K117A. Get to talk in silence. 12.-.17.23.26.29.30.33.

A girl who is constantly silent is promised to someone who can get her to talk; or her husband can hardly get a magical wife to speak.

Dagari, Yoruba, Sarah, Arabs of Sudan, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Berbers Morocco, Kabila, Portuguese, French, Palestinians, Arameans, Arabs of Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Punjabi, Hindi, Kannada, Lisu, Kalmyks, Adygs, Karachays and Balkarians, Ossetians, Stavropol Turkmens, Nogais, Tsakhurs, Georgians, Azeraijan, Talysh, Persians, Tajiks, Turkmens, Bukhara Arabs, Burish, (Finns), Karakalpaks, Kyrgyz.

West Africa. Dagari: Métuolé Somba 1991:13-14 [the father promises a dumb daughter to whoever starts talking to her; Der comes, asks something, the girl is silent; then D. begins to feed the puppy by pouring in milk in the ass; the girl rushes to explain that they do not do this; the father asks the daughter if she really spoke; she starts explaining again; D. gets a wife], 173-177 [the chief has two daughters, the eldest dumb; he tells the youngest to watch the eldest to pass her off as someone who can get her to talk; an orphan who has a monkey, a cobra and an ant begins to undress in front of her, she laughs and says that this is probably because she does not speak; an orphan gets a wife; the chief's leper's adviser suggests getting rid of such a son-in-law by giving him difficult assignments; 1) share the mixed two varieties of grain (ants share); 2) collect 10 baskets of baobab fruit (monkeys collect); 3) you must go to the funeral of the leader's sister's son; the leader sends an orphan and his own son; the snake orders to change horses; (obviously, the snake bites the leader's son); at the funeral, the orphan promises to revive the leader's son with the leper's still warm liver; his liver was cut out, the leader's son came to life]; Yoruba [the king's daughter is silent, he sent her to the village, promised half of the palace to whoever talked to her; the turtle left a bottle of honey in the clearing and hid; the princess saw the bottle, reached out to her, the turtle grabbed her and accused her of stealing; the princess began to say that this was not the case; exchanging songs, they went to the palace, the king heard, the turtle received what was promised]: Ellis 1894, No. 2:263-265.

Sudan - East Africa. Sarah [the chief's daughter is silent, the father asks the grooms to get her to talk, no one succeeds; Su (trickster spider) brings straw, tries to cover the roof while inside, straw falls on him; the bride calls him a fool, his father is happy, marries her to Su]: Peek, Yankah 2004:7; Sudanese Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 572$: 333-335.

North Africa. The Berbers of Morocco (Fez) [the sultan is afraid that his son will take away his throne; he sends all the boys whose wives give birth to them away; one wife hid three sons; after the death of the Sultan, the eldest of them , Sidi Mohammed, took the throne; the daughter of the neighboring sultan will marry the one who makes her speak first; unsuccessful applicants are beheaded; SM tries, his head is 98th; seeing that the plant left by SM has dried up, Moulay Ahmed's middle brother, taking the throne, also goes to the princess and loses his head; the youngest, Moulay M'Hammed is smarter than others; hears two doves (fairies) talking; when the test will begin, you must read Dalil el Khairat's book out loud; after closing it, ask someone present to tell the story; the first story; the carpenter, merchant and Talib spent the night under open air, they take turns on duty at night; the carpenter made a female figure out of wood, the merchant dressed her up, the Talib turned to God and revived her; who should belong to her; MM: carpenter; princess: talibu; repeated the next night's test, the second story; the burnus maker, merchant and scientist set off; before that, the first borrowed money from the other; in the desert, a merchant demanded them back; what should I do? MM: he should get the money back; princess: what nonsense! third story; the Sultan of the Efreet cannibals ("Sultan Executioner", SP) has 7 brave men in the service, each has a gift; open any door; make any move in the ground; get hair out of the dough without hitting anything one grain of flour; cut through walls with a saber; jump over walls; jump from any height; cause a thunderstorm with a storm; SP marries another sultan's daughter for his son; he asks for a huge emerald for her; SP sends a caravan of such emeralds; had to give her daughter; she is terrified; SP is going to eat her; sleeps with her head on her hair and hiding behind the other part of her hair; the mother of 7 brave men tells her to write a letter to his father in blood - her sons would deliver it; the princess's father asked them to save his daughter; one opened the gate, the second jumped over the wall, the third pulled the princess's hair from under SP's head, the fourth stopped the pursuers with a storm; the fifth cut off the head of the SP; he turned into a 7-headed ghoul, but the young man cut off all 7 heads; who did more? MM: the one who opened the gate; the princess: the one who freed the girl from the ghoul's arms; MM won, but now he must know which of the 7 cocoons (the structure the bride sits inside) the bride will be in; prince again listens to the conversation between two doves: the cocoon in which the bride will sit, he looks the most inconspicuous; everything is fine, the wedding]: El Fasi, Dermenghem 1926:178-208 (the same episode in a similar plot on p. 209-214); Kabila, Arabs of Tunisia, Egypt: El-Shamy 2004, No. 572:333-335; Algerian Arabs [the king forbids three sons to approach the mountain, even puts guards around; after his death, the elder prince goes there, sees the gazelle, pursues her, disappears; the same middle and younger; the king's brother takes the throne; finds out that the king had a daughter, she also disappeared on this mountain; all four the missing return, but the princess is silent; her uncle calls magicians and wise men, but no one can get a silent person to talk, everyone is beheaded; one prince accidentally spied and overheard a carpenter carved out the girl's figure, the blacksmith made hinges to move, the tailor dressed the girl, the perfumer perfumed, the holy man turned to God and the girl came to life; the prince promised to get the deceased to talk, but to do this, gather all the courtiers and, on pain of death, tell them to remain silent; tells a story about a girl and asks who she should belong to; everyone is silent; then the princess says that , who brought the figure to life; wedding]: Filleul de Pétigny 1951:191-209.

