K121. Knight at the crossroads. .13.-.15.17.27.-.34.36.

At the crossroads, it is indicated that one road is safe, the other is neutral, and the third is deadly. There can be only two roads - dangerous and safe. The hero is driving on a dangerous road.

Sudanese Arabs, Kordofan, Kabila, Tunisian Arabs, Palestinians, Arabs of Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Dalmatian Italians, Albanians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Russians (Terek coast, Arkhangelskaya, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Voronezh), Ukrainians, Belarusians, Adygs, Karachays, Balkarians, Nogais, Avars, Lezgins, Archins, Tatas, Megrelians, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Uzbeks, Turkmens, Tajiks, Sistan's Tajiks, Bukhara Arabs, Yagnobes, Vakhans, Baluchis, Latvians, Livs, Estonians, Setus, Finns, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Karakalpaks, Kyrgyz, Dungans, Uighurs, Dagurs, Baikal Evenks.

Sudan - East Africa. The Arabs of Sudan [the Sultan has 7 sons, his poor brother has 7 daughters; the sultan mocks the poor; orders to bring water not well, river, or rain water; the youngest daughter Fatima teaches women sweat well, the father brings the Sultan their sweat; the sultan tells him to bring a wineskin of milk that is not from an animal or a person; F. tells the father to collect the milky sap of a tree; tells the father to bet whether 7 sons are better or 7 daughters; let her and the Sultan's son go to earn money, whoever returns with great wealth will manage others; they reach the fork together; the Sultan's son rides along the "Road that safe", F. - on "The Road That Is Dangerous"; disguised as a man, began to live in the prince's palace, obtained wealth; the prince suspects that his girlfriend, his mother, is inventing new challenges with him, F. dodges; leaves, leaving a note that she deceived the prince; when she returned with wealth and cattle, the father built a luxurious house; the sultan died, his sons would like to marry cousins, but F. refuses; that prince arrives; F. quickly changes clothes as a man, but forget to take off his earring; they got married, everything is fine]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1929, No. 27:134-143; Sudanese Arabs (Jaaaliyin) [at the Sultan's two wives: a slave with two sons and a free woman with a son Muhammad; every year a palm tree produces dates and a snake eats them; the sons of the slave went to guard, they did not notice anything; M. cut off the snake head; two feathers fell from her head: gold and silver; M. brought silver to his father, the gold one disappeared; the father sends his sons to find him; at the crossroads, the woman gives them food, explains: one road - If you go, you won't come back, but another road of peace; M. went the road of peace; the same snake appeared at the edge of the forest, ate the dates that M. took with him, spat in the water; turned into a man with a sword; he said that the road will lead to the local sultan; he will give two chickens, black and white; they must be caught with his eyes closed; a man with a sword will kill whoever catches a white one but lets go if he catches a black one; M. caught white, but asked him to let him go: he himself is the son of the Sultan; M. returned to the snake; she sends him to the Sultan, who will offer, closing his eyes, to catch horses with gold and silver harness; who caught a horse with gold harness will be punished; (the same as with chickens); the snake sends again to the Sultan: he will give the girl, but her whole body must be carefully wrapped in cloth; if even her little finger is visible, she will burn the village, and the Sultan will punish M.; fingers are visible, the village burned down; the Sultan let go again; M. took the chickens, horses and the girl, finds the brothers who have gone the road of non-return; they ask to go down to the well for water; there is black and white sheep; if you say "white will knock down black", Allah will save; if, on the contrary, you fall down 7 worlds; M. said so, the white ram threw him down; there the old woman, M. asked for water, she gave it, a fly in the water, M. splashed out the water, the old woman scolds him: there is not enough water, a crocodile holds her, gives her one a day in exchange for the girls, the king will give her daughter to someone who saves her; M. fell asleep, the princess's tear fell in her ear M., he jumped up, cut off the crocodile's head; so all 7 heads; marked each with blood; exchanged rings with the princess; the king checked whether the rings were the right, told M. to raise his severed head; making sure that he is a hero, the king gave M. a daughter]: Hurreiz 1977, No. 9:85-87; Kordofan (language not specified) [the king's apricot tree bears gold fruits; the bird kidnaps them; the youngest of three sons {about the elders are not it says} volunteered to guard; grabbed the bird, it escaped, but the feather remained in his hand; no one saw a bird with such feathers; the king wants to have it; the youngest son went to pick the bird; the elders too, because everyone wanted to become king, but the father had not yet made a choice; at the fork there is an inscription: whoever walks on the right road will die, on the middle road he will lose his horse, on the left he will get to the giants buried under the mounds ; the older brothers decided to stop and wait for the younger one, and he drove along the middle road; he ate the horse, ate the horse, the young man walked; the gin apologized: he hadn't eaten for two years, horses were his food, otherwise he died would; now he will be a helper; the bird has one king; it is not difficult to take it, but you cannot say a word; but the young man exclaimed, "This bird!" , she woke up and gave a voice, the young man was captured; the local king is ready to let him go with the bird, but let him get him a horse that can be summoned and sent away by rubbing his hair; he is from another king; gin: not touch the leash on which the horse is tied; take the hairs, sit on the horse, rub it, and you will be wherever you want; but the young man untied the leash, is caught; the horse owner promises to give it back if the young man gets the box , in which another king keeps all the servants, dancers, drummers and trumpeters; genie: when the king sleeps, he holds the box in his teeth; I will become a mouse, I will tickle him; but don't open the boxes; the young man took it away but opened the box, the musicians and dancers jumped out, began to play and dance around, but nothing back; a year later, the genie found it; came to the owner of the box under the guise of another king and found out what was needed three times say "showlim" for the musicians and others to return to the box; this happened; gin a copy of the box in exchange for which the young man received a horse; then the gin became a horse, the young man received the bird and kept it for himself as well horse; came to the brothers; when he fell asleep, they threw him into the well and took the box, the horse and the bird; the gin came, lowered the bucket to collect water, the young man clung to him and got out; came to his father, told him everything, offered to gather people in the morning; the older brothers are afraid of the box; when they saw the youngest, who was called dead, turned pale; the younger told the inhabitants of the box to go out, the dancers began to dance, the warriors killed the elders brothers; the younger said "showlim", those who came out fled; the king handed over power to the youngest son]: Frobenius, No. 13:134-147.

North Africa. Kabila [Sultan has 2 sons with his first wife and Mhammed from his second; he sends M. and his brothers to the forest to teach them how to hunt; M. tells them to drive game, shot many; the brothers bring this to their father, they say that they shot the game; M. and his brothers go to the Sahara; there is an inscription at the fork; the brothers choose the path "you will not return", M. - "you will not return"; the brothers come to the city where the two daughters of the late king they invite you to compete - who gets drunk faster; sisters are indistinguishable from each other, replace each other, so they always win, take possession of money and property; M. brothers all lost, became coal miners; M. met an old man, who told him to go to the cave, ignore women, take the value he would find there; M. brings a golden gazelle; in the city of two sisters does not allow the girl go out, she loses everything; comes back with her brothers; goes down to the well, the brothers cut off the rope, bring her father a gazelle on their own behalf, are going to marry those sisters; the horse, leaning down, pulled M. out of the well; he comes home, tells his story, the golden gazelle confirms his words; his brothers and father are fleeing, M. reigns, marrying one of his sisters]: Dermenghem 1945:30-36; Arabs Tunisia [the king imprisoned Ali's only son with a wet nurse under a glass cap; ordered to feed boneless meat and bread without crust; once the prince was accidentally brought meat and bone and bread with with a crust; he broke the glass with his bone, went outside; tells his father to give him freedom; in the city he runs into the townspeople; old woman: what kind of violent you are, it would be better to bring Sinddur on the back of a vulture from across the 7 seas; Ali tells gather the old women, the last to be brought to say these words; she explains that S. is the princess of spirits in the land of cannibals; Ali goes on a journey, the king tells the son of the vizier Mohammed to go with him; at the fork stone: to the right you will buy, to the left you will lose; they draw lots, Ali goes to the right, M. to the left; he has eaten everything, hired a bagel seller; Ali goes, greets the hungry giant sitting next to a fallen camel; cuts and roasts meat for him; the giant sends him to his older sister, tells him to fall to her nipple, otherwise he will kill him; her 7 cannibal brothers give Ali a hair out of their beards - if burned, will come to the rescue; heads on stakes on the walls of the city; Ali stays with the elderly; they explain that the princess's grooms are told to sort out several varieties of grain overnight; no one can, everyone is executed; Ali summons the ogre, who tells the ants to sort out the grain; Ali received a princess; wants to go further after S.; the first wife teaches how to slaughter a bull near the seashore, feed the vultures, they will help; the oldest the vulture knows the way to S.; carries Ali across 7 seas, who feeds him with stored meat; in the castle there is a beauty who sleeps and is awake for three months; Ali wrote a prenuptial agreement, got together with a sleeper; exchanged rings; on the way back, the seventh piece of meat fell, Ali cut off his forearm; on the other side, other vultures tell him to regurgitate the meat, put Ali back; he takes his first wife and goes home; the Sultan decided to return his daughter and kill Ali; he smashes enemies, the rest are finished off by a summoned cannibal; Ali finds M. in the shop; they go together; M. invites Ali to go down to the well to get water, cuts off the rope; tells everyone to say he got the princess; monkeys, male and female, ask for a settlement; Ali advises the male to keep the monkey with him and let go of the gazelle; the monkeys are happy Ali was pulled out, he came to his city; S. and his three-year-old son surrounded the city with an army; M. cannot provide evidence of his marriage to S.; Ali's wedding to S., his first wife is also with them; the vizier wants to kill his son himself, but Ali forgave M.]: Stimme 1893, No. 4:57-78 (translated to Lebedev 1990, No. 16:80-95).

Southern Europe. Dalmatian Italians - see The Balkans.

Western Asia. Palestinians [the king is sitting on the throne; a bird comes in, carries the hair from his beard; the same the next day; the king managed to snatch the feather from the bird - it is golden; the vizier advises sending three princes in search of birds; they reached the fork, on the stove there is an inscription: Heir ist der Pfad dem der Feurbrand naht; hier ist der Pfad den trennenden Tat {what's in the original Arabic?} ; and if you follow this path, you won't return; younger Kasim rides the one they don't return on; everyone left his ring under the stove; K. reached the long-haired demon, took out a razor, cut off his hair and combed; became friends; the demon does not know where the bird is, sent it to his older brother; at the same time, he sent it to the oldest; he advises not to try to get the bird, but K. is adamant; then the demon teaches that do; bring it to the garden, where there are different birds in the cages; you have to walk by to the gazebo; there is a peasant with a bird in it; grab a cage and nothing more, then run; but when K. left the garden, he tried to capture another bird; then all the birds cried out: stranger! He was brought to the king; he agreed to give the bird if K. got him a horse; the same with the horse (K. tried to take a sword hanging on the wall); now he was told to bring a grenade; the same: K. tries to tear off the second; the local king demands to get the daughter of the king of Jews Badyat el-Husn wal-Jamal; the demon gives a lit one: as long as you hold her in your hand, you are invisible; enter B.'s chambers and if her eyes are red, grab her hair and drags away, and if yellow, then run and escape; K. dragged B., the demon brought them to the grenade owner, took the form of B., K. got both grenades, and the demon returned; the same goes on (the demon turns into a grenade and a horse; the demon took them to the place where K. broke up with his brothers; there are no rings; K. met the brothers in a neighboring city, they are day laborers with merchants; he took them with him; on the way there is a well; B. advises not to go down, but K. went down, sent water upstairs, and saw a beautiful woman with a sleeping demon on her knees; killed him; the same with the two sisters of the rescued beauty; K. sent them upstairs; the brothers envy K.; lifting it to half, cut off the rope; the girls below warned, the eldest gave a pistachio and a ring in it; the second gave a bracelet; the youngest gave a walnut with a robe in it; when K. fell, B. turned into a black woman, the bird was in a white feather, the pomegranate turned black, and the horse became a nag; his father was told that K. was dead; he began preparing for weddings; K. saw white and black sheep butting; they asked who liked better ; K.: white; he immediately found himself below the 7th underground tier; reached the cliff; saw the dragon chasing the snake; killed the dragon with a stone; the snake became a girl and said that this fan wanted her and constantly chased; to escape, she became a snake, and then he turned into a dragon; a little more and he would grab her; for this she would take him to his father; gave him three hairs: burn it and show up right away; K. pulled his (mutton) stomach over his head and pretended to be bald; in the girl's father's city, he hired a jeweler; every day he said he found gold or two and bought something for it; girls from the underground the kingdoms agree to marry the K. brothers on the condition that they bring them the same ring and bracelet as they gave to K.; jewelers cannot do such things and are waiting for execution; K. pretended to make a ring and a bracelet, but he simply had them; when the girls saw the things, they realized that K. was nearby; the third demanded the robe that K. had given in walnut (the same); before the brothers' wedding, the king arranged a horizontal bar; K. called the woman asked her for a horse; he easily defeated his brothers, appeared before the king and told him everything; forgave the brothers, the groom on two girls rescued from the lower world, but sent him to another city; a jeweler, whom he worked, made pasha; reigned]: Littmann 2016:136-160; Syrian Arabs: Bushnaq 1987 [the bird flies in three times, plucking a hair from the king's beard; the third time he managed to snatch her feather - gold; three princes go to get a