K103B. Spinning cow. .15.21.27.-.31.33.
Acow miraculously spins or weaves: it chews a tow, turning it into thread, telling you to wind the yarn around its horns, etc.
Portuguese, Spanish, Italians ( Ticino, Tuscany), Sicilians, Tibetans, Serbs, Bulgarians, Russians (Pskov, Moscow, Gorkovskaya, Voronezh, Kursk), Belarusians, Adygs, Kabardian, Balkarians, Persians, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Turkmens, Pashayas, Lithuanians, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks.
Southern Europe. Portuguese (north: Ourilhe) [a woman takes care of her daughter and joins her maid (engeitada); sends a cow to herd and tells her to spin; a woman comes up, tells her to reel yarn on the horns of a cow, she will quiet; asks for a jug of water, she brings it; gives the girl a gift: when she starts talking, pearls will fall from her lips; when she sees pearls, a woman sends her own daughter; she herself asked for water, but broke a jug; woman: field radish (saramagos) will fall from your lips; everyone wants to marry someone whose lips are pouring pearls; the woman hid her in the closet, replaced her own daughter, showered her pearls and said that she was numb; in the church, the deception was revealed, the groom found the maid, she told everything; wedding]: Coelho 1879, No. 36:86-88; Spaniards (Extremadura) [mother died, girl began to live with aunt; she and her daughter tyrant her; her aunt gives a thread, tells her to make a ball; the cow tells her to put a thread under her tail, it turns out a ball; the same thing is to turn a stump of bread into a loaf; the aunt noticed, told her husband slaughtered a cow; the girl went to wash her intestines, the eagle took them away; she followed him, went to the robbers' house, cleaned him up, they gave her a chest of money and clothes; her aunt's daughter went; because the house was in OK, she messed him up; the robbers beat her, tore her clothes; when she came back, her mother beat her too]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 511A: 420-422; Italians (Tuscany) [after giving birth to Rosina, mother died; stepmother gave birth to daughter Assunta; they grew up, people admire the beauty of R., consider swarthy A. ugly; A. asks her mother to send R. to spin hemp, mow grass and herd cows, feed starve, and beat in the evenings; spin and mow at the same time; the old cow spins herself, chewing the yarn and winding it around its horn; after finding out what was going on, A. walks with the cows herself, but they only confused the yarn; A. asks her mother to send R. to steal the salad from her neighbor; behind the fence, R. saw not a salad, but a turnip; pulled out one, under it, a toad's nest; she praises little toads; after dropping one, she laments that her leg has broken; toads call her good and make her beautiful as the sun; a toad with a broken leg curses R.: seeing a ray of sunshine, R. will become a snake and turn into a girl again only by walking through the fire of the furnace; after that R. did not leave the house during the day, asking her stepmother and her daughter not to let her work outside; the prince sees R., marries her, takes her away; the stepmother persuaded the coachman to open the roof of the carriage when the sun shines; he so he did, R. turned into a snake, crawled away; at that time, a wedding feast was being prepared in the palace; the cook put a bunch of brushwood he had just brought into the oven and could not pull the snake that had crawled out of it; out of the fire a naked beauty jumped out; everything is fine]: Calvino 1980, No. 64:225-229; Italians (Ticino): Keller 1981 [Truda's stepdaughter is kind, beautiful and hard-working, Fiorina's own daughter is malevolent, lazy and ugly; the stepmother sent T. to herd the cow and spin at the same time; the old fairy asked her to comb her hair and hang the yarn on the cow's horns; the fairy's hair contains gold and diamonds, she gave them to T.; on her forehead - a gold star; the yarn hid itself; F. went, put the yarn on the cow's horns, she trampled it; hell came, scorpions and lice were in his hair, F. had a cow cake on his forehead, you can't wash it at home; T. dropped a