K12A. Stretched bow. .21. (.23.) .27. (.28.) .29.30.32.-.35.38.
Anunrecognized hero comes to a place where his fiancée or wife must be given to another person or turned into a maid. Contrary to expectations, he manages to pull a tight bow (raise his spear), from which he kills opponents.
Kachins, (baiga), Ancient Greece, Kabardian people, Abkhazians, Abazans, Kumyks, Avars, Georgians, Turkmens, Burish, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Salars, Dungans (northern Xinjiang), Siberian Tatars (Tobolsk), South Altai Tuvans, (Teleuts), Evens, Japanese (including northern Ryukyu).
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Kachins [after the death of their father, Khrai Gai and Khrai No sail along the river; the raft falls apart, the KG remains with gold, KN with the onion; KN marries a poor beauty, kills a kite and a boa constrictor, becomes a prince ; accidentally kills a monkey, the wife of KG; brings the KG to himself; he wants to take possession of his brother's wife; digs a trap hole in the forest, KN fails; the wife throws pecatip seed into the pit, promises to go beyond the KG in three years, if he pulls a KN onion; KN selects from the grown plant, pulls the onion, killing his brother]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 32:114-119.
(Wed. South Asia. Baiga [poor parents leave their newborn in the forest; he is raised by a tigress; he steals Raja's son's fiancée for him; tigers and leopards come to the wedding; they want to eat the newlyweds, young man shot animals with a bow; a young man and his wife come to people; a barber tries to kill him, puts on a young man's clothes, takes his form; his wife invites him to shoot tigers, who kill a barber; Raja promises to recognize as his son-in-law the one who pulls the young man's bow; he himself comes from a blacksmith who hides from a barber, pulls a bow, gets the kingdom]: Elwin 1944, No. 3:424-426).
The Balkans. Ancient Greece [When Odysseus returns to Ithaca, he assumes the image of a beggar. An old servant, Evmey, recognizes him. It opens to Telemach's son. It was opened to my wife and father. At a feast, only he can pull a bow, kill grooms with arrows; the maids who took the grooms were also killed.]
(Wed. Central Europe. Eastern Ukrainians (Poltava, Piryatinsky, recorded by L.M. Zhumchuzhnikov) [tsar {or prince; the narrator uses both designations alternately} goes with two sons; asks what would those made of three oaks; the elder: barn boards; the youngest: would hang princes on the oak tree; the king pushed him into the sea, he was swallowed by a whale, then swallowed carts with water and horses; the prince made a fire, became smoking a pipe, the whale jumped ashore; the hunters began to cut the carcass, the prince gave his voice, the hunters ran away, he got out, sat naked, because his clothes had decayed during the year he had been in the fish; at this time, the old king died, the eldest son reigned; the king must marry, the messengers saw a naked man; he said that his name was Ivan Golyk and the king would not marry without him; the prince {he is tsar} is traveling with IS; he does not order to crush the mice, allows mosquitoes to pump his blood, released two pikes into the sea; they come to the thirtieth kingdom, where snakes rule; on the stakes, the last 12 do not yet; the snake has 12 daughters, the prince liked the youngest; the serpent tells the mice to threshing 300 ricks overnight, spread the straw to the straw, the grain to the grain (IS tells the mice to perform); get a ring dropped into the sea (IS: the snake threw it into the sea itself; tells the pike to get it); shoot a hundred pounds with a bow; prince: it's shameful for me to shoot one, let the servant shoot; IS pulled on his bow, it broke; ride around the horse behind 12 doors; IS: this is the youngest daughter; tell me if you don't want to be embarrassed, let the servant go around; IS hits the mare with a piece of bow, tells her to go down, fall and spread her legs; identify the bride among her sisters (the mosquito will sit on her nose); the prince received a wife, IS tells not to trust her for 7 years; a son was born in the third year; the prince said that he had done everything by IS; the wife waved a towel, cutting off IS's legs, and her body fell into the forest; the legless fraternized with the armless; the armless brought him in a cart to the city; by the queen, all yellow; the legless promises to be cured if she tells the truth; the queen: in the morning the serpent flies, the blood sucks; the legless and armless hid, grabbed the snake, forced carried to target water, became safe and healthy (the snake first tried to slip them dead water, but they put a wand in it and burned down); IS returned and recognized his brother in the swineherd; hugged; when the ex The prince drives the pigs home, he must kiss one pig three times, otherwise he will not move; the princess is feasting with snakes and this is her signal that the swineherd is returning; IS took out tows and tar, made a whip, killed a pig , beat the princess until she gave up her snake temper and began to live with the prince]: Kulish 1857 in Pankeev 1992:84-99).
