K117B. Sticking to each other, ATU 571, 571B.

.13.-.17.23.27.-.34.36. (.38).

The hero makes different people (and animals) stick to each other (or to objects).

Sudanese Arabs, Egyptian Arabs, Spanish, Aragon, Portuguese, Basques, Corsicans, Sardinians, Italians (Friuli, Toscana, Umbria, Lazio, Abruzzo, Puglia), Ladins, French (Upper Brittany, Niverne, Artois, Gascony), Frisians, Dutch, Germans (Grimms, Pomerania, Swabia, Austria), British, Irish, Punjabi, Kannada, Bengalis, Sinhalese, Moldovans, Hungarians, Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, Romanians, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Gagauz people, Luzhitans, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Russians (Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Vologda), Ukrainians (Ugric Russia, Volyn, Pokutye), Belarusians, Kalmyks, Ossetians , Armenians, Turks, Persians, Uzbeks, Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, Faroese, Icelanders, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Finns, Karelians, Eastern Sami, Mari, Udmurts, Kazan Tatars, Chuvash, Uighurs, Buryats, Central (? ) Yakuts, (Japanese).

Sudan - East Africa. Sudanese Arabs (Jaaaliyin) [the husband complained to a friend that his wife had a lover; he gave him a rooster and showed him what to do; - Arafat's Rooster! the rooster crowed. - Be stabbed! The rooster is stabbed to death. - Arafat's rooster! - Ku-ka-re-ku! - Be stripped! the rooster is stripped. And so on - the rooster is cooked, served, eaten. A friend warns that the bones should be left intact. "Arafat's Rooster, stand up! the rooster came to life from the bones; the husband showed everything to his wife, they ate the rooster, he came to life; when her lover came to his wife, she herself gave him a rooster show; but the rooster refused to be served at the table - serve it yourself; she took a pot of cooked rooster and stuck to it; the lover grabbed it and stuck too; both naked; the husband came and told the rooster to take the lovers around the village]: Hurreiz 1977, No. 2: 75-76.

North Africa. Egyptian Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 571:333.

Southern Europe. Spaniards: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 571 [the king promises his daughter to whoever makes her laugh; this fails; a group of students go to the capital; only one agreed to help the old lady who was carrying brushwood {it is not clear if it helped, but at least he listened}; the old woman gave her three pubic hair; they must be wrapped around a cabbage leaf, dipped into the water, put a cross of the reeds on top; the young man and made and took out a cage with three wonderful birds; spent the night in a house where three girls lived; he was given a room; one sister looked into it to see what the student was doing, touched the cage, stuck; behind her sister, who had already taken off some of her clothes in preparation for bed; the third sister, completely naked, stuck to the second; in the morning the student carried a cage on a stick, followed by three girls; then the priest sticks successively, a plowman with bulls and a plow, a mule driver; when the princess saw this, she burst out laughing and the student married her]: 593-595; Aragon [the hero makes the princess laugh, creating absurd situation (everyone is dancing, sticking to each other, etc.); in order to get the magic items owned by the hero, the princess agrees to fulfill his increasingly immodest desires]: Gonzá lez Sanz 1996, No. 559:88; the Basques [the king promises to give her sick daughter to someone who makes her laugh; the older brother carries a basket of apples, refuses to pull the old lady, the princess, who has fallen into the hole refuses his apples; the same middle brother who carried flowers; the youngest pulls out the old woman, she gives him a black lamb, telling him to always be with him; the guy stops at the curé, who tries to take him away lamb, sticks to it; guy leads a lamb with lots of people and animals stuck to it; princess laughs, people stick, guy marries princess]: Barbier 1931, No. 8:96-99; Portuguese [the king demands that the boy get sergitana; with the help of a magic whistle, he makes the priest and many other people stick to each other in ridiculous poses; that's what it is." sergitana"]: Cardigos 2006, No. 571B: 144; Corsicans [the king promises a reward to whoever makes his daughter laugh; the elder, middle brothers are rude to the old woman, have achieved nothing; the younger is kind to her, she gives him a golden bell; at the inn, the hostess tried to steal it at night, stuck to it; her husband; then many other people; the princess saw this procession from the window and laughed]: Massignon 1984, No. 83:184-186; Italians (Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio, Abruzzo, Puglia): Cerife, Serafini 1975, No. 571:137; Italians (Friuli) [the princess is always dark; the king promises to give her away for the one who makes her laugh; the princess: and whoever tries fails will lose his head; the son of a shoemaker with his head in scab; on the way his father gave him bread, money, wine; he consistently gave it all to three old women; the latter turned beautiful, said that she was the one who went out to him disguised as old women and gave him a goose, which he said everyone would stick to; at the inn, the owner's two daughters tried to steal goose, stuck; the young man went on, a priest, then a tinker stick along the way; when the princess saw this sight, the princess burst out laughing; at the same moment the goose and everyone who stuck to him disappeared; the guy was washed and clothed; wedding; shoemaker father was also on it]: Calvino 1980, No. 38:114-117; ladina [the princess never laughs; whoever makes her laugh will marry, and the loser will lose his head; the son of the poor I decided to try the shoemaker; on the way he gave all the bread to the first old woman, the money to the second, the wine to the third; the old woman became a young woman, explained what the young man was feeling, gave a goose; if he gave a voice, I must say, "Stick!" ; at the inn, the owner's daughters tried to steal the goose at night, stuck; followed the boy and the goose; then the priest stuck, then the tinker with his dishes; the princess laughed; the king ordered to wash and dress up a guy, he turned out to be handsome, married a princess, took his father to the palace]: Uffer 1973, No. 52:253-257 (=Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 9:39-40); Sardinians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 571:341- 342.

