K146. The hero is revived by the tool he has been sent to get. .14.-.16.27.-.29.31.34.

The hero is sent to get a remedy that can cure the patient or revive the deceased. On the way back, a woman friendly to the hero keeps part of her money (or all, replacing it with a fake) and, when the hero is insidiously killed, revives him.

Kabiles, Arabs of Algeria, Egypt, Portuguese, Italians (Ticino, Menton), French (Haute-Marne), Moldovans (Romanians), Bulgarians, Greeks, Albanians, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya) , Ukrainians (Hutsulshchyna, Kharkiv), Slovaks, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Finns (Karelians?) , Oirats (Olets), Mongols of Ordos, (South Altai Tuvans).

North Africa. Kabila [a sick father tells his seven sons to bring the hearts of their wives - he will eat them and recover; only the youngest refuses, leaves with his wife; going for fire, he comes to 99 Wuarssen (devas), those they cook 99 dead people in a cauldron, offer to remove the cauldron from the fire; the young man picks up and overturns the cauldron, kills the devas, throws him into the hole; brings his wife into the house of the devas, tells him not to enter the same room, leaves hunt; the wife comes in, sees that one dev is only injured, heals him, converges with him; the young man comes to the cannibal teriel, puts on her chest, now she is his mother, promises to help; trying to get rid of from the woman's husband, dev advises that she ask him to bring rejuvenating apples from overseas; T.: meat in front of the ox, change straw in front of the dog; there is a black bull nearby, he will throw horns furiously, you will fly across seven seas, fall on an apple tree, pick apples; an eagle's nest on the apple tree, give meat to the chicks, the eagle will bring it back; when he returns, the young man gave 4 apples to T. and 4 to his wife; dev to the woman: tell her husband that You are afraid if he is not weak, let him tie himself; when he can't break his fetters, I'll get out and kill him; he tears all his fetters; T. young man: they will kill you, ask you to put your bones in a bag, load it on a donkey, he will come, I'll revive you; when he came back to his wife, she offered to tie him with her hair, he couldn't escape, the devil killed him and ate him, but the bones were sent on a donkey; T. folded her bones, covered him with wool and silk, gave him milk, his body recovered, she revived him with a rejuvenating apple; allowed him to return home when he could easily lift a bag of salt and a bag of iron; he comes disguised as a beggar, dev lets him in; offered to tell a fairy tale; while he is telling his story, Dev and wife sink into the ground, he cuts their heads off; kills their deva son; wants to return to his father, T. gives the box (do not open it on the way) and a black man; he opens outside the house, there is a beautiful daughter T., she has a ring that creates a palace; the young man's father sees his wife, wants her for himself, promises a Jew a reward for killing his son; he leads the young man hunts, feeds salty meat, gives water in exchange for eyes, brings them to the young man's father; he goes with the warriors to take his wife, but the black man does not let him in, kills everyone; the young man hears the conversation between the old eagle and the chicks; the old one has lost his feathers, asks to cover him; chicks: suddenly our father will treat us like a man with his son who is under a tree; eagle: let the young man rub his eyes with the leaves of a tree; the young man saw the light, the chicks covered an eagle; the young man came to the old woman, changed his clothes, his father did not recognize him, promised to give him his power as an elder if he killed a black man alone; the young man agreed with his wife that the black man would be tied to blood, blood will spill, he will fall; witnesses: this man killed a black man; the father hands over power to his son without knowing who it is; before that, asks the wise men if the father can marry his daughter-in-law; 6 say yes, the seventh, that no; the father orders him to be killed, the young man kills him, orders him to kill a Jew and punish the 6 wise men]: Frobenius 1922a, No. 2:11-24; the Arabs of Eastern Algeria (Souf) [the king keeps his seven sons in palace, wanting to protect them from all the bad things in the world; they are given boneless meat, almonds without shells, watermelons without skins; once a black maid forgot to take out the bones; young men began to play by throwing bones into each other, broke the window and saw the outside world; told the maid to tell everything about birth, love, death; sent him to ask him to let them go; the king married sons; his daughters-in-law annoyed him, he decided to get rid of them; the Jew advised him to be sick, let the sons bring the blood of their wives; six wives were killed, and the youngest Ali brought blood to the gazelle, ran away with his wife; they came to the house of 40 blind gulas; those They made 40 tortillas and 40 servings of meat; Ali quietly took one serving; the ghouli got into a fight, Ali killed them and threw them into the well; his wife heard a groan, pulled out and hid one guli who had just been injured; Ghoul advised to send Ali for golden rejuvenating apples; the old woman teaches Ali to slip between the crushing mountains; have time to jump over the garden fence (as soon as the wall sees Ali's horse, she will begin to grow ); picking up apples, galloping away without turning around; Ali turned slightly to his voice, the horse's tail was cut off; the old woman tells her to give the rejuvenating apples to her and his wife to bring the usual ones; the ghoul advised to offer Ali play chess for a living; Ali let his wife win, believing it was a joke, but she killed him, put pieces of his body in a bag, attached his horse to the saddle and told the horse to jump to where he came from; old lady she put the pieces together, but her heart and liver were not enough; she sent the cat to the ghoul, who brought her heart and liver; the old woman revived Ali with the juice of rejuvenating apples; he came to the ghul under the gul disguised as a dervish, hacked him down at night, stabbed his wife, returned to the old woman; she turned the cat into a beautiful woman, Ali married her, returned to his father, who handed him the throne]: Scelles-Millie 1963:313-316; Arabs of Egypt [father died; three brothers they built a palace for mother and sister; the old woman advises the girl to ask her brother to bring a singing nightingale; the elder leaves the brothers a rosary - if you decrease in size, then he is dead; the counter teaches wait for the nightingale to return to the cage and fall asleep, not to show himself to him sooner; but the young man hurried, the nightingale shook off the sand on him, he died; the rosary clenched; the same with his middle brother (left the ring); younger Mohammed waited for the nightingale to fall asleep, ban the cage; ordered the brothers to be revived; he revived many blacks and Turks who had died earlier; M.: where are the brothers? then the nightingale revived the others; the brothers returned home, brought the nightingale; the man tells Mohammed that his turban is dirty; the mother explains: this means that the sister will behave unworthily, she must be killed ; M. refuses, leaves home with his sister; M. entered the cave of 40 thieves; they divide the food into 40 servings, M. quietly takes one; after confusion, the robbers realized that they had a young man with them; M. said he was a thief; volunteered to be a servant, stabbed sleeping robbers, brought his sister; found and brought two lion cubs; his sister found that one of the robbers, a black man, had just been wounded, went out and became with him to live, gave birth to two children; to get rid of her brother, she asked him to get the grapes of paradise; M. greeted the cannibal, she gave a balloon, he rolled, we must follow him; M. reached the Garden of Eden, brought grapes; the black man advised to send M. for live water; M. hears the conversation of two turtles: only living water will heal the princess; M. filled the vessels with living water, immersed them on a donkey, came to the king, cured the princess, married her; left her one vessel of living water, the other took her sister; she spoke to him, and the black man came up from behind and decapitated her; the lions ran away; the black man put the pieces of his body in a bag, loaded her on donkey, let him go; disguised as a black man, M. came to his sister, killed her lover and children, buried his sister alive; his father had already died and he moved all his property to his wife's house]: Spitta-bey 1883, No. 10:123-236.

