K131B. Wonderful items redeemed and returned, ATU 569.

.14.-.16.23.27.-.32.34.35.37.

After receiving and then losing a magic item, the hero returns it with a new one (a baton, a box with an army, etc.) received in exchange for the first one or obtained by the hero's brother. The episode can be repeated several times.

Egyptian Arabs, Spaniards, Portuguese, Catalans, Basques, (Sicilians), Italians, Ladins, Walloons, Bretons, French, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Grimms, Austria), Scots, Irish , French, Ancient India, Hindi, Kannada, Tamils, Serbs, Slovenes, Hungarians, Romanians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Pskov, Vologda, Voronezh, Tambov), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Ugric Russia, Galicia, Podolia, Pokutye, Kiev), Belarusians, Kalmyks, Abkhazians, Swans, Georgians, Armenians, Turks, Persians, Pashtuns, Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, Finns, Karelians, Estonians , Latvians, Lithuanians, Bashkirs, Kazan Tatars, Chuvash, Komi, Khakas, Mansi, Wilta (?).

North Africa. Egyptian Arabs [reference to the Grimm parallel; motifs include a magic tablecloth; the hero is sewn into the skin of an animal for birds to carry it to the mountain]: El-Shamy 2004, No. 569:329.

Southern Europe. Spaniards (Castilla y Leon, Extremadura) [the poor brother sent his wife to ask the rich man for something; he finally gave the kid's leg, adding that he would rather give it to his brother than to his brother; poor The brother went to look for the devil; no one knew where hell was; finally he was advised to go to a hermit; the hermit sent him to his brother; he did not tell him to go to bed or eat the food that would be offered in hell, but to take a ring that provides any food he wants; having received the ring, he met two giants and fed them; they wanted to change the club that could destroy an entire army to a ring; ordered the club kill the giants and take the ring back; exchanged another giant's ring for a vessel that would create a palace; and if anyone besieged it, the bullets would fly back to the one who released them; killed them with a baton and this giant; after returning and creating a palace, the poor man became king]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 569:579-581; the Portuguese (1 entry) [each of the five brothers inherits its magic item; the youngest He lost his own; he successively borrows the magic items of his older brothers; he returns everything with the last item, the magic guitar]: Cardigos 2006, No. 569:143; Catalans [hero gets a magic ring that gives him any food; changes it to a baton that will hit everyone until the owner stops it; uses a baton to change the ring to a pipe, which, if worn start playing, summons the entire royal army; with the help of the flute, returns the ring again; at the king's palace, the guy shows off his magic items and gets the princess]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 569:127 ( example text for this story in Salvator 1896:86-95); Basques: Camarena, Barandiarán, Navarra, p. 57-60 in Chevalier 1995:581; (cf. Sicilians [a poor mason meets a fairy, consistently receives from her a reed that serves any food, a donkey that defecates with gold, a stick that hits on orders; the first two the item was replaced by the owner of the tavern; using a stick, the mason forced everything back; the king was told that he sent an army; the mason met a man with a shooting hat; the stick defeated the hat, he took both item they defeated the royal army]: Gonzenbach 2004 [1870], No. 23:157-178); Italians: Appari 1992 {not in bibliography}, no. 204 in Uther 2004 (1), No. 569:338-339; ladins [three the miller's sons went to look for happiness; the eldest was hired by another miller and, after three years of work, received an inexhaustible purse with money; the middle brother is a horn, at the sound of which numerous army; the youngest was an invisible hat; on the way home she saved him from robbers; after showing their items to her father, the brothers dispersed again to find out which item they had purchased was better; the eldest bought in the city had a mansion and healed in a big way; the king, who needed money, gave his daughter to the young man; when he found out about the purse, the princess stole it and gave it to his father; he told the young man to leave the city, otherwise he would execute it; he turned to his middle brother for help; they came, blew the horn, and an army came out against the king; he returned his purse and invited both brothers to a feast; the brothers talked about the horn and when they fell asleep, princess she took both the horn and the purse, the brothers were driven away; they found the youngest with his invisible hat; the king passes off his daughter as a noble man; invisible, the younger brother followed the princess into the room where they were kept magic items, quietly took them away; the younger brother became king, the middle brother became a general, the elder became chief adviser; the princess and her father were punished] Wildhaber, Uffer 1971, No. 47:147-156.

Western Europe. Walloons: Laport 1932, no.*569A [the old king promises to hand over power to whoever gets the blackbird, whose singing makes them 50 years younger; the youngest son saves the fox from the trap; she teaches get a thrush out of a guarded tower; there is also a mule that litters gold; warriors chase, but the fox builds a wall in front of them; the young man's elder brother is hanged in the city, he buys him; he confronts the young man into the hole, takes the thrush and the mule; the fox pulls the young man out of the hole; the old woman says that there are giants in the forest, gives a magic tablecloth; from the first giant, the young man exchanges her for a baton, in which 4 grenadier; sends them to take away the tablecloth; from the second, in the same way, the young man takes away the hat in which the fortress is impregnable, from the third violin, which revives the dead; the young man comes to his father, but he throws him into prison, then expels him and intends to kill him; with the help of miraculous objects, the young man smashes his father's army, puts his brother in prison, and then revives the killed warriors], *569B []: 65-66, 66-67; Bretons [rustic young man Crampouès ("damn") goes to look for happiness; his fiancée Marie took with her a flap from his grandmother's witch's shirt; this is a magic tablecloth; the old man exchanges it for a baton, in which has 500 armed horsemen; K. tells the horsemen to take the tablecloth back; similarly receives bagpipes at the mill, the sound of which even the dead dance; letting the funeral procession dance, gets a hat that creates a castle and turns the owner into a handsome man; the king comes to him himself; he charmed the princess but refused to marry her, but returned to his beloved Marie]: Luzel Delarue, Tenè ze 1964:450-451; French (Lorraine, Nivernay) []: Delarue, Tenèze 1964, No. 569:451-452; Scots, Irish, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Austria): Uther 2004 (1), No. 569:338-339; the Germans [three brothers became impoverished and went to seek happiness; came to a mountain of silver, the elder took as much as he could and returned home; to the mountain of gold (the same, middle brother); the youngest found it under a tree a tablecloth with various dishes on it; took the tablecloth with him; soon found out that it was a magic tablecloth; the coal miner offered to exchange it for a satchel with seven warriors; the young man agreed and then sent warriors take the tablecloth back; the same with another coal miner (a hat with guns and troops in it); with the third (a horn - any walls will collapse); when the young man returned to his brothers, they expelled him; he summoned his soldiers and beat him them; defeated the royal army, he had to give his daughter; the wife found out the secret of the backpack, called the soldiers to drive her husband into the neck; the same with his hat; but he still had the horn, the walls began to collapse, the young man became king]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 54:189-193 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:153-157).

