K135. Seven in one hit, ATU 1640.

.11.13.-.17.21.-.23.27.-.34.

Accidentally defeating powerful opponents, a physically weak and timid person is honored.

Swahili, Zaghawa, Sudanese Arabs, Egypt, Libya, Kabila, Morocco, Catalans, Portuguese, Spaniards, Aragon, Ladins, Italians (Ticino, Lombardy, Liguria, Marche), Sardinians, Corsicans, Maltese, Germans (Mecklenburg, Swabia, Upper Palatinate, Austria), Alsatians, French (Upper Brittany), Irish, Scots, British, French, Walloons, Flemish, Friesians, Dutch, Arabs Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Eastern Tibetans (Sichuan), Shans, Lao, Sre, Khmers, Kashmiris, Himachal Paharis, Hindi, Marathi, Assames, Bengalis, Tamils, Sinhales, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Greeks, Albanians, Bosnians, Hungarians, Slovenes, Romanians, Luzhitans, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Transcarpathia, Hutsulshchina, Podolia, Kiev, Poltava), Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Novgorod, Pskov, Vologda, Moscow, Kaluga, Ryazan), Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Abkhazians, Abazins, Adygs, Chechens, Dargins, Avars, Aguls, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Persians, Tajiks, Yagnobes, Baluchis, Finns, Karelians, Veps, Estonians, Setu, Livs, Counselors, Western Sami, Swedes, Norwegians, Icelanders, Danes, Lutsies, Latvians, Lithuanians, Chuvash, Mari, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Komi, Udmurts, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Karakalpaks, Tuvans, Khalkha Mongols.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Swahili (Zanzibar): El-Shamy 2004, No. 1640:883-884

Sudan - East Africa. Zaghawa [one guy is brave, the other is a coward; they are on the road, they are the girl of a brave boy; the coward is afraid of being alone, even they go down to the well for water together; brave at night the guy and the girl put their decks in their place and rode away on a camel; the coward woke up and a lion beside him; he grabbed him by the ears in fear and jumped on horseback; in the village he was mistaken for a brave man, hardly ripped off lion; enemies attacked, the coward galloped, clinging to trees; the enemies got scared, gave up; when they saw that their victor was scared, could not stand the shame and committed suicide]: Tubiana, Tubiana 2004 (2), No. 30:57-60; Sudanese Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 1640:883-884

North Africa. The Arabs of Egypt, Libya, Kabila, Morocco: El-Shamy 2004, No. 1640:883-884.

Southern Europe. Catalans (incl. Mallorca) [a tailor killed 7 flies, wrote "seven with one blow" on his belt, comes to a country where residents are kept in fear by a unicorn; the king read the inscription on the tailor's belt, asking him to defeat the monster; he calls a unicorn, hides behind a tree, a horn gets stuck in a tree; a tailor kills, brings a unicorn, gets a bag of gold; a dragon wants to eat a princess; a tailor teases a dragon, runs around the stove for lime burning, the dragon followed, he felt dizzy, he fell into the oven; he marries a princess]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 1640:260-261; Portuguese: Braga 2002 []; 284-286; Cardigos 2006, No. 1640 [the tailor killed 7 flies, wrote "seven with one blow" on his belt; during battle, he squeals in fear, enemies are frightened and flee]: 336-337; Aragon [A brave tailor killed seven flies with one blow and pretends to kill seven giant cannibals; mocks a giant]: González Sanz 1996, No. 1640:127; Spaniards, Sardinians: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1640:342-344; Corsicans [ the poor shoemaker killed many flies with a blow; wrote "Killed a thousand, wounded five hundred" on a piece of cloth and went on a journey; he rode his donkey to the inn where the robbers were; they are horrified ran away; the owner is grateful to the shoemaker, he fed him; sitting on the best horse left by the robbers, the shoemaker went on; came to the giants; they invite him to move the rock to make millstones; he shouts - disperse, now I'll tear down the mountain; the giants ran away, the shoemaker went on; the king made him a general, put him on a horse, she carried it, the warriors followed, the enemy ran; without taking the princess, the shoemaker went then he went to the Amazons; he was chained and wanted to be executed; his men stuck to him; the queen asks if he really killed 1000, wounded 500; he asks to remove the chains, hits flies to show how it happened; the queen laughed so much that she took the shoemaker as her husband]: Calvino 1980, No. 199:704-708; Italians (Ticino) [Marco and Clara are the owners of a castle above the valley; once a rickety humpback shoemaker Giovanni saw cheese lined with flies threw his shoe at him, killing many flies at once; attached a paper above the door with the inscription: a hundred in one blow; M. saw, offered to compete: who would bring a bunch of firewood heavier, the loser will pay 500 thalers; M. brought his own, J. no; M. returned to the forest, where J. folds willow twigs: not to bring them, but what to make a rope out of them, tie them and bring the whole forest at once; knowing that people would not live without a forest, M. paid 500 thalers; K. advised her husband to offer another test: to bring a huge bucket of water from the pond to the village; J. began to dig in the pond; received another 500 thalers ; then who will throw a heavy iron ball into the lake further; threw it a mile from the shore himself; J. shouts to the villagers: Go away faster, I will throw the balloon over the lake, it will fall on the village; M. asked not to do it, he paid again; J. bought to eat, began to take walks; when he heard M. approach, J. hid the horse and looked at the sky: he spurred the horse so much that it flew into the clouds; later explained to M. the sky gave him his horse back]: Wildhaber, Uffer 1971, No. 68:248-253; Italians: Andrews 1895, No. 44 (Liguria) [flies flew to cheese; the shoemaker killed seven and wounded 14 in one blow; wrote on his hat" Seven killed, fourteen wounded", took the name Cascol; the king hired him and sent him to kill the tiger; the tiger entered the house, K. closed the door, said he had dragged the tiger by the ear; the king gave him his daughter and made him a general; at night he habitually knocks thread for his shoes, his wife complains to his father; K.: our soldiers are without shoes! The king is glad that the general thinks about the soldiers; when storming the city, K. fell off his horse, grabbed the cross there and carried it; the residents thought that God himself was coming to them and surrendered]: 204-206; Calvino 1980, No. 97 ( Marche) []: 357-360; Crane 1885, No. 19 (Milan) [a shoemaker hits cheese with a shoe, killing 500 flies and injuring 400; comes to the king, says he killed 500 and wounded 400; the king tells him to kill two sorcerers; he comes to them, stops for the night, sees a stone hanging above the bed, lies down elsewhere, says in the morning that it was noisy; when sorcerers bring brushwood from the forest, he pretends to help, cuts off their heads; the king gives him a daughter; the shoemaker continues to sew in his sleep, prevents his wife; the king gave him money and let him go]: 94-95; Sicilians [starting as in the Milanese version; the shoemaker meets giant; squeezes a piece of alabaster, the cannibal believes that it is marble, leads to him; asks for water with a jug, the shoemaker pretends to bring the whole well, the cannibal goes to fetch water himself; at night the shoemaker puts a pumpkin in his place, the cannibal hits it, thinking that it is the head of a shoemaker; he says that the flea bites; the cannibal offers to eat a pot of pasta; the tailor ties his bag, folds pasta there, pretends to cut his stomach, pasta falls out; the cannibal cuts his stomach, dies; the shoemaker shows the king a murdered ogre, gets a princess]: Crane 1885, No. 19:95-96; Ladins: Brunold-Bigler, Widner 2004, No. 44 [the tailor decided to become a shepherd; got cheese for work in the fall; when he woke up, saw that the cheese was covered with flies; killed 50 with one blow; wrote on his hat "50 with one with a blow", went on a journey; the king tells him to defeat the giant, promises his daughter; the tailor fed the bird, put it in his pocket; the giant offers to crush a stone in his fist, the tailor crushed the cheese; throw a stone - released a bird; the giant bent the tree, the tailor climbed to the top of his head, the giant let go, he took off; invites the giant to learn to fly too; he fell into the ravine and crashed; now the king orders to kill the horned dragon; the tailor hid behind the tree, the dragon's horns are stuck in the trunk, the tailor decapitated him; the king: I have already promised my daughter to the minister; let her lie between you; who will be in the morning face, and she will marry him;]: 261-268; Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 45 [the tailor took his hat and killed 7 flies and wounded 7 others with one blow; wrote about it on the shield and went on a journey; the king tells him to kill the unicorn; on the way to the forest, the tailor picked up and put a half-frozen bird in his pocket; towards the giant; decided to compete who would throw the stone higher; the tailor released the bird; the giant: who will carry a heavier bunch of firewood; the tailor climbs the spruce tree to make a rope out of the spruce to tie more firewood; the giant thinks he is stronger than himself; who eats more; the tailor lowers the food in the cut shirt; hid behind the Christmas tree, the unicorn pierced it with its horn, the tailor nailed his horn to the tree; the giant brought the tailor to his home; he put a straw scarecrow in his bed; at night his giant crushed; in the morning, the tailor as if nothing had happened; brought the king a unicorn horn, received the princess, and then the throne]: 125-128.

