K120. Prevented incest (daughter and father), (ATU 510B, 510B*), 706C. 14.-.17.23.24.27.-.32.
Thegirl's father (rarely: stepfather) is going to marry her (as only she meets the requirements that the bride must meet). Usually a girl manages to avoid marriage.
Arabs of Algeria, Egypt, Basques, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalans, Aragon, Italians (Lombardy, Tuscany, Rome, Lazio, Campania, Abruzzo, Molise, Basilicata, Calabria, Puglia), Sicilians, Corsicans, Sardinians, Ladins, Bretons, British, Scots, Irish, French, Germans (Grimms, Pomerania, Mecklenburg, Switzerland, Austria), Arameans, Syrian Arabs, Palestinians, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Tulu, Tamils, Timor (tetum?) , Hungarians, Romanians, Gagauz people, Serbs, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Albanians, Greeks, Slovaks, Czechs, Poles, Russians (Teresky Bereg, Arkhangelskaya, Olonetskaya, Karelia, Olonetskaya, Ryazan, Voronezh), Ukrainians ( Transcarpathia, Podolia, Poltava, etc.), Belarusians, Adygs, Balkarians, Ossetians, Chechens, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Talysh, Uzbeks, Mountain Tajiks, Persians, Swedes, Danes, Latvians, Lithuanians, Livons, leaders, Veps, Karelians, Finns, Chuvash, Bashkirs.
North Africa. Algerian Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 510B: 261-262; Arabs of Egypt [after his wife's death, the king promised to marry the one who would fit the first wife's anklet; only his daughter fit; preparations for the wedding are in full swing, when the princess learns everything from the vizier's daughter; ordered leather clothes for the tanner, transformed her into a strange creature, ran away; came to another city; named herself Juleidah; the queen took her to the kitchen; she pretends not to feel or notice anything; refuses to go to the vizier's party with the women; and then came there in her true form; son The Sultan fell in love with her; then threw gold sparkles on the floor and while the women were picking them up, disappeared unnoticed; the next time the prince asks where she came from; "From the land of scoops and ladles" (paddles and ladles" ladles); running away, pulls off the ring from the prince's finger; the prince is preparing to travel to the country of Cherpakov and Polovnikov, he is preparing food for the road; J. begged her to bake a loaf, puts a ring in it prince; at the first stop, the servant wanted to throw away this loaf, but the prince broke it, found his ring, ordered him to turn back; ordered J. to bring him dinner; she deliberately dropped the tray; let carries again; the prince cut the leather cover with a knife and a beautiful woman appears in front of him; Kadia was immediately invited to marry; once Father J. arrives with his servants, he travels to different countries in search of his daughter; J. orders to detain the travelers for the night, comes in her husband's clothes, offers to tell stories and tells his own; opens up to his father; the king gave his daughter and her husband half the kingdom; an old woman who advised the king marry a daughter, thrown off a cliff]: Bushnaq 1987:193-200.
Southern Europe. The Basques [when she dies, the Queen makes her husband promise to marry one who looks like her; this is their daughter; the daughter makes it a condition to make a dress out of fly wings; the king pulls it out; then she sails by ship or leaves, is hired as a maid; the king has a ball, the old woman gives the girl a nut in which a dress, etc.; the girl runs away, hires to herd the king's geese wearing sheep's skin; the king arranges a party to find a bride for her son; a girl wears a beautiful dress, the queen dances with her, she disappears; on the second and third evening she reappears, each time in an even better outfit; the king gives her a ring, she promises to come to a certain place but does not come; the Queen suspects that the beauty is their maid, they do not believe her; the Queen secretly follows the girl, finds her in a forest hut in a luxurious outfit; his mother advises him to stay in bed - let the maid bring him broth; she puts on sheepskin, throws the ring into the broth; wedding, the girl's father comes to her]: Webster 1879: 165-166; Sicilians [when she dies, the wife gives her husband a ring; asks her to take care of her daughter and not marry until she finds someone who fits the ring; the daughter grows up, finds a ring, puts it on; wraps her finger with a rag, but the father tells me to show; he is going to marry his daughter; the confessor advises asking the father for a dress 1) heavenly color with the sun, moon and stars; 2) the color of the sea with fish, etc.; 3) the color of the earth with animals, flowers; 4) made from the skin of a gray cat; 5) two barrels of pearls and jewelry; the devil gives him what he needs every time; the daughter puts on a cat-skin dress, takes the rest with her, leaves pigeons splash in a vat, runs away; in the woods, the king thinks she is a beast; she replies that her name is Betta Pilusa; lives in a chicken coop; the king invites her to his wedding; in the evening, BP wears her first dress and jewelry, arrives in a carriage; you can't catch up with her, because everyone rushes to pick up the jewelry she has scattered; so three times; the king gives her a gold pin, a watch, a ring; she bakes a pin in a bun; a cook says she baked; same with the watch, with the ring; the cook confesses that she baked BP; the king makes the PSU take off her cat skin; wedding]: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 8:52-58; Portuguese: Cardigos 2008, № 510B [girl runs away from home after changing her appearance because her father wants to marry her or fleeing her stepmother; she has three dresses given to her by her father; she is helped by her late mother, grateful an animal, a magical object; she becomes a maid in the royal palace; the prince despises her, throws a towel, soap, and a basin at her; in her dresses given by her father, she dances with the prince; says that came from the land of towels, soap, etc.; the prince gives her a ring or something else to identify her, or finds her shoe, etc.; the prince recognizes her by the ring she leaves in the baked bread; a bird exposes a false bride; or a bird spies on a girl when she changes her appearance; wedding], 514 [1 entry, Algavre; the king wants to marry his daughter; she runs away in men's clothes; wins the tournament and must marry a princess; turns into a man]: 123, 129; Pedroso 1882, No. 15 []: 66-72; Catalans (incl. Mallorca) [the mother is dead, the father wants to marry his daughter, she demands that he give her magic dresses (from the moon and stars, from the sea and fish, etc.); the father gets dresses, the daughter runs away; wearing donkey skin or rags, is hired to work in the palace; wearing her magic dresses, comes to the king's balls, the prince falls in love with her, gives her a ring and other item; falls ill; she says she will make a medical pie; prince finds his ring in it; recognizes a girl, marries her]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 510B: 111-113; Spaniards [father wants to marry daughter; neighbor advises her to go to shepherds to ask make her a cork oak bark dress; in this outfit she is hired by a poultry house for the queen; asks the prince to take her to the ball, he replies that she is covered in chicken manure; she has a magic wand, she appears at ball in a gold dress, a prince dances with her, gives diamond pendants, she runs away; next time she wears a silver dress, a prince gives a diamond bracelet; after the third time, the prince falls ill; a girl brings pies, the prince finds the diamonds he gave him, tells them to call the girl, she opens]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 510B: 414-419; Aragon: González Sanz 1996, No. 510B [dying, the wife tells her husband to take the one that fits her wedding ring; the daughter wore it, it suits her; to delay the wedding, she demands from her father a dress woven with moonthreads, star canvas and gleam sun; wearing over her skin, runs away and is hired to the palace as a cowgirl; appears to the princely ball in the dress that his father gave her; the prince falls ill with love; the girl prepares a cake for him, putting it in it ring; wedding], 621 [the king orders to make a tambourine out of the skin of a giant lice; tells the grooms to guess what this material is, intends to marry his daughter himself]: 111, 153; Italians (Lombardy, Tuscany , Rome, Lazio, Campania, Abruzzo, Molise, Basilicata, Calabria, Puglia): Cerise, Serafini 1975, No. 510B: 117-119; Italians: Basile 2018 (Naples) []: 110-111, 208-215; Cox 1893, No. 200 (Straparola) 1569, favola 4:27-33) [Prince of Salerno Tebaldo promises his dying wife to marry only someone who fits her ring; his daughter Doralice accidentally wears a ring; T. wants to marry her; the nanny hides D. in the dresser, where the mother's clothes and jewelry give an elixir that allows you to go without food for a long time; the father sells the dresser, a Genoese merchant bought it, sent it by ship to Britain to King Genese; he put it in his room; D. secretly goes out, cleans everything up, puts roses on the bed; G. hides, finds D., marries, they have two sons; T. guesses that the daughter was in the chest, comes unrecognized to his daughter, promises gifts if she allows him to spend the night in the nursery; kills children, puts a bloody knife on D., runs away through the window himself; in the guise of an astrologer, reports that the killer is the one who has a knife; D. is buried chin and began to feed her to suffer longer; returning to Salerno, T. talks about everything to the old nanny; she arrives in Britain, talks about everything, D. is released; T. is taken to Britain, torn to four pieces by hot mites, meat was fed to dogs], 269 (Mantova) []: 401, 269-270; D'Aronco 1953, No. 923 (Tuscany) []: 103; Sardinians: Cirese, Sertafini 1975, No. 706C: 152; Corsicans [a man's wife has a gold star on her forehead; when she dies, the wife asks her husband to remarry only the one who has the same star; she is only his daughter; the mother from the grave tells her to bring her to rosary room, poker, comb; when my father calls me to the bedroom, the objects will answer instead of the girl: I pray, move the coals in the oven, comb my hair; at this time I have to slaughter the cow, her giblets will be golden ball; the ball will fulfill any desire, and you have to put the skin on yourself and run; now the girl's name is Kugyulin (from the word "skin"); she is hired to