South Asia. Ancient India [jataka about the new birth of Buddha; after killing a ferocious boar, the hero receives a gem; exchanges it for an ax that burns and destroys everything, a drum in which a whole army, a bowl that can be filled with any drink or flood the whole area; the hero gets the kingdom]: Liungman 196:175; northern India, Mirzapur, Hindi [six princes are married; youngest seventh says that he marries one of Indra's fairies; goes in search; in the village of the untouchables (Chamar) he sees a girl who stays dry in the rain; realizes that she is a fairy; the king thinks that his son has really found heavenly maiden; indignant to learn that the bride is from an untouchable village; the wife demands to get her ring from the fakir over the seven seas; he sleeps for six months, overgrown with grass; the young man gently shakes off the ground from him; the fakir does not killed him, but gave him a ring; warned him not to give it to his wife immediately upon his return; the young man did not give it back, but his wife quietly took the ring when the young man was sleeping, flew to heaven; the young man returned to the fakir; he teaches him to go to the river where the fairies bathe, pick up their clothes and come to him; the fairies will come, agree to return what belongs to the young man; he must guess three times; the first time let him grab the eldest, the second the youngest, not lets go; the fairies will scream, "He forgot!" ; grab the leper for the third time; the young man brought his wife back; she lets the flute call her; if Indra finds out about their marriage, kills both; the prince comes to a group of people, calls his wife, asks for a fairy dance, that he does it; those people change their stick that hits whoever you want; the prince tells the stick to beat those people, takes the flute back; the same with the pot he cooks himself; with the goat that litters gold; the prince returned to his brothers; one day he left the flute at home, and his older daughter-in-law found the flute; the fairy appeared, took the flute and flew away; fakir: a laundress brings a cart of fairy clothes to wash in this world; on this cart you can get to the fairies; the laundress agreed to take the prince; wife: we will dance to the drum; I must say that the drummer is no good and start playing on his own; Indra will like it, he will allow the marriage; The prince lived well with his wife]: Crooke 1892-1893, No. 574:153-155; kannada [the king and minister asked Shiva to give them children; the wives became pregnant; the king and minister agreed to marry children if one was born a boy and the other has a girl; the minister's wife gave birth to a girl and Rani gave birth to a turtle; when the turtle son grew up, he told his father to marry him the minister's daughter; the daughter agrees, but let the groom bring her a heavenly flower parijata; the turtle ordered him to be taken to the sea, swam to the mountains, turned to the Sun, became a young man; the sun said that in a past life the turtle was a prince and, out of mischief, threw a turtle at the hermit; but then repented; so the hermit told him to remain a turtle in his new life until he turned to the Sun in that very place; now the prince has gone to look for a flower; the first hermit refers to his guru, he to his own; this one indicated the lake where heavenly maidens come to swim; you must grab one sari and run without looking back at Ganesha's temple; the prince did so; returned the sari to the maiden, and she brought it from heaven flower; they came together; she gave the prince a flute to summon her when needed; one of the hermits offered to change the flute to a stick that made you give anything; the prince changed and then told take the flute back to the wand; the prince also took away the bag from the second hermit, where everything goes, if you order, and the third - speeding sandals; the prince returned in the form of a turtle and gave the flower; the minister's two eldest daughters married normal men, the youngest a turtle; the older sons-in-law go hunting; the turtle was also put on an oath; left alone, he became a prince; the older sons-in-law ran away from tigers; the prince killed the tigers, gave them to his sons-in-law, for which he cut off their mustache on their left; at night the prince slept with his wife in his true form; in the morning he appeared to people, showed his severed mustache; the king handed him the throne]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 71:193-198; Tamils [an episode of a long story; to get hold of the magic guitar, a hermit offers a young man to exchange it for a magic baton; he has to do it; the baton himself suggests killing the hermit because he did not feed her, the young man returns the guitar and keeps his baton as well]: Natesa Sastri 1886:151-153; Tamils [the Raja and the Minister agreed: if one if a son is born, and the other has a daughter, they will get married; the minister has a daughter, and Raja has a turtle son; he asks to marry him the minister's daughter; he demands to get a flower growing in the holy city across the seven seas; son- the turtle asks to let him go to sea, stops in front of Surya (the sun)'s chariot; asks why he became a turtle; Surya: You once put the turtle in the hand of a meditated hermit; agrees to break the spell; about the flower, he advises to contact the sage who opens his eyes once in custody (watch); he sends guards to the eye-opener every two times; he opens his eyes once in a while three guards; the last one; only 7 heavenly maidens to Cannimar can give a flower; you must steal one's clothes and run to the temple without looking back; in the temple, return clothes for promising to get a flower; the prince did so; the maidens were amazed at the prince's beauty, brought a flower and let the pipe call them if necessary; the third sage persuaded him to give him a pipe in exchange for a stick that defeats all enemies; the prince killed this sage with a stick and took possession of both items; the same with the second sage, the prince took away his bag that could fit everything at will; the same with the first (sandals that carry anywhere); the prince returned home, putting on their turtle shell again; meanwhile, the other 4 daughters of ministers got married; these sons-in-law go hunting, do not want to take the turtle; he took on his sunny appearance, created a pond with clean water, gave feed their sons-in-law in exchange for their rings; enemies attacked, the prince defeated them in a sunny appearance; demanded that the sons-in-law cut off their index fingers and give them to him; the wife saw her husband remove his turtle shell while swimming, she burned her shell; at the wedding, Cannimar danced to the sound of their pipe; the prince gave their rings to his sons-in-law]: Blackburn 2005, No. 89.

The Balkans. Slovenes, Serbs, Greeks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 569:338-339; Hungarians [the poor man has two cows, he plows them; a gentleman appears and asks to sell cows - his army starves; the poor man refuses money, wants cows in return; the gentleman promises to return handsomely; he is the king of ravens; crows flew in and pecked cows, then flew to their country, the lord disappeared; man went for the promised reward; "after going through 49 kingdoms, across the sea of Operentia and beyond the glass mountains, and even further, where the little pig with a short tail digs, and further and more", losing the last strength, a man saw a fire; sitting shepherds ask if he gave them to the king of two cows; they were told to feed and guide him; the same twice more; shepherds at the third fire report that the castle is surrounded by with a blank wall and rotates on a golden cock's leg; they give an ax to hit the wall - it will open, you have to jump but not fall; the king will ask what the guest would like to get; we must ask for a salt mill, what is in the corner; when a man slips through the wall, she slammed shut behind him, tearing off a flap from her pants; the king of ravens offers any treasure, but finally agrees to give the mill, she fulfills any desire; on the way home, when a man asked for a dining table with food in the forest, a fat man sat down with him and offered to change the mill to a baton that kills itself; the man agreed and then ordered kill a fat man with a baton; at home, a man had a feast, his son ordered a gypsy; all the neighbors, and then the king, came to have fun; he received a letter: the Tatar Turks attacked; the man put a baton on the enemies and left only one thing alive - let him report the defeat; a man married two sons to princesses; lots of fun; and now they live if they don't die]: Curtin 1890:409-423; Romanians [poor man goes to the forest for firewood; the giant sits in the cart, tells him to turn, eats bread, oxen, brings oxen to his parents; tells him not to drink while walking through the field of thirst, not to pick flowers in a flower meadow, and not to sleep in a sleepy field; in the parents' house, he advises parents to quietly steal the box in the heads of the bed; carry it back on the road; the box will give any drinks and food; the person meets the owner of the club, who beats herself on orders, He exchanges it for a box, orders the club to take the box away; the same applies to a gypsy who has a gallows that revives the dead; takes the cloak in which all the devils are in; when the wife has given birth to a child, a person asks the king to be a godfather; he agrees if a person builds a bridge of gold and silver, and there are different trees and birds around; everything is done, the king comes; demands to give the box, sends an army; man lets devils and a club; the king admits defeat, gives half the kingdom; the man tells the gallows to revive dead soldiers]: Bîrlea 1966:447-448; Bulgarians [the youngest of three brothers finds ( buys) a magic item (magic tablecloth); changes it to another (a satchel from which soldiers jump out, guns shoot); uses the second item to return the first one; changes it again (to a horn, from sounds whom everything falls apart) and returns; smashes the royal army (carries out difficult assignments) and marries a princess; after learning about the magic backpack, she kidnaps it and expels the hero; he blows the horn and destroys his own enemies]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 569:215-216.

