K160A. Demon answers to a woman's questions, ATU 461.
.12.14.-.17.21.23.26.-.34.
A woman living in the house of a supernatural character hides the person who comes to her and asks the character questions that the person must know the answers to.
Songhai, Tuareg, Tunisian Arabs, Italians (Tuscany), Spaniards, Catalans, Portuguese, Basques, Maltese, Irish, French, Germans (Grimms; North and South?) , Palestinians, Kachin, Northern India (Hindi), Bengalis, Punjabi, Nepali, Marathi, Santals, Maria, Chinese, Moldovans, Albanians, Bosnians, Serbs, Gagauz, Czechs, Slovaks, Luzhitans, Poles, Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia), Russians (Tersky Bereg, Arkhangelsk, Pskov), Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Adygs, Kabardian people, Abkhazians, Ossetians, Avars, Georgians, Megrelians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Persians, Shugnans, Jagnobes, Kafirs (Kati), Dards (Shina), Livs, Latvians, Estonians, Karelians, Finns (?) , Western and Eastern Sami, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Maris, Udmurts, Komi, Chuvash, Bashkirs, Kazakhs (including Xinjiang), Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Siberian Tatars.
West Africa. Songhai (zarma) [a cat, dog, hawk, bull, vulture, goat come to marry the girl; she says to everyone that she loves him; the same says to the spirit who comes down from seventh heaven; he takes her; animals search for the missing girl in vain; finally, the vulture rises to seventh heaven; overhears; the spirit asks the girl why she prays to God; she replies that her the grooms are looking for her; the spirit says that life is in seven rivers, there is a rock, an antelope in it, a dove in the antelope, an egg in the dove; the bull drank the water of seven rivers, a rock appeared; the goat broke the rock with horns; the dog caught up, gutted the antelope, a dove flew out; a vulture caught up and killed her; he raised an egg to heaven, broke the spirit on her head, the spirit died, the vulture brought the girl back to earth; who should she belong?] : Tersis 1979:43-55.
North Africa. Tuaregs [the genie grabs the brothers' scoops in the well, gives them to his sister for a promise to give him; one of the brothers follows her, the people they meet answer that she passed 10, 9, 8, etc. years ago; hides under the genie's bed, stabs him with an awl, he thinks that ants are biting; replies to his wife that his soul is in an antelope horn, there are 10 bags one in the other, in the last 10 boxes one in the other, in the last hair; wife pulls out her hair, the genie dies]: Casajus 1982:27-28; Tunisia [The emir had a daughter and called a stargazer to predict her fate. He said that she would marry a poor man who was born with her on the same day, looked like her, and he lives near the palace. The Emir was upset, found it, bought it from his parents, put it in a chest and sent it to sail along the river. He was found by a farmer and his wife and raised as his own son. The Emir found it again and decided to get rid of it. He sent him to the palace and sent him a letter. When the young man stayed in the same house and fell asleep, the owner opened the letter and read: "Hang him as soon as he comes to you." The owner wrote: "Welcome him warmly." He was allowed into the palace, and the emir was already there. He decided to get rid of the young man for the third time. I sent him to get three hairs from Gulya's head, then he marries his daughter, otherwise he dies. He met a carrier across the river. Why did the boat sail slowly? Garden owner. Why did apples get bitter? A well. Why did the water disappear from it? The old woman ripped her hair out and found out the answers. The boat is a mermaid, you must sacrifice a bird on the river bank (!). Apples are tree roots. You should spray them with incense (frankincense). The well was filled with locusts. The young man did everything, he was rewarded, and he returned to the emir with three hair. He told him everything that had happened to him, and the emir decided to marry him to his daughter because this young man was the bravest and most worthy. "Bravery and high moral character are better than position and wealth!"] : Al-Aribi 2009, No. 3 in Korovkina MS
Southern Europe. The Spanish (Ciudad Real; also Castilla, Extremadura, Murcia) [when the husband went to war, the wife gave birth to three boys and her two sisters sent a black man to throw the babies into the river; but the old lady asked give them to her; the dog ran to the palace and took the best pieces for the boys; the sisters poisoned the food; the old woman put the dead boys and the dog in the trough and went to Madre del Aire for money revive them; along the way, the river asks to know why it has dried up; the dove - why can't it fly; granao {pomegranate tree?