K118A. Portrait of an unknown beauty.

.15.-.17.21.23.26.-.34.38.

Seeing a portrait of a beauty, a man seeks to meet her.

Spaniards, Catalans, Corsicans, Sicilians, Italians (Tuscany), French (Upper Brittany, Niverne), Germans (Mecklenburg), Bretons, Palestinians, Mustang, Oriya, Bengalis, Tamils, Chuan Miao, Romanians, Moldovans, Greeks, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Tambov), Western Ukrainians, Czechs, Poles, Kabardians, Abkhazians, Ossetians, Balkarians, Chechens, Megrelians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Persians, Tajiks, Shugnans (?) , Bartangans, Ishkashim, Uzbeks, Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, Karelians, Chuvash, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Baikal Buryats, Japanese (including northern Ryukyu).

Southern Europe. Spaniards [the widow's son rejects the crafts offered by his mother; wants to become a painter, his mother apprentices him to the master; the prince dreamed of the Flower of Beauty, tells the master to paint it portrait; he is desperate, but the student performs the task overnight; the prince is happy, but wants the painter to go with him to pick up the beauty; the student advises taking him with him under the guise of a son; old master soon he was tired and the prince agreed to let him go; the prince and the young man stayed in a house in the woods; the table was set, the beds were ready; while the prince sleeps, the young man hears Juan and Pedro talking; finds out that the Central Committee is overseas, throw un cuerno de llave into the sea, a bridge will appear; the Central Committee is guarded by a giant and lions, we must find them sleeping; after taking the Central Committee, the prince and the young man run away; the giant does not have time to cross the bridge, but orders that on the wedding night of the Central Committee wolves ate, and if this does not happen, let her petrify after the birth of her first child; when he gets home in the forest, the young man does not sleep, hears H. and P. talking again, learns from him about the giant's curse; in wedding night, in order to fight off wolves, the king must surround the city with an army; wolves were slaughtered, but after the birth of a child, the Central Committee became petrified; the young man goes back to the house in the forest; finds out that the woman will come to life if marble was rubbed with her son's blood; the prince agreed, the woman came to life and they had new children; the painter's apprentice stayed in the palace]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 516:444-450; Catalans [king tells the faithful servant not to show the prince a portrait of a beautiful woman; the prince finds a portrait and goes in search with his servant; after getting a beauty, they go home; the servant hears animals talking: if the prince's wife tries to sit on a horse, eat a fruit or catch a bird, it will die, and whoever tells about it will become petrified; the servant prevents a woman from doing these actions every time; the last time he injures her and is sentenced to death; the servant explains what is going on and turns into a statue]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 516:116; Corsicans [when the son was born, the father looked at the stars and replied to the person who arrived that the born would be king; the one who arrived himself was king; promising to raise the boy, he took him and threw him into the waterfall under the mill; he was immediately picked up by a miller whose wife also gave birth to a boy; the adopter grew up hard-working and smart; his own son reproached his origin, the young man left home; stayed with childless spouses; finished school brilliantly, then went to college, where the prince himself studied; they became friends when they saw the portrait" maidens of the three mountains of gold", the prince went looking for her, his friend was with him; in the hotel room in which they spent the night, there were two chairs; one with the inscription "The Legal King", on the other - "The Miller King"; prince fell asleep, and the young man hears a voice from the magic book he opened: "Let's eat them, because they want to take the maiden of the three mountains of gold; she is guarded by lions, but at noon they fall asleep; she must remove the pin from her head then the witchcraft will dissipate and the girl wakes up"; they took the girl away, but at night one of the sorcerers caught up with them and turned the young man into stone; the prince returns to that room, which now has only one chair with with the inscription "The Legal King"; the book replies that it takes three days to fish, fry the fish caught on the third day and grease the petrified one with it; the young man came to life; the prince married the maiden of the three mountains of gold and handed over the crown the miller's reception]: Massignon 1984, No. 14:31-33; Sicilians [the king calls Muntifiuri to serve; he takes a portrait of his sister with him; the king sees him, wants to marry; M. comes to pick up his sister; the old woman asks to take her ugly daughter to the ship; tells her daughter to make a hole for the siren to carry her sister M.; the liar puts on the beautiful woman's clothes; M. tells the king that her sister fell overboard; the king marries a neighbor brought in; she wants to lime M., tells the king that M. can build a fountain overnight 1); a sister appears out of the water, holding sirens on a gold chain, promises that by morning the fountain will be ready; 2) plant a blooming garden around (the same); 3) the liar tells to herd 12 ducks, if one disappears in a day, executes; the sister shakes pearls and gold from the goats, the ducks eat it; they shout that Sister M. brighter than the sun; the next morning, the liar hides one duck, says that M. has lost it; M. asks the king to allow him to go ashore for the last time; his sister orders M. to ask him to bury it after the execution fountain; three nights he goes out to mourn him; tells the king that he cuts off the chain, marries sister M.; the liar's body is cut into pieces, salted in a barrel, with his hand and ring on the bottom, sent to her mother; she eats, does not give her cat and dog; when she realizes that she is a daughter, the cat and the dog rejoice, otherwise they would comfort her]: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 4:21-27; Italians (Siena; follows the French text end of the 17th century, see) [after the death of their parents, two princes do not want to marry without marrying their sister; a peacock flies into her room; she agrees to marry only the king of the peacocks; the older brother goes in search; the wizard speaks that the peacock king lives in Peru; when he gets there, the young man shows KP a portrait of his sister; the KA keeps him hostage, sends him for the girl; she is brought by his younger brother; the maid paid the captain to threw the princess into the sea, replacing her with her daughter; when he saw the freak, the king threw both brothers in prison to hang them; the princess swam on the mattress with her dog to the coast of Peru; lives with the poor a sailor and his wife; sends a dog to bring royal food from the palace; the king sees her and comes after her; the princess tells us who she is, the king compares her to her portrait, makes sure she is right; The brothers are freed, the peacock king marries the princess, the maid and her daughter are hanged]: Calvino 1980, No. 92:338-344.