bird; at the fork there is a stone with the inscription: you will burn along this road, you will drown along this road, you will not return along this road; the brothers went in different ways, leaving their own under the stone rings; younger Ala'i - on the road of not returning; on the way, ghoul, A. throws sweet mastic into his mouth; he is ready to carry A. back, but A. wants to go ahead; ghoul sends him to his brother; Tom A. cut his hair and he took him to his third brother; A. shaved him and cut his nails; he brought A. to the Birdcage Garden, telling him not to take anything else; A. could not resist taking the second cage, immediately caught; the local king promises a bird for the fastest horse; the ghoul brings it to the stable, but A. takes another sword; the local king promises a horse for the beautiful Badiat-ul-Jamal; the ghoul gives a candle that makes him invisible; if the sleeping B.'s eyes are yellow , you have to run, and if the red ones, you have to grab it; A. got B.; the ghoul took her form, told A. to tell the tired beauty to be given only rose water; when the beautiful gulya was brought a jug, he into it dived and disappeared; the same with the horse (drinks only rose water); with B., the horse and the bird, A. reached the stone; the brothers had already taken their rings; one serves in the bakery, the other in the inn; A. bought them; B. overheard that the brothers wanted to leave A. in the well; A. did not believe; B. gave him three chestnuts: one with a gold earring, the other with a gold bracelet, the third in a brocade dress; when the brothers went home without A., B. turned into a black woman, the bird bleached, the horse became a nag; the travelers pulled A. out, gave him a horse; A. disguised himself as a shepherd, hired a jeweler; as soon as A. was in his father's city, B., a horse and the bird has taken on its former form; B. refuses to marry one of A.'s brothers, demands a pair for an earring; the jeweler is horrified, A. gives him a second earring in the morning; B. realizes that A. is close, asks the couple for a bracelet; the same - golden dress; B. suggests that the brothers show who rides faster; it is not they who win the races, but A.; the king handed him the throne, married B., A. did not execute his brothers]: 80-88; Kuhr 1993 [tsar fell ill, an Indian doctor says that only living water from Coral Island will cure him; the elder Aladin set off; a white dog jumped out of the ground, asked for food; A. grabbed the bow, the dog ran away; at the fork, one road to the Golden City, the other to the Silver City, the third to Death; A. goes to the Golden City, everything is made of gold, A. spent all his money, began to work in a coffee shop; the same middle son Madschd ad- Din (stayed in the silver city); younger Hassan feeds the dog, who says that the Red King is grateful to him, advises him to follow the Death Road; he tries to pick two flowers, they disappear, he hears voices brothers; a dog reappears from the ground, promises to take him to Coral Island, flies there by air; tells you to enter the palace, where demons, shout, "Ashtarot, die!" ; demons will die, we must take a vessel of living water, but nothing more; X. takes a necklace, demons grab H., A. tells me to bring an invisible hat; the dog brings a lion to the cave, at the entrance, barley in front of him, and a horse, meat in front of him; H. moved the food, towards the girl with the invisible hat; H. grabbed his hat, but then returned to the girl, who became a demon and grabbed him; the lion and the horse saved him, but the girl pulled him out his hat back, told me to bring the big pearl; the dog carried H. to the well; there was a door, a hall, there were girls, one would give a pearl; that's what happened, H. changed the pearl for an invisible hat, a hat for the water of immortality, the dog flew with him to the Golden City and Silver City for his brothers, they returned home, his father recovered, made H. heir, married an Indian princess]: 169-176; Iraqi Arabs : Bushnaq 1987 [The king's childless wife promises to fill one ditch with fat and another honey; gives birth to a beautiful and intelligent son; but has forgotten her vow; at night someone says to the young man: If the mother does not keep her word, the son will go to a place where no one will find him; so three nights; the young man forgot his dream, but woke up the third time and told him; the prince's mother did everything in a hurry; by evening the ditches were empty and only one old woman scraped out the leftovers; the prince, out of mischief, threw an arrow into her pot and smashed it; old woman: how did you break my pot, so let your heart be broken because of your love for the girl of the tree Raranj and Taranj; prince went in search; at the fork there is one Road of Reliability, the other is Security and Obscurity; the old man advises to turn back; after learning of the prince's firm intention, he gives a ring and tells him to go for 7 days on the road of the Unknown to a palm grove; rub the ring there: a genie horse will come out; ride it without paying attention to wild animals; a tree in the center of the grove; lions and wild goats on the sides; in front of goats meat, hay in front of the lions, must be changed; while the animals are eating, we must climb a tree and pick the fruits; taking three, the prince went down and galloped back; on the way he opened one, then; a beautiful woman came out of each, asked for water and, not receiving it immediately, died; the prince opened the third fruit by the river on the border of his father's kingdom; the prince left the beautiful woman and went to get her clothes and entourage; the girl climbed a tree; to the river A dark-skinned slave came for water, took the beauty's reflection for her own; when she saw the beauty, she offered to take out her insects, but stabbed her pin, turning her into a dove; the maid told the prince that the evil genie changed her appearance; every day a dove flies into the kitchen and the cook replies that the prince is sleeping with the ugliest woman; the dove's tears turn into pearls and corals; the cook told the prince caught a dove, pulled out a pin, the beauty was reborn; the liar was burned]: 109-114; Yaremenko 1990, No. 16 [the tsar divorced his first wife, her son Muhammad (M.); from his second wife sons Mahmud and Ahmed; Kicked out the first one with M.; became blind, lion's milk will help; older brothers reluctantly allow the youngest to go with them; the old man points out three roads: 1] well-being, 2) regret and remorse, 3) which he does not they return; each of the brothers goes his own way, M. goes last; the elders met again, wasted everything, were hired as workers in the city; a prisoner in the genie's castle advises M. to venerate their breasts mother; now M. has become their brother, they took him to their middle aunt, that sons to their elder aunt; her sons tell them to remove the splinter from the lion's paw; a grateful lion gives a wineskin of lion's milk, sends take him to a young lion; M. also receives camels, gold and three girls; finds brothers, takes it with him, but puts a stigma on their shoulders; brothers let him down into a well for water; there is a girl and a thief her eagle; M. kills an eagle (if hit a second time, she will come to life); the girl feels that the brothers will cut the rope; if M. touches the white goat, she will take it to the ground, if to the bottom one, she will carry it down; M. sends a girl upstairs, the rope is cut off, touched by a black goat, he fell into the lower world of genies; there a witch gives water in exchange for girls, now it is the turn of the daughter of the king of jinns; M. kills a witch, a girl marks the savior with blood; everyone brags that they killed a witch, but the girl throws grenades at M.; the genie flies with M. to the ground, he throws fat tails and cakes in his mouth on the way, one piece fell, he cut off the meat from his thigh; the genie belches him, puts him back; older brothers and the stolen goods are waiting in an enchanted sarcophagus; M. defeats his father's army, speaks all races, shows marks on the shoulders of his brothers, heals because of her father's blindness; he gave him the throne, imprisoned her eldest sons], 22 [a rich woman wonders, finds out that a black servant is marrying her daughter; she sends a servant to the Sun to find out her daughter's fate; At the fork, the elder says that the first road is called the road of regret, the second is the road to the secular world, the third is the road of well-being; advises you to choose the path of regret; walking along it, the servant sees an old man, who mows yellow and green grass, and the mowed grass immediately blows away the wind; he asks the Sun to know how long he will mow like this; another asks how long it will take him to climb the mountain and lower the empty car ; fish at the bottom of the river - why can't she dive; she carries a servant across the river; on the other side, the servant faints; in a dream, the Sun tells him that he is the mistress's daughter's chosen one; that he will turn white , if he dives into the river; that the grass is mowing Death, let him continue to work; that the old man with the wheelbarrow - Life, let him work too; there is a pearl in the fish's mouth; when the fish is transported to the other side, you must hit it head, take the pearl, the fish will sail away happily; it all happened, the servant happily married the mistress's daughter], 23 [an infertile woman promises to fill one ditch with honey, the other with oil; gives birth to a son; the old woman reminds the boy of his mother's vow; parents fill the ditches, the old woman comes last, picks up the leftovers; the boy accidentally broke her jug; she wishes him love for tarang and trange (TT; "sour lemon and bitter orange"); he grows up, goes to look for TT; the old man at the fork says that one road of well-being, the second is misfortune, the third does not return; the young man rides the first, falls to his chest the giantess, who teaches her to pick TT in the garden when the eyes of the monsters are open (which means they are sleeping); when she tried to peel another fruit, she asked for water, the fruit shrunk; the last young man peeled by the water he became a girl; the young man walked away, leaving TT in the tree; a witch came to the source, took the beauty's reflection for her own; she offered to help wash the dishes; the witch went up to her, put a pin in her head, TT flew away like a bird; said the young man that she would be beautiful again in a year; the bird flew to the young man, the witch wife told her to be killed, otherwise she would not recover; a drop of blood grew yuyuba, her trunk was covered with pearls; the witch wife orders her to be made a cradle for the baby; the baby in her cries; the witch gave the cradle to her poor neighbor; someone cleans her house, she waits for the girl, asks her not to return to the cradle; the witch asks for the cradle to be returned, calls the craftsmen to sew pearls on the dress; TT comes, tells her story; the husband leaves the witch, brings TT to her parents]: 93-102, 124-128, 129-136; Stevens 2006, No. 12 [two the Sultan's eldest son is from an Arab woman, the youngest is from an Ethiopian; the sultan offers his sons to shoot a bow - where the arrows fall, take his wife; the arrows of the elders hit the courtyards of Amir and the Vizier, the youngest's arrow flew away into a chol (desert); the lion asks to pull a splinter out of his leg, gives three hairs; if rubbed, they turn into wish-fulfilling servants; the prince asks for a flying horse, stops at the city, buys the sheep, pulls his stomach over his head, now looks bald, remains to work for the Sultan's gardener; the youngest of the three princesses once sees a young man in all his splendor; at the request of the princesses, the gardener brings the Sultan three melons of varying degrees of ripeness; the vizier explained the hint; the sultan gathered all the men, gave his daughters an apple, ordered them to throw them at whoever they like; the elders chose the sons of Amir and the vizier; the youngest does not leave, demands that the gardener's apprentice be brought; the sultan settled them in the stable; enemies attacked; the young man appears three times incognito in brilliant guise on different horses and smashes enemies; the sultan bandaged his wound on his arm with his handkerchief; out of grief that he did not know who the hero was, the Sultan went blind; the doctor: you need lion's milk in a lion-skin vessel brought on the lion's back; the elder son-in-law goes; at the crossroads, the old man spins the thread of day and night; one road - "If you go, you won't come back", two - "You'll go and come back"; he went to come back; met a man who offered to play chess; all lost, became a servant; the same with his second son-in-law; the younger son-in-law is kind to the old man, wants to drive on a road that they do not return; the old man teaches not to turn around if he feels blows from all sides, to put the guards to sleep, then the lionesses will give what they need; unrecognized, the young man finds brothers, gives a bottle of milk, for which he puts seals on their backs; but milk did not help the Sultan; in his true form, the son of an Ethiopian comes to the Sultan, the lion with milk is behind; the Sultan saw the light, handed him the throne]: 58-73; Saudia [Muhammad is the son of the Sultan from his unloved wife, with whom he divorced; Mahmud and Ahmed are sons from his beloved; Sultan went blind; fortune teller: lion milk brought on the lion's back will help; the brothers went in search; at the fork, the old man points to three roads: prosperity; regret and remorse; for which he does not are returning; Muhammad chose the latter; the other two roads came together, brought them to the city, Mahmoud and Ahmed squandered money, one went to work in a tavern, the other to a mutton salesman; Muhammad came to the palace of genies; the captive girl advises them to venerate their mother's breast; Jinnia hid Muhammad from her sons; then they called him brother; brought him to their middle aunt; from her to her eldest; she teaches pull the splinter out of the sleeping lion and ask for milk when he stops mad in pain; the genies rewarded the young man, he returned with 15 camels loaded with gold, three girls, and a lion carrying lion's milk on his back; Muhammad found brothers in the city and took them with him only after they allowed them to be branded with him; you have to get water, only Muhammad agrees to go down to the well; At the bottom there is a girl and a sleeping eagle; he can only be killed with his own sword; the eagle asks to hit him a second time; Muhammad: father and mother were not taught to finish off; the eagle died; Muhammad sent water and the girl upstairs; she gave ring: if you rub it, it will come to the rescue; brothers will cut the rope; you have to follow that road; if a black goat hits, you will descend to the seventh underworld, and if white, you will go up to the ground; goats fought, white missed, black hit, Muhammad found himself in a hot world where genies lived; old woman: a witch at the ditch lets water once a year when she is given one of the daughters of the king of jinns; today is her turn middle daughter; Muhammad hacked a witch; rubbed the ring; that girl tells me to go to the jinn king's palace; there his daughter will throw a grenade at the one who saved her; so happened; the king told one of the genies to pick up Muhammad on the ground; to do this, prepare 7 lamb fat tails and 7 servings of tortillas; the seventh fat tail Muhammad dropped, cut off the meat from his thigh; on the ground, the Jinno regurgitated the meat and put it on the wound; time, that girl covered camels, lions, herself and other girls with an iron sarcophagus; Muhammad defeated her father's army, showed marks on her brothers' shoulders; by agreement with the girl, destroyed the iron sarcophagus; the king saw the light, the sultan returned his first wife, the second sons were thrown into prison]: Juhaiman 1999:37-47.