Western Europe. Germans (Mecklenburg) [tailor Hans wondered how tedious it was to live and work; began to beat flies; wrote "50 with one blow" on a piece of paper, hung it on the wall of his house; there is a giant in the kingdom every year he takes 10 girls away; the king promises money, honor and a daughter to the winner of the giant; two noble people saw G.'s inscription, offered to fight the giant; G.: now I'm tired, it would be nice first to eat at the king's house for four weeks; G. fell in love with the princess and was ready to die; went to the giant's castle, climbed the apple tree, left the castle, the giant pulled him off the apple tree and asked which He would like to die by death; G. suggests first finding out which one is stronger; the giant crushed the stone with his hand; G. squeezed water out of a piece of cheese; the giant threw a stone, G. released a lark - he did not return; the giant invited G. to the castle as a guest; G. did not lie on the iron bed, but climbed under it; at the fullest, the giant hit the bed with an iron club; G. as if through sleep: mosquitoes; after the second blow: flies; after Third: Is it you, giant? I'll show you now; the giant begs him to forgive him, G. threatens to destroy everything; gives life for promising to leave the kingdom; he did it immediately; G. released 10 prisoners did; the king does not give promised until G. kills the unicorn; he again demands 4 weeks to eat in the palace; in the forest, the unicorn rushed to G., who hid behind the bud, pierced the oak horn and got stuck; for the third time, the king orders to kill boar; 4 weeks later G. went into the forest, taking a bag of peas; scattered it along the path leading to the church; hid himself behind the door; the boar entered the church, G. jumped out and locked the door from the outside; made a hole in the roof and told the king that he threw the boar and he fell into the church, breaking the roof; wedding and celebration]: Bartsch 1889, No. 14:501-507; Germans (Swabia): Meier 1852a, No. 37 [], 47 []: 129-134, 164-165; Germans (Upper Palatinate) [the tailor found a ribbon that read "Seven in one blow", attached it to her, met a giant; he decided to feed him cherries and then eat it; bent over the tree, the tailor climbed in, the giant let go of the tree, the tailor took off and landed unnoticed; caught the bird; offered to compete to see who would throw the stone higher; released the bird himself; the giant squeezed water out of the stone, and the tailor's milk from cheese; the giant brought to his cave, where there are 12 giants; the tailor found the door, went down the aisle to the ground and ended up in a city where mourning; dragons, giants and snakes are rampant; it is the royal daughter's turn to be given to the dragon to be eaten; the king gave the tailor a sword; the tailor knew when the giants were sleeping, cut off their heads, took their eyes and tongues; brought the barrel to the tree on which the serpent lived; he climbed into the barrel, smelling a man, and the tailor cut him; hiding in an iron wagon, hacked dragons; got a princess; she hears her husband muttering about scissors and cloth in a dream; the tailor guessed and the next night only pretended to be asleep, and he himself began to mumble about battles and victories; the king sent his son-in-law against his enemies; the horse suffered, the tailor grabbed the cross, carried it, the enemies thought that the Christian god himself was riding them and fled; they lived happily ever after]: Schönwerth 1858, No. 14:280-288; the Alsatians [the tailor killed seven flies that sat on an apple with a rag; made armor, painted "Seven with one blow" on it in gold; the king takes him into service, the courtiers want to destroy him; the king tells him to kill two giants living in the forest, promised the princess; the tailor hid in a tree above the sleeping giants, threw stones at both, they thought at each other, began to fight, killed each other, the tailor wounded the dead with her sword; now the king ordered the unicorn to be brought (hiding behind a tree, the horn is stuck in the tree); bring boar (ran into the chapel, climbed out the window, locked the door behind the boar that broke into the chapel); the king gave his daughter; the wife hears her husband speaking like a tailor in a dream; informs his father; he sends courtiers overhear, one of them tells the tailor; he pretends to speak in his sleep - killed giants, etc., and I'm not afraid of those standing outside the door; they ran away, the tailor stayed in the palace]: Lefftz 2006, No. 11:197-203; Germans (Austria) [the tailor slammed 9 flies, wrote "nine with one blow" on a piece of paper, put it under his hat; the king's servant noticed that the king told the tailor to kill three giants; they suggest throwing at the sky is a stone (the tailor releases a bird), to crumble stones (the tailor squeezes water from the cottage cheese); who will eat more (the tailor puts pasta under her clothes); in front of a woman she pretends to cut her stomach, to throw off the pasta, they prevent them from escaping; the woman told the giants they were slaughtered; the tailor brings their tongues to the king, receives an award]: Cerf 1992:247-250; the French (Haute-Brittany) [first Laurent killed 6 flies with a broom and wounded 17 others with the second; everyone thought it was about humans, and the king called L. into his army; the first hit of the drum, the horse carried and rushed after the others; L. tried grab something, pulled out the cross; the enemy thought it was the messiah himself and fled; the king orders to rid the country of the unicorn; L. makes holes in the trees, hides behind one of them, puts a unicorn in a hole his horn and gets stuck; a giant came; L. covered the holes and then began to pierce them with his thumb; the giant was amazed at his strength; offered to throw millstones; L. warns that he would throw millstones they are 10 leagues; giant: stop, I still need these toys; L. brought the giant into the press and put him under the press; he did not understand the danger and was crushed; L. brought the king to see]: Sébillot 1894, No. 42:336; the French (Haute-Brittany) [someone jokingly tells a man that he will die after his donkey is feathered three times; he tries to shut the donkey's ass, but the inevitable has come to pass; man lies down on the ground and replies that he is dead; the giant brought him bumblebees and he puts seven on a needle; tells the king that he killed seven with one blow; the king orders Gaboulle to be killed (like a horse with two horns); the man hid behind a tree, the beast is stuck in its horns in the trunk and the man killed him; the king orders to kill 7 cats in the cave; they scratched the man to death]: Sébillot 1894, No. 45:338; the Irish: Danaher 1967, No. 32 [tailor Jack ate porridge, spooned flies, killing 70; ordered a sword with the inscription "70 with one blow"; came to the king; he cannot build a castle, someone breaks at night, kills builders; Jack climbed a tree; when three giants came, threw stones unnoticed, they began to fight, for everyone thought that one hurt the others; two killed each other, Jack cut off their heads, and the third believed it Jack killed them; brought them to his mother; offers to bring them a bull, Jack pretends to want to take the whole herd; going for firewood, he ties the forest with a rope as if he wants to take everything at once; a giant He throws an anvil, catches it himself; Jack pretends to throw it far away, where his mother lives, the giant feels sorry for the anvil, tells him not to throw it; when they start eating, Jack placed it under his clothes a leather bag and then ripped it open with a knife, the meat fell out; he told him to try it too and slaughtered himself; his mother ran away; the king generously rewarded Jack]: 91-97; Yeats 2004 [the weaver's wife made breakfast, and he busy with work and does not go; they began to swear, the weaver hit the plate in his hearts, killing 70 flies; made a semblance of armor from the brass dishes occupied by neighbors, wrote "70 in one blow" on them, stole them from the miller's horse galloped away; the king tells him to kill the dragon; having received gold, the weaver was not going to fight the dragon, but to go back; towards the dragon, the weaver climbed the tree, the dragon swallowed the horse; wrapped the body around the trunk and fell asleep; the weaver began to get down, fell off, fell on the dragon's neck, clutching his ears; the dragon rushed to the capital, exhausted; the weaver said that he had left the king the honor to decapitate the monster, which he did; gave the weaver the title Lord Riding the Dragon, gave estates and a daughter as his wife]: 393-401; French: Cosquin 1886, No. 8 (Lorraine) [while dining, the tailor killed 12 flies; wrote on his hat "12 with one blow", went on a journey; when he saw the inscription, the giant invited him to his castle; offered to throw stones at the target; the tailor pretended to have colic, the giant carried him; the king orders to kill boar and unicorn; the tailor lay down on the ground and, when the boar ran over him, killed him, hitting him in the stomach with a hatchet; told the giant to take it to the king; caught the unicorn by running around the tree, and he plunged his horn into trunk; the king invited the princess to choose one of the heroes herself, and she chose not a giant, but a tailor]: 95-96; Sébillot 1894, No. (Haute-Brittany) 43 [], 44 [the employee was hired by the owner under the condition: who the first to get angry, the other one will cut out a belt from his back; angry, the owner rips off his skin; his brother comes; the owner tells you to cut off so many bundles (grass?) for bedding, how many rams; the worker cuts off the legs of sheep, kills a dog that tried to prevent it; shove horses; the worker cut off the hooves of horses, brings a bag of savvy hooves; sold cows, cut off their tails, shoved them into the swamp, said that the cows fell into the mud; the contract was valid until the first cuckoo; the owner put his wife on a tree and ordered a cuckoo, the worker killed her; the owner sent for a shovel, who is in his daughters' room; the worker tells the girls that the owner told them to meet with them; they protest, the worker asks the owner, didn't he? he replies yes; after that, the owner became angry and the worker cut his belt out of his back]: 337, 337-338; the British [the tailor killed 50 flies with one blow, took an old sword and went on a journey; the king promises a daughter to the one who will save the country from two giants; hid in the hollow of a tree when they came; threw a pebble first at one and then at the other; the giants began to fight; when exhausted, the tailor cut off their heads, got the princess; a rebellion broke out in the country, the king sent his son-in-law to suppress him; the horse carried it, slipped under the gallows, she fell on him; seeing the winner of the giant rushing On horseback, dragging the gallows, the enemy fled]: Jacobs 1894:78-81; Wallons, Flemish, Friesians, Dutch, Germans, Scots; Uther 2004 (2), No. 1640:342-344.