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kabardian people [the couple has a daughter and three sons, the middle name is Nedoozdok: when an arrow, sword, bowl, etc. were placed in front of the child, he took a halter; all three brothers are outwardly indistinguishable; the mother died, the father took a very beautiful stepmother; the khan led the army to take her away; the brothers, sister and stepmother went to the mountains; they prepared their skins, sold them overseas, built a golden palace; Khan's three pigeons fly to the golden roof peck grain; the khan noticed gold grains on his paws; watching the pigeons, the khan's warriors found the palace; the khan surrounded him, all three brothers were killed, the Halter's sister was made a maid, the khan married his stepmother; ordered Halter's corpse should be fed to dogs, but the warriors did not know who the brothers were, Halter's corpse was thrown into the abyss; {he survived or came to life - not described}; Khan promises to give his daughter to the one who pulls the crossbow Halter; the beggar did this, his sister recognized him as Halter; the khan orders him to be thrown into the well, sends 19 servants to bring firewood to burn what was left in the well; the 20th is an ordinary peasant, he feels sorry Halter; sister and bride (that daughter of Khan, she has already fallen in love with Halter) pulled the abandoned man out of the well; he shot 19 servants carrying firewood with a bow one at a time, exchanged clothes with that peasant; firewood brought, thrown into a well and set on fire; the sister took out the Halter's crossbow, he shot the khan's warriors with it, threw the khan himself and his wife (i.e. his stepmother) into the fire; married the khan's daughter, sister married]: Kardanov 196:3-11; Abkhazians [hunter Chis-Ikuatla saw a 7-storey house, a tree and a bed next to him, he lay down on the bed; the youngest from 7 Adaua came, CHI squeezed him out and threw him away, then hacked him the rest; lodged his sister on the upper floor, began to live with his mother downstairs; smells adaua; it turns out that the youngest adaui is alive, his mother took him as her husband; he advises her to pretend to be sick, send CHI for with the heart and liver of a special kite; he gives a feather, tells her to kill another kite; the same goes to a bull (gives a hair); a wild boar (bristles); then the mother persuaded CHI to allow her to bathe him, and the Adaui poured a cauldron on him hot wax; stabbed the remains in a trough and thrown into the sea; a sister in men's clothes went in search of CHI, hired a servant to the prince; his daughter, believing that it was a man, wanted to take him as her husband; she asked wait; by the sea she accidentally pulled a feather, fur, bristles; the kite is looking in the sky, the boar is in the ground, the bull pulled the trough out of the sea; the sister went to pick her "bride", took her to the sea, overtook her, put her on her clothes for her brother; when she saw the dead, the princess wiped him off with a handkerchief and CHI came to life; tells the bride's retinue to go to his mother, and he and his sister will appear as beggars; no one can lift CHI's spears; only an imaginary beggar picked up, killed the Adaui; utters a spell, CHI's mother burns; CHI's wedding with the princess]: Shakryl 1975, No. 73:333-341; Abazins [the middle of three brothers Mahmat, they have a sister; mother died, father took stepmother; enemies attacked, killed their father; brothers, sister and stepmother began to live in the forest, became rich, made a roof out of gold; pigeons sit on it, another king finds gold dust particles on his paws; sends an army; after a long assault, the brothers were killed, the sister was made a slave, the stepmother happily became the wife of a foreign king; ordered M.'s body to be fed to dogs, otherwise he would come to life, but the servants accidentally threw another person's body to the dogs; the prince would pass off his daughter as someone who would pull M.'s bow; only the ragged man knocked down an egg from this bow; the princess guessed it was M., ordered him to be thrown into the well, sent him for firewood to burn; his fiancée and sister M. they pulled him out, he killed the carters, except for a peasant who did not want him dead; the prince was burned, the princess was torn apart by horses]: Tugov 1985, No. 44:117-120; Kumyks [(western 1902) A.E.Gren, from L.G. Lopatinsky's materials); apples disappear from the miller's garden; the eldest, middle sons are sleeping, the youngest sees a bird, picks up a fiery feather; the father sends his sons to pick up a bird; at