Western Europe. The French (Nivernay; also Artois, Haute-Brittany, Gascony) [the priest sleeps with the blacksmith's wife and decided to get rid of him; asked the master to give him impossible assignments; he commands overnight create a pond with fish; then enclose it with bars; the old woman gives a magic wand, she does everything; bring a unicorn; the old woman casts the spell: "hold it tight"; the priest, his mistress and maid half-naked, holding a night pot, they stick to each other; they get out into the street; they are stuck to the maid's lover who carried hay, a cow that has become hay, a bull that climbed a cow; a blacksmith brings them to the master: here is the unicorn; after receiving the award, she frees everyone]: Delarue, Tenèze 1964, No. 571:474-475; the French [the princess is silent, the king will give her to whoever talks her; noble the mistress gives the shepherdess a wand; what she touches will not go away; the young man took a parrot with him and stopped at the inn; at night the maid tried to steal it, but stuck to it; in the morning to the naked A servant stuck to the maid, and the master to the servant; then the mistress, a woman with a broom, and another with cheese; when the princess saw this, she spoke; but the king would give a daughter for a shepherdess only if he could herd 100 rabbits; the same lady blew a whistle to return the rabbits; the knight bought one, agreeing to have the shepherdess stab his awl in the ass three times; but he whistled and the rabbit returned; bought the princess for three kisses - the same; the king - kiss the horse's tail three times; now the king demands to fill three bags with the truth; the young man tells how rabbits were bought; the king tells him to be silent, gives him a daughter]: Carlin 1991:256-263; friezes [the boy hired a farmhand and asked for one pea for a year of work; suggested to the girl: if her rooster bites a pea, it will be lost, and if not, he will take the rooster; the rooster fell, the boy began to groan and cry, for this was his year's income; in the end, the girl's father gave him a rooster and told him to clean up; suggested that the rooster butt the goat; the goat hit the rooster, the boy screamed again, got a goat; the girl asked for some goat hair, put her hands in, they stuck to the goat; a farmhand stuck to the girl, then many other people; the procession came to town, hers saw a princess who never laughed; the king promised her hand to whoever would make her laugh; when she saw the procession, the princess burst out laughing, and then everyone was detached from each other; the king gave the boy a daughter and the throne]: Mürk 2014:5-12; Dutch, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Austria), British, Irish: Uther 2004 (1), No. 571:341-342; Germans (Pomerania) [Stupid Hans ( GG) served as a farmhand for 7 years; asked for a calculation, but nothing heavy so that his pocket would not break; the owner calmed him down, gave him barley grain tied in a handkerchief; GG stopped at the inn, where the owner asked him to keep his valuables for preservation; when he learned that the GG had a 7-year salary with him, he untied his handkerchief, but found only grain; he was immediately pecked by a rooster; in the morning the owner was forced to pay for grain rooster; next time he received a stallion for a rooster, because the owner left the rooster in the stable and the stallion trampled him; the stallion has a golden mane and tail; if the owner orders, who tried to pull out his golden hair will jump on his horse and stick; the next night, the owner's eldest daughter approached the stallion, who reared, GG woke up and told the girl to stick; then a clerk, a pastor, a peasant woman and a maid stuck along the way, her daughter; a prince bought a stallion in town; he wanted to marry a princess who never laughed; the king promised her to someone who would make her laugh; when she saw them stuck, the princess smiled; the king would give her daughter for prince, but if someone doesn't really make her laugh in three days; GG is ready to return 1,000 thalers to the prince, but get the horse again; the old woman told me to pick up a dung beetle at the crossroads, an ant and a mouse, harnessed them into a tiny wagon and told GG to whip them; the whole town went out to watch, the princess laughed until she dropped; king: GG won, but 3 days later; let both go to bed with princess and whoever she chooses in the morning is not her; GG ate almonds with sugar and slipped a dung beetle to the prince; the princess turned to GG; the king married her]: Jahn 1891, No. 43:233-238; Germans (Swabia) [the widow's sons Caspar, Melchior and Baltes; have studied to be a weaver, shoemaker, saddler; consistently go to look for money; the first two refuse to share food with the old woman, she sends them back; younger B. gives all his bread; an old woman gives a golden duck; if B. wishes, anyone who touches her will stick to her; at night at the inn, three girls tried to snatch the duck's feather , she groaned, B. told them to stick to her; in the morning everyone set off; when they saw the naked girls, the masons rushed to them and stuck to them too; then the priest; the bakery workers; the daughter of the Portuguese king never laughs; whoever makes her laugh marries her; when she saw the procession, she burst out laughing, B. married and became king]: Meier 1852a, No. 17:62-66; Germans [the eldest son went to cut wood; not shared cake and bread with an old man, hit himself with an ax on his hand; the same middle one (on his leg); the younger Fool shared; he told him to cut down a tree with a goose with golden feathers under its roots; the guy spent the night in a tavern; the owner has three daughters; the eldest went to pull out the feather at night, stuck to the goose; the middle one, the youngest, stuck to her; when the guy carried the goose further, the pastor stuck to the girls, then the man whose child was to be baptized by him, two peasants with hoes; the king will give her daughter to someone who makes her laugh; when she sees the procession, the princess laughed; but the king is looking for an excuse refuse; let the groom bring a man who can drink a cellar of wine; eat a mountain of bread; a fool finds such in the forest; the king wants a ship that would sail on land and water; that old man gave; Fool received a princess and then a throne]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 64:236-238 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:197-200).

