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K102a2. A mother seeks to kill her son, (ATU 590).

.11. (.13.) .14.-.17.21.23.27.-.35.35.

A woman seeks to kill her adult son.

Shona (Karanga), (Dinka), Kabila, Portuguese, Bretons, Germans (Pomerania), Iraqi Arabs, Khasi, Mustang, Kashmiris, Greeks, Moldovans, Russians (Olonetskaya, Vologda, Gorkovskaya), Ukrainians (Volyn, Kharkiv), Crimean Tatars, Urums, Kalmyks, Abkhazians, Abazins, Adygs, Karachays, Balkarians, Terek Cossacks, Gunzibs, Georgians, Megrelians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Tajiks (Gonchi), Tajiks Sistana, mountain Tajiks, Bukhan Arabs, Yagnobs, Norwegians, Danes, Lutsi, Mari, Mordovians, Chuvash, Bashkirs, Dungans, Khakas, South Altai Tuvans, Mongols, Mansi, Nanais.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Shawna (karanga) [the husband sent his infertile wife to her parents; her leg is swollen, the young Muramba-Tata came out of the tumor; people offered the woman to remarry; woman: son does not give, poison food that is meant for; but MT always knows what kind of food is poisoned and does not eat; then a trap hole was dug in front of his house, but he did not go home; told four boys to give them to others: MT died smiling; jumped and fell flat with his back to the ground; the boys ran to tell; they were told to show how things happened; they jumped, fell and died; this is how all the residents died, showing MT's death to each other; MT revived children and asked if they wanted him to revive their mothers or fathers; children: mothers; MT revived women; married all girls]: Sicard 1952, No. 179:262-263.

(Wed. Sudan - East Africa. Dinka [the man's wife is a lioness {in the sense of a cannibal, gulya}, lives separately, they have a son Kon; the father married her son a girl; Kon's mother asks to bring her young daughter-in-law to her; ate her; so consistently with all the girls; the last one left, Nyanbol, was left, and her little sister went to her mother-in-law; N. insisted on sleeping not with her mother-in-law, but with her sister; the house is full of skulls; mother-in-law replies that these are relatives who have died from illness; the next morning he goes hunting, the sisters run away; at the sacred palm tree, N. asks her to bend down, climbs a tree, and her sister runs to the camp, where men; mother-in-law begins to cut the tree with an ax; the husband managed to run; agreed that they would all return to their mother-in-law; at night, N.'s husband blocked the exit from the house where his mother stayed for the night and burned her with home]: Deng 1984:103-106).

North Africa. Kabila [the man is sure that the boy born to his wife is not his wife; 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; son freed his mother, rode with her into the mountains; there he killed six cannibals, 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, who has black milk, for she eats coals, I am afraid to graze because of predators; the young man exterminates predators, ceriel is grateful; the mother has found the ogre, cured, they agree to kill the young man; the mother pretends to be convinced of her strength son, is he able to protect her; ties his hands, he cannot break his bonds; the cannibal is ready to kill him; the young man asks to collect 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 his sword from the wall, hacked the ogre and mother]: Dermenghem 1945:69-75;

Southern Europe. The Portuguese (Abrantes) [the princess has an affair with her servant; when she found out that her daughter was pregnant, her father ordered 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 christened her son and kept him; the young man asked for a horse and a gun; the forest came across a giant's palace, defeated him, left him in one of the rooms; found mother and lodger in the palace, forbidding them to enter this room; she went in and became the giant's mistress; to get rid of her son, he offers to pretend to be sick and ask for 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.