The Balkans. Italians (Zara, Dalmatia; in Italy the motive is not noted) [the king hunted, fell asleep, and when he woke up, there is no crown; the erased son offers to find, the king drives him away; the middle one; younger Benjamin threatens to kill himself, says that the crown was stolen by the Alcina fairy, the king lets him go; at the fork there are inscriptions on the stones: whoever goes will return; God knows what will happen to you; whoever goes will not return; V. goes along third road;]: Calvino 1980, No. 46:142-144; Albanians: Lambertz 1952 [When a father dies, reminds his sons that each person has his own Ora; the youngest goes on a journey; the old woman at the fork Roads explain that one road leads to happiness, the other to hardships, and the third to the unknown and adventure (Ränke); the young man finds himself in front of the abyss, his Ora lowers him, points to the castle, Who is the Beauty of the Earth; outside the door there are three groups of 7 sleeping guards; the young man stabs the first 14, and when he starts stabbing the last seven, his sword is dull, four have time to jump up; Ora dazzles them, Beauty The earth is sharpened by a sword, a young man kills attackers; the Beauty of the Earth forbids opening the door to one of the rooms; the young man opens, Happiness (Nafaka) of the Beauty of the Earth flies to the king; Shtriga (witch), having received gold, turns into a spark, flies into the castle, pierces a needle into the young man, takes the Beauty of the Earth to the king; two years later, the brothers go to look for the younger one, Ora explains what happened, gives medicine (these are drops of Drangue's blood; these creatures fight Kulschedra during a storm in the mountains), the brothers revive (or rather awaken) the younger one; he accuses them that they stole the Beauty of the Earth; the offended brothers curse him and leave; After 7 years, the youngest finds his kidnapped wife; she has been silent for 9 years; sitting on horses, they run away, N. followed them; they came to the same witch, but did not recognize her; she put the young man to sleep, gave the Beauty of the Earth to her seven sons; she gave them water and stabbed them; mistook Diva for her husband, but realized the mistake, drove the horse on which Div sat, ran away herself; put on men's clothes, came to a country where there is no king, became king; hung her portrait by the road, ordered everyone who looked at it to be brought to her; Div came, then her husband, then Stroga, she ordered them all to be shackled; Diva beat and let go; Shtrige gave a choice of 2 knives or 2 horses; she chose horses, she was torn apart by horses; hugged her husband and put her husband on the throne instead]: 66-83; Serkova 1989 [going out in a storm with a lantern for the midwife, the husband saved the king who could crash on the rocks; the captain baptizes the boy, tells him to come to Istanbul when he grows up, but not to take a beardless man as a companion; he imposes himself as a companion, invites the young man to go down to the well, takes his oath to change his status and clothes with him; the king (apparently a former captain) considers a beardless godson, a young man a servant; an old woman teaches him to kill a monster guarding the water, an elephant with diamond skin, get the Beauty of the Earth, follow the road that says "you will go, you will not return", do not go where you "return"; give meat to eagles, grains to ants, honey to bees; they miss, promise to help; the mother of the Beauty of the Earth tells 1) disassemble three varieties of grain overnight (ants disassemble), 2) get a ring from the river (eagles tell ducks), 3) identify her daughter among 12 girls (the bee sits on her); eagles carry the young man and the Beauty of the Earth to Istanbul; the beardless kills him, cuts him to pieces; the beauty of the earth revives him with living water; after dying and resurrecting, the young man is free from his oath, tells the king everything, marries the Beauty of the Earth; the beardless man is hanged]: 136-151; Pedersen 1898, No. 3 [the king builds a mosque; dervish: it is beautiful, but the prayer in it has no value; the king destroyed the mosque, built another one; the third is the same; he has no more money; his three the son is waiting for the dervish; he says that the nightingale Gizár is needed to achieve perfection; sons go in search; at the crossroads a stone with the inscription; for two roads, "you will come back", for the third - "you won't come back"; the younger prince chooses her; the older brother became a barber, the middle brother began to work in a coffee shop; the youngest saw a wild woman combing her hair with a gorse branch; combed her with a comb, cleaned her his head, she sent him over the mountain; there he came to the leopard's wife; every time she took bread out of the oven, she interfered with the coals with her breasts and then lay sick; the young man taught him how to get bread; he came the leopard, grateful that his wife is healthy, sent a lion to his older brother, his eyelids closed, his wife's nipples should be venerated; the lion did not know about the nightingale, advised him to return, but the young man went on; wounded three eagles that tried to eat it; came to an old woman, she hid it; those eagles flew in, became girls, each saying that she would not harm the one who wounded her; the young man goes out, the girls are happy, they agree to bring him to where the nightingale is if he is each husband for a month; in three months they bring the Beauty of the Earth to the nightingale's mistress; the guards are sleeping, he stole the cage with a nightingale, put out 4 candles and lit 4 others; the eagle sisters brought him back to their place and then to the fork where he separated from his brothers; he found them; the brothers asked him to go down to the well, cut him off rope; the nightingale immediately stopped singing; the brothers gave the nightingale to their father, said that the youngest was missing; the Beauty of the Earth came with an army, asked his older brother how he stole the nightingale; he answered incorrectly, his hammered with sticks; the middle brother, in horror, told how they threw the youngest into the well; the king sent to get his son, everything became clear, he married the Beauty of the Earth, became king]: 11-19; Bulgarians [tsar if you get sick, whoever of the three sons brings living water will give him the throne; at the fork, the older married brother walks along the left road (you will return alive and well), the middle one (maybe you will come back, maybe not), youngest on the right (say goodbye to life); saves a snake from the fire, it sends it to its brother, he sends it to another (the middle serpent first appeared in the form of a fish, the young man saved it, the eldest in the form of a crow, a young man let him drink); the elder serpent sends him to the beautiful guardian of living water, she gives water and her wish-fulfilling ring; the young man finds brothers, they take away the ring and water, the elder became king, He put the middle one in another kingdom, summoned the mistress of the water; the raven took the ring, the young man returned everything, married the owner of the ring, received the throne, forgave his brother]: Klyagin-Kondratyeva 1951:85-91; the Greeks: Hahn 1864 (1), No. 72 [the king is told that the church is good for everyone, but there is not enough nightingale in the pulpit to sing when reading the Gospel; three princes go in search; at the fork there is an inscription: along this road you will return, you will die on the second, you will not return on the third; the brothers disperse, leaving a ring under the column; the youngest cuts off the snake's eyebrows, from which it saw nothing; the snake tells you to eat and praise rotten figs, drink and praise the smelly water, then kill the dragons and pick up the nightingale; the young man met his brothers, who left him in the well, brought the nightingale; the horse remained at the edge of the well, merchants They took the young man out; he returned to his father, the father drove away the eldest sons; the nightingale's owner asks the fig tree and the river why they did not apprehend the thief; they say they were praised; she takes them with her, comes to the prince, he marries her]: 77-80; Megas 1978, No. 20 [the father loves his two eldest sons, they are warriors; the mother is the youngest, he is all with books; the father has gone blind, asks to bring land from far away kingdoms; brothers reach the fork; the younger says that the wind will catch the one who goes to the right, the flame will burn straight, and whoever goes to the left will not return at all; the brothers put the ring under the stone, the elder goes to the right, the middle straight, the youngest to the left; the elders come back, pick up the rings, stay in the inn; to the left, there are three dragonesses in three castles, each with 39 dragon children; the youngest says first that he is her missing son, he became young because people made him work; a dragon, then his sons believe; the rest of the dragons believe; they say that between the sea and the mountains there is a monster with a head to heaven and a belly on the ground; a young man kills him by piercing his belly with a spear; comes to a country where they sleep and stay awake for six months; collects medicinal land, takes gold fly swatters from the king, queen, princesses; changes rings with the most beautiful princess; returns; the sons of the dragoness realize that he is a man, they are chasing; the young man gets stuck in a quagmire, a rose falls from his hat, the quagmire dries up; after passing, he throws a second rose, the quagmire gets wet again, the pursuers cannot pass; the young man finds the brothers, they are impoverished; they push the youngest into a dry well, take a bag of soil, but she does not heal his father, i.e. the curative younger the brother hid it on his body; the shepherd pulled him out; he comes back, heals his father's eyes; the brothers say that the youngest stole their land, the father believes; the king, the owner of the land, with his daughters, come to expose the deception; the younger marries a younger princess; asks his father not to hang his elders; gets the throne]: 25-37.

Central Europe. Russians (Teresky Bereg) [the tsar grew old, sent his sons for rejuvenating berries; the eldest, middle son went - did not return; there are three roads from the pole: he is alive - the horse is hungry; I do not live myself be; the woman is smooth, the feather bed is soft; Ivan Tsarevich goes where I do not live; the old woman gives a horse, sends it to her sister, she to the other, the third to their brother; there everyone must bow: the old man, his wife, three sons and three daughters-in-law, from elders to younger ones; the old man has a head in a big corner, legs in support; the mistress of rejuvenating berries is sleeping, around the house, you have to jump over so that the strings do not rang; I. took live water, rejuvenating berries, kissed the heroic girl; on the way back, the horse hit the strings; the girl woke up: she was unwashed, unwashed, drank but did not close the well; the old women detained the girl, I. managed to jump to his land; I. came to the girl, there was a bed with screws, he unscrewed the screws, pushed the girl into the cellar where people rescued those who were still alive, including his brothers; when he fell asleep, the brothers pushed I. into a hole, took everything for themselves; in the lower world, I. came to an old man; he asks not to herd oxen on the east side, where Baba Yaga with her three daughters, she blinded him and killed his old woman; I. leads there are cows there, each time she tears off the head of one baba yaga, puts it under the bed; the old man made him look away; he is grateful, calls the bird to his aunt's foot; she takes I. to the ground, there is not enough meat, he cut off his legs from his calves, the bird regurgitated and put them back; I. returned to her parents; the girl sailed by ship, with her two boys; the elder, middle brother call themselves fathers, the girl tells the children to accept them, they beat them, cut the buckle out of their ass; I. goes, looking like a kabatskaya gol, his wife meets and takes them home]: Balashov 1970, No. 43:139-146; Russians (Teresky Bereg) [the king has sons Gavrilo, Peter, Ivan; who- then steals apples; G., P. overslept; I. grabbed the Firebird, pulled out the pen; the king tells the Firebird itself to be enough; on the pole on one side there is an inscription: you will be full yourself, the horse is hungry, on the other hand, you will be alive yourself, the horse dead; I. turned to where the horse was dead; the wolf jumped out, tore the horse, told I. to sit on it; tells him to take the bird without a cage; I. took a golden cage, he was grabbed; sent for a golden-maned horse; to take without bridles; the same; get the princess; the wolf grabbed the princess himself; then left her I., turned into a princess himself, I. got a horse, the wolf returned; the same with the Firebird; now I. has a princess, a horse and a Firebird, he has arrived to the brothers; when he fell asleep, they cut off his head, took everything away; the princess orders him to take the dress out of her country; the wolf caught a crow and a crow, forced the crow to bring living and dead water, revived I.; he He returned everything, the brothers were expelled from the country]: Balashov 1970, No. 153:406-407; Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [the tsar orders to kill the child if a girl is born; the queen gives birth to a daughter, hides it, giving a nanny; reaching 17 years old, a girl asks for permission to walk around the yard, drinks twice from a well, becomes pregnant, gives birth to two boys; these are Fedor Vodovich and Ivan Vodovich; they grow up, go on a journey; there is a stone at the fork with the inscription: one way to walk with red girls, not to be alive in the other direction; EVE goes to where the girls are, PV goes to the city, stays with her grandmother's backyard; she says that it is time to give the snake the eldest of the king's three daughters; PV tells the princess to look in his head, falls asleep, wakes up from her tear, cuts off the heads of the three-headed snake, leaves; the cow shepherd makes The princess says that he is the savior; the same with the middle (six-headed) and younger princess (nine-headed serpent); the youngest gives PV her ring; encircling the guests at the wedding, the princess sees him; all three princesses they tell the truth, three shepherds were shot at the gate, PV received the youngest princess and half the kingdom; PV sees the bird, runs after it, gets to Baba Yaga, she turns it into stone; Eve comes to the stone, on he says that his brother is dead, he goes looking for him; he is mistaken for PV; he goes after the bird, turns Baba Yaga herself into stone; slaughters a horse, hides in giblets, grabs a crow, promises to let go, if the mother brings living water; she brings it, EVE kills the crow, revives, lets go; revives PV; they cannot be distinguished; PV stays with his wife, EVE returns to his mother]: Onchukov 1906:16-23; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Ust-Tsylma) [the blind tsar has sons Fedor, Vasily, Ivan; F. went to get live water; at the height, one road is full - he is hungry, the other is hungry, the other is hungry, the horse is full, the third is not to be alive; went where he was hungry; three girls were invited to the tower; one offers to lie on the bed, she falls into the underground, where there are already many fellows; the same with V.; I. goes along a road where not to be alive; a hut on chicken legs, about one window, on a damp crap, and revolves around; Bab-Yaga has now feathered, supported a hundred, blew, splashed her ass, cracked her ass and applied pancakes; says that living water the king maiden guards the golden breast; let the horse go to her sister; she let the horse go to the third, the third let the horse jump the strings to three wells, in which dead, living, eye water; I. filled the vessels, but as well as the little bubbles that he hid; made love to the king maiden, but she did not wake up; when back, the horse touched the strings, the bells rang, the king maiden was chasing; every baba yaga detains her inviting her to the bathhouse; I. drove along the hungry road, the tsar-maiden lost track; I. came to those girls, tells the girl to be the first to lie on the bed, she failed; the guys in the basement tore her apart; other girls were told to release the prisoners and not to harm them anymore; on the Russians, the brothers threw I. into a hole in the ground, his horse and bag were taken away; in the lower world, I. went to sea, where the princess was given to the Snake to eat; I. kills the three-headed, then six- and nine-headed; puts his heads under the corner of the house, each with a gemstone, I. took them for himself; when he slept, the water carrier cut off his head, attributed the victory to himself; The princess went to wash her body, found bubbles of living and dead water, revived I.; he wants to go to earth; if so, the king will give him the kingdom (and daughter) after his death, when he enters his world; Magovey called- the bird, I. feeds it on the way, it hardly flew, fell down, and I. grabbed the edge and got out; came home, anointed his father's eyes with eye water, he saw the light; the king maiden sailed on the ship with two sons; rejects F. and V.; I. smeared himself with resin, rolled in feathers, children say it's hell; their mother: no, your father, wash him, take him to the ship; they have begun to live well and now live]: Onchukov 2008, No. 8:100-106; Russians (Olonetskaya, Pudozhsky Krai, epic) [Ilya Muromets had no arms and legs for 30 years, wiped a hole under him on the stove; prayed; recovered only when he heard from wanderers that The robber nightingale blocked the way to Kiev; one day the walkers came, gave him a cup of wine to drink, then a second one; Ilya replies that if there was a table from earth to sky and a ring on it, he could turn the earth over; kaliki: with this force, mother earth will not wear; they gave a third cup to drink to reduce strength; Ilya went to Kiev to Prince Vladimir; on the Rosstani, a pole: to go straight - to be rich , to go to the right - to be married, to go to the left - I'll be killed; first goes to the left - there's an army, Ilya returns; then to the right - there are beauties, and in the basement there are chained heroes; Ilya freed the heroes, walled up beauties; elsewhere frees other heroes from the underground dungeon; destroys a myriad Tatar army; The Nightingale sits in a nest on seven oaks and seven females; whistles like a nightingale, hisses snake, roars like an animal; Ilya's horse falls to his knees; Ilya knocks out the Nightingale's eye with an arrow; he asks him not to destroy him, will give him gold and silver in his nest; Nightingale's daughters rejoice that their father is lucky a Russian hero, but it turned out the opposite; Ilya orders to send gold and silver on Horde carts to Kiev, brings Nightingale to Vladimir himself; he tells Nightingale to whistle; Ilya clarifies: half a whistle; that whistles in a full whistle, V. is wobbling, his wife Apraxia is a little alive; for this Ilya cut off Nightingale's head; Nightingale's treasure carts arrived]: Parilova, Soymanov 1941, No. 3:88-98; Russians (Olonetskaya, Velikogubskaya vol., Kosmozero, Western I.V. Karnaukhova) [the wife is childless; sent for fresh perch; the wife and the worker ate, both gave birth to a boy; the elder brother {the hostess's son} went, three growths: to the right - you will be rich, to the left - wife, middle - killed; went to the left; in the young lady's house; put him to bed, he fell into the underground; his younger brother went, chose the path where he would kill; a hut on chicken legs - turn the porch here; Baba Yaga fed, she gave a comb, sent it to her older sister; she gave a bar, sent it to the oldest; fog over the city, in the house of Baba Yaga (apparently the oldest sister) tells stories to the girls; the guy took apples and live water , raped the girl, galloped away; girl: he drank tea, but did not cover the teapot, sent a chase; the guy threw a comb (forest), a bar (gorges), a towel (river of fire); the guy got to Rosstani and drove along the road to marry; also failed; broke the wall, everyone went out; the brothers envied him, killed him; the horse broke a bottle of live water, revived it; he returned home; the messenger from the girl Krasa from the golden kingdom: let a betrothed arrives; she already has a child; her older brother has gone; she put down velvet, the guy got off his horse, went around, she drove him away; the youngest drove on velvet - here's my betrothed; they began to live happily ever after, good money]: Vlasova 2011, No. 15:45-46; Russians (Vologda) [the tsar has a beautiful daughter; he put her in a tower so as not to be stolen; she asked to let her go to the garden, found an egg, ate it in half with as a nanny, both became pregnant, Ivan Tsarevich and Fedor Nyankin were born, grew up quickly, went on a journey; at the fork there is an inscription: to the right - break your head, to the left - drink, take a walk, have fun; I. went to the right, F. to the left; they changed rings, if the ring turned black, it's a problem; there was a bowl left on the rostani, if there was blood in it, one of them died; I. Tsarevich came to the shack; old woman: every night they bring the girl to be eaten by a sea monster, the boyar, princely and royal daughters are left; I. tells the old woman