K158. Recognize the woman in the portrait, (ATU 881A).

.17.21.23. (.26.) .27.-.30.33.

To find her missing husband (and other men who helped or harmed her), a woman displays her image and summons those who are her own his behavior shows that the features in the portrait are familiar to him.

Yemen, Mustang, Sinhalese (Hindi, Mirathi, Koreans), Albanians, Macedonians, Russians (Karelia: Kem), Adygs, Andians, Avars, Lezgins, Turks, Lurs, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, (Uighurs).

Western Asia. Yemen [when leaving, the merchant wanted to please his wife while he was away; the man in the bazaar offered green goldfinch for 1,000 dinars: whoever buys it will not regret it; whoever buys it, will be upset; the merchant bought a goldfinch and left it to his wife; the Sultan's son saw the merchant's wife and fell ill with love; the old woman promised to lure her out and bring her to him; when the woman was persuaded and she began going down the stairs, the goldfinch said she had forgotten him altogether; the woman began to assure him that this was not the case and agreed to listen to his story; cousins (ideal Arab partners) were in love, but parents are against it; they decided to run; the girl stayed on the ship and the young man went shopping; the ship went without him; the girl pretended to marry the captain; considered details of how to sail the ship; they landed on the island to rest, she put sleeping pills in the captain's coffee, left it on the island; parrot: if you go with an old woman, you'll regret it, like a captain, when he woke up; the next day the story continued; the girl took her ship to the destination harbor; there, the merchant prince Shahbender wanted to marry her; she agreed to the condition that at the same time 40 more girls will marry her; agreed with them; each gave her fiancé sleeping pills, they all sailed further on the ship and fell into the hands of robbers; put them to sleep, left them ashore; parrot : if you go, you'll regret it like those robbers; the third story of a goldfinch; wearing men's clothes, the heroine and her 40 girls arrived in the big city; the king died there; they threw the crown into the crowd and she dressed in the heroine's head; she was made king without knowing that she was a girl; married a vizier's daughter; she opened up to her, they surrendered to act together; the heroine made a mask from her face, ordered her to show her at the bazaars and brings her to those who will pay attention; the girl's lover and Prince Shahbender were brought to her; the king (i.e. the girl) ordered S. to bring the 40 boys to whom her 40 girls were to marry ; her beloved became king, marrying her and the daughter of the vizier; then the merchant returned and found out everything; asked the goldfinch why he should be upset that he had bought it; goldfinch: open your hand; merchant opened and the goldfinch flew away]: Taibah, MacDonald 2016:75-80.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Mustang [the minister's son goes on trade affairs, the king's son gives him silver to buy something valuable; he finds nothing for a long time; the princess sees him from the window, sends a maid, sells him for silver fabric with his portrait; the minister's son returns, the prince sees the portrait, falls in love, comes to the princess's city with the minister's son; she can be seen once a year when she is shown to the people; the maid teaches tigers and leopards to throw meat and fruits to other animals, they will let them into a little pearl rest, where you can wait for the princess; the prince enters peace, but falls asleep there; the same the next year is silver rest; the third year is golden; the prince does not sleep, agrees with the princess to kidnap her at midnight; falls asleep again; two robbers are going to steal three prepared horses, this time the princess goes out, they ride away with her; they are going to drown her in the lake; the princess asks for permission to drink and pray first; pushes the robbers into the lake, changes into men's clothes; the king another country wants to marry his daughter; an imaginary man says he must first build three stupas in memory of his deceased wife; tells him to paint his portrait on the wall in feminine appearance, let anyone who pays attention to him be brought to her; the prince and the minister's son follow in the footsteps of the princess, see the portrait, everything is explained; at night all three run; by the river, the minister's son leaves for curry for the princess, the prince falls asleep, the shepherd takes the princess to marry the king; the minister's son sends the prince home, in women's clothes comes to the palace disguised as a wreath saleswoman; the princess sees him from the windows, finds out, sends the maid to bring the flower girl, they agree, they run at midnight; when the princess and prince got married, the grass turned green on the bare ground, and streams are clogged in the waterless valleys]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 3:31-38.

