K136D. Two flutes. 21.23.29.
From a cow (buffalo), the young man receives two flutes (flutes, horns), playing on which has different effects (joy and sadness, well-being and a call for help, etc.).
Hrusso (aka), Lepcha, Assamese, Bengalis, Ho, Baiga, Kannada, Georgians.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Hrusso (aka) [the tiger wants to eat the wild boar; he offers to fight first, sends the tiger to bring a man to judge; while the tiger is away, the boar is smeared with mud; the tiger brings the young man Rariu-Jija; the boar began to shake off, the mud flew into the tiger's eyes and he ran away; R. won the boar, for which the tiger is going to eat it; R. climbed a tree; buffaloes come to this tree for the night, drove him away tiger; R. goes down, takes care of buffaloes, cleans up; they leave the buffalo to watch and catch him; R. is caught the second time; buffaloes promise to take care of him and give him their milk; leave R. 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 in a box and let him go down the river; he found his hair daughter of Raja Assam; demanded that she be passed off as someone who owns the hair; Raja and Rani called birds and animals; the crow found R., pecked him, he turned both flutes, she brought them to Raja; when the girl played the second flute, the buffaloes heard and ran to the sound, and R. followed them; girl: I'll give the flutes if you marry me; they got married; Raja stole the flutes, kicked her 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; lepcha [older brother and wife want to get rid of the younger one; he was carried away by a tiger; the boy ran away on the way, went to the cattle shed, where there were cows and calves, but not a trace of people; ate butter and cheese; cleaned and cleaned everything, climbed a tree; the tiger came and waited downstairs; the bulls came back, noticed that they had someone, cared for the tiger, asked the boy to get down; so far no one took care of them; they gave them a pair of gold and a pair of bamboo flutes; on bamboo ones, maybe play just like that, and gold ones to summon bulls in case of danger; a hunter came and asked the boy, who is his prince, to become the princess's husband; she sucked her mother's breast only three times, and then she began to live locked up in the dark; the young man refused to go with him, played the golden flutes, the bulls immediately appeared; the hunter left but told the king everything; the witch maid undertook to bring the young man; she became a crow, flew over the young man; he threw stones at her, then stones from the hearth, finally threw gold flutes, she carried them away; the king's warriors brought the young man, he was imprisoned in the same dark room as the princess; finally, the young man found the flutes, summoned the bulls, who surrounded the royal palace, demanded the princess as a ransom; the king gave her and half the kingdom, the bulls built a palace for the young man and his wife; the inhabitants of this country think they have the best oil]: Stocks 1925, No. 38:458-460.
South Asia. Assames: 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, 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, swallows it fish, they catch fish, the princess sees her hair, wants to marry a young man; the raven promises to find him; screams that he will give a mango to someone who blows horns; the young man admits that he, a raven, carries away a horn that calls for help; the young man blows another, the buffaloes think he is all right; 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, the king gives him a daughter, transfers power]: 39-45; Goswami 1960 [the tiger and the crab grew vegetables together; the crab calls the tiger for lunch, tells them to put its tail in its hole to pull rice and curry out; grabs the tail with its claws; the tiger asks the son of a peasant woman to help; he compartments 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 me, the tiger took him to the forest; the guy's stomach rumbled; he replies that it was 66 crabs he swallowed; the tiger let him go, ran away; seeing the remains of milk under the tree, the guy drank it, climbed on tree; buffaloes came, they liked the cleanliness, they made the guy chief; they gave two horns: a horn of joy (the guy's all right) and a horn of anger (he's in trouble); the guy's hair swam away down the river, his the fish swallowed, the fish was brought to the king, the princess saw the hair, wanted the owner to be her husband; the pet crow threw the guy a mango, and when he leaned down, took away the horn of anger; the royal servants took the boy away; he claims that buffaloes are his property; the king offers to ride a buffalo; the boy sits down; gets the princess and the kingdom]: 82-83; Bengalis [older brother married, younger single; daughter-in-law hates him , starves; Indra's cow tells him to eat her milk; daughter-in-law decides to sell all the cows for meat; the cows have fled and the young man with them; Indra's cow tells him to leave a pot full of milk for the nagas; naked they give a golden comb, a flute of luck and a flute of misfortune; the first one must be played to send cows to graze, the second to hurry home; the young man combs his hair with a golden comb and his the hair also turned golden; a few hairs were carried away by the river 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 