K123A. The broken jug. .13.-.17.21.23.27.-.32.

A boy or boy accidentally, and more often out of mischief, breaks or turns the vessel of a woman or girl. This episode is the basis for the rest of the story.

Kordofan, Berbers of Morocco, Kabilas, Arabs of Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Sicilians, Sardinians, Italians (Tuscany, Campania), Maltese, French, Palestinians, Arameans, Arameans, Arabs of Syria, Iraq, Tibetans, Bhillas, Agaria, Oraons, Baiga, Moldovans, Greeks, Ukrainians (Transcarpathia), Rumei, Crimean Tatars, Ossetians, Nogais, Abkhazians, Georgians, Megrelians, Armenians, Turks, Persians, Paryas, Pashayas, Baluchis, Pashtuns, Karelians, Kazan Tatars.

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 have 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. The Berbers of Morocco (Taroudant, Chelh'a dialect) [Garun er Rashid (GR) forbade going out after dark; one day, together with the vizier, he went to the city at night; they came to the flatbread shop, a lute can be heard from there; inside a glass palace; the man explains that he is playing 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 concluded with the daughter of the king of genies, a marriage contract, 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 daughter of the king of the jinns gave jewelry and a sword to her son, whom she gave birth and raised; he is very handsome; playing, he hit an old woman's bucket with a ball; old woman: damn anyone who does not know his own father; the young man told her to tell her who his father; 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 told them to play with them on 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) [Sultan childless, although he has many concubines; he meets a lion in the desert; he gives two apples and two rods; a mare and wife must be beaten with twigs, one apple should be eaten by a mare and the wife; a son and a foal will be born; sultan: let the son choose his own name when he grows up; the boy is strong and ruthless towards his peers; the old woman deliberately brings a pot of soup to make the guy hit him with a ball; it happened; this allows the old woman to say: you are ugly, and you don't even know your name; in the end, the old woman persuaded him to give himself a name that is a whole long phrase; its meaning is that he will get the Sultan's daughter The Sahel; this is the 14th Aisha, she lives on an island from where she goes to the bottom to the palace of the Sultan Father; the first word of the phrase is Atik (hereinafter A.); the Sultan of the Sahel heard about A., feared him, sent letters to his father so that A . arrived; A. came; the sultan gave him poisoned food and put him on a poisoned bed, but the poison does not work on A.; the Sultan sent an army, A. defeated him on his stallion; so several times; accidentally found him entrance to the underground corridor through which he came to Aisha's palace; A. drew up a marriage contract himself; after 9 months a child was born; they came to Father A., the Sultan of the Sahel was powerless to harm them]: El Fasi, Dermenghem 1928:48-58; Kabila [Sultan's son Mohamed kills townspeople; the old woman promises to save the people; brings the jugs to the spring, begins to fill them with acorn shells; M. broke jugs; the old woman tells him to marry Thithbirth - 70 suitors have already died; M. set off, met a fellow traveler; took off the ring from the cannibal's dead son, showed the ruler of the city that demanded the second one the same, M. took it out; on the way they hear a talking bird; when they arrive at T., M. sings the same song as the bird, says he invented it himself; T. demands a bird; M. brings (the bird flew into the cage itself ); Father T. will give her daughter if 1) M. finds her; the bird indicates to M. that she hid under her 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 his companion another woman; the cannibal stole T.; M. came and asked the ogre where his life was; the 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, that promises a herd to someone who will kill his son; a 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]: Rivière 1882:187-192; Algerian Arabs [Sultan raises Ahmed in a closed palace, feeds boneless meat; old Settout says bones taste better than meat; prince orders to bring him bone, but it is impossible to gnaw it; S.: break against