Western Europe. 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, 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 also took him; he saw his father's body; the giant said that he had no power over M., but kept it; M.'s mother also came; the giant said that he had no power over her either, but kept her in a cage, surrounded by tips, forbidding her son to complain; promised to marry her if she asked M. to bring a rusty sword from hell; M. went there on a black skate; he does not advise going into the glass castle 12 the giant's brothers, but M. comes in; the giants ask them to come back when he gets his sword; the same in the silver castle there are 30 giants; there are 40 giants in gold; each time you hear a roar from the castles and scream, but quiet inside; 40 giants give a golden ball, it rolls, M. follows it to hell; the skate remains at the door, 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 me to feed one horse well, give others only thorns; forbids unlocking one room; M. unlocks, there is an exhausted, thin horse; she is a Spanish princess, teaches you to find the devil's magic book and spell it; then explains where the saber hangs, teaches you to plug the bell that alerts the devil to danger with straw, fill your pockets with gold and diamonds, and take a scraper with you and a bag of straw; they jump away on a black skate; the bell still rang, the devil rushes to catch up; seeing a storm cloud approaching, the princess orders to pour out straw, and a wooded mountain appears; the next time is a scraper, a chapel appears, M. is a priest, a princess and a horse are two saints; the devil did not understand this, stopped chasing; the princess returned to Spain, and M., going to the giants, cut off everyone 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; Germans (Pomerania) [a noble man died, leaving his wife and 16-year-old son in poverty; they went on a journey; on the way, the young man, in the absence of his mother, found a vessel of strong water; after drinking it, he became a strong man; they came to the castle 12 giants; a young man he pulled back the heavy bolt, the table was laid inside; when the giants arrived, they thought that the one who pushed the bolt was stronger than them; 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; on the way, the young man met a couple of lions and killed a lion with his fist; the lioness carried him to living water and the lion came to life; the young man took water, and the lions went with him; Now the giant invited his wife to send his son for partridges, and when he returned, give him wine and ask him what his strength was; on the way, the young man freed the princess, walled up by giants under the floor, telling her to wait came to his mother, intoxicated from wine and sleeping pills; admitted to his mother that his strength was in the hemp lace on his body; the giant took off his shoelace, took the young man into the forest and dazzled him; the lions brought him to the princess; she ordered he had glass eyes and brought him to his father; the general noticed that the young man had glass eyes, told the king that the young man had been thrown into prison; the princess took him out, along with the lions they had come to the forest; they saw how blind the bird plunged 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 one to be ruined the castle of giants; came to where the young man's mother and her husband; when he saw the 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.

Western Asia. The Arabs of Iraq [the sultan killed his wives every week; the daughter of the vizier remains; she ran away, found an empty castle, gave birth to a son there, he grew up; the young man hunts, each time shares his prey with lions, 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 comes, shackles 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; young lions killed eagles, a young man brought a pomegranate; 2) water from the river in which the dragon gives water to the residents of the city in exchange for girls; the young man comes to the old woman, she 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 him with 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 last to bring a young man, he gets a wife; goes to visit his mother; the wife gives her a ring, another for her: if it turns yellow, her husband is in trouble; the mother invites her son to play chess and when she finally wins, she gets the right to shackle him; he replies that you can only tie him with his own hair; she does; the black man refuses to kill him, his mother kills him, throws his body away; lions have come running, one licked his wounds, the other brought caravans; the young man was still alive, he was leaving, he returned to his wife; killed his mother, scoped a black man]: Weissbach 1908, No. 8:43-53.

(Wed. Micronesia-Polynesia. Kusaye [a Koräm woman lived in Fenköl, she has a son and daughter; she loved only her daughter; when the mother left, the daughter called her brother, they played, she fed him; so for a few days; the mother noticed that in her absence, food disappears; followed the children; sent her daughter fishing the next day, called her son and ate him; the daughter came back, saw blood; lets the mother eat oysters {any molusks in shells} and ko, and then offers herself; first the mother refuses to eat her daughter, then agrees; sister and brother kill the mother from the inside; they try to eat her, but she is bitter]: Sarfert 1920:457-458).

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) to get 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; khasi [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 enters, mother-in-law scolds and chases her; she accidentally eats a piece; leaves her evil mother-in-law with her husband; husband swallows a pond, he is swallowed by the dragon U Yak Jakor; wife finds her husband's clothes; U Babam Doh's little son cries with her, his tears turn into gold, for the wanderer's blessing has passed on him; the boy has grown up, beats the leader's heir in the bones, wins his right to inherit; he says that UBD was conceived by his mother from a dragon; the mother has to tell about his father, she gives her son his clothes and a brass vessel; UBD lured the dragon to land, where he loses its strength, lured her into the chest, brought it home, forbade the mother to open it; she opened it, the dragon took the image of her husband, said that he would recover from the tigress's milk, but the one who brought the milk should not know for what is it; 1) the mother pretends to be sick, asks her son to go for milk; he treats the tiger cub, the tigress gives milk; 2) the same with the task of bringing fresh bear fat (the son catches and brings a live bear); 3) fresh python skin; son spies, sees his mother open the chest, kills the dragon, tells his story, inherits the throne]: Rafy 1920, No. 23:140-160.

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 to the princess]: Knowles 1888:1-7.

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; 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 to be sick, sent him for bird's milk; FF came to Ilyana Kosynzyan, who sent the Sun to her brother; he lets the horse go to the copper mountain to a giant bird feeding the chicks with milk; FF quietly framed the jar, rode away; IK replaced the milk with cow's milk, kept the bird's milk; 2) wild boar meat; FF caught, IK replaced domestic pig; 3) living and dead water; FF killed a 10-headed dragon, brought water, IK changed flasks; at home, mother (i.e. K.) suggests trying to tear rope; then two; three FF can not tear, the dragon cut it, collected the remains, put it on the horse and drove it; IK joined the pieces, made up for the shortcomings with wild boar meat, revived it with live water, gave him bird water with milk; FF burned the dragon and K. in the oven, hugged his mother, married IK]: Moldavian tales 1968:334-345.