Southern Europe. The Portuguese [have so many children in the family that it is impossible to find a godfather for a newborn; agreed the poor man he meets, in fact, he is St. Peter; he orders the girl to be named Pedro and brought to the appointed place in 7 years; after 7 years, St. Peter met a girl and led her; on a bad pasture there were fat sheep (good people going to heaven), and on a good pasture, skinny sheep (they were obsessed with pride); then a bright fire and a dark pillar; this is purgatory; the sweet pears on the tree are angels; the test is ahead, they will be rewarded in heaven; let P. call him when necessary and wear only men's clothes; P. hired the king; the queen entered his room, but he disappeared; irritated, the Queen threw the ring into the sea and said that P. boasted to get it; St. Peter: Ask the fishermen to let you peel the fish; one of the fish has a ring; next time, grind a lot of grain overnight (the flour is ready in the morning); the king's daughter under a spell in the country of the Moors; St. Peter tells the king to ask for two horses, gives three boxes; where the horses stop, there is a princess; P. and the princess ride home, the Moors in pursuit; P. throws boxes, fog appears; thicket; sea; through the Moors cannot; every time a silent princess says, Ah; the Queen demands that P. save the princess from her silence; St. Peter teaches to say that P. is unable to do this; they are going to hang him, but he asks for permission to ask three questions; P. turns to Anna Deladna (the princess's name), asking why she gasped; for the first time: because your mother started looking for you in bed; the second time: because St. Peter is your godson; third: because you are a woman, not a man; the king executed the Queen and married P.]: Pedroso 1882, No. 13:53-59; Portuguese (14th century, Livro de Linhagens do Conde do D. Pedro) [ Don Froiam hunted near the sea, saw a sea woman sleeping on the shore, brought her home, baptized under the name Dona Marinha ("Lady of the Sea"); she was always silent; gave birth to Don Froyama children; DF pretended to throws her son into the fire, his wife screamed, a piece of meat fell out of her mouth, she spoke, DF married her]: Walter 2008:101-102.

Western Europe. The French [the princess is silent, the king will give it to whoever talks her; the noble lady gives the shepherdess a wand; what she touches will not go away; the young man took a parrot with him and stopped at inn; at night the maid tried to steal it, but stuck to it; in the morning a servant stuck to the naked maid and the master to the servant; then the hostess, a woman with a broom, another with cheese; when he saw this, the princess spoke; but the king would give her daughter for the shepherdess only if he could herd 100 rabbits; the same lady whistled to return the rabbits; the knight bought one, agreeing to the shepherdess three times stabbed his awl in the ass; but he whistled and the rabbit returned; the princess bought the same for three kisses; the king kisses the horse three times; now the king demands to fill three bags with truth; the young man tells how rabbits were bought; the king tells us to be silent, gives him his daughter]: Carlin 1991:256-263.

Western Asia. Yemen [the Sultan has three sons with different wives, the youngest Ali is from a dark slave; each goes to get a wife; ends up in a city where the old woman will give her daughter and dowry to whoever talks to her daughter, who is always silent; the person who does not comply with the condition loses his property; the older brothers cannot get the girl to talk, lose money, stay in the city to work part-time; Ali, left with her girlfriend and witness, tells how a fakir (Faqih), a carpenter and a tailor spent the night in the open air, guarded one by one; the carpenter carved the girl's figure, the tailor dressed her, the fakir revived her; the witness replies that the girl must get whoever carved her; the girl shouts that not - the one who revived her; the sultan ordered the old woman to give her daughter Ali; Ali saw his brothers as servants in the inn; asked the owner to order bring them dinner for four; they recognized their brother; he added sleeping pills to their coffee, quietly put his tamga on their backs; everyone returned to their father; the brothers said they were the ones who got the gold and the elder the wife , Ali lost everything; Ali asked them to look at their backs; the Sultan appointed Ali heir and soon died; Ali's wife gave birth to many children]: Daum 1992, No. 20:174-186; Arameans [the woman promises that if God will give her a son, she will share a pot of honey and a pot of oil between people; however, she did not fulfill her promise; when Aladin's son grew up, the old woman told him to remind his mother about it-otherwise she would hit him by reducing his life; he forgets three times; then she put two pebbles in his belt to remember; his mother remembered, announced that tomorrow she would distribute honey and butter; but that old woman did not get it; his mother scraped her bowl, but A. accidentally threw a stone, hit the old woman in her hand and she spilled everything; ordered the dumb princess to cause his misfortunes; A. went in search; stopped under a tree at the source; hears a parrot saying to the chicks: in order to succeed, A. must take one of you with him; that princess's father has a tower of severed heads; A. took one parrot and came to town where is the tower of heads; these are the heads of those who tried but failed to get the princess to talk; when he came to the palace, A. hid the parrot under his pillow - as if the pillow was telling stories; the parrot says that A. marries - this dumb princess is bald; princess: not bald at all! A. hid the parrot, left, and the princess burned the pillow in anger; the next evening A. hides the parrot under the tablecloth, speaks like a tablecloth; the princess stinks from her mouth; the princess spoke again, refuting similar slander; the king gave his daughter to A.; two years later A. visited her mother, she is happy]: Bergsträsser 1915, No. 6:18-22; Palestinians, Arabs of Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia: El-Shamy 2004, № 572$: 333-335.