Western Europe. French (Nivernay) [mother asks Prince Émilien to marry, but he refuses; after her death, she sees a portrait of the beautiful Émilienne, goes in search; with him is Jean's faithful servant; hears 30 characters talk to their "father Rocklor" (Roquelaure), who tells them about the dangers that await the prince and what he must do; to get across the river, you have to rub the wheels of the carriage with moss, a bridge will appear; the princess is guarded by a witch and a hundred sorcerers in the form of predatory animals; she must be given a gold spinning wheel and a sleeping pill; drivers will offer the prince their wagons, sellers drinks - offer them to the thirsty princess - they must all be chopped; the person drowning in the pond should be shoved away from the shore; whoever talks about what he heard will petrify; Jean does it; the princess thinks he the sorcerer himself asks the prince to put Jean in prison forever when he arrives home; Jean is forced to tell everything, he has turned into stone; when his son was born, the old woman says that if he is killed and sprinkled a statue with blood, Jean will come to life; the prince does so, the old woman revives the boy]: Millien 1908:27-34; the French (Haute-Brittany) [having no hope of inheritance, the youngest son went to travel; saw in the pit of a slightly alive foal; bird: pull it out by the tail; the guy hardly pulled him out; bird: sit on his back; the guy sat down and the foal galloped; at the direction of the foal, the guy released a bird stuck to a branch, a fish stuck in the ice; Lucifer chained to a tree; everyone promises to help; hired a prince's castle; found a rusty sword that is better than the new prince's new one; despite warning the horse, picked up a portrait of the beauty and showed it to the prince; he demands to get it; this is Princess Davigny; the horse brought it to her castle; the guy persuaded the princess to go out into the yard, the horse jumped the wall, they took the princess; she tells the prince she will not marry him until her ring, forgotten by her bed, is delivered to her; the king of birds has delivered; the princess demands another ring, which she dropped in the sea; the king of fish delivered; the princess demands her castle; Lucifer delivered; (this concludes the story)]: Sébillot 1894, No. 33:277-278; the Bretons [the poor widower has children Yves and Yvonne; father died, Eve went to look for work, was hired as a pig in the royal palace; the king noticed him, made him a valet; let him see his sister for 5 days; returned, taking her portrait; the king saw him and told him bring her sister; she sailed on the ship with her wet nurse and her daughter; the king ordered Yvonne to be in a glass chest during the day and not to darken from the sun; the nurse threw Yvonne into the sea, replacing his daughter; the siren brought Yvonne to her palace; Eve met the ship; the nurse said that his sister had drowned; Eva had to tell the king that the girl was his sister, but she fainted because of smallpox; The king married because he could not break his words; the liars persuaded the courtiers, they killed Willow, threw pieces of her body in the chapel in the forest; the siren gave Yvonne living water to revive her brother, but chained Yvonne so that she does not leave; three nights you have to rub your body; on the second night, the grinder spent the night in the chapel, hid and overheard, told the king, brought the soldiers; the sister revived her brother, the warriors broke the chain, the siren disappeared at sea; the nurse and daughter were burned in the stove; the king married Yvonne, made Yves commander-in-chief]: Luzel 1887 (2), No. 9:370-380; the Bretons (Lower Brittany) [the couple have 50 children, they will not find them goddaughters for 51 are the youngest daughter; a beautiful lady offers to become a goddaughter, calls the girl Marie, turns a poor house into a rich one; but soon the children die one by one, leaving Marie and her brother Yvon; parents are also dead, brother and sister live with a wet nurse and her ugly daughter; M. gives his brother his portrait, asks him not to show him to anyone, asks him not to work for the king; but I. remains with the king; every day he talks to the portrait; the valet overhears and peeks, tells the king; when he sees the portrait, he demands that I. bring his sister; the nurse and her daughter go with M. to ship; the nurse pushes M. into the sea, the siren chains her with four gold chains; the king sees a freak instead of a beauty, is dissatisfied; the nurse hurries the wedding; the valet leads I. into the forest, kills in chapel; M. asks the siren to allow her to visit her brother three times to revive her with magic ointment; I. gradually comes to life; M. says that if four blacksmiths hit her chains tomorrow, she will be free from the power of the siren; the beggar overhears, tells the king, he sends blacksmiths; marries M.; the wet nurse, her daughter and valet are thrown into the oven]: Soupault 1959, No. 12:145-158; Germans (Mecklenburg) [prince took the servants and went on a journey; when he saw a flock of hungry crows, he ordered a horse to be slaughtered for them; he saw an unusual bird in the tree; the horse warns that it would cause trouble, but the prince climbs a tree for it ; the bird flew away, and on the fallen feather there is a portrait of the beautiful Clarawinde; the prince goes to look for her; pushed a fish on the shore into the water; pulled a giant out of the quagmire; hired a king in the city; once looked at the pen; the local prince came in, saw the portrait, grabbed the pen and said that the woman would be his; the king told him to get K. for his son; the crows he had fed brought him to K. the castle on the island, the bridge across the lake; K. threw the key to the castle into the lakes and told me to get it; the giants moved the castle {it's not entirely clear why}, and the young man took the key out of the mouth of that rescued fish; K. promised to leave only for the one who would jump from the castle over the water to the shore; both princes jumped, but the local K. poured water of death, and the young man with water of life and beauty; he brought her home, everything is fine]: Bartsch 1878, No. 7:483-486 .

Western Asia. Palestinians [Tsarevich Salim and his mother notice the king leaving his room with tearful eyes; S. takes casts from the keys to the room and to the closet; there is a portrait of a beautiful woman in the closet; S. took him , took a bag with money, jumped on his horse and went to an old woman who lived outside the city; unable to find a portrait, the king sent soldiers to find and kill his son; the old woman hid S. and his horse in the deep basement under the house ; a month later, S. went out and reached another city; they sell a black man at the bazaar: he makes losses, does not bring benefits, costs a hundred gold; S. bought it; he asked for 5 gold for bread; ate all the bread in the shop, drank a pot of soup; the owner demanded money, his slave killed him, the people rushed away, the black man began to kill everyone; after several days of pogroms, the black man demanded from the king a giant iron club and 90 camels with food: then he will leave the city; on the way he ate the camels and the horse on which S. was riding, carried S. himself, left him in the cave and left, closing the exit with a stone, promising to marry S. to Badyat El-Jamal, the girl in the portrait; she daughter of a genie king; her father surrounded her castle with 7 copper walls, each with 100,000 warriors, because he knew that her daughter was destined to marry a man; the black man killed everyone with his iron club and brought B. to S. ; they spent the night together; after the genie beat the soldiers again, the spirit king and the vizier came to make peace and give B. Salima; brought S. to him as a son-in-law and guest; but the vizier advises to send the black man and then kill S.; S. Negro: you are free; Negro: you will regret it, but just say my name Abd el-Kaddus and I will appear; through two months later, S. was thrown into a well; in the morning B. found him, said the name of the black man, who again, together with his sister, killed many soldiers and S. and B. healed as before; S. wished to return home; the black man carried him, and the black sister B.; the father and the army went out to fight his son; the black man defeated the army and killed the king; S. reigned, the black man and sister continued to serve him; a year later they said that they too royal family; the father is angry with them, let S. reconcile them; the black man stomped, the passage opened down, there is an incredible palace, the king of jinns greets them; sprayed the black man and the black woman with water, they turned white and became handsome; his black sister married S.; his children (now handsome) killed his father for his vile deeds, the former black man himself became the king of the genies, and S. and his wife returned to earth; they lived in great joy]: Littmann 2016:282-299.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Mustang [the minister's son goes on trade affairs, the king's son gives him silver to buy something valuable; he finds nothing for a long time; the princess sees him from the window, sends a maid, sells him for silver fabric with his portrait; the minister's son returns, the prince sees the portrait, falls in love, comes to the princess's city with the minister's son; she can be seen once a year when she is shown to the people; the maid teaches tigers and leopards to throw meat and fruits to other animals, they will let them into a little pearl rest, where you can wait for the princess; the prince enters peace, but falls asleep there; the same the next year is silver rest; the third year is golden; the prince does not sleep, agrees with the princess to kidnap her at midnight; falls asleep again; two robbers are going to steal three prepared horses, this time the princess goes out, they ride away with her; they are going to drown her in the lake; the princess asks for permission to drink and pray first; pushes the robbers into the lake, changes into men's clothes; the king another country wants to marry his daughter; an imaginary man says he must first build three stupas in memory of his deceased wife; tells him to paint his portrait on the wall in female form, let everyone who pays attention to him be brought to her; the prince and the minister's son follow the princess's footsteps, see the portrait, everything is explained; at night all three run; by the river, the minister's son goes for curry for princesses, the prince falls asleep, the shepherd takes the princess to marry the king; the minister's son sends the prince home, comes to the palace in women's clothes disguised as a wreath saleswoman; the princess sees him from the window, finds out sends a maid to bring a flower girl, they agree, they run at midnight; when the princess and prince got married, the grass turned green on the bare ground, and streams are clogged in the waterless valleys]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 3: 31-38.