South Asia. Sinhales [the king will give his daughter to whoever pays the price of five burdens of elephant tusks for her; one prince managed to do it, got a princess; when they returned, they spent all the money; the princess told her husband bought thread, weaved a handkerchief; the husband sold it to a merchant; one of the prince grooms rejected by the princess saw the handkerchief, asked who made it, and went with the prince to his wife order more; at night he intoxicated the prince with sleeping pills and stole the princess; immediately went to war; the prince husband saw his wife in the palace window, she sent him a note stating the time and place; he read it out loud, and the creeper-cutter overheard, came instead of him, the prince fell asleep at that time; the deceiver took the princess away; she said she wanted to marry: everyone must take a vow, being tied by others to a pole or tree; ties the kidnapper tightly and runs away; when she meets two Veddhas, promises to go with whoever shoots the arrow further; while they search for their arrows, she runs away again; her the merchant picks up; when he fell asleep, she put on men's clothes, left, hired the sons of the king and minister to teach; they noticed that she was a woman; she put on prince's clothes and ran away again; the local princess saw an imaginary young man, told her father to take him as her husband; on her wedding night, the imaginary princess told the newlywed everything, who promised not to give her away; began to distribute food for free and put on her wax figure : let whoever stops in front of her be detained; all the men the princess encountered during her adventures came; the lumberjack was executed, two Veddas were forgiven for being left without a husband The newlywed was presented as a prince whom the princess was supposed to teach as a teacher; she herself returned to her lawful husband]: Parker 2014b, No. 247:313-320; (cf. North India, Mirzapur, Hindi []: Crooke 1892-1893, No. 741:209-210; Marathi [only the youngest son's wife is smart and hard-working; she raised her house out of poverty, but others are jealous; her hair was cut off and driven away by a donkey; she put it on a donkey; she wore men's clothes, began to serve the king, killed a dangerous monster; the king marries an imaginary young man to his daughter; the imaginary young man says he has taken a 12-year vow of chastity; doing the affairs of the country, he found his impoverished family; he tells the king about everything; he gives his daughter for the husband of an imaginary young man, gives him the throne]: D'Penha 1891, No. 9:183-187).

(Wed. China - Korea. Koreans [official Sim was also in charge of the prison; handed over the job to his son; Kim's murderer escaped from prison, asked Sim to hide him; his imprisoned son Sim was beaten and sent into exile for fleeing; When he returned, Kim promised to reward him; moved Sim's bones to happy mountain; widowed, the emperor decided to marry; sees the girl's reflection in the water; tells him to paint her portrait and hang her on the crowded place; it turned out to be the sister of young Sima; when married, the emperor made young Sima governor, and gave his late father the title of father-in-law and the associated position of ruler of part of the state]: Garin- Mikhailovsky 1958:).

The Balkans. Albanians [when he dies, the father reminds his sons that each person has his own Ora; the youngest goes for a journey; an old woman at a fork in the road explains that one road leads to happiness, the other to hardships, the third to the unknown and adventure (Ränke); the young man finds himself in front of the abyss, his Ora lowers him, points to the castle where the Beauty of the Earth is; outside the door there are three groups of 7 sleepers guards; the young man stabs the first 14, and when he starts stabbing the last seven, his sword is dull, four have jumped up; Ora blinds them, the Beauty of the Earth sharpens his sword, the young man kills the attackers; Beauty Earth forbids opening the door to one of the rooms; the young man opens, Happiness (Nafaka) of the Beauty of the Earth flies to the king; The bark (witch), having received gold, turns into a spark, flies into the castle, stabs the young man the needle, takes the Beauty of the Earth to the king; two years later, the brothers go looking for the youngest, Ora explains what happened, gives a cure (these are drops of Drangue's blood; these creatures fight Kulschedra during a storm in the mountains ), the brothers revive (or rather awaken) the younger one; he accuses them that they stole the Beauty of the Earth; the insulted brothers curse him and leave; after 7 years, the youngest finds the kidnapped wife; she is all 9 years old she was silent; sitting on their horses, they ran away, N. followed them; they came to the same witch, but did not recognize her; she put the young man to sleep, gave the Beauty of the Earth to her seven sons; she gave them drink and stabbed them; mistook Diva for her husband, but she realized the mistake, drove the horse on which Div sat, ran away herself; put on men's clothes, came to a country where there is no king, became king; hung her portrait by the road, told me to bring everyone to her, whoever looked at him; Diva came, then her husband, then Stroga, she ordered them all to be shackled; Diva to beat them and let them go; Shtrige gave a choice of 2 knives or 2 horses; she chose horses, she was torn apart by horses; her husband hugged and put her on the throne instead]: Lambertz 1952:66-83; the Macedonians [merchants noticed a clever poor shepherdess, took it with them; he became a clerk, these merchants became rich, and others were jealous they complained to the king; the king asks them where to find a wife who looks like a dead queen; the boy tells him to be brought to the king; asks if it is possible to pick the best flower in his garden; therefore, a daughter can also be picked to marry; the princess ordered to make a chest, sat in it, let the servant sell it at the bazaar; the chest says: "Whoever buys will repent, and whoever does not buy will repent"; that boy bought it; in the morning the princess went out, that's it cleaned it up; the next time he waited; sent the princess to his mother, dressed as a man; the boatman noticed that the girl; the mother was writing a letter, the boatman changed: as if the mother wrote that the girl was a slutty; the guy came to his mother, pushed the princess into the sea; the boatman tried to marry her, she ran away from him and others; dressed up as a man, became a pasha, and the seal was the one she took from home; tells me to expose your portrait and bring those who will pay attention; the boatman was drowned, the princess married that guy, he began to rule after the death of the tsar]: Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:285-282.