} - why does it not bear fruit; Mother of the Wind hid the old woman; The wind senses a man, but his mother asks questions and he answers; there is gold in the tree trunk; there is a chain on the dove's foot; the river must swallow an old woman; Mother of the Wind begins to comb her son using different strokes; each one remains a hair; the tree gave gold, began to bear fruit, the dove flew up a gold chain; the river pro an old woman speaks to an old woman when she crossed the river; the river began to fill with water, but the old woman ran away]: Camarena, Chevallier 1995, No. 461:332-336; Catalans [the king promises to give his daughter to someone who he will take three hairs out of the devil's beard; on the way he hears people complaining about the devil: he dried the lake of wine, ruined an apple tree with golden apples, put the princess to sleep and she does not wake up, etc.; the devil's wife helps a young man, he turns into an ant, pulls out hairs and hears the devil explain what to do to solve problems; the young man corrects everything that the devil has ruined, gets princess]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 461:101-102; Portuguese: Braga 2002 (Algarve) [a wealthy merchant hired a soldier; he wanted to marry one of his daughters; the merchant made a condition go to hell, bring three curls of a trait {anel, this is both a ring and a curl; but in meaning more of a curl, a bundle of hair} along the way, one king asks the hell to know where the ring he lost is; the second is how to cure his daughter; at the fork, a soldier walks along the road where there are traces of people (on the other there are traces of sheep); a hermit gives three beads; they must be thrown at the carrier across a dark river; in hell, the mother is a devil hides the young man; when the hell falls asleep, his mother snatches his bundle of ox, hell wakes up, she explains that she had a dream about a king who lost his ring; hell: it's in the garden under a stone slab; the next times: under the bed of the sick princess there is a toad; on the way back, the bird gives beads to throw at the carrier; kings were awarded for help (the ring was found, the princess recovered); the young man married the merchant's daughter]: 237-241 ; Cardigos 2006, No. 461 [a poor boy is destined to marry a princess; the king sends him to get three devil rings, or a giant's golden hairs, or valuables to pay for the bride; people they meet ask to know where the king's lost ring is, how to cure a sick princess, why a tree or spring has dried up, when a carrier across the river can get rid of his job; mother (grandmother, wife ) the devil or giant helps the young man get rings or hairs and find answers to questions; he tells the questioners to marry a princess; the greedy king wants to repeat everything, goes the same way; the carrier, as the young man taught him, gives oars to the king and he is forced to take his place forever]: 109-110; the Basques [the poor man agrees to take Malbrook's newborn son as godson; he gives money, disappears with a baby, also dubbed Malbrouk; young M. grew up, released to his parents for three days; returns with two brothers; they change hats with three daughters M. for the night; the eldest M. mistakenly kills daughters, brothers run away; the king has three daughters missing; the older, middle brothers are afraid to go down to the bottom of the well; M. goes down, kills two snakes, goes upstairs with two princesses intended for brothers; goes to look for a third; divides a sheep between an ant (head), a hawk (giblets), a dog and a wolf (both half a carcass); they give the ability turn into any of them; the woodpecker reports that the princess overseas has a body without a soul; M. flies there like a hawk, hides as an ant on the princess's chest, she persuades the monster to tell where his life is (in a fox in the wolf, a dove in a fox, an egg in a blue); M. gets an egg in the form of animals, the monster dies, M. brings the princess to the king; says that he will first get a dowry; steals a cow from the elder M., from horns which diamonds fall (the shepherdess distracts), the moon (pours out water, you have to go get water at night, shine); when he goes after the violin, he is caught; asks M.'s wife to untie it, he will help cook firewood; cooks it instead of himself; M. gets a wife, then a throne]: Webster 1879:77-87; Italians (Tuscany) [the sick king is told that he will be cured by the cannibal's pen; one of the courtiers goes for the pen; the owner the inn asks to bring a pen to him too; the ferryman asks him how long he will be at the job and also wants a pen; two well-dressed men at a dried spring ask them to bring a pen as well; The monk gives a candle to shine in the cave and advises him to come there at noon when the ogre is away; the ogre's wife promises to get feathers, hides the young man under the bed and intends to run with him; woman pretends to be sleeping, pulls out her pen every time and tells the ogre that she dreamed of this and that; the monks must start doing good deeds; then the devil that has come to them will be found and they will stop quarrel; the cannibal who returned began to sniff out the young man, but did not find it; you have to get a snake from under the spring, the water will flow again; the ferryman must jump out before his passenger, he will take his seat; the owner the inn misses his daughter - she is the ogre's wife; the young man settled everything, married the daughter of the innkeeper, the king recovered; the cannibal ran after him and stayed working as a ferryman]: Calvino 1980, No. 57:185-188; Maltese (many options) [the sorcerer kidnaps the princess; the hero divides the fallen donkey between ants and other animals, they give him the ability to take their form, they promise to help; thanks to transformations, he enters the sorcerer's palace; the kidnapped finds out where the sorcerer's soul is hidden (in two eggs, eggs in animals, etc.), the hero gets them, the sorcerer dies]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 302:40-45.
