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K136A. Floated hair, ATU 516B.

.11.13.14.17.21.-.25. (.27.) .29.-.31.33.34.48.

Seeing the hair of a girl or boy covered with water, the character decides to marry the one (marry the one) who owns the hair.

Swahili, Somalis, Sudanese Arabs, Ancient Egypt, Arabs of Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Berbers of Morocco, Algeria, Kabila, Socotra, Jibbali, Kuwait, Qatar, Iraq, ranks, the best, Lepcha, Khrusso, Karen, Kashmiris, Rajastanis, Kashmir (translated from Hindi), North India (Hindi), Himachali Pahari, Kumaoni, Nepali, Punjabi, Assamese, Bengalis, Konkani, Santals, Ho, Oraons, Baiga, Kuruba, Toda, Tamils, Sinhales, Toraja, Mandayas (Croats, Avars), Abazins, Nogais, Georgians, Armenians, Turks, Persians, Tajiks, Baluchis, Swedes, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Kyrgyz, Mongols, Shasta, Karok, Yana, Maidu, Vintu.

Sudan - East Africa. Somalis (recorded in Arabic) [the man took an Arab wife and an Ethiopian slave; both gave birth on the same day, the slave died in childbirth; the husband gave birth to a second child to an Arab woman, said she gave birth to both; the boys grew up; an old woman came and told the Arab woman that one of them was not her son; offered to check: lie naked in front of the house door as if she had fallen asleep; the son who would cover his mother was real; son An Ethiopian woman (SE) told the son of an Arab woman (SA) to cover his mother; he covered it, his mother scratched him to find out who had covered her; the father tested the sons; told the mother to say that their father would give them breakfast; said that breakfast was in the stove, and he hid a lion in the oven; the lion bit the SA, who complained to his mother; and SE killed the lion, his father praised him, gave him a sled mare; the Arab woman was offended, asked the old woman to bring poison put SE in food; tells her son that he must eat separately today; SE gives food to the cat, which is dead; next time the mare warns SE that the poisoned needles are placed on 14 steps, they need them jump over everything at once; he jumps over; the old woman advises the woman to pretend to be sick - supposedly she will recover by eating the mare's liver; the father tells SE to sell him a mare, which requires a lot of money, a spear and a sword; when the time comes, he asks for permission to ride the mare for the last time, he jumps away; he planted a tree, SA came to him; SE ordered him to watch the tree: if it dries up, then he is in trouble; he comes to see the girl threatens her father, he has to let SE sleep with his daughter; the light is on the horizon, this is the daughter of Voskhod; SE comes to the fortress, reads the Koran, gets inside; the girl says that the demon will eat them; SE teaches hide it, explain to the demon what the smell is from the prince yesterday; when the demon falls asleep, the girl explains to SE that a demon can only be killed with his own sword when his two little eyes are closed and open two big ones; hit with his left hand; SE cut off his head; the demon asks to hit him again, SE refuses, the demon dies; SE has been living with Voskhod's daughter for 10 years; while swimming, she lost her hair, the water brought him to to the king, he sent an army to bring the owner of the hair, SE killed everyone; the old woman promises to bring a woman to the king; comes disguised as a beggar; his wife does not want to let her in, nor SE insisted; she gave him coffee with poison, he died; the warriors took the women away; SA saw that the tree had dried up; came to SE's first wife, sleeps at night with his back turned to her; finds SE's body; sees how one raven brought the corpse of another, revived it by dipping it in the water; revived SE; the brothers, disguised as dervishes, came to SE's wife kidnapper; lured the old woman to a skinned hole, threw earth; came to the kitchen, the wife recognized SE; the king invited them to serve as his warriors; gave weapons, offered to choose horses; SE recognized his mare; they killed the king and his warriors; SE returned his wife and gave his first wife to an Arab son]: Reinish 1900, No. 1:259-277; Sudanese Arabs [Fatma's elder brother drove up to the river to give the horse a drink; the horse slipped on the curl of his hair, broke his leg; the young man swore to marry the one whose curl is F.; the night the groom was supposed to enter her, she persuaded seven girls run away with her - brothers can also marry them; she left her wineskin with water in the yard, told her brother at midnight that she would go to pee, pierced her wineskin to stream, ran away; the girls came to the cannibal; she gave them milk, but drank only one; at night, every time the cannibal comes to eat the girls, F. asks her to calm the dogs - they do not let them sleep; the cannibal goes to the village to calm the dogs; in the morning girls asked to bake bread on that fire, pointing to the sun; she did not find fire, but returned; ate a girl who tasted milk and could not escape; set off in pursuit; the girls told the tree to become small, climbed on top of him, told him to grow up; they lowered the cannibal's rope, picked her up, let her go, she fell on the knives placed; so several times; she died; F. asked the old man how to kill him; stabbing a thorn; she stabbed him, put on his skin; the girls began to live in the cave; the merchants found the cave, dismantled the girls; F., in the guise of an old man, was taken by the Sultan's son; put it on a camel; her jewelry is ringing, she replies that the bones are knocking; the imaginary old man refused to herd cows and pigeons, agreed to geese; by the river F. took off her skin; the dumb slave saw, tried to gesture, people thought he was sick, began to burn to death with fire; so with almost everyone slaves; the Sultan's son spied for himself; at home he offered to play checkers, the winner would tear off the loser's clothes; the Sultan's son won the third time, tore off F.'s skin; married F., she asked anyone for Don't tell her; one day she went out, everyone fainted, she cut her finger, sprinkled her blood on them, brought them to life]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 21:114-118; Sudanese Arabs (Jaaaliyin) [approximately as in Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 21]: Hurreiz 1977, No. 8:83-85.