the royal castle to herd geese; when she combs her hair wheat falls on one side, rice on the other hand, geese get fat; transformed by a golden ball, K. comes to the ball in a bronze dress; the prince gives a ring, asks which country she is beautiful from, she replies that she is from the land of the Saddles; the next time is a silver dress, from the Land of the Bridles; the third time a gold dress, from the Land of the Spurs; the prince runs out every time, looks for K., tells her to give her a saddle, a kuzu, a spur; The prince orders K. to cook; she locked herself in the room, took off her cow's skin, told the ball to cook everything, threw the ring given by the prince into the bowl; the prince peeks, tells his parents to marry his on K.; everything was explained, wedding]: Massignon 1984, No. 22:50-53; ladins: Uffer 1973, No. 29 [=Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, No. 88:388-394; dying, the wife tells her husband to take whoever her ring suits ; many years later, the daughter accidentally found her mother's ring, it suited her; her father wants to marry her; she demands to get her three dresses - like the sun, like the moon and like stars; and golden shoes; then asks a spindle that spins itself and a talking spinning wheel; left the spinning wheel with the spindle to answer for herself, took her dresses and shoes and ran away; she came to the old man, who sent him to the palace to hire a maid; she was told to watch behind the stove and pigs; on New Year's Eve, the prince held a ball; the girl wore a dress like stars; next time, wearing a dress like the moon, the prince put a ring on her finger; while running away, she lost one shoe; prince from love fell ill; the queen went to bake pancakes for him; the maid offered to bake for her, threw up a ring; the prince found it; she wore her dress like the sun; wedding], 33 [=Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, No. 46: 276-277; the king promises to marry someone who suits the deceased queen's gold shoes; they were accidentally worn by her daughter, the father wants to marry her; the godmother disguised the princess as a maid, gave herds chickens and pigs to herd ; sends to the ball to the king (not the princess's father) in a blue dress; then in a moon-colored dress and stars; the colors of the sun; the king fell ill with love, managed to ask the name of the beauty, she replies that her name is Beautiful Curia; the king says he will drink only the water that Beautiful Curia brings; the godmother sends her to him; wedding]: 112-116, 127-128.
Western Europe. Bretons [after the death of his wife, the king of Spain promises to marry the one who suits the deceased's outfit; this is his daughter; the fairy advises asking his father to bring a starry, lunar dress first, sunny; he does everything; taking a dress and leaving the palace; a girl hires to herd pigs; sometimes puts on her dresses; a local prince sees this from afar; he is married to one of the three girls; he pretends to be a dying beggar, asks the landlady to bring him broth one by one; comforting the dying woman, they confess that they have killed their children born before marriage; the princess comes, tells his story; the prince convenes them all, beats those girls, marries a princess]: Luzel 1887 (3), No. 5:247-261 (translated into Lopyreva 1959, No. 34:134-142); French: Lopyreva 1959, No. 34 [ when he dies, the wife of the Spanish king tells him to take a girl who will fit her wedding dress; he fell on a daughter; the old woman advises her father to demand a star dress from her father; then moonlit; sunny; that brings everything; the old woman tells me to take her mother's outfit and all three dresses with her and run; she hired to herd pigs in the castle; the young senor noticed her changing clothes in the woods; was about to marry; asked spend the night with a peasant woman under the guise of a poor dying beggar; three contenders come to his hand consistently; the imaginary dying woman says she killed her child; they say what happened to them like this, it's okay; the daughter of the Spanish king comes and tells me who she is; having found out everything, the senor calls the girls to him; whips her children who have killed her, marries the daughter of the Spanish king]: 134- 142; Cosquin 1886, No. 28 (Lorraine) []: 273-275; Irish [husband dies, wife remarried; new husband treated her badly and she died; is going to marry stepdaughter; she asks for help from her horse; the horse says that her stepfather is a sorcerer, but her witchcraft is stronger; tells her stepfather to first get her a silk and silver brocade dress that fits in a walnut; she, a horse, will slow down the work of spinners, weavers and tailors; then a silk and gold brocade dress in chestnut shells; then silk and diamonds the size of a pinhead; the princess wore a catskin dress, she smeared her skin with something brown, took three dresses that fit in nuts, rode off on her horse; fell asleep in the forest, and when she woke up, the horse was gone; she was surrounded by the prince's dogs, he brought it to the palace, left it a maid in the kitchen; the prince asks to bring him a basin of towel; realized that she is a lady, but she did not confess anything; the prince went to prom; the princess came on her horse in a silver dress; the prince did not got to know her and fell in love; next time the prince asks for hot water and a towel; to the ball in a gold dress; the third time the prince asks for a needle and thread; a diamond dress; the prince proposes puts a ring on her finger; recognizes her; wedding {last page not in pdf}]: Kennedy 1875:81-87 (retelling in Cox 1893, No. 170:66); Scots [after his wife's death, the king promises to marry only on whoever suits the deceased's clothes; she suits her daughter; she sets conditions: bring her a swan down dress, moorland canach down, silk and brocade; each time he brings what she needs after a year and one day; a gold and silver shoe brings; a chest locked inside and out that can swim; he brings it, she sits in it, asks you to test the chest on the water, swims away; his finds a shepherd, a girl is hired to work in the king's kitchen; she comes to the service three times incognito, wearing her three dresses consistently; the queen falls in love with her; they try to detain her, she lost her shoe; the Queen tells everyone to try it on; he fits the maid in the kitchen, she shows another and dresses; wedding; (p. 231-233: similar options)]: Campbell 1890, No. 14:226-229; Germans ( Switzerland, Canton of Valais) [mother is dead; father only wants to marry someone who has the same golden hair as his first wife; it is only a daughter; she requires three dresses: like the sun, like a full moon, like the starry sky; he took it out; daughter: and also a self-propelled wagon; also took it out; on the night before the wedding, the girl left in it, picking up her dresses; exchanged clothes with a beggar; in the city she hired to work in the kitchen; On Sunday she came to church in a sunny dress, returned before others; the next, in a moondress, she was noticed by a Portuguese prince; for the third time, the prince gave her his ring; she ran away, losing a shoe; all the girls began to try on the shoe; everyone in the kitchen is baking pies for the prince, Cinderella asked permission to bake it for her, put a ring in the cake; the prince cut the feast and found the ring; Cinderella went out wearing all three dresses; the prince called her his fiancée]: Jegerlehner 1913, No. 137:108-112; Germans (Mecklenburg) [father wants to marry his daughter; she requires him to dress with silver; with gold; with precious stones; he got everything; then a raven skin dress and a magic wand (Glücksruthe); after receiving them, she put on a crow's dress and ended up at the prince's palace with a wave of a wand; hired to the kitchen; she hid the precious dresses in oak; she was named Cinderella (Aschenpüster); when everyone went to the wedding, she showed up in a silver dress; the prince danced with her; when she left, she got into the carriage and said: darkness behind, light ahead (Hunter mir dunkel und vorne mir klar, /Daβ Niemand sehe wohin ich gahr); next time wearing a golden dress; prince asks where she lives; in Stiefelschmeiβ ("Where they throw boots"); for the third time, a dress with gems; she is from Bürstenschmeiβ ("Where They Throw Brushes"; {apparently, the episodes when the prince, seeing Cinderella as a maid in raven feathers, threw a boot at her and then with a brush}); the prince put a ring on her finger; she did not have time to hide her dress, but only threw crow feathers over it; the next day she threw the ring into the food, prepared for the prince; he ordered the cook to be brought in; saw a dress with gems under the crow's feathers; wedding]: Bartsh 1879, No. 4:479-481; Germans [dying, the Queen tells her husband to marry a girl with golden hair like hers; only her daughter has; she demands that you bring her three dresses first: golden as the sun, silver as the moon, sparkling like stars; and a cloak of skins all the animals of the kingdom; the king did everything; the daughter smeared her face with soot, put on clothes made of skins, took dresses, putting them in walnut; also took a gold ring, a spindle and a reel; ran into the forest; royal hunters found her, settled her under the stairs; she comes to the ball; then she cooks soup for the king with a ring in it; for the third time, the king sees a silver dress under her fur robe; marries]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 65:239-242 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:200-204); Germans (Pomerania): Uther 2004 (1), No. 510B: 295-296; Germans (Austria) [Count Rudolph's wife and daughter Adelaide have a gold cross on their forehead; the mother is dead, the count promises to marry A. if he does not find another bride with the same cross; A. runs, taking servants and valuables; Gotthold's servant arranged her as a maid in Prince Adolf's kitchen; A. smears black and with brown paint, covers his forehead with a hat, puts on rags; when A. was sweeping, the prince stepped into a pusor, threw a broom at A. in a luxurious dress; A. comes to the ball; replies to the prince that she is from Broom's castle; the next time the same episodes are Brush; then Comb; the prince cannot find such locks on the map; the prince puts a ring on the beauty's finger; in the morning he was served broth in which A. threw the ring; wedding]: Cox 1893, No. 201:410-411; English: Uther 2004 (1), No. 510B: 295-296.