the fork the youngest is on the road from where you will not return; the wolf calls to help him; tells him to kidnap the bird from the palace, carry it upside down; he puts the bird in his arm, it flies away; the second time he is grabbed; the king promises to give the bird in exchange for a wonderful horse; the wolf tells not to sit on the horse, the young man sits down, the horse returns to the palace; the horse will be given for the girl; the wolf becomes a horse, the young man swims across the sea on it ; the princess sits on an imaginary horse, he takes her away; the wolf turns into a princess, then into a horse, a young man exchanges a horse, a bird, returns with the princess, horse and bird; finds impoverished brothers; they gouge out his eyes, take the prey; a bird flies up, waves its wing, the young man sees the light; comes under the guise of a herdsman to the wedding of a princess who promised to marry the one who pulls the bow; she recognizes the young man; he asks who to get, a rooster or a chicken; the princess replies that he is a rooster; he kills both brothers, marries]: Bagriy 1930 (1): 25-29 (=Khalilov 1965, No. 45:105-109); Avars [Khan's mare gives birth to golden-tailed and golden-maned foals, but someone immediately steals them; the eldest, middle son falls asleep, the youngest Muin sprinkles salt on the wound, tries to snatch the foal from the kidnapper, tears off his leg; the brothers go in search the elders stay in the cave, the youngest hides under the bridge three times, each time defeats a sledge jumping on a stolen foal; each time the horse stops in front of the bridge, but the sledge says that M. is not here , and if he does, he will kill him; the last sledge is on a three-legged foal, the fight with him is the hardest; M. takes the wife of that sledge for himself, gives the other two wives to his brothers; the brothers leave their sword at the entrance to the cave, M. cut both legs to the knee, brothers take good and women away; Blind and Bald come to live with M.; they kidnap Khan's daughter to cook for them; the fire went out, she came to Hart for fire, she gave it, but she became come to suck blood from her head; Bald, Blind remain on guard, afraid of Hart, do not say anything to Muin; M. grabs hart, makes him swallow Bald and Blind, regurgitate healthy; warns that she will not belch him, because he killed her sart sons; each of her organs will have to be cut; Blind and Bald find M. in the little finger of Hart's legs, his legs are healthy; M. comes to the wedding brothers, only the youngest girl caught from the sledges recognizes him; no one can pull a bow, pulls only M., asks Pleshivoy whether to shoot a chicken or a rooster, he replies that the chicken has nothing to do with it, M. kills brothers with an arrow; M. marries a sledge girl and a kidnapped cook, M.'s friends marry two other sledge girls]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 32:311-316; Georgians [someone steals wonderful apples from the royal garden; the elder, middle princes are guarding and sleeping; the younger one wounds the deva with an arrow, a trail of blood leads under a stone; the older brothers are afraid to go down, the youngest mother of the deva says that her son is wounded; the young man advises to pour boiling oil into the wound, takes out his arrow; dev dies, the young man kills his mother, frees three beauties; the youngest warns that if his brothers betray him, he should not sit on black, but on a white sheep; she will carry him to the underworld, I must say, "Babkin's roof is soft, cotton", will fall on a soft one; brothers raise beauties, cut off the rope; on a sheep, a young man gets to a crooked old woman, eats porridge on the side where she has a blind eye; the old woman adopts him, says that the dev took the water; the young man cut off his head; asks the king to lift him upstairs; he says it can only Pashkunji; P. constantly eats gveleshapi chicks; one chick cries, it will be eaten today, the other laughs tomorrow; the young man kills Mr. with an arrow; there is thunder, it is raining, it is the mother of the chicks crying, thinks that the children are swallowed; the children first hide the savior, then show their mother; she tells them to stock up meat; in flight it ends, the young man carves meat from under his knee; P. says he would eat him if she knew that people's meat is so tasty; heals the young man's wound; the swineherd says that the king's eldest son marries the youngest's bride; the young man asks for his clothes, one can pull his bow; the bride recognizes him; he kills his brother with an arrow, marries]: Dolidze 1954:28-33:83-94.
