K118. The Forbidden Room, C611.

.11.12.14.-.17.21.-.23.27.-.36.39.

When leaving, the character allows another to dispose of the house, but not to look into a specific room or receptacle. He's violating the ban.

Swahili (Zanzibar), Bemba, Yoruba, Hausa, Kabiye, Iraqu, Berbers of Morocco, Kabila, Arabs of Algeria, Tunisia, Libya (Tripoli), Spaniards, Aragon, Basques, Portuguese, Catalans, Sicilians , Italians (Veneto, Tuscany, Campania), Maltese, Ladins, Corsicans, Germans (Hanover), Baden-Württemberg), French, Bretons, Scots, Arabs (literary tradition), Palestinians, Arabs in Syria, Iraq, Saudia, Yemen, Burmese, Lao, Punjabi, Sindhi, Bhila, Kumaoni, Akhir, Kannada, Serbs, Bosnians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Greek Cypriots, Hungarians, Romanians, Moldovans, Albanians, Gagauz, Slovaks, Czechs, Poles, Belarusians, Russians (Tersky Bereg, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Pskov, Voronezh, Tomsk), Ukrainians, Adygs, Abkhazians, Abazans, Balkarians, Ossetians, Ingush, Chechens, Kumyks, Laki, Lezgins, Tabasarans, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Persians, Tajiks, Shugnans (?) , Bartangans, Ishkashim, Uzbeks, Kafirs (Prasun, Kati), Burish, Norwegians, Icelanders, Swedes, Western Sami, East Sami, Lithuanians, Latvians, Lutsi, Estonians, Setus, Finns, Karelians, Mordovians, Udmurts, Chuvash, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Karakalpaks, Tobolsk Tatars, Northern and Southern Khanty, Amur Evenks, Evens, North-Eastern (Kolyma) Yakuts, Chukchi.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Swahili (Zanzibar) [the Sultan has three untrained sons; a magician comes; promises to learn to read and write to all his sons in exchange for one of them; the magician made them scientists, took one to his home, gave the keys from all the doors in the house, he forbid opening one door; left the house for a month; when he opened the first door, the Sultan's son found liquid gold; dipped his finger in it, rewound it with a rag and told the magician that he had cut off his finger; the next room was filled with goat bones; the next room was filled with sheep bones, the fourth with oxen, the fifth with donkeys, the sixth with horses, and the seventh with human skulls; there was also a live horse; she said to the boy that the magician ate these people and animals, offers to run; the boy agrees, the horse tells her to feed her gold; explains how to distract and cook the magician in the cauldron; the magician invites guests; the boy cooks the magician; guests they eat soup from it; the boy and the horse arrive in the city; the horse spits out gold; the boy buys a rich house and slaves; the sultan invites the boy; the sultan and the young man become friends; the sultan gives a daughter for him; they have a son]: Bateman 1901:183-196; bemba [the father gave his son a fishing hook on the condition that he would certainly return it; the hook came off the line; the young man dived and found himself in a village of women; remained an employee of the Queen; she saw his penis, at night they lay down together, she liked it; she decided not to let him go; allowed him to enter all rooms except one; indoors he I found meat supplies; once he opened a forbidden room and found himself in his native village; there was no meat, only vegetables; the young man did not find a way back]: Verbeek 2006, No. 81.4:427-429.

West Africa. Yoruba [the fortuneteller advises the poor man to get the first thing he has to hunt; he sees a crocodile, climbs a hole after him, finds himself in a city of women, marries a queen; she forbids him to enter one of the palace rooms; he walks into it, finds himself in the same place at the crocodile hole; the fortuneteller says he can no longer help him]: Walker, Walker 1980:19-21; hausa [Turtle every time makes the bachelor's cultivated field uncultivated; he waits for her, hits her, she promises to bring him to the women's village; there women take him to the chief; the female chief makes him her husband; going to war, allows everyone to use but not open a small basket; he opens it, finds himself in his field; catches a turtle, tells it to repeat everything like that time; it can hardly drag it; Hyena asks who the Turtle is carrying; eats the bachelor]: Tremearne 1911, No. 31:60-61 (translated into Okhotina 1962:316-317); kabye [Andjaou (spider) worked in the field all day; returning to the village, he hears a strange sound; when she returns to the field in the morning, she sees that all the grass he has removed is back in place; next time she grabs a turtle in the field, wants to kill it; she asks her to be spared, for which she promises to take A. to a village of women; let her hide among cotton wool in the bag she carries; in the village of women A. lives with their leader, eats plenty; the chief gives it to other women for the night; one day the chief and others women leave for a few days; allow everyone to use but not enter the same room; A. comes in, fails and finds himself where the turtle picked him up; she brought A. back to the village women; as punishment for disobedience, the chief turned A. into a slave for five years, forcing him to work]: Pinguilly 1997, No. 6:75-83.

Sudan - East Africa. Iraq [Tsáchara and his wife are cannibals; two women came in during the rain; they allegedly cooked food for them, scalded them with boiling water, ate them; C. went to marry the daughter of another woman, who has three daughters {it follows that four}; brought one, ordered not to say when he entered, "Hello mother! Hello father!" , as is customary, but to say the magic formula; the first wife of C. pretends to be sick; at night they cut the new wife's throat, ate her; the same with the second daughter; then two more women came, one of them pregnant; they were told not to go into the back room - there was a ferocious bull; the girl looked - there were skulls of the dead; while C. was leaving, and his wife fell asleep, the girl ran away, and the pregnant woman did not want to go out in the rain and stayed; hid in the back room and ate the bones of the dead; gave birth to a boy, he grew up six months later; the woman tried to hide under the ceiling, cut off her head, ate her; C. ate almost all the meat himself, He gave his wife a little finger; the boy went out, he was also eaten; now C. came to marry the woman's third daughter; C. and his wife thought the baby appeared like an egg in birds; they locked the girl in the back room and waited when the eggs appear; the girl said that chickens also do not lay eggs without a rooster; then C. and his wife ate her; C. brought the fourth girl; when she came in, she said, "Hello mother! Hello father!" ; she ran away at night, C. then people killed him with arrows; another C. came to his wife; they got into a fight, he cut her throat, ate him; stayed alone]: Kohl-Larsen 1963:155-164.

North Africa. Berbers of Morocco (Fez) [the old man offered the poor a job: go to buy groceries; there are many old people in the house, everyone cries, dies one by one; the hired person advises not to go to one of the rooms; when he died, the man opened that door and found himself in a beautiful country and a luxurious palace; the men there were only fieldwork, the rest was done by women; the man married the queen; one day she says that she must lead an army of women against enemies who attack every 7 years; let her husband not open one of the doors; as soon as the wife goes to war, the man opened the door; the vulture grabbed him and brought him to the house of those dead old men; the man cried bitterly]: El Fasi, Dermenghem 1928:65-68; kabila [young man Ahmed accidentally entered the garden of the seven jinnias; the gardener hid it, but the jinnias sensed the man; they were allowed to enter all rooms of the palace (they contain treasures) except the seventh; he went in, where seven naked beauties were swimming in the pool; then they put on feather clothes, flew to heaven; the youngest of the jinnias guessed; said A. that they were the daughters of the king of jinns; advised them to hide the youngest's clothes; gave it for a promise to become his wife; they lived in the jinn's palace for a year; after the birth of the child came to live with mother A.; the wife created a beautiful home there; A. went to visit Jinny, giving his mother the key to the place where he hid his feathers; the sultan arranged a party, and A.'s wife also came dance there; the Sultan's son is delighted; the woman says that if she wore her clothes, it would be even better, but the mother-in-law does not give it; the Sultan's son forced her mother-in-law to return her clothes; taking the child, Jinnia flew away, saying that her husband would be able to find her on Mount Wâk Wâk; A. went in search; three are arguing over an invisible hat, a bag that fills with whatever you want, a baton that hits itself; A. invites them to race, the winner will get things; A. leaves invisible, taking wonderful objects; enters the palace on Mount Wak-Wak invisible; Jinnie's father punished her for her relationship with a mortal: her they are constantly beaten, fed with garbage, prevented from washing; A. puts a baton first on his wife's evil sister, then at her father; he allows his daughter and grandson to eat normally and wash themselves; they run away with A.; the king The genie sends her son to chase; the wife turns herself into a garden, her husband into a gardener, the child into a watermelon; the gardener replies that he has not seen anyone, offers to buy watermelons and melons; next time, a source, water, a water cup on a chain; when the father himself is chased, the fugitives turn into a pomegranate tree with one fruit on it; the father into a knife, cuts a pomegranate with one seed in it; the fruit turns into a bird, it rushes bite a seed; the father is a knife, cuts off the bird's head; but the bird has already become a fish; the father is a fishing line with a hook; once on the shore, the fish became a barley grain; the hook was a rooster, the grain was a fox, twisted the rooster's neck; all is well]: Dermenghem 1945:129-136; the Arabs of Algeria [the poor widow's son agreed to sell his soul to a Jew; bought food, she and his mother ate; in the morning a Jew took the young man to the top of a steep cliff and left there; he came to the palace; there three fairies called him brother, allowed him to unlock all rooms except the hundredth; he looked into it, there was a pool with three girls, he fell in love with the youngest; when he saw the young man, the girls put on pigeon plumage, flew away; the fairies advised me to wait a year: the girls will arrive again, you have to hide the robe you like; he did so, the dove maiden has been living with him for three years, they have two children; young man misses his mother; fairies tell him to close his eyes, he finds himself at home with his wife, children and camels, who are loaded with gold; he built a palace for this gold; he gave his wife's plumage to his mother; despite her son's prohibition to let her daughter-in-law out of the house, his mother agreed to take her to the bathhouse; she was seen by the servant of the Sultan's wife; she wanted to see the beautiful woman herself, arranged a party; everyone should dance; the dove wife : for this I need my clothes; my mother went and brought it; my wife put it on, flew away, capturing both children; my husband went in search; at the crossroads, Troy is arguing; they found an invisible pouch; a rod that sends you where you need to go; a flying carpet that immediately takes you to the right place; the man offered to race, flew invisibly across the seven seas; found his wife and children tied to a tree: her her genie father punished her for staying on earth; her husband untied them; first the children recognized their father, then their wife; they all returned to land to their home]: Belamri 1990:31-43 Algerian Arabs (Medea) [with the king 7 daughters and a peach tree; guli got into the habit of stealing peaches at night; the king sent his eldest daughter to guard; she wore a military outfit but fell asleep; the same with the other five; the youngest consistently He cuts off the head of the ghulas who approach the tree; but from the seventh she only cut off her scalp, the ghoul ran away; as a reward, the king is going to marry her first; to someone who guesses what object is hanging on the window; This is the skin of a huge lice, which the king fed and then stabbed; that ghoul took the image of a handsome man; when the princess saw him, the princess showed with signs that there was a louse on the window; having received his wife, the ghoul sent the royal entourage halfway through, only one maid remained; the ghoul gave the keys to 7 rooms, forbiding him to unlock the seventh; the princess unlocked: there a terrible ghoul devours a donkey; the princess lost consciousness; when she recovered, the ghoul in the guise of her husband asks what is on his crown; there is a scar, but the princess replies that nothing; then the ghoul tied her to a tree and went to buy firewood to burn her; the maid freed her and carried her on her back; the lion met her, invited them to his place, fed them; the ghoul demanded his wife, but was forced to leave; merchants from the girl's father's kingdom passed by; she told them everything, asked them to send rams and camels as a gift to the lion; the king sent it; his people took the princess; the lion gave her a lion cub: if the ghoul came again, the lion cub would kill him; the ghoul came in the form of a beggar, the princess lowered the lion on her, the lion ate the ghoul; but it was the one who he ate a donkey in the seventh room; when the princess remarried, her ghoul husband appeared; bribed the maid to add sleepy powder to everyone but the princess's dishes; took the princess away; she convinced him that She would not run away again, and offered to take her father's treasures; found a lion, let him go on a walk, he ate it; called the people and doctors, who revived those who fell asleep; the soothsayer said that the princess was betrayed by her maid; she cut off her head]: Desparmet 1910:407-422; Berbers of Morocco (Reef; recorded in Orleansville) [the king does not give his son the key to the garden; the prince told the maid to steal the key; he almost fell asleep in the garden; appeared Mes'aouda, daughter of good spirit and guli; exchanged rings with the prince; they began to meet; one day the dove brought a letter from her: she agrees to marry the prince if he builds a palace of gold and silver bricks, ivory doors, and a glass roof; and he will give it one hundred thousand dinars and one hundred thousand rams; the king did everything for his son, the king of good spirits appeared and they signed a contract; soon the king died and the prince himself became king; M. mixed her husband with sleeping pills, at night she became a ghoul and devoured corpses; her mother came to her and they ate carrion together; one day the king's sister came to guests; M. put her to sleep, strangled her with her mother and they ate her; after that, M. constantly asked her husband to invite relatives and friends, and no one else saw them; the fortuneteller advised the king slowly pour out what the wife would offer a drink in the evening; the king watched and heard that the Guli were going to eat him the next night, for the rest were all eaten; the fortuneteller advises him to dig a hole, make a fire in her, cover it with a carpet; let someone tell M. that her husband is dying; she will throw herself and fall into a hole; this is what happened; in the end, the king of good spirits gave the king his other daughter, kind and beautiful]: Desparmet 1910:374-394; Tunisia: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 67 [The prince is in love with a princess from a neighboring kingdom with whom they were constantly at war, so the prince and the princess came to an agreement get married and run away together into the woods. That's what they did. When they entered the forest, they met animals that said that a terrible ghoul lives in the forest. He eats seven animals every day. The prince and the princess drove up to the Ghoul Palace, and the prince began to watch him. He saw a ghoul sleeping on straw at night. Then the prince set it on fire and the ghoul died. The prince and princess started living in the palace. The prince became bored and decided to go for a walk from the palace. He left a bunch of keys to all the rooms to his wife, but told him not to go to the seventh room. She listened to him at first, but then she got bored because the prince had been away for a long time. In the room, the princess found a thin black boy, she felt sorry for him and began to water and feed him every day. When the prince went hunting, he would visit an old woman every day, who gave his white horse roasted wheat. She warned him of the danger and told him that if anything happened, his wife would put him on a horse and order him to take him to where he ate grilled wheat. One day, the prince returned to the palace, and a black man stood next to his wife. He cut him down, so his wife put her husband on the horse and said as he told her to. The old lady cured the prince. He came back and killed a black man and then his wife. The old woman was rewarded with money and returned to his kingdom] in Korovkina MS; Ayadi 2008, No. 54 (Arabs) [everyone loves the merchant, because he sells on loan and borrows in kind; once he heals, lets go of a turtledove with a wounded leg ; later a beauty appears, asks for a needle to sew up a torn dress, leads her to her house, offers marriage on the condition that he does not look into one of the rooms; the wife sews, the merchant became rich; one day opened that room; there the turtle says that another week and the witchcraft would be over, she would have a baby, and now she flies away with her throat; since then, the turtles have not sung as a nightingale, they have a sad voice]: 73-80; Bushnaq 1987 [When leaving, parents tell seven daughters not to leave the house; the elders see the bazaar and decide to go; the youngest is against her, but they beat her, spit, etc.; the sisters returned, had a feast, but did not close the door; Gulya came, ate the elders, and the youngest hid and ran away (gulya asks everyone which part of the body to start eating it from; each answers that with the one that hurt her younger sister); the youngest comes to Gulya's house, who calls her daughter, gives the keys to 6 rooms, forbids entering the seventh room; she steals the key, unlocks the forbidden room, it has a window to the Sultan's garden; there is an ox; he tells the girl that at the end in the end, the ghoul would eat her; she told the ghoul about everything, who replied that it was a lie, let the ox go blind for 7 days; the next day she repeated Gulya's words to the ox; he fell and lay for 7 days; the garden began to dry up; the ox was replaced, but because of the words he said, he fell; the Sultan's son went to slaughter the ox, but he told him about the beauty; the prince climbed the tree and came to the ghul to ask his daughter; he gave warning the girl not to answer the prince until he says "the head of your father's ghoul"; after the third night of silence, the prince took another wife; Gulya's adopted daughter tells objects to move themselves, dips her hands into boiling oil, 10 fried fish appear; jumps into the oven to create baked buns; the new bride said it's nothing special, leaned over the stove, burned; the prince hears the conversation between the two jugs, hears "the head of a gulya, your father," addresses Gulya's adopted daughter; she spoke to him and became his wife]: 174-181; Stumme 1893, No. 2 [after his father's death, Hasan squandered his savings, and then he started a shop; the wizard Imbragim came, turned the iron into gold, stayed overnight, put H. sleeping pills and took it away in the chest; ordered the assistant spirit to deliver three camels; H. and I. came to at the foot of the mountain; I. told H. to climb into the skin of the dead camel; the vultures carried him to the mountain; there he found a sign; refused to give it to I. until he brought him home; I. left; H. weaved a rope out of the grass, went down; came to the castle of the seven daughters of the Lord of the Spirit, became their brother; the sisters leave for a month, the youngest tells me not to enter the same room; H. broke the ban, there are flowers and a pond, 10 doves went down, dropped their feathers, became girls; H. fell in love with the youngest, they flew away, he returned to the palace; the fairies who returned taught me how to hide the turtle feathers; the fairies persuaded the captive to marry H.; 3 years later I. brought a young man again; the fairy gave H. a magic sword, with which H. cut off I.'s head; telling the helper spirit to give three camels, returned with his wife to his mother, and then moved from Basra to Baghdad; his wife gave birth sons named Nasr and Mansur; H. went to visit the fairy sisters for six months; showed his mother where he hid his wife's feather outfit, told her not to give it to her or let his daughter-in-law out of the house; she persuaded her let her go to the bathhouse; the ruler's wife saw her, called her to her; all women show them dancing; wife H. says she would dance better if she got her feather outfit; the eunuch brought a chest with with a dress; H.'s wife put on feathers, took both children, flew away, shouting: Let H. look for her on Wakwak Island; mother H. dug three graves, told returning H. that his wife and children were dead; but H. dug up the graves , the mother is forced to tell everything; H. returned to the fairy sisters; the youngest advised them to ask their father's brother; he took H., flew to the mountain on a flying elephant; then ride a horse to the cave; if there is a man in red, return if you get a wife in white; a man in white leads him on; after his adventures, H. comes to the queen of the heavenly maidens; his sons recognize their father; the queen orders to beat his wife X. and throw him in in prison, and he finds himself in the desert; two sons of the wizard are fighting for their father's inheritance: a magic wand and an invisible hat; H. threw a stone: whoever brings it faster will give him wonderful objects; he takes them himself; frees his wife and sons, flies with them on winged horses; his army defeated the queen's army; H.'s wife forgave the queen; H. and his family returned to Baghdad, Harun Arrashid appointed him a vizier] : 13-39; Libyan Arabs (Tripoli) [parents went to Hajj, telling seven daughters not to leave home; two years later, the eldest went up to the roof, saw people and the bazaar, decided to go out; the youngest objected; the elders each hit her with something, etc.; they brought food, the youngest hid on the roof under a broken jug; a witch came in, asked each one where she wanted to be eaten from, each named the part of the body that damaged the younger sister; the witch ate six and the youngest ran away; came to the cannibal Buk Ettemsuch (BE), hid; he came and told the hidden person to go out: you will be my father if older than me, brother, if the same age, etc.; called the girl his daughter; she cooked meat - human for EB and game for herself; EB forbade her to enter the same room; she stole the key and went in, there a window to the garden, a bull in the garden pulling water from the well to water the garden; tells the girl that EB is feeding her and will eat her soon; when EB returned, found her daughter tearful; told the bull tomorrow that he was not going to eat it and let the prince let the bull's eye make a mirror; when he hears this, the bull lay down for a week and the garden withered without water; the prince killed the bull, replaced him with another; wants to kill the one, the bull tells him about the girl, he asked EB and received it; but the wife is silent, because EB forbade her to speak; then the prince took another one; EB's daughter shows how to cook; according to her, the firewood is themselves, the fire lights up, she climbs into a hot stove; the new wife also climbs into the oven and burns; the same with the next wife; EB's daughter sat on a stake stuck in the floor with her and began to spin; the new wife tried, the stake pierced her, she died; prince hid and saw his wife send a jug and a pot for water; the pot beat off the jug's nose, he came to complain; the wife said that the prince did not know what he should say, "In the name of Buk Ettemsuch, conspiracy!" ; the prince came out and said so, everything is fine]: Stumme 1898, No. 5:120-130.