Western Asia. Yemen: Daum 1992, No. 23 [a timid man named Jumper (P.; Hüpfer) killed flies, told his wife that he killed a thousand with one blow and let go of a thousand; the wife was frightened, as if because of such He did not get into trouble; the king found out about him, told his seven daughters to choose suitors by throwing an apple; six chose the other young men, and the youngest P.; the neighboring king demanded tribute, and the sons-in-law went to battle; the horse carried P., who grabbed the tree, unwittingly, pulled it out of the ground, dragged it, the enemies were frightened and fled; when P. went to visit his first wife, her uncle's son explained to her that in fact her husband is a coward; he agreed to dress up as a robber and pretend to take his wife away from P.; he really chickened out, his wife stayed with his relatives]: 212-216; Han, al-Hegri 2004 [lazy tailor Sulayman hits flies with a wooden sword; writes on it that he killed 1000, wounded 500, captured 300; the sultan sends for him, asks for help; in the forest S. climbs a tree, the beast behind him, the tailor falls, knocks down the beast, that falls into a cage; in the war, the horse carried S., who tried to grab the trees, dragged two trees with him, they knocked down his enemies; he was sent to defeat the lion, his wife accidentally put grass in the donkey's bag, causing drowsiness; at night S. climbed a tree, a lion came, a donkey ran away, the lion ate grass; S. went down, thought he was a donkey nearby, sat on a sleepy lion in the dark, tied him up near the house; he was sent to the battle with the sheikh, whose name is the End; the horse suffered S., who shouts "the end", the End is frightened and surrendered]: 71-73.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Eastern Tibetans (Sichuan) [widow with daughter and maid, they have a bull, a tiger is rampant in the neighborhood; the widow tied a tiger outside the house: let the tiger eat the bull but not touch them; the widow baked for a cake in butter for the daughter, and on the water for the maid; it burst miserably; widow: if a tiger came, he would also be afraid of "fluff"; the tiger was standing outside the house and thought that there was someone worse than him; at this time, a thief came to steal the bull, threw a rope around the tiger's neck in the dark; the tiger thought it was fluff; the thief led the tiger and then rode it; in the morning he saw that it was not a bull under him, grabbed a branch, but a tiger he ran; but it was not a branch, but an ogre snake; when the thief grabbed it, it fell in two; when he learned that the thief had saved the country from the tiger and the snake, the king married him to his daughter; the ruler of Dende attacked (" soft ground"); the son-in-law asked for an 80-fathom iron chain and a wheel with swords instead of spokes, but decided to run himself; he sat on his horse, carried the horse; the rider shouts in horror "Drop me on soft ground!" ; Dende's army fled, the people became convinced of the king's son-in-law's courage]: Potanin 1914, No. 17:414-415 (reprinted in Komissarov 1997:192-194).

Burma - Indochina. Shany [the man with his wife and children went for bamboo: a bear came out at him; the husband ran, and the wife put sharp bamboo in the bear's mouth, killed the bear, took off the skin, brought meat in it; husband locked himself in the house, thought that his wife's spirit had come to him; in the morning he realized that his wife was alive; the clever wife said that her husband killed the bear; he was named Gon Han Me ("seeing a bear"), was known as a brave man; the king asked kill him by a cobra that did not allow him to approach the well; GHM goes to the well in horror, falls down in fear, his rice bag accidentally wraps around the snake and it dies; the king appointed GHM commander army; GHM does not know how to ride a horse, his wife tied him to a horse; the horse gallops out of fear, the saddle slides over his stomach, then back on his back; enemies see that the rider appears on horseback and then disappears, they think he can become invisible, they flee in fear; the GHM horse falls, the rider is struggling to free himself; the king gave him a palace and treasures]: Griggs 1902:19-31; Lao (northern Thailand) [the bear chased the husband and wife, the husband hid in the house, and the wife killed the bear; the husband persuaded her to say he did; the king gave him the title of Han Mi ("brave bear killer"); tells the snake to be killed in the well; HM in fear, he grabbed her throat, the snake died; now he is Han Mi Chong Ra Ang ("bear and snake killer"); killed a crocodile in the swamp with an accidental shot, regained his rank; the neighboring king sent 4 boxes with gold, silver, gems, fireflies, you have to guess where what is; XM dived under the boat, heard the rowers talking, found out everything (when guessing, I almost forgot the word "firefly"); the enemy attacked, XM on a tree in the enemy's camp, the branch broke, he fell, shouted that he was almighty XM, the enemy was running, XM got half the kingdom first and then that's it]: Le may 1924:16-19 (translated to Kornev 196:58-61); sre [Hebia, daughter chief, promises to marry someone who hits a flying bird in the eye, gets up early, goes to work in the fields; And Loire catches the bird in a trap, sticks an arrow in its eye, marries H.; hears how the other suitors they are going to kill him; the crows are driving them away with the words "I will shoot everyone"; the grooms think they are running away; he has picked up their weapons, said he has defeated enemies; he is made a voivode; he goes to look for enemies climbs a tree, warriors stop under a tree, he drops his sword and shield at them, they fight each other, then run away; next time a real battle; the IL elephant rushes forward, the enemies turn fleeing; the terrible rhino kills people; IL hides from it in the swamp, the rhino gets stuck in the swamp, the IL is victorious again; seeing the actions of others that they do not know, IL acts as clairvoyant; after talking to a frog, successfully predicts rain; the ruler of the Vietnam orders the princess to be healed; on the way, a branch scratches IL's nose; he pretends to have lost the ability to catch subtle smells; the maids talk about this , the princess laughs and recovers for the first time, IL awarded]: Nikulin 1990:299-312; the Khmers [cowardly Kong has wives Am (Ahm) and Kum; seeing the tiger, Kong climbed into the hollow of a tree and his wife killed a tiger; Kong tells the elder how bravely he fought the tiger and defeated it; the king appointed Kong military leader; when enemies attacked, the wives put Kong on an elephant, he carried it, the enemies turned to escape; the king asks to kill the terrible crocodile; deciding that death could not be avoided, Kong rushed into the water, and the crocodile to meet him, jumped ashore, stuck at a fork in a tree; the king showered Kong again honors]: Milne 1972:51-55 (=Gorgoniev 1973:151-156).

South Asia. Himachali plowmen [after slamming 5 flies, the weaver called himself the Killer of the Five; the Raja tells him to drive away enemies; he sits on a donkey, takes two millstones, gathers to escape; in the dark, the millstones roll with mountains, enemies are fleeing; he is told to defeat the tiger; he is about to sneak away again, takes the donkey by the ear in the dark, ties it to a pole; he sees in the light that it is a tiger, but the tiger himself is so scared that he does not try resist; but when he saw the jackal, the weaver died of fear]: Dracott 1906:56-58; Kashmiris [the tailor killed the mosquito with a weaving shuttle, called herself Prince Victorious, beat his wife for laughing over him, went to wander; announced to the king that he was ready to kill the terrible elephant; he did not know that the offended wife had put poison in his cake; the elephant rushed at him, the tailor dropped the shuttle and the cake, and rushed run; the elephant ate the cake, chased him, fell locked; the king takes the tailor to the duty; sent him to kill the terrible tiger; he drove the tailor into the tree; the tailor tried to get off, dropped his dagger in his mouth the tiger, who swallowed his blade and died; the king married the tailor to his daughter; enemies attacked, the tailor decided to flee, taking gold and his wife; he was frightened, returned, the wife dropped the gold plates, the enemies woke up from the ringing, they did not recognize each other in the dark and killed each other; the tailor stayed prosperous at court]: Steel, Temple 1884, No. 9:89-97; India (translated from Hindi) [the cunning man killed 30 flies with a branch, told his wife to call him Tismar Khan ("killed 30"); the king ordered him to kill a lion, TH and his wife decided to flee at night; in the dark, TX mistook the lion that came up for a donkey and tied him to a tree; neighbors told the king; TH ordered him to kill a lion, or else he will bring him to the palace; received an award from the king]: Zographer 1962:162-164; Marathi: Frere 1868, No. 16 [on a stormy night, a tiger comes to the old woman's hut; she mutters: let an elephant or a tiger, and this eternal dripping from the ceiling is the worst; the tiger thinks that "eternal dripping" is a beast that is worse than him; a tipsy potter looks for his donkey, sees an animal next to the hut in the light of lightning, grabs the tiger by the ear and scolds him; the tiger thinks that he has been grabbed by "eternal dripping", allows the potter to ride it; at his house, the potter ties the tiger to a pole, goes to bed, and in the morning his wife sees that it is a tiger; The Raja arrives, makes the brave commander-in-chief; the enemy attacks, the Raja gives the potter the best horse, the wife ties him to the horse so as not to fall; the horse rushes to the enemy camp, the potter tries hold on to the tree, uproots; enemies flee, leaving a letter offering peace; the potter is generously awarded]: 206-214; Kudinova, Kudinov 1995 [=Sheorey 1973, No. 14:76-78; Khazar-Marya ( hazar - "thousand", marya - "killer") only killed a thousand flies; enemies attacked; the vizier advised the Raja to put XM at the head of the army; his wife ordered him to agree; the XM horse suffered, she tried to grab for the bamboo, but tore it out; the enemies were horrified to see XM racing at them, holding wood in his hands; the Raja rewarded XM; since then he did not kill flies, but obeyed his wife]: 304-306; Assamese [king promises a reward to whoever saves the kingdom from the ferocious elephant and tiger; the poor man decides to commit suicide, brings poisoned rice, goes to the river for a drink; the elephant eats rice, falls dead; the poor man says that killed him with one blow; the king gives a reward, orders the tiger to be killed; a man climbs a tree, makes a noise, the birds also start screaming, the tiger asks what is going on; the man replies that he teaches birds music; the tiger also wants to learn, agrees that a man should tie him up; he tied him up, beat him to death; the king tells the man to defeat the strongman; the man tells the strongman that he is sorry to kill such a young man; the strongman runs away , the man was rewarded]: Borooah 1955:86-90; Bengalis [poor worthless Dulal living with his mother decided to get poisoned, took out cobra poison, and before that decided to bathe in the river; at this time the royal elephant ate the poison, fell in convulsions; furious that the suicide attempt failed, D. kicked the elephant and he died at that time; people who saw this thought that the elephant died from the kick of a strongman; the king called D. to serve, named Hati Singh and his beautiful wife; a group of Kabultsy offered to organize a wrestling competition; D. said it was below his dignity as a Hindu; bribed the owner of the resident yard, who put a snake under their bed and found them dead in the morning; a few years later, D. quarreled with a mango seller and he knocked him down with a punch; D. told his story and died]: Bradley-Brit 1920, No. 9:49-52; Tamils [the brahmana's first wife is childless; he took the second one, she went to give birth to his mother; the brahmana was going to visit her; the first wife gave him a hundred poisoned cakes for his rival and separately eaten for him on the road; he spent the night in the forest, fell asleep; a hundred robbers stole the princess and went there; each ate a cake and died; seeing, as he decided, the robbers sleeping, brahmana to everyone He cut off his head, the king married him to his daughter; ordered the cannibal tigress to be killed; the brahmana, out of fear, dropped her sword into her mouth and she died; the enemy attacked, the king sent his son-in-law into battle; he ordered him to be tied to a horse; she carried it; he grabbed a tree washed by the river, pulled it out, screamed in pain because the wet ropes hit his body; the enemies saw a screaming hero with a tree in his hands, fled; brahmana summoned both first wives, they reconciled and became friends]: Natesa Sastri 1884-1888, No. 9:104-115; Tamils []: Blackburn 2005, No. 16; Sinhales [fat rich man Sigiris drank, began to beat workers, they took his goods and left; he begged the person he met to give him coconut, began to eat, flies flew in, he killed 20; asked the tinsmith to write on the sign in Sinhala and Tamil." the hero who killed twenty"; the Tamil king tells him to fight the strongman; S. offers to swim first, says he will swim for 8 months, eat and drink a lot before that, the Tamil refuses competitions; before melee, S. asks to put them in separate rooms, feed them well; dug a hole, asks Tamil to give tobacco, to make a hole in the wall; Tamil cannot, and S. easily breaks a thin wall; Tamil again refuses to compete; S. is going to sneak away in Square S., tells him to disperse to give him a place; Tamil runs away in horror, S. is named the winner]: Parker 1910, No. 55: 312-315 (transfer to Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 190:433-436).