Western Europe. The Irish [the daughter of a rich man is seriously ill; the healer says she will be cured by three feathers torn from the griffin's tail; the poor guy goes to get them; on the way, another person asks for information why his daughter is unconscious; another - where the key to his money chest went; the carrier - why he can't leave the boat and when the shift comes; the griffin's wife hides the guy in the closet; when the griffin arrives and goes to bed, she successively pulls out three feathers, each time asking one of the questions; the girl is unconscious because a lock of her hair has fallen into the swallow's nest; the key fell into a crack in the floor; the carrier must hand the oars to another person; after receiving the feathers, the young man explains to the carrier what to do after he is on the shore; receives money from the chest owner; teaches how revive that girl; treats a rich man's daughter, marries her]: Danaher 1967, No. 37:119-12; the French (Provence) [{very similar to the German version of the Grimms}; the king was driving through the village; he was told that the newborn son of a lumberjack was predicted to marry a royal daughter; the king asked for the baby to be given to him, gave him gold; he wrapped the child in a cloak and left it on the river bank; 16 years later, the king visited those places and realized that the peasant's adopted son was that boy; sent the young man to his wife, giving a letter asking him to kill the bearer; the young man spent the night with the robbers, they changed the letter by order to marry the young man to the king's daughter; when he returns, the king tells his son-in-law to bring three golden ecus traits; on the way, the young man is asked to know why the fountain of wine in the city square has dried up; why the apple tree no longer brings golden apples; on the river, the carrier asks when he will be replaced; the devil turns the young man into a cricket; the hell falls asleep, the devil takes his ecu three times, he wakes up every time the devil says that she dreamed of this and that (about a fountain, an apple tree, a carrier), the devil answers; under the fountain stone there is a toad; a rat gnaws on the roots of the apple tree; let the carrier give oars to another; the young man transfers news to the carrier only when he was on the other side; the king himself went to get gold ecus, the carrier gave him the oars, he remained working as a carrier]: Delarue, Tenèze 1964, No. 461:147-149; the Germans [the king drove through the village; he was told that the son of a poor woman was born in a shirt and was predicted to marry a royal daughter; the king asked for the baby to be given to him; he put the child was thrown into the casket, threw it into the river; the miller caught the casket, raised the boy; 14 years later, the king visited the mill, found out that the boy was a foundling, understood who it was; asked him to send a letter to the Queen ; in the letter, an order to kill the applicant before the king returns; the young man spent the night with the old woman in a robber's den; the chieftain read the letter, ordered the applicant to marry the royal daughter; wedding; when the king returned, he demanded that his son-in-law bring three golden hairs from hell from his head; on the way, the young man is asked to find out why the fountain of wine in the city square has dried up; why the apple tree is larger does not bring golden apples and even the leaves have fallen; on the river, the carrier asks when he will be replaced; the grandmother turned the young man into an ant, hid it in his skirt; the devil falls asleep with her head on his grandmother's lap; she She pulls out his golden hair three times, each time she says that she dreamed of this and that (about a fountain, an apple tree, a carrier), the devil answers; under the fountain stone there is a toad; the roots of the apple tree are gnawed by a mouse; let the carrier will give the pole to another; the young man gives the news to the carrier only when he is on the other side; receives gold from the owners of the fountain and apple tree; tells his father-in-law that he has collected gold on the river; the king himself set off, the carrier gave him a pole, the king stayed as a carrier]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 29:100-107 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:95-100); Germans [the royal daughter will recover if she eats an apple; the peasant's eldest son carried the apples; the little man asks what he is carrying, the guy replies that they are frogging; when the basket is opened, the frogs in it, the guy was driven away; the same with the middle son (pork stubble); younger Hans and the little man are polite, the princess has recovered from the apples he brought; but the king demands 9 boats to walk on water and on land; the older and middle brothers make boats, answer the little man, who carry wooden dishes; G. is polite again, sails to the palace in one of the boats; the king demands that a hundred birds be herded without loss; the little man gives a horn to the sound of which they come running; the princess sends maid - let G. give the hare urgently; G. demands that the princess herself come; she comes, gets a hare, he runs back to G.; the king demands a griffin feather; on the way, the owner of one the castle asks him to know where he lost the key to the chest of money; the inhabitants of the other - how to cure the owner's daughter; the man by the river - how many more people he should carry to the other side; the griffin's wife tells G. hide, at night G. pulled out his pen; the griffin's wife says that the Christian really came in and told all sorts of nonsense; then asks questions and the griffin answers; the key is under the threshold outside the door; the toad in the cellar made a nest out of the girl's hair; the man by the river must throw off the one he was carrying; G. took out a toad, found the key; when he saw that G. was rich, the king himself followed in his footsteps; the man threw him into the river , and G. married a princess]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 185:482-485 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:382-387).