South Asia. Hindi {"North India"} [the prince took care of the snake and let it go; she gave him an iron chain to make his wishes come true; he went to hunt for the Silent Princess; took the splinter out of the tigress's paw, she gave one of the cubs; saved Garuda's chicks from the snake, she gave one of the chicks; they all swam in the river and covered themselves with gold; the prince appeared at the princess's swayamvara in rags, but she threw a wreath at him; prince became king; went again to get the Silent Princess; tasks: bridge over the river; create an unprecedented garden; with the help of helper spirits from his chain, the prince laid a mountain across the river and lowered Indra's garden to the ground; made the princess speak {it's not said how}; prince sees rubies in the river; goes upstream; there's a princess who is bewitched by Rakshasa; prince awakens her; peri reports that Rakshasa's heart is in a parrot on top of a tree across seven seas; guarded by rakshasa, snakes, and scorpions; prince picks up peri and two other wives on his way home; (animals don't play a role)]: W.H.D.R. 1896:408-409; Punjabi [Prince Ghool refuses to marry; asks a girl for water at the well; girl (she is the daughter of blacksmith Alim): this is the prince no one marries; he promises to marry her; she asked for a delay for year; placed the growing melons in a vessel; the melons grew, she offered to extract them; no one can; she soaked the clay, widened her necks, took out the melons; after the wedding, the prince regularly whips his wife; she advises you to get the princess better and beat her; the princess offers to play three games of chess; after losing the first, the prince gives his horse, the second at her mercy, and the third goes to clean the stable; the wife, wearing men's clothes, goes in search, saves a drowning rat, who explains that the princess has a cat with a magic lamp on her head; this makes her invisible, she rearranges the figures and the princess is always wins; the wife releases the rat, the cat rushes after her, the wife knocks the lamp off her head, the cat runs away; the princess loses; but she is silent, she must be talked three times; the rat is responsible for the princess, she thinks the leg of the bed is talking, yelling at her; the wife tells long stories twice, the rat comments, the princess shouts that this is not the case; the wedding, the imaginary prince asks to postpone a genuine marriage for six months; frees the enslaved, but not her husband; tells him to wear her man's outfit and give her his groom; the prince brings the princess; the blacksmith's daughter shows his clothes to the groom; he realizes that the princess his first wife got him; everything is fine]: Swynnerton 1892, No. 80:313-330; kannada [the princess tells her father to build a 7-story tower for her and put up four gates; one has a necklace, then a cobra, a bear , tiger; whoever talks to her will marry her; two friends stopped, the maids liked it; they taught her not to look at the necklace, give the cobra an egg, honey to the bear, meat to the tiger; one looked at it, and the other passed, as the guards taught, began to tell the princess a story; father and brother promised a daughter/sister to marry two different young men; they appeared at the same time; the girl was so excited that she rushed into a well; one rushed after her and the other went on a pilgrimage; who should be her husband? girl: who rushed after her into the well; the second story; three friends at the night are awake in turn; the carpenter carved the girl's figure, the artist painted it, the jeweler dressed in gold jewelry; if she came to life, who should it belong to? girl: jeweler; third story; teacher beats a girl at school; she asks why; he tells her to promise to come to him first when she gets married; she promised he stopped hitting her; when she came out married, told her husband about it and he let her go; four robbers attacked her on the way; she promised to give her gold jewelry when she went back; they agreed to wait; the same tiger agreed to eat later; the teacher did nothing to her and let her go; on the way back, the tiger and robbers named her sister and did no harm; who is nobler? girl: husband; thus the girl broke the silence three times, the king passed her off as a young man]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 62:167-172.

China. Fox: Dessaint, Ngwâma 1994:446-448 [the princess is silent; the king promised the hand of her daughter and half the kingdom to whoever talks to her; the poor orphan began to boil an egg, placing the pan on two supports; she turned over and filled the fire; princess: there must be three supports! then the orphan pretended not to know how to eat an egg: it has neither an end nor a beginning; the princess told and showed; the orphan received a princess, half the kingdom and gold], 510-512 [the rich man's daughter does not speak, he will give it to someone who can get her to talk; Khwàdjasap'à brought a pig, began to beat her with a stone; girl: fool, pigs are not killed like that; gave a sword; K. was going to cut the pig's throat with a basket; fool, blood is not poured into the basket; gave a vessel; K. begins to make a fire under a thatched roof; fool - the house will catch fire; the rich man gave his daughter to K.]