Central Europe. Russians (1915, Karelia: Kem. Alexander Ostanin sailed 14 times to Norway, spent 3 years trading on Novaya Zemlya, as well as in Murmansk and Arkhangelsk, his mother is also a storyteller and songwriter) [One of the two friends of the merchants dies, leaving his wife and son Vanya. The son grows up and asks to sail abroad on a ship with his uncle, his uncle takes him with joy, and the son's mother lets him go. In the capital city abroad, Vanya visits theaters and has fun. One day, horse gendarmes suddenly block the street, the old man explains to Vanya that this is done so that no one sees the emperor's beautiful daughter and falls in love with her. Vanya tries to see her again in the city and at the theater, but the veil ("fleur") does not allow her to see her face. The uncle decides that Vanya is ill, the doctor realizes that he is in love. Vanya admits to his uncle that without seeing his face, he fell in love with the imperial daughter and he reproaches him, Vanya is rich, but cannot marry the imperial daughter. The uncle turns to a familiar "high-ranking" person to help Vanya look at the princess. He replies that it is difficult to help, because men are not allowed to enter half a princess in the palace, but after 3 days he comes up with a remedy. He proposes to make a glass vessel that does not sink in water and can accommodate a person and opens only from the inside. Ivan in a woman's suit sits in such a vessel, and at night he is taken to a pond in the royal garden. In the morning, ladies of honor discover the vessel and bring it to the princess. Ivan was mistaken for a young girl, the princess begs her father to leave "the young lady out of the vessel". Late at night and early in the morning, Ivan prays for a long time so that the princess does not know who he is, but she guesses and makes him tell the truth. They continue to live as before, Ivan persuades the princess to run away with him. They agree that the princess will be delivered to her uncle's ship in a chest as a commodity. At this time, Ivan's uncle falls ill and he stays with his uncle, and the princess in the chest is sent to Ivan's mother in his kingdom. The princess is delivered to the address, she sees a small house instead of a big house, thinks that Ivan has deceived her. Ivan's mother tells how she was evicted from her home by a police chief (her son is abroad, and the house is too big for one mother). The princess goes to the police chief, introduces herself as Ivan's wife and seeks him to vacate the house. Sitting by the window, the princess drops her handkerchief, an officer passing by takes it as an invitation sign, he is kicked out of the house and explains that there was no invitation. He decides to take revenge on the girl and bribes an old woman who deals with the princess and mother Ivan. The old woman brings him an unsealed letter from his mother and he writes on her behalf a complaint about the princess's slutty life. My uncle doesn't believe the letter, but Ivan does. He returns home and stabs his fiancée at night, takes him out of town and throws her into the garbage pit. A doctor accidentally finds a dying girl, takes her to her house and heals her wound. She offers to thank him with money, but the doctor demands that she marry him. The girl runs away through the sewers (tears off the board in the toilet), gets into the river, changes into a men's suit (steals clothes from her village boyfriend who married her) and, selling her rings, starts sell bread in the city. In the state, a sovereign dies, three candles are placed at the city gate, and the next ruler decided to choose a person when the candles appear will light up. They turn out to be a baker (princess in disguise). He rules fairly and cleverly. He hangs a picture of himself in a woman's outfit and sends anyone who recognizes her to prison: an officer, a grandmother, Ivan, a doctor, a village boy. The next day, the tsar judges the prisoners himself, decided to shoot the officer, release his grandmother, issue a certificate to the doctor, and reward the man for the loss. Ivan is on trial the next day, the princess appears in a man's suit, finds out why Ivan killed her and refuses to continue to rule the state because she is not a man]: Ozarovskaya 2009, No. 8:163-177.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Adygi [a widow's son marries in a foreign land; sends his wife home to his mother; a rich man falls in love with her, was refused; a woman slandered by him is expelled; she cunningly leaves other men who her molested; dressed in a man's dress, finds herself in foreign lands, where an imaginary young man is elected king (the falcon sits on the girl's shoulder); the newly elected king orders him to hang his portrait at the fork in seven roads and detain those who look at the portrait; finds a husband]: Tkhamokova 2014, No. 881:178; the Andians [the son went to work in Russia, hired a merchant, the merchant's daughter fell in love with him, he sent her to mother's chest; when she went out, the girl got out of the chest, cleaned the house; the mother was surprised; the girl opened up and called herself her daughter-in-law; they built a good house; the local merchant wants a girl himself; wrote a letter to her husband, as if on behalf of her mother, that his wife was walking; the son came and cut his wife; the mother said that she did not write letters; the merchant cured the woman, but she ran away to the shepherd; wearing men's clothes, came to village; khan was chosen there; the falcon sat on the head of an imaginary man, she became a khan; hung her portrait at the gate, ordered those who would be surprised at him to be stopped; the guard brought that merchant, husband, shepherd, father; everything was clarified; ordered the merchant to hang, appointed the shepherd khan]: Salimov 2010:225-226; Avars [like the Andeans with minor differences]: Saidov, Dalgat 1965:58-65; Lezgins [Jahan Shah sees a sea girl, goes blind; tells him to get clay from a place where his horse's hooves did not set foot, then he will see the light; the eldest, middle son returns soon; the youngest's horse carries him across the sea; on the way he grabs the pearl, the vizier notices its brilliance, invites the king to tell the young man to get the second one (the horse pulls out), get their mistress; the young man catches the sea girl, she teaches him to pour the khan on the mare's back is milk, the khan turns into a dog; the young man becomes king, marries a sea maiden, brings clay to his father, he sees the light; decides to kill his son to take his wife; they run, boatman transports a girl across the sea, she gets to the robbers, puts them to sleep; puts them on men's clothes; a bird sits on her head, an imaginary young man is chosen as king; the girl tells everyone to show her portrait , bring those who recognize her; bring Jahan Shah, his son, robbers, a boatman; she lets the robbers and the boatman go, gives her husband the kingdom, puts D. on a lousy donkey, lets go]: Khalilov 1965, No. 40:88-93.