South Asia. Oriya [the prince's friend, the son of a clergyman (mantri), sees a pool in the forest and a painted female portrait; tries to hide it from the prince, but he sees and falls in love; a snake crawls out of the pond with with a diamond on his head, leaves it, swallows horses, rushes at the prince, a friend kills a snake; with the help of a diamond they enter the pond, where the prince's daughter is, she promised to marry someone who sees her portrait; the prince takes her as his wife; the king sees her, demands that a ship be built under water, otherwise he executes carpenters; the vulture tells his children that such a ship can be made of wood on which they they sit; the ship is built, the king takes the prince's wife; a friend finds the prince's wife, takes him back in a self-propelled ship; the guru's two heirs share his property: sandals that will take him to the right place, a pot, giving food, a cane, hitting the ground, you can create a village with people; a friend invites the arguers to race, take property with the prince and his wife; a friend hears a conversation between celestials; when the prince will enter the palace, he will be crushed by a wall; he can be knocked down in advance, but the one who reveals the secret will petrify; spirits from the land of the dead: the prince will be thrown off by a horse (killing a horse is the same); people from the mountains: into the newlyweds room a cobra will crawl (same); a friend tells to destroy the wall, kill the prince's horse; a stepmother gives the prince rice, a friend tells him to bury it; a friend kills a cobra, a drop of blood fell on the prince's wife, a friend tried to wipe it off, prince woke up, needs an explanation; a friend told everything, petrified; the prince sees a snake crawling to eat the vulture chicks, kills the snake; the vulture is the mother: the earth from under this tree will revive the friend; the friend has come to life, everything good]: Mohanti 1975:24-29; Bengalis [son of the chief of merchants Ruplal dreams of a girl with golden skin and hair like a black cloud; malini (m.; sexually aggressive woman) collecting flowers for the merchant's wife, said it was her niece; but R. would only be able to see her face after the wedding; in fact, this girl is Princess Kanchanmalal; she, K., saw R. herself in a dream when he saw her; K.'s servants went to look for R., and R.'s servants went to K.; they met and agreed, exchanged portraits; M. stole K.'s portrait from R. and changed it as if the bride was blind and hunchback; M. ordered not to look at K ., when she was brought; R. did so, did not agree with his wife, moving her to the hut and considering her a witch; R. agreed to marry M.'s niece, but preparations for the wedding failed; R. decided to go to a trade trip, but the ship did not move; the sailors said that R.'s wife should give him permission; she demanded that R. take her with her; he put her in a separate boat; m ran along the banks of the river, drowned R.'s ship, but K. saved R. and his men; R. thought she saved M.; M. threw K. into the water and then allowed R. to remove the blindfold; he noticed a lotus leaf, picked it up and saw it on it the true image of K.; after learning that K. was in trouble, her 7 sisters went down in a chariot from Indra's palace and took K. to heaven; R. saw K. in the chariot, understood everything; lost consciousness and woke up old man; reason: a disapproving look thrown at him by one of the celestials; he will regain his old appearance if someone who loves him kisses him all day; this person himself will turn into a palm tree (it is made of it palm wine); mother refused, M. drove R. away, but her niece agreed; K.'s invisible hand also caressed him; R. became rich; at the top of the palm tree, which M.'s niece had become, saw K.; she said that from now on she would be with him during the day, but not at night; in 7 days she would return his niece M. to him; R. pretended to be asleep, followed K., quietly grabbed her chariot, and also found himself in heaven; replaced the tired drummer, played well; Indra noticed K.'s look at R.; K. admitted that she had an earthly husband; I. allowed her to live on earth, left her chariot and gave her a fan to revive M.'s niece; but M. managed to turn her into a snake; I. went down, his elephant drank the water of the pond, at the bottom of which the snake; I. touched the snake and the girl appeared; but the snake did not disappear, but grabbed the frog into which I. turned m; the snake always clutches it in its teeth but does not swallow it; happy R. stayed with two wives]: Bradley-Birt 1920, No. 4:116-125; Tamils [Raja's son and minister's son went hunting; going to the temple On the mountain, the prince saw a portrait of a beauty with a bouquet in her hands; he was stunned: he must get a woman and a bouquet; the priest sent the minister's son to the artist; he said that he had bought a radiant female nail from the hunter and recreated the appearance of someone to whom the fingernail could belong; the hunter sent him to the banyan, under which he found the nail; the minister's son remained under the banyan; every day the snake eats eggs in the nest while the parent birds they fly across 7 seas for food; the minister's son hacked a snake, the chicks told their mother about it; she told her how she picked up a shining nail across the 7 seas; took the young man there; he picked up diamonds and gold on the roof palaces; the bird gave a pen to summon it when it was time to fly back; the young man began selling jewelry near the Raja's house; dug a secret passage there; told the Raja that he would leave for a week, and made his way to the palace , made an agreement with the princess, and the Raju warned him that he would bring his wife; the Raja's face seemed familiar, but when he went to the palace, his daughter was there again; the minister's son flew away in a male bird, and princess on female; to test the prince, the minister's son told the princess to say that he had been torn to pieces by animals; the prince immediately cut off his head and the princess stabbed after him; the minister's son brought the coffins home; the minister's son and the prince had wives at home; the minister's son's wife promised to cut off her right hand in the temple of Kali if her husband returned alive; Kali stopped her and, for her piety, gave her strength to raise the dead ; the prince's wife decided that the minister's son killed her husband and demanded his execution; the minister's son warned his wife that the birds had vowed him; if he spoke about what happened, he would fall into pieces; but if you put them together, he will come to life; the minister's son is forced to tell you everything; his wife revived him and revived the prince and princess; his ex-wife was burned alive in a lime kiln]: Blackburn 2005, № 47.

China - Korea. Chuan miao [the wife gave birth to a son with ears like a cow, killed her; the husband scolded her; the next time she gave birth to a toad; the toad tells the mother to marry him her brother's daughter; the uncle led the Toad to cut the forest on the rock, pushed off a cliff; the Toad returned, dragging a tree; was able to carry a heavy mortar; the uncle orders to bring water to the fields; his daughters bring lunch to the worker, see the hoes working themselves; the Toad gets a wife, asks her portrait to see her on the site; the wind carries the portrait to the emperor, who takes his wife; in the form of a young man, Toad comes to the palace; the wife invites the emperor to change clothes with him; the emperor becomes toad, Toad - emperor; wife orders to kill a toad (former emperor)]: Graham 1954:182-183.

The Balkans. Romanians [the king leaves, leaving his son Ionece for himself, but forbiding him to take one key; he violates the ban, enters the room, sees a portrait of a beautiful woman and faints; goes in search; food is served to the empty castle; the dragon lives there; the girl advises to swap barrels of living and dead water; I. fights the dragon, she drinks dead water, I. kills her; then kills her daughter; goes to Ciudă de Obilă; his slave finds out what his life is in; first he says it is in the door jamb, then in the sword in the basement; I. enters the basement, there are hundreds of prisoners; he kills Ciudă de Obilă, and returns the slave to her friend is his wife; defeats the hero Kazarkina, who ate everything; frees for promising to obey him; {many details, not everything is clear}; Kazarkina tells Ionita that she learned from a conversation between pigeons: her father wants to kill him; as she tells, K. becomes stony; I. kills her father, frees her mother; I.'s wife dreams that if K. sprinkles blood on their baby, she will come to life; they cut off the baby's head, K., who comes to life, puts it in its place and the child comes to life]: Bîrlea 1966:433-435; Moldovans [Prince Fat-Frumos; dying, the king orders 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]: Botezat 1982:209-117; Greeks (Lemnos) [when Princess Kyra Florou combs her hair, flowers fall off her lips; when she cries, a storm begins; when she dies, the queen tells her son not to leave her sister; the old woman advises her to find a groom; tells her brother that it must be King Rhodope's son; the monk tells the guardian animals of three gates to throw at the sheep; ask for a sword that rises and falls for a moment stop; do not answer the king's question who he is; the king finds a portrait of the CF, promises to send ships for her; her brother warns that in the sea her sister will turn into an eel, sail away; KF is placed in glass box; an old woman is forced to accompany her, throws KF into the sea, replaces her ugly daughter; the prince is forced to marry her, but her brother is shackled; a year later he asks for permission to him take a walk along the seashore; an eel sister wraps around his neck, tells him to kill her, cook her, let the king eat, bury his bones, a rose bush will grow, the old woman tells him to cut it down, the trunk must be preserved; when you come to the monk , brother hits the trunk with an ax, sister revives; combs her hair, falls beads; with this money, the young man builds a new monastery, gives gifts to the king; at the CF feast he appears to the king and his son; wedding; old woman they cut into pieces, scatter them across the field, putting the horse in the saddle bag; the old woman's daughter is sent to the kitchen]: Paton 1901, No. 21:320-323.

