K113A. The bride is where the arrow fell.
.13.-.17.23.27.-.32.
Theyoung man throws an object, shoots a bow, etc. Where the arrow hit (where the object fell), the young man finds his wife or a means to help get it.
Kordofan, Arabs of Mauritania, Tunisia, Egypt, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalans, Italians, Ladins, Bretons, French, Germans (Grimms), Tuvalu, Mustang, (monks, Burmese), India ( Hindi), Bhils, Nepalis, Sinhalese, (Agaria, Oriya), Albanians, Bosnians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Romanians, Gagauz, Luzhitans, Poles, Czechs, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Vologda, Tver, Moscow, Ryazan, Voronezh, Kursk, Oryol, Tambov), Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Eastern Slovakia, Galicia, Volyn, Podolia, Kievskaya, Poltava), Belarusians, (Slovaks), Urums, Abkhazians, Ossetians, Avars, Georgians, Megrelians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Uzbeks, Yagnobes, Mountain Tajiks, Parya, Rushans, Bartangans, Lithuanians, Latvians, Karelians, Swedes, Norwegians, Western Sami, Mari, Bashkirs, Altaians, (Eastern Khanty).
Sudan - East Africa. Kordofan (language not specified) [the emir took three sons hunting; each caught three antelopes; then ordered a spear to be stabbed where everyone wanted to take a wife; the elder and middle were stabbed near decent homes people; the youngest went to the steppe, threw his spear, it fell into a tree with a monkey on it; she replies that yes, she is his betrothed; young man: since you can't weave a carpet and cook food for a feast, good, that you are at least talking; he brought the monkey home; the emir visits each of his sons to see how his daughters-in-law cook; he is happy; the youngest is grieving; the monkey offers to bring him a beautiful woman, he refuses - he already has a monkey; under the monkey skin he notices his golden hair; the monkey tells him to invite his father; he comes in, there are carpets everywhere, the food is better than the eldest sons; the emir orders you to come to the feast to him with his wives; the youngest son saw the monkey take off its skin and become beautiful; when he left, the young man threw his monkey skin into the fire; at which time the wife came to the emir's house; his wife advised she did not show her face; the young woman asked for bread, the emir's wife gave her; but at the request of the emir, the young one opened; the room was lit; the emir: I must kill my youngest son and take his wife for myself; young turned her bread into a diamond; said that she was the daughter of the king of jinns, and returned to her husband; the emir decides to lime her son with difficult assignments; 1) grow grapes in the garden overnight (guests will come, it is necessary treat); wife: fields from the flask with dried soil, plant raisins; the next day, the guests ate grapes; 2) arrange melons with ripe watermelons overnight (the same: scatter the seeds on the sand, pour them from a flask); fill the house with meat and bread - let him eat everything overnight (the people of the magical wife eat); 3) the child born should walk and talk tomorrow; wife: gather the people and let the emir promise that if a child will speak, the kingdom and life of the emir will be at the disposal of his youngest son; they brought a baby born in the city; in the morning the child got up from the mat, opened the door and said to the emir who appeared: you have lost your life and kingdom; the emir fell dead and his youngest son reigned]: Frobenius 1923, No. 7:60-73.
North Africa. Tunisia [The king has seven sons, he thought they were interfering with his subjects, and he imprisoned them in a palace. A maid brought them food. Just bread and water, but she felt sorry for them and started bringing them tasty and tasty food. She once told the king that his children had stopped eating and she did not know what was wrong with them. Then the king decided to marry them. He dressed them like a king, gave them each an apple. The princes threw apples. For one, it pointed towards the vizier's court, the other towards the court of a noble man, and so everyone decided on the bride, except for his younger brother. There was no way he could find his apple. Six got married and gave them a gift from the king of the palace, while the youngest was left alone. One day he went hunting and saw his apple, and a frog stuck to him. He wanted to unhook it, but he didn't succeed, so he threw the apple and the frog under the bed. When he left, the frog shed its skin and turned into a beautiful girl. She did all the household chores and went back under the bed. This went on for several days. When the prince returned, he thought it was the neighbors' wives who had decided to help him. He went to thank his neighbors, but it turned out they weren't them. Then he turned to the sheikh. He advised him to hide and see what was going on in the house in his absence. So the prince saw the beauty, burned her frogskin, married her and got his own house. The king decided to visit his son and daughter-in-law. When I saw my daughter-in-law, I wanted to marry her myself. He ordered the prince to make a burnus out of a piece of marble. The frog told her husband to go to his father, take a sandbasket with him, and ask him to make silk threads out of sand. The king admitted that his son overcame his ordeal. He ordered the army to be brought in and the entire army fed with "musarrad". The frog made a couscous, then added the king's musarrad and his handkerchief to it and told her husband to say: "For the hungry!" This is how he fed an entire army. The third task is to bring a talking baby. The frog sent her husband to her sister, who had just given birth. She said to the baby, "The one who came for you is your aunt's husband, and whoever you're going to talk to wants to kill your aunt's husband and marry your aunt himself." She said that and handed him a sword. The prince took the baby to the king. The baby said to him, "We speak and we want words over words, and we cut off your head." A baby cut off the king's head]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 45 in Korovkin MS; the Arabs of Egypt [the sultan tells three sons to shoot a bow and take wives where the arrows fall; the elders marry daughters noble people; the youngest's arrow hit an empty house where the turtle is; so three times; the prince insisted on marrying a turtle; the sultan fell ill and lost his appetite; orders his daughters-in-law to cook food for him; the turtle sends the maid to ask the wives of the older brothers for rat and pigeon droppings for seasoning; they refuse to give it and put the droppings in their food, the smell is terrible; the food sent by the youngest son's wife likes To the Sultan, he recovers; asks his daughters-in-law to come to him; the turtle sends a maid to the wives of his older brothers to ask them to borrow a goose, a goat as riding animals; they do not give it, but they go like this themselves; the wife of the Sultan's youngest son arrives in a carriage; she is beautiful; she sprinkles rice and jute on herself, they turn into pearls and emeralds; the older daughters-in-law do the same, everyone is dirty; they had to leave the palace ; the younger prince burned his turtle shell, his wife remained in human form]: Artin Pasha 1895, No. 6:103-114.
Southern Europe. Italians (Piedmont) [the king tells three sons to throw a stone from his sling; where he falls, to take a wife whose wife is better, he will give the throne to him; the eldest married the baker's daughter, the middle one married a weaver; the youngest's stone fell into the ditch; the king gave hemp yarn, who was better than sotket; the older brothers received masterfully woven things from their wives, and the frog gave the youngest a chestnut; it contained the finest fabric; it stopped pouring out of the chestnut tree as soon as the king said "It never ends"; the king gave his sons a puppy - whose wife would take better care of the dog; the older daughters-in-law have half-dead dogs, out of the box the youngest, a well-groomed trained poodle jumped out; he had to appear at the wedding; the youngest's frog, accompanied by snails, turned into a beauty in a luxurious carriage with servants; this princess was disgraced after the prince agreed to marry her]: Calvino 1980, No. 14:43-44.