Southern Europe. The Portuguese (Abrantes) [the princess has an affair with her servant; when she found out that her daughter was pregnant, her father ordered her to be left in the forest, cutting off her tongue; but the servants brought him the dog's tongue; the girl gave birth, the boy grew up, they were met by a hunter; the mother wanted to stay in the forest, and the hunter christened her son and kept him; the young man asked for a horse and a gun; the forest came across a giant's palace, defeated him, left him in one of the rooms; found mother and lodger in the palace, forbidding them to enter this room; she went in and became the giant's mistress; to get rid of her son, he offers to pretend to be sick and ask for porcupine fat {porco espinho; or is it a boar?} from the estate of the Wise King (na quinta do Rei Sabio); the king gave him a sword, taught him what to do; changed fat; his mother requires water from the estate of the Wise King; he teaches him to take water not from clean, but from muddy pond; changed the water again; told the young man that if he was killed, let pieces of his body be tied to the horse and the horse released; his mother wanted an orange from the garden of the Wise King; he told him to pick the green one, not a mature orange, replaced it; the mother invited the young man to put her head on her knees, cut off her hair; he lost his strength and the giant defeated him; the young man asked to cut it into four parts and tie it to the horse; that came to the Wise King; the King folded the pieces, smeared it with that fat, sprinkled it with orange juice, the young man came to life; his hair grew; the king said that the young man's mother gave birth to a daughter from the giant; the young man came to the giant and killed mother and her daughter, defeated the giant and got the eyes of the Wise King, whom the giant blinded; the King put them in for himself, sprinkled them with that water, regained his sight; the young man married his daughter; all is well]: Coelho 1879 , No. 60:134-138; Italians: Calvino 1980, No. 3 (Menton) [the poor man cannot find a godson for the child; asks a person, he agrees; after the christening he gives a purse of gold and a letter; a young man, when he grows up, must come to him with this letter and inherit the English crown from him; on the way, you should not take cross-eyed, lame, lame, lousy, etc. as companions; the young man grew up and set off; the young man got rid of the scythe and the lame man, agreed to the offer of a man who looked healthy; at night, he stole money, a letter and a horse at the inn; the young man caught up with the thief, but he forced him under call himself a servant with the barrel of a gun, and recognize the heir to the English throne in his companion; he took off his wig and it became clear that he was a bastard; the king received the impostor and asked for the release of his kidnapped daughter from the islands where she is kept; the impostor sent a servant; an old bearded sailor advised to demand a three-deck ship from the king; load cheese on one deck, bread crumbs on the second, and carrion on the third; Don't recruit teams, let's swim together; they got cheese on the island of rats, bread crumbs on ant island, rotting meat on vulture island; rats, ants and vultures promised to help in any minute; on the last island, the Sibiana fairy promises to free the princess if the visitors meet three conditions; 1) level the mountain (the rats have leveled); 2) separate the peas from the lentils (the ants separated); 3) get a barrel of living water; the young man tied a cup to each vulture's neck, who brought water and filled the barrel; the young man brought the princess to his father, but the impostor sent the murderers to slaughter him; but the old sailor brought that barrel of living water and revived the young man; the young man told the impostor that he had bathed in a barrel of boiling oil; the impostor stabbed a dagger into his heart and threw himself into the oil; the wig surfaced and appeared lousy head; "This is my old enemy," exclaimed the king; married the young man to his daughter and appointed him heir]: 7-12; Keller 1981 (Ticino) [the prince knocked on someone's house, asked for a drink; the owner asked in response to become his son's godson; the prince called him Valoroso ("brave"), left a note: when the boy is 14, let him come to his service; the young man was shy and asked for a note to another, he pretended to be a godson, received a position (the prince had become king by that time); V. was hired to clean the stable; the imaginary V. decided to get rid of him, told the king that the young groom could get it the golden bird; the king ordered to get it, otherwise he would execute; the old woman ordered to ask the king for a gold cage and thread; the bird flew into the cage, V. pulled the thread and slammed the door shut; the imaginary V. persuades to send V. for the queen of the Moors from the green land; old woman: ask for a ship with musicians, dancers and food; three giants carried him across the seas, V. fed them meat and bread, they are grateful, gave Schä chtelein summon them; ants appeared, V. fed them, they also let Schächtelein summon them; the same is birds, the eagle gave a pen; the Queen of the Moors requires three tasks; 1) separate the mixed ones in the bucket rice, millet and corn (ants perform); 2) cultivate a huge field (giants perform); 3) bring water from sources of living and dead water before sunrise (thrushes bring); at the king's feast; imaginary V. stabbed the present with a dagger; the queen of the Moors cut the body into pieces, revived it with living water, V. became handsome; the imaginary V. wanted the same thing, the queen poured dead water on him; married V., who became king]: 214-219 .