Central Europe. Russians (Olonetskaya) [mother and son lived, went to church; there were three girls whom their parents, except for church, did not let anywhere; the guy took one hand, took them to another church, and they got married; the mother decided to lime her son because she did not ask her; she offered her son poison and her daughter-in-law ordinary vodka; but they drank from both vessels; died at night; Vasily was buried on one side, and Osafia at 20 fathoms at a distance; two trees grew and intertwined with branches; mother: if she knew, she put it together]: Onchukov 2008, No. 197:364; Russians (Vologodskaya) [father is old, does not bless son Dmitry to fight with the filthy idol Ared; D. went, defeated A., put him in prison on a hook; the mother took it off, A. liked it, decided to lime her son; A. advises her to pretend to be sick, send D. to bring 1) 12 apples with 12 apple trees, which 12 heroes have (heroes gave apples); 2) to Batu the hero beyond living and young waters; towards the horse, then the dog, D.: I'll eat you; those: don't eat, I'll come in handy; B. is not at home, he left to fight with 12 heroes, his parents gave water, D. anointed the kurek, tore him 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 B. did not notice the dog, that in the bushes, galloped by, D. then killed him, told his 12 brothers about this; 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 golden hairs; his mother began to look in his head, cut off her hairs; released A. into the wild - let him be recognized as king; D.'s hairs grew, he found Marya Koshcheevna, killed A., mother cracked to death]: Gura 1965, No. 30:246-248; Eastern Ukrainians (Kharkiv) [A woman gives birth to a son, at the same time a horse gives birth to a foal, a father gives birth to a foal to his 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 his daughter for Ivan]: Grinchenko 1895, No. 157:149-155; northern Ukrainians (Volyn, Dubensky y.) [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.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [a childless padishah takes a vizier and goes to wander; they wear dervish clothes; at the source, a real dervish addresses the padishah; he knows who he is talking to and what the padishah is doing ; gives an apple: eat it yourself, and give the peel to the mare; but do not name my son until I come and name him; a boy and a foal were born; children call sheikhzade "nameless bey"; the teacher says he can't to learn it in this world, you need a abode underground; the padishah ordered to dig the basement, tells him to feed the boy boneless meat; when the boy is 12 years old, there was a bone in the meat; he threw it into the glass the ceiling, which broke, the boy began to catch sunlight without success; the teacher agrees to take the boy out of the basement; he sees the rider, tells the teacher to tell his father to give him a horse, a peregrine falcon and a greyhound; boy 15 years old; dervish enters: Sheikhzade's name is Shah Ismail, horse is Kamer Tai; Shea hunts with companions of her age; chases a gazelle, she disappeared into a tent, turned out to be a girl; SHI lost consciousness; old woman , living with a girl, tells her to run her chest over the young man's face, this is the only way to save him; Shea and Gulizar fall in love; he gave her a ring, she is a precious comb to him; Shea dries with love, one of the boys tells the padishah from meeting G.; she is the daughter of bey nomads; Padishah and Bey agreed to marry; but G.'s mother did not agree, migrated with her daughter towards India; Bey jumps to catch up with them; the vizier suggested arrange for SHI to choose a bride: let all the girls of Kandahar come, and all the men stay at home; but G. no; Shea jumps in search; the palace is without doors, Shea broke the wall, came in; Peri Gulperi cries there; her the brothers fight the devas; Shea hacked all the devas; the brothers gave him Gulperi, but he put a sword between himself and his wife on the bed; when they learn that SHEA was looking for a lover, the brothers report that they saw what passed Arapa with bloody hands; SHI reached Arapa Yuzengi's palace, saw pilaf cooked on blood; AYU offers to fight and then eat; one Ayu lip on the ground, the other on Mount Kesheesh; AYU hit SHI so that his mother's milk flowed from his nose; Shea knocked down Aya, was going to slaughter her, but she turned out to be a beautiful girl; she goes with SHI in search of Gulizar; stayed with an old woman; she says that the Shah of India is marrying son on the daughter of bey nomads; arranged a date between SHI and Gulizar; while they are sleeping, AYU killed the attacking army; SHI returned home with three girls obtained; Ayu feels dangerous, tells me to ask settle them in a separate palace; SHI's mother was jealous, telling the padishah to kill their son; when he saw the girls, the padishah also wanted them for himself; AYU gives a stone that identifies the poison; then the vizier offered to play with SHI in chess, the loser will be tied; Shea won three times and then deliberately lost; admits that his bow's bowstring holds him in this world; he was tied up, his eyes were pulled out, his right pocket was put in his left pocket, and left to right; AYU pretends that they agree to marry the padishah, asks for 100 concubines - she will send jewelry; sends a bag with the severed heads of concubines; smashes the army of the padishah; SHI in The doves hear the doves talking in the desert: let's throw them on the feather, if SHEA rubs his eyes with them, he will see the light; SHEA put his eyes in, but the hangman did not put them as SHEA asked; his appearance has changed; he became a padishah's warrior; fights against AYU; the padishah praises him, lets him take his horse and weapon; Shea takes his horse and his sword Zulfikar, comes to his wives, they recognize him; Oh, cut off the head of the padishah; funeral and wedding; they have achieved their goal, may Allah help you too]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 84; 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 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, threw an arrow into the cloud so that she returned, got Tsagan Beard's daughter]: 60-73; Abkhazians [hunter Chis-Ikuatla saw a 7-storey house, a tree and a bed nearby, he lay down on the bed; the youngest of 7 came Adaui, CHI squeezed him out and threw it away, then hacked the others; settled his sister on the upper floor, began to live with his mother downstairs; he smells 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]: Shakryl 1975, No. 73:333-341; Abaza [widow's son hunted, went to another's home, one of them is sitting in a hole where his brothers threw him; a young man killed six other people who came one by one, found out from a person sitting in a hole where the treasures were, brought his mother, told him not to open one door; a woman opened it and pulled him out when he promised to be her husband; she 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 other people going to kill the young man, told him; They began to fight with the young man, the boy gave water to his brother, not his father, who killed the other man; they drove his mother away]: Tugov 1985, No. 50:144-146; Adygs: Khut 1987:124-137 (Abadzekhi) [Tleubokozh and who called him to Pshi hijacks a herd of three different brothers; each time Pshi does not keep a stallion who runs home and informs him about the kidnappers; T. consistently kills three others; dying of his wounds himself, tells 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; 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, from the horse take the 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; sons T. these frogs and sister T. are killed; mother and her husband T. throws them into the reeds], 185-200 (bzhedugi) [serf psha goes to look for gold for him, disappears; the grown son offends the son of Pshi, the mother says so that he can better find 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, wins seven seven-headed bastards; his mother brings him there; one damn man 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 with him, the young man picks him up, not knowing that he is the son of a