Iran - Central Asia. Turkmens [the padishah has three sons, each mare gives birth to a foal, the foals are kidnapped; the brothers walk along three roads, the youngest Karadzha is a batyr on the one you will not return from; suggests Deva throws stones up; dev throws himself on his head, dies; K. comes to the three kidnapped peri, kills three devas; when he fights the youngest, the peri pour millet under his feet, and K. mash, dev, slides, falls; K. brings three peri to his brothers; they hang a diamond sword at the entrance to the yurt, K. cuts off their legs; he is visited by the armless Amet, the rumor, and the blind Fast-footed Veli, also crippled by their brothers; brothers bring themselves a young woman, she cooks pilaf; an old man from the top, a beard with two ties the young woman with hair from her beard, eats pilaf; the young woman tells her returning brothers that she has forgotten cook; the same when the first, then the second sister remains; K. himself ties the old man; lets go when he returns his legs, arms, eyes to the crippled; K. pretends to be an old man, comes to his wife; she says that her missing husband told her to marry whoever pulls his bow; he comes with a horseman, kills his brothers, tells his story, returns his wife]: Stebleva 1969, No. 22:54-66; Burishi [ a rich man picked up a baby in wheat, named Dungpa Miru, he grew up, he was given a wife, but she gives birth to 100 sons with animal heads; while hunting, DM shot a goat, but someone else hit the same goat; two people came up, gave meat for promising to give a son or daughter if born; the name of the person who came up is Fasan Karaski, and he lives in the country of Yal Butot; his wife gave birth to a boy and a calf; DM brought him to FC; parting, The son tells his father to wait 12 months later on the roof with the cauldron: he will fall into him in a raindrop, let his wife drink and he come back; she is pregnant; the son talks to her from her womb; went out when she was sleeping; then a second boy was born; the first one put it in his mouth, his mother cried out; the first son: if it were not for the trouble, his whole body would be like iron, and now his armpits were vulnerable; every day his first son Pangchu is weakening, and the second Bumliftan is gaining strength; the name of all 100 sons is Kiseré; the eldest of them Aba Kitung divided land and property between them, and P. received a cemetery, a ford across the river and a miserable hut; did not allow him to be buried there; when AK wanted to cross, P. did not allow it, replaced his lionheart with a fox; after that P. received as much as everyone else together; the king wants to give seven daughters; P. took the form of a lousy one; decided to take the eldest Langa Brumo; gave her a sleeping donkey embryo; she has to agree to marry P. so as not to be disgraced; her father and sisters are shocked by her choice; when other sons-in-law go hunting for the golden bull, P. goes too; LB and her stepmother secretly follow him, see him first take the form of a magnificent king, then hiding his horse up his sleeve, again becomes a miserable freak; mocks his sons-in-law; climbs into the bull's ear, feeds him poison; when he dies, the bull says that he was predicted to die at the hands of Kiser; tells him to take the knife out of his ear cut it; P. takes the golden tail and hooves; sons-in-law find the skin, bring wool to the king, everyone says that he killed the bull, the king denounces them of lying; P. does not tell his wife that he killed the bull, but gives a nut with his bone marrow; when the king and the courtiers taste it, they taste great; P. gives the king a golden tail, hooves, bull horns; asks for one grain and a drop of oil in return, substitutes the bag, the king's bins are emptied; Kiser left his forehead, conquered another country and took another wife there; at this time King Pahardang Gaipo stole his forehead; she said that Bumliftan's armpits were vulnerable; provoked raise his hands, the hidden warrior shot, but the arrow did not pierce Bumliftan through and he galloped away; but when the arrow was pulled out, he died (you had to drag it through the body forward, then the tip wouldn't remained in his body); Keeser went to return his forehead, the rocks on the way; when he arrived at them, K. fires an arrow, only the tip of the plumage is crushed; slips on a horse, but its tail is clamped; K. wants to cut off the tail, but The rocks promise to let the horse go if K. hits each of the two boys that the LB gave birth to from the kidnapper; K. comes unrecognized to King H.; there everyone pulls K.'s bow; unrecognized K. pulls the bow so that it shatters into pieces, they kill everyone but King H. himself; taking his form, tears the kidnapper to pieces; takes his treasures, the dev-servant carries them; cuts off the heads King H.'s sons, when they drive up to the cliffs, gives them the heads of the boys, they let him pass; he reigns with his wife LB]: Lorimer 1935, No. 4:102-179.