bucket into the well, climbed after him, the kittens gave her gold; F. they scratched it, returned the brass bucket; the kittens gave T. an apple, it grew out of it, fed T. its fruit; the prince drove by; the apple tree did not lean towards F., but only to T., she gave the prince an apple, who promised to come back for it in a week; wedding]: 248-252; Wildhaber, Uffer 1971, No. 63 [stepmother tyranite stepdaughter; sends a cow to herd, gives her a basket of yarn, promises kill if the work is not ready by the evening; an old woman (this is Madonna) comes and asks her to comb her hair; says that a cow will yarn; a cow chews yarn, threads come out of her nostrils; in her hair the old woman has gold and silver jewelry; she gives them to the girl; tells her not to turn to the scream of a donkey on the way back, to turn to the cry of a rooster; she turned to the cry of a rooster, a star fell from the sky, turned out to be on her forehead; her stepmother sent her own daughter, gave him little yarn, a lot of food; the girl offered yarn to the cow, but she was not interested; an old man (it was the devil) came and told him to comb his hair (there are toads, snakes, unpleasant insects), look back at the cry of a donkey, not a rooster; the girl looked around, the snake dug into her forehead and wrapped around her body; at home, her mother tried to tear off the snake, but it wrapped around her arm; no one could help, but The stepdaughter easily tore off the snake; the stepmother and her daughter asked her stepdaughter for forgiveness; the scar on her daughter's forehead and the bruise on her stepmother's right arm remained]: 234-238; Sicilians [the teacher gives Catherine sweets; asks if she wants her to be her mother; teaches her to ask her mother to take dates out of the chest, drop the lid around her neck, put the date in her mouth; everyone thinks that K.'s mother is to blame; Father K. reluctantly agrees to her request to marry a teacher; she has her own ugly daughter; stepmother tells K. to hide all her hair in a day; the ram tells her to go to bed, by evening the yarn is ready; the stepmother tells her to slaughter a ram; he tells K. to ask the guts, take three gold balls out of them, run with his brother Giovanni, stay away from the sea, otherwise he will become a snake; gold balls turn into a rich castle; he has sea, K. does not go anywhere; the king sees J., makes him close; he advises to marry K.; K. demands to pave the road from the royal castle to her; J. do with the workers; stepmother comes with her daughter; tells K. to step to the sea-facing window, K. disappears; stepmother's daughter takes her place; the king is angry with J., sends ugly woman with her mother into the forest; J. tells everything; stepmother persuades King to tell J. to do it overnight 1) a water fountain, an oil fountain, a fountain of wine; J. goes to the sea, Snake-K. gives a magic wand to do everything; 2) a crystal palace (the same); 3) a stove into which everything will rush fish from the sea; K. teaches that he must grab her, throw her in a vat of milk; revives as a girl; the king marries her, the stepmother and her daughter are left alone in the woods]: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 25:166-
173Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [(from Vetala's Twenty-Five Tales); a girl comes to a cannibal's house to ask for fire; gets a piece of grilled human ear, eats it, she liked it; the cannibal and her daughter offer friendship, they explain to the girl how to kill her mother so that she does not interfere; the girl pretends to be sick, tells her mother that she will recover if she hits her chest against a millstone; cuts off her breasts with a millstone, the mother dies; the cannibal and her daughter eat the corpse, the girl herds their cows, carries firewood; the cannibal's daughter puts on her clothes and jewelry, gives her rags; the girl's mother is reborn as a cow, all her milk is cream and oil; tells the daughter to leave her apron for the night, in the morning it wears ready-made yarn, firewood, cooked food, well-fed cows around; the cannibal sends her daughter; in the morning cow manure on her