The Balkans. Albanians [the weaver slammed 99 flies and one big fly with one blow; ordered a silver sword in a golden sheath with the inscription "I killed 99 warriors and their leader"; fell asleep under a tree and was seen by 40 the robbers ran away in horror; the king promised him a daughter if he caught a live hare; the weaver never rode a horse, his horse threw him into the thorny bush where the hare sat, and he grabbed him; now the king wants one alive roe deer (same); recapture the island from enemies; the weaver wants the whole army to do exactly like him; does not know how to cross, cuts off reeds, then throws them into the water for nothing to do; the army cuts reeds , it turns out a bridge; the army has been standing at the fortress for two months, everything has been sewn; the weaver undressed, began to shake lice into the fire; the dog took his watch; he chased her naked with a sword, naked warriors followed, enemies in They fled in horror; the weaver got the princess, but is afraid of her; pretends to sleep at night and half a day; tells the king that he had a nightmare: he stands and swings on a reed in the middle of the sea; the king says he is afraid would die; the weaver would remain the royal son-in-law]: Pedersen 1898, No. 6:42-49; the Macedonians [the lazy man slammed his flies, ordered to forge a sword with the inscription "40 souls in one blow"; fell asleep, the robbers saw the inscription made him an chieftain; the dragon settled in a pond, gives water in exchange for a man a day; the lazy man climbed a tree out of fear and fell on the dragon, ordered the robbers to finish him off; the king asks to defeat the attackers enemies; the lazy man ordered to be tied to a horse and to a dry tree to tear it apart; but the tree broke; at the sight of a rider with a tree club, the enemies ran; the lazy man received the royal daughter]: Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:103-105; Greeks [shoemaker Lazarus loved honey; flies flew in and he slammed 14 in one blow; ordered a sword with the inscription "14 in one blow" and went on a journey; after walking for two days, he fell asleep at well; the Dragon came to get water, read the inscription on his sword, decided to fraternize with the hero, brought him where the other dragons were; he was given a huge wineskin, ordering him to bring water; L. began to dig in the well, pretending to bring it in its entirety; when they were sent to bring the tree for firewood, he tied the forest with a rope to bring it all at once; the dragons agreed to slaughter L. with batons at night; he overheard, lay down elsewhere, said in the morning that mosquitoes were biting; the dragons asked if L. wanted to return to his wife and children, they would give him gold; L. ordered one of them to carry the gold; warned children, so that as soon as they envy the dragon, they would shout "We want dragons!" ; the dragon ran away; the fox: yes, I'm stealing their chickens; if you're afraid to go alone, tie yourself to my tail and let's go; L. shouts to the fox: you promised to bring all the dragons, but you're only dragging one! the dragon rushed away, the tied fox crashed against the rocks]: Hahn 1864 (1), No. 23:173-176; Bulgarians [tailor (gypsy, coward, blind, etc.) slammed 40 (9, 70, 500) flies in one blow; writes on his clothes (on the flag) "so much with one blow"; royal heroes (robbers, dragons, devils) take him into their company and test him (throw iron, bring water, etc.); the king tells him to kill the dragon ( bear, self-marveling); he falls on the beast from a tree, he carries it; the boar rushes at him and pierces his fangs into the tree; in war he is given the weakest horse, tied to it, the horse rushes, the tailor grabs a tree, uprooting it, enemies run away in horror]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 1640:538-539; Bosnians, Hungarians, Slovenes, Romanians: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1640:342- 344.

