K102B. Take a ride for the last time, B184.1.6.

.13.14.17. (.22.) .23.27.-.32.

To destroy a hero (heroine), the antagonist must first get rid of his horse. When the horse is ready to be slaughtered, the hero (heroine) jumps on top of it, jumps away and escapes.

Somalis, Kordofan, Sudanese Arabs, Palestinians, Saudia, Jibbali, Egyptian Arabs, (monks), Punjabis, (Varli, Santals), Albanians, Poles, Russians (Voronezh), Ukrainians (Kharkiv) , Adygs, Terek Cossacks, Ingush, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Lurs, Persians, Tajiks, Bukhara Arabs, Latvians, Baluchis, Mari, (Komi), Chuvash, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs.

Sudan - East Africa. Somalis: Kirk 1904, No. 1 [Sultan's new wife and Jew agree to kill the Sultan's son by his first wife; the mare warns the young man that the food is poisoned; the sultan pretends to be sick, asks her husband gives her the liver of her stepson's mare; he asks permission to ride a mare, rides away; in another city he sends a mare to heaven, pretends to be a poor cripple; six daughters of the Sultan want to choose husbands; throw oranges at the chosen ones; five get rich husbands, the youngest takes the poor cripple; parents go blind in horror; they will be cured by rhino milk; the mare carries the young man to the rhinos, the young man puts on the skin of a cub, milks a rhinoceros; gives milk to five husbands of older sisters for the right to burn their name in their ass; but gave only the first milk they had, the second one kept for himself; from milk brought The sultan and his wife did not see the light with his elder sons-in-law, the young men saw the light from milk; the young man shows his brand on his older sons-in-law; the sultan gives him the throne]: 316-318; Reinish 1900, No. 1 (recorded in Arabic) [man took an Arab wife and an Ethiopian slave; both gave birth on the same day, the slave died in childbirth; the husband gave birth to a second child to an Arab woman, said that she gave birth to both; the boys grew up; an old woman came and told the Arab woman that one of them is not her son; she offered to check: lie naked in front of the house door as if she fell asleep; the son who would cover his mother is real; the son of an Ethiopian woman (SE) told the son of an Arab woman (SA) to cover his mother; he covered it, his mother scratched it to find out who had covered it; the father put the sons to the test; told the mother to say that their father would give them breakfast; said that breakfast was in the stove and hid the lion in the oven; the lion bit the SA, he complained to his mother; and SE killed the lion, his father praised him, gave him a sled mare; the Arab woman is offended, asked the old woman to bring poison, put SE in his food; tells her son that today he should eat separately; SE gives food to the cat, it is dead; next time the mare warns SE that the poisoned needles are placed on 14 steps, you have to jump over them all at once; he jumps over; the old woman advises a woman to pretend to be sick - supposedly she will recover by eating the mare's liver; the father tells SE to sell him a mare, he requires a lot of money, a spear and a sword; when the time comes, he asks for permission to ride a mare for the last time, he jumps away; planted a tree, SA came to him; SE told him to watch the tree: if it dries up, he is in trouble; he comes to the girl, threatens her father, he has to let SE sleep with him daughter; there is light on the horizon, this is the daughter of Voskhod; SE comes to the fortress, reads the Koran, penetrates inside; the girl says that the demon will eat them; SE teaches them to hide it, explain to the demon that the smell is from the prince, who was yesterday; when the demon fell asleep, the girl explains to SE that a demon can only be killed with his own sword when his two small eyes are closed and two big eyes are open; you have to hit him with his left hand; SE cut him off head; the demon asks to hit again, SE refuses, the demon dies; SE has been living with Voskhod's daughter for 10 years; while swimming, she lost her hair, the water brought him to the king, he sent an army to bring the owner of the hair, SE He killed everyone; the old woman promises to bring a woman to the king; comes disguised as a beggar; the wife does not want to let her in, but SE insisted; she gave him coffee with poison, he died; the warriors took the woman away; SA saw that the tree dried up; came to SE's first wife, sleeps at night with his back turned his back to her; finds SE's body; sees how one raven brought the corpse of another, revived it by dipping it in water; revived SE; brothers disguised as dervishes came to SE's wife kidnapper; lured the old woman to a skin-covered hole, threw earth; came to the kitchen, the wife recognized SE; the king invited them to serve as his warriors; gave them weapons, offered to choose horses; SE found out his the mare; they killed the king and his warriors; SE returned his wife and gave his first wife to an Arab son]: 259-277; Kordofan (language not specified) [at the time when Sultan's son Shatr Mohamed was born, the mare necklaces; Husan's boy and horse have grown up, the stepmother hates her stepson; the horse warns that food and then clothes will be poisoned; the stepmother pretended to be sick: she will be cured by the horse's liver; when CMM returns from school, his stepmother's servants try to prevent him from seeing H., but the CMM drives them away; the horse teaches them to ask his father to let him ride for the last time; the stepmother sends armed servants to stop the horse if the CMM tries to ride off; but they rode away, no one could catch up with them; in another city, H. gave the SHM hairs to summon him, ordered him to leave his weapons and his rich outfit and go to the city in poor clothes; came to the Sultan's garden, told the gardener that worked as an assistant gardener, who hired him; when everyone went to the party, SHM decided to call the horse he missed to put on the royal outfit; then took off his clothes, swam in the pond, sent him away horse; the youngest of the Sultan's 7 daughters saw the CMM, fell in love; the gardener noticed hoof marks and punished the SHM for not stopping the stranger; the princess began to send the best food for the CMM, but the gardener kept it for himself; so for three years; after the request of the eldest daughter, the Sultan called all the men to throw a handkerchief at the one he wanted to marry; the youngest waits for everyone to be called, including the gardener and him worker; threw a handkerchief at the CMM; SHM and the Sultan's youngest daughter settled in the slave quarter; enemies attacked; six detachments led by older sons-in-law were defeated; the CMM summoned a horse, put on a ceremonial dress, defeated enemies; the wife tells the SHM about the mysterious victorious rider; the same on the second day, when the SHM killed the sultan of enemies; his sultan bandaged the CMM wound with a handkerchief; at night, the CMM fell asleep, the wife sees blood, the mother calls, she recognizes the handkerchief of her husband, the Sultan, brings it to him; when the Sultan's messengers came for the CMM, he called the horse, put on his dress; he told everything to the Sultan; he made him the heir, and the gardener for mistreatment of CMM, he