K123. The old woman's curse. .13.-.17.21.23.27.-.34.

A boy, a young man, less often a girl intentionally or accidentally offends an elderly woman. She says words that make him or she want to do something dangerous (most often to find a marriage partner).

Cordofan, Arabs of Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Berbers of Morocco, Kabiles, Sicilians, Sardinians, Italians (Liguria, Tuscany? , Campania), Maltese, French, Palestinians, Arameans, Arabs of Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Agaria, Oraons, Kannadas, Tamils, Moldovans, Gagauz, Bulgarians, Greeks, Russians (Teresky Bereg, Karelia, Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Vologda), Ukrainians (Transcarpathia), Belarusians, Rumeians, Crimean Tatars, Nogais, Abkhazians, Ossetians (Ingush), Georgians, Megrelians, Armenians, Turks, Bukhara Arabs, Uzbeks, Persians, Tajiks, Pashayas, Karelians , Kazan Tatars, Kazakhs (eastern Kazakhstan), Karakalpaks, Uighurs, South Altai Tuvans.

Sudan - East Africa. Kordofan (ethnicity is not specified; F. attributed this text to those borrowed from the Berbers {which ones? in Kordofan?}) [The king refuses his daughter's suitors; when he died, Ghoul came and took her away; her younger brothers Ahmet and Hasan grew up; playing with the other boys, A. threw a piece of wood and broke the old woman's jug; she advised him it is better to return the sister kidnapped by the ghoul; A. asked his mother to boil water for washing; bent her head to the cauldron: if you do not tell us about his sister, she put her in boiling water; the mother admitted that her sister was kidnapped by Ghoul Ibrahim; when leaving, A. left Hasan a ring: if he starts to squeeze his finger, he is in trouble; A. drove up to the well; an old man next to the fig tree; he tells Ahmet to collect water himself; he is unable to lift his wineskin from the well; old man: so you can't win either; but if you still want to go, follow the ram, lead to a ghoul; your sister asks you to leave; the ghoul who came shook hands with A. - she hung powerlessly; invited her to the garden, ordered to go ahead, pushed them into a hole in which all the prisoners; as needed, the ghoul eats them; the ring on H.'s finger clenched; he went after A.; with H. everything was the same as A.; the mother realized that she had ridden a donkey thirsty, drank donkey urine, became pregnant; the baby says from her womb that Gulya will win; runs right after birth; his name is Wudan Dahasch ("Donkey Ear"; VD); they came to town; salesman oils and the honey seller tried to laugh at the baby, but he hit them so much that no one else laughed; asked his mother for a stick; consistently breaks two wooden, iron; satisfied with a huge iron club; VD beats people with it; the vizier advises the king to tell VD to herd goats and sheep in the garden where Gul Madina lives (in the local language, the steering wheel, not the ghoul); he will kill him; M. suggests dividing garden and live in peace; VD safely grazes the herd in the garden several times and bears fruit to the king; one day M. sleeps; VD covered him with brushwood and set him on fire; he died; VD cut off his head, hid it under a rock; everyone speaks that he defeated M., but only VD knows where the head is; the vizier offers another way to get rid of VD; two gulas live in the river, do not provide water, you have to take bad water from the well; two gulya agreed turn into beautiful women; VD heard this; brought women to the city, ordered them to become ghouls; the people, the king, the vizier were horrified; VD burned the skin of the guli, they became girls forever; VD left them in his care mothers; when the king offers to shower VD with mercies, but he (as several times before) only asks for permission to continue to frighten people with his iron club; he does not kill or injure people, but only knocks down off the feet; the vizier proposes to send VD to the mighty neighboring king with a load of manure and a letter asking him to kill VD; VD broke his club and ordered the blacksmiths to forge an even heavier and stronger one; on the ship he was surprised why are the bags light, found manure, threw it into the Nile, burned a letter and wrote another asking to honor VD; VD was solemnly received to the sound of musical instruments; at night all residents together and the king went to the fortress; VD brought it down with his club, all the people died; brought pipes and so on to his king: allegedly, another king called valuable gifts manure, so he killed him and brought valuable tools; VD came to his mother and she finally told him about the fate of his sister and brothers; VD went to the king to ask for a horse; vizier: if anyone kills VD, only this ghoul; when he reached the old man at the well, VD easily raised his wineskin with water and bent over the fig tree to give the old man figs; tells his sister that he will free the brothers; he shook hands with the gulya so much that his fingers bleed; in the garden, VD forced the ghoul to bend over the hole, hit on the back with a club, cut it into pieces; the prisoners got out of the hole; in the city they were frightened to see the crowd approaching; then they realized that this VD was leading the released; the king gave VD his daughter and throne; VD's sister went beyond son of a king]: Frobenius 1923, No. 25:273-277.

North Africa. Kabila: Grim 1983 [the prince drove up to the spring to give his horse a drink; the old woman tries to fill the jug with a sieve; refuses to give way; when the prince starts swearing, she tells him to get it Sunny maiden; the prince fell ill with love; called that old woman, asked for forgiveness and offered hot broth; put her hand in boiling water, forcing her to tell her where to look for the Sunny Maiden; old woman: where they are tall mountains, she was married by the king of blacks; the prince goes there, buys a convicted man for theft; brings her to the king; he says that this man deserves to die for crimes, but the prince insists that he noble; the king agreed to let him go for gold, four times more than a man's weight; the rescued man calls himself Ali Demmu, promises to help get the Sun Maiden; a month later they arrived in her city in the mountains; The king of blacks was so afraid that she would be kidnapped that he tied her to his leg, belt and neck for the night; Hell entered the palace, stabbed the king; the beauty advised her to put on his clothes; they left the palace together they came to the prince, Hell put the beauty in the chest and they set off; one day AD went to fetch water, telling the prince not to open the chest; he opened and kidnapped the beauty; Hell and the prince went in search and they met a shepherd; he replied that he was serving the spirit that kidnapped women, he had just brought it; he lived across the sea, which could be crossed by a black sheep; AD changed clothes with the shepherd, who explained that he must do and speak; imaginary shepherd: whose turn is it to milk? spirit: new wife; Hell puts the sheep head to the woman; beauty: sheep are standing wrong; Hell reproaches the beauty, but she proves that she is innocent; they agreed; the beauty promises to spend the spirit with it is night for him if he tells him where his soul is; spirit: on a rock in the sea, a dove is sitting on an egg, life is in an egg; the beauty promises to unite her soul with the soul of the spirit by the next night, but not this night; Hell swam on the sheep and took out an egg; the spirit is bad; he realizes that he has told the woman his secret in vain; Hell came to the spirit, broke the egg, strangled the dove; but the spirit did not completely die, because there was a second egg inside the dove; he still sometimes he kills brides; Hell gave all the property of the spirit of hell to the shepherd; on the way home, Hell hears two doves talking: at night a snake will crawl to Hell, turn it into stone; to revive it, the prince will have to strangle his children over the stone; Hell tells the prince about this, turns into stone at night; when the prince had a son, he brought him to the stone and strangled him; Hell came to life; hears the conversation of the same doves: if smear the boy's neck with droppings from their nest, he will come to life; and so happened; the prince and AD remained inseparable friends, AD also married]: 99-119; Rivière 1882 [Sultan's son Mohamed kills the townspeople; the old woman promises to save the people; brings the jugs to the spring, begins to fill them with acorn shells; M. broke the jugs; the old woman tells him to marry Thithbirth better - 70 suitors have already died; M. went on a journey, met a fellow traveler; took off the ring from the dead son of the cannibal, showed it to the ruler of the city, who demanded the second one, M. took it out; on the way they hear a talking bird; when they arrived at T., M. sings the same song as the bird says he invented it himself; T. demands a bird; M. brings it (the bird flew into the cage itself); Father T. will give his daughter if 1) M. finds her; the bird indicates to M. that she hid under father's seat; 2) identify T. among 70 identical girls; T.: I will be on a lame horse; after receiving T., M. took her home, giving her companion another woman; the cannibal stole T.; M. came and asked the ogre where he was life; cannibal: in an egg, in a throat, in a camel, in the sea; M. took out an egg, the cannibal died; M. brought T. to his father's city, who promises a herd to whoever would kill his son; the warrior came to M., blinded him and left him in the desert ; the eagle showed leaves that restore sight; the elders denied the Sultan the right to take his son's wife; M. killed his father and reigned]: 187-192 (Blida) [Emhammed lives with his mother and brothers; began to steal treasures from Sultan's treasury; having discovered a hole, the Sultan ordered to put a cauldron with resin there; her thief would fall; on that day E.'s mother advised me to take her younger brother with him - let him also learn to steal; the brother fell into the resin; E. cut off his head and brought him to his mother; said that if she left the house today crying, he would kill her; the next morning, the Sultan ordered the headless body to be crucified and all the inhabitants of the city brought there; E. mother bring a jug of butter with her and drop it; everyone will believe that she is crying for the missing oil; the sultan tells the adviser to feed the ostrich with pearls and diamonds and lead her to the castle; the one who is used to steal, if he sees jewelry in the bird's feces, rushes to collect them; E. dressed up as an old woman, went to the castle and woke up the grains; the ostrich began to peck at them, E. lured him, stabbed him and took it out stomach jewelry; the adviser suggested sending an old woman around the city to say that the sultan would pay a lot of money to someone who has ostrich fat (considered a strong medicine) ; E.'s mother naively replied that she had fat; noticing this, E. killed the old woman and buried the corpse; adviser to the Sultan: arrange a holiday for the people, warning that the old, big and crippled should not come ; give everyone wine, their tongues will be untied; E. began to talk about his exploits; the Sultan ordered him to shave half his beard to find him later; E. took a knife and began to cut off half his beard to everyone he could; the Sultan ordered Put everyone in prison; at this time, the Sultan's son brought the horse to drink, pushing the old woman away from the water; old woman: it would be better to get King Cefretmâge's daughter ("King in Yellow Boots"); the prince demanded that he be released in search of the princess; E. admitted that he was stealing, asked the others to let go; the Sultan did not execute him, but ordered him to accompany his son; on the way, the prince fell asleep, and E. went to explore the surroundings and entered the castle of two gulas; they warned that if the prince wanted to drink, he should ask them for water; the stream was poisoned by the venom of a seven-headed snake; when the prince woke up, E. brought him to the castle; they did not find the guley, and the cellars are full of human and animal bones; when the prince fell asleep again, E. went to the stream and cut off 6 heads of the snake; the snake: for the first time such a brave man came; bring the prince and receive a gift; E. and the prince came to dungeon; there are two naked beauties; one is a princess, the other is the daughter of his vizier; 7 days ago someone kidnapped them from the royal garden; leaving the girls, E. and the prince rode on horseback; the old man herds camels; says that only guli live next; gives a razor, a comb and a mirror; if you get to the stove, pick it up, you'll find yourself underground; there's an old man whose eyelashes cover his eyes; he'll ask him to shave - shave and only then ask questions; spears are always ready; this old man gave a mirror and sent him to his older brother; and so 7 brothers who need to cut off their eyelashes are each sent to the elder; seventh - to an old woman, the mother of all seven; she will take the King in yellow boots to the gates of the city; but do not approach her if she pushes salt and a black dove flies around her; turn when she pushes grain and flies white dove; lie down on her breasts; E. and the prince did everything, the old woman had a feast for them; says that 90 young men have already been beheaded for asking for the princess's hand in marriage; leave my horses and clothes, put on rags; for money, a woman in town agreed to show the house where the princess lives; when he entered the sleeping princess, E. put together the chandeliers in the corners and left; so three times; when the princess grabbed his finger, the hair that Gulya wrapped around him turned into a shining ring; the princess changed it to her magic ring; it fulfilled any wish that was not intended to harm the princess; they came to the Sultan; he offers difficult tasks; 1) find out what three items are in the bundle inside the chest; E. learned this from the princess: the princess's mother's comb, her marriage contract and "black black ocean skin"; 2) holding a bowl of milk in his teeth, climb a palm tree without splashing it; E. ordered the ring to complete the task; 3) indicate which of the hundred closed palanquins the bride finds herself, grab her camel's reins and take her away; thanks to the ring, everything was successful; Gulya met them in the form of a young girl; when they got out of the dungeon, a cloud carried away the princess; E. turned to the ring, but it was gone; E. went in search alone; the camel driver and then the shepherdess send him to the Women Thief; overhears him as he succumbs to the princess's persuasion to report what his life; in a string in an ostrich egg in the dungeon where the ghoul king lives; the shepherdess agreed to take him there; after driving the ostrich to the ground, E. stabbed it, broke the egg and burned the thread; the kidnapper burned down with it; hundreds of kidnapped women are happy; E. brought herds to the prince; the magic ring was found again, the women were sent home, the prince married the King's daughter in yellow boots]: Desparmet 1912:245 in Lajoye 2014: 23-24; the Berbers of Morocco (Taroudant, Chelh'a dialect) [Garun er Rashid (GR) forbade going out after dark; one day he and the vizier went out into town at night; they came to the seller's shop tortillas, a lute can be heard from there; inside a glass palace; the man explains that he plays the lute for the king of genies; those who came fell asleep; they were instantly transferred to the palace of the king of the jinns in the middle of the sea; GR signed a marriage contract with the daughter of the king of the genies, wrote the contract himself and left the girl jewelry and a silver sword; when they met, GR returned to the vizier and both of them were moved back to that shop; the king's daughter The genie gave jewelry and a sword to her son, whom she gave birth and raised; he is very handsome; playing, he hit the old woman's bucket with a ball; old woman: damn anyone who does not know his own father; the young man told her say who his father was; dressed as a dervish and arrived in the city where GR; the flatbread seller took him home; the young man's beauty attracted customers; the old woman told GR's daughter and the vizier's daughter about him; they came and they were told to play the lute; upon learning of this, GR was going to cut off the young man's head, but saw his jewelry and recognized his son; married him to the vizier's daughter]: Basset 1897, No. 110:131-137; Berbers of Morocco (Fez) [The Sultan finally had a son, Sidi Mohammed (SM); he imprisoned him in an underground palace, with him a servant to teach him; when his mother accidentally discovered SM, the Sultan cut off her head in front of his eyes; After that, SM was able to go out into town; one day he ran into an old woman; she yelled: I wish you to marry Aruaj bin Ilak! (AI); SM went in search; on the way he bought a young man named Sidi Mohammed Bu Rjilat (BR), whom the local sultan hung by the legs for not wanting to reveal the secrets of magic to him; he promised get AI - let the SM send his father's army back; get the guards drunk, they fell asleep; swapped the lamps at the AI's bedside; sent SM; AI gave him an earring, bracelets from his arm and leg; SM presented them her father; he agrees to marry if SM indicates which cocoon (the closed space where the bride is) - AI; BR suggested; on the way home, BR warns: until they reach his land own efreet, SM must not get off the horse, otherwise his wife will be kidnapped; but he got off his horse as needed, AI disappeared into the air; BR went to efreet, who kidnapped BM; asked the shepherd what he does when she brings sheep; shepherd: I knock on the gate with a stick; the new wife, who was kidnapped by Ifrit, lets me