Volga - Perm. Tatars [Alpamysh fed a goose, it flew away in the fall; the padishah will give his daughter Sandugach for someone who will quickly raise three millstones to the mountain; A. breaks one, takes halves under his arms, wins, gets S.; the neighboring padishah Kyltam himself marries S., goes to war; A. and S. choose plain but powerful horses, go to battle; S. teaches A. to get Akbuzat's horse from the pastures of K.; A. falls asleep, S. herself smashes enemies, but wounded, she is taken to her father; A. is captured by sleeping, put in a hole under an iron bars; that goose descended, handed a letter from A. to S., who sends his friend with provisions to A.; K. sends his daughter pour poison on A., but she feels sorry for him, she pours poison into the ravine, steals her father's diamond, saws the bars; under the guise of a beggar, A. comes to S., who is going to remarry; S. recognizes A. by her mole on head; A. finds and pulls his bow, which 40 batyrs could not lift, everyone runs away in horror; the new groom leaves, A. and S. are together again]: Yarmukhametov 1957:148-157; Bashkirs [Alar Khan and Bulyar Khan agreed to marry children if a son and daughter are born; a giant son Alpamysh was born, but his father died, and father Barsyn did not want to give her to A.; B. left, promising to marry the one who would defeat her in wrestling; began to live on a hill, rolling huge stones on those who came to marry her; A. threw a stone with his foot, fought with B. for 7 days, won, married; her parents and brother refused to accept her son-in-law's wedding gift; A. began to prepare for battle; promises horse shepherd Koltoba property and wife for a heroic horse; having obtained a horse, he regrets what he promised, forced K. to abandon his promise; when A. he slept, the enemies threw him into a hole, locked the horse in a stone shed; A. made a dombra from a board that fell into the pit; the daughters of the enemy khan heard him, began to bring A. bread; A. asks the geese to take the letter; those refuse because he exterminated them; the lonely goose agrees, B. finds out about A.'s fate; the enemy khan's daughters pulled A. out, who killed him and his warriors; the shepherd replies that A. was evil, and the herds belong Uncle K.; A. killed him; the same with the second shepherd; the third grieves for A., who opens to him, showing him the golden moon on his crown; under the guise of that shepherd A. came to K.; B. demands that anyone who wants to take her to his wife pulled a bow A.; A. pulled, B. hugged him; A. asks K. if he wants 40 mares that have never been killed or 40 sledges of firewood; he wants mares, he was tied to their tails; the place she touched his head became a hummock, and where his tears flowed was a lake]: Barag 1888, No. 3:45-51.
Turkestan. Salary (Ullagil, Xunhua-Salar Autonomous County) [on a deserted mountain, a mare gave birth to a child; he grew up looking for brothers; shot a bow at a stone from which smoke was coming; inside a man screamed the stone; both went on; they fired an arrow at the tree; from there a man screamed; the three of them lived; the one who came out of the stone was named Tash-gaga (brother Stone), from wood, Agash-gaga (brother Tree), and born as a mare - Masembu; they went to look for wives, came to a dwelling; there was no one there, food was cooked in the cauldron; the brothers went hunting the next morning, returned in the evening; bread and tea were prepared; they left T. in the house in the morning and went hunting together; T. hid, saw three pigeons arrive; they threw off their feathers, turned into girls; one cooked food, the other started a fire, and the third swept the yard; then they put on their raincoats and flew away; one of them was Kyung-ana (Sun Maiden), the other Ay-ana (maiden Luna), the third Yultus-ana (Star girl); in the evening, T. told his brothers about what he saw; A. was left to guard the house the next morning; he saw and told his brothers the same thing; the next day M. stayed in the house himself; when the girls started cooking, he jumped out of the shelter and threw it into the fire of their feather cloaks; Kyung-ana smeared herself with dust and soot; her brothers came in the evening; T. chose Ay-ana, A. chose Yultus-ana; M. went to Kyung-an; in the morning she washed her face and compared to the other two the girls turned out to be beautiful; T. and A. did not like it; they threw M. into the abyss, took his bow and arrows, and Kyung-anu gave his sheep to someone else's house; a bird that flew into the abyss told M. she has a baby there; M. told her about her brothers who betrayed him; the bird promised to carry it on its back; then she brought a hundred sparrows and said to M.: "Sit on my back, take all the sparrows. When I make a circle, open my mouth, you throw [there] one at a time!" ; M. did as she commanded; fed her all the sparrows and, when he was upstairs, set off; came to his wife, asked her to look in his head; the wife cried, said that her husband had a similar mole; M. admitted that he had escaped the abyss; they came to his brothers; they played with a bow and