Western Asia. Aramei: Belov, Wilsker 1960 [when she dies, the wife tells her husband to marry a girl her shoes fit; they only fit her daughter, the father wants to hug her; the daughter hides in the chest, the father sells it, Pasha buys; in Pasha's son's room, a girl leaves the chest every morning, cleans up and cooks; a young man waits for her, marries her; her father is executed; she gives birth to a son and daughter with gold and silver curls; The housekeeper bothers her; when refused, accuses her of attempted adultery and, after killing her son (and daughter?) , in infanticide; Pasha orders his wife and children to be taken to the mountains, kill; servants bring bird blood; a woman washes the bodies of children at the spring, they come to life; a castle appears; a golden ring fulfills any desire; a woman's son Chelenk-Afdal gets a beauty; Pasha arrives, everything is explained, the housekeeper is decapitated]: 405-411; Bergsträsser 1915, No. 14 [when dying, the wife tells her husband to marry a girl who her shoes will fit; they only fit her daughter; she ordered a chest for the carpenter, hid in it; not finding her daughter, the father sold the chest, the prince bought it, put it at home; someone eats his half-eaten food; prince he waited for the girl; but the prince already has a fiancée, the daughter of a vizier; when the prince left, she and her mother found the chest, beat the girl, threw her out the window; she was picked up by a man, his mother was leaving; prince returned and fell ill; the girl sent him food and put a ring on a plate; everything became clear; the vizier's daughter and her mother were burned], 33 [option]: 47-49, 102-104; the Arabs of Syria [the king wants to marry his daughter; cadia confirms that the tree in the person's yard belongs to him, not to his neighbor; the girl tells the felt manufacturer to make her felt clothes so that only her eyes can be seen; in the evening asks the father to allow she leaves out of need; he ties a rope to her, she ties her to the door, puts on her felt and runs away; she is hired as a maid to another king, she is called Felt; the prince sees her bathing, wants to get married; she says her name is So and So, from the village of So and So; he gives her a ring; becoming a maid again, puts the ring in the dough from which the pies are made; the prince goes to look for this the village, eats pies, finds his ring in the latter; the prince returns to the palace, tells Felt to bring him water, cuts her felt clothes with a sword, takes her as his wife]: Kuhr 1993:378-382; Palestinians, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia: El-Shamy 2004, No. 510B: 261-262.
South Asia. Tulu [the king saw his daughter's bare chest; asked his wife and ministers if he could disrupt what he had planted himself; everyone replied that, of course; the king was preparing the wedding, but did not say to whom; daughter suspects what his intentions are, ordered a chest and put it in her room, hid in it; the guests have left; the king's wife orders to throw the chest into the river, because it reminds her of her missing daughter; the chest He sailed to another kingdom, was not given to the minister, but was given to the king; he ordered him to be brought to his room; his mother sends milk and a bunch of bananas to the king every day; after the chest appears, the king finds only half ordinary; hides, finds a girl; going to war, tells her mother to continue to send milk and bananas; the concubine's maid noticed the girl, the concubine begged the Queen Mother for a chest, cut it off the girl's arms, legs, breasts, pulled out her eyes, buried in different places, threw the rest into the hole; the old woman found a cripple; the girl indicates where to look for her dicks, the old woman brings, puts them in place, they they grow; when the king returned, the girl asked the old woman to gather everyone for the party, took a musical instrument (tambura) and sang about everything that had happened; the king married her, the maid was hanged]: Coyaud 2013:140-146; Tamils [king retires to the forest for three years; Maheshwara agrees to his request, he wants a child; chooses four smart daughters instead of one stupid son; when girls have grown up, decides to marry them; they tell the minister to build a seven-story supply tower and postpone the wedding for six months; Varalakshmi appeared to them in a dream, promised not to let anyone but a man into the tower whom she will choose as their husband; when the king wants to enter there, the tower flies to the country of Shivapuri; the local prince refuses to marry his cousin, blind in one eye; galloped away, saw the tower, went to girls; the rejected one-eyed bride sent the old woman to steal the eldest of the sisters, shaved her, blinded her, threw her into the well; the shepherd saved the blind, her eyes were returned, she smeared pepper with one-eyed pepper, she died; sisters and husband returned to their father]: Natesa Sastri 1884-1888, No. 12:131-181; Tamils [childless Raja sits on a needle in the forest for six months and lives in a palace for six months; Rani gives birth to a girl and hides her in an underground shelter that has everything for life; the Raja does not know about it for a long time; when he sees a beautiful girl on the threshold of the shelter and understands what is going on, she kills his wife and is going to marry her daughter; she requires a lot of outfits and ornaments; orders the carpenter the figure of a horse; hides in it, taking all the outfits; the Raja lost and became impoverished, sold the horse to another Raja; he is going to marry; tells me to put the figure is at rest; at night half of the food is gone; he waited for the girl, listened to her story and married both; the first bride is ugly; her mother advises to get rid of her rival, the daughter pushes her into a well; before that, the Raja took his wife's palm print and gave her a ring; when the first wife appeared disguised as the second, the prints did not match, the ring was different; the Raja dressed as a bracelet merchant; the snake on the edge of the well, he asked to sell a bracelet for his sister's son; they went down, Raja's wife was in the well; the serpent agrees to let the Raja's wife go, but first let him warm the milk and give the snakes drink; the snake was burned and promised to bite a woman; but when the boy saw the snake and called him an uncle, he abandoned his intention]: Blackburn 2005, No. 51.
Malaysia-Indonesia. Timor {tetum?} [when the chief dies, the chief's wife gives a ring, tells her to marry a girl whom it fits; the ring fits the chief's daughter; she asks her brother to put it in a box, throw it into the sea; the other chief catches the box, brings him into his house; in his absence, someone cooks and cleans; the chief discovers the girl, marries; the insulted brothers of the leader's father, whose daughters he rejected, go to war; the wife tells bees and wasps to bite them to death; revives; everyone is happy]: Correia 1973:169-172.