Central Europe. Luzhitans [the tailor sees two sleeping giants in the forest; throws pebbles between them; giants accuse each other, fight, kill each other; the tailor kills seven flies with one blow, writes about this on his chest, falls asleep in the royal garden; the king tells him to kill a ferocious boar; the boar chases him, he runs into the cow's pen, closes the door; tells the king that the boar has been caught; the king fulfills the tailor's wishes]: Nedo 1956, No. 84:348-349; Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Novgorod, Pskov, Vologda, Kaluga, Ryazan), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Transcarpathia, Hutsulshchina, Podolia), Belarusians [Foma Berennikov (Thomas, wide beard, Fedor Nabilkin): seven husbands beat with one blow, declare himself a mighty hero, they obey him real heroes; hoping for fate, he successfully defeats enemies, becomes the princess's husband]: SUS 1979, No. 1640:339; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pechora) [the tramp slammed a bunch of gadflies with his palm and mosquitoes; wrote on a plaque: the hero Gol-Golyatskaya drove, killed 33 heroes and small ones without a number; two heroes read it, went with him; marries Catherine; she sends her hero, the hero of his GG killed; the same with the second; GG himself is riding, and Catherine sent her uncle to the rack, he is not stronger; GG blindfolded himself and his horse; Catherine's hero thinks it should be so, blindfolded too; GG peeked drove up behind, cut off her uncle's head with a scythe; Ekaterina gave three horses and three carriages of money, but did not go herself]: Leontyev 1939, No. 66:123-126; Russians (Vologodskaya) [Kuzma, nicknamed Soon after his parents die, he goes to see the world. He takes bread, a mower and a knife with him, sits backwards on a horse, rides for a long time - he can't drive even a mile. It stops, flies and spiders sit on the horse - it kills them, but breaks the knife. He goes further - he sees a pole with an inscription where every passer must sign his name and courage, writes that he beats eight spiders in one fell swoop and without counting flies. Yeruslan Lazarevich and Alyosha Popovich drive up to the pole and decide to catch up with Kuzma. They catch up, see that he is riding a nag and is "not sitting in Russian", but they ask to accept them as smaller brothers - Kuzma agrees. They approach the city, the tsar sends a detachment against them - Kuzma sends Yeruslan against them. The Tsar sends more - Kuzma sends Alyosha. As the elder, the tsar sends negotiators to Kuzma, receives the heroes, and they remain in the palace. Meanwhile, the Chinese king, offended by the king's refusal to marry him, sends a large army to the city. The Tsar puts Kuzma against his troops. Kuzma gets off the horse, ties it up, starts sharpening the mower. A Chinese man is expelled against him and told to do what he did. Kuzma sharpens a mower - a Chinese man sharpens a knife. Kuzma bows, the Chinese man repeats, and Kuzma hits him in the neck with a mower. The Chinese rush to Kuzma - a horse pulls out a birch tree to which it was tied, and beats the entire army with this birch tree. The Chinese lord is forced to make peace, Kuzma marries the princess and inherits the throne]: Burtsev 1895, No. 35:160-164; Russians (Pskov) [Agathon blue hoodie slammed 700 horseflies in the forest, and there is no number to mosquitoes; the wife agrees that he is a self-powerful hero; he got on a horse, went to fight, leaving an inscription on a pole; he gave other heroes raw cabbage juice, they have diarrhea, A. was made the main hero; the enemy attacked; A. blindfolded himself, but left a hole, and the enemy decided that it was now supposed to fight, blindfolded his eyes completely, A. killed him easily; the horse carried A., he grabbed the birch tree, dragged after himself, birch trees killed many in the city; the tsar refused A. half of the kingdom]: Smirnov 1917, No. 109:348-349; Russians (Moscow) []: Vedernikova, Samorodova 1998, No. 92:233-234; Ukrainians ( Kievskaya) [The man hires workers to plow his quarter, but they will forgive too much money: one is a lot of money, the other is a quarter of a gorilka, the man decides to plow himself, buys a horse. He plows and sees that gadflies and mosquitoes prevent him from working, distract the horse, covers his back with crap, blows it away by the wind, the man nails 30 gadflies and mosquitoes "dumb" in one fell swoop. Having accomplished such a feat, he decides that he is a mighty hero who should not stay at home and sets off on a journey. On the pole he leaves a sign about himself - a hero who killed 30 heroes in one fell swoop, and "dumb" of petty strength. Bova Korolevich reads the inscription, catches up with the man, is surprised at his unimpressive appearance, the man admits that he is a hero and offers to travel together. The episode is repeated twice - Yaruslan Lazarevich, then Illya Muromets read the sign and join the travelers. They go to the wild steppes, where the princess lives, she promises to marry someone who can get to her. The peasant lets go of the horse, hides under the crap, the princess sends 6 heroes, 6 animals and small power "dumb" to the soldiers demanding to bring the heads of foreigners. The heroes want to send the man to fight, but he says that Bova will cope with 6 heroes and animals, his horse will fight with small force, he wins and sends a note to the princess with the last "small force". She sends 9 heroes and animals, repeats the episode - Yaruslan beats them, then the princess sends 12 heroes - a repeat of the episode, they are beaten by Illya. The princes advise the princess to send a 12-headed serpent, chained to the heroes, and decide to meet the warriors as guests if they manage to defeat him. The snake is released, the animals hide in the forests, the birds fly across the sea. The heroes call the man to oppose the snake, he decides that he will not be saved when horses are offered, he refuses, as if he cannot hold it back. The serpent sees a poor man, thinks he has been laughed at, the man gets off his horse, cuts off the snake's head, the heroes see his success, go out into the field, hit snakes together, cut them apart, burn them and let them go to the wind. The man is angry with the heroes for not allowing him to win on his own, Illya calls the man "the oldest" among the heroes, invites him to go with them around the world "show his son", or stay and to marry the princess, he refuses the princess in favor of the heroes. The princess meets them, treats them, the man follows the heroes. The princess asks the one who beat the snake to drink with her, they send him for him, the heroes warn that he is poorly dressed, he appears, the princess chooses him, he becomes tsar]: Grinchenko 1895, No. 167:188-195; Ukrainians (Poltava, Piryatinsky district, c. 1878) [A gypsy falls asleep on the grave, kills a hundred flies with his hand, asks the clerk to write a table "Ivan the Great Warrior beats a hundred souls in one fell swoop" {quote not accurate}. He lies down on the road, the king passes by, demands to move, he does not move, telling him who he is. The king asks to beat the overseas army, he agrees if there is lard. Gypsies are fed, given a regiment of soldiers, everyone has an armful of straw in their hands, when they set fire to them, enemies see a fire army, flee into the sea, and drown. The king rewards the gypsy, asks to defeat three dogs, he asks for bacon, he is fed. He lies down at the gate, the dogs cannot enter, they notice the gypsy, they recognize him and invite him to go with them, he agrees on the condition that he becomes the main one, he blindfolds them in front of the river, as if He's going to order the river to cross them, kills them. The king rewards the gypsy, asks to exterminate the snake, he eats up, lies down at the gate, the snake recognizes him (the text of the sign). The serpent offers to be comrades, says that he is Luta (evil spirits), the gypsy says that he is Pra-Luta. They come to the Serpent's father, he offers to compete in the run, the gypsy exposes his "son" - the hare, who overtakes. Father Snake offers to compete in throwing a mace, the gypsy barely carries the mace in the field, the Serpent throws it up - it returns in 2 hours, the gypsy is afraid that if she does, she will not return. The serpent discourages him from throwing: his father has only 2 maces, it's a pity to lose. Father Snake offers to compete in whistles, the Serpent whistles - leaves fall from the trees, the gypsy blindfolds him - so as not to get out of his whistle, hits his forehead, his eyes come out of his orbits. The gypsy realizes that the Serpent wants to kill him, puts a bag of straw where he sleeps, covers him with his robe, the snake hits the bag, the gypsy says "the mosquito bit". The serpent collects a bag of money for the gypsy, he is met by gypsies, the gypsies say that it was the devils who came for the soul of the Snake. He throws the bag and leaves, the gypsy receives a reward from the tsar]: Rudchenko 1870, No. 45:185-187; the Poles [the tailor killed 7 flies; writes "Seven with one blow", goes on a journey; squeezes water out cheese, and the enemy believes it is made of stone; two giants kill each other; teases a unicorn whose horn is stuck in a tree; during the battle, he grabbed a tree, pulling it out, the enemy is terrified]: Krzyżanowski 1963, No. 1640:110-111; Czechs, Slovaks: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1640:342-344.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [Akhmet-Akhai Ozenbashsky was frightened of a mouse, his wife swears; but he killed 40 flies with one blow; went to look for work; Kosh has one shepherd crying (7-headed deva with goat legs horse his tail will eat it today), the second laughs (eats tomorrow), the third dances (eats it the day after tomorrow); AA: I am the hero Ayu, the son of Buke-Bugai, who keeps the ground on his copper horn; buried the skin of a ram with a roll, head with beard and legs separately; suggests the deva 1) hit the ground for the katyk to go, 2) for his legs to jump out, 3) a beard pops out; dev called for a visit, carried it to the mountain; whose stone core will fly up above; AA: I'll throw 7 cores with the gun, it'll stay at the top; dev: no need, the gun is expensive; deva's mother advises letting AA raise the deva's father's iron stool; AA: throw it on the moon or in the sun? deva's mother: no need, the lights will fade; asks for water in a 40-bucket vessel; AA begins to dig in a well; dev takes AA home to Ozenbashi, gives you three bags of gold; why are you so light? AA: I keep my strength in the air; dev: show strength; AA stabs it with an awl; dev: better in the air; AA tied his three children with a rotten rope, tells them to shout "eat" and his wife to "have lunch with a deva"; dev runs away; fox leads him back; AA fox: that's when I caught you; dev killed a fox, ran away]: Mirer 1940:226-236; Abkhazians: Shakryl 1975, No. 36 [=Khashba, Kukba 1935:210-216; old man Tachkum is cowardly and boastful, wife kicked him out of the house; he came to the river, on the other side of the Adaua; he squeezed a stone, water splashed, T. squeezed a piece of cheese; the adaui crushed the stone into powder, T. showed a handful of flour; the adaui were frightened, agrees carry T. across the river; surprised that he is light; T. says he holds on to the sky; the Adaui offers to let go of the sky, T. puts an awl in his back; waving an oak tree, the Adaui chases animals, T. climbs from fear of the tree, the boar plunged his fangs into the trunk, got stuck; T. took the king out of the nest; released it, offered the Adaui to catch the bird; he asked to cut down the trees, T. began to tie the forest so that everything at once, adaus he brought trees himself; at night T. puts a block of wood in his place, the adaui pours boiling water; the next night he pierces him with a hot skewer; T.: it was hot; the fleas bit; says that he is tired of game, he wants meat adaui; he ran away], 82 [=Khashba, Kukba 1935:183-186; every year the princess gave birth to a child, but was kidnapped by a wolf; once again, the prince appointed 20 strong guys as watchmen, including Sajargal's coward ( Sazhvargyala); out of fear he climbed a tree; saw a wolf and fell on him in fear, clung to him, the guys who arrived in time killed the wolf; S.: I wanted to take him alive! the prince awarded S.; the enemy attacked, S. was afraid that he would be made a military leader, proposed to solve the war by martial arts; the prince appointed S.; he closed his eyes out of fear; the enemy also closed his eyes, assuming that this was a military move; S. opened his eyes slightly, saw the enemy closing his eyes and cut off his head; recognized as a hero]: 179-184, 379-382; Abaza [younger brother is strong but cowardly; the blacksmith gives him an iron stick, tells the sheep to herd; he comes to a house where a girl and her seven brothers go to fight every day; when they see his iron stick, which no one can lift, they pass off as a Cowardly sister; the wife hardly persuaded him to go to help the brothers; the son of the enemy prince rushed at the Cowardly, who threw a stick, she killed the prince's son; the Cowardly's wife wears men's clothes, comes to fight; the younger shot, cut off an unknown half to find out who it is; the wife cuts off half the Cowardly; the same is a wound in the eyebrow; the wife puts the Cowardly on a horse, drives him home; the horse remembered that he used to ride to battle, rushes at the enemy, dropped a stick on the prince, killing him; the enemies ran away]: Tugov 1985, No. 115:322-327; Adygs (Kabardian people) [the tramp left a stick on the shore, went swimming, began to take out the lice; a passerby to He wrote a joke on a stick: "The heroic tramp kills in one fell swoop 1080"; the tramp stayed in the house where his sister and 7 brothers; they read the inscription on the stick; they go to fight; the sister wears men's clothes, too leaves; smashes enemies, but she is wounded in the arm; at home she hides the wound and wounds the tramp; the brothers think he is a hero; they give his sister for him, now he is Bzege batyr; enemies have attacked; the wife puts B. on a horse, tells the warriors to do what he does; he stripped naked, crushed the lice, then galloped naked; the horse carried it, B. tried to grab the branch, but it broke off; naked horsemen with branches in their hands broke into village, the enemy fled in horror; a ferocious boar appeared in the forest; rushed to B., he jumped on him, the boar was exhausted, B. stabbed him; he was made a prince]: Tambiev 1896, No. 3:190-196 (Sokolov, Broydo 1936 : 502-506); Chechens [cowardly Neznay accidentally killed three flies with a sword; wrote on it "This is the Unknown sword, who killed 63 Nart Erhustoyans"; went to bed under a pear, buried his bag in the ground; 7 came up Nart-Erhustoytsy, read the inscription, asked to show art; N. stomped, dust rose from the buried bag, the sledges believed that it was smoke from the impact; the sledges gave him their sister and half of the land; in the forest a rhino started, his wife drove N. to kill him, he climbed onto a pear in fear, fell on a rhino that came up, N. rushed with him to the village, the rhino was killed with guns, and N. shouted that he wanted to tame him; they attacked enemies, N. chose an old mare; she carried him, he tried to grab hold of the plane tree, uprooted it, crushed his enemies, sledges made him the main one]: Gren 1897:9-12 (=Dirr 1920, No. 21:103-105); Avars [the wife kicked the coward Naznaya out of the house; killed 500 flies with one blow; ordered a sword with the inscription "With one blow 500 kills the hero Appoint"; the shah marries him to his daughter; asks to defeat the snake; N. climbed into the forest on a tree, and the serpent sleeps below; N. fell in fear, and the serpent thought it was lightning, and his heart burst out of fear; N. brought his head; three sledges attacked; N. is again in the tree; sledges argue whether the new one is strong hero, fought and killed each other; enemies attacked; N. undressed to run; the dog grabbed his boot, ran towards the enemies; N. after her; the enemies thought that the demons fled, leaving the treasury and weapon]: Kapiyeva 1991:40-44; Dargins [a poor shepherd killed 40 flies with a stick; wrote on it "Nart, killing forty with one blow", set off; fell asleep at the spring; the youngest of 40 people living nearby The sledges read the inscription on the stick, the sledges make the shepherd the leader; an army comes up, the shepherd is put on a horse, he carries him to enemies, he tries to grab hold of trees, uproots them, the enemies are killed trees; sledges of these trees were enough for firewood for the whole winter]: Aliyeva 2013, No. 109:472-473 (about the same Osmanov 1963:114-116); varnishes [two older brothers left, did not return; the youngest is lazy and bald man, stays at home; killed seven flies with a rag; wrote on his belt "I take the life of seven with one blow", went to look for brothers; came to the cave of seven devas; lost consciousness in horror; the devas thought he sleeps and is not afraid of them, they read the inscription; the bald man pretended that the bull was not enough for him to eat; while the devas were sleeping, he threw the bull and the cauldron into the river; said that he swallowed the bull, and the cauldron disappeared somewhere when he sighed; At night, the devas threw a stone where Baleshivets was sleeping, but at that time he left the house; the deva clenched the stone, turning it into the ground, the bald man clenched the cheese, the water flowed; the devas decided to fight with the bald man on their fists, but he killed one by stabbing an awl into his heart; the devas fell to their knees; he told them to load all the treasures in chests and carry them to the outskirts of the village; said that he would call the brothers, the devas ran away; the pleshivets married in the village holiday]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 73:594-596; aguly [A poor shepherd named Ali-Nazar once managed to kill forty flies that sat on a mug of honey with one blow of a stick. Leaving his calves to herd, he asked the mullah to write about his heroism on the banner and went on a journey with this banner. In one village, people mistook him for a brave hero and asked him to kill three Azhdakhs who lived in a fortress and killed local residents. At night, Ali-Nazar decided to escape, but got lost and found himself just at the Azhdakha fortress; Azhdaha's sister accidentally left the door unlocked. He entered the fortress, the Azhdakhs were frightened, wanted to escape and died as they crossed the wall. In the morning, people saw Azhdakh dead and made Ali-Nazar their king]: Maysak 2015, No. M13:476; Lezgins [A similar Lezgin fairy tale (Ali Nezer) was published in a collection (Hajiyev (ed.) 1941 ; 2008: No. 70]: Maysak 2015:476; Georgians: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 144 [poor Sasia has ulcers, flies harass, he killed a hundred at once; scratched a dukhan on the wall: Sasia kills a hundred at once; the dukhan washed away and the river carried, the tsar read it, ordered S. to participate in the duel; S. closed his eyes out of fear, the enemy decided that this was a military trick, also closed it; S. opened his eyes slightly, saw the enemy closing his eyes, and the compartment his head; the king awarded S.]: 288-289; Chikovani 1954 (Guria) [two brothers are strong, the third is useless; he left, taking his father's sword, wrote "The Winner of the Strongest" on the blade; the robbers saw he was sleeping, treated with respect; he was taken to a wild boar, he climbed a tree, fell on a wild boar, others killed a wild boar, he said he wanted to take him alive; the neighboring king attacked, the local one demands a brave man for himself army; he has a fight with a strongman; he goes with his eyes closed; the strongman is frightened, also closed his eye; our brave man cut off his head; received a royal daughter, became king himself], No. 79:364-368; Armenians: Nazinyan 2014 [Kazar is cowardly and boastful; his wife locks the door and leaves him outside; went to bed by the forest, hit himself in the face in the morning, killed many midges; K. told his ass, and he wrote to him on his headscarf: the one who hit once and kills everyone at once; next time K. falls asleep in front of the house 7 giants; they read the inscription, are frightened; they lead him into the forest for firewood, K. pretends to tie trees to carry everything the forest, it is stopped; he does not want to carry water to his wineskin, he is going to dig a ditch from the spring, it is stopped (the water will demolish the castle in the spring); K.: who will squeeze the stone to make water flow? so that it becomes like flour? (presses the egg, shows the hidden flour); the giants give their sister for K.; the king of the East wanted to take it himself, went to war; first the giants went to fight themselves, then called K.; the horse carried it, K. grabbed the tree, dragged him with him, the enemies ran away in horror; the king of the East was beheaded, K. was put in his place]: 196-200; Khachatryants 1933 (Turkish Armenia) [poor Dizhiko takes a cow and leaves his evil wife; sleepy killed seven flies, wrote about it, hung a piece of paper on the horns of a cow; seven brothers read it, asked D. to become their leader; give him his sister; during the battle they ask for help; the horse carried D. enemies thought that he had pulled out a tree at a gallop, fled; brought sheep, horses and other gifts]: 55-59; Azerbaijanis [the merchant sees how strong the porter Ahmed is, leads him to padishah; the princess fell in love with him; the dragon locked the water; the princess tells A. to go to the dragon: lie under the tree while the army is fighting; but the dragon crawled just at A. and he cut it with a sword; the same with another as a dragon, this time A. hid in a tree; the neighboring padishah started a war, A. was sent with an army; orders him to be tied to a horse; he galloped, A. tried to grab the tree, snatched it out, scattered his enemies ; A. shouts "keep check", and the enemy commander's name is Uzda Khan; he fled; the padishah married his daughter to A.; asks why he asked to be tied to a horse; A.: decided to either win or die]: Akhundov 1955:241-249; Turks [cowardly Mouth Back is afraid to leave the house; his wife pushed him out; he went into the forest, came across 40 beds, left a stick with the inscription: I kill 40 with one blow, went to bed; the devas came, believed; UN says that he fought against the strongmen of the Moscow king, threw one into the air, he still did not fall, now I'm looking for him; the devas put him at home, feed him and water him; he overheard that the devas were going to kill him, put a block of wood in their place; they put axes into the block, and in the morning UN complained that the mice were rustling; the next night, the devas threw the mill on the bed millstone; UN: The genies rolled the millstone at night, I want to throw it on the mountain; the devas gave him a bag of gold, sent him home, one of the devas drags the bag; on the way back, Satan tells the deva that UN is a coward; they return; UN to his wife: Shaitan kept his word, drags a deva, whom I will now cut off his head; dev killed Shaitan, gold remains with UN and his wife]: Stebleva 1986, No. 32:128-130; Turks [wife put up cowardly Mimis (Keloglan, Köse, Mehmed, etc.); he killed 90 flies, wrote on his sword that with one blow (you can understand that people); when he meets a giant, he pretends to squeeze water out of the stone and is going to bring the whole forest at once; giants cannot kill him, they send him home with rich gifts; {and other motives, then add}]: Eberharg, Boratav 1953, No. 162:179-181; Kurds: Jalil et al. . 1989, No. 285 [cowardly Alo is afraid to leave the house; the old woman advises his wife to bake cakes, arrange them in the yard - they supposedly fell from the sky; A. goes out the door, his wife did not let him back; A. asks for he has bread, three eggs, a bunch of horsehair, goes to wander around the world; he came to seven giants; they offer to play: who squeezes butter from under the mice (A. crushed eggs); whose hair from under the mice is longer (A. showed horses); who would crush the stone with his hand (A. took out a handful of flour); he was sent to bring water (A. brought an inflated wineskin and pretended to drink all the water immediately); he was sent for firewood, he pretends that He ties the forest with a rope to bring it all at once; A. hears that they are going to hack it at night, put a log under the blanket, complains about fleas in the morning; the giants decide to divide their gold, each gives a share to A. , one takes him to his house; A. tells his wife to bring a pole to pay off the giant; he ran away in fear; A. tells neighbors that he obtained gold by selling pieces of cowskin; neighbors in vain they slaughtered their cows; carried A. to drown; he offers to drown him with music; neighbors follow Zurna and Dafa; A. shouts that he does not want to marry the daughter of the padishah; the shepherd changed places with him, drowned; A. he brought the herd, says that from the bottom; all the residents drowned, the last was an old woman, to whom A. explained that gurgling is the neighbors asking which sheep to take], 286 [cowardly Suleiman is afraid to leave the house; his wife lured him with a cake, slammed the door shut; at nightfall, S. fell into the hole where the female felt; got out, asked his wife to give him a rusty sword, chopped the puppies, saw blood on his saber, said that killed his enemies, asked his wife to flee with him; his wife sends him to the ruler Ahmad-aga to order him to send servants: as if with him a koch (his family), a wife, a herd; the servants find a woman in torn clothes; she says that the robbers attacked, everyone was stolen, she had to dress in the clothes of a maid; A. gave S. property, brought him closer to him; asks to kill a raging bear; the wife on behalf of S. asks A. to give a stake, a chain, a ball horse hairs, needles; when the bear came, threw needles under his feet, threw a chain around his neck, tied him to a stake; called A.'s servants to pick up the bear; S. slept all this time; S. summons Rush- pakhlevan; the wife asks to send a stallion, a rope, a spear; tied her husband with a rope to a horse, gave a spear, let a horse go; Suleiman's spear accidentally kills R.; the enemy attacked, S. was sent with an army; began to tear up near the river the reeds, thinking of drowning themselves, dropped a bunch; the army follows his example, it turned out to be a bridge of reeds, everyone is amazed at S.'s wisdom; the dog took S.'s last piece of bread, he rushed after her, the army followed her, defeated enemies; A. further elevated S.]: 540-546, 546-551; Farizov, Rudenko 1959 [Ali and his wife stopped in the meadow; the ruler sent servants to find out who had encroached on his possessions; his wife smeared a sword with the blood of a donkey, put A. next to sleeping, said that he was a hero resting after the battle; the ruler called him to him, ordered him to catch the lion; the wife put a noose in the open door, the lion rushed and got caught ; the wife scratched A.'s face, said that he accidentally caught the lion with his bare hands; the ruler ordered the bear to be caught; A. climbed a tree in the forest, fell, grabbed the bear's ears, and then the riders arrived in time; attacked enemies; the ruler ordered the soldiers to do what A. did; he threw a sheaf of reeds into the river, the warriors too, the reeds formed a bridge, a dog ran along it and took A.'s pie; he rushed after her with a sword, after him the whole army, it killed the enemies; A. caught up with the dog and killed it without noticing that there was a battle; the ruler rewarded him and let him go]: 178-182; Shamilov 1967 [Ali's coal burner is terribly strong, but cowardly and poor; they are with his wife sold the old house and went on a journey; Ali fell asleep in the padishah's meadow; he sent soldiers to bring him the impudent; the wife says that her husband is a great hero, killing ten with one blow; the padishah invites Ali to his place; his wife takes an oath to obey her in everything, otherwise she will leave; he is told to kill a terrible wolf; his wife killed, Ali is afraid to look at his head; a bear; Ali fell on him from a tree , everyone decided that he caught the bear alive; defeat enemies; the padishah tells the warriors to do what Ali does; he, remembering the old, cuts reeds and knits bundles; warriors do the same, bundles make bridge over the river; Ali is going to eat, put a portrait of his wife in a cake, the dog carried the cake, Ali followed her across the reed bridge, the enemy is defeated; Ali got rid of fear]: 42-55; Yusupova 2004, No. 2 [weaver killed a mouse, jokingly said that he was a lion; the wife spoke about it; people came, laughed, began to call the weaver Aha Sherkuzh ("Aha the lion killer"); the king heard this name, told A. to defeat the lion who began to live in the royal garden; his wife told A. to go, he mistook the lion for a donkey and brought him by the ears; the enemy attacked; A. sat on a horse, tied it, carried it, A. tried to grab hold of the tree, he broke; when he saw the warrior in his hands whose trees, enemies scattered]: 133-140.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Christensen 1971, No. 8 []: 90-95; Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 24 (Kerman) [a weaver killed two mice with a bean; other weavers compare him to a great archer who killed two lions; a weaver buys a bow , in the desert hangs it on a tree, falls asleep; the rider reads the inscription on the bow: the owner kills two lions with one blow; tells the king that he takes the weaver into the army; war begins; the weaver is given a horse, he asks tie his legs under a croup; drops the reins, tries to grab a tree, pulls it out; waving a tree, jumps at the enemy, asks to stop the horse; enemies take this request as a threat, flee; the king rewards him]: 150-153; Marzolph 1984, No. 1640 (Kerman, Hamadan) [a man declares himself a hero, killing a thousand flies or two animals he calls lions; when sent to battle, he grabs a tree , pulls it out, the horse carries it to his enemies, they run away in horror; sent to defeat two lions that pay tribute to the people every year; climbs a tree, falls on a lion, rides it directly into the city; gets the princess reigns; var.: disguised as a man, the princess kills the dragon]: 233; Rosenfeld 1958 []: 123-125; Tajiks: Amonov 1980 [to lure a cowardly husband out of the house, his wife did not feed him, but then took pancakes out into the yard and locked the door; he killed 70 mosquitoes, wrote on his staff that he had got rid of 70 evils; picked up a donkey's tail, a frog, a share from the plow along the way; towards the divas, offers to throw a friend to a friend his tooth, the coward throws a share; the hair from under the arm is a donkey tail; the louse from the body is a frog; the diva brings the coward to him, afraid that he will swallow him and his mother, decides to kill him at night; the coward put a log, the diva hit the club at night, the coward said that mosquitoes were biting; the boiler of boiling water was hot, sweating; the divas were pulling trees, the coward pretended to tie up and tear out the whole garden at once; that is going to hit the sky with a stick; a diva brings a coward loaded with gold into the house and leaves]: 160-165; Amonov, Ulug-zade 1957 [starting as a separate text in Niyazmukhamedov 1945:46-48; setting off , the weaver picked up a turtle, a horse's tail, a bull's horn; came to the divas fortress; the divas offered to measure his strength; threw his louse (the size of a cockroach) from behind the wall; the weaver threw a turtle; the other threw hair from his mustache, the weaver - a horse's tail; when asked to speak, he blew a horn; the weaver entered the fortress, took the captured girl out of there; in the village they decided that the weaver was a hero, they asked to kill the bear; the weaver became to watch in the pit, when he saw the bear, cried out, the bear jumped, stuck his head between the branches of the tree; the weaver was asked to defeat the robbers; he ordered to be tied to a skinny horse; the horse carried, the weaver grabbed for the poplar and snatched it out, the enemies retreated in horror; at night the weaver quietly returned home]: 317-319; the Yagnobes [the weaver killed the mouse, and inside it 5 cubs; wrote "Hero for Five" at the gate; the city Gurge-Kaftor (the "blue wolf", i.e. the head of the wolves) is ruining; the tsar was told about the hero, he sent to kill GK; knowing that the Hero for five was coming to him, the GK climbed a tree; the GK accidentally climbed the same tree, to escape from the GC; GK was frightened, fell, crashed to death; the king sent a weaver to repel his enemies; he chose the smallest horse and ordered himself to be tied to it; the horse carried, the weaver tried to cling to it plane tree, uprooted it; the enemy is dented, flees; the tsar handed over the throne to the weaver]: Andreev, Peshereva 1957, No. 28:140-142; Baluchi [the poor man found five dead mice under the shop; called himself brave, prepared to beat his wife; the wife praises her husband and offers to go to another country, he agrees; he came to the king, calling himself the Killer of Five (UP), once he allegedly killed five lions; the king paid him a lot of money; sends to kill a lion that attacked the royal horses; the UE and his wife decide to flee; in the dark, the UE mistook the lion for a donkey and locked him in a barn; the wife told the king that the husband sleeps after hunting; UE sent destroy the robbers; the wife baked poisoned pies, sent her husband to the city, the robbers attacked him, ate pies, died, the UE cut off their heads; the neighboring king threatened to attack, the UE sent to war; The UE was tied to the saddle, carried the horse, UE grabbed the tree, it was uprooted, he started shouting "kapin!" ("I'll fall"), and the enemy king was called Kapin, the enemies fled; the UE received half the kingdom]: Porozhnyakov 1989:18-22.