Western Europe. The French (many versions of all of France, most of the sorceress is a frog, sometimes a mouse or a cat) [two brothers can't find brides; they decided to shoot at the white light; the youngest came out beautiful a girl, and a frog jumped out to the eldest; brought him to a lonely castle; the youngest offered to go to their king uncle; the frog told the eldest to agree; the king: whose dog runs but does not break anything, that I will give up the throne; a dog jumped out of the eldest's box and did not break anything, but the eldest one knocked everything over; whoever has a thread around the lock three times; the younger brother twice, and the older brother five times; whose wife more beautiful; the frog got into a stroller with a lizard on the coachman and rats on the horses; and turned into a beautiful woman, and the carriage into a real one; the elder brother received three kingdoms, but gave one to the younger]: Delarue 1964, No. 402:36-38; the Germans [two princes are smart, the youngest is a Simpleton; the king promises to give the throne to whoever brings the best carpet; blows three feathers down the wind; the feathers of the older brothers have been carried by the wind, the feather the youngest fell not far away; there was an entrance to the dungeon; there was a big toad and many little ones in the room; the toad gave a beautiful carpet; the older brothers took a rough woolen shawl from the first shepherdess they came across; now the king demands the best ring from the contender for the throne, makes feathers again; the toad gives the Simpleton gold with gems, the older brothers bring the wheel rim; the third condition is to bring the most beautiful a girl; a toad gives a hollowed out turnip pulled by six mice, tells you to put one of the little toads in turnips; she turns into a beauty, turnips into a carriage, mice into horses; the older brothers brought village women; the elders demand the last test: let the girls jump over the ring hanging in the middle of the hall; two women fell, their arms and legs changed; the simpleton girl slipped easily; he received the crown]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 63:233-235.
Western Asia. The Arabs of Iraq [the Sultan's two eldest sons from an Arab woman, the youngest from an Ethiopian; the sultan offers his sons to shoot a bow - where the arrows fall, take a wife; the arrows of the elders hit the courts of Amir and the vizier, the youngest's arrow flew into the chol (desert); the lion asks to pull a splinter out of his leg, gives three hairs; if rubbed, they turn into wish-fulfilling servants; the prince asks for a flying horse stops by the city, buys a sheep, puts her stomach over her head, now looks bald, stays to work for the Sultan's gardener; the youngest of the three princesses once sees a young man in all his splendor ; at the request of the princesses, the gardener brings the Sultan three melons of varying degrees of ripeness; the vizier explained the hint; the sultan gathered all the men, gave the daughters an apple, ordered them to throw them at someone they like; the elders chose the sons of Amir and the Vizier; the youngest does not abandon, demands that the gardener's apprentice be brought; the sultan settled them in the stable; enemies attacked; the young man three times incognito in brilliant guise on different horses appears and smashes enemies; the sultan bandaged his wound on his arm with his handkerchief; out of grief that he does not know who the hero is, the sultan has gone blind; the doctor: you need lion's milk in a lionskin vessel brought on his back lion; elder son-in-law rides; at the crossroads, the old man spins the thread of day and night; one road - "If you go, you won't come back", two - "You'll go and come back"; he went to come back; met a man who offered play chess; lost everything, became a servant; the same with his second son-in-law; the younger son-in-law is kind to the old man, wants to take a road they don't return; the old man teaches not to turn around if he feels hit from all sides, to put the guards to sleep, then the lionesses will give what they need; unrecognized, the young man finds brothers, gives a bottle of milk, for which he puts seals on their backs; but milk did not help the Sultan; in its true The son of an Ethiopian woman appears to the Sultan, the lion with milk is behind; the Sultan saw the light, handed him the throne]: Stevens 2006, No. 12:58-73.
South Asia. Nepali; bhilas [the king ordered seven sons to go up to the roof of the palace and shoot a bow; each will make up his wife where the arrow fell; they married the daughters of the king (the other), the potter, butter seller, brahmana, Kurmi, merchant; but the one whose arrow hit the ascetic's house found only a monkey in it, and he married her; the mother of the princes comes to everyone for lunch; to a married monkey at the last turn; as soon as the monkey saw her mother-in-law, she took off her skin and became a beautiful fairy, had a rich feast; Rani drove her other sons away, and built a palace for this purpose]: Grierson 1907:281-282.
The Balkans. The Greeks [the king invites three sons to take wives where the arrows fall; the elders marry rich beauties, the youngest brings a frog; when she is alone, the beauty leaves frog skin, cleans the house; the prince spies, sees the frog princess summon the maid frog, who also turns into a girl, does the job; he throws his skin into the fire, the princess screams from pain, he throws his skin into the water; the princess explains that her family of underwater inhabitants is bewitched; will remain in human form if the young man loves her; the prince and his wife are invited to a party; the wife tells me to ask on the lake, her father has magic rods, goose eggs and two chicken eggs; they are with his retinue in a rich outfit; goose eggs are a crown for the king, chicken eggs are bracelets for older sons]: Megas 1970, No. 24:49 -54; Albanians [the king tells his son to find his wife; he shoots a cannon, the core falls three times by the tree, under him there is a turtle; the young man brings her home; leaves her; when he returns, everything is tidy up; the third time he hides behind the door, grabs the girl, breaks the turtle shell; the king wants a girl for himself, tries to lime his son, demands to bring cloth to dress the army; the wife tells him to go to the sea, turn to her parents, they gave matter; no matter how much they cut from it, the rest of the same length; the same is bread to feed the whole army; the king sends a man 3 tops tall, a beard 7 tops; wife : this is my brother; a dwarf comes with the prince, blows the king's head with a blow of his fist, puts the prince on the throne]: Lambertz 1952:113-120; bosses [the good and beautiful haired daughter of a poor widow rejects suitors; her mother drove her into the forest: you will become a bear queen; the bear took her to his lair; when leaving, he blocked the exit with a stone, but she did not even think of running; gave birth to a gold-haired girl with just as smart with eyes like a bear father; bear: my son would be in me and inherit my kingdom, and let my daughter be queen among people; the bear put his crown in the cradle of his daughter and went to die; the bears buried him; the bear's wife turned her daughter into a toad and hid it under a stone; the king has three sons; the father tells them to take bows and shoot arrows from the top of the tower; the elders fired arrows into the neighboring kingdom and brought the princesses ; the youngest fired an arrow towards the forest; found an arrow on the fir above the cave, and everything around was tidy; wanted to kick the toad, and she: don't hit, I'm (your) happiness; he brought it home; noticed that although the servant brought food into the prince's room as it should be, then everything was turned upside down; the prince came in and saw the girl wearing the crown; opened the closet and threw the toad's skin into the fire; the prince introduced the bride to his father; he told the three daughters-in-law to eat ; the elders threw the crumbs on the carpet, and the youngest on the plate, and they turned into ducats; after that, the king demanded that the son give the sorceress to him himself; he disagrees; then let him sew from one a piece of cloth clothes for