North Africa. Ancient Egypt [older brother Anup is married, younger Batu lives in his house; during sowing, A. sent B. to bring more seeds; at home, A.'s wife invited him to meet with her; B. angrily refused; in the evening the wife pretends to be sick and beaten, accuses B. of assaulting her; the cows warn B. that A. wants to kill him; A. chases B., who asks God Re to help, Re creates water between them; In the morning, B. screams from the other side A. what happened, cuts off his penis, throws it into the water, swallows it by catfish; B. goes to the Cedar Valley; warns that if the beer in the mug foams, something is wrong with it happened; at home A. killed his wife, threw the corpse to his dogs; in the Cedar Valley, B. put his heart on a flower; hunts all day; builds a castle for himself; the gods of Enneada, or rather Hnum, make him a woman; The Sea tried to kidnap her, shouted to Cedar to grab her, who grabbed the curl, the Sea brought it to the place where they washed for the pharaoh; he sends people for a woman, B. kills them; Pharaoh sends a woman again they say that her husband's essence (life) is in a flower on a cedar; the warriors cut down the cedar, B. died; A.'s beer frothed; A. finds B.'s corpse, finds a seed in the fourth year, puts it in water, and that's what it was B.'s heart, who comes to life by swallowing a seed of water; B. turns into a bull, A. sells it to Pharaoh, B. becomes human again for a while, accuses the woman; she asks the pharaoh to cook her bull's liver; from two drops of a bull's blood two Perseus trees grew overnight; a woman asks Pharaoh to cut them down and make furniture; one sliver fell into the woman's mouth, she gave birth to a son; after the death of Pharaoh, he reigns tells his story; 30 years after B.'s death, A. became a pharaoh]: Livshitz 1975:87-102; Egyptian Arabs, Berbers of Morocco and Algeria [Love Through Sight of Floating Hair]: El- Shamy 2004, No. 516B: 278-279; kabila [gold-haired Zalgoum's brother caught her hair at the source; before that, the horse refused to approach the water; promised to marry the one who owns the hair; the mother went around all the girls in the village, only Z. had this hair; her brother was going to marry her; her parents had to agree; the mother tried on her daughter's wedding dress, saying that her brother's fiancée had the same figure; mother gives clay and sends Z. to renew the walls of my brother's room; swallow: give me clay for my nest, I'll name my brother's fiancée; Z.: why do I need it; mother sends wheat to peel, crow asks for grains (same); sends couscous to cook; the cow asks to leave some for her calf; Z. it seems strange and she gives seeds to the crow; she says that the bride is herself; Z. runs away from home; hid in the grotto, closing the entrance with a large stone; the shepherd's goat butts a stone; the shepherd hears the song by Z. (go away the goat and tell my father from my mother that Z. is here); father came; Z.: you were my father and now my father-in-law; father: stick out your hand; Z. stuck out, he kissed her; same mother (mother-in-law); brother (husband); that compartment his hand with a sword; threw his hand on the roof - let the sun dry it or take it away by birds of prey; when he went to that spring, he pricked his knee, it became inflamed; no one can help; the prince found out about the girl in the cave, promised a reward to whoever lured her out; an old healer; she made a fire, put the pan upside down, began to cook clumsily on purpose; said that she could not see anything from her old age; Z. went out hiding the prince grabbed her, she agreed to go with him; the prince hid her in the upper room of the palace, but the jealous wives found her; noticed the absence of a hand; suggested to the prince: let everyone paint their nails with henna; Z .: I do it late at night; wives: who will sew and sew the best clothes for the prince; the crow asks Z. for a thread, found a dried hand on the roof, brought it, sewed it, grassed a cure, his hand grew; Z. she managed to make the best clothes; she gave birth to two sons, who grew up and went to find her parents; Z. with them, told them to hide her luxurious outfit under rags - from dust and robbers; entered her brother's house disguised as a beggar; his wife and child are there; his brother is lying, his swollen leg is black and thorn; Z. easily pulled it out with the hand that her brother had once cut off; he recovered; remembered his sister's curse: you Only the hand you cut off will heal; Z. ran away, all the inhabitants chased her, but she threw a handful of bran into their eyes; she returned with her sons to her husband and told him her story]: Mammeri 1996, No. 5:82-98 ; Arabs of Morocco [the sultan hides Rhaida's daughter from the eyes of outsiders and from her older brother; only the youngest enters her; after the death of her father, the eldest inherits the throne; all men went to war, the daughter of the Sultan asks for permission to go to the river, because there are no men around; her hair swims away, her older brother finds him, promises to find an owner and marry, even if it is his sister; before the wedding night, the sister tells the younger one brother grab the comb and run, she follows him, they hide in the forest; enemies win, the sultan dies, drought covers the country; the younger brother drinks in the forest from a stream, turns into a deer; the old woman notices the forest is beautiful, tells the local sultan; he brings R. to him; the servant overhears her talking to the deer; he says that the knives are sharpened, the fire is lit, they want to slaughter him; the servant is all tells the Sultan; he marries R., the deer, after drinking again from the same stream, takes on a human form]: El Koudia 2003, No. 5:27-32; Algerian Arabs [mother dies, stepmother tyrannites father and stepson, the cow gives them her milk; when the stepmother sent her own daughter to the cow, she knocked her eye out with her hoof; the stepmother tells her husband to sell the cow, but he, selling it at the bazaar, predicts misfortune who bought it; they do not buy a cow; then the stepmother persuaded the butcher to buy a cow for any price and slaughter it; the husband asked to give him the udder, put it on the grave of his first wife, and the nipples for orphans continued to flow milk; when the stepmother's own daughter venerated, there was blood and pus in her nipples; the stepmother threw the udder to the dogs and ordered the children to be taken to the forest; but they returned; then the stepmother, her husband and daughter themselves They left; the stepmother left the poisoned bread, but the sister gave it first to the cat, she died; the brother and sister went on a journey; the shepherd warned that if you drink water from the spring and then breathe, you will become a gazelle; The brother deliberately left the talisman at the source to return; he drank, sighed, became a gazelle; the sister began to live in the forest, the gazelle with her; while combing her hair, the sister dropped her hair into the stream; the sultan noticed him, decided to marry the owner; old Settoute went up the stream, found the girl, told the Sultan; he came with his men; to force the girl to come down from the tree, S. began to grind the grain, placing the millstones incorrectly; the girl went down to show how to do it, S.Yu quietly nailed her clothes to the ground with a peg, the sultan grabbed the girl, married, promised not to harm the gazelles; a beggar came, the young sultan recognized her father, put a gold coin in his bread; the stepmother guessed that the Sultan was her stepdaughter; brought her daughter to the palace; when the Sultan was ready to give birth, she began to comb her hair, pushed her into the well, took her place; ordered the gazelle to be slaughtered; the gazelle asks her to say goodbye to her sister, comes to the well; "They sharpen knives, the boilers are boiling"; sister: "My sons Lahcè are on one of my knees ; ne and d'el-Hocine, and on the other, a snake with an open mouth"; the sultan asked the wise el-Moudjarrab for advice; he ordered the freshly slaughtered cow to be lowered into the well; the snake climbed into the carcass at that time The Sultan and the children were pulled out; the Sultan cut off the head of his imaginary wife, cooked the meat, put her head in a bag, the meat on top; they sent the cat and the dog to take the bag to her stepmother; she ate the meat, believing that she was eating a gazelle, then she found her daughter's head]: Belamri 1982:15-28; Tunis [Aisha and Zahra are wives of one husband. Aisha gave birth to a boy and a girl, Hasan and Zainab, and Zahra also gave birth to a boy and a girl. The women went to the dyeing house, there were a lot of people there, they left their wool and went to the market. When they returned, the coat was already dyed, but they couldn't find their donkey anywhere. Then Aisha began to worry about what her husband would say, revealed her secret to Zahra: "Take my handkerchief and hit me with it, I'll turn into a cow, you put wool on me and ride me home, and when you arrive, Hit me again with a handkerchief and I'll be back in human form." When they got home, Zahra decided not to turn Aisha into a human being again. Aisha's children asked about her mother, she said she didn't know anything. Zahra began to mistreat Aisha's children and did not give them food, but for some reason they were still getting prettier. So she sent her daughter to find out what was going on. She went with her brother and sister to herd a cow. When they were hungry, they asked for a cow and she gave them dates and milk. Zahra asked her husband to slaughter a cow. A palm tree grew out of the seeds, and Aisha's children began to grow prettier again. Zahra sent her son to ask them to reveal a secret that he was different from his sister and would not tell his mother. Then the children asked the palm tree to eat, and it gave them dates, and a source of oil came from its roots. Zahra's son oiled his head and put a date seed in his boot. When I got home, I asked my mother to look in his head and see what got into his boot. Zahra understood everything again and asked her husband to cut down the palm tree. He cut it down. The children left home, reached the river, the boy drank water from the river despite his sister's warnings, and turned into a gazelle. At night, the girl climbed a tree and fell asleep on it, and the gazelle under the tree. There was a puddle under the tree, into which the girl's hair fell. A prince passed by. His horse wanted to drink from the puddle, but couldn't because of his hair. When he saw the hair, the prince wanted to marry its owner and called Azuz Sittut to help him with this. The old woman asked for semolina, pot and eve and started cooking couscous, but she did everything wrong on purpose. The girl came down and showed her how to do it. The prince married her. I went hunting, and Zahra came to visit the princess. She forgave her. Zahra threw the princess into the well and dressed her daughter in her clothes. When the prince returned, he was surprised to see his wife, but she talked out of it. The gazelle started running to the well. The fake wife tried to persuade the prince to slaughter the gazelle, and the prince knew it was her brother. He thought his wife was crazy. The gazelle told her sister, Zainab, about this, who told him to ask the prince to bring two wooden bowls, one with food and the other empty. The snake in the well ate the food, and the princess was taken upstairs with her son, whom she gave birth in a well. The fake wife was stabbed to death, made into couscous and sent to her mother Zahra. She ate couscous and found her daughter's hand at the bottom of the plate. She screamed and fell dead]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 70 in Korovkina MS

Western Asia. Socotra: Kogan, Naumkin MS [the man has a son and daughter; their mother is dead, the husband has taken another wife; the stepmother offers him to slaughter the children; the girl hears this, they run away; the stepmother accuses her husband of slaughtering the children he warned the children; the husband denies everything, the stepmother goes to look for children; when he goes to the cave, throws a stone into the dark, he hits the boy's forehead, but his sister clenched his mouth; the stepmother left, the children came to the tamarind, under which the stream flowed; the girl was swimming, her hair swam along the stream; when the Sultan's servant came to water the young palm trees, saw the hair, brought it to the Sultan; he sent him to find the owner of the hair; the slave went up the stream, found the children, brought them to the Sultan; he married a girl, she became pregnant; the maid, out of envy, decided to destroy her, pushed her into a well; her brother (his name Hamed) told her to remain silent, otherwise she would cut off her head; both they answered the Sultan that they did not know where his wife had gone; she, while in the well, gave birth to a boy and a girl a week later; H. comes to the well, says that he is wrong; the sister replies: the Sultan's daughter on my lap, the Sultan's son is around my neck; since then my brother has been regularly bringing food to my sister; the Sultan noticed this, began to ask him, the boy said that his sister was in the well, the sultan got her, the maid beheaded]; Naumkin et al. 2014, No. 28 (brief summary): 10; Müller 1905, No. 3 [wife gave birth to a son and 3 years later a daughter; father killed a newborn and drank her blood; son grew up, mother is pregnant again; father leaves, tells his son, if a girl is born, to kill her, collect her blood in a vessel, show him when he will return; the brother took the girl to the old woman, and collected the cat's blood in the vessel; gave the vessel to his father, went there himself where he left his sister; she grew up, swam in the river, the water took her hair away; the sultan picked her up, began looking for a girl to marry her, the old woman said that she had the girl; her brother refused to give her away, The Sultan sent soldiers, they took his sister and thought they had killed his brother; but his old woman went out; disguised as a beggar, he came to the Sultan; the sultan invited him to become a warrior in his service; the young man killed his sister and Sultan, returned to his father; father: I should not have let my sister grow up]: 57-63; (cf. Müller 1905, No. 20 [the man has a son and a daughter; their mother is dead, the husband has taken another wife; his stepmother offers him to slaughter the children; the boy overheard their conversation, told his sister; she takes the purse where she puts it a comb, makeup and a mirror, and at night she runs away with her brother; the children came to the cave, which had two exits; the next day, the stepmother and husband come to look for them, they enter the cave through different entrances; the stepmother finds the children, but tells them to sit quietly; the husband asks who she is talking to, she replies that she has stumbled; the father and stepmother have left, the children have come to the pond, swam, moved on, climbed on tamarind; the girl wanted to comb her hair, but forgot the comb by the pond, sent her brother to pick him up; he met women by the pond; one of them combed out his sister's comb with lice and filled her broken bowl with them; the women told the boy to eat the lice and swim, then they would return the comb; as soon as he did, he turned into a bull, the women took him away; the slave came to the tamarind; the girl threw off his fruit, he noticed her, went to tell the Sultan; he promised to kill the slave, if the girl was ugly, came with him to the tamarind; the girl cried for her lost brother, the sultan said that he had him; bringing the girl to him, he promised show her brother after marrying her; the girl married the Sultan and forgot her brother]: 99-105); jibbali [when leaving, the sultan tells his son to kill the child that his wife should give birth if born girl, save if boy; wife gives the girl to an old woman, brother buries a sheep; the girl grows up, the old woman tells her not to leave the house, she goes out to drive the chickens away from the grain, the sultan sees her wants to marry; the deception is revealed; the sultan tells his son to kill his sister; he leaves with her; they live by the stream, the brother hunts; the sister's hair goes with the flow, the old woman picks him up; The infidel tells her to find the girl; they come to her; she tells her to kill her brother; invites him to play, the loser will be tied to a bench; ties him tightly, the infidel blocks the young man, takes his sister away; the cat gnaws through his fetters; the young man recovers, leaves; the Sultan's daughter sees him, agrees to marry him, even if he is a castrato; an infidel meets a young man, tells the Sultan that his son-in-law is castrated; he promises to execute the infidel and his wife, if this is a lie, or let him and his son-in-law be executed, if true; in the evening the wife lets the young man down from the window, he leaves; three angels promise to restore his courage if he gives them half his future children; they tell them to wake them up when the sea is not white or black, but green; he wakes him up, he is thrown into the green sea, his genitals recover; at night he sleeps with his wife; cuts off his head sister and infidel; wife gives birth to three children; when he shares them, he cuts one, leaves, carrying half; angels call out to him, connect the halves, lets him go to his wife with three children; all is well]: Müller 1907, No. 22:102-110; Kuwait, Qatar, Iraq [Love Through Sight of Floating Hair]: El-Shamy 2004, No. 516B: 278-279

