K107F. The sun, the month and the wind. .15.16.27.-.29.31.

Going in search of a marriage partner, the hero or heroine consistently finds himself in the incarnations of stars and atmospheric phenomena (sun, moon, stars, wind) of which only the latter has the right information.

Portuguese, Spanish, Italian (Veneto), Ladins, French, Germans (Grimms), Slovenes, Croats, Hungarians, Romanians, Albanians, Greeks, Czechs, Ingush, Lithuanians, Norwegians.

Southern Europe. The Portuguese (Algarve) [an enchanted prince flies to the window of the youngest of the three sisters as a bird, dips himself in a bowl of water; envious sisters put razors in the water; the youngest saw blood, went to look for the prince; came to the mother of the Month, she hid her; Month: I smell a man; the mother of the Month asks him, he does not know, sends him to the Wind; the Mother of the Month gives a golden reel; the Wind sends to the Sun, the Mother of the Wind gives a gold spinning rod decorated with diamonds; the Sun shows the way, his mother gives a golden spindle; at the palace, a girl begins to wind yarn on a reel, the queen buys it for the girl's right to spend the night in the prince's room; the spinning rod is the same; the girl tells the sick prince everything, he recovers immediately; wedding; {the end is clearly crumpled}]: Braga 2002:169-170; Spaniards [the poor man goes for the bars, grabs the willow, the dragon tells him to bring him what he will meet first at home; he thinks it will be a dog, the youngest daughter comes out; he sends first the eldest, middle, the dragon rejects them; at night he sheds his skin, becomes handsome; the dragon's wife visits the sisters, they are jealous, burn their skin, the husband tells him to look for him in a gilded castle, wearing out seven pairs of iron shoes; the wife with their son comes to an old woman, she tells her to wait for the Moon Eagle to return; the Moon sends to her Sun Brother, he sends him to the Wind Brother, the Wind takes her to the castle, where her missing husband marries; the wife consistently kindles three coal given by her husband, everyone fulfills a wish to have a beautiful spinning wheel; for three spinning wheels, the wife buys three nights in the prince's bedroom; on the third night, the prince does not drink a sleepy potion, returns to his wife and son]: Malinovskaya 2002:233-237; Italians (Veneto) [the witch wanted to marry the king, but he chose another one, so the witch made sure that the son born was covered in piggy skin; son grew up and asked his father to marry him his girlfriend, the eldest of three sisters; when the groom lay down in a puddle at the wedding and then sat down with the bride, she called him a real pig; she was found dead in bed in the morning; the same with his middle sister; the youngest did not disgust the groom, but called it a treasure; at night he took off his pigskin and turned out to be handsome; forbid his wife to talk about it; the prince comes to the tournament three times; seeing the daughter-in-law next to the handsome man, the prince's mother calls her a libertine and wants to kill her; after learning about the skin removed, she burns her; the prince disappears, the wife goes in search; The evening star (Stella d'oro, man) gives walnut, sends her to the Sun; he also gives a nut, refers to the Wind; the mother of the Wind hides her, asks her son, who says that the prince lives behind the mountain, he and the Sun will go there tomorrow to dry their clothes; Mother of the Wind gives a chestnut; the prince remarries, in his house an unrecognized wife was hired as a goose; split a walnut, wearing an Evening Star dress; gives it to the new bride overnight with the prince; she puts sleeping pills; the same on the second night (the dress is like the sun); the most beautiful dress in chestnut; the prince just pretended to fall asleep; found out that his wife had worn out her iron shoes in search of him; returned to her and drove the new bride away ]: Widter et al. 1866, No. 12:249-254; Ladins [=Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, No. 33:207-219; the widow's son goes to work; sees 10 winged maidens fly to the lake, took off their wings, began to swim, then they flew back to the mountain peaks; the next time the young man hid, took the youngest's wings; she became his wife; he put his wings in the chest and told his mother not to leave the key in the lock; she left it, his wife found wings, flew away, telling him to look for her on a glass mountain; the young man went in search; the young man directs him to the old man; he sent him to his sister Moon on the top of the mountain; the moon sends to his elder Brother Sun; he to his older brother Wind; he gives a ball that rolls to a glass mountain; the wind lifted the young man up the mountain; there in the house, the mother of bird girls offers tasks; 1) cut down the forest with lead with an ax (the bride tells me to go to bed, the job is done); 2) scoop out the lake with a scoop of holes (the same); 3) recognize the bride among her sisters (she tied a red ribbon to her leg); the bride tells me to run, quit three red lice are behind one after another; each turns into a mountain, one taller than the other; the mother cannot overcome the third mountain, stops the persecution; the young man brings his wife to him; wedding]: Uffer 1973, No. 44: 211-220.