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks [when he dies, the father tells his three sons that there are three poplars in the south, and then falls silent; the younger brother found poplars, dug a precious Erdni stone; the brothers found only a hole; the youngest did not confesses; they went to court to Khan Balak; they see a camel's trail: his humps hang to the left, he has no right eye, he is a camel, she is wearing a pregnant woman; the camel owner does not believe what the brothers saw only a trace; the khan gives the brothers food and overhears: this is not kumis, but blood, not lamb, but a dog, a black bone khan himself; the woman admits that when she cooked koumiss, her nose bleed; shepherd: the lamb was fed by a dog; the khan's mother: met the commoner after her husband's death; the khan says that he has no right to resolve the brothers' dispute, sends her to a wise girl; she asks: the man has gone to the Dalai Lama, met a wolf, but he did not touch him, which of them is sinless; the youngest replies that man; girl: you took the stone; you had to return it and divide it into three parts; the khan's daughter does not talk who will talk, the khanate will also receive it; the elder and middle brothers could not get to talk, were thrown into the abyss; the youngest found the dead Toti bird, revived it with living water; hiding it in his sleeve, tells the khan's daughter stories; 1) the carpenter roughly carved the figure of a man out of the log, the second one finished it, the llama revived the girl; probably she should belong to the llama; girl: no, to the first carpenter; 2) (hiding the Toti under the pillow); why the khan's Did your daughter stop talking again? Toti from under the pillow: if he speaks, words will be heard from every place where the air comes out; girl: what is this? the younger brother received a girl, freed everyone thrown into the abyss]: Vatagin 1964:216-222; Adygi [Pshi Zedem has only son Zedeb (Z.), his father holds him for a lazy and a fool; hearing his father's words, Z. tamed the best horse and became the first among young people; his father married him; according to custom, Z. (with his wife) left his father's house for a year; his father also left; when Z. returned, found the doors of seven rooms locked, asked his mother for keys; she gave the keys to six rooms, which were empty; Z. broke the door of the seventh, there three doves asked them to be released, Z. released them; when he learned about this, the father ordered Z. to be thrown into the steppes; Z. realized that his father kept pigeons and left him for Suret (Su-Isuret, "written beauty" in Nogai) whom no one can force him to speak; after killing a bastard who was about to eat eagles, Z. lost consciousness; the chicks told the eagle that he was their savior; the eagle carried Z. and his horse to a distance that Z. I would have passed a month before coming back because she couldn't leave the eagles without food; in an empty village, the old man says that a creature with 8 legs and one eye in its forehead ate ate people and cattle; it crawled out of the swamp, Z. hit him in the eye with an arrow and killed him; the old man warned that S. had already put 99 stakes on stakes, the last one was left; Z. lay down under the apple tree, those three pigeons flew in; they told S. to tell S. the story of how the carpenter carved the figure, Goochips (a name for blacksmiths) revived, the cutter dressed - who owns the created person; only S. can answer - let him say; second question: only S. can know who stole the gouache belt (searched maids, drovers - they did not find); the third question: Pshi fell ill, and two people did not grieve, one whispered to the other that there was half of the oxalis from which to cook the broth for treatment; the half-deaf old woman heard the farsighted saw oxalis in the gorge, the quick-footed brought it, the doctor made medicine, the pshi recovered; only S. knows who to reward for this; on the way, Z. stayed with the khan, amazed everyone by playing the violin and by making a saddle out of leather overnight; Khan gave companions; Z. asked S. the first question; three pigeons flew in: 1) the figure that came to life will serve each of the three for the same number of days; 2) the one who they search, quietly hand over the belt to the one who is not being searched; 3) the fee should be divided not between four (farsighted, runner, doctor, old woman), but between 6 participants (including whispers); S. each time He is silent, but after the third time, after changing his clothes, he throws Z.'s ring and promises to be a good wife; on the way home, Z., while taking S., also took the daughter of Khan and the daughter of an old man who lived in a village ravaged by a monster; the father invited Z. to play checkers: the winner will blind the loser; Z. wins many times, but does not want to maim his father; the old woman advises Pshi to force Z. to spend the night with him; Z. will think about wives and will be distracted; the father won, blinded Z., ordered him to be thrown into the forest; tried to take his son's wives, but they destroyed his army; Z. hears the pigeons talking: if Z. breaks the fetters and breaks the oxalis, he will see the light; Z. did; his wives did not let him in until he talked about how he married them; tomorrow it was S.'s turn to fight with psha; Z. will help, but the son cannot kill his father, let S. do it; she cut off her head, Z. took his father's people into his service]: Maksimov, Kerashev 1953:91-116; Karachays, Balkarians [Aladin asks his father to get him a good horse; he brings a plain horse; the horse has grown stronger, raced further, found himself on the seashore, disappeared into the sea; A. sees three girls bathing, hides their swan clothes; promises to give it back if they help get the prince's daughter to talk ; you have to touch the fur coat with a wand, she will tell a fairy tale, there will be an argument in the fairy tale, you have to resolve the dispute incorrectly, then the girl will start talking; brothers have one bull for three; the eldest pass the head, the middle one is the belly, the youngest - hind legs; the youngest thought that the bull was ill, went to consult his middle brother; late in the evening he reached the bull's belly, both went to the elder, reached the bull's head late at night; the brothers led the bull at a watering hole, he drained the sea with a sip; the brothers decided to leave the bull on the island, it turned out to be the back of the fish; the fish swallowed the bull; the eagle took the fish; in the steppe, the shepherd sat down to rest in the shade of his goat's beard ; the eagle sank on the goat's horns, ate the fish with the grass and trees that grew on it; a bull's shoulder fell out of its beak, hit the old man's eye; he asked his daughter to take it out; she drove out her father's eye in the boat along and across, picked up her shoulder blade with her little finger fingernail, threw it out the window; the shoulder blade fell at the