in and lets me out in the morning; BR changed clothes with the shepherd, found AI, told her to find out what life was like efrita; in the middle of the sea, a dove on the tree, three eggs in its nest; break the first, the efrita will be engulfed by a red flame, the second will be blue, the third will remain only ash; with the help of his efreets, BR obtained eggs; when Ifrit died, the prisoners were sent home; SM, AI and BR go three; two girls cut off the heads of travelers at the bridge; SM cut the bridge with a sword, took one girl for himself, gave the other to BR; now each has two wives; weddings; AI gave birth, and BR's wives fell ill; only the blood of a newborn would cure them; SM sent him to slaughter his son; but it turned out that BR only wanted to test his friend, he had a son himself; but wrote that he needed more blood; SM sent a daughter born to a second wife; friends are happy and have married children]: El Fasi, Dermenghem 1928:151-164; the Arabs of Egypt [the childless king's wife promises to fill three wells with honey, oil and rose water, if God sends her a child; Yousif is born, the king forgets the promise; God reminds me in a dream, the king prepares wells, calls people, the old woman comes when everything is sorted out, collects drops of honey on the walls of the well; Yu played ball, hit the old woman's vessels, the honey spilled; she wished him to fall in love with Louliyya, Morgan's daughter; the servant explains that L. is beautiful; Yu goes to searching; the cannibal sends him to his brother, the other to his sister; if she has red chickens and she is tidy up, you can't talk to her, and if she is green, her hair is in a mess and her breasts thrown on his back, you can; Yu sees first red chickens, is silent, then green ones; the cannibal sister tells me to roll a ball, he leads to a palace in the desert; the cannibal asks L. to let her hair down, rises up to him; Yu also asks; L. decides to run away with Yu; hides it, turning it into a pin; returning to its former appearance, tells the things in the room to be responsible for it, throws a needle (a field of thorns), a comb (a bamboo fence), mirror (lake); the cannibal and his dog drink, the cannibal bursts when he throws pins at L., she turns into a dog, Yu into a lark; they come to the house of Yu's mother; she finds pins in the dog's head, takes out pins , L. takes his appearance, takes the needles out of the lark's head, who turns into Yu; wedding]: Scheub 2000:131-132; Algerian Arabs: Aceval 2005, No. 81 (Tiaret Plateau) [merchant's son pushes at the spring an old woman; she wants him to fall in love with the beautiful Waq-Waq country; he asks his father to invite her to lunch, puts her hand in hot broth, tells him to say who the beautiful Wak-Wak country is; she says she the youngest of seven virgin birds; her clothes must be stolen when the virgin birds swim in the river; the young man does so, the girl tells her to keep her clothes because her life is in them; they have two children; while her husband is away, the wife asks her mother-in-law to allow her to go to the bathhouse; everyone is amazed at her beauty, the Sultan demands her; she promises to give in to his demands if he allows her to wear her feather clothes; the sultan orders her to bring a chest of clothes, she puts them on, grabs her children and flies to the country of Wak-Wak]: 76-81; Belamri 1982 [Sultan raises Ahmed in a closed palace, feeds boneless meat; old Settout says bones tastes better than meat; the prince tells me to bring him a bone, but it is impossible to gnaw it; S.: break it against the wall, the bone marrow is inside; A. threw a bone, breaking through the wall; saw his cousins playing outside the palace walls; The Sultan had to let A. go; he was given a horse, believing that he would fall off him, but A. drove many to death; wise El-Moudjarrab advises to give him the foal who was born on the same day that and A. himself; his cousins hated A.; S. promises to help them; places many small wineskins at the well, Ahmed not to give his horse a drink; when he presses his wineskins, S. tells him to fall in love with Rdah; A. he fell ill and told the Sultan that he would be cured by the broth prepared by old woman S.; she put S.'s hand into the hot broth; she was eager to tell him that R. lives where there are sands and a lot of cattle; on the way, A. sees a lot killed with their arms and legs tied; Roumi jumps towards him; A. killed him, took his horse, and sent his own home; the jackal asks him to feed him, wants only a little lamb; A. asks the shepherd to give the jackal lamb, but he stabbed the biggest ram; A. drove the jackal away; amazed at the beauty of the shepherd's wife, but she replies that R. is much more beautiful; when she saw A., R. fell in love with him; she has a fiance; A.: do you want him dead or alive? - Alive; A. went to see him, captivated him, R. ordered him to be slaughtered in front of her eyes; A. took R. home; Uncle A.'s daughter, Nouna, came out to meet Ahmed; when R. saw her, died (of grief)]: 87-99; Filleul de Pétigny 1951 []: 102-112; Tunisian Arabs: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 40 [The prince is handsome, all the boys envied him, the girls did not notice anyone around him but him. He was arrogant and arrogant, the young men decided to get rid of him and came to the old woman. She filled her wineskins with water and placed them around the small lake from which the prince used to water his horse, and began to pray. When the prince arrived and saw that the old woman was praying, he first waited, but then could not stand it, ran into wineskins filled with water and got his horse drunk. Then the old woman mocked him that, they say, who he was, he would never marry a princess with snow-white skin. Then he decided to go looking for this princess to marry her and swore to his parents that he would not return home without her. On the way, he pulled the king of pigs, the king of ants and the king of Ephrites out of the pit. They warned him not to pull the black-headed man out of the hole, but he did not listen to them, he felt sorry for him, and the prince helped him. This man took him to the kingdom of a snow-white princess. Her father gave him a condition: plow a piece of land and plant it with millet and barley, harvest it and separate some grains from the others, all in one night. The prince did everything with the help of the king of pigs and the king of ants. They began to celebrate the wedding, then a man with a black head envied the prince, came to the bride's father and told him that it was not the prince who had completed his task, but the king of pigs and the king of ants, then the king He was angry and ordered that the prince be imprisoned and executed at dawn. Then the prince remembered King Ephrite's hairs that he had left. He asked the guard to throw them into the fire. The king of the Ephrites said that he would stick to the king and only the prince would be able to heal him in exchange for his release and marriage to the princess. The king has agreed to this. When the prince began to pretend to be treated, he asked Efrit what to do next, who replied through the king's mouth that he should bring a man with a black head and cut his throat when he felt ephritis drops of his blood, he'll come out of the king's body. That's what they did. The prince married a princess and returned with her to his native kingdom. He realized that it was necessary to be brave and modest, not arrogant] in Korovkin MS; Stimme 1893, No. 4 [the tsar imprisoned Ali's only son with a wet nurse under a glass cap; ordered to feed boneless meat and with crust bread; once the prince was accidentally brought meat and bone and bread with a crust; he broke glass with his bone, went outside; tells his father to give him freedom; in the city he runs over the townspeople; old woman: what kind of thing are you violent, it would be better to bring Sineddur on the back of a vulture from across the 7 seas; Ali tells us to 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 Muhammad to go with him; at the fork there is a stone: to the right you will gain, to the left you will lose; they draw lots, Ali goes right, M. to the left; he ate everything, hired to to the bagel seller; Ali rides, greets the hungry giant sitting next to the fallen camel; cuts and roasts meat for him; the giant sends him to his older sister, tells him to fall to her nipple, otherwise she will kill; her 7 cannibal brothers give Ali a hair out of their beards - if burned, they 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 disassemble several varieties of grain overnight; no one can, everyone is executed; Ali calls the ogre, who tells the ants to disassemble the grain; Ali got a princess; wants to go further after S.; the first wife teaches how to slaughter a bull by the sea, they will help feed the vultures; the oldest 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 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 say he 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 they go together; M. invites Ali to go down to the well to get water, cuts off the rope; tells everyone to say that he got the princess; monkeys, male and female, ask to resolve the dispute; Ali advises the male keep the monkey with him and let the gazelle go; the monkeys are happy, they pulled Ali out, he came to his city; S. and his three-year-old son surrounded the city with an army; M. cannot provide evidence of marriage to S.; Ali's wedding with S., his first wife is also with them; the vizier wants to kill his son himself, but Ali forgave M.]: 57-78 (translated to Lebedev 1990, No. 16:80-95).

Southern Europe. Sicilians: Crane 1885, No. 15 [the king and queen promise that if they have a child, they will make springs from which wine will be poured from one wine for 7 years and oil from the other; It all happened, but after 7 years, the springs dried up; the old cannibal came to collect the leftovers; the 7-year-old prince threw the ball and smashed the old woman's jug; she told him not to marry until he found Fiery Red Snow White (OB; Snow-White-fire-red); when he was 18 years old, the prince went in search; sees the cannibal screaming OH to let her braids down the window, climbs them towards her; when she goes down and leaves, the prince shouts the same thing, OH thinks it's her mother again (she held the cannibal by her mother), lowers her braids, hides the prince; she gives the cannibal a drink, she sincerely answers what to do to Run away: tell all items to answer for themselves, take 7 balls of yarn, throw them behind you during the chase; Prince and OB run; the cannibal loses time until all items respond "now"; rushes into chase, calls OB (if she turns around, she will be bewitched); OB consistently throws balls, a river, a spring with snakes, etc. (unnamed); stopping the persecution, the cannibal tells the prince to forget OH as soon as someone kisses him; when he comes to the city, the prince leaves to bring OH suitable clothes; at night, the mother came up and kissed the prince, he forgot OH; OH began to live with an old woman, tamed two doves, made clothes for them and put them on; doves fly to the king and talk about what happened; prince all recalls; wedding]: 72-76; Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 27 [when dying, the king tells his son to pass off three sisters as the first ones he meets when the buds open on the bush; he passes them off as kings of ravens, wild animals, birds; an old woman bothers the young king, he pushes her; she tells him to lose his peace until he finds Cardia; the king goes in search, finds his older sister; she first hides him from husband; husband gives almonds; middle husband chestnut, youngest walnut; explains that K. from a witch, who will require K. to know K. among many girls, K. will have seven veils; the witch demands that heaps of beans not it was; crows eat almond; the basement of corpses - chestnut animals eat; fill mattresses with feathers - walnut birds fill; the king recognizes K. by seven veils; the witch demands that their child be by morning called her grandmother; in the morning K. shows the doll, and the king cuts off the witch's head; returns home with his wife], 50 [the king is predicted that when her daughter reaches 14 years old, she will face difficulties; the king arranged the source is oil; the old woman came last when the spring dried up; she had difficulty picking up the jug, and the king's daughter threw a stone at it, broke it; the old woman told her to wish King Chicchereddu; she goes in search; heals three princes; finds K.; his witch mother crosses her arms over her head, the princess cannot give birth; K. orders to ring the funeral bells, the mother believes that her son is dead, takes him off his head hands, princess gives birth]: 179-184, 333-340; Sardinians [a spring of olive oil was opened on vow; the old woman came to collect oil, the prince broke her jug out of mischief; she told him to go look for three orange; meet the old man: let the young man forget that he is a prince; old woman: there will be a garden with marble statues ahead; among them are the young man's parents; then the dog explains that there is a seven-main dragon outside the gate; a young man cuts heads, picks oranges, revives his {parents?}] : Aprile 2000:273-274; Italians: Basile 2018 (Campania, Naples) [retelling in Aarne 1930:12; Prince Nard'Aniello breaks an old woman's pot with a stone; she tells him to fall in love with a witch's daughter; he meets this girl in the forest; the witch tells me to cultivate the field until the evening, chop a huge amount of firewood, fill the tanks with water; the witch's daughter does everything; lovers run, the girl stays in the inn, and N. goes after the horse and wagon; the witch tells N. to forget the bride as soon as she kisses someone else; it happens; the girl is hired to work in the kitchen, creates a pigeon that tells her story; N. remembers everything, wedding]: 216-228; Calvino 1980, No. 8 (Liguria, Genoa) [=Shustova 1994:236-239; a woman laid eggs in a basket, a little shepherdess the size of a tick threw a stone at them, the woman told him stay small until he finds a beautiful Bargalina with three singing apples; he goes looking; at the bridge, a woman swings on a walnutshell swing, asks her eyelids to be raised; when she sees a boy, gives him a stone; at the other bridge, a woman who bathes in an eggshell also asks her eyelids to be raised and gives her an ivory comb; a man collects fog in a bag, gives a shepherdess; a miller fox teaches how to carry away a cage with singing apples from a witch; if her eyes are open, she sleeps, and if closed, she is awake; the boy sees that his eyes are closed and does not take the apple cage; the witch asks comb her hair, falls asleep; then the boy takes the apples, but the bells in the cage rang, the witch woke up, sent after the horsemen - the first time 100, then 200, then 300; the boy throws stone (rocky mountain), comb (smooth mountain), fog (the chase has stopped); the boy is thirsty, cuts an apple, inside B.; she asks for a cake to eat; as soon as the boy leaves for cake, Ugly Slave came to get water, threw B. into the well; the shepherdess's mother came to get water, pulled the fish out of the well; they ate it, a tree grew out of the bones; the shepherdess cut it down, harvested it firewood; his mother is dead; every time the house is tidy; he watches B. comes out from under the firewood; both grew up, wedding]: 23-26; Knust 1866, No. 2 (Tuscany?) [when he dies, the king tells his son Ferdinand to give his three sisters to be the first to marry them; they are a chimney sweep, tinker, umbrella seller (Regenschirmtrödler); F. plays with golden balls; one fell the old woman in the basket, there was an egg, it broke; the old woman curses F. {apparently, he wants him to marry Margarita, but either the narrator missed this episode or the author did not record it}; F. goes to look for the beautiful Margarita, consistently visits his sisters; they are married to wizards, everyone gives a nut (of a different kind, the last one is an almond); the younger sister gives a flint and a candle; her husband says that old woman is M.'s mother, shows the way to the palace, teaches what to do; the old woman tells you to disassemble different varieties of grain overnight; F. breaks a nut, ants in it, they do their work; the next evening, eat 300 pounds of crackers per night (mice eat from the second nut); on the third evening, eat 30 pigs (almond eagles ate); on the fourth evening, the old woman leaves F. and M. in the bedroom: by morning, a son should be born to greet his grandmother; F. carves a fire, lights a candle, a boy appears; in the morning an old woman dies, and the boy disappears as soon as the candle burns out]: 384-386; Maltese [the childless king promises to build a source of oil (or also a source of wine), from which it will pour until the son reaches a certain age; a son is born and grows up; breaks the jug of an old woman who has come for butter with a stone; she tells him to marry a girl of seven lemons; The old people he meets help him find seven lemons; he opens 6, each girl dies of hunger and thirst, because the young man has nothing to give her right away; for the seventh he has prepared food and drink in advance, she stays alive; the prince takes her to his country, leaves her in a tree while he leaves to prepare for the meeting; a Moorish woman climbs a tree, offers to look in the girl's head, pierces a pin, a girl turns into a dove; the returning prince marries a liar, although he is surprised why the bride went fool; the bird arrives, talks about himself, the false wife kills her; from the bones in the old woman's yard A tree grows; then the girl is reborn; the prince finds her, the liar is executed]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 408:99-101.