Southern Europe. Spaniards: Malinovskaya 2002 [the father consistently warns his three sons not to go to the service of the red-beard; he paints his beard black; makes a fire in the forest, opens an abyss, the sorcerer lets the servant down on a rope to get the treasure, cuts off the rope after the treasure is picked up, the servant breaks; Ricardo's younger brother does not sit in the last basket that the sorcerer picks up, not breaks; finds the bones of his brothers; asks the giant not to kill him; he does not tell him to go into the same room; R. comes in, sees three doves turn into girls, bathe; the giant knows this, tells hide clothes you like; allows you to marry the White Dove (BG), gives a box with its plumage, warns you not to open it; returns to parents, gives the box to her mother; the wife persuades Open it, flies away with plumage on; R. returns to the giant, who gives a nut, refers to another giant, he refers to the Giant Master; his wife turns R. into an ant so that he can overhear her husband tells where BG is; gives an acorn; R. overcomes the sea, the fire wall, the thorns; the walnut turns into a palace, he gives it to sorcerers for their help; they solder R. with a potion, BG can't wake him up; during the day warns not to drink potions; R. does not sleep, breaks a lantern, thus disrupting HD; lives with her in a castle]: 102-109; Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 312 (Andalusia; there are also other areas) [a stranger gives the poor a lot of money, asks the daughter; the eldest is ready to go with him; he forbids unlocking one door; the girl unlocks; {does the dog inform the owner about this? Andalusian text, not everything is clear}; the girl is killed; the same with her middle sister; the youngest, having opened the forbidden door, kills the dog and runs away, comes to the old woman; that dog has it; she ate stalker, youngest daughter returned to her father], 325A (Asturias, Andalusia) [the poor man went to work; a man gives him 3,000 reais, tells him not to ask questions; he has candles burning in his house, one here- He will go out; he tells the poor man that his life will end before the candle burns; tells him to kill the horse, make a bag out of his skin; blowing on paper, creates a ladder out of it, tells him to go up to the castle; poor man got up, there are bones everywhere; the owner tells you to fill the bag with them, throw it to him; breaks the stairs; the poor man digs a passage, enters a house where the table is set and the bed is ready; he eats and sleeps, but an invisible hand pushes him; the old woman says that he will not leave her anymore; gives keys, forbids unlocking one of the rooms; he unlocked, there is a man and a woman half turned into lions; they advise inviting the old woman to look for her in head, kill with a stiletto blow; the prince and wife in the room take on a human form, tell them to flee, otherwise the lions will chase; the man came to the master, killed him, took his family and began to live with the prince, whom he saved]: 76-78, 122-125; Aragon [the woodcutter consistently gives daughters to a nobleman (demon, cannibal), who pays for every money; in his castle he forbids entering a certain the room; the girl breaks the ban, they are given a key or ring that are colored with blood; the youngest finds the bodies, revives the sisters and, after deceiving the ogre, frees them]: González Sanz 1996, No. 311; Basques [The poor shoemaker has three daughters; someone gives him a lot of money, marries his eldest daughter; when she leaves, leaves the keys, does not tell him to unlock one room; she unlocks, there are bones, she drops the key; confesses to a returning husband who has violated the ban; he puts her in the basement, feeds her with a human; the same with her middle daughter; the youngest takes a sword in the forbidden room; giving the keys, drops them, the husband bends down, she cuts off his head; frees his sisters and the captive prince; marries a prince, sisters and father live in the villain's castle; there is also a version that coincides with classic French]: Webster 1879:173-176; Catalans [a man asks his eldest daughter to be a maid; gives an apple, it will stain if she enters the forbidden room; the girl enters, there are other girls with their throats cut from the ceiling; she drops an apple, stains on it, the owner cuts her throat and hangs it; the same with her younger sister; her brother finds them, revives them, punishes the villain]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 312:70; Catalans [brother and sister in the other too; the latter are rich, the former are not so rich; the brothers made a rose castle; whose sister jumps over it without hitting the rose will inherit all the property; the rich one jumped and hooked on a flower, poor - only a leaf that she immediately ate so that it would not be noticed; her sister became pregnant from the leaf and gave birth to a girl; hiding it from her brother, placed her with a wet nurse, where she made an underground passage; girl grew up; her mother's brother saw her and asked her who she was; she replied that her mother was a rose and she herself was too; when she left, her brother (i.e. the girl's uncle) threw a handful of pins at her; her mother pulled everything out, not one noticed; her daughter began to comb her hair, the pin pierced and the girl lost consciousness; her mother considered her dead and left her in a coffin, locking this room; when her brother returned, her sister (out of grief) fell ill and died, leaving his brother the keys but not entering one of the rooms; he broke the ban, found a living girl in the room and made him a maid; when he left, he asked what to bring her; she asked for a blooming branch of myrtle, a double-edged knife and a heart made of stone; my uncle almost forgot, but the ship on which he was returning froze; he had to go back and get everything the girl asked for; every evening she cried: Oh a heart of stone, a myrtle branch, a knife - why didn't you kill me? Oh sir, if you only knew whose daughter I am; the servant heard, told the master, the girl told me everything, became the mistress herself]: Salvator 1896:73-81; Portuguese [the robber marries the eldest of sisters, or the father is forced to promise to give the first to meet at home, this is the eldest daughter; then the robber consistently takes other daughters; forbids the wife to enter a certain room, giving an object that shows a violation; the wife opens the door, where the bodies of previous victims are there, the object is broken or covered in blood, the husband kills his wife and throws him into that room; the youngest manages to stay unexposed (she does not bring an object into the room); she revives or heals the sisters or the wounded prince; exposed, sends a signal to her brothers, they appear quickly; or the wife puts the sisters in a bag, tells take it to her parents without looking inside; she stands by the window, he sees her, looking around; then she exposes a doll by the window, sits in her bag herself, or runs away with the prince, hiding in a cart under straw; The robber hides in the couple's room; the wife asks for a lion (or a soldier at the door) to be left under the bed; the lion kills the robber]: Cardigos 2005, No. 312:67; Sicilians: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], #44 [The lumberjack has three daughters, the youngest Maruzza; he sighs, Oh, my! , Ohmy appears, offers to give him his daughter as an assistant and wife; the eldest comes; O. shows her the corpses of women who have violated orders; leaves, ordering him to eat the hand of the deceased during this time; the girl throws away her outside the window; O. asks, the hand answers that she is here; O. kills the girl, gets the middle sister; the same with her; the mother's spirit teaches M. to burn his hand, collect the ashes in a bag, attach it to her belt; O. thinks that the hand answers from M.'s abdomen; shows the ointment to revive the dead; tells me not to go into the same room; she finds a young man in her body with a dagger in his body, revives him, he is a prince; they agree that she will kill him again and in this time finds out how to kill O.; O. says that if you break off this twig and put it in his ear, he will fall asleep; M. put him to sleep, revived everyone, everyone came back, she married that prince; a few years later the twigs rotted, O. woke up, found M., made a silver statue, ordered it to be worn, played musical instruments inside; the statue was brought to the palace; O. went out, put everyone to sleep except M., and began to boil cook it; the potion bottle fell, everyone woke up, O. cooked it in oil himself], 49 [The poor shoemaker has three daughters; he sits on a stone, exclaims, Oh! ; a young man appears, asks why his name was, takes him to an underground castle, gives him gold, tells him to marry his youngest daughter; she agrees; it was King Cardiddu; the witch bewitched him because he refused take her daughter; he forbids his wife to unlock one room; sisters come and advise her to unlock; at night she lights a candle, wax drips on K., she ends up in the woods; the king says she must now go to witch; she demands to sweep and not sweep, make and not make a fire, cook and not make a bed; every time K. appears, teaches how to make half; teaches you to ask the birds to wash the pile underwear; a witch sends a girl with a letter to her sister; K. teaches that it is necessary to praise the river, where water is mixed with blood, she will calm down; take bones from the donkey, give the dog hay, and the dog's donkey hay; praise the door, it will stop opening and closing; you can't open the box along the way; run as soon as the witch reads the letter, it says that the letter that brought the letter must be eaten; the girl opens the box, it starts to ring, K. comes to fix things for the last time; the witch tells the door, the dog, etc. to keep the fugitive, but they say that the girl was good to them; the river is evil against the witch when she runs up, drowns her; the witch gives her daughter to K.; the girl stands at the foot of the bed, the witch's daughter is in bed; K. asks to switch places for a while; the witch brings down the floor, her daughter, not the girl, dies; K. s They run away to his wife, he turns into a vegetable garden, she is a gardener; a church and a clerk; a pond and an eel; a witch cannot catch him; at home she crosses her arms over her head until she is open, K.'s wife is born; K. tells The funeral bells ring, the witch believes he is dead, takes off her hands, K.'s wife gives birth to a son; the bells ring for health, the witch smashed her head against the wall]: 287-294, 324-332; Italians: Crane 1885, No. 16:78-81 (Veneto) [=Widter et al. 1866, No. 11:148-151; the devil decided to marry, turned into a handsome man, created a rich house, married a girl; allows you to go everywhere but not unlock one room; the wife opened, there was a fiery abyss, the fire scorched the flowers on the woman's chest; when she saw them, her husband threw her into hell; the same with her middle sister; the youngest had previously removed the flowers, pulled out the sisters; seeing the flowers unburned, the husband believes that the wife is obedient; she asks her parents to take three chests, not to look into them on the way; sends one sister, the other, home; when the devil is about to sit, sitting in the chest says that she sees everything; when the younger sister sits down by herself, she first puts the doll in her clothes on the balcony; when she returns, the devil finds a doll and an empty jewelry box; runs to wives' parents; wives laugh at him while standing on the balcony, the devil leaves], 84-85 (Tuscany: Pisa) [by Gonzenbach, no. 20; the lumberjack has three daughters; a lady gives him money, takes the girl to her house, forbids open one door; she opens, sees the hostess in the bathhouse, two girls read to her; the girl admits that she opened the door, the hostess hangs her head by the hair from the beam, buries her body; the same with the middle sister (saw the mistress with men); the youngest sees the mistress on the bed, but does not confess; she lets her go; the king meets her, marries; after the birth of her son, the same lady appears, asking her to confess that the girl opened the door; the girl does not confess, the lady takes the child, smears the queen's mouth with blood; the same again; after that, the king decides to marry another; during the wedding, the lady brings children, says the spell was broken: a woman was needed who does not admit she saw something]; Basile 2018, No. IV.6 (Campaign: Naples) [king prays for the child to be sent down; voice from heaven: daughter who will leave, or a son who will take your soul out of you; it is decided that the daughter will cause personal suffering, but the son will ruin the country; the king asks for a daughter; Marquette grew up, on her wedding day she was carried away by a whirlwind to the orc's house; the old woman- the servant teaches you to clean the house without showing her eyes; to leave only after the orc swears not by anything but by three crowns that will not cause harm; the orc gave the key, told not to unlock one room ; M. unlocked, there were three orc daughters; she locked her daughters because she knew they were in danger when they were released by the Queen; the orc drove M. away, but gave a ring to help summon her in case of danger; M. dressed as a man; the king took the imaginary young man into service, the Queen confessed her love; M. refused, the Queen accused the imaginary young man of assassination; when M. is executed, an orc appears; the king left his wife at sea with a millstone around his neck, married M.]: 407-417; Cox 1893, No. 313 (Campaign: Naples) [the king asks three daughters to tell us what they saw in their dreams; the youngest says she saw as if married the emperor; the king sends a servant to kill her, he lets the girl go, brings her severed finger and sheep blood; in the distance there is a light, the girl comes to the cannibal, she hides her from her husband, later says that it is her own daughter; the girl enters the forbidden room, there is a balcony; the emperor's parrot tells her that the ogre is going to eat her; the next day she is responsible for marrying the owner of the parrot; a parrot conveys her words; the emperor is going to kill the girl but falls in love; wedding; the heroine's father is present; reconciliation]: 469; Italians (Campania, Capri) [when old, the father says to daughter Rosinella, that she can leave her only one pig; she leads her to a golden tree; her father helps uproot him, puts him on a wagon; under the roots there is an entrance to the dungeon; R. descends 365 steps; there is some shadow allows her to stay; she will have everything she needs but cannot go into the same room; a year later R. enters, there is a beautiful young man; says that she has done a lot of harm to her actions; gives her a couple iron shoes - until they are demolished, she will be alive; gives dried figs; go with them to his three sisters who are spinning on the terrace in the city; you have to put figs on their spindle, then they will not eat it, but will become help; they hide R. from their cannibal mother; teach her how to grab her by the hair and hold her until he swears on her son's name Thunder and Lightning! cannibal mother gives tasks: fill the pillow with feathers; R. says Thunder and Lightning, the voice in response promises to help, birds are stuffed into the room, the pillow is full; next: divide a variety of dried vegetables by species; Thunder and Lightning, ants share; cannibal mother sends her sister to bring a box and gives her a letter; it instructs her to fry what was sent and send part of the roast; on the way, the young man teaches, immediately grab the box and run while the cannibal sharpens the oaks; gives oats for the horse and crackers for the parrot that will be at the entrance; R. did so but could not resist on the way back and opened the box; from there Many birds flew out; but the young man played the pipe and the birds returned to the box; the cannibal wants to marry her son; he tells R. to kiss him when he is taken to the aisle; R.: I can't in public; new bride: Look, I kissed a pig shepherd three times for three chestnuts; young man: If so, I will marry R., who has been waiting for me for a year, three months and three days, and you go out to the pig shepherd; when you see that her spell is scattered, the cannibal drowned in a well]: Zschalig 1925:88-94; Maltese: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 451 [13 brothers leave home and become robbers; sister finds them and lives in their palace; violates It is forbidden to enter the same room; there is a witch; she gives a piece of apple to each of the brothers; after eating them, they turn into bulls; the leper prince vows to marry a Maltese girl, if she recovers; offers her hand; she agrees to the condition that the bulls will be kept with her in the palace; the brothers are disgraced, the sorceress cooked in resin]: 122-123; Ladins: Decurtins, Brunold- Bigler 2002, No. 86 [the gentleman married the miller's eldest daughter; gave an egg and a key, told me to look at all the rooms except one; the girl also unlocked her, there's a man on hooks; she dropped an egg, you can't wash it off blood, her husband killed her; same with her middle sister; the youngest hid the egg in the drawer; her husband praised her for her obedience; when he fell asleep, she cut off his head with a sword and returned to his parents]: 231-232; Uffer 1973 , No. 40 [the peasant has daughters Greta and Cilgia; in the spring G. is the first to go to herd cows; the father warns not to turn left along the path, where you will fall into the hands of a wild man; G. {obviously, turning left} meets a man in a pointed hat; he makes her go with him, opens the door in the rock; there workers greet him, calling him "Gian Pitschen (GP) with a pointed hat"; he has a lot of treasures; he gives G. a gold-plated needle, forbids him to unlock one of the rooms; G. must make coffee every day; once she opened the door, there are the remains of women, she dropped a needle, not can wash off blood stains; the GP pushes her into the same room, locks the door; Cilgia goes to look for her sister; the old man tells her to greet the little man with the words his employees do; in the monastery, GP S. does not cry, but she pretends to be happy, the GP is happy with her; she first hides the needle, then opens the door, feeds her sister; pretends to be afraid for her parents - they are starving; the GP tells me to pack a bag of provisions, promises carry; S. puts his sister in a bag, teaches him and says, "I see!" as soon as the GP wants to open the bag; he is told he will look after him from the balcony; if he drops the bag, she will throw himself into the water; S. hung her red dress on the stake for the GP to see and think that she was watching him; when the GP was completely tired and threw the bag, he saw a red dress in the water {its reflection?} , rushed to grab him, slipped into the water, S. and GP officers killed him with stones; old man: since everyone got rid of the GP thanks to S., she should get rid of his treasures; sisters and their parents moved to live in GP Palace {the informant must have forgotten that this dwelling is inside the cliff}]: 179-187; Wildhaber, Uffer 1971, No. 55 [the king educated his son Giuan; Prince Gundi knew three words more; the king sent Jiuan to Gundi to learn these words; Jiuan said he loved Gundi so much that he would rather kill him than break up with him; both came to Father Jiuan; he promised to marry his son the princess of the past time, did not tell me to go into the same room; Jiuan decided to enter, Gundi had to follow him; there was a book on the table in the room; at that time the king came in: if the room hadn't been opened, he would have brought the princess, and now let them go after her; they stopped in a hut with a fat lamp on a little; Jiuan fell asleep, Gundy overheard the conversation of the three girls who came in; the eldest told the youngest that the princess of bygone times lives in such a castle, the doors are open from 11 am to 12 pm; the next day, Gundi brought Jiuan to the castle, they took the princess, returned to the hut; Jiuan and the princess fell asleep, Gundi did not sleep; those sisters came in, the eldest told the youngest that at the entrance to the palace, the young men would be offered clothes, they were poisoned, they should be thrown away; in the palace there would be cups of wine, the same; a black bird would fly in on their wedding night, She will claw the princess's face, you have to wipe her face with a handkerchief, otherwise she will become a freak; older sister to Gundy: you are awake; if you talk about what you hear, you will petrify; Gundy threw away his clothes and cups; impulse The smelly wind blew away the sorcerer king; on his wedding night, Gundy hid by the bed, a bird flew in, he wiped the princess's face, Jiuan accused him of wanting to take his wife, promised to execute him; Gundy told me everything petrified; the princess gave birth to two sons; Jiuan went to that hut, learned from the sisters' conversation; if Jiuan slaughtered the children and sprinkled blood on the stone, Gundi would come to life; now Gundi, who came alive, went to the hut to find out how to revive children; older sister: we need to sew up the wounds, sprinkle water on a certain rock; the sisters asked Gundi to spell them out; let him come back to the hut; there will be no lamp or beds, and there will be a chair; you have to sit down, a snake will appear, rush at it, you have to kiss her tongue, she will become a girl; so three snakes will be sisters; let him marry anyone, but he will also take the rest to the palace; he married the youngest]: 186-194 (=Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 10:40-50); Corsicans [the mother has three daughters; the eldest goes to look for a better life, comes to a rich house, the owner hires her; when she leaves, she lets you enter all but one room; gives a golden ball; she opens the door, there are screams, she bends down, sees that it is hell, which means that the owner is the devil; the ball falls out and falls; returning, the owner demands the balloon; throws the girl into the abyss in that room; the same with the middle sister; the youngest leaves the balloon in the closet, shows it to the returning owner; after two or three years, the youngest asks the devil takes the gift to his mother; pulls his middle sister by the hand, puts it in a box; if the devil wants to open it on the way, I must say: I see everything! Two or three years later, the youngest sent her older sister home in the same way; to transport herself, the youngest made a doll, left it in sight; realizing the deception, the devil came to the sisters' house, but they they put crosses around and sprinkled everything with holy water; however, the devil blew, the facade of the house collapsed, and it was never possible to repair it]: Massignon 1984, No. 19:40-43.

Western Europe. Germans (Hanover) [the poor man has 11 sons; when his daughter was born, no one wants to be godfather; the father went to the forest, saw a woman, she promised to be godmother; a year later she took the girl to her place, parents did not mind; the girl grew up; the godmother gave her the keys, telling her not to unlock the room from which the golden key was; on the third day she unlocked it; there is a mirror in which a beautiful girl in royal the outfit and the golden crown; she did not recognize herself, because there was no crown; she entered, knocked over the blood vessel, got dirty, the blood could not be washed off; the woman kicked her out of the castle, but gave her the box: if it was worn three times to knock, she will do what needs to be done; she was stumbled upon by the king's hunters, brought to the castle; she was covered in dust and ash, so she was nicknamed Cinderella (Ashenpöling), sent to the kitchen; the king is young, he held a ball , looking for a bride; Cinderella knocked on the box, asked for the princess's outfit, the king danced only with her; by morning she had disappeared; the same the next evening; on the third he put his ring on her; surrounded her the castle was soldiers, but Cinderella just changed her appearance and returned to the kitchen; on the third day she threw the ring as a gift into a bowl of soup intended for the king; he married Cinderella; and when she I looked at myself in the mirror, then I recognized that reflection]: Colshorn, Colshorn 1854, No. 44:143-147; Germans (Baden-Württemberg) [an unfamiliar hunter comes to the miller and marries one of his daughters; gives his wife a key and an egg, tells her not to open the door to the cellar, followed by bears and wolves; she opens it - there are skulls and blood, she drops the egg, cannot show her husband, he cuts off her head, throws it into the cellar; the same with the second sister; with the third - but the egg did not break; she and her husband visit her parents, leave the gift chest with the heads of her older sisters in it; returns to her husband's castle, and then runs away; asks the coachman hide it; only the third agrees; the husband and his thieves search the coachman, but did not open the last bag and left; the girl returned to her parents]: Hubrich-Messow 1988, No. 4:13-14; Germans [Saint The virgin takes the only daughter of a poor logger to heaven, gives 13 keys, does not tell you to open the 13th door; there are 12 apostles behind 12 doors, everything is fine; behind the 13th, the power of St. Trinity, the girl is at a loss; she puts her finger in the crack, it turns gold; her finger cannot be washed; St. The virgin asks the girl to confess the offense, but she denies everything; she is sent back to earth as punishment; finds herself in the woods, the Queen meets her, marries; after the birth of her first child, St. The virgin demands a confession of the offense; when refused, takes the boy; so consistently with her three sons; the king accuses his wife - she ate her children; already standing at the stake, she confesses that she unlocked Door 13, it immediately started raining, St. The Virgin brought the children back, all is well]: 304-305 {deaf reference to Grimmov; Buddruss 1974:35 clearly the same text, but in a very brief paraphrase with reference to Bolte, Polivka, v. 3:266}; French: Lopyreva 1959, No. 29 (Lorraine) [=Cosquin 1886, No. 12:133-137; when leaving, the king gives his son the keys to the castle, forbiding him to enter the same room; the prince entered there, there is a pool, he dipped his finger in it, his finger is covered indelible gilding; the king forgives his son; when he leaves again, the son washes in the pool, asks the horses which one is faster; Bayard makes only 15 leagues in a step, but smarter than Moreau; father pursues Moreau on horseback; Bayard orders to throw a sponge (forest), a scraper (a river), a stone (a mountain covered with razors); Moreau hurts his legs, the king returns; the prince changes clothes with a farmhand, pulls it over his head bubble, hired by a cook for a local king, his name is Sheludivy (Sh.); the king's three daughters must throw a golden apple at their chosen ones; the youngest saw that S. had golden hair, threw it at him; the elders they choose a humpback (G.) and a quiver (K.); the king will be healed by three jugs of water by the Queen of Hungary; S. rides his three-legged horse to the place where Bayar left, takes these three jugs there, sells older sons-in-law for the right to stab everyone in the ass a hundred times with an awl; enemies attack, S. wins everyone in true guise; buys golden apples thrown at G. and K. by their wives for two more jugs of Hungarian water queens; defeats enemies again; the king wounds him with an arrow to mark; Bayard says that after completing five services, he can regain his prince appearance, leaves; the king is looking for a wounded man in his thigh with an arrow; this is S.; older sons-in-law are driven away], 41 (Gascony) [Bluebeard is married seven times, wives go missing; kidnaps the girl; the shepherdess says that if necessary, she will send her talking jay to call for help the new wife's brothers; when leaving, the SB gives his wife the keys, does not tell her to unlock the closet; she opens, there are seven female corpses hanging on seven hooks; the key is in blood, do not wash it off; the key says that the owner will return in 7 days; the shepherdess sends a jay; while the SB sharpens the knife, the shepherdess from the tower talks about the approach of the woman's brothers; the brothers kill the SB and his three terrible dogs; the younger brother marries a shepherdess, gets a castle SB]: 106-111, 177-181; Wildhaber, Uffer 1971, No. 26 (Switzerland) [the poor have 9 children; they sent the eldest 9-year-old to look for food himself; he was picked up by a rich lady in a carriage; allowed him to unlock everything rooms but one; he unlocked it, the door slammed shut behind him; there are corpses in the room; the lady forgave me for the first time; he came in again, there was also a horse, a mule and a donkey in the room; the horse says they are bewitched people; tells you to take a log, a bucket and a brush with them; they jump away, throw a log (mountain), a bucket (sea), a brush (thicket); a young man {obviously he grew up} is hired as a gardener to the king, who orders to bring the garden to order for the wedding of the eldest daughter; 10 minutes before the time runs out, the young man does the work "after the hairs of my horse Bayard"; the same for the wedding of the middle daughter; the youngest married a young gardener; the king gives each a golden apple: the throne will leave the throne to the son-in-law who makes better use of the gift; the sons-in-law go to war, the younger chooses the worst horse, then uses Bayar's hairs to smash enemies; older sons-in-law attribute victory to themselves; the king is sick, he will be cured by the meat of the biggest snake; the younger son-in-law again pulls everything out with Bayar's hairs; gives the elders for their golden apples; the king he is sick again, he needs the meat of the biggest eagle; the same, he gives meat to his older sons-in-law, but for this he stigmatizes them; the king orders them to bring golden apples; the youngest son-in-law brings all three, the elders bring fakes; forced to show stigmas; younger son-in-law inherits the throne]: 73-79; Bretons: Luzel 1887 (2), No. 1 [the king orders the execution of the first woman to give birth to an illegitimate child; the king's daughter became pregnant by his own brother, both fleeing to a deserted area, building a hut, a princess gives birth to a son named Mabic; he grew up; when his father was hunting, a black horse ran up and told him to sit on him, brought him to the giant, he killed him by throwing his head against the ice into the frozen pond; M. went in search, the black horse took him too; he saw his father's body; the giant said that he had no power over M., but kept it; M.'s mother too came; the giant said that he had no power over her either, but imprisoned her in a cage surrounded by tips, forbidding his son to complain; promised to marry her if she asked M. to bring a rusty sword from hell; M. went there on a black skate; he does not recommend entering the glass castle of the giant's 12 brothers, but M. comes in; the giants ask them to come back when he gets a sword; the same in the silver castle 30 giants; 40 giants in gold; each time you hear a roar and scream from the castles, but it's quiet inside; 40 giants give a golden ball, it rolls, M. follows it to hell; the skate remains at the door, explains that the devil will offer to choose any treasures, but you only have to take a sword; the devil takes M. as a groom, tells you to feed one horse well, give others only thorns; forbids unlocking one room; M. unlocks, there is an exhausted, thin horse; she is a Spanish princess, teaching you to find the devil's magic book and spell it; then she explains where the saber hangs, teaches you to plug the bell that tells the devil about dangers, fill their pockets with gold and diamonds, take a scraper and a bag of straw with them; they gallop away on a black skate; the bell still rang, the devil rushes to catch up; seeing a thunderstorm coming a cloud, the princess orders to pour out straw, a wooded mountain appears; next time a scraper, a chapel appears, M. is a priest, a princess and a horse are two saints; the devil did not understand this, stopped chasing; the princess returned to Spain, and M., going to the giants, cut off their heads with a sword; kills an old woman, the mother of giants; another old woman gives a buton {i.e. a button?} to call her for help; at home, his mother steals her sword while M. was sleeping; the giant cut off his hands, placed him on his shoulders in an ice pond, tied to a pole; M. touched the button with a stump of his hand, and an old woman appeared, returned her hands, freed him, M. went to the sleeping giant, cut off his head with a sword, cut off the head of his traitor mother; the black horse explains that he is the spirit of his father, who will now go to heaven; indicates where are the papers confirming that M. is the king's grandson; the king is happy that he has an heir; soon died, M. reigned], 11 [the fisherman died, the boat of his three sons was taken to a stranger island; there is a castle, there is no gate, Bihanik ("younger") climbed over the wall, ate fruit in the garden, roasted bull and fresh bread in the kitchen; a giant came in, began to eat, released gases with a terrible roar; B. said that he is his son and flew out of his belly; at this time, the B. brothers left, thinking that the giant ate him; the giant goes hunting people, leaves B. the keys to 69 rooms, but not for the 70th room; the dog became barking at the wall, B. noticed a keyhole, unlocked the door, a diamond in the chest and the inscription: he fulfills his wishes; B. wished to be in Paris with his dog (she was the queen of dogs); ordered him to be next to him with the royal palace, an even more luxurious one arose; the king sent the general to bring the owner; B.: let him come; the general ordered to destroy the palace with cannons, but bounced, hitting the king's men; the king came and asked B. to come for lunch; B. married a princess, took his brothers; to get his diamond back, the giant went everywhere, offering two new diamonds for one old one; while B. was hunting, his wife, not knowing the value of the diamond, gave the magic diamond for the other two; when he returned, B. woke up under the clear sky, the palace disappeared; the princess returned to her father, who threw B. in prison; execution in the morning; the dog queen promised B. to fix everything by morning; asked for help to the queen of cats, and that queen of rats; the giant keeps the diamond in the hollow of the tooth; the rat tickled its tail dipped in vinegar, pepper, etc., the giant sneezed, the diamond fell to the floor, the rat gave it to the dog, the dog ran to Paris; on the scaffold, B. asked for permission to hug his dog; took the diamond, ordered everyone to fall into the ground up to the neck; compartment heads to ill-wishers; returned the palace; the dog turned into a princess, B. married her]: 3-19, 419-431; 1887 (3), No. 1 [Malo's three sisters were kidnapped by three giants and his father died; M. went on a journey, chased the silver hare, who sent him to his older sister; her husband brought several dead people; when he found out that his wife's brother had come, he was kind to him; he has been chasing this hare for 500 years; gives a whistle to call him for help; the same middle sister's husband, he has been chasing a hare for 700 years, a whistle made of a bird's beak; now the hare sends his younger sister's husband to the castle; he has been chasing the hare for more than 1000 years, gives tinder from gilded hair; the hare ran across the strait on the water, and M. went into the old shoemaker's hut; he says that the hare is a Persian princess, to whom he brings new shoes every day; gives M. an invisible cloak, puts it on his back, carries him by air to the palace; M. went to the princess and she gladly left it in her room; wedding; the princess gives M. the keys to all rooms, but go into one does not tell; when M. finally unlocked her, the devil came out to pick up the princess; M. asked for a delay until 10 am; whistled on the whistle, monsters sent by the older sister's husband attacked the devil; the next morning, middle, then younger; the devil was shackled and burned in the fire; he was released when he signed a paper in blood stating that he did not claim to be M.'s wife]: 181-202; Lusel 2016 [elderly spouses ask a child, even if she was born with a toad or a snake; a girl was born with a snake around her neck, named Levens; the snake disappeared into the grass, but there was a red necklace mark on her neck; when the girl grew up, the snake asked her to bring her warm milk, and then removed the trace of the necklace, asked her not to talk about it; L. married an unknown gentleman; forbade her to enter room 12; one day she unlocked it: there are 12 pregnant women hanging on hooks; L. sent home a dog with a note; when L.'s parents and servants broke into the castle, her husband dragged L. by the hair; at that time he was bitten by a snake, Sister L.; he swelled like a barrel, a snake pulled out his eyes and he died; L. gave birth but killed a child to prevent him from becoming like his father; if help hadn't arrived, L.'s husband would have killed 12 women and their 12 children, and killing 24 man, he would become a sorcerer]: 223-227; Orain 1904 [a poor father of a large family cannot find godparents for a newborn; a rich lady is called to be a godmother, tells the boy Jean to come to her to the palace, standing on four golden pillars when he is 7 years old; gives the keys to 7 cabinets, one of which forbids unlocking; Jean unlocks, wearing a silver ring that sits on his little finger, to remove impossible; Jean tied his little finger, but the godmother understood everything, this time forgave him; a year later he allows Jean to ride any of the six horses but not the seventh; Jean violates the ban, the horse says now the fairy will kill him and we must run; the fairy is chasing, the horse tells him to throw the scraper (forest), the brush (the mountain), they come to town; the horse tells her golden horseshoes to be sold, hired by the king; it turns out that the same fairy marries the king; tells Jean to move his palace to the city; the horse teaches the servants to drink from the gold ones, they move the palace; the fairy asks the king to cut off Jean's head; the horse turns into the princess is the daughter of the same king who was bewitched by the fairy; the king orders the fairy to cut off the head, Jean marries the princess]: 76-89; Soupault 1959, No. 15 [same or similar text in Luzel 1887 (2), No. 4:57-77 or 78 {the book is short of pages; Luzel translation 2016:177-191}; Péronic is the son of a poor widow; he is about 10 years old; in the spring a golden carriage descended from the sky, the princess gave his mother money, planted him by herself, brought it to the castle; ordered him to feed one horse and not take care of the other; gave the keys to all the rooms, told him not to enter one; P., so that he would not be bored alone, asked the princess for gold and silver bowling balls and a singing golden thrush; on the eighth day he unlocked the forbidden room, there was a skinny horse with thorns in front of him, and a clover behind him; P. gave him a clover; the horse said that the princess the queen of sorcerers, she will also turn him into an animal; she tells him to run, taking treasures, a linen shawl, balls, a thrush and a magic book from the mistress's table; the dog is the mistress's sister, she must be muzzled; the dog pursues, the horse turns himself and P. into two frogs; next time: two statues in the chapel; the fugitives crossed the river, then the sorceress has no power; the horse tells P. to kill him, turns into a prince; calls to go to his father in Turkey, gives his sister as his wife, but the young man wants to see the world first; he is hired as a gardener in Paris, in good standing; at the festival he plays with his silver ball, sells to the princess for a kiss; next time he sells a golden ball for the opportunity to look at the princess's knees; next time he sells a songbird in three nights with the princess; after 9 months, no one understands what the princess is sick with; a young man teaches one person to pretend to be a knowledgeable doctor and name the true reason; the king gives his daughter to a young man, after the death of his father-in-law, he becomes king]: 177-192; Scots (recorded in 1859) [the widow has three daughters; a gray horse comes to the garden to eat cabbage; the eldest daughter goes to guard; hit the horse with a spoke from the wheel, stuck to it, he brought her to the hill, ordered open it to the royal son; in the morning, the prince left her keys, told her not to unlock one room; she unlocked, there were women's bodies, she stained her leg in blood; the cat asked for milk, promised to clean her leg, but the girl She drove her away; the prince came back, saw blood, cut off the girl's head, threw her into that room; the same with her middle sister; the youngest gave milk to the cat, she licked the blood; the next day she ordered the girl asked the prince to take three chests to her mother; they cannot be opened - she will see them from the tree; let the girl revive her sisters with a magic club, each sit in her own chest, take silver and gold; prince he will rush, he must cut off his head, the spell will fall apart, he will marry the girl; that's what happened]: Campbell 1890 (2), No. 41:279-284.