came with the 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 the palace; the king promised the young man a daughter and half the kingdom if he pacified the cows; he did this, got the princess; the snake bit him and crawled into his nose; Indra's cow asked the king naked to help, he made the snake stick poison and leave the young man; everything is fine]: Devi 1915:66-71; ho [the poor man is ready to plow on goats, but has no grain; asked for rice husks, it grew out of it fine rice, but wild buffaloes trampled everything; the poor man came to the forest, cleaned the meadow where buffaloes were resting, hid in the hollow; the buffaloes who returned were happy; so several times; they left to guard a lame buffalo, but he fell asleep; then blind, he had a good ear, he found it all out; buffaloes promised to take care of the young man, gave them two horns to blow at them in case of danger; but the young man, swimming, left them on the shore and the crows carried them away; buffaloes attacked the merchants, they threw everything away, buffaloes brought all his possessions to the young man on his horns; once he was swimming, his hair swam away along the river; his daughter found him Raja, 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 he blew at them, all the city would be destroyed; they did not believe it; it blew, buffaloes appeared, but the young man stopped them; they were given all the grain and straw they found in the palace; they left the buffalo with the buffalo and from this couple domestic buffaloes occur]: Bompas 1909:457-459; baiga [the crab grabbed the tiger's nose; the tiger asked the young man to remove the crab; when it took it off, threatened to kill him if the young man told anyone; at night He told his mother, the tiger heard him, and the tiger carried him away with his couch, but the young man clung to a branch and climbed a tree; Surigai lived under him, and over the years a mountain of bowel movements had formed; the young man cleaned everything; for this, S. gave him plenty of milk and he began to clean her cows; S. gave him two flutes, one for grief (Dukh), the other for joy (Sukh); if he played S., cows they will immediately come to the rescue; once he tried it, the cows rushed, S. ordered him not to do so again; when the young man was swimming, 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 lived with her in his mother's house]: Elwin 1939, No. V: 487-489; Kannada [after the birth of his own son, the stepmother does not like his stepson; he herds 7 cows, they feed him milk, he grows up healthy and strong; the stepmother's own son is weak; the stepmother tells her husband to kill his stepson; the cows threw the owner away and took the boy away; the husband brought his wife clothes soaked in sparrow blood; the cows gave the boy two flutes: joy and sorrow; if he was in trouble, let him play the flute of sorrow, they would appear immediately; one day the princess came to the banyan and golden hair fell on her; she saw a young man in the branches and wanted him to be her husband; the king sent servants to get the young man, but he played the flute of sorrow, the cows came running and scattered the servants; the same in the second time; the crow said that he would take the young man's flute, but it turned out to be a flute of joy; he played the flute of sorrow, the cows came running and gave him a new flute of joy; the next time the cow took the flute sorrows; the king sent people and they took the young man to the palace; the cows came and did not find him; died; the young man persuaded his wife and king to come with him to the tree; threw pebbles, reviving the cows; they were brought to the palace and they lived like a king; after the king's death, the young man inherited the throne]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 20:62-65.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Georgians (Pshaviya) [=Chikovani 1986:279-284; stepmother pretends to be sick, she will be cured by her stepson's liver heart; father sharpens a knife; Koasnukh's bull tells the boy to sit on it, take a sharpener, a comb, a bottle of water; a father chases a pig; a boy pours water from a bottle (a pig swims across the sea), a comb (a pig gnaws through the forest), a sharpener (the pig falls down the mountain, breaks); the bull leaves the boy on a high poplar, gives two flutes; he plays joyful, butterflies dance; shepherd, then the king want a pipe for himself; if trouble, let him play the painful, bull will come to the rescue; to lure the boy off the tree, they send an old woman; she brings a goat to the poplar and begins to stab her with an awl - supposedly does not know how to slaughter; the boy went down to show him grabbed and locked; he asks the crow, the crow, the eagle, the bird to bring his flutes from the poplar; everyone refuses, for the boy did not leave them prey, caught them in the snare; the swallow brings; the boy plays joyful flute, Rubella comes running, breaks eight doors, breaks the horn; the mouse takes root the horn for the promise to eat its carrion; the bull breaks the ninth door, brings the boy to the poplar; one day he started playing on a joyful flute, but the bull did not appear; the boy went down and found his corpse pecked by birds; after that he never played his flutes again]: Chikovani 1954, No. 60:299-303.