Western Europe. The French (Nièvre) [the prince smashed a jug of butter carried by the old woman with a ball; she wished him love for three oranges; the prince fell ill with love and went in search with two companions; they they come to the south, east, north wind; the mother of the winds hides them every time and teaches them what to do next; they come to the castle; they oil the rusty door and it opens; they throw them to predatory pigs acorns, give giants ropes to get water out of the well (they took it out using their hair instead of ropes); let other women sweep the heat out of the oven (they did it with their bare hands); sweep a dusty dirty staircase; they comb a lousy old woman, who falls asleep for the first time in many years; the prince sees and picks up three oranges, runs away with her companions; the old woman tells the stairs, etc., to detain the fugitives, but they refuse, because those who came cleaned them, fed them, etc.; on the way back, the prince opens one orange, a beautiful woman comes out, asks for a drink, dies; the same with the second; the third opens at the spring; brings a beauty to a king who knows the prince's father and dreamed of marrying a prince to his daughter; sends the prince for jewelry and clothes for the beauty he brought in, and his daughter stabs a pin in her head and the girl flies away with a dove; the liar says she has darkened by the sun and wind; the prince's father and courtiers are surprised that his fiancée is ugly; on the eve of the wedding, the dove talks to the cook; sits on prince's hand; he groped and took out a pin; wedding; the liar was burned at the stake]: Delarue, Tenèze 1964, No. 408:59-63; Germans [the eldest daughter asks for pearls, the middle daughter asks for diamonds, the youngest is a singing skylark; father saw a lark in the castle, wanted to grab it, a lion jumped out; he gives a lark for promising to give what he sees first at home; the youngest daughter comes out first; she went to the forest, there a queen who turns into a lion during the day; she comes to her older sister's wedding; when the wedding is average, the lion does not want to go, for he will become a dove if a candlelight falls on him; so it happens; she goes for a dove that drops blood drops and feathers; when the trail disappears, the sun asks (gives a casket), a month (gives an egg), the wind (only the south wind knows that the lion is fighting the dragon - enchanted royal); tells you to cut off the 11th vine and hit the dragon; then you must jump on the vulture with your husband, he will fly; you must throw a nut, an island will appear in the sea, the vulture will rest; but the dragon, becoming a woman, took away lion; there is a golden dress in the casket, the girl buys the bride's night with her husband, who is intoxicated with sleeping pills; there is a golden chicken with chickens in the egg; this time the husband poured out a potion; they sat on the neck, throwing a nut into the sea, flew home; their son is already older]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 88:292-296 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:232-236).

The Balkans. Slovenes [the gentleman tells the fisherman to catch fish in three days for the feast he is having; the fisherman caught nothing; someone in green clothes promises a rich catch for promising to give what the fisherman has he does not know at home; he will come for his promise in 20 years; the fisherman agreed, immediately caught fish; the man in green warned that the fisherman promised him a son; after completing his studies, the young man tells his father to approach him with him on the shore and when he steps with one foot into the green man's boat, say "In the name of the father, and the son, and the Holy Spirit!" ; after that, the boat with the green man and the young man disappeared; they found themselves in Perdonkorten ("Wundergarten"); in the castle, the snake tells her to kiss, he tells her to die in response; the next night, the same, snakes have two heads; the third is three-headed, he kisses her, she turns into a girl; after that, the castle and the city are disgraced, the owner of the castle (and he is the girl's father) and the people greet the young man; he began to miss at home, decided to visit his father; the wife gave a ring that would allow him to travel to his father and return back; if he tells others about the ring, it will be lost; on earth, the master wants to give the young man one of his two daughters; a young man tells them about the ring; they put him to sleep and stole the ring; after 5 years, the young man decides to go to Perdenkorten without a ring; comes to a woman, she has three dangerous brothers; a young man calls himself after their missing fourth brother; they have speed shoes, an invisibility cloak, a hat that makes its way through any obstacle; he asks for permission to wear it all, disappears, comes to the house of the sun; his servant is there; the sun has returned, says he does not know about Perdenkorten, tells him to turn to the moon; she also does not know, sends it to the wind; he says that tomorrow he will refresh with the breeze who have gathered for the wedding of the princess there; thanks to his wonderful objects, the young man follows the wind through all obstacles; remaining invisible, the young man drops church books on the floor, which the chaplain laid out for the wedding; the old wedding is upset, the princess marries a young man; storyteller: they gave me wine in a sieve and bread in a glass and one on the back with a shovel; after that I left]: Wratislaw 1890, No. 58:301-312; Croats [a woman was going home when childbirth began, gave birth under a bridge; three Royenitzes came up {Women in labor?