Western Asia. Arabs (literary tradition): Salye 2010 (2), nights 499-530 [plug-in story; King Taygamus had no sons; stargazers said he would have a son only from the king's daughter Khorasana; King Khorasan agreed to marry; stargazers predicted misfortunes for his son after 15 years; his name was Janshah; at the age of 15, D. chased the gazelle, the gazelle jumped into the boat, she was caught, but D. and his servants went by boat to the island at sea; the father sent letters about his son to all the islands; D. went to land on the wrong island to which he sailed; sent half of the servants deep into the island, remaining in the boat; he was brought to the palace; the island belonged to monkeys; the monkeys sank the boat, made D. king; he ordered the servants to help the monkeys defeat enemies; found a stove with a prophecy: the one who became king of the monkeys will be able get out of the island only by going to a city where there is not a single believer of true faith; the monkeys chased the prince, but they were destroyed by ants; in the city of infidels, D. hired a merchant, received it in advance fee; he was sewn into the donkey's belly and the bird carried the carcass to the nest; precious stones were around; D. threw stones to the merchant, and he left without showing how to go down; D. went to look for a way out, came to the palace; the owner forbids opening one door; D. opened and saw three girls dressed as pigeons coming to swim; a year later they flew in again; on the advice of the owner of the castle, D. hid one of the girls's clothes; this is Sitt Samsha, she agreed to become the prince's wife, he returned her feather clothes and they flew to the prince's country; Tigamus built a palace for D. and the secondary school; the secondary school smelled her clothes hidden under the floor palace, ordered D. to look for her in the Takni jewelry fortress and flew away; D. came to a man with whom he already lived, hired the same job, was sewn into the skin of a horse; refused to throw stones out of the merchant's nest; came back to the owner of the palace; he does not know about the fortress T.; one of the birds took D. to the king of animals; he called on the animals to ask about T.; the animals do not know; he sends D. to his older brother; the brother does not know sends to the sorcerer, to whom animals and mountains are subordinate, who summoned animals and genies; one bird said he knew where T. took D.; the king of genies, i.e. the father of the secondary school, ordered every person to be brought in to themselves; wedding; the couple were taken to the kingdom of D.]: 64-101; Osmanov, Yusupov 1961 (manuscript of the late 13th - early 14th centuries) [The king invites each of the three sons to interpret the dream; the elders interpret the dream favourably, the youngest on the contrary; expelled into the desert; comes to the palace, drinks from each of the 40 cups, eats from each of the 40 dishes; hides; 40 armed virgins enter; the young man hid; the next day he was left alone, he got along with her, she kept silent; so 40 days each in turn; everyone became pregnant; stayed on the 41st day leader; demanded that the young man live only with her; gives the keys to all treasuries, forbids unlocking one room; the young man unlocked, there is a horse, telling him to jump on it and run; this is a sister The leader, whom she turned into a horse; her younger sister, she has a palace across the river; whoever swims across the river will become the girl's husband and ruler of the city; the young man swam on horseback and married Badr al-Zaman; The horse sister's name is Shah Zaman, and the sorceress sisters are Hasra Mulyuk Khorasan; everyone reconciled, the young man received the kingdom of the father of girls and the kingdom of the father; the horse sister became beautiful; the young man has many sons from all these women]: 74-91; Palestinians [the lumberjack has three daughters; stranger Abu Freywar asked for his eldest wife; cut off his ears and invited the girl to eat them with a piece of stale bread; she refused; he hung her by her hair from the cave vault, and the cave turned into a palace; AF asked her second daughter, who promised to eat her ears, but hid it under the carpet; AF asked her ears if they were warm, her ears answered from under the carpet that they it's cold; the middle sister is hanged next to the eldest; the younger Zerendak took a kitten and a box with her jewelry; let the kitten's ears eat, her ears say they are warm; AF fell in love with Z.; leaving, not tells me to unlock the door to the fortieth room; while unlocking the 39th, Z. saw through the window how AF was devouring corpses in the cemetery; unlocked the 40th, freed the sisters, sent them home; AF invited Z. to invite various relatives, taking their form; Z. did not let it slip, but when her grandmother came, she told her everything; her grandmother became AF, who pierced Z. with his claw, threw it in the chest into the sea; the prince caught the chest; by accident Having discovered a poisonous claw, pulled it out, Z. came to life, the prince married her; she successively gives birth to three children; each time AF enters and swallows them, maybe Z.'s mouth is speechless in horror; then she makes excuses, but they don't believe her; imprisoned, the prince marries his new wife, but asks Z. what to bring her; she asks for a box of aloe (sabr; omonym - patience), a box of henna (also "tenderness") dagger; after receiving gifts, Z. says that aloe and henna do not have as much patience and tenderness as her; when she wants to stab herself, AF appears, brings missing children, kills herself with a dagger; the children came to prince, they named him father, everything was clarified, the new bride was returned to her father with gifts]: Hanauer 2009:201-206; the Arabs of Syria [the king's wife died, he took another, left his son first by the river and left; Shatir Hasan came to the palace, where there is a blind ghoul; he gives the keys, gold in the first four rooms, you can't enter the fifth, SH comes in, there is a horse in it, he feeds and cares for him; ghoul: if you get up earlier in the morning me, drive the cows to the rocky ground, but do not drive me to the fat pastures along the edges; the SHH drove to the pasture, climbed a tree; a gulya ran, the SHH offers to gather him in stones in a heap, go up to him; grabs her hair, attaches it to the female with resin; Gulya asks her to let go, for this she will give the gulya's eyes that are in her house; SHH takes her eyes, but leaves the gulya hanging; inserts the gulya's eyes with him burns the ghoul; the ghoul gives him that horse and hat; if you wear it, you will look like an unhappy poor man, and the horse a donkey; gives him a peg: if you stick it in the ground, around the gazelle and a source of water; SHH comes to to the palace; there a man digs a well; the princess promised to marry him if he found water; he agreed to bring hay to the donkey; the princess sees SHH take off his hat; offered to be her husband, everything is fine]: Kuhr 1993:198-204; Iraqi Arabs: Yaremenko 1900, No. 1 (prov. Babil) [six daughters ask their father to bring ordinary gifts, the seventh asks a bunch of golden grapes; the ship cannot sail before requests are fulfilled; marid (evil or good spirit) gives golden grapes for promising to marry him; when his father returns, Marid arrives and takes his youngest daughter away; does not tell him to enter one of the rooms in his palace; does not sleep with her, but she is pregnant; she steals him the key, opens the room; her real husband sleeps there, there is a door on her chest, behind her toys for her unborn child; he wakes up angry, tells Marida to take his wife to the desert; comes into the house; hears her husband his sister talks, is going to eat her; the second sister has the same; the third youngest explains that the wife is innocent; the husband enters his wife, asks for forgiveness], 15 (southern Iraq) [the Sultan has a son from his unloved wife Hamdan, his beloved has two sons; the sultan is blind, he will be cured by the leaves of the Sindh tree from Sindh; the eldest son reaches the island, the old man invites him to the palace, drinks wine, calls two girls; when the young man is drunk, the old man left him naked against the city wall, he hired a job; the same with his middle brother; H. only pretends to drink; the old man falls asleep; the girls explain that it is the monster that kidnapped them, H. kills him; in Sindh picks up leaves; sees a sleeping beauty on a tree, changes rings with her; taking those two girls, finds brothers; they let him down into the well to collect water, throw him there; but first H. stigmatizes them with the ring of that beauty; the caravans raise H.; at home he changes clothes with the shepherd; at the wedding of his brothers and girls, the Sultan (he saw the light from the leaves) offers to tell a fairy tale; H. tells his the story, the stigma shows, the sultan promises him a throne; a big man turns into an eagle, takes H.; that beauty is the sister of three eagles; the elder eagle forgives X. for the stolen ring, preparing a wedding sisters of eagles and H.; H. leave the keys, do not tell me to open one room; he opens a pile of meat tied there; he hits her, she turns into a huge eagle, takes the bride X.; H. asks the eagles to deliver him to the kidnapper's palace; asks the bride to ask the kidnapper where his soul is; in a brush; they burn it; the kidnapper returns, the bride explains that she wanted to drain his soul with hers; in a bottle in her hoof a lame gazelle on the island; H. kills a gazelle; holds a bottle, forces the kidnapper to take him and the bride first to the eagles, then to the Sultan father, where he breaks the bottle; wedding and accession; H. forgives brothers, marries those girls]: 24-28, 81-93; Saudia [the merchant went to Lebanon; the eldest daughter asked for a silk dress, the middle daughter asked for a colored bird, Juvana's youngest Filfil Daru; when the merchant came and was told that the FD was the ruler of their country; the merchant was allowed to see him; he ordered him to go to the roof at night, he would fly to her; the FD brought J. to his country; prohibits take the keys to three rooms; give J. a sleepy drink every night; a friend told J. that she was probably pregnant, let her spill a drink and encourage FD to drink the rest himself; he fell asleep, J. took he has the keys, opened the rooms; in the first, the carpenter makes a cradle, in the second, the seamstress sews clothes for the boy, in the third, the cook cooks food for the child; in the morning J. happily talks about it to her husband; in response he orders J. to be taken to the desert and killed; the servant brings pigeon blood; J. reaches three houses; the mistress of the first says that her brother FD and his wife will come today, let the stranger leave the house, because she is unclean; the same is in the second house; the mistress of the third left J. for the night; she gave birth; the baby's stomach has three keys imprint; love has returned to FD, he admitted to his sisters that the woman in labor was his wife, who he wanted to show; all is well]: Juhayman 1999:20-24; South Yemen: Daum 1992, No. 3 [girl asks Luna if there is anyone more beautiful than her; Luna replies no; after getting married, she gives birth to a daughter; Luna replies that her daughter is more beautiful; her mother leaves the baby at Afrit's castle; but he did not eat the girl, but adopted her; when she grew up, he went somewhere, telling her not to open one window; she opens there is another palace, an ostrich in the garden, he tells her that Afrit will eat her when she returns; so every day; the girl has become ill; the Afrit who has returned asks what is wrong with her, she confesses everything; he tells her tell the ostrich that her father will pass her off as the son of the Sultan, and she will walk on the ostrich feathers; the ostrich is sad, his feathers have fallen out; the sultan orders to find out why; the servants followed and saw the girl; showed the son of the Sultan; first the servants, then the Sultan himself, ask Afrit to extradite his daughter; he denies for a long time: he does not have a daughter; finally, he says that the daughter is not native; he passes her off as the son of the Sultan on the condition that he will drive away the ostrich; wedding, feast], 5 [seven girls go for fruit; all are well dressed, only the youngest is simply dressed; each refuses to climb a tree, the youngest is the youngest; the rest fill the baskets with fruits, they go away; the girl herself cannot get off; a gargoof (forest genie) comes up, the girl greets him; he says he would eat her otherwise; so with each of the six garguffs; the last of them offers jump on his hand; if he falls on his thumb, he will eat it, if he returns it to a tree on his index finger, he will marry him on his middle finger, kill him on his ring finger, return it home on his little finger; she jumps on middle; he brings her to his castle, tells her not to open the seventh room; one day she opens, there are human remains; from that time on, Garguff's wife falls ill; he suspects the reason; comes to in the form of a mother - the wife does not reveal the truth; in the guise of a friend - she reveals; the wife goes to the steppe, meets her younger brother's herding sheep, brings her to herself; the garguff pretends to go with his wife's brother on business; kills him, brings meat in the basket; the vulture takes his finger off the ring, drops it, the sister found it; refuses to eat meat; buries it, a tree grows, a baby boy appears on the branch; the gargoon believes that his wife gave birth to him a son; the boy grew up, his sister reveals the truth to him; teaches him to hit the gargoon once with his sword when he falls asleep (his eyes will be open); after taking valuables, brother and sister return to people]: 24-37, 55-69.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [three Rakshasa brothers took the form of heroes, came to marry the eldest girl; her mother demands to guess her name (the Flower of Paradise); demons ask for a hare, then a fox; the hare forgot ( Paradise Apple?) , fox - too (Paradise Fish?) ; the magpie gave the right name, the demons took the girl away; torment her with work; when they leave, they do not tell her to open one door; she opened, there are human bones; the mother's apron tells her to wear it, sit on a white horse and ride away; hired the palace to carry brushwood and water, looked like an old woman in an apron; the shepherd told the prince about the beauty who was combing her hair by the river; the prince found her, married her; left on business, the wife gave birth to boys, three Rakshasa changed the letter: a creature with a bull's head was born; they changed the answer: the wife pick up the freak and leave; the horse brought her to the desert, ordered him to be killed, his skin spread, the bones on the middle of the skin, hooves on the sides, scatter the mane; the RC woke up in the palace, around the garden; the prince accidentally arrived there, the spouses are happy; the Rakshasa appeared under the guise of merchants, bringing poison; the RC of one I found out by the scar, they were pushed into a hole, covered with a stove]: Komissarov 1997:91-99.

Burma - Indochina. Burmese [Little Frog (ML) goes to get water, falls into the river, the current brings it to the Cannibal; she makes her a maid; tells her to look in her head; her hair is clean, but ML goes away, brings fig seeds, says they are nits; The cannibal is happy; forbids her to look into one room; ML looks in, sees the remains of dead people, does not show; The cannibal gives her gold, sends her home; BL is jealous, falls into the water on purpose; says there is nothing in the cannibal's hair; when he looks into the forbidden room, cries with fear; eaten]: Aung 1957:55-57; lao: Nikulin 1988 [childless queen Chanthewi finally gave birth, but not a child, but a golden snail; the king drove her away; she settled in with the elderly; someone was cleaning the house; C. watched the handsome young man Sang Thooong come out of the snail; she broke the shell, the ST remained human; the vizier persuades the king to kill him; his sword does not take him, he was drowned with a stone tied to his neck; the river lord entrusted him to the care of beautiful Phanthurak, not knowing that she - evil witch; P. tells ST not to look into one room; ST looked, there were human bones, jugs of gold and silver water; he put his finger in the jug, his finger turned golden, he tied it with a rag; Also in that room are clothes, shoes, spears that give strength and allow you to fly; next time the ST was completely drenched in water and flew away, and P. died after scratching the spells; whoever reads them will understand the language of the birds and animals; ST returned, read, arrived in another principality, lived under the guise of an ugly beggar Chau Ngo; the prince convenes men to extradite the youngest of seven daughters Rochan; she sees ST in his true appearance and puts on a wreath; the prince drives them away; tells all sons-in-law to go hunting, those who return without prey will be executed; ST summons animals, gives their elder sons-in-law a beast, for which he cut everyone's nostril; then but to fish (everyone's ear was cut off); enemies attacked, ST smashes them, appears in his appearance, gains rule in the principality, and then the throne of the king father, who returns his expelled wife]: 377-385; Fleeson 1899 [It is difficult for parents to feed 12 daughters; the father put ash in the basket, rice on top, took his daughters to the forest, sent them to fetch water, gave them leaky bamboo vessels, left himself; the sisters found ash in the basket and fell asleep; when they woke up and saw a young woman, she brought them to her place; when leaving, she forbid them to enter the same courtyard; the sisters went there, saw human bones; ran; asked the cow to hide them, she she hid them in her mouth, sent the stalker to the other side; the same with the elephant; but one of the sisters's clothes remained hanging from the elephant's mouth; the cannibal saw her and told her lower lip to henceforth the elephant also hung down]: 29-32.

South Asia. Punjabi [the poor soldier died, his son went to look for happiness; took the splinter out of the tigress's paw, she gave him a box, told him to carry 9 miles; the box was getting heavier, the young man threw it, the dwarf jumped out from with a long beard, ready to obey orders; brought food, a lot was left, he ate everything himself; the young man fell in love with the princess, the dwarf brought it to her, then moved the bed with the lovers to a distant garden; they were spotted , but the dwarf killed the warriors sent; the young man lets the dwarf go, who leaves his hair to call him; the young man and his wife came to the ogre, who looked like a brahmana; he forbids opening one closet; the young man opens the bones are eaten there; he has time to light his hair; the brahmana turns into rain, the dwarf turns into a hurricane wind, the dove is a hawk, the rose on Indra's chest becomes a musician; Indra likes the game, the musician asks for a rose as a reward; Indra threw it, the petals crumbled, the musician began to collect it, one turned into a mouse, the musician became a cat, ate a mouse; the young man and princess got the ogre's treasures]: Steel, Temple 1984, No. 1:5-16; Sindhi [the prince is chasing a gazelle with golden horns, she hides in the lake; a voice tells him that this is Lake Peri, they will appear in a year; in a year the prince hides in an iron cage, the peri are swimming, he hides their clothes, demands the one whose name is Sedyan; makes him his wife; but she does not speak to her husband; sends him hunting a year later, tells the maid to bring those clothes by closing the doors; puts it on and flies away through the chimney, saying that the prince will be able to return it within a year; the prince comes to the cannibal shepherd, who throws him into his goat pen, where there are already many people; every evening he puts one on a skewer , leaves to fry, falls asleep himself; prisoners drink milk; Peri S., in the form of a whirlwind, pours out the poisoned milk that the prince was going to drink; that night he heated his skewer, burned the cannibal's eyes; stabbed the ram, put on his horns, the ogre let him in; on the other side of the pit, the ogre called out, he rushed, failed, the prince finished him off; he came into the house, hid, three witches came there, killed him, cooked and ate the goat, collected the bones, cast a spell, but the goat did not revive; this means that the cannibal shepherd was dead; the witches sat on hyenas, went to the shepherd, the prince shouted to them that he had killed the shepherd; witches rushed back, but Peri S., with the help of her friends, caused wind and rain, the hyenas were washed away by a stream; at the request of her daughter, Peri's father sent a horse to the prince; he arrived, the wedding; a son was born; S. flew away, telling him not to look to one of the rooms; the old woman said that there was sister S., who was more beautiful than her; but there was a parrot; he was a demon who fell in love with S. but was cunningly caught; he took the prince and his son, S. saw it, her Twelve friends repulsed them, and S. put the parrot back in the locked room; Peri's father sent his son-in-law, wife and son back to their homeland; there the vizier seized power, but his army was defeated with a magic club; the prince He put his father back on the throne]: Schimmel 1995, No. 22:140-147; Kumaoni [the king has 7 wives but no children; the yogi gave fruit on the condition that the king give one of his future sons to him; the king gave fruit only six queens, but the youngest picked up the peel and also gave birth; 12 years later, the yogi came, but only the youngest's son agreed to go with him; he showed him all the rooms but one; when the yogi left, the prince unlocked it and I saw the bones; they laughed: you will be like us; but the bones taught me what to do; the yogi will boil a pot of butter, order him to walk around; I must say that the teacher must go ahead, push him into the pot; two bees will fly out, the red one must be killed, the black one must be thrown into the cauldron; after that, the prince found Amrita in the yogi's house, sprinkled his bones, the people came to life and formed his army; at his head, the prince came to his father, who handed him the throne, and sent the sons of the other wives to the forest]: Minaev 1968, No. 46:109-110; bhilas [the man was returning from service; at night he saw how the inn hostess killed her son for his lover; in the morning asked if she felt sorry for the child; instead of answering, she sent a letter to her sister; her sister ordered the kid to be slaughtered on the sacrifice platform; as soon as the man did, he found himself in the forest near some castle; he hardly climbed the wall, found a prepared bed, fell asleep; four fairies appeared in the morning; kept him, became his wives, allowed him to enter all but one room; one day he went there went in; there the donkey told him to sit on it: he would take it far and immediately return it; the donkey went down in the forest to a pile of manure, began to eat it; the man thought he was hungry, jumped to the ground and immediately fell asleep; when he woke up, came to a woman who told him to slaughter a kid; asked her to bring him back to that world; a woman: bring your first child to sacrifice him; when a man brought his eldest son and held his sword, a woman stopped him: and you still ask why my sister killed the child?] : Grierson 1907:307-308; Ahir (Mandla County) [after the wedding, Mahadeo told Parvati that she could go into six rooms but not the seventh; went to make a plow; M. wrote in it, spinach grew there; P. cooked it, ate it, became pregnant; a few months later she turned her hair into a snake, sent it to M.; he turned the sliver into a mongoose, drove the snake away; P. made a tiger out of dirt collected from her chest; M. turned the chips into dogs, drove the tiger away; understood his name; he came and ordered him to give birth with his head in the back so as not to see the children; P. gave birth to many children, M. killed everyone, put them in a vessel, buried them in a vessel in a certain place in the fields, on the hills, in the ponds, these are all gods; the first, Bara Deo, had 7 heads and 13 eyes; buried in the hills, Lingo became Lingo Deo; by the river, Samduria Deo; where cows rest, Marra Deo]: Elwin 1949, No. 1:431; kannada [orphan Racha is poor and alone; saw goldfish in the pond, asked to catch them, ended up in an underwater palace; three sisters Death, Birth and Sleep made it by her husband; there were gold, silver and iron locks on three doors; in the afternoon, their sister left, leaving the keys and telling them not to unlock these rooms; R. unlocked the gold lock, followed by an elephant with 7 trunks, offered R. for three minutes to show him three worlds, R. agreed; in the evening, the sisters noticed the traces of an elephant, but forgave R. for honestly confessing; the same the next day (there is a horse behind the silver door); the mule with an iron door ; he took R. to his hometown, kicked it and left it; R. found that pond and dived, but the palace was gone]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 67:184-186.