South Asia. Punjabi; Kannada [All stick together: Punjab (Sheikh-Dilthey 1976), Karnataka]: Jason 1989, No. 571:30; Bengalis [prince and son of Kotvala (chief of guard) are friends; son Kotvala offers to visit their father-in-law and go to his father-in-law first; when he enters the house, he says that a servant is with him; tells him to send him to mow grass for the horse; the prince does not know what to do; taking the sickle, almost cut off his finger; Shiva and Durga were just flying by, Durga asked Shiva to stop, told the prince to say, "In the name of Shiva and Durga, close tightly", the finger is intact again; the prince enters the house; tells the pipe a kotoval has grown to the son's mouth; his wife sticks to her husband, then all members of the household; sends for a brahman; the brahmana's wife asks her husband to take her too; asks her to be transported across a small river; the prince ordered and they stick together; with his wife on his shoulders, the brahmana comes to the father-in-law of the son of Kotval; the father-in-law realizes that it is the imaginary servant and asks for mercy; the prince says that the owner of the house's son-in-law is to blame; but he pastes the adhering ones; then surrounded by respect and attention]: McCullock 1912, No. 22:212-217; Sinhalese [the older brother is rich, the younger sister is a poor widow, she has a son Ayiwanda; his uncle sends him to guard the cattle; says that A. drinks milk, calves do not have enough milk, several died; A. notices that Gopalu Devatawa comes to drink milk; quietly steals his rope and baton; returns for the message of the magic formula: in the name of the State Duma, let these (for example, hills) join; the hills join; let them separate and separate; A. asked his uncle to marry his daughter, he rudenly refused; finds a more valuable groom; sends people to shoot game for a feast; A.: in the name of the State Duma, let them get nothing; in the name of the State Duma, he brought a deer into the pen, killed him with an unusable arrow; sent people to bring his uncle's meat; but he himself was given there only two bones; when the groom put the veil over the bride, A. told both to stick to him and stay in this position; then everyone who came to the wedding stuck to the veil; sent for Vedarala; A. tells him to stick to the skull of the buffalo he sat on; then let him go; the bride's mother promised to give it to A., then he broke the spell; but his wife does not let him eat, he sleeps on the mat she wipes on legs; then A. left, leaving a bunch of bones of some dead man under the bed; A.'s mother decided that her son was eaten; thanks to the knowledge of the spell, he became rich, returned; now he sleeps on the bed, and his wife is not the mat he wipes his feet on]: Parker 1914b, No. 194:62-69.