} ; one proposed to immediately take the baby's life, the second to kill him when he grows up, and the third to kill him if he does not marry the daughter of King Vilas; the blacksmith told the young man to go to the mother of the month, gave three pairs of iron shoes; after wearing out the first pair, the young man came to the mother of the month, who hid it, but the month did no harm and directed it to the sun; on the way, the young man wore out the second pair of shoes; the sun directed to the mare to the wind (third pair); the young man managed to stay on the mare's back, she brought a pitchfork to the castle; after the feast, the young man hides three times with the mare (in the tail, under the hoof), in the morning tells the king that he is drunk somewhere fell asleep; the third time the young man brought two eggs, the mare held them in his mouth, cockerels hatched from them, they sang in the morning, the demons who were looking for the young man disappeared; the mare orders to grab the king's daughter, they gallop away; the king pursues, the burden throws chips (forest), crest (mountains), glass of water (pond); the king struggles to overcome obstacles; however, the mare goes through the steps (not entirely clear), and the king cannot; he throws daughters a wish-fulfilling belt; wedding]: Wratislaw 1890, No. 53:278-283; Hungarians [the king placed his daughter in a tower to isolate her from men; one of the two wanderers raised a stem up to the window, his smell made the girl pregnant; her father put her in a barrel, threw her into the sea; the barrel was nailed to the island, the girl got out, gave birth to a son, he grew up, began to swim across the strait to the mainland, bring his mother from there apples; his mother herself baptized him in the name of his father of the sun, his godfather of the month and his star cousins; his name is Beautiful Szérus; a hussar costume and sword fell from the tree to him; on a tree trunk he transported his mother across the strait; to meet the giant, S. hacked him; brought his mother to the giant castle; the king of giants met with mother S., they decided to get rid of S.; the mother pretended to be sick: we must bring a bear cub and eat his heart; the bear gave a bear cub; when she saw him, the mother said that she had already recovered; the same with the wolf cub; the lion cub; the mother suggests that S. jokingly tie his thumbs - will he be able to break; cannot; the giant agrees to fulfill his last wish; S. asks to put three whistles in his mouth, given by a bear, a she-wolf and a lioness; the lion grabbed the giant, the wolf, the woman, the bear tore fetters; S. cut the giant, pieces of meat into the trough, the second - water, the mother left between the troughs; left with his animals; a bride is needed; the bear advises you to ask the sun - Father S.; the lion brought them all to sky; the sun does not know about brides, advises you to turn to the month; the month to the stars, or rather the Morning Star; neither star knows, let the winds ask, they blow everywhere; they replied that his betrothed sleeps in a golden cradle at the bottom of hell, she is rocked by 42 features; S. and the animals returned to earth; the count himself tried to get this girl, promised to help; S. grabbed the girl, the devils in pursuit; the lion threw a brush (forest), a handkerchief (sea); the bear threw three pins (three mountains to the sky); the devils could not overcome them; the count took the girl; she would marry only someone who could milk three golden mares; the animals milked; she will marry someone who buys in their milk, heated to a boil; the animals cooled it, S. swam, became handsome; the count also wanted to swim, the animals heated the milk, the count cooked; the girl got ready marry S., he went out into the garden, fell asleep, the count's younger brother cut off his head; the animals saw a snake, whose snake was cut in half with a scythe, carrying healing grass; the lion stepped on the snake's head, the animals took the grass, the snake hit the lion with its tail, ripping off its hair, leaving only its mane; first their head was attached backwards, had to be redone; at this time, the count's brother was preparing the wedding; the lion and the wolf tore him apart; wedding; S. dug up his mother, who ate the giant's meat, took a sharp bone, put his son in bed, she pierced his heart; the animals revived him with that elixir taken from the snake, tore his mother; a son