Western Europe. The French (Haute-Marne) [the English king hunted in France, chased the bird, did not catch it, spent the night in a poor house; the hostess just gave birth, the king agreed to be a godson, called boy Eugène (E.); left a letter - let the young man come with him when he is 17 years old; E. set off; before that, the godmother (marraine) warned that if he meets a hunchback or crooked, we must go back; E. returned twice, but the third time his humpback classmate Adolf, E. went with him; at the inn A. stole his horse; when E. caught up with him, he forced E. swear that he would say that he was the king's godson, A., not E.; the king believed; promised to give his daughter to his godson, but she was kidnapped; all the courtiers fell in love with E. (who was called A.) and A. was hated; A. says that E. boasted to get a giant's mule; the old man teaches: the giant has a thrush, he sings loudly, he must cross the sea when the thrush sings; the giant gave the mule on the condition that E. would return it later; A. persuades the king to tell E. to get the giant's thrush; the giant gave the thrush with the same condition; the giant's lantern (the same); find and return the king's daughter; the old man teaches you to ask for help; he tells you to build a ship without using iron, take a mule, a thrush and a donkey, 300 virgins; along the way, the giant weaves, virgins spin; on the way, a fish castle, they it is necessary to crumble the bread, the fish missed the ship; the king of fish let his fin call it; then the ants - E. gave them millet, the king of ants gave them a paw; then the rats (gave bread - wool); crows (meat is a feather) ; giants (E. gave a lot of bread - a hair from the king's beard); the princess in the queen's castle with silver legs, turned into a lioness spewing fire; the lioness is glad; the queen orders to bring 300 measures of canvas, woven by virgins (E. gives); further tasks: 1) a garden on the site of the mountain (the giants removed the mountain, the rest of the helpers set up the garden); 2) bring living and dead water; the crows gathered, but no one knows where is the water; two old drunken soldiers appeared; the first was imprisoned, but released at the request of the second - otherwise he would not bring water; they went underground, collected water; the queen sent pigeons knock over the bowls, but the crows drove them away; the giant teaches: first demand that the Queen restore her human appearance, then kill her by splashing dead water in her face; returning to her father, the princess asked to postpone the wedding for 8 days; said she dropped the ring into the sea; the fish did not know where the ring was, the same two drunken soldiers took it out; the princess asked for her castle, where she lived with the Queen; giants, ants and others delivered; then A. called E. to hunt, shot him, threw him into a hole; the princess saw crows, revived E. with living water; E. showed the king his letter, married the princess; A. was burned alive]: Cosquin 1886, No. 3:32-43.

The Balkans. Moldovans [the girl became pregnant by smelling basil; gave birth to an old man in a cave; he gave the boy a broadsword and a club; gave the boy the name Basili Fat-Frumos (B.); B. came to the palace, where 7 snakes attacked, he hacked six, hit them with a club and locked them in a stone mortar in the closed room of the seventh; the witch Cloanza threw B.'s mother into the basement, took her form, rescued her son Snake; said that she was ill, it was necessary bird's milk; B. came to Ilyana-Kosynzyan, she is the sister of the Sun, gives a 12-winged horse, which brings B. to a copper mountain, where a terrible bird feeds its chicks with its milk; B. hid, handed a krinka, took it away milk; K. asks for wild boar meat, B. brought; living and dead water; I. asks the Sun Brother, B. hears, brings water, kills a 10-headed snake on the way back; I. replaced the water with ordinary water; K. invites B. to try his hand, ties him with silk ropes, the snake chopped him, put the pieces in bags, tied him to a horse; the horse came to I., she folded the pieces, glued him together dead, revived him with living water; where not enough, replaced it with boar meat; gave poultry milk, B. gained strength, burned a snake and a witch, freed his mother, married I.]: Botezat 1981:147-157; Romanians {the hero was sent to bring the water of life; revived by it, although not the one he brings} [the mighty king always laughs with his right eye and cries with his left eye; he has three sons; the mighty tall Florea, the dense strong Costan, and the younger Petru - tall but girly in character; the older brothers refused, P. agreed to ask his father about his eyes and received a slap in the face from him; but he thought his left eye cried less and his right eye laughed more; and he asked again; both eyes laughed at the father: that three sons are good, but they are unlikely to be able to protect themselves from their neighbors; therefore laughter and tears; but if you bring water from the well of the Morning Dawn fairy, I will moisten it eyes and both will laugh, for I will understand that the sons are brave; F. rode his best horse to the border of his father's possessions; there is a bridge and a three-headed dragon: one jaw in the sky, the other on earth; F. turned, but a year later , did not return home for a month and a day; K. went; the dragon also has three heads; also turned, but did not return home; P. went, the dragon has 7 heads; the horse stands on its hind legs, P. returned to take another horse; old nurse: you need the horse your father rode; he replies that the horse fell long ago, but there are only scraps of bridle in the stall; the nurse tells you to bring such a fragment and hit the pole with it; immediately appeared a beautiful horse under a precious saddle; now there is a 12-headed dragon at the bridge; the horse tells you to cut off the main head and flies forward - one day like the wind, the other as a thought; in front of them there is a copper wall and trees, copper bushes and herbs; flowers whisper, but the horse forbids them to be plucked; otherwise you will have to fight Velva; but he tore it off to see her; she has a horse's mane, deer antlers, bear face, ferret eyes, different bodies creatures; after three days of battle, P. threw a bridle on the velva and it turned into a beautiful horse; this is the brother of the horse P., who was bewitched; so they galloped through the copper