Baltoscandia. Seto [starved the soldier to become a tailor, but there were no orders; then he went to bed in the square, and his clothes read "Brave Strongman"; the snoring is terrible, only the king himself decided to wake him up, offered enlist; instructs to kill a bull in a barn: he is so ferocious that no one can fit; a soldier lowers a log over the roof, the bull's horn gets stuck in a log, the soldier kills, the bull is fresh; the king tells fight against his other strongmen, if the soldier defeats them, will be the eldest; the soldier went to bed under the bed; others shot at the bed thinking that the strongman was sleeping on it; soldier: damned flies! The strongmen were afraid that the bullet was mistaken for a fly; they shot again, he scolded the wasps; the strongmen rushed out the window and crashed against the rocks; in the morning the soldier told the king that others had started shooting at him and he had them threw it out the window; since then, the soldier has lived comfortably with the king]: Sandra 2004:220-222; Lutsie (western 1927) [Sergey Saraponshchik plowed, killed 700 mosquitoes and 7 horseflies in one fell swoop; he wrote about such a feat and rode on the same horse he plowed, taking a braid; two strongmen see the inscription, drove with the SS, taking him for the elder; began to herd horses in the meadow of a foreign king; he sent the strongmen to drive them away; towards the younger brothers, killed the royal; next time, the second brother, the same; the third time the SS itself must to go; blindfolded so as not to see his death; the royal strongman also blindfolded, thinking it was a military move; the SS raised his blindfold: he, blindfolded, demolished his head with a scythe; the king betrayed three daughters for three heroes; the three-headed devil requires an older princess; her husband went, cut off heads; the same with the middle one (six-headed); the 9-headed requires the youngest; the SS climbed {out of fear} on the oak, hell to the oak, SS fell on him, the devil died of fear; the SS continues to live with his wife]: Annom et al. 2018:90-91; Latvians: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 1640 [The tailor brags that he killed seven with one blow. He fights a giant, kills a unicorn and performs other feats]: 364; Pollan 2005, No. 7 [the father is dead, the poor son hit flies by the road, shouted "every seven times"; the king heard, says he himself is more He cannot kill one with one blow; he made a young man a commander; but I have a mother; and a cauldron that boils without firewood; the king gave 200 gold; the young man boiled water in the boiler, removed the cauldron, coals under it, they are not visible, the king saw that the cauldron was boiling without fire, bought it for a lot; the king's cauldron was not boiling; the queen had been waiting for a long time; the king was back, only his mother was at home; the young man: but I had seven in one blow, and the warriors were coming; the king sees going; promises a quarter of the state and a barrel of gold; the young man told the king to put his hat over his eyes when he screams 70 times 7 times; the king saw only the forest]: 57-59; Western Sami [father died, The poor son hit flies by the road, shouting "seven times every time"; the king heard, saying that he could not kill more than one; made the young man a commander; but I have a mother; and a cauldron that boils without firewood; the king gave 200 gold; the young man boiled water in the boiler, removed the cauldron, coals under it, they are not visible, the king saw that the cauldron was boiling without fire, bought it for a lot; the king did not boil; the queen waited a long time; the king returned, only mother at home; young man: but I'm seven with one blow, and there are warriors coming; the king sees them walking; promises a quarter of the state and a barrel of gold; the young man told the king to put his hat over his eyes when he himself will scream 70 times 7; the king saw only the forest]: Pollan 2005, No. 7:57-59; Veps [Kuzma Sarafantych kills seven hundred midges and seven gadflies in one fell swoop - declares himself a hero; real heroes appoint him senior, defeat the enemy three times; Kuzma accidentally wins the duel and becomes the royal son-in-law]: Onegin, Zaitsev 1996, No. 57:205; Norwegians [tailor (shoemaker) killed a lot of mue and wrote on his belt: "15 (60)" with one blow; when he learns of the brave man, the king tells him to perform feats, promising a reward: kill a unicorn, catch a (polar) bear, wild boar, etc.; by chance, he does everything succeeds; thanks to a trick, he wins the war; he gets a princess or must defeat an opponent first]: Hodne 1984, No. 1640:284; the Swedes [the tailor killed 7 flies with one blow; goes to wander, by chance defeats giants and predators; gets a princess; in war, he flees enemies, when his horse is carried, he grabbed a tree, pulled it out and dragged it with him]: Liungman 1960, No. 1640:319-320; Finns, Karelians, Estonians, Livonians, Counselors, Icelanders, Danes, Lithuanians: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1640:342-344.

