K143. A bird hero. (.14.) .17.26.27.29.30.

The protagonist of the story is a poultry farmer or a bird hunter, or the son of a birdsman (hunter).

(Egyptian Arabs), Saudi Arabs (Iraq?) , South Yemen, Socotra, Manobo, Bosnians, Greeks (Cyclades), Azerbaijanis, Turks, Pashtuns.

(Wed. North Africa. The Arabs of Egypt [caught the poultry goose, gave it to the baker to fry; the cadia asked to give the goose to him, and the birdman to tell him that the roast goose had flown away; he took the baker to court; the baker accidentally poked his head she threw it into the pregnant woman's stomach; the Coptic priest stood up for him, but the baker accidentally knocked out his eye; on the way, the baker grabbed the donkey's tail, which came off; the baker escaped, ran into the minaret, rushed down, fell on the man, killing him; all the victims came to the cadia; he makes decisions: 1) if God is omnipotent, it is a sin not to believe that he cannot revive the goose; 2) let the baker take that woman and will return her husband when she is the same month pregnant; 3) eye for eye, but one eye of a faithful is worth two Christians, so the baker must blind the priest in both eyes to deprive him one; 4) let the victim's brother jump from the minaret to the baker; 5) the donkey's owner immediately says that his donkey was tailless; others must pay a fine if they do not want to comply with the kadia's decisions]: Bushnaq 1987:322-325).

Western Asia. Saudia [the bird asks the birdsman to let her go, promises to bring a more valuable one; brings a gold one; the birdsman's wife took her pen to the jeweler, who told the king; the king gave the birdman a lot of money; an envious jeweler persuaded the king to tell the birdman to bring 1) the female of the same bird (the first bird leads), 2) the lioness's milk brought on the lion's back, otherwise the king's wife will go blind (the bird teaches you to take it out the lion is a splinter, he brings milk), 3) remove a huge stone behind which there are treasures; the bird teaches the jeweler to cut off the head on a stone, the stone split, the king received treasures, made a birdsman as a vizier]: Juhaiman 1999:57-61; {in Yaremenko 1990, No. 20:112-116, the same fairy tale was published as Iraqi because it was recorded in the Iraqi dialect, although the place of recording is not specified; since there are similar versions in the South Yemen and Socotra, and I don't know the Syro-Palestinians, Saudi attribution is more likely}; South Yemen [when dying, a bird catcher asks his pregnant wife for his son to do the same craft as him; Ali, who has grown up, receives a snare from his mother, catches a hoopoe; a Jew asks to sell, A. refuses; another person advises to take the bird to the Sultan; the Sultan pays generously; the Jew persuades to ask A. to get it for the hoopoe is a female; he preys, is afraid of further requests and invites his mother to go away, but the mother does not agree; the Jew advises to order to bring a tek wood cage; A. sees a black snake fights white and wins, kills black; white turns into a young man; says that his grandmother has a tek tree cage; leads to his mother, tells her to venerate her breast, otherwise she will kill; grandmother gives a cage; a Jew advises to order a girl named Daughter of Lightning (DM); A. comes to that genie woman, she tells you to take a jar of butter, grains and 700 camels with her; he pours oil on the bound the old woman, who frees herself from fetters, gives her hair - if burned, she will come to the rescue; the young man gives grain to hungry ants, their king gives a lace - if burned, he will come to the rescue; gives hawks a hundred to eat camels; the king of the hawks gives an invisibility cloak; invisible, A. hears DM reading in the book: her husband will be A., he is close; A. opens; when he arrives at the Sultan, DM tells him to kill the Jew first, he does it; invites the Sultan and A. to jump off the cliff; A. jumps easily, the rock falls on the Sultan; DM and A. live in his palace]: Canova 2002:231-237; Socotra [husband died; when his son grew up, he began to ask mother, what did his father do; she lies: traveled; planted palm trees; herding sheep; son tries to do it, but to no avail; he puts his mother's hand in hot food, she cries out, May God burn you, son poultryman! the young man bought a cage, caught birds, gave half to the old woman; caught a dove, left gold and silver next to her in the morning; the vizier told the Sultan about this, who ordered him to bring the young man and give the dove; the next morning there is nothing around; vizier: you must tell the young man to bring the male; the young man went to that old woman, she pointed out the cave, you must shoot when you see the light, take out the cage, leave it to her, give the pigeon to the Sultan; but gold and there is still no silver; vizier: we also need a cage; the old woman gave a cage, the young man brought it, but there is no gold again; vizier: we must get the daughter of Voskhod; old woman: let the vizier's money build a ship of gold and silver, and 14 girls as sailors; seeing a boat with girls, Voskhod's daughter wants to see the ship, he takes it away; the young man tells the Sultan that Voskhod's daughter will descend from the ship only if she is at every step killing a man and spreading the carpet is all at the expense of the vizier; when she sees the first person killed, the girl said that she would come anyway; tells the Sultan that she will marry him if he kills the birdsman's son, and not with a sword, not with flint, not poison; the young man is thrown into a hole, a fire is made, but he has an amulet, he is unharmed; the sultan decided that the fire is cold, jumped into it and burned; the young man married Voskhod's daughter]: Müller 1905, No. 2:50- 57.