to wake him up in the evening, let the horse go if he starts to worry; they brought the boyar's daughter;" who sings, who plays, who roars"; at midnight, a sea monster rides on horseback about three heads; I. "the field blew", three heads flew off; the next night they brought the princely daughter - the same (six heads); on the third night they brought the princess, the monster has 12 heads, the old woman is sleeping, the horse is beating; the monster threw I.; I. threw his left boot into the old woman's house, then his right boot, the house rolled, the horse escaped; I. jumped on his horse, "blew out the field", demolished the monster's head, took the princess's handkerchief, restored the old woman's hut; the vagrants told the king that they killed the monsters, the king did not believe it; I. showed a handkerchief; wedding; before they fell asleep, Baba Yaga rides (she drives every day, eats a bull, eats a cow); I. chased her, she asked for permission to "weave the horse's eyes", the horse disappeared, I. returned on foot; the next time I. allowed him to weave his eye himself, died; F.'s ring turned black, blood in the bowl; he came to that kingdom, his mistaken for I., put him in bed with his wife M.; when Baba Yaga appeared, the princess replies: "As if you don't know, I was chasing baba yaga for two days"; F. caught up with Baba Yaga, forced him to bring her alive and dead water, revive I. and his horse; having learned that F. slept with his wife, I. in redemption demands that F. travel "far away, far away seas, to the kingdom of far away to the princess for an egg"; F. comes to Baba Yaga, who gives a letter to her sister, her sister gives a letter to her older sister; the elder teaches: the princess is in the kingdom behind the wall, there are strings and bells on the wall, everyone is sleeping in the afternoon, you have to jump over the wall take the egg, soak the hat in the well to the left; F. took the egg, kissed the princess, the strings rang; F. jumps from one baba yaga to another, left the chase; a year later that queen came by ship with her son; F. first he sent a drunk, my son asks if it is his father, treats him with a belt on the back; then F. came; princess: I will treat this myself; wedding]: Gura 1965, No. 17:226-229; Russians (Vologodskaya, Belozersky region) [Tsarevichi Fedor, Vasily, Ivan; whoever brings a jug of twelve stigmas with living water from the Blue-eyed girl, the tsar promises half the kingdom; F. reached the crossroads, on the inscription plate: to be hungry; he is full, but the horse is hungry; sleep with the girl; rides along the third road; the girl put him against the wall, he fell into a hole; the same with V.; I. turned to the road where he was hungry; a hut on a chicken leg, on dog shank; turn your back to the forest and in front of me; there Baba Yaga, Blue-eyed, is her niece, brother's daughter; gives her horse, he is better than I.'s horse; I. comes to the second Sister Yaga, she gives more the best horse; to the third; she teaches you to jump over the wall, take water; I. sinned with S., so the horse, jumping back, hit the strings; S. after one baba yaga to another; "I'm not sorry that the horse got drunk, or else it's expensive that he didn't cover the well"; S. caught up, they got engaged, she promised to come in three years; girl I. shoved her down, took her brothers out of envy; they threw him into a hole out of envy, he flew for three days and three nights; Nagai birds squeak on an oak tree by the sea, I. covered them with a robe; they tell their mother about this, the bird is ready to raise I. to the ground, let him cook meat; almost enough, he cut off his fingers arms and legs; bird: did not know what was so tasty; regurgitated, I. put them back with live water; S. came, demands "guilty"; F. goes, then V.; sons think it is the father, S. does not; and when I. comes in the form of a drunkard - this is him; wedding; older brothers were expelled]: Azadovsky 1934, No. 8:186-199; Russians (Voronezh) [the elderly daughter of the priest drinks two bottles from the well, after 40 hours gives birth to twins: Ivan and Fedor Vodychey; in three weeks they grow up, go hunting, want to shoot a hare, fox, wolf, bear, lion, tiger, falcon, etc., but animals ask for mercy, they promise that they will be useful to the brothers; after 12 days, the brothers go hunting again, collect animals, draw lots at the crossroads: Ivan is on the road where "death will be", Mikhail, where "to be rich" ; brothers share animals and guns, agree that they will come to rescue each other; if one gun turns black, then the other brother is dead; Ivan enters a pub in the field and finds out that Zmey Gorynych eats all the people in the kingdom, that today it is the turn of the king's eldest daughter; sends her to the tower where she is waiting for the Serpent; the Serpent arrives, asks if Ivan has come to reconcile or fight; opponents fight on the bridge, in 2 blows, Ivan cuts down three heads, buries bones, receives a personalized handkerchief from the princess; the princess sees a gypsy Chugunkin, finds out how she escaped, makes her imagine him as a savior; the same with the middle daughter; on the third day, Ivan asks the kisser he stayed with to let the animals out when the water in the glass boils; comes to his youngest daughter, asks him to look in his head, hangs them over him there is a three-pound stone on the rope, orders to cut down the rope if the Snake does not wake up when the Snake appears; the princess cannot wake Ivan up, she feels sorry to cut the rope, she cries, the tear wakes up the young man; three with blows, he cuts off the Snake's six heads, he waves his tail, new heads grow three times, he grabs Ivan's hand in his mouth; the kisser wakes up (the glass splits from boiling water, the fragment falls into the face kisser), sees that the water in the glass has boiled, releases animals from behind 12 doors (6 have already gnawed), they tear the Snake; the younger princess bandages Ivan's hand with her towel, gives a personalized a ring, he hides the Snake's bones under a stone; Ivan returns to the pub, drinks vodka, orders the kisser not to sell vodka to anyone; the princess meets Chugunkin a gypsy, he makes him introduce him savior and marry him; the king is preparing for his daughter's wedding, but cannot buy vodka from the kisser, he says that he "has his own king" (Ivan), the royal daughters know who they are talking about; the king goes after Ivan, but he sleeps, the royal daughters recognize their savior, see a towel, a handkerchief and rings; they bring a "gun" (military and wind musical instruments), "hit him", well done He wakes up; finds out that they have come to him for vodka for Chugunkin's wedding, asks the gypsy to pick up the stone under which the Snake's bones lie, he cannot. Ivan picks up, throws the gypsy to the bones, covers it with a stone; marries the youngest princess, after a while goes hunting with his animals, catches and releases the golden hare (he chases all day after the golden hare, wanders, loses her way, spends the night in the forest; an old woman comes up to him, asks him to tie the animals, because he is afraid of them, he ties him and the animals into stones; the old woman turns out to be a mother The snake, the "sorceress berry"; Mikhail Vodovich sees that his sword has turned black, follows his brother, the kisser, the tsar and the princess take him for Ivan; he goes hunting, meets the same old woman, she gives a belt and asks Mikhail to hunt him; he throws his belt into the fire, the yaga witch rushes at him, the lion and bear stop her; she brings Mikhail to his petrified brother, he takes it from the old woman a bubble, sprinkles animals, they come to life; then he digs up his brother, the animals lick his wounds, on the advice of an old woman, catches magpie, tears it up and sprinkles it with Ivan's blood, he comes to life; the old woman kills, buries it ; Mikhail Vodovich boasts that he was mistaken for a brother in the kingdom, that he spent the night with the younger princess; Ivan is jealous, cuts off his brother's head; when he returns, he learns from the princess that his brother cried all night and is not with her He talked, regrets what he did, digs up his brother, revives him; orders the falcon to catch the crow, but he persuades him to spare him and in return brings an oak apple, from the juice of which Mikhail comes to life; marries an elder princess, each brother gets his own state]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 1:31-42; Ukrainians [the princess fell ill; caught, fried loach fish, let her eat; she ate one, recovered, but became pregnant; the cook ate all the fish, also became pregnant; the babies born were taken to the forest, found them, raised by a clerk; they grew up, went to look for happiness, their name is Ivan Tsarevich (IC) and Ivan-Kukharevich (IK), he is stronger, because the cook ate more magic loins; at the crossroads there is an inscription: whoever goes to the right will become a tsar's son-in-law; whoever goes to the left devours snakes there and does not give water, and such the dew, whoever the drop falls on, will tear him apart; IC and IC parted, stabbing a knife into the pole; with each lion cub, bear cub, wolf cub given by a lioness, bear and she-wolf; IK went to the left, his mare there was enough dew, it was torn; they come to the city, there is a pole where they put the snake to be eaten, then it gives water; IK killed the snake, took the princess's ring; another hero took the victory for himself; IK showed a ring to the wedding, married a princess, hung the hero; once IK drove into the forest, there was a hut, her mother was a snake, asked her not to kill, waved a towel, IK and the animals petrified; IC sees blood on knife, follows the trail of IC; the princess takes him for her husband, but he denies; she calls him brother; the IC grabbed the snake, ordered the petrified to be revived; it leads to the well, the IC throws a branch at it, it turned into ash; the same in the other; in the third it turned green; the IC sprinkled live water on the petrified, the snake was killed, the ashes were scattered]: Pankeev 1992:193-196; Belarusians [the princess got drunk in the garden from crystal krinitsa and became pregnant, gave birth to twins named Avdon Avdonovich and Vadavon Vadavonovich; all horses bend under them; the old man shows the king where the horses are for twins; at the crossroads, a pole with the inscription: if you go to the right, You will be married, to the left you will be killed; AA went to the right, and the stronger BB went to the left; AA married the king's daughter; BB began to live with an old woman, with him a tiger and a lion; the old woman says that the three-headed serpent ordered the king to bring his daughter to the seashore; BB went there, the serpent got out of the sea, BB cut off his heads; next time a 6-headed serpent; his heads grow back; BB told the princess to throw sand, but snakes threw it away with his tail; the old woman woke up and saw that the water in the glass left behind was stained with blood; released the tiger and the lion, who came and began to tear their severed heads; BB married the princess, the king died, BB became king; flame can be seen in the forest; the wife says that they do not return from there; in the forest, the old woman touched her key, turned the lion and the tiger into a hummock, the BB into a stump, the horse into an eversion; AA drove up to the pole, sees that the knife is rusted, he also has a tiger and a lion; AA tells the princess that he is not her husband, but her husband's brother; his tiger and lion tore the old woman, revived everyone with her AA key; both brothers began to reign]: Vasilenok et al. 1958:143-147; Belarusians (Mogilevskaya, Western 1888-1891, d. Budino, Bratkovichsk vol., Klimov. u., from kr. Fedor Fedorova, 60 l, illiterate) [The king has 3 sons, 2 smart ones, the 3rd fool, in another kingdom Princess Nastasi has a garden with apples; the king sends his eldest son for apples, he reaches a fork in the stone, one road leads to the robbers, to the second will be eaten by animals, on the third road there is food only for the horse, the eldest son returns; the king sends the second son, he also returns; the youngest asks to go, the father is against, but lets go; he goes from the fork on the third road, she spends the night at Baba-Iga's place, leaves her horse and takes her stupa; spends the night at the second Baba-Igi, changes her stupa to hers; leaves the third Baba-Igi's stupa, takes her horse; comes to the kingdom of Nastasi, there everyone sleeps for 12 days; he walks in the upper rooms, searches for Nastasya among the sleepers, finds Nastasya in the 3rd upper room, commits a sin with her, tears apples in the garden, leaves a sign that he (Ivan Tsarevich) was here and what he did; horse refuses to take him back, because Ivan is heavy because of sin, sends Ivan to wash his sin into the bathhouse three times; the horse hits the fortress with its tail on the way back (the horse flies), everyone wakes up, Nastasya reads a sign and shouts to Ivan to "wait" for her for 12 years; Ivan visits the first Baba Iga, picks up his horse, returns to his father's kingdom; goes to bed, his brothers find him asleep, pick up apples, gouge out Ivan's eyes; blind Ivan comes to the river, lies under the shuttle, 3 demons come out of the water, sit on the shuttle and talk, one talks about how dew heals the eyes, the other about a kingdom where there is no water (water they bring), where (under the bush) the spring is hidden and how to open it, the third demon talks about the sick princess and how to cure her; demons go into the water, blind Ivan wipes his eyes with dew, sees the light; Ivan goes to a kingdom where there is no water frees the spring under the vine bush, refuses the reward; goes to the kingdom where the princess is sick, heals her: disassembles the bridge, finds a toad that has eaten crumbs from communion, opens it, the princess covers the skin, the skin grows to the princess, she recovers, Ivan refuses the award (the princess as his wife and half the kingdom to boot); returns to his father, he is not recognized, Ivan is hired as a worker , 12 years pass; Nastasya comes with her son and army, stands on the other side of the river, Nastasi's son demands that Ivan Tsarevich, his father, be brought in, his elder brother comes out, the son identifies him as his uncle who stabbed him Ivan's eyes, throws him "unknown where"; the second brother comes out, but the son demands Ivan Tsarevich, the tsar asks for help, Ivan is summoned, takes money from the tsar, scatters it among Nastasi's soldiers, leads her from son and with an army to his father, becomes tsar instead of his father]: Romanov 1901, No. 41:378-382.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Adygi [Kurtyzh has a son Kambolet; the old man orders to ask his father for a black foal; his father teaches how to tame him; the son of the Sun, Pshimaf, the son of the Moon, Magomet and the son of the Aliy River become satellites of K.; K. wins competitions, gets one, then the other, a third girl, gives P., M. and A., warns that if there is blood on the arrow, he is in trouble; leaves alone; at the fork there is an inscription: one road is happy, the other is neither bad nor good, the third is unhappy; K. chooses the unhappy; hacked down a hundred cannibal horsemen; in the house their mother, one tooth rests against one beam of the ceiling, the other against the other; you can see shine overseas, she is beautiful; the cannibal mother teaches how to tame a porpoise, she will transport her across the sea; overseas, K. married a beautiful woman; at this time, his abandoned horse knocked out both of the old woman's teeth; she made a bridge with her handkerchief , also crossed the sea, disguised as an old woman, came to her wife K., advised her to find out what her husband's soul was like; he first says that in her thigh, shoulder blade, then in her sword; the old woman stole the key, threw her sword into the sea; K . died, and his wife was beaten and thrown at the reeds; comrades see arrows covered in blood, come to the cannibal mother, she puts her handkerchief like a bridge, they cross the sea, find his wife K.; son of the Sun and son of the Moon they rise, illuminate the sea, the son of the River descends under water, the turtle tripped over the sword, he pulled it out, revived K.; he and his wife returned home]: Kerashev 1957:177-187; Kabardian people [about like in Kerashev 1957]: Aliyeva, Kardangushev 1977:70-73; Karachays, Balkarians [the old man's apple tree bears fruit every year that brings youth; someone kidnaps him; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep, younger Hasan knocks down the pen of a golden bird that stole an apple with an arrow; H. goes to the fork: you will die to the left, the horse to the right; the horse turns to the right; he is eaten by a wolf; carries H., tells you to take the bird, not touch the nest; H. takes the nest, is captured, the khan promises a bird for the gold-maned stallion Clay Khan; the wolf brings, tells not to take bridles and saddles, H. takes, captured, Clay Khan promises a horse in exchange for goldfish from Khan Dadiyan's lake; the wolf brings fish himself, H. makes exchanges, brings poultry to his father, apples no longer disappear]: Aliyeva, Kholaev 1983:? ; Balkarians [khan brags that there is no defect in the tower built; guest: what he reads the Koran himself and sings zikras is missing inside; three sons went to the fork; the eldest on the way with by return, the middle - doubtful, the youngest - irrevocable; the youngest killed three emegenes, took three girls and what read and sang themselves; the brothers threw him into a hole, took everything themselves; travelers the young man was pulled out; the boy who herded the geese said that the khan was preparing a feast; the young man asked to give the youngest of the girls a mirror that she recognized, let him send a horse and a weapon; the girl took the young man out crowds and told me everything; she tied the end of the brothers to the tails of four, made two sisters servants, the khan's youngest son took his place; buza cheese flowed like a spring, and I didn't even get my tongue]: Malkonduev 2017:320-321; Nogais [father sends sons to guard a thief stealing golden apples; older, middle brother falls asleep, younger grabs a golden bird feather; older, middle brother goes look for her, they disappear; the youngest comes to the fork, "you will die on the right road, the horse on the left"; walks on the left; the wolf eats the horse; the young man is lucky; tells you to take the bird without a cage; he takes the cage, picks it up anxiety; the king promises to give the bird for a horse with a golden mane; the wolf tells not to take a bridle; the young man takes, the king promises to give the horse for a gold-haired girl; the young man kills Azdaa with one or two, and etc. (up to seven) heads; The wolf pretends to be a girl, a horse, a young man returns with a girl, a horse, a bird; he meets brothers; they throw him into a hole; the seven-headed serpent gives water in exchange for a girl; a young man a snake kills; the king puts the young man on an eagle, food and water for seven days; it is not enough; the young man cuts meat off his hips, gives his eyes instead of water; on earth the eagle returns everything; in the form of a poor young man comes to the wedding of a gold-haired and older brother; shows the firebird's feather; the brothers were torn by horses]: Nogai 1979, No. 10:34-45; Avars: Atayev 1972, No. 85 [dying, the father tells three sons give three daughters for those who marry; they are taken by the Eagle, the Dove, the Falcon; the brothers are married, their wives were carried away by three clouds; the brothers reached the crossroads with the inscription "Safe to the right, safe to the left, safe, straight - death or luck"; the elders go right and left, the youngest goes straight; consistently comes to the sisters, their husbands give a piece of game, a churek, two white balls; the first sledge thief puts it in an iron barrel ; the young man eats the meat given by the Eagle, tears it, kills the sledge; the second sledge (chained, eating a chorek, tears them apart); the third binds the person with hair from his beard, he breaks the fetters, eating white balloon; ajdaha kills him, his wife gives her husband a second ball, he comes to life, kills Azhdakha; the younger brother returns with the women; his brothers were at the service of the miller and the shepherd at that time]: 128-133; Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 11 [pachah dreams of a sea horse, three sons go to get it; at the fork there is a table with the inscription that whoever goes right or left has nothing to fear, and whoever is straight will die or happiness finds; the youngest goes straight, gets to the giantess, around a steel palisade with his heads fixed; because the young man sticks to the giantess's chest, she cannot kill him, vomits and swallows the cat out of anger; hides the young man, asks the returning seven sledge sons about the horse, the youngest shows the way; the young man tames the horse, rides it, picks up a golden pen; the city sees a pen, demands to get the one for whom it is belonged; the horse explains that the three daughters of the sea king come to swim at the lake, take off their pigeon plumage, we must hide the youngest's plumage; the young man brings the girl to the pachah, she promises to go beyond if he swims in a hole of milk and gets younger; the pachah sinks; the young man takes the girl, finds the brothers, they push him into the well, the girl