Western Europe. The French (Nièvre) [the prince smashed a jug of butter carried by the old woman with a ball; she wished him love for three oranges; the prince fell ill with love and went in search with two companions; they they come to the south, east, north wind; the mother of the winds hides them every time and teaches them what to do next; they come to the castle; they oil the rusty door and it opens; they throw them to predatory pigs acorns, give giants ropes to get water out of the well (they took it out using their hair instead of ropes); let other women sweep the heat out of the oven (they did it with their bare hands); sweep a dusty dirty staircase; they comb a lousy old woman, who falls asleep for the first time in many years; the prince sees and picks up three oranges, runs away with her companions; the old woman tells the stairs, etc., to detain the fugitives, but they refuse, because those who came cleaned them, fed them, etc.; on the way back, the prince opens one orange, a beautiful woman comes out, asks for a drink, dies; the same with the second; the third opens at the spring; brings a beauty to a king who knows the prince's father and dreamed of marrying a prince to his daughter; sends the prince for jewelry and clothes for the beauty he brought in, and his daughter stabs a pin in her head and the girl flies away with a dove; the liar says she has darkened by the sun and wind; the prince's father and courtiers are surprised that his fiancée is ugly; on the eve of the wedding, the dove talks to the cook; sits on The prince's hand; he groped and took out a pin; the wedding; the liar was burned at the stake]: Delarue, Tenèze 1964, No. 408:59-63.

Western Asia. Palestinians [the king promises that if his son grows up safely, he will fill one watercourse with honey and the other with ghee; every day the boy meets an old woman, she tells him to remind his parents about the promise, otherwise he threatens to kill him; he forgets, she puts pebbles in his pocket, his mother finds it, he remembers, the king builds watercourses, fills him with honey and oil; the old woman comes when almost everything has been dismantled; takes the last drops, the boy throws a pebble, breaking her vessel, she tells him to fall in love with Lolabe, Lolabe's daughter; he goes looking for L., she lowers her hair out of the window, he climbs it; when her the witch mother gets up, the daughter turns the young man into a pin, the mother senses the human spirit, tells her to give her the pin to remove the splinter, the daughter gives another, turns the young man into a melon, the mother tells her to give the melon, the daughter hides one a seed, revives the young man from it, tells him to run, spraying all objects with henna except a mortar and a pestle; everyone replies to the mother that the daughter is here, a mortar and a pestle give her away; the witch pursues the fugitives, with her a dog; the daughter throws a comb (the forest, the witch and the dog chew), the brazier (the fire, the witch and the dog extinguish the urine), the mirror (the lake, the witch and the dog drink, burst); at the house, the young man tells L. to wait for him to cook everything for the wedding; L. climbs a tree, the maid takes her reflection in the well for her own, throws a jug (such a beauty should not serve); L. laughs, the maid asks her to go down, pierces her pins, turning her into a dove, puts on her clothes, explains to the groom that she cried while waiting for her, so she changed; the dove cries in the palace kitchen, tears turn into pearls, corals, the cook picks them up, every day the food burns, the prince calls him, finds out about the dove, catches him, takes out his pins; the maid from behind now stabs them into him, turning them into a dove; the third time L. catches him, takes out his pins; wedding; maid burn]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 18:159-166; Arameans [a woman promises that if God gives her a son, she will share a pot of honey and a pot of butter between people; however, she did not keep her promise; when son Aladin grew up, the old woman told him to remind his mother about this, otherwise she would hit him, shortening his life; he forgets three times; then she put two pebbles in his belt to remember; his mother remembered, announced that tomorrow she would distribute honey and butter; but that old woman did not get it; her mother still scraped her bowl, but A. accidentally threw a stone, hit the old woman in her hand and she spilled everything; ordered the dumb the princess caused his misfortunes; A. went in search; stopped under a tree at the spring; hears a parrot saying to the chicks: in order to succeed, A. must take one of you with him; that princess's father is a tower of severed heads; A. took one parrot and came to the city where the tower of heads; these are the heads of those who tried but could not get the princess to talk; when he came to the palace, A. hid parrot under the pillow - as if the pillow tells stories; the parrot says that A. is not getting married - this dumb princess is bald; princess: not bald at all! A. hid the parrot, left, and the princess burned the pillow in anger; the next evening A. hides the parrot under the tablecloth, speaks like a tablecloth; the princess stinks from her mouth; the princess spoke again, refuting similar to slander; the king gave his daughter to A.; two years later A. visited her mother, she is happy]: Bergsträsser 1915, No. 6:18-22; the Arabs of Syria [the sick king promised that if he recovered, from his palace a stream of honey and a stream of oil (Fett) would flow; recovered, honey and butter would flow; people began to fill the jugs; the poor old woman came later than anyone else, barely scraped up the leftovers; the prince saw her, threw her with a stone into a jug, he broke; the old woman threw the ground and the second, cursed the prince: let his life break because of his love for Salma, how did this jug break; replied that S. looked like a prince like two drops of water; The prince ordered seven jugs to be filled for the old woman to show him the way to S.; she is married to a wealthy jeweler in Shiraz; the prince came to Shiraz under the guise of a merchant; orders him a gold ring; becomes his friend; the jeweler invites the imaginary merchant to his place, S. gives her husband sleeping pills, becomes the prince's mistress; teaches him to secretly make a passage in the wall; due to the fact that the prince and S. are so similar, the jeweler does not understands who is where; when the prince goes home, S. asks her husband to allow her to look at the merchant from the window; leaves the doll in his clothes instead, leaves safely with the prince]: Kuhr 1993:439- 448; 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 a young man: if a mother he will not keep his word, his 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; 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 Raranj tree and Taranj; the 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 you to drive 7 days along 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 ones on the sides goats; meat in front of goats, hay in front of 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; from each a beautiful woman came out, 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 beauty and went to get her clothes and entourage; the girl climbed to a tree; a dark-skinned slave came to the river for water, took the beauty's reflection for her own; when she saw the beauty, she offered to take out her insects, but plunged her pin into her, turning her into a dove; the maid told the prince that an evil genie had changed her appearance; every day a dove flies into the kitchen and the cook replies that the prince was sleeping with the ugliest woman; the dove's tears turned into pearls and corals; the cook told the prince that he caught a dove, pulled out a pin, the beauty was reborn; the liar was burned]: 109-114; Yaremenko 1990, No. 23 [an infertile woman promises to fill one ditch with honey, the other with oil; gives birth 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 the ram 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 the giantess teaches her breasts to pick TT in the garden when the eyes of the monsters are open (which means they are sleeping); when she tried to peel the next fruit, a request was made for water, the fruit shrunk; the last young man peeled water, he became a girl; the young man walked away, leaving TT in the tree; a witch came to the spring, took the beauty's reflection for her own; she offered to help wash the dishes; the witch got up to her, stabbed her head a pin, TT flew away like a bird; the young man said that she would be beautiful again in a year; the bird flew to the young man, the witch wife ordered her to be killed, otherwise he would not recover; a drop of blood grew yuyuba, her trunk was covered pearls; a witch wife tells her to be made a cradle for a baby; the baby in her cries; the witch gave the cradle to a 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 his story; the husband leaves the witch, brings TT to her parents]: 129-136; Saudia [two princes and the vizier's two sons played ball and hit the old woman; old woman: it would be better to go in search of the beautiful Shin-Shin; the boys reached the white stone palace with the golden gate; agreed with the old woman- a servant; the younger prince dressed as a girl, the old woman brought him to the SS under the guise of her granddaughter; the prince liked it, began to feast, but at that time the SS father arrived; he also liked the prince and he passed the SS off as him; on the way back, the robbers lured the young men onto their ship, threw them overboard and took the SS; they got ashore, entered the robber's castle, killed the leader, took the SS and The robber ship returned home; they fulfilled their wishes]: Juhaiman 1999:103-109.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [the prince, out of mischief, shot a slingshot at the jug in which the old woman was carrying; she cried; the prince brought her water in another jug; she wished him to marry the Drolmakid fairy; she was in an orange on a distant tree; you have to pick the fruit and not look inside on the way; the prince did so, opened the orange only at home; the parents married their son to D.; took a girl like her as a maid; she a witch; she offered to compare their beauty, look at the reflection in the lake, and in order to compare bodies rather than clothes, suggested D. take off her clothes and jewelry; pushed them into the water; the prince did not notice the substitution ; the groom said that a golden lotus had blossomed on the lake; invited the prince to dress as a groom so that the lotus would not be afraid; the young man picked the lotus and hid it, then put it in a vase; the witch burned it; it grew from the ashes walnut tree; a witch invited people to pick nuts and burned the tree again; one nut went to a poor woman and her son; someone cooks and tidies; mother and son caught her; but she does not leave them at home; one day she went out, the witch recognized the voice, told people to grab and burn the girl; but a palace appeared at the site of the burning; the prince came in and recognized his wife; when she heard about the palace, the witch ran there, began to rise, fell down and crashed; her body was burned]: Komissarov 1997:55-68.

South Asia. Agaria [three witches lived in Bengal, including Dhowan Dhobnin; Guru Daugun went there, his 12 boys tried to approach the pond, got entangled in the grass, DD turned them into stones, and GD turned them into a cat; at home, his son broke an old woman's pot; she says that his father is a guru of the whole world, and could not avoid turning into a cat; the boy reports this to Guru Danantar; he, becoming a fly, flies to DD, returns the cat has a human appearance, throws rice at stone figures, all the turned ones come to life; DD came, gave rice, he turned into iron sawdust, but Guru Daugun ate them, won]: Elwin 1949, No. 9:461-462; Oraons [gaur (a type of bull) killed a man by lifting him to his horns; his son grew up with an arrow and smashed jugs on the heads of seven girls who came for water; they scolded him without a father; the mother told how his father died; the boy made many arrows, came to the pond; when the jackal came to drink, did not let him drink, ordered him to bring the 16-horned deer; did not let the chital antelope go; she told the gaura, he rushed at the boy , could not care; the boy shot him and killed him; found his father's corpse on his horns; began to cry; in the sky, Mahadeo and Parvati hear crying, go down, revive the boy's father]: Elwin 1944, No. 11:39-40 (translation Zograf 1971, No. 19:66-67); kannada [the chief's pregnant daughter went to buy firewood; the bird sings to "the father's daughter and wife, father's daughter-in-law, her son's wife"; she does not lift the burden, she asks the cobra for this promises him a daughter as a wife if a girl is born; a girl was born, a cobra crawled into the village, had to give her a baby; later a son was born; playing, he launched a chip, he fell into the girl's jug who carried water; girl: what to expect from someone whose sister was taken away by a snake; the mother admitted that this was so; the young man went into the forest, saw smoke on top of the banyan; the sister boiled milk, the cobra crawled, and became drink, died; brother and sister hurry home, sister gives birth to snake eggs on the move, brother hits them; but one rolled into the crack; a new cobra hatched out of it and took the girl away (thus she became the son's wife)]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 73:207-209; Tamils [Raja has no children for a long time; finally a son was born with a bow in his hand, who knows the secrets of magic; the bird sat on the old woman's hump; the prince shot at the bird and the old woman the hump is gone; she is angry; now her daughter-in-law will make her work; let the prince free Peacock Princess (PP) from behind the 7 seas; along the way, the prince saved the cobra and then the frog caught in the hot sand; the cobra has built steps to get over the steep mountains; the PP princess asks for a braid of hair 16 feet long for her from the pond; the young man dives - there is no way to reach it; the frog got it; having received a braid, PP she went to the young man; gems fall from her lips, when she cries, the flowers bloom, and when she went, jewelry appeared; at rest, the sadhu stabbed the prince and was about to take PP away; she invited him to dig up first for the prince's grave is deeper; saw how one monkey healed the broken legs of another monkey with grass; invited the sadhu to go down to the grave to measure it; covered it with earth, revived the prince with grass; the next since they spent the night with the blacksmith; in the morning he said that PP had already rode away, although he simply hid it; PP agreed to surrender to him, but only six months later, and on the last day let him feed everyone who came; the prince too came and saved her; stopping under a banyan by the pond, the prince put PP on a branch and went to prepare the wedding ceremony; the potter saw the PP reflection, took it for her own; PP laughed, the potter picked up head; PP went down, the potter pulled her eyes out, pushed her into the water, put on her clothes and jewelry; the spouses carrying brushwood pulled out the PP; after settling her in, the couple began to pay a lot of money for the firewood; PP gave them two pearls and told them to give them to whoever gave their eyes in exchange; the potter's mother gave her eyes, PP saw the light, and the potter's pearls faded; at the prince's wedding, there was only dust from under the bride's feet when smiles, black teeth are visible, worms in his hair; the guests ran away, the prince is horrified; PP saw him from a distance from the terrace of her new 7-story palace, told him to bring him home; now a real wedding; while PP I went to the wedding platform, the ground was covered with pearls]: Blackburn 2005, No. 94.