Iran - Central Asia. Lura [when dying, the merchant asks his three sons to guard his grave at night; the eldest son saw the rider, who turned into a gazelle; the merchant's son chased her, she disappeared into the castle; the young man ordered to open door; door opened, he went inside, captured, thrown into prison; same with his middle brother; the youngest does not enter the door that opens; he moves over the wall, sees a sleeping girl and ties her to a bed her braids; she says she killed the young man's brothers, becomes his wife; the dervish sees her, promises the prince, gives the inhabitants of the castle poisoned food, the prince's people take the woman away, she says she has 40 days mourning; the merchant's son met her and agreed to take her away; at night, the dervish came to the same place; the merchant's son fell asleep, she, unaware of this, allowed the dervish to take herself away; gave him money to bring the merchant's son, and herself ran away; a shepherd wanted her, she asked him to bring food, ran away; another man wanted her by the seashore, but she also ran away from him; she was taken away by the captain, she rushed off the ship into the water; she met her on the shore three men (golliwogs); said she would marry the first to bring her food; ran away; climbed onto the plane tree; the king saw her, he already has 40 wives; she said that she has 40 days of mourning; sent king, invited 40 wives to wear men's clothes and go on a journey; 41 robbers met them; they found out that women were in front of them; the wife of the merchant's son prepared poisoned bread and the robbers lost consciousness; the wife and son of the merchant, again in men's clothes, rode to the city; there they chose a king, a hawk sat on her head, she was made king; she ordered her portrait to be hung at the city gate; all with her those who met recognized her, detained them, the imaginary king asked everyone; then the wife opened up to her husband; the captain, both dervishes and the man living by the sea, ordered to be executed, and the others were released]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 2:10-17; Uzbeks: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1) []: 201-210; 1972 (2) [Rafik studied to be a carpenter; saw a beautiful woman in a dream, fell ill with love; his father and carpenter made him a flying wooden horse; he flew to the house; old woman: turtles come here, throw off their clothes, turn into girls and swim - if you hide the dress, the girl will stay; R. timidly took the dress the girl took it away, flew away; R. flew to her valley, found her sleeping, exchanged rings, she agreed to fly with him; in one place they went down to spend the night; R. sat on his horse to fly for the fire; On the way back, the horse caught fire, R. remained in the desert; his wife gave birth to a son named Rasuljan, settled with good people; when her son grew up, she hung her portrait on the street and told her son see if anyone grabs their heads when they see the portrait; one day R. came, recognized his wife in the portrait; made a new flying horse and brought his wife and son to his father]: 164-166.