executed; only in one of two options: out of grief at the choice of his daughter, the Sultan fell ill, he would be cured by gazelle milk; 6 sons-in-law were not enough, the CMM called the horse, took it out, gave it to his son-in-law; but this milk did not help the Sultan; and what CMM kept for himself and passed on through his wife helped]: Frobenius, No. 15:165-179; Sudanese Arabs (Jaaaliyin) [when the boy was born, the mare brought a foal; mother died; a neighbor took care of the boy, persuaded her father to marry her; she has a lover; she feeds him delicious food and gives her husband simple food; a boy's mare who grew up with him , shows where the food is hidden; each time the stepmother explains that she forgot about them; the lover guessed that the mare is to blame; advises putting crumbs under bed - as if the bones are crunching; let him say that the medicine is that mare's liver; the mare advises the boy to ask his father for one last ride; they galloped off; the mare gives her hairs to summon her; the boy (now a young man) was hired as a gardener for the king; the younger princess fell in love when she saw a young gardener call his mare and prance; secretly hands gold to the young man through a servant; sent her father 7 oranges, each like one of the princesses; which means it was time to marry them; men gathered, princesses should throw a handkerchief at their chosen one; 6 chose worthy husbands; the seventh threw them at the gardener; the king lodged the eldest daughters in palaces, and the youngest in a shed for storing onions; the king is sick; he needs milk from a deer, who is a virgin and the daughter of a virgin; the young man summoned his mare, told her to create a palace around all kinds of animals; the elders have arrived sons-in-law; the young man ordered the servants to give them the milk of an old deer, in return branded them on their backs: my servant and my father; the milk of the elder sons-in-law made the king worse, and the milk that the younger one brought made him has recovered; another king has attacked; older sons-in-law cannot organize resistance; the younger one smashes the enemy, but is wounded; looking for the wounded; the king comes to him; he says that his older sons-in-law are his slaves; shows stigma; the king handed him the throne]: Hurreiz 1977, No. 7:80-83.

North Africa. The Arabs of Egypt: Artin Pacha 1895, No. 7 [(approximately like Spitta bey 1883)]: 116-120; Spitta bey 1883, No. 12 [Prince Mohammed the Intelligent and the foal were born at the same time; their mothers died; king- the father married a slave, her lover is Jewish; they want to get rid of M.; agreed to poison him; the horse talks about this, M. throws food to the cat, she is dead; the stepmother pretended to be sick, she needs the horse's heart; the horse talked to M.; M. asked his father for permission to ride for the last time, galloped off; exchanged clothes with the sheikh, hired a gardener; once he called a horse, put on royal clothes, began to prance ; the younger princess saw him and fell in love; invited the sisters to let her father know that it was time for them to marry; each throws a handkerchief at her chosen one; six were abandoned, the youngest is waiting; when M. (and he turns the irrigation wheels), threw them at him; the king locked them; fell ill with grief; he would be helped by a bear's milk in the skin of a young bear (the word previously meant "lioness"; later, a semi-mythical beast); M. He summoned his horse, put up the royal tent, a gift to his elder sons-in-law of milk in the shoes of an old bear, for which he stamped their backs with a hot ring; he kept the best milk in the skin of a young bear; What the elder sons-in-law brought did not help, what the youngest daughter brought healed the king; war began, M. smashes his enemies, the king put a ring on his finger, bandaged his hand with a handkerchief; the daughter calls her father to him, M. He says everything, his elder sons-in-law were slaves to Father M.; M. and his wife returned the kingdom to his father, who had already died; his wife and Jew were burned]: 152-161.

Western Asia. Palestinians [the Sultan has two wives, one has one son and the other has two; the first is dead, the second seeks to get rid of a rival for his sons; a horse that warns a young man like lightning; a young man they gave a poisoned goose, who put it on another wife's son; they dug a trap hole, he jumped over it, the second wife's second son failed, died; the second wife pretended to be sick, we must eat young horse meat; the young man asked for permission to ride for the last time, galloped away; pulled a sheep's stomach over his head, hired to guard the garden; his name was Qureyoon ("bald"); he sometimes called his horse and rode on him; in his true form, the younger princess saw the young man; invited the sisters to ask his father to marry them; each of the grooms passing under the window should throw a handkerchief; the elders chose the sons of Pasha and the Minister, the youngest is K.; because of this choice, the king fell ill; doctors: you need white gazelle milk; K. brought a herd of gazelles, gave it to his older sons-in-law for the right to burn a stigma in their ass; they brought them to the king milk is bitter; the king recovered from what K. had brought; enemies attacked, K. defeated them, the king bandaged his hand with his handkerchief; when K. returned on his nag in the guise of a bald man, he recognized the handkerchief; K. took off his head sheep's stomach, said that he was the son of the Sultan; at the feast he said that he could not eat with his slaves; they had to show stamps; the king handed over the throne to K., and sent his elder sons-in-law to serve him]: Bushnaq 1987:115-119; Saudia [the king's wife died during childbirth; the son has grown up and is glad that the father is getting married again; sees his stepmother with her lover; she decides to get rid of her stepson; the horse warned that the stepmother puts poison on; stepmother pretends to be sick; her lover appears disguised as a healer; first advises to slaughter a black cow; then a young man's horse, who gives him advice; the young man asks his father to allow him ride their horse for the last time; they rode off {without continuing}]: Juhaiman 1999:137-141; jibbali [mother is dead, neighbor pretends to be kind to orphan Begelut, persuades him advise his father to marry her; decides to get rid of B.; when he was at his mother's grave, a mare appeared; she warns that his stepmother will try to poison him, B. throws away the poisoned drink; the old woman advises to pretend to be sick, ask the mare to be slaughtered; B. asks for permission to ride three times, galloped off; killed the hyena, took its skin, came to the Sultan, hid the mare, covering it with hyena skin; The sultan gives him a donkey to ride; the youngest of the sultan's daughters throws lemon at B. three times; the sultan passes it off as him, but puts them in a koshar; the sultan is sick, the medicine is gazelle milk, 6 older sons-in-law are leaving, they cannot get it; B. catches up on his mare, kills two gazelles, takes good milk from one and bad milk from the other; agrees to sell milk to six sons-in-law for stigmatizing them with his seal in the perineum; gives bad milk; (text breaks off)]: Müller 1907, No. 26:114-117.