makes a rope out of her braids, gives the horse, he pulls the young man out, him brothers are fleeing in fear, the young man is getting married]: 155-166; Lezgins: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 31 [the Shah has three sons from his first wife, she died, the second has a daughter; someone eats the horse's legs; the eldest, middle sons guards, they do not notice anything; the youngest cut his finger, sprinkled salt, shot the monster's finger, it turned out to be his sister's finger; the shah decided to kill his daughter, the sons disagree, they leave; the eldest is driving along the road, "with who they return", the middle one - "I don't know", the youngest - "they don't return"; changes his rich clothes for a lion cub; kills one-, two, seven-headed ajdah, freeing three princesses, promises to take them to on the way back; comes to the mother of seven Azhdah, makes friends with them; they want to get a golden cockerel and a golden sieve, get a girl for them; the young man goes to get them; the Azhdaha brothers give a fat tail tail, carpet, cotton wool ; the young man gave the lion tail, sent it back; laid the carpet on the bridge, which descends and rises; cotton wool on thorns; on horseback he jumped over the crushing mountains, only cut off the hairs from the horse's tail; in that only women in the country; the young man stole a cockerel and a sieve, returned, took three princesses, found brothers; they pushed him into a well; the merchant pulled him out; the queen of the female kingdom came to the brothers, they said they had obtained it cockerel and sieve, she killed them; found a young man, made sure that he got the items, became his wife; the young man goes to visit his father, there is only his sister; asks if the brother came on horseback about three, two, one horse, the horse's carcass; she had already eaten everyone; the brother became a dove, the sister became a fox, the dove sat on a tree, noticed a lion cub, he tore the fox; the dove became a young man, noticed a leaf with a drop of his sister's blood, the leaf became a beetle, the young man threw the beetle to the chicken, she ate it; the young man returned to his wife; feast]: 301-304; Khalilov 1965, No. 47 [Tsar Sultan's three daughters decide to replace his son; the eldest, middle, returns from the fields, says that nothing saw; the youngest answers in more detail, remains in a man's dress; the father sends a "son" to marry the daughter of another king; she agrees, but asks the groom to know why the city has become petrified; at the fork, a young man chooses the road with the inscription "you will not return", and not the one where "you will not return soon"; comes to Azhdah, there is a girl who calls the "young man" brother; Azhdakha does not know about the city, sends everyone with a letter to her mother ajdaha; she says that the city is beyond the mountain, comes to life for a few moments at dawn; at this time the gate rose and fell again, the "young man" managed to slip through, the horse was cut in half; sees a man whose lower part was petrified; his wife went to the robbers at night, he cut off their heads drunk; for this, his wife turned everything into stone, her husband half; the "young man" finds in the basement that woman she tells him to change his sex; when he becomes a man, he demands that she spell the city; she does this and the young man immediately kills her; returned, married the princess]: 119-124; Archins [{the text is confused in some places}; The Shah became sad, told his three sons that he had dreamed of a white horse in the sea, turning around the world three times in a moment; the sons promised to find out what kind of horse it was and set off; we arrived to the place where the road diverged in three directions; we saw a stone with the inscription: "Those who go to the right will survive, and those who go to the left will also remain alive. But the one who leaves in the middle will either die or be happy"; the older brother went to the right, the middle brother went to the left, and the youngest went through the middle; the youngest reached the forest, met a witch; asked her about the white one horse; she promised to ask her youngest son about it, advised the hero to hide in the yard; when her three sons arrived, she asked the youngest about the white horse; he told him exactly where on the shore sometimes this horse; the hero came to that place, put his saddle there; saw a white horse sleeping, grabbed it by the mane; the horse obeyed; it was a horse that the Shah let go; the hero found a golden pen; the horse advised me to hide it; the hero took the pen, {did the shah take it away from him then?} , said: "I was ordered to find a bird with these feathers"; the horse: "This Shah's youngest daughter comes here every day. You tell her, "Give her the pen you have." Whatever she does, don't give her this pen"; the girl came, gave the hero the pen, he didn't return it to her; took the girl with him, came home; the older brothers decided to destroy him; during the races they pushed him off the horse; told the father that the brother had gone on a dangerous road; they could not catch the brother's horse, the girl was locked; she threw the horse a red handkerchief, he took her to where her younger brother was thrown; younger brother jumped on his horse; at the sight of his older brother ran east, his middle brother fled west; younger brother arranged a wedding]: Mikayilov 1967:161-163; taty: Miller 2013 [lazy son does not leave home and does not get up, his mother does everything for him; the doctor tells him to be locked in the house for a few days, leaving a supply of food; unable to stand it, the young man goes out into the yard, the children mock him, he goes on a journey; at the intersection there is an inscription: you will come soon on one road, you will return late on the other, you will go on the third road, you will not come on the third; he pulled the snake out of the fire pit, he turned into a prince; tells you to go to his parents and ask for a black bar as a gift, he fulfills his wishes; having received a bar, he fell in love with the princess; bought a dog, a cat, whom the children wanted to kill; became rich; asks for the princess's hand; the king demands to build a seven-story house out of jewelry, fulfilled the bar, the king gave his daughter; the witch promises his wife to meet her former beloved, but we need to find out her husband's secret; she found out that the witch took out a bar the young man was left with his dog and cat; they found the castle where the witch, the princess and her former lover lived, carried away the bar, but the storm and bar fell into the water on the sea; he was found in the belly of a fish washed ashore; the king He gave the young man another daughter and throne, and ordered his first daughter and those with her to be torn to pieces]: 615-639; Dirr 1920, No. 27 [the king has five sons in one city and none in another; the second is visiting the first, the messenger brings the news that his wife is pregnant; gave birth to a daughter; then the first had another son Kittschüv; decided to marry them when they grew up; Azhdaha decided to steal the girl; her name is Altuntschatschä { Turkic. Altynchach}; the mother of the three-headed Azhdakhi turned him into a bird, he flew to A., then became Azhdaha and took it away; the brothers went in search; the elder brother divided the sea, everyone saw Azhdaha sleeping, one of the heads on A.'s knees; A. tells K. to kill the fish first, containing a box with the soul of Azhdakhi; K. destroyed the soul of Azhdakhi and took A.; Azhdakhi's mother Enäj {Turkic. Ene} revived her son; the second brother asked God and created a tower, the brothers and A. took refuge in it; K. cut off Azhdaha's heads; returning A., K. ordered him to wait 3 years, months, days, hours and minutes, and went on a journey; at the fork in three roads, it says: you will not return; either you will return or not; you will return; K. chose the first; the horse tells you to swim in the pool; lets you burn the hairs to cause it; gives the ability to turn into sand and grains; turned K. into a golden bird; two tsar brothers saw a bird; the eldest wanted to shoot, the youngest took it with him, gave it to his sister; the bird sat on her chest; girl: singing her chest not for you, but for K .; immediately the bird became K.; summoning the horse and turning into sand {incomprehensible}, K. won 70 azhdakh, took the girl away; got the sister of three ajdakhs for a friend; everything is fine]: 131-136; megrels [the blind king held three sons in the castle, not allowing the servants to speak to them; they grew up and made the cook say what was outside the castle walls; they broke the doors, went to look for a cure for blindness; there was an inscription at the fork : if you go left, the horse will breathe out, to the right you come back late; the elders go to the right, the devil wins their cards, makes them a douche and baker; the youngest goes to the left; the giantess laughs, the young man has time Say hello to her, the horse falls into the abyss in fear; the giantess sends her sister - the same, the young man has a hard time greeting; the third has a splinter in his leg a huge log; only the young man pulled it out, she gave medicine; the young man found the brothers, broke the line; three brothers saw a crevice, only the youngest was not afraid to go down to the bottom, although it was hot; freed three beauties, sent them upstairs; the youngest warned: the brothers will cut the rope; if you sit on a white goat, it will carry it down, the black one will lift it upstairs; the young man sat on a black goat, returning to work with a jeweler; before marriage, beauties demand a talking golden hare; the young man brought it, the girls recognized the savior; he cured his father, he gave him the throne, drove his older brothers away]: Lominadze 1894:44-48; Georgians: Bogoyavlensky 1892a, No. 4 (Akhalkalaki University) [at the king's request, his three sons erected a temple; the old man says that the temple lacks Queen Peri's singing bird; the sons are going in search; at the fork there is an inscription: You will return on the right road, maybe on the middle road , if you come back, you won't come back on the left; the older brothers go right and straight, becoming employees of an innkeeper and baker, the younger George to the left; heals an abscess in the deva's ear by piercing him with an arrow, he sends him to a three-headed maiden (he needs to throw lead to chew), three-headed to an old Davy, whose beautiful daughter was kidnapped by 12 devas and seven brothers can't be repulsed; G. kills 12 devas, the old woman teaches what to do ; 1) there is something like milk in one spring, blood in the other, both liquids are disgusting, you should drink and praise; 2) go through the thorny bush and praise it; 3) swim across the salt lake, praise it; 4) the peri subjects around the palace look like pillars, you have to bow to them; take a cage with a bird in the queen's bedroom; the queen tells the guards to hold the thief, but everyone says that G. praised them; G. found brothers; they came to the crevice; the elders can not go down - it's hot; G. went down, the princess kidnapped by the seven-headed devil below; gives sabers against the deva and against the peri; after killing the deva, G. does not strike a second blow; brothers they raise the princess, leave G. below; give her father a bird, but she does not sing; they imprison the princess; G. sees two rams, sits on a white one, rises to the ground on it; returns, marries the princess, forgives brothers]: 57-70; Glushakov 1905, No. 4 (Imereti) [one apple ripens every day on the royal apple tree; someone is in the habit of plucking; three princes take turns guarding; the eldest, the middle one fell asleep; the youngest too overslept, did not dare to return to the palace and went on a journey; at the crossroads there is an inscription: if you go straight, you will not return back, to the right you will drown, to the left you will lose your horse, but you will find happiness; prince went to the left; the wolf ran out, ate the horse, told him to sit on it, said that the apples were stolen by a hawk; brought him to the palace: take the hawk so that the bells on his feet did not ring; the bells rang; the prince they promise a hawk if he gets Ivan the Tsar's horse; wolf: do not touch the saddles; the prince wanted to take the saddle, was caught, he was told to get David the king's daughter; the wolf gives a piece of wool, he opens the doors and puts the princess to sleep; On the way back, the wolf turned into a princess, the prince received a horse, and then the wolf ran; the same with the hawk; the wolf sends the prince with the princess, the horse and the hawk home, promises to catch up; the king sent the elders Look for the youngest sons; they found him asleep, killed him, took everything away; the wolf senses bad things, revived the prince with live water, drove him to the palace; the prince entered under the guise of a beggar, asked the king what he would do with murderers (tells his story); the tsar says he would hang him; the prince opened up, the wolf and the princess who came running confirmed the story; the prince married the princess and persuaded his father not to execute his brothers]: 35- 40; Mashurko et al. 1904, No. 2 (Imereti) [the tsar places his daughter and nanny on the island; they eat the rolled apple, the daughter gives birth to a son named Hvtisavar, the nanny - 8 clever puppies; the king orders them to be executed, servants kill hares instead of them; H. kills 8 giants, moves with his mother and nanny to their house; the ninth was just wounded, becomes the lover of mother H., they come up with difficult tasks for X. the horn of a dangerous deer, the stubble of a wild boar, the feather of a hawk; they themselves give and promise help (H. kills a snake intending to eat the chicks of a giant hawk); the mother and the giant lock H. in the cauldron, throw them into the sea; a deer, a boar, a hawk free him; H. kills his mother, a giant, a nanny; a young man of equal strength becomes his sister; at the fork he goes to the left (you will find happiness), H. to the right (you won't come back); H. jumped across the river on horseback, for which he got a princess; in the forest, an old woman turns H. and his four dogs into stones, swallows them; her brother cuts her stomach, swallowed dead; she tells her to take a towel from boxes in the corner of her belly, wipe off H. and dogs, they come to life; her sister kills her; H. and his wife return home]: 17-27; Armenians: Harutyunyan 1986 [another translation in Ioannisian 1968:5-20; beggar asked the royal gardener for apples, he did not give it, the apple trees had dried up; the beggar said that the garden would bloom when the bird of paradise Azaran-Blbul sang in it; the elder and middle princes went in search; the younger the fool Alo-Dino chooses a thin oath, tells me to feed it, it turns into a heroic horse, he catches up with his brothers; from the fork, one road leads to Tiflis, the other to Yerevan, the third to the Deadly (if you go, don't you will come back), AB rides along it; brothers - for others, went broke, began to work for the bathhouse attendant; AD comes to the Red Maiden, the deva's wife offers to hide him, AD refuses; eats on a par with deva, during the duel cuts off his three heads; promises to marry his widow; the White Maiden (seven-headed, wife for middle brother); Black is forty-headed, AD takes his widow as his wife; she speaks that King Chachonts has AB; Hell tames the sea horse, he carries him across the sea; the mare - she jumps to the window, blood pressure grabs the cell with AB; returns to his wife with the treasures of the devas and the bird; goes to search brothers; they leave it in the well, leave with women, treasures and birds; the wife manages to give Hell her glove and shoe; the king father doubts that the elder and middle son have caught the bird; they cannot make her sing; the merchant pulls Hell out of the well, he stays with the old man; finds out that the king is marrying a son, rewarding whoever sews a second glove for his daughter-in-law; the king and the bride are happy; the same is a shoe; King C. comes with his army for the bird; the elder, middle princes do not give the correct answer to the question of how they kidnapped the bird; when Hell comes and shows the noses and lips cut off from the giants, C. gives him a bird for bravery; the bird sang; Hell does not execute, but expels brothers and their wives; soon inherits his father's throne]: 3-19; Khachatryants 1933 (Turkish Armenia) [the king builds the temple three times, the storm destroys it; the hermit : Khazaran is needed a nightingale; the king's three sons are going in search; a hermit: the one who has traveled along a wide road will return, on the middle road he will either return or not, on the lower one he will not return; there is a river with a nightingale Khazaran does not drink from it; you have to drink it, say, "Oh, living water"; pick the thorn, say "Flower of Paradise"; in front of the wolf, the grass, the meat in front of the lamb, must be changed; open the pretended gate leaf, opened - to pretend; the nightingale's mistress sleeps for 7 days and is awake for 7 days; the elder brother went to serve, the middle black Arab turned into stone; the youngest drove down the lower road, did everything, kissed the girl, took the nightingale away; the gate, the wolf, etc. did not detain the young man; he gave the hermit a nightingale, brought his older brother to him, turned an Arab into stone and revived his middle brother with a whip; the brothers lowered the youngest into the well, they left, taking the nightingale; but their nightingale does not sing; the girl came, put the king and older brothers in prison; the reapers released the youngest, he told the girl how it was, how he kissed her; wedding, nightingale sang]: 66-72; Azerbaijanis (recorded in Shusha) [Shah-Abbas (SHA) hunted for two days, got nothing; turned home and then a deer ran by; telling the squad to return and hand it over power to his wife, if he disappeared, rode after the deer; but the vigilantes decided to divide the kingdom among themselves, and SHA lost sight of the deer; fell asleep at the crossroads; when he woke up, a man in front of him; says that the deer galloped along the middle road; there was the inscription "road of happiness"; on the first pillar there was "road of death", on the third pillar there was "road of misfortune"; the SHA awarded the man and drove along the middle road to the castle; his old man let him in; said that the deer was his daughter; beautiful Ziba-Isabella (ZI) came out, with a wart on her cheek like that deer; she already has a fiancé, but since SHA is the lord of Persia, she agrees to marry him; wedding; SHA decides to visit her kingdom; gives his wife a bracelet: if a son is born, let him put it on his right hand, and if his daughter, on his left hand; the Shah has put things in order in his kingdom in two years, but from his first wife he has no children; SHA returned to the second in her castle; there was Salim Khan's son; SHA made him heir and returned to himself; to find a friend's son, Zi came to the Persian prince; he took Zibeida's summer daughter; agreed that the boy and girl would alternately live with both parents; when S. was 12 years old, the SHA sent a letter asking him to send a son to him; but neither S. nor Z wanted to go to SHA; S. and Z. they ran away, they are already 16 years old; they began living with Z.'s parents, and then S. went to his father to ask for permission to marry; he was imprisoned in the city because all the girls fell in love with him; they wanted to execute him, but saw the bracelet on his hand and SHA realized that S. was his son; soon died, S. inherited the throne and married Z.]: Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 14:121-128; Kurds [Aslan Pasha is a Kurdish padishah, his son Shaismail; the emir of the Arabs migrated to him, he has a beautiful daughter Golizar; S. fell in love with G., but the Arab emir migrated; G. left a letter: I will wait 40 days, then do not come; S. came to the castle, around the iron the wall; he destroyed it, Golperi's girl in the castle; S. defeated the enemies of her seven brothers, they gave him Golperi, but he refused to meet her before getting Golizar; at the crossroads, one road leads to Sham, the second - maybe you'll come back, maybe not, the third - you won't come back; S. went to the third, came to the Arabi-Zangi Palace; he says that they don't return from him, S. - that he came by accident, got lost; they They've been fighting for three days, it turned out that AZ is a girl; she says she could easily kill S., but she liked him; her brother was the leader of 40 robbers, they slept with all the women when they came to see her, she all killed, since then I haven't taken off my men's clothes; Sh.: I'll take you, but I'll get Golizar first; S. together with AZ came to the Arabs, defeated them, took Golizar, settled in three wives near his father's tent; Golperi He wonders, every time he warns that his father wants to kill S. (poison; throw him into a hole); S. himself says that he can be killed by tying his thumbs with a string; he was blinded and thrown; two doves threw off their feather, taught him to see the light; S. pulled lamb over his head stomach, began to work for the shepherd; A. sends warriors to fight AZ, she wins everyone; unrecognized S. also fights; opens the next day; AZ killed A., S. is happy with three wives; killing supporters his father, reigned]: Rudenko 1970, No. 52:174-183.