The Balkans. Moldovans [When a flea shoved one leg with 99 eyes of iron, the other with 99 okami (1 ca 1200 g) became, and everything seemed not enough for her, the king had a mischievous son. He fell from a slingshot into a jug of water carried by his grandmother, who cursed him: "So that you walk around the ground and not calm down until you reach the immortal kingdom, but you will not find peace there either." The prince is melancholy; he goes to seek an immortal kingdom. He comes to his cell. The hermit does not know about such a kingdom, he sends him through the forest, animals will meet there - everyone should be greeted. Then in front of the castle, the snake will lie with its head on the doorstep - and greet him, he will be happy, turn his head - it will be possible to pass. The castle will tell you where to go next. That's what the prince does. The palace is an old man as old as the world. For saying hello to his animals, he gives a ball of gold thread. The guy goes for a ball, sits down to rest under the oak tree. The acorn asks you to get up from him, offers to live with him until he becomes a strong and lush oak tree. And when he is old, falls and swallows begin to swarm in his ashes, then the prince will end. The prince sprinkles the acorn with earth to grow, says goodbye to him, and goes on after the ball. He comes to a grape bush covered with clusters. The bush suggests burying the grape seed and staying here until the grapes grow; as long as he is alive, the prince will drink wine and eat grapes. The prince buried the seed and moves on. He wants to shoot an eagle, the Tolt asks not to kill, but to heal. If trouble happens, we need to think about it, he will come to the rescue. The prince bandages the eagle's wounds, feeds it, and moves on. The sea has receded, and on the sand lies a king of fish 12 steps long, human-tall, with silver wings, and golden scales. He asks not to eat it, but to put it in water - if you think about it, he will come to the rescue. Then the fox asks to protect her from dogs (same). The mosquito asks to be released from the web (same). He says that there will be a castle, where you have to go to the king and ask for your youngest daughter as a bride. Until he gets married, he won't take over the immortal realm. The guy comes to the gilded chambers, explains where and where he's going from. The king agrees to give his daughter if the boy can hide. Then he will live in the castle as long as the earth stands and the sun shines: from this gate the immortal kingdom begins. The guy remembers the eagle, the eagle takes it to the heavenly gate and hides it behind 9 rows of clouds. The three princesses look the same. The eldest sees the guy in the sky. The king is going to tear his head off, his daughter asks for forgiveness. The average one sees a guy in the fish's mouth (same thing). The youngest can't see only the boy's shadow. The king tells him to go out and admits that his daughter did not see him, but let him know the youngest. A mosquito sits on her nose. The guy stays in the castle with her forever. The king forbids him to go out through the gate he entered. One day, his arrow goes out the gate. Behind her, he opens the gate, sees a shiny thread from a golden ball, remembers his house, his father, and his mother. The king dissuades him, but he leaves. On a golden thread, he comes to an old and long vine, which recognizes him, but he refuses to rest. It's the same with oak. He reaches the castle, where he was given a golden ball, sees a dragon, dried up from old age, and greets him. The dragon rejoices and keeps him alive. The owner of the castle has grown a beard, half of which he puts under himself and the other is covered. The old man raises his eyelids from his eyes with a crutch, looks at the guy, invites him to come back. There is a grove in the place of the hermit's cell, and ruins on the site of the castle. A 300-year-old man heard from his grandfathers that there was a king's castle with a son here, and that son went around the world for life without death, for youth without old age. And then everyone in the kingdom died of the plague. The prince returns, kicks a clay mortar at the ruins of the gate, and death creeps out from under it with a scythe on his shoulder: waiting for him. The prince runs away, death is his. He greets the dragon, enters the castle, the old man gives him a wool belt, tells him to die, let him wear it until he wears out so that there is no whole thread left, and only then let him come. The dragon breathes heat and tar to death, does not let him in for not saying hello. Tsarievich gives death a belt, runs to the oak tree, the oak tells you to take an iron staff from the hollow, let him die: let him come when the staff is erased. Death sets out to erase the staff. The prince reaches the vine. It promises to be a boat and a bridge for him, and tells death to throw a sword under his feet: let him come when the soblya rust and falls to dust. The saber is rusted, death is chasing, the prince comes to the castle, opens the gate, the wife meets him, grabs his hand, and death by the leg. They're arguing. The wife proposes to turn the prince into a golden apple, throw it up: whoever catches will get the prince. He throws an apple, it turns into an evening star. The king and his people also turn the girl into a golden apple, throw it up, tell them to find the king's son and return with him to the palace - death will not be able to do anything to them. The apple becomes the morning star. Death is angry, tramples the shadows of all three, and turns the king and his two daughters into blocks of stone. Since then, there have been stars in the sky and stone pillars at the gate]: Botezat 1981:27-37; the Gagauz people [the prince played grandmas with his princely son; the old woman said they should play with silver money; but those they did not roll; the prince put them aside, but the old woman took them for herself; the prince hit her; she told him to lose his health until he saw the foundry's wife Ali, the first beauty in the world; the prince went to Smyrna, where he gave money to the old woman; she told him to dig; the prince comes to Ali wearing clothes received from his wife; they convinced Ali that his wife has a sister like her, to whom these things were given as a dowry; Ali he feasted with lovers, and when he returned home, there were no wives or things; he died of grief]: Moshkov 1904, No. 105:177-179; Bulgarians [a brief retelling of the episode; the woman cursed the prince {not said why}, telling him to marry an unborn girl; the young man came to the mother of the Sun; when her son came, he explained that an apple should be picked, cut it, and an unborn girl would come out]: Kovachev 1914:40; Greeks: Dawkins 1916 (Cappadocia) [the prince asks his father to dig a well in front of the door; he marries the first one to come for water; an old woman came, the prince threw a stone at her, she told him fall in love with the Three Beautiful; the prince asks to make him a pair of iron shoes and an iron club and goes in search; came to the mother of 6 cannibals, she turned it into an apple, hid it; then showed it sons; they gave the young man a letter - let him show him to the 12 young men, they would direct him to the Three Beautiful; the young man read it, there was an instruction to eat him, he changed the letter; the mother of those 12 turned it into a broom; then showed it; they sent him to a thousand-year-old bird; the bird led him to the lake, including an orange tree; the prince picked an orange, a girl appeared, he did not have time to give her a drink, she died of thirst; the same with the second, and got the third drunk; went to his father for soldiers to protect her; at that time a maid, blind in one eye, came; first thought it was her reflection; she turned the beauty into a bird; said that she had turned black from the suns, and the crows pecked out her eyes; becoming the prince's wife, the liar ordered the bird to be killed; a tree grew out of a drop of blood; his wife ordered him to be cut down, make a cradle for the child; the old woman picked up the sliver; she turned into a girl; the king gave horses to raise; the horse given by the old woman is the best; it is not given to the king; the girl leads her; the king asks the liar if she wants 40 horses or 40 knives; she wants horses; she and her child were tied to their hooves by 40 horses, and the prince married Beauty of the World]: 305-315; Megas 1970, No. 22 [the old woman cannot cook lentil soup for a long time; when she cooked, she put it in the river; the prince's horse does not drink, he turns the pot over in anger; the old woman wants him to fall in love with the gold-haired Anthousa; he comes to the house without entering; hides, sees how the dragon mother tells A. to let him down her golden hair, climbs on it; the same brother A.; when they leave, the young man calls A. in the same words; A. hides him; runs away with him, blindfolded with all objects; forgot about the mortar; she reports mother dragon, that her daughter ran away with the prince; mother chases a bear; A. throws a thin, then thick comb (a thicket of thin, then thick trunks), a handkerchief (sea); at the shore, the mother teaches that A. should make two birds out of the dough, when the prince leaves it in the tree, goes to his mother, she kisses him, he will forget everything; at the prince's wedding, the female bird tells the story of A., and the male every time replies that he does not remember; the prince remembers everything, marries A.]: 42-46.

Central Europe. Russians (Tersky Bereg): Balashov 1970, No. 7 [Princess Elena went for a walk in the garden with her nannies; she was taken away by Voron Voronovich, Klekot Klekotovich, Semigorodovich (VV); three brothers left; elder shot his backyard grandmother through the window; she began to swear - he took his sister away from BB himself; he came to the hut on chicken legs: turn your eyes to the forest, the gate to me; Baba Yaga tells me to leave the horse and follow with a ball; the second baba yaga gives an egg: it rolls, follow it; the third is a ring, rolled to her sister's house; BB eats much more than brother E., calls to the bathhouse, hits death with an iron bar; the same with the middle Brother Ivan; younger Arapulko drank from the bottle given by baba yaga, then ate more than BB; in the bathhouse he grabbed BB and cut off his head; the sister sent the crow for living and dead water, revived it from the bones brothers; the same water restored their sight to blind parents], 107 [the ship stopped in the middle of the sea: give me what you don't know at home; the man thought he promised a lamb or a calf, but it turned out that his wife gave birth; son grew up, accidentally shot through the window of my grandmother's backyard; she began to swear - so shakoy given to the sea king! the father took his son to sea; the sea king greets him, the dumb boyars are envious; ice came out from behind the stove, took out the ball on a rope and shumbled: I must tell the tsar that Ivan boasted to make a church with 70 doors; Martha- the princess sent I. to sleep, told the spirits to do everything; build a ship to sail on the sea and dry and through the eye of a needle; they built the perfume; get the bahar cat: three days, she does not ask for food; they brought perfume cat, I. and M. are running; M.: what's behind? I.: cloud; M.: it is my father who is flying snakes; wrapped I. in a church, and himself in a priest; next time a lake and a perch; mother flew in, turned into a pike, could not swallow perch; I. goes home, left M. to wait; he is immediately married there; M. became a bird, flew in, sings about what happened three times, I. heard, took M., rejected the new bride]: 56-64, 335-341; Russians (Karelian Pomorie) [contrary to the owner's order, the workers left a few grains on the field; a mouse and a bird argued over them, a war between birds and animals began, everyone died, a wounded eagle remained; the prince pointed his gun at him three times, the eagle asked not shoot, and ordered to feed for three months; tried to fly - three more; then more; ordered him to sit on it, took him to receive a reward; on the way he threw it and picked it up three times so that the prince would feel the same fear as he himself, when the prince pointed his gun; tells him to take a multi-colored box from his worn sister, a self-shaking purse from the middle sister, the youngest has a key to a multi-colored box; the eagle tells him not to open it along the way; he opened everything flew up, the road became difficult; a tall man: I'll bring everything back if you give it back that you don't know at home; he was a magic king; people came out of the box at home, began to uproot, harrow, etc.; during this time, his wife gave birth to a son; Ivan Tsarevich grew up, shot, hit his grandmother's window; grandmother: it won't take long for you to break windows, in a year the magic king will take you away; father denies; for the second time - the same; grandmother gave me a cup of water to drink, I. became a mighty handsome man; tells the most beautiful of the 12 swans to hide the dress when they arrive and become girls; she promises to be faithful to Ivan; the king orders to rebuild it overnight palace; Elena the Queen flew in like a bee, tells I. to go to bed, orders the spirits to do everything; the ship will work out of a gun that is 30 years old under the window; E. gives a lash, I. hit the head, soon she returned by ship; cut down the forest, etc., and by morning bake pancakes from flour; the same, everyone does the perfume; choose E. from 12 mares (one hair on the face is slightly longer); the same from 12 pigs (red speck in ear); out of 12 girls (fly above her right eye); E. and I. are running, E. left saliva in the bath to be responsible for herself; chase; what can you see? - The cloud is high behind; turned into a chapel and an old man; two pigeons on a pile of manure; himself with a ruff, I. - a ring, swallowed the ring, dived into the lake; the king became a pike, but he could not catch the ruff; drank water, but the ruff became a duck, the duck flew away; the king followed, hit the rock, burst with the water he had drunk; E.: I'll stay in the field as a pebble, and you go to the house, don't forget to say hello to your older sister, otherwise you'll forget me; I. did not say hello, forgot, a new wedding is being prepared; two pigeons came out of the cake, talking about the forgotten E.; at first E. does not want to get up: I. has already been blessed; but he persuaded her, she came out of the pebble, I. became live with E.]: Nechaev 1938:85-110; Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [two princes went for a walk with their sister Maria, lost her; the father gave a portrait of his sister, let them look for it; after their departure, the queen gave birth to another a son named Pokati-Gorokh; the brothers came to his sister, she hid them; Raven Voronovich flew in - shuryaks, come out; he killed them and drank them - like alive; tells his wife that death was written to him only from Pokati-Grokh; PG grew up, "threw my backyard grandmother in the neck"; she cries: your two brothers and sister did not bother me; PG comes to my sister, does not hide; says hello to BB, both tight hand to blood; both eat and drink a lot; when flying away, BB tells him not to enter the back room of the front stable; PG goes, there is hay in front of the lion, meat in front of the horse, PG shifted; then opened the door - they flew out and disappeared two girls; PG ran to BV's mother, asked for forgiveness; she persuaded BB to forgive; both go to war, PG on the horse that BV fed meat; when BB fights, the street will wave in one direction, to the other - a lane; but there is only more enemy power; PG came to the blacksmiths: soldiers appear from hammer blows, non-commissioned officers in another place, in the third, girls sew on a hoop like they are poked with a needle - an officer ; PG: amen to your work; they are grateful for stopping them; the warriors are no longer there, BB killed everyone, joyfully rolls like a hay pile; PG killed