all soldiers; bride: go where you found me and shout "Burning hair - show up!" Tell my mother what she needs, she will do anything; she has given everything; the second task is to cook food in a cauldron for all the soldiers; the same; bring the ring that the king's late wife took to another world; bride: go ask the mother what to do; the bride's mother told her to remain silent and led her deep into the cave; one snake steals another's eggs (the girl is turned into a snake for secretly taking eggs from her mother during her lifetime); man and woman hanged by the legs, with their backs to each other (the spouses quarreled during their lifetime); the baby is hanged, the dog licks the dripping blood (the dog is a woman who strangled her child); two men are roasted on skewers, and they complain about the cold (during her lifetime they stole firewood hedges); the late queen, the prince's mother, cooks in boiling water; reached out her hand and told her son to remove the ring from her finger; let the king pay for 30 cherries, for which she did not pay was the only thing she could be punished for; when she returned, the prince told the king everything; he called the people together; when he found out who his wife owed, he gave that poor man the money; the prince returned to the cave and the bride's mother showed how the prince's mother came out of boiling water across the golden bridge and was saved; the wedding of three princes; the king handed over power to the younger]: Preindlsberger-Mrazovic 1905:81-94; Bulgarians [(many records); the father tells his sons to marry where the apples, feathers, arrows they have abandoned, thrown, fall; the youngest's arrow falls into a swamp (spring, lake) to a turtle or frog; he brings it into the house; someone cleans the house, cooks; he finds a beautiful woman, throws her shell, skin into the fire; the beauty remains]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 402:139-140; Romanians [Tsarevich Theodor let an arrow and went to look for it; pulled out an arrow that had pierced the ground, a bull, a sword and a note in the hole: the bull will revive the owner if you give him wine, and turn everyone's sword into stone; stopped at the old woman; she gave wine, but no water; a 12-headed monster gives water only in exchange for girls; it is the princess's turn; whoever saves her marries her; the young man falls asleep on the princess's lap, wakes up from her tears; in the evening at the monster only one head was left, and the young man had only one arrow; he tied a broken bow with the girl's curl and finished off the monster; the gypsy cut T. to pieces, brought the king the heads and tongues of the monster; the princess left the ring and a handkerchief next to T.'s remains; the bull asked the old woman to take him to the spring; ordered him to fold the chopped pieces of his body; licked them and breathed - T. came to life; at the gypsy's wedding feast, T. threw a ring and handkerchief into the cake that the old lady gave the bride; the gypsy was torn by two horses; they built a palace for T. and his wife]: Mawr 1881:32-37; the Gagauz people [the widow king tells three sons to shoot arrows where they fall, there is fate; the elders fell to the girls, the youngest to the turtle; he brings the turtle home, when he returns from hunting, finds the food cooked; he hides, grabs the girl, throws away the turtle shell; The king father wants his daughter-in-law, tells his son to bring the wedding ring of his deceased mother from the dead; the wife teaches him to go to the sea, shout into the hole, her mother will come out, give the key to the castles of the earth; he opens the land, walks, sees a fat herd in a dry meadow, a skinny herd in an abundant one; on the way, the sea asks the guy to ask God why there are no fish in it, the sea; a man sits by the water, burns, black and white sheep come out, each wants to extinguish the flame, they fight, and the person lights up again; asks to know why he is burning; in the Sun Palace, the Sun's mother says that the ring is near the Sun will return and give; the Sun gives a ring, cries, because that people in the city go for need in secret, but in the field openly; the guy goes back; the old man explains that obese cattle are the ones who did alms, and the thin ones did alms when they looked around; a burning man was who judged once righteously and the other unrighteously; the boy gave the ring to the king, who immediately died]: Moshkov 1904, No. 29:39-41.
Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Voronezh, Kursk, Orel, Tambov), Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Eastern Slovakia, Galicia, Volyn, Podolia, Kiev, Poltava), Belarusians [frog princess: three princes go looking for wives in the direction of abandoned objects or arrows fired; the youngest finds a frog in the swamp, she becomes his wife, best on errands the king (sews, weaves, bakes, dances) and turns into a princess; the husband burns her skin; the princess disappears. - The continuation is most often type 400: the husband is looking for a disappeared or kidnapped wife]: SUS, No. 402:128; Russians (Karelian Pomorie): Nechaev 1938 [similar to Razumova, Senkina 1987:72-82; p. 68: when Elena the Beautiful appeared in her true form, when she laughs, gold will rise, and if he cries, the pearls will roll]: 59-84; Razumova, Senkina 1987 [the tsar tells his sons to shoot arrows; where he falls, take his wife; Vasily, Fedor's arrows fell on the royal court, on the princely court, at the youngest Ivan into the swamp; there is an old woman in a hut; wanted to leave, but immediately began to drown; the king orders that daughters-in-law be sewn on a shirt; the old woman cut the silk into pieces, threw it out the window: nannies, mothers, serve as my father and mother served me; my older daughters-in-law did the same, but only spoiled silk; I had to buy it at the bazaar; and I. brought the best shirt; the next day he baked bread; the old woman poured out the dough at the mouth of the oven; the elder daughters-in-law too; bought bread; I. brought it, the king tried: eat a piece - the soul hurts differently; the king asks to weave the carpet; the old woman promises a flying carpet; "Take it yourself. And when you sit down at the table and the thunder thunders, you say: This is my woman wearing colorful dresses. When it rains, you say: It's my woman who washes her face with spring water. And when the lightning flashes, say: This is my woman coming and go out to meet me." A beautiful woman comes out of the carriage; puts pieces behind her sleeve at the table; shook her sleeve: the Neva River was formed, ducks and eiders swam on it; the older daughters-in-law tried it - pieces and crumbs flew to the table and to the guests ; I. burned an old woman's outfit; Elena Prekrasnaya: now Koschey the Immortal will take me away; took me away; I. came to an elderly woman, this is an EP aunt; sent me to her mother, she tells her husband, i.e. the father of the EP, to ask forgiveness; father sends to take his wife away from Koshchei, he himself cannot; Koschey suggests throwing a sword: who is taller; I.: I want to throw your sword on the cloud; Koschey angered, turned I. into an egg; Eagle Orlovich pecked, broke shell, but told I. to work in his kitchen; after a year of service and drinking kvass, I. threw a sword that fell back 3 hours - not enough; he still served - 6 hours; enough; the Eagle teaches: Hit Koshchei with my sword and only once, 12 Koshcheev brothers to his own; I. killed Koshchei and his brothers, freed the EP, brought her to Orel; he tells her to work and drink kvass for two years; after the first year, like I., she throws a sword that falls three hours, after the second - six; we got home, the tsar gave I. the throne]: 72-82; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, p. Sura, 1927) [Father gives his sons bows and arrows, orders them to shoot in different directions, and look for brides. The elders find merchant daughters, the youngest find a frog. The father instructs the brides to embroider "a pair of underwear", the brides of the older brothers embroider, the frog cuts the fabric and throws them out the window. Her embroidery is the best. The father orders the brides to bake bread; the frog gets the softest one. The father invites his sons and brides to