apron, yarn hangs on trees, cows are scattered; the cannibal decides to kill the cow, she tells her daughter to ask for hooves, skin from her feet, part of her entrails, to bury under the threshold; the cannibal and her daughter go to the party, tells the girl crush barley and mustard; the turtledove tells her to dig up the buried, the remains of the cow have become clothes, shoes, ornaments; the turtledove does the work; at the festival, the girl sees the prince, loses on the way home a shoe; the prince promises to marry the owner of the shoe (he saw at the festival that she was a goddess); turtledoves tell the girl to go to the palace, the prince marries her; she gives birth to a son Jalaγu Ardasidi; in the country prosperity; the cannibal's daughter comes, asks about the habits of the new queen, she replies that she gives cows bones, dogs hay, the king soup, courtiers food, spanks her son, slams the door, stomps up the steps, puts a ball of thread into the fire in the evening (it will not remain hot until morning), etc.; the cannibal's daughter invites the prince's wife to wash her hair, pushes her into the lake, puts on her clothes and jewelry; imaginary the wife broke doors and stairs, feeds her husband with liquid soup, gives bones to cows, etc.; the groom sees the horse drinking from the lake, crying, a golden lark flying out of the water, asking which queen is under better; the groom tells the king about everything; he asks the lark to sit on his head, catches him; the lark says that she has committed a great sin (letters., "my daughter committed", but then the text on behalf of his daughter); it is necessary push the imaginary wife into a trap pit, fill her with hot coals, then the real one will take her form; and so it happened; the revived one orders to cut off the head of the cannibal's dead daughter, wraps her head in a ball of thread, comes to the cannibal under the guise of her daughter; asks for help unraveling the ball; taking the end of the thread, she jumps back; finding her daughter's head, the cannibal jumps after her; the girl screams that the cannibal's house is on fire; she takes the red scarf left by the girl in the window to the fire, comes back; everything is fine]: Schlepp 2002:125-132;
TheBalkans Serbs [the old man tells the girls that the mother of someone who drops the spindle into a hole will turn into a cow; the beautiful Mara drops, her mother becomes a cow; the father takes the stepmother, who also has a daughter; the stepmother tells strain a lot during the day; the cow chews the tow, a thread comes out of her ear; the stepdaughter peeked, the stepmother tells her husband to slaughter the cow; she asks M. to bury her bones; the stepmother goes to church, tells M. to collect scattered millet, cook dinner; M. tears the bones of a cow, there is a chest with a dress, pigeons on the lid, they collect millet, M. goes to church, the prince sees her; the same a week later; for the third time M. falls the slipper, the prince finds it, tells everyone to try it on, the stepmother hides M. under the trough, the rooster screams where she is; M. marries the prince]: Karadzich 1854, No. 32 in Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:99-104; Bulgarians [the old man says that the girl who drops a spindle into the hole will turn her mother into a cow; she has turned into a cow; her father has taken another wife, her stepmother tyrants her stepdaughter; tells her to herd the cow and spin the tow; the cow chews the tow, a thread comes out of her ear; the stepmother sends her own daughter to peek; tells her husband to slaughter the cow; the cow tells her to collect and bury her bones; Mara sits at the hearth, she is called Ashes; stepmother with the daughter goes to church, the stepmother tells her to collect the scattered grain; there is a chest of clothes on the mother's grave, pigeons are told to go to church in a luxurious outfit, the royal son sees her, the work is done at home; for the third time M. dropped her slipper, the prince tells me to try it on, the stepmother hides M. under the trough, the rooster shouts about it, the prince marries M.]: Klyagina-Kondratyeva 1951:39-43.