the wall, there is a bone marrow 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 the horse, believing that he would fall off him, but A. drove the end to death of many; the wise El-Moudjarrab advises to give him the foal that was born on the same day as A. himself; cousins hated A.; S. promises to help them; places many small wineskins at the well, Ahmed should not give his horse a drink; when he presses his wineskins, S. tells him to fall in love with Rdah; A. fell ill and told the Sultan that the broth prepared by old woman S. will cure him; puts S.'s hand in the hot broth; she is excited to say that R. lives where there are sands and a lot of cattle; on the way, A. sees many dead with their hands tied and with his feet; 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 him 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 alive or dead? - Alive; A. went to see him, captivated him, R. ordered him to be stabbed in front of her eyes; A. took R. home; Uncle A.'s daughter, Nouna, came out to meet Ahmed; when R. saw her, she died (of grief)]: Belamri 1982:87-99; Tunisian Arabs [The prince is handsome, all the young men were jealous of 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 a cure, 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 the ephrit 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 you have to be brave and humble, not arrogant]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 40 in Korovkina MS; 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 her in a dream, the king prepares wells, calling people, the old woman comes when everything is sorted out, collects drops of honey on the walls well; Yu played ball, fell into the old woman's vessels, honey spilled; she wished him to fall in love with Louliyya, Morgan's daughter; the servant explains that L. is beautiful; Yu goes in search; the cannibal sends him to to his brother, he to another, the other to her sister; if she has red chickens and she is tidy up, you can't talk to her, and if her hair is green, her hair is in a mess and her breasts are thrown over her back, then you can; Yu. He sees red chickens first, is silent, then green ones; the cannibal sister tells me to roll the ball, he leads to the palace in the desert; the cannibal asks L. to let her hair down, climbs it; Yu also asks; L. decides run away with Yu; hides it, turning it into a pin; returning to its former appearance, tells things in the room to be responsible for her, throws a needle (a field of thorns), a comb (a bamboo fence), a mirror (lake); the cannibal and his dog they drink, the cannibal bursts, having time to throw pins at L., it turns into a dog, Yu into a lark; they come to mother Yu's house; she finds pins in the dog's head, takes it out, L. takes it out, L. takes it out, takes it out needles from the lark's head, he turns into Yu; wedding]: Scheub 2000:131-132.

Southern Europe. The Sicilians [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 seven years and oil from the other; that's it it 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 the 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 to 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 escape: tell all items are responsible for themselves, take 7 balls of yarn, throw them behind them during the chase; Prince and OB run; the cannibal loses time until all items answer "now"; rushes in pursuit, 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]: Crane 1885, No. 15:72-76; 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-headed dragon outside the gate; a young man cuts heads, picks oranges, revives his {parents?}] : Aprile 2000:273-274; Italians: Basile 2018 (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 one in the woods girl; the witch tells you 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 for a horse and a wagon; the witch tells N. to forget the bride as soon as she kisses someone else; so it happens; the girl is hired to work in the kitchen, creates a pigeon that tells her story; N. all recalls the wedding]: 216-228; 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 melted butter; 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 her story; the husband leaves the witch, brings TT to her parents]: 129-136.

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 go up, fell down and crashed; her body was burned]: Komissarov 1997:55-68.