Central Europe. The Czechs [after the death of their father, Martin, Michal and Janek go on a journey; the older brothers think I. is a fool and a loafer; they see a treasure palace in the forest; the elders first collected copper ones, then silver, then gold coins; I took a coin, but ate food; his brothers beat him, left, bought a farm, began to live richly; I returned to the palace; the giants made him a watchman, allowed him use the magic table; I took it and left; exchanged it from the old man for a parcel in which the army; sent an army to take away the table; the same with another old man, whose parcel creates locks at will; I. took the form of a beggar, came to his brothers, they put him in a stable without giving him food; but at night he built a castle and ate; once told his brothers about a table; the king asked him for three days, changed him; I. sent an army, defeated the king and got a princess, reigned, set up castles, became a great king]: Curtin 1890:295-310; Slovaks []: Gorbov 1949:91-101; Russians (Karelia, Voronezh, Tambov), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Ugric Russia, Galicia, Podolia, Pokutye, Kievskaya), Belarusians [Bag, hat and horn: a magic object found on the road, hero changes to another (horn, pipe), returns the old ones with the help of new finds; thanks to these items, he is at war with the tsar]: SUS 1979, No. 569:163; Belarusians (Cherekovsky U., Studenets, 1888-1891, from peasant Ivan Pavlov, 70 years old, illiterate) [An old man and an old woman live. In old age, an old woman gives birth to a son, but they refuse to baptize him, so they call him Nameless. He grows up and asks his mother why his name is that. She talks. He sets off, meets three deserts, who baptize him and call him the TS (EU). They teach him to read and educate him. He asks his fathers for permission to see the light. They check if he falls for someone else's good, put him on a horse, and leave silver on the road. The vehicle puts silver in its pocket. They're leaving it for another year. A year later, it's the same with gold. A year later, the elders leave three guns in the tree, the vehicle takes one, the deserts blessed him and told him what he needs to do. The vehicle is going to the capital city. Near the city on the mountain, he pulls three feathers out of the Firebird's tail on the third time, releases the horse into the wild. He goes to the king, offers to cure his horses and treats them with feathers. The king makes him the chief coachman. Other coachmen are unhappy, they learn from him how he cured the horses, tell the king that the TS can get the Firebird. The king sends him to get the Firebird. The vehicle cries, calls the horse, the horse tells how to catch the Firebird. The TS asks the king for sweet and strong drinks and a tablecloth. He spreads a tablecloth on the mountain, arranges drinks, hides. The firebird drinks, gets drunk, falls on the tablecloth. The vehicle grabs it and is lucky to the king. The king offers rewards, but the TS refuses. There is an eclipse for three days and three nights. The king wants to know why it happened, reads books and looks for people. Kuchera is said to know how to find out. The king sends him to find out. The vehicle cries, calls the horse, the horse tells how to find the sun. The TS takes a ball of three threads from the king: gold, silver and silk. This ball leads him to the house of the sun. On the way, he meets an old woman pouring water from one well to another, crows fighting otters, a man who props up tyn, a man who punches windows, a fish that they drive across the sea. Everyone asks the sun to know how much more they have to suffer. A ball leads three son to the hut where an old woman, the mother of the sun, is sitting, and he tells her questions. The mother wraps it in 12 skins and puts it in a chest (I'll hide it). The sun comes, and during the night the mother wakes up the sun and asks him questions as if she had a dream. The sun says that the eclipse took place because he saw beautiful Nastasya and wanted to dry the sea to marry her, but he couldn't. The fish can sail away if they spit out all the ships and people they swallowed. The old man punches the windows because a lot of people asked him to spend the night and he wouldn't let them in. If he repents of his sins, he'll stop. Crows fight otters because they break God's law and prescribe more than two godfathers to one child. If they repent, they'll stop. The old man is propping up because he said to live here someday, and at least prop up in the next world. If he repents, she'll stop. Baba is pouring water because she stole milk. If he repents, she'll stop. The vehicle returns to the king, transmitting all the answers on the way. The king is happy, wants to marry Nastasia and sends three sons for her. The vehicle cries, calls the horse, the horse tells us what to do. The TS takes women's clothes from the king, goes to the sea, and puts clothes in the tent. Nastasia swims up to him and wants to see him. The vehicle grabs her and hits her with an iron whip until she promises to go with him. He brings it to the king. The king is happy, has been living with her for a while, falls in love and wants to marry. Nastasya says that her beauty is kept at the bottom of the sea and sends a vehicle for her. A whale fish pulls a chest out of the sea, otters help open the chest, a duck flies out of the chest, crows tear a duck, an egg falls from it into the sea, and a whale fish brings a TS egg. He gives it to Nastasia, and she becomes even more beautiful. The king calls to marry again. Nastasya says that she needs to get her fun back, gives the TS a handkerchief, and tells her what to do. The vehicle takes three coachmen (its villains) with it and goes to the wolf, Nastasia's brother. He makes self-playing harps. Three coachmen take turns shining on him, but they fall asleep, the wolf eats them. The TS shines, wants to sleep, washes her face, wipes her face with Nastasia's handkerchief. The wolf recognizes his sister's handkerchief and gives him a harp. He goes, plays, meets an old man with a baton on the way. The TS changes the harp for a baton, and then sends a baton to get the harp back. He meets a peddler with a box, changes the harp for a box containing the untold strength of the army, and then sends a baton to regain the harp for himself. He meets a shepherd with a stick (puga), how many times you wave, there will be so many herds of cattle. The vehicle changes its stick to a baton, and then sends a baton to get the harp back. He meets a wealthy merchant, changes his harp for a magic tablecloth, and then sends a baton to regain the harp for himself. He meets carpenters, changes the harp for an ax he builds himself, and then sends a baton to regain the harp for himself. A vehicle on the other side of the river from the city where the king lives builds a palace for itself, spreads a tablecloth, opens a box of wax, puts sentries and servants, and brings cattle. The TS calls Nastasia and the king to its place. Nastasya cuts the vehicle into pieces with a sword, washed the meat, poured it with dead water, and then alive. The vehicle comes to life and becomes even more beautiful. The king asks you to make him like that too. Nastasya cuts the king and feeds him to dogs. Nastasya and TS are getting married]: Romanov 1901, No. 33:297-311; Eastern Ukrainians (Yekaterinoslavskaya, Aleksandrovsky Ul.) [pan tells the servant to bring Visible and Invisible; the servant went into the hut, hid behind the stove; the grandfather came in: Apparently and Invisible (BB) - cover the table; when the grandfather left, the servant invited BV to go with him, he agreed; the BB changed the paths to a samorun axe, the BB also returned; to a self-punching baton (the same); to bars that beat themselves; the servant returned, the baton and twigs beat Mr. and his guests, the ax rebuilt the servant's house]: I. Manzhura in Pankeev 1992:140-143; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [Sagittarius Andrey is going to shoot a falcon; she asks to be brought home and thrown out the window; turned into Elena the beauty of gold braid; weaved a carpet, tells him to sell; the minister wants another one, comes to E., informs the king about the beauty; the old woman advises sending A. to the kingdom of far away to bring the lamb a golden head; E. sent three well done, in the morning he gives A. a head, teaches him to pretend to sail after her on a ship; pig golden bristles (the same); I don't know where to go, I don't know what to bring; E. tells A. to go for the ball, and when it comes, show her towel; the old woman recognized her son-in-law, called the animals, only the old frog knows the way; began to drink fresh