The Balkans. Moldovans [instead of paying, the master gave the farmhand a miserable lamb; but he is getting prettier; king: whoever makes his sad daughter laugh will marry her along with half of the kingdom; the farmhand sleeps with the priest; three priests, then popadya, pop want to pull out a golden hair, stick to a lamb; seeing the procession, the king and then the princess laugh; the farmhand gets a wife and half the kingdom]: Moldavian tales 1968:458- 461; Gagauz people [no one can make the king's daughter laugh; the shepherd has a caval (a musical instrument), the sound of which makes everyone dance; the shepherd came to the ass, leading his sheep with silk hair; younger popovna wanted to pinch the sheep, stuck; then the other two, popadya, a pop who left the house without pants; the man dug manure, the shovel stuck to his ass, and his hands to the handle of the shovel; the shepherd played, all the procession danced, the princess saw and laughed]: Moshkov 1904, No. 75a: 137-138; Hungarians [motive known: All stick together]: László 1982, No. 571:462; Bulgarians [the youngest of the brothers saves the snake from the fire; for this he is endowed with the knowledge of the magic word that allows people and animals to be glued to each other and released; the pop (king) orders animals to herd without rubbing, then he will give his daughter; the guy fulfills the condition, but the pop (king) is still going to give his daughter to another; with a magic word, the guy glues the bride, groom and everyone else; the witch, crossing the river, lifted her dress over her head and This is how she appeared before everyone; the guy released those who stuck together after the bride was promised to him]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 571B: 217; Croats (Karlovac) [the princess never laughs; promised to whoever makes her laugh; the young sheaf knitter went to try his luck; sees a carriage riding alone without horses, and the sound of a flute from the carriage; boy: God bless you, named sisters! they ask if the guy wants to be named their brother, he says yes; they were three fairies; they gave them a carriage and a flute; if you play, the carriage goes in the direction the flute points to; the guy stopped at the inn, went to bed in the carriage; at night, the owner's three daughters noticed three golden apples on the carriage and went out naked to steal them; grabbed and stuck; in the morning the carriage went, and naked the girls ran after her; soldiers rushed to the girls and everyone stuck; the peasant woman baked bread and hit the soldiers with a bread shovel; stuck; the princess saw and began to laugh; the king married the boy to his daughter and gave up half his kingdom; if the guy is alive, he still reigns]: Eschker 1992, No. 44:203-205; Slovenes, Serbs, Macedonians, Greeks, Romanians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 571:341-342 .