The Balkans. Gagauz people: Moshkov 1904, No. 55 [the widower wants to marry his daughter; the woman advises the girl to ask her father for a silver dress; then a gold one; a wooden one; the woman tells me to offer to wash in separate rooms, leaving a living carp in her basin, and running away, taking her dresses; in the evening, the father decided that his daughter had turned into a fish; the prince went to his master's wedding; a girl in a wooden dress herds geese ; the prince hit her with a whip; she came to the wedding in a silver dress, said that she was from Knutova village; the prince wanted to marry, but no one knew the Knutova village; next time the prince gave a goose slap in the face; at the ball, she replied that she had received a ring from the prince from the prince; the prince was going to look, everyone should bake him bread; the goose baked his ring in her bread; everything was explained wedding], 56 [the ass with golden braids is dead, the pop is looking for the same wife, only the daughter looks like her mother; the daughter replies that they will laugh; the pop sent her to rinse the matting; others rinse the canvases, laugh at as a girl; and the next day they didn't laugh anymore; then the girl offered to wash, poured water into the sauerkraut, planted a goose, ran away; the pop saw a goose, went to look for her daughter; she had already married the king and had a child; pop He stabbed him, accused the queen; advised the king to gouge out her eyes, put her child in a cart drawn by rabid bulls, and let him go; the bulls entered the river; the blind woman washed her eyes and saw the light, and the child rose again; the king executed the priest]: 98-100, 100-102; the Serbs [dying, the wife asks her husband to marry the one her ring fits; only the daughter fits; she tries to stab herself, but the father, whom the witch taught, she plays the flute and she comes to life; then she cuts off her left hand and puts her right hand into the fire; thanks to the herbs, her hands are back; she grabs a wand that says "Don't touch me!" , turns into a lamb; this time the witch is powerless; the king cared for the lamb and when he died, he also died]: Karadzic 1854, No. 28:170-174 (retelling in Cox 1893, No. 169:65); Bulgarians [dying, the wife tells her husband to take the one that fits her ring (hryvnia, shoes); they are suitable only for her daughter; to delay the wedding, the daughter tells her father to bring her a dress 1) like the sky, stars and the sun; 2) like flowers animals and birds; 3) like silver and gold; taking dresses and wearing animal skin or wooden clothes over her skin, the girl runs away, is hired as a maid in the palace; appears at the party in wonderful dresses, The prince gives her a ring; recognizes her by her ring, gets married]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 510B: 184-185; Macedonians [merchants noticed a clever poor shepherdess, took it with them; he became a clerk , these merchants have become rich, and others are envious, complained to the king; the king asks them where to find a wife who looks like a dead queen; the boy tells him to be brought to the king; asks if it is possible to pick the best flower in in her garden; so you can also marry your daughter; the princess ordered to make a chest, sat in it, let the servant sell it at the bazaar; the chest says: "Whoever buys will repent, and whoever does not buy will repent"; he the boy bought it; in the morning the princess went out, cleaned everything up; next time he waited; sent the princess to his mother, dressed as a man; the boatman noticed that the girl was; the mother was writing a letter, the boatman changed: as if the mother writes that the girl is a slutty; the guy came to his mother, pushed the princess into the sea; the boatman tried to marry her, she ran away from him and others; dressed as a man, became a plow, and the seal - the one she took from home; tells me to exhibit her portrait and bring those who pay attention; the boatman was drowned, the princess married that guy, he began to rule after the death of the tsar]: Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991: 285-282; Greeks: Legrand 1881 []: 217-225; Megas 2012, No. 510B [When she dies, the wife tells her husband to take only the one that fits her shoes, ring or something else; only daughters fit; father proves that the gardener has the right to eat the fruit from a tree in his garden, and the owner of a calf has the right to slaughter and eat it; on the advice of Destiny, a dead mother, or someone else, the daughter requires her father to bring her a dress 1 ) like the sky and stars; 2) like the sea and fish; 3) like a field and flowers; a candlestick; a wooden dress; a closet; a house on legs; he brings everything (with the help of a line); by untying the rope for which her father tied her, or under With an excuse to go out of need, the girl runs away, taking her dresses with her; climbs into the skin of an animal or a tree; is hired to the palace as a maid; everyone laughs at her; she appears in church three times in one from her magical dresses; the prince gives her a ring; asks where she comes from; From a wooden mountain (and other answers that are understandable, knowing the insults she was insulted); the prince's mother guesses what was going on burns sheep skin (under which the girl hides); or the prince himself burns it; var.: Prince finds a girl in the woods; or buys a piece of wood that can walk; at night the girl goes out and eats food in the prince's room; he grabs her; they have children; other options; a father comes incognito, kills children with a knife in his daughter's hand; a prince kills his wife or cuts off her hands and drives her away; magically the woman and her children are alive, her hands grow back; other options; the woman tells her story in the presence of her father and husband; the father is punished]: 176-179; Albanians [dying, the wife asks her husband to marry the one Whoever her shoes are suitable; only her daughter fits; she demands that her father prepare two large candlesticks, hide in one of them; they sell it to the prince; at night she goes out, eats food and gets the prince's hands dirty; he finds her; wedding; the mother of the prince's bride finds her, throws her on a nettle bed; the old woman went out; the prince returns, falls ill, eats only vegetables; the old woman brings him herbs to which his wife threw her ring; prince comes to an old lady, finds a wife, abandons another bride]: Dozon 1881:41-48 in Cox 1893, No. 158:62; Romanians [popadya is dead, pop dreams three times that must marry someone exactly like his first wife; this is a daughter; she requires three dresses that fit in walnut: copper, silver, gold; she runs away, the woodcutter makes her a wooden dress to the animals did not eat; she enters the island, brings a monkey from there, kills her father; then hires to herd the royal pigs; puts on dresses given by her father, the prince falls in love; his mother advises her to step on slipper that she lost it; prince finds a girl trying on a slipper% wedding]: Bîrlea 1966:429; Romanians [father wants to marry daughter; nanny helps her; she demands magic from her father dresses; the father ties a rope to his daughter so that she does not run away, the daughter ties the rope to the goat, runs away with a strange outfit; the prince hunts and finds her in the forest; takes her for some beast, settles in a pigsty; she comes to the ball three times in magic dresses; the third time the prince puts a ring on her finger; burns with love; she throws a ring into his food; wedding]: Cox 1893, No. 195:75; Hungarians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 510B: 295-296.