well where a caravan of ninety camels had stopped; the caravans spread fire on the bull's shoulder blade, and ran past the fox, smelled the smell, began to gnaw on the shoulder blade, the caravans thought that an earthquake had begun; the woman hit the fox with a rocker arm, killed; the caravans took off half of the skin and half not - 90 people did not were able to turn the fox to the other side; they decided to sew 90 fur coats out of half the skin; the woman pushed the fox with the dude's toe, turned it over, wondered if half of the skin would be enough for a hat for a newborn son; which more of them? ; Aladin: fish; she could not stand it: more and more children; A. got a wife]: Aliyeva, Kholaev 1983:? ; Ossetians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 559:327; Stavropol Turkmens [a fisherman caught a golden carp; left his son to follow the net, went to call the Shah to see the miracle; the son felt sorry for the carp and let him go; there was no carp, the Shah ordered the fisherman to put his son in a leaky boat and let him go to sea; the young man sailed to the island, met a good man there; together they learned from the shepherds that the local king would give a silent daughter to someone who could get her to talk; well done, he came to the princess, began to tell how his older brother carved a girl out of wood, his middle brother dressed her, and he prayed to God and revived it; one maid replied that the girl should be given to the elder, the other to her younger brother; the princess opened her mouth for the first time and said that she was the youngest; they told the king that he had come, asked the young man where his brothers were; he: the eldest is you, king, the middle one are the queen; the king gave a feast, gave her daughter; well done, invited the young man to share everything; swung his sword to cut the princess; in fear, a snake came out of her mouth, the young man hacked her; well done explained that he was the carp, the only son of the king of fish, he was the one who supported the boat so as not to sink; well done, he sent a big fish, she transported the young man with his wife and property to his father's house; the young man told the Shah about everything, he forgave him, arranged a wedding and gave him a house]: A.K. 1875, No. 2:14-18; Nogais [Batyrbek, son of poor Bolat, is ashamed that his horse is worse than others; Bolat finds tulpar's trail, exchanges him from a beggar (tulpar looks like a thin nag); Khan gives grain to feed tulpara; Batyrbek wins it at the races, but, contrary to his father's warning, unties it on the reins the last knot, the horse rushes, dives into the sea, Batyrbek goes ashore; finds the clothes of three girls; promises to return if the girls help make the daughter of Khan Olmes Soleimes ("enduring Khan is a non-speaking daughter"); the girls take Batyrbek to Khan, the eldest hides in S.'s fur coat, tells a fairy tale, at the end an answer must be given, Batyrbek must deliberately answer incorrectly, then S. will speak; then the same: talking kumgan; talking golden bowl; the story of the fur coat: three brothers take turns herding sheep; the elder carves the girl out of wood, the middle one dresses her, the younger sprinkles infusion herbs, revives; Batyrbek replies that the girl should be taken by the one who revived her, S. objects: the younger brother should not marry before the elder; Kumgan's story: one brother herds his head, the other the belly, the third hind legs of the bull; the elder brother goes to the middle brother all day, they both go to the youngest to find out if the bull is sick; the bull is healthy; they take him to a watering hole; the bull drank the sea, the island remains, he is fish, she swallowed the bull, the eagle took the fish, sat on the goat's horns, an old man sat in the shade of his beard, the bull's shoulder blade hit his eye, the old man's daughter swam in a boat in his father's eye, pulled out her shoulder blade, threw it out the door; the caravans stopped on the shoulder blade, the ground under them trembled - it was the fox who gnawed on its shoulder blade; the woman killed the fox with a rocker arm, left; 99 caravans ripped off the fox's skin from one side, but they could not turn the fox over; the woman returned, turned the fox over with her toe, but doubted whether half of the skin would be enough for a hat for her newborn son; Batyrbek replies that the eagle was the most, S. - that child; the story of the bowl: the mother of nine sons sews a skullcap, answers everyone what is for him; tells them to go to the khan, let him judge who the skullcap is; everyone tells the khan about his abilities; one finds everything, the other sees everything, the third shoots accurately, etc. (makes a bow from a chip; a boat out of a chip; a house made of one brick; feeds everyone; digs an underground passage; a thief); the khan asks the brothers to find his missing daughter; brothers find out that Azaa took her away, hit him with an arrow in the eye, return the girl; Batyrbek replies that his younger brother, S., who is the eldest, should receive the skullcap; Batyrbek marries Soleimas]: Nogai 1979, No. 18:86-102; Tsakhurs [the king went blind by old age; only the blood of a "red fish" with a horn on his head will cure him; the prince caught a fish, but it was so beautiful that he let it go; once offended a black slave, who told the king everything, the king expelled his son; the mother tells the prince how to recognize a stranger as a faithful friend; the stranger turned out to be him (he guarded the prince's peace at night, etc.); the king has a dumb daughter, he will pass her off as someone who can get her to talk; in the presence of the princess, the companion tells how the tailor, the carpenter and the mullah spent the night on the road, took turns awake; the carpenter slaughtered the girl, her tailor clothed, the mullah revived; who will get the girl? Everyone is silent, the princess says that the mullet; the prince gets a wife; the companion tells not to lock the bedroom door; at night she enters, kills a snake crawling into the bedroom; everyone goes to the prince's homeland; where he met companion, who tells me to divide everything in half, including his wife; the companion pretends to cut the girl, snakes crawl out of her mouth; he explains that a snake fell in love with the princess, slept with her at night; from in his breath, she became pregnant and numb; to cure her father's blindness, you must smear his eyes with earth from under the hooves of his companion's horse; the companion himself is that fish; the prince returned with his wife and property, cured his father ]: Dirr 1922, No. 18:93-96; Georgians: Bogoyavlensky 1894b, No. 6 [the tsar's servant inherited a snuffbox to his son; the tsar's wife wanted the young man, he refused; she accused him of trying to seize it; tsar ordered the torturer to execute the first person who came to him, and the second to hand over the head of the executed; the young man went to church; another