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelskaya: Severnaya Dvina) [the tsar has a son Ivan (Vanyusha); the tsar locked one of the rooms; I. took the keys, broke into the room, there was a portrait of a beautiful woman, he fell in love with her; went for the bride, with him a loyal servant, is also Ivan; they came by ship to the country where the princess lived; they sell mirrors; the princess came to the ship to see, they left; the princess likes I.-Tsarevich; servant the crow hears the crow's prediction: they will come home, sit in a stroller, it will explode, and whoever tells will petrify knee-deep; they will give a poisonous shirt (petrify to the waist); they will go to bed and, if they do not smear their eyebrows with blood, they will not wake up (it will petrify completely); the servant chopped the stroller, burned his shirt; smeared the princess's eyebrows with blood, began to lick, I. woke up and thought that the servant was kissing the young woman; I had to talk about everything; "statues put it in the room"; I. has a son; I. dreams: the servant will come to life if his son is slaughtered; they did so; I. came to life, followed by a boy]: Mitrofanova, Fedorova 1966, No. 9:117-118; Russians (Tambov) [ A loud, restless girl falls asleep only to her brother's song, which promises that she will be married by a "king chick". She grows up beautiful and asks her brother to fulfill his promise, who paints her portrait and shows her to the king. The king falls in love with the girl and invites her to marry him. On the road, the girl looks out of the carriage, the babysitter pushes her into the sea, the girl turns into a goldfish. The babysitter passes off her daughter Zheludivochka as the royal bride. The brother sees that the girl is not the same, the king is angry with him, but marries Zudivochka. A beautiful girl comes to the royal bedroom, reproaches the tsar for his act: "Isn't it a shame for the tsar to sleep with the girl Sheludivchonka", the servant notices her and accidentally burns the royal stockings, she gives him wonderful new ones. Everything is repeated three times, the servant explains where the stockings come from. The king changes places with his servant, recognizes the girl who appears at night as his true bride, grabs her, she turns into fish, pike, he holds her, she stays with him. He ties the husk and her mother to the horse's tail, the brother-in-law makes the minister]: Khudyakov 1964, No. 166:247-248; Western Ukrainians (Pokutye) [mother died, pan took another; son sees a portrait of his mother and goes to look for a bride who would be just as beautiful; he did not find it; Mr. has a well with good water; everyone who comes for her is shown a portrait; one person says he knows such a beautiful woman; goes with a young man; does not sleep at night, hears three doves talking; the king has a golden daughter; whoever looks her in the eye will become petrified; you have to go to her on a straight road, and she has not to drink wine; a companion teaches a young man look only at that girl's feet; and only after eating, but not much, the food offered; the young man did everything and said that in front of the girl's throne, the stones were loser grooms; for the second time you can look to the waist; the third one can drink wine and look into the face; the girl is happy, the wedding; the young man with his wife and companion go home; the healer teaches his stepmother to serve young poisoned wine, and the stepson a mad horse; the companion ordered not to drink wine, not to sit on a horse; the companion protects the peace of the newlyweds; killed a snake that crawled out of the crack, blood splashed on the lady's face, he erased the blood; the watchmen peeked, said stepmother that stepson's companion kissed the lady; the healer gave the stepmother poison: the drunk will become a stone wall; the voice from the wall: tomorrow's christening; we must take the baby out of the stroller and put it under the wall; the child cried, the father wiped his tear and wiped his finger against the wall; the companion came to life, a whole and healthy baby in his arms]: Zinchuk 2005b, No. 48:319-325; Czechs [a son was born shaggy like a bear, the king heard about in his mind, his daughter Mina will give him if he turns Labu, otherwise he executes; in the morning the river flows across the castle; the same is to build a castle; the bridge from his castle to the royal one; the young bear gets M. becomes human at night; wife and mother burned their skin, husband is gone, wife goes looking; sun: ask my brother of the month; month: ask the wind; wind: he has the sorceress overseas; carries him across the sea, teaches throw one bouquet to a bird, another to an old woman, otherwise they will be killed; the sorceress lets talk, but the king falls asleep; on the advice of one of the queens, the king changed the wine bowls, the sorceress drank and fell asleep, king killed her with a sword; the castle turned black red, everyone parted, M. and the king began to rule], 297-305 [the king and queen are leaving, their son Vitek gives his sisters for the Sun, the Month, the Wind; goes to look for a bride, seeing the wizard's portrait; he goes to his sons-in-law, they give a whip, a pipe, a ring, a bride to the fire king; with the help of a whip, V. grazes 12 stallions from the sorceress, milks the cows, and cools the boiling water with the help of the wind milk, bathes in it, gets a flying horse; the sorceress jumps into milk, cooked; in the fire king's castle she replaces her sword with her own, takes the princess away from the fire; she tells her sword to kill her, otherwise she will kill her; he is does; wedding]: Bogolyubova, Talova 2000:219-224; Czechs [the queen does not want to marry; his father brought him to the hall, where portraits of all unmarried princesses are portrayed; face alone against the wall; father reluctantly shows it , my son fell in love; dressed as a commoner, went to the chosen one's city; two are fighting over an invisible hat and a staff that will carry me where I need to go; Queen: who will be the first to bring me a dart thrown, receives items; wearing an invisible hat, picks up the staff, enters the princess's palace; is hired as a gardener; spies on the princess meeting the dragon at night; tells the staff to carry herself to the dragon palace, where he brings the princess for the night; the queen hides the patterned handkerchief given by the dragon to the princess; the dragon and princess notice that someone else eats rice from the plate they eat from; the princess tells the dragon to take her back as soon as possible; the neighboring king demands a princess, threatens war; she promises to marry someone who will complete three assignments; the neighbor has started a war; the gardener queen asks put him commander-in-chief; wearing an invisible hat, cut off the heads of enemy generals at night; the same the next night; the enemies accused each other of treason, began to fight each other; the enemy was defeated, the neighboring king gave half of his possessions; became chancellor; promised to leave if he did not get the princess; she asks the dragon to come up with impossible assignments; the dragon: get laughing apples; the crying quince (they are in to his garden, the queen overhears the dragon, brings it); for the third time, the dragon advises to order to bring the dragon's tooth, i.e. his own; the queen sedated all the dragons, pulled it out in the tooth; the dragon told the princess that He will not meet again, because a tooth who pulls out can cut his throat; the Queen told the princess's father everything, returned to his father and married the girl his father chose for him]: Curtin 1914:227-242; Poles [stepmother hates her stepdaughter, sends her in winter for berries; she is kind to those she meets, is rewarded; pearls and roses fall from her mouth or tears turn into pearls; her own daughter goes to the forest, rude, reptiles begin to fall from her mustache; the queen falls in love with her stepdaughter or falls in love with her from her brother's portrait; stepmother drowns her with her child; stepmother or her daughter drowns her on the way to the Queen; her stepmother's daughter takes her place; her brother is thrown into prison because the bride is not at all like in the portrait; drowned she takes the form of a golden duck, goose or other bird three times arrives at the royal court; on the third night the queen breaks the spell; when the Queen grabs the bird; the brother is returned to court; the stepmother and her daughter are punished]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 403:130.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kabardian residents [wives Mysyr Pasha and Efendyko Ismela see a floating apple, eat and give birth to sons named Safyl and Mylyga; both are brought up by the EI; he gives M. a horse, S. - a bundle with a portrait of a girl; S. and M. go to look for her, three old men consistently tell how their brothers died looking for Bartey Janos; S. and M. with their companions sail across the sea, S. swims out alone; comes to a beauty kidnapped by another , asks you to know where the other's life is; he lies twice (the wife decorates the door leaf and peg with flowers); life in three flies, they are in bone gazir in a brass box in a steel chest in black stone, which a lion guards; S. catches and crushes flies, returns with a woman and treasures; in the village of a BJ woman in a golden chair descends from the sky; S. plays the reeds, BJ is fascinated, marries S.; she saved M. and companions, M. marries the one S. brought from his mother and abandoned by enemies; this is Jamhud; Abkhazians [the tsar picks up a boy raised by deer, taken from his mother and abandoned by enemies; this is Jamhud; dying, 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 Obedala, Opivalo, Skorokhod, Ostrogoye, Hearter, Craftsman (Thief), Strongman; everyone says that Only J. is amazing; when he finds out who is in front of him, he 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 hair); 2) eat a lot (Oat), 3) drink (Opivalo); 4) run across the sea (the witch runner puts him to sleep; The rumor hears his snoring, the Sharp-eye knocks the millstones from under his leg); 5) climb onto the table with a bowl boiling water on his head (J. cries when wolves torment his deer mother, adau takes tears for splashes, J. climbs again); 6) adau give poisoned food, the Craftsman moved the bowls, adau died; Strongman carries the bride J. along with the castle; wedding]: Bgazhba 2002:164-171; Ossetians [Aldar has 3 daughters, he keeps them in an iron tower; later his son Soslanbek was born; the widow's daughter went to fetch water; S. fired an arrow and smashed her jugs; the widow teaches the girl to say to S. next time: she would find her sisters better; the mother had to confess, S. came to the sisters, they asked him to beg her parents let them go to church for a feast; after the service, three monsters kidnapped the girls; parents tell S. to find them; while S. was sleeping, an elephant came out of the river, swallowed S.'s horse and told him to sit on it; consistently brings them to his three sisters; they give a ring, a knife, a purse to call them if necessary; S. refuses to marry beauties whose portraits are shown and gets him shown the hidden portrait; the father-in-law of the sisters S. is the dragon Zaliag Kalm; he sleeps surrounded by an iron fence with his body; S. cut the dragon, entered, and his daughter, beautiful Sugar; she gave him sleeping pills, ordered him to throw him in tower; S. summoned the horsemen from the ring, they released him, but when they saw Sahar, S. lost consciousness and Sugar took his ring; the same with the knife; the heroes came out of his wallet, and S. hid it in advance; after This is what Sahar agreed to marry S.; ordered not to unlock the seventh room; S. unlocked, where the giant Khatag-Barag and his horse are chained; HB asks to throw them bread and hay, promises to provide three services; Having been released, HB took Sugar away; 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; having revived S., the sisters ordered 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 cut off the shepherd's head; on the way, S. wanted to kill , but let the wolf, fox and wasp go; each of them gathers a herd in the evening; the mare must give birth, the witch beat her; in revenge, the mare told S. that it is necessary to choose the foal she will give birth to, although he will seem 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 a 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; all is well]: Dzagurov 1973, No. 32:80-91; Balkarians (Western 1959) [the elder brother and his squad stopped for the night, the black fog approached, destroyed them; the middle brother was the same; the younger brother was careful, hid, escaped himself; came to Emegensha, fell to her breasts; her sons with they made friends with him; explained that the fog was a girl, she stole their horse; they had a piebald mare, her foals were dragged away by a wolf; the girl managed to take the foal, but the wolf gnawed off his leg, so her horse three-legged; fog is steam from his nostrils; tomorrow the mare will give birth again; the young man caught the foal without injury; emegens teach: hiding alternately so that the girl thinks that the horse is falsely raising the alarm, approach girl; she sleeps for a month, her hair must be tied; let her go when she swears a prayer book; a boy and a girl got married; she gave her husband her portrait; he lost it, water brought it to the khan; the witch promised to get a beauty; came to the young man's wife, while not, persuaded him to find out where that shower was; in a broom; burned a broom; in a bead in his hair; the young man got drunk, the witch tore off the bead, threw it into the corner, took the girl away; she demands to wait a year with the wedding; the emegens see that blood is dripping from the young man's arrow; they came, found a bead, put it, the young man came to life; asked the shepherd, threw a ring into his wife's maid's jug; during weddings, an unrecognized man stabbed a witch and took his wife on a four-legged horse; brought the groom's friend on a three-legged emegen to be eaten; along with his emegen brothers in that mentioned rock crack, if not probably died (and now) live]: Malkonduev 2017:229-240; 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 enters the window, Cheka notices, throws A. into the basement; H. pulls it out and hides it; the girls tell him about the princess 11 years away from here; Cheka says that this is her portrait; sends H. then hoping to kill him and take the girl themselves; 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 tell the master to make a deer, let H. get inside, play the zurna; A. brings the deer, the princess listens, H. goes out, she falls in love with him; A. and the princess change with clothes, and then the imaginary princess (i.e. A.) runs away; A. takes the princess's maid as brides; at night, the Cheka enters to kill H., but A. kills him himself; wedding]: Kibiev, Malsagov 1981:72-86; megrels [childless parents asked God to give a son; Shawi-Katsi ("black man") was born; after serving a merchant, he stole his magic sword, which kills and revives himself; takes two young men as brothers; they come to forest master Ndemi's palace; ShK kills him with a sword, marries his daughter; loses her portrait; the king finds him; the old woman promises to get a beautiful woman; learns about the sword, tells her to destroy everyone except the beautiful , throws his sword into the river, brings the beautiful woman to the tsar; the brothers found out what happened, took out a sword, revived the ShK, he killed the tsar, returned his wife; chopped the old woman into pieces, fed the dogs]: Stepanov 1898, No. 4:10-16; Armenians (Ararat Valley) [the poor man and his wife were giving birth to the city of Turtamba, 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: born near the city wall he 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 succeeded in him grab; his name is Jeyran-ogly; he quickly learned science; the prince is not allowed into the 40th room, he entered, there is a portrait of a beautiful woman, he went in search, D. with him; the devas are amazed at D.'s strength, unquestioningly they gave their sister to the prince; while she was sleeping, the prince took the keys tied to her braids, unlocked the rooms; one white deva, pilaf and water in front of him, but could not reach it; the prince tied the chain, the devil pulled up the cauldrons, ate and drank everything, broke the chains and took the prince's fiancée; 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 dreamed of; ordered the servant who spared the boy to be beheaded; D. hears the conversation of three pigeons; the king would send a horse for D. whom to sit down, you will burn; he will be locked in a room with a snake; if a drop of her blood touches his body, D. will petrify; D. tells the groom to sit on his horse; D. killed the snake, but petrified; the prince's wife dreamed that it was necessary 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 his head]: Ioannisian 1968:136-145; Armenians [dervish tells the childless king to pick an apple , give his wife, and the peel to the mare; a son Kajik and a fiery foal were born; both grew up, K. feels pain under his clothes, there is a dagger, he wears a portrait of Princess Tsovinar; K. goes in search on Fire; wins, makes brothers a person from black, white, green countries; leaves everyone where he helps local princes defeat an entire army, marries a local princess, gives everyone a ring or belt - they will turn black , if something happens; K. infiltrates Ts, killing her three lion-defenders; upon learning about this, the king of the Red Country decided to kidnap Ts; sent the old woman, who overheard K. explain to Ts that his strength lies in his dagger; the old woman threw it into the sea, K. lost consciousness, the old woman transported Ts in a butter churn across the sea to the king of the Red Country; the twins understood everything, white began to search among the stars, black into the sea; they brought a fish with a dagger in its back; the black brother pulled it out with its bones; said that this fish (ishkhan, "prince", Sevan trout, would be king among the fish; having received a dagger, K. came to life; during the Red King's weddings, the white brother smashed the king against the stars, the black drowned the old woman, K. returned Ts.]: Nazinyan 2014:62-69; Azerbaijanis (villages. Sahli, Kazakh district, western Azerbaijan) [when he dies, the tsar tells his three sons not to go to the garden; the eldest son goes to meet a hero whose horse kills soldiers and kills the prince; the same with his middle brother; the youngest tames the horse, defeats the hero, who turned out to be a gyaur girl; the prince persecutes her, tells her to convert to Islam, marries her; on the way home he became friends with a diva, they promised to help each other; one of the sons, the diva could swim under water for hours, the other hears everything; the prince and his wife live by the sea, hunting a portrait of his wife; the wind blows him away, the king sees his witch mother becoming the maid of the prince's wife, asks what his strength is; a wreath; throws him into the fire, the prince is unharmed; in a knife; the witch throws him into the sea, brought the prince's wife to the king; that diva sees blood on the prince's ring, asks his sons for help; the listener finds out everything, the swimmer took out the fish that swallowed the blade, the prince came to life, came to his wife, they destroyed the tsar's army together, everything is fine]: Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 2:34-41; the Turks [dying, the padishah tells three sons to give three daughters to the first to marry; these are three old men, one older than the other; the youngest son insisted that his father's will be fulfilled; in a dream he was shown a portrait beauties; when he woke up, he went to look for her; he went to his older sister, her husband was a deva padishah; he gave the young man the ability to turn into a deva; middle sister behind the padishah of ants (ability become an ant); the youngest behind the padishah nightingale (in the nightingale); when he reached the goal, the young man became a nightingale and sat on the girl's chest; she put him in a cage, brought him to her place; he went to bed with her for two nights, and third, she woke up; says that her father will give the groom difficult errands; get crying pomegranates and laughing quince; the young man became a deva, brought pomegranates and quince; get the mirror of the padishah devas, in which the beholder sees all his ancestors; the young man came in as an ant, got a mirror; on the way back he went swimming, the Sea Maiden fell in love and took it; 40 companions looked like a young man, brought a mirror; the princess asked the imaginary groom to become a nightingale, he could not, confessed everything; the girl took 40 gold balls and gave one at a time to the Sea Maiden as she showed Shahzade's body above the water; when picked up everything, he turned into a bird and flew to his beloved; they achieved their wish goal]: Stebleva 1986, No. 40:163-169; the Kurds [Eastern and Western Padishahs agree to marry future children, if they are of different sexes; after the death of the West, the son of Usub remains, but the Eastern wife refused to marry him a daughter named Parizada; W. and P. leave; exterminate the 39 sons of the old woman who attacked her, They spare the fortieth, he is a sorcerer, stabs a knife into W. in the bathhouse, takes P., but she kills him, cares for W.; the portrait of P. finds the Arab padishah, W. and P. defeats him, he shows the portrait to others, the son of another The padishah sends the old woman to find out what W. is strong; W. says that in the broom, the old woman burns her, W. is alive; in a sword; the old woman throws her at sea, W. dies; friend W. Ahmad saves the fish, which finds a sword in the whale's belly, W. comes to life; W. returns P., exterminates the pursuers; W. and P. return to Father P.]: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 3:59-71.