Central Europe. Poles [brother wants to marry his sister; she runs, gets to a witch (falls underground), whose daughter looks like her like two drops of water; they run away together, the witch pursues, girls throw objects behind them that turn into obstacles, the witch dies; the brother cannot understand which of the girls is his sister; they turn into birds; pretending to commit suicide, the sister betrays herself; brother marries a witch's daughter]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 317:100; Slovaks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 510B: 295-296; Czechs [(Bozena Nemtsova); Queen with a gold star in her forehead died at birth Lada's daughter; the king promised to marry someone like his wife; after a long search, she sees a daughter with the same star on her forehead, wants to marry her; she demands a dress 1) made of wren feathers, 2) as the sun, 3) like a starry sky; the king has taken everything out; in a dream, the mother gives L. a veil from the fog, under which she is invisible; L. orders to get a dress out of mouse skins; runs away, wearing it and taking precious ones with her dresses; hides his dress and veil under a stone by the river, tells the fish not to give it away; after getting her face dirty and wearing a mouse dress, L. is hired to the palace in the kitchen; the king has a son Hostevit (G.); L. comes to the ball three times in with her precious dresses, G. fell in love with her, they exchanged rings; G. fell ill with love; L. threw the ring into the food prepared for him; he spies on her bathing with her mouse dress off; L. gives the cook who served with a purse full of gold; a wedding; King Father L. repented, everything is fine]: Cox 1893, No. 202:418-420; Poles [father wants to marry his daughter or sold her to the devil, forbids her to pray; cuts off her hands and expels her; the king finds her, marries her; in his absence, she gives birth to a son, and he is told that puppies are being expelled with her baby; she miraculously grows hands; she meets her husband, they return to the palace]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 706:217-218; Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Ryazan), Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Podolia, Poltava, etc.) ), Belarusians [Pig cover: father wants to marry his daughter; she demands that he give her three dresses with stars, moon and sun; puts on a pig cover and runs away from home; comes in as a maid at the palace; appears three times at a feast in wonderful dresses; the prince falls in love with her, she is recognized by her shoe]: SUS 1979, No. 510B: 145-146; Onchukov 2008, No. 44 (Arkhangelskaya) [Old parents have two daughters, alone finds a golden stone in the forest, collects a lot of berries, the eldest does not succeed. The eldest kills her younger sister, buries her under a birch tree, and takes a stone for herself. At home, parents heat the sauna. Father, brother, mother and sister take turns calling the youngest to take a steam bath, and she tells everyone that she was killed by her sister. The dead woman comes to the gate, asks her brother to let her in, is afraid of wolves who want to eat her. Her brother lets her in on condition that she becomes his wife. She agrees, makes two dolls, they say that her brother is ashamed to marry his sister, the girl falls through the ground. She runs to the hut, hides from Yagabiha in a hut with her grandmother under a needle. The girl runs on and hides in a hut with a bearded old man under a cream. They flee from Yagabiha, go through the mountain, Yagabiha returns to the field for a shovel, digs up the ground and continues to chase. The old man and the girl run to the river, they have a "tailor's pipe", they "spread it out" and sailed on it. Yagabiha jumped to them, but she was thrown into the water and she dies. On the other side we found ourselves with the emperor... (no longer knows)]: 159-161; Russians (Teresky Bereg) [dying, the wife tells her to marry the one who suits her ring; she came up; she asks for a sunny dress; then a month old; starry; wedding shoes and earrings; put on all her dresses, and pigskin on top, in another kingdom she hired to herd chickens; the prince tells me to give him soap, the girl jumped out of the chicken coop, squeezed her; the prince hit her with soap - it's not your business to serve soap; she came to church in a star dress; replies to the prince that she is from a city where they hit the head with soap; next time she is the same (she gave a comb where they hit with a comb, lunar dress); bucket (where they hit with buckets, sunny dress); Tsarevich came to the chicken shepherdess, cut the pork cover, got married]: Balashov 1970, No. 4:44-46; Russians (Karelian Pomorie, Sniffer) [dying, wife tells her husband to take the one who fits her shoe; the daughter came up; the backyard grandmother advises to ask for a silver dress (the father got it); gold (too); feather, each bird has a feather; he also brought it; the girl asks her grandmother to wrap her, she wrapped her in a kushka; the hunter picked her up, brought her to his bedroom; she is going to a wedding, took fragrant soap, the chicken swallowed it; guy: there is no one to beat you, first says goodbye once; at a feast she sees a beauty in a silver dress, would like to marry; the same in a gold dress (swallowed a goltyashechka from the collar); the third time she swallowed a gold ring; came in a feather dress, wearing a gotie and a ring on his finger; the guy guessed it, ran, burned chicken peels; wedding]: Razumova, Senkina 1974, No. 70:326-329; Russians (Karelia, Zaonezhye) []: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 15:79-81; Russians (Olonetskaya) []: Vlasova 2011, No. 71:104-106; Russians (Ryazan) {apparently later European borrowing} [the queen is dead, the king decided to marry her daughter; she asks for a wedding ring and secret table with secret doors; disappeared into a pole, the door could not be broken; the king ordered the pole to be thrown into the river; Ivan Korolevich noticed that he should be brought to his room; when after dinner I. goes to bed, the girl goes out and eats something; one day he kisses him, he promises to marry her; his three sisters picked up the key, saw a beautiful woman, told the man to kill her, bring them blood; he killed the hare and let the girl go; she came to the old man, I. came there; found and recognized the bride; wedding]: Smirnov 1917, No. 252:154-156; Russians (Ryazanskaya) [dying, the wife tells her husband to marry someone to whom her ring will fit; her husband did not find anyone, put the ring on the window, put the ring on the window, her daughter put it on, her father wanted to marry her; daughter: I must order a bed; ordered to do it with a secret box, sat down in it, my father did not find it; they began to sell the bed, Ivan Tsarevich bought it, put it in his room; someone eats the food he had brought him; for the fourth time I. hid, grabbed the beauty; put a dress on her - a transferable miracle ; told his mother to feed the beauty with what she eats herself; he went hunting; the mother forgot the miracle; it was in the corner in the room; he was not fed; the girl took off her dress and ran away; climbed near the well on oak; there was a virgin with three daughters nearby; the eldest comes to the well, sees a shadow (reflection), thinks that she is beautiful, she does not need to go for water; the same with her middle daughter; with the youngest; the mother has gone herself, she saw a beauty on the oak tree, told her to get down, her mother took her into a virgin; I. came home - there was no beauty; bored, sick; a portable miracle found out about it; baked a prosfira and her monogram for I. with a ring squeezed out; sent it with the woman; I. ate - it became better; asked for more, the woman brought it for the second time; I. noticed the monogram; went for a walk, went for a walk, went to the virgin; show me what that monogram was squeezed out; they brought a ring; asked to take the owner of the ring out - they took her out; I. recognized her, got married]: Khudyakov 1964, No. 14:80-82; Ukrainians (Poltava, p. M. Borispol, Pereyaslavsky, c. 1878) [The beauty's daughter is surprisingly similar to her mother, when she dies, the father decides to marry his daughter: he tries on his wife's sash and shoe to women around the world, they fit just her. A girl comes to her mother's grave, cries, and she advises her father to ask her father for a dress like dawn, like a month and like the sun and "lousy" skin (made of lice skins). The mother advises the girl to put it on, make 9 dolls, say hello and say goodbye to them 9 times to get through the ground and get to the next world. In the next world, she falls asleep on the road, a coachman is driven to her and given a job in the house. On Sunday, she is released to church, dresses like dawn, mistaken for a princess. Her owner tells the girl in the casing about the beautiful princess in the church, she asks if it's not her, and she refuses. After a week, everything happens again. On the third week, the monks fill the floor with tin and the girl runs away, leaving her shoes behind. The owner tells the girl about the incident in the church - the king ordered to pour the tin, because she wants to marry, she asks if she was there. The king travels around all the yards with a shoe; no one can fit in the girl's owner's house. The girl is woken up and removed from the stove, the shoe turns out to be just the wedding. A proverb. (I'm bula there.. and damn it)]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 18:73-76; Belarusians [after his wife's death, the husband wants to marry his daughter; she goes to her mother's grave; mother advises asking her father to dress like stars and a month; then the same shoes; horses (the same); fourth time: let her take a widow with three daughters; stepmother tyrannites with work; the cow helps: enter one ear, get out of the other - the canvas is ready; stepmother sends her daughter to spy, her own mother teaches her to put her to sleep by removing lice in her hair; the same with the second; the third eye inserted; sleep the peephole, sleep the other, and the third looks; the stepmother tells the cow to be slaughtered; bones and giblets are buried under the window, an apple tree with golden and silver apples grew; no one can reach them; on a holy day we went to church, and the stepmother poured poppy seeds into the ash and ordered them to be peeled; on the advice of my own mother, the horses did everything; dressed like a month and stars, the stepdaughter went to church; the prince smeared the threshold with resin, one slipper stuck; they began to try on, only the stepdaughter came up; the apple tree leaned towards her; the stepmother comes to visit, turns her stepdaughter into a fox in the bathhouse, replaces her daughter; the midwife carries the baby, calls the fox, she throws off her fox skin, feeds her; the prince spies, burns the skin; stepmother and her daughter were tied to a ponytail]: Romanov 1887:292-295 (=Potanin 1891:155-157); Belarusians [Vladyka allowed the widowed ass to marry the one who would wear the dress of his deceased wife; I had a daughter; she went to the forest in her cell; food was falling from the sky; the prince wandered there, took the priest as his wife; her son Ivan was born; popovna saw his father, he asked for alms; invited her to the palace; he stabbed the child and put a knife in her daughter's pocket; she was expelled; she brought the body to her cell; 15 years later she saw one snake revive another with grass; revived her son; I. found a devils' house, killed everyone, hung one on hook; contrary to the ban, the mother went there; the devil asked for "a crack with his blood"; she filed, he jumped off the hook; became her husband; ordered her son to be sent first to Fish Koshchei for a pig, then for gold and silver apples to the garden of the 12-headed serpent; I. took the princess out of the garden; they fled from the snake in the monastery; the mother tests the strength of her son: she wraps him in hemp, silk, then a copper "dart"; the devil became him beat, blinded, pinched him in a split pine tree; the cabbies released him, the "krinichnaya water" regained his sight; I. tortured the devil to death; married that princess; ordered his mother to wear cast-iron shoes: when You demolish it, then I'll be your son]: Romanov 1887:66.