Central Europe. Russians (Pskov) [the stepmother has two daughters of her own, she tyrants her stepdaughter Alyonushka; A. herds the cow, she tells her to push the tow in one ear, take out a towel from the other; the daughter's machehins spied the stepmother tells the cow to be slaughtered; the cow orders to plant the seeds of apples that she finds in her intestines; apple trees have grown quickly, but they tilt the branches only towards A., the stepmother's daughters are not given; A. carried apples to the rich to the man who married her]: Ploshchuk 2004, No. 36:106-108; Russians (Moscow) [once upon a time Stroy was, the wife died, the new one tells her stepdaughter to spin flax, but does not give food; the cow chews flax, the yarn comes out of her mouth; the cow tells me to get into one ear, get out of the other - the girl has become beautiful and full; the stepmother spied, demands to slaughter the cow; the cow tells the stepdaughter to ask for demand and legs, bury it; the garden has grown with golden apples; the master went to the hostess; the stepmother wanted to slip her daughter, but the rooster screams that the girl was under the trough; the master took the girl and went to pick them up in the garden; a son was born; when he is six months old, the young lady went to visit her stepmother; she took her to the bathhouse, turned her into a lynx; the nanny carries the child; the cow shepherds say that the lynx herd is far away; sheep - what is close; Stroeva's daughter ran out of the herd, took off the skin, fed the child; the master spies, burned the skin, grabbed his wife; she turns into a snake, a toad, a spindle; he broke the spindle, threw the end in front of him, his heel behind, "Be white behind me a birch tree, and a former princess is in front of me"; they began to live happily ever after]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 48:106-107; Russians (Gorkovskaya) [when dying, Alyonushka's mother tells her husband to give her a black cow; The stepmother is her two daughters; she tells A. to herd the cattle and at the same time spin and weave; the cow tells her to climb into her right ear, get out of her left ear; at this time, cows and sheep weave, spin, whiten, roll canvases; the stepmother sent her own daughter to spy, she fell asleep; but the second daughter only pretended to fall asleep; the stepmother tells her husband to slaughter the cow; where A. buried her head, there was a well, where the tail grew birch, where the legs are apple trees; Ivan Tsarevich ask him to pick apples; branches rose from his stepmother and her daughters, and bent over to A.; the same with the well (when the stepmother tries to get water, the water disappears); I. took A., a well, birch and apple trees followed; a boy was born; stepmother turned A. into a lynx; I. learned by ear, brings a child, the lynx runs up, sheds his skin, feeds, but immediately pulls on the skin again; the servant teaches you to throw the skin into the fire; it will turn into a spindle, it must be broken and burned too, and A. held; the stepmother was executed]: Borovik, Mirer 1939, No. 93:232-237; Russians (Voronezh) [ The dying wife predicts that her husband will soon remarry and forget about his daughter. She gives her a cow as a dowry, forbids her to eat, and if slaughtered, she orders her to collect the bones and bury her. The father remarries, the new wife brings her three daughters. They're hurting their stepdaughter. Her stepmother sends her elder daughter, one-eyed, to herd cows and scratch linen, her stepdaughter puts her stepsister's eye to sleep and gives the cow flax, who chews and spits out yarn. She wakes her sister up and they come home. The stepmother scolds her own daughter for not bothering anything. The next day, he sends a two-eyed stepdaughter with her stepdaughter, everything repeats. On the third day, the stepdaughter walks with three eyes, puts her two eyes to sleep, and forgets about the third. The three-eye tells the mother what she saw, and she convinces her husband to slaughter a cow. The stepdaughter does not eat cow meat, collects bones, buries them in the place where the apple tree later grows. The daughter asks her father to bring a golden saucer out of town. An apple on a saucer shows distant cities. The master asks to pick an apple for him, the tree branches fall when his stepdaughter comes up, and the sisters are not given. The master takes his stepdaughter as his wife and takes her away. She comes to visit her father and stepmother with her child. The stepmother turns her into a pigeon, sends her stepdaughter's two-eyed child to the master, passing her off as his wife. The two-eyed man lives with his master, regularly goes out with the child into the field, his mother calls him (refers to a pack of pigeons, "The lynx is young, the lynx is good, feed your child"). The