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Chyna [Lin asks his seven brothers to get a star from the sky for her; when they leave, L.'s hair falls into the river, the king orders to find the girl, marries her; the older brother arrives at the palace with a dove; L. kills him, puts his bones in bed, revives him as a man; the king asks him to do the same, L. turns him into a dog, leaves with his brother]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 14:61-63; best [ many options, some very long; Rimenhoiyi married Zawlthlia, their house was made of iron, everything was enough; R. had lots of flowers, but she asked for a nipuipar flower (a red climbing flower) ; when the water supply ran out, R. went down to the river to wash her hair; her long hair swam away, was swallowed by fish, the royal chef found her hair while cutting the fish, the king ordered the owner to be delivered to him; c Using pets, Z. found out where his wife was; asked his servants to allow him to put a red flower in a vessel of water for the king's new wife; according to one version, Z. began to live secretly with R., but was eventually killed; according to another, R. became the wife of both the king and Z., but since the king noticed that she loved Z. more, he ordered him to be killed; the old sorceress revived Z., he became even more beautiful; the king ordered him to do the same most, but he came to life as a dog, and Z. became king; R. conceived by a dog, Uithovi was born; he asked Z. for land and received land the size of a buffalo skin; cutting it into straps, fenced off a large plot; returned from a trip with a lot of money; left offspring]: Shakespear 1912:98-99; lepcha [{variant "Ramayana?} ; at ra so pu nu (PN), king of ra zo, wife of shing ra ni pun di (PD); she washed her hair in the stream, one carried water to the land of mungs (evil spirits); hair appeared there in the form of a rainbow; the Mung king sent his the sister looked for the mistress of the hair; she flew in as a crow, then tried to persuade PD to leave her husband in the form of a woman; she refused; while PD was hunting, the Mung king sent warriors, they brought PD along with the room, where she is locked in; PN goes in search; black monkey fights white monkey, PD kills black monkey; white monkey king; Mung king surrounds his palace with a lake; Monkey King tells PN to shoot at a wooden one a picture above the entrance to the palace, arrows pierce each other's tails; monkeys cross, carry PN, dismantle the bridge; the monkey king throws seed, mango grows to the PD room, the monkey king brings PD to her husband; Mungi warriors rush at him, he bounces, they kill each other; they catch the monkey king; he replies that you can kill him if you put his tail in oil and set him on fire; runs with a burning tail, palace burns, the monkey king extinguishes his tail in the lake; the monkeys killed all the mungs; they cursed the monkeys, they died at night except the king and queen; the monkeys were revived; the feast, PN awarded the monkeys]: Siiger 1967, No. 2:215-218; chrusso (aka) [the tiger wants to eat the wild boar; he offers to fight first, brings the young man Rariu-Jija to the judge; he awarded the victory to the boar, for which the tiger is going to eat it; R. climbed on tree; buffaloes come to this tree for the night, drive the tiger away; R. goes down, takes care of buffaloes, cleans; they leave the buffalo to watch and catch it; R. is caught the second time; buffaloes they promise to take care of him and give him their milk; leave R. with two flutes: let him play one if all is well and the other if he calls for help; when R. was swimming, his hair fell off his head; he put it down into a box and let her go down the river; Raja Assam's daughter found her hair; demanded that she be passed off as someone who owns her hair; Raja and Rani called birds and animals; the crow found R., pecked him, and he turned both flutes, she brought them to the raja; when the girl played the second flute, the buffaloes heard and ran to the sound, and R. after them; girl: I'll give the flutes if you marry me; they got married; the raja stole flutes, kicked his daughter and son-in-law out of the house; they began to live on that tree; their descendants do not eat meat, but only the fish and meat of some deer]: Elwin 1958a, No. 10:371-374.

Burma - Indochina. Karen [the queen gave birth to a daughter after 3 years and 3 months pregnant; when the girl started crying, someone in the country immediately died; astrologers ordered to get rid of her; the queen named her daughter Mikeitari, rafted down the river; she was picked up by Rakshas Yaushi; fed M., making milk flow from her finger; M. grew up; to find her lover, she put her three hair and a letter in silver the box, lowered it down the river; Prince Seitamalia picked it up; came to M.; she ordered him to return in 15 days; his father gave S. a winged horse; Y.'s servants set a trap, S. got into it; the horse freed him and brought him back, but S. died of her wounds; M. decided to come to him herself; on the way, to make it easier for her to travel, Nat made her a man and gave her a magic bow; M. shot the counter bill with it; King Bilu asked M. take him with him and promised to be a servant; M. made him a man; M. revived the prince with living water; he suspects that M. is a girl; a bilu servant helps her remain unrecognized (prevents her from starting to vomit flowers, which would betray her feminine nature; M. manages not to be identified while bathing; when M. stepped over the stone, blood came out on it, but bilu sprinkled it with ashes; when M. approached the pond, the water became clear, but Bilu pulled out his tooth and covered the water with blood); M. and S. go back to the rakshasa; nat advises making a wax doll with honey inside, putting it in bed instead of themselves; S. believes M. a traitor, will try to kill her; S. flew on a winged horse, stabbed himself: if M. is innocent, let her blood be sweet as honey; feeling sweet, S. was going to kill himself, M. stopped him; one day, on the way to Rakshasa, his servant took M., brought Rakshasa, but he agreed to let M. go to the prince; wedding]: Kachevich, Osipov 1976, No. 167:431-437; Thai Vietnam [girl drinks from a pond where elephants bathed, gives birth to two girls, they are called the daughters of an elephant; they found an elephant father; the elephant offers him to climb on tusks, whoever does not fall is his daughter; the youngest has fallen, he trampled on her; the eldest remains with an elephant; to find a savior, he puts three of his hair in a box and goes down the river; the young elder caught the box, hung hairs on the door, everything around him is full of aroma; the elder went up down the river, took the girl, went up the hill with her; the elephant asks her daughter to go down to him to say goodbye, she refuses; then asks to throw her trimmed nails on him, he will swallow them and die, then let his daughter die will take the tusks; it happened; the elder married the girl, she gave birth to two boys; his first wife, the evil spirit Phi phung (kills newborns); pushed his new wife into a water hole, wife turned into a monkey; her sons ask her to come back, the eldest tells her father; when the monkey approached the children, the husband threw a net on her, killed her first wife, smeared the monkey with her blood, she became again woman]: Degeorge 1925, No. 18:502-505