arrow; said to M.: "You will not be able to pull the bow. Masemba played with that bow and arrow!" ; M. replied that he would pull a bow, grabbed it, put an arrow and killed both brothers; his wives went to him]: Tenishev 1964, No. 53:104-105; salars [in a mountain village, a mare swallowed a flap of red fabrics, gave birth to a boy, he was named Atentsigen Masymu ("a child born by a horse"); he became a hunter; he was an excellent archery; one day in late spring and early summer he stopped on the river bank and became smoke came out of the crevice to sing. "Hey-hey-hey, what kind of little guy is this freaking out here? If a passer-by, then go your own way, if you are looking for relatives, let's get to know each other"; a young man in white clothes came out of white smoke; M. said he was looking for relatives, offered to become sister cities; the young man took the name Dashitentsigen Dashidagu ("a child born from a boulder"); young men came to the forest, saw fog come out of the grove; M. shot, a young man came out, also became a sister, his name was Agaishitentzigen Munigu ("child born from a tree trunk"); the brothers began to cook; three white doves sank to the lake shore, removed their plumage, turned into girls, threw them into the water to swim; these are the celestials of Guni-ana , Ie-ana, and Yulutusa-ana. ("Sunny Maiden, Moon Maiden, and Star Maiden"); the brothers took their clothes; the girls agreed to marry them; three married couples returned home and began to enjoy life; but G., M.'s wife, suddenly she became gloomy and taciturn, and frowned, refused to explain why; one evening her fire went out; she saw smoke from the chimney in the distance, went to ask for fire; old woman Mansikhanyer was in her house ( nine-headed demon); gave fire, but put sesame seeds in her pocket so that they would fall through the hole on the road; began to come to G. to comb each other's hair; G. began to think how from her to get rid of it, told her husband; was the first to guard; Dashidag; he turned into a pillow and sat on the doorstep; Mansikhanyer came, sat on the pillow; when she left, D. complained that it was terribly heavy, he was nothing could not do it; the next day Munigu turned into a broom; Mansihaner swept the yard with it; G. told her husband that Mansihaner could only be defeated by cunning; Masymu hid and shot only when Mansihaner turned into a nine-headed six-armed blue-faced fanged monster; Masymu and Mansihanyer began to fight, Mansikhanyer went to a hole under the mill; Masymu ordered him to be lowered on a rope; G. broke the mirror and gave it half; in the lower world, M. met an old man who told him not to scream; M. shouted, a tiger appeared, M. killed him with a sword; elsewhere M. was attacked by a boa constrictor, he shot him and hacked him; they were two Mansihaner commanders; M. exchanged clothes with the shepherd, drove cows and sheep; Mansihanier: "Go faster, faster! Finish eating and go to lick your wounds faster"; M. 8 heads wounded with an arrow enjoyed being licked by shepherds; M. prepared cow tongues in advance and began to stroke Mansikhanyer's wounds with them; she screamed from The sword hurt, and M. hit her sword, but Mansihanyer slipped out and ran, and then rushed at M.; feeling that M. was stronger, she emitted a cloud of black smoke, rushed to run, but M. pointed a mirror at her light and killed with arrows; I heard a scream, an iron cage came up, inside the eagle, asking for release, around the bone; this is the real Mansikhanyer nest; an eagle flew in, the eagle first hid M. under the wing, then told his mother who saved him; the eagle agrees to take M. to the ground, tells him to harvest 100 sparrows; the last sparrow was not enough, M. cut off the meat from his leg; met his wife they recognized a friend a friend in half of the mirror, so changed from exhaustion; Dashidag and Muniga forced G. to work when she refused to be their mistress; under the guise of a beggar, M. offer to entertain them with archery; pierced both with one arrow; people are prosperous, M. and G. are happy until old age]: Chen, Wang 1989:420-439; Dungans (Changji, Xinjiang) [the old woman only has a horse; once returned - she was wearing a boy, he was a Brother Horse; he went on a journey, broke a rock with an arrow, from there Brother Stone came out; then Brother Elm came out; they cultivate the land, hunt; someone in the house then cooks and cleans; they take turns guarding, two fall asleep; when it's Brother-Horse's turn, three white doves arrive and become girls; he asks them to marry him and his brothers, but first again become doves; invites brothers to choose; takes the rest for himself, the doves become girls; the cat came, stayed, mischievous; the women slapped him, for which he put out the fire and left; the women went to look coals; the shepherd says that the fire is owned by a nine-headed monster, let them go to him; the maids took them deep into the cave; the monster has a human body and 9 heads, all but the central one, are blind; he orders to give fire and a bag of beans; it has a hole, the beans woke up on the way back; the