damn; in in martial arts, the young man defeats the bastard, and the son of the damn, being loyal to his brother, kills his father with a gun; the young man ties his mother to 12 horses; the younger brother's hearth goes out, he goes for fire to theirs; they let him go for promising to get them the daughter of the Nogai Khan; 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]; Karachai residents: 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. with Khychins, he guesses, changes 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 jokingly fight C., emegen takes off his wrist tilsim (?) , 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 (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 emegens and burned his mother; began to live with the daughter of the king of genies]: Malkonduev 2017:450-452; Terek Cossacks (v. Borozdinskaya) [the tsar has 12 wives, but has no children; he sends Elder Pirigrim on a trip around the kingdom to find out what to do; the elder listens outside the window of a village house to what the girls are talking about; first: "If I went out getting married, I would sew all the shirts for my husband - shirts like there are no shirts in the whole kingdom"; second: "I would embroider all the carpets"; third: "I would write all the papers..."; youngest: "If I get married, I will give birth to 12 sons"; king takes the youngest as his wife; she cannot give birth; sends the old man to the market, tells him to buy from the first person he meets what he will carry; the old man buys apples; the queen cuts one of them in half; one half She eats herself, gives the other to the king; then gives birth to a son, Mohammedan Magometanovich; the king leaves, leaves the general for himself; he takes care of the queen; MM reproaches her; the servants say: "Your father has it sworn horse, Black Whirl: he has been underground for thirty years, on 12 iron chains, behind 12 iron doors, on 12 iron locks"; MM spends the horse; the witch advises the general that the queen fed MM bread baked in snake fat; the horse warns of danger; MM gives bread to dogs, tears them apart; the witch advises giving MM herbal tea; the horse anticipates trouble, tells them to give MM herbal tea MM do not drink; MM breaks the glass; the general brings a red shirt from the witch to give MM in front of the bath; horse: "When you wear it, you will turn to ashes... But if you take an iron pitchfork, raise it in my right An eyelid and look: there is a red shirt in one corner - take it and hide it in your pocket"; in the bath, MM wears the shirt received from the horse, not the one given by his mother; the king returns home; the queen pretends to be sick; says that she will recover if the heart and liver of the Black Whirlwind are fried for her; the king orders the horse to be killed; MM asks to be allowed to ride for the last time; sits on a horse, flies away; they find themselves in the kingdom of Bartholomew; the horse tells them to wear pistons and old clothes picked up along the way, pour a potion out B.'s window, from which mosquitoes will appear (there are no mosquitoes in Kingdom B.), stand by the window and answer the same thing: "I don't know, he was"; MM follows his instructions; V. makes him first an assistant cook (MM eats meat there), then a yard worker (MM ties the reins to the horse's tail, pulls them, rips off the horse's skin), and then as a gardener; another king declares war to Tsar V.; V.'s youngest daughter tells her father to consult with MM; MM replies: "I don't know, it will be so"; V. plants him into prison; MM breaks down the wall, changes clothes, flies on horseback to the battlefield, defeats the enemy, returns; V. arranges a feast to recognize and reward the hero who saved him; youngest daughter asks if this is not a gardener; V. comes to prison, recognizes MM as a hero; MM asks to give his youngest daughter for him; V. sets a condition: to recognize her among the rest of his daughters; the horse arrives in the form of a fly, warns MM that she will sit on the forehead of the youngest princess; MM identifies her among the 6 royal daughters; receives the princess and half the kingdom]: Butova 1889, No. 4:141-156; the Gunzibs [the dragon killed the peasant; his son grew up, defeated the dragon, imprisoned his castle in the dungeon, moved his mother there, went hunting for a long time; his mother saw a dragon, he promised to marry her, she released him; pregnant; tells the dragon kill her son, otherwise she will tell him everything herself; they agree that his mother will pretend to be sick, the cure is black grapes in the seven-headed dragon's garden; the young man wounded a tiger on the way, the tiger cub asked not To kill his father, went with the young man; the young man defeated the seven-headed man, brought grapes; the dragon gave his mother intoxicating wine, the son drank it, 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 it, found his eyes in his pockets, restored the young man's sight; he threw his mother, her newborn son and the dragon himself into the oven; he gave the seven-headed castle hunter]: Berg 1995, No. 20:207-218; Megrelians [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 a house for 9 devas, killed eight, the ninth fled, P. settled in that house with his mother; the escaped deva secretly marries mother P., advises to pretend to be sick, she will be cured by the bile of the queen of pigs; the queen of bison, buffaloes; they advise you 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 with stones; the cooked P. was thrown into the river; the queens of pigs, bulls, buffaloes they folded P.'s mows, revived them; P. came under the guise of a beggar; crushed the deva's head with his ball, pierced his mother with an arrow]: Teptsov 1894, No. 7:16-20; Georgians (Imereti) [the tsar puts his daughter and nanny on the island; those they eat a rolling apple, a daughter gives birth to a son named Hvtisavar, a nanny - 8 smart puppies; the king orders them to be executed, servants kill hares instead of them; H. kills 8 giants, moves with his mother and a nanny to their house; the ninth was just wounded, becomes a lover of mother H., they come up with difficult tasks for X.; to get the horn of a dangerous deer, boar stubble, a hawk feather; they themselves give, promise help (H. kills a snake intending to eat the chicks of a giant hawk); mother and giant lock H. in a cauldron, throw him into the sea; deer, boar, hawk free him; H. kills his mother, giant, nanny; equal to him in In strength, the young man 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 across the river on horseback, for which he received a princess; in the forest, the old woman turns H. and his four dogs, 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 X. and the dogs they come to life; her sister kills her; H. s returns home with his wife]: Glushakov 1904, No. 2:17-27; Armenians [when dying, the husband tells his pregnant wife not to go to Black Rock; the young man grows up, walks, kills a demon; takes treasures his castle, marries 40 gurias captured by the demon; the mother revives the demon, pretends to be sick, asks her son to get 1) the melon of immortality; the old woman tells 40 demons to fall to his mother's chest first; she hides demons recognize him as a relative; only a lame demon knows how to get the melon of immortality; tells him 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 with the old woman, she replaces the melon, the son brings a false mother, she recovers; 2) lion's milk; the old woman teaches how to cut an abscess on the lioness's paw , she gives milk, also her lions; on the way, the old woman replaces milk with goat's milk, but the young man's mother says she has recovered; 3) living water; at the spring the young man falls asleep, but his lions kill the snake who has come, scorpion, a beast; the old woman will change the water again; the mother pulls out three hairs for her sleeping son, 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; lions tear mother and demon parts]: Wingate 1912, No. 9:94-102; Azerbaijanis (Borchaly County, Tiflis Province) [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 his mother and diva, burned the corpses]: Stamboliev 1896, No. 2:8-12.