milk, grow up, A. sat on her, she jumped across the river of fire; let A. go into the strange house (bathhouse is not a bathhouse), will hide behind the stove; Brother Mind come, tell us, feed us; and A.: Brother Reason, sit with me; Reason comes with A.; captains of three ships, they have an ax (Tyap-blooper, make a ship!) , a tube (an army with guns will appear), a saber (wave - the silver bridge); A. gives Reason for these items, and he returns to him; everything is burned at home; A. tells the ax to create a palace, and in it E.; A. summoned an army, spared the tsar, ordered the cows to herd for 30 years; he still herds; A. built the same palace for Razuma and a silver bridge between them]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:35-42; Russians (Vologda) [ the royal man brought three birds from hunting every day; once he did not get a single one, he saw a duck; she told me not to shoot, but to marry her; he would have a lot of birds; the king ordered to show his wife, decided take away; asked the generals where to send a person; one general in 12 days: send an unknown place, bring something you don't know what; the wife gave two towels: where she would spend the night to wipe his own; ball he rolled behind him to a hut in the forest; covered for three people, the man hid; three came in: invisible, serve it; when they left, the man himself asked the invisible man to set the table and called him with him; the old man suggests changing the invisibility to a hammer: if you knock, regiments of soldiers will appear; invisible: change! the man received a hammer, but the invisible man did not leave him; the same applies to another old man (he has a butterfly with a herd of sheep in it); now the king, on the advice of the general, orders that a golden oak with silver be moved to his palace branches; the wife waved her handkerchief, the oak moved; the tsar awarded the man and hung the general]: Burtsev 1895, No. 4:17-22; Russians (Vologda) [after the service, soldiers Ivan received a hut from the tsar and became a hunter; 12 swans flew to the seashore, took off their wings, became girls; the soldier hid one pair of wings; "If an old woman is a grandmother or mother, an elderly man is a grandfather or father, if young man - be betrothed, mummer; wife created a good house, the tsar envied; offered to send Ivan I don't know where to bring something I don't know what; the wife gave a ball to go for, and a towel - only they should wipe themselves off; I. reached his house by the sea, took out a towel, the hostess recognized him, she was Ivan's wife's sister; sent him to his second sister, the second to the third; the third sends him to the heroes, they must hide; heroes enter: "Murzya, on the table!" ; and when they left, I. invited Murza to lunch with him; grateful M. stayed with Ivan; on the way back they meet a man who has a spear capable of destroying any army; M. orders him to exchange him for him himself - he will return immediately; Ivan destroyed the tsar and began to rule himself]: Kuzmina 2008, No. 50:125-127; Russians (Pskov) [poor Stepan the hunter; a dove flew through the window, became a girl; wife; weaved the carpet, ordered to sell it without bargaining; the general bought it, told the king that he sent a servant; when he saw it, he told the king; the king, seeing the craftswoman, wants to get rid of S.; the sorceress grandmother advises sending S. for gold ram; at night, the wife tells the wild winds to deliver this ram; grandmother: let him bring unknown what; the winds do not know; then the wife gives S. a ball, let him follow him; the glomerulus led to the old woman, she asked frog; frog: it is not known what is overseas; swelled, told S. to hold on to it, swam across the sea; on the other side there is a mountain, a hole in it, a closet in the hole; you have to hide in it, listen; S. hid, hears how people came in; "Brother matchmaker, light a fire!" ; the fire caught fire; then: gather it on the table; when they left, S. commands himself, but invited him to drink vodka with him; he is grateful, ready to serve him; they sailed across the sea in the boat, created an island, feast; the ship sailed, the general on it, proposes to change: it is not known what to a sword that will destroy any army; it is not known what he advises to agree, then return to S.; arrived at the tsar, S. shows how you don't know what he's gathering on the table; king to his servants: hack S.! S. sabre: ruby! the saber killed the tsar and all his people, S. returned to his wife]: Chernyshev 1950, No. 20:49-53; Russians (Voronezh, 1939) [The beautiful royal daughter does not want to study, meets a wizard, he puts her on a chair and teaches his science, advises how to choose a groom - to make a riddle, if the applicant does not guess - "head off the shoulders". An Indian prince comes to marry, the princess brings him to the "rich hall where the horned chort lives" treats him with wine, he falls asleep. In the morning, she tells her father that the groom slept all night, and his head is cut off. The same thing happens to the second contender, the nobleman. A retired soldier scoops up water in the river, pulls out cancer, asks him to be released, gives him an invisible hat and advises the soldier to boldly marry the king's daughter. The soldier asks the bride to pour him wine in mugs and falls asleep. Cancer appears, the soldier gets into his mouth and wakes up. The hero puts on an invisible hat and watches the princess. She goes to the garden, summons magic around the gazebos, eats and drinks. The soldier repeats all her actions. He approaches the rakit bush, looks in all four directions, pulls a branch and descends underground. She alternately approaches the copper, silver and gold wells, washes and drinks. The soldier does the same thing, but takes with him three crust from each well. The girl comes to her 12 sisters, tells them that the groom got drunk and fell asleep. Sisters show gifts from their suitors. The soldier climbs to them, quietly picks up the gifts and the goose from the table, falls, the sisters hear a rumble, run to the window, but do not see the soldier. When they return to the table, they see it missing. The princess goes back, but cannot get drunk from the wells, cries, shouts "my soul is burning". The soldier overtakes her, returns to the place where he fell asleep, takes off his hat. The princess wakes him up, but he tells him where she was at night and what she did, she admits that he solved all her nightly riddles. The king does not want to give his daughter for a soldier, and another contender for the princess advises to give the groom a task: to go there, I don't know where, to find something, I don't know what, "so that it's not seen, but pleased." The princess gives the soldier a ball, orders him to follow the thread when the Serpent hits him, to say that the soldier is a servant of the Russian tsar dog, then she will not touch him. This is what happens, the snake offers a treat to the soldier, orders Ursa to set the table; the tablecloth and treats appear on the table themselves. The serpent gives the soldier the keys to open the borders, and flies to fight the enemy - the Serpent with 9 heads. She wants to bring the soldier to Tsar Ursa, she promises that she will go with him and orders him to flee across the border so that the Serpent cannot kill the soldier ("he will bite and rub his bones for flour"). On the land of another Serpent, about 6 heads, Ursa orders to exchange it for a barrel, promises to return to the soldier if the Serpent does not name her until they cross the border. A soldier crosses the border, a Serpent appears with 6 heads, threatens to eat, burn with fire, and the soldier offers to feed the Snake. He has doubts, because he needs a lot of food. Ursa sets the table with plenty of treats. The serpent realizes that he does not need to fly with Ursa every day to fish and exchanges Ursa for a barrel from the soldier. The soldier crosses the next border, calls Ursa, and she ends up with him. A Serpent appears with 12 heads, wants to eat a soldier, who feeds the Snake with the help of Ursa. The serpent changes its self-propelled sword to Ursa. A soldier gets caught in the rain, does not know how to warm up, Ursa advises ordering a self-made sword to beat the Snake, the sword cuts down all 12 heads. The soldier comes to the king, says that he served him for 20 years and demands that the king served him, orders the sword to cut down the king's head. The soldier calls all soldiers, orders the protection ("workers' and peasants' kingdom") of the poor and orphans, and distributes land to soldiers. The soldier turns the keg, and the crystal palace appears. Among other things, a