South Asia. Bhilas [Khumji Thakor and his brother Premlo Nawto waited at the well to smash the jugs of women who would come for water with arrows; Phulmati, the king's wife, came up; when the brothers smashed her a jug, she complained to her husband and he expelled the brothers from his possessions; they contracted to serve King Ujjain; his daughter took the tiger away; K. followed and killed the tiger; when he went down to the well to wash a bloody dagger, his brother P. pushed him into a well and said that he saved the princess; the king said there would be a wedding in six months {text ends}]: Grierson 1907:29-30; agaria [in Bengal three witches lived, including Dhowan Dhobnin; Guru Daugun came there, his 12 boys tried to go to the pond, got entangled in the grass, DD turned them into stones and DG 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 becoming a cat; the boy reports this to Guru Danantar; he, becoming a fly, flies to DD, restores the cat's human appearance, throws rice stone figures, all turned to come to life; DD came, gave rice, it 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, smashed jugs on the heads of seven girls who came for water; they scolded him without a father; his mother told how his father died; the boy did a lot arrows, came to the pond; when the jackal came to drink, did not let him drink, ordered him to bring a 16-horned deer; did not let the chital antelope go; she told the gaura, he rushed at the boy, could not hurt; the boy shot at He killed him; found his father's corpse on his horns; began to cry; Mahadeo and Parvati hear crying in the sky, go down, revive the boy's father]: Elwin 1944, No. 11:39-40 (Zograf translation 1971, No. 19:66-67); baiga [The king and queen are blind and childless; they have a servant of the Baiga; in the forest he overheard the gods talking: the king will have a son; for this news the king gave the baiga half of his kingdom; the Baiga also had a son, they became friends; when women came for water, the two shot to break their jugs; the king gave money to buy brass jugs, but friends started shooting pieces of iron, punching them; then the people told the prince that the son of Baiga goes to his girlfriend; the prince demanded that the baiga be killed; the king put him in a hole, leaving a small hole; another king and his bride passed by; when she saw the prince, she wrote on a stone: Come and get me; it became known that only Baiga could read this inscription; the prince is happy that Baiga was not killed; both went to get Queen Rupaitin (she wrote the inscription); disguised as a beggar, the prince came to the palace, the queen recognized him; the baiga scraped the dirt off the prince's hand, made a snake, she bit the queen, she lost consciousness; Baiga said that only he could bring her back to life - let everyone go; the queen came to life, Prince and Baiga brought her home; prince married her and Baiga married a local girl]: Elwin 1944, No. XV.4:338-342.

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 it from dogs (same thing). The mosquito asks to be released from the web (same thing). 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 woolen 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 Greeks [the old woman cannot cook lentil soup for a long time; when she cooked it, 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; he hides, sees the dragon mother tell A. to let her golden hair down, climbs 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 tells the mother's dragon that her daughter ran away with the prince; her mother chases a bear; A. throws a thin, then a 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 her in the tree, goes to his mother, she will kiss him, he will forget everything; at the prince's wedding, the female bird tells the story of A., and the male replies every time that he does not remember; the prince remembers everything, marries A.]: Megas 1970, No. 22:42-46.

Central Europe. Ukrainians (Gorinchevo, Khust District, Transcarpathia) [the count's son goes hunting every day; wakes up in the morning, opens a window, sees a woman walking down the street, bringing his son to eat in a pot; to check his accuracy, he shoots the pot and breaks it; the woman sees him laughing and says that he barely begged for food for his son; curses the count's son - let him marry only Seipentel Ilone; {further long text, see below. K123}]: Lintur 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 an oak tree; gave the name Gamber; he has his own daughter Arzu; the children played together, the ball rolled and smashed the dishes of an old witch woman; 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 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 Bay Sultan; once his daughter also bathed The Sultan 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 the grave: "Arzu, died of love for G."; G. fell dead; the shepherd who saw this killed the old woman; buried both; a thorn grew out