master watches his wife, sees a pigeon descend, takes off its wings and feeds his child, the husband burns his wings, the bird cannot fly away. It turns into a stake - it cuts it, it breaks it into a spindle, and dips it into a good fellow. Stepdaughter finds her appearance]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 16:93-96; Russians (Kursk) [Little Khavroshechka is orphaned, the hostess works; she has three daughters Odnoeyed, Two-Eyed and Trieye ; the cow tells you to get into one ear, get out of the other - all the work is done, the canvas is ready; the old woman sends the One-Eye, the KX put her to sleep; the same with the Two-Eye; Treadyzka forgot about the third eye; the old woman tells her husband must slaughter a cow; she tells the farm to collect her bones, bury it in the garden, water it; an apple tree has grown; a young master goes, asks the girls to give him an apple, whoever gives it will marry; the hostess's daughters cannot - branches go up; the farm serves, the master married her]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 100:150-151; Belarusians [a woman and daughter married a grandfather and daughter; tyrannites her stepdaughter with work; a cow orders one get in, get out of the other, a roll of cloth appears; the stepmother wants to slaughter a cow, she tells her bones to be buried against the window towards the street; a well and an apple tree appear, one apple is golden, the other silver; the king will take the one that scoops water and picks the apple; no one can; the stepmother hides her stepdaughter under the trough, but the neighbor points to the hidden one; the branches bent over to the stepdaughter themselves; the stepmother calls a young queen to visit; she cut off her hands, tied a newborn baby around her neck, and dressed her daughter in her clothes; the queen bent over the water, the child fell, her hands grew; she comes to the king, tells his story; the tsar tied his stepmother to a horse's tail, and her daughter's head was cut off]: Romanov 1887, No. 50:289-292.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Adyghi (bzhedugi) [stepmother harasses Faruza with errands; the bird teaches him to be neither in the house nor on the street (on the doorstep); crows sort out grain (their own daughter, who hits a crow, eat grain); cow eats yarn, regurgitates canvas; a cow is cut, where her bones are buried F. finds a rich outfit; goes to a party, loses his slipper, finds it, and marries her]: Hoot 1987:248-253; Kabardian people [crows help stepdaughter sort out a bag of wheat; the cow swallows wool, spits out balls of thread; the last ball is carried away by the wind, the girl follows him to the witch's house with iron teeth, pulls it out her hair, she has to accept her as a guest; she takes her ball from the chest, does not take gold; combs, not pulls out (as she asked) the old woman's hair; washes and washes, not breaks dishes; gets beautiful dress, comes back; the stepmother's daughter does everything wrong, comes back torn off with donkey ears; the stepmother tells the cow to be slaughtered, she asks her stepdaughter to bury her bones before her death, not to eat meat; the girl finds a luxurious wagon, clothes in the stable, goes to the holiday, loses her golden dude; the horseman finds her on it, marries her; the cow comes to life]: Kapiyeva 1991:180-187; Balkarians [stepmother tells stepdaughter herd a cow and spin her wool; there is so much yarn that she can't do it before dark; the wind took away the wool; the girl saw an old woman; she tells me to tie wool to the cow's head - she will hide herself; stepmother peeked, ordered the cow to be slaughtered; the old woman tells me to bury the remains of the cow; the old woman's three daughters helped to do the job - whitewash the house; invited her to that one; in a hole with bones - a beautiful outfit; a girl mistaken for Khan's daughter; returning, she lost her slipper; Khan tells everyone to try it on; only suited an orphan; stepmother took her stepdaughter to the forest and gouged out her eyes; the woodcutter adopted her; stepmother gave her to the khan his own daughter, he does not like her; that woman found her stepdaughter, gave apples, ordered her to be sold in two eyes; the girl saw the light, her tears turned into gold; the woodcutter built a rich house; the khan and his entourage, including with the girl's father, they stayed in him; the girl tells her story; the khan married her, and sent her unloved wife and her mother away]: Malkonduev 2017:305-309