South Asia. Kashmiris [the son of a merchant buys a dog and a cat with his last money, saves a snake; the snake is the son of a snake king, tells him to ask his father for a wish-fulfilling ring as a reward; he asks for a palace and beautiful; her hair floats along the river, a prince sees him; a witch promises him the owner of her hair; in the guise of a bee, she flies to a woman, turns into an old woman, supposedly her aunt, a woman shows the ring, the old woman takes it away, the prince carries the palace and the woman to him; the woman asks to postpone the wedding for a month; the cat and the dog return the ring (the cat pretends to be dead, the rats celebrate his prince's wedding, the cat grabs the prince, the rat tickles the witch's throat, she regurgitates the ring, the cat lets the rat prince go); on the way back, the dog loses the ring twice, the cat returns it; the merchant's son returns his wife and palace]: Knowles 1888:20-28 (roughly the same in Steel, Temple 1884:196-206); Rajastans [prince sees women's hair in the river; decides to marry only its owners; mother The prince shows him all kinds of girls, but the hair is suitable only for two; these are Prince's sisters Sona and Rupa; they climbed a tree above the river and asked the tree to hide it; the king asks to go down; daughters: How are we going to call you father-in-law? the prince himself (what are we going to call a husband?) ; the tree began to grow, then split from lightning and the girls in it disappeared]: Coyaud 2013:118-120; Kashmir (translated from Hindi) [fakir lets the childless queen eat barley grains, a son is born Sherdil ("lion heart"); he goes on a journey with a blacksmith, carpenter and grinder; they come to the enchanted city, each one takes turns cooking; a dwarf arrives on a rat, demands food, turns into a giant, throws the cook on a tree; when it's S.'s turn, he kills the enemy, leaves the grinder king of the city; in another city, S. kills a witch who appears to be a girl, puts him king a blacksmith; in the third, a carpenter; every sister has a grain of barley, while the barley plant is green, everything is fine; flowers are floating along the river; S. finds a tree, a basket on it, a beauty's head in it, drops of blood fall into the water, turn into flowers; finds the body on the bed; puts her head to her body, the princess comes to life; the genie who stole the princess decapitates her during his absence; S. asks to know where S.'s soul is; there is a tree in the desert, grass in front of the dog, bones in front of the horse; you have to walk past them, remove the cage with the starling from the tree, the bee in the starling, the genie's soul in it; to pass, you have to give the horse's grass, the bones to the dog; S. did so, killed the bee, the genie died; the princess let a box with her hair along the river, the king's son found it; she sent the old woman to his wife Sh.; she found out that S.'s life was in his saber; by the old woman's advice, the wife changed her sword, the old woman threw it into the fire, S. died; the old woman brought her to her master, the princess asked her to wait six months; the barley shoots withered, the brothers found, repaired the sword, S. came to life; the carpenter made a flying palanquin, brought the princess, threw the old woman from a height; S. returns to his homeland]: Zograf 1964:327-339 (=1976:71-80); Nepali [King Suttalsingh's son if he lets in the arrow, it will return to it; the son of the vizier remembers what he saw forever; the son of a brahmana can throw any object far away and return it; the son of a blacksmith can restore each thing to its original appearance; they leave to wander; the prince hears a noise, fires an arrow, she did not return; it turns out that he killed his beloved elephant, he fell on an arrow; the prince falls asleep at the elephant's body, his companions leave in the morning; the prince comes to the city where the monster ate everyone remains the princess; she hides it, takes it out from the monster where his soul is; in a cave in the west there is a fire-breathing snake, he has a jewel on his head; you have to pierce the snake's throat with an arrow , and so that she does not fall to the ground; the prince does everything, kills the monster, marries a princess; she drops her hair into the river, another prince finds him; his father sends an old woman in a magic boat to get the owner of the hair; the old woman persuaded the prince's wife to tell me what his death was; there is a tree in the west, its splinters must be torn off, his sword and shield must be burned on them, they will become small, he will die; it happened; the prince's wife manages, as he asked, to put his corpse in a golden vessel and fill it with oil; the prince's friends found out that the brahmana's son, wearing antelope skin, had carried them to his body, the blacksmith's son returned the shield and The sword looked the same, the prince came to life, returned his wife, everyone returned home]: Heunemann 1980, No. 4:53-67; northern India (Hindi): Crooke 1892-1893, No. 704 (Mirzapur) [the dissolute prince asked his father for money, went on a journey; saw how the boys caught a box in the sea, bought it; a dog in it; next time a cat; then a snake; the snake became a young man, he said that he was the bewitched son of King Solomon, led to father, told him to ask for a wish-fulfilling ring as a reward; the princess would marry someone who would build a castle on the sea overnight; the prince fulfilled the condition, they got married; once the wife put several on the sheet her golden hairs fell out and let her go along the river; another king saw them; the old woman promised to get the owner; came to the prince's wife, persuaded her to ask her husband for a ring, took possession of it, moved the palace to that king's possession; the prince went there, but the guards killed him; then the milk left by the prince's mother turned sour; she sent a dog and a cat; they found the prince and revived him; the old woman sleeps with a ring in her mouth; the cat told the mouse to tickle her, the ring fell out, the prince took possession of it again, lived well with his wife]: 191-192; Zograf 1976 [about Crooke 1892-1893, No. 704:191-192]: 123-133; 1895, No. 543 (Faizabad) [wife not feeds a shepherd from the Achir caste; the cow sees him hiding and eating a little; gives him plenty of sweets and milk; introduces him to the snake; the shepherd's son noticed that his father had a lot of food, and received him himself with the condition do not tell his mother; but she noticed that she promised to kill six cow calves; the snake gives the shepherd a flute and a handkerchief, the cow is brought into the forest in piles, left on a platform on a palm tree, fed; his hair turn gold; the cow warns no one to drop into the water; one swims down the river, the princess picked him up, promised to marry only the owner; the old woman came and persuaded the young man to get on the boat with her, brought her to the princess; the young man played the flute, the cow and his calves ran, they began to destroy the palace; the young man persuaded the cow not to do it, promised to build palace for her and her calves; married a princess]: 195; himachali plowmen [the brahmana's wife died leaving her little son; the brahman took another one, her daughter; the stepmother brings her stepson, gives ash cakes; the black cow hits her hoof, there is good food; the stepmother is surprised that the stepson is not hungry, her daughter has to tell everything, the stepmother demands that her husband sell the cow; she puts the boy on her back, runs away; they live in the forest, there is a big snake hole that maintains peace with the bull; the cow pours milk there every day; the snake crawls out, fulfills the cow's wish for the boy to wear gold clothes, all gilded; one day his golden hair falls into the water, he is swallowed by a fish, a fisherman catches it, brings it to the king, the princess wants to marry only a young man who has similar hair; he is found becomes the princess's husband; remembers the cow, comes to the forest, sees bones, wants to commit suicide; a cow appears: she just wanted to test his loyalty; everything is fine]: Dracott 1906:83-87; Kumaoni [The prince and his wife went to their father-in-law, who gave his daughter a diamond ring and his son-in-law a necklace; on the way back, the prince went swimming, hung the necklace on a branch; heavenly peri did not dance well in front of Indra and he sent her to earth for 12 years; she became a crow, took the necklace; when she found out that her son had lost the gift, her father sent him to the forest for 12 years; the prince came to the same tree (this is a pipal); peri took the form of a virgin and gave him the necklace; the prince saw a snake grabbing a frog; cut off a piece of meat from his leg and gave it to the snake, she released a frog; the snake's wife tells him to take the form of a brahmana and to follow the prince, and the frog's wife to take the form of a barber and also follow the prince; the prince, the brahman, the barber and the peri came to town; Peri went to wash her hair and one 44-cubits long hair swam away ; another prince saw him, asked his father to find an owner; he sent a servant on a plane bed; the servant lured Peri to this bed and flew with her to the king; peri prince: 12 years old will be a brother and sister; the king gave her a hospice; she tells the servants to talk about the people who are coming; the prince and his two companions have been hired by the king; the servant advises to tell the prince to build a bridge across the Yamuna and the hospice; done; the prince offered to play dice, dropped his ring into Yamuna: if you don't get it, I'll execute; the frog (= barber) told the frogs to get it; the prince wants to shoot with prince, but a snake bit him; 12 years have passed {did the prince marry a peri?}] : Minaev 1966, No. 3:31-35; Punjabi: Lang 2009 [the incense seller has a daughter Dorani; her friend flies with her to dance in front of Indra; once D. cut off a lock of hair, wrapped it in a leaf, and threw it into the river; the prince found a leaf, smelled the aroma, fell ill with love; the king sent to look for the owner of the hair; D. agrees to marry, but will be with her husband only during the day, and will return to his father at night; but during the day the wife only sits silently on a chair; the gardener gave the prince powder to make him invisible; when the wife sat in the palanquin, the prince followed her, entered the house; she took a bath, sat on a chair and told him to fly to Indra's palace; the prince grabbed his leg and was also in the sky; there her friend noticed that today the chair was flying crooked; by morning both the prince and D. returned to the palace, D. did not notice anything; the prince became supposedly tell a dream, describing what happened at night; the next night everything happened again; when the prince began to dream again in the morning; D. admitted that it was so; asked that night not accompany her; but the chair is flying very crooked; girlfriend: it means that you revealed a secret to your husband; D. sang so sweetly that I. allowed her to ask him for anything; she chose a magic lute; I. department her, but asked him not to come again; D. stayed on earth with the prince]: 82-86; Steel, Temple 1884, No. 23 [after his father's death, the youngest son squandered everything, his wife let him sell the last piece of jewelry and he went travel; on the way he bought a cat, dog, parrot, snake from sellers; the snake invites him to his father, advises him to ask for a ring; the snake reluctantly gives the ring; it fulfills wishes; the king promises a daughter and half the kingdom to someone who builds a golden palace in the middle of the sea overnight; becoming the wife of a young man, the princess wants to be golden; with the help of a ring he does it {apparently gold-haired and beautiful; she is not turned into gold }; she makes a cup of leaves, puts two of her hair in it and lets them into the sea; she finds them, brings them to the king, the prince wants to marry the owner; the king sends an old woman who speaks to the young man's wife that she is her aunt; persuades her husband to leave her ring while he is away; luring the princess into the boat, takes her away; the parrot tells her husband about this, flies on reconnaissance, finds out that the old woman holds the ring in her mouth; the princess scattered rice in the evening, rats came out at night, the cat caught one, made the old woman tickle her tail, she spit out the ring, the parrot brought it, the husband returned his wife]: 196-206; Sheikh -Dilthey 1976, #14 [similar story; prince buys a parrot and a snake]: 66-70 {71?} ; Assamese: Borooah 1955 [a young man drinks milk left by wild buffaloes, hides in a tree; buffaloes take turns guarding and falling asleep; only the leader notices the young man; tells him not to be afraid, to go down; they give milk; kill a one-eyed buffalo, give the young man his two horns; blow one if all is well, the other, if trouble is bad, they will come to the rescue; the young man's hair falls into the river, it is swallowed by fish, fish are caught , the princess sees hair, wants to marry a young man; the raven promises to find him; shouts that he will give a mango to someone who blows horns; the young man admits that he, a raven, carries a horn that calls for help; the young man blows another, buffaloes think he is OK; the warriors take the young man to the palace, he throws off pieces of his clothes on the way; buffaloes follow the trail; making sure that buffaloes allow the young man to sit on them, king Marries his daughter, transfers power]: 39-45; Goswami 1960 [the tiger and the crab grew vegetables together; the crab calls the tiger for lunch, tells him to put its tail in its hole to pull rice and curry out; grabs it with claws by the tail; the tiger asks the son of a peasant woman for help; he has cut off the tiger's tail; the tiger promises to bring a deer every day, but the guy should not talk about what happened; once he had to tell him, the tiger took it him into the forest; the boy's stomach rumbled; he replies that these are 66 crabs he swallowed; the tiger let him go, ran away; when he saw the remains of milk under the tree, the guy drank it, climbed the tree; buffaloes came, they liked the cleanliness, they made the guy a leader; they gave him two horns: a horn of joy (the guy is all right) and a horn of anger (he is in trouble); the guy's hair floated down the river, he was swallowed by a fish, a fish was brought to the king, the princess saw the hair, wanted the owner as her husband; the pet crow threw the guy a mango and when he bent down, took away a horn of anger; the royal servants took the boy away; he claims that buffaloes are his property; the king offers to ride a buffalo on horseback; the guy sits down; gets the princess and the kingdom]: 82-83; Bengalis [older brother is married, younger brother is single; daughter-in-law hates him, starves him; Indra's cow tells he should eat her milk; his daughter-in-law decides to sell all the cows for meat; the cows have fled and the young man is with them; Indra's cow tells me to leave a pot full of milk for the nagas; the nagas give a golden comb, a flute of good luck and the flute of misfortune; the first one must be played to send the cows to graze, the second to hurry home; the young man combed his hair with a golden comb and his hair also turned golden; a few hairs the river took them away and the princess caught them, fell in love; the barber went to look for the young man; when he saw him, he played the flute