The Balkans. Serbs [the couple has three daughters; the devil married the eldest; ordered not to go into the 12th room; the girl opened hell there, she dropped the golden apple given to her, it rolled away; the hell pushed her into hell; I came for my second sister - the wife misses; the same with her; the youngest tied an apple in her apron, showed the line intact; hid her older sister in the basket, asked the devil to take the gift home; when the hell wants to look into the basket, the girl sitting in it says, "I see, I see!" ; hell believes that it was his wife looking from afar; hell left the basket with the girls' parents; the same with his second sister; the youngest made a scarecrow, put her clothes on it; hell took it; when he came back, pushed the scarecrow, realized that it had been carried out]: Tesic 2017:22-25; Serbs [the king's apple tree blooms in one night, bears fruit, but the fruits disappear; two sons guard, fall asleep; the youngest sees 8 falls asleep apples go down to peck, the ninth turns into a girl; gives the young man two apples; like this every night; envious older brothers send an old woman, she cuts off a lock of the pava girl's hair; pavas fly away; prince tells the old woman to be tied to the horse's tail; goes to look for a girl; in the castle, the old woman offers him her daughter; lets the servant of fur blow above the prince's ear; because of this, the prince falls asleep; his pava wife cannot blow him three times to wake up; the prince cuts off the servant's head, the hermit sends him to the dragon city, the prince finds his wife; she tells him not to unlock the twelfth room; there is a barrel in it, someone in it asks for a drink; the prince gives , the dragon flies out, takes away the prince's wife; the prince saves the fish, the fox, the wolf on the way; finds and takes his wife, the dragon on his horse easily catches up with them, spares the prince, takes away his wife; she learns from the dragon that his horse's brother is a lousy foal - the old woman has the task of herding her mare and foal for three nights; from this herd there is a dragon horse; the prince comes to the old woman, only one cola has no head yet; fish, a fox, a wolf helps to find a mare with a foal that turned into fish, foxes, wolves; the prince chooses a lousy foal, takes his wife; the dragon horse says that they cannot catch up with the prince, throws it off, the dragon crashes, the prince's wife sits on this horse]: Mijatovies 1874:43-58 (=Ashliman 2002); the Bosnians [when they die, the father tells his three sons to pass off their three sisters as the first to come for them; the elders do not go to give their sisters to strangers, the younger Mula-Mustafa gives them; the brothers go to look for them; they spend the night by the lake, the older brother guards the first night, the dragon crawls out of the lake, the young man cuts him off throws his head, cuts off his ears, head and body into the lake; on the second night, the same middle brother, a two-headed dragon; in the third MM, a three-headed dragon; when he threw his body into the lake, a wave flooded the fire; MM sees fire in the distance, giants come to the fire; they will fire if MM kills the sultan in Istanbul; the giant takes MM to the Sultan's chambers, but MM kills the giant himself, takes the Sultan's ring, leaves; the awakened sultan tells find your savior, to do this, set up inns where you can ask visitors about their adventures; three brothers meet in such a courtyard, tell us what happened to them, get to know each other; The sultan gives his daughter to MM; after leaving, orders not to unlock the room where Atesch Perischa; MM unlocks, AP takes his wife (i.e. the sultan's daughter); MM goes in search; arrives at the tower, where the older sister married to the king of ravens; the raven sends to her middle sister, she is to the king of dragons, that to the youngest to the king of eagles; the king of eagles convenes eagles, only one old patient can deliver MM to AP, but first must swim in living water, it is between rocks that open once a year; MM feeds the eagle with rams, the eagle has time to rejuvenate before the rocks slam shut; AP comes on a three-legged horse; in his MM's absence negotiates with his wife to find out what AP's life is; he says he's in a broom, in a tube, in a mug; MM tells his wife to decorate them every time; AP admits he's in a three-legged horse; who will kill a mare who comes out of the lake once a year and takes her foal, he will defeat him; he did not kill the mare himself, but wounded the foal, so he is three-legged; MM killed, took the foal, his wife gave him cow milk, that became a powerful horse; MM killed AP, put his wife on a three-horse, returned with her to the Sultan]: Schütz 1960, No. 4:31-48; Albanians [the sorcerer promises children to the childless king if he gives him his first child; when his second son was born, he took the first one; treated him well, taught him; allowed him to enter all rooms except the last 99; the sorcerer sleeps for 24 hours, stays awake for 24 hours; once a young man unlocked that room: A sorcerer sleeps her, and around there are various animals that screamed; but the sorcerer did not wake up; in front of the mare's bone, in front of the dog, the young man shifted hay; the sorcerer woke up and rushed to kill the young man; but the mare tells take a basin and a jug for bathing, salt, a comb and ride it away; the sorcerer is chasing, the young man has thrown salt (mountain), a comb (a dense forest), a basin and a jug (sea); the sorcerer has stopped the persecution]: Meyer 1994, No. 5:108-110; Bulgarians [nine pav steal apples at night in the royal garden; only the youngest of the three princes does not fall asleep on guard, falls in love with the younger pava, who becomes a girl; flying away with others, she leaves him a golden apple (feather), tells him where to look for it; the prince comes to the lake (pond, spring), where pavas come to swim; when the pavas have arrived, his companion puts him to sleep; with With the help of an elder (grateful animals), he enters the palace of the pav, marries the youngest; in the absence of his wife, he unlocks the door to the forbidden (9th, 12th, 40th) room, involuntarily freeing the snake imprisoned there ( lamia, chalu); he takes away the prince's wife; grateful animals (fox, eagle fish or raven) promise to help; the prince takes his wife twice, but the kidnapper catches up with him on his horse each time; he finds out that You can escape the chase only by riding the kidnapper's horse's brother; grateful animals help the prince herd the old woman's horses for three nights in a row; the prince receives a horse from her, on which he escapes from the chase, the kidnapper dies]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, no.*550**: 204; Greeks: Kretschmer 1919, No. 61 (Epirus) [when the childless king finally had a son, he placed him in a glass castle with his teachers; One day, a young man was brought meat and bone, he threw it, broke through the wall; his father had to let the young man go; he became a hunter; he chased a deer, got lost, ate roots; a Jew appeared and brought him to the mountain, asked him to throw off the gold from her; to do this, he placed the young man in buffalo skin, the birds lifted him up the mountain, he threw gold to the Jew; the Jew took the gold, leaving the young man; digging the roots, the young man found a way in He has a staircase; it led to the palace, in which an old man with a beard to his knees is chained; he teaches him to take 40 keys from his pocket, open one of the rooms with a stick in it; if you hit, any food will appear; the young man was full, his strength returned and he freed the old man; the old man took the key to the 40th room; said that behind him the lake, where three fairies were flying, they had already killed many young men; the young man persuaded him to give the key ; old man: the youngest is the most beautiful, she bathes after her sisters, we must take her clothes; you can't let her touch the edge of her clothes; he let her, she tried to pull out her clothes, but failed; young man asked for a horse, the old man gave him a flying man; on the way they stopped to eat; a dervish came up, asked for food, said that his stick hit the head on order and killed anyone; the young man asked to hold the stick, told to kill the dervish, took the stick; this dervish was the brother of a winged maiden; the second brother came in the form of a Jew; he appeared and disappeared; the young man asked to see the invisible hat, sent a stick to kill Jew; the fairy says that no one will help her now; the king is happy that the son has returned; he gave his wife's clothes to his aunt for preservation; the wife asked her for clothes to dance; received and danced, flew out the window, telling her to look for her in the glass city; the prince returned to the old man, who gave a letter to his father, and he gave a letter to his mother; the mother gathered the birds, the last to deliver the old Schnapphahn, who knew about glass city; when the prince was carried, the supplies ran out, the prince cut off the meat from his own leg; in the city of Haji he said that the local king was at war with another; the young man promised to defeat the enemy alone; the prince's stick killed all the enemy warriors; the king gave off her youngest daughter as the winner; she did not want to at first, but when she found out that it was her husband, she was happy; they returned to the prince's country]: 287-296; Schmidt 1877, No. 13 [moira they gave the newborn princess all the virtues, but if a ray of sunshine falls on her at the age of 15, she will become a lizard and spend 5 months at sea; when leaving, the king asks what to bring; the daughter asks the mountain a giant; the giant barber teaches how to approach him; he brings him to a room with portraits of beauties; the king replies that anyone can only wash his daughter's feet; the giant shows the last portrait - this one is suitable for a maid; a giant tells her daughter to be brought; she is riding a ship in a palanquin with a wet nurse and her daughter; the nurse lured her out of the palanquin, she became a lizard, fell into the sea; a nurse convinced the king that in five months her daughter would be beautiful again; the giant sent the king to the stable, instead of his wife he went down to the mountain, where he was the king of one-eyed giants; he did not tell him to go into the same room; the wife came in; the giant's mother was there; says she knows about the substitution; the wife pretended to be sick - let the giant tell me to catch all the fish in the bay and burn them; at this time, the princess became a girl again; the nurse and her daughter were burned; the giant is in a quarrel with his mother; because the mother and wife are in friendship, the giant tyrants his wife; she runs to her father; the giant orders to make a golden chest, climbed there, the wife told me to buy it; when I heard a rustle, told the soldiers to pour boiling broth into the hole; the giant died]: 98-104; Greek Cypriots [the old logger has three daughters; he bought the eldest handkerchief, she sat on the balcony and saw her well a dressed gentleman married him without a dowry; in the palace he gives the keys to a hundred rooms, and hides the prickly man from the one hundred and first; she finds him, unlocked the room, there is a window; she sees her husband devouring a fresh corpse, and himself turns into a monster: three eyes, a huge head, long arms and nails on them; the husband noticed traces in a locked room, came to his wife in the form of her mother, calls her husband a monster, asks his daughter gave her something and her husband's treasures; she does not tell or give anything; the same with other relatives; but when the husband comes in the form of a wet nurse, the wife tells her everything; the husband says he is Trimmatus (cannibal category), and promises to eat his wife; asks if she wants to be fried or swallowed; she asks for a two-hour delay; takes that forbidden key, unlocks the room and gets out through the window to the street; the lumberjack is afraid to hide it, the camel driver hides it in a bale of cotton; T. pierces all the bales with a hot skewer, but only wounds his wife in the leg; the drover hides this bale, the king was told; she embroiders a portrait of the king on the throne; the king passed her off as his son; T. came disguised as a seller of pistachios and dried apricots; the jester guessed; as blacks got out of the bags, everyone was killed; an imaginary merchant came at night in his true form, sprinkled ashes on her husband's dead so that he could fall asleep; tells his wife that the spit was waiting for her; but she pushed him down the stairs, and a hole was dug under the stairs in advance, in which lion and tiger; they ate T.; parents brought their son and daughter-in-law to life in the morning]: Legrand 1881:115-131; Hungarians [the king's apple tree blooms in the morning, apples by night, but someone steals them; the king will recover, if he eats an apple; promises a daughter as a wife; swineherd Janos undertakes to guard; climbs an apple tree into the sky; there Queen Etelka picked apples; I married her; she tells her not to open the 12th room; I opened it, there a seven-headed dragon is chained; promises three kingdoms if Y. gives him water; freed himself and carried away E.; I. The follower takes three horses, finds E. and takes him away; for the first time, the dragon horse says he will have time eat, drink, chop a bag of nuts - we'll still catch up; every time the dragon takes one kingdom from Me; the fourth time he tears it to pieces, puts them in a bag, ties them to the horse, lets them go; the horse sees how a snake drags a blade of grass to revive a snake that the cart has run over; asks for half a blade of grass, I revives; he asks E. to find out where the dragon got its horse; the dragon first hits E., but on the third time she replies that the old woman Iron Nose asks her horses to herd three days a year; whoever can do it will give him a horse; along the way, Y. makes fish, duck, fox healthy, they promise to help; the old woman makes horses fish (fish brought), white crows (birds brought), eggs (the fox grabbed the rooster, the old woman chased her, I. broke the eggs; the best horse warns that it will be a lousy foal, we must choose it; teaches you how to avoid death when an old woman gets up at night to cut the bed I.; teaches you to ask for a foal as a reward, a dirty saddle, a bridle, an old sword; the dragon can't catch up, his horse is the horse's uncle Y., threw off dragon; wedding; I. brought apples to the king and a similar guy whom he married to the Queen of Earth]: Ortutai 1974, No. 8:164-189; Romanians [The king has a son, Ionita, nicknamed Fat-Frumos (FF). He rides with the royal herd to herd horses at Lake Fairy. When she falls asleep, a girl comes out of the lake, hugs him and asks: "Wake up, dear friend!" The herdsman tells FF. He tries to stay awake, but falls asleep the next and third day. The sorceress cries, says she will not come again, takes off the FF ring from her finger and wears her personalized ring with the inscription "Ilyana Kosynzyan (IK), the braid is golden, the flowers in the braid are singing, they sing wonderfully, at nine kingdoms can be heard." FF puts on his iron shoes, takes a steel staff and goes looking for it. He visits his three sons-in-law, none of them know about IC. He comes to the mountain, sees a cave on the other side of it, goes down into it, walks for a long time, turning into the light, and goes to the mill, which stands on a river with black water. He sees an old miller so ancient that his eyelids hadn't been raised anymore, and he raised them with hooks. The old man says that so far not a single resident who owns it has been to the mill, nine mighty birds come here every day, each carrying four bags of grain, and he needs everything by morning grind the grain. FF helps the old man, hides in one of the bags, the birds take him to the IC cook. FF shows the cook an IR ring and stays in his house. The cook bakes bread for IK, she doesn't take anything else in her mouth. FF helps him. IK likes lush bread, the next one turns out to be twice as good, the third time FF bakes his ring in a loaf, the cook tells IK about FF, she tells him to bring him in, orders him to be given a gold-sewn dress, they're getting married in two weeks. After the feast, FF receives IR keys to all rooms except the basement. Finally, he begs for this key, unlocks the basement. The voice from the barrel tells you to open the door wider. FF listens, opens the door, hoops fly off the barrel, the snake flies out, takes IR away ten lands. FF puts on iron shoes, takes a steel staff, and goes in search. She comes to Holy Friday and asks if he is a kind person. He gives him a bow. FF comes to a house where crows are flying over and wolves howl around. There's a witch with horse legs, steel teeth and curved fingers. When asked by her, FF says that he has come to work to hire a horse and earn a horse. Grandma tells him to herd his mare every night. On the way to pasture, FF sees a bird with a broken paw, aims, asks not to destroy it, but to bandage its paw, and promises to be useful. FF does this, goes on, does not get off the mare to pasture, but falls asleep on horseback. The mare puts him on a rock, turns herself into a bird, flies into the forest with other birds and sings there. The bird he saved tells all birds to look for a vagrant bird among them, and it is brought to the FF. He quilts her head with a bridle and orders her to turn into a mare. The witch gets angry, hits the mare. On the second evening, FF meets a hare with a broken paw (still the same). When FF falls asleep, the mare leaves him with a bridle on the rock, turns into a hare, and jumps through the woods with other hares. The lame hare collects all the hares and finds a mare by the horse's teeth. The witch is already preparing to cook FF in the cauldron, angrily hits the mare with an iron bar. On the third evening, the mare turns into an old oak tree among the trees. A hare and a bird are advised to knock on each tree with a staff. When hit, the old oak tree starts to jump, and FF orders it to turn into a mare. From the witch, FF, on the advice of a rescued bird, chooses the seediest horse. He turns into a magic horse. He has 14 spleens so he doesn't know if he's tired. FF finds himself at the snake palace and takes IR. The serpent jumps on the horse and sets off in pursuit. IK shouts to the horse to throw them off, for which he will bathe him in milk, feed him oats and sugar. FF shouts to the snake horse that he will feed him with clover and bathe him in dew, which will throw off and trample the snake with its hooves. FF is on a snake horse and IK on a FF horse arrive at the IK Palace and have a wedding]: Ilyana Kosynzyan 1989:11-38; Romanians [stepmother has two children of her own, she demands that her husband save her children from his first wife; the boy heard, said to his sister; they took ash and flour with them, poured them on the ground on the way; the father tied an empty pumpkin to the tree, it knocked in the wind, and he did not cut wood, but had long since left; the children returned home in the footsteps; the same next time; the third time the father took the children further, and the rain soaked the flour and the birds pecked it; the boy made onions, the sister got the fire rubbed, they began to eat birds; the fox tells her not to shoot at her, gave her fox; then the same with the she-wolf and the bear; the children came to the palace, there was a giant chained to the wall behind a steel door; he asked for water; the boy did not give and told his sister to unlock any door except the steel one; the sister opened the door, brought the giant three mugs of water, who broke the chains; the sister was ready to be the giant's mistress and destroy her brother; to do this, eliminate his animals; to do this, she asked him to leave them with her when he went hunting - she was bored alone; they locked the animals in a room with a steel door; the giant chased the young man; he climbed a tree; throws the giant's hat, one sandal, the second, each time he sings, calling his animals, while the giant devours what was dropped; first only the fox, then the wolf cub, finally the bear cub hears; the bear broke door; the beasts decided to run like the wind, for if they thought they were too tired to fight; the giant chipped in with a log, but the animals ate him, and the young man took his heart and liver; he told their sister cook; left 9 barrels to fill them with tears and left]: Mawr 1881:52-56; Moldovans: Botezatu 1982:209-117 [Tsarevich Fat-Frumos; dying, the king tells him to pass three sisters off as snakes, who will come for them; FF gave 3, 6, 12 heads from the snakes; FF finds a portrait of Ilyana Rozolyana in one of the rooms; took it, after going through a copper forest, came to his older sister's copper palace; her snake husband gave him strength; the same with the middle, older sister (silver, golden forest and palace); the eldest's husband tells me to go to Och; he gave two cornflowers to turn into a fly and back; 24 IR brothers must be passed; FF penetrated twice moved, turned off the lamps for the third time, took an oath with IR to become her husband with three horses; she gave the keys to all rooms, forbid her to enter one; FF unlocked the lock, where a snake chained with 24 heads; asks for hay and water; ate, drank, fell off the chain, then ate a herd of oxen and 12 barns of bread, tells FF to get out; the horse asks the snake whether to jump as a thought or like the wind; as a thought; by the silver forest of snakes took IR; next time from copper; this time, the older sister's husband gave FF 25 snake powers and the snake 24; FF won and killed the snake; during the struggle, IR gave FF wine and bread, not a snake; wedding], 257-265 [ Laur-Balaur turns into an old woman, gives the elder princess an apple, it rolls, the princess runs after him, trying to grab him; refuses to give a bird a drink at the well, comes to the black kingdom; LB forbids entering one room; she enters, frees the chained prisoners; LB sees an apple plunged into blood, cuts the princess into pieces; the same with the middle princess; marrying the youngest, the LB pretends to be great; lucky by wells, she tells her to stop, gives water to the bird; she tells her husband to ask her husband for a golden apple; the wife finds the corpses of her sisters, prevents the apple from plunging into the blood; sees where the jug of living water is when the forehead grows severed fingers; revives sisters; tells the LB to take the gift bag to his parents, puts his older sister there, then his middle sister, makes a promise from his forehead not to look inside; when the LB wants to open the bag, The princess from the chest says in his wife's voice that she sees him keep his promise; for the third time she leaves a wax doll instead, the LB takes his wife to her parents; the LB comes running, he is killed, thrown into the sea] ; Gagauz people [the king's hunters found a golden tree to heaven; the king promises a daughter to whoever gets an apple from him; pours wool at the foot of the mountain so that the falling ones do not break; three days were needed for get out of it; mocan {shepherd?} climbed to Mid-Baba, from her to Friday Baba, then until Sunday, Baba, every iron dog, can tear; Sunday tells you to jump on the swing from the east; the mocan jumped, swinging, picked apples; go down, glued leaves to his body, flew like a bird, fell near an old man; he fed his three horses raisins, gave him alcohol; tells the bay to carry the mokana around the world, and if he doesn't like anything, throw it away; the mocan doesn't like it, but the horse can't throw it off; the same with the black horse; the gray one threw it to the giants; they went to the wedding, told me to open all doors except one; the mocan opened, there horse, delivered the mokana by Sunday; the giants ran between, only managed to cut off the horse's tail; the mocan went down by Friday, Wednesday, gave everyone an apple, brought the rest to the tsar, got a daughter]: Moshkov 1904, No. 53:92-96.