Iran - Middle Asia. Persians: Rosenfeld 1956 [Mollabaji's teacher persuades girl Shahrban to push her mother into a vinegar barrel and then persuade her father to marry her; he got married, she brought her ugly daughter; opened a barrel of vinegar, a red cow came out of there; M. gives S. more and more work, sends a cow to herd and spin; the cow chews cotton, turning it into yarn; the next day the wind picked up cotton, threw it into well; the cow calls S. a daughter, tells him to climb into the well, do the opposite when asked; the diva tells him to hit him with a stone, S. looks in his head; replies that his head is cleaner than his stepmother's; does not break the house with a pickaxe, but sweeps the yard; replies that the manor, the diva's dishes are better than her father's; takes cotton, not gold; the diva orders to wash her hair in black water, her face and hands in white; at home, the stepmother sees that W is on her forehead . moon, star on her chin; M. sends her own daughter, she does everything wrong, the diva tells her to wash in yellow water, a snake appears on the girl's forehead, a scorpion on her chin, the gold she grabbed, turns out to be bricks; M. and his daughter, wrapping her face with a handkerchief, go to the wedding, tells Sh. to disassemble the mixture of peas, beans and beans, fill the bowl with tears; S. goes to the diva, he gives salt (the water will be like tears) rooster (separate beans, etc.), luxurious outfit, ash (pour on M. and her daughter), flowers (throw at the bride and guests); S. sees the prince, she runs away, loses her shoe; returning home, M. pretends to be sick, let the husband slaughter the cow; the divas replace the cows, tells S. to bury the bones slaughtered in the barn; the prince's servants are looking for the owner of the shoe; M. hides S. in the oven, but the rooster screams where she is; M. feeds S. with onions and garlic, to make her smell bad and embarrass her; the diva helps to get out of the situation, and M.'s daughter, who she imposed on the vizier, stained the room; M. and her daughter were thrown into the ditch, the divas cut the cow's skin, and came out of it mother Sh.]: 130-149; Tajiks [stepmother torments her stepdaughter with work, tells her to strain the cotton; the cow eats it, releases yarn from her mouth; the wind carries cotton into the old woman's cave; she tells her to comb her hair clean the house; promises that roses will fall from the mouth of a laughing girl, tears will turn into pearls, gold bricks will fall from her right foot, silver bricks from her left foot; stepmother's daughter goes to herd a cow; carelessly combs the old woman, sweeps poorly; takes gold away from the pantry; she has a bump on her forehead, gold turns into stones; stepmother tells the cow to be slaughtered, the cow tells the girl bury her bones in a hole; stepmother and stepdaughter go to the wedding, tell them to separate rice from wheat; chicken does this, in place of cow bones - a luxurious dress, a horse; at the wedding, the stepmother does not recognize her stepdaughter; she loses her kaush (boot), the padishah's son is looking for him, finds the girl in good shape, where her stepmother hid her; on the way, the stepmother lets the bride eat salty, she is thirsty, the stepmother gives water in exchange for her torn eyes ; throws his stepdaughter into a well, replaces her with his daughter; a poor old man finds beauty and pearls; saves her, collects roses; changes them for the eyes of his stepmother's daughter, the current wife of the padishah; now out of her eyes pearls fall, roses fall from her mouth; stepmother sends a witch to suck the girl's blood; the girl tells her to be buried in a crypt of gold and silver bricks; stepmother takes her heart away, gives a bag with it to her daughters; when she takes it off her neck for the night, the stepdaughter comes to life; the padishah's son finds her, comes at night; she has a son and daughter; the boy has grown up, pulls out a bag with her heart; stepmother and daughter tied to horses, a beautiful woman and her son are brought to the palace]: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1960:175-182; Persians, Tajiks, Uzbeks: Andreev 1927b (widely used manuscripts on Persian and translated into Uzbek) [stepmother tells her stepdaughter to strain a huge amount of yarn every day; the girl inherited a cow and a chicken from her mother; the cow ran into the cave or the wind took her away from the girl's hands are cotton wool; a gray old woman in white sits in the cave, tells (in Persian version from Ura-Tube) to sweep the floor, look in her head, is satisfied, rewards the girl with beauty; tells her to let her eat cotton wool to a cow, thin yarn begins to come out behind her; in the Persian version, the stepmother's own daughter is inattentive to the fairy, becomes ugly (the bead stolen and hidden in her mouth makes her goiter grow); for Tajiks in Samarkand, a stepdaughter washes her hair in the Black River and her face in Belaya becomes beautiful; a daughter, on the contrary, becomes black faced and gray hair; the stepmother asks her husband to stab a cow; she tells her stepdaughter not to