Taiwan - Philippines. Juan Mengengati ("The Birdcatcher") went to pick the birds, saw four heavenly maidens go down to the pond to swim, hid one of them's clothes, and she went with him; one day she found the key from the chest in which he hid her feather clothes; put it on, flew away like a kite, leaving her daughter; HM went to look for his wife; the north, the south, some other wind, some bird, the crow replied that they could not rise to the sky; he found a philodendron growing to the sky, climbed it to the moon; she said that on the way to her father, a rock that closes and opens; he slipped; in the golden palace there was wife with her older sisters; her mother told her to go to her husband, advised her to take a skinny horse; on it, XM and his wife left the chase; on the seashore, the horse turned into a coconut palm tree, then into a rock, into grass ; returned home safely]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 5:85-93.

The Balkans. The Bosnians [there were poultry farmers near Constantinople; once he caught only a crow; she asked him to let go: she would bring birds; in the morning he caught two nightingales; they were bought by a vizier for the mosque; the padishah found out demanded the birdsman to him and ordered the mother of these nightingales to be obtained; the crow orders to ask the emperor for grain, and she will bring all the birds; when the nightingale sees the children in the cage, the nightingale will betray itself; the poultry farmer brought a nightingale; the padishah demands the mistress of all nightingales; the crow tells the padishah to ask the padishah for a ship with goods; the ship came to the harbor, where the owner of the birds, she boarded the ship, he took her away; the owner of the birds is furious that she got an old padishah; asks the poultry farmers to get half of the ring she dropped into the sea; the crow tells her to ask for a thousand barrels of oil; the oil was poured into the sea, the crow dived, took out half rings; the mistress of the birds demands that the poultry jump into the fire; the crow teaches how to ride a horse, cover themselves with horse foam, the flame does no harm, the poultry man has become handsome; the padishah decided to do the same burned down; the birdsman was made a padishah, he married the owner of the birds]: Wratislaw 1890, No. 45:239-245; the Greeks (Fr. Syros, Cyclades) [the hunter sees a bird with a jewel on its head; it says that if he shoots it, it will be his happiness, and if he misses, misfortune; the bird turned its head, the bullet flew by; out of grief, the hunter soon died; his son grew up, his mother assigned him to a shoemaker, but he demanded that his father be told what his father was doing; his mother had to give him his father's gun; it happened again, but the young man shot a bird; when he was carrying the stone home, the vizier asked to sell it, the young man refused; he had to sell it to the king, who paid 30,000 piastres; but soon demanded that the young man build an ivory tower - if he could shoot this bird, he could do it too; the mother explained that the vizier set it all up; advised him to ask for 40,000 piastres to build the tower and let the vizier give them; this money is needed buy wine and bread, fill the lowland, the surrounding peasants will gather and get drunk, they must be killed, a tower built out of their bones (elephants are out of the question - human bones}; the king feels sorry that many people have died, but he rewarded the young man; now the vizier advises the king to order the young man to marry the Beauty of Peace for him; mother: let the king give a ship with 40 girls, including the only daughter of the vizier; when he sailed to that the country, the young man told the girls to wait 40 days for him, went alone; meets a Moor giant, an ant man, a water bread, a speedboat, whose every step is equal to what a person walks in five hours; each says that he is not brave, but the son of a hunter yes; the young man replies that he is the son of a hunter; everyone gives his hair to summon him; the young man comes in the Beauty of the World, she advises him to leave while he is intact; gives tasks: 1) eat a monstrous amount of meat and bread by morning (the young man calls the giant, he ate everything); 2) survive in a hot oven (water bread cools it); 3) divide the grain into varieties (ants separate); 4) bring an apple from afar in a quarter of an hour (the speedboat brings); now the Beauty of the World agrees to become the young man's wife; they return by ship and the Beauty of Peace promises to arrange everything; quietly killed the king and vizier, the hunter's son is recognized as king]: Hahn 1864 (2): 3-15.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Azerbaijanis [the son of the deceased birdsman Ibrahim grows up, his mother gives him his father's pipe and baits, he catches a bird with all the feathers of different colors, laying unusual eggs; his mother sells them to the shopkeeper, that Shah; I. himself lays eggs to the Shah; the shopkeeper left without income advises the Shah to ask I. 1) the bird itself; 2) the male bird (I. catches, brings); 3) a rose from the diva's palace; I. finds a beautiful woman there Khurshid, they flee, taking the diva's gold, but forgetting the rose; I. builds a palace at home, H. hits his nose, two drops of her blood turn into two bouquets of roses; 4) visit the Shah's late parents in the next world; H. advises to travel for a year, return, say that the deceased are asking to send them a dignitary, a former shopkeeper; I. advises the shopkeeper to jump into the well; without waiting for the messenger, the Shah burst from impatience; I. marries Kh.]: Akhundov 1955:39-49; Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 10 [Ibrahim learns from his mother that his father was a birdsman; takes his pipe and net, catches an extraordinary bird, she lays an egg, mother sells it to the shopkeeper; the bird regularly lays eggs; the shopkeeper brought them to the king; then I. took them to the king himself; the shopkeeper is envious, he advises that I. caught the bird; the male bird; I. brings everything; an extraordinary rose ; I. comes to the palace, the diva jumps away, taking Princess Khurshid ("sun") kidnapped by the diva and treasures; the vizier advises sending I. to the king's deceased parents; H. advises to go somewhere, and returning, say hello from the king's parents; I. says that the parents are offended: why did the vizier (former shopkeeper) not come; the vizier was sent, I. invites him to throw himself into the hole; the king also jumped; everything is fine] : 82-95; Turks [the poultry farmer died; the son found his father's snare, caught the crow; she persuaded her to let her go; a wonderful bird was caught in the snare, the padishah bought it for a lot of money; the vizier advised to demand bring ivory to build a palace for the bird; the crow advises to ask the padishah for wine, fill the ditches where elephants drink, they will get drunk, fall asleep; the young man brought tusks; but the bird is silent; the vizier advises tell the young man to deliver the owner of the bird; the crow tells him to ask the ship, lure the queen 40 peri to it; when she sees the peri, the bird sang; before the wedding, the peri fell ill: she needs the medicine she had left in her palace; the vizier offers to send a young man; the crow gives a pen to touch two lion guards, they will miss; the young man brought medicine, came to the peri with the crow; the crow was her punished maid, but now she forgave her; the padishah married her a young man and made her a vizier, the former vizier was expelled]: Kúnos 1901:134-142.