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 his elder sword drip 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 [Jamshed-schah ruled in Hindustan; while Shahzade Khurshed is hunting, his mother flirts with the vizier; D. tells her execute; H. managed to return and rode away, carrying his mother on horseback; looked into the house of 40 black cannibals; each one goes out to kill him; H. stands 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, she would be helped by a crying grenade; on the way, H. shot a lion and a pregnant lioness; took it out the lioness's belly of two lion cubs, took with him; brought a pomegranate; now the cannibal advises sending H. for a laughing apple; H. came to 40 divas who kidnapped the Yemeni princess; lions tore the divas to pieces; X. feasts for 40 days with malika; she warns H. that his mother wants to kill him, but he does not believe him; brought apples; the cannibal advises to invite H. to test his strength: will he be able to tear the silk lace with which he was tied; the hiding 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 brought H. to the malika; he admitted that she was right; left the lions with her, and dressed up calandar; 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 pick up; H. hacked down the cannibal and mother; the padishah of Yemen sent the army to return Malika; H. and the lions defeated him; the padishah sent the old woman; Malika senses bad things, but H. left her as a maid; she gave them sleeping pills, kidnapped Malika, but felt sorry for H. and did not become him kill; 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]: Khovari 1983:93-106; mountain Tajiks [one wife has two sons, the other one; after death father's older brothers took away the youngest's land; the youngest sees smoke rising from the house, then 41 divas come out of the house; the guy enters the house, brings his mother a gold bar from there; sharpened it, taking a bar from neighbor, pieces of gold remained on the bar, the older brothers began to ask where the younger one got him; went to the divas house, did not notice that the 41st divas were 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, told his mother not to step on the slop outside the threshold; she stepped, saw the diva in the hole, agreed to release him when he called himself her husband; gave birth to a son, put her on the road, the human son brought it himself; the diva son grew up, heard divas and mother negotiating to kill a human son; the divas decided to turn into a snake, sting the young man; the young divas carried his brother on the back, divas he 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 the diva hid; the diva's son broke the door, helped his brother kill the diva and mother; the brothers healed together]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 3:39-41; 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; the divas go out one by one to fight them, young man He killed everyone, 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 clods of earth into the well while the divas says she will be her youngest, 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 grew up in 10 days at the age of 10; warns his older brother what the divas want 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 could kill him, went on a journey; the brother ordered to plant two reeds stem: if the deceased is in trouble, blood and pus flow; the young man met a girl given to be eaten by a dragon; taking a sword, entered the dragon's mouth, came out of the ass, cutting the dragon; cut a belt from the dragon's back into memory; the emir's daughter throws an apple at him, 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; into the house; the elder sons-in-law have nothing caught by 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 out his eyes; the boy's brother (i.e. the son of his mother's lover) comes to his wife, does not tell him touch in bed; Brother C. wins, makes his eyes return; the emir's son-in-law returns from C., gets the throne; they have reached the object of desire, and you will also reach it]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 12:84-88; Yagnobtsy [ after the death of the father, three brothers remain; two are killed by robbers, the elder kills the 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 carries the brother across the threshold; prevents the poisoned pilaf from eating; talks about the machinations of the mother and her lover; the older brother kills them, leaves; if pigeons come, put gunpowder in a gun, then trouble with him; 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, Peshereva 1957, No. 2:27-31.