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Adygi: Uther 2004 (1), No. 510B: 295-296; Balkarians (Western 1959) [the wife died, the husband looked for one, did not find it, decided to take the daughter who most resembles her mother; the daughter ran away, climbed an apple tree, ate an apple, became pregnant, gave birth to a son, he grew up quickly; deer ordered him to be killed, a house would appear out of his skin, greyhound dogs from his kidneys, a bridge from the tail, if necessary; across the river, emegen asks a woman to bring him to her place; she does not want to take him as a son, she agrees to take him husband; put her deer tail, emegen crossed the river across the bridge; emegenes taught a woman to pretend to be sick: you need 1) lamb tour meat; young man; 2) water from a rock that opens and closes ( one girl helped to get it); 3) swim in the cauldron (the emegens covered the second, began to cook the young man; the tour hit the upper cauldron, the girl pulled out the young man; the young man killed the emegenes and his mother, married a girl]: Malkonduev 2017:470-472; Ossetians: Byazirov 1958, No. 83 [the popadya will bequeath to her husband: whoever her belt and dress are suitable for, he should marry; her daughter fits; she hid inside a pole, he was thrown into the river Tsarevich married her, she gave birth to a golden-haired boy, his pop killed him, his mother washed him in the spring and revived him; pop exposed]: 334-335; Sokayeva 2010 (Irons, Tualgom, Alagir Gorge) [dying, wife gives her husband shoe and thimble: let her marry someone they will fit; the shoe fits only a daughter; the daughter asks to build a seven-story house with secret rooms: if anyone comes to kill her father, she will hide it; the father is building a house with a wooden pipe in the middle; when the father is gone, the daughter wrapped herself in wolf skin and climbed into the pipe; not finding his daughter, the father heats the house in the river, leaving one pipe, returns to her former poor home; daughter gets out of the river as a wolf, runs towards the forest; on the way she meets a guy who is glad he will have a trained wolf; brings the wolf home, leaves him in the golden room; 7 sisters the guy goes to the river in the evenings to swim; the girl wants to go with them, they don't let her in; the guy brings the wolf ashore, sees him shed his skin; the guy takes the skin; the girl asks for it back, he gives it, they come to the golden room; his seven sisters start knocking; young man: won't open until they marry them; sisters cry: they don't want to marry brother to wolf; young man threatens to kill himself; when they serve a wagon, the girl comes out covered in gold; they have a golden boy; the girl's father comes unrecognized, is hired as a laborer; cuts off the boy's golden strand, kills him, puts a bloody knife in mother's pocket; her hands are cut off and left in the middle of the field; the angel (zed) says she will let a golden spring go, and as soon as she hears a murmur, let her and her child's wounds wash her wounds with this water; mother and son are alive again , healthy and seven times more beautiful than they were; an angel leaves a woman and her son in the golden tower; one day two men come, one of them is the woman's father; she punishes him not to touch the grapes, or else give it to eaten by snakes; father says he does not eat grapes; when he fell asleep, the daughter smeared the knife with grape juice, put it in his pocket; in the morning she "finds" a knife; says that as he did not eat these grapes, she did not killed her child; gave her father to snakes to eat; husband returns, they live well]: 156-164; Chechens [when she dies, the wife tells her husband to take a woman her golden dudes will suit; husband 15 years old I was looking, only my daughters came up; she told me to build a tower of gold; tells the builders to leave a hollow pole inside, hides in it, the father furiously threw the tower into the river, one young man and his father pulled out the pole, brought into the room; at night someone eats the food in the room; the third time a young man waited for the girl, married her; she gave birth to a son; an unrecognized father came disguised as a beggar, stayed overnight, stabbed boy, put a knife in his daughter's pocket; the husband gouged out his wife's eyes, cut off his hands, tied the baby to his back and drove him out; by the river she called out to God; he sent an angel with a pen; throw up a pen - all will be fulfilled desires; the mother was healed, the son came to life; the angel also left a golden whip for her son; the son grew up, came to the village with his mother, stayed with the old woman, people gathered there; the young man put a golden whip under drowned his father's horse, accused him of stealing; said that he also accused his mother; everyone reconciled, everything was fine]: Malsagov 1983, No. 39:167-169; Georgians (Sighnaghi District) [dying, wife tells her husband to marry the one her koshi will suit; only daughters came up; the daughter demands to build a house, tells the carpenters to put a hollow pole inside, she will hide in it; the father will break the house angrily, let carpenters will throw a pole flat into the water; the prince pulled out the pole, put it in the house he built; at night the girl leaves the pole, eats, hides again in the morning; the prince waited for her, married, his wife gave birth a golden-haired boy; his wife's father comes disguised as a beggar, cut the child's throat, put a knife in his mother's pocket; her breasts and arms were cut off, her eyes were gouged out, the child's body was hung around her neck, driven into the desert; the child has not decayed, it is growing; the Lord sent the crow to find out what is happening, he drank blood, replies that nothing; the dove tells everything; the Lord tells him to run a napkin over the woman's body, it is done healthy; passes a sliver that fulfills wishes; a woman comes to live with an old woman, asks to invite the prince to visit; he sends cooks to the old woman to cook dinner; they see a beautiful woman, a pheasant is burned; The prince demands an explanation, comes to the old woman; when she goes back, the mother tells her son to put a twig under the prince's saddle, shout why he stole it; "How did you not know that you had a twig under your saddle, so and my mother doesn't know who cut my throat"; everything is clear, everything is fine]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 95:140-147; Armenians [a woman asks her husband to marry the one she suits before her death a bracelet; it fits only her daughter; she calls for help from St. Sarkis, he takes her on horseback, throws a handful of fried flour, a storm begins; S. throws flour into the eyes of the girl's father, saves her]: Ganalanyan 1978, No. 794 (quoted in Petrosyan 2011:79); Azerbaijanis [ A Jewish merchant is Gulperi's daughter; he promises to marry someone who wears his late wife's dress; does not buy dresses for his daughter; when she wears her deceased mother's dress, her father calls her wife; on her wedding day, G. ran away in men's clothes; put on an ugly mask, the queen took G. into service; when everyone goes to the wedding, G. changes clothes, is an unrecognized beauty there; Tsarevich Ahmed is going to go in search beautiful, but finds in pilaf her ring and a piece of fur coat worn by an imaginary maid; A. takes G. as his wife, a son Mammad is born; Father G. came disguised as a dervish, gouged out the baby's eyes at night, put the knife to G.; the tsar ordered G.'s eyes to be gouged out, sent with her child to the desert; two doves throw a pen, it restores the sight of mother and child; A. found them; executed many dervishes]: Bogoyavlensky 1899 , No. 5:50-56; Turks (throughout Anatolia): Stebleva 1986, No. 46 [the padishah's wife asks him, if she dies, to marry someone her shoe fits; she fits his daughter, he wants her marry; the daughter tells me to make a golden bull, climbs inside, tells the maid to push the bull into the sea when her father enters her room; shahzade picks up a swimming bull and tells her to bring it to her room; at night, the girl goes out, eats cooked food, moves the candlesticks, changes rings with the sleeping shahzade; the same on the second night; on the third shahzade, she hurts her finger, sprinkles salt on the wound so as not fall asleep; the princess replies that her name is Ahu-Melek ("angel saurna"); at night she goes to shahzade, hides in a bull during the day; Shahzade's bride (she is his cousin, daughter of a vizier, crooked) is informed that her the groom fell in love with the bull statue; Shahzadeh goes to war, his fiancée tells him to burn the bull, AM jumps out, the bride beats her, the half-dead is thrown into a landfill; AM adopted an old man; shahzade fell ill with grief, said that he will recover after eating the right soup; AM throws his ring into his soup, he recognizes him; the wedding is being prepared; shahzade's mother and ex-fiancée lure AM into the desert and leave it there; she accepts The sight of an arap shepherd, Shahzade does not want to part with her; she, shahzade and his crooked bride are sleeping in the same bed; seeing that Shahzade turned to the bride, AM killed herself; when she saw this, he killed herself shahzade, the bride died of annoyance; the dervish revived Shahzade and AM]: 194-201; talyshi [dying, the wife tells her husband to take a woman who will fit her ring; it is only suitable for her daughter; she asks to let her go to field; the father ties a rope to her leg; the daughter unties it, comes to the forest, asks the carpenter to build a house for her; the eldest of the three princes notices a woman's hair in the river; the king tells each son to throw one an apple; one threw the vizier's daughter, the other threw the daughter of a vyakil, the eldest on the road; left home, met that girl in the forest, brought her home; the wife gave birth to a son, one curl was golden, the other was silver; her father under Looking like a peddler, he entered the palace, cut off the child's head, put the knife next to her mother; her eyes were cut out, the child's eyes and body were put in her hands, driven away; three pigeons flew by the river; she put it on her paw the first two to the eye sockets, saw the light, the third to her son's neck, his head grew, he came to life; the prince with the vizier and the vyakil stayed in her house; she ordered not to tear the flowers, tore it off herself, put it under the prince's blanket; I came to him with my son, he recognized his wife and son]: Miller 1930:90-92.