Central Europe. Slovaks: Nmcová 1970 [in the absence of the King and Queen, their three daughters are married and taken away by the Sun King, the Wind King and the King of the Month; upon the return of their parents, Queen Janko goes to look for sisters; three times he meets the place where people's bones lie, the skulls say that they were beaten by the beautiful hero Uliana; I come to her palace, replaces the sword hanging on the wall, fights with W., that admits defeat, becomes his wife; when I leave, I allow me to open the doors of 12 rooms, forbids him to look into the thirteenth; he breaks the ban, sees the Dragon chained, he gives him wine three times , each time the Dragon falls off another shackles; after the first time, the Dragon gives Me a second life, then another; after the third, he flies away, carrying W.; I find sisters, the Sun King sends him to the king Months, that to the King of the Wind; he gives the horse that brings Me to the Dragon's Cave, I. takes W.; the Dragon's horse tells him that he will have time to sleep for an hour and smoke for an hour, easily catches up with Me, the Dragon takes me away. one life, W. takes away; the same second time; the Dragon promises to tear the fugitives apart for the third time; the King of the Wind orders to get the brother of the magic horse on which the Dragon rides; takes him across the sea to the witch; she tells three days to herd three mares (this is her daughter), will kill him if he misses them; on the first day, the mares turn into cabbage rolls, fly away; the King of the Wind makes them go down, gives me the magic harness to throw them into them, cabbage rolls are again made mares; on the second day, mares turn into ducks, the King of the Month dries the lake; on the third day, mares turn into spruce trees, the Sun King sends heat, forcing them to regain its former appearance; advises the witch to reward a sick skate lying on a pile of manure; the witch tells you to milk the mares, swim in their milk; the milk boils, the skate cools it, I. becomes handsome; the witch wants to become beautiful, to become the wife of I., the end returns the heat to the milk, the witch is cooked; on the way to the Dragon, the horse tells him to buy him, becomes a magnificent horse; I. takes W.; horse Y. shouts to the Dragon's horse that the brother should not chase his brother; he drops the Dragon, W. sits on the horse, they come to Y.'s parents; holiday, Y. gets the throne]: 150-163; Bogatyrev 1955 [the beggar asks spend the night; when he leaves, a golden apple rolls after him; the eldest daughter follows, enters his castle, the beggar becomes a man; tells him to cook the human head, sweep 12 rooms, not go into 13th; she doesn't drink three pigeons, goes into a room, there are corpses on the walls and two barrels, she sticks it in one finger, he falls off; her returning husband hangs her in the same room; the same with her middle sister; younger she gives water to the pigeons, they explain what to do; the girl revives her sisters with live water, locks them in caskets, they fly to the girls' mother; she baked the doll herself in her own likeness; the husband came and ate it; the girl took the weed flew home; hell came again, she touched him with that grass, it spread resin]: 153-159; Bogatyrev 1955 [a widower neighbor persuades the widower's daughter to persuade him to marry her; begins tyrant her stepdaughter; she leaves, fulfills all the requests that are addressed to her (turns the bridge over, removes the lice from the dog, shakes the pear, takes the goby to the meadow, shovels the fire out of the stove); comes to Baba Yaga; she tells me to sweep 11 rooms, not to look into the 12th; she looks in, there are tubs of gold, silver, copper, she dips into gold, becomes gilded herself, runs away; Baba Yaga is chasing with with iron scallops, a stove, a pear, a goby interfere with her, the bridge falls into the water; the stepmother sends her own daughter; she does not fulfill her requests, Baba Yaga catches up with her, rips off her gilding and clothes, she returns naked; stepdaughter marries lord]: 141-149; Czechs: Bogolyubova, Talova 2000 [the tailor has many children, the rich brother refuses to baptize his newborn daughter; he goes with her, the old woman under the rose hip bush agrees to baptize the girl if Libushka returns to her in 12 years; she comes, receives the keys to all the rooms, you can't look into the seventh; she looks in, there in her coffin an old woman with a horse head; L. does not confess, the old woman leaves her speechless, drives her away; finds her, marries the queen, leaves, she gives birth, the old woman comes, tears the child in half; the same the second, third time; the king orders L. to be burned; the carriage arrives, the old woman asks again what she saw L. in the room, she denies everything; the old woman says that she saved her from the spell, the fire goes out, they appear three sons L., speechless returns to her, the king ended the wars safely]: 284-288; Nemtsova 1977 [a neighbor persuades her widow's daughter to marry her; becoming a stepmother, she tyrants her stepdaughter; she left home; Greets all the people she meets, fulfills their requests: she turned the bridge over to the other side, washed the dog's wounds, shook the pear, drove the bull out of the meadow, took the heat out of the stove; came to Baba Yaga; she says sweep 11 rooms, don't go into the 12th; the girl looked there, there were three barrels of gold, silver, copper; she dipped her head in the first barrel, her hair turned golden; the girl started running, Baba Yaga next; a goby, a pear, etc. detain and hit her, the bridge broke under her, she stops pursuing; the rooster screams that the girl has come golden; the stepmother sends her own daughter, she is rude to the people she meets, refuses to comply with requests; Baba Yaga jumped into a barrel of gold and ran; a goby, etc. interfere with her, beat her, the bridge broke, Baba Yaga rips off her gold every time; stepdaughter was taken by a rich one lord, own daughter remained in girls]: 153-162; the Czechs [when leaving, the king and queen tell Janko's son to look after his three sisters; Sun, Wind, Month come successively, asking his sister I am married, all three agree, leave the house; the king is happy that his daughters have married kings; I. goes to visit them; the field is strewn with bones; the skull replies that everyone was defeated by the beautiful hero Ulyana; then But on another field; Y. enters the castle, changes his sword to the one that hangs on the wall and jumps; W. wins, she offers to live with her; when she leaves, gives the keys, forbids entering the 13th room; I opened, there The fire dragon is chained to the wall with three hoops; says he is thirsty and asks for wine from the last barrel; after each jug he drinks, one hoop falls down; the dragon gives me life and takes W. ; I come to the Sun, which does not know where W. refers to the Month; the Month to the Wind; he replies that the dragon makes W. wash clothes for steep boiling water; he, the Wind, tries to cool the boiling water; I take W. away; the winged dragon horse raises the alarm, but says that there is nowhere to hurry - we will catch up; the dragon took W. and spared I., since he gave him one life; the wind reports that the witch has a dragon brother overseas. a horse that is faster than him; the Sun, the Month and the Wind give Y. a peg (gold, silver, wooden) to call them for help; the wind drove me to the witch, who offers to herd three horses - these are her horse daughters they turned into pigeons and flew away, but the Wind drove them back and told them to put on their bridles; the next day they turned into ducks, Month put a handkerchief into the lake, it was dry, I put on bridles again; on the third day the horses turned into pine trees, the Sun began to burn them, they had to become horses again; the Sun tells them to ask for a miserable oath as a reward; the witch tells them to milk the mares; the horse: before swimming in milk, call me; the milk boiled, but the skate drew in the heat, I became even more beautiful; the witch also decided to be beautiful, but the horse released the heat and it cooked; I washed the skate, it became mighty, winged; I took away Wu ., the dragon follows, the horse Y. tells his brother to throw off the dragon, the dragon fell into the abyss; I brought my wife to my parents and received the throne from my father]: Nemtsova 1978:119-132; Poles [two sisters sequentially they get to a monster that forbids them to enter a particular room; gives them an apple, an egg, an ornament, etc., and when girls break the ban, the appearance of these items will tell the monster the truth and kills offenders; the third younger sister also enters the forbidden room, but does not take the object with her; the monster takes her as his wife; she finds and revives her sisters; asks her husband to take her parents a chest with gifts, puts sisters in it; next time she sits down on her own, and leaves the doll for herself]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 311:93-94; Belarusians [the matchmaker came for the elder, the younger sister, they went to the porch, blown away by the wind; brother Ivan the Peasant Son goes looking for them, enters the house, the hostess tells me to marry her; do not look through the door, which is tied with bast, covered with mud; he opened, there Kashchei is on chains; asked for three buckets of wine and three breads, three alder logs and three aspen logs; ate and drank, broke the chains with logs, took Mary Krasa away; I. found M., took it; K. asks his three-legged horse, let's catch up Lee; horse: have dinner and go to bed, we'll catch up in the morning; the old man returned M. twice; I. came to his sisters, one married to the Sun in a copper house, his son-in-law gave a falcon; the second for Thunder in the silver house, gave a dog; I. in took M. away for the third time, K. caught up with him and killed him; Thunder and the Sun grabbed the crows, ordered the crow to bring alive and dead water, revived I.; he tells M. to find out where K.'s soul is; K.: island, oak, hollow, hare, duck, egg ; Baba Yaga must get a horse like K.; I. went for K.'s soul; let go of the queen of flies, she promised to help; the same crayfish king; sparrow; Baba Yaga tells mares to herd; flies, crayfish drive mares; they order to choose a horse in the scab as a reward; Baba Yaga orders to collect the sown poppy; the thieves collect; I. received a horse, he brought it to the island, I. got an egg with K.'s soul; I. took M. away, his horse told K. not approach; I. broke an egg, K. died]: Vasilenok et al. 1958:115-122; Russians (Terevsky Bereg) [Tsarevichi Semyon, Vasily, Ivan; each asks his father to allow one of the three sisters to ride; as soon as brother will turn away, sister is stolen every time; father went blind from grief; S. traveled for a year, V. traveled for two years, both returned with nothing; I. found all the sisters, their husbands Raven, Falcon and Hare; everyone gives the opportunity to summon them, if necessary; I. goes on to look for medicine for his father and his bride; Baba Yaga first swears, then drinks and feeds, gives a diptera horse and a towel ("rags"), sends it to another (four-winged horse) the other to the third (six-winged); she sends a king maiden to her niece; you have to jump over the wall without hitting the strings; that trio sleeps between two nannies; "You know what to do"; "she sleeps in middle, all naked"; "he already knew what to do there" (note: the episode where the hero collects living water is missed); on the way back, the horse hit the string, the king maiden is chasing an eight-winged horse; every baba yaga calls her to the bathhouse; I. managed to cross the border; the king maiden sailed on 12 ships with two twin boys; when S. leaves, then V., the king maiden tells the children that it is their uncle, not their father; picks up from I.; does not tell you to enter the same room; someone asks to remove the cross from the box; I. took it off, the devil got out, took his wife away; I. finds, takes it away three times, the devil takes it away, driving I. knee-deep into the ground; up to the waist; up to the throat; each time one of his sons-in-law pulls him out; then all three drove the devil into the box again, put a cross; I. and the tsar-maiden still live, they will survive us]: Balashov 1970, No. 65:220-226; Russians ( Arkhangelskaya: Pinega, Vaimushi, 1927) [Old people take their son Vanyusha, who is growing up unusually fast, to learn a craft, teach his grandfather to a big house outside the fence, and ask him to teach him good. For two years, Vanyusha has been making her bed and preparing dinner for his grandfather, complaining that he has not learned anything. The grandfather gives Vanyusha the keys to 11 rooms, the 12th key hangs in his ear and the grandfather sleeps on it. Eleven rooms have "everything in the world, enjoys everything". Vanyusha can't get the key to the 12th room, takes a knot out of the door and sees three girls through the hole, they teach him how to give his grandfather strong wine, he will turn to his left side. Vanyusha takes out the key, unlocks the girls, they ask them to bring them dresses, dance with Vanyusha, put on dresses, hit the floor, turn into birds and fly away. The grandfather says that he did not give the last key, because Vanyusha is young and weak, goes to pick up the girls, returns with them three years later and offers Vanyusha to marry one of them. Vanyusha chooses the eldest, the grandfather warns that the girl should not be allowed to wear a colored dress, she walks in black like a nun, then puts on rags and he lets her wear the dress, girl flies away. Vanyusha dries the crackers and goes after his wife, enters the hut on chicken legs, Baba Yaga gives him a cake and a crow, sends him a bone, sends him to her sister. In order for the middle sister to understand that Vanyusha is coming from his older sister, he hits her in the face with a cake. The second baba yaga gives the pike a bone and a cake for the third sister. The latter gives a firebird bone and two pieces of meat. She explains that the girl's house is guarded by two lions, they need to be given a piece of meat, then beg the girl not to execute him, but to allow her to hide from the girl twice. Vanyusha does this, leaves the house to hide, throws the first bone, takes him away by a black crow, puts him in a swamp and sits on his head. The girl finds Vanyusha with a mirror, the raven washes him in the sea and returns him to the girl. Then he throws the pike's bone, the pike swallows it, leaves one finger, and the girl finds it again. The Firebird throws the bone, it carries the walker under the cloud, the girl finds her husband again, he faces a gallows. Vanyusha tells the black girl her story, who tells her to slam the doors but hide behind the mirror. He asks permission to hide for the fourth time, his wife cannot find him and realizes that her husband is "not simple" and "cunning" returns to him. They bring her wealth to his parents, they live happily]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 86:206-210; Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [two princes went for a walk with their sister Maria, lost her; her father gave a portrait sisters, let them look; after their departure, the Queen gave birth to another son named Pokati-Gorokh; the brothers came to their sister, she hid them; Raven Voronovich flew in - shuryaks, come out; he killed them and drank alcohol - like alive; tells his wife that death was written to him only from Pokati Groh; PG grew up, "threw my grandmother in the back of the back"; she cries: your two brothers and sister did not bother me; PG comes to my sister, not hides; greets BB, both shake hands to blood; both eat and drink a lot; when flying away, BB tells him not to enter the back room of the front stable; PG goes, there is hay in front of the lion, meat in front of the horse, PG shifted; then he opened the door - two girls flew out and disappeared; PG ran to BV's mother, asked for forgiveness; she persuaded BV to forgive too; both go to war, PG on the horse that BV fed meat; when BB fed meat; when BB fights, a street will wave in one direction, a lane in the other; but there is only more enemy power; PG came to the blacksmiths: soldiers appear from hammer blows, non-commissioned officers in another place, girls in the third they sew on the hoop like they are poked with a needle - officer; PG: amen your job; they are grateful for stopping them; the warriors are no longer there, BV killed everyone, joyfully rolls like a hay pile; PG killed him; guilty in front of his mother, she led her to the well to collect living and dead water; PG drowned it in it, took water for herself; revived the brothers, went home with them and his sister; picked up a stone, a hole under it, told his brothers put him down in his belts; sent two girls to his brothers from below, but they couldn't pull him out; married those girls; PG came to the old man, began to herd his oxen; he tells them not to drive them to protected meadows; PG drove there, towards the monster with three heads, he killed him; the next day about five heads, the same; then six; hid these heads under the bed; the old man found it, glad; promises to ask The firebird, will it carry PG to the ground; sitting on the bird, PG feeds the poultry meat, it is over, it cut off its legs from its calves; the bird flew to the ground, died exhausted; PG revived it with living water, it regurgitated the meat from his legs, he took it with dead and living water; returned home, got married]: Smirnov 1917, No. 11:111-121; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Leshukonsky district, p. Zasulye, 1928) [when he dies, the tsar gives his son Ivan the keys to all rooms, but forbids entering one room. Neither I. nor daughter Elena gives a blessing for marriage. I. unlocks the door, the wolf runs out, destroys the palace. I. and E. climb onto the balcony, they are carried away by a huge bull. The wolf catches up, eats the bull, returns the prince and the princess, forgives the escape. A thin bull appears, takes his brother and sister away, they doubt his strength. I. falls his ear to the ground, hears the chase, pulls a comb out of the bull's right ear with his right hand and throws it to the left, a dense forest grows, and detains the wolf. Ivan hears the chase again, pulls a handkerchief out of his left ear with his left hand, and a bridge across the lake appears. After moving, E. picks up the handkerchief, and the lake detains the wolf. The bull disappears, I. and E. spend the night with the old man, stay with him, I. hunts, E. cooks. The old man dies, leaves his guns and dogs Katay and Valya behind. E. sees a great fellow on the lake, throws a handkerchief, well done, goes down the bridge to her, hits the ground and turns into a wolf. She offers to surrender to him and kill her brother, she agrees. The wolf offers to pretend to be sick: I dreamed that in order to heal you need to get a nightingale, a bear and flour from under the millstone of the mill. If he dies, his golden tooth could kill I. I. gets everything, feels sorry for the crow, the nightingale and the bear along the way, the last two give him a cub. At the mill, the wolf locks I. inside and is going to eat it, he asks for permission to twist the cigarette. While twisting, the crow tells how many doors his hunt has gnawed, she breaks through and tears the wolf apart. I. reproaches his traitor sister, she hits him with the wolf's golden tooth, I. dies. Katay licks the place where the tooth hit, I. comes to life, the dog dies. The animals take turns reviving each other, dying on their own, the bear licks the nightingale, holds a frying pan in front of his forehead, the tooth flies out, falls into the pan, E. Ivan leaves her with a barrel and coals, says that if she cries for a barrel of tears, she feels sorry for the wolf, and if she eats the coals, she feels sorry for her brother. He comes to the city, settles in with an old woman, learns about the snake, the princess's turn to be eaten, with the help of his hunt I. wins the snake. She saves the second and third princess (snakes are torn apart by dogs and bears). She receives a personalized ring and towel from the girls, remembers her father's request not to marry. The water carrier forces the girls to admit that he is the winner of the snake. I. comes with animals to the wedding of the water carrier and the younger princess, the girls recognize him and tell her father the truth. I. shows snake tongues, a ring and a towel. The king orders that the water carrier's hand be cut off. I. marries a younger princess, returns for her sister, she cried a barrel of tears, I. feels sorry for her, brings her to herself, but settles separately. She enters her brother's room at night, hits him with a wolf's tooth, and I. dies. E. persuades I. not to feed or release animals. At the funeral, the animals are released without Elena's knowledge, they lick I., the tooth falls into Kataya, he dies, I. comes to life. Those present run away in horror. Animals lick each other, I. takes out a frying pan, pulls out a tooth, talks about his sister's actions and shoots her. It does not die, then it is torn apart by animals, its body is burned]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 114:290-300; Russians (Vologodskaya, Kadinkovsky y.) [two merchant brothers, one died, the widow squandered everything, the other took her son; they sailed across the lake, the ships stood up; companions to the merchant: what do we need to dive; but he sent Ivan's nephew; there the old man generously received, but did not tell him to enter three rooms; in his absence I. enters them consistently; one door is copper, the other is silver, the third is golden, in each girl, each let in sleep, flew away; the old man forgives every time; after the third time he tells me to go to the lake, these girls are swimming there, we must take Maria Tsarevna's gold-winged dress; I. took it, the old man married them; she tells them to ask for white light; old man: no need, he will fly away; finally gave an eagle bird, ordered M. not to give light until they reach; M. asks, I. gave, the eagle was gone, M. flew away, I. was on the island; the old man helped again, transferred I. to her state; M. will marry whoever hides from her; M. has an all-seeing mirror; two other applicants were immediately executed, the old man asks I. to try again; she sees when I. is flying an eagle, when he is hidden by a lion and a pike, but the maid made him a small fish, pulled him out of the well; M. did not see it; recognized her husband, everything is fine]: Burtsev 1895, No. 15:94-103; Russians (Pskov) [the old man hired Ivan- blue for work; he brought the carcass to the mountain on the ship, killed the lion, took out his intestines, ordered him to climb inside, the bird lifted the carcass up the mountain, the old man asked to throw down the jewelry; left, and I. stayed on the mountain; came to the castle, there are three girls; they gave the keys to 12 rooms, but you don't have to enter the 12th; he went in; there was a garden and a pond, 12 girls flew in to swim; the first three girls advise you to hide the dress of the one that liked it; he did so, married the girl, her name was Annushka; Ivan brought her home; the cooks told the princess; she praises the beauty of A.; A.: it would be even more beautiful if in her dress; the princess ordered bring a dress to the cook; A. put it on and flew away - let I. look; two argue over a flying carpet and an invisible hat; I. asks to let him test, puts on a hat and flies away on the carpet to where A. is; she's there in a hole for marrying an Orthodox; I. took her and returned home]: Chernyshev 1950, No. 18:41-44; Russians (Voronezhskaya, 1968, Aleksandrovka village, Pavlovsky District) [The old man asks his daughter to bring he has lunch in the forest, lays out his way with branches. The bear sees this and moves the branches towards its den. The eldest daughter ends up with a bear, who forces him to agree to marry him (otherwise, he threatens to eat her). The bear goes hunting, gives the keys, but forbids his wife to enter one pantry. She sees a lot of goodness in the rooms, and a cauldron of gold in the forbidden pantry, she puts her finger in there and it turns gold. He ties it up, but the bear sees and eats his wife. The next day, the old man asks his middle daughter to bring him lunch, marks the way to him with strings, and the bear outweighs them. Everything is repeated with the old man's middle daughter. The youngest daughter Masha comes to the den on the ashes covered by the bear and also becomes his wife. In the forbidden pantry, she lowers a branch into the golden cauldron, it turns golden. She plants a branch in the ground. She bakes pies and asks the bear to take them to his parents, she hides herself in a bag under the pies. While the bear is walking, he forbids him to stop and eat pies. Dogs rush at parents' house and tear them apart]: Kretov 1977, No. 13:27-28; Russians (Voronezhskaya, 1965, p. Pike in Ertil District) [The merchant suspects his non-native son of stealing, says that it would be better to take him the hell. The hell takes the boy, raises him. The hell goes away and leaves the guy with his keys, but won't let him go into the same room. He comes in, sees a skinny horse on chains, gives him 3 buckets of water, the horse breaks his chains, invites the boy to run away, he does not immediately agree. The hell catches up with them, scolds the guy, puts the horse on a chain. The hell goes away again and promises to kill the guy if he goes into the forbidden room. The guy goes to the horse, which is completely exhausted, gives him more water, the horse escapes, they decide to run. The horse advises you to take the hell with a towel, comb and brush. He gets up in his face to the east, orders to dig a hole - gold is boiling in it, the guy gives up - they turn gold, then digs a hole under the horse's hind legs - there's silver, he lets his legs down, they stand up silver knee. The devil catches up with the fugitives, the guy throws in the towel, a river appears, then a comb appears, a forest grows, and a brush - a wall of fire grows. The devil can't get over it, turns back. The guy finds himself in a foreign kingdom, calls to save the princess stolen by the Turkish padishah. The guy returns the girl, but does not confess, he kills the bull, rips off his skin and wraps him in it, the princess sees him and falls in love, asks his father to marry them. The king does not like the boy, he promises to marry him if he defeats the Turkish army, because the Turkish padishah, who has lost his princess, declares war. The boy defeats the Turkish army, his squad dies, he alone saves the king's daughter and her maid (her tent is captured by a Turkish squad). The horse asks to cut off his head, the guy doesn't want to, but he insists. The horse turns out to be a good fellow, bewitched by the trait, now that he's broken, the devil is dead. The tsar marries his daughter to the guy, well done marries the princess's beautiful maid]: Kretov 1977, No. 32:54-56; Russians (Tomsk, Biychsky y.) [The tsar has a little son, Neugomon Tsarevich, he is lulled in his cradle, saying that when he grows up, Rusuya Rusu, thirty brothers and sister, will marry him. She grows up, goes looking for her, comes to her palace. She knows that she is her betrothed, treats her and shows her wealth: the first closet contains silver, the second is gold, the third has precious stones, fruit trees grow in the garden, and birds of paradise sing. She flies away for thirty days to ask her brothers for permission to marry, and leaves the prince with the keys, except for one pantry covered with cow manure. Out of curiosity, the prince opens the pantry, where the gray-haired old man boils in resin, each vein is locked with a lock, the key is on the window. He says he doesn't know what he's suffering for and asks him to open at least one vein. N. took pity, the old man turned into Koshchei the Immortal and flew away. The mirror that the PP left is getting darker, which means that it is in trouble. The brothers who arrived explain that Koschey took her away. N. goes looking, comes to Koshchei, picks up the RR and drives him back. At this time, Koschey is walking in the field, asking his horse if everything is alive and well at home. Horse: It's all right, only N. took RR away. Koschey goes home, demands: "Seven children! Bring me seven pitchforks, raise my heavy eyebrows. I'll see how far the Rebellion Tsarevich is going." The children raise their eyebrows with a pitchfork, Koschey looks, announces that there is nothing to hurry, they must plow arable land, sow bread, reap, threshing, grind flour, bake bread, then he will go. After what has been done, Koschey goes, catches up with N., takes away the PP and does not order him to steal it anymore, otherwise he will severely punish her. N. takes RR away for the second time. The horse reports this to Koshchei. Koschey goes home, demands: "Seven children! Bring me seven pitchforks, raise my heavy eyebrows. I'll see if N is going far." The children raise their eyebrows with a pitchfork, Koschey looks, announces that they need to grind flour, bake bread, and then he will go. He catches up with N., whips him, does not tell him to return, otherwise he pulls one leg and tears him apart. N. takes RR away for the third time. The horse reports this to Koshchei. Koschey returns home, everything repeats itself, this time Koschey tears N. apart, throws, RR takes him away. The RR brothers see that the necklace left by N. has turned black, and one of them goes to look for it. A crow hit the body. He catches a crow, asks a crow to let him go, he tells it to bring alive and dead water, and ties bubbles to its wings so that it can collect from the dead sea and the living sea. Dead water makes the body grow together, N. gets up alive and says that he slept for a long time, but soon got up. The brothers persuade him not to save the RR, he does not agree, they teach him to go to the hero's widow, get her horses for three days, and get the worst foal. On the way, the Restless Prince stings the gadfly, asks him not to kill him, let him drink, then he will come in handy. N. wants to kill the wolf, catches pike, but releases them in exchange for a promise to come in handy. The widow has chained heroes who used to herd horses. She sends N. to watch 33 mares, who lie quietly in the field. N. falls asleep. When he wakes up, there are no mares. Gadflies, led by the one N. released, bring mares. He gives them back to her widow: her three daughters and 30 black girls. She scolds her daughters for not being able to escape, executes her eldest. The next day, N. falls asleep again, but wolves, led by the one he decided not to kill, bring mares, and the widow executes her middle daughter for this. On the third day, N. falls asleep, the mares disappear, but the pike causes a flood, horses float up and can only go ashore where N. The widow executes her third daughter, allows N. to choose from good stallions, he asks for a lousy foal, carries him on his shoulders, this is the elder brother of Koshcheev's horse. The foal asks him to let him go to his mother for a drink of milk to become stronger, and when he returns, throw his hat at him to stop him. The first time N. hits the neck with a hat, the second time the horse can walk by himself when he returns, N. hits his hat in the side, the third time he can already ride a horse, he rode from his mother, raising dust. N. takes N. to a cauldron with strong water, N. drinks, feels that there is no stronger hero, at the behest of the horse he drinks more, feels that he can pull the earth and sky into one place. The horse tells me to drink half more, N. says that he has lost half his strength, the horse says it's good, otherwise the earth would not wear it. The horse runs to the hero's widow, deceives her, saying that N. could not ride it, fell and died. She asks him to wear her husband's armor so that he can run in them, otherwise he will become a thin foal again, returns with them to N., who puts on armor and goes to Koshchei. On the advice of the horse, he sets a fire in the field, comes to Kashchei's house, takes the RR away. Koschey returns from the field, discovers the loss, and goes in pursuit. When N. comes to the fire, the horse rises high above it. Koschey makes his horse stand up. He says he can't get so high because his older brother is under N. Koschey tells him to get up, at this time N. attacks him, his horse also hits the rider with his hoof, Koschey falls right into the fire, burns]: Potanin 1902, No. 55:111-114; Russians (only Afanasyev and Krasnoyarsk Krai), Ukrainians, Belarusians [The goddaughter of the Mother of God: the poor man meets the Mother of God, she becomes his godfather; the poor man's daughter looks through the locked door visiting the godmother , but denies it; the girl is speechless and finds herself in the forest, in a tree; the king finds her there; the dumb marries the king; her child (children) is kidnapped by the godmother, covering her mouth with dumb blood; accused of infanticide, the queen at the place of execution confesses to the godmother that she entered a locked room, and then she is speechless; she receives her child (children); she is accepted again by her husband]: SUS 1979, No. 710:179 -180.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Adygi: Maksimov, Kerashev 1953 [=Kerashev 1957:194-209; Psha 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; 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 found out, 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 men into his service]: 91-116; Huth 1987 (shapsugi) [Prince Zedem considers his son Zedeb worthless; he tames the horse; in the absence of his father, he takes the keys to locked rooms from his mother; in six empty; he hacks the seventh; there three tied pigeons ask them to let them go; he lets go; the father tells him to take his son away and leave him asleep; three pigeons invite him to marry Silent Suret; she will marry the one who makes her speak; Z. kills a snake that eagles; the Eagle takes him under his wing, flies with him part of the way to MC; in an empty village, an old man says that the eight-legged monster of all devoured, you have to get into his only eye; Z. kills a monster; three pigeons teach you how to ask the MC how to resolve three disputes; in the presence of the MC they give answers themselves; the MS is forced to say that the answers are correct; Z. returns with MC and two other girls married on the way; his father plays with him, wins, gouges his eyes out, throws him tied up in the woods; three pigeons teach him how to eat an apple, he sees the light; together with kills his father with his wives]: 96-111; Abkhazians: Bgazhba 2002 [the king picks up a boy raised by deer, taken from his mother and abandoned by enemies; this is Jamhud; when he dies, the king does not tell him to enter the room, where the portrait of the sister of the seven Adau brothers lies; J. goes to look for her, meets Obidalu, Opivalo, Skorokhod, Ostrogoye, Hearter, Craftsman (Thief), Strongman; everyone says that only J. is amazing; finding out who in front of him, joins him; adau is required to 1) cut a stone with a dagger (The rumor hears their sister saying that her hair should be attached to the dagger; the Craftsman pulls out her hair); 2) eat a lot (Oat) , 3) drink (Opivalo); 4) run by sea (the witch runner puts him to sleep; The rumor hears his snoring, the Sharp-eye knocks the millstone from under his leg); 5) climb onto the table with a bowl of boiling water on his head (J. cries, seeing how wolves torment his deer mother, adau take tears for splashes, J. climbs again); 6) adau give poisoned food, the Craftsman moved the bowls, adau died; The strongman carries the bride J. along with the castle; wedding]: 164-171; Shakryl 1975, No. 16 [after the death of his father, the eldest son, contrary to his warning, drove along the forbidden path; he sees a table set under the tree, is going to eat, something comes down from the sky, kills him; the same is the average; the youngest grabs what came down, this is a girl; she ran a handkerchief over the bodies of the dead, they came to life; she became the wife of the youngest; did not give him the key to one chest; he stole it, opened the chest, her power flew out from there; a mustachioed dwarf on a goat came, killed his younger brother, took the beauty away; one woman gave birth to twins, left one baby in the forest; he was fed by a deer, he is as strong as deer; took off the handkerchief from his younger brother's face, he came to life; the old woman, sitting on the tail of a dog, transports people across the river; she was given money, she sent her brothers; the younger brother began to play musical instruments, the wife recognized him, the dwarfs were going to listen; the younger brother kills the dwarf, takes his wife away; the dwarf's brother chases a wild boar; the wife consistently throws three bottles, a thorny bush appears, mountain, fire; pursuer dies]: 65-73; Abazins [horses disappear in the village at night; khan sends his eldest son, who hides in horror when he sees a terrible rider; the same youngest son; young servant Murat guards three nights, kills horsemen on white, bay, raven horses, hides horses; Khan is dissatisfied that the servant, not sons, defeated enemies; adopts M., but sends sons with him to bring them back kidnapped horses and killed M.; all three on broken horses come to the village of kidnappers, marry their widows; when leaving, M.'s wife tells not to look through one window; he looks at the room and golden shoes outside the window; when she returns, the wife explains that they were left by a maiden in heaven, whom her first husband tried to catch in vain; the black horse teaches M. not to stay in a hot village, to stop where it is cold, grab the hair that causes flies to fight, exchange it for fly wings, rise to the sky in the form of a fly, bite that girl, promise to return her shoes; M. brings a heavenly girl, making a second wife; The brothers are jealous, they cut off M.'s legs in the forest, his wives are turned into maids; M. meets a blind, armless man, they have also been maimed by their brothers; all three bring the girl to cook and wash; her fire goes out, she sees smoke, comes to an old woman; an old woman follows an ash trail, sucks a girl's blood; her brothers guard, grab an old woman, force her to swallow and regurgitate the girl, making her healthy; the same with cripples; M. does not regurgitate; the bird tells the old woman to burn, find a finger in the ash, M. in it; the brothers return the girl to her parents; the unrecognized M. comes to the khan, where there is a feast and an archery competition; kills with the brothers' arrows, the khan dies of fear, M. becomes khan]: Tugov 1985, No. 29:54-66; Balkarians (Western 1955) [the khan's son has three friends; they decided to travel; there is a forest and a mountain across the river; two disappeared during the crossing; the khan's son and a friend killed two tours, captured, the local ruler (wild animals are his cattle), threw them in prison, wants to execute them; his youngest son released them; the Khan's son's companion was shot dead while fleeing; the Khan's son himself met a girl; married; met a man who offered a job: slaughter the horse, climb into the carcass, the eagle will lift it to the rock, we must throw off the gold; the khan's son saw the bones, did not throw gold; he hardly got out of the cave; the man takes him to him; when leaving, forbids to unlock one room; the young man unlocked; there was a milk lake and a golden tree; three pigeons flew in, took off their clothes, became girls, bathed in a milk lake; the owner of the house explained that they were three daughters of the king of jinns; advises to hide clothes you like; the girl fell in love with him; when the young man asked, she transferred him to his father's kingdom; enemies attacked; the girl turned enemy warriors into gravestones; revived for a promise not to come again; the young man hid his pigeon clothes in a chest on the roof; his wife was offended that he did not trust her, easily took her clothes and flew away; the young man went in search; her father was the king of jinns ordered a young man to be delivered to him, scolded his daughter; the young man and his wife returned to their homes]: Malkonduev 2017:179-218; Ossetians: Byazirov 1971, No. 1 [the son of a witch from the Borata family (SK) and his son Malik (SK) are going to marry the sister of seven giants, send their arrows as matchmakers; the giants and the UK go hunting, tell their sister and the UK not to open the seventh door; SM threatens to leave, the bride opens, the Waig from Black Mountain (UCHG) is released, takes the girl away; SK goes to look for her; meets, takes the Sea Drinker (he shoots after UCHG, tears off his leg), Zorky, Carrying mountains and valleys on his back, each in response says that he is not him amazing, and SK and SM; UCHG goes underground; only the SK was able to push the stone away, go down on a rope through the flame; sends the girl upstairs, the comrades remove the rope, fill the exit with a stone; SK tells an old woman whose fang touches the sky, the other rests on the ground, tell her how to kill UCHG (burn it, it burns), get upstairs (grab the horn of a white ram); SK grabs a black horn, that takes it even lower to the world of Donbettyr; there the dragon closed the water; swallows the SK, it cuts it from the inside, refuses to be belched, spit out, goes out over its side, the dragon exhales; Tsar Donbettyrov sends the UK to the black eagle; the UK hears one of her daughters singing (her snake will be eaten the day after tomorrow), the other laughing (her tomorrow), the third crying (she will be eaten today); the UK is killed by a snake; the downpour begins (eagle tears) the sun shines (the eagle sees that the daughters are alive), the whirlwind (flies); the eagle takes the UK to the ground, which feeds it with the supplies given by the Donbettyrs; they are not enough, the SK cuts off the meat from its hips; the eagle applies it back; the swineherd says that three brought the sister of seven giants, the king took her away, marries; SK changes clothes with a swineherd, the elder princess chooses him when she notices his golden curls under her hat; everyone tries SK quiver and arrows; SK takes them, puts on gold clothes, exterminates guests with arrows, takes wives for himself and SM]: 5-19; Dzagurov 1973, No. 32 [Aldar has 3 daughters, he keeps them in an iron tower; later a son was born Soslanbek; the widow's daughter went to get water; S. fired an arrow and broke her jugs; the widow teaches the girl to say to S. next time: he would find her sisters better; the mother had to confess, S. came to sisters, they asked him to beg his parents to let them go to church for a party; after the service, three monsters kidnapped the girls; parents told S. to find them; while S. was sleeping, an elephant came out of the river and swallowed S. and told him to sit on it; brings him successively to his three sisters; they give a ring, a knife, a purse to call them if necessary; S. refuses to marry beauties whose portraits show and seeks to be shown a hidden portrait; the father-in-law of the S. sisters is the dragon Zaliag Kalm; he sleeps with his body surrounded by an iron fence; S. cut the dragon, entered to meet his daughter, beautiful Sugar; she gave him sleeping pills, told him to throw him into the tower; S. summoned the horsemen from the ring, they released him, but when he saw Sugar, S. lost consciousness and Sugar took his ring; the same with a knife; from his wallet the heroes came out, and S. hid him in advance; after that, Sahar agreed to become S.'s wife; ordered not to unlock the seventh room; S. unlocked, there were the giant Khatag-Barag and his horse chained there; HB asks to leave them bread and hay, promises to provide three services; after being free, HB took Sugar; S. comes to her three times and takes her away, but HB catches up each time; for the fourth time he chopped S. into pieces; his sisters caught a crow; told his mother to bring live water, otherwise they would tear the crow to shreds; after reviving S., the sisters told him to get the half-brother of the horse HB; the owner of the herd tells him to herd him without loss: either he will give the horse, or he would cut off the shepherd's head; on the way, S. wanted to kill, but let the wolf, the fox and the wasp go; each of them gathers a herd in the evening; the mare must give birth, the witch beat her; in revenge, the mare said to S. choose the foal she will give birth to, although he seems weak; the foal tells you to wait three days, becomes a heroic horse; tells you to get into one ear, get out of the other - S. became a hero in golden robe; S. took Sugar away; when HB caught up and took off to hit S. from above, S.'s horse was taller and S. killed HB; everything is fine]: 80-91; Ingush: Bulatova 1985 [little Fusht-Bag stops crying when his father promises to marry him to Jinagaz; F. grows up, goes looking for J.; catches a hare, he turns into a beautiful woman, that's J.; promises to come to him in a week; stepmother sends the servant to put F. to sleep, J. cannot wake up; after the third time he leaves the ring, leaves forever; F. meets the maid J., throws J.'s ring into her jug, she recognizes him, keeps him; forbids entering the last room in the palace; F. comes in, there is a chained garbash (monster), F. agrees to free his hand, the garbash breaks out, now he is the master; F. and J. run, three-legged horse Garbasha replies that after eating, we will catch up, and without eating we will catch up; easily catches up with the fugitives, the garbash forgives F.; J. tells how the garbash got the foal; three nights we must herd the witch's mares; in the end one necklaces, birds of prey rushed to the foal; the harbash held it with one hand, fought off the birds with the other sword, one eagle tore off the foal's front leg, but still the horse that grew out of it was the fastest; F . rides, saves an eagle, a fox, a fish; herds mares, they run away, an eagle, a fox, a fish collect, F. gets a four-legged foal; the three-legged cannot catch up with him; the horse brothers agree to throw off the harbash , he falls into a hole, covers him with earth; F. brings J. to his home]: 133-141; Kibiev, Malsagov 1981 [= Tanbiyeva 2003:118-124; stepmother tells her husband to take Akhmet out of the house; he asks him to go down to the gorge for a fallen cake, he leaves himself; A. is polite to the witch Garbash, she keeps him, tells him not to unlock one room; A. unlocks, there is a horse, he feeds him, breaks the chain, the horse tells him to take the treasures and flee, carries him across seven seas; contrary to the horse's warning, A. pulls out the horse's hair, it turns into a bridge, G. is going to kill A., but the horse throws it into the sea; tells A. to hide good clothes, to hire to guard the melons; the youngest princess fell in love with him; all three send an apple to their father: the eldest is rotten, the middle princess is half rotten, the youngest is rosy; the stepfathers do not understand, the daughters explain what they want married; the youngest chose A. as her husband, and the sisters chose noble suitors; A. and his wife settle in a chicken coop; the king is ill, the sons-in-law go to get the lion's liver and lung; A. leaves on a nag, calls his horse, teaches you to lure a lion to rush into the abyss, teaches you to spell the liver bitter and the lung sweet; A. gives the lung to his older sons-in-law, they allow them to quilt on the shoulder, scars remain; the king from the liver only worse, but he has recovered from the lung; after that, the king moves the young to the calf house; next time the king will cure the milk of a roe deer living beyond the mountains; the horse teaches her to catch, pour milk into two vessels, in one it sweet, bitter in the other; everything repeats itself, the young remain in the calf; the third time you need buffalo milk, she lives at the bottom of the sea; A. pulls it out, shares it again with his older sons-in-law, but he comes to the king in rich clothes, shows scars on the body of his sons-in-law; the tsar drives away his older sons-in-law, gives A. half the kingdom, but he and his wife leave]: 117-137; Tanbiyeva 2003 [the son from the womb asks her when he will be born; she postpones childbirth, he tore her stomach, got out; at the age of 16 he demands him to marry; the neighboring prince is afraid of a young man; at his request, the healer invited the young man's mother to get a bride living just around the corner in the golden tower; only the four-hearted black Nege {Nogai} is suitable for companions; the young man sleeps, N. hears the conversation of doves: these people have conceived an impossible task for them; the girl's 7 brothers received them well; told the young man not to open one door; he opened, behind her Walker on chains, who tried to steal the girl; the young man freed him; he chained him and took the girl away; X. sleeps for seven days, awake for 7 days; N. comes, tells the girl find out where H.'s soul is; on Mount Sarmak, his hare is in his head, there is a box in the hare's head, there are three chicks in it; but Sarmak can only be killed with a sword moistened with H.'s urine; N. moistened H.'s sword with his urine, killed Sarmak, brought chicks, H. died, the brothers passed his sister off as a young man; on the way back, N. hears the pigeons talking again; H. has three brothers, one will become an apple tree, the other a spring; the third can only be killed with the same sword as Kh. is killed; N. does not let him drink, cuts an apple tree; the young man tells him to petrify, the girl refuses to live if N. does not live; the healer tells the young man to sprinkle the statue with the blood of his son; the young man stabbed him, N. and the boy came to life]: 284-288; Chechens [The Black Prince adopted orphans Hasan and Ahmed; forbids entering the same room; A. enters, sees a portrait of a beautiful woman; his radiance penetrates through the window, the Cheka notices, throws A. into basement; H. pulls it out and hides it; the girls tell him about the princess 11 years away; Cheka says that she has her portrait; sends H. for her, hoping then to kill him and take the girl himself; H. and A. go to pick up the girl, meet another prince, who says that he would also like to see this beauty, he also has a portrait of her; the brothers come to the city of beauty; the old woman advises to order make a deer for the master, let H. get inside, play the zurna; A. brings the deer, the princess listens, H. comes out, she falls in love with him; A. and the princess change their clothes, and then the imaginary princess (i.e. A.) runs away; A. takes the princess's maid as a bride; at night, the Cheka enters to kill H., but A. kills him himself; wedding]: Kibiev, Malsagov 1981:72-86; Kumyks [the dervish took Ibrahim to the top of an ovoid rock; he managed to go down to the garden of the gin king's daughters; they must return to their father for one month a year; when they fly away, they tell them not to look into one room; he enters there, the garden is even better, three come to swim beauties, throw off their swan robe; I. fell in love with a black woman; when the first girls arrived, the youngest promised to help get it; teaches her to hide, tie her hair to a tree while she dives, beat her, until she comes to terms; I. hides that girl's swan cover, the other two flew away; the black woman is forced to agree to become I.'s wife; he decides to return to his mother; the first girls tell I. to give it to his mother his wife's swan clothes for storage; while I. is away, the khan's mother sees a black woman in the bath; asks to sing; she agrees if the khan's mother digs up a chest in which the swan outfit is hidden; after receiving it, she flies away; I. calls the first three girls; they explain that his wife and the other two - from genies who do not have men, they kill men; the youngest sends I. to the border of the genie kingdom; then others help genies; I. gets to giants, they put him in a cage; he runs, meets female warriors, agrees to help alone; in the end he finds himself with those genies who have his wife; him, his wife and the helper they want to execute the genie girl; the guard lets them go; I. and the black cat return to their mother I.]: Ganieva 2011b, No. 17:201-208; Lucky [a neighbor asks the widower's daughter to persuade him to marry her; stepmother tyrannites her stepdaughter, her father leaves her in the forest; she climbs a tree; wolves and bears refuse to eat her; they fear that she will be eaten by Zaza, a white cow, she digs the sky with one horn and the earth with another; Zaza feels dripping tears, tells the girl to jump on her chest; leads her to the dungeon, tells her not to touch the jugs; she puts it in one finger, it turns silver; the girl broke her finger with a stone, tied it; Zaza tells her to swim in one jug, in another, the girl turns silver and gold; pulls out expensive dishes from the cow's left ear, corals from the right ear, etc.; passed off as Khan's son]: Khalilov 1965, No. 59:174-178; Lezgins [{cf. Mordovians}; an angel in a dream tells the poor man that he should send one of his three daughters to heaven as a shepherd; only the youngest agrees; dressed in men's clothes, the wind lifted her up with a dog to the sky from the top of the mountain; father and son have sheep in the sky; the father says that a guy has come, the son suspects that the girl; she withstands all the tests (hit the target, the dog changed her duties at night under the mistress of violets - violets will wither under the woman, but not under the man); seven years later she was released; from the sky the young man saw that she was still a girl; on the holiday everyone swung on a swing, the dog did not let her in the girl, but she sat on them, the swing took her back to heaven; she had to marry; her mother-in-law did not give her keys; fell asleep, the girl took the keys, began to open the rooms; in one jug in which the moon, sun, rain, wind; she took off the lid, saw the ground where mother and father jumped into this jug; flew and turned into sunlight; the guy jumped into a jug of snow out of grief, turned into snowflakes]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 20:235-237 (=Khalidova 2012, No. 10:37-39); Tabasarans [the father confesses to his daughter that Galigambar ("a formidable giant", but the name Kambar goes back to the name of Ali's servant in the Shiite tradition, p. 225) calls him to heaven for 7 days to herd sheep; his daughter goes instead of him, wearing men's clothes and taking a talking dog; 7 days in heaven - 7 months; the dog helps the girl remain unrecognized by eavesdropping and telling her what the celestials are talking about; the girl enters the same house; the owner shows her all but one of the rooms; she steals keys, unlocks the room; there are vessels, in one rain falling to the ground, the other is snow, in the third sun; in the seventh she sees parents harvesting crops in the field; she called out to them, but they warn her not to go down; she begins to go down the chain (or rope), but the chain cut short, the girl turned into snow crystals; when the snow shines in the sun, these are the body particles of a girl who fell from the sky]: Khalidova 2012, No. 9:35; Georgians: Kurdovanidze 1988 (1), No. 30 [ a retired soldier is hired as a farmhand to an old woman; she does not tell you to unlock the second room; he unlocks, there is a bottle of water, he pours out water, a woman appears, tells her to run to the sea; she will fly, let him fly waiting for her on the shore; an old woman gives the workers an acorn, they put a soldier to sleep three times when a woman comes for him; she leaves him a ring; a man sends him overseas; a dead man in a tree; says that there will be black, red, white horses; first jump on black; he brings to the house; a soldier kills a 9-headed maiden; black - 10-headed, white - 11-headed; the owner's daughter - that liberated a woman as a soldier; her father gives him his daughter and house]: 74-78; 1988 (2), No. 74 [someone steals apples from the royal garden; the elder, middle princes do not notice the thief, the youngest grabs the bird; she tells her to let her go and go in her footsteps, comes to the tower, where the bird becomes human, does not tell you to unlock one room, flies away to get a wife for the young man; the young man unlocks the room, there are women chained there, hay in front of them, and a horse in front of them meat; the bird returns, promises to kill the young man next time; so twice; the third time the horse tells him to release him and the women; swim under muddy and blue water to add strength and hair become gold; take the saddle and armor, kill the sorcerer's decrepit mother; the horse brings the young man to the builders of the wall; she collapses every time, for the horse's brother is underground; the young man digs the ground, the second horse jumps out, follows the young man; he pulled a cowhide over his head, hired the king as a gardener, the younger princess noticed his golden hair, he tells her to keep silent about it; dev tells the king to send him to eat the eldest daughter; the young man removes his cowhide, summons a horse, kills a deva; the same with the other two devas, with the middle and younger princesses; to fight with the sorcerer bird, the horse tells him to take his brother, cut his head the sorcerer into four parts; the king gathers male grooms; the elder princesses sit on the knees of noble young men, the youngest on the gardener's knees; they are placed in a goose; the king is sick, sends son-in-law to fetch water immortality; the younger son-in-law gives it to the elders for permission to cut off their little fingers; the king sends them to bring the liver of a guinea pig; the horse descends into the sea: if blood appears, he has wounded a pig, if foam - he must be rescued; blood has appeared, the young man gives his older sons-in-law a piece of liver so that his horse can kick them; the enemy attacked, the young man defeated everyone, the king bandaged his hand, sees his handkerchief on his hand gardener, everything turns out; the older son-in-law was driven to the lower floor, the youngest was brought closer]: 14-25; Armenians (Ararat Valley) [the poor man and his wife came to the city of Turtamba for birth, but it was too late and the gatekeeper did not let them in; the wife gave birth to a boy; the king had a dream: the one born at the city wall would tear his head off; the king ordered to buy and kill the baby, but the servant moistened the diapers with the blood of a bird, left the boy under the bush; the doe fed him; he became incredibly strong; the king's servants hardly managed to grab him; his name was Jeyran-ogly; he quickly learned science; the prince is not allowed into the 40th room, he entered, there is a portrait beauties, he went in search, D. with him; the devas are amazed at D.'s strength, unquestioningly gave the prince their sister; while she was sleeping, the prince took the keys tied to her braids, unlocked the rooms; in one white devil, pilaf and water in front of him, but he could not reach it; the prince tied the chain, the dev pulled up the cauldrons, ate everything and drank everything, broke the chains and took the prince's bride; D. went to take her away, and the devas chained the prince to a pole and put a lamp on his head; D. cut off the white maiden's head, brought the girl, cut off the heads of five devas, spared two; the king realized that D. was the boy he had dreamed of; ordered the servant to be beheaded who spared the boy; D. hears three pigeons talking; the king will send a horse for D. to sit on, you will burn; he will be locked in a room with a snake; if a drop of her blood touches his body, D. will be petrified; D. tells the groom to sit on his horse; D. killed the snake, but became petrified; the prince's wife dreamed that it was necessary to kill her two children and moisten the stone with their blood; she did so, D. came to life; cut off the king's legs first, and then head]: Ioannisian 1968:136-145; Azerbaijanis [the eldest daughter asks the merchant to bring a bulbous husk shirt, a medium brocade shawl, a younger cat; the dervish gives a shirt, a handkerchief, asks the eldest, the middle wife; offers to eat the man, the wife hides the meat behind the gate, it falls to the floor, the dervish nails the older, middle sister by the braids; the youngest takes the cat with her, she eats meat, the dervish satisfied; leaves; the wife opens the fortieth room, frees the sisters; all three fly away in the plane chest; the youngest is married by the son of the padishah, the middle nobleman, the chief vizier; the dervish gives the guards sleeping pills almonds, a lion and a tiger lamb, the prince's wife pushes him down the stairs, a lion and a tiger kill him; for her salvation, the woman promised a daughter she will have; when she is five years old, she is summoned three beggars, give wonderful abilities (if she cries, a hurricane, laughs, roses fall, walks, gold and silver traces); the girl's father's evil sister feeds her salty, gives water in exchange for her eye, then for second; leaves in a deserted place, replaces his daughter at a wedding with a padishah; the poor man finds a blind man, sells flowers that have fallen from her mouth to an evil aunt in exchange for her eyes, the girl sees the light; the prince married on her, her aunt and her daughter were tied to mules]: Akhundov 1955:230-240; Azerbaijanis [Techmuz Shah has a son, Jagan Shah; one day he and seven friends went boating, the storm took her to unknown lands; D. for seven years was the king of monkeys who fought with half-humans (they split in half, then merge into one); his companions were captured and eaten; finally, D. fell into a copper country Miss; there a man promised clothes, gold and a beautiful daughter for a small job; he gave off a slave for his daughter; brought D. into the forest, ordered the horse to be slaughtered, climbed into its insides; the birds carried the carcass to rock; in the morning, a man ordered him to throw precious stones, loaded him on the arch and left; D. came to an old man who was guarding King Solomon's birds; he forbids him to enter the same room; there was a swimming pool; three doves flew in, threw off their blankets, became girls, swam, flew away; the youngest Gulzar felt that there was a man nearby; the old man explained that the next time the Peri would arrive in seven years; to watch and pick up the clothes; G. moved D. to his father's country, had a wedding; G. hid his shirt in a hole, a building was built above it; but G. found a shirt, flew away, told him to look for it in the country of peri-shah in Gavgariham Fortress; D. returned to Miss's country, came to the old man in the same way as the first time; he sent him to his brother, who has not 300, but 600 birds, and the old man, who has 900 birds; only the oldest, who can no longer fly or walk, knew where this fortress was; the old man fed it, she brought D. to the throne of peri-shah; for leaving G., her father hung her by the braids twice a day; arranged the wedding of D. and G., they returned to earth; D. destroyed the attacking army of the Shah of China, took his father's throne]: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:355-372; Turks: Stebleva 1986, No. 43 [three daughters of the padishah want to marry; their father's uncle advises him to send him three watermelons of varying degrees of maturity; the padishah understands the hint, promises to pass it off as those whom their daughters see in a dream; the elders see the vizier's sons, the youngest sees the vizier's sons, as if the father is pouring her water for washing; he tells her to be executed, the hangman lets her go, brings her father her shirt, dyed with the blood of a bird; the girl comes to the maiden, calls him father; he leaves her the keys, does not tell her open the 41st room; she opens green, white, black dresses; geese see her in them, their feathers fall out; then she comes to watch shahzade, falls in love; dev allows the wedding, but asks for their future son to be named by himself; they forget the promise; dev breaks in, tells him to cut off his head, his body and head turn into a precious bed and cradle; everyone comes to watch; father girls too, dresses as a dervish, pours water on her hands; they get to know each other, everyone is happy, remarried], 51 [a childless merchant dervish promises the birth of a daughter; at the age of seven he will pick her up, until you can't give her a name; children laugh at the nameless one; a dervish comes, gives her the name Seti Nusret, takes her to her house, forbids her to open the door to one room; SN opened a cemetery there, a dervish devours the liver of the dead, CH loses her silver bracelet; since then, the dervish has often asked if SN knows his dervish father, who politely praises him every time; appears to her in the form of a father, mother, babysitter, the girl answers the same way; the dervish takes her home, the padishah's son marries her; she gives birth three times (two sons and a daughter) while her husband has left; each time the dervish takes the child after with a bloody finger on the lips of a woman in labor and leaving her speechless; twice the mother-in-law tells her son that the child is dead, the third time that his mother ate it; the son tells his wife to live in the basement, prepares for a new wedding; SN asks for a stone of patience, a knife and a comb; tells the stone his story, it swells and then bursts; SN is going to stab himself, a dervish appears, returns the children, blesses SN, everything good]: 117-183, 209-217; Turks (Ankara, Istanbul, Kars, Malatya; various options) [an old man - a seller of spindles (skewers, beads, a broommaker, a Jew a pin seller) locks at home one of three sisters; either poor people sell their daughter to a sorcerer in need of money; or the padishah gives his daughter to a giant; or the father leaves and promises gifts to three daughters; only a gift for the eldest can be purchased with the help of a dervish to whom he promises a daughter; either childless spouses want a daughter; they must throw all the peas into the sea, but forget one and the sorcerer finds the girl; or three sisters are looking for a chicken or a cat and they go to a giant; the old man offers the girl a human being; she does not eat, says she will eat his finger (ears, chest, hands, donkey tongue); the old man cut him off, but the girl threw her finger away; finger does not give a voice from the girl's belly, the old man kills her; the same with the second girl; the third feeds the cat's finger; the finger says he is in a warm stomach; or the girls should take care of the sorcerer's children (these are snakes) and only the youngest does not cry, but does what needs to be done; after that, the old man trusts the girl, but forbids her to enter the 21st room; she goes there, there is a young man hanging there; he advises cutting off the ogre hair, then he will fall asleep for 14 days; the girl hears a voice: remove the bottle from the young man's head; then he wakes up, kills the old man; or, when she enters the room, the girl sees corpses there (devouring them old man); an indelible drop of blood appears on the key; or the girl's finger turns gold; the girl sees the corpses of her sisters, revives them with a whip; putting the sisters in a bag or chest, asks the old man to carry them a gift home; then she sits in a bag herself, the old man carries her too; or the girl is released by her brother, husband, prince; or she kills the old man herself when he falls asleep; or the sorcerer (der Böse) comes into the house A girl who ran away from him in the form of a horse or ram, in the form of a midwife; puts everyone to sleep, but still thrown into the oven and burns; sometimes a sorcerer kills a girl's two children]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 157:170-173.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [the dervish gives the childless padishah an apple to eat in half with his wife; a son Jehantig was born, the dervish ties a diamond dagger to him in which his soul; D. grew up, opened the forbidden room , there is a portrait of a girl with 40 braids, he goes to look for her; meets her, takes the Stargazer and the Sailor as companions; the dragon has closed the water, gives it for the girls, the Shah's daughter is intended to be eaten; D. kills the dragon, gets the princess, gives it to the Stargazer; in another city she kills ferocious lions, gives the received princess to the sailor; at Mount Kaf sees petrified people trying to get the princess; hits a cat with an arrow, on whose neck the keys, petrified ones come to life; the girls sweep the yard with their eyelashes, D. gives them brooms; kills the divas guarding the sleep of a girl with 40 braids; takes her as his wife, lives in a palace; another shah-zade wants her take away; the old woman persuades D.'s wife to find out what his soul is in; throws a knife into the sea, D.'s body into the well; the Stargazer sees that the star D. is clouded; together with the Sailor they come, take out a knife, and D., he comes to life; D. kills an old woman and a kidnapper; everything is fine]: Rosenfeld 1956:175-185; Tajiks: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1957 [Boborakhim is the son of a padishah; his father showed him all but one of the rooms; entering it, B. saw portrait of a beauty; father confesses that this is Robia with 40-arshin hair; fly her towards the moon for 7 days and nights; the gate is guarded by tigers and a dragon; she will choose her own husband; carpenter Sangsabur with her the team made a flying horse; when he reached the city of R., B. saw two moons; the brighter one was the reflection of R.'s face in the sky from the hole in the ceiling of her room; B. took with him barbecue coals, a flying horse caught fire and burned down; S. made a new thing and flew to the rescue; on the way he picked up R.'s 40-arshin hair in the river; wrapped it around his arm, killed tigers and a dragon; R. chose S. as her husband, and sad B. was at the wedding] : 160-167; Niyazmukhamedov 1945 [a man gave an apple to the childless padishah and vizier, both had sons; they were kept in a dungeon; once a horse pierced a hole with its hoof; the padishah showed his son whose name was Sultanmahmad Mirzo, the whole palace except one room; SM broke the constipation and found there a book with a portrait of the beautiful Bibiruzbi; fell in love, went in search; the son of the vizier is with him; the dragon tries to eat a black woman, SM killed a dragon; the black woman promised to serve SM; he pulled a splinter out of the lion's paw, the lion gave him a lion cub; they stayed with an old woman; half of the city is lit at night; this is the light from Bibiruzbi's face; the old woman gave SM to her son and he was hired as a groom for the padishah; B. asked him to be a gardener; fell in love, they got together; the maid also wants love, but the SM refused; then she reported to the padishah; SM captured; the padishah tells him to play chess: SM will either receive B. and the throne, or be hanged; SM won, did not take the throne, but asked B.; the padishah ordered him to hang, but the jailers only imprisoned him; B. found him, released them all; 4 padishahs attacked them; SM let a black woman and a lion at them, they defeated their enemies; the padishah asked for forgiveness; SM brought B. home; his father wants to kill him and sends the poisoned clothes, horse, tries to strike; knight Zahrak does not allow SM to touch the poison, deflects the padishah's hand; the padishah is killed, SM reigned]: 66-82; Shugnans {? I.I. Zarubin's archive; Zarubin mainly seems to have worked with the Rushano-Shugnan languages} [the tsar gives his son the keys to 40 treasuries, but did not give one; the prince stole the key, unlocked the casket, and contains a portrait beauties; the king noticed that the son was turning pale and the portrait was gone; allowed his son to go in search; stayed in town with an old woman; that girl was just having a wedding; the prince put on women's clothes, winked the girl she told me to send that woman to her, they united; the girl teaches her to steal during her wedding to the king; they came to the castle, whose mistress tells everyone to fight her; the prince defeated her and he also married; at home, the king fell in love with one daughter-in-law and the vizier with another; they decided to kill the prince; they took him hunting, there was no water, the vizier promised water in exchange for his eyes; the prince's hound hid them under a stone; the dog brought the blinded prince to the water, brought a cake from his wives; he hears a parrot saying to the starling: we must wipe the eye sockets with the leaves of this tree, then insert his eyes; the young man tore off the leaf, the dog brought her eyes; disguised as a dervish, she comes to the king; replies that she knows how to play the rubbe and persuade a woman to love whoever she needs, but for this he must be left alone with her; he dug a hole with his wives, wives they pushed the king and the vizier into it, the prince cut off their heads]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 32:316-326; the Bartangans [the tsar gave his son the keys to 40 treasuries, but did not give one; the prince stole the keys , found a portrait in a chest, fainted; the king had to let his son go looking for a beautiful woman; Vezirbach ("the vizier's son") caught up with him and went with him; they came to that girl's house; she has 12 brothers, they can't raise the cauldron, V. picked up alone; the diva brothers came, V. broke their arms; the prince and the divas ate a portion, and V. 12 meat carcasses; the divas gave their sister to the prince; gave the keys to 40 rooms, but did not give one; The prince broke the castle, there were divas on chains; asked for water; after drinking water, tied the prince with his hair and took his wife to the next world; V. went in search, telling him to wait 110 days; as soon as V. left, The divas tied up the prince and left; but the lame divas untied and tied them again for their return; V. ate bread from that diva's sister, went down to the lake for the diva; there the prince's price is looking for a diva in his beard; V. killed the diva; sent the girl upstairs; when he was pulled out, when he saw that he was not a diva, he was thrown back; V. came to the old woman's house; at night he went out: laughter on one side, crying on the other; the dragon demands every morning a man, a jug of butter and two bags of bread; it was the turn of the king's daughter; V. fell asleep with his head on her lap; woke up from a fallen tear; cut down all 7 dragon heads; the dragon became a bridge over the river; the servant said that he killed the dragon, but only V. was able to raise his heads; the king gave V. the bird Simurg; V. sat on one wing himself, loaded a supply of meat on the other; Simurg carried it to the ground, gave a white feather and a black feather; to be an old man, you have to stick white in your head and black in your head; there was a fight for that girl, V. took her away; the prince did not complain about the diva brothers for tying him up; he returned home with V. and his wife; his father went blind; the prince wiped his eyes with a handkerchief and he saw the light; everything is fine]: Sokolova 1960, No. 6:32-40; Ishkashim [after the death of the tsar, his wife does not give his son the key to the fourth room; he stole the key, in the room he saw a portrait of a beauty; the prince reached the red world; shepherd: in the red world there is a red diva, in white, in black he is black, he is the strongest; they are married to sisters; the black wife is the one whose a young man saw the portrait; the young man reaches the house of a black diva; the shepherd teaches: when the diva sticks his head, he must cut it off; the young man took the beauty, everything is fine]: Pakhalina 1959, No. 6:131-133; Uzbeks [7 The old woman's daughters take turns locking the 6th gate in the evening; the youngest Namaki was frightened by the sound of a bucket turned upside down and did not lock the last gate properly; a diva came and took her away; she woke up in the palace there was a cat next to her; N. caressed her, the cat was a diva; he forbade entering two of the 7 rooms; when he fell asleep, N. stole the keys, unlocked the sixth room - there were half-dead girls in it; one says that in the seventh room prince turned into a dog; we must remove the chain from it; N. unlocks the room, removes the chain, the dog becomes a prince, pulls out a vessel with a leech from the fountain; tells the diva to cure the girls and send them home, and then presses the leech; the divas turns to ashes; N. married the prince]: Rogov 1980:218-222; Uzbeks [the old gardener gave King Balkh a parrot; when the king was away, the 40th wife asked if she was all more beautiful; the parrot replied that Mislab was the most beautiful on the banks of the Nile; his wife told her to cook a parrot, but he asked the maid to kill the turtledove and take him to the forest in a cage; the gardener found and brought it again the parrot, who told the king everything; the king ordered his 40th wife to be gouged out and thrown into the zindan; she gave birth to a boy Bachodur; the king ordered him to be pulled out, and went to look for M.; B. grew up and took the throne; to the 40th room no one comes in; when the vizier handed the keys to B., he looked into her and saw a portrait of Princess M.; at this time the king entered M. Castle, tied her sleeping; untied her when she called him her lord; put him on a horse, flew, threw him into the river, and when he sailed, she became a young man; M. ordered the diva to move her castle, her and the king to Balkh; her army of divas defeated Peri's army; M. ordered the 40th queen to be released, get her eyes back; M. fell in love with B.; B. defeated her father in a duel, married M., and her father left and never returned]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1): 546-558; kafirs (prasun): Buddruss 1974 [the world is dark, giant keeps the sun and moon in the cave; Māndi wants to create people, but they need light; in the guise of a boy, M. trusts the giant and his mother; he does not tell you to open one door; S. put his finger in the crack, he turned gold; M. tied him with a cloth, said he was injured; the next time he put his hand in; left alone, he opened the door, followed by a waterfall, the sun to his right, the moon on the left; M. swam in the golden water, placed the sun on his right shoulder, the moon on his left; rode off on a black horse, the valley (gul, the same word means the whole world) lit up; M. found a dagger in the horse's ear, killed the giant and his mother (in the giant's ear) with it seven heads, or the giant mother has seven sons); god Māra suggested placing the sun and moon in the sky to shine for everyone; the sun to warm people, the moon for giants]: 32-33; Hussam-ul- Mulk 1974a [Imra created Moni from his breath; at that time, demons led by Lazoro stole the sun and moon; M. split the log, invited the demons to stick their hands in the crack, knocked out a wedge, all the demons were trapped, died; M. came to Badiluk, the mother of these demons; she said that the sun and moon were stolen by the demons of Dizano, their fortress in the air was tied with the thinnest thread; M. shot an arrow in the thread, the fortress fell, but The sun and the moon were not inside; M. came to the mother of the seven demons; they returned, their mother persuaded them not to kill M., who was good at home; he was told not to open one door; M. put his finger in the crack, he turned gold; he tied it up, said he was injured; the mother and her sons broke the stone that allegedly injured M.'s finger; left alone, M. knocked out the door, the sun and moon flew into the sky; M. ran and threw behind the needle (forest), a ball of thread (fence); demons stopped pursuing, M. returned to Imra]: 28-30; kafirs (kati; western in 1968 in Kabul from a native of villages. Kulem) [the man had three daughters and a son; daughters married diva brothers; the man fell ill, gave his son all the keys to the house and did not give the key to one room alone; when the father fell asleep, the young man pulled out from the key to that room was out of his pocket and opened it; there was a millstone; the young man looked through his hole and saw a beautiful woman; she said: "At one time, your father missed [me], now you're in in turn, you will miss me"; the young man came to his father, who sent him in search; the young man met his sister's maid at the spring; threw a ring into her jug; when the maid poured water on her hands to the hostess, the ring fell into the pelvis; the sister, recognizing his brother's ring, sent him for him; fed him and hid him under the house; the divas returned in the evening; the children began to repeat that the mother's brother was in the basement; the mother was angry, pulled her brother by the hair; the divas stabbed a goat for him; the next day the young man left; met his second sister's maid at the spring; the situation repeated; the same: with the third sister; the young man met a witch who was the sister of the divas; gave her a note from one of her brothers; she recognized the handwriting, let the young man go; the situation repeated with the second and third witches; the young man met the shepherd and asked him where Paradise is the shadow of the sun {the name of the beauty}; the shepherd gave him a staff: "When you reach the river, raise your staff and point to the water; [water] will part and you will go to the other side. You'll leave and you'll be in front of the gate. Dice are thrown in front of the donkey and hay is placed in front of the wolf. You throw the hay to the donkey and the dice to the wolf. It has two poles. Put the one on the right to the left, the one on the left to the right. When you enter the house, pick up the beds spread out, and spread out the collected beds. This house is the house of Paradise - the shadow of the sun"; the young man did as the shepherd told him; R. saw the young man, he asked her where the diva's soul was; R. replied that he did not know; in the evening the diva came and fell asleep; R., on the advice of the young man, took it children in the thicket of thorns; the divas asked why the children were crying; R. said they were asking where their father's soul was; unable to withstand crying, the diva said: "My soul is in one parrot, and the parrot is in one parrot, and the parrot - in a cage. This cage is in a large cauldron, and the cauldron is buried in a hut on the summer." In the morning, the divas flew away, and R. and the young man went to the summer and started digging; they pulled out the cauldron, it had a cage, and the cage was parrot; the young man tore off his legs, wings and head; the diva fell apart; the young man took R. to his home, his father had a feast]: Grunberg 1980, No. 4:141-145; Kati (sails) [fairy and ginny they lived like sisters; both had a son; they agreed that if one of them died, the other would raise an orphaned boy as her own; the fairy died; the old woman advised Ginny not to treat her adopter like her own relatives; Ginny gave him bread made from ash; he cried to his mother's grave; she told him from the ground which cow to go to; instead of manure, a cow spewed a piece of cheese; the young man ate well; one day both young men they shot from the bow; the fairy's son did not tell Ginny's son to shoot at something whitish, but he shot; there were ash bread; so Jeannie's son found out what his mother was feeding the fairy's son; offered to switch places when Ginny brought bread; after receiving bread from ash, Ginny's son hit his mother, but the fairy's son did not allow him to kill her; the old woman told Ginny about the cow and offered to pretend to be sick, demanding beef; son Jeannie: Let my mother die from her illness; but the fairy's son went to slaughter a cow; she was not there and the young men followed her; the fairy's son found a cow and made peace with it, but she did not give cheese anymore; sent a young man up the valley to his mother's seven sisters; the fairy's son lived with them for a couple of years and went to visit Jeannie's son; the fairies gave him a belt (camarband): if he turns red, come back; and if the water is in ours the cup will turn red, we will come to the rescue ourselves; the fairy's son sees the old man carrying the girl; every year the giant demands a girl, otherwise he will ruin the village; the young man volunteered to bring her to the lake himself, struck the giant with an arrow; the old man offered to shave his head and cut his neck; the fairies came and revived the young man; he killed the old man and married his daughter {did the old man drag her to the giant?} ; once a fairy's son saw smoke; wife: this is a place from which they do not return; there is an old woman: her legs are a tripod, her left hand is fire, her right hand is a spoon she used to stir in her stomach while cooking; the son of a fairy brought her a tripod, firewood, made a fire, gave her a wooden spoon; the old woman is grateful, promised to save him from her sons; taught her how to greet them; when she left in the morning, the old woman's sons did not tell the young man go to that wall and those shutters; the young man went and put his finger in the hole, which turned gold; the old woman bandaged her finger and told him to answer that the young man had cut him; the next day the young man put his whole hand in and then he replied that the wound was swollen; on the third he broke the shutters; outside the window there was a pond with a horse in it, the sun on his right shoulder, the moon on his left; the young man jumped on his horse and flew it to the sky; the old woman's sons saw the rising sun wanted to kill the young man; the horse told him to take the sword out of his ear; the young man killed the old woman's sons; this is how the sun appeared; this is how Imra and Ashpegra did it all]: Edelberg 1972, No. 6A: 47-54; the Burish [The White Virgin (Dēu, DB) is hired by the noble king Shahzad Bahram (B.) to see him; but he does not go out to the people; DB takes the form of a vizier, advises B. to go out; takes the form of a beautiful horse; when B. sits on him, takes him to heaven; calls him son; leaves, leaving many peri in care, forbiding B. to let B. into the same garden; B. threatens to kill himself, the peri are forced to let him in; there the milk pond 7 doves arrive, leave their clothes, swim; then Shahri Bānu arrives, BD himself is in love with her; B. hides, fumigates SB's clothes with smoke from cow manure; returns when SB calls him not father, uncle, son, but husband; SB wears it but cannot take off; when BD returns, B. hides SB in the room; confesses everything; although BD is upset, he marries lovers; one day B. dreams that on earth his Pipe Keeper (HT, Pipe Bearer) has seized power, tyrannites his (B.) former wife and sons; DB releases B. and SB, gives hair from his armpit to summon him in case of trouble; they settle in the poor man's house; while B. is hunting, HT comes, demands SB for himself; sends servants who do not return at first, because they faint with the beauty of SB; SB promises to marry HT if he will allow her to wear her clothes; flies to Shahr-i-Shaskin (SHSH), throwing the ground in the face of HT; B. calls the DB, the subjects recognize B. as king, he appoints the poor man with whom he lived to replace HT, goes looking for SB; only one old maiden knows the way to school; wearing an invisible hat, B. overhears a girl telling the boy that her sister SB wants to marry today, but she does not want to; B. eats quietly food, boy and girl fight, blaming each other; B. finds SB, her mother tells them to flee, but B. first defeats the army of the king's fiancé SB (invisible, he makes warriors kill each other); the father of the SB recognizes B. as a son-in-law; B. and SB return home, the poor man is made a vizier]: Lorimer 1935, No. 1:3-33 (=Felmy 1986, No. 6:33-43).