forest; then silver (all the same - more one velva horse); golden (the strongest and youngest of these horses are disgraced); now they travel through the frozen country of Saint Sereda, and around the edges there is fire; this is the frost that freezes the calf in the womb of the cow and the rocks crumble; when they reached the house of St. Sereda, she gave a box that will show the way home and tell you who is doing what now; P. asks about his father; a box: his eldest sons have taken away his power; now they are traveling through the red-hot land of St. . Thursdays (Joi, Jupiter); rocks began to melt under their hooves; from the cool valleys, where springs and flowers, girls turn to P.; St. Thursday: Next will be the country of St. Fridays, tell her my wishes for good health; it is not cold or hot there; but darkness has descended and Tornado's daughters are in it; Tornadoes guard Friday's house; the horse tells me to throw a copper wreath, the spirits rushed behind the wreath ; a silver wreath showed Friday and she allowed her to enter; Friday is an ancient old woman; when the world arose, she was a child; asks for a mug of water from the spring of the Morning Dawn Fairy on the way back; gave the flute, the sounds of which make them fall asleep; in the morning P. fed his horses with hot coals; Friday: leave one horse here now, and enter the Fairy dismounted; she has a terrible appearance: owl eyes, fox face, claws cats; her gaze deprives her of reason; the Fairy's palace where the earth touches the sky; flowers along the way; neither warm nor cold, eternal twilight; P. sedated the giant watchman and seven-headed dragons with a flute; the milk river is not in sandy or jelly shores, and on shores made of gems and pearls, flows quickly and slowly at the same time; lions with golden skin and iron teeth; beautiful fairies sleep in flowers; P. tied to a sleeper He woke up the giant's fingers, told him to carry him across the river - then we'll fight; but the giant hammered P. into the ground to his knees, and P. to his waist; giant P. to his chest, P. his neck; then a half-bound giant agreed to carry P., standing with both legs on different banks of the river; on the table in front of the fairy's bed, the bread of strength and the wine of youth; he bit off bread and took a sip of wine, kissed Fairy, put a golden wreath on her, and picked water and left; gave water to Friday; Thursday warned not to communicate with people on the way back; gave a handkerchief protecting against lightning, spears and bullets; a knowledgeable box warns: the brothers found out that P. would bring water, they want to kill him; P. does not believe him, broke the box; the brothers met him, asked him to get water from a deep well, left it there, took the Fairy's water and came to their father; the Fairy woke up and sent all the guards they did not find it; they did not find it; the Sun looked for 7 days, but P. was where its rays did not reach; the Fairy ordered darkness to come, and now only the king father, who saw the light from that water, began to see, but everyone else did not; Florea came to see the fairy, but could not say how he got that water; the Fairy blinded him; {the same with his middle brother}; The fairy told everyone to come to her so that the winds, flowers, springs, people and giants would all cry; Friday sent tornadoes to look for P.; and only one spring breeze heard P. end up in the well; now there were only bones and ashes; Thursday boiled ashes in a cauldron with the dew of life, she got an ointment, she was rubbed bones, P. came to life; tells the horse to fly fast like a curse; came to Fairy, kissed; the flowers bloomed, the sun shone, the world came to life again; P. brothers found sight to see his happiness]: Kremnitz 1882, No. 20:237 -295; Bulgarians [the tsar left his pregnant wife, went to another; ordered to send a son to him if a boy is born; the mother sends her son a cake to school, the cake sent to her bit; sends her with another person he did not touch; she thinks that he will be loyal to her son, sends her son to his father, giving that man as his companion; on the way, the guide tells the young man to go down to the well to get water, lets him get out for his promise give the paper and change roles; the impostor lives with the king; to get rid of the young man, he sends a matchmaker to another king who killed his daughter's suitors; on the way, the young man saves ants, eagles, storks, fish, they they promise to help; the king orders 1) to disassemble the mixed grain overnight (ants disassemble), 2) to revive a baby who died 3 years ago (the stork brings living water), to sail to the princess on the island (the eagle carries it), 4) get a ring dropped by the princess into the sea (she pulls out the fish); the prince brings the bride, the impostor hacked him down, the princess revived him with living water; the tsar executed the impostor, married his son to the princess]: Klyagina- Kondratyeva 1951:73-77; Greeks: Megas 1970, No. 33 [the tsar sails on a ship, finds himself on a foreign shore, goes to a shepherd; baptizes his newborn son; leaves a ring and a note; it does not contain tells you to accompany the lame, blind, beardchin; the young man goes to look for the godfather; takes the lame, the blind, but they are slow, he leaves them behind; the beardless offers to let him down for water in well; takes up after an oath that he will give him a ring and a note, will remain silent until death; the king sends a young man to herd cows, takes the deceiver for a son; the young man understands the language of birds and animals, laughs at swallows; the deceiver persuades the king to send him to bring 1) the Pipiree bird from India; the maid teaches to fly a flying horse, avoid the fire, the young man brings the bird; 2) bring the Gold-haired; the maid explains what to take with him; the horse wakes up the young man, he kills the snake that devoured the eagle's chicks; she first thinks that it was the young man who killed the chicks, the chicks explain; the eagle gives a pen; the horse tells not to trample ants, the young man feeds them with grain; the ant gives its wing; the young man saves the fish aground, which gives them a seed; he saves bees from the water, feeds them with honey, they give a sting; the king promises to give his gold-haired daughter, if the young man 1) pulls out a ring thrown into the sea (the fish bring), 2) divides the mixture of different grains (ants perform), 