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; Persians (Khorasan, Hamadan, Mazendaran) [the queen is childless; after eating the apple given by the dervish, she gives birth to twins; the dervish demands alone for himself; the young man leaves, leaving a knife or other object, by the water of which his brother will determine if he is in trouble; the young man kills an evil dervish, washes his hair with magic water, it turns gold; Información suplementaria various episodes; the second brother sees that the first trouble comes to the rescue; in a version from Hamadan (Elwell-Sutton, Coll. ivB: 376-575) A young man goes to look for the princess whose portrait he saw; turned into stone; the second brother kills the dervish, shatters the first]: Marzolph 1984, No. 303:64-65; Tajiks [Boborakhim - son of a padishah; his father showed him all but one of the rooms; when he entered her, B. saw a portrait of a beautiful woman; the father confesses that it was Robia with 40-arshin hair; fly her towards the moon for 7 days and nights; the gate guarded by tigers and a dragon; she will choose her own husband; the carpenter Sangsabur and his 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 holes in the ceiling of her room; B. took barbecue coals with him, the flying horse caught fire and burned; S. made a new one and flew to help; on the way he picked up R.'s 40-arshin hair in the river; wrapping it around his arm, hacked tigers and a dragon; R. chose S. as her husband, and sad B. was at the wedding]: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1957:160-167; Tajiks [the man gave the childless padishah and vizier an apple each, both were born sons; they were kept in a dungeon; one day 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 a book with a portrait there beautiful Bibiruzbi; fell in love, went in search; the son of the vizier is with him; the dragon tries to eat the black woman, the SM killed the dragon; the black woman promised to serve the SM; he pulled a splinter out of the lion's paw, the lion gave him a lion cub; they stayed with an old woman; at night half of the city is lit; this is the light from Bibiruzbi's face; the old woman gave SM to her son and he was hired as a groom to the padishah; B. asked him to be a gardener; fell in love, they came together; the maid also wants love, but the SM refused; then she reported to the padishah; SM is captured; the padishah tells me 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 everyone; 4 padishahs attacked them; SM let a black woman and a lion on them, who defeated the enemies; the padishah asked for forgiveness; SM brought B. home; his father wants to kill him and sends poisoned clothes, a horse, tries to strike; Knight Zahrak does not allow the SM to touch the poison, deflects the padishah's hand; padishah killed, SM reigned]: Niyazmukhamedov 1945:66-82; 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 she 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, his 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 a portrait; a young man reaches the house of a black diva; a shepherd teaches: when a 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 [old the gardener gave King Balkh a parrot; when the king was away, the 40th wife asked if she was more beautiful than anyone else; the parrot replied that Mislab was more beautiful than anyone else 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 the cage; the gardener found and brought him back, 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; no one enters the 40th room; when the vizier handed the keys to B., he looked into it and saw a portrait of Princess M.; at this time The king entered M. Castle, tied her up sleeping; untied her when she called him her lord; put him on a horse, flew, threw her into the river, and when he sailed, he became a young man; M. told the diva to carry her the castle, her and the king in Balkh; her army of divas defeated Peri's army; M. ordered the 40th queen to be released, her eyes returned; M. fell in love with B.; B. defeated his father in a duel, married M., and his father left and did not returned]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1): 546-558; Uzbeks [after the death of poor father, Farhad opened a casket, which his father told him to bury in the ground; it has a mirror, and in the mirror you can see a meadow walking in beautiful; together with his friend Shapur F. went in search; easily destroys rocks to let water into the fields; Shirin sees this; she promises to marry the one who will turn Syr-Darya into the Hungry Steppe; the vizier advises Shah Khosrov spread reed mats on the ground: in the moonlight they will shine like water; S. believed and became H.'s wife; meanwhile F. finished his work and let the water go; S. became the river, and F. into the cliff on its bank]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1): 559-565.