a feast, the frog comes after her husband. The frog in the box is a beautiful girl. Her husband burns frogskin, she leaves it and lives in the swamp for a long time. Then he returns, her husband inherits his father's throne]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 55:134-135; Russians (Vologda) [boyar Dobromysl tells his sons to shoot arrows; where he falls, take his wife; the eldest and the middle married the daughters of a nobleman and a boyar; Ivan went to the hut, in which the old woman holds his arrow; turned the hut into a rich room; if I. does not marry the old woman, he will not leave the swamp; as soon as And . agreed, the old woman turned into a beautiful woman; the name Svetlana, she was bewitched; while she is young only at night; D. orders her daughters-in-law to make a shirt; S. cut the canvas, threw it into the window, ordered to be sewn in the wild winds; I. brought the best shirt; weaving the carpet is the same; bake bread (S. poured the dough into the cold oven); D. wants to see daughters-in-law; S. hides food in her sleeves at the feast; waved her sleeve: the pond, and geese and swans on it; the older daughters-in-law waved - they drenched everyone, sprayed everyone; to prevent S. from becoming an old woman again, I. threw her ring into the sea; S. ordered to look for her in the thirtieth kingdom; I. came to Baba- Yaga, she gave her sword and ball, let him follow; I. killed the kidnapper, freed his wife, returned with her to his father]: Burtsev 1897, No. 46:265-286; Russians (Tverskaya) [the master tells three sons to shoot arrows; the eldest's arrow fell into the courtyard of the neighboring master, the middle master, the youngest to the frog; after the wedding, the master tells the daughters-in-law to knead the dough; the frog's pie is ready - best of all; cook the same shirt; let the wives come for dinner; the frog became beautiful; the husband threw his skin into the fire; wife: now look for me from Kashchei; the husband went to look for me, came across an old man whose nose grew into a stump; released; he gave a ball, the husband followed him to his wife; when Kashchei fell asleep, her husband began to play the pipe, he fell asleep in eternal sleep; the young returned home]: archive of the Center for Tver Local History and Ethnography, sent by V.E. Dobrovolskaya; Russians (Moscow) [the tsar has three sons, orders to shoot arrows, the elder arrow hit the kingdom, the middle arrow has a merchant's house, the youngest Ivan has a frog in the swamp; frog: I won't give up the arrow, get married; the king tells his daughters-in-law to sew shirts; the frog cut the cloth into pieces, threw it out the window: the winds are violent, bring me the shirt that my father wears on a bright holiday; other daughters-in-law sent spy on the girl Nigella; they threw out the rags themselves, they lay down, they managed to sew them forcibly; tsar: wear this groom, this one to the janitor; and the king will wear the frog shirt to the big ball; the same with the carpet; with a pie ( the frog poured the dough into the cold oven); at the wedding, the frog became an old woman, hides spoons by the sleeve; at the dance she waved: the knife flew out - the ditch around the house, the spoon - the water in the ditch, once again - the ships sailed , birds of paradise are sitting, cats are walking overseas; daughters-in-law repeat: a fork in someone's eye, a spoon in someone's forehead, vodka broke, filled everyone; they went to bed - the old woman became beautiful; I. hid the ring in the sea left; wife: now I can't live with you, I've gone to sea]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 36:87-89; Russians (Moscow) [Tsar's sons Vasily, Fedor, Ivan; tells me to shoot; where the arrow will fall, there is his wife; I.'s arrow in the frog's paws; the king orders to bake a cake; the frog shed her skin, went out onto the porch: babysitters, bake the same as the priest had at the party; the king tells the eldest daughter-in-law's pie give to the poor brethren, the middle brethren hungry in prison, the youngest will eat himself; the carpet (the same); the frog goes to the feast beautiful; I. burned the skin, the princess turned into a cuckoo, flew out the window; I. goes to look; in the hut on a chicken leg is spinning in the forest; turn your back to the forest, in front of me; Baba Yaga: Koshchei's wife, his death in an egg, an egg in a duck, a hare, a bear, in a casket, an oak casket on an island in the sea in thirtieth kingdom; gave a ball, we must follow it; I. did not kill the bear, the she-wolf, the falcon, the pike; everyone promises to come in handy; when I. got the chest, the bear killed that bear, the wolf caught up with the hare, the falcon - duck, pike took an egg out of the sea; I. took a needle out of the egg and broke it; Koschey died, I. returned his wife]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 37:89-91; Russians (Ryazan) [tsar tells three sons to shoot : where the arrow is, there is the bride; the eldest took the princess, the middle took the general's daughter, the youngest found an arrow in the frog's mouth; the king tells daughters-in-law to make shirts; frog: nurses, do it; sons bring shirts to the king; the eldest to wear in a black hut, the middle to go to the bathhouse, the youngest to wear on Christ's day; the same: bake bread; the frog pretends to dump the dough into the oven, and turns to the nannies himself -mothers; the eldest sons have bread - kuli-muli, the youngest - for Christ's day; bring daughters-in-law to the ball; the frog has become beautiful; at the feast she hides food and drinks in her sleeves; waved her hands - forests and waters, birds fly; other daughters-in-law doused people; I. found and burned the casing; wife: look far away in the thirtieth kingdom; I. came to an old woman; a hut to the forest backwards, to me in front of me; the old woman does not know about Elena the Beautiful (EP), sends to her older sister; she sends to her oldest, teaches what to do; she viet gold, locked the spindle in a box; I. unlocked, broke the spindle, threw the tip back, the spine in front of him, EP beautiful appeared in front of him; they flew home on a flying carpet; the other groom chased, but he can't go to Russia]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 237:329-331; Ukrainians (Poltava): Rudchenko 1870, No. 28: 99-106; Poles [the prince gives bows to three sons and orders them to fire arrows; where the arrow falls, there is the bride; the eldest's arrow hits the daughter of a rich knight, the middle one hits the daughter of the landowner, the youngest is to the frog in a silted pond; this is an enchanted princess; daughters-in-law must bake bread for her mother-in-law's name day; the frog tells me not to worry; 7 girls have appeared, baked the best bread; now daughters-in-law must give an embroidered belt; 7 girls decorated the belt with gold, silver, pearls and diamonds; the older daughters-in-law arrived at the party; the youngest Grand Prince says: if it rains, then his wife is swimming, if there is lightning, she dresses up, if thunder, she has arrived; a beautiful woman enters the hall; the prince runs into the house and throws a frogskin into the fire; the wife is in flames: a little more, and the spell would be over, and now she is bewitched again for a long time; she melted like fog and was never seen again]; Woycicki 1920:58-62; Poles [three queens shoot arrows to find brides; elder arrows fall into houses where girls live; the youngest's arrow falls next to the toad; the queen breaks the spell from the toad, burning its skin or after three nights of torment]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 402:129; Czechs [king suggests three sons go out into the world, find brides and bring gifts for him a year later - who is better; brothers shoot arrows in different directions; the youngest is Yarmil, his arrow hits a mouse hole; the road has opened down, in front of Y. marble castle; towards a girl in white, tells Y. to sit on her white horse; the horse flew to the castle made of gold and gems; I got off my horse, and the horse flew away; inside the hall one is richer than the other; in the latter is empty, and the diamond says; to save me, keep me by your side and bathe daily; there is a toad under diamond and gold; he put it