Western Asia. Palestinians [three princes go to find a cure for their sick father; the eldest goes to a princess who asks a question about her maid (Ward) and the robbers; he can't answer the princess hands him over to the hangman, but he does not execute him, but hides him; the same is true with his middle brother; the younger one persuaded the hangman to let him go for two weeks to find out the answer; the Sultan's daughter tells us where to go; the princess's maid hides it, turning it into a barrette; when the robbers arrive on a flying carpet, she provokes them to tell them how to kill them; the young man kills them, takes the princess and takes them on the carpet -flies to her father by plane; orders the release of the brothers; the king rewards the hangman for not killing princes; the younger prince marries the princess's maid]: Nowak 1969, No. 110:124-125.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Kachin [the sage predicts a peasant son to be king; the king throws the boy in a chest into the river, he is picked up; the king meets the young man, finds out, orders him to carry the letter; he is ordered to kill giver; on the way, robbers replace the letter, the giver must marry the princess; the king tells his son-in-law 1) to bring three golden hairs of the naked; on the way, the young man is asked to know why he is dry a spring, a golden tree does not bear fruit, how can a carrier across the river get rid of this work; an old woman (apparently nata's mother) pulls out golden hairs from a dormant nat, every time she says that she saw in a dream that the spring has dried up, etc.; nat replies that it is necessary to drive the frog that sat on a stone near the spring, drive the rat out from under the roots of the tree, the carrier must give the boat and paddle to another; the young man heard the answers, becoming an ant; the greedy king himself goes for hairs, receives a boat and a paddle from the carrier]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 31:109-114.
South Asia. North India (Hindi) [the king has seven sons; he died, the eldest reigned; the younger has a gold-haired rani; the yogi came to beg; refuses to take it from the servant, then from the princes and the king, agrees to take her from the younger wound; turns her into a dog, then into a rider, takes her to him; when he leaves, he separates the body from the head; the head is under the ceiling, the body sleeps on the bed; the king and his brothers come to absence of yoga; the old woman turns them into flies; the yogi comes back, senses the person; leaves again; the old woman helps to connect the body and head of the wound, they run, but the yogi makes them come back and kills everyone, and the rani remains the same; the wife of one of the brothers gave birth to a son; the other boys laugh: he has neither a father nor an uncle; the mother talks about everything; he comes to the old woman, who connects the body and head of the wound; the young man tells Rani to find out what yoga's life is; first the yogi replies that his life is on fire, then gives other answers; finally he says that there are 7 seas in the forest, guarded by a couple of tigers and 900 witches; in the forest sandalwood with a golden cage with a diamond parrot on it; the young man called tigers and witches uncles and aunts, they missed it; he explained that the yogi sent him for a parrot and they gave it to him; the young man tore it off parrot legs, yoga's legs immediately came off; ordered his father, uncle and everyone else to be revived; the yogi revived, then the young man killed the parrot; connected his aunt's body and head; everything is fine]: Crooke 1892-1893, No. 501:135-136; Bengalis [the king's daughter fell ill; healer: she must eat an orange; only one peasant who brought it from afar grew an orange tree; it should just bear the first fruit; Jadu's eldest son bore fruit; a finger-sized man (Hüpf-auf-Meinen-daumen) asks what's in the basket; the young man replies that frogs; when he opens the basket in the palace, there are frogs in it; he is strong beaten; the same with Gostha's second brother (trichosant seeds (pumpkin seeds, Trichosanthes cucumber, Schangenkürbis in the basket); the younger fool Mānik is kind to the dwarf, replies that he carries oranges princess; after eating orange, the princess recovered; the king does not want to give her for the son of a peasant, comes up with new difficult assignments; 1) build a ship that moves on water and on land; I. takes the ax, responds to the dwarf, what makes the barrel; the barrel turned out; the same G. (it turned out to be a plough); M. is polite to a dwarf again, it turned out to be a peacock-shaped ship painted in appropriate colors; 2) Nāgapakshvara's dragon feather decorate the royal crown; the dragon lives far away in golden palace, easily swallows people; on the way, a rich man asks the dragon to know where the lost key to his iron chest is; another asks to know how his daughter can be cured; by the river a man who carries travelers on his shoulders, asks him to know how much more he must do this job without sleep or rest, which he has been doing all his life; the dragon's wife hides M. under the bed; the dragon I smelled a man, but believed his wife that there was no one; when he fell asleep, M. pulled the feather out of his tail; the wife tells the dragon that his