns to his father and tells him what happened]: 62-67; jibbali [when leaving, the sultan tells his son to kill a child whom a wife must give birth 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 the chickens away 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, an old woman picks him up; 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 his 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 a castrato; he promises to execute the infidel and his wife if it is a lie, or let him and his son-in-law execute, if true; in the evening, the wife lets the young man down the window, he leaves; three angels promise to restore his courage if he He will give 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 regenerate; at night he sleeps with his wife; cuts off the head of his sister and the infidel; the wife gives birth to three children; when he divides them, he cuts one, leaves, taking half; the angels call out to him, unite the halves, lets him go to his wife with three children; all good]: Müller 1907, No. 22:102-110; Socotra [the wife gave birth to a son and a daughter after 3 years; the father killed the newborn and drank her blood; the son grew up, the mother is pregnant again; the father leaves, tells the son if a girl will be born, kill her, collect her blood in a vessel, show him when he will return; the brother took the girl to the old woman, and collected the cat's blood in the vessel; gave the vessel to her father, went to the place where he left his sister; she grew up, swam in the river, the water took her hair away; the sultan picked her up, began looking for a girl to marry her, the old woman said that she had a girl; her brother refused to give her, the sultan sent soldiers, they They took his sister and thought that his brother had been killed; 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 have let my sister grow up]: Müller 1905, No. 3:57-63.

South Asia. Nepali [the king learns that water will appear in a dug well only if a man who has 32 happy marks on his body is sacrificed; this is only himself, his son and daughter-in-law; the son learns 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 a doe, defeats an ogre, locks him in the basement; feeds his wife with fallow deer meat, brings him to palace; she opens the basement; the cannibal advises to treat the sick, let the husband bring 1) the tigress's milk; the cubs promise to help, ask their mother for milk for the day, give the prince; 2) part of the monster's fang (so that Grind the fang into powder), which has one fang to heaven and the other to hell; the prince hides in his fur, stabs with a sword; the monster agrees to go to the palace, hit the goal with his fang, a 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 her heart and liver into the river; the princess finds them; in a dream, the prince asks her to do it his figure is made of cow dung, put his heart and liver in her; 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 an unfaithful wife is killed, in Water appeared in the well]: Heunemann 1980, No. 8:84-91; Sinhalese (Western Province) [Parker 1914b, No. 243:293-298; the king orders to raise the son but bury the baby alive if a daughter is born; the son is already grew 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; konda (kuttia) [the pregnant wife falls ill, the husband received medicine from the tiger on the condition that the tiger will give him the child if there is a girl; the woman gives birth first to a daughter, then a son; the parents leave the daughter is a tiger, but the girl's brother kills him; they leave, cutting off and taking the tiger's ear and tail; they turn into two new tigers; they are joined by a rat, then an asur; they live together; the Raja falls in love with a girl; she says she must get the consent of her brother, tigers, rats, asura; Raja suggests calling her brother, he will be swallowed by fish; the fish swallows the young man, but asur drinks water in the pool, friends find There is a living young man in the belly of a fish; he kills his sister; the fly replies to the tigers that it eats a drop of its blood; tigers decide that human flesh should be even tastier, become cannibals]: Elvin 1954, No. 116:410-413.

(Wed. The Balkans. The Greeks [when she dies, the father tells his son and daughter not to do either evil or good; the girl saw a baby crying, persuaded her brother to pick up the child, although he did not want to do it; raised a girl married her brother; one day, when he returned, he hugged his sister first and then his wife; she hated her sister-in-law; let her eat snake eggs, her stomach began to swell; the brother sent a servant to kill her sister, but he just left her in the mountains; the shepherd took her home; hung her over the cauldron in which milk was boiling, the snakes came out; she came to the king and began to tell her own story; she said three times: If I am telling the truth, let the tree branch will break; the branch breaks every time; the king's wife was tied to the horse's tail; the sister married the shepherd's son]: Legrand 1881:227-231).