servant appeared first; the young man brought his head to the king; the queen demanded that he be expelled; he came to a kingdom where the queen demands to force her to answer three questions, otherwise he executes her; the young man opened his snuffbox, a ball and two candlesticks jumped out of it; they begin to tell stories; 1) the ball: the robbers cut off the heads of the husband and the guest; the wife put her heads and they grew, but she was mistaken: the husband's head to the guest's body and vice versa; who should be her husband? candlesticks: whose head; princess: the head is smaller than the body, whose body; ball: the carpenter made a wooden figure, the tailor dressed, the priest revived it with prayers; who owns the person? candlesticks: priest; tailor; princess: carpenter, he made a man; ball: the one who had a mirror saw that the prince was being buried; the plane who had a carpet brought there; the owner of the medicine revived the prince; who should receive the main award? candlesticks: medicine holder; carpet; princess: mirrors; this is the third time, wedding]: 119-123; Glushakov 1904, No. 7 (Imereti) [the tsar died telling his son not to travel westward; left the box, which should be carried with you and opened in case of trouble; when he reigned, the young king decided to hunt, went west, noticed a tower on the way back, told him to see what was inside; the companions come in one by one others do not return; the king goes by himself, is captured, brought to the room where she is beautiful; she must be forced to speak three times; the king opens the box, there is an apple in it, it tells; 1) a man with his wife and the younger brother spent the night on the road; the younger brother went to the village to get bread; the robbers robbed him, cut off his head; the woman's husband did the same; she found their bodies, cried; a mouse, a woman, jumped out threw a stone at him; a rat revived him with grass; a woman revived her husband and brother-in-law, but accidentally moved her heads; to whom she should belong; beauty: to the one whose head; 2) a carpenter, tailor and priest spent the night; the carpenter made the girl's figure, dressed her as a tailor, the priest revived her; who should she belong to? beautiful: to the priest; 3) the elder brother knows the future, the middle brother knows the doctor, the youngest is fast; the eldest learned about the princess's illness, the middle brother made the medicine, the youngest delivered it; the girl: let the princess get it average; the king married a girl]: 58-62; Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 81 (Tbilisi) [the merchant sends his eldest son to trade, he is afraid of losing, brings gold back; the same with the average; the youngest buys a dead man with his ear cut off, who is beaten by his lenders; erects a monument to the mono-eyed man, spending all the money and asking his father for more; the father is satisfied, tells his son to take an assistant who will keep a dry one the crust, and he will give him the crumb; only a one-eared Arab fulfills the condition; agrees to divide the proceeds in half and meet its three conditions; goes ahead of the caravan through the forest, exterminating predators; first condition: ask the king for permission to sit with the caravan in the courtyard in the shack; tells the young man not to look out of the shack, he goes to buy a magic bird himself; the young man looked out and saw the princess; the king will pass her off as whoever can get her to talk, executes those who fail; the Arab put the bird under the pot, asks if it is being cleaned; the pot (i.e. the bird) replies that they do not clean, the princess is indignant out loud; the king kills the vizier, believing that it was all his fault; the Arab hid the bird in the curtains (same thing: they don't clean me; princess: what's that?) ; the third time the same (the bird answers on behalf of the throne); Arab to the king: I want a princess not for myself, but for a rich young man; the Arab tells the young man to celebrate only his engagement and until he returns to his father to his betrothed approach; on the way back, the Arab orders to separate the bird (tears it in half) and the princess; waves his sword, a snake crawls out of the princess's mouth; the Arab says that he is the dead man whom the young man bought; all good]: 59-71; Azerbaijanis: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935 [the king orders that after his death, the eldest son Melik-Jumshud take the throne, then Melik-Ahmed, then Melik-Mamed; forbids traveling over the mountain; MD hunted, chased a deer over the mountain, disappeared; the same MA; MM is chasing, spending the night with an old man; he says that the local king will give his daughter for someone to talk to her three times; losers are kept in prison; the parrot tells MM to hide it behind the mirror, as if to look at a mirror, and he will tell stories in the presence of the princess; 1) the carpenter, tailor and mullah wandered together, alternately awake; the carpenter made the girl's figure, the tailor dressed her, the mullah revived her; who should get the girl? princess: mullet; 2) at night the princess broke the mirror, the parrot hid behind the curtain; one of the comrades bought an omniscient book, another flying carpet, a third vessel from which water heals the sick; the first found out that the princess was dying, the second brought her to her, the third healed; who should she belong to? princess: to the owner of the vessel; 3) the princess tore the curtain. the parrot crawled under the sofa; the wives of the king, vizier and vekil saw the golden belt, but only Vekil's wife got off the horse to pick it up; who should belong to it ? princess: Vekil's wife; the king gave his daughter to MM, released his brothers and other prisoners]: 125-132; Stamboliev 1896, No. 6 [Jamal-Eddin caught fish in the Nile; his father is going to give it to his son a caliph, but DE He let her go out of pity; her father drove him away; the young Ibrahim offered to go with the Chin State; there the emperor would give her daughter to someone who would cure her from silence; the losers would be executed; in the presence of Princess I . speaks to a parrot; three princes marry Mariam; one has learned to find out what happened in a remote place, the second has obtained a flying carpet, the third has learned to revive the dead; the princess is dying, to whom is her give it away? parrot: to the one who brought all three to her; princess: revived; the emperor demands that the princess speak again; the mullah, carpenter and tailor spend the night in the forest; one made the figure of a girl, the other dressed her , the third one revived; who should I give the girl? parrot: tailor; princess: mullet; I. received the princess and treasures; on the way back he offered J to divide everything; swung his sword at the princess, a lizard fell out of her mouth - the cause of the disease; I. gives all DE , says that he is the fish he saved]: 51-56 (about the same