of misfortune, the cows came running, the barber barely took his feet away; then the barber appeared with an elephant, but the cows drove him away; the princess sent a parrot; he began to drink milk, the young man threw a flute of misfortune at him and the parrot took it away; the princess played the flute, the cows came running and began to destroy it palace; the king promised the young man a daughter and half the kingdom if he pacified the cows; he did this, got a princess; the snake bit him and crawled into his nose; Indra's cow asked the naga king to help, he forced the snake stick poison and leave the young man; all is well]: Devi 1915:66-71; konkani (Goa) [the young man fished his golden hair out of the well and decided to marry the one who owns it; the mother sent the maid to search, but she returned to no avail; the hair belonged to the young man's sister; the parents decided to marry them; the cat tells the girl that such a marriage is a shame; she does not understand anything, asks the neighbor; the neighbor says gives a seed; it will grow into a tree by the well, you have to hide in its branches; in the morning the maid went to fetch water: this is my shadow in the water, this is the shadow of a tree, and whose third? she broke the vessel, brought another; when she broke the third one, the girl in the tree laughed; the brother climbed after her sister; she turned to the month: take me to the sky, I will be your bride; a month threw her a rope ray and the girl disappeared into the clouds; a lavish and cheerful wedding in the sky; 10 years later, the wife of a month remembered her parents and cried; a month confused her; she came to the house disguised as a poor man who repairs mats; the maid suspected her, poured water on her, white skin under soot; but the girl managed to run away and picked her up a month ago]: Rodrigues 2020:125-130; santals [stepmother tyrannites stepson; he herds a cow, she tells her make a plate and a cup of leaves, fills them with rice from her horns; the stepmother found out that she pretended to be sick - let them slaughter the cow; the cow told the boy to prepare a rope with weaknesses , put it in a prominent place; the cow was tied up, but when she was hit with an ax, she and the boy flew into the forest, turned into two herds of cows; the boy's hair swam along the river, the princess saw She ordered to find the owner; the barber said that he did not know such a young man, he found a pet parrot; he grabbed the young man's flute, carried it, he followed him, came to the king, who got engaged; when the young man returned to the cows, they were so tired of being tied that they knocked the young man down, tore out all his hair with their hooves; when he drove the cows to the king, they almost all disappeared one by one; the king broke off his engagement, made the young man simply servant]: Campbell 1891:15-18; ho: Bompas 1909:457-459 [the poor man is ready to plow goats but has no grain; asked for rice husks, it grew into fine rice, but wild buffaloes are all trampled; the poor man came into the forest, cleaned the clearing where buffaloes were resting, hid in the hollow; the buffaloes who returned were happy; so several times; they left the lame buffalo to guard, but he fell asleep; then blind man, he has good hearing, he found out; buffaloes promised to take care of the young man, gave them two horns to blow in case of danger; but the young man, swimming, left them on the shore and the crows carried them away; buffaloes they attacked the merchants, they threw everything away, the buffaloes brought all the belongings to the young man on his horns; once he was swimming, his hair swam along the river; Raja's daughter found him, promised to marry only the owner of the hair ; he was found, brought, married to a princess and made heir to the throne; once crows threw him stolen horns; he boasted that if it blows into them, the whole city would be destroyed; they did not believe him; he buffaloes blew, but the young man stopped them; they were given all the grain and straw they found in the palace; they left the buffalo and the buffalo, and this couple comes from domestic buffaloes], 459-461 [two A cow was pulled out of the mud; she brought them a calf, the herd multiplied, the brothers became rich, the elder married, and the youngest lived in the forest with the herd; the elder's son carried him food, but he was not in it necessities, because the cow gave any food; one day the boy hid them, his mother tried them, went to the forest herself; offered to look for the young man in his head, he fell asleep, she cut off his head; cow connected it to the body, revived the young man; he took the cows further into the forest; every day he poured milk into the snake's hole; the snake asked what to reward him; the young man asked for milk back; the snake regurgitated him, making his body sparkling, died herself; the young man's hair swam along the river, the Raja's daughter found him, demanded the owner as her husband; the brahmana found a young man; the cow ordered the treasures to be taken out of the snake's hole; the young man He came with elephants and horses, married the princess; but when they returned to the forest, the horses and elephants were gone, only the cows were left; but the palace appeared, and the cow then died; the young man became king; the impoverished brother and his wife came to live with him, he forgave them]; Halder 1916, No. 18 []: 297-300; Oraons [the young man went to the forest, took care of buffaloes; their mother came, surprised that everything was so clean; buffaloes took her a promise not to harm the young man; he got off the tree, the buffalo mother gave him a pipe that called buffaloes; when the young man was swimming, his hair swam down the river, and the princess found him; said that would marry only the owner of the hair; the raven told him who it was; flew to the young man, grabbed his pipe; the young man ran after the crow, who brought him to the palace; the king offered him an eldest daughter, but the young man replied that can't leave his herd; then they made a huge paddock, the young man strangled, all the buffaloes came, the young man got the princess]: Hahn 1906, No. 18:33-35; baiga: Elwin 1939:487-489 [the crab clung to the tiger's nose; the tiger asked the young man to remove the crab; when he took it off, he threatened to kill him if the young man told anyone; at night he told his mother, the tiger heard it, the tiger took it with the couch, but the young man clung to a branch and climbed a tree; Surigai lived under it, a mountain of bowel movements formed over the years; the young man cleaned everything; for this S. gave him plenty of milk, and he began to clean its cows; S. gave him two flutes, one for grief (Dukh), the other for joy (Sukh); if he plays S., the cows will come to the rescue immediately; once he tried it, the cows rushed, S. told him not to do so again; when the young man He bathed, one of his hair swam away, the princess picked him up, fell in love, sent him for him; but the king wanted to kill him; the young man called the cows, they surrounded him and his wife; he took the princess away and began to live with her in his mother's house ], 489-491 [the potter has 12 married potter sons and the 13th youngest is single, sitting at home; his brothers tell him to bring 12 carts of clay without harnessing animals; he does it; the brothers got scared and drove him away; he meets and satellites 1) a baiga who plowed a tiger, 2) a lohara who bent hot iron with his bare hands, 3) ahira who forked a rope out of dust, 4) teli who squeezed out 12 measures with his hands oils; the potter's son (SG) tells everyone that he has never seen such a strong (dexterous), and they say that a real strongman (trickster) is SG; friends hunt and take turns cooking; when it's turn, it comes Rakshas in the guise of a boy, eats all the rice and beats the cook; beats ahir, lohar, baiga who came to the rescue, but SG killed him; Rakshas has 5 beautiful daughters, SG married one, and his companions could also be with her sleep; but she only liked baiga; then SG gave each one a wife; Baiga and his wife stayed in that place, and Dharti Mata gave them everything they needed; wife washed her hair, some hair swam away, Raja's son the gonds picked them up; the Raja sent Malin, who introduced herself as the sister of the young woman's mother; asked what her husband's life was like; in an arrow; M. burned an arrow; Baiga rushed home, managed to kick his wife in the chest, the trail remained; the baiga died; the woman was dragged to the king of the gondas, but four friends came out to meet him, killed M. and his servants, returned the woman, found a piece of an unburned arrow, the lohar revived the baiga and they all lived under under the patronage of Dharti Mata]; kuruba [parents died, sister and brother began to live with their father's brother, but their uncle and stepmother did not feed them; they cried at their parents' grave; a vine (gorlyanka pumpkin) grew in pumpkin grain and meat; so every day; noticing that the children were no longer hungry, the stepmother watched, told her husband that she was sick and would be cured by the crushed vine root; when she saw that the vine had been pulled out, the children left; in the forest the girl told the tree to open and hide them for the night from the predators inside; they came to the hunter's hut; he raised them; brother herded cattle, sister cooked; the hunter said he was leaving for a long time; sister's hair fell into the river, it was swallowed by a fish, the fisherman caught it and went to look for the owner; and if the hair were male, he would marry the owner to his sister; took the girl when his brother was not at home; the sister was walking sprinkling millet behind him, but it was not enough; the brother came back, told all the pets and birds on the farm to go wild, followed the trail; the trail ended, he went at random; in one country they chose a king, an elephant put a garland around the young man's neck; he was elected king, married; the wife would like to see her husband's sister; she and her fisherman husband were found, they were given land]: Kapp 1982:251-260; toda [two first ancestors, Kwate-n and Ertn; K.'s leg was caught by a hair that was longer than his spear; despite E.'s objections, K. went upstream, saw God's daughters, and sat down with one of them; when K . returned to E., a prophetic bird began to fly over him; when he returned to his village, he put his ring and spear next to him, and a lump of foam remained here; people found it in the morning, and K. disappeared; he turned into a mountain; E. did not leave his friend, strangled himself and turned into a neighboring mountain; residents still keep the spear and ring of K.]: Emeneau 1984 in Walker 2018:404; the Tamils [the king is dead, his youngest the brother seized power, and the wife and son were on the street; the mother obtained the money, told her son to use it for business; he gives all the money for one of the five kittens that the peasant carries to drown; the next once the prince buys a snake; the mother tells him to leave the snake; the son grew up, carried the snake into the forest; she calls him to his father, the king of snakes, advises him to ask for a ring as a reward; the prince tells the ring to create a city on the site of the forest , to settle in it everyone who has been kind to him; knowing that his betrothed is a princess from a distant country, takes her to her; she asks to let her go for a few days to warn her family and get married; After the wedding, the princess asks to dig an underground passage from the palace to the sea to go swimming; her hair floats away; is the king of the country Cochin found him? sends an old woman, she gains confidence in the prince's wife, finds out about the ring, asks for it to be given to her for a couple of minutes; the wife asks the prince to give her a ring, she gives it to the old woman, the old woman disappears with him, the king of the country K. carries the prince's wife to her; she asks for a week's delay before the wedding; the cat grabbed the rat king, who sent the rats to find and bring the ring, the cat gave it to its owner; he returned his wife and his city, destroyed the country of the kidnapper]: Natesa Sastri 1886:19-41; Sinhales: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 79 [the youngest of the seven princes is lazy; his mother told him to leave, otherwise his father executes; on the way he bought a cobra, bought a parrot, a cat to be drowned; the cobra brought the naga king, who gave him a wish-fulfilling ring; the prince asked for a palace and a princess; the princess bathed, his hair swam away, he was shown to the king, that told me to look for the owner; the old woman came to the princess, found out about the ring, stole it, the princess was gone; the cat caught the king of rats, who gave another rat for himself, she gnawed through seven boxes, took out the ring, but it's not magical; it gnawed at the eighth, the parrot took the ring to the prince, who returned the princess], 92 [the youngest of the seven giants (MB) does not work, lies on ash; the brothers send it to the plot, he grows a giant field of rice; brothers lie as if there is no field, he leaves; he takes as companions a banyan picking his teeth, bait from an elephant that blocked the river with his feet; the satellites are killed in turn the woman they come to ask for coals; MB threatens to kill her, she revives her companions; they throw a fish bone, blocking the river; the river dries up; they take out the bone themselves; someone brings it to the king a piece of bone, gets the princess promised by the king; MB exposes the impostor, gives the princess to the first companion; similar episodes with other kings, each companion gets a wife; MB marries the daughter of the murdered they are an ogre king; her hair is swallowed by fish, gets to the king; the old woman promises to bring a woman; asks MB's wife to find out where his life is; in a sword; the old woman puts her sword into the fire, takes the woman; MB satellites see that lemon trees and lotus flowers have withered; they find and clean the sword; living MB finds his wife, kills the kidnapper, takes his kingdom]: 173-175, 222-225.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Toraja [the peasant Sesean has five long-haired daughters; the youngest Mangguana is 17 fathoms long; when she washed her hair, one fell out; she put it in a lemon peel and threw it into the river; Bendurana, the son of Raja Boogs, noticed something brilliant; sends seven servants in sequence; each, touching the object, is crippled (his hand has dried up, goes blind, etc.); when B. himself entered the water, the peel swam to him, and the servants recovered; B. went up the river, found out that the hair belonged to M., but refused to marry a stranger; B. builds a dam three times and then destroys it; each time the water comes closer to M.'s house, floods him; B. sends a duck three times for an answer; the third time M.'s parents have to agree; the mother unsuccessfully tries to send her eldest, middle daughter first; the mother does not want to let M. go, and she falls in love with her husband; sent the mother to collect water with a leaky jug, runs away with her husband; sends the dog three times to find out how the mother is; the third time the dog has returned and died, which means the mother too; M. and her husband go to a wake; B. took it with him buffalo skin and cockskin; buffaloes and roosters appear where they scratch them; local people put pigs out; whoever saw such a procession has a full bowl]: Teselkin 1959:78-84.