Baltoscandia. Danes [father makes and sells sieves, but drinks everything; son goes to sell sieves instead of him, gets lost in the forest; sees a portrait of a beauty on a tree, but cannot reach it; a horse appears, tells him listen, then the portrait falls into your hands; in the castle, the young man was hired by a groom; his purse is filled with money, and his doodles turn into portraits; the servant sees a portrait of a long-missing princess - the one that was found in the forest; the king does not believe that the young man did not see her, since he has a portrait of her, sends her to get it; the young man goes to the phoenix bird; on the way, the horse turns into a dog; the people he meets ask find out 1) why a pear does not bear fruit; 2) where is the missing princess (the other); a young man throws meat to two struggling snakes; millet to two struggling swans; they let it through; a ferryman at the lake crossing asks him to know how long he has been a ferry driver; in the phoenix house, the princess (the one in the portrait) hides the young man under the bed; asks the phoenix questions on her own behalf; in the morning, a young man and a princess, taking gold, they run away; after crossing the lake, the young man says that the ferryman should tell the one he is transporting to take his position; the phoenix in the form of a dragon pursues, but attacks the nails with which the ship is covered; the swans bring the princess (the one they asked to find), she was in a castle hanging in the air; the young man tells me to dig a huge toad from under the pear, he is generously rewarded; when the young man returns, the princess from the hanging castle visits him; the king is told about this and he tells him to get the castle, because the princess misses it; swans raise snakes into the air, they bite gold chains, the castle falls on the ship has been delivered; the servants continue to slander the young man, he and his dog are going to be burned; the dog orders to put on the fire the dragon fat that the young man has kept; when they smear it, the young man and the dog do not feel the heat of the fire; both turn handsome; the servants themselves throw themselves into the fire but burn; the young man marries the princess from the padlock, and his assistant marries the one who was kidnapped by the phoenix; the king objects and goes to phoenix; remains a ferryman]: Holbek 1987:567-568; Norwegians [stepmother tyrannites stepson and stepdaughter; stepson leaves, is hired to serve the king; stepdaughter goes to fetch water; three rise out of the water ugly heads; one asks her to wash, the other to comb her hair, the third to kiss; the girl does it; they make her beautiful, gold falls from her lips and hair; her own daughter goes for water, scolds her heads, those make her a freak with a long nose, snout and a pine tree shoot on her forehead; the girl's brother sees a portrait of his sister; decides to marry; brother takes his sister across the lake, stepmother and her own daughter sit between them in the middle of the boat; tells his stepdaughter his brother's words, as if he tells him to throw a chest of gold from the puppy's mother into the lake to throw herself into the water; the king is forced to marry a freak, the girl's brother throws them into a hole with snakes; at midnight, a girl and a dog come to the kitchen, the maid sees them, tells the king; twice the freak sleeps on the king; when the girl comes for the last time, the servants they put a knife in the hand of the sleepy king, who makes an incision on the girl's finger, the spell disappears; the brother is returned, the stepmother and her daughter are thrown into a hole with snakes]: Dasent 1970:322-330; Swedes [prince falls in love with a beautiful woman when he saw her portrait; his faithful servant lured her to the ship and brought her to the prince; he hears birds talking, predicting that the prince and his wife would die because of a horse, food, etc., and whoever tells them about it petrifies; the servant eliminates dangers, but is forced to explain his strange behavior to the prince and turns into stone; young spouses agree to sacrifice their children to revive the statue; servant Children also come to life; in Norway, the plot seems to be unknown]: Liungman 1961, No. 516:139; Karelians (Russian Karelia) [after the death of his parents, the son got a job with the king as a shepherd, the daughter stayed at home; gave her brother her portrait; when he saw him, the Queen fell in love; sister: before the millstone left by my parents was wiped off before I left my father's house; my brother broke the millstones, joined the halves; when my sister became work, the millstone split; sister: I won't go until the spinning wheel breaks; brother broke it, the spinning wheel broke; the same is my father's mortar; threshold; sister had to marry; had to sail on the sea; sister took her dog with her; witch from the shore: take me; they didn't take me twice, but on the third cape, the brother decided to take them; the witch made them deaf; brother to sister: the castle is visible, dress nicely; sister the witch asks again; she: your brother tells you to put your oars and throw yourself into the sea; the sister gave the oars to the witch, but did not rush into the sea; next time your brother asks you to wear jewelry, the witch tells you to take off your dress and jewelry, throw herself into the sea; the sister takes off, but does not rush; the third time she rushed, the witch raked away from her; the brother had to pass off the witch for her sister; she wore her clothes and jewelry; for the bride was ugly, the Queen told the dragons and snakes to leave her brother, but they did not touch him; the sister at the bottom of the sea became the bride of the sea king; she made a gold and silver hat for the Queen, a silver chain held her brother to free her brother but not be able to go ashore; her dog was wandering around the castle; the widow had an iron platform going out to sea; her sister came to him and asked take the dog's hat to the Queen, asked what was in the house; she replies that a witch was in charge of it; the widow told the Queen everything; the next night her sister made a shirt out of gold and silver, a dog she took it away again; the witch says that her hands make both the hat and the shirt themselves while she sleeps; the widow teaches her to cut the silver chain with a scythe on the third night; the sister will turn into different creatures, she cannot let go; the sister prepared pants for the Queen; the Queen put his chain over her, cut the silver one; her sister turned into an earthworm, a fly, a lizard, a spindle, etc.; the Queen took her to the house widows, freed his brother; the Queen orders to cook a resin hole, light it, cover it from above, tells the servants to take the witch away, she fails, burns, sticks her hair out, says that worms will emerge from him in earth, mosquitoes in the air, harmful caterpillars to cause people to suffer; wedding; brother appointed chief adviser, gets half of the treasures]: Schreck 1887, No. 10:74-85; Karelians [dying, king and the queen tells her son and three daughters not to marry or marry; there is a servant in the house Faithful Jussi; they wipe the dust, open the window, fly in forty, turn into a man, asks for the eldest daughter; stays overnight, in the morning, neither daughter nor magpie; the same with the middle daughter, with his youngest daughters; the prince finds a locked room, orders the blacksmith a key, the room is empty, but under the shred there is a portrait of "Mary the Beautiful Girl"; VU discourages them from following her, they conclude an agreement: if the prince does not return in three years, VU will receive all the benefits; the prince comes to the hut on cockspurs, in which the woman shovels the coals with her nose; that he is the son of her younger sister, gives the horse a steel hoof; on it, the prince jumps over the rock, gets to his older sister; the same to the middle, younger (each time the mountain is higher, the prince stays longer); comes to an old woman who plants bread in the oven with her tongue is also his mother's sister; she tells him to herd 300 horses, he herds, receives a peeling skate as payment; the horse tells the Swedish to sew an eagle that will carry it to Mary; The prince lives with M. in the rock, then they fly home, arrive 3 minutes before the deadline; everything is fine]: Concca 1959:27-35 (similar text, but less details in Onegin 2010, No. 35:326-333).