Central Europe. Russians (Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Vologda), Ukrainians (Ugric Rus, Volyn, Pokutye), Belarusians [Wonderful: the husband brings his wife a goose (crane, wonder) as a gift; she invites a lover; the goose turns out to be magical and the woman sticks to him, the lover wants to tear it off and also sticks, and others stick to them (pop, elder, popadya)]: SUS 1979, No. 571:164; Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [the merchant asks her husband to bring a wonderful, marvelous miracle from afar; the old man tells the goose to lie down in a frying pan, fry; asks the merchant to collect the bones; wrapped them in a tablecloth, tells them The goose got up, he came to life; the merchant bought a goose; when the husband left, the wife decided to give the goose to her lover; but he does not sit in the pan, the merchant stuck to the goose, the lover to the merchant; the goose dragged them outside; everyone who He touched them, stuck to them themselves; the merchant had to be guilty, they only stuck it off like that; her husband beat her]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 256:303-304; Russians (Vologodskaya) [Ivanushka married Nastyushka; at that friends; N. went to visit her father; the witch gave I. a magic belt: sit in the barn and listen, and then tie a knot; I. hears that N. and his friend tied a knot, the lovers stuck together; N.'s mother called the sorcerer - again a knot, the sorcerer stuck; the second is the same; I. hits N. with a belt, lets go; then her lover; then the sorcerers; N. stopped hanging around with her friends, began to live well with I.]: Smirnov 1917, No. 44:219-220; Poles [the queen never laughs (and is promised to whoever makes her laugh); three brothers go to try to do it; the youngest shares food with the old man and he gives him a golden goose or other item, who is glued to those who touch him; the tavern's daughter was the first to stick, who tried to pull out the pen, then many others; when she saw the procession, the queen laughed; the hero gets an extra the task is to eat and drink huge amounts of bread, wine, etc.; performs them thanks to assistants]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 571:190; Luzhitans, Czechs, Slovaks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 571:341-342.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks [The Himphamp]: Vershinin 1962 (Tales of the Peoples of Our Motherland): 85- in Uther 2004 (1), No. 571B: 342-343; Ossetians [Shifner's Ossetian texts; two Aldars met on the road, found out that their wives were pregnant, they put the children to marry if they were of different sexes; but the girl's father married her to another; the young man's father was upset; feeling sorry for his father, the young man was hired as a shepherd for his betrothed; the hail killed all the cattle in the field, and the young man managed to drive the calves under the tree, hid himself in the hollow; on the way home, the devil gave him a leaf: if you turn, objects stick to each other; further as in an Udmurt fairy tale (see); the young man received bride]: Potanin 1884, No. 7:234; Armenians [the bald man was hired as a laborer; the owner has already given two daughters, gives the youngest; during the rain, the bald man buried his clothes and covered him with a stone, then put them back on; Satan asks how he did it; the bald man does not speak; Satan: put your hand on the pig; hand stuck; had to say; but Satan uttered words that the bald man remembered; at the wedding, the groom stuck to bride; then mother-in-law to groom; other people; mullah's wife naked; the owner had to pass off his daughter as a bald man, then he broke the spell]: Ioannisian 1968:74-77; Armenians [the miller has a wise goat, three the brothers are a wise horse; the elder brother and the miller bet, putting the horse against the goat: who will hide three times; the elder brother called the guests and showed the goat; he stabbed himself, ripped himself off, ripped himself off, fried, cooked three types of food, served it to the guests, and when they ate, he was alive, running and bleating; but when the older brother's wife invited her lovers (pop and elder) to visit and demanded the same goat, he turned his back to her; she hit the goat with a stick, stuck, followed by pop and many others; finally, the older brother let them go; not wanting to stay in a house like this, the brothers left; came to the fire , there is an old woman with three daughters; the youngest is in danger, tells them to change seats and hats with the girls; at night the old woman came to strangle the brothers and strangled her daughters; the brothers are fleeing; the youngest hired the king as a groom, the elder and middle are jealous; they tell the king that the youngest can bring that old woman's horse; the queen teaches what to do (lure the horse with raisins, put a bag over his head); bring from old women are a miracle tree; queen: take a self-playing saz, the old woman will sharpen her teeth and think that you are on the ceiling; the bag will tear, from there salt and pepper into her eyes; at this time, cut down a tree with a diamond ax; bring the old woman herself; ring with bells, the old woman will think that it was the angel of death who came for her, then put her in a basket, nailed it and tied it with ropes; the guy brought the basket to the king; ran away, hid in cave behind a millstone; an old woman (who also took the form of a lion Azrail) put her head in the millstone, the guy knocked him over, crushed her]: Ioannisian 1968:110-123; Turks [during the rain, Keloglan's boy took off clothes and sat on them; Hoxha asks to reveal the secret of how he managed to keep his clothes dry, gives him a magic remedy that makes everyone stick to each other; or three brothers go for firewood; the elders do not share food with the poor and disappear; the younger Keloglan divides, gets a goose to which everyone sticks; among others, a mullah, a mufti on a donkey, sticks; the witch, crossing the river, raises her dress above head and remains in this position; the princess, who never laughed, when she saw such a procession, burst out laughing, K. got her as his wife]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 182:208.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Marzolph 1984, no.*571 [The king promises a daughter to the poor man, and then refuses, finding a better groom; hell promises to teach the poor man the spell if he tells how he did it keep clothes dry during the rain; the poor man took off his clothes and put them under the saddle; during the princess's wedding, the poor man casts a damn spell and everyone present sticks to each other; takes off spell after the king cancels the wedding and marries the poor princess]: 124; Ottomans 1987 [the pleshivets asks Satan to reveal to him the main name of the Creator - the most powerful spell; promises in response reveal his secret; after learning the name of the Creator, he tells you how to keep clothes dry during the rain: dig a hole with a shovel, put clothes there and cover it with a wooden bowl; using a spell, the bald man forced everyone's wedding to stick to each other and released everyone after the bride was given to him]: 80-82; Rosenfeld 1956 [Bo-Ali asks the Shah for a daughter; he expelled him from his possessions; he met horsemen who they are looking for a doctor named Bo-Ali to cure another Shah; Bo-Ali cut a vein in his forehead, the blood has flowed out, the headache is gone, the Shah rewarded him; he goes to his mother and a cauldron as a gift; it has rained, Boo- Ali hid his clothes under the cauldron; Satan appeared: how did you stay dry? Bo-Ali exchanged Satan's imaginary magic cauldron for a magic book; it says how to glue people or animals together; Bo-Ali glued together and then divided the sheep with the shepherd for testing; the shah gives his daughter for a rich fool; Bo-Ali made everyone stick to each other; the old woman points to Bo-Ali as guilty; Bu-Ali released those who stuck together for promising the Shah to give him his daughter; wedding]: 197-202; Romaskevich 1934a, No. 6 (Isfahan) []: 55-57; Uzbeks [Mamat herded sheep for 15 years but did not receive payment; returned to his father; hid the goose shot by the hunter, pretending not to understand what he was talking about asks; realized that my stepmother had a lover; went along the path where she put the melon upside down; there the stepmother left the cauldron with the goose; M. took the goose, replaced it with a dog; next time he found a basket where the stepmother put the eggs cooked for her lover, ate it himself; ate the fried meat; overheard in which mazar the stepmother was going to ask God to save her from M.; hid behind the tombstone; answered instead of God that M. you must feed roast lamb; first slaughter a white ram, then a black one, then a red one; M. pretends to go blind; beats his stepmother's lover three times, makes him work at the butter churn; after the third once ordered both to stick to the apricot tree; then ordered the hands of the ishan (the one who had not paid him for 15 years) to stick to each other; and his face glued to the donkey's ass; released when Ishan gave he had 5,000 sheep and his lover and stepmother fled; married his father and married himself]: Westerman 2009:405-411.