Taiwan - Philippines. Mandaya [limocon (Gorlinka genus, a prophetic bird of the Mandaya) laid two eggs; a man came out of the one she laid at the mouth of the Mayo River, and a woman came out of the one set above the river; when a man He was crossing the river, something whipped him down his leg: it turned out that his hair was long; he went upstream, met a woman and mandayas came from them]: Cole 1916:143-144.

(Wed. The Balkans. Croats [7 brothers went to look for wives to be 7 sisters; the youngest took a thin skate, but this horse was magical; the old woman said she had 7 daughters; the horse warned younger brother, that she is a witch, that she hides her eighth daughter with golden hair; at night the youngest does not sleep, changed the hats of the old woman's brothers and daughters, put the bridles of horses against the old woman's mares; at night, the old woman mistakenly cut off the heads of her daughters and mares; the youngest tells the brothers to run; when she returned, he shouted to the old woman that she had killed her daughters; the old woman turned the grip into a horse, rushed in pursuit, did not catch up; at the crossroads, the youngest broke up with his elders, who disliked him; the younger horse tells him not to pay attention to what he sees or hears; but the youngest saw and picked up 3 golden hairs , three golden feathers, a golden horseshoe; the young man was hired by a groom for the king, works best; other grooms were jealous, noticed golden things, said to the king; he ordered to bring a girl who had golden hair; this is the daughter of that witch; the horse taught: he will pretend to get stuck in the swamp, the witch will come running, at this time you have to pick up the girl; the young man brought her to the king; he wants to give her for his son; girl : first get three ducks whose golden feathers; the king sent the young man to pick ducks; they spent the night with the witch again, stole the ducks; the witch is chasing, the horse tells him to abandon the scraper, a dense forest has appeared; now the girl demands to get a horse whose golden horseshoe is; the young man's horse tells him to put 8 buffalo skins on it; the sea stallion tore them off, but he is tired, he has a blue flame from his mouth, and the young man's horse has a red one; they followed the horse sea mares; the girl tells them to milk, the milk boils, the vat was filled with it; let the groom buy it; the horse cooled the milk, the young man became handsome; the queen also rushed into the milk, but it boiled, he died; the king adopted a young man instead of the deceased, gave him a gold-haired man]: Schütz 1960, No. 16:126-133).

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abazins [a man named Shepherd comes to another named Son of the Sun, then both to the Son of the Moon; the prince will give his daughter to someone who knocks down a needle suspended at the height of a bird's flight with one shot, the fragments will catch a Circassian woman in the hem; P. performs the task, but gives the girl to the Son of the Sun; elsewhere the same to the Son of the Moon; comes to the old woman, she sends her to the giantess, telling her lips to touch her breasts; the giantess directs the hero to kill the grooms; first tells her to hide in a hole, lure the hero's dogs out, she will get tired, she will beat them half to death; then the same with her horse; then find her sleeping beat her with a bronze whip until she put up with it; that's what happened; one day his wife washed her hair, swam her hair down the river, found him, showed him to the prince, promised to bring this woman; she became a maid to P.'s wife, persuaded him to ask what his soul was wearing; in the casket, the old woman threw him into the river, P. died; the old woman lured the woman into the boat, brought him to the prince; the Son of the Sun and the Son of the Moon let him into the sky arrows, it returned bloody; Moon's son asked Keith to regurgitate what was in his stomach, who regurgitated the casket with P.'s soul, P. came to life; P. threw his ring into the vessel with which the maid came to fetch water the prince's new bride; the twin brothers threw the prince off the high porch, the old woman was torn by horses]: Tugov 1985, No. 43:110-117; the Nogais [dying, biy ordered his sons not to go south; the eldest He went with his people, they found an empty house, where food and drink, stayed overnight, everyone was killed; the same with his middle brother; the younger Kenzhebay did not fall asleep, hid in the yard in a barrel; a six-legged rider arrived horse, killed everyone; considered that there were 41 horses and 40 dead, but did not find K. and left; K. followed the trail; came to the old woman Elmauyz, she had nose to door, she swallowed and regurgitated K., now he is her son; her the real son does not know where the six-legged horse went; her sister does the same (old women's sons come and are called karakus, but then they are not birds, but people); another sister's son explains that he is a rider Altynshash (gold-haired); you need to dig into her house, tie her hair, beat her with a kamcha until she agrees to give her horse and wealth; A. agreed and invited K. to become his wife; they live well; A. dropped a curl of her golden hair into the river; the fisherman found it, the khan sent old woman Azazil to find the owner; K. greeted her; she persuaded A. to find out where K.'s soul was; he replied that A. cut the bowstring in the bow, A. cut the bowstring, but K. replaced her; then K. admitted that his soul was in a golden box, which was braided in a forelock on his head; the old woman quietly untwisted her forelock, threw away the box, K. died; the old woman brought A. khan; elmauyz looked at the spindle, blood was flowing from it; the son of the first elmauyz rules the animals, the second birds, the third fish; one pike complained of pain; it turned out that she swallowed the box, it was removed, K. came to life; he came to Khan's country, threw a ring into the jug of a maid who came to the spring; A. recognized him, K. carried her away from her wedding to Khan on a six-legged horse]: Kapayev 2012:53-64; Armenians [motive: girl's hair were carried away by water to the king]: Gullakian 1983:91; the Turks [the old man tells the childless padishah of Egypt to eat an apple in half with his wife, feed the peel to the horses; he himself will come to give a name to the boy who will be born; when he is 12 years old, an old man comes, gives the name Hüsnügüzel (Beautiful Soul); H. dreams of the Most Beautiful in the World (PM), goes in search; takes Padishah Moray's son as companions and son of Padishah Stars; Padishah Arabs marries them to his three daughters; H. puts a sword between his wife and himself, promises to return; if there is blood on the sword, he is in trouble; H. marries PM; her golden hair flies away, sandal sails away, gets to the Padishah of the Giants (PV); he sends a witch to steal the PM; she persuades the PM to find out what X.'s life is: he first calls a mirror, a broom, the witch breaks them, burns them; life in a sword, the witch throws him into the sea; the witch carries the PM in a jug covered in leather, whips the jug; the daughter of the Padishah Arabs sees blood on the sword she has left; finds the son of Padishah Stars by the stars, the son Padishah Moray pulls his sword out of the sea; H. comes to the PV Garden in the guise of a shepherd; hides in the PM's room, kills PV on his wedding day; on the way home, he comes to pick up his second wife, the daughter of Padishah Arabs]: Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 3:34-54; (cf. Avars [the older sister promises to weave cloth for the royal army, the middle sister to bake bread, the youngest to give birth to a son with pearl teeth and a gold-haired daughter; the king overhears, takes the youngest; while the king in war, sisters throw their children into a nettle gorge, report that the queen gave birth to a puppy and a kitten; the king orders her to be sewn into donkey skin, chained to the city gate, spit on her; Doe feeds children with milk, leaves her in an empty castle, tells the boy to cover her mouth, the girl to cover her hair; the widow catches golden hair in the river, the evil sisters tell this woman to kill the survivors; she advises ask her brother 1) to bring an apple tree branch that sings and dances; he slips on horseback between the crushing rocks, the tip of the tail is cut off, brings a branch; 2) marry the beautiful Ezenzulhar ; he sees petrified horsemen at her castle, calls E., stones himself; her sister has worn out her iron soles and staff; E. looks at her when she exposes her hair, the petrified ones come to life, her brother marries E.; the king meets her children, frees his wife, the children take their mother to their castle]: Bulatova 1985:59-66).

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Marzolph 1984, No. 516B (Markazi, Khorasan) [After getting married, the princess loses her hair; he falls into the water and is found by the king; wanting a hair owner, the king sends an old woman to whom manages to cunningly kidnap the princess; in the end, the hero returns his wife]: 110-111; Osmanov 1987 [the dervish gave the padishah's wife an apple, she ate it, gave birth to a son and a sword; the child breathed when the sword was drilled a hole and hung a sword around the baby's neck; the boy was named Jantig ("life by the sword"); when he grew up, he went into the forbidden part of the garden, there was a portrait of the beautiful Chelgis; D. with two horsemen (one counts minutes another star) goes in search; the dragon has closed the water, the padishah's daughter brings him food so that he does not devour her brother, whose turn is to be eaten; D. killed the dragon, but a dove flew out of his mouth; D. received the princess, but gave it to the Stargazer; elsewhere, the old woman says that ships carrying wheat from across the sea are sinking; D. hacked down a dragon leaning out of the water, and a dove also flew out of his mouth ; D. marries Princess Minutocheta; D. meets Nurse C.; if she talks about her, she will become petrified, but she can be overheard; D. overhears the old woman talking to herself; learns how to lure C. from a diva's ear without turning into a stone; D. and C. jump from divas, throw a sword (a wall of swords), salt (salt mountain), a jug of water (sea); a white diva asks how to swim; D. advises to stick your head in the cave, which the corolla of the jug turned into, then you will take off; the divas shoved, fell into the sea and drowned; C. dropped two hairs, D. thoughtlessly threw them into the well, they swam along the stream to the padishah; the old woman volunteered find an owner, gained confidence in C., threw D.'s sword into the well, D. lost consciousness, C. was brought to the padishah; C. says she must mourn for 40 days; Stargazer sees that star D. has turned pale, together with Minutochet, they find D., take out a sword; all three come to town under the guise of dervishes, D. and C. exchange notes, D. kills the old woman, brings C. to his father's kingdom; C. warns that the father will dig a hole- a trap (you have to jump over when entering the palace), will give poisoned food (check with a dog); D. changed food, his father died himself; D. reigned, lived well with C.]: 267-278; Tajiks [7 of the padishah's wives are childless; Kalandar promises the birth of a daughter; the beloved wife admits that she has been pregnant for 7 months, but was afraid of the jealousy of other wives; the padishah promises to give her daughter for the son of the vizier; he gave her the name Robia with hair at 40 arshin (Robiyai Chilgaznamu); at the suggestion of the vizier, the RF built a castle on an island in the middle of the river; when she was 10 years old, she was married to the son of a vizier and they began to live in this castle; while bathing, her hair fell into the river; the maid brought it to the padishah; he ordered to find the owner in two months; one vizier read it in a book about RF, advised the padishah to steal it; the old woman promised to do it; she found RF, named herself her grandmother; RF suspects that the old woman is an ayer (jester, cunning); when the young man fell asleep, the old woman called her servants and RF was kidnapped, taken away in a chest; along the way, RF threw a bowl, a handkerchief; following the trail, their vizier's son picked it up and handed it over to the RF so that she could find out about him; they fled to their state and lived happily ever after]: Niyazmukhamedov 1945:83-96; Baluchis [41 sons of one king are going to marry 41 daughters of another; youngest Amat-sha agrees to send a sword instead, stay in control of the house; on the way back, the buzlangi (white diva) takes his wife; A. learns about this from a dervish conversation; A. goes to look for a wife; along the way wins, takes Buzlanga the Ploughman and the Grain Grinder as comrades, hitting stones; at night, the Ploughman first, then the Mukomol, go to look for fire; the Forty, who owns him, puts them under his knee; A. defeats him, takes him with his fourth companion; S. brings A. to the border of the country a white diva; A. kills him with a club, takes his wife; from two kings S. in clothes A. fulfills the condition (to carry a heavy stone, a lot eat), the princess receives, A. gives them to the Ploughman and Mukomol; wife A.'s hair falls into the river, it was swallowed by fish, the hunter's son caught it, took it to the prince, he found hair; whoever finds the owner promises twice as much gold as her weight; sends an old woman, who persuades her wife to find out where her husband's soul is in her sword; throws a sword into a well, lures the woman into a box, brings the prince; The ploughman and Mukomol see blood instead of milk, they fly in with pigeons, wake up S., he pulls his sword out of the well, A. comes to life, S. returns his wife; A. comes to his father]: Zarubin 1932, No. 11:134-150.