eat her meat, bury her bones under the threshold; a noble man invites her to a feast; stepmother tells her stepdaughter to separate millet from sorghum, the chicken does the job, the old fairy calls the guria, those dress up a girl to go to a feast; a girl loses her slipper, a noble man tries it on for everyone, her stepmother locks her in a latrine, but the chicken shows where to look; after getting married, stepdaughter prepares a treat in honor of an old fairy woman (Bibi Se-Chambe), the husband enters, offended that the food is running, overturns the cauldron; he goes to cut off the melons, in his bag they turn three missing princes into the heads; before his execution, he goes to his wife, repents, heads turn into melons, princes return]: 8-12; Uzbeks [the shepherd's new wife torments her stepdaughter with hard work; a gust of wind takes her yarn away to the cave; the old woman tells to feed the yarn to the cow, pull the threads from the udder; the stepmother tells the cow to be slaughtered; the old woman tells to bury the bones and skin; the stepmother and daughter go to a feast, the rooster with the chicken instead of the stepdaughter rice is separated from peas; in the hole where the remains of a cow were buried, the girl finds beautiful clothes; four peri, the old woman's daughters, take her to a feast, she returns before her stepmother, losing her boot; the shah tells him try it on for everyone, only fits the stepdaughter; the stepmother kills the rooster and the chicken that indicated where she hid her stepdaughter; gouges out that eye, throws her into the swamp, brings her ugly daughter to the Shah; the weaver finds a girl, her tears are pearls, laughter is roses; a sorceress teaches to sell roses in a pair of eyes; the Shah meets a girl, expels her stepmother and false wife]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (2): 114-121; Turkmens [=Annanurova 1980:50-56; stepmother tells IBB to clean the cotton bag in a day; the calf chews cotton, cleans, loosens threads; the wind blows the ball away; A. comes to the old woman, she replies that she has a ball lying among precious goods; A. does not take jewelry; the old woman asks her to pull out her hair, break dishes, rip off blankets, etc.; A. washes her hair, cleans dishes, etc.: the old woman tells her to swim in a narrow one on the way home ditch, do not look at the wide yap; A. returns dressed up as a beauty; stepmother sends her daughter, she steals gold and silver, literally fulfills the old woman's requests; she tells her to swim in a hole on her forehead a donkey ear has grown; the stepmother decides to slaughter the calf, who tells A. to hide its bones in the old tamdyr; the prince wants to marry A.; the stepmother sends her daughter instead; at night, the prince feels a donkey ear; the prince demands a real bride, A. finds a precious dress in tamdir, marries the prince]: Erberg 1953:101-110; Pashayas [from the eldest and youngest daughter sisters; the youngest is dead, the eldest she adjoins her youngest daughter; gives cotton to spin and herd the cow; the cow tells her to feed her yarn, a ball of thread comes out behind her; one day the wind took away part of the yarn; the aunt beat her niece, sent her to find carried away; the girl complains to the North Wind; he tells her to go to his mother, let her pick up her black pot, the cotton in red; the girl comes to the house in the mountains; the mother of the wind asks if it will pass whether she is under or above the door, sits on the floor or in a chair, eats cheese or whey, lies on the bed or under the bed; the girl replies that under the door, on the floor, whey, under the bed, the hostess does the opposite ( puts her in a chair, feeds her cheese, etc.); in the morning she makes her beautiful, gives her cotton, sends her own daughter to herd a cow, she beats her, the cow eats yarn, fills her apron girls with manure; the wind blows away the yarn, her own daughter goes looking for her, scolds the North Wind, in his mother's house she says she will walk above the door, sit in a chair, etc.; the mother of the wind puts her on the floor, etc.; tells her remove the red pot, get the cotton out of the black one, the donkey penis sticks to the girl's forehead; at home she tells her mother to slaughter the cow, then she will recover; the cow tells the orphan not to eat her meat, collect everything bones, bury them in an ash pan, come in 7 days; she finds seven doors there, behind them springs, honey, gold, shoes, clothes; she was swimming in the river, the water took away one shoe, the king's son finds him, promises marry the owner; the aunt hides the orphan in the back, the rooster screams that she is there, the prince finds her, marries, a feast; Muslims were given cooked food, raw Hindus, Hazaras (they are Shiites) burnt]: Morgenstierne 1944, No. 16:100-109.