him; he was guilty to his mother, she led him to the well collect living and dead water; PG drowned it in it, took water for himself; revived the brothers, went home with them and his sister; picked up a stone, a hole under it, told the brothers to lower it on their belts; sent it to the brothers two girls from below, but they could not pull him out; married those girls; PG came to the old man, began to herd his oxen; he told them not to drive them to the protected meadows; PG drove them there to meet the monster about three heads, he killed him; the next day about five heads, the same; then six; hid these heads under the bed; the old man found it, glad; promises to ask the Firebird if she will carry PG to the ground; sitting on poultry, PG feeds the bird meat, it's over, it cut off its legs from its calves; the bird flew to the ground, died exhausted; PG revived it with live water, it regurgitated the meat from its legs, he caught it dead and with live water; returned home, got married]: Smirnov 1917, No. 11:111-121; Russians (Olonetskaya) [chicken and mouse quarreled over a grain, the mouse called animals, and the chicken called birds; the eagle's wing was torn off; he asks the man to feed him for three years; he wants to throw it away, then feeds him again; the eagle put the man on his back, they fly to the eagle sisters; tin, silver did not give the box, but the gold one gave; ordered do not open the road; he opened, Koschei the Immortal put the good back for promising to give what he did not know at home; his son returned at home; once broke the window; grandmother: oh, you, mother-born, paternal- promised; said that he was given to Koshchei; gave a ball; 12 swans - Koshchei's daughters - flew to the lake; the guy took his youngest's clothes; the girl promised to marry; Koschey tells me to go around the horse; bride: hit with a club between my ears; this is Koschey himself; tells me to choose a bride among 12 sisters; bride: a fly will sit on me; they ran away; they threw flint (mountains), flint (fire river); the bride made the guy a lake, a duck herself; Koschey shot, missed, left; swore not to pursue anymore]: Vlasova 2011, No. 51:86-88; Russians (Vologodskaya) [Fedor Tsarevich has three maids; if he marries, the first promises to bake bread, the second - sew, the third - to give birth to 9 sons, each has the sun in his forehead, a star on the braids, a month on the back of her head, arms up to the elbow in gold, legs knee-deep in silver; when she gave birth to the first three, the mother of the first maid was as a midwife, took the children to the field, replaced her with puppies; the same for the second time; the third time F.'s wife hid one child up her sleeve; F. ordered her to be put in a barrel, let her go to sea, married the first maid; when the barrel was washed ashore, the son knocked down the bottom, put up a tent, created a well in which any food was; sent the kaliks to the road to F., hid himself as a fly in their basket; when he heard the story, F. wants to look at a well with food, but the new wife advises you to get a pig - a golden bristle; the young man hears, catches the pig himself; the wickets tell F. about the pig, and next to the oak is a bayun cat; the young man, becoming a fly, eavesdropping; F.'s wife advises that it is better to get a goldenmare and 31 stallions (the same); for the third time, the wife says that there are 8 tents in the field, well done in each], the sun in the forehead, etc.; overhearing in the form of a fly , the young man tells his mother to bake 9 koloboks with her milk; 8 leaves them well done, and bit off from the ninth; well done, they understand that their brother was here; he brings the brothers to his mother; Kaliki tell F. about extraordinary young men; F. goes there, son meets: his wife put stakes for F. to run into them; F. returns to the palace with 9 sons and his first wife; the second wife was put on the gate, hacked down, and pieces burned]: Smirnov 1917, No. 27:158-163; Russians (Vologda, Kirillovsky District) []: Sokolov, Sokolov 1981, No. 77:296-305; Ukrainians (Gorinchevo, Khust District, Transcarpathia) [Count's Son He goes hunting every day. In the morning he wakes up, opens the window, sees that a woman is walking down the street, bringing her son to eat in a pot. The count's son, to test his accuracy, shoots the pot and breaks it. Baba sees him laughing and says that she barely begged her son for food. She curses him to only marry Seipentel Ilona. The guy runs after his grandmother and asks where she is. She replies that where ninety-nine human heads are on the stakes, and leaves. The count's son does not find a place for himself, he is going to look for his betrothed. He sees how a bear crashes ants, feels sorry for ants, drives a bear into the thicket. Ants give him a pipe that he can use to summon them to help. The guy goes on, sees that the boys have caught a fox and hit it. He asks to keep it and pays them a crown. The fox gives him a pipe to play on, and she will come to his aid. The count's son comes to the water and sees the fish fighting. He throws bread to the fish. The fish calms down, thanks him and gives him a pipe to call for help. More often, he runs into a hut, around 99 human heads on poles. He comes in and sees the woman he smashed the pot with on the stove. She serves him by telling him to look after her three mares. If he doesn't pull him back, his head will be on a pole. The guy falls asleep, and when he wakes up, he does not find mares. It causes ants with the help of a flute, who explain that the mares have become ants. Real ants will start biting them, then they'll start running away. When the first one runs and then the second one, you don't have to do anything, and when the third one runs, you have to whip it and say, "Be what you used to be!" That's what the guy does. In the evening, a woman checks, sees mares, gets angry and hits them with an iron club (these are her daughters). In the morning, she orders her daughters to go to the water and become fish. When the guy wakes up, he calls fish with the help of a flute. She reports that mares have become goldfish. Real fish will bite them. When the third one jumps out of the water, you should whip it and say, "Be what you were!" That's what the guy does. The woman gets angry in the evening, whips the mares with a fiery whip, accusing them of being in a romantic relationship with the guy. They deny it and tell their mother that she is wise and he is wiser. On the third day, the mares disappear again. The fox summoned by the flute explains that the woman turned them into eggs, put them in a basket on the stove, and sat on them herself. But the woman in the attic has a rooster. The fox will call the ferret, which will start chasing the rooster. The woman will get up from her eggs and climb to save the rooster. Then you have to run into the hut, whip the balls and say, "Be what you used to be!" The ferret starts chasing the rooster, the woman, hearing a scream, climbs into the attic. The guy hits the balls, the mares are back in the barn, the guy sits on a chair. Baba is convinced that he is wiser than her. He says he served her faithfully and asks what he asks for his service. He wants to stay in service for three more years. Baba agrees, takes him to a big lake in the morning, gives him a wooden shovel, a wooden hoe, a wooden coinage, and tells this lake to fall asleep and walled up so that she can ride it on horseback, if not will do - be his head on the stake. His tools break immediately, he sits and grieves. Babina, Seipentel's daughter Ilona, brings him food and finds out the cause of his burning. After feeding him, she puts him into a deep sleep, whistling to the devils. They fall asleep and walled up the lake. When the guy wakes up, he notifies the woman, she checks, but the lake does not break through under the horse. She sends him into the thicket the next day. There, the wind scattered beech and oak seeds. They must be harvested, each seed separately. At noon, the girl brings food and finds out about the task. The guy eats up and falls asleep because Ilona sleeps on him, and she whistles, devils run, and in an hour all the seeds are collected as the woman wanted. On the third day, the woman orders to cut down the thicket, dig it up, and sow it with wheat. By evening, wheat must be ripe, and he must squeeze it, bring it, grind it, grind the flour and bake bread. The guy cuts down one tree and gets tired. SI wants to bring him an afternoon snack, but the woman yells at her, even breathes fire, suspects that she is doing all the work for him, and he's not so wise, let his sister carry it. But after a while she calms down and leaves her daughter alone. SI brings in an afternoon snack, finds the guy crying. When he has lunch, she falls into a deep sleep, and she cries the devils like sea sand. Everything is ready by evening. Ilona wakes him up, gives him a fresh roll and asks him to tell the woman when she asks what he wants for his service, what he wants to stay with her for another three years. Baba pretty agrees. The count's son stays with her, does everything well, but one day, when a woman falls asleep, SI and her boyfriend get ready for a long journey. SI turns herself and his boyfriend into pigeons, they're flying, and SI asks if you can see anything. The guy turns around and says he sees a cloud of fire. She replies that she is a mother and that she will turn herself into a mill and him into an old miller. The old woman will ask if he saw two pigeons, and he must answer what he saw a long time ago. Baba decides it's not them and comes home. SI turns them into pigeons again and they fly to its land. She asks again, and he sees a fiery cloud again. Then SI turns itself into grass and it into a braid. He tells Baba he saw two pigeons when he was clearing this field for a meadow. Baba is coming home. Two pigeons hit the road again. After a while, SI asks again who he sees. He says the woman is on a fiery horse. SI turns them into fish, but tells them not to stick their heads out of the water or they'll go blind and she'll talk to her mother. But the guy wants to hear what they're talking about, sticks his head out of the water, the woman steals his eyes and comes home. The girl cries, goes like a dove behind his eyes. At home, she gives her mother and sisters a deep sleep, climbs into her mother's bosom, reaches out her eyes, and instead puts pigeon eggs so that her mother thinks when she wakes up, that her eyes are in her bosom. She flies to the riverbank and returns the guy's eyes. They fly to his village. The guy is happy, he leads the girl by the hand. She asks where he's taking her. He says it's to their homestead. She tells me not to do this, because she is not yet known there, asks to be taken to their innkeeper neighbor, who will serve him. In a month, let him tell his father and mother that she wants to get married. They'll get married then, but he must remember not to let anyone at home kiss him. The guy leaves his betrothed with the innkeeper, returns to his parents himself. They welcome him, they want to hug him and kiss him, but they don't give him. Tired, he goes to bed, in the evening an aunt comes to them and kisses a sleepy man in bed. He forgets about the girl. It takes two weeks and two months. His relatives decide to marry him. They choose a bride, marry, and set a wedding day. SI knows everything, she cries, makes the guy fall and dislocated his leg. They send him for a doctor, and the innkeeper's maid says she'll heal him faster. This is what happens. The guy asks what to reward her with. She doesn't want anything but asks to be invited to the wedding. The wedding day is coming. She bites through a golden nut, takes out her gold clothes and comes to the wedding. The young ones are just about to get married. But when a young woman sees an innkeeper's maid, she refuses to get married until she gets the same dress. They start looking for silver clothes. They cannot find it anywhere and have to buy it from the maid, they promise to pay her dearly. She doesn't want anything, she asks permission to be with her young man. XI kisses the guy, talks about everything, but he doesn't remember anything. A servant hides under the bed and hears what the girl said. "I've saved your life six times and you've forgotten it all! But it's not all gone. At dawn, I'll be cuckoo at your house, and then you'll see me, then you'll recognize me..." She's going home. The servant crawls out from under the bed, tells the young master what he has heard. After that, the guy remembers everything. In the morning he goes out into the yard, sees a cuckoo, and immediately recalls SI. But the cuckoo is flying away. The count's son is going to travel. The bride is told that they will not get married, she can marry someone else. He orders iron tables from the master and goes around the world. Looking for a betrothed for seven years. One day he sits under the willow, looks - the tables are torn. She thinks this is the only place she should be if his tables are broken. The cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo cucko The guy says it's his Ilonka. The bird says it's his. He calls her to his place. She asks you to be afraid she won't invite her aunt to the wedding, who kissed him. He takes an oath. Then she flies off and becomes a girl. The guy is happy, takes her hand and brings her to his parents. They're getting married and living happily ever after]: Lintour 1979:121-129.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Rumei (a handwritten text in Rumei, kept in the library with. Yalta, Pershotravnevy district, Donetsk region) [the old woman walked and held a pot of water in her hands; the prince threw a pebble and broke the pot; the water spilled; the old woman said: "Love for three oranges"; the prince grew up and always remembered these words, they did not give peace to him; when he became a young man, he decided to go in search of three oranges; people said that they were very far away and well guarded; the prince found and took three oranges {without details}; on the way home I decided to cut one of them; a beautiful woman came out from there, said: "Water, water," and then turned into a bird and flew away; the prince cut the second orange, the situation repeated; the prince came to the well, cut a third orange; a girl who was more beautiful than the first two came out; she asked for water, the prince gave it to her; the girl said that she was his fate; the prince told her: "Climb a tree, I I'll go home, gather my matchmakers and come back for you"; the royal maid came for water; looked into the well and saw a beautiful woman sitting in the water; the maid said, "Put your hair down, I I'll see them, you've been sitting here for so many days, I guess you've worn them up"; the girl let her hair loose; the maid climbed upstairs, stabbed the girl, put her clothes on and sat in a tree instead of her; the girl turned into the bird flew away; the prince returned with his matchmakers, mistook the maid for an orange girl; asked why she had become ugly; the maid replied: "You have been gone so long, I turned black in the sun"; the prince believed her, married her; the bird began to fly in and sit on the trees; the tree she sat on dried up; all the trees were so dry; the maid knew she said to the prince: "Catch this bird, kill it, I will kill it I'll cook it and we'll eat it"; he did it; the wife took the bones and buried them near the threshold; a tree grew out of them; when the king, queen or prince came out into the yard, it hugged them with branches; when the prince's wife - her branches were beaten and burned; she told the prince to cut down this tree; he did it; the wind picked up one branch and threw it by the road; the old woman picked up this branch, brought it home, put it behind the icon; when the old woman left from home, the branch turned into a girl and did everything around the house; the old woman decided to find out who it was; hid and saw the girl; she told her everything; the old lady said, "I'll go to the king, get their shirts, and you You will sew them"; the girl sewed shirts