in his bosom; in another hall, food and wine appear by themselves; I. stayed in the castle, but the more I washed the toad, the uglier it seemed; a year later I found a note: put me in a frying pan, cover me, bring me to my father as a gift; I returned to my father with my brothers; at the elder the bride was a princess, the gift was a mirror; the middle bride also sent a mirror; I gave the box; diamonds on it; a little man jumped out of it and handed a mirror, and then disappeared; the king recognized the gift to Y. the best; now the king tells his sons to return in a year and one day, bringing portraits of their brides; I. returned to the toad; a year later a note: give my portrait in a frying pan to my father; when I gave it, king said he had never seen such a beauty; in another year and day, the king wanted to see the brides themselves; instead of a toad in front of Y. beautiful; tells me to go down to the basement, there are 12 candles in front of each shirt; we must extinguish candles, bring shirts and candles, be silent and listen to nothing; beautiful: these shirts are toad skins and candles burned me; a monster nailed by the tongue in the basement bewitched my father king; nailed a witch who is stronger than a monster; for three years you should not tell me what image I used to be or say how many skins I had; your mother is especially dangerous, a witch who hates you; I brought a bride, the wedding of three brothers; the prince's mother convinces him that the witch is not her, but his fiancée; found out what she wanted; stole toad skins and candles from his wife's room and burned them; wife: you have solved the secret, now I'm flying away to a glass mountain, from which there is no return; I. goes in search; the juggler said that the glass mountain is in the east; there is a river around the mountain, there are three giants on the bridge; the maiden from the white castle: tie the horse's hooves with rags and throw dust behind; spend the night in the mill across the river; the cook will bring the chicken to the miller, throw the bones under the millstones; let him give it to you, and you throw it in front of you when you want to climb the glass mountain; throw the last one behind you when you are at the top; when I threw the bones, each turned into a step; when I threw the last one back, there was a road that the horse climbed; he lives in the castle witch with 12 daughters; wife: the witch knows you're here, be nice to her; when you eat after each meal, get up and leave, otherwise you'll stay forever; the witch promises to give me my wife, but for three years. service; gives a wooden ax to cut down the forest; the wife put me to sleep, threw the powder, someone's hands cut down the forest; the witch gave a shovel to dig the mountain (same); scoop out the pond with a thimble (same); wife: now a witch a black cloud will appear, hit her with my sword; the witch fell dead, my wife and I jumped away; when they found out everything, the king burned mother Y.; they arrived at the mouse court: there are the gates of the city, disgraced people welcome; everyone is happy]: Curtin 1890:331-355.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Urums ("Greeks g. Mariupol"; judging by fragments of the original texts and other lexical materials in the notes, these are urums, not rumei) [the padishah has three sons; he said it was time for them to marry and ordered them to throw them up on a stone; the eldest son's stone fell into the courtyard of one of the padishah's close associates, and he married the daughter of this close associate; the situation is similar with the middle brother; the youngest's stone fell on a rock; there a monkey; the youngest had to marry her; after the wedding, the wives of the eldest and middle sons gave the padishah an embroidered shirt; the youngest told the monkey about it; she told him to go to that rock on which they met, and say three times: "Let's say bobi-navel!" ; when the youngest did this, an old man appeared and gave a shirt; the youngest took it to his father; he was amazed at the wonderful work and forgot about the shirts given by the other daughters-in-law; after a while, the older and middle wives the sons were given a pair of Arabian horses to their father; the youngest's wife told him to do as he did for the first time; an old man appeared and brought four Arabian horses; the youngest son gave them to his father; he was pleased ; when the padishah decided to have a feast, the monkey told her husband to go back to the rock and ask the old man for a carriage and 40 female servant souls; he did this and returned in a carriage and with 40 girls; in the palace they became to skin off the monkey wife and she turned into a beautiful woman; the husband went crazy with joy and burned her skin; when she found out, the wife turned into a dove and flew away; the female servants also flew away with her; the husband went to the rock where he used to call the old man, but no one appeared at his call; was left without a wife]: Markov 1892, No. 3:21-23; Avars; Ossetians [his younger brother's arrow hit the swamp and he married frog; at night she shed her skin and turned into a beauty; the young man burned his skin; Aldar, wanting to take his wife away, gives her husband difficult tasks: build a palace, take away a wonderful carpet from the giants, etc.; at the end in the end, the young man achieves happiness]: Byazirov 1958, No. 65:329; Georgians [the father tells his sons to take wives where their arrows fall; the eldest marries the princess, the middle to the daughter of a counselor, youngest on a frog; being alone, the Frog sheds its skin, becomes beautiful, manages; the husband is waiting, threw his skin into the fire; mocking the older daughters-in-law, the younger brother's wife asks to send papers on a dress, horse, donkey or dog to go to visit the king; the elders wear paper dresses, ride a mare and donkey; The frog tells her husband to bring blue and white horses, causes rain, older dresses soaked, the elders returned, the Frog and her husband stayed with the king; the king wants to take his son's wife, gives difficult tasks; 1) plow and sow the field (the self-propelled plow does everything), 2) return the sown grain ( ants collected), 3) build a wall (a mirror appears from a ray of mirror), 4) bring a ring from the dead mother; the wife spreads a handkerchief - the way to the next world; on the way, the husband sees a woman tearing off breasts, sticks to the hot walls of a tone (cake oven); spouses who are cramped on cow's skin; others who are not cramped on a hatchet; a ploughman licked by nine pairs of bulls; mother gives the ring, says that her husband will burn in it; on the way back, the man receives answers from those he saw; the ploughman tortured the bulls, some spouses lived in harmony, others quarreled, the woman did not share bread; son gives his father a ring, he burns]: Chikovani 1986:136-141; Georgians (Imereti) [three brothers decided to marry where everyone's arrow falls; the older and middle married rich brides; arrow the youngest fell into the swamp, he married a frog and moved away from his brothers; returning, he found the house tidy, lunch cooked; the young man followed, found the woman, burned the frog skin; the king wanted to take away wife, ordered to sow bread for the whole barn in a day; the wife sent her husband to the magician test, who gave workers; the king orders to collect the seeds sown in the ground; the father-in-law sent birds; a crow with a broken leg in the last moment has brought the last grain; the king orders his grandmother's gold box to be brought from the underworld; the young man sees an obese bull grazing on the bare ground and a skinny one grazing on juicy grass; husband and wife are not cramped on a narrow bed, and others do not fit on a wide bed; one woman bakes dirt, but makes bread, and the other bakes bread, but it turns out dirt; another is hanged by the hair; the king's grandmother tells the young man to give him the box not himself, but through servants; on the way back, those he meets give explanations; hanged by the hair envies someone else's beauty; who makes dirt not paid off debts, and whose bread was good; those lying on the wide bed quarreled, on a narrow bed they lived in harmony; the skinny bull was greedy, the