next day, the monster followed this trail, sucked women's blood; then the eyes on his other heads see; so many days; Brother horse notices that the wives are losing weight, they tell him everything; the Elm Brother is the first, then the Stone Brother, both are afraid; The horse brother hits the monster with an arrow in the eye, he runs; The horse brother lets the shepherd go, comes to a cave under his guise, taking sheep's tongue with him; the shepherd must lick the monster's damaged eye; the horse brother strokes him with sheep's tongue, the monster hurts; he says his tongue is rough because he has a cold; then kills the monster, cutting off all its heads; distributes the monster's property; his brothers want to take possession of everything themselves; lead the Horse Brother to look at the lotuses, push him off the cliff; he fell on the lotuses, alive, but unable get back; healed the swan's wing, he lifted it upstairs, the flight lasted three days and three nights; he returned home a year later; he was not recognized, his wife did not recognize him, he cries; he takes his bow; the brothers say that only Brother Horse, who fell off a cliff, could pull it; he shoots at the stone, Brother Stone disappears into the stone; shoots at the elm tree - Brother Elm returns to the tree; since then there are stone steps in the gate, and elm trunks cracked; Brother Horse's wife stayed with him, and two other women put on their pigeon clothes and flew away; people near Mount Bogotá have loved white pigeons ever since]: Shujang Li, Luckert 1994:111-118.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Siberian Tatars: Prelovsky 2003 (Tobolsk District, Tyumen Region, Western 1971) [Alyp Mamshan (=Alpamysh Kazakhs) went on a journey, fell asleep in the forest, the hunters dug a hole, pushed him there; AM sent a swan with a letter to his wife to pull him out with her braids down; two girls became come to the pit, throw AM food; the wife came, saw the girls, left jealous; after AM left, his mother had a son Irnek; accidentally kills a neighbor's rooster, she wants him to disappear like a brother; he threatens to put his mother's hands on a hot cauldron, the mother is forced to talk about her brother; I. went to look for AM, fell asleep in the forest next to the hole where he was; people pulled out AM, let the mace kill I.; he from the blow woke up, the brothers got to know each other, killed people in that city, left only the good sisters who fed AM; the brothers are returning, the blind mother sees the light; the shepherd, who has become a padishah, passes off his son for his wife AM; AM pulls a sheep bubble over his face; plays kurai, breaks; he is given kurai AM, the wife learns her husband's play; breaks the bow, gets an AM bow, kills the groom out of it; the shepherd runs away to the sheep, the wife is guilty of AM, he drives her away; his adventures follow]: 193-203; Tomilov 1995 (Chanysky District, Novosibirsk Oblast) [enemies lured Yal-Mamysh into a hole covered with twigs and grass; the goose agreed to take it his letter to his wife and parents; they sent his friend to help him out; a friend covered the hole with a stone, said that I was dead, began to marry his wife; the wife promises to marry the one who would pull the bow I.; sends it I'm looking for my sister; she pulls him out of the hole; I pretend to be a poor stranger, pulls a bow; his son is the first to recognize him; I shoot a traitor friend, who turns into a crane]: 153-155; South Altai Tuvans [Gunan Chara Baatyr lives with his mother, older and younger sisters; one day he is met by Chödöönüng Gök Bugasy, says he will kill him; G. drove him deep into the ground and covered the hole with a stone the size of a camel; when he returned home, he told his mother and younger sister not to go north; the mother went, heard C.'s voice from the pit, asked her youngest daughter bring the mare to drag the stone; she could not; they brought a camel, who dragged the stone; they hid C. in a yurt under the bed; the mother pretended to be sick: let G. get her the milk of a camel who is not an island in the middle of a lake in the northwest; the local khan warns of a mortal threat; but G. became a wolf, then a fox, an eagle, went down in the fog, took out milk, gave the camel a pearl, he and a camel became friends; on the way back, G. stayed with the khan and his wife changed his milk; and his fallen drop burned the ground; his mother pretended to drink milk, was healthy the next day, and then sick again; you need the lungs and hearts of a pair of leopards in the south; likewise, leopards give their lungs and hearts {sic!