for the king and queen that it was not clear that their hand had touched them, and sewed their daughter-in-law's shirt with stubble from a pig; the old woman took the shirts to the king and told them who sewed them ; the prince came to her house, recognized the girl and took her with him; then asked the maid: "Wife, what do you want - forty knives or tie you to forty horses?" ; she replied: "Forty horses"; the prince tied her by forty horses; where her body hit, there were beams and hills; the prince married an orange girl; "They still live and reign"]: Intervalskaya et al. 2001; Crimean Tatars [the tsar, returning from hunting, found a baby under the oak tree; gave him the name Gamber; he has his own daughter Arzu; the children played together, the ball rolled, broke the old witch's dishes; she said that G. was not the king's own son, ordered G. and A. to fall in love with each other, suffer forever and never unite; the children stopped going to school and indulged in outpourings of feelings; the king drove G. away, turned him into a shepherd; G. drove the herd to A.'s window; then the king ordered G. to leave the country; G. put on ugly clothes and hired a guard in the garden of Bey Sultan; once he bathed and the Sultan's daughter saw him handsome; promised to help him unite with A.; at her instigation, the Sultan put G. at the head of the army to forcibly obtain A.; the old woman told G. that A. died, showed grave: "Arzu, who died of love for G."; G. fell dead; a shepherd who saw this killed an old woman; buried both; a thorn grew out of the old woman's grave, separating the graves of G. and A.; travelers are trying to snatch her out, but it grows thicker and taller]: Kondaraki 1875, No. 1:34-41 (=1883a: 1-3); Crimean Tatars [the boy Symail is diligent at school, but sad; once he threw a stone into a glass of water he carried an old woman; she predicted that he would have difficulties and would not soon achieve what he wanted; in a dream, an elder came to S., left a portrait of Ismikan Sultan; at the same moment, the elder dreamed of the IS herself, left her portrait of S. SEE came to the mountain, where there are three peri; they call him Karaja Oglan {then only this name is used} and demand an answer as to which of them is more beautiful; if KO named one of them, they would kill him, but he replied that no one can be singled out; Peri showed the way to IS; they met; KO surprised the wise men with his learning and others by playing saz; bey, the father of IS, is outraged that KO sings about love for his daughter, but Pasha is his protects, paid dowry for him, gave him a palace; a wedding; Pasha tells KO to come to him in 7 days, but he remembered it only on the fortieth day; Pasha wanted to execute him, then captivate him for 40 years, but in finally forgave; but when IS was sleeping, a servant lay down on her, on top of the blanket; IS did not notice anything, but KO came in, saw the servant, cursed IS, went to wander; the curse of KO made IS fall, from her There was a stench; the clerk, whom IS's father expected to be her husband, went to look for KO, because only he could remove his own curse; together they found IS in the form of a seriously ill beggar; KO apologized IS entered the water, recovered; wedding 40 days and nights]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 73; Abkhazians [father died during a raid; boy smashed his neighbor's jug with an arrow; she tells him to know better where the brothers died his father; he tells his mother to bake a chorek, puts a hot chorek on her hands, making her tell her where his father's brothers have gone; she says that after bringing his father's coffin, the brothers went somewhere; he went to look for them, found them sitting under a tree covered with lice; they were ashamed, they decided to destroy him by sending him water to the river; he defeated the monster, it turned into a girl, she said she was freeing the river, gave gold goblet; the young man and his uncles returned home, the king found out about the goblet, demanded the same 12; the old woman says that the king sends guards to his son's grave, but they all die, her son's turn; the young man goes by himself, sees how a girl came down from the cloud, revived the prince with a whip, went with him into the forest; the young man stole the whip, publicly revived the prince, and then the other dead; people across the river are starving, there is drought and crop failure; when they send a ship with food, a bull's head sticks out of the water, stops it with its teeth stabbed; the young man pulled them out, the ship sailed on; the young man comes to the castle, there are three beds, he hides under one; three sisters enter, they are grateful to the one who freed them from evil, forcing them to kill those who came to the river, kill the prince and hold the ship; the young man takes his younger sister, the older two for him uncle; he gives the king gold cups and receives the throne]: Shakryl 1975, No. 20:87-93; Ossetians: Dzagurov 1973, No. 32 [Aldar has 3 daughters, he keeps them in an iron tower; later son Soslanbek was born; daughter the witch widow went to get water; S. fired an arrow and broke her jugs; the widow teaches the girl to say to S. next time: he would find it better than her sisters; the mother had to confess, S. came to the sisters, they asked him to beg his parents to let them go to church for the feast; after the service, three monsters kidnapped the girls; parents told S. to find them; while S. was sleeping, an elephant came out of the river, swallowed S.'s horse and told him sit on it; consistently brings him to his three sisters; they give a ring, a knife, a purse to call them if necessary; S. refuses to marry beauties whose portraits show and achieves to be shown a hidden portrait; the father-in-law of the sisters S. is the dragon Zaliag Kalm; he sleeps surrounded by an iron fence with his body; S. cut the dragon, entered to meet his daughter, beautiful Sugar; she added him sleeping pills, ordered him to be thrown into the tower; S. summoned the horsemen from the ring, they released him, but when they saw Sugar, S. lost consciousness and Sugar took his ring; the same with the knife; the heroes came out of his wallet, and S. hid it in advance; after that, Sahar agreed to become S.'s wife; ordered not to unlock the seventh room; S. unlocked, the giant Khatag-Barag and his horse chained there; HB asks to throw them bread and hay, promises to provide three services; after being released, HB took Sugar; S. comes to her three times and takes her away, but HB catches up each time; for the fourth time he chopped S. into pieces; his sisters caught a crow; told his mother to bring living water, otherwise they would tear the crow to shreds; having revived S., the sisters ordered him to get the half-brother of the horse HB; the owner of the herd orders him to herd him without loss: either he would give the horse or cut off the shepherd's head; S. wanted to kill the ways, but let the wolf, fox and wasp go; each of them gathers a herd in the evening; the mare must give birth, the witch beat her; in revenge, the mare told S. that it is necessary to choose that foal, whom she will give birth, although he seems weak; the foal tells you to wait three days, becomes a heroic horse; tells you to get into one ear, get out of the other - S. became a hero in a golden robe; S. took away Sugar; when HB caught up and took off to hit S. from above, S.'s horse was taller and S. killed HB; everything is fine]: 80-91; Miller 1881, No. 15 (Digors) [Rostom and Bezan are from the Sanuasov family, B. - younger; The brothers were told that Angel's iron-nosed pigs were ruining their garden (vineyard); B. leaves; pregnant wife: how do you know if there will be a boy or a girl? B.: if a boy, where will I go, there will be arrow tree shoots; a boy was born, grew up quickly; the witch's daughter carried a bucket of water; he punched the bucket with an arrow; a witch's daughter: if you are so good, why did the louse eat your father; the mother admitted that the boy had a father; you must walk along the shoots of a arrow tree; when he saw an unfamiliar boy at his tent, B. crept up and shot; dying, the boy said that he was B.'s son; because of grief, B. made himself an underground dwelling and stayed there for almost a year; when three days were left, Syrdon said: For the sake of one child, why are you sitting under the ground? B. went out; if he had waited three more days, the boy would come to life]: 79; (cf. Ingush [Temurko Vedigov, a resident of the village of Surkharkhi, told Daniil Kotiev the story of a Galgai citizen 140 years old; when he was 10 years old, he and other boys began to throw pebbles at the old woman; she said: To be under Russian rule!] : Dalgat 2004:128); Nogais [Bozakbay tells Kazynbay to shoot the hare, but he refuses: the hare is pregnant like his wife; B.'s wife is also pregnant, gives birth to a son Boztokli, and K.'s wife is a daughter Kiyvaseker, friends agree to marry them in the future; B. died, Kazynbay's family migrated; Boztokli threw an alchik under the woman's feet, she fell, spilled milk, scolded Boztokli: he lost his father and his bride lost; Boztokli asks his mother to fry millet, pressed her hand with a hot spoon, her mother admits that her son has a betrothed; on the way, Boztokli greets seven mounds, addressing each "Gray Head"; at the well, she throws a ring into the jug of the maid Kiyvaseker; the bride recognizes Boztokli; they want to pass her off as a hero who sleeps for seven days, she offers to run; near Boztokli's house, she leaves the bride for a tree, goes to her mother; Kiyvaseker sees the reflection of the khan's maid who has come for water, takes it for her own; then she notices K., offers to go down to look in her head, pushes her into the well, sat down on herself a tree with two children (i.e. babies K. gave birth to); replies that her nose stretched out while she cried, her hands became rough because she climbed the tree and climbed back waiting, etc.; servant B. finds K., hears her song talking about what happened; the servant goes home twice to tell everything, but each time he forgets; the third time she tears his hat on purpose so as not to forget; the soothsayer tells B. to dig from A hole in the well, put the children in it, they will cry, K. will come out of the well; B. grabbed K.; asked the maid if she wanted 40 legs or a killing knife; she chose legs, she was tied to the tails of 40 horses]: Nogai 1979, No. 19:102-109; Georgians: Kurdovanidze 1988, No. 32 (Kartli) [the prince, out of mischief, shoots at the jug of an old woman carrying water; the jug has crashed; the offended old woman tells the prince to fall in love with the sister of nine devas; his peer son of an old woman (SS) is walking with him; the mother of the devas asks to raise the millstones, wants to run over the SS, as if he accidentally knocks out her millstone teeth; one of her fang pierced the underworld the other rests on the sky; the devas give their sister to the prince; he takes her key, finds the locked Kremen-deva; he grabs the prince's wife, flies away; the SS takes water bread as his companions ( drinks the river), a rumor (listens to the war of ants), eyed (a year watches the arrow fly), tearing mountains, running from a millstone on his feet; they find Kremen-deva, descend the SS to him underground; kidnapped finds out where he keeps his soul (a deer, a roe deer, a hare, a casket, three chicks); the SS kills a deva, frees horses and women, devas feast at a wedding, the prince reigns], 34 (record area not specified) [the princess was kidnapped ; a mighty forest man saw two devas fighting, killed both, the princess stayed with him; when she became pregnant, the forest man sent her to her father, giving a ring for her son to be born; the boy was named Christagan; he became a tariel hero; out of mischief, he pierced the old woman's jug with an arrow; she scolded: he put on a ring, but the former Tariels did not have rings in mind; H. tells his mother to talk about her father; unrecognized, fighting a forest man; he killed him, and then found his ring in his pocket; wept; God had mercy, sent a dove to put a handkerchief over H.'s face, he came to life; the forest man sent X. to become Tariel Beltagan's friend; they fraternized, killed giants in the fortress, freed the princess; H. gave her to Beltagan; she gave X. vestments in three types: gold, silver, copper; H. left B. daggers: if he fails, he is in trouble; H. changed clothes with the shepherd; hired first as a groom, then as a cook, then as a gardener; now his name is Kochora; the youngest of the three princesses noticed that he is a hero; at the feast she gave him an apple; the king placed them in a stable; the king fell ill, he would be cured by the insides of a wild boar; K. killed a wild boar on a heroic horse in a silver robe; gave it to his elder son-in-law, for which he tore off his fingernail from his little finger; the king is worse; he needs reindeer milk; K. in a golden dress cut off his middle son-in-law's ear; smashes the enemy, the king bandaged his finger with his handkerchief; everything was clarified; K.'s wife swam in the sea, her hair swam away; The prince of the overseas kingdom picked him up, sent him to K. an old woman; she persuaded K.'s wife to ask her husband what his soul was; in the thick hair on his head; the old woman tore him out, threw him into the sea; B. realized that H. was in trouble, found hair, put H. on her head; the old woman was tied to the horse's tail; there was even bird's milk at the wedding]: 83-94, 98-114; Megrelians [Marganiev's three brothers leave successively, everyone tells me to wait his 3 years old; they don't come back; the youngest's wife gave birth to a son, Jimsha; he grew up, threw a stone into a woman's jug and smashed it; woman: you would know better where your father and uncles are; mother and aunts denied everything; D. again broke the woman's jug, she repeated what she had said; his mother had to let D. go; he caught up, took the Black Horseman as his companion; he still strives to steal cattle and return; we reached the Lom-Tariel herd; there is a black , white and red horses, they try to escape, but the evil stallion does not let him in; D. hacked the stallion, then three brothers, drove them away by a herd, then sheep and oxen; gave everything to Black, keeping only his father's horses and uncle; Cherny gave him his daughter, D. promised to come in 3 years; killed other suitors at races; wedding; after Black's death, D. inherited his kingdom; three apples fell from the sky: one to the audience, another to me, the third to pass silently]: Gachava et al. 1890:16-22; Megrelia [poor Geria's handsome and strong son ("little wolf") shot an old woman's jug and smashed it; old woman: I wish you would be better got the only sister of 12 demi living in 12 mountains; G. went in search, taking the dog Mathikochi with him; when he crossed 6 mountains, the trees began to fall; voice: only G.; G.: it's me and it is; rokapi (witch family): sorry for you, they did not return from there; G. drove 6 more mountains, followed by her older sister Rokapi; she gave her three-legged horse; Demi's horse tells me to turn the cauldron over; Demi's sister agreed to marry G.; horse: seeing the cauldron upside down, Demi will be surprised and frightened, because they are all barely able to turn it over; Demi gave sister G., but warned that the Black King would not want to give it back; G. easily destroyed the CC army, and then engaged in combat with his terrible assistant Qvamuritz Khami; he killed him; G.'s wife demanded three months of delay; otherwise let the CC fight her herself ; ChC was frightened and agreed; G.'s parents went to look for him; saw how some snakes killed others, and then two snakes revived those killed with living water from the river; G.'s mother collected water, M.'s dog brought him to his son's body and she revived him; he met a huge boar, fought with him for a long time and cut it in half; a wild goat jumped out of the boar, G. killed her; there was a box in the goat, three swallows in it; G. killed two, the