Iran - Central Asia. Uzbeks: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1): 81-94 [Shah orders to make a plane tree out of precious stones; the leaf is gone; the eldest, middle son is guarding, seeing nothing, imprisoned; the youngest sees a nightingale, rips his pen off his tail; his sons go to look for a nightingale; reach a fork; whoever goes one road will return, the other will face danger, the third will not return; the youngest chose the third the road, the elders are the first; everyone ate, began to work in the tavern; the youngest's monkey eats the last cake; promises to help; tells you to take a nightingale with a cage, but not to remove the veil; the prince takes it off, they grab; the king promises to give the nightingale for the girl; the monkey orders to take the girl quietly, the prince kisses her; her father agrees to give her if the prince gets the horse Kara Kardylgoch; the monkey helps to get it, turns into a horse, the prince gets a girl, the imaginary horse (monkey) returns, the prince rides the KK horse, carries the girl and the nightingale; the monkey leads to him, turns into a peri; promises to help; the prince finds brothers; they cut off his legs, gouge out his eyes, take everything away; the nightingale refuses to sing; peri (a former monkey) makes the prince whole and healthy, brings him home; the nightingale tells the whole story the princess is dancing, the Shah and her elder sons are fleeing, the prince reigns], 174-200 [The white shah is looking for batyrs to fight with the Black Shah; the bald man offers to take him; buys a thin oath, cares, she turns into a mighty horse; the bald man asks his mother if his father has a weapon left; a knife and a poker; he takes them; he meets a young man; he tells him to rest, turns himself into a steel-clad horse, a horse into a steel horse, a magic sword in his hand, smashes the army of the Black King, tells the bald man to say that he has defeated the enemies himself; the Black Shah invites the victorious batyr and promises him a daughter; the vizier offers to give the princess to the feast the fastest rider; that young man reappears, gives the victorious horse, the bald one gets the daughter of the Black Shah; when he breaks up, the young man gives the bald man a folding knife: if you say "Vozpirahun", he will come to the rescue; the old woman tells the bald man that V. is a girl; the old man teaches how to get into her castle; in front of the dog, the straw, in front of the camel, must be changed; say "V.", the div guard will fall asleep; cut the cat's head, remove a bunch of keys from her neck; the old man teaches her mother V. to go down to the bottom of the river; she teaches her to tie 40 braids of sleeping V. to 40 pegs; V. recognized the bald man, they began to live together; V. gives her portrait, but the wind flew in threw him into the river; the fishermen pulled him out and told the king that V. wanted to marry him and sent a portrait; the old woman promises to get V., tells her to give her a boat, load it with carpets and fabrics; cuts her donkey's leg, tells the bald man that he broke his leg, the bald man sheltered her, against the wishes of V. and her mother; the old woman persuaded her to go to the river and get into the boat, took her to the king; V. sets the condition: to build three houses in 30 days; V.'s mother turned the bald man into a dervish, he came, began to drink with the king, the king fell asleep, the bald man and V. agreed to run; at night the bald man climbed the fence; the robbers threw him into the pit, and V. received the chieftain for the bald man, he took her away in a boat; she killed him, returned to the robbers, promised to marry the one who would be the first to bring her abandoned girdle; she sailed home, the bald one also returned; the king found neither gold nor B .; they came to the White Shah, who gave his daughter and throne to the bald man; V. promised to give birth to a son and daughter and conceived, and the daughter of the White Shah promised two sons and was infertile; when V. gave birth, the children were replaced by puppies and abandoned into the steppe; V. was thrown into the zindon; the elder of Khizrbuva picked up the children, ordered the goat to feed; the boy was Sohibkurol, the girl was Sohibjamol; they live in an iron castle; the midwife guessed it; advised the girl ask his brother to get roses with birds curling over them; Hizrbuva gives the young man a magic sword, shows the way; the young man killed divas, brought roses and nightingales; the midwife advises asking for a white winged horse; H. taught me to catch a horse; midwife: get the girl Sangil Sopoltosh; H.: drive up to the river, there are stones, they are petrified people; call the SS 3 times; you will be petrified up to your throat, but if you shout for the fourth time, that's it the petrified will come to life; the SS will ask everyone who called him; when he learns that the young man was sent by H., he would call himself his girlfriend and turn the others into stones again; the SS ordered not to let the midwife in, the young man hacked her ; I met a bald man while hunting, I had to invite him to visit, but how can I receive the king? H. promises to arrange everything; the pilaf from the small cauldron was enough for all the guests; H. told everything, disappeared with the iron lock; the evil wives were tied to the tail of a mare, driven through thorns; {about V. more it is not said}; the bald man gave the throne to his son; the SS gave birth to three sons; their father saw a girl in the mirror, the sons went to look for her; at the fork in three roads on the poles the inscription: 1) Maybe you'll come! 2) You'll get there, but you won't come back! 3) Don't take risks, don't go - death lies ahead! the youngest took the last road; helped the old woman get water from the house; stays with her; at night there are two moons in the sky: the second is light from the face of the daughter of the Western king; the young man went that way to meet Hizrbuva, gave a sword, the young man cut the divas with them, grabbed the winged horse, but he escaped, a piece of mane remained; then the young man gave a cake to the lion; ants; the lion gave a piece of mane, the ants allowed them to pass; other suitors were killed by a lion, died in ant possessions; the king will give his daughter to whoever throws millstones on the roof of the palace; the lion placed a millstone on the back of a winged horse, he threw it on the palace, the palace collapsed; having received a wife , a young man on a winged horse brought her to a place where he broke up with his brothers; one became a cook, the other became a stoker in a bathhouse; on the way, the brothers tied the younger hand, threw her into the hole, and said at home that they were heroes; the younger brother managed to give his wife a piece of horse mane; the wife summoned the horse, brought her husband; the elder sons were tied to the tails of mares, the youngest received the throne; then a feast with the Western king; the bald grandson began to rule two kingdoms], 434-444 [=Sheverdin 1984:167-177; =Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:187-197; the king has daughters Mukhliyo, Mukhabbat and younger Iqbal; the tsar wants to pass them off as those who are richer than him; sisters flee wearing men's clothing; at the fork, I. chooses the road to the right with the inscription "If you go, you won't come back"; sisters go straight and left ("you're unlikely to come back" and "you'll come back"); sisters promise to marry the one they meet; I. meets a bear; gives birth to a son with the legs and body of a bear; at the age of 14, the son pushed back the millstone that closed the cave, defeated and killed the bear; I. and his son return to his father, who arranges a holiday, gives his grandson the name Aikpalvan ("hero bear"); playing, A. injures peers; the vizier advises that I. pretend to be sick, and A. go to the land of divas for the leaves and roots of the tree of life; A. meets a man playing with millstones; he trains to defeat A. (whom he does not recognize); A. defeats him, makes him a companion; the same applies to a man who moves mountains; they come to an old man; he explains that the land of divas can only be reached by riding a diva; twins hunt, cook in turn; a dwarf comes out of the plane tree himself with a quarter, a beard 40 quarters, ties the cook's hair, eats everything; when A.'s turn, he kills a dwarf; twin brothers find failure in the ground; everyone tries to go down, but tells him to pull him out right away; A. goes down to the end; comes to the castle, where the princess kidnapped by the diva; A. sends her upstairs in the chest; when he begins to climb himself, twins cut off the rope; the old man advises killing the dragon, which eats two Simurg chicks every year, she will thank you for this; Simurg brings him to the ground, tells you to go to the tree, the top of which rests on heaven; asks ploughmen to bring food; harnesses two divas who tried to attack, plows them; the old man explains that a tree to heaven is the tree of life; meets former brothers, they fight over the chest, believing that it contains gold; A. throws them into the abyss; brings the mother's tree, kills the viziers, finds and marries his mother's sisters, plows divas]; Konovalov, Stepanov 1986 [Lali's mare gives birth to the Golden Foal, then the Silver Foal, both disappear on the very first night; his grandfather has a grandson Badal; when he should be born a Raven, his grandfather tells him to guard, the shadow takes the foal away, but B. cuts off the claw The size of a plane tree, it was the Black Diva; B. goes in search with his older brothers; at the crossroads it says, "If you go, you'll come back," "Either you stay alive or not," "You won't come back at all"; B. rides the third on the road, brothers first; B. comes to the palace, where the captive Okkyz; first, the White Diva (frost) enters the bridge on the Silver Horse, the horse stops, B. kills the diva; the same with the Yellow Diva (fever, on Golden Horse); kills the Black Diva, who is on the Black Horse, the darkness clears, the sun is shining; B. misses home, finds impoverished brothers in the bazaar, puts them on the Golden and Silver horses; brothers they put their sword at the door, shout that enemies, the sword cuts off B.'s legs; an armless runner comes, the khan cut off his hands; they find the blind man, the khan blinded him, took the bride; they returned her, she cooks, the fire went out, she saw smoke in the distance, came to Admauz Kampyr for the fire, she poured grains into her hem, came on the trail, sucks her blood, threatened to swallow it if she told the men; the blind man was the first to guard, but AK locked her door; B. grabs AK, makes everyone heal; for this purpose AK swallows and regurgitates a blind, armless man; does not belch B.; her brothers cut her apart, the sparrow shouts "little finger", B. in him; AK's head tries roll away, but she is cut to pieces; the wedding of a blind man with a girl; B. comes to O.'s wedding with his older brother B.; grandfather drove away treacherous brothers]: 109-119; Zhirmunsky, Zarifov 1947 [Buyuk's recording Karimova, Zibog-Bibi Sarymsakova said; the padishah and the vizier are childless, they are going on a pilgrimage; the elder gave them an apple each, ordered them to name the children Tahir and Zukhra and betrothed them in the cradle; girl was born to a padishah; he wanted an heir, ordered the girl to be executed, to bring a handkerchief moistened with her blood; then regretted it; the nobles admitted that they had not obeyed the order; the vizier, having learned of the birth of his son, rode home, fell and crashed; the padishah refused to betray his daughter to an orphan; T. played and hurt the old woman; she told him to extort the name of his named bride from his mother; T. became ill, asked his mother fry wheat, clutched a handful of hot grains in her hands, her mother agreed to tell everything; T. found Z. and began to meet her; the padishah found out, ordered T. to be put in a chest, thrown into the river; Z. watched so that the chest was spacious; the daughters of the Rum king noticed it; by lot it went to the youngest; she fell in love with the young man inside; the padishah adopted T. and gave his daughter for him; she is even more beautiful than Z., but T. He does not talk to her and puts a dagger on the bed between them; after 40 years he took pity on his wife, spoke to her; her name is Khadicha; the padishah promises a reward to whoever makes T. laugh; father Z. wants to pass her off as Tsarevich Kara-batyr; Z. sends caravans to look for T.; he hears their song - he sang the same song himself as a child; T. goes with caravans, his wife H. follows; dies of fatigue; at the last moment T. puts her head on her lap; the caravan constantly returns to her grave; only after a farewell song does T. open a straight path; on the path of the mountain; according to T.'s song, one of the mountains is cut in half; the camel manages to slip through, "only the bottom of his tail has pinched off the mountain"; at the crossroads of three roads, T. chooses the shortest one, where the inscription "if you go, you won't come back"; in one city they are thrown into prison; a friend recognizes T. by a song, helps to go free; T. finds Z. in the garden; sister K. sees them; the padishah tells T. to be cut in half, to hang pieces on the gate; Z. 50 days in mourning; on the way to T.'s grave, she drops her pearls; while the girls accompanying her are picking them up, she comes to T.'s grave and kills herself; the grave opened and accepted it; after learning of the bride's death, K. also killed himself; his sister orders him to be buried between with the graves of lovers; "the oppressors did not leave the lovers even after death, they put a black thorn between them"]: 295-297; Sheverdin 1967 [the old man gave iah and the vizier an apple, ordered them to be given to his wives; one will give birth a boy named Tahir, another girl Zukhra; let them grow up and get married; the boy was born by the vizier's wife; he rode home, fell off his horse and crashed to death; the Shah was furious that he had a daughter, told her kill; then regretted it, but it turned out that the slaves kept the girl, the Shah brought her closer; T. played, threw his sticks, got into the old woman's spinning wheel; she tells him to play better with his named Zukhra; mother had to tell everything; T. clings to Z. at school; a wall was built between them; T. made a hole; they grew up and fell in love; Shah tells T. to go down the river in the chest, Z. managed to give it with her gold; Shah Rum's daughters caught it; agreed that the eldest would take the chest, the youngest would take what was inside; Shah Ruma married T. to the youngest; but T. is inconsolable, sitting by the river; Z. sent caravan-bashi to look for him; that said that Z. was passed off as Kara-batyr; T. decided to go from the caravan-bashi; at the fork: to the right - without return, to the left - endlessly, straight - dangerous; they go straight; they were mistaken for robbers, put in prison; one merchant heard T.'s song, bought them; T. made his way to Z.; he was captured and executed in two; Z. stabbed to death on his grave, she was buried nearby; K. also killed himself to be buried between them; a red rose grew above T.'s grave, a white rose above Z.'s grave, with a thorn between them; roses stretched out and intertwined branches]: 27-35; Turkmens [the padishah has three sons, each mare gives birth to foal, foals kidnapped; brothers walk three roads, younger Karadzha, batyr, on the one you won't return from; offers the deva to throw stones up; dev throws it on his head, dies; K. comes to three kidnapped peri, kills three devas; when he fights with the youngest, Peri pour millet under his feet, and K. mash, dev, slides, falls; K. brings three peri to his brothers; they hang a diamond at the entrance to the yurt sword, K. cuts off his legs; armless Amet, a rumor, and a blind Fast-footed Veli, also crippled by their brothers, come