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, 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 how the blind hare saw the light after swimming in the 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; 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 as well; he discovers himself; in the morning he finds a princess in the guise of a prince, gets married]: Dasent 1970:155-171; Danes [after the death of the king, the queen with the son goes on a pilgrimage; in an empty house, the prince finds a sword and shirt; the 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 animals will tear him to pieces; but the animals caress him, and the apples fall themselves; the dog leads him to a hole in the ground; there is a chained Arab princess; a prince frees her, puts her on a ship, promises that she will come to her 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 He fell asleep, the robber blinded him, took his sword and shirt; the captain who took the princess found and recognized him; he brought the prince to her; she recognized her ring; he hears someone talking: the local dew cures blindness; wetting his eyes, he sees the light; the eagle takes away the princess's jewelry; after chasing, the prince finds himself in the magical 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 kidnapped princess jewelry; answers questions correctly, richly rewarded; the beggar, who was the 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 robber into the forest, where he was torn to pieces by animals; frees the princess, marries her, becomes king]: Holbek 1987:530-532; Lutsie (4 entries, 1 from Russian and 1 from latgalka) [straw the king took the boy as a blacksmith, was pleased with him, ordered him to marry, went to war; the queen and wife of the blacksmith were giving birth; the blacksmith and his wife went to visit the Queen, the foal followed; the wife blacksmith: a cart gave birth to a foal; blacksmith: no, a mare; queen: who is the foal following, for a cart or for a mare? blacksmith's wife: behind the cart; {it is clear that the queen took her side}; the Queen's unborn son: he's judging in a damn way, a mare gave birth to a foal; the queen hated her son and, when he was born, told kill him to the cook, cook his heart and let her eat; the cook killed the puppy; the queen: the dog smells like a dog; the old woman advises leaving the baby in a pile of straw in the field; from the king a letter: who was born? the queen tells the blacksmith to give her his son, otherwise he will kill; offers any price; cook: ask for a bunch of straw; the blacksmith found a boy in the straw; he grows by the minute; came to the shepherds, stamped his foot, everything animals jump; tells frogs to be silent - they are silent; says he will become straw king; on the third day he tells all trees and bushes to bow to themselves; the king begins to guess that the blacksmith has - his son, and he has a blacksmith's son; tells the blacksmith to come without eating or on an empty stomach; son: make a chatter out of oatmeal and take three sips; king: who taught me? no one; king: then arrive not on foot, on horseback, not on the road, not on the side of the road; son: sit on a goat, go where the railroad rails are; same; come naked or naked; son: wrap yourself in a net; then But; king: since no one taught me, let your son come to me tomorrow; but he ran away; the king told me to send a golden carriage and ask everyone how much it costs; on the road there is a boy: in good times, unthinkable much, but nothing for bad; the servants said, king: this was my son; the straw king went to return his fleeing wife; {apparently, she is another king's mistress}; she wants to hang him on a copper gallows; king: I don't even hang dogs; they put him in a chest, his wife sat on the chest; then they hung him on the silver gallows (the same); on the gold one; he asks for a pipe to play; he began to play, he appeared the army beat everyone, brought his wife, tied to the horse's tail, the horse scattered her]: Annom et al. 2018:63-69; Lutsie (Western 1933; the informant heard a fairy tale in Kiev) [strongman Samson lived in the forest with his mother, That hell in lovers; damn mother S.: how do you 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.