Iran - Central Asia. Uzbeks [when she dies, the wife asks the king to marry someone her shoes fit; they fit his daughter; she asked for the wedding to be postponed, dug a cave in the steppe, packed food and clothes there; she was not found; she dug the underground passage, went out, put on all her expensive dresses and a fur coat on top; the prince saw something shaggy answering "Boom Boom"; brought her to the palace; she came to a wedding in a luxurious outfit, The prince fell in love with her, dropped the ring, she picked it up and hid it; the prince went in search of the beauty; the girl baked the cake in which she put that ring, put the cake together with the others which the prince's mother gave him on the road; seeing his ring, the prince cut his fur coat and found a beauty; wedding]: Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:272-275; mountain Tajiks (Darvaz, upper reaches of Vanja) [ The king climbed a tree, hurt himself against the branches, blood dripped on the snow; he told him to find a bride just as white and red; the old woman said it was his daughter; he was preparing the wedding; the girl's brother hides her in a chest He descends the river; the son of another king finds him, takes the girl as his wife]: Semenov 1900 (2): 9; Persians: Rosenfeld 1958 [the couple are childless; the husband finds a girl abandoned on the porch; she grows up beautiful; when she dies, the wife tells her husband to remarry the one her ring fits; it only suited her adopted daughter; she asks to postpone the wedding for 40 days; tells her to make an underground passage, gathers her there clothes and jewelry, tells the felter to make her clothes out of felt with holes only for the eyes and mouth; puts a wineskin with molasses on his bed, pulling a wedding dress over him, leaves herself through underground passage; the groom is outraged that the bride is silent and does not meet her halfway; stabs her stomach; repents of what she did; realizing that it was a wineskin, leaves town out of shame; the girl, wearing felt clothes, hides in a tree at the spring; a prince sees her, sends her mother to work in the kitchen; she appears incognito three times at the holiday, amazing the prince and his mother with beauty; the prince threw her diamond a ring; she asked for permission to make a cake for the prince, put a ring in it; while hunting, the prince broke the cake, found a ring, understood everything, married a girl]: 77-86; Marzolph 1984, no.*510B [ many options; a father wants to marry his daughter, she runs away from home; changes clothes, hires a maid for a prince; one day he sees her in her true guise and falls in love; in the food she serves, the prince finds his ring; everything is clear, wedding]: 106-107.
Baltoscandia. Swedes: Cox 1907:197 [the king promises his dying wife to remarry someone who looks like her; wants to marry his daughter; the old man advises her to demand from her father 1) a silk dress roses, 2) with gold flowers, 3) with diamonds, 4) a cape made of all kinds of fur, a hood, glasses; takes it all and runs away; the old man takes her to the coal burn hut, gives the key to the boulder; the hostess advises her to hire to the queen with a spinner; she opens a boulder, hides her dresses in it; three times in the guise of a mess she encounters a prince who is sick, he throws a log at her, etc.; appears three times in the church in a luxurious clothed, replying to the prince that she is from "The Land Where Logs Are Thrown"; the third time the prince wears her ring in church; she throws it into his food; everything is explained, the prince marries her], 197-198 [ the king wants to marry his daughter; she asks for a dress like 1) a star, 2) the moon, 3) the sun, 4) a cape of crow's beaks and skins; runs; is hired as a maid to another king; cries from hard work; an old woman makes sure that the work is done by itself; the prince splashes water on her, she replies that she comes from "A Land Where Water Splashes Out"; etc.; comes to church three times in star dresses and other dresses, then runs wearing a crow's cape; for the third time he loses his shoe, the prince tells me to look for an owner; fits only a girl in a crow cape; she throws it off, appears in gold clothes; the prince marries her]; Stier 1971, No. 33 [a person wants to marry a daughter, she sets conditions: bring a crow a skin with twisted beaks; a pig asks to watch over her pig, brings the skin to the girl's father; the same: a dress like stars; like the sun; like the moon; gold stockings and shoes; a flying carriage; a girl picks up her father's gifts, flies away in a carriage, is hired as a maid to the royal castle, wearing her prickly skin; the prince is going to the church, asks the comb, Stoppelpelz brings it, he throws it on the floor - it's better not to brush your hair at all than to take the comb from her hands; in church he sees a beauty in a star dress; the same: the girl brings water; a towel; appears in a moonlit, sunny dress; the prince orders to smear the stone with resin, the golden shoe is stuck, everyone is trying it on; one old woman cut off her daughter's heel and finger on foot to make the shoe fit, but the bird sings about it; the same with another old woman and her daughter; the prince finds a beautiful woman marrying]: 133-138; Danes: Cox 1893, No. 162 [father wants to marry his daughter; she leaves on a brown cow; a cow tells a girl to hire a palace, a girl serves in the kitchen; a cow gives magic dresses; a girl wears them to church three times and leaves before others; loses her shoe; hers told everyone to try it on; wedding; brown cow turns out to be a bewitched prince]: 63; Holbek 1987 [widowed, the king wants to marry the one who looks most like his dead wife; this is a daughter; mother from the grave advises her daughter to ask her father for a dress like the sun, a dress like the moon, and feathers to fly; he gets everything and while she sleeps, the daughter picks up her dresses and flies away; hires a maid to the castle; her name is Pulleru ("rastrepa"); the prince tells him to bring him shoes, hits her with a shoe; wearing a dress like the moon, she comes to the ball and replies to the prince that she has come from a country where maids are beaten with a shoe; next time: where they beat her with a towel; the prince gives her his ring; the prince guesses what is going on, falls ill; when the Queen Mother cooks broth for him, P. throws a ring into it; he tells him to come to him, tears it off with P. rags - a golden dress underneath them; wedding]: 562-553; Lithuanians [{resume does not allow us to fully understand the plot}; the queen has a star on her forehead, the sun with the moon on her head; after her death, the king wants to marry on her daughter; she demands a lice leather dress, gold shoes, etc.; runs away; when refused, the carrier tries to drown her; she is hired to work in the kitchen; comes to church in magical dresses; at the last Once I didn't have time to take it off, she just threw rags on top; my brother recognizes her]: Cox 1893, No. 194:75; Latvians [The king wants to marry his daughter (brother to sister). The daughter goes to her mother's grave for advice. She advises her to demand rich outfits from the king, a fur coat (made from the skin of a mouse, dog, wolf, bear), and a self-propelled cart (boat). The daughter puts on her fur coat, puts her outfits in a nutshell and runs away. He is hired as a servant to another king. He appears at the ball three times in luxurious dresses. For the third time, the shoe sticks to the porch step, the king finds a girl and marries her]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 510B: 295; the Finns [father wants to marry his daughter; she makes it a condition that he took her gold and silver dresses, clothes made of crow's beaks; her mother helps her out of the grave; she is hired in the palace as a pigsty; the king's son throws water, a towel, shoes at her; she comes to church; items (token objects) are mentioned; runs away three times; the shoe sticks to the resin; everything is ordered to try on; wedding]: Cox 1893, No. 197:76; Karelians: Cox 1893, No. 199 (Varpakylä) [person wants marry her daughter; she asks for permission to go to her mother's grave; the mother advises to ask her to melt the bathhouse to wash before the wedding, and when she goes to the bathhouse, run; when she goes to church, take dresses brush, comb, mirror, sword; father chases, daughter throws brush (wall; father runs after the sword, cuts a hole, the bird screams that the daughter will see where the sword is hidden, the father runs home to carry the sword again), comb (bone wall (same); mirror (glass wall; same); when she reaches the royal pigsty, the girl puts on a pig's skin, hides in the prince's pigsty; in the morning she secretly puts the farm in order; the prince goes to church, asks his sister for soap, the pig brings it, the prince throws soap at the pig; in the church, the beauty replies that she is from the palace, where they throw soap; next time, a basin of water; a shirt; in the first time the girl loses her hat; then the prince orders to smear the door with resin, the second time the