(Wed. Burma - Indochina. Mona [spouses adopt various forest animals; the last is a goby; then a son Kunhadi is born; the mother dies, becomes a natom, protects her son; the forest animals disperse; the father takes the stepmother, she hates the bull; having conspired with the fortuneteller, pretends to be sick, asks for goby meat; the goby and K. run away, the late mother is with them; tells them to go to the lake, where seven Keinari sisters fly at noon, we must To steal the jewelry of one of them, she will not be able to return to heaven; K. hides the jewelry, returns six keinari, leaves the youngest's jewelry, takes her as his wife; the king sees K.'s wife, decides to lime it, to take the beauty for yourself; tells 1) to get a golden bowl from the bottom of the sea; the wife advises sending the named brother K., a crocodile, for the bowl, who brings the bowl; 2) collect scattered sesame seeds (pigeons collect); 3) bring the tigress's milk (the tiger brings); 4) a piece of wool from the lion's mane (the lion brings); 5) seven nat flowers; the wife sends to the hermit, one to the other, to the third, to the fourth, to the fifth; the fifth sends to the lake, where the remaining six Keinari sisters bathe; K. brings flowers and gifts to hermits and Keinari sisters; the king sends warriors, K. ties them with a magic rope; scissors justice is being killed by the king, K. reigns]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 147:340-350).

South Asia. Punjabi [the Sultan's new wife offers love to the son of his deceased first wife; the young man rejects her; she pretends to be sick, persuades the doctor to say that the disease will cure the meat of the magic a young man's horse; a young man asks for permission to sit on a horse for the last time, jumps away; hires to herd cows in another king's city; the king's youngest seventh daughter falls in love with him, takes him as a husband; the king tells them to live in a hut; when the other six sons-in-law go hunting, the young man summons his horse, puts on luxurious clothes, gets game, gives other sons-in-law in exchange for a brand placed on their backs; when attacked enemies six sons-in-law flee, a young man smashes enemies; reveals to the king who he is, appointed heir]: King 1924, No. 5:87-91 (apparently a one-story text in Sheikh-Dilthey 1976, No. 5:33-? , separate pages on the Internet); (cf. santala [stepmother tyrannites stepson; he herds a cow, she tells them to make a plate and a cup of leaves, fills them with rice from her horns; stepmother found out that she pretended to be sick - let them slaughter the cow; cow told the boy to prepare a rope with weaknesses, put it in a prominent place; the cow was tied, but when she was hit with an ax, she and the boy flew into the forest, turned into two herds of cows; the boy's hair swam along the river, the princess saw and ordered to find the owner; the barber said he did not know such a young man, found a pet parrot; grabbed the young man's flute, carried it, he came for him to the king, who became engaged; when the young man returned to the cows, they were so tired of being tied that they knocked the young man down, tore out all his hair with their hooves; when he drove the cows to the king, one by one almost everyone is gone; the king broke off his engagement, made the young man just a servant]: Campbell 1891:15-18; varley [the peasant starves the orphan, tells the buffaloes to herd; the buffalo asks to make a bowl of leaves , bring it in his face, spews food; the peasant sends his daughter, the shepherdess makes two bowls; the daughter tells his father; the buffalo warns that the owner will sell it, tells the shepherdess to hold on to the tail, they run away; the shepherdess plays the flute, the 7 heavenly sisters go down to dance, only the buffalo sees them; he tells the shepherdess to ask one of the girls to marry, he will be offered a doll and a puppy to choose from, he must choose a puppy, burn hair; puppy turns into girl]: Satyawadi 2010:51).

The Balkans. Albanians [the dervish gives the childless king an apple: let the queen eat it and the peel be eaten by a mare; a boy and a foal are born; the queen is dead, the new one does not love her stepson, hears him talking to a foal; pretends to be sick, tells her husband to slaughter a foal; he tells the young man to ask for permission to ride one last time, pull three hairs out of his mane, jumps over a locked gate, jumps away; does not advise the young man to pick up the pen, but he raises it; refuses to give the pen to the vizier, gives it to the king; the vizier becomes the enemy of the young man, invites the king to send him for the bird itself; the horse advises to lure a bird in a cage with pearlescent beads; the bird sings while he thinks that the young man has caught it for himself; when he finds out what is for the king, he falls silent; the vizier: let Ora bring this bird; the young man asks the ship, the vizier's two daughters and 12 maids similar to each other; now the vizier says that the bird does not have Ora, but the king is adamant; the vizier's daughters think they have the same maid, but in fact every day is different; the young man commands the maids put poison on the food, on the 12th day, the vizier's daughters were dying; the ship entered the harbor, the vizier's daughters complained to the cadia, but could not determine which of the 12 maids was to blame, died; the young man left the maids in the city, swam on; the distance of food to the herons and flies fighting for food, they promised to help; he comes to Oram, they promise to let the owner of the bird go with him if he separates oats from barley and will revive dead fish (flies separate, heron brings living water from across the sea); when Ora came to the king, the bird sang, grabbed its feather, both (the bird and Ora) flew away; the young man told the vizier that his daughters were ill and died; the vizier advises to send the young man for the mares Kjühelane; the horses identified their young man in the horse, followed him; the king orders to milk the mares, boil the milk - let the young man bathe in it; for a short time, the mares made the milk cold, the young man came out refreshed and full of energy; the king and vizier rushed after them, cooked; the young man called his father and stepmother, the mares tore his stepmother, returned to their homes]: Lambertz 1952:91-106.