Baltoscandia. Norwegians: Dasent 1970:71-90 [the youngest of the king's two sons leaves, is hired by a giant; he tells him to clean the stable in a day, not to go into the other rooms; the young man comes in, into one cauldron it boils without fire, what gets into it becomes copper; in the second, the cauldron makes silver, in the third it is gold; the young man lowers a curl into each; in the fourth room there is a girl; she teaches by cleaning the stable, dig a shovel with a handle, the work will be done immediately; the giant suspects that the maid taught him; the next day, bring the horse; girl: the horse is full of fire, we must throw bits in his mouth; on the third day: bring payment from hell for the borrowed fire; girl: knock on the rock with a club, the door will open, ask for as much as you can carry; on the fourth day, the giant himself brings the young man to the maid, tells her to cut his throat, cook the broth; she puts three drops of the young man's blood to cook with the old junk, both run away, sail across the sea on a ship; drops of blood are responsible for the giant for the girl; when he understands the deception, calls Stream-sucker, he drinks the water of the sea, the ship is already visible; the young man throws a piece of salt, a mountain appears; the giant drilled it, Drunk wanted to start drinking, but the young man drips into the sea from flasks, it fills up again; the fugitives reach the shore; the Queen goes after the horses, the bride tells me not to talk to anyone; the brother's bride's sister gives an apple, he bites off, forgets the bride; she goes to an old woman, makes the house golden; the constable brings money, wants to marry; she tells him to throw hot coals at himself all night; then a lawyer tells him to push in the door; the sheriff drags a calf by the tail; the young man must marry the bride's older brother's sister; the carriage falls apart, manages to ride thanks to magic items borrowed by the giant's daughter; she was invited to a feast; she puts on the table golden rooster and chicken fighting over the golden apple; the Queen remembers everything; the witch who gave him the apple was torn apart by 24 horses], 188-193 [the poor man cannot pay his godchildren; an unfamiliar lady takes be the godmother to his daughter; the girl lives with her; she does not tell her to open one room; she opens, a star flies out from there; next time the moon, then the sun; after the third time, the goddaughter She drives her away, speechless; the girl sleeps in a tree above the stream; the prince's maid comes for water, takes the girl's reflection for her own, throws a jug, for it is not good for such a beautiful woman to be a maid; the same from the second; the prince himself comes, sees the girl, marries; when the wife gives birth, the goddaughter puts the servants to sleep, takes the child, lubricates the mother's lips with blood; everyone thinks that she ate the child; after the third birth, the wife the prince is taken to the fire; goddaughter, because St. The Virgin, bringing her three sons, is speechless; it was a punishment for violating the prohibition; St. The virgin was as upset as the prince's wife at the disappearance of her sons; everyone is happy], 311-322 [the widow's son is hired by a stranger; he feeds him, but does not require work; when leaving, she forbids entering to a certain room; for the first time, the young man does not find anything there, the owner forgives him, beats him, heals him; the young man sees a boiling pot, bathes in it, becomes a strong handsome man; frees the horse under hot coals with their noses, and food is behind their backs; the horse tells you to wear rusty armor, take a rusty sword; they run, throw a blackberry branch (thorny thickets), a stone (mountain), pour water from a jug (lake, one drop fell nearby, but the horse swam out); the troll and his entourage are trying to drink the lake, burst; the horse tells him to let go for now, wear rags, moss wig, hire the king; he is driven out of the kitchen, the stables, he works for a gardener; the princess sees him without a wig; when he learns that the young man was sleeping with his daughter, the king threw him into prison, his daughter locked him; enemies attacked, the young man asks for permission to go to war on an old nag ; summons his horse, smashes enemies, kills their king; slightly wounded, the king bandages the wound with his handkerchief; everything is explained, the young man marries the princess; the horse orders to cut off his head, turns into man; he was the former king of a country whose king a young man had now killed]; Icelanders [the king's wife died; he was sitting on the grave, a woman came up, named Ingijörg, the king married her; when goes hunting, I. advises his son Sigurd to go with his father, but he refuses; she hides him under the bed; the giantess enters, this is I.'s sister; I. treats her; when she enters and then leaves, the giantess asks is S. here; I. says that he left with his father; the same next time (hides under the table); on the third (hides against the wall), the giantess will cry out that S. is here and let him now remain half-burnt- half-dried until he finds it; I. reproaches S.: she warned him to go with his father; gives him a ball, he rolls, S. follows him to her first sister I.; she sits on a rock, pulls S. up with a hook, but he gives her the golden ring given to I.; she is happy, tells her to fight, and when S. gets tired, gives her a drink of strong water to restore vigor; sends her to her second sister (all the same); she gives her to the third; the third, giving a golden ring, sends her to the lake, where the girl Helga plays with the boat, tells her to give her a ring; she takes S. to her father's house when he leaves; when she returns, H. touches S. with a glove , turning it into a bale of wool; as soon as the father leaves again, returns him to its former appearance; unlocks the doors except one; S. insists on unlocking it; followed by a horse and a precious sword with the inscription: who will sit on this horse will be girded with this sword, he will be happy; girl: the horse's name is Gullfaxi (Goldenmane), and the sword is Gunnfjödur (Kampffeder); there is also a branch, a stone and a stick; the branch will become a dense forest on the way the stalker, and if you knock on the stone with a stick, a terrible hail will begin; H. allowed S. to ride around the house once, but S. rode away altogether; Father H. came and saw that his daughter was crying; when he found out what was going on, followed; S. threw a branch, the giant was forced to return for the ax; causing hail, S. killed the giant; the dog in tears to meet S.; S. rode home, where 9 soldiers tied I. to burn; S. hacked them with a sword; met his father; went to H. and married her; became king; happy with H.]: Poestion 1994, No. 18:143-152; Swedes [the girl enters the house of a demonic creature; there she was either told there is a human (human leg), or it is forbidden to enter a certain room; a human responds from a cat's belly; blood from a dropped key cannot be washed off; the owner kills the girl; the same with the middle sister; the youngest is helped by a cat; she finds an ointment to revive her sisters; sends them home in a chest as a gift and saves herself in the same way; sometimes she flies away in a feather dress, leaving a doll in bed] : Liungman 1961, No. 311:56-57; Swedes [(motive in the context of ATU 314)]: Liungman 196:60; East Sami [loved one disappears; girl rejects other suitors, says she will marry a man with a golden nose; a rawk comes, she is forced to fulfill her promise; he leaves her keys, does not tell her to open one door; there is a weak elk; she feeds him, three days later they run away; throw a comb (forest), a mirror (lake), a shard (mountain), a match (fire); The elk brings the girl to his mother, turns her into a sliver underground, roots the pine tree up, runs away; Ravk did not find a sliver, could not pull out a pine tree; The elk shows the girl a pine tree, she recognizes the betrothed, the elk turns into a guy, takes the girl as a wife]: Charnoluski 1972:80-83; Western Sami [from the Swedish king three daughters are missing, the man volunteered to find them; on the way he meets two more consistently; each cooks in turn; the Legless Armless (BB) comes, presses the cook's hair with a log, eats everything; when the hero remains, he offers BB food himself, he promises to help; all three want to move the stone, when the hero calls, BB shifts, under the stone, the hero goes down; the kidnapped queen orders to change barrels of strong and weak water; hell comes, the hero defeats him; the same with the second royal (two-headed line), with the third (three-headed); the hero sends the queens upstairs; rises, sees that companions they swear who will take which one; when they see the hero, they cut off the rope, he is again underground; he is hired as an employee, the owner does not tell him to enter the same room; the hero comes in, there is Thunder, he tells him to take it with him an iron chair, a flint flint, a crest; they run away, the devil chases, the abandoned crest turns into a forest, the devil comes back for the ax; the flint is the mountain, behind the drill; the chair is a river of fire; Thunder brought the hero to a place where his companions were fighting, took the most beautiful queen, others are still arguing who to get who]: Klaus 1995:39-46; Western Sami (Lyngen, northern Norway coast) [in three daughters in the house; hell married the eldest; showed all the rooms except one closet; contrary to the ban, she looked there; picked up the lid of the chest, she had an egg in it, she took it, dropped it; hell came back, saw a broken egg, killed his wife and threw it into one of the rooms; the same with the middle sister; the youngest also dropped the egg, but found an ointment that made the egg whole again; revived the sisters with ointment; asked the devil to take it parents have a bag of gifts, put my older sister there; if the hell starts opening the bag on the way, you should say: chur, don't look into the bag! hell: my wife can see from afar! the hell left the bag at the girls' parents' doorstep and came back; the same with the middle sister; the youngest drew her picture, said that she would sit at the table, and let the hell carry the third bag; herself in it villages; (this is how all three sisters were saved)]: Lagercrantz 1958, No. 359:75-81; Lithuanians [an orphan boy comes to the estate, its old owners are blind, witches blew out their eyes; the boy herds goats, arrives a witch, he plays the pipe, she dances, gets tired, he kills her with brushwood; the same with the second witch; the third one asks how to restore sight to old people (their eyes and a bottle of blood are hidden in the bathhouse) only then does he kill; old men sit on goats to go to the wedding; the old man leaves the boy all the keys except one, he asks for this key; unlocks the door, there is a horse, he jumps it; the old man three times chases; twice the boy begs him to leave him his horse, the old woman sends her husband to catch up again each time; the third time the old man did not catch up with the boy]: Löbite 1965:115-117; Latvians [in fairy tales the motive of the girl, whom the widowed father gives to Mara, is repeatedly repeated; she allows the girl to enter all rooms except one; the ban is violated, the girl must go through a difficult a path of trials before she learns wisdom that should be useful to her in adulthood; fairy tales of this type tend to end with a girl's wedding]: Barovskis, Kursite 2017:150; Latvians [ three owners drive the shepherdess away without paying; the fourth leaves for three days, tells them to burn the fire under the boilers, not to look into the well; those three owners are in the cauldrons; the shepherd put his hand in the well, his finger covered in blood, it cannot be wiped off; the owner beats a shepherd who has broken the ban, next time does not tell him to enter the room; there is a horse, oats behind him, candles in front of him, the young man gives oats to the horse, he tells him to run, take a comb, a handkerchief, a bottle; they turn into a forest, into rocks, into a sea; the devil stops chasing; the horse tells you to call silver, gold, diamond, black horses if necessary; the young man is hired to the king by a water carrier; consistently calls horses, goes to smash enemies; the servant claims that he saved the kingdom; the king discovers a fragment of his spear in the leg of a water carrier; the water carrier marries a princess, the servant was tied to the tail of a black horse; the horse tells him to cut off his head, turns into a prince bewitched by the devil]: Aris 1971:167-175; Lutsie (West 1893) [the king held his son behind 10 locks; but he strong, escaped; in the forest an old man in a house; teaches him and feeds him, forbids him to enter a room with a bast; the young man enters, there is a horse, meat in front of him, and a lion, hay in front of him; the young man shifted in some places; the old man gets angry; after a while the young man enters that room again; horse: hold my face; shakes his face, the young man falls; horse: take a sip of water from the bottle; same; more; this time so much strength that he held on; take a brush and a whetstone; the horse is flying, the old man is chasing, his mouth is open; the young man throws the brush (forest and mountain), the whetstone (mountain); the old man makes his way; the horse tells you to wave the right rein - the bridge over a river of fire; they galloped along it; on the left: the old man was on the bridge at that time, the bridge collapsed, the old man burned down; the horse went to graze, the young man made a house and a garden near the royal palace, in which silver and golden apples; the younger princess noticed him; the grooms arrived; the king: whoever is given a cup will be a husband; the elders brought it to the visitors, the youngest to the gardener; the elder grooms do not want such a son-in-law, they have come with an army; the young man called the horse, defeated everyone, disappeared again into his house; a new groom came to the youngest, the young man defeated his army; then he led the terrible horse out of the high mountain, and on him an old man; heavy battle; the young man is wounded in the arm, asks the king for a blessing (the king does not understand that this is his younger son-in-law), then killed the old man and the groom is walled up; the young man falls asleep for 12 days, the king recognizes his armband ; 12 days later, the young man woke up healthy; at the feast, the horse tells him not to drink the first cup; the young man sipped, the horse burst, the bowl fell, broke; the horse tells him to take the queen's handkerchief and wipe the lips of the young man and himself; turns into a young man's brother who's long gone; I drank and ate there, it flowed down my lips, didn't get into my mouth]: Annom et al. 2018:135-139; Estonians: Järv et al. 2009, No. 14 (Rannu) [dying, the forester bequeaths the son takes care of the landlord's forest, but does not go to one place; he goes, there the devils fight over bast shoes (speeders), hats (he sees everything), the sheepskin coat (makes him invisible); the forester shoots, promises to award things to the one who brings the pellets that have flown out earlier; six swans fly by, wearing bast shoes, behind them; they swim in the lake with their feathers off; he hides their clothes alone, takes them as wives; they have a son; the wife laughs; promises to tell you what if he shows where her clothes are; tells a funny story about the devil; the husband opens the chest; the wife grabs her clothes, flies away; he comes to an empty house, there is food, drink, lies down to sleep; six Swans come in; each says that someone ate her bread, slept on her bed; the wife finds her husband in her bed; flies away for her son, tells her husband not to go into the same room; he goes in, there chained old devil; asks for water, the forester gives, the devil drinks three times, breaks the chains, waits for the forester's wife, takes her away; the forester finds, takes his wife, catches up with the hell, takes her away again; so twice, the third time kills; previously, the forester picked up and saved a half-dead wolf; now the vorons and vorons have flocked to peck the forester's corpse, the wolf caught the crow; promised to return the crow if it brought live water; he brought, the wolf revived the forester; the forester's mother sends him to a far clever old man; he says that a witch lives overseas, her white mare brings 12 foals every year; human heads on stakes, one stake is empty; if you herd for 3 days, you will get a foal, you need to take the most inconspicuous one; the king of midges, the king of horseflies and Vähjäkuningas (?) ; the forester does everything, takes his wife away; the horse says he will not catch up, because his brother is stronger than him; both horses kill the devil, the forester and his wife come home to them], 26 (Otepää) [the eldest daughter goes take lunch to his father in the forest, loses his way, comes to the old man, he marries her, tells her not to look into the big barrel; she looks, there is blood, she puts her finger in her, cannot clean her, the old man kills her ; the same with the middle sister; the younger one sticks a sliver; finds the bodies of the sisters; sends her home under the guise of gifts, looks from the roof herself, tells her not to look into the bag; then leaves a mortar on the roof instead she climbs into the bag herself; the old man calls his wife, she does not answer, he drags her furiously, a mortar falls on his head, kills him; the killed sisters immediately come to life], 30 (Thapa) [the woodcutter told his son to bring lunch, left pieces of spruce bark on the road; the devil put the bark on the road leading to hell; he fed well, gave the keys, one big iron from the room that cannot be unlocked; gave a golden egg, threatened to kill, If the boy loses it; he opened it, dropped the egg in a barrel of blood, had a hard time getting it, but the devil saw blood on his hands and egg; told me to put his head on the chopping block, the boy can't put it right, Damn shows how to do it, the boy cuts off his head, runs away, his head is chasing, screams läll, läll; the boy ran home, his father burned his head to the line]: 78-84, 116-118, 130-131; (cf. Järv et al. 2009, No. 27 (Hargla) [the master takes his wife; when leaving, does not tell you to touch the inverted plate; the wife picks up the plate, the mouse jumps out; the husband comes back, sees that the mouse has run away, drags wife by her hair to a special room; at this time, the mother feels that something is wrong with her daughter, sends a coachman; he kills the woman's husband; they enter that room with the heads of 11 women; she would be twelfth; the coachman marries the rescued woman]: 139-140); setu: Järv et al. 2009, No. 25 [the old woman has three daughters; the eldest goes to get firewood, there the red hare actually took her away, made her a wife, forbid opening the door to one room; she opened, there were severed bodies; the husband tells him to look in his head, notices a bloody finger, cuts his wife to pieces, throws him into that room; the same with the middle sister; the youngest {it is not clear why the husband did not notice her bloody finger} sends her husband to take her mother a hotel; splices with dead water, revives the body of the older sister alive, tells the bag not to untie, herself looks from the roof; the same with his middle sister; then she sits down, leaving a stupa on the roof, dressed her in his clothes; the husband comes back, calls his wife, she does not move, he swallowed his stupa]: 113-115; Normann, Tampere 1989 [three sisters strained their yarn, the mother sends them behind the frame to wind the yarn; the bear locks the older, then middle sister in her hut; the youngest is also caught, married; gives the keys to everyone rooms, does not tell you to enter a room with a red door; she finds her sisters in this room; asks the bear to take her parents a tub as a gift, does not tell her to look, puts her older sister inside; Dogs rushed at the bear, he threw the tub at the girl's parents' house, ran away; the same with his middle sister; the third time the youngest sits in the tub herself, leaves a stupa dressed in her clothes; the bear is a little didn't kill, he came back, broke his stupa with a club, didn't understand it was not a girl]: 37-43; the Finns [hell turned the prince into a fast horse; told the stable guy to live in the stable and not enter the house; when the hell left, the conb told the guy to go into the house; there he saw a bottle of blood, a huge sword on the wall, and in the chest in the corner there was a white stone, a green branch and a cup of water; hell understood that the guy went into the house, promised next time kill him for it; but as soon as the hell is gone again, the horse told me to go try to raise his sword and if it is too heavy, sprinkle blood from the bottle on himself; the guy felt energized, easy raised his sword; the horse ordered to take items from the chest, sit on it, galloped away; hell chases, the horse tells you to throw a stone (rocks; hell ran for an ax, cut through the passage; fox: if you throw the ax, I'll take it; the devil had to waste time taking the axe home), a green branch (a copper forest; the same episode with an ax and a fox), a bowl of water (a lake; hell tried to drink it, girded himself with a hoop so as not to burst, fox had a snack on the hoop, the devil burst); they rode to the king, the father of the enchanted prince; the horse ordered him to be hidden in the beech forest; the war broke out; the guy rode on an old mare, and then changed his clothes, sat on his horse, hacked his enemies with a sword; was wounded and the princess noticed him bandaging the wound; he told the king everything; the horse ordered his head to be cut off, the prince came out of his horse's body; he inherited the throne, and the king married the boy to the princess]: Salmelainen 1947:47-52; the Finns [the blacksmith drank everything, the wife settled separately; he bought a rope to hang himself, went to the forest; witch: if you promise me that your wife will bring it, you will not need to hang yourself; gave me a bag of gold, and let him send the born one in 15 years; the blacksmith bought his forge and did not drink anymore; the wife gave birth to a daughter; she got up at 4 weeks: you have to work! When she is 15 years old, a witch took her away; she puts her on her lap: did you see anything softer? girl: mother's knees; gave a sip from the carafe: sweeter? - Mother's milk; in the castle, the witch gave the keys to all rooms, forbiding you to enter one; she went in, there was a dead man; denies that she went in; witch: it's useless, you will be punished; want to be deaf, dumb or blind? the girl chose to be silent; then the witch tore off all the girl's clothes and pushed her into the sea; she climbed ashore and hid in the hollow of an oak tree; the Queen found her, married her; she gave birth; a witch came: Do you confess? - No; the witch took the child, leaving bones next to the woman to think that she ate it herself; the same with the second child; after the third, the woman was going to be burned; the witch reappeared, but the woman and did not confess at the stake; witch: you are persistent; put out the fire and brought the children and speech back; it's all right, the witch did not show up again]: Löwis of Menar 1927, No. 33:97-101; Finns [three brothers and three sisters; sisters were carried away by a whirlwind; the elder brother went in search; three years later, the middle brother; the mother does not want to let the younger one go, but he insists; asks the blacksmith to make iron shoes, a club and a chain; reached mountains, there are his brothers; one's hair has grown to the ground, the other has moss grown on his head; the youngest threw a chain up the mountain and climbed it; then there is a heather plain, a brass house rotates on it; he ordered he should stay; younger sister in the house; let the brother go around the house three times in front of the sun, then he will see a keyhole; the husband came; they agreed to help each other; everyone will know if blood in the scarf; the same in the silver house of the middle sister; in the golden house of the elder; the young man came to the hero; she was sleeping, he grabbed her; let her go when he agreed that he should not be her father or brother, but her husband; went to fight; the blacksmith makes 300 warriors per night and if the girl does not destroy them in a day, it will be bad; she forbids the young man to enter one of the rooms; he enters: there are all kinds of animals hanging there who By the legs, some by the horns, are asked to be released; he freed one and the others each other; they tore the young man to pieces and threw him into the river; blood came out on the brothers' scarves; they turned into a snake, a mouse and a fish; the man who became a fish found a young man; the girl poured elixir on the remains, everything grew together, the young man came to life stronger than before; persuaded the girl to take him with her to fight the forged warriors; he went to the blacksmith said he knew his craft and would forge him a new head; smashed his head with a hammer, no new warriors appeared; they went to the young man's homeland; his brothers took their sisters; but when the young man He brought the bride down the mountain, his brothers cut off the chain and took the girl; the young man spent several years on the mountain, overgrown with hair, dressed in reindeer skin; then he saw a blind old man with a huge beard below; asked for help; he held out his beard, the young man jumped on it like a soft blanket; touched the old man's eyes, he saw the light; old man: hurry up, your brother is preparing a wedding with your fiancée; when he gets home, the young man climbed the floor of the shelves in the bathhouse; the maid: so damn it! the bride understood, brought clothes, cut her hair and washed it; wedding]: Löwis of Menar 1927, No. 31:90-96; Northern Karelians: Onegin 2010, No. 15 (Kalevalsky District) [father went to the forest, tells his wife to send daughter to bring dinner; the old woman forgot to say that it was necessary to walk along the right road, where the mitten was hung; the girl went on the left, came to the bear, he killed her; the same with the second sister; with the third, but her bear took it as a bride; told her to go into two barns (there is food, goodness) and not to go to the third; she went in, her sisters' bodies were hanging there, blood was dripping into the barrel, a ring was spinning in the barrel, she could not grab it; her finger got dirty covered in blood, not to wash it; she tied it up, told the bear that she had cut herself; asked him to take the hotel to her father; revived her older sister, put it in her birch bark purse; when the bear came, the dogs barked, he threw purse, ran away; the same with her middle sister; the third time the girl put her stupa on the roof of the hut, dressed in women's clothes, next to a spinning wheel; filled the chest with clothes and jewelry, sat in it herself; on the way the bear thinks to open the chest and eat half; the girl, as if from the roof of the hut, shouts "I see, I see!" ; the bear ran home, hit the mortar, it rolled, he followed, crashed and died]: 168-171; Virtaranta 1971 in Kippar 2002 [the youngest ninth son of a wealthy peasant is cheerful and hardworking; his brothers are not they love, after the death of their father they are sent to live in the forest; he catches fish, hunts, brings skins to the merchant, who gives good money, the merchant's orphan marries a young man; they have two daughters and a youngest son; a husband prepares a distant field for burning; warns his wife to turn right at the fork; she has broken her leg, cannot carry food to her husband, sends her eldest daughter; at the fork on the left path, she sees an amazing bird; as if hit, but not given, takes the girl further; there is a giant forest master Osmo; he tells the girl to be a maid, otherwise she will cook; let her clean up eight rooms, do not go in in the ninth, otherwise she will go to the cellar to snakes, mice and toads; O. cooks for dinner and eats a whole moose; when she falls asleep, the girl enters the ninth room, there is a cauldron of resin boiling, there is a golden ring in it; she is in vain tries to pick it up; O. sees resin on his fingers, locks the girl in the cellar; the same with his youngest daughter (instead of a bird, she is lured by a fox; she tries to pick up the ring with her toe; O. looks first at hands, then on his feet); the mother sends her son; he sees an elk on the left path, jumps up on his back, the elk brings him to O.; he pulled out the ring with a stick, hung it around his neck; O. is satisfied, promises to pay generously, but so that the boy does not cover himself with the sign of the cross and turn to God; the boy asks the sisters to be returned; O. says that tomorrow he will eat them, the anniversary of Judas giving him a gold ring; boy asks him to show him; O. leads to the room, there is no ring; the boy says that he does not see well, tells him to bend down, covers himself with the sign of the cross and turns to God; O. falls into the cauldron, disappears; the boy frees his sisters, takes as much gold as he can carry, sends the sisters home, brings food to his father himself; says that O. still has a lot of money in his house; the father says that it is impossible to go there anymore: instead of O. a new one appears, a mother forest gives birth to it; now you have to run out of the forest, there is a rocky cape in your native village that the brothers do not need, you can build a house on it; the house is such that the king himself visited; a feast for everyone only the brothers were not invited]: 37-50.