feathers were just pinched; that a man came in asking for the key sick girl and carrier; dragon: the child put the key in the mattress; the toad bit off the girl's curl and sits in the corner of the house, she must be removed from her hole; the carrier must leave the one he carries in the water, and Let him go home himself; M. gave the carrier the words of the dragon after he was on the other side; as soon as the toad was found and the curl was taken away, the girl recovered; opening the chest, the owner gave M. gold; the king He gave his daughter for M., but envied the treasures he had brought from the dragon's land; he went there himself; the man by the river left him in the water and the king began to perform his duties]: Mode, Ray 1967:309-320; Punjabi: King 1926, No. 7 [a woodcutter finds a ruby in a bird's egg, catches a bird, becomes rich, goes on the Hajj; the wife has a Hindu lover; he asks her to slaughter a bird; two sons the lumberjack takes her head, leaves; the youngest is bitten by a snake, he dies; the elder goes to look for people, comes to the city where the king died; he is chosen king; the youngest is revived by ascetics, he goes with merchants, sees in a girl's cave, goes down to the lower world for her; she hides it when a dragon arrives; pretends to be afraid if the dragon dies; he explains that his life is in a bird, a cage with a bird in a tree, a tree will grow up if Solomon's sword is placed by the river; a young man kills a dragon; a merchant lifts a girl upstairs, leaves the young man at the bottom of the cave; he rubs a stain on his sword, two spirits appear, take him to the city, where The elder brother rules; there is the wedding of a merchant and a girl; the younger brother accidentally tells the king his story; the merchant is executed, the youngest marries a girl]: 81-84; Mehta 2011 (Seraiki, Multan) [childless king He adopted one of the four sons of the vizier; and then the king's wife gave birth; the vizier killed the king, drove out the queen and the child; she was sheltered by a potter; the grown boy began to feed his donkeys; the brahman realized that the king was in front of him, began to send another worker to the potter, and began to teach the prince; he became the best student; the vizier's son, who became king, began to look for an intelligent husband for his daughter, the brahmana offered the prince; the mother and son ran away to the forest, for the vizier could recognize it; the young man finds two rubies in the river, one sells to the merchant, who gives him a house and property for it, sells the ruby to the king; the king's son and daughter quarreled over a ruby, the king demanded a second the same; the young man went for the hidden second ruby, saw more in the river; came to the underwater palace; there the maiden was unconscious; the young man moved things around her, she came to life; her father Deh, who, when he left, leaves her motionless; when Deh comes, the girl turns the young man into a fly and then back into a young man; to find out what Deh's life is like, she pretends to be afraid to be alone , asks Deha where he is soul; Deh: in a parrot under a stone, and only a prince raised by a potter can lift a stone; the young man picked up a stone, killed a parrot, brought the girl to her mother; when the girl laughed, they fell off her lips rubies, so they ended up in the river; the young man gave the ruby, the merchant gave him his daughter in gratitude; the young man lived in the city with his mother and two wives; the king, at the request of the queen, demanded that silk cloth be brought dehi countries; young man's wife: this country under the river bottom where I lived; the young man found a girl there, also changed her rods next to her, she came to life, gave cloth; the king's daughter saw the cloth, was delighted, the king gave it to the young man, He is now three wives; he killed the usurper, the son of the vizier, reigned on his father's throne]: 130-137; Nepali [King Suttalsingh's son, if he shoots an arrow, she will return to him; the vizier's son remembers forever what he sees; the son of a brahmana can throw any object far and return it; the son of a blacksmith can restore each thing to its original appearance; they go on a journey; the prince hears a noise, fires an arrow, she does not returned; it turns out that he killed his favorite elephant, he fell on an arrow; the prince falls asleep at the elephant's body, his companions leave in the morning; the prince comes to the city where the monster ate everyone, the princess remains; she he hides him, takes him out from the monster where his soul is; in a cave in the west there is a fire-breathing snake, he has a jewel on his head; you have to pierce the snake's throat with an arrow so that it does not fall to the ground; prince performs everything, kills a monster, marries a princess; she drops her hair into the river, another prince finds him; his father sends an old woman in a magic boat to get the owner of the hair; the old woman persuaded the prince's wife say what his death is; there is a tree in the west, and splinters must be ripped off it, his sword and shield must be burned on them, they will become small, he will die; and so it happened; the prince's wife has time, as he asked, to put it down fill his corpse in a golden vessel, fill him with oil; the prince's friends