Central Europe. Russians: Kretov 1977, No. 30 (Voronezhskaya, 1969, p. Krasovka, Gribanovsky District) [Vanyushka remains an orphan. He goes to "look for happiness", sees how people lead the foal to kill, asks him to give it to him. The horse and Ivan grow up a lot, Vanya is hired to work with the horse for the king. The queen does not love her stepson and stepdaughter, she wants to destroy them, Baba Yaga advises to give them special belts when they leave the bathhouse. The horse finds out about this, tells Vanya, tells them to put these belts on dogs, dogs die. Baba Yaga gives the queen a jar of jam for children, Vanya throws her away on the advice of the horse and the place where the jar falls falls falls falls ("dragged into the ground"). Baba Yaga understands that it is necessary to destroy the horse, the queen pretends to be sick and only the heart of a Vanyushkin horse can heal her. The king demands a horse, Vanya does not immediately agree to give it back, but asks for permission to ride it for the last time. The horse flies across seas and mountains, finds himself in another kingdom, where Vanya marries and lives happily]: 51-53; Korolkova 1941, No. 3 (c. 1940, Toyda village, Anninsky District (b. Bobrovsky Uyezd, Voronezh Gubernia) [Stepmother does not like Dunno's "fit and obedient" stepson (answers all questions "I don't know"). Dunno asks her father to buy him a small skate to water and feed him. Dunno notices that his "falcon horse" "has lowered his head", he explains that his stepmother wants to kill Dunno, warns the owner twice: not to eat the poisoned muffin (throws the dog, it dies), does not wear a clean shirt given by her stepmother after the bath (Dunno stays in a dirty shirt, keeps it clean over her ear, it flashes and burns). For the third time, the horse warns that they want to destroy him (stepmother's lover pop realizes that it is necessary to destroy the horse, prompts her to pretend to be sick and demand his heart as a medicine). The horse orders Dunno, before being slaughtered in the yard by 30 heroes, to ask him to ride it 3 times from the back to the front gate and ride away. My father allows it. When the heroes try to detain the horse, he turns his head towards them, and they "go like a wave". For the third time, Dunno does not return to the yard and jumps away. On the advice of the horse, Dunno goes to serve as a groom for the king, but soon wants to become a gardener and becomes. The horse lives in the forest, dawn comes out to the owner's cry. At night, the garden is empty - the wind blows away the trees, the fire burns. The king interrogates Dunno, who answers "I don't know", and the king orders the garden to be restored overnight. Dunno turns to the horse, he sends him to sleep, "the morning of the evening is wiser." The garden is filled with golden apple trees, birds of paradise, a gold-haired deer, a singing tree and a lake with golden feather fish. When asked by the king who planted the garden, Dunno again answers "I don't know". The younger princess falls into the stream, and Dunno helps her get out, and when asked to introduce herself, she answers "I don't know". The princess reports that she is being married. Dunno grieves, the horse advises the owner to treat the princess with an apple from which she falls asleep. The king announces that he will marry his daughter to someone who will heal her. Dunno is called when the rest of the doctors refuse the patient. The horse brings Dunno to the oak tree under which there is a stone, he picks it up, collects water, then jumps off the princess and kisses it. The princess wakes up, asks how he slept, Dunno says he slept like ordinary people, and she slept for 3 months, "you wouldn't wake up to sleep"]: 20-24; Ukrainians (Kharkiv) [Woman gives birth to a son, in At the same time, the horse gives birth to a foal, the father gives it to his newborn son, and 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; the Poles [the king borrowed money from the sorcerer; he turned the queen into a horse, replaced by her daughter; the king did not notice the substitution; she decides to lime the young man, the queen's son; his horse tells him not to eat what his stepmother offers to give to the dog; the dog is dead; the mother will give a uniform that will tear the body; you have to hide it, replace it with your own; then the stepmother tore her clothes, complained to her husband; the king orders to execute her son; the horse teaches to ask permission to ride in last time; they rode off; the horse tells another king to be hired as a gardener; the youngest queen fell in love with him, gave him a ring; the young man appeared at the wedding in guise, the bride was unpleasant; enemies attacked, royal reproaches her husband - disasters are because of him; in his true form, the young man smashes enemies twice on his horse; the king bandaged the wound with his handkerchief; came to his son-in-law, who appeared as queen; the horse turned into Queen Mother; the liar was driven away, the young man began to rule both kingdoms]: Shcherbakov 1980:111-114.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Adygs (Kabardian people) [the boy asks his father to pick up a half-alive foal; he becomes a magnificent nest alpine horse; the son finds his mother with her lover; they decide to get rid of him and for this purpose kill his horse first; his mother pretended to be sick, only the blood of the Alps will heal her; the father is preparing to slaughter the horse; the horse advises the young man to pretend he wants to ride for the last time; they rode off; the forest met a black horse, then a white horse, the brothers of the bay; if you burn them and his hairs, they will come to the rescue; in the village, answer everything with the word "narun" and become the guard of the khan's garden; every night he summons one of the horses, puts on formal clothes, tramples on the garden; the youngest daughter sees this, falls in love; she cannot leave before her elders; offers to send her father a dish with three cucumbers - ripe, ripe, ripe and unripe; he summons the grooms; the eldest daughters bring the cup to the noble chosen ones, the youngest is N.; the father moves them to the chicken coop; enemies attacked; N. smashes them three times on different horses; the khan bandaged them with his his hand with a handkerchief; his eyes hurt, deer milk will heal him; N. gives it to his older sons-in-law, putting a seal on his buttock; gave the mare's milk; it did not help; he caught up and milked the doe himself, told his wife to take the milk to his father, covering him with a handkerchief with which he tied his hand; Khan recovered; seeing the stigma, recognized his elder sons-in-law as runaway slaves to Father Narun; gives N. wealth and khan's dignity]: Tambiev 1896, No. 4:213-225 ; Terek Cossacks (art. 