obese bull was hardworking; when the king opened the box, he blazed out of it fire and burned it]: Kagan 1898a, No. 19:58-61; Armenians: Harutyunyan 1986 (Ararat Valley) [=Khachatryants 1933:158-161; the king orders three sons to fire arrows on whose court he will fall, take his wife from there; the elder's arrow falls into the vizier's courtyard, the middle one at the Nazir, the youngest at the cliff; she moves apart, there the old woman gives her beautiful daughter; the old king wants his daughter-in-law for himself, his wife dies of grief; he sends the youngest son to the deceased mother for the keys to the treasury; the wife orders to go to her mother, who sends her son to take the prince to the next world; on the way he sees an obese ox in a rocky pasture, thin juicy grass (during her lifetime, the first was thin, the second was fat), an old woman who cleans the walls of tonir with her chest (cleaned them with rags during her lifetime); the mother reports that the keys are under the balcony pole curses her husband; at home Tsarevich finds his father petrified, elected to the kingdom]: 95-97; Bagriy 1930 (3) [the king tells his sons to shoot arrows, take his wife where they fall; the elder; the elder marries the daughter of a vizier, an average merchant, the youngest's arrow disappeared, his father drove him out; he came to the swamp, saw his arrow in the frog's mouth, took the frog with him; settled in the city, began hunting, leaving the frog in the chest; someone in the room then he cleans it up; the hostess advises him to hide, throw frog skin into the fire; he grabs the beauty, burns her skin; the wife tells him to return to his father; the prince builds a palace next to his father; the father wants to take possession son's wife; tells 1) to dress the whole army in a week; the wife orders to shoot an arrow into the swamp, her mother will come out, we must ask her, i.e. wife, a chest; in the chest clothes for one person, but when the first one is dressed, in the chest already has clothes for another, etc.; 2) bring the seal owned by the prince's deceased mother; the wife tells you to shoot into the swamp again, ask her beloved donkey not to splash the foam that the donkey will appear in the swamp; holding the donkey's tail, the prince enters his mother's grave, the mother tells us where the cauldron with gold and seal is buried, the donkey pulls the prince back, he pulls out the cauldron; 3) bring a dwarf with a beard twice as long as himself and a staff of 20 pounds; the wife tells her mother to ask her mother in the swamp for her (wife) beloved Arab; the Arab came to the king, shamed him, killed the king with his staff eldest sons and courtiers; the prince ascended the throne]: 57-65; Azerbaijanis: Bagriy 1930 (1) (Nukha District) [the king gathers girls, tells three sons to throw an apple at the chosen one; the elder throws a vizier at the daughter, the middle one throws a nobleman, the youngest falls into a frog, and so on three times; the king tells his daughters-in-law to weave on the rug; the frog goes to the swamp, croaks with his goods, the prince has the best the next morning rug; the same is a large carpet; the king calls to a feast, the frog turns into a beauty; the prince secretly and despite his wife's warning burned frog skin; the wife is gone, the prince went in search]: 30-33; Bagriy, Zeynally 1935 [the daughters of the vizier and vekil teach the king's three daughters to send melons to their father: ripe, ripe, slightly unripe; the vizier explains that it is time to marry their daughters; the king tells everyone to fire an arrow; the eldest's arrow hits the roof of the vizier's house, the middle arrow hits the vekil, the youngest falls by the bush; the girl finds a snake there, she turns into a young man named Shamsi-Kamar, he tells her not to reveal secrets; otherwise she she will find it again only when he wears out his iron shoes and her iron staff bends; the king invited his daughters; the elders put rice in their sleeves, when they were dancing, it fell down; the younger one fell down from the sleeves of the youngest precious stones; the mother persuaded her daughter to reveal the secret, threw a snake skin into the fire; the husband disappeared with the house; the wife looked for him until she wore out her iron shoes and bent her staff; the SHK slaves came for water , his wife threw a ring into the jug; the HK recognized her, but told her not to open; his father thinks that the princess is one of the maids, telling her to bring firewood from the forest; the HK teaches me to say in the forest that the SC is dead; then firewood they gathered themselves; at night, the HK poured boiling water on the bride, which his father had prepared for him, rode off with the princess; wedding; the bride's relatives did not catch up with them]: 216-221; Turks [(very different options, some move on to other stories); three sons of a padishah bring their father three melons of different ripeness; he realizes that it is time for them to marry; they shoot arrows; where the arrow falls, they must take a wife; the elders they take wives from good families, and the youngest's wife ends up in a tree (wasteland, well, etc.), there is a frog; daughters-in-law must cook; frogskin is burned; at a feast, the wife of the youngest son hides in clothes leftovers, and when she dances, gold falls from there; older daughters-in-law try to imitate, spoiled themselves and others]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 86:93-96; Turks [padishah's youngest daughter 20, middle 30, the eldest is 40; the youngest asks the father to marry them; he tells them to shoot an archery; the eldest's arrow hits the vizier's house, the middle arrow hits the mufti, the youngest the poor man; the father drives her to the poor man; when it's time to give birth and the husband went to look for a midwife, three fairies come in, called the newborn Rose; roses will fall from her lips when she laughs, appear on the grass on which he passes; if he cries, pearls will fall; R. has grown up, The prince married her; the woman in the palace also has a daughter Rosa; to get rid of her rival, she feeds R. salty food at the wedding, her daughter pulls her eyes out for a sip of water, replaces her; R. left on grief in the basket, found by a clay digger, took her to him, began selling falling pearls; she tells him to sell roses in exchange for his eyes; returns one eye, then the other; and the false R. decorates herself with roses and therefore, the prince likes it more and more; the mother of the false R. told the real adoptive father that R. was a witch; he found out her talisman: a deer on a hill; he was killed, R. died, but the deer fell unnoticed from the heart of the deer coral; imaginary R. gave birth to a girl who is actually a real daughter; the real R. told her husband in a dream where the talisman had fallen; he found it, the girl took it and disappeared; the peri carried her to the grave mother, she immediately came to life; the prince found them, the impostor and her mother were executed]: Kúnos 1901:30-41 (=1913:31-38); Talyshi [dying, the wife tells her husband to take a woman who will fit her ring; it is only suitable for her daughter; she asks to let her go into the field; the father ties a rope to her leg; the daughter unties it, comes to the forest, asks the carpenter to build a house for her; the eldest of the three princes notices in the river woman's hair; the king tells his sons to throw an apple each; one threw the vizier's daughter, the other left Vyakil's daughter, the elder on the road; left home, met that girl in the forest, brought her home; the wife gave birth son, one curl is golden, the other is silver; her father, disguised as a peddler, entered the palace, cut off the child's head, put the knife next to her mother; her eyes were cut out, the eyes and body of the child were given in her hands, they drove them away; three pigeons flew by the river; she put the first two on her paw to her eye sockets, saw the light, the third to her son's neck, her head grew, he came to life; the prince with the vizier and the vyakil stayed in her house; she She ordered not to tear the flowers, picked it herself, put it under the prince's blanket; she came to him with her son, he recognized his wife and son]: Miller 1930:90-92.
