K123B. Broken spinning wheel. 30.33.

A boy or boy spoils an elderly woman's spinning wheel or yarn. This episode is the basis for the rest of the story.

Tajiks, Bukhara Arabs, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Uighurs.

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 the daughter of the padishah Machin; the wolf gets everything, each time puts the guards to sleep, 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]; Bukhara Arabs [a Jewish lender demands from Bobo Ravshan either a refund, or a daughter, or a conversion to his faith; Aliy transfers BR to another country, orders him to sell for 1000 gold; the king buys, tells the slave 1) to defeat the hero (A. kills him), 2) kill the dragon and fill the river (a person sees A. cutting and carrying the mountain), 3) bring A. in chains; A. tells slaves to shackle him, breaks chains, kills the king's soldiers; the king converts to Islam, gives A. a daughter; leaving , 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, forcing him to 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 well martial art; 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 Tarlanbuse's horse; takes 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 iah and the vizier an apple, ordered give birth to wives; one will give birth to a boy named Tahir, the other a girl Zukhra; let them grow up and marry; the boy was born by the vizier's wife; he rode home, fell off his horse and crashed to death; the Shah is furious that his daughter, 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 to play better with his named Zukhra; mother had to tell everything; T. clings to Z. at school; a wall was built between them; T. made a hole; they grew up and fell in love; the Shah orders T. to descend in the chest along the river, Z. give gold with them; Shah Rum's daughters caught it; agreed that the eldest would take the chest, the youngest would take what was inside; Shah Ruma married T. to the youngest; but T. is inconsolable, sitting by the river; Z. sent a caravan-bashi to look for him; he said that Z. was passed off as Kara-batyr; T. decided to go from the caravan-bash; at the fork: to the right - without return, to the left - endlessly, straight - dangerous; they were going straight; they were mistaken for robbers, put him in jail; one merchant heard T.'s song, bought them; T. made his way to Z.; he was captured and executed in two; Z. stabbed to death on his grave, she was buried nearby; K. also killed himself to be buried between them; a red rose grew above T.'s grave, a white rose above Z.'s grave, with a thorn between them; roses stretched out and intertwined branches]: 27-35.

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 (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; Kogyurshin- the 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 got into 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 is 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 {more 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 all the time by yourself, 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; this is done by T., 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.