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 six royal daughters; receives the princess and half the kingdom]: Butova 1889, No. 4:141-156; Ingush [the prince's wife gave birth to a son and died; in that But the night gave birth to a mare; the prince remarried; the stepmother wants to lime his stepson; the witch doctor advises to poison him, the foal warns; the healer advises to affect the patient, the liver and lung of the foal are needed; the son agreed with the foal - he would ask his father for permission to ride for the last time; they rode away; the young man became a gardener for the pachchah, the foal gave him three hairs to call him when needed; the youngest daughter pachchaha fell in love with a young man, served him wine, they were accommodated in a hut; the eldest daughters chose eminent suitors; the dragon cut off the water and demanded that the daughters of pachchaha be eaten; unrecognized, the young man summoned a horse, chopped dragon, brought and hid the handkerchief of the eldest daughter of pachchaha; the same with the middle daughter; from the youngest (i.e. with the young man's wife); pacci fell ill, needed lion meat; the young man got it, gave it to his older son-in-law for permission to put the stigma on their thigh; the meat brought by his elder sons-in-law made the pachchaha worse, and the lion's fried intestine served by the youngest daughter made him better; the young man in his true guise came to the paccah, brought three headscarf, received half the kingdom; came to his father, who is begging, his wife and her lover are in power; the young man killed them, restored their father's rights; showed stigma on his older sons-in-law, forced them to collect what they had received from father-in-law of half the kingdom and transfer it to its hereditary possessions]: Tankieva 2003:104-111; Georgians: Chikovani 1954 (Pshaviya) [the tsar and queen keep their daughter in the tower; the old woman tells the queen that she and the king they will love each other as before if they eat their daughter's heart and liver; they call their daughter, Lourge's horse tells the girl to allow her to dress like a man and take a horse before her death; takes her to another kingdom; The prince suspects that the dzhigit is a girl; she gets drunk and falls asleep, he marries her; leaves for Lourges, she gives birth to a golden-haired boy; the old woman replaces the messenger's letter, allegedly a puppy was born, or a kitten; replace her husband's letter (wait for him to return), the new one is ordered to throw his wife and child into the oven; Lourge breaks down, tearing off one leg, carries the mistress on three legs; tells him to kill, his remains they turn into a temple, a house, a spring; the husband returns and finds out the truth; the old father goes to look for his daughter-in-law and grandson; the grandson recognizes him; the wife asks the temple, i.e. Lurja, to connect her house to her husband's house; they live happily], No. 61:61-66; 1986 [(another option with the same motive)]: 331-338; Azerbaijanis: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935 [the boy spends all his time with his horse, does not want to study; to get rid of the horse , the mother persuaded the doctor to say that she needed to eat the horse's meat in order to improve her health; the husband did not mind; the horse told the boy to ask permission to ride it for the last time, they rode off; saw a tiger trying to swallow a horned animal, the horns were stuck in its mouth; the young man pulled out his horns, the tiger gave him his tiger cub; the same happened to the lion; the tiger and the lion promised to herd the horse, and the young man was told to go to city; he was hired as a gardener's assistant, the king's youngest daughter saw him and fell in love; offered to send his father three melons of varying ripeness; the advisers explained that it was time for the daughters to marry; the king told the daughters throw the apple at the chosen ones; the younger princess threw the apple at the young man; the king gave it to him, but expelled it from the palace; the king fell ill, he needed venison; did not give the horse to his youngest daughter; the young man sat on his former horse, the tiger and the lion drove the deer into the gorge; the young man gave venison to the sons of the vizier and vekil, but made it tasteless, and the taste transferred to the head and legs he took for himself; only the food brought by his youngest daughter helped king; enemies attacked, the young man defeated them, wounded them in the arm, the king bandaged it; gathered all the men, saw his bandage on the young man, made him heir to the throne]: 237-242; Epiphany 1899, No. 4 [Gulistan Khanum is going to kill her merchant husband in order to marry Gamzat-bey; he also wants to kill the horse; the horse tells her son Ali Khan about this, tells him to ask his mother for permission to ride for the last time; A. cut mother in half, galloped away; changed clothes with a shepherd, hired a gardener for the king under the guise of Kechal ("pleshivets"); imaginary K. made ordinary bouquets for two princesses, and for the youngest he knitted the bouquet with his gold hair; older sisters throw an apple at the son of a vizier and a vakil, and the youngest in K.; the king is sick, he needs venison; K. collects all the deer; gives them venison for permission to stamp his face; from the meat they brought was worse for the king, and the broth made from the reindeer head, which K. kept for himself, recovered; K. summoned his horse, defeated his enemies, the king bandaged his hand; saw K. his bandage; made him an heir]: 44-50.