Volga - Perm. Chuvashi [while hunting, the king wanted to shoot the fox, but saw that it was pregnant; he thought of his pregnant wife and decided to spare the fox; on the other side of the mountain, the king met the same fox the close associate also did not shoot, thinking about his pregnant wife; when they met, the king and his entourage agreed that if they had children of different sexes, they would marry them, and if alone, let they will be friends; both had sons; the young men grew up; the prince saw a portrait of the princess in the book, fell in love; the tsar says that 40 years ago he tried unsuccessfully to achieve this princess; gives the prince an army; it murmurs, the prince sends him home; sees 40 people beat one, and he laughs, buys the man lying for 40 camels loaded with gold; that man, Garambur, promises to get the princess; Light fires all night so that he, G., takes out the princess and finds the prince; in the morning the prince sleeps, the last fire goes out; G. scolds him but continues to serve; the princess in the chest; G. orders the prince to tie and kicked himself to her hair until she went down to the ground, promised to become a wife and gave up hair from her right armpit; the same from her left armpit; from her pubis ("from her chest"); they came to the house; the prince came in, there 12 robbers were feasting, the prince was thrown into the cellar; G. slowly took 12 swords out of the house, put the point up, rolled the millstones over them; 11 swords bent, and the 12th cut the millstones in half; G. took this sword hacked down the robbers; the prince and his wife and G. began to live in the house; they forbade the prince's wife to unlock the barn; she unlocked it, two wolves, white and gray, came out, took her away; G. became a fly, flew to the wolves, they did the prince's wife is a maid; G. tells her to find out where the souls of the wolves are; they first say that there is a jamb under the window; the princess decorated the joint; in the broom the same thing; the white wolf: there is a red bull in the sky, a ram in the bull, in the ram a hare, a duck in a hare, there are two eggs in the duck; to get eggs, you have to whistle through the royal ring; G. prince: you have a ring on your finger; G. whistled into the ring, a bull came down from the sky; wolves ask them not to destroy them; G. tells them to create a palace next to the royal and take the prince and his wife there to the bed to wake up in their bed; the wolves did everything; the feast]: Chuvash tales 1937:255-264; Bashkirs [childless an old woman makes her son out of dough, this is Kamyr batyr; he is strong, maims other children, his father drives him away; he meets, takes Name Batyr and Tau-batyr as companions; they sleep in a hut, three girls cook, leave; on the third day, the batyrs catch them; in their absence, yyirly-karsyk comes to their wives, tells them to look in her hair, sucks their bone marrow; I., T. guard, see everything, but are afraid to say; K. cuts off the old woman's head; she promises that there will be a thousand heads; every day there are more demon troops, the warriors are defeated, their wives are kidnapped; K. descends to the lower world on a rope; women pinched the baby deva, they say he is crying, wanting to be at the father's soul; dev: she is in a dove, that in a chest, a chest in a mare; K. kills a deva, companions pick up women, cut off the rope; Azhdaha does not allow him to approach the sea, he is donated every day to the girl, K. kills him; kills a snake crawling to eat the chicks of the Samrigush bird; she agrees to take K. to the ground; on the way he feeds her starlings, cuts off the last piece from her leg, the bird puts it on back; K. offers I. and T. to shoot up, fallen arrows kill them, K. gets three wives], 57 [the merchant gives King Abdullah a portrait of a beautiful woman; son A. Dandan finds him, finds Princess Narkes; she is kidnapped by Dev Kahkaha; D. heals Samrug, a bird burned by a deva, who carries it across the sea, feeds her goat meat on the way; kills a snake crawling to her nest; the bird brings D. to deva K.; D. kills the devas and their mother, the bird carries him back, N. and another girl he released named Malikbanu (she helped defeat the Devas); a counselor friend gives D. a daughter, now with D. three wives]: Barag 1988, No. 23:403-406.

