K138. Body exchange (king and vizier), ATU 678.
.21.23.29.30.34.
A person gains the ability to revive the dead by incarnating in his body. As long as he stays in it, his own body is dead. The other person occupies the body of the first, leaving him the body of the animal.
Tibetans, Meitei, Ancient India, Kashmiris, Punjabi, Kumaoni, Northern India (Hindi), Marathi, Persians, Mountain Tajiks, Mongols of Ordos.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans: Wang Yao 1956 in Ting 1978, No. 678: {pagination in pdf is not visible}; the Meitei [the prince and the minister's son went to study; after parting, agreed to meet a year later; after meeting, the minister's son offered to show each other what they had learned; lay down and a golden deer jumped out of his mouth; a golden parrot jumped out of the prince's mouth; seeing this, the minister's son, dressed as a golden deer, entered the prince's body jumped up, cut his own body and burned the remains; at home he was mistaken for the prince and after the king's death took his place; the golden parrot flew to the princess; she fell in love with him and put him in a cage; parrot: but you must not sell me; when he found out, the deceiving king wrote to the princess's father about his desire to buy that parrot, otherwise he would go to war; the princess was forced to give up the parrot; the deceiving king preparing to execute a parrot; he talked to his wife, who is now the wife of a deceiver; she asked the deceiver to show what he had learned; the deceiver lay down and a golden deer jumped out of his mouth; a golden deer the parrot immediately entered its true body; all is well; the deer ran away into the forest]: Oinam et al. s.a.
South Asia. Ancient India: Benfey, II: 124 in Thompson, Roberts 1960, No. 678:94; Kashmiris [the fakir gives Bahadur Khan the ability to settle into other people's bodies, leaving his body dead for a while; the same the vizier gains the ability; persuades BH to become a parrot, moves into the body of BH, destroys its own; the parrot hides with the fakir; the imaginary BH pursues the doe and, in order to catch up with it, becomes a bear; BH leaves the parrot's body and occupies his own, orders to kill and burn the bear in which the vizier's soul is]: Stein, Grierson 1923, No. 2:5-11; Punjabians (Seraiks, Multan) [the king with his wife and vizier went to his wife's parents; at a stop in the forest, the hermit offers to fulfill any wish of the king; he wants to be able to leave his body and enter the body of any creature that is now dead; hermit wrote the necessary mantra on the leaf; the vizier accidentally saw the leaf and memorized the mantra; on the way back, the wife asked the king to get her a mango from the tree; for this purpose, the king moved into the body of a dead parrot; the vizier immediately moved into the king's body and it was occupied; the vizier burned his former body; the king's wife noticed all this, but did not show it, hid the parrot in her; pretended to agree to recognize the vizier as her husband, but after 40 days of fasting; she began to feed the lamb; arranged for the maid to kill the lamb a few hours before the end of the fast; the fast should be extended for another 40 days; the vizier decided to revive the lamb, leaving his body; the king immediately moved from the body of the parrot to his own, destroyed the parrot; the lamb vizier was hanged]: Mehta 2011:158-164; Kumaoni [the king learned 35 arts, went to study the 36th, despite warning, taking the barber with him; when the king entered the body of the parrot and flew into the forest, the barber entered the king's body and took his place; the vizier understood this; the parrot caught the poultry; the parrot persuaded him not to kill him, the birdman brought him to a meeting of scientists and they were shocked by the parrot's learning; the vizier found out about him, bought him; invited the imaginary king to show his art again; he ordered to fight rams, strangling one, became a ram himself; at this time the real king entered his body]: Upreti 1894:20-21; northern India, Uttar Pradesh, Hindi: Crooke 1895, No. (Etah County), 34 [pandit dal Vikramaditye is a book according to which he learned the art of entering the body of another person or animal; the servant overheard their conversation; brought V. a dead parrot; he read mantras, moved into a parrot, and the servant he cut his body, but did not have time to kill the parrot; posing as V., he announced a reward for every parrot he killed; the poultry was caught by Parrot-B; he promised him a much greater reward if he will take it to his father-in-law V.; he bought it, and the parrot began to interpret sastras and read Sanskrit; one day a brahmana went to beg for a long time, and the demon took his form and began to live with his wife; when a brahmana returned, they began to fight; it came to father-in-law V., who decided in favor of the demon; the parrot ordered to bring a narrow-necked vessel, yellow cloth and thread; whoever climbed into the vessel was the woman's husband; when the demon climbed into the vessel, the parrot ordered it to be covered with fabrics, tied up and buried in the ground; V.'s wife realized that her husband was not her husband, because he spoke silly and rude; locked him; came to her father; parrot-V. told everything; the wife asked the imaginary V. what he had learned from the pandita; he asked to bring the sheep