bayun cat lives there, from whom the storyteller learned to tell fairy tales]: Tonkov 1949, No. 11:181-189; Russians (Voronezhskaya, p. Pershino, Nizhnedevitsky District, 1936) [While hunting, the tsar's favorite soldier is lost in the forest. He meets a beautiful woman, falls in love with him and offers to stay with him, she agrees. He shows it to the king. The king himself falls in love with her and wants to execute her, but the soldier's torturers regret and offer the king to send him "to a place I don't know where, I don't know what to find." The beauty gives the boy a ball and promises not to marry the king until he returns. The soldier follows the ball, enters the dense forest, enters the dugout. The old woman asks him, he asks him to feed him first and put him to bed. In the morning, an old woman sees a soldier wearing her daughter's handkerchief, he tells the old woman about it, who looks for books where to get what the king ordered to find, but does not find it and gives a ball. He brings her sister, an even older old woman, who lives in a dugout by the sea, can't find the answer in books, collects fish, snakes, etc., asks where to find "I don't know what", they say that they don't know, but there's no old cancer among them, it's found by lame cancer. An old cancer brings a monster from the sea without a head or legs - this is "I don't know what". A soldier sits on a monster and goes to the king. On the way, he exchanges the carpenters's monster for an ax. He enters a dugout in the dense forest, sees how the invisible "brother Kherson" serves a 12-headed snake, puts treats for 12 heads. When the snake flies away, the soldier asks for food for 2 heads, Kherson, in gratitude for inviting him to the table, promises to help him. He finds himself in a big house with robbers, who sit him at the table, he says that his lunch is better, calls Brother Kherson and he brings him treats. The robbers ask to change "brother Kherson" to a magic horn (what you wish after you blow into the horn will come true), he does not want to, but his brother whispers in his ear that the soldier will still stay with him barters. He guesses and gets an army of soldiers and leads him to the king. On the way, Brother Kherson feeds the entire army and then hides it back in the horn. He brings a horn and an ax to the king, who is going to execute him. An army appears from the horn, an ax builds military barracks, and Brother Kherson sets tables for the entire army. The tsar and ministers are frightened of the soldier's capabilities, agree to give him control of the state and obey him]: Pukhova 2006, No. 3:27-32; Russians {for this purpose and for one-story texts No. 213 and 214 the place of recording is not specified} [Sagittarius Fedot wounded a turtledove; she asks to bring her home, and when she finds a nap, hit her; became a girl, a wife; tells me to buy silk; calls two fellows, they weaved carpet; the commandant bought it for 10,000 rubles, and the king bought it from him for 25,000; the commandant sees the Sagittarius's wife, shows it to the king; he orders the Sagittarius to lime in order to take his wife; baba yaga advises the commandant should invite the king to send the Sagittarius to the island on a rotten ship for golden horns; the wife tells the fellows to bring a deer; Baba Yaga advises to tell F. to go there, I don't know where to bring something that I don't I know what; the wife gives a ball to follow and her needlework; the king tells his wife F. to follow him, she flew away with a turtledove; F. comes to three girls who recognize his towel, they are his wife's sisters; their mother summons animals and birds, only the frog knows about this wonder; jumped over a fiery river with F. hid in a cave; two elders come in, asking Shmat-mind to feed them; when they left, F. also called him offered to sit with him; he agrees to follow him; F. came to the old woman and her daughters, went on, tired, S. carried him; tells him to exchange him from the merchants for three curiosities, he will return; they have a box, in whose garden, the ax that makes ships, the horn from which the army leaves; S. also returned to F.; F. built a palace, defeated the king's army, became king himself, his wife was queen]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 212: 134-145.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks [shooter Heeche-Mergen hides the clothes of one of the three swan girls who have come to swim; gets married; Tsarkin Khan wants her, the adviser suggests sending H. to the Ganges for the tigress's milk; the tigress is H.'s wife's cattle, he brings milk; a lame and crooked drunkard offers to bring an invisible thing from an unknown country; the wife gives a ball; H. follows, shows his wife's crest to the woman, this is his wife's sister; she gives another ball, it leads to her older sister; she asks all the creatures, knows only cancer with an iron claw; it's in the forest beyond the outer sea; H. hides, sees his father tell Murza to serve food; when he leaves, H. asks Murza to join the meal; on the way back, H. exchanges Murza for a folding palace, a cane with his army, Murza returns every time; H. drives Khan away, reigns]: Vatagin 1964:115-128 (=Egorov 1978:74-85); Abkhazians (p. Lykhny) [Alyksa went hunting, saw a girl in a forest hut, brought her to himself; the tsar demanded to give in, A. refused; then demanded to go to his late father and find out where he hid the gold ring and cauldron; the wife gave two coils of thread: tie it to the toe, follow the coils; by the sea there is a wide bridge to heaven and hairs to hell, the king's father is in hell; A. crossed the hairs; the king's father carries a bag of sand, his devils they are driven and beaten with sticks; he answered where the gold things are hidden, the coils brought A. back; now the king demands to bring him something that no one has seen in this world; the wife gave the coils again, they led to her older sister, whose husband is an ogre; he promised not to eat a guest, went with him to his younger brother; there his wife's other sister is also with her cannibal husband; from there they all went to their third brother; one of The audience replied that he knew where such a thing was; A. came to the palace; there people called Mishka and demanded food from him; she appeared; A. ate and offered Mishka a glass of wine; M.: you are the first to me offered; they went together; the invisible M. took the peasant's axe; they stood on him and sailed across the sea; on the other side, M. fed the army; the army asked M. to cede M. in exchange for a box that can be turned into a palace, a gun and anything; A. gave in, and then M. returned to him; the king sends servants, M. hits them; the king himself came, got hit on the head with a stick, sent an army, the cannon box shoots; the tsar ran, Alexey got everything]: Khashba, Kukba 1935:154-159 (=Shakryl 1975, No. 27:139-143); swans [in the forest, the vizier heard the voice of a strange bird, shot, fell from above beautiful; he decided to marry her to the Tsar, but as he approached the palace, the beauty turned into a freak; the king told the vizier to marry her himself; the woman became beautiful again, the king decided destroy the vizier; ordered to guess what "adu-i-made-i-maana" means; the vizier has three married sisters; one of the sons-in-law advised me to contact the forest people of Tskheki Dau; one of the CD sends to another, he to the third ; the third sent the servant to escort the vizier, and he threw him into the river; the vizier swam out, went into the house, hid; at midnight three princes come in, called "Mishká!" , they tell him to make a fire, feed them, etc., the invisible M. does everything; the princes are gone, the vizier himself turned to M., invited him to share a meal, grateful M. stayed with him; tells him to buy from the counter a stick for 1000 rubles, then send this stick to return the money; then changes the Jew M. for a chest of warriors, M. returns to him; the soldiers beat the king's army, and the stick killed the tsar himself]: Petrov 1886a: 89-93; Georgians: Chikovani 1954, No. 7 (Kakheti) [two older brothers decided to get rid of the youngest; let everyone shoot an arrow and follow it; the youngest comes to another kingdom, the old woman let him into the house; says that three cabbage rolls will fly to the lake, we must hide the youngest's wing, let him become a wife; the young man is silent when the girl promises to become a sister; goes out when his wife; the young man works for the king, asks for he and his wife have one of nine rooms; the advisers suggest that the king tell the young man to cut down trees in a day and take them to the palace, rather than be able to take his wife