Baltoscandia. The Swedes [the woman ate an extraordinary fruit and gave birth to two boys; a magic sword with the younger one; when leaving, the youngest leaves the elder an object so that he learns if there is anything wrong with it will happen; he kills the dragon who kidnapped the girl and marries the girl; or the girl is extremely strong and leaves the young man in a magical forest; there he fights with opponents and finally with her, and when he wins, takes her as his wife; one day she drops her curl into the stream, water takes him away and an alien king finds it; the king sends a woman to find out who owns the curl; but when the king sends servants for the beautiful , the hero easily kills them with his magic sword; a woman comes again and persuades the hero's wife to find out what her husband's strength is; a woman steals a sword, the hero is killed, and the wife goes to someone else's king; older brother learns about the death of the youngest, finds his remains and revives him with living water; the youngest turns into a horse, and the eldest sells him to the king; the woman understands who is in front of her and orders the horse to be stabbed; from three drops of blood Three trees grow; they were cut down, but the sliver fell into the water and became a duck; the king undresses to enter the water and catch the duck; the hero takes his form, grabs the sword left by the king and kills him; punishes a woman, returns a wife]: Liungman 1961, No. GS 367:78-80.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Sidelnikov 1962 (Turgay University) [=1981:74-76; =Daurenbekov 1979:58-60; Batyr Alaman has a wife Karashash; she went with her daughter on the water, her hair was carried away by the river; Khan Soltan saw him, decided to find a beautiful woman; Baba Yaga, with one eye in her forehead {probably a zhalmaus-kempir}, lay down on a path in the forest, where A. hunted, pretending to be exhausted; A. brought her home; she persuaded K. to go to Khan; said that A. sleeps one night and 40 is awake; Khan sent an army that night, Alaman was tied with silk ropes; A. asks her daughter to give him a dagger; the daughter replies that now her father is Khan S.; when A. asks his son, he pulls out a dagger, A. kills S. and his men; brings his daughter and wife to his father-in-law, who executes them; baba yaga turns into a baby, A. and J. pick him up; he disappears with the dagger A.; baba yaga chases A.; J.'s son throws him a powerful ring, stabs the old woman with a spear in the eye; she asks to hit him again (the second blow revives); J. refuses, she dies]: 233-234; Coyaud 2012, No. 70 (China) [han) learned to fly, but still could not find the beauty he dreamed of; ordered her to be painted, hung her in a locked room; got married, had a son Jiangde; he went in and fell in love with the beautiful woman on portrait; goes to look for it; meets giants one by one on the way; everyone says they would like to fight with J.; J. wins everyone, takes them as companions; they have different abilities; they come to a city where the dragon is fed every day, otherwise he will swallow everyone; J. cut the dragon in half, cut off his belts as proof; the king made him minister; he gave this post to one of the giants, and He led others further; the same in another city (the serpent, J. was made khan, but handed over the position to the second giant); in the third city (killed a giant who muddied the river, received half of his wealth and position vizier, gave it to a third companion); in the fourth city, an old man teaches where to find and grab a beauty; you must demand her book, then she will not run away; J. married a beautiful woman; once she washed her hair and the hair swam along the river; the fisherman brought it to the khan; the horned witch ordered her to be given a fast camel, asked J. to shelter her, persuaded his wife to find out what J.'s life was like: in the spear of life in his sole; when J. . fell asleep, the old woman took it out and threw it into the river, J. died; his wife wanted to fly away, but the old woman cut off her wing and brought it to the khan; she asked to postpone the wedding for 17 days; one of his giant friends all I understood from the stars, the other took him out of the water, J. came to life; they killed the khan and the sorceress, J. returned his wife, came with her to his parents]: 161-173; Babalar sozi 2001, No. 10 [the old people are childless; the old man went to the one which the khan arranged on the occasion of the marriage of his youngest daughter; the old woman dreams: a tall black man has come and announced: "I will give you eight watermelons and one melon, you will have nine sons. The youngest you will give birth to from a melon is the hero Kyokzhan"; the old woman opened her eyes and saw 8 watermelons and a melon at the head; ate them; after 9 months she gave birth to 9 sons, the youngest was named hero Kyokzhan ; sons grew up; one day, in the absence of sons, an old man and an old woman saw a herd of sheep being grazed by a girl descending from the mountain; she came and asked for a drink; said that her family had nine girls, and she youngest; the old man came to her father, married his daughters to their sons; 8 sons went to the brides, but K. stayed; did not tell them to spend the night by the mountain; but on the way back, the brothers, wives and father stayed there for the night; they saw an aidahar (dragon), who clutched its own tail in its mouth, turning around the cattle; promises to return the cattle if the old man gives him K.; he spent one night with his wife and went to the dragon; he says bring him a gold-haired girl; on the way, K. met and accompanied someone who can track down a corsak; who knows the number of stars in the sky; knows how many fish there are in the world; one buy will give his daughter to someone who will shoot down a suspended gold bar and knock down his fighter; K. knocked down the bar and knocked down the wrestler, gave the girl he had received to his first comrade; the same in another village he gave the girl to his second comrade; in the third, third; K. went alone; in the village there is a gold-haired girl - "I would call her the moon, but she has a mouth unlike the moon, I would call her the sun, but she has eyes unlike the sun"; her father exposes the same conditions (knock down a bar, knock down a fighter); K. fulfilled, took the girl, went to the dragon; saw an empty white yurt, began to live in it with the girl; the girl began to wash her hair in the Yedil River, swam away alone, the horseman on I picked it up on the other side, came to the old woman Zhalmauyz, asked her to get the girl; she told me to give her a golden boat and a wineskin; the old woman to the girl: this yurt is mine; I'll kill if you don't tell me where my husband's soul is; K.: "Under with her skin laid on the right to the ground, on the edge of a pocket knife"; the old woman gave the girl drunk, pulled out a knife, heated it in the fire, threw it into the water, took the girl to the horseman's palace; the knowledgeable star said that star K. fell; whoever was tracking Korsak found K. dead; who knew about fish found that one pike was missing, caught it, found a penknife in her belly, K. came to life; came to the kidnapper, aka tulpara also took him away; tulpar does not let anyone in; K. offered to go around him; rode to the palace, took the girl; brought the dragon, but he was killed, and a man in black nearby; it turns out that this is his son (from his wife, with whom K. spent one night); everything is fine]: 90-96; Karakalpaks: Baskakov 1951:68-72 (Takhtakupir District) [the hero found out that his wife has a lover and left home; met two people agreed to be friends; the first of the companions said that his job was to revive the white bones that lie on the road; the second said that he connected one city to another city with one penny; the hero became ask the first to revive the bone he saw on the road; the companion refused; the hero found another bone, repeated the request; the companion first refused, then whipped the bone; the bone turned into a tiger, a tiger chased the hero; the hero ran to a city where there were no people; found a girl, married her; the girl went swimming in the river; her hair got entangled in a sedge, came off, swam away; people noticed a sedge with golden hair in the water, took it to the khan; he ordered to find the owner; an old woman went in search; she sailed by boat to the place where the girl was swimming and told three horsemen wait for her to return with her; then lay down on the road; the hero saw her, picked her up, brought her home; the old woman added poison to his food, the next day he could not get up; the old woman took her away the girl to the river, pushed her into the boat, took her to the khan; the khan made the girl his wife; the man who revived the bones went to the girl's door and asked for alms; the girl gave him a penny; who connected one city to another with one penny, transferred the city to the place where that hero lived with one penny; saw that the hero had died; the man who revived the bones hit him with a whip; the hero came to life; three friends began to live together], 184-189 (Kegeli district) [the old woman gave her son a hundred tillas, sent him to the city; he saw that two guys were going to beat a cat; bought it for a hundred tillas, returned home; his father gave him another hundred; the boy bought a puppy tormented by children; the father gave money again; the guy bought a chest with a snake in it; she wrapped him around his lower back, told him to put it back and take it to her country; the boy did so; brought a snake to a house that was underground; her father was a serpent padishah; the snake said, "If you bring me, my father will give [you] whatever you want if he gives [ you] cattle, you don't take it if he gives a tile, don't take it, if he gives gold, don't take it, my father has a stone called hurr stone - the stone of happiness; it's under his palate if you want to get (for yourself) wealth, then take it"; the guy received a stone of happiness, put it under his palate, went home; asked the stone for a horse, a falcon, a wife and a manor; it all appeared; Khan's son was swimming in the lower reaches of the river, and a piece of golden hair belonging to the boy's wife fell into his hands; the khan's son asked his father to bring this girl; the khan shouted at him the old woman responded; she sailed to the boy's place; the boy took her into his house; the old woman asked his wife, found out about the stone of happiness; told her to take this stone from her husband; his wife begged him, gave it to the old woman; the old woman moved with the boy's wife and the estate to her country; the guy returned from hunting, found that everything was gone; the cat and the puppy promised to help, came to the khan's house; the cat sniffing their mouths people, found an old woman; put her tail in her nose; the old woman sneezed, the stone fell to the ground; the cat caught it on the fly, brought it to the guy; the guy used the stone to return his wife and home, and then went to his parents] ; Kyrgyz [the poor man's wife gave birth to a son under a plane tree, called Chinarbay; a plane tree and a boy are growing up fast; a winged horse flies to the top, a girl on it; C. and his friend Ashik go to look for her; the dwarf tells predators to feed horses, the road will open, grab the girl by the braids; C. married Peri; she washed her hair, one hair is entangled in the blades of the mill wheel, the khan saw him, wanted a girl; the witch reached the source of the river, invited Peri to board the boat and took them away; C. and A. came when Khan arranged the wedding; Peri told them to hold on to her braids and flew away with them; the first khan ordered them to pour poison on the saddles, a yurt prepared for the young and the fetters of a hunting bird; A. found out about this in a dream, asked C. to give him three things he asked for; burned poisoned saddles, fetters, clothes; in the poisoned yurt he saw as poison drips on C.'s wife's face, began to lick him, C. thought that A. was kissing his wife; offended A. left, and C. soon died; A. brought his body to a dwarf, who revived him; Peri locked herself from Khan in an iron house; C. killed Khan and took his place]: Brudny 1954:73-81 (=Brudny, Eshmambetov 1981:84-89).