carcass, moved into it; at that moment V. moved into his body and cut the sheep], 375 (Faizabad district) [approximately like in Etah]: 30-32, 140; Marathi [Vicram Maharajah and his vizier Butti grew up together as brothers; Anar Rani ("pomegranate queen") lived in the neighboring country; her parents had a pomegranate tree with three fruits; at night, AR with two maids climbed inside these fruits, and went outside in the morning; parents promised AR to someone who would pick three grenades, but there are 7 fences around the garden; VM dreams of his father; he advises him honor the god of wisdom Gunputti, whose temple WM ordered to be put in order; you have to throw yourself upside down from the tower in the basket, Gunputti will carry you over the protruding tips; then you can take the buried ones near treasure temple; Gunputti took the form of an old woman and picked up VM; VM dug up treasures and began to come to the temple, where God taught him wisdom; the carpenter's son began to eavesdrop; when VM asked for a gift to move to the bodies of other people and animals, the carpenter's son also found out how to do this; Vizier B. advised VM to move into the parrot and fly to the AR garden and pick up the grenades; VM did so, married AR; once wanted fly as a parrot again; the carpenter's son saw the Raja's motionless body and moved into it; only the vizier guessed the substitution; to check, advised AR to give her husband a simple tasteless dish for dinner; if he If he does not pay attention, he is not Raja; when he was convinced that he was, the vizier ordered everyone to constantly quarrel with the imaginary Raja so that he would be tired of his new position; but the carpenter's son's body had already decomposed, he had nowhere to move; at that time VR was living with parrots; the hunter caught them all, VR advised them to pretend to be dead; everyone could fly away, but VR stayed with the hunter; asked to sell it for 1,000 gold; begged a merchant to buy him for that kind of money, began to run his business successfully; one day a poor lumberjack dreamed that he had 1,000 gold coins and married a wealthy dancer; she heard his story pretended to be her husband, let him give her 100 gold; only the merchant's parrot could judge, telling the dancer to deceive the rich, leave the poor alone; she promises to kill the parrot, and he predicts that she will destroy her house and commit suicide (as it happened, a separate story); the vizier offered the imaginary Raja a goat fight; seeing that his goat was weaker, the vizier moved into him to win; the vizier killed a goat and VM moved into his body; (continued: another story)]: Frere 1868, No. 7:103-129; (cf. India {apparently northwest, because the hero is Emperor Akbar} [the fakir taught Akbar how to move souls and, when he fell asleep, moved into his body, and A. found himself in the body of a fakir; A.'s wife noticed that her husband behaves strangely, locked herself in her chambers; the fakir exchanged back; A. spared him, but managed to deprive him of his magical abilities]: Thornhill 1889:266-268).
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Turks [a sheikh in love with the Sultan's wife teaches him magic: to leave his body and move into a deer; as soon as the padishah becomes a deer, the sheikh moves into the body he has left behind and acts in it appearance; the sultan moves from a deer to a bird, the sultan takes care of it; when the sultan moves into a puppy, the sultan grieves for the death of the bird; then the sheikh moved into the bird for fun; seeing his body free, the sultan occupied him, killed the bird; grieving for it, the Sultan died]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 171:194-195.
Iran - Central Asia. Persians [the vizier is in love with the padishah's wife; for gold, the dervish teaches both to leave their bodies when entering the animal's body; when hunting, the padishah moves into the gazelle, and the vizier moves into the padishah; the padishah moves into parrot, lets himself catch a dervish whom the vizier deceived by promising a daughter for his studies; the vizier gives the parrot to the padishah's wife; she invites the vizier (imaginary husband) to move into the dead dog, and the padishah himself from the parrot moves into its former body; the dog was beaten until it died]: Osmanov 1958:50-57; mountain Tajiks (Quraish of the lower reaches of Yah-su, descendants of the Arabs) [the comer teaches King Shir-Zaman a spell, allowing the soul to enter any body that does not have a soul; warns not to tell anyone; the king tells the vizier; he invites the king to enter the murdered gazelle, enters the king's body himself, goes to him the wife he is in love with; the king's wife learns the substitution, because the husband has changed, rejects the imaginary husband; he does not allow her to leave the house; the king's soul from the gazelle entered the corpse of the parrot; the parrot asked the hunter not kill him, sell him; the king's wife sent a slave to buy a parrot; he teaches his wife to persuade the vizier to enter the chicken's corpse; he returns to his body, the chicken was beheaded]: Semenov 1900 (2): 32-34 (= Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 22:101-103).
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Mongols of Ordos [available in Mostaert, no. 60, section 8]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953:195.