Iran - Central Asia. Lura [every year the king's sea mare gives birth to a foal that hides in the sea; contrary to the king's prohibition, his son grabs a newborn foal; he does not advise doing so: you will make trouble; the king's wife offers herself to the prince; he refuses; the foal warns twice that the stepmother is going to poison him; then, on the advice of the old woman, the queen pretended to be sick and asked for foal meat; the foal has agreed with the prince; when the king is going to slaughter the foal, the prince asks for one last ride; he sits on his foal and jumps to another city; the horse gives hairs summon him, and let the prince go to the city without him; the prince took the form of a boneless bastard, began to live with an old woman; the tsar has 7 daughters, each with her own hawk; whoever he sits on, the princess will marry him; a hawk The youngest sits on the young man's head many times; they were placed in a cane hut; the young man did not touch the princess, putting a knife between them; the king became blind in grief, he was advised to eat wild meat; the imaginary bastard also rode an old mare, but then summoned his horse; after getting meat, the young man gave it to his older sons-in-law for permission to stigmatize their backs; the young man uttered a spell: let the carcasses only the heads and hooves (trotter) that he kept for himself will become bitter, and the broth of heads and hooves healed the king; the neighboring king attacked, the young man defeated his army; as a reward asked for the return of six slaves to him; the king saw the stigma; handed the crown to his younger son-in-law, but he refused; the wedding; they achieved their wishes come true, let all friends come true]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 10:47-53; Persians: Ottomans 1987 [The foal warns the boy that his stepmother is going to poison him, push him into a carpet covered hole; stepmother pretended to be sick - must be killed foal; the boy asks for permission to take a last ride, they galloped away; the young man pulled a lamb's stomach over his head, hired a gardener; the youngest daughter of the padishah saw him call his foal and prances handsome; the eldest and middle daughters of the padishah were thrown by the Pomeranians at the sons of the viziers, and the youngest in the imaginary bald; she and her husband were accommodated in a stable; the padishah fell ill, they needed gazelle meat, the young man collected all the gazelles, gave one to his older sons-in-law, but stigmatized them in the back; kept his head and demand for himself; the meat brought by his older sons-in-law made the padishah worse, he recovered from the demands; asked the youngest daughter, why is there straw in the soup; daughter: we live in a stable; the young man told his older sons-in-law to show stamps, appeared in his real form, the padishah gave them a palace]: 362-365; Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 7 (Kerman ) [The shah marries for the second time; his only son has a foal named Qeytas; cries, warns that his stepmother will cook poisoned ash (thick soup); prince refuses to eat ash; in next time is poisoned pilaf; K. advises taking pilaf from the side of the dish from which the stepmother, and not the one closest to the prince; the prince remains alive; the third time the stepmother dug a well with swords, let the prince walks along the side of the road; the stepmother pretended to be sick, told the doctor to tell the doctor that the medicine was foal fat; K. advises to agree to the father's demand to give it to him, but with the condition of allowing it for the last time take a ride wearing precious clothes, taking a crown and decorating K. with jewelry; after the third round, K. took the prince away; landed by the garden; tells the prince to leave him the crown and royal clothes, put on rags, pull sheepskin over his head; the princess lives in the castle; K. tells the young man to become the gardener's adopted son; gives hair from his mane, if you burn the hair, he will fly; one day the prince did, K. flew in, the prince rides through the garden in royal vestments, the princess fell in love; seeing the imaginary gardener in the same outfit, asks him to open up, they secretly marry; the vizier compares the maturity of melons with the maturity of the king's daughters; advises giving the Shah's three daughters a golden orange to throw at whoever they like; the elders choose the sons of the vizier, the youngest the gardener's adopted son; the shah fell ill from grief; doctor: will cure the meat of a special bird; the vizier's sons go after it, give the gardener's son a thin horse and a bad saddle; when he falls behind, he burned a hair, changed; brothers cannot catch a bird, they do not recognize the son gardener; he gave them a bird in exchange for a paper in which the brothers declare themselves his slaves; the prince kept the head and legs of the bird (they contain all the power of medicine) for himself; stigmatizes the brothers; returns; brothers they bring a bird to the king, that's only worse; the prince gives his legs and head in simple dishes, the daughter persuaded him to eat, the Shah has recovered; the prince showed stamps on his older sons-in-law and a receipt; the Shah removes sheep from him skin, makes heir, vizier's sons slaves]: 33-42; Tajiks [the padishah's wife dies after giving birth to Muzaffar; the padishah orders him to be taught all sciences, but kept in the dungeon; when the teacher realized that M. knows more than him, he took out a brick in the dome of the dungeon and M. saw the sun; M. came out of prison, began to live in the palace; his stepmother hates him; M. buys a plain horse at a high price; he warns that the stepmother dug a hole for M., covered it with a carpet; M. jumps over it; the stepmother pretends to be sick, demands that the horse be slaughtered; M. agrees with him that at the last moment she will ask permission to take a ride; jumps on his horse, leaves the city; at the mountain, the horse gives its hairs, leaves M.; M. gets on the ship, wants to swallow him by the fish in the river, he kills it with arrows; sails, sitting in a chest, to the garden of the padishah, lives with a gardener, looks bald; the younger princess Malika falls in love with M.; the princesses throw apples at the chosen ones; the eldest Gulsun at the son of the vizier, the middle Fatima with the son of Kazia, Malika with the bald gardener; while hunting, M. kills a fallow deer in his true form, gives it to two other sons-in-law, takes his stomachs; the cheese served to the Shah by his eldest daughters is bitter, and the youngest is tasty, but there is manure at the bottom; Malika explains that they live in a barn; only M. smashes enemies; the tsar bandages the hero's hand with a handkerchief, recognizes his younger son-in-law by him]: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1960:193-204 (=1957:168-177); Bukhara Arabs [bai my son and I went to the bazaar; the son asked to buy him a skinny horse; my father was ashamed, but he bought it; bai left, his wife began to offer herself to the young man; the horse warns to disagree; the young man went to bed with her twice, but refused to get together; horse: your mother will give you poisoned soup; the woman heard the horse's words, pretended to be sick, told her husband to slaughter the horse to eat its meat; the horse teaches the young man to ask his father to let him take a horse