No. 7 [Tsarevich, his companion Ahmed; a snake crawls out of the princess's mouth]: 57-60); Talyshi [a rich brother has a daughter, the poor has three sons; the rich promises a daughter to one of his nephews who will bring a hundred mists in a year; the eldest became a doctor's apprentice, the middle one stayed with a man who later promised to give him something that would take him to any country; the youngest stayed with the old man; he sends him to talk to the ruler's dumb daughter; we must ask the nargile with a soft pipe to turn to the ruler, say, "Mr. Nargile, tell us a story that would make the ruler's daughter speak." Nargile will start telling. After each story you tell, ask council members to make a conclusion. None of the audience will be able to do this, and the ruler's daughter will start talking from behind the curtain. There will be a turmoil, we must return home right away; Nargile's story: there was a carpenter, a tailor and a mullah; they decided to go to another city; spent the night in the deserts, stayed in turn to guard the figure the woman, the tailor dressed her, the mullah asked God to revive; the audience wondered who the girl should belong to; the king's daughter said from behind the curtain that she was a carpenter; the old man tells the young man to repeat everything the next day ; "There were three brothers and all three wanted to marry their cousin. They went in different directions, earning a hundred mists to give their uncle for their daughter. Before leaving, they left a sign near one spring, thinking that whoever made the money first would pick up the tag. After a year of work, it turned out that none of the three brothers were able to raise so much money. One brother studied medicine, another received the Prophet Solomon's carpet, and the third became a fortuneteller; the doctor was the first to return to the spring, then the other two came up. No one had money, but the first said he had learned medicine, the second said he had the Prophet Solomon's carpet, and the third said he had learned divination; the fortuneteller found that the cousin was only that she was dead, the second brother gave a carpet, the doctor revived (cured); the padishah's daughter said that the girl belonged to a fortuneteller; the old man ordered to go again, ask the ruler to tie the girl to a tree, whip her with a whip , a worm will fall out of her mouth, she must kill him, then the girl will speak; the old man sent the young man to meet his brothers, it happened as in the story; the younger brother married his uncle's daughter]: Talysh tales , Caucasus website.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [a young fisherman asks an old man to help pull out the net; but the fish is too heavy; the fisherman went to call someone else; at that time the fish leaned out of the water and laughed; the man let her go; the fisherman drove him away; met a young man named Mota; and he himself was Moti; Mota began to get meat, and Moti sold it; Mota ordered to go to the Sultan and promise him to get his dumb daughter to talk; teaches him to plant his daughter the padishah behind the curtain and asking for flowers to talk on the carpet; 1) the first story of flowers; instead of money, the gardener asks the vizier to promise that when his daughter marries, let her come to his garden first; her husband let her go, and so did the gardener; on the way back she met robbers; when she found out what was going on, the robber also let her go; who is nobler? Sultan's daughter: husband; 2) second story; the sons of three viziers want to marry the Sultan's daughter; one bought a bowl, the water from which revives the dead, the second - a flying carpet, the third - an all-seeing mirror; seeing that the princess is dead, the young men flew in and brought her back to life; who should she be? princess: the owner of the mirror; Moti got the Shah's daughter; Mota tells me not to touch her for three nights; then say he should have the wedding at home; drove to the place where Moti first saw Motu; mota took out his sword and told him to share everything he had acquired equally; Moti swung his sword, and a worm fell out of his wife's mouth; Mota: take everything for yourself; if the worm stayed in your wife, you would fall ill; I'm that fish released; Mota disappeared]: Osmanov 1987:230-235; Tajiks [the princess tells her father to pass her off only as someone who will make her speak during the night; this fails, the grooms are executed one by one; Tsarevich Kuri-Kosym ("blind Oblique") received an invisible hat from the old man he met; on the first night he could not get the princess to talk, but the guards who came in did not see him; the next night he followed the princess unnoticed; she came after her old woman; in the cemetery, two women dressed the princess in beautiful clothes; the same in the cave; they arrived at the Peri Garden; the princess became intoxicated; KK took off her clothes, put it on himself, came to Peri and began to sing; when KK He put his clothes on the princess again and she returned to the garden, the peri asked her to sing again, but she did not know the song that Peri liked; the next night, KK begins to tell the princess about her adventures; she tells him to be silent and agrees to become his wife; they came to Peri together; their queen wants a KK for herself; the KK refuses; then they are told to come every night, otherwise the Peri will burn down the city; KK and his wife flee to his country, but the city was burned down; the wedding and that one for 40 nights]: Niyazmukhamedov 1945:96-101; Turkmens [son and brother of the caravanbashi leave home, taking with them what they bought for a high price a parrot; he knows everything and gives advice; says that the padishah's daughter has not talked since birth; we must tell her how the carpenter, tailor and mullah spent the night in the steppe; one made a wooden the figure, the other dressed it, the third revived it; we must start an argument about who it should belong to; the padishah's daughter could not stand it and said it was a mullah; the next night a story about how the elder brother learned to guess the average bought a goblet of live water, the youngest met three devas fighting over the flying carpet; fired arrows, told the devas to run after them, flew on the carpet to his middle brother, and the devas continued to fight and killed each other; the older brother learns that their father is dying, the youngest brought them to their father, the middle brother has cured; the dumb one argues, says that the one who got the rug is more important than others; the son of the caravanbashi received girl]: Stebleva 1969, No. 46:247-257; Bukhara Arabs [the girl promises to teach her royal son to read and write in a month; the young man wants to marry her; the emir had to allow her, although the girl is from a poor family; every day, the emir's son beat his wife; her mother understood why her daughter was losing weight; gave her an image of peri to show her husband; he would go