third grabbed; at this time QK was fighting in agony; G. killed the swallow, QK died; G. destroyed everyone in the royal palace and returned home with his wife]: Wardrobe 1894, No. 3:118-124; Armenians: Epiphany 1894, No. 4 [ the poor man with his pregnant wife and daughter set off; the wife gave birth to a boy and left him in the steppe; he was raised by a lioness; the king first sent warriors, but the boy killed them; then he was lured with sugar and raisins ; the king had a son Rustem Zal, and the king called the adoptive player Rustem Gul; WG tore off one boy's head to play ball with it; the king ordered him to be given a golden ball; one day the ball rolled into an old woman's jug; WG broke a jug, an old woman told him to fall in love with a beauty with 40 golden braids; the king gave him her portrait; WG and RZ went in search; they come to the giant's castle, RZ is terrified, and WG eats pilaf with a man; enters a seven-headed giant with one eye in the middle head; WG kills him; the same in the palace of a three-headed giant; a one-eyed giant with one head agreed to help; gave a horse, teaches him to enter the castle quietly beauties; WG takes her away, returns to the king, marries her; RZ, out of envy, tells him to dazzle and leave him in the forest; the dove drops two feathers, with their help WG inserts his torn eyes, but accidentally swapping them; under the guise of a dervish, the RG returns to the palace, the tsar handed him the throne]: 181-193; Nazinyan 1969 [the prince let the top go, he broke the old woman's jug; she told the prince to fall in love with the beautiful woman Pomegranate Seed; the prince went in search, chased the doe, she whizzed into the hut, there were no doors or windows, he cut the wall; on the bed a grenade, the prince cut a grenade, the princess came out; her kidnapped the three-headed Khovt, his soul in three birds, the birds in the box; the prince took the box, went first to kill three devas who fought hoft for the princess; the prince killed the devas first, and then cut the box and killed the birds, the hoft died; wedding; three apples fell from the sky]: 144-147; Turks: Tsvetinovich 1959 [=Dmitriev 1967, No. 62:331-340; Shahzade breaks an old woman's jug three times out of mischief; she tells him to fall in love with Seilemez Sultan ("the one that does not speak"); shahzade and his old educator servant come to S.'s country; on the mountain, stones and earth sparkle like the sun: this sparkle of S. makes its way from under her 7 veils; they come to the fortress from the skulls of those who failed to get S. to talk; the nightingale tells him to hide it under a bench, supposedly start talking to the bench; next time with a shelf, and the third time with the door; after S. interferes with the conversation three times, saying who the woman should belong to; the father gives her to shahzadeh; 1) the secret knows that the padishah's daughter is sick, the doctor prepares medicine, the speedboat delivers him; 2) one woman has three lovers, she tells the first to lie in the grave, for her supposedly dead father, a sorcerer, got up from her (etc.); 3) one carved the woman out of wood, the other dressed her, the third revived (it must go to the reviver)]: 154-164; Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 5 [at the source, Bey's son's horse steps on the witch's foot, she tells the young man to fall in love with the cucumber girl (OD); the father sends him after her; at night, the young man overhears how the owner explains to his daughter what to do; 1) give milk to the lion, meat to the tiger, chewing gum to the witch; 2) the source from which the blood and pus flow, tell him how he is clean, drink three handfuls; 3) split off a pine chip, give it and all your gold to the giantess while the giants are sleeping (their eyes are open); the giantess will give three cucumbers; three girls inside the cucumbers; open the cucumbers where there is water, otherwise the girls will die of thirst; giants tell creatures and objects to stop the young man, they say they are grateful to him; two girls died of thirst; the third waited for the young man on the poplar until he arranges a wedding; the ugly maid saw a reflection in the source, decided it was her own; next time she asks how OD got in; Putting eggs one on top of the other; then OD told the tree to bend down; the maid said that she was now her mother; looking in her hair, she pulled out the hair of life; OD fell, sesame grew up in that place; the maid explained to the young man who came that she was fool from the frost and the sun; the young man attached a sesame to his hat; married a maid, who asked her to throw sesame into the fire, two pigeons flew out of there; resin to the branches, the pigeons stuck, they were slaughtered, poplar grew out of blood; from it they made a cradle for the maid's son; an old woman picked up one sliver; in her absence, the sliver turns into OD, cleans the house; the old woman grabs her, adopts her; in hunger, Bey's son distributes his horses; where OD steps, green grass grows, the horse eats it; the rest of the horses starved; the young man comes for him, the girl speaks in riddles; he returns, she tells everything; the maid and the child were sent to mountains, the horse threw them into the abyss]: 64-71.

Iran - Central Asia. Tajiks: Amonov 1972:116-126 [the padishah sends his elder, then middle son, to guard a thief who steals apples; only the youngest son from his youngest wife does not fall asleep, tears off the tail of a fiery bird; playing with money, she 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 whoever goes to the left will return, 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; each time he asks if the horse was bipedal, without legs, etc.; the young man every time 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 out of the country of Chin; the wolf tells him not to take harness, the young man takes, the padishah Chin orders to bring Padishah Machin's daughter; the wolf gets everything, puts the guards to sleep each time, the young man returns on horseback with the girl; the wolf is going to stab a girl, a horse, a bird with a dagger; everyone gets poison from his mouth ; brothers cut the young man to pieces, take everything away; the girl promises to marry the padishah when her severed braids grow; the wolf resurrects the young man, who wears a bull rennet, is hired as a servant to the cook; sister and the bride recognizes him, the brothers are driven away, the young man marries, receives his father's throne], 203-214 [when a childless padishah had a son, he adopted a shepherd's son born on the same day; the prince shot chicken; when she fell, she smeared the old woman's threads, she told the prince to fall in love with Farishtamoh, who lives at sunset; the prince and the shepherd's son go in search, stay with the old woman; half of the city is flooded at night with light: F. looked in this direction; F. sets the condition: to sit quietly at night without falling asleep or letting her fall asleep; the padishah's son falls asleep, next time the shepherd's son goes; brings a doll and starts with her talk, answering for her in a thin voice; 1) the pharaoh's daughter fell ill; the fortuneteller found out about this, the master made a flying horse, the witch doctor cured, who to give the girl to? F. intervenes in the dispute: give the girl to the witch doctor; 2) the nightingale asks the padishah to let him go out of the cage for two days, promises to bring an apricot seed from which a tree with the fruits of immortality will grow; performs promised; the gardener brought an apricot that fell to the ground; it was given to an old man who died; the padishah executed a nightingale; but another old man ate an apricot and became younger; it turned out that a snake had injected venom into the fallen fruit; F.: most of all the padishah is to blame; 3) (the third story is about a girl married to an unloved one); F. married a shepherd, and the padishah's son went home and never married]; Tajiks [viziers did not find the most beautiful padishah a woman in the world; he himself met her in the shepherd's house; she gave birth to his son Salim; before his maturity, the padishah decided to leave with his wife, leaving the state in the care of the vizier of his right hand; S. is growing rapidly; to eliminate him and take the throne for himself, the vizier sent the old woman to where S. played with money; the lead broke the spinning wheel; the old woman called S. rootless: the vizier is not his father; S. went in search of the real father; meets a man with 7 millstones in his hands: I'm going to fight S. S.: I am brother S., defeat me; S. knocked him down and wanted to behead him, but he promised to become his friend; the same with the hero who threw plane trees; with the Drinker; Salim was not given pilaf at the bazaar, he scattered local strongmen; the padishah was frightened, gave him his daughter, S. gave her Millbearers; gave her a cup of milk: if it turns red, we must hurry to help; in another city, a dragon has appeared in the house, demands daily man and bull, it was the turn of the royal daughter; S. dozed off, the girl's tear woke him up; he ripped the dragon with a dagger; the padishah gave S. a daughter (proof that he is a hero: only S. was able to lift the dragon's body) ; S. gave it to Chinaro-bearer (the same as with the Millbearer); in the third city, the padishah is a girl; she executes those who did not complete the task; fly on horseback without spilling milk (some spilled, but S.'s tear was filled the pot again and the girl did not notice); a chest with two pearls fell into the river, we had to get it (the river drinker drank the river); spend the night in the glacier; J. and C. saw that the milk turned red, they hurried to help, C. lit a huge fire from plane trees, S. slept through the night; grind 20 bags of grain in a day; J. performed; the girl married S., but he gave it to the Drinker and went to look for parents; river, island, palace, divas there; S. won and killed him; in the palace, the kidnapped daughter of the padishah; S. brought her to her father, who passed her off as S.; they went to look for S.; the fisherman is fishing with a net; this is the father; everything is fine]: Amonov 1961:323-336; Persians [the padishah has 40 wives, all infertile; he promises to fill one pool with honey, the other with oil if a son is born; the fortieth wife gave birth, the boy is 18 years old, fills the padishah pools so that everyone could take honey and oil; the old woman leaned down to get oil, the padishah's son shot her with a pebble from a sling, the bowl broke, the oil poured out; the old woman cursed him: let him go get Pomeranian girl; mother to prince: there is a garden on the mountain, where girls are in Pomeranians, but they do not return from there; the old man shows the way; the diva tells you to change the horse to a tied black, throw the game to the dragon, take Pomeranians, ignoring the divas, rush back, get the horse back; a girl comes out of every Pomeranian, asks for water or bread, dies; a diva woman: asks for bread, give me water; the last girl stayed, the prince went to get her clothes, the girl stayed in the tree; the black maid saw her reflection; first she thinks it's hers, then hears laughter, looks up; cuts off the girl's head, occupies her place, answers the prince that it turned black in the sun, the wind blew away the braids; an orange tree grew out of Pomeranz's blood, the prince transplanted it into the palace; the imaginary wife orders to make a board out of it; the old woman took it a branch, made a spindle; someone cleans her house; an old woman finds a girl; the doctor advises wearing a mirror chain around the prince's neck; a Pomeranian girl says she can do one; tells her the story, showing everything in the mirror; everything is fine; the liar is offered a sword or horse, she chooses a horse, she is tied by her braids to a horse, allowed into the steppe]: Rosenfeld 1956:164-174; Bukhara Arabs [Jew -the lender demands that Bobo Ravshan either return the money, or his daughter, or convert to his faith; Aliy transfers BR to another country, orders him to sell for 1000 gold; the king buys, tells the slave 1) defeat the hero (A. kills him), 2) kill the dragon and dam the river (man sees A. cutting through and carrying the mountain), 3) bring A. in chains; A. tells slaves to shackle him, breaks chains, kills the king's warriors; the king accepts Islam, A. gives her daughter; when he leaves, he tells him to name the boy Imam Mehdi; IM throws an iron ball, breaking the old woman's spinning wheel, she calls him faultless; he tells his mother to heat the oil, puts her hand in the oil, puts her hand in the oil, making him say who his father is; not knowing who he is, he defeats A.'s two eldest sons and fights him himself; when he finds out that he fought with his father, he hides inside the mountain; God answers A. that IM will come out and conquer the world, will rule for 40 years, after which the world will end]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 45:281-286; Uzbeks: Afzalov et al. 1972 [Padishah Adylkhan has 39 sons with 39 wives; he takes another one, from her son Bektemir, only he is strong and has studied martial art well; threw a heavy gold core; it broke the old woman's spinning wheel; she advises him to marry Okbilyak, the daughter of the padishah of Egypt; he leaves on Tarlanbuze's horse; takes him away O., her father pursues; B. kills his warriors, but he is killed with a dagger; T. takes O. to B.'s homeland; the old woman casts a spell, 39 sons of A. died, and B. was resurrected]: 328-338; Sheverdin 1967 [the old man gave iahu and He ordered the vizier to give an apple to his wives; one would give birth to a boy named Tahir, the other a 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 and ordered her to be killed; 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 it is better to have fun with your named Zukhra; mother had to tell everything; T. clings to Z. at school; they built a wall between them; T. made a hole; they grew up and fell in love; the Shah tells T. to let T. down to the chest on the river, Z. managed to give gold with her; Shah Rum's daughters caught him; 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 a caravan-bashi to look for him; he 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 ahead; they mistaken for robbers, put him 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. too killed himself to be buried between them; a red rose grew above T.'s grave, a white rose rose above Z.'s grave, with a thorn between them; roses stretched out and intertwined branches]: 27-35; Pashayas [King Khūnkhā r ("bloodthirsty"; all names are in Persian, not Pashaya) promises Shamāili's daughter ("northern") and her throne to whoever hits the drum and sees his daughter; six sons of King Nā mazlūm ("harsh") consistently go to marry her, they cannot see her, they are hanged; the seventh son was a baby; the boy smashed an old woman's jug with a slingshot, she said that his six brothers hanged; the father assured that the boy had no brothers; when the boy Jallat Khān became a young man, he found out that the old woman had told the truth; he came to the city of King Hunhar, hired a sculptor; his wife was preparing flowers for Shamaili; Jallat Khan made a wreath, S. asks who made it, the woman replies that her bald daughter is; J. orders him to be taken to Sh., covered with a blanket; returning, asks the sculptor to make a statue, how he, J., gets inside; the sculptor tells the statue to dance in front of the king, the statue with J. inside dances; S. asks for the statue to be sent; on the first night, J. quietly changed rings with S. with capes, on the third, S. told him to open, became his wife; gave her hair; her father would order him to break the cast-iron cauldron, this hair would help break; J. breaks the cauldron, leads the executions to where Sh. ; the king is convinced that J. has completed the tasks, gives his daughter and the throne; J. blinds him as punishment for the death of his brothers]: Morgenstierne 1944, No. 2:6-17.