to him; brothers bring themselves a young woman, she cooks pilaf; an old man with the top, the beard with two binds the young woman with hair from her beard, eats pilaf; the young woman tells her returning brothers that she forgot to cook; the same when the first, then the second sister remains; K. himself binds old man; lets go when he returns his legs, arms, eyes to the crippled; K. pretends to be an old man, comes to his wife; she says that her missing husband told her to marry someone who pulls his bow; he comes with a horseman , kills brothers, tells his story, returns his wife]: Stebleva 1969, No. 22:54-66; Tajiks [padishah sends his eldest, then middle son to guard a thief who steals apples; only the youngest the son of his youngest wife does not fall asleep, tears off the tail of the fiery bird; playing with money, breaks the old woman's spindle; she advises him to go looking for a thief like his brothers; chooses a skinny horse, a rusty dagger, catches up with brothers; the stone says that the one who goes to the left will return, but not to the right; the young man turns to the left, the brothers to the right; the wolf eats away the front legs of the young man's horse, then the back legs, the torso, the head; every time asks if the horse was bipedal, without legs, etc.; the young man says he was; the wolf brings him to the padishah Misra, tells him to take the bird without a cage, he takes the cage, is captured, the padishah tells him to get the horse from the country of Chin; the wolf tells not to take harness, the young man takes it, the padishah Chin orders to bring the daughter of Padishah Machin; the wolf pulls everything out, each time puts the guards to sleep, the young man returns on horseback with the girl; the wolf gathers stab a girl, a horse, a bird with a dagger; poison falls out of everyone's mouth; brothers cut the young man into pieces, take everything away; the girl promises to marry the padishah when her severed braids grow; the wolf resurrects a young man wearing a bull rennet is hired as a cook's servant; his sister and bride recognize him, his brothers are driven away, the young man marries, receives his father's throne]: Amonov 1972:116-126 (=1980:115-125); Tajiks Sistana [the king is blind, a leaf of a fortieth tree is needed; two elder princes from one wife, the younger Malik-Muhammad from the other; at the fork in the roads there is a stone with the inscription: to the right, you will return, straight, God knows, you won't go back to the left; the brothers sent MM along the left road, drove the other two themselves, the roads met again and they went together; the young man invited them into the house, the girl offered to play dice, they all lost; became servants to the merchant and the baker; MM is polite to the old diva; she hid him from her seven sons; they swore they would not harm the guest; the old woman gave MM a letter for her the older sister, she is for the oldest; this old woman tells me to go the other way on the way back, otherwise he will cause harm; in the betting garden, the king of the bet; when he sees MM, he will scream, and the 4-headed tree will scream; it is necessary hide; the princess will reproach them; so twice; then pour sweets on the horse, stroke the tree; they will become MM's friends; you need to swap the gold and silver lamp near the sleeping girl, taste food, pick up one of the 7 bedspreads; MM did so, picked up the leaves of the tree, returned to the fork where he left the brothers; their arrows rusted; MM beat the girl and even won her; bought the brothers and labeled them as a slave; they did not recognize him; one of the brothers gave them a girl player and the other a princess, whom the local king gave for a gem taken by MM from a bet; sent girls with leaves home to their father, but kept one leaf for themselves; the brothers realized that MM was with them; there was no water on the way, they gave MM water in exchange for their eyes; took the leaves from the girl, brought them to their father; the dog brought MM to to the spring, spit out his eyes, he rubbed them with a leaf, saw the light, sat on his horse that came up; bet, the tree owner and her army went to look for MM to marry; the older brothers went out, went along spread out the carpet barefoot, could not answer what they saw at the bet; beaten; MM came, answered correctly; wedding; brothers were expelled, and he also took the girls MM wanted to give them for himself]: Grunberg, Steblin- Kamensky 1981, No. 9:118-131; Bukhara Arabs [Hasan, Hussein, Muhammad - Aliya's children - went hunting; one road: a man will go - will not return, the second - will go and return, the third is unknown, will he return; M. went to the one from which they do not return; M. came to the garden, there are 7 divas; each one comes in turn to see who is in the garden; M. took turns tying each to a tree; the elder seventh brother Jamhur saw M., he defeated him, forced him to give his sister Zeynul'Arab; the divas lit a lamp at night so that Z. would not be carried away by another divas; M. did not know about it, turned off the lamp, the divas took Z.; the other divas lowered M. to the well where the kidnapper lived; M. killed him, sent Z. upstairs, and the first diva took her away and left M. in the well; the horse pulled him out; M. returned; A. sent an army, the diva was killed; M. began to live with Z.]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 30:193-195; Yagnobes [divas carries the foals of the royal mare; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep, the youngest grabs the foal by the tail, the tail breaks off; the brothers go in search; at the fork a stone with with the inscription, the upper and lower roads are safe, the middle one is dangerous, the youngest rides on the middle; the elders become apprentices, the youngest meets the wives of black, yellow, white divas, kills divas; Bely's wife teaches kill the herd, the young man takes the tailless foal and the whole herd; the older brothers leave a sword at the door, the youngest is left without a leg; they come blind and armless, bring the girl to cook, tell her to share a highlight with a cat; the cat lingers, extinguishes the fire, the girl goes for fire to the female diva, she gives a handful of barley, comes on the trail, sucks blood; blind, armless guard, afraid; the young man wins the diva, makes him swallow and regurgitate whole; he himself is in his little finger; the king is blind in grief, the young man rubs his eyes with a handkerchief, he sees the light; the older brothers are tied to horses; the prince returns his wife and foal, passes off sisters as former blind and armless]: Andreev, Peschereva 1957, No. 43:192-196; the Vakhans [the maid tells the tsar that his three beloved sons are sleeping, and the son from his unloved wife wants to go to bring Mount Kaf to the Pearl Shining at Night; the king sends sons, loved ones go along the road from where you come back, the unloved ones from where you will not return; kills black, white, red divas, three bets remain him wait; the latter sends him to the Simurg bird; she has a nest on a plane tree; every year the dragon comes out of the pond, eats its chicks; the prince cuts off his three heads, the chicks tell their mother that he saved them; Simurg carries it, runs out of meat, he cuts off some of the caviar; on Mount Kof Simurg belches a piece, puts it; explains how to take the Pearl and the White Falcon from a queen with forty gyaz hair; at home The prince frees his brothers from slavery; they cut off his legs, dazzle him; he is healed at the spring; the Queen with Hair in Forty Gyazov exposes the brothers' lies; the prince marries her, inherits the throne]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 8:113-125; Baluchi [the blind king hears parrots talking, learns that he will see the light from the leaves from Nushirvan's garden; asks his sons to get it; third son Sha- niyaz-khan is bald, from another wife; the stone says who will go to the right will return (two brothers went), who to the left will not return (Sh.); the old man teaches S. to take a saw and an ax, remove the splinter from his paw lion; this is the lion king, sends another to help Sh.; S. kills a snake crawling along the trunk to the Simurg's nest, which devours chicks every year; Simurg wants to kill a person, the chicks explain that he is the savior ; Simurg gives companions to one of the chicks; S. picks up leaves, kills 40 buzlangs guarding the castle; unzips the sleeping beauty's clothes, leaves a letter, returns; his brothers lost their property girl, became servants; S. wins, takes his brothers, puts his stigma on them; they recognize him; they tear out his eyes, take his leaves; the lion gives him water, finds him, returns his eyes; the owner of the garden comes with by an army, orders to extradite the thief; the brothers cannot explain how they got the leaves; S. marries a beautiful woman, his father gives him the kingdom]: Zarubin 1932, No. 6:69-90.

Baltoscandia. Latvians [the eldest son goes to look for happiness; at the crossroads there is an inscription: if you go on the first road, the horse is good, the other is good, the third road is both; the guy does not know which road is the first, which is the second . returned; the same with his middle brother; the younger fool drove on the right, picked up a lacerated cough, three of which will fulfill any wish; the guy came to the king, he does not give his daughter, and the daughter agrees; the guy gave her a purse, the king took it away, told the dwarfs to carry the fool to a tower without windows and doors in the middle of the sea; the guy made a hole, went down a rope, the fishermen brought him to the ground; he divided the prey between a bear, a dog, a bird and an ant; they gave it the ability to turn into these animals; taking the form of a dog, a bird, an ant, he entered the palace, became a bear, began to beat everyone, got a princess; the king drew a line on his son-in-law; he told his wife to find out where the line was strong; hell: in the bones, and only the bear would break them; when he became a bear, the guy killed the devil; as an ant, the son-in-law made his way to the king, took his purse, ordered dwarfs to build a palace]: Grishina 1993:316-323; Livs [at the crossroads, one brother chooses a path that leads to pleasure, the second to wealth, the third to wisdom; Death, devil and a witch; marries a princess; the king deceives the young man's magic wand, throws him into prison, but his wife releases him; all three brothers have returned home, the king left everything to the youngest]: Loorits 1926, No. 749,3': 20; Estonians (Torma) [Torkin Jan was born in the evening, Johan at midnight, Ivan in the morning; they are strong but lie on the stove; the king's many-headed devils (vanapaganad) stole three daughters, he promises them to be wives to saviors; they sent them for their brothers, told them to appear, I. threw out the messenger; then they sent them to invite them for coffee; they came, received horses (I. the one who held his hand); at the fork two roads lead "to beasts of prey", the third "to robbers"; I. goes to the third, sends brothers to the first, where the animals {they still go further together}; the brothers find chained princesses in the castle, take them away from with themselves; they spend the night at the bridge; the brothers take turns guarding, the elders sleep, I. goes out to fight every time, kills three-, six-, nine-headed lines, cuts off their tongues; for the third time he throws his boot to wake up the brothers, but he did it himself; let's go, I. returned for the forgotten mittens; when he woke up, there was a wall around; he caught a crane, he replied that the stove in the wall must be melted, she would give advice; the stove ordered to be taken from the house a black belt, he would become a horse; the horse raised I. only to half the wall; then the horse carried the red belt over the wall, I. caught up with the brothers; they said that the Russians had found the devils' heads, took the princesses, told the king that they saved them; I. showed tongues, the Russians were tied to the horse's tail, chased to death; the brothers received princesses]: Järv et al. 2009, No. 5:51-53; setu [the bird comes to peck apples; the king orders to guard; two clever princes, the third is a fool; the elder goes, falls asleep; the same middle one; the youngest climbed the apple tree, pulled the feather out of the tail of the golden bird; the king promises the throne to whoever gets a bird; the youngest drove up to the fork: whoever to the right will lose his horse, to the left will say goodbye to life, straight will disappear with the horse; the prince went to the left; the wolf jumped out, ate the horse, told the prince to sit on it; the wolf brings to the king, whose bird tells him to take it without a cage, the prince takes the cage, is captured; the king will give the bird if the prince gets a horse with a golden tail and mane; the wolf orders to take a horse without a bridle, The prince took it with a bridle; that king will give the horse if the prince gets the gold-haired princess; the wolf himself grabbed and carried it away; the wolf took the image of a princess, then the horse returned; the prince returns with the bird, a horse and a princess; met older brothers; they killed him and chopped him to pieces; at home, the elder is preparing the wedding; the wolf noticed the crows, ordered the bones to be collected; then told the crow to bring dead water, the body grew together; then alive - the prince came to life; came to his father, told everything; wedding; king to his son: do whatever you want with your brothers; he expelled them]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 77:237-240; Finns [someone steals golden apples from the king's garden; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep; the youngest sees a glowing bird, which grabs an apple, the young man shot, only shot one feather; the king promises a reward to whoever will catch a bird; the eldest, middle son leaves, does not return; the youngest takes the horse, goes to the fork; on one road there is an inscription that the horse will be full, the rider is hungry, the other has a full rider, the horse is hungry, the third says that it will lead to misfortune; the names of those who chose this or that path are written, the elder and middle brothers followed the first and second; the young man went to the third; sat down to rest, the wolf appeared , he fed him; the wolf put him on his back, brought him to the castle; tells him to take a bird without a cage; the young man takes the cage, the bird screams, he is grabbed; the king agrees to give him a bird if he gets a horse that He understands everything as a person; the wolf brings him to the castle, tells you to take the horse without a bridle; he takes the bridle, is captured, released for promising to get the princess; the wolf turned into a merchant, laid out the goods; along with others the princess came, she liked the young man, she agreed to run with him, the wolf carried them both; the wolf took the form of a princess, the young man exchanged her for a horse, then the princess became a wolf again; the same with a horse; a young man returns with the princess, horse and bird; when parting, the wolf tells him to ride an old horse, and give the princess a smart one; tells him not to sleep on the way; but he fell asleep, the brothers killed him and his horse, took him a princess, a horse and a bird; the king wants to marry the princess of the king's son; the princess is sad, the horse does not speak, the bird does not sing; the wolf found the body of a young man, caught a crow, the crow had to be brought alive water; the wolf first killed the crow and revived, then revived the young man and his horse; the young man came to his older brother's wedding, the princess laughed, the horse spoke, the bird sang; the young man persuaded the king not to execute the older brothers, but only to expel, married a princess and inherited the throne]: Salmelainen 1947:87-95.

Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars [someone steals padishah's golden apples; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep; the youngest throws a 15-pound weight at the bird that has arrived; the bird has become human, runs away, disappears in failure; older brothers remain, younger ones go down; at the crossroads there are inscriptions: "road of death", "satiety", "road of hunger"; the young man is on the road of death; there is a girl padishah of a copper treasure; the young man finishes off A diva, the girl gives him her seal, sends a silver treasure to the padishah girl, so to the padishah girl of gold treasure, who also give seals; the older brothers pulled out the girls, left the youngest one below; he came to blind old men; they do not tell the diva to herd cattle on earth; the young man goes there, brings living water, restores sight to the old people; revives the tree-turned warriors of the old man who was padishah; he gives the young man a mare that takes him to the ground; only he gave the clothes the girls demanded; came to the wedding naked or naked, wrapped in a net; showed the seals; took it for himself a girl of a golden treasure; he gave the other two to his brothers whom he forgave]: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 46:190-199; Bashkirs: Barag 1988, No. 40 [three sons go to look for a cure for their blind father; on at the fork in the roads there is an inscription: the one who goes to the right will be lucky, to the left will be unlucky, straight - both; the younger brother goes to the left; the girl in the copper palace tells you to rearrange the barrels of living and dead water, young man kills a three-headed maiden; the same episode in the silver (6-headed) and in the golden house (12-headed deva); a girl from the silver palace advises to lubricate the gate on the way to the 12-headed boy, hand over the hay from the dog a camel, and a bone from a camel to a dog; on the way, a young man sees an old man and an old woman pulling a fur coat over themselves; a young man covers an old woman with a fur coat, with an old man's skin; taking medicine and, contrary to the ban, kissing the sleeping woman a girl, a young man runs away, a devil chases, a dog, a camel, a gate, an old man and an old woman refuse to stop the young man; he blows down all 12 heads with arrows; the brothers are jealous, hang a sword in front of the tent, he cuts off the young man head; he is revived by a girl who recognizes him from the golden palace; a young man heals his father, forgives his brothers]: 272-281; 1989, No. 41 [someone steals golden apples from the royal garden; the elder, middle prince is guarded they return with nothing, the youngest sees how the golden bird has taken the apple, leaves in search; at the crossroads a pole with the inscription, to the right you will die, to the left you will lose the horse; the prince turns to the left; the wolf eats the horse, carries the prince himself, orders to take a bird without a cage; the prince takes it with a cage, the guards tell him to get a golden-tailed silver mane horse for the bird; the same is to take a horse without a bridle, the prince takes the bridle, he is told to get princess; the wolf turned into a horse, the princess sat down, he took her away; the wolf turned into a princess, then a horse, runs away from the new owners, the prince gets everything; the brothers cut off his head, took everything for themselves; the wolf caught the crow, ordered to bring living and dead water, revived the prince; he married the princess, the brothers repented]: 192-194.

Turkestan. Karakalpaks (Takhtakupir District) [the bay had a mare in the herd, which gave birth to three foals each time; after 40 days they became horses, and each time they were stolen; when horses were guarded the eldest son, one horse was stolen; when the middle one too; when the youngest named Zholay guarded, the horses survived; J. told his father that he would go looking for the stolen ones; the father ordered him to go with the brothers; all three came to a place where the road branched into three tracks; there was a hut in the middle with a small book; the brothers read: "One road is a road that if they go, they will not return, but two roads are roads that, if they go, they will return"; J. followed the first road, the brothers on the other two; J. came to Kyzyl-Orda; it was the home of thieves who stole horses; J. began to fight thieves; the wives of the thieves came up, poured ash under J. Batman's feet, and millet batman under the thieves' feet; the thieves slipped and fell; J. killed them, took the horses, rode to his father; the father said that the older brothers had not yet returned; J. found them, brought them to his father; achieved his goal, had a feast]: Baskakov 1951:55-56; Kyrgyz [an apple ripens and disappears every year; the old man told his wife to guard, she fell asleep; the son lay in wait a golden bird, knocked out a pen with an arrow; went in search; at the fork on the stone there is an inscription: to the left - he will die, to the right - the horse will disappear; the young man went to the right; the wolf jumped out, the young man gave him the horse, the wolf took him himself to the city, ordered the bird to be grabbed by the wings, he grabbed his legs, the bells rang, the young man was captured; the khan would give him the bird in exchange for a golden-maned horse; the wolf tells him not to touch the reason, the young man grabs the horse for the reason, the bells are ringing, the khan demands a girl for the horse; the wolf took her away, gave her to the young man, took her form himself, ate the khan, brought the horse; took the horse; the young man returned with his wife, horse and bird; the apple was ripe, the old man gained strength]: Brudny 1954:111-114; Kyrgyz [the old man had three sons and an apple tree; he ate these apples every year and got younger; one day someone ate all the apples still unripe; on the following year, the eldest son went to guard and fell asleep; the following year the middle son was the same; in the third year, the youngest son did not sleep all night, played the flutes; a goldbird flew in and began to peck apples; the young man crept up, but the bird flew away, leaving a pen in his hand; the father sent his sons to pick a bird; the eldest two went on good horses, the youngest was two years old; reached the black stone with the inscription: "Who if he goes to the left, he will die, whoever to the right will die"; the foal: "Go to the right"; a wolf chased the young man in the forest, the young man jumped off his horse, ran away, the wolf attacked the horse; the wolf for the young man: "Once I ate your horse, I will help you achieve what you want"; told me to sit on him and close his eyes; when the young man opened them, he saw that the ox had brought him to the city; the wolf: "The bird is in this house, sneak in, grab the wings, not the legs ; the young man grabbed the bird by the legs, the bells rang, the horsemen woke up, the young man was brought to the khan; the khan promised to give the bird in exchange for a horse with a golden mane and tail; the wolf brought him to another city: "For 40 palaces another palace, there is a horse in it, do not take it as an excuse, but grab the mane"; the young man again forgot the wolf's order; the khan will give the horse in exchange for Khan Bunchi's beautiful daughter; she went out into the garden in the morning, 40 girls were walking in front of her, on the back, left and right, another 40; the wolf took B.; on the way back, the young man and B. fell in love with each other, the young man asked the wolf to come up with something; he turned out to be an even more beautiful girl than B., the young man took her to Khan he gave the horse; when the khan entered the yurt, and there was a wolf, the khan fainted, the wolf caught up with the young man and B.; then turned into a horse, the khan gave the golden bird; the khan regained his appearance, ate all the horses and caught up young man; when they reached the forest, where the wolf ate the young man's horse, the wolf gave the hair from his mustache and stayed there; when the young man and B. fell asleep at rest, the older brothers killed the youngest, took the girl, the bird, the horse; the wolf rushed, and his friend's corpse was pecking by crows; the wolf grabbed the ruler of the ravens, ordered him to get immortal water; he sent the crows for immortal water, they brought it in their beaks; the wolf mixed it with blood the ruler of the ravens, smeared the young man's body, the young man woke up: "I slept for a long time"; at home, the elder brother is going to marry B.; the young man sent an old woman to his father: let him be allowed to play the flute; B.: "Here is a young man, who took me and these two killed him and brought me here"; the old man married his youngest son to B.; one day they were visited by a wolf in the guise of a wandering dervish; the young man recognized him, accepted him and escorted him with honor; the old man every year he ate apples from his apple tree and grew younger]: Kebekova, Tokombaeva 2007:187-191; Dungans: Bulatova 1985 [woodcutter Helyan finds a strange egg, the merchant sees it, sends a servant to buy it for gold ; so every day; it turned out that the merchant gave two gold coins, the servant took one for himself; the angry servant explains that these are the eggs of the Gulong bird; the woodcutter and his wife Huanghua eat eggs, they are getting younger; the woodcutter catches the bird itself; leaves, the doctor persuades him to fry the bird; the one who eats the head and heart will become a sage, legs and wings will be a strongman; without knowing this, Huanghua gives them to his sons, and the liver and lungs to their nanny; the doctor in rabies, now he must eat the boys' hearts; Huanghua tells the nanny in the woods to slaughter the children; they give her dog hearts, leave; the doctor who has eaten dog hearts goes crazy; the brothers reach the fork, there inscription: death to the left, happiness to the right; Hechin, who became a strongman, walks on the left, Helin on the right, an eagle sits on his head, he is elected emperor; Hechin kills the dragon; takes away the invisible hat and a plane stick from two guys (they fought over them, Hechin invited them to race, flew away); takes the emperor's daughter; everyone finds each other (the emperor's daughter flew back, taking a hat and a stick, but with With the help of an army sent by his brother, Hechin returned her); Huanghua is driven away, the former woodcutter marries his sons' nanny]: 458-466; Riftin et al. 1977, No. 20 [brothers Loer and Losan go to other countries, elder Loda is hired to work in the fields; the white horse does all the work, the owner does not want to pay, dreams that the brothers are in trouble, goes in search; goldfish sends to a fork in the roads; first, a horse he will fall, the second will die himself, the third will both be saved; Losan went first, the wolf bit to death his horse; Loer - third, tomorrow he will fight the seven-headed Mynguzi for the sovereign's seventh daughter; the fish warns Lod not to help the old woman get down from the tree, Loda helps, she kills him with her key; the hunter takes the old woman's key, kills her, revives Lod, gives him the key; The wolf who ate Lozan's horse, puts Lod on his back, brings her to the palace, where Losan is waiting for the princess; takes her away, marries Losan; Loer kills the seven-headed, marries the king's seventh daughter; Loda overhears how the caravan is preparing to kill them, take the women; kills him, takes his daughter as his wife, the brothers share the caravan]: 142-146; Uighurs: Jarring 1946, No. 4 (Khotan) [the king dreams of a wonderful bird; vizier: this Peri from Mount Kaf; three eldest sons go in search, the youngest Hamra-jan joins them; there is an inscription on a stone at a fork in the road; four roads from right to left: you will probably come back, or whether you come back or not, you won't come back; H. rides on the left; everyone leaves an object with his own name under the rock; H. the old man gives H. a rod to kill the demon; H. first kills small demons, then a giant demon; goes after the hoopoe, then after the dove to the wall in front of the Kaf Mountains; crawls through the hole through which the dove flew; climbs a tree above the lake, where girls who dropped the pigeon swim plumage; H. used to see one of them in a dream; girls see his reflection, then himself; tell the demon to understand the young man to heaven and throw him to the ground; Hörulqa (the girl X. saw) sends Another demon to save H., he picks him up; they got married; the girl says that the bird the king saw was Bulbul (nightingale), but after her father's death, her younger sister Höri got it Zaparan; sends X. to the demon, who teaches him to take the cage but not open it; H. opens, the nightingale laughs, all the demons wake up; XS orders X. to throw X. out of the sky, but Hyerulka intervenes again; H. receives nightingale, comes to the fork, goes looking for brothers; found two, they became workers, he paid their debts; the brothers gouged out H.'s eyes, threw them into the well, brought a nightingale to his father themselves; but he did not laugh, king ordered him to be killed; the nightingale asked God to give him the ability to speak, told the king what the brothers had done; the king chained them; the nightingale shook, two eyes fell out from under his wings; the king came to they took out the well, H. burned his hair, calling Hörulka, who put her eyes in; the king married H. to Hörulka; everything is fine]: 72-104; 1951, No. 6 (Guma) [father fell ill; the doctor said that we should go to a remote area; three brothers come to a fork in the road; the elder chooses a path of 10 days and is guarded by a dragon; the middle one takes a 30-day path, the youngest takes a path that does not return; the elder killed a dragon, but fell in love with a girl and forgot about his father; the middle one returned empty-handed; the youngest got the medicine, cured his father; after the death of his father, the younger and older brothers received the main property]: 59-63 ; Kabirov 1963 [the padishah has two sons with his eldest wife, one Hamra from his youngest; the padishah fell ill when he dreamed of the Bulbugia bird living on Mount Kaf; will recover if it is brought to him; sons are summoned catch poultry; H. goes south from where you won't come back, older and middle brothers go west and east ("you'll come back"; "maybe you'll come back, maybe you won't"); Black Div owns the country on his way to Kaf; the old man tells the Black Diva's mother to be killed first; H. kills her, throws her stone-eyed eyes into a spring, the stones turn into people again; then H. kills Diva; Peri says she was kidnapped by a seven-headed dragon; he devours the Kara-Kush bird's chicks, takes strength from it; H. kills the dragon, Peri gives his braids to tie the rope, Kara-Kush brings him to Mount Kaf, H. goes down the rope into the dungeon, blinds the guard Owl, takes the bird away; finds impoverished brothers; they gave him water, threw him into the well, brought the bird to his father, but she is silent; the merchants take H. out of the well, he burns Peri's hair, she arrives, he takes her as his wife, returns to his father, the bird sings, the padishah recovers, the brothers are thrown into prison]: 49-64.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Dagura [father sends three sons to get a white horse: he dreamed that he disappeared into the waters of the East Sea; at the fork it is written that one is the way to well-being, the other to fulfillment wishes, the third is to fulfill hopes after many difficulties, the younger brother rides it; catches and tames a horse by the sea; he wants to take one of his 10 sisters with him; 10 fairies descend ashore, they take off their clothes, they bathe, the young man hides the most beautiful clothes; the horse takes them, they meet older brothers, they dig a hole, the young man falls into it, they take the horse and the girl, give the horse to his father; the girl and the horse they come to the pit, get a young man; older brothers hang themselves]: Stuart et al. 1994:119-120.

Eastern Siberia. Baikal Evenks (Barguzin) [father, elder, middle brothers leave, disappear; the youngest is walking, the old man teaches how to ride a heroic foal; at the crossroads there is a stone with the inscription "Right dear black, left white"; the young man's father walked on the right, brothers on the left, he walks on the right; the old woman teaches him to go to Chagan-kan, around his house there is a river of blood, the banks are made of human bones; gives a pestle throw if C.'s daughters are chased; the horse transfers C. to the roof of the house, tells them to change the barrels of poisonous and eternal water; steps over one of C.'s daughters, jumps away, C.'s daughters are chasing, they can't pick up or bypass the abandoned pestle, stop chasing; comes to the daughter C., whom he has stepped over, now she is his wife; they find the remains of the young man's father, he is revived with eternal water; the young man delivers father, wife and old woman to the stone with the inscription, goes to look for brothers; throws the girl who threw his brothers at her into the pit, pulls out the brothers; an old man comes, asks for a knife, hides in a hole, in that knife there was a young man's soul; a young man descends on his belts, a girl shows where the knife brought by the devil, the young man takes it, changes barrels of poisonous and eternal water; the devil drinks poisonous water, dies, drinks after him, the devil's wife dies; brothers pick up the girl and wealth, cut off the rope; the young man is maimed, the mouse hits, she eats grass, recovers, he also recovers; C.'s daughter is sacrificed by a snake, the young man inserts He falls into the mouth of a birch tree, kills a snake; he falls asleep, throws him into the water; the girl pulls him out, revives him; the young man saves the spider's children from the fire, he gives a net to the upper world; the young man comes to the brothers' wedding disguised as an old man, takes his form; stays with three wives, older brothers tied to horse tails]: Poppe 1927, No. 2:18-31 (=Voskoboynikov 1958:72-79, =1973, No. 18:80-89).