3) brings the water of life; the eagle tells you to go to the interpreting mountains, fills gold with water the young man's vessel; the king believes, ordering the Moor to be killed and revived; 4) identify the bride among 40 girls (the bee sits on her); the young man brings Gold-haired; the beardless tells him to take an apple from the very top, the young man falls, breaks, the beardless buries him; the gold-haired revives with living water; the young man is released from his oath; the beardless is tied to the horse's tail]: 83-93; Paton 1900, No. 12 [a woman has a son and daughter, a daughter gives birth to a girl; at night a monster devours cattle; a young man shoots his little finger, in the morning a baby girl cries, her little finger is torn off; the young man demands that his sister kill the monster, she refuses; he the mother takes, leaves; they stop in the cannibal's cave; he agrees with the young man's mother to kill him; the mother pretends to be sick, asks for 1) cannibal milk, 2) the melon of life, 3) the water of life; each time the fairy helps to get what she is looking for, replaces horse urine, plain melon, plain water; the sister asks what her brother's life is like; he replies that she is in a broom, in a jamb (she adorns them); in gold the hair on his head; she pulls out his hair, she and the cannibal eat it; the fairy sends two young fallow deer (they are described as dogs) brought in to bring all the bones they eat; first, the little finger is missing , then they find him; revives him with milk, melon, water of immortality; the young man kills the ogre and mother; comes to his sister, she has eaten everyone, tells him to ring the bell while boiling water; the mouse rings instead of him, he runs away; climbs three trees that grew from the nuts given by the fairy; deer cubs come running, eating a monster; a young man marries a fairy]: 340-344; Albanians [the king spent the night with a wealthy Wallachian shepherd; in This night the mistress gave birth; the king ordered the boy to learn tongues and gave a cross; when the young man was 15, let him come to him and show him the cross; the young man grew up, went to the king, went down to the spring; The servant, threatening to throw a stone at him, forced him to change clothes and status; swear that the young man would not expose him; he promised that he would be released from his oath only by dying and resurrecting; the king kindly accepted the deceiver, and the young man was among the servants; the deceiver pretended to be sick, asked his servant (i.e. the young man) to be sent for cabbage, which was guarded by Luby; in a dream, an elder appeared to the young man; ordered him to take 14 measures of honey, 14 milk and come at noon when Luby is not at home; on the way, the young man met that old man; he teaches: clean the walls of the tone in Luby's house, hide, leave honey and milk; Luby will eat and ask someone to appear brought such a dish; ask for cabbage; eat three cocks, and he, the old man, will give a head of cabbage for the deceiver on the way back; that's what happened; the deceiver pretended to be sick again: we must get the Beauty of the Earth; the old man tells the king to ask the king to give him a thousand lambs, rams, a hundred measures of wheat and honey and 10 brooms; we must throw lambs to eagles, wheat to ants, honey to bees, rams to lions, clean the walls and the door to the chambers of the Beauty of the Earth; animals will ask what reward the young man would like; ask lions, bees, ants for fur, feather, etc.; if you burn hair, etc., the animals will come to the rescue; the Beauty of the Earth asks the guards why they did not stop the young man; guards: you did not feed us like this, did not clean us; she tells the young man to separate the mixture of wheat, barley, rye and earth overnight (ants separated us); bring live water from- for the mountains (eagles: at noon, the mountains stop for half an hour; they brought a young man, he took water and they brought him back); to identify her among the 12 girls (a bee sat on her); the deceiver asks the king to kill the young man, he did it himself; the beauty of the Earth sent a servant to bring the victim to life, revived him with living water; the young man was able to tell the king everything; the deceiver was torn into four trees; the young man went to visit his parents, leaving the king's wife the robe he had bought for the Beauty of the Earth; ordered not to give it to her until he returned; there were dances and the Beauty of the Earth refused to participate without this garment; the king's youngest daughter secretly him to her said; she told him to tell the young man that he would find her after wearing out three pairs of iron shoes; after wearing out his shoes, he stopped at a tavern, where they fed for free: you just have to tell us what he saw along the way; one the man told how he dropped a bottle of water, went down into the ravine and saw 12 girls bathing; the young man went to the ravine, grabbed his wife's clothes and threw it into the fire; the beauty stayed with the boy forever]: Dozon 1991, No. 12:83-96; Albanians [peers tell the young man that his brother is a Pasha in Baghdad; the mother admits that this is so, is afraid for her son; he goes, meets barefoot, comes back; goes again, again meets him, he becomes a companion; the young man wants to drink, lowers him barefoot into the well; pulls him out for his promise to recognize him as Pasha's brother and to become barefoot; Pasha accepted them; the imaginary brother wants get rid of the present; persuades Pasha to offer him difficult assignments; 1) kill Kukshedra (dragon; young man kills); 2) get the daughter of the Persian Shah; the young man goes on a journey, meets, takes companions of a river drinking, a runner (catches up with hares); kills a snake that tried to eat an eagle's chicks, she gives her pen; he does not step on an anthill, the queen of ants gives a wing; the shah demands 1) eat 300 plates of food (drinks); 2) overtake riders (runner overtakes); 3) separate wheat, barley and millet (ants separate); get live water from a cave on a mountain at the edge of the world (the eagle brings); Pasha's imaginary brother kills the present with a sword; the Shah's daughter splashes living water on it, he comes to life; reveals his secret to Pasha, since the dead and alive do not have to follow the oath to remain silent; the deceiver was burned in the stove]: Elsie 2001 (no pagination).