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 his daughter; they achieved their goal; the young man asked permission to go to kill his sister - otherwise he would die; chopped his sister's head into pieces, let the robber go]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 5; Dargins [father killed daughters; the son saved the newborn, left with her, she grew up immediately; they began to live in the house of seven days, they came, the young man killed them; the sister saved one wounded, began to live with him; gave birth to a baby, threw them to his 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, not to wear shirts; the brother almost died when he touched the poisoned gate, but the boy brought him medicine; brother killed sister and ajdaha; calls sister's son younger brother; when leaving, orders to come to the rescue if a green flower opens, not a red flower; kills the seven-headed ajdah, who has closed the water, receives for this girl; wins a hero, his wife's cousin, marries her younger brother]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 275-278; Azerbaijanis (Shushi District of Elisavetpol Gubernia) [King Melik-Nadir orders the killing of daughters; when leaving, he orders son Ghazanfar to kill his sister if a daughter is born; he felt sorry for the girl; MN returned and ordered them to be executed, and the nobleman persuaded them to be sent to the desert. G. kills seven divas, throws him into the well; his sister throws leftovers there, one diva survived, became strong; agrees with sister G. to lime him - pretend to be sick, ask him to bring 1) melon with diva gardens; 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; the heroic wife tells him to feed the terrible dog, greet the bridge; the seven-headed diva tells the bridge and the dog to stop the kidnapper, they refuse; the wife changed the apples; 3) the sheep's fat tail with branched horns, which lives in the north; G. brought it, but his wife replaced the usual, magic fat tail kept it; the sister suggests that G. tie his hands to test his strength; when G. cannot tear the rope, the divas chopped 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 and revived with medicine 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 a giant as his companions Kara-Kulamali, who killed all the babies in the village; he smashes the army, gives beautiful G., warns not to step on the carpet that his father will spread (he himself wants to take possession of the beauty), not to untie the old man's hands are a seven-headed diva; G. untied the old man, he took the beauty; G. called K., who brought him to the beautiful woman, she found out that the diva's life in the bottle, G. broke it; the father sends a vizier from G. destroy G.; in the desert, the vizier pulls out G.'s eyes in exchange for water; K. saved him (two pigeons: you can restore your eyesight with my pen), burned his father and vizier; G. married a beautiful woman]: Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 13:109-120 (=Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:110-124); Turks [when the king's daughter was 3 years old, he ordered his son to kill her and bring her cup of blood; the young man felt sorry for the girl, gave her upbringing to an old woman, brought her father rabbit blood; he suspects deception, predicts misfortune for his son; the king is blind, he will be healed by a precious box from the land of fairies; the son went to get the box; his sister followed him; reluctantly, he planted her with them on horseback; they came to an empty city; the residents were eaten by a giant, a black Arab; a young man defeated him, hung him from a tree; planted three cypresses at the spring; his sister freed the Arab, they became lovers; the sister fed the Arab with the game that her brother brought; asks the Arab to kill his brother; the Arab is afraid of him; invites the girl to pretend to be sick and send her brother for black and light grapes by 9 Arab brothers and mother; the young man fed the fox, which advises him to approach the giantess from behind and venerate her breast; the giants gave grapes; next time: lion's milk in a lion's skin wineskin; fox: go to a pond where lions and their mother drink; clean the pond, pull out a splinter from the lioness, she will give milk; the lioness allowed a wineskin to be made from the skin of a lion cub; gives the young man two lion cubs; an Arab tells his mistress to pour lead into the ears of the young lions brought in; but one shook off the lead and kept hearing; the Arab tells his mistress to hit his brother from behind with an ax when he starts fighting him; when he sees an Arab and his sister, the young man climbed on one of the cypresses he planted called lions; when an Arab cut down one cypress, the young man moved to the second, then to the third; the lions heard the third call, tore the Arab to pieces; the brother cut his sister to pieces; He sent 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; it is from the mother of giants; the young man managed to take it out of its scabbard; fox: not give the sword until you get the box, and then take the sword; asks her to wave the sword over her head; the fox became a young man; it was his sword that was stolen by the fairy, turning the young man into a fox; leaving the sword to the young man, prince returned to his father and he saw the light]: Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 10:90-103.