Volga - Perm. Mordva: Paasonen 1909, No. 3 [{cf. Lezgins and Tabasarans}; a sloppy, negligent girl goes to the shore of Sura to rinse her clothes; a thunderstorm begins; out of fear she offers herself to Vera as her daughter-in-law -pass - Nishke-pasu (synonyms here); a silver shaky descends from the sky, she sits in it, rises; thunder is her father-in-law, the cloud is her mother-in-law, lightning is her husband; Vere-pass - Nishke allows her to pass unlock six barns, do not unlock the seventh, and if unlocked, look back over your right shoulder; in the first it is cold, in the second there is fog, on the third Friday (old man), in the fourth it is Sunday, in the fifth winter it is an old man, the sixth is an old summer man; in the seventh he sees his native land, father and mother wake up for it; the VP-NP lets her go for an hour, tells her not to tell her story or take anyone with them; the younger brother followed her, thunderstruck]: 30 in Endyukovsky 1932:236-237; Paasonen 1947, No. 2 [the wife is childless; finally, the woman became pregnant, but cannot be born for three years; promises a daughter as a daughter-in-law to the heavenly god if will give birth; when the girl has grown up, her mother does not let her leave the house for a walk with her friends, but her father let her go; the whirlwind took her to heaven; her heavenly father-in-law forbids her to look into the far barn, look out the lower window; she she looks in, sees her home below; her eyes turn red with tears; she explains that it was the herons who flew, littered her eyes; then that the mother of the wind; the heavenly god asks the mother of the wind; she replies that daughter-in-law did not listen and began to watch her girlfriends play with eggs on the ground]: 5-14; Udmurts [the father gave the eldest daughter to the chief of birds, the middle daughter to the chief of animals, the youngest to the whirlwind; son sold the house, went on a journey, did not eat the bee, the crow, the ant, they promised to help; the young man came to his older sister; her husband tells her that if her father comes, he will kill him, and if his brother does not; sister showed her hidden brother; his son-in-law fed him and gave him a horse; the young man rode after the lame fox, the horse ran into a stake; the young man came to his middle sister, the same as in the eldest's house; the fox's leg is slightly hanging, the horse has fallen; the whirlwind has fallen out; the fox's intestines have fallen out; the young man comes into the house, the owners take him as a watchman, tell him not to go into one hut, he comes in, there is a man nailed to the wall, asks him to be hit with a hammer, after the impact, he fled; the owner: it was Satan, pretending to be a fox, he ate your three horses; the young man returned home, where the new owner tells you to collect the sown grain (ants harvest); give birth in one night without a child's wife (the crow screams like a baby); make a wax bridge (the bee does); that man left and the young man stayed at home]: Kralina 1960, No. 57:154-157; Chuvash [=Eysin 1993:97 -101; = Shurtakov 1984:87-92; Mamaldyk gives his eldest daughter Soroka to Wolf, middle Swallow to Fish, youngest named Last to Hawk; Arsyuri (Leshy) tells M. to marry his daughter; M. goes to look for her, by the way goes to his sons-in-law, everyone promises to help; M. marries daughter A., who dies, does not tell him to unlock the twelfth basement; M. unlocks, there is a dragon; he takes away his wife and palace; the wife finds out where the dragon is soul (oak in the sea, there is a bull in it, a duck in a bull, three eggs in a duck); wolf, fish, hawk help catch animals, M. kills a dragon]: Chuvash tales 1937:160-166; Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 64 [y padishah three daughters and a son; the son is lost; three horsemen consistently promise to take him home if he gives his sister; for the third time he agrees; in the morning the sisters were taken away; the brother goes in search; comes to the old mother of those horsemen; she shows the way; the sons-in-law are divas, each gives a pouch; the brother comes to the padishah's daughter; whoever sees her faints; he unties the first pouch, tables appear with with food; the princess asks for a pouch; when the young man gives the third, he tells his comrade to tie him to the princess; the padishah marries them; tells them not to unlock the twelfth room; the young man unlocks, there is a 12-headed divas, asks for water, promises to save him from three deaths, breaks his chains and takes his wife away; the young man finds a wife, tells him to find out where the diva's soul is; he meets the diva twice, who takes away his three gifts of life; the wife decorates the broom; poker; for the third time, the divas confesses that his soul is in an egg, in a duck, in a chest, on a bull's back in the sea; sons-in-law helps to grab a bull, get an egg; the young man broke the egg, the diva died, the young man took his wife; then killed his sons-in-law]: 315-321; 2008b, No. 10 [=1992:162-168; a poor young man is hired by an old man, that month he feeds him well, gives him a new girlfriend every day; leads to grief, sews a dead horse in the stomach; the birds lift the carcass up the mountain, the young man drops the marble stones; the old man loads them onto the cart, leaves; on the mountain, the young man meets the padishah of animals and birds; he forbids opening one door; the young man opens sees the sea, three doves fly in, turn into girls; the padishah of animals promises that in a year they will arrive again, tells him to hide his beloved's clothes; the young man hides her, brings her wife; the young man is sad at home, the wife brings him there; finds his pigeon dress, flies away; the young man again hires the old man unrecognized, comes to the padishah of animals; he tells the old bird to carry the young man across the fiery river to the city divas; he finds his wife, stays with her]: 102-108; Yarmukhametov 1957 [the poor dzhigit came to the valley, where there is a house and a garden; three pigeons flew in, became horsemen, surprised who touched the dishes, found a young man, left as a cook, told not to open the seventh barn; he opened it, the girl there repeats "Kalfak is my" (kalfak is a hat); pigeon horsemen say that without this kalfak she cannot go to light, and the diva has the kalfak; the young man goes for the Kalfak, having learned magic and received a comb, a whetstone, a mirror; a diva arrives at the palace, becomes a nightingale; another daughter of a padishah kidnapped by a diva catches leaves him in his room; he takes on a human form, finds a kalfak, flies away; throws a comb (forest), a whetstone (mountains), a mirror (sea); hides at the bottom of a bucket carried by a girl; a diva tells pour out the water, the young man turns into grains, the divas into a rooster, the last grain into a hawk, kills a rooster; gives the pigeon young men a kalfak, their girlfriend recovers; advises the hero to ask for a thin horse as a reward, a rusty sword and an old whip; when he leaves, he sticks a knife - if it rusts, he is in trouble; the young man returns to his mother, tells her to marry the padishah's daughter, who orders to create a palace, a golden bridge, a garden; at the wave of a whip the devils perform everything; the padishah is ready to give her daughter, but she has just been kidnapped by a diva; a girl with a kalfak, who became the wife of her older pigeon brother, tells her to fly to the island of the diva, returns with her on the way stops drinking wine, falls asleep; two warriors chopped it into pieces, and she was taken by ship to her father, said that they saved his daughter; the pigeon brothers revived the victim, took her home; he comes to the wedding of the padishah's daughter, she recognizes him by her ring; the deceiving warriors were executed]: 130-144 (=Zamaletdinov 1992:150-162); Bashkirs: Barag 1989, No. 8 [the merchant's eldest daughter asks for a scarf, the middle one is an unprecedented fruit, the youngest is a cat; the merchant cannot find the fruit, the Sheikh gives his middle daughter to him as his wife; asks his wife to serve meat and eat with him, in the cauldron; the wife does not eat, hides in his bosom, the Sheikh asks to dance, the meat falls out, he hangs his wife by the hair in the 41st room; the same with his older sister; the youngest feeds meat to the cat, dances, the Sheikh recognizes her as his wife, tells her not look into the forbidden room; she unlocks it, frees her sisters; they take out a flying boat and precious stones from the chest, fly away; the prince marries the youngest, the vizier's elder sons; the wife The prince asks to build a tower, she is guarded by a lion, a tiger, a wolf and a bear; the Sheikh put them to sleep, came to his wife; she hears a whisper: give your beloved, you will be saved! She pushes the Sheikh down the stairs, awakened animals kill him; a woman gives birth to a daughter, gives her to someone who does not understand; tells her traces to be gold and silver, laughter roses, crying to fire; this girl is her stepmother takes the prince as his wife, gives water in exchange for his eyes, pushes him into the sea, replaces her daughter; the prince is disappointed; an old man finds a blind man in the forest, she sends him to sell roses to the palace, he exchanges them from angry stepmother in front of the girl's eyes; the prince marries her, the stepmother's daughter is tied to the horse's tail], 42 [the young man is hired as a worker for the girl; she forbids unlocking one of the rooms; there is a devil asking for bread and water; the young man gives, the girl returns when the devil breaks the last chains, goes to bed; first replies that his soul is in a pole, in a broom in the bath; the girl tells me to bring them; dev admits that he is wearing two pigeons eggs in a box at the bottom of the lake, the spider weaved a web over them; the young man goes to search, saves a bear, a wolf, bees along the way; he is hired to herd the sorcerer's horses; horses run away, a bear, a wolf, their bees every time they collect; the poor horse tells you to ask for him as a reward; the horse dives, the lake is covered in blood, the young man pulls it out; next time the water turns white, the horse takes a box from the bottom; the young man breaks eggs on the body of the deva, takes girl for wife]: 65-69, 194-198; Bessonov 1941, No. 46 [mother died, father wants to marry daughter, daughter ran away; Khan's son saw her and got married; boy was born; wife's father found daughter, told her husband that she is a liar, the Khan's son kicked her out; she lives in the forest with her son; her son grew up; saw a house, there, well done, locked him in a cage; settled with his mother in this house; gave her the keys to the rooms, forbid her to enter the rooms one; the woman looked there, pulled the pyaria out of the e-liquid, washed it, they decided to kill her son; the mother pretended to be sick; asked for fruit from the mountain that Azhdaha had wrapped around; well done, went to the old woman; she told me to wait three years old: her foal will grow up, you have to ride it to the mountain; the foal galloped, well done, took the fetus and the khan's daughter kidnapped by Azhdakha; the khan gave her to him; the wife gave her ring; well done, came to his mother, noticed her in the arms of the pyariah; the mother invites her son to test his strength; wrapped her arms in a rope, he tore it; the pyarius offered to make a rope out of hair that the woman should cut off from the top of her head; these Well done, the man could not tear his fetters; Pyariy pulled out his eyes, took him away and threw him on the bank of a swampy stream; a servant came to get water; well done asked him to drink, threw that ring into the bucket; the khan's daughter recognized her husband, told her to bring him to her; he dreamed that if you fire an arrow three times, she would return and revive the blind man; well done, he saw the light and went to kill the pyariah; in his yard, his horse went into the ground with his hooves; well done, he cut off his mother's head, threw the pyaria up, he crashed into the dust; returned to his wife, became khan himself]: 245-248; Ilimbetova, Ilimbetov 2009 (written authors, 1969) [the old man's black cow did not return in the evening; the eldest daughter goes looking, goes to the Bear, who forbids opening the chests, she opens it, there is gold and silver, the Bear ate her; the same with the middle daughter; He did not eat the youngest, he married him; he tells her to bake gifts, he will take the gift to his wife's parents; she sits in a bag herself, the bear leaves it at her parents' house; a son Ayyukək ("bear cub") gives birth; strong, cripples his peers, his grandfather sends him on a journey; in the underworld, A. kills a dwarf as tall as the top, a beard a thousand tops; marries his three daughters; gets chosen with the help of Samrigush into the white world; offspring from wives - the ancestral unit of Ayiu peanuts]: 110-111.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Daurenbekov 1979 [=Tursunov 1983:276-273; Khan's son steals the key to the fortieth room from his father, sees it as a portrait of Malkhuan (she is the daughter of Kalmyk Khan); he goes with the vizier's son look for a beauty; one, the second cannibals show the way; M. changes clothes with the vizier's son, stays with the khan's son; the vizier's son stays with M.'s people, falls in love with her sister, takes her away; hears the conversation between the two raven; one says that the khan himself will try to kill his son in order to take possession of M.; showers poison on his horse, his beloved kitten, will poison the food; whoever says will become coal, a stone; the vizier's son kills a horse, overturns food, kills a kitten; a drop of blood falls on sleeping M., the vizier's son bends to erase it, the khan's son accuses him of assassinating his fiancée; they want to hang the vizier's son, he tells his history, turns into stone; the vizier gouges out the eyes of the khan's son, loads a black stone on him, drives him away; he comes to the stream, his water restores his sight, revives the vizier's son; both come to Khan's wedding with M., their wives are returned, the khan is turned into a wolf, the vizier into a dog]: 206-212; Coyaud 2012, No. 70 (China) [Khan learned to fly, but still could not find the beauty he dreamed of; ordered paint a portrait of her, hung her in a locked room; married, his son Jiangde grew up; he went in and fell in love with the beauty in the portrait; goes to look for her; meets giants one by one on the way; each says he would like to fight J.; J. wins everyone, takes everyone as companions; they have different abilities; they come to a city where they feed the dragon every day, otherwise he will swallow everyone; J. slaughtered the dragon in half, cut off his belts as proof; the king made him minister; he gave this post to one of the giants and led others on; the same in another city (the serpent, J. was made khan, but handed over position to the second giant); in the third city (killed a giant who muddied the river, received half of his wealth and the position of vizier, gave it to the third satellite); in the fourth city, an old man teaches where to find and grab a beautiful woman; we must demand her book, then she will not run away; J. married a beautiful woman; once she washed her hair and swam her hair down the river; a fisherman brought it to Khan; a horned witch told her to give it to her a fast camel, asked J. to shelter her, persuaded his wife to find out what J.'s life was like: in the spear of life in his sole; when J. fell asleep, the old woman took him out and threw him into the river, J. died; his wife wanted to fly away, but the old woman cut off her wing and brought her to Khan; she asked to postpone the wedding for 17 days; one of his giant friends understood everything from the stars, the other took him out of the water, J. came to life; they killed Khan and as a sorceress, J. returned his wife, came with her to his parents]: 161-173; Kyrgyz [thieves stole a flock of orphans, beat him; the golden eagle brought him to a nest on a rock, where gold and precious stones were there; merchants they ask them to throw them off, refuse to help the orphan go down; the orphan managed to get out, came into the possession of the Peri; the old man tells them not to unlock the seventh door; the orphan unlocks, there is a lake, a plane tree, three have arrived pigeons, shed their plumage, become girls, bathe; the orphan hid her clothes alone, she became his wife; her father demands 1) separate black millet from white millet (the bride does); 2) build glass palace, inside a lake of butter and a lake of milk, etc. (same); 3) recognize the bride among three doves (she trembles slightly); a girl and a young man fly away in the form of birds, the father's guard in the form of a gyrfalcon next; the fugitives are millet, the guard is a rooster, snake fugitives, they crawl into the lake, they became fish there, the guard returned; the father chased himself, but the fugitives in the form of butterflies had already crossed the border of the Peri's possessions; became human; the young man went to the ail, leaving the girl waiting; the boar fatally wounded a girl; the young man was supposed to stay awake at night, fell asleep, Peri's father killed him, took his daughter's flesh; residents found the body of a young man holding a butterfly's wings to his chest]: Ledenyov 1987:115-121; Karakalpaks [elderly spouses are childless; the beggar promises the old woman that she will have three sons, but she will have to give one to him; in 10 years he takes the youngest; in the garden, the skull asks him to bury, promises help; the sorcerer falls asleep for 40 days, tells you not to open the fortieth room, feed the piebald horse, beat the black horse; the young man opens, there the girls argue who is fatter (the sorcerer will eat that sorcerer); the skull tells you to feed the black a horse, beat a piegogo, take a jug of water, a comb, salt with him; a young man rides a black horse, a comb becomes a forest, salt becomes salt springs, a jug of water from the sea; the sorcerer drowns; the young man changes clothes as a shepherd, takes a piece of horse hair; is hired by a blacksmith, lives with an old woman; the khan's daughters choose suitors; the young man puts on his lamb's stomach, the youngest still throws an apple at him; the other two son-in-law tolerate defeat, the young man burns the horse's hair, he appears, they smash enemies; the khan moves his younger son-in-law and daughter from the hut to the palace]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:14-20.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tobolsk Tatars [(excerpt); after his travels, Zyhanza remains with an old woman; she allows you to enter all rooms (they contain jewelry) except one; he violates the ban, there plain and lake; Z. hides by the poplar; three swans fly in; two throw off their feather clothes, become girls, bathe; the third says he smells a person; but still joins the first two; Z. takes her clothes, she goes with him to the old woman's houses; she praises Z., marries him to a swan girl]: Frobenius 1904:328-329.