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Ust-Tsylma) [the blind tsar has sons Fedor, Vasiley, Ivan; F. went to get live water; when growing up, one road is full - he is hungry, the other - the horse is hungry, the other is hungry, he is full, the third is not to be alive; he went where he is hungry; three girls were invited to the tower; one offers to lie on the bed, she falls into the underground, where there are already many fellows; the same with V.; I. goes along the road, where not to be alive; a hut on chicken legs, about one window, on a damp crap, and revolves around; Bab-Yaga has now feathered, supported a hundred, blew, splashed her ass, cracked her ass and made pancakes; says that the golden breast guards the living water; let the horse go to her sister; she let the horse go to the third, the third let the horse jump the strings to three wells, in which dead, living, eye water; I. filled vessels, but also small bubbles that he hid; made love to the king maiden, but she did not wake up; when back, the horse hit the strings, the bells rang, the king maiden in pursuit; every baba yaga was hers detains, inviting her to the bathhouse; I. drove along the hungry road, the tsar-maiden lost track; I. came to those girls, tells the girl to be the first to lie on the bed, she failed; the guys in her basement torn; other girls were told to release the prisoners and no longer harm them; on the Russians, the brothers threw I. into a hole in the ground, his horse and bag were taken away; in the lower world, I. went to sea, where the princess was given to eating the Snake; I. kills the three-headed, then six- and nine-headed; puts his heads under the corner of the house, each with a gem, I. took them for himself; when he slept, the water carrier cut off his head, attributed victory for herself; the princess went to wash her body, found bubbles of living and dead water, revived I.; he wants to go to earth; if so, the king will give him the kingdom (and daughter) after his death, when he enters his world; Magovay called the Bird, I. feeds her along the way, she hardly flew, fell down, and I. grabbed the edge and got out; came home, anointed his father's eyes with eye water, he saw the light; the king maiden sailed on the ship with two sons; rejects F. and V.; I. smeared himself with resin, rolled in feathers, children say it's hell; their mother: no, your father, wash him, take him to the ship; they have begun to live well and now live]: Onchukov 2008, No. 8:100-106; Russians (Olonetskaya, Velikogubskaya Vol., Kosmozero, Zap. I.V. Karnaukhova) [the wife is childless; sent for fresh perch; the wife and the worker ate, both gave birth to a boy; the elder brother {the hostess's son} went, three growths: to the right - you will be rich, to the left - wife, middle - killed; went to the left; in the young lady's house; put him to bed, he fell into the underground; his younger brother went, chose the path where he would kill; a hut on chicken legs - turn the porch here; Baba Yaga fed, she gave a comb, sent it to her older sister; she gave a bar, sent it to the oldest; fog over the city, in the house of Baba Yaga (apparently the oldest sister) tells stories to the girls; the guy took apples and live water , raped the girl, galloped away; girl: he drank tea, but did not cover the teapot, sent a chase; the guy threw a comb (forest), a bar (gorges), a towel (river of fire); the guy got to Rosstani and drove along the road to marry; also failed; broke the wall, everyone went out; the brothers envied him, killed him; the horse broke a bottle of live water, revived it; he returned home; the messenger from the girl Krasa from the golden kingdom: let a betrothed arrives; she already has a child; her older brother has gone; she put down velvet, the guy got off his horse, went around, she drove him away; the youngest drove on velvet - here's my betrothed; they began to live happily ever after, good money]: Vlasova 2011, No. 15:45-46; Western Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina) [stepmother tells her husband to take stepdaughter and stepson to the forest; for the first time a girl sprinkles ash; father hangs a piece of wood on a tree , she knocks in the wind as if he was cutting wood and left; brother and sister returned on the trail; the second time there was not enough ash, the girl took dust, the wind took her away; the boy noticed fire from the tree; brother and sister came to the fire, there are two loaves and two eggs; then they came to the house; there are 24 robbers, 12 come at night, 12 in the afternoon; the boy cuts off each head as they put it through the window; only one is injured , asked the girl to bandage his head, married him; to get rid of his brother, the sister pretends to be sick: wolf's milk will help; now live water is needed; old woman: water beyond the rolling mountains, it is necessary run and back; the old woman tells her to leave living water and take the water she gives; sister: you need a sea pig; old woman: he is also over the mountains; keeps it at home, tells her sister to take it simple; sister: let's tie my fingers, can you tear it up; the robber came in, chopped the young man to pieces, put it in a bag, threw it into the forest; the old woman's horse picked up the bag and brought it to her; she folded her body, revived with live water; cooked a pig, let it eat, the young man felt great strength; the old woman turned it into a bird, he flew to the robber, sat down on a tree; the robber climbed to pick the bird, leaving it on the ground sword; the bird flew off, became a young man, he chopped the robber; put a bag on the horse, tied his sister to the horse alive; the horse dragged her, trampled the remains of the robber]: Zinchuk 2006a, No. 91:267-272; Ukrainians (Kharkiv, Lebedinsky University, c. 1878) [The widow enters into a relationship with a snake, gives birth to a boy, his mother rides him in a wheelchair until the age of 12, then he gets up, turns out to be tall and strong. The serpent does not want the boy to live, convinces his mother to pretend to be sick and ask her son to get berries from the snake garden. The boy goes on a journey, goes to the girl Sereda's hut, she knows about his grief in advance, calls him his brother, tells him the truth about his mother and the snake, puts him to bed, gives her horse, living and dead water. He says that, in order not to be afraid of vipers, he revived the murdered Russian near the snake garden, he will lead him to a garden where nothing can be touched, otherwise all the bells will ring. The boy flies over the fence, takes berries, hits an aspen branch on the way back, is a snake, but cannot catch up. He returns to Sereda, she feeds him, replaces berries with berries from her garden, insists that the snake should be fed them. The boy brings his mother's berries, asks her to eat them right away, then notices that devils have settled in the house. The snake eats berries, and so does the mother. The serpent convinces the mother to send her son for the golden bristle pigs so that she can recover, the son asks who she talked to, the mother answers - with God, the son doubts - with the devil. The boy comes to Sister Sereda, she gives a horse and 2 bottles, explains that under two sliding mountains you need to collect healing (healing) and living water, and catch one of the 12 piglets near the mountain. On the way, the pig runs away, the boy leaves the horse, and when he returns missing, he no longer finds the horse, it is eaten by wolves. She goes back through Sereda, she changed the pig, his mother cooks him, gives her son vodka, asks if he can break the iron chain, he suggests checking if he can't break it. The mother calls a snake, together they cut the boy, put the pieces in a bag, tie him to a horse, let him go into the field to scatter the pieces. The horse jumps to Sereda, she uses water to revive the boy, gives