Iran - Central Asia. The Rushantsy [the king gives his three sons guns, let them marry wherever the bullet hits; the elders were hit by the houses of the king and arbob (foreman), the youngest has a pile of stones; her rupture, the young man sees snakes, greets her; the big one offers to choose whichever one he likes, the young man chooses a colorful snake; the brothers avoid the young man, at night the snake becomes beautiful; when she washed her hair, the brothers saw her, pushed the snake shell to the hearth; the brothers offer the father to get rid of the youngest in order to take possession of his wife; the father tells 1) to bring a cauldron with 40 ears; the mother-in-law directs him to Baba Yaga; along the way, you should call the crooked bridge straight, sloping garden - smooth, loose sand - hard, creaky door - good, take hay from dogs, put horses, bones on the contrary; BYU will sleep with your eyes open, you have to pick up the cauldron, do not touch the door with your eye; young man hurt, but all the servants of the BYA refused to detain him; 2) a mare with 40 foals; mother-in-law teaches how for the first time, a mare should not touch the ceiling with its head; you have to hit her head with a bottle of sour milk, she screams, foals will follow; 3) Green Book; in the cemetery, you must take away the jews harp from the Lady playing it, in exchange she showed her grandfather in paradise; he gives an apple, give it a piece to her brothers and father; those ate and died]: Andreev 1927d: 113-137 (=Sokolova 1959, No. 14:47-55); Bartangans [three princes ask their father to marry them; the tsar orders to shoot - whose house the bullet will hit, take the bride there; the eldest married a vizier's daughter, the middle a merchant, the youngest's bullet hit the lake three times; a frog came out, the young man did not know what it was peri; ordered her to be taken home; at night a girl next to him; when the king called his son, his wife He became a frog again; the king was angry but agreed to marry; the brothers saw that the youngest's wife was the sun on one side of his face and the moon on the other; the elder decided to kill the youngest to take the woman for himself; the king agreed to help the eldest son; the elder advised to send the youngest to Mount Koy for a Simurg egg; the wife teaches him to climb into the skin of a slaughtered bull; Simurg will lift the carcass up the mountain and fly away by himself; Simurg eggs were devoured by a bird that arrived; the young man killed the bird, Simurg gave one of the eggs; when he learned that the youngest's wife was peri, his father left him alone and his older brother also stopped harming]: Sokolova 1960, No. 12: 60-64; Shugnans [the king tells three sons to shoot from the roof of the house; wherever the bullet hits, there is the wife; the elders marry the daughters of the viziers of the right and left hands; the younger man says that his bullet is in the pile stones; he digs, there is a door, a room, a beauty; brothers first laugh (mouse or locust in stones), but when they see a beauty, they decide to lime the younger one; go hunting and throw the younger one tied up; the wife finds him, for several years they live under that pile of stones; he returns to his father unrecognized, opens up; helps his brothers defeat enemies; instructs them, returns to his magical wife]: Grunberg, Steblin- Kamensky 1976, No. 6:101-108; Yazgulyam [a man has two sons from one wife, one from the other; he tells them to shoot wherever bullets hit, take wives there; the eldest bullets hit a house where two brides, the youngest was in a stone scree; he dug for a year, there was a door, a woman; she put on a skin, became a snake; he threw the skin into the fire; the wife is afraid of misfortune; the brothers came, fell in love with her, told her father to die the youngest from the light; he tells you to get 1) a magic flower like á; wife: three bets will come to the lake to swim, one on the dress; grab it, run without turning around, otherwise you will be petrified; the husband brings flower; 2) a mare with 40 foals; wife: jump on a mare by the same lake, foals will follow her; 3) a cauldron with 40 ears; wife: Almasti sleeps with her head on him; when her eyes are open, she sleeps, it is necessary grab and run; 4) bring news from the dead; the son tells his father to climb on a pile of firewood to catch another world, sets fire to firewood, the father burned down; the brothers put the youngest in a bag, carried him to drown, left him on the shore ; he told the shepherd that he was being forcibly married, the shepherd exchanged places with him, thrown into the river; the youngest comes, chasing the herd, says that from the bottom; the brothers tell them to be thrown into the river; the young man poured them on the blankets of their wives flour talker; they thought they were dirty; he said they had disgraced the house, tied mares to their tails, and horses tore them to shreds]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 7:108-113; baluchis [y the king has three daughters; the eldest suggests going to the father to ask their husbands; the king tells them to shoot a bow; the arrows of the elders fall into the houses of the ruler and governor, they have married their sons; the arrow of the youngest Banu fell on a deserted mountain, the father expelled his daughter; there the shepherd herded the gazelles of Peri; the Peri ordered B. to be brought; the king demands that his daughters pay a handkerchief, B. finds out in a dream; B. invited the father king and governor, but those came with the army to kill the peri; Peri and B. flew away; B. ordered to buy kerosene, distributed peri, who came to the palace at night and burned it together with the king and his wife and son; then they burned down the ruler's palaces and a governor; Peri made B. queen and her sisters slaves]: Zarubin 1949, No. 14:128-133; parya [padishah tells his three sons to marry; each shoots an arrow, she hits the bride's house; the eldest married the daughter of (another) padishah, the middle to the daughter of a vizier, the youngest to a monkey; the father demands to show his wives; the monkey takes off his mask and becomes beautiful; the young man threw the mask into the fire; the wife flew away as a dove; the young man followed her for 40 years; one day he fell asleep at the house; Peri went to get water; it turned out to be his wife; they achieved their wishes]: Vinnikov 1977, No. 8:161.