of the old woman's grave, separating the graves of G. and A.; travelers try to snatch her out, but she grows thicker and higher]: Kondaraki 1875, No. 1:34-41; Crimean Tatars [the boy Symail is diligent at school, but sad; once he threw a stone into a glass of water carried by an old woman; she predicted that he will have difficulties and he will not soon achieve what he wants; 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 a 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; the peri showed the way to IS; they met; KO surprised the wise men with his learning and others by playing the saz; bey, the father of IS, is outraged that KO sings about love for his daughter, but his Pasha 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; Ossetians: Britaev, Kaloev 1959 [the widow's seven sons go to face off against the giant; on the way, shepherds gave them a bucket milk, they could not drink even half; they cannot separate two fighting bulls; catch horses in a herd; the giant's wife sees that the brothers are not going straight, but are looking for a ford - an easy life for her husband; in the yard the giant cannot be knocked down by pears and apples with arrows; Watzilla sends a swallow to ask the widow if she wants 7 new sons instead of the missing ones, or one, but by force like 7; the widow chose one; gave birth a boy named Late; he breaks the jug of an old witch's daughter three times; the girl tells him to better find the brothers' murderers; his mother gives him his father's weapon and horse harness, and the horse is head over heels in manure; Z. took weapon, washed his horse, galloped to the giant; on the way he drank a ladle of milk, separated bulls, caught horses, rides straight across the river, shakes apple trees, pears, arrows, swords and bows fall from them; eats meat, a giant throws the bones; drove the giant up to his shoulders into the ground and cut off his head; his wife confesses that it is necessary to cut her husband's little finger, from there brothers appear; on the way back they dug a hole, Z. fell into it, they they threw earth and stones at him; the horse asks the fox, wolf, bear to dig up Z., promises everyone their back leg, but they did not eat the horse; the eagle promises his eyes, for which he pulled Z. out of the hole, but did not peck at the horse's eyes; at home, Z. threw an arrow up: let him hit the guilty; the arrow split into 7 parts and hit the brothers; mother found a good bride for Z.]: 118-131; Dzagurov 1973, No. 32 [at Aldar 3 daughters, he keeps them in an iron tower; later Soslanbek's son was born; the widow's daughter went to fetch water; S. fired an arrow and smashed its jugs; the widow teaches the girl next time to say to S.: I would find it better his sisters; his mother had to confess that S. came to the sisters, they asked him to beg his parents to let them go to church for the party; after the service, three monsters kidnapped the girls; S. told S. them find; while S. was sleeping, an elephant came out of the river, swallowed S.'s horse and told him to 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 are shown and seeks to be shown the hidden portrait; the father-in-law of the sisters S. is the dragon Zaliag Kalm; he sleeps surrounded by an iron fence with his body; C . cut the dragon, came in, and his daughter, beautiful Sugar; she gave him sleeping pills, ordered him to be thrown into the tower; S. summoned the horsemen from the ring, they released him, but when he saw Sugar, S. lost consciousness and Sugar took his ring; the same with the knife; the heroes came out of the purse, and S. hid it in advance; after that, Sugar agreed to become S.'s wife; ordered not to unlock the seventh room; S. unlocked, there chained giant Khatag-Barag and his horse; HB asks to throw them bread and hay, promises to provide three services; after being free, HB took Sugar; S. comes to her three times and takes her away, but HB catches up every time; he chopped S. to pieces for the fourth time; his sisters caught a crow; told his mother to bring live water, otherwise they would tear the crow to shreds; after reviving S., the sisters told him to get the half-brother of the horse HB; the owner of the herd tells him to herd it without loss: either he will give the horse or cut off the shepherd's head; on the way, S. wanted to kill, but let the wolf, the fox and the wasp go; each of them gathers a herd in the evening; the mare must give birth , the witch beat her; in revenge, the mare told S. that it is necessary to choose the foal she would give birth to, although he seemed weak; the foal tells us 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 gold robes; S. took Sugar away; when HB caught up and took off to hit S. from above, S.'s horse was taller and S. killed HB; all good]: 80-91; Libedinsky 1978 [one golden apple ripened on the sledges apple tree a day; rer healed people from diseases and healed wounds, although it did not save them from death; at