found out that the son of a brahmana on antelope skin had carried them to his body, the blacksmith's son restored the shield and sword to their former appearance, the prince came to life, returned his wife, everyone returned home]: Heunemann 1980, No. 4:53-67; Marathi [rani died leaving seven daughters; youngest Balna is smarter than others; the vizier's widow comes to get fire every time, throws dirt into the food; Raja watches summons the culprit, she persuaded her to marry her; tyrannites stepdaughters; a tree has grown on their mother's grave, sisters feed on fruits; the stepmother pretends to be sick, tells them to uproot the tree, make a decoction; the pond at the grave is filled with bread; the stepmother tells him to fall asleep, kill his stepdaughters, bring their eyes; the Raja takes her daughters to the forest, brings his wife deer eyes; seven princes see seven sisters, take them to wives; first the youngest, then the others disappear; B. gives birth to a son; the wizard Punchkin comes to the palace, turns B. into a dog, takes him away; the boy grows up, goes to look for his father's parents and brothers; finds Castle P., where his mother has been locked up for 12 years; his father and uncles are turned into trees and stones; the gardener disguises the young man as his daughter; she is told to carry water for B.; the son shows the ring, the mother recognizes him; he asks find out what P.'s soul is; B. pretends to be almost ready to marry P., he says that his life in a parrot under clay vessels is around demons; a young man kills a snake that regularly eagles; the grateful eagle gives them to him; they bring the young man to the vessels, he grabs the parrot, flies away again, the demons did not have time to attack; the young man returns the eagles, comes to P., tells him to revive first turned into trees and stones, then tears off the parrot's wings, legs and head; P. died, everything is fine]: Frere 1868, No. 1:1-17; Santals [seven brothers live in the forest; Bonga girl secretly cooks, leaves seven servings; the first time only the younger brother risks eating (eats all seven servings), the second time the youngest and the next, then three; on the fourth day, the older brother guards without noticing the girl; brothers guard by seniority, only the youngest sees her; timidly agrees to marry her; she gets wives and his brothers; gives birth to a boy; the hermit Jhades asks for her cord to tie his hair; leaves, she follows him, leaving her child and husband behind; seven brothers catch up with them, J. turns them into stones; the boy grows up, others call him faultless; his aunts tell him the truth, he goes to J. asks for directions from various shepherds, from Yuyba (Zizyphus Jujuba Lam.), the last instruction is given by a squirrel; a grateful young man runs his fingers over her body, leaving stripes; in J. makes flower garlands for the new queen; the young man hides the ring left by his mother in the garland, she recognizes it; the son tells the mother to find out where J.'s soul is; J. replies that in two types of pumpkins; the young man to no avail cuts a vine; in a sword (burns manure on a heap - the same); in two cranes on a poplar in the middle of the sea; a young man passes three women, one has a bench stuck to the other, straw to the hair, and a rice grinder to the third; a young man promises to know how to free themselves; a crocodile with a bloated stomach transports him across the sea to the poplar for promising to find out how to heal; cranes say that the first woman should offer the traveler sit down (she didn't do it), the second to clean others' hair from the trash, the third let the poor grind rice in her mortar; the young man broke the cranes's wings and legs, J.'s limbs also broke; the crocodile moved back, his stomach was disgraced; in J.'s house, the young man twisted the cranes's necks; freed his mother; carried the heads of the cranes, J.'s head followed, fell into the blacksmith's horn when the young man threw crane heads there; revived his father and uncle]: Bodding 1929, No. 72:47-81; buffalo maria [Raja's seven sons decided to go look for brides; Raja asked his youngest son to stay at home; six found Raja, who has 7 daughters, took them for themselves and for their brother, who stayed at home; they spent the night by the pond; Raxa (i.e. Rakshas) came out of it, turned the young men into stone; the girls said they were menstruating; the younger brother went to searching, found girls; made a fly when Rax came; told the girls to find out what Raxa's soul was in; in a golden bird on a banyan across seven seas; on the way, a young man kills a snake that devoured the chicks of another bird; she brings him to the banyan, then back; the young man tells the Rakshasa to revive the brothers, then finishes off the bird; the brothers pull out the younger eye; he hires to guard the field from birds; coming out the maiden's waters play with the young man at night, give him eyes for this time, take him away in the morning; the owner and his fellow villagers help drive the maidens away, the young man remains with his eyes; the young man's bride promises to marry the one who sent the arrow into the sky; the young man under the guise of a beggar wins, takes on his true form; the father expels six brothers, hands over the throne to the younger]: Elwin 1944, No. 1. 13:53-56.