was born ; when he is 7 years, 7 months, days, hours and minutes, three stones must be sprinkled with blood; S. did this, his three animals became princes again, the castle of the giants is their castle; S.'s son did not die, they only took him blood; they're all alive if they're not dead]: Dégh 1965, No. 8:109-126; Hungarians [the queen creates a palace and a golden bridge and gets the princess; the minister steals the watch {apparently this is the magic item} , takes the palace and the Queen's wife to a remote place; the Queen comes to the sun, the month, the wind, then to the mouse kingdom; his queen gathers the people; only an old mouse knows where the stolen palace is, gnaws through the strap and returns the watch]: Stier, no. 13 in Aarne 1908:57; Romanians [when leaving, the emperor tells three daughters not to unlock one room; the eldest insists on unlocking; there's a table and a book that says that the elder sister will marry the emperor of the East, the middle sister will marry the Emperor of the West, and the youngest will marry the hog; the father returns, the eldest daughters are visited by royal matchmakers, for the youngest a hog comes; she is obedient to her father; along the way, the hog lies in the mud and tells the bride to kiss him; at home in the evening she turns into a young man; the wife is pregnant; asks the old woman for help; she gives the rope to tie at night husband by the leg; the rope breaks, the husband jumps up, says that if it were not for his wife, the spell would have ended in three days; she will see him, wearing out three pairs of iron sandals and three iron staffs; comes to Mother Moon (woman), who sends the Sun to the mother (man); the Sun advises you to ask the Wind; Mother of the Wind: your husband is in a forest house like a pile of fallen trees; the wife comes there and to get up, makes a ladder out of bones; one is missing, she cuts off her finger and it turns into the last crossbar; the husband flies in like a dove, is frightened, then recognizes his wife, the child is with her; explains that his father- the emperor fought dragons and killed a dragon; his mother turned the emperor's son into a hog to prevent a predetermined marriage]: Kúnos 1901:222-243; Albanians [childless the old woman finds a snake, raises her like a son; he tells him to marry him the king's daughter; the old woman is lowered down the stairs twice, the Serpent heals her with a magic ring; the third time the king demands that a palace be built overnight, lay the way with velvet, come with his retinue; The serpent gets a wife, sheds his snakeskin at night, says his name is Speite, forbids talking about his transformation; the wife tells his mother, S. disappears; his wife goes looking for him, wearing iron shoes, comes to the mother of the Sun, who first hides her from her son, the Sun promises not to eat what has come, refers her to the Moon, she refers her to the Wind, who says that S. kidnapped a monster that carries overseas; there the monster brings his wife S. to his palace; S. throws a ring into the jug, the wife finds out that the husband is near; the monster demands that the wife Sh. 1) the house be swept in places, in some places no, 2) fill two cauldrons with tears (Sh. advises to fill it with salt water); S. pretends to be a woodcutter and a carpenter, tells the monster that he makes a coffin for the deceased Sh., asks to try it on, bobs up , burns; S. and his wife return to people forever]: Serkova 1989:21-31; Greeks: Megas 1970, No. 27 [princess rejects grooms; makes, revives a young man from sugar, almond, semolina; his name Mr. Semolina; another princess sends a ship, tells her servants to grab S., they bring it to her; S.'s wife consistently comes to the mothers of the Month, the Sun, the Stars; Mr. Stars knows where S.; the princess is hired there to herd geese; The month gave an almond, in it a golden spinning wheel, the Sun is a chestnut (it contains a golden chicken with chickens), the Stars a nut (it has a golden clove tree); each time wife C . buys the princess one night with S., but she puts him to sleep with a drink; the beggar tells him not to sleep the last night, the couple run away; the princess herself makes her husband out of almonds, etc., but the food has only rotted]: 60-65 ; Sike 1993 (Skyros) [princess rejects suitors, makes a young man out of almonds, sugar, semolina, he comes to life, marries her, her name is Semigdalenios ("Made from semolina"); another princess is jealous sends a ship with expensive goods; when S. comes there, the ship sails away; S.'s wife goes in search, consistently comes to the mothers of the Sun, the Month, the Stars; each hides S.'s wife so that the hungry son did not eat it; Sun, Month, male stars say they did not see S., only the smallest Star shows the way; each mother gives a nut with a gift; under the guise of a poor gypsy, the wife is hired to kidnapper S., asks permission to spend the night for a gift (each nut has a gift); two nights S. is put to sleep, on the third servant warns S., the wife tells her story, the spouses reunite, return]: 131-135.

Central Europe. Czechs [a son was born shaggy like a bear, the king heard about his mind, will give him his daughter Mina if he turns Labu, otherwise he executes; in the morning the river flows across the castle; the same is to build a castle ; the bridge from his castle to the royal one; the young bear gets M., becomes human at night; the wife and mother burned their skin, the husband is gone, the wife goes to search; sun: ask my brother of the month; month: ask winds; wind: he is at the sorceress overseas; carries across the sea, teaches him to throw one bouquet to a bird, another to an old woman, otherwise they will be killed; the sorceress allows you to talk, but the king falls asleep; on the advice of one of the queens , the king changed the wine bowls, the sorceress drank and fell asleep, the king killed her with a sword; the castle turned black red, everyone parted, M. and the king began to rule]: Talova 1956:110-113 (=Bogolyubova, Talova 2000: 219-224).

Caucasus - Asia Minor. The Ingush [the prince has a tree with golden leaves, someone steals them; three sons take turns guarding; only the youngest does not fall asleep, cuts off someone's finger and head; follows a bloody trail; takes companions pulling trees, drinking the sea, a sharpshooter; they lower the prince's son into the hole; the girl says that they are three daughters of a three-headed eagle, their father has been cut off one head and finger; she asks the father what he can kill him; he replies that there is a ram around the corner, there is a hare in him, a duck in a hare, there are three chicks in a duck; the prince's son kills them all, the companions raise the girls upstairs, the youngest leaves her son Prince ring; tells you to touch the white horse, he will take you to the upper world; red - stay here, black - you will be lower; companions cut off the rope; the prince's son touches the black one; the old woman says that the Sarmak (dragon) closed the water; the Sarmak gives water three times, then the prince's son kills him; the padishah sends him to the eagle on the black mountain; the young man kills the snake that devours chicks every year; the eagle takes him to the ground; there is not enough meat, he cuts off his flesh from his leg, with both hands; the eagle regurgitates the meat, puts it back; under the guise of a shepherd, the young man comes to the wedding of the rescued princesses; the youngest recognizes ring him; a young man kills traitors, marries, marries two princesses to his brothers]: Malsagov 1983, No. 1:23-29.

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians [133 options; sometimes brothers turn into crows, sister weaves nettle shirts; father died, mother stayed with four sons, went to borrow peas from her neighbor, slipped back , the peas crumbled, the mother in her hearts wanted her sons to run away as wolves; so it happened; the woman had a daughter from her second husband; when she found out that she had brothers, the sister weaved a shirt and a towel for each of them, went to look for her brothers; she came to the sun, it told her mother to cook the chicken: let the girl eat and put the bones in a bag; the moon has the same; the star knows that the brothers in the palace are on bone mountain; to get up, you have to take it out the bone and put it under your feet; one bone was not enough, the girl bit off her little finger; in the palace she put her shirt and towel on each of the four beds; 4 wolves ran in , they shed their skins; when they saw their sister, they were angry: if she hadn't come, the spell would have slept soon; now let her sit silently in the forest for three years (9 years); the king's men noticed her in the tree; without getting the girl answer, the king ordered her to be burned; at the last moment her four brothers rode, returned with her sister to their mother]: Kerbelite 2014, No. 111:273-278; Norwegians [Polar Bear (BM, white, not polar) asks the poor man's daughter; the girl and parents agree; he brings her into the mountain, the girl does not need anything; in the dark, BM comes to her in the guise of a person; she wants to see her parents and brothers; he warns her not to speak to her mother alone; the wife breaks her promise; the mother teaches her daughter to light a hidden candle to look at her sleeping husband; when she returns, she sees her husband, rushed to kiss him, dripped hot candle fat on him; he wakes up, disappears with the castle and all his riches, saying that he must now return to his stepmother and marry the princess with With a long nose, they live in a castle east of the sun, west of the moon; the old woman gives her a golden apple and a horse to drive to another old woman, she is a golden comb, the third a golden spinning wheel and a new horse to ride to the East Wind, that to the West, West to South, South to North, North to the Castle; the girl consistently exchanges an apple, comb and spinning wheel from Long-nosed for the right to spend the night with prince; he sleeps for two nights, before the third servant tells him about a crying girl, does not drink a sleepy potion; the prince tells his beloved that tomorrow he will set a wedding condition: he marries the one who washes away three grease stains from his shirt (they are left from a candle); only a woman can do this, not a troll; the girl washes away the stains, the trolls burst, their castle disappears; the prince and wife return with them the riches and captives of the castle]: Dasent 1970:22-35.