night someone stole an apple; the sledges took turns guarding, but to no avail; it was Warhag's turn; he sent the sons of Ahsar and Ahsartag to guard; if the apple was stolen, one of them would be beheaded by sledges, and the other would be given a hand cut off to stakes; Ahsartag guarded until midnight, but then told Akhsar that he could continue to sleep; at dawn a dove flew in; Ahsartag cut off half of her wing with an arrow, the apple fell to the ground; the brothers followed the bloody trail to the sea; Akhsartag descends into the sea; if the bloody foam immediately rises, he died; if white, let Ahsar wait for him for a year; in the house at the bottom of 7 brothers they say that They have three sisters; one of them, Zerassa, is in the habit of stealing sledge apples in the guise of a dove; if you put on a severed wing and letting her eat an apple, she will recover; whoever cures her, she will marry; Ahsartag healed Dz.; a year later he remembered to return to his brother; Z. turned herself and her husband into fish and they surfaced; they came to Ahsar's tent, but he was just hunting; Ahsarsag went him to search, they missed each other; J. mistook Ahsar for her husband, they were so similar; Ahsar put his sword in bed for the night; J. got up, was offended; Ahsarsag returned, thought that his wife had changed; Ahsar fired an arrow into the sky : Let him hit me at the place that Dz touched; the arrow hit Ahsarsag in the little finger and he died; Ahsartag stabbed with a sword; Uastyrji descended from the sky with a three-legged horse, promised to bury his brothers if Dz. she would go for him; when he did, Z. said she must wash herself first, went to the sea, went to her father; Uastyrji promised to find Dz. in the world of the dead; his mother sent Z. to give birth to sledges on earth, otherwise they do not recognize their children; Dz. gave birth in the lower tier of the Warhaga ancestral tower; the twins Uryzmag and Khamyts were born; they grew up quickly; H. broke the girl's jug out of mischief; she advised him better find his grandfather Warhag, who grazes sledges; W. recognized them, brought them upstairs to the ancestral tower; married Z.; died a year later, Dz died a year later; told her sons to guard three nights before her death her crypt; H. went to guard, but heard the music and went to the wedding; at this time Uastyrji came in, revived Dz., got together with her, she gave birth to a girl, died again; Uryzmag heard crying, took out the girl, she was named Shatana; same in Kaloev 1980:375; addition: On the third night, Uastyrdzhi came to D.'s crypt, then let his horse and dog go. A year later, dead D. gave birth to Satan, the foal of Arfan, "the eldest of horses," and the puppy Silam, "the oldest of dogs." D. left offspring that formed the powerful Nart family of Akhsartagkat)]: 50-64; Abkhazians [father died during the raid; the boy smashed his neighbor's jug with an arrow; she tells him to know better where his father's brothers died; he tells his mother to bake a churek, puts a hot chorek to her hands, forcing her to 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 and 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 golden 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 a ship with food is sent, a bull's head sticks out of the water, stops it with its teeth stuck into it; 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 come in, 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 two eldest - for his uncle; he gives the king gold cups and gets the throne]: Shakryl 1975, No. 20:87-93; 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, K.'s wife is daughter Kiyvaseker, friends agree to marry them in the future; B. died, Kazynbay's family migrated; Boztokli threw alchik under the woman's feet, she fell, spilled milk, scolded Boztokli: he lost his father and lost his fiancée; Boztokli asks his mother to fry millet, pressed her hand with a hot spoon, the mother admits that her son has a betrothed; on the way Boztokli greets seven mounds, addressing each "Gray Head"; at the well, a ring is thrown into the jug of the maid Kiyvaseker; the bride recognizes Boztokli; they want to pass her off as a hero who is seven days old sleeps, she offers to run; near Boztokli's house, leaves the bride in 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 K. notices, suggests go down to look in her head, pushes her into the well, sat down on a tree with her two children (i.e. the babies K. gave birth to); replies that her nose stretched out while she cried, her hands became rough because she peeled off up the tree and climbed back waiting, etc.; servant B. finds K., hears her talking about what happened in a song; the servant goes home twice to tell everything, but each time he forgets; the third time He deliberately tears his hat so as not to forget; the soothsayer tells B. to dig a hole at 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 her legs, she was tied to the