glove sticks; the third time the shoe; the prince tells everyone to try on, promises to marry; sees a pig in a hat, with with a glove and a shoe; on the way to church, the heroine takes off her pigskin; wedding]: 392-394; Onegin 2010, No. 32 (Kalevalsky district) [wife has a blue finger; when she dies, she tells her husband to marry again only to blue-headed; the daughter still has the blue finger; she requires her father to wear a star-embroidered outfit (the father bought it); embroidered for months (the same); the sun (the same); the daughter takes dresses, a brush, sulfur, goes to the bathhouse; runs away, leaving the spits to answer for himself; when he discovers the deception, the old man rushes after him; the daughter throws a broom, a mountain covered with birch forest appears, the old man returns for an ax and hoe, cuts through the road, wants to hide the ax and hoe under the birch tree, the tit says he will tell, the women will steal; the old man takes them home, runs again; the girl throws the comb (resin mountain; the old man runs after the ax and hoe again ; same); throws a bar (stream of fire; the old man can't cross, he threw his eggs around his daughter's neck, let them mimic her); the girl was hired as a pigsty for the king; she is silent, because the eggs will mimic her; a ball is being prepared, the maids send a dumb man to carry water to the king, who with a bucket on her forehead; the late mother gives a staff to hit the stone crosswise, a horse will come out; the girl came to the ball in a sunny dress; replies that came from where they hit her forehead with a bucket; the prince followed the girl, threw the pigsty's clothes into the fire; but the girl is afraid to say a word; the prince married her, she gave birth to a son, he was stabbed to death on her on her knees, her eyes were gouged out and driven away if she did not want to speak; the pigsty cooks food again, the soup is cooked in the pot; the pigsty: delicious soup; eggs: delicious; the pigsty hangs the ladle around her neck below the eggs, invites them to try the soup; the eggs flopped into the ladle, she flopped them into the boiling pan; the pigsty brought soup to the guests; the new bride: look, the hem is carrying soup; pigsty: you spoke early, I she was silent even when my baby was slaughtered; the new bride was driven away, the pigsty was dressed in a sunny dress]: 300-304; the Veps [the old man celebrated the fortieth day after his wife's death and decides to marry his daughter; the daughter calls her mother to her grave, complains to her father; the mother advises to demand gifts from him: starry dresses, with the sun, with the moon and simple; when receiving gifts, the daughter puts four dolls in the corners of the room (herself with things in the middle) and, on the advice of her mother, casts a spell: "It's better for me to fall through the ground than marry a dad" - and fails; once in a foreign village, she is hired as a worker, in goes to church in beautiful outfits; a rich guy falls in love with her, recognizes her by her dress; wedding]: Onegina, Zaitseva 1996, No. 3:201; Livs, counselors: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 510B: 229 {It is not clear from the index whether the Livs have this motive, but rather yes, since the Veps and Latvians have it}.
Volga - Perm. Chuvashi [when dying, the priest's wife gives him her ring, tells him to marry the one she suits; does not suit anyone, the daughter accidentally wore it, the pop wants to marry her, she runs away; the royal son marries her, a son is born; when the prince left, the pop came unrecognized, stabbed the baby; the king father tells his son, the son writes in response, the pop replaced both letters - allegedly the prince orders to cut off wife hands, tie the dead baby to her and drive her away; the woman leaned to the river, the baby fell out, her hands grew, the voice said how to revive the baby with plant juice; he grew up, killed the youngest, middle son old woman; only maimed the elder; the old woman arranged that the mother of the prince's son took the old woman's son as a lover; pretending to be sick, gives her son difficult tasks; he defeats the heroes who guarded the garden and source; the old woman's son steals the cross in which the strength of the prince's son is; drives him away; he meets the princess, she promises to marry him; meets the blind and legless; in the palace throws the princess's ring into a bucket of water; she recognizes the ring, the king allows marriage, but the prince's son must return his cross; he steals the cross, kills his mother's lover, and tied her, two barrels next to each other: to cry on it and to cry for her lover; gathers people, tells everything; mother cried for her son, he released her]: Chuvash tales 1937:237-247; Bashkirs: Barag 1988, No. 54 [Akhan and Karakhan decided to marry children if wives they give birth to babies of different sexes; A. has a son, K. has a daughter; A. died, K. forgot his promise; the eldest daughter-in-law A. to his son: than to flirt with me, it would be better to go to the bride; the son asked his mother to fry wheat, squeezed in her hand, she had to confess; K.'s wife died, telling him to take a new wife more beautiful than her; K. I did not find anyone more beautiful than her daughter; she set a condition: sew a flea fur coat and a lice leather handkerchief; K. did it; she dug a hole in the bathhouse and covered it with a carpet; K. went and failed; the daughter left, began to live with the elderly; son A. found K., pulled it out of the hole; K. says that his daughter killed her mother and went to the maiden; A.'s son came to the house where daughter K. lived; began to pluck the wool from the ram, put meat on an inverted cauldron and poured water from above; the girl, seeing this, laughed and became more and more beautiful; they fell in love, he brought her to his mother, married her; poor K. came; at night he stabbed his daughter's son, put a knife on her; said that this witch killed her mother; the mother kicked her daughter-in-law out; the young returned to those old people, taking the child's body; son A. sees how the snake revived another by dragging her around the hummock; revived son; the young man grew up, went to fight the devil; stayed with an old woman who wants to burn him in a copper bath, he drags her there himself, tells her to show the way to the maiden; she sends him to his sister; she has a silver bath; the same goes to the older sister; the golden bath; the old woman tells him to oil the deva's gate, chop snakes and lions with a sword, gives a handkerchief to heal the horse's leg if the lion hurts him; the young man drove the deva up to his throat into the ground, then put them in a cage, freed the beauties, the princess gave him a ring; he brought his mother to him; K. came, opened the cage with the deva, who advised him to send the young man for the bear's milk; K. called himself the boy's grandfather - his mother is unconscious, he must be cured; the young man pulled a sharp stone out of the bear's paw, she gave milk; K. released the deva, the young man defeated him, he fell into the ground; the young man sprayed milk on K., who was petrified, the millstone closed the place where the devil was; the young man threw a ring into the jug of the princess's maid; she recognized him; wedding]: 377-385; Bessonov 1941, No. 46 [mother is dead, father wants to marry her daughter, daughter ran away; Khan's son saw her and got married; a boy was born; his wife's father found a daughter, told her husband that she was a liar, the Khan's son expelled her; she lives in the forest with her son; the son grew up; saw a house, there, well done locked her him in a cage; settled with his mother in this house; gave her the keys to the rooms, forbade her to enter one; the woman looked there, pulled the pyaria out of the liquid, washed it, they decided to kill her son; the mother pretended to be sick; asked for fruit from the mountain, which was wrapped around Azhdakha; well done, went to the old woman; she told me to wait three years: her foal will grow up, you have to go to the mountain on it; the foal galloped, well done, took the fetus and the kidnapped Azhdaha Khan's daughter; the khan gave her to him; the wife gave her ring; well done, he came to his mother, noticed her in the arms of the pyariya; the mother invites her son to test his strength; wrapped her hands in a rope, he tore her; pyary offered to make a rope out of hair, which a woman should cut off from the top of her head; well done, the man could not tear these fetters; Pyariy pulled out his eyes, took him away and threw him on the bank of a swampy stream; the servant came for with water; well done, asked for a drink, threw that ring into the bucket; the khan's daughter recognized her husband, told her to bring it to her; he dreamed that if you fire the arrow three times, she would return and revive the blind man; well done, he saw the light and went to kill the pyariah; his horse went into the ground with his hooves; well done cut off his mother's head, threw the pyaria up, he crashed into the dust; returned to his wife, became khan himself]: 245-248.