Baltoscandia. Karely (Kalevalsky District) [the husband went to the forest, took aim at the Vuoka bird; she asks not to shoot, but to bring and feed him for a year; so three times; explains that she was wounded when she fought with a capercaillie; when a bird has recovered, tells a cow to be slaughtered, meat should be taken with it, it will bear it for a reward; over the sea it dumps and picks up a person three times so that he feels the same fear as she did when he entered it aimed; the bird consistently stops with its three sisters in a copper, silver, golden house; only a sister from the golden house agrees to give the box with the key; when flying away, the veika hits its wings, copper and silver houses burn down; the man opens the box on the way, countless goods fall out; the giant demon puts everything back for promising to give what was born in his house during the man's absence; it turns out that a boy was born and has grown up; the boy accidentally broke a pot of soup on the old woman's window; she says that he was promised to an Arab guest, let him go to him; a boy (now more likely a young man) leaves; sees three swans come swimming, take off their clothes, become girls; he hides clothes alone; the girl agrees to take him as a groom; says she was cursed to be the daughter of an Arab guest; a swan took the young man under his wing and brought him to an Arab guest; the young man spent the night with the girl, in the morning she gave him a drink of live water, ordered him to break all the axes and saws that his father would give to prepare a huge the amount of forest; after that, the devil gave his ax, the young man told the demons to do the work; the second task is to dig a giant field on the rock (the same is to break hoes and shovels); the devil tells you to choose a bride among three identical girls; chickens; mares; the girl teaches that she will have a longer tie on her apron; puts her finger aside; puts her back leg aside; the devil offers to ride a horse, it's him; the girl teaches beat the horse with whips and a sledgehammer in the forehead; the beaten devil is sick, the girl tells me to run; they turned into a shepherd and a cow; the priest and the church; the demons did not understand, they returned; when they became a lake and a ruff, he ran himself hell, I tried to drink the lake; the ruff ripped open his belly, the water leaked out, the hell died; the girl sends the guy home, and she must be water for another three years; the young man became a rich merchant, forgot his bride, is preparing a wedding with the princess; the girl comes, offers to buy buns from her; the buyer wants to sleep with her; she tells her to come in the evening; the girl sent her boyfriend for firewood, she stuck to the doorknob all night; The next evening was the same with the second one, who went out to bring a bag of flour; on the third evening, the merchant himself came; she lay down with him, said who she was; they stayed together]: Onegina 2010, No. 16:182-193.

Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars [the padishah has Aigali's youngest son; the herds are missing, two older brothers are going in search; A. plays, threw the golden ball, he punched the bottom of the woman's bucket; she advises you to look better father's cattle; A. chose a shaggy horse Catch up, the wind; comes to the old woman, she sends to another, the other to the third; she tells the diva to cut down two heads, and she will come to cut down the third herself with her sword; a sword for The third head was brought by a fox, A. killed the diva; drove the herds home, met the brothers; they tied his sword to the legs of sleeping A.; he jumped up, was left without legs; an armless man came to him - his brothers cut off his hands out of envy; then came blind (blinded by relatives); he stole the padishah's daughter, she began to cook for the cripples; the fire went out, she came to the witch for fire; as she went back, ash fell out of the sieve; old woman follows the trail, sucks the girl's blood from her finger; the blind and armless guard, afraid to say A.; A. grabbed the old woman, made them swallow and regurgitate, everyone became healthy; the old woman did not regurgitate A., her they chopped them, found A. in her little finger; at home A. showed his father his ring, squeezed water out of the stone; forgave the brothers]: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 42:139-148.

Turkestan. Kazakhs (eastern Kazakhstan) [while hunting, Sarybay asks Karabakh not to shoot at a female maral, because they also have pregnant wives at home; suggests marrying children if one has a son and another daughter; K. had a son, Kozy-Korpesh, S. had a daughter, Bayan-Slu; S. died after falling on a rock; predictor: if newborns get married, they will be unhappy; only brother S. Apsebay insists on marriage; after the death of S.'s wife, power in the family passed into the hands of the adopted Kalmyk Kodar-Kul, he must marry BS; to avoid this, the BS requires Kodar-Kul to count the cattle, he dug wells, dug an artificial lake, smeared the shores with salt; he did everything (now it is lake. Tansyk); Kozy-Korpesh maims peers; throws stones at his grandmother's yarn; she advises him to find his bride better; Kozy-Korpesh put his mother's hand in hot wheat, she had to confess; mother asks a sorceress to prevent her son from going to fight with Kodar-Kul; she creates obstacles (a ferocious camel, a river, a forest), but they disappear because Kozy-Korpesh is not afraid; the witch has become a golden fox, disappeared into a hole; that's it what to put in the hole turns gold; Kozy-Korpesh gilded his hair; met A.; showed him his golden hair - this is the sign of the BS groom; Kozy-Korpesh was hired as a shepherd, opened up to the bride; Kodar-Kula sent Kozy-Korpesh to bring a heavy hammer; he found it and picked it up, but threw it into the lake; Kodar-Kula told the shepherd to get out, he threw it to the ground; Kodar-Kula brought the Kalmyk army; it was defeated, Kodar -Kula is captivated but spared; most of his relatives are on his side; Kozy-Korpesh is hiding; the old woman tortured the starling, forcing him to tell him where Kozy-Korpesh is; he was killed; BS found the body, the old man revived him for three days, The BS promised revenge; lured Kodar-Kulu into the well, ordered him to be thrown with earth and stones; ordered him to erect a high monument over Koza-Korpesh's grave; caravanbashi fell in love with her, his people erected a monument; BS promises to marry whoever jumps down from it; all suitors, including caravanbashi, jumped and crashed to death; BS stabbed and buried with Kozy-Korpesh]: Zhanuzakova 1977:177-197; Karakalpaks [childless ruler: if I have children, I will fill one pool with water and the other with honey; his wife gave birth, the ruler fulfilled his promise, called his son Adisher; one day by the pool, who The ruler arranged, the old woman collected water, and the ruler's son threw stones at her; the old woman to the boy: it would be better if you brought Anargul ("pomegranate flower"); when the young man was 17 years old, he asked that old woman, where to look for A.; she told me to go years without fear of wild animals and go to another old woman; the other sent her to the top of the mountain; there you have to take tulpara, he will travel three months in three days; at the door of A. Aydarhi dragons; a young man walked past them into the garden where a dev slept under a pomegranate tree; tore off 5 grenades, sat on a tulpara and drove away; on the way he cut 4 grenades, 4 of them appeared, asking for water and bread , he gave them as they asked, but they died; he brought the fifth grenade to the old woman; she ordered it to be cut by the water; if she asked for water, give her bread, give her water; the young man brought the girl, had a feast for 40 days ; achieved goals and wishes]: Aimbetov 2014a: 112; (cf. Karakalpaks (Karauzyak District) [{the text is sketchy; the narrator apparently did not remember some details}; the diva approached the Kogyurshin bird sitting on the shore and asked her to transport it across the river; The Kogyurshin bird did this and asked for his only son in return; the diva returned home, did not recognize his son, hit him; before leaving, the boy threw the alchik; he hit the old woman's spinning wheel and broke it; the boy asked the old woman to find him a Kogyurshin bird; the old woman said: "There is one river on the other side, when you go downstream, girls will come and swim when one little girl if you fall behind, you grab this girl; as soon as she says, "My house is on top of that split poplar," that's where you go"; the boy did so, came to the house on top of the poplar; Kogyurshin bird { hereinafter called a dove} said: "Dig a river, my son, dig [day] and night, then my son, build a bridge without supports from the ground and without pendants from the sky, then, my son, build a house that would ring everything time on its own, then build, my son, a garden of wood, a garden of clay and a garden of stone, and I will give you, my son, my daughter; which of my daughters will you take, my son?" {these tasks are not discussed further}; the boy replied that he would take the youngest of his daughters; the kogyurshin bird said he would give her back if the boy killed a diva named Dumalak; the boy did it, received girl; enemies came, surrounded him; he took off his galoshes from his feet, killed all enemies with them; took the girl, rode to his native village; then a yellow bird flew in; the divas drove her away; the boy and his wife stayed in his father's house]: Baskakov 1951:80-81); Uighurs (Khotan) [Ak-Khan and Kara-Khan go hunting; their wives must give birth; A. fell off his horse and died; his wife gave birth to a son named Tira Padishah, wife K. - Zora Khan's daughter; K. raises T. as his son; he plays ball with the boys, the ball breaks the old woman's spinning wheel, she calls him faultless; T. makes his mother admit that K. is not his father; he and Z. fall in love with each other; the enemy has attacked, K. promises a daughter to the one who gets the head of the enemy ruler; T. does this, but the hero slave Qara Bahadur ("black hero") takes possession of her, brings K., gets Z.; K. orders to make a box, put T. in it, drop it down the river; T.'s song addressed to Z. is heard by a merchant, recorded, put it in a jug, the woman brings water to Z., she finds the text; at this time, the box finds the princess of another city; she and her maids care for T.; the vizier suggests testing him: is he from a royal family; each time T. acts like a prince (sits on the throne, in the king's saddle, taking the king's falcon); the princess is married to T.; after a while he decides to find Z., comes, everything is explained; gets the throne and Z.; (and apparently stays with two wives); KB expelled]: Jarring 1946:3-34.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. South Altai Tuvans [Bai Nasar's 8 sons drove 800 horses and did not return; when BN and his wife ate horse breast, his wife gave birth, their son was named Er Töstük ("brisket man"); he grew up; one old woman was weaving, he stepped on a thread and tore it; the old woman told him to look for his brothers better; the father said he had no brothers, he was deceived; another old woman's grandson pulled ET's bow, ET hit him, the boy died; and this old woman told him to find his brothers better; ET found brothers first and then horses, they returned home; BN went to look for 9 sisters for their wives; found; their father did not order on the way back to spend the night at the Salt Well (Chushurlug Chuduk), but BN did not heed the warning of her younger sister destined for ET and spent the night there; she sent a man to her father asking for she had a hemp shirt and the best mare and camel for ET; he did not want to, but gave it back; in the morning there was no mare; BN went to the Saltwell for the night: the mare was there, and next to the jelbeg, covered herself with one ear, she put the other under herself; BN asks to give the camel; jelbege says she can't get up, let BN come up, she grabbed it, threatens to eat it, refuses to let him go in exchange for his 8 She agrees to let go of sons, for 800 horses, if he gives ET; BN promises to leave his son's triangular file at the jelbig, with which he sharpens arrows; says he forgot and sends ET for him; the bride ET talks about everything; he asks his father which horse to ride; BN: sit on a six-legged and take an eight-legged with you; bride: no, sit on the horse my father gave me, wear that hemp shirt; 8- and 6-legged horses won't last 6 and 8 years; when ET sits on a horse, he tells you to shout to Jelbig: What kind of children do you have behind your back? she will look around, grab the file and jump away; they run away and find themselves in the underworld of the serpent Bobbuk Khan; the horse tells you not to be afraid of snakes that crawl inside ET and go out; because ET was not afraid, two snakes turned into khans; ET says he came to get Temir Khan's daughter for Bobbuk Khan; he is happy and lets him go; ET meets people, everyone answers (at first not understanding who is in front of him) that he would like to become ET's companion; the first knows how to catch birds on the fly; the second hears everything; the third eats a lot; the fourth drinks and pours the sea back; T. will give his daughter to the winner; ET the mare wins the run; the mountain carrier wins the fight; eats the most; drinks three sips, but the sea level has fallen by only three fingers; the ET horse dives: if black blood flows, he died, and if colorless, he took out a cauldron; first colorless blood rises, then black blood rises, but then the horse swam out, brought a cauldron; the listener heard that T. was going to burn the heroes in the house; a mountain raiser turned the house upside down, they went out unharmed; T. ordered to serve the poisoned meat, the heroes changed their portions and portions of the khan's subjects, they died; ET brought daughter T. Bobbuk Khan; he gave a girl to Chünkee and five men in return; on the way, the men died; ET and her girl spent the night under the larch; it rained, and Khan Gärdi birds in a tree A snake crawled; ET shot the snake with a bow; in the morning hail began and Khan Gerdi flew in; when she found out what had happened, she carried ET with girl S. and the horse to the ground; but Jeelbege's son Schojun Gulak (SG) was already waiting there; he took C. and the horse and pushed ET into the hole; the horse managed to throw a flint into the pit; ET cut out the fire, burned the pen given to him by Han-Gerdy, who appeared, lowered its wing into the hole, and ET got out of it; ET and C. agreed that ET will hide under the cradle in which C.'s son is from SG; she will stab the baby, he will cry, SG will begin to ask why; C.: the baby says he is ET's son, not SG, since SG does not want to leave him around with him his soul (the receptacle of life); SG whispers to the baby (and ET hears) where his soul is; 70 moose will come to the Saltwell, inside a brown box, in a shower box; ET is waiting (moose are afraid to approach, but SG calms down: he killed ET), ripped open the brown man's stomach, 9 birds in the box; he killed 8, left one, came to the SG, began to fight him, ordered C. to kill the ninth; there were 9 birds in the box again, but C. killed everyone and SG died ; his son jumped up, but ET threw him into a 70-planted hole; when ET returned home, making a camel, as predicted, gave birth to a camel; the bride waiting for ET became 15 years old again; holiday]: Taube 1978, No. 37:192-206.