away; the wife turned the ring, and her elder warriors appear sisters, they did everything; decided to kill the young man while hunting; the wife gave a ring: throw it up, it will become a golden ball, give it to the king; taking gold, the king did not dare to kill the young man; a new task: to plow the field in a day, grow crops, bring bags of flour; the warriors fulfilled the sisters; advisers to the king: they led to bring "neither you know nor I know"; the wife called the warriors of the sisters, the last to come a lame frog, sent to old woman; the old woman gave a wheel, it will lie across the sea as a bridge, a temple across the sea, at the temple I must say, "Trust me, sister!" , the doors will open; the old man came out, gave Tarumbala, although he is not visible; on the way back, the young man meets a merchant, whose organ, if you turn the handle, comes out; the young man tells T. to supply water and food; changed, and T. also returned to the young man; he came when the king wanted to marry his wife; ordered T. to cause a downpour, sent an army, destroyed the king, reigned himself]: 54-58; Kurdovanidze 2000, No. 569 (Kartley) [the poor man receives (steals) a magic tablecloth, a magic wineskin, a mortar; exchanges them for a sword and club, with which he returns them again]: 567; Armenians: Ganalanyan 1965 [the hunter brings them back dove; the house is tidy; the hunter's mother sees the dove turn into a girl; grabs her; the hunter marries her; the king demands to bring what I don't know; the wife reproaches that he did not leave her feathers; sends to his sisters, gives him a towel, does not tell strangers to wipe themselves off, otherwise he will turn into a rope; they, King Kajatz, kings of Serpents, Mice do not know how to get it; the frog king calls Delagore; he takes him to the forest disappears; another person asks Afandi to serve food; she appears by herself; gives Afandi to the hunter; on the way, A. asks to sell himself to a Kurd, a peddler, returns every time; the hunter tells the king that did not find what he needed, A. kills the king, smashes his army; the hunter becomes king]: 114-120; Nazinian 1969 [the mouse and the falcon sowed wheat, and when they collected them, they began to divide; they could not divide one grain, turned to the eagle; the eagle to the falcon: you knock him away; the mouse: well, let's not quarrel; and at night I hit the sleeping falcon with a sword, he hardly managed to fly away; the hunter saw a falcon on the tree, pointed his gun three times, the falcon asked him not to kill him, to cure him; the hunter's wife went out; the falcon put the hunter on his back, carried him, threw him into the sea three times, picking him up above the water; ordered him to ask his father for a silk pouch; father the falcon gives a pouch, does not tell him to open it before reaching the house; the hunter opened it, found himself in the middle of a noisy bazaar; the lame man asks to give him what he does not know at home; the hunter promised to be at home; wife: what our son does not go home; it turned out that the son was born, but has now taken him lame; he left the boy lame on the island at sea; he has been fishing for 16 years, grew up; three heads flew to the island, threw off a bird's robe, became girls, went swimming; a young man stole one girl's feathers; she promised to be his wife; gave a ball, he rolled from island to shore, there was a road, they came to town; the husband was hired in laborers; the owner decided to lime him in order to take possession of his wife; one lame guest suggested 1) send a man for two storks, one has a golden beak, the other has silver wings; the wife calls an Arab and orders the storks to be reached, they bring them; the wife warned: if the owner says that storks are not needed, they must be released (as it happened); 2) bring the lion from Mount Aragats (the same); 3) bring the invisible Worker Murza; the wife gives a ball, it will lead to her sister's house; she calls the frogs, they don't know the way; the sister tells them to go to their mother's house for the ball; she collected snakes, they say that M. hired snake king; mother tells me to go to the house of the snake king and hide behind the stove; the king will come and say, "Murza, gather for the table"; when the king leaves, call M. for him; he is glad the king has already tortured him; the boatman offers M. a horn in which a foot army and a cavalry detachment; when a person receives a horn, M. also returned to him; the owner wants to cut off the man's head, he blows into the horn, the warriors cut off the owner's head; M. took the couple to her husband's parents]: 33-42; Turks [a young man saves a snake, which turns out to be a snake princess; she gives him a magic ring; he exchanges it from the robbers for a magic revolver, from which he kills robbers, takes the ring back; destroys the padishah's army sent against him with a revolver, marries a princess]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 169.III.4-13:192.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [the seller of the chest shouts that the one who bought it will repent and the one who did not buy it will also repent; the bald man bought, inside there is a snake, he asked for meat and water; advised him to ask his father as a reward Suleiman's magic tablecloth and a whip to hit it; when a bald man ordered pilaf, a man who came up persuaded him to exchange the tablecloth for a baton that turned into a dragon; the bald man exchanged it, and then ordered take the tablecloth back with a baton; then two went into the house of the Pleshivets, found a ring on the ground and gave it to him; Suleiman's three slaves come out of the ring, ready to obey any orders; this is how the bald man found power; God grant that your wishes come true]: Ottomans 1987:167-170; Pashtuns [Shah's daughter hears a conversation between a myna (pink starling) and a parrot: a fairy named Zabzibana keeps a jug with magic oil; the shah promises his daughter to whoever gets it; the shepherd convinced the vizier's son to return home, and went to buy oil himself; the diva shoemaker sent him to his older brother, who sent him to his eldest brother; the eldest took her to the mountain to the fairy fortress; there is an old woman, she was kidnapped as a baby, she has a daughter, the fairy Gulkhandana, who serves as a vizier for the Shah {i.e. Z.?} ; G. tells her mother that someone who kills a camel diva will marry her, this requires her handkerchief; the old woman stole her daughter's handkerchief, gave it to the shepherd, he killed the diva; pretended to jump over the ditch three times ( this is also a condition for marriage); married G.; t a gave an invisible hat and a flying carpet; the shepherd flew to the pool; doves flew in, threw off their clothes, became fairies, began to swim; the shepherd gave his clothes for Z. promised to marry him too; when the shepherd missed his homeland, G. and Z. gave a violin: play and we will come with an army; the divas carried the shepherd; when hungry, the shepherd played the violin, G. and Z. killed a lot of cattle, fed a diva; the diva offers to change the magic baton, chain, flying carpet to a violin; the shepherd changed and then ordered the diva to tie the chains, beat the baton; he gave everything; the same with the second diva : his handkerchief, no matter how much you put in it, will not be filled; the shepherd gave the Shah a bottle of Z. oil; the shah gave him the princess, and she drove the shepherd away; the shah sent the vizier's son to him; the shepherd and the vizier's son flew to the island; G. and Z. were offended, threw all the magic things into the sea, leaving only a handkerchief and an invisible hat; on the log, the shepherd and the son of the vizier sailed home; the shepherd decided to sell the ring he gave Z.; the Shah liked it so much that he gave his daughter for the son of the vizier; he complains to the shepherd that as soon as he lies down with his wife, he loses consciousness and does not remember anything until morning; the shepherd in an invisible hat follows at night the wife of a friend in an invisible hat; she and the diva are flying on a flying carpet, dancing with fairies, throwing jewelry on the floor; the shepherd picked everything up in a handkerchief; one day the shepherd took off his hat, liked the fairy lady, she took it to her husband; he asked her for a stick that took all the water in any body of water; so he found and returned the items thrown by the fairies into the sea; summoning G. and Z., told them to eat the Shah's daughter, which had deceived him, and the wife of the vizier, who flew to the diva; went forever to the kingdom of Zabzibana]: Lebedev 1958:121-126.