Volga - Perm. Chuvashi [orphan Pugan ("stool") works for a tailor; beat the children, thought he was a hero; sewed himself a belt with the inscription "beat five in one fell swoop"; two heroes offer him pick up a huge stone, squeeze water out of the sand; P. quietly transports the stone on a cart, puts it under his head, squeezes water out of the cottage cheese; they offer to drink, P. quietly pours vodka by the boot, binds intoxicated, brings them to the king; the king asks to catch a wild boar, P. runs away from the boar, locks him in the chapel; quietly throws pebbles at three sleeping heroes; they accuse and kill each other; the king appointed P. Commander-in-Chief]: Eisin 1993:102-109 (=Sidorova 1979:141-146); Komi [a woman gives the beggar bread, for which she promises that her lazy Ivan will marry a princess; I. leads a horse to arable land, kills with a hat of 75 gadflies, decides that he is a hero; takes a braid instead of a sword, his mother's sundress, leaves on a mare; on a pine tree at a fork he writes that Ivan Sarapanchikov was driving here, putting 75 heroes in one fell swoop; Belunya, Gorynya and the Samtribesman Himself read, asked to take them as comrades; he goes to bed at the Nine Kingdom; the king sent an army, I. tells his companions to destroy him themselves, not to disturb him because of trifles; they are so and they did; the king sends the centaur Polkan-Polubes; I. left, blindfolded his mother's sundress, you can see through it; thinking that this is the new law, P. tied his tent, sees nothing, I. scythe cut his vein, he died; I. sends companions to tell the Queen of the Nine Kingdoms to marry him; Ivan was dressed in a nice dress, a wedding feast for two months; but three heroes left him]: Plesovsky 1975:102-112; Udmurts [Ivan killed 40 flies with a club, called himself Ivan-Nushi ("baton"); he met three heroes in the forest; refuses to drag the cauldron, cutting down a spruce is too insignificant for him; the heroes are afraid stay alone with him, go to buy bread all together; IN eats fat pieces, throws away the rest; the heroes think he ate everything alone; the same again; IN agrees to be given gold and taken home; whoever carries it is surprised that he is light; IN says he is holding his hand to the sky; pretending to be unhooked for a minute, stabs the hero with a knife, he asks the sky not to let go; the fox explains to the heroes that they were afraid in vain, let them take their gold; the fox comes in first, the IN shouts that he will shoot her; the fox ran, the heroes killed her]: Kralina 1960, No. 73:219-222; Marie: Aktsorin 1984 [the young man killed a mouse, he was the leader Ivan Zverev; he went to show his strength; killed 82 horseflies with a ladle; wrote "Here IZ killed 82 heroes in an hour"; meets two heroes replies that he is going to marry the royal daughter; the king sent an army twice, those two heroes beat him; the last hero remains; IZ puts a braid, lies down, says that he listens to the earth laughing at a hero; he lay down right on his braid to listen; IZ pulled his braid, cut the hero's throat, and then cut off his head with a hatchet all day; said that they had been fighting all day, he was tired, let the others drag his body away; received a princess]: 226-228; Beke 1938, No. 42 [one person is considered frail and weak; he went to plow, nailed flies on the horse's back with his hand; told his wife that he is now strong, killing a hundred with one blow, I went to show myself; there is a pole at the fork, heroes sign it; the man also writes: hero Ondon, who kills a hundred with one blow; two read, caught up with O.; one replies that he kills with one blow ten, the other eight; went together; the neighboring king attacked, the local called O.; he fights with a foreign hero; O. offers to say goodbye; both fall to their knees; O. gets up and cuts off another head; enemies are fleeing; the tsar settles O. at home]: 375-377; Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2009, No. 65 [the tailor killed seven flies, attached the inscription "seven with one blow" to his chest, went to wander, met the batyr; squeezed the pancake, the batyr could not crush the stone; released the bird, it did not return, and the stone thrown by the batyr fell; offers to carry a tree - the batyr carries butt, and the tailor sits at the top; while the tailor sleeps, the padishah sees the inscription on his chest, tells him to bring the heads of two warriors from the forest; the tailor climbed a tree under which two batyrs slept, threw a stone; they began accuse each other, seriously wounded, the tailor finished them off; the padishah made him a batyr], 66 [the tailor killed seven flies, attached the inscription "seven with one blow" to his chest, went on a journey, met two giants; clenched his sponge, water flowed, and the giant could not crush the stone; the giants offered to throw the stone so that it turned into a bird; the tailor really released the bird; lay down on another at night place; the giants threw a log into bed, but in the morning the tailor went out to them; the king promised a daughter to whoever would kill the giants; the tailor climbed the tree, threw a stone, the giants accused each other, began to fight, exhausted, the tailor finished them off; the tsar orders to kill the horned beast; the tailor dodged, the horns are stuck in the tree; orders to kill the wild boar, the tailor lured him into the hut; received the princess]: 270-273, 274-276; Bashkirs [Altynbay hit a pile of manure, killed 68 flies, wrote "I am a batyr, I killed 68 souls with one blow"; the du-pyarias called him to their place; gave the lasso to bring firewood; A. pretends to bring all the overgrown mountain in the forest; go to get water; pretends to bring the river; they put gold in his bag, he made a hole, gold filled the hole; due parium brought gold A. home; A. mother: if there is no water, we will spit in cauldron, let's slaughter due päria; he ran away]: Barag 1992, No. 9:37-39.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [Kurai grandfather is fishing; every time he sees a fox; slammed a hundred mosquitoes, thought he was brave, went on a journey; found and buried duck eggs; speaks to the person he met a one-eyed giant who killed a hundred with one blow; offered to knock his brain out of the ground; stomped where the eggs were buried; the giant brings it to his yurt, which is the size of a mountain; K. refuses to eat (just now ate 10 bulls); suggests bringing the entire well of water at once; puts a stupa in its place at night; the giant hits with an ax; in the morning K.: fleas did not let sleep; K. brings the giant to his house; wife: nothing feed; K. I left you 7 one-eyed giants; the giant ran away, the fox leads him back, K.: thank you for bringing him; the giant killed the fox; K. began to skin it, could not turn it over to the other side]: Sidelnikov 1964:112-117; the Kyrgyz [laughed at the lazy Sokbay; he saw flies on his horse's back, caught and crushed a whole hundred; decided, he was a hero, went on a journey; at the crossroads of three roads chose the middle one, where the inscription "Whoever goes will die"; two heroes joined him; when they learned that S. could cut down a hundred heads with one blow, they replied that they were at best two or three; towards horsemen; S. says that there are too few of them for him; two heroes killed horsemen; many horsemen towards them; S. blindfolded his eyes so as not to be afraid, galloped at them; they also decided to blindfold; S.'s blindfold was asleep; he saw that the riders were killing each other, killed the leader, the rest submitted; after that, everyone considered S. a real hero]: Brudny, Eshmambetov 1977:183-185; Karakalpaks : Volkov, Mayorov 1959:106-109 [Yeshchan cut the melon, left half to his friend Doschana, who began to drive flies, came up with a song about D.'s victorious enemies; the tsar demanded D. to him, ordered him to go to war with the attacking king of Iran; D. accidentally chooses a winged dulduldull, a heroic sword and shield among his horses (D. only takes what is smaller); orders to tie himself to the saddle; the horse carried on enemies, D. grabbed the tree, uprooted it, the enemies ran in horror; the horse threw D. off, but the enemies thought that the horse was tracking down, and the rider deliberately hid and ran away; D. and V. the king married the daughters of the viziers], 143-144 [the cowardly Orazymbet's wives took him to the yard, gave him a gun and locked the door; O. killed the hare; the blacksmith minted him on the trigger of the gun "O., killing 10 giants" with one blow; when he saw the giant, O. hid his head in a hollow, the giant read the inscription, invited O. to his place; O. buried the cooked sheep, shouted why there was not enough food, promised to eat the giant himself; offered a competition: whose flea would overtake another, released a birdcat caught in advance; the giant awarded O. and let him go home].