ride for the last time; the young man sits on his horse, jumps away; the young man shot the gazelle three times, fed the fox, the wolf, the Simurg bird, they stayed with him; they built a house together; the fox decided get a wife for the young man; there are 40 girls in the emir's garden; the fox began to dance, the wolf played; the emir's daughter came up, Simurg took her away; the old woman promised the emir to return her daughter; after taking two steps, she flew in an arba, spoke to the young man's wife, offered to sit on the arba, took her to the emir; the Simurg took her back; the emir was coming with the army; the fox ordered to gather all the wolves, foxes and Simurgs; the Simurgs threw soldiers off their horses, foxes and wolves tore their bellies; wolves, simurgs and foxes ate meat for six months]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 24:159-163; Baluchis [the king has three sons, two sons have a mother alive, the mother of the third is dead; the elders have taken good ones horses, the youngest horse was grazing in the wild; he saw her screwing by the river, grabbed the foal by the front leg, someone pulling the back leg; he let go and ordered the foal to be given black sheep milk for 30 days; the stepmother decided to get rid of her stepson; the foal warned the young man to give poisoned bread to the cat, she died; the stepmother dug a well, threw the carpet, the foal warned again, the young man jumped over the carpet; stepmother pretended to be sick, she needs foal meat from a water horse; the prince is at school, he hears whining, runs up at the last moment, asks for permission to take a ride, rides a foal away; threw it to his father the letter, in which he described how the stepmother feigned illness; the diva rode to the female, pulled out a splinter from her, she gave her hairs to summon her and her children; the prince sees how the dragon wants to devour the chicks of the Simurg bird; chopped it; the chicks explain to their mother that the prince is not an enemy, but a savior; Simurg gave feathers to call her and her children for help; the prince pulled the sheep's stomach over his head, was hired as a gardener; the younger princess sees how the gardener called the horse, appeared in beautiful clothes, combed his hair; he forgot the comb, she picked it up; all three princesses sent a melon to his father; the vizier explains: they want to marry; the king released for each daughter of pigeons; for the eldest and middle, they sat on the sons of the vizier and governor, and for the youngest, on the imaginary bald man; the elder sons-in-law went hunting, but all the gazelles gathered to the prince; he gave them to the elders his sons-in-law, for this he branded them; the prince left his heads and legs for himself, but they are only tasty; the younger princess threw donkey manure into the bowl; after tasting the food, the king ordered her and her husband to be moved from barn into the palace; enemies attacked; the prince called divas and Simurgs for help; the king bandaged his hand with a handkerchief, not knowing that it was his younger son-in-law; the prince asked his horse for a city and a castle, she summoned the pearies, they immediately created everything; in the morning the mullah does not understand: the sun is from both the east and the west {from the west, apparently, peary's faces}; the prince says that he has lost two slaves; stamps on his older sons-in-law, but The Tsarevich forgave them; the tsar handed over the throne to his younger son-in-law]: Zarubin 1932, No. 14:173-190.

Baltoscandia. Latvians [the king, every night, disappears in a pile of hay; he tells three sons to guard the meadow; the eldest, the middle fall asleep; the youngest fool climbs to sleep under the haystack; a white mare with his two foals woke it up, he grabbed the reason and tamed the mare; she tells me to give it to her older brother, the older foal, to take the youngest; the elders sold their horses, and the youngest takes care of his own; the witch gives Queen poison: if you don't make a fool, he will kill you; the foal warns the owner twice; the witch tells the foal to slaughter; he advises the young man to ask permission to ride for the last time; the foal rose to heaven and descended in another kingdom; tells him to dress in a fur coat with his hair outside and answer "I don't know"; the king gave the idiot to the gardener; the young man shakes his bridle, any job at once fulfilled; tied the forest with a rope and drags her whole with him; the king tells three daughters to choose suitors; the youngest does not know who, the king has passed her off as a fool; but they live well; hell demands people to eat, turn for the royal daughters; every time the young man calls a horse, climbs into his ear, goes out in a luxurious outfit, kills devils (they have 3, 9, 12 heads; a sword, a horse are silver, gold, diamond); each time then he climbs back into the horse's ear, regains his former appearance; the last time a giant demands a younger queen for 12 heads, the horse warns that 12 blacksmiths will come out with him; he must first kill blacksmiths, because if they manage to hit the anvil, another 12 will come out, etc.; the young man killed the blacksmiths, but the giant drove him waist-deep into the ground twice, and the horse pulled him out twice; the young man cut off the giant's leg, and then heads; the wife bandaged the wound with a handkerchief; in the evening she sees her fool husband's handkerchief; the fool became his favorite son-in-law, inherited the throne]: Alksnite et al. 1958:135-142.

Volga - Perm. Marie [a childless wife eats an onion given by a healer, a mare eats the 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 political, I. receives half the kingdom]: Tudorovskaya, Eman 1945:59-67 (=Chetkarev 1948:69-77); (cf. Komi [someone gave an egg to a rich childless merchant: let his wife and mare eat him; his wife gave birth to a son Vasily, a foal mare; the father is always traveling; V. grew up, his mother has a lover; he tells kill her son, otherwise she would kill her; when V. returned from school, the horse warned that his mother wanted to poison him; V. quietly poured out the poisoned soup; mother's lover: you fed the soup under the bench, burned the poison there hole; the same the next evening; the dog tried it spilled out, died; horse: tomorrow the mother will poison even bread, you have to run; the horse tells him to get bored three times, turn, sprinkle dew from three trees; after this can jump from one hill to another; they went to get living water overseas; they rode to the hut on a chicken leg, the hut is spinning, there is a witch in it; they jumped from her to another one, there the second witch, she teaches: there will be three pillars, three gates, a key hangs on the middle one, you have to grab it; "soon the fairy tale affects, it's not done soon" {this proverb is inserted several times}; the third witch in She tells the third hut to leave her horse, gives her own; hit him on the shore, he will become a crow, carry him across the sea; on the other side you will become a dove, you will steal living water from the girl; when you fly to crow, cut off the meat from the calf, feed it; when V. flies, the crow gets tired, sits on the bapka-kotil plant in the middle of the sea, B. gives her a piece cut off from her leg; so several times, only bones remain on her legs; V. first arrives as a dove, hears the girl say out loud