Baltoscandia. The Swedes [the king takes care of the blacksmith's wife, wants to get rid of her husband; orders to create 1) a palace on four pillars in three days; the blacksmith went to the forest, met an old woman, she taught me what to do; 2) a ditch around the palace with four bridges to the gate (same); 3) a tiller dipumple; the old woman tells you to put an iron cauldron under the bed; when you hear that there is something there, say, "Stay there"; at night, the king came to the blacksmith's wife, but wanted to relieve himself and stuck to the pot; his wife stuck to the king; then the maid; the blacksmith took them to the city, where a warrior stuck to them trying to help; the maid tried to cover themselves with hay, a cow came, stuck to it; a bull; a tax collector stuck to them at the gate; everyone fell into the city ditch, and the blacksmith was made king]: Schier 1971, No. 18:83-85; Danes [old Per Smed's widower marries a young man; she takes the estate manager as a lover; he decides to get rid of her husband; says that the landowner ordered 1) to pave the yard with small stones in a day; the old woman tells not worry, everything is done; 2) plant trees in a nearby swamp in a day (the same); 3) do pertegøj (meaningless word); the old woman gives a whip and teaches what to do; PS finds his wife with the manager, waits for her to come to the night pot, touches it with a whip, she sticks to the pot; her lover and maid to her; the PS takes them outside; the maid tries to cover herself with grass; the cow comes to the grass and also sticks; the bull to the cow; the whole company comes to the landowner's house; he and then his wife also stick; so it turned out pertegøj; PS lets them go after the landowner promises to pay him big money and drive the manager away; PS's wife has been loyal to him ever since]: Holbek 1987:508-509; Norwegians: Asbjíørsen, Moe 1960 [princess rejects suitors, never laughs; king promises a daughter and half a kingdom to whoever makes her laugh, and whoever fails will be cut off his belts from his back; the elder, middle brother fails; the younger one catches fish, changes the old woman for a golden goose, to whom everything stick at the request of the owner; comes with a goose and a crowd of people stuck to each other; the princess laughs; wedding]: 20-24; Hodne 1984, No. 571 [the king will give the princess to someone who can do it make you laugh; the youngest of the three brothers gets a magic bird (goose); a woman, a blacksmith, a maid, a key man, etc. consistently stick to it; the princess sees this procession and laughs]: 138-139; oriental Sami: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 571:233; Latvians [the guy gets a goat (goose, crutch), when touched, everyone sticks; thanks to this, they manage to make the princess laugh and courtiers; a young man gets a princess's hand]: Aris, Medne 1979, No. 571:304; Lithuanians, Icelanders, Faroese, Estonians, Finns: Uther 2004 (1), No. 571:341-342; Karelians []: Concca 1963:286-287.