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans [Agaraldai began to drive the fox out of the hole, she ran away, taking his hat, and the dog pulled the horse on the arcana; A. asks everyone if they saw a fox in a felt hat; a flock of geese flew up, a goldfish fell to the ground, A. released it into the lake; he came to Karaty Khan, whose youngest daughter was missing, guessed that it was a goldfish, called himself a fortuneteller, brought the khan to the lake, where his daughter was playing with fish; K. asks to know where his horse went; A. sits in a yurt waiting to be exposed, but the thieves were afraid that the fortuneteller would find out everything and were guilty to him; A. orders to tie the horse to Black Rock and points out Khan, where is the horse; khansha falls ill, A. decides to run so that he would not be told to guess again, but accidentally saw a black wizard come out of the yurt, turned into a hawk, flew into the mouth of a black ox; the ox was killed, the hawk was burned, the khansha recovered; neighboring Kuduktu Khan is at war; A. is put on a horse, an arrow hits the horse, he rushes, the enemy is frightened and ran, A. managed to climb a tree so as not to be trampled; K.- Khan was told to herd his calves]: Kalzan 1964:86-93 (Taube 1978, No. 57:276-282); Khalha Mongols [poor Balzhushi decided to leave; without a horse, he went to steal a bull from a neighbor at night, felt for the animal and jumped on top of it; it turned out to be a tiger; B. tried to grab hold of the tree, but pulled it out, and there was a snake in the branches of the tree; the khan died in the city; divination showed that a tiger who came and held a tiger should be new in his hands a tree with a snake on top; B. is made a khan; orders to kill the snake and cut off the tiger's tail; B. does not want to be a khan; decides to commit suicide by going against six cannibal tigers; climbed a tree; not six, and seven tigers climbed one another to get him, tailless below; B. called out to him; thiot ran in horror, the others fell and crashed; in the cave there is an ogre fox; B. decides to commit suicide, going to fight the fox; falls asleep, leaving the bow in front of the cave; the fox gnawed through the bowstring, the bow sprung and killed it; the beautiful shepherdess saw B., caressed it; he made it his khatun and decided not to kill myself]: Benningsen 1912:76-77.