China - Korea. The Chinese [Prince Lan Dan throws a gold ball, whoever finds it will become a son-in-law; finds a shepherd, the prince demands to bring three hairs of the Sun; the shepherd goes, meets people who ask find out why 1) the fruits of a tree can no longer raise the dead; 2) the living water in the well has dried up; 3) no one has come to replace the carrier boatman for 60 years; the Mother of the Sun hides the young man in a chest; She pulls her sleeping son's hair three times; each time she says what she dreamed, asks for an answer; the Sun explains that a snake has settled under the tree, a frog in the well, whoever takes the old man's oars will replace him; the young man says all this on the way back (after telling the old man, he runs away so that he does not give him an oar); the young man was gifted, the prince gave him his daughter; he went to the Sun himself, received oars, remained a boatman]: Tishkov 1954:32-35.
The Balkans. Moldovans [boyar Marcu Rich had a feast; the poor old man was driven away; he spent the night in a poor house; the hostess hears someone asking him several times at night about the fate of another a newborn; the third one says that he will get all the MB's property; the woman reports this to the MB; he finds the house where the woman gave birth to her 13th child at this hour, persuades him to give it to him a newborn, throws him into the thickets; a childless farmhand picked him up; when MB found out about this, he bought a baby, lowered him down the river in a barrel, he was picked up by workers in a cloth mill; MB asks who does this good cloth, he was told a story about a foundling; MB sends a young man with a letter to his home, ordering him to burn the giver; a bee asks to drive the bear away, in gratitude replaces the letter with an order to marry daughter giver; upon returning, MB sends his son-in-law to the next world for the ring of his deceased mother; on the way, a person sitting in the river and thirsty asks to know how long to suffer; from one a keg of wine pours over the edge, the other is dissolved; in the ravine, pop asks for food, a snake comes out of his mouth; at the table, the hungry cannot carry food to their mouths, ask Beelzebub the Ancient how long they will suffer; the soldier at the gates of hell asks him to know how long he should stand; the old woman hides the young man, asks Beelzebub; he promises to bring a ring; the thirsty was a cruel and greedy rich man, torment him forever and ever; the same pop Kalach is a cruel and greedy profanity; kegs: there are poor and rich; hungry at the table must feed each other; the guards of hell will soon replace MB; the young man is back, MB went to check the limestone, became a guardian of hell]: Moldavian tales 1968:346-360; Albanians [rulers of fate give the young man the ability to be an ant, a falcon, a dragon; he gets a princess, Satan takes her away; hiding in her hair, he hears Satan explaining where his death is; we must take two pigeon eggs, one against the head of his father, Big Satan, and the other on his head; the young man does it returns his wife]: Serkova 1989:157-163; Bosnians [when dying, father tells three sons to pass their three sisters off as the first to come for them; the elders do not go to give sisters to strangers, the younger Mula- Mustafa gives them away; the brothers go to look for them; they spend the night by the lake, the elder brother guards the first night, a dragon crawls out of the lake, the young man cuts off his head, cuts off his ears, throws his head and body into the lake; the second night, the same middle brother, a two-headed dragon; on the third MM, a three-headed one; when he threw his body into the lake, a wave flooded the fire; MM sees fire in the distance, comes to the fire of giants; they will give fire if MM kills in Istanbul, the sultan; the giant takes MM to the Sultan's chambers, but MM kills the giant himself, takes the Sultan's ring, leaves; the awakened sultan tells us to find his savior, for this purpose, arrange inns , where to ask visitors about their adventures; three brothers meet in such a yard, tell them what happened to them, get to know each other; the Sultan gives his daughter to MM; after leaving, he tells them not to unlock the room where Atesch Perischa; MM unlocks, AP takes his wife (i.e. the sultan's daughter); MM goes in search; arrives at the tower, where the older sister is married to the king of ravens; the raven sends to the middle sister, she is for king of dragons, he to the youngest is behind the king of eagles; the king of eagles summons eagles, only one old patient can deliver MM to the AP, but first he must swim in living water, it is between rocks that open once in a while year; MM feeds the eagle with sheep, the eagle has time to rejuvenate before the rocks slam shut; AP arrives on a three-legged horse; in his absence, MM negotiates with his wife to find out what AP's life is like; he says that in a broom, in a pipe, in a mug; MM tells his wife to decorate them every time; AP admits that he is in a three-legged horse; whoever kills a mare coming out of the lake once a year and takes her foal is he will win; he did not kill a mare himself, but wounded a foal, so he is three-legged; MM killed, took a foal, his wife gave him cow milk, which became a powerful horse; MM killed AP, put his wife on a three-horse, returned with her to the Sultan]: Schütz 1960, No. 4:31-48; Serbs [=Wratislaw 1890, No. 43:223-231; the dragon in the form of a hare lures, swallows the older, middle brother; the youngest asks the one living with The dragon is an old captive woman to find out what his strength is; she kisses the stove, the tree, then the dragon says that his strength