Turkestan. Kazakhs (Turgay district) [the son of a poor old woman Ermek went to town; the old man sells a chest for 1000 dills, E. bought it, sent it to his mother, a girl in the chest; she embroidered her portrait three times, the old woman went to sell, bought all three portraits rich man, began to molest the girl in vain; wrote a letter to E., slandering the girl; E. came and stabbed the girl; her mother explained that everything was a lie, but the girl managed to leave; the doctor cured her, wanted to marry, she wanted to marry She ran away; two shepherds argue over her, she promises to marry the first to bring water, runs away; she bought a sheep from another shepherd, pulled a sheep's stomach over her head, put on men's clothes, ran away; they choose a khan, a bird sits on her head three times, she was chosen khan; the new khan tells her to paint his portrait, hang it over a cross of 40 roads at the city gate; tells the sentry to lead everyone who, seeing the portrait, she will talk about it; everyone the girl met is brought to her; the girl ceded the khanate to Yermek; the rich man was tied to the horse's tail; the doctor was given gold; the shepherds were released]: Sidelnikov 1952:242-246; the Kyrgyz [while hunting, the padishah and the vizier agreed to marry children that if one had a son and the other had a daughter; the padishah had a daughter, Meer, and the vizier had a son Zar; when handed over to him News, the vizier galloped home, fell off his horse and crashed; they grew up, but his entourage advised the padishah not to pass off his daughter as an orphan; the padishah forbade M. to see Z.; they agreed to run; at night the old woman came before M., rode off with Z.; she returned, M. met her; at the crossing, the old man tried to drown M., but she drowned him herself; when she returned to the shore, she did not find Z.; Padishah Taymas met M. decided to marry his tenth wife; allowed them to take a walk with other wives; they got on a boat, got into the robbers; M. gave them sleeping pills; the women put on their clothes, rode off under the guise of men; the local khan died; during the election of a new falcon sat on M.'s head, she became khan; ordered her statue to be erected, to watch those who, when they saw it, would behave in an unusual way; both T. and Z. came; Thymas M. returned his wives, and Z. made him khan instead of herself]: Ledenev 1987:29-35; (cf. Uighurs [the poor man's beautiful wife made a blanket, tells her husband not to sell it to 41st Street; he violates the ban, there is Khan's palace, he has to admit that his wife embroidered it; Khan came into his house, put sleeping pills on the young man, took his wife; she promised to marry Khan in a month; they agreed to run; at night the horses are ready, but the young man fell asleep; instead of him, a drunken Taz ("bald" accidentally jumped on his horse ); the woman promises to cure him of scab, sends him to buy oil, leaves; tells four hunters that she will marry the first to bring the arrow she fires; shoots 4 arrows, leaves; four others men: who drinks a cup of wine with one spirit and does not get drunk (same); she changed into a man's dress, a bird of happiness sat on her head, she was made a padishah instead of the deceased; everyone with whom the woman had previously collided, they come, she tells them to be detained; tells her husband to change into a woman's dress, they change with him, the wedding, no one noticed the substitution; the padishah lets go of four hunters and other men, leaves Khan in prison]: Aliyeva, Kabirov 1989:32-41).