Volga - Perm. Marie [the old man has three sons, all married; they went to the forest to buy firewood, forgot the fire; they saw the light from the top of the fir tree in the distance; the older brother went; the old man in the house; asks if the person who came trusts to his wife; when he hears that he trusts, he does not give fire; the same is true with his middle brother; the younger Josef says he does not trust; the old man turned him into a goat, asked his wife to spend the night; the lover comes at night; the goat now and business shoves him with horns, he has not been able to get along with the woman; the old man returned J. to human appearance; father-in-law will have a holiday; let his wife go alone and he come later; gave a thread; as soon as his wife and lover they will be together, a knot must be tied on the thread and they will stick together; as soon as the others try to separate them, we must tie the knots again, everyone will stick to each other; J. hid in the cellar; his wife went her lover came down to her for beer, and when he lay down on her, J. tied a knot and they stuck; mother-in-law came down, began to tear off her daughter, stuck too; then father-in-law; called the priest, he also stuck ; J. went home; he was called to help; he began to quilt those who stuck in turn, untying knots; but did not let his wife and lover go, but beat him to death; married another, built a separate house; in the forest met a trait; he asks why people are not afraid of weapons, shoot birds; J.: we cut off our eggs; the devil allows ourselves to be castrated; when he returns home, J. tells his wife to put on his clothes and go with a gun to forest; devils examine it, believing that it is J.; believe that people are really neutered, even the wound has not yet healed; J. goes back to the forest, sees that oβα is sitting on a pine tree, takes aim; O. asks do not shoot, promises to give gold; in the morning J. comes, under the pine tree gold; he can't carry so much, tells O. to carry it himself; they see a tar pot; J.: this is my grandmother's cauldron to cook porridge, you can pick it up; later J. promised to bring a pot of cakes to the wedding of his son O., did not bring anything; O. came to the village and killed many people, including J.; God ordered that O.'s people should no longer see and not talked to them]: Beke 1938, No. 62:573-586; the Udmurts [the mullah has an employee and seven calves; so that the calves do not run away, the old man taught: how to go to the field, shake your head, all the calves will turn to one; if you go to the house, motney again, the calf will fall into 7 calves; the mullah married his son, the young went to bed, the worker shook his head, they grew together; the mullah sent the worker for ahun; he went away on the way if necessary, asked the employee to wipe it off, he put a mosol, shook his head, the mosol grew up; the worker advised to put the mosol down the tail - he grew up; the employee released him for promising to help; akhun advised the mullah to marry her daughter as an employee and do good]: Potanin 1884, No. 7:233-234; Chuvash (publication in Hungarian), Kazan Tatars (Vasiliev 1924:74-78): Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 571:233.