tails of 40 horses]: Nogai 1979, No. 19:102-109; Georgians [the prince, out of mischief, shoots at the jug of an old woman carrying water; the jug crashed; offended the old woman tells the prince to fall in love with the sister of the nine devas; his peer, the son of an old woman (SS), walks with him; the mother of the devas asks to raise a millstone, wants to run over the SS, as if he accidentally knocks out her millstone teeth; one of her fang has plunged into hell, the other rests on the sky; the devas give her sister to the prince; he takes her key, finds the locked Kremen-deva; he grabs the prince's wife, flies away; the SS takes companions a priest who carries a church, water bread (drinks the river), a rumor (listens to the war of ants), an eyed (watching the arrow fly for a year), tearing mountains, running from a millstone on his feet; they find Kremen-deva the SS descends to him underground; the kidnapped finds out where he keeps his soul (deer, roe deer, hare, casket, three chicks); the SS kills the deva, frees horses and women, the devas feast at the wedding, the prince reigns]: Kurdovanidze 1988, No. 32:83-94; Megrelia [poor Geria's handsome and strong son ("little wolf") shot an old woman's jug and smashed it; old woman: you'd better get the only sister 12 demi, living beyond 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.: this is me; rokapi (witch family): sorry you, they did not return from there; G. drove 6 more mountains, followed by Rokapi's older sister; she gave her three-legged horse; at Demi's house, the 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 her away; G. easily exterminated 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; CC was afraid of this 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 was his revived; he met a huge boar, fought with it 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, there were three swallows in it; G. killed two, grabbed the third; at this time QK struggled in agony; G. killed a swallow, QK died; G. destroyed everyone in the royal palace and returned home with his wife]: Wardrop 1894, No. 3:118-124; Armenians: Bogoyavlensky 1894, No. 4 [poor man with a pregnant wife and he went on a journey as a daughter; his 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 adopter Rustem Gul; WG tore off one boy's head to play ball with it; the king ordered him to be given the golden ball; one day the ball rolled into the old woman's jug; WG broke the jug, the old woman told him fall in love with a beauty with 40 golden braids; the king gave him a portrait of her; WG and RZ went in search; they come to the giant's castle, RZ is terrified, and WG eats pilaf with a man; a seven-headed giant enters with one with an 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 beauty's castle quietly; 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 sheds two feathers, with their help WG inserts his torn eyes, but accidentally swapping them; under looking like a dervish, the RG returns to the palace, the tsar handed him the throne]: 181-193; Nazinyan 1969 [the prince let the top go, which broke the old woman's jug; she told the prince to fall in love with the beautiful Pomegranate Seed; The prince went in search, chased the doe, she whizzed into the hut, there were no doors or windows in it, he cut the wall; a grenade on the bed, the prince cut a grenade, the princess came out; she was kidnapped by a three-headed Khovt, his soul in three birds, birds in a box; the prince took the box, went first to kill three devas who were fighting Hoft for the princess; the prince killed the devas first, and then cut the box and killed birds, hoft is dead; wedding; three apples fell from the sky]: 144-147; Turks [shahzade breaks the old woman's jug three times out of mischief; she tells him to love Seylemez Sultan ["the one who does not say"]; shahzade with an old servant comes to the country of S.; there is a fortress of the skulls of those who failed to get S. to talk; the nightingale tells him to hide him under a bench, supposedly start talking to a bench; next time to a shelf, on the third, with a door; after S. interferes with the conversation three times, saying who the woman should belong to; the father gives it to Shahzadeh; 1) the secret knows that the padishah's daughter is sick, the doctor cooks the medicine, the speedboat delivers it; 2) one woman has three lovers, she tells the first to go to the grave, because her supposedly dead father is a sorcerer, got up from her (etc.); 3) one carved a woman out of wood, the other he dressed her, the third revived it (it should go to the revived one)]: Tsvetinovich 1959:154-164.