that she will not sleep that night, she will guard the water; V. became human again, put the guards and the girl to sleep with this witch with this potion, took the water, kissed the girl and wished her wife; across the sea back on a crow horse {it is not said how her legs were overgrown with meat again}; the girl's brother pursues; one of the three witches replies that V. rode by a long time ago; brother: to the one who took water and kissed his sister, I will send her to his wife; gave V. a letter to prepare to receive the bride; she appeared, they live poorly, they want to take his wife away; the king orders to create a golden palace by morning; wife creates; golden passage to the royal palace (same); third time: set up a water pipe and a telegraph; at night, the wife reconvened her workers, everything is ready; everything is fine, wedding]: Fokos-Fuchs 1951, No. 1:11- 35); Chuvash [Ivan's mother died; his stepmother has three daughters from father I.; stepmother baked I. a poisoned cake; the foal tells him this, advises him to give the cake to the puppy; the stepmother hangs an ax over the door ( the same, the ax fell on the puppy); the healer advises asking her husband to stab the foal; the foal advises to ask permission to ride it for the last time, takes I.; tells me to put a pig bubble on his head, hire the king to guard the garden, answer everything "I can't know"; the king has three daughters, the serpent demands the eldest to be eaten; the king promises her savior; the unrecognized I. jumps on his foal, cuts off his head a two-headed snake; the same to a seven-headed serpent; he demanded his middle daughter, she bandaged the hero's broken finger, then saw I.'s handkerchief, noticed his golden hair; but still held I. for a fool; king gave his eldest and middle daughters for false saviors; the same with the youngest, a 12-headed serpent; I. comes to the wedding feast in her true form; the younger princess recognized I. as a savior; the impostor was hanged]: Sidorova 1979:108-113; Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 75 [when the padishah's son is 14 years old, the mother died, the father took another wife; the son asks to buy him a lousy foal; went out; foal tells him that his stepmother has a lover; she pretended to be sick, asks to slaughter the foal; he teaches the young man to ask permission to ride it for the last time, they galloped off; the foal tells him to pick up a tooth tiger, lion; hire another padishah, leaves his hair to call him; palishah gives sick sheep, tells them to make them healthy, fat; an old man in the forest calls to him, the old man's daughter falls in love with a young man, gave a magic handkerchief; the young man brought a fat herd; he eats well thanks to his handkerchief; the youngest daughter of the padishah stole the handkerchief; the padishah again gives the sheep to herd; the old man's daughter gives a box containing food and music doubly; the padishah's daughter fell in love with a young man; the padishah was attacked by three troops, the young man took out the teeth of the tiger and the lion, the predators destroyed all the enemies; so three times, the padishah wants to give the young man all three daughters, he refuses {apparently he is not recognized}; the youngest bandaged the young man's finger; the elders chose noble suitors, the youngest boy, they were placed in the barnyard; the palishah is ill, he needs swan meat; the young man gets it easily , gives it to his older sons-in-law, cut off one finger for this, stigmatized the other; the meat of the padishah is dying, and the giblets brought by his youngest daughter has recovered; the young man shows his marks on his body older sons-in-law; they were made shepherds, the young man received the throne]: 413-424; Yarmukhametov 1957 [the stepmother cares for her own son, stupid and lazy Tuktar, hates Timur's stepson; the horse bequeathed by his mother warns that his stepmother put poison in the cake, Timur gave the cake to the dog, she died; the horse saves his stepmother from several attempts to kill Timur; she pretended to be sick, demanded the horse's heart; the horse ordered Timur ask his father for permission to ride for the last time; laughs three times, T. manages to run from the madrasah, they jump away; contrary to the horse's warning, T. picks up a golden wing; they come to Belaya kingdom, T. is hired by a groom to the padishah, if you touch the horse with his wing, he immediately becomes fat; the vizier spied, the padishah demands the bird that owns the wing; the horse teaches him to cover himself with a white cloth, grab the fire eagle by the legs, which will descend; seeing that T. did not let him go, the eagle released a golden bird from under its wing, T. brought it to the padishah; the padishah demands the sea maiden; the horse teaches to leave it on On the shore a jug of wine; the maiden went out and got drunk, T. grabbed her; the maiden sets the condition for marriage: to bring a herd of her sea horses; the horse teaches to rob and tame the mare, the herd follows her; the maiden tells milk the horses: horse: everyone must be whipped, they will run out themselves; the maiden tells you to get her ring out of the cauldron of boiling milk; horse: rub dew grass under the birch tree; T. took out the ring, the padishah also dived and cooked, T. married a virgin]: 3-9; Bashkirs [stepmother wants to taste the meat of her stepson Dunno; when the father is going to slaughter the horse, N., licking his blood, turns into a strong huntsman, jumps up on a horse, goes to a city where on the Maidan, the tsar's daughters choose their husbands, throwing a balloon at a crowd of rangers; the youngest throws N., the tsar is forced to give him his daughter; the kingdom is attacked by 3-, 6-, 12-headed devas, N. them wins; the tsar honors his older sons-in-law as winners; deception is revealed when N. recognizes his scarf, which he used to bandage the hero's wound in the last battle; N. punishes liars, reigns]: Khusainova 2014:58; (cf. Bashkirs [after the death of the mother, brother and sister get a brown cow; the stepmother tells her to be slaughtered; the children ask for permission to ride a cow; she takes them to the forest - gold, silver, copper ; every time, despite the brother's ban, the sister tears off a leaf and hides it in pigtails; then turns into stone; the cow tells her brother to burn three hairs from her tail; the sister comes to life, stepmother turns into stone]: Khusainova 2014:57-58).

Turkestan. Kazakhs [Khan's mare gives birth to a foal by a tulpar (winged horse); Hansha's lover persuades her to kill her husband and kill her son first; the foal warns him of poison; when they want kill a foal, the khan's son leaves in it; disguises as a shepherd, always answers, I don't know; Khan's youngest daughter sees Dunno (N.) in the garden, falls in love; all three daughters carry melons to her father, only a melon the youngest is fresh; the khan tells everyone to throw an apple at her chosen one, the youngest throws them at N., they are locked in a donkey pen; the khan tells his sons-in-law to bring mountain goat meat; only N. kills, makes the meat bitter, gives to other sons-in-law, the demand is sweet, the khan liked it; next time N. calls tulpara, in a noble form gives a goat from his pen, puts stamps on his sons-in-law; appears Khan in true form on tulpare, says that two slaves escaped from him; gets a khanate and slaves]: Sidelnikov 1952:205-213.