him a "beer" (?) hops, he can't lift. Then he gives berries from the snake garden, the boy was able to lift the sheet. He roasts the golden bristles, he is gaining strength - if a stake was hammered into the ground and sky, the light would turn upside down. Sereda gives him a sword and says that his mother and snake are now feasting. The boy appears, cuts off both their nose and ear and cuts the snake, the mother ties the horse to the tail and lets them go into the field. She goes to live with her sister Sereda. Proverb]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 75:285-290; Slovaks [mother breastfeeds her son three times for seven years; when she is convinced that he is able to uproot a beech tree, she says that it is enough - let now he takes care of her and provides her with housing; the son found a dragon castle in the forest, broke into it, killed the dragons; in the tenth room, another one is chained to the wall; asks for release, he has been chained by other dragons; the young man refuses, brings his mother to live in this castle; forbids entering the tenth room; she comes in, agrees to release the chained; to do this, you must bring wine from a barrel in the basement; after each one of the hoops falls down the goblet; to get rid of her son, the dragon advises the mother to pretend to be sick, bring an earthen pig; the young man came to St. For a week; she tells her to sit on her horse named Tatoshik, gives the pig a pig to prick; he screams, the pig will chase him; the second time the pig will not scream for fear of the pig, it can be taken away ; next time, the mother, on the advice of the dragon, asks for living and dead water; The week teaches: the water of life is on the right mountain, it will rise at noon; death is on the left, will rise at midnight; the mountains are almost squeezed out the young man's hands; Week left alive and dead water for themselves, and gave the young man an ordinary one; the dragon offers to send a pelican for the bird; Week: the wind pulls trees from the flapping of the wings of the pelican; the young man brought a pelican, Nedelka kept it for herself, and gave the young man a simple eagle for his mother; bring a golden apple from the dragon garden; A week gives a ring: if you turn and think about it, you will have a hundredfold strength more; the horse carried over the garden wall; apples are guarded by a princess kidnapped by dragons; if stolen, she will be killed; she also gives a ring that multiplies strength by a hundred times; dragon under the apple tree; began to fight, dragon drove the young man into the ground up to his ankles; raven: who will I help? dragon: to me, promises gold; young man: to me, promises the carcasses of all horses grazing in the meadow; the raven jumped the young man with water so that he would not be burned by the heat of the dragon; when the young man turned the second ring, he drove the dragon into the ground up to his shoulders; cut his head; the princess picked an apple for the young man herself; the young man promises to come for her in a year; brought his mother a golden apple; she offered to tie him: is he strong like his father? young tore the rope; then tied it with a silk cord: he did not tear it; the dragon cut it to pieces, loaded them on T. and drove him away; T. came to the Week, she revived the young man with dead and living water; but hearts no: his mother took it out and hung it from the ceiling; a week told him to dress up as a beggar, come to the castle to play the bagpipes and ask for a heart as a reward; the mother began to dance with the dragon; the bagpiper said that too old to take money, but his heart would like; a week washed his heart with living and dead water and told the pelican bird to put it in its place; then let the pelican go; turned young man into a dove: let him fly to find out what the mother is doing; to become human again, you have to think about her; the mother tells the dragon to shoot the pigeon, but he turned into a young man and cut off the dragon's head; mother He took her out into the court, threw his sword; when he fell, he pierced her heart; the young man came to the king, whose daughter he saved, and married her; if they did not die, they are still alive]: Wenzig 1857:144-156.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Armenians [when he dies, the husband tells his pregnant wife not to go to Black Rock; the young man grows up, walks, kills a demon; takes the treasures of his castle, marries 40 gurias captured by the demon; the mother revives the demon, pretends to be sick, asks her son to get 1) the melon of immortality; the old woman tells 40 demons to fall to her mother's breast first; she hides him, demons recognize him as a relative; only lame the demon knows how to get the melon of immortality; tells you to take a jug, comb, razor with them; when they run away with a melon, they throw a jug (lake), a comb (thicket), a razor (glass fragments); the stalker demons did not catch up the young man spends the night with an old woman, she replaces a melon, the son brings a false mother, she recovers; 2) lion's milk; the old woman teaches to cut an abscess on the lioness's paw, she gives milk, as well as her lion cubs; on the way the old woman replaces goat milk, but the young man's mother says that she has recovered; 3) living water; at the spring, the young man falls asleep, but his lions kill the snake, scorpion, and beast that has come; the old woman will change the water again; a mother pulls three hairs out of her sleeping son, he dies, a demon cuts his body to pieces; lions bring the remains to an old woman, who revives the young man with living water; lions tear the mother and demon apart]: Wingate 1912, No. 9:94-102; Azerbaijanis (Shushi County, Elisavetpol Province) [King Melik-Nadir orders to kill his daughters; when he leaves, he tells his son Ghazanfar to kill his sister if he is born; he felt sorry for the girl; MN returned, orders them to be executed, the nobleman persuaded them to be sent to the desert; G. kills seven divas, throws them into the well; the sister throws the leftovers there, one diva survived, became strong; agrees with sister G. to lime him - pretend to be sick, ask him to bring 1) melon from the diva garden; G. defeated the hero, she fell in love with him, gave him a flying horse, G. brought a melon; 2) apples from the diva garden; his heroic wife tells him to feed the terrible dog, greet the bridge; the seven-headed diva tells the bridge and the dog to stop the kidnapper, they refuse; the wife changed the apples; 3) the sheep tail with branched horns, which lives in the north; G. brought it, but his wife replaced the usual one, kept the magic fat tail ; sister invites G. to tie his hands to test his strength; when G. cannot tear the rope, the divas chopped him to pieces, put him in a bag, tied him to a donkey, drove him into the forest; G.'s dogs guarded the donkey, wife found and revived with medicine from fat tail and magic apples; G. cut off the diva's arms and legs, burned his sister; returned to his father; found a portrait of the beautiful Shahbaz-Pari in the chest; G. follows her; takes a giant as his companions Kara-Kulamali, who killed all the babies in the village; he smashes the army, gives beautiful G., warns not to step on the carpet that his father will spread (he himself wants to take possession of the beauty), not to untie the old man's hands are a seven-headed diva; G. untied the old man, he took the beauty; G. called K., who brought him to the beautiful woman, she found out that the diva's life in the bottle, G. broke it; the father sends a vizier from G. destroy G.; in the desert, the vizier pulls out G.'s eyes in exchange for water; K. saved him (two pigeons: you can restore your eyesight with my pen), burned his father and vizier, married a beautiful woman]: Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 13:109-120.