Iran - Central Asia. Pashtuns [the king orders to kill all his newborn daughters; his son Shera once persuaded his father to keep the girl Mótí alive, but he warned that his son would regret it; left Sh. and M. are in the care of a nanny and expelled from the country; they grew up; M. complains of loneliness; S. brings her a deer; the deer sees the prince, who leads him to M., they fell in love; locking her brother in in the room and taking his gun and horse, M. rode to the prince; when free, S. decided to kill his sister; dressed up as a fakir, came to the prince to treat the sick horse; it turned out to be his horse, which, at the sight of the owner he recovered immediately; the prince ordered him to repair his gun as well; it turned out to be Sh.; when he saw M., he shot it, told the prince everything, and he admitted that he was right]: Thorburn 1876:180-182; Baluchi [at the king's son Malek-Mamad and 40 pregnant wives; when 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 their heads 39 girls, but gave his sister to an old woman; the shah came back and drank blood; someone said 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 sister; defeated and killed a white diva; then met another, threw him into the well; sister MM found him, cured him, made him a lover; the diva advised MM to lime, sending a white diva from the garden for grapes, and to do this, 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 a diva; MM met a girl who was given to the dragon in exchange into the 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 take it right away her wife; when MM returned to her sister, the div advised her to tie him with a rope out of her hair to find out his strength; the diva pulled out MM's eyes, her sister left 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 was diva MM told him everything, he promised to help him; MM cut a diva with a sword and brought his son home]: Zarubin 1949, No. 12:98-119; (cf. Persians: Osmanov 1987 [Shah, when leaving, tells his sons that if their mother gives birth to a daughter, let them kill a child; so sorry for the baby, they bring pigeon blood to their father, he drank it; a girl under 7 years old is hidden in basement; one day she sees a ray of sunshine, thinks it's a coin; the brothers took her sister for a ride, the padishah suspected something, made her tell everything; drove his wife and children into the desert; repented, saw there is a big rose framed by 8 little ones in the desert; he held out his hand, heard a voice: he drove me away, don't give it, rose! I understood everything, repented, roses turned into wife and children, he returned them, everyone is happy]: 228-230; Rosenfeld 1956 [Shah, when leaving, tells his son that if his mother gives birth to a daughter, let him kill the child; he feels sorry for his son sister, he brings pigeon blood to her father; the girl grows up without seeing people; the nurse brings her boneless meat; one day there is a bone in it, the girl throws it against the wall, a hole forms, she sees the world; gets out from room to garden; the shah sees her, wants to marry; the son says that this is his daughter; the Shah orders to execute both, but the vizier persuaded them to expel them; at the fork there is a stone, the inscription tells the travelers to disperse, take the leaves trees treat any diseases, cross water barriers dry; the sister puts on lamb skin, looks like a lamb; the man takes him away; the lamb helps cure the Shah's daughter; tells the owner to let go him in another city; the Shah's son disappeared there; a lamb is watching a black maid, who keeps the young man in the crypt, beats him; the prince was released, the maid was tied by her braids to the tail of a mule; the lamb wants to go to the bathhouse with the Shah's wife, who hits him on the head with a comb; the girl comes to the bathhouse in her real form; the Shah's wife wants her to marry her son; she replies that she lives in the Comb quarter, hitting him on the head ; next time the lamb follows the Shah's wife for engagement to a rich house, she stabs him with a pin; the same, the Bulavka quarter, stabbing his head; before the holiday in another house, the prince spies, sees how a girl takes off her lamb skin, bathes; throws a ring into her clothes; demands that a tray of food be placed on her lamb's head, sent to his room; everything opens; the girl asks hang her portrait at the city gate; her brother sees him, cries, he is brought to his sister; he marries the prince's sister, the prince marries a girl hiding under the skin of a ram]: 73-83).

Turkestan. Kazakhs [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; the father sends an army, K. sneezes, the army is defeated; the sister picks up the wounded, makes him a secret lover; the brother leaves the born son on the way, he picks him up; when the lover and sister are going to kill K., the boy stops father, K. kills sister and lover]: Daurenbekov 1979:223-224.

Western Siberia. Eastern Khanty (b. Vasyugan) [the son left, 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.