Western Siberia. Northern Khanty (Kazim dialect) [Little Man-Power lives with three sisters on the holy cape; at night someone orders his older sister to be taken out; the next night the middle sister; the youngest; he comes to the royal city remains with a woman with a seven-planted braid; the wife leaves the keys, tells not to unlock the eighth barn; he unlocked, there a one-eyed kul is nailed to the beam; asks for water; drinks, breaks down, takes his wife MMM; MMM goes looking, consistently comes to his sisters; they are married to Wolverine, Bear, Wolf; The wolf gives a ball of thread, followed by the sea, on the island the house of a one-eyed kul; when he falls asleep, he must cut him with a sword; his wife turns MMM into a needle; MMM cut the cake; but he still chases them, cut MMM into pieces, threw them down; sons-in-law caught pieces in the water, revived them; that She comes to his wife again, she turns him into a thimble; Kul sleeps like a snake; MMM cut him, returned home with his wife on a winged horse]: Steinitz 2014, No. 15:110-122; Southern Khanty (b. Conda, 1888) [the old man is going to burn his many barns so that the smoke reaches Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother and they will notice that they have not given him children; speaking of fire, the old man calls it "the multilingual mouth of the virgin Tarn "; Heavenly Father sent a son, who gave the old man a seed the size of a bird cherry seed; the wife ate, became pregnant, gave birth to a son and a daughter; the son has a bone through the bone and the brain (bones) can be seen through the brain (bones); he grew up and went on a journey; came to an old woman; she tells the wolf and bear to tear the person apart if he does not like them, but to bring him into the house, if they love; they bring him into the house, the old woman calls the young man a grandson; he asks for his name; old woman: "Like an aspen leaf, a nimble husband" ("Poi-Lipetta..", hereinafter P.); when P. returned to his father, he thought that when he was young he had reached that old woman in a week, and his son reached that old woman in a day; P. tries to put his hand and leg on his father's horses, none of them can stand it; the lousy foal withstood; the root immediately grew; brought P. to a distant city; stays with poor old people; they report that the local king had three daughters; P. returned to his father, told him to take gold, silver and furs, go to marry his wife for P.; the old man was beaten; the same for the second time; the third time the old man asked the priest's youngest daughter, her they gave it away without dowry; the wife apparently has a lover: she refused to look for her husband in her head, says that she did not even look for Taras-hui ("The Merchant") in her head; P. leaves, comes to the old woman; she gives a bundle with 60 silver rings, tells P. to find his aunts in the city where T. lives; the next old woman gives a towel and teaches him what will happen next and what to do; the horse will carry him to the sea through a bunch of human bones that have almost hidden the cedar; the men guarding the bridge have to throw 60 rings, they will rush to them, you can drive; P. came to Mother T., she hid it, turning it into a needle without an ear and putting logs into the crack; T. promises to make the visitor a brother, P. comes out, talks about the reason for coming; T. gives him his clothes and 3 silver bars with which he tells him to beat his wife; his wife flew in magpie, threw off her skin; P. grabbed his wife and began to beat, broke his arm, leg, knocked out her eye; she became forty again and flew away; P. and T. were feasting; T. went to fight the 7-headed menkv ("goblin"); forbids unlocking the seventh room; in six - lizards and frogs; in the seventh, the girl, dragged P. to her, made her husband; T. does not mind; the wife gave birth to a son; goes to fight the seven-headed menqua, tells his wife not to leave the house at that time; cuts soldiers menqua, but there are more and more of them; then he cut off his husband, who carved warriors out of the flint like sparks, destroyed the warriors, hit something with a sword; at home he found out that P. had left the house - he hurt him, why did they let him go? they found the body, put it in the coffin; wife: mother-in-law wants to kill you; he entered his mother-in-law's house, fell into the lower world; there the old man and old woman adopted him; they do not tell him to herd cattle in the Menqua estate, he stole their eyes; but grass is better on the other side, P. drives cattle there; hacked one-, two-, etc. -headed menkvas; the seven-headed man cannot be cut down, he drove him into the ground, the menkv asks him to take his white towel and wrap it around his neck, then cut; then the VM cut off his head; came to the Menkwa mother, fights with her, changed buckets of strong and weak water; the old woman's daughter shows that the old woman should be stabbed in the chin with a knife ; P. did so, killed the old woman; the daughter tells her to burn her, sweep away frogs and lizards that will crawl out of her into the fire; P. tells the girl to jump over the fire - if she used to live with a man, she will fall into the fire; she she fell, she also had lizards, he burned them; he took the eyes of the old people, restored their sight; they told them to prepare meat, immerse firebirds on their backs; she brought them to the ground, he cut off the last two pieces from the calves of his legs; fever -the bird regurgitated them and put them back; the wife lies between two men; P. wanted to hack them, wife: these are your sons; P. cut his youngest son, sprinkled blood on T.'s body, he came to life; revived his son alive with water; his wife's brother (i.e. T.) set up a copper playground for games, P. built a silver one; each puts a block of stone on his court with his foot; the VM takes flint, sparks turn into husbands; when he lets his a stone that breaks the arms and legs of T.'s people, tears them apart; T. lets P. and his wife (i.e. his sister) go home - he cannot live with a hero who is stronger than him; on the way they go to those three old women his wife turns them young; at home P. climbed onto the roof, looks into the house, where his parents are quarreling over a spark; he poured water or snowed, putting out their fire; they swear; he opened up, his daughter-in-law turned they are young; P. throws chips brought from another world, they turn into a city populated by people; abundance is around]: Patkanov 1999, No. 1:302-323 (=Lukina 1990, No. 88:220-237).

Eastern Siberia. Amur Evenks (Charo-Olekminsky Basin) [older brothers - Delonoy, Sikteney, the youngest - Chinanay; the elders tell him to set up a camp on the river; he puts him in the middle of the river, rips off his horses peams, so that they do not soak their boots, the water carries away the poles; the brothers tell them to check the loops; they contain a bear, a red deer, he lets them go by slapping them in the ass; since then, the bear's ass is wide, the red deer is white; for him they tell no one to let go; he kills mice, birds, then his mother; he is sent to his mother's sister for funeral clothes; C. kills his aunt's child, hangs matter on trees (he thinks what they ask); he is asked to bring the roots of trees, he cuts off and brings the heels of children; their fathers attack, C. easily defeats them; together with his brothers he climbs three trees, falls, enemies are frightened run away; he catches up with them, kills them; the brothers come to the shiteke, who has three daughters; each takes turns calling one of the brothers to lie down on the bed; each time C. goes, sees skulls and bones, kills girl; later with. finds their heads; Evenks come from C., Yakuts come from the middle brother, the elder brother of the ray became the root (?) ; C. goes to marry the daughter of the Month; the frog laughs at him, he cannot hit her with a stone, pulls out a tree, drags him, paving a new river; the daughter of the Month will go beyond the cliff, the rock will become lower if anoint her with blood; C. rubs two people against her; on the rock the house, the hostess says that she is the daughter of the Month, lies down with C.; C. hears the voice of the real daughter of the Month, demanding that the maid open the door; throws the maid away, tells H. to ventilate in the storage shed for three days; when leaving, tells C. not to open one of the barns; he opens it with a sitke; c. sticks C. into the ground, pulls out the maid's eyes; she blindly begins to cut C.'s legs; C. gets out of the ground, chases s., sees his wife hanged from a tree by her legs, does not take it off, continues to chase; after defeating s., finds his wife's bones; Raven brings medicine, his wife comes to life; when C. is old, his wife gave birth to him two boys; they throw them on the ground, they are the Evenks]: Varlamova 2002:183-211; northeastern Yakuts (materials from Srednekolymskaya 1964 expeditions) [Labanchachaan Labanha has three sisters; Execu demanded an older sister, then middle and younger; LL came to the mound, from there was smoke, there was an older sister; Mongus came, smashed the house, LL ran away; came to the middle one, to younger sister; met a woman and got married; wife gives keys, forbids him to enter the eighth barn; LL opens it, there is a man nailed to the wall; LL decided to release him, but could not; out of anger hit him on the head, everything is gone; LL ended his life as a wanderer]: Ergis 1967b, No. 91:178-179; Evens [someone demands that a man marry his older sister; he refuses, someone hides on three days of sun, you have to give it away; the same with middle and younger; a man goes looking for them, marries a girl; she forbids entering the barn; a man comes in; one-legged Cholare, chained to a pole, asks him release; the man frees, he takes his wife; the man finds sisters, each says that C. was chained by their husbands; the man helps a deer, a burbot, a cowshed builder; they help him, he kills C. and his mother]: Kozlov 1956:286-296.

SV Asia. Chukchi [kele takes the girl, his house is inside a solid rock; when she leaves, tells me not to touch or watch anything without him; she made a fire and saw many skeletons; one has a live head, he says that the girl will be the same; the fox looks into the chimney, says that it is necessary to say the same words as Kele, the hill will open; helps to run, telling them to take a stone, branch, piece of ice with him; their girl throws, they turn into a mountain, forest, river; kele asks the fox to help cross, she offers to swim in a bivalve shell, the sink sinks into water; the fox pretends to be sick, asks Kele take the night pot off the cliff; she follows herself, becoming a branch, a berry; she collides a kele, it crashed to death]: Baboshina 1958, No. 59:47-49.