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 and had a son Jiangde; 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.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Baikal Buryats [=1993, No. 2:37-61; an orphan earned a horse, it was eaten by wolves; he argues to cut four fathoms of firewood in a day; there is not much left, the orphan asks the Sun to hesitate, but The sun goes down; he works again for a year, gets seed grain, in the fall his harvest was broken by hail; he goes to the sea to fish and catch animals with snare; sees seven swans fly in, take off their clothes, become girls, began to swim; the poor man hides the most beautiful clothes; she asks for return, promises to recognize the kidnapper as father, if he is old, husband, if young; the orphan returns her dress, keeps a handkerchief; everyone admires on his wife; so that her husband does not get bored, she paints his portrait for him; the wind blows him away, the soldiers bring it to Abaahai Khan, who tells him to find a woman; they go into the orphan's house to fry a bird; they keep their eyes on the mistress, the bird is burnt; the hostess makes it unburned, tells her not to tell what they saw; the bird satisfies the hunger of AH and three soldiers; AH tells her to stay in these places; the next day the soldiers do not look at a woman, they fry a bird, she tastes ordinary, AH beats them, making them tell everything; locks the orphan and his wife in an iron barn; tells the orphan 1) to bring an evil yellow dog from the east; the wife gives a hook, an orphan pacifies the dog with them; 2) clear the bottom of hot hell; the wife gives a red thread to get out of hell; it is impossible to cleanse hell, but the orphan offers AH to check for himself, go down; 3) pay tribute from the son of the Star and son of the Sun; the wife gives a thread to climb into heaven, show her handkerchief to her mother, she recognizes her as a matchmaker; then the guard climbs, the orphan shakes him off, he falls; after resting with his mother-in-law, the orphan comes to his son's wife Stars, she hides him in a hot cellar; when the Star's son comes, everything cools down; the son of the Star sends him to the son of the Sun; on the way 1) two roosters ask him to know why he is fighting; 2) a woman - why she sits on the horns of the cow; 3) another woman - why is she lying, water flows into her mouth, flowing out from behind; the wife of the son of the Sun hides the orphan in a cold cellar; he begged the son of the Sun to send him on a daytrip on horseback Altan Sharga instead of himself; at noon he has to dine on an 88-legged silver table; the old man lying face down replies that he is looking at his seven dogs on the ground to show them the cattle they are they can eat; an orphan breaks his arm, knocks his eye out for giving wolves to eat his horse, for which he worked for a year; another old man replies that he is trying to blow back the stone hail and the rain , who passes through the doors of heaven; an orphan beats him, breaks his arm, knocks out his eyes for destroying his crops; in the evening, the son of the Sun gives the orphan a golden cane for AH; says that lying on the ground a woman did not give mothers milk for newborns; another beat a cow that was milked in honor of the Eastern buns; roosters should be swung at with a cane, they will turn into gold and silver; AH wants to kill an orphan, who swings his cane at him and his soldiers, they fall dead; the orphan was chosen khan, the daughter of Tanegari was chosen as khansha]: Barannikova et al. 1973, No. 1:43-53.

Japan. Japanese (28 versions, all of Japan, including northern Ryukyu) [a poor peasant marries a beauty who is (1) A Swan, (2) a sea princess (he meets her while visiting an underwater palace), (3) The crane, whose life he saved, (4) is a heavenly maiden; while working in the field, he carries her portrait with him; the wind takes him to the castle, the castle owner kidnaps his wife, gives difficult assignments (usually three): (1) do ash rope (make first, then burn); 12 versions); (2) get a self-sounding drum (fill it with bees; 12 versions); (3) bring lots of rice, sesame, mustard seed (9 versions); (4) bring monster; in different versions, different monsters are brought from other worlds; at 14, the monster kills the castle owner; (5) get the Thunder (in which case Thunder kills the master; his last mission is always fatal] Ikeda 1971, #465:116-117.