Baltoscandia. Lithuanians: Lebite 1965:84-90 [Sigute's brother went to war; her stepmother gives her a bunch of tow, tells her to hide it, sew a shirt; a black cow swallows a tow, spits out a shirt; stepmother's daughter spies, stepmother decides to burn S., otherwise brother S. will return, take revenge; fills the hole under the threshold with hot coals, sprinkles it with earth; the black dog warns S. every time not to go there; the stepmother breaks Every day she has a paw, then pulls out her tongue; on the sixth day, S. failed, burned down; the cow licked the ashes, the duck flew out, told his returning brother about the incident; he smeared his horse with tar, told stepmother to push him, she stuck with her hands, legs, and head; brother tells the horse to scatter her stepmother's bones across the field; snow is her bones turn white], 90-94 [stepmother tells her stepdaughter to hide without a spindle in the evening and wind it without a reel; the cow tells her to throw flax on her horns, by evening the yarn is ready; the stepmother sends her youngest daughter to spy, she did not notice anything; the eldest said that the yarn was on the cow's horns; the stepmother tells slaughter a cow; a cow tells her stepdaughter to dip her apron in her blood, bury it; where the first drop of blood fell, a wine spring clogged, where the apron is buried, an apple tree has grown; the spring and apple tree are not given to relatives daughters, stepdaughter collects wine, apples, offers the Queen, who marries her]; Lithuanians [the couple has 12 sons and 3 daughters, the youngest Egle ("spruce"); the sisters were swimming, already climbed onto E.'s clothes, she you have to promise to marry him; snakes crawl into the house; on the advice of a neighbor, they dress up a goose, a lamb, a chick as a bride; every time the cuckoo screams deception; E. is taken to the seashore, she is met by a handsome man, he is; from the island they go down to the palace at the bottom; E. gives birth to sons named Oak, Ash, Birch, and daughter Osinka; He agrees to let his wife and children visit their parents if E. 1) hides silk tow (the healer tells you to throw the tow into the fire, the toad releases yarn from its mouth in the fire); 2) wears out iron shoes (the healer tells the blacksmith to burn them in the furnace); 3) baked a pie (She hides them dishes, the healer advises to cover the sieve with sourdough, knead the dough in it); He tells you to return to the tenth day, teaches you how to click it; if the sea boils with bloody foam, then he is dead; brothers threaten Osinka with a rod, she gives a ring; the brothers hacked Snake with braids; when E. comes to the sea, bloody foam boils; E. tells the children to turn into trees, turns into spruce itself; aspen now trembles, because extradited her own father]: Lebite 1965:79-90 (=Bulatova 1985:375-379)
Turkestan. Kazakhs [bai has a daughter with his eldest wife, son and daughter from his youngest; the youngest is dead; the stepmother tyrannites her children; the black lamb koshkar tells them to pull out a piece of hair from him, every time there is food; the stepmother peeked, decided to slaughter the lamb, pretended to be sick, only her meat would cure her; the lamb advised the children to bury its bones; the stepmother let the stepdaughter hide the bag of wool; the cow began to chew wool to hide it; the wind carried away the wool; the girl came to the old woman; she asked her to comb her hair; there were delicious things, the girl did not touch her; the old woman made her beautiful, returned her hair the cow chewed, the wool became threads; the stepmother sends her own daughter, she ate the food, the old woman ordered her to grow horns on her head; the healers hardly cured her; the padishah promised to marry her son to that one, give her daughter for someone whose leather boots would suit him; stepmother and daughter carried their boots, told the children to separate rice from millet; white chicken ordered to dig a hole with bones, horses, clothes, shoes; padishah married his son to a girl, married his daughter to her brother]: Kanbak-Shal 1985:58-60; karakalpaks [the poor man has a wife and daughter; his wife is dead, the new one has her own daughter; stepmother tyrannites stepdaughter; gives so much yarn to hide it is impossible; the gray cow tells her to feed the yarn, the thread comes out from under her tail; the stepmother sent her daughter to follow; when she finds out what is going on, she tells her husband to slaughter the cow; she teaches her stepdaughter to collect bones and bury it in a noticeable place; if there is trouble, you have to go there; the famous buy arranged that one; the stepmother, taking her daughter, went there, the stepdaughter got a job; she comes to the place where she buried her bones; a voice from the ground cows: don't be sad; a chest with expensive clothes appeared; the girl came to that one; bay's son looks only at her; the next day he sends matchmakers; wedding, everything is fine]: Aimbetov 2014a, vol. 67:21-22