} ; for the third time: the lungs and heart of the 9-headed mangys (Andalva) living in the east; khan: if G. defeats mangys, let him bring skin from the forehead of his middle head; and during the battle, he turned to the Father and ask the strength of 30 husbands from above, 60 from below; along the way, G. sees the hooves of a giant mangys horse; there are no doors in the 9-story glass palace; G. broke through the wall; Mangys's wife says he is in the south; G. came, with He killed mangys eagles and dogs with difficulty; they fought for a month; the mangys began to prevail, but G. asked for strength, his body became like bronze, he knocked down the mangys; he ordered him to be killed with a knife in his hair under a scythe; After killing Mangys, G. hacked his wife, took the cattle, brought the skin from his forehead to the khan; his wife changed the heart and lungs of Mangys; when G. fell asleep at home, his mother took his weapon, and C. attacked him; when they were fighting, mother and sister poured peas under G.'s feet, and flour under C.'s feet; C. killed G., took his cattle, but the horse ran to G.'s older sister; she rode and found her brother's bones, but the ribs were missing; she became a worm went downstairs, those people regained the rib; the older sister went to see the fiancée G. (this is the daughter of the khan who helped him), she revived G., covering him with a beaver blanket and telling G.'s horse to jump over the master's bones three times; disguised as a poor young man, G. came to the old shepherd and his wife; they recognized him by signs (a tricolor rainbow rises from the horse; when G. sleeps in a yurt, his leg is outside; drinks tea from a wooden mortar cup); C. celebrates his wedding with G.'s mother; G., unrecognized by him, asks allow him to participate in an archery competition; breaks several bows; then C. gives him a bow G.; G. pulled his bow for three days, took his shape, fired an arrow into C.'s cervical vertebra; asks the mother, what she wants; mother: a mare; he tied her to the tail of a mare and let it into the steppe; younger sister wants scissors; G. killed her with a sword; took his men and cattle and returned home]: Taube 1978, No. 24:50-63; (cf. Teleuts [{the text is called Altai, but it is most likely the same record that Funk writes about as Teleut, see M195A motif}; hero Shunu has a wife Karagys and brother Kaldan; their father is Kan-Taichi; Caldan decided to take his brother's wife; in a hurry, S. fired an arrow that pierced the door of Caldas's yurt; for this, CT ordered that the shoulder bones be cut out of S.'s body, dog shoulder blades inserted instead, and S. into the dungeon; the servant dug an underground passage and fed the prisoner for 7 years; after S. disappeared, the neighboring Khan Kara-Karmyk sent two similar birds and ordered to determine which of them was forty and who was a crow; servant asks S.; he tells the birds to be released during bad weather; the magpie will hide under the canopy, and the crow will sit on a pole and croak; then the KK sent two identical grease sticks, asking them to be indicated thick and thin ends; S. ordered to put the sticks in a trough of water: the thin ends will rise up; then the KK sent an iron onion, we need to pull it; CT ordered S. to insert his shoulder blades back, wash it and dress up; S. bent his bow easily; KK remained a tributary to Kan-Taichi]: Ukachina 1984:59-60).
Eastern Siberia. Evens [Upon returning from hunting, Omochon learns that his two wives were taken away by three brothers, his three sons were killed; O. comes to his eldest wife, she tells him to pretend to be a servant who is not able to pull a bow; warns the youngest; secretly feeds him, restoring his strength; the brothers laugh, let them shoot; O. kills them with arrows; their father suspected that O. was a hero; asks him to take it out heart and eat the process; O. cannot hit the old man with an arrow; carves out his heart, but does not eat the process; takes his wives, returns home]: Novikova 1987:86-89.
Japan. Japanese: Ikeda 1971, No. 974 (including North Ryukyu) [warrior and minister Yuriwaka defeats the ogre, left on the island as a traitor servant; at home, the servant takes the place of master; the hand falcon Yu finds him, he sends a blood-written letter with him to his wife; she sends back an inkwell with a brush; the falcon brings them, but dies of exhaustion; Yu returns, his horse recognizes him, he pulls his bow, a broken tooth or a scar on his back is recognized by his old nurse; he kills servants with a bow, joins his wife; (the play on this story was first played in 1551)]: 217-218; Markova 2000, No. 3 [Yurivaka- The daijin stayed awake for seven days and slept the same amount; on the way to Edo, his ship stopped at the uninhabited island of Akaremuna; Chief Carei told the servants to keep the master on the island asleep and took him weapon, sailed; told his wife that Y. died, bequeathed his wife to him; locked the horse in an iron stable; Yu ate oysters; sailors sailed by, picked him up; he was hired as a mower in his old house; he was recognized horse, he killed Karay with his bow, brought his wife back], 4 [in another paraphrase also Markov 1956:180-185; the son of the ruler Kyushu Yuriwaka suppresses the rebellion in Silla; on the way back, the brothers Karanaka and Motomas attack he is thrown on the island; Yu's wife refuses K., who puts her in prison; the falcon Yu brings her his message, dies on the way back; two years later, sailors bring Yu home; unrecognized, he participates in archery competition, kills brothers, returns wife]: 17-21, 21-25.