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [the padishah has 40 wives, all barren; he promises to fill one pool with honey and the other with oil if a son is born; the fortieth wife has given birth, the boy is 18 years old, the padishah fills the 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 the girl Pomeranian; mother to prince: there is a garden on the mountain, where girls are in Pomeranians, but 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 the Pomeranians, not paying attention to the divas, rushing back, returning the horse; 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 left, 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, takes her place, answers the prince, who turned black in the sun, was carried away by the wind; an orange tree grew out of Pomeranz's blood, the prince transplanted it into the palace; the imaginary wife tells him to make a board out of it; the old woman took the branch and made a spindle; someone cleans her house; an old woman finds a girl; a doctor advises wearing a mirror chain around the prince's neck; a Pomeranian girl says she can do one; tells her 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; parya [Patykhan and Karamay - sons of the padishah; hide near the place where women go to get water, break their jugs with stones; the padishah tells women to draw water into their wineskins; brothers shoot needles, the water spills again; The vizier advises the padishah to turn over the brothers' shoes for the night, a hint that they should leave; after taking 70 young men, they go towards Hindustan; (further on the fight against the gyauras; the brothers returned victorious)]: Vinnikov 1977, No. 18:169-179; Pashayas [King Khūnkhār ("bloodthirsty"; all names are significant in Persian, not Pashaya) promises his daughter Shamāili ("northern") and his throne to whoever strikes the drum and his daughter will be able to see; the six sons of King Nāmazlūm ("harsh") consistently go to marry her, cannot see her, are hanged; the seventh son was a baby; the boy broke from a slingshot jug of an old woman, she said that his six brothers were 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; came to King Hunhar's city, hired a sculptor; his wife prepares flowers for Shamaili; Jallat Khan made a wreath, S. asks who made it, the woman replies that her bald daughter; J. orders him to be taken to Sh. covered with a blanket; returning, asks the sculptor to make a statue like he, J.; climbs 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., on the second 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 torturers to where S.'s palace is; 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; Baluchi [the king was childless for a long time; finally, a son was born; grew up, started shooting clay balls at women who were going to fetch water, breaking jugs; people complained, the king ordered to give injured in a copper jug; but the prince pierced them with steel bullets; the king ordered the maid to leave the prince's shoes with her soles up for the night; this meant expulsion; the sons of the vizier, the cauldron and the slave went with him; the slave's son was dragged away by a crocodile, the son of Kotval by a tiger; the prince and the vizier came to the city where the king died; on the palace door there is an inscription: whoever opens will become king; the prince opened, reigned; and the vizier went to a butcher shop, he was seized and planted with other prisoners to feed human beings to the customers; he asked the owner, whose name is Hanud, to give him cloth: he will decorate it, let H. present it to the new king and he will receive a reward; the vizier embroidered the inscription: four came to the city, one was eaten by a fish, the other by a tiger, the third on the throne, and the fourth in the prison; the king sent an answer: who was eaten by the fish, who was eaten by the tiger, who was on throne, who's in jail? The vizier wrote in turn: a slave, a cauldron, a king, a vizier; shop H. was inspected, the prisoners were released, H. and his men were burned alive]: Dames 1893, No. 11:202-205; Pashtuns: Lebedev 1955 [Aslam Khan does not have son; the beggar gives his wife a stick, tells him to knock down 60 apples from the tree, let him eat one with her husband and give the rest to others; the king was born Fateh Khan, the vizier had a son Purdil Khan and a daughter Bibi Rabiya, concubine A . gave birth to Karam Khan; the rest of the courtiers also had sons; BR decided to pass them off as F. in the future; the children grew up; one day the young men saw women who came for water; F. and K. stoned their jugs; the women complained to A.; he advised him to go get water with leather wineskins; but the young men punched their wineskins with arrows; A. was angry with his son and did not speak to him when he came; F. and all of him the companions left their hometown, BR went with F.; they fight Shamsutdin's warriors; first brother BR dies, then others, then K., finally F.; out of respect for the heroes, S. leaves his country BR, she accepts the kingdom]: 93-112; Darmesteter 1890 [same motive for broken jugs then perforated wineskins]: 130-132.

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 his 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.