Iran - Central Asia. Pashtuns [the birdsman has sons Hunkar (elder) and Muslim from his first wife; he found a white egg in the nest of an unknown bird, sold it to a rich man for a lot of money, and began to bring him more eggs; caught the bird itself; after his death, H. sells eggs to the rich man; the stepmother asks the rich man to come to her, who makes it a condition to slaughter the bird to eat his heart and head and become a padishah; the maid gives a heart and the head of the poor man's sons; the rich man is furious, the maid tells H. and M. to flee; H. is dead, a falcon sat on Muslim's head, he was chosen as a padishah; three birds admired the beauty of H., shook a tree whose leaves they revive, one fell into the mouth of H., he came to life; a falcon also sat on his head, H. became the padishah of another country; M. had 7 sons, X. had daughters, he kills them; the wife hides the seventh named Schmaila; she grows up beautiful; H. sees her, his wife has to explain everything; H. sets difficult tasks for Sh.'s suitors; 1) break an iron deck with a wooden ax; 2) milk Shmaila's red cow with diamond ones horns; 3) run three times to the roof with a windowsill full of milk; 4) separate the millet from the sand, and the millet of that half the room; 5) bring the lion, fight with the padishah's lion; 7) find a way to Shmaila's chambers ; 6 sons M. are executed; the seventh Jallat Khan plays with the old woman's son, beats him; the old woman tells her son to say - if D. is so good, then demand (from the mother) an answer how the brothers died; D. asks the mother fry the grains, clamps them in her hand, making her tell about the fate of her older brothers; on the instructions of the fakir, receives the blessing of her mother and father; takes out the splinter from the lioness; lions promise to help; saves ants, having bought a man's field so that he would not fill it with water; gives Mullah Miro a letter from the fakir, the mullah makes D. a disciple; he first enters S.'s chambers in a woman's outfit; S. suspects that this a man, but M. does not betray himself; then makes a mechanical lion, hides in it, S. tells him how to complete his father's tasks; ants separate millet, the lion defeats lion X.; D. gets S., Hunkara gouged out their eyes, brought them to their brother; the brothers recognized each other, H. repented that he killed his sons after Muslim]: Lebedev 1972, No. 6:27-44 (=1958:113-120; a brief retelling in Lebedev 2003:395).