Baltoscandia. Finns {or Karelians?} [The old man has two drunkard sons, and the youngest is lazy and stupid; the old man is blind, sends his sons for potions; at the fork there is a pole with the words: the horse is hungry - the rider is full; the horse is full - the rider is hungry; much has gone, yes did not return much; the eldest went along the first road, got to the girl, but she was a witch; after putting her to bed, she threw her into the dungeon; the same with his middle brother; the youngest went to where few people return; comes to a girl who gives him a new horse; when he gets to the beauty's palace, you have to take a bottle of eye ointment and a wonderful bird without waking up the beauty; the guy lay down with the beauty, and on the way back the horse hit the strings; but he galloped to that witch; threw her into the hole; made her revive his brothers; the brothers cut his throat; the bird the boy took tells the shepherd to put his head to his neck and lubricate with ointment; the boy came to life, the bird tells what the brothers did to him; the father saw the light, the brothers ran away from home]: Concca 1991:221-228.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Oirats (Olety, Kukunor) [Donchi-molum-erdeni is 721 years old, he has a wife and her younger sister; he defeated, maimed and threw the monstrous hero Shara-bokö into the pit; women also found him secretly got it; the wife pretended to be sick: you need the heart of a blue heavenly bull; D. with dogs Kharchin and Barchin and birds Kharidyk and Nestyk came to the blue bull; consistently says that the bull does not like horns, but he - hat, hooves for the bull, and his shoes, etc.; takes off his hat, shoes, etc., and the bull - horns, hooves, dies; D. took his heart; animals that came from the womb of the bull roamed for three months; girls Nogon-Dareke and Tsagan-Darek replaced the bull's heart with the heart of a sheep; his wife and her sister poisoned D.; his two horses, dogs and birds came to those girls; the girls revived D. with the heart of a bull; he came unrecognized; killed S. cut both women, tied pieces to the tails of foals, began to live with N. and C.]: Potanin 1893, No. 9:157-160; the Mongols of Ordos [Jujin Meregen's wife Uranus Dejedu took a mangus son as a lover, pretended to be sick, sent her husband to get the feathers of the bird Khan Garudi; he went to see his first of his three older sisters; she gave incense; when she smelled the smell, HG dropped three feathers; on the way back, their sister changed; UD sent to bring the hump of a terrible black camel; the second sister of smoking, the camel pacified them, DM cut off their hump, the sister replaced the bull with the neck hump; sent them for water from the red river; the third sister ordered to draw water into the bubble without touching it, replaced it with the dog's blood; DM came in, fell asleep, the son of the mangus cut it with a sword, migrated with his wife and cattle; DM's horse found him, two horses and a dog they told the sisters that they revived their brother with Khan Garud feathers and red water; DM came disguised as a plain shepherd looking for cattle; beheaded the son of a mangus, then UD; the sisters found his brother kind and beautiful wife]: Mostaert 1937, No. 7 in Solovyov 2014; (cf. South Altai Tuvans {the obtained product was replaced by a friendly woman, but this motive remains unused} [Gunan Chara Baatyr lives with mother, older and younger sisters; one day he is met by Chödöönüng Gök Bugasy, says he will kill him; G. drove him deep into the ground and covered the hole with a stone the size of a camel; returning home, he told his mother and younger sister not to go north; the mother went, heard C.'s voice from the pit, asked her youngest daughter to bring the mare to drag the stone away; she could not; they brought the camel, who dragged the stone; they hid C. in a yurt under the bed; the mother pretended to be sick: let G. get her milk from a camel on an island in the north-west; a local khan warns of a deadly threat; but G. became a wolf, then a fox, an eagle, went down in the fog, took out milk, gave the camel a pearl, he and the camel became friends; on the way back, G. stopped at Khan and his wife changed milk; and his fallen drop burned the ground; his mother pretended to drink milk, is healthy the next day, and then sick again; they need the lungs and hearts of a pair of leopards in the south; the same thing - leopards give their lungs and hearts {sic!} ; for the third time: the lungs and heart of the 9-headed mangys (Andalva) living in the east; khan: if G. defeats mangys, let him bring skin from the forehead of his middle head; and during the battle, he turned to the Father and ask the strength of 30 husbands from above, 60 from below; along the way, G. sees the hooves of a giant mangys horse; there are no doors in the 9-story glass palace; G. broke through the wall; Mangys's wife says he is in the south; G. came, with He killed mangys eagles and dogs with difficulty; they fought for a month; the mangys began to prevail, but G. asked for strength, his body became like bronze, he knocked down the mangys; he ordered him to be killed with a knife in his hair under a scythe; After killing Mangys, G. hacked his wife, took the cattle, brought the skin from his forehead to the khan; his wife changed the heart and lungs of Mangys; when G. fell asleep at home, his mother took his weapon, and C. attacked him; when they were fighting, mother and sister poured peas under G.'s feet, and flour under C.'s feet; C. killed G., took his cattle, but the horse ran to G.'s older sister; she rode and found her brother's bones, but the ribs were missing; she became a worm. went downstairs, those people regained the rib; the older sister went to see the fiancée G. (this is the daughter of the khan who helped him), she revived G., covering him with a beaver blanket and telling G.'s horse to jump over the master's bones three times; disguised as a poor young man, G. came to the old shepherd and his wife; they recognized him by signs (a tricolor rainbow rises from the horse; when G. sleeps in a yurt, his leg is outside; drinks tea from a wooden mortar cup); C. celebrates his wedding with G.'s mother; G., unrecognized by him, asks allow him to participate in an archery competition; breaks several bows; then C. gives him a bow G.; G. pulled his bow for three days, took his shape, fired an arrow into C.'s cervical vertebra; asks the mother, what she wants; mother: a mare; he tied her to the tail of a mare and let it into the steppe; younger sister wants scissors; G. killed her with a sword; took his men and cattle and returned home]: Taube 1978, No. 24:50-63).