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khalha Mongols: Bennigsen 1912 [a tiger cub became friends with a calf; a tigress killed a cow; a tiger cub ripped open his mother's stomach with scissors, began to live with a calf; hung a bell for help; When he heard the ringing, he rushed to the calf, but he simply drove away the flies; the next time he did not run, and the calf was killed and eaten by hunters; the tiger cub asked to kill him, bury his and calf bones together; at this point two trees grew; Altan-Hu (golden boy, incarnation of a tiger cub) and Mungung-Hoo (silver boy, embodiment of a calf) began to emerge from them; the shepherd saw, told Khan, and caught him on his orders boys, the khan began to raise them; while AH beats off enemies, MX went to marry Kharakchi-Khan's daughter; kind to the old man he met, he gives a stick; the other gives two bones, the third gives a coal; at the palace on MX The dogs Asar and Vasar rushed, but MX threw the dice at them; the princess immediately fell in love, ordered herself to be taken away; the army surrounded them, the princess waved the wreckage of that stick, the warriors fell dead; the same for the next morning (she threw the coal, he burned the army); MX and his wife found an empty house, settled in; his wife did not let her hair loose in front of him; he spied - she had a golden strand; she gave him one hair, warning him that they were waiting for them misfortunes; the wind vomited his hair, he swam down the stream to Damba-Darji Chutkur Khan; he sent an army; MX was tied up, but they could not kill; his wife ordered him to put his knife in the hearth, MX died; ordered the ropes to be cut and, leaving the house, she waved her hands; at this time AH captured the enemy khan; went to look for MX; the horse brought him to AH's body; in the door on the right there is an inscription: take the knife out of the hearth, MX will come to life; on the left the inscription: let MX be too late in the evening he will ride in front of DD Palace on a bull covered with soot; he did so; the kidnapped khatun did not laugh for three years, but when she saw the man on the bull, she laughed; DD decided to smear himself with soot and sit down at the bull; at this time, MX's wife ran away with him; DD chases, but the brothers shot the arrow and all the DD warriors died; DD AH himself was killed with a raw aspen stake; the brothers began to rule his kingdom]: 33-42; Potanin 1883 [Sherisen Gan's son went to an old woman who has a lot of good things but only one cow (sarlyk, i.e. a female yak); this old woman was a shulmus; said that her cow had silver and gold in her manure; S. exchanged this a cow for 50 others, but there is no gold; the old woman said that the cow should be beaten with an iron pestle, but this only maimed her; S. sent warriors to kill the old woman; they saw that the old woman was cooking in a cauldron a whole cow and interferes with her copper nose; the khan and the people migrated, and the cow recovered and came to live with the tigress; she gave birth to a son Bamba Shita, and a cow to a son named Douldzuk; once the cow did not come; the tigress told her son that she was eaten by wolves; he went with her to this place, saw only tiger tracks and pushed her mother off a cliff; BS and D. went on a journey, BS hung a bell around D.'s neck; went to different sides of the mountain, the sound of the bell was gone; BS came, but the calf had already been killed and cut; B. died then too; two poplars grew up, gold and silver; Hara Nidun Taiji placed a bet there; the maid I saw two boys in a blue and yellow fur coat playing at the poplars in the morning, and then hiding in poplars; Taiji ordered the poplars to be torn out, the temple under them, and the boys there; he gave them to his wife; BS went to east, but D. stayed; he was not allowed to eat and he followed his brother; he came to the palace made of iron, cast iron and glass; there was a woman saying that men were lions and tigers; they ran away, the lion and the tiger were chasing; D. threw the wooden ball he had previously received from the llama, the ball became a rock to the sky; they stayed at the foot, D. called the woman mother; she did not tell her to come in when she combed her hair; he went in her hair fell down; the woman locked it in an iron box, ordered them to be hidden; D. lowered the box down the river; Sharisyn Khan found it, realized that Tengri Khurmusten Khan's daughter lived in the upper reaches; decided to take her for his son ( text ends]: 237-241; (cf. source? Mongols [a tiger cub and a buffalo cub became friends; hunters killed a buffalo, a tiger cub died of grief; where their bones were buried, two trees grew; the boys Altan-gu and Mungun began to emerge from them -gu; the khan's soldiers managed to capture them, they were sent to herd their herds; A. was summoned to the palace, M. was ordered to bring the tenth daughter of the Black Palace Khan, Oyun; she is distinguished by her three golden hair in a spit; on the way M . gives him three bags of money to the poor, receives a whip, meat, coal in return; M. takes O. for himself, kills his pursuers with a whip and coal (they burn); the wind brought golden hair to O. khan, he took his wife M.; A. found his brother; to swim across the ditch around the palace, they made a raft; the fish swallowed it; they threw the coal, the water boiled, the fish died; the brothers killed the nine-headed mangas, returned O.]: Potanin? (neither 1881 nor 1883:219-229 (about the same as Bennigsen 1912:33-42; west in Dunsurun, Khalha).

California. Shasta: Dixon 1910a, No. 4 [Aniduidui is the sister of 10 brothers; while bathing, she finds hair that is longer than hers; she looks in everyone's head, trying on hair, but does not find it; everyone volunteers to go with her, but she rejects her brothers; finally finds the youngest with longer hair, which is Ommanutc; she makes him go with her; they sleep together; he runs away leaving a deck instead; the whole family rises to the sky on a rope; A. asks all the objects in the dugout where her brothers are, but no one answers; she moves the fire, sparks fly up, she looks up, sees those climbing into the sky; one of The brothers look down, everyone falls; A. makes a fire below; nine brothers and mother burn, the youngest is saved; marries two duck sisters; they have two sons; the lark reports that A.'s heart is in on the sole of her foot; nephews kill her with an arrow]: 14-15; Farrand 1915, No. 5 [as in Dixon; at the sky in a basket; mother looks down; seagull sisters; son and daughter are born; brother kills sister himself]: 212-214; Karok [her youngest brother, whom she has not seen before, is forced to copulate; Loon finds out about his brother when he finds his long hair; brother runs away from her, climbs the pole on the sky, leading the others; his mother looks around, everyone falls into the fire; Loon cannot find the bones of his youngest brother, because he spark into heaven, where his wife revived him; his son and daughter come to Loon; Loon's heart is on her heel; nephews shoot at the heel, throw a corpse into the lake]: Kroeber, Gifford 1980, No. A8:128-129; Yana [Gagara looks good but lives without a husband; kills men, makes a necklace of ten hearts; finds hair longer in the stream than hers; comes to her aunt Lark; girls tell her that it is not customary for women to enter the main dugout where men have gathered; Loon comes in, demands to give her husband the one whose hair she found, rejects everyone, Eagle has to give her son; the old man puts an acorn shell on his penis, making him impotent; at rest, Eagle's son puts Loon to sleep, leaves a deck instead, returns; The Spider began to lift everyone in the bag to the sky; Loon sets fire to the earth; the Coyote makes a hole, everyone falls into the fire; among the fallen, those are saved animal people whose eyes are not hurt; little dive duck kills Loon]: Sapir 1910, No. 12:228-232; screw [there are nine boys and one girl in the family; parents hide their youngest son, he is very handsome; swims in the river every day; sister finds her brother's hair; tries on everyone, only the youngest Talimleluheres has the same; mother sends him west with her; sister calls him husband, then He recovers with his brother; at night he hugs him at rest; he leaves an alder deck instead of himself, returns to his parents; they set fire to the dugout, everyone rises to the sky; the sister resorts to a burning dugout; The coyote looks down, everyone falls, the sister makes herself a necklace from the hearts of fallen and burnt people; she has wings; flies to the lake, dives, rests on a raft; two sisters find a handsome young man; the first The eldest finds him, feeds him soup, he gets better, marries both; each gives birth to a boy; one of them wants to shoot a bird, which tells them about a winged woman; they kill her with arrows, they put their hearts in the water, their parents and brothers are reborn]: Dubois, Demetracopoulou 1931, No. 37:355-360; Maidu [sisters Gagara and Orlitsa and their brothers live in the same dugout; Gagara goes swimming in lake, finds her brothers' hair there; but one day she finds hair as long as hers; this is Wood-Bug hair; Loons dye black, lies on the trail; Larva and others they step over her, only the Coyote copulates with her; she rejects the Coyote and the others, demands the Larva as her husband, otherwise threatens to burn down the house; the chief makes the Larva impotent; putting a log instead, The larva runs away to the brothers; the Spider puts them all in a large net, begins to lift them up to the sky; Loon rushes to the brothers' dugout, flames blaze from its mouth in volleys; the dugout already lights up; The lizard Out of curiosity, the hole in the net expands, everyone falls into the fire, their hearts burst and fly around, Loon makes a necklace out of them, but misses the hearts of the Tree Larva and Marten (Fisher); Eagle finds it in a fire and brings it to the Duck (? Water-Ouzel) and her children have a bow and arrow; children kill a floating Loon with a bow, Orlitsa turns it into a loon, revives brothers from hearts by throwing them into the water; two female sisters find the hearts of the Tree Larva and Martens, revive them, marry them; Orlitsa wants people to come to life if left in the water for the night]: Dixon 1902, No. 7:71-76.