is in the sparrow, that in the dove, in the hare, in the boar, in the dragon in the lake in the far away kingdom; the prince he hires to herd sheep on the shore of that lake, fights every day against a dragon coming out of the waters; when a local king sends his daughter to kiss a young man, he kills a dragon, dogs, a falcon grab a boar, a hare, a sparrow; before killing a sparrow, the hero learns from him where the prisoners are in the dungeon; frees people from all over the kingdom]: Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:23-29; Gagauz people [the tsar has 40 sons, 39 want to marry; the youngest of the fortieth Bald takes the last horse left; each time he tells the brothers that the parking lot is dangerous, but they do not listen; the giantess came, gave wine, 39 fell asleep, Bald secretly followed the woman , she tells her 40 sons to kill those who come; Bald kills them one by one when they leave home; marries brothers 39 daughters of a giantess; the same at the next night with another giantess; Bald hung her for breasts, negotiates with the beauty; at the third night, the giant closes the door; releases the brothers on the condition that Bald stays with him; tells him to get the daughter of the Turkish king; Bald meets three arguing because of the invisible hat and the flying carpet, which is controlled with a whip; The bald one shoots: the one who brings the arrow will receive a hat, the second will receive a whip, the last is the carpet; he picks up objects himself and flies away; at night The princess's bedroom eats the food left behind, moves the candlesticks; on the third night, the hat accidentally slept; The bald one brings the girl to the giant, telling her that she has 40 days of mourning for her father and telling her to find out rear {the object in which the soul is} the giant; that: a pole; a broom; the girl decorates them every time; then the giant says that there is a lake in the Goose Forest, there are three ducks and a drake, there is a stone in the stomach, there are three in the stone flies; Bald man took out flies, killed one, then the second, the third, the giant fell ill and died; Bald married a girl, and married the first one he left for himself; 39 brothers married 39 daughters of the giantess]: Moshkov 1904, No. 63:113-120.
Central Europe. Czechs [a wealthy merchant has a daughter Svatava; shepherdess Chestmir is 4 years older than her; they are children, playing together; Father S. takes C. to study, sends him to distant lands; 10 years later he returns; father finds C. and S. together; promises to give his daughter only for the one who brings three golden feathers of a huge bird; C. comes to a city where people complain: the healing well has become poisonous, let C. He will ask the bird why; from another king, the apple tree bore gold fruit, and now the king's daughter is almost withered and withering away at the same time; the carrier across the sea asks him to know how long he will be a carrier; overseas, the old lady hid Ch. ; she is a bird's servant; the bird senses a human being, but the old woman denies everything; when the bird falls asleep, the old woman consistently pulls out three golden feathers from her; each time she says that she dreamed of a parched a well, an apple tree, etc.; bird: people have forgotten God, he put a spider in the well; if they sacrifice to God, they will kill a spider; the king put his daughter's lover page in prison, she buried it under an apple tree stillborn child; must be dug; the carrier must jump off the boat before the passenger, he will take his seat; C. jumped ashore, told the carrier the words of the bird from the shore; the page was released, princess recovered, C. was rewarded; victims were made, the spider was killed; C. gave his feathers, married S., her father handed him the management of affairs]: Němcová 1990:34-52; Luzhitans [the beautiful daughter of a miller suddenly she fool; a young worker who liked her went to the dragon to ask why this happened; on the way, people asked him to know why the water in the well was not drinkable; the ferryman, how long would he take still transporting people; woman hides young man; pulled out the dragon's pen at night; she dreamed that the miller's daughter was beautiful, ugly; dragon: the priest dropped his wafer, Padde {toad?} I swallowed it, we need to find and get a wafer; next time, a well; we must get and kill Padde, which is at the bottom; third time: the carrier must push the person he is transporting into the water; in the morning, the woman is all told the young man and gave him three dragon feathers; on the way back, the young man answered the carrier and the people at the well, received an award; took out a wafer from Padde, gave it to the girl to eat, she became beautiful; old the miller went to the dragon himself, the carrier pushed him into the water and he drowned]: Veckenstedt 1880, No. 13:237-240; Poles: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 461 (a very popular story) [the king tries to destroy contender for his daughter's hand, giving him stubborn assignments; the hero must bring three hairs from the beard (head) of the line; find out who is the strongest (wiser) in the world; along the way he helps people and they ask their questions to ask the line; why the tree does not bear fruit; how long the carrier across the river will do this work; how to cure the sick queen; why the spring has dried up; where is the missing royal; how to find the missing key; why a girl can't get married; why cattle die; the wife hides the hero; the devil smells him, but believes his wife that there is no one; the wife pretends to be her dreamed of this and that, asks questions, hell answers; a