Baltoscandia. Swedes [a person gets a magic tablecloth; others give away their own magic items for it, with which a person returns the tablecloth; these items are an invisible hat, a horn, from sounds which collapses fortresses, a shooting hat, a magic sword, a seven-mile boots, a box or satchel from which soldiers jump out, a mill grinding ducats; usually the hero marries a princess and becomes king]: Liungman 1961, No. 569:175; Norwegians [three tailors go to seek happiness; two are satisfied after finding an apple tree with silver flowers and another with golden apples; third goes further and gets a magic tablecloth from the old woman; exchanges her for a cartridge belt with ten thousand soldiers, and with their help returns the tablecloth as well; the king takes her, but the soldiers force her return]: Hodne 1984, No. 569:137; Danes: Uther 2004 (1), No. 569:338-339; Finns [the hunter sees three ducks coming ashore, throwing off their feather clothes, becoming girls; hides the clothes herself beautiful; returned when she promised to be his wife; she is the most beautiful, the king wants to take her for his son, he is advised to give the duck girl's husband impossible errands; 1) make Tischplatte by morning, on which has the moon and stars (the wife drew); 2) bring nothing out of nowhere; the wife made a handkerchief by morning, sent her on the road; when the husband comes home, where he sees strange things, let him show her handkerchief and lead yourself like your own; there are bones around the house, there is only one skull on each pole, only one empty; old woman: the man came by herself; when you saw the handkerchief: you are the husband of my aunt's daughter! asks the servants where to look for nothing and nowhere, they do not know; she sent to her sister, she sent to her third sister; there knew the old toad who came last; the old woman told them to follow her; the toad brought her to the houses, where they hid in a dark corner; a man came in, called Nichtda, told them to set the table; everything is done by itself, the servants are not visible; when the person who came left, the man decided to call Nobody himself; he agreed go with him; the man asks every now and then if No one is here; they sailed by ship, the man told Nobody to feed the sailors; they offered to exchange a table with food that they wanted (and which Nobody covered it) on an anvil: if you hit it with a hammer, 12 fellows will appear, fulfilling wishes; but No one stayed with him; the sailors, seeing that the magic table was gone, rushed after the man, but he told the fellows to drive them away; the man came when his wife was married to the king's son; he threw his ring into her cup, she recognized him and said that her husband was alive; well done beat the king to death, man reunited with his wife and became king himself]: Salmelainen 1947:33-39; Karelians (Kalevala District) [the king has 25 sons; he learned from the book that one woman has 25 daughters; the brothers went marry; the youngest went forward; in the hut, the old woman interferes with her nose with hot coals; the guy answers cleverly, she calls him her sister's son, promises to take his brothers for the night, tells him to go to that woman's sister, whose daughter; herd her horses, ask for an inferior skate for her work; the skate says that there are a hundred stakes around that house, 75 are already the heads of grooms; the mother of daughters promises golden oats if the brothers let in his horses to the stable; the youngest says that their horses eat only burning coals; in the evening, dancing to a self-playing accordion, forest animals dance; horse: the old woman will bed her daughters in one half of the room, and you in another; you have to switch places and put your hats on the girls; at night, the old woman cut off the heads not of young men, but for her daughters; the younger brother tells me to run; the old woman looks into her magic mirror and sees that killed daughters; brothers were hired to serve the king; the elders are jealous of the younger; they tell the king that their brother can get that old woman's golden cross; the horse carried the boy across the river threshold; tells him to give bread to the dog old woman so as not to bark; the guy took the cross; get the old woman's mirror (the same); get the old woman's accordion; when they rode back, the old woman tore off the horse's leg; he orders him to be killed and buried; old man suggests changing the accordion to a whip, from the blow of which the dead come to life; the guy killed the old man for trial; killed and revived the crow that had arrived; but did not revive the old man; revived the skate; brothers even more they are jealous: their brother promised to get Päivela's maiden as a bride (Päivolan neiččyön morsiemekse); the skate takes the guy to the top of the mountain, there is a hole, lowers her on a belt; he goes into the hut, there warm; P.'s mother says that her daughter goes to the edge of the sky to fry the sun; walled up the boy in the oven so that he does not burn, only her eyes can be seen; when the daughter took off her fiery clothes, the mother released the boy, P. went with him, his skate picked them up, brought them to the king; P. says that he will become a fire pit: whoever jumps on horseback will receive it; when the boy jumped, the fire in the pit went out; the king fell into the hole, burned down; the boy became king, Virgin P. - Queen]: Onegin 2010, No. 20:226-233; Estonians, Lithuanians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 569:338-339; Latvians [guy gets a bag (purse) for food; then he meets a man with a wonderful baton that does any job; the guy exchanges a baton and uses it to regain the first item; the guy helps the king (also: waging war with him)]: Aris, Medne 1977 No. 569:303.

Volga - Perm. Bashkirs [after the death of his father, the youngest son Safar leaves home; stays with the fisherman, marries his daughter Zuleikha; she weaves, S. sells, the tsar saw, gives instructions to lime S., pick up Z. 1) get three wild horses (Z. lets you throw the powder into the water, the horses fall asleep); 2) get something I don't know what; Z. calls animals, birds, fish; only the old pike tells you to go down to the green house, hide under green table; a white-bearded old man came in, telling the invisible Uzbek to serve food; when he left, S. invited W. himself to share a meal; he goes with him; tells him to exchange him from the caravans for a chest of soldiers; himself also returns to S.; soldiers defeated the tsar's army, S. executed him and reigned]: Barag 1989, No. 28:145-151; Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 18 [stepmother ordered his stepdaughter to be expelled; rich the man took her as his youngest wife; when he leaves, the eldest promises to sew a shirt, the youngest promises to give birth to a boy and a girl; the eldest agreed with the old woman to replace the children with puppies, let them down the river in the chest; the fishermen caught him; the husband returned, ordered his wife and puppies to be imprisoned at the gate, and those passing by should knock on her; he was chased by wolves, an unrecognized grown son shot them; the old woman persuaded him sister send brother to bring her mermaid wife; horse helps do this; old woman: you need a milk lake; "self-playing record" (same; a record in an egg, in a duck, in a chest, on an oak tree in the middle of the lake; the egg fell into the water, the old woman called the fish, brought it alone); the fiery accordion; the young man took it out, only the horse burned down; the old man changed it to a baton that hits himself; the young man put a baton on him, took the accordion; he also received reviving the palace, revived the horse; the mermaid wife told everything; the eldest wife and old woman were executed, the youngest was returned]: 171-181; Yarmukhametov 1957 [=Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 36:293-300; the son of the padishah marries his poor friend; viziers say that the poor man's wife is better than the wife of the padishah's son; he harbors dislike; to take the poor man's wife, the viziers tell him to go there, I don't know where, bring what she knows; the wife gives an apple, it rolls, a horseman follows it to the hut; the old woman sends it to her older sister, who calls all the animals, the last to come the lame frog; she tells the horseman to take it, shows the way, go into the house and hide; 4 horsemen come in, say, "Grandma, feed us"; the birch bark box on the table performs everything; the horsemen leave, the hero picks up the box; the fisherman shows the stick from which he comes out the army, offers to change; the box advises to agree, he will then return to the master; returns; the viziers want to take away the box, or even his wife; the dzhigit calls the army, it destroys the viziers and the padishah]: 