Turkestan. Uighurs (Khotan) [King Khotan agreed to marry his son to King Yarkand's daughter; the prince went with his bald servant, stopped to wash; he sat on his horse, put on his clothes, and came to Yarkand under looking like a prince, ordering that a man who would come on such a horse in such clothes should not be allowed into the city; the prince had to sit on a bald man's horse and wear his clothes; marrying Princess Yarkanda, bald said that the young man was good as a shepherd; the real prince was allowed to herd cattle; the old man taught him words that make people, animals and objects stick together and unstick; bald he stuck to the princess, all the viziers to them, the king himself; to the judge - a piece of meat, a dog, he himself to a donkey; King Yarkand promised to forgive the young man for promising to paste them; the prince told everything; received a wife, bald hanged]: Jarring 1946, No. 6:109-120.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Buryats [an orphan boy herds noyon sheep, some are lost in the snowstorm; the old man points out where to find the lost and teaches; to prevent the sheep from leaving, I must say "Nya-nya!" , and to get up again, "Sovor-Soobor!" The guy healed well; one day the owner stabbed the sheep, and it turned out to be lean; warmed the shepherd with a whip; when he heard that the sheep were not fat, Noyon's wife fell ill from frustration; he sent the guy for a shaman; the shaman became splash an archoe, the guy said "Nya-nya!" , the shaman grew up to the window, the owner's wife to the bed; called the llama; he grew up to the bench, spoon to mouth; the guy called all the rich people for help, they grew together; 7 days later they called the sorceress; she said that the elder was to blame; he appeared, ordered the orphan to apologize; he let the adhering ones go, overtook their cattle]: Dugarov 1990:302-306.

Eastern Siberia. Yakuts: Ergis 1967b, No. 165 (central? summary of several texts) {The variant differs from Russians and is closest to Buryat} [the old man came to rich Hara Haan to marry his daughter for his son; the old man is killed; the rich man takes his son The old man and the bull ran away; on the advice of the bull, the guy puts a magic tongue in his mouth; when he says "systaryys", everyone sticks to where they are at the time; the guy marries the rich man's daughter]: 202; Shurtakov 1983 (translated from yak - author, original - D.K. Sivtsev-Omoloon) [the poor have Sagynnyah's son ("herbal Doha"; the old people died, the rich neighbor took S. along with the piebald bull; the next day the bull will be slaughtered ; he tells S. to sit on it, brings it to the haystack, S. fell asleep; in the morning there is a lot of food nearby; the bull gives birch bark; if you have difficulties, you must read what is written on it; there is a spell; S. tells old and young owners stick to the bed; they send for a shaman; he tells the shaman to stick to the bull's tail; for his release, the master gives half of the wealth and the youngest daughter]: 63-68.

(Wed. Japan. The Japanese [only version from Aomori (northern Tohoku); most likely European borrowing]: Ikeda 1971, No. 571:153).