K109. A wife is a puppy or an object. 26.34.
Thehero gets advice to ask supernatural characters for their service for something insignificant (puppy, goblet). The received turns out to be the daughter of a deity Another character unsuccessfully tries to take the hero's wife away.
Altaians, Shors, Tuvans, Mongols (Ordos), Meos of Vietnam.
China. Meo Vietnam [orphan Tong Pao herds his aunt's cows; she refuses to marry him, drives him away; an elder from the mountain teaches him to play the khaen, gives him a magic khen; his sounds warn whether to act according to the intention or should it be abandoned; they persuade people to help TP; after hearing it, the daughter of the dragon king takes TA as her husband, brings her under water; he teaches her six brothers to play; for this, they ask their father to agree to give TP a cup (his wife taught TP to ask him; the king reluctantly gives the goblet; on land he rolls into the forest, and the daughter of the Dragon King appears instead of him - she was the cup; she creates a palace; her aunt's daughter dies of envy; the heavenly Jasper Lord wants a TP wife for himself; his wife advises to exchange her for the 9 wives of the Jasper Lord; tells her to pretend like something three times on the way to heaven forgot and return; kills Yashmov's Lord, goes to his father to give birth to a son; TP takes the heavenly throne, becomes Yashmov's Lord himself; the wife lives with her son in a hut, sends a pie to the Yashmov Lord, he finds her hair is in it, calls to herself]: Nikulin 1990:128-143.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Altaians [wolves took the cow and the goat Juskuzek a; it is carried by the Kaan-Kerede bird, pulls him out of the abyss; Wolves invite him into the mountain; there their mother feeds on the cow's milk, plays a goat husky puppy; Wolves reluctantly give Yu a puppy; someone cooks at his house; Yu watches, hides dog skin, marries Altyn-Chach (Golden Braids); she says that her brothers have become wolves, she as a puppy, hiding from Karata-Kaan a; K. requires 1) to hide three times (A. helps Yu, he finds K., who has become an onion, stallion, birch, K. does not find it); 2) get the Kaan-Kerede egg; her nest on an iron poplar with nine branches; its roots rest on the lower world, branches touch the third heaven, a seven-headed serpent crawls along the trunk; one chick cries, its snake will eat it now; the other laughs, it will be eaten tomorrow; Yu cut off the snake's heads with an ax, blood formed a sea; the chick held out its wing, Yu crossed into the nest through it; Kaan-Kerede flew in, her tears fell in warm rain; recognizes her claw marks on Yu; says that K.'s soul is in the golden egg, but she does not know where it is; brings Y. to his poor old parents; K. takes A.; Yu has been fighting him for seven years; wolves killed K.'s horse, Kaak-Kerede took him to heaven; A. found a golden egg in K.'s palace, threw it into the fire, K. died; A. and Yu began to rule Altai]: Garf, Kuchiyak 1978:215-239; Shors [Lonely Guy (OP) exchanges sheep for pike caught by people; she falls out of his bag, he throws it into the water; the owner of the water sends for him, offers a reward for his saved son; OP takes the little dog, feeds her at home; in the morning his dishes are made golden; at night OP spies, grabs the copper-haired beauty; she says that now the owner's son (CX, i.e. her brother?) will come for her ; CX tells her father to return the girl; 1) offers OP to play hide and seek; the girl indicates that CX has become a ram with twisted horns; turns her husband into a comb, CX does not find him; CX is a bull, OP is a thimble; CX - a bird with a comb on the seashore, OP is a needle; 2) bring a golden table; his wife tells me to follow her ball; he sleeps with three girls, in the morning a copper-eared old woman wants to eat it; he shows her the one given to him wife a book, she recognizes him as a son-in-law; gives another horse, sends him to her older sister; she has the same episode, she gives him a six-legged horse, tells him to go for a black cloud; OP takes the table, the shaman cannot catch up; stops in an empty house; asks for food, food appears; he asks the invisible to share the meal; the grateful invisible follows him; OP distributes horses to the horses that helped him, etc., returns home; there are no doors and windows in the house, they appear when the wife finds out OP; The owner sends soldiers, the OP releases the birds he brought with red crests, they destroy them, transfer the property to the OP]: Dyrenkova 1940, No. 15:237-251; Tuvans (Dzun-Khemchik District) [Oskus-ool herds of Karaty Khan; his tailless mare gives birth to 9 foals, good horses; K. wants to kill him, take possession of horses; the old man tells O. to run; the wolf eats all 9 horses, turns into a man, is ready to reward; the old man tells O. to ask for a dog, 3 millet grains, 3 poles, a golden chest; O. wakes up in a rich yurt; the beauty chores the housework, disappears when you approach; O. spies through a hole in the yurt, sees the beauty coming out of her dog's skin, throws her skin into the fire; Karaty Khan suggests hide; he and O. turn into different objects, the wife tells O. where K. hides O. from K.; K. orders to find the missing arrow, the harpoon; animals and fish are found; K. sends an army; the wife sends O. to her parents, who give a box with an army, it destroys K.'s army: turns him and his wife O. into servants]: Vatagin 1971, No. 13:121-130; Samdan 1994, No. 3 [same]: 249-271; Tuvans (Khemchik) [Wolf ate 7 red orphan horses; he calls for a visit, he is the king of Volkov; his wife Shibishkin advises to ask for three sticks of a yurt, a puppy, a lamb; they turn into a palace, a beautiful woman, cattle; the orphan's wife wants the orphan's wife Kara tty khan; K. suggests 1) hide (the wife turns the orphan into objects, says what K.'s son has become); 2) count hares (give sugar; the hare will say, "I am one of 50 thousand hares, and not so sweet ate"); 3) K. wants to kill an orphan, but shoots a feather grass; puts up with him]: Katanov 1907, No. 1095:128-132; the Mongols (Ordos) [the boy learned to play the khura (violin family), he was invited by the underwater king; the old man ordered to pay for a puppy and a door latch; a boy wakes up on the shore of rich yurts; someone cooks; he pretends to be sleeping, sees a girl taking off her dog's skin, throwing her skin into the fire; the girl says that he was in a hurry, Shatsgai (Soroka) Khan will begin to take her away from him; when they entered the yurt, the khan's servants looked at the woman, burned the meat; she gave something else, it tastier, the khan had to confess; the wife tells the boy to invite the khan to hide; the boy wins three times (the wife helps); the khan offers to compete, whose horse is faster; the father-in-law sends the boy an eight-legged horse from the sea and four lion, this horse wins; the boy crosses the boiling lake twice, saying Hoshuai; khan dies; noyon asks what hoshuai is; the wife gives a red bean, he kills noyon and warriors iron hail; a boy becomes a khan]: Potanin 1893, No. 8b: 152-156.