looking for peri and if he disappeared, you would get rid of him; the emir's son came to the garden, three went down doves became human, offered to play, he lost everything; he came to the city of the peri in the portrait; she gave it to the hangman, but the hangman did not execute him, but put him to work at the butter churn; he sent him a letter to the father asking him to kill his wife; the messenger forwarded the letter to the father of the wife of the emir's son; she took the letter away and replaced it with a request to take care of his wife; the emir took his daughter-in-law, dressed well; she wore a man's clothes, went to Peri; knowing the art of peri, beat the peri-doves, they promised to help her; to beat that peri, you had to make the first move; then come with her to a room with three beds; (that woman we must get to talk); under each there will be one of the peri; we must ask the red bed to tell a fairy tale; the peri hiding under it tells; khatib, carpenter, tailor, jeweler stopped for the night; carpenter he made a doll, dressed a tailor, dressed up a jeweler, a khatib asked God to put his soul into it and she came to life; who should award a woman? peri: khatyba; since she spoke first, she had to agree to become the wife of an imaginary man; she promised to do so after the bath; the wife sent her husband instead, opened herself to him, returned to her father-in-law, the emir; When the emir's son and his Peri wife arrived, he sent a letter to his father asking him to kill his first wife; he intended to do so, but she asked for permission to give her husband the clothes he had taken off in the bathhouse; son the emir lived his life with two wives]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 35:230-234; mountain Tajiks (Darvaz) [the old woman gave her grandson an apricot kernel, who sold it, bought three goats, sold goats, bought three donkeys; He gave one to a mole, a second to a beetle, a third to the wind; the girl promises to marry someone who makes her laugh; the guy tells how he gave donkeys, the girl laughs, gets married]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990 , No. 18:94-96; Burishi [the prince's daughter is dumb, he promises her to whoever will talk to her; many tried unsuccessfully, the losers were beheaded; the monkey of one prince ordered her to be hidden behind the door, let in the presence of the princess, he turns to the door, she will answer; the monkey says that when he died, one king told three sons to go to his friend another king; he asks the princes how they are they read at home; one says that his bed linen was changed every day, the second that he was well fed, the third says that his clothes were changed every day; the king orders him to do so; the princes are dissatisfied: one there was a log in bed (this is hair), the second had ghee tasted like goat's milk (the kid was there when the butter was being cooked), the third had clothes pricked (it had one thorn in it); the monkey asks who softer, the prince replies that the youngest prince; the princess objects - the eldest, who mistook the hair for a log; everyone is happy]: Lorimer 1935, No. 2:405-409.

(Wed. Baltoscandia. The Finns [parents raised their son in a barrel so that worldly vices would not stick to him; when released, his mother sent him to sell oil to a rich master; he would be tall and beautifully dressed; boy He sees a red milestone with a white top, filled oil in the crack, came for money the next day; the pole is silent, the guy twisted it, found a treasure under it; the mother sends meat to the pastor to sell meat, such in a black robe and white-collar; the guy sold meat to a dog; the next day he dragged her to court; the people came to see; the king has a daughter who does not laugh or speak; she spoke for the first time and laughed; the king gave the guy gold]: Concca 1993:120-129).

Turkestan. Karakalpaks: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:53-55 [the fisherman catches three carps every day; the son caught them and the ruff, released the ruff, the old man drove him away for it; the young man began to work for the old woman; the khan will give the dumb daughter for whoever talks to her; the young man goes to the khan, takes another young man as his companions; he tells in front of the princess how three brothers lived, the eldest fed the bull, the middle one cleaned the manure, from head to head you have to walk the tail for 6 days, the brothers met every 3 days; the bull drank the lake at the watering hole, but the catfish living in the lake swallowed it; the black bird took the catfish, began to eat, the fox crept up and ate the bird; the hunters killed a fox, half of the skin was sewn hats for all the inhabitants of the village, and the other half was taken by a shepherd, but only half a hat was enough; people began to think who was bigger; princess: shepherd; khan gave his daughter to the young man's companion; On the way back, he offered to divide her, held his sword, a snake jumped out of the girl's mouth, she was killed, and she prevented her from speaking; the companion said he was that ruff, gave the girl to the young man, disappeared], 99-101 [the giant gives a flying horse horseman that can be made small and hidden; a horseman smashes enemies, frees full parents; the khan promises to give his daughter to someone who makes her speak; the horseman brings a barrel, puts a handkerchief over him, talks to him in the presence of a girl; the girl interferes in the conversation three times, marries a horseman]; Kyrgyz [Khan has a son Meentebek, the vizier has a daughter Akyljan; their parents decided to marry them, but M. refused; A. advised him to get the hand of Zhannat, the khan's daughter; she would marry someone who would make her speak three times; M. could not, put in Zindan; A. dressed a man, came to J.; tells three stories 1) spending the night in the woods, the carpenter carved the girl's figure, dressed up the tailor, the blacksmith made jewelry, revived literacy; the elders decided to give the girl to the first decided to create it; Khan's daughter: we must be literate; 2) three brothers want one girl; the father will marry her to the one who brings the most valuable thing; the eldest has obtained a flying carpet, the middle one has an all-seeing mirror, the youngest is a reviving apple; the first saw that the girl was dying, the second brought them to her, the third gave an apple; people: we must give it to the first person who saw it; the khan's daughter: to the one who gave the apple; 3) the three decided help a girl who was forcibly married; the cunning man took her outside, the runner took her away, the batyr blocked the way to the chase; elders: let a cunning man take her; J.: runner; A. gave M. her clothes and he married J. instead of her; ordered A. to get out; then she asked: let M. tell me how he managed to get J. to talk; J. refused to be M.'s wife; his father handed over the khanate not to his son, but to A., and J. became a vizier]: Ledenev 1987: 135-141.