173-181; Chuvash [the forest is empty, I. comes to a tree with all the birds on; shoots a big white one, she falls, he brings her to the hut, she turns into a beauty; the wife weaves a magic tablecloth, the husband carries to sell, the king sees, comes to find out who the craftswoman is; the wise men advise sending I. for a goat with golden horns and hair; the wife sends him to go for the ball, he leads to a goat; the same boar with golden horns and hair stubble; sent for Sharapchyk the invisible; the wife gives a towel, sends her older sister for a ball; there is a girl in a silver palace recognizing her younger sister's towel; she gives her ball and ring, the ball leads to the oldest sister in the golden palace; she leads to the river, followed by S.; the frog asks for milk, I. brings it, the frog jumps, carries her across the river; three robbers enter the triangular house , they tell S. to set the table; when they leave, I. suggests that Sh. Go with him, he agrees; tells him to exchange him from the robbers for crossing the river, chest, ax, pipe; returns to I.; I. goes to the king by war, dudit - ships, from the chest - soldiers, axes make fortresses; I. kills the king, receives the throne, as well as a goat and a wild boar]: 129-138; Komi [after serving 25 years of service, Fedot decided that his parents were dead, began to live in a forest hut; the old cook says that there will be no luck today; F. goes to the forest, there is no game, sees a beautiful bird, takes aim three times, the bird tells not to shoot; F. brings it home; the bird tells me to calculate the cook; every day someone cooks and cleans; F. spied, found the girl; she tells her to marry, otherwise she will fly away; three years she is a woman at night, a bird in the afternoon, then the vow is over; He orders to buy silk, in the morning a tablecloth with woven trees is ready, etc.; F. carries the tablecloth to the bazaar, the treasurer buys it for a lot, the king orders more; the treasurer sees F.'s wife, gets stunned, tells the king; the witch advises the king to send F. to catch a black deer on the White Sea; the wife brings the deer out of the forest; says that the ship will stay on the water for only 3 days; the crew is drunk, I. turns the ship, leads the deer to the king; the witch tells F. I don't know where, I don't know why, I don't know who to bring; the wife gives white, red and blue threads, they will show the way; gives a towel: turn it around when trouble comes; F. comes into the house, the old woman tells her to wash in the bathhouse to eat it when her brothers come; giants come, it's bad, but F. unwrapped the towel, the old woman recognized him as her son-in-law; the frog croaks: it turns out F.'s wife is her daughter; jumped over the first sea with him; teaches him what to do; when she jumped over the Third Sea, she died; F. listens to the conversation of the fellows: Matrazum, bring lunch; when they are gone, F. calls himself M., but thanks; M.: no one thanked me, I will go with you; F. sails on the ship, M. teaches me to sell him for a small magic pipe; after 3 days M. returned; F. arrived home, his parents died, and one of the brother-in-law gave a wolf cub; he orders to get rid of the tsar's army; the wife orders to blow through the pipe; the army came out, boldly the tsar, F. and his wife reigned]: Plesovsky 1975:52-63.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakas [Kresen began to serve, was appointed police officer, then chief governor-general; 9 others are jealous, write to the king that K. wants to marry the royal daughter and become king himself; the tsar orders After 6 days, bring his truth, otherwise he executes; K. treats an old man in a tavern, he gives a dove, tells him to follow him; the dove leads to the boat; on the other side of the hut with a clean upper room, the table is laid; K. ate, drank, hid; a man came and shouted, "Aas!" , a soldier appears, sets the table; in the morning K. calls A. himself; he says that he serves the owner of the water and the owner of the mountain; agrees to go with K., although invisible; K. asks A. to feed people from a hungry ship, to which Polamor Khan; P. proposes to change A. to a gun in which a thousand warriors (they fly out in flies, then turn into warriors); A. orders to agree - he will return anyway; K. feeds all the king's people; he orders to herd 12 birds with one stone; the same poor old man gives a pipe; the governor-general in disguise asks to sell the hare, K. gives the cut off little finger for money; plays the pipe, the hare returns; the same with royal son; with the royal wife {it would be logical that a daughter, not a wife}; K. gives her the 13th hare, who is not marked, takes her ring and promises to marry him; the king orders to bring 3 bags of truth; K.: the severed finger of the Governor-General; the king's son; the ring of the king's wife; K. summons soldiers with a gun; marries, becomes king himself]: Balter 1986:126-137.

Western Siberia. Mansi [a person has a lump of resin; he meets another with seven geese, offers to change; he does not want to; from a lump of resin, fire to the sky; he agreed to change; geese offer to return the lump resins; returned {exactly how this and other magical items are returned is not said; it is also not clear at first what their value is}; similarly, the owner of a lump of resin exchanges it on a wooden key, a hemp twig, an ax, a ball of silver yarn; everyone offers to return and return a lump of resin that spews fire; a man comes to the princely city; his ax cuts himself during the day, the house is ready; the ragged man came, did not leave, the man put his objects on it, only the bones remained; the man went to take his wife; silver yarn bridge across the sea, he passed through it; the prince's house without doors and chimneys, just a hole like a woodpecker made; 7 stone-breasted princes nearby; silver yarn knitted them; inside the girl is like a raspberry berry; {further not very clear; the appearance of spirits from the lower world; what something happens to magic objects, they end up in the water, then back on the shore, safe and sound again}; a feast in the princely city; the hero lives well]: Kannisto 1956, No. 7:56-73 in Kecskeméti , Paunonen 1974, No. 569:233.

Amur - Sakhalin. {The K131B motif may be a recent Russian borrowing, but the K30B motif with which it is combined in the Wilt text is East Asian}. Wilta [Geuhatu lives on the outskirts of the city in a grass house; mowing the grass by a sacred tree, she sees an iron bird the size of a house descend onto a tree; on the bird's back, a beautiful woman cries: from Golden tears are pouring in his left eye, silver tears from the right eye; asks her parents to report it; G. climbed the tree to a hole in the sky, but remembered that there was no food with him, and went down; two came for him the chief and was taken to the owner; G. first replied that he did not see anything, and then told everything; G. received 70 soldiers and an iron flying steamer that climbed to the heavenly hole; G. tied up with a rope and ordered him to be lowered; there were three roads from the intersection: to the dead, to the sun and to hell; G. tied a rope to the hemp {so as not to get lost on the way back} and walked along the road to hell; in the house that a woman, she hid G.; said that when the hell came, bringing a man in one armpit and a seal in the other, she would persuade him to allow him to look for lice; when he falls asleep, G. must cut it with a sword he has red hair on top of his head; the first time he smells something, but the woman says it's the smell of a bear that the devil recently brought; when the devil fell asleep again, G. cut his hair, the hell died, his body was cooked and burned; they reached the fork along the rope; the woman tells G. to get up first, he refused, she gave him her gold ring; he was picked up, and when they began to lift G., the rope was cut off; G. put his finger in the current one red water nearby, his finger fell off; put it in white water - recovered; drank white water and recovered; found a barely alive person tied to a tree, gave him white water; he led him to his parents, ordered to reward not gold and silver, but an idol; tied two rods to their feet, they crossed the water; having received an idol, G. met an old man; at the handkerchief in which the city and soldiers with guns; changed with the old man, and then ordered the soldiers to take away the old man's idol; the same with another old man who has a staff with soldiers; G.'s wife is passed off as another who called himself her savior; G. threw it in a glass of vodka is a golden ring; the woman recognized him and called G. the savior; the owner: that deceiver must be killed; now G. is rich and with two wives; {the end is unclear; where does the second wife come from? named Lord of the Sea}]: Ikegami 2007, No. 17:67-85.