Volga - Perm. Marie [a childless wife eats an onion given by a healer, a mare a peel, a woman gives birth to Ivan, a mare has a foal; the husband leaves on business, the wife takes a lover, who offers to lime her son ; the mother gives the poisoned cake, shirt, the horse teaches them to throw them away; the wife pretends to be sick, asks to slaughter the horse; the father returns, agrees, the son asks for permission to ride for the last time, leaves; the horse does not orders to drink twice from the well, I. drinks, a 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 everything out, the king demands plant a new garden; the horse performs; the younger princess asks to pass her off as an arapa; I. gets into one ear of the horse, crawls out into the other, smashes enemies, whips her older sons-in-law; so three times; the younger princess shows his fiancé in his true ob does not tell him to drink twice from the well, and the son asks for police, I. gets half the kingdom]: Chetkarev 1948:69-77; Mordovians [father is dead, mother seeks to destroy son; pretended to be sick, told me to bring the bear's milk; the boy went to the sleeping bear, milked it, took one of the weeks; the mother poured out the milk; the same was the tigress's milk; now the mother demands water from a distant river; the guy reached the hut; the bear cub and the little cub entered it and went underground; the guy brought water to his mother; the mother tells you to cut firewood, heat the bathhouse; raven: your animals have so far dug two fathoms from- underground; then one fathom was left; the bathhouse was hot, the mother locked her son in it; the bear cub with the tiger cub escaped, the son was rescued, his mother was torn to pieces]: Yurtov 1883, No. 8:19-23; Chuvash [dying, wife the priest gives him his ring, tells him to marry the one he suits; does not suit anyone, the daughter accidentally wore it, 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 father informs his son, the son writes in response, the pop replaced both letters - allegedly the prince orders his wife to cut off his hands, tie the dead baby to her and drive her out; the woman leaned to the river, the baby fell out, her hands grew, the voice said how to revive the baby with plant juice; he grew up, killed the old woman's youngest, middle son; the elder only maimed; the old woman set it up like this that the mother of the prince's son took the old woman's son as a lover; pretending to be sick, gives her son difficult tasks; he defeats the heroes who guarded the garden and spring; the old woman's son steals the cross in which the son's strength prince; 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 next to her: to cry for it and to cry for his lover; gathers people, tells everything; mother cried for her son, he released her]: Chuvash tales 1937:237-247; Bashkirs [mother died, father wants to marry daughter, daughter ran away; Khan's son saw her and married; boy was born; wife's father found a daughter, told her husband that she was a liar, the Khan's son kicked her out; she lives in the forest with her son; her son grew up; saw a house, where Pyariy, well done locked him in a cage; settled with his mother in this house; gave her the keys to rooms, forbade entering one; the woman looked there, pulled the pyaria out of the e-liquid, washed it, they decided to kill her son; the mother pretended to be sick; asked for fruit from the mountain that Azhdaha had wrapped around; well done, went to old woman; she tells her to wait three years: her foal will grow up, you have to ride it to the mountain; the foal galloped, well done, took the fetus and the khan's daughter kidnapped by Azhdakha; 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 arms in a rope, he tore it; pyariy offered to make a rope out of hair that the woman should cut off from the top of his head; well done, the man could not tear these fetters; Pyariy pulled out his eyes, carried him away and threw him on the bank of a swampy stream; the servant came to get water; well done asked him to drink, threw that one into the bucket ring; the khan's daughter recognized her husband, ordered him to bring him to her; he dreamed that if you fire an 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 was in the yard, She went into the ground with her hooves; well done, he cut off his mother's head, threw the pyaria up, he crashed into dust; returned to his wife, became khan himself]: Bessonov 1941, No. 46:245-248.

Turkestan. Dungans [after the death of his father, the eldest, then the middle son goes over the mountain, 40 robbers kill them; the younger Losan broke the swords of the robbers, killed those leaving the house one by one; threw the leader in a 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 him; he found out that the mother and the robber wanted to poison L., all of him told them, helped kill them; let L. marry the emperor's daughter only after he had learned to lift weights; the emperor went into combat with L. and won; the princess advised not to cut off L. head, and wrap it in leather; S. saw that L.'s whip was dripping blood, came to the emperor, defeated him, freed L., who married a princess; S. defeated another emperor, also married a princess]: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 67:295-300.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakas [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 to a boy; this is Ivan Tsar ; he kills and maims other children, complained about him to the king, I. and his mother put him in a stone house; he broke it, went out, brought the whole tree for firewood; went to get the daughter of Morte the King; defeats him, lives with his daughter like her sister; brings his mother; she resurrected Morte King, made her husband; pretends to be sick, asks for milk from a bear, a striped leopard, a son brings it; the mother asks for live 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; the mother persuades I. to drink more and more wine, break the heavier iron fetters; when he can no longer, Morte the King burns his eyes, but I. broke his fetters; asks Morte the King's daughter for help, she leads him to the larch, he is hers tore 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 the king, carried the top to the mountain; comes to the king of the Sun; his daughter says that her father lost her at cards 9 -head dragon; kills three dragons, the last one about 12 heads; hides heads, the soldier says that he killed the snakes; the soldier was shot; I. became king instead of the Sun, made the daughter of Morte the King his older sister]: Katanov 1907, No. 428:428-439; South Altai Tuvans [Gunan Chara Baatyr lives with his mother, older and younger sisters; one day he is met by Chödöönüng Gök Bugasy, what would 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, told his mother and younger sister not to go north; the mother went and heard C.'s voice from the pit, asked her youngest daughter to bring the mare to drag the stone; 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 milk camels who are on 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 pearl, he and the camel became friends; on the way back, G. stayed with the khan and his wife changed the milk; and his fallen drop burned the ground; his mother pretended to drink milk the next day healthy 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; khalha- The Mongols [Tonji Mergen has dogs Asyr and Basyr, sister and mother; sister and mother talked to the hero and planned to kill T.; mother pretended to be sick, sister asks for Horton-Mogai's heart ( the poisonous snake); the horse says that the mother and sister met Shar-buho; but T. killed the snake and brought the heart; the mother gave it to S., for the one who ate this heart becomes stronger; they tell him to get foam from the Hatha-Dalai Sea; T. brought, beat S., put it under the camel; the camel stood up when the fire was laid out under him; his mother and sister hid S.; he killed T., because his mother put a camel horgol under T.'s feet, and under S. flour's feet (and not vice versa); T. was buried, his dogs and horse ascended to heaven, returned, revived T.; he killed S.; invited mother and sister to 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 on her neck, a month on the back of her head]: Potanin 1883, No. 117:399-401.

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 pursues, 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; 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 with stepfather they drove a six-legged moose, TP cut off his two legs: when there were people, they would 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.

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 her pretend to be sick, send a son for medicine; 1) the boa constrictor eats the snake's children, bring snakeskin (kills the boa constrictor, the snake gives her); the bear's hair (takes out a splinter, the bear gives her hair); 3) wool iron dog (extracts a human skull from its throat); the dog comes with a young man, eats his mother and an old man, turns into a beauty, brings many people, the young man marries her]: Kile 1996, No. 27:291- 301.