Baltoscandia. Lithuanians; Latvians [when it is time for sons to marry, the father fires three arrows and tells them to look for wives where the arrows fall (or sons throw stones, follow the ball); the youngest son marries a frog (toad, mice _; father tells me to bring beautiful shirts, bake delicious bread; the frog does the best tasks; puts bones in his sleeve at the feast, and beautiful ones fall out of his sleeve objects; brothers' wives try to do the same without success; the frog's husband burns the frog's skin, the frog disappears, he looks for it]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 402:281; Karelians [the king has three sons, younger Tukhkimus ("mess"); the king gave everyone a bow, for T. the worst, tells them to take wives where the arrows fall; the elder's arrow fell on the roof of the royal bakery, the middle arrow fell on the roof of the royal bakery, T. in the forest; the king commands bring holiday towels from the brides; T. goes to the forest, there is an poor hut, a mouse came out of the crack; tells me to sleep on the stove without pants, there will be a towel in the morning; during the night thousands of mice plowed the field, raised linen, they woven a towel; the brothers show towels to the king; the king orders what the elders brought to the pigsty, the middle to the laborers, T. to hang in his room for dear guests; now the king orders to bring from the daughters-in-law of the shirt; the older daughters-in-law send the pooch to T. to spy; she tells how one mouse opened the window, the other cut the fabric into pieces, threw them into the wind, brought the shirt; The daughters-in-law also cut the royal fabric given to them, but did not wait for the shirts and sewed them from their own fabric; the king orders the shirts of his elder daughters-in-law to be given to the laborers, and the king promises to wear what T. brought tells how the mouse shook the flour out the window to the wind; then the mice brought the swirl in the ladle and disappeared; the daughters-in-law also shook out the flour, then had to mold the tsar orders that the elder daughters-in-law brought by his older daughters-in-law be given to the sheep, and calls the one brought by T. the enlightenment of John the Theologian and goes with her to church; the king wants to see daughters-in-law; the mouse turned into a beauty; kicked a ladle and a mouse into the water, a horse jumped out, a carriage appeared; tells the mouse state to disappear and a castle to appear; T. comes in, invites the bride's parents and relatives ; during the feast, T.'s bride puts crumbs, bones behind her sleeve; when she poured out, a lake appeared, fish and ducks in it, along the shores of the cereal field; daughters-in-law tried to imitate, stained the floor, got their bones in guests; the king handed over the throne to T., his brothers became laborers, their wives became maids]: Onegin 2010, No. 22:246-252; the Finns [the father ordered three sons to knock down their own tree: in which direction he would fall, there is a bride; the trees of the older and middle brothers fell towards the estates, the youngest towards the forest; there is a hut in the forest with a mouse in it; father: whose bride will bake the best bread; the mice brought a grain, boy brought the best bread; whose canvas is better (the same, the mice brought flax by the hair); whose bride is more beautiful; the mouse harnessed five mice into a nutshell wagon; a passerby pushed them off the bridge into the water, out of the water a carriage with five black horses drove out, beautiful in the carriage; celebrated the wedding]: Konkka 1991:177-181; Western Sami [three queens go to peace; father orders to shoot arrows: where is the arrow will fall, look for the bride there; the youngest goes to look for an arrow, comes to the stream where the trees are; next to the house is made of peat, there is a wooden vessel in the house and a spoon in it, a mouse in a spoon; offers to marry her, she will be about Take care of everyone, do everything and clean everything; the young man agreed; in the morning the mouse turned into a girl; says she is a princess; brought her father, warriors, courtiers; father is the king of the underworld; he invited the young man to board his wagon to get to the boy's father immediately; by this time, the two older brothers had already returned with the girls; they were less beautiful than the mouse wife and they showed that they they worked for a long time; the king tells the wife of his youngest son to wash the dishes - she does it instantly; then tells everyone to hide silk threads, weave and sew dresses; the youngest son's wife does everything immediately; the king calls the youngest son's wife better; three weddings are celebrated, the youngest son and wife go to the underworld; when the father's kingdom is attacked by enemies, the mouse wife's husband with hundreds of warriors won]: Kohl-Larsen 1982, No. 8:70-74.
Volga - Perm. Marie [three brothers ask their father to marry them; he tells them to shoot an archery: where the arrow falls, take the wife; the elder shot south, the middle east, the younger Ivan to the north; the older brothers they found arrows nearby and took their wives; the youngest's arrow flew across the forests and the sea; in the forest, I. found the place where the arrow fell, but the arrow itself was not; an old woman with three teeth and a long nose said that she took it; he will give it back if I. marries her; otherwise he will not leave this forest; he has to agree; she gives a ring, tells her not to lose; during the day the wife is an old woman, at night a young beauty; in two weeks in a harnessed they fly to the village of I. with a pair of horses; the wife tells her husband to ask his father to give them a separate house so that others do not go there; but the father tells them to stay in his house; the older daughters-in-law laugh at the youngest ; the father asks his daughters-in-law to sew him on his shirt; I.'s wife opens the window, asks the whirlwinds to make a shirt; in the morning, the whirlwinds bring a shirt; the father says that the older daughter-in-law's one is suitable for everyday life, middle for Sunday, youngest only for Easter; now the father wants his daughters-in-law to weave tablecloths; the elder daughter-in-law sends the maid to see what the youngest is doing; she also throws her out the window yarn, but she lies there in the morning; the father evaluates tablecloths as well as shirts; the father tells me to bake bread; the middle daughter-in-law spies and sees the youngest pour the dough into the oven and tells the bread to be baked; she does the same thing, in the morning in the oven burnt dough; the father evaluates: the eldest's bread - if you starve to death in the forest; the middle one - when you return from the haymaking; the youngest - for a dear guest; I. and his wife go to marry, his wife no one sees in a closed carriage; when the feast begins, the wife arrives disguised as an old woman invited to visit; hides food to the right, drinks in her left sleeve; waved, a garden and a pond have appeared; she became beautiful; I. lost the ring given by his wife and at night his wife disappeared; taking the cat and the dog, I. went to look for it; the fish swallowed the ring, the fisherman caught it and gutted it, the cat found the ring, gave it to I.; he sat down aboard the ship, sailed across the sea; when he found the ring, his wife returned with it (to the human world); everything is fine]: Beke 1938, No. 20:87-105; Bashkirs [father tells three sons to take wives where the arrow falls everyone; the youngest's arrow falls into the swamp; the frog tells the young man to lie down; when he wakes up, next to the palace, at night the frog takes off his skin, becomes a girl; appears in the guise of a beautiful woman to his wives older brothers; they are jealous, persuade their younger brother-in-law to throw their skin into the fire, the palace disappears, the wife flies away with a dove; the young man comes to the old woman, she refers to his sister, she says how they fly to her three doves, take off their plumage, one girl is sad; tells them to grab the plumage hidden in the chest; the young man returns home with his wife]: Barag 1989, No. 21:121-125.
(Wed. SV Asia. Coastal Koryaks (west. A.N. Zhukova, 1952, villages. Bald, Tigil District) [seven brothers come to marry, Oyo is the youngest; local owner Kagynkan and his assistant Nyunye offer a competition with local heroes; losers are killed; 1) fight; 2) race skiing; 3) jump over spears; Oyo wins; N. fires seven arrows, each brother follows his own, finds a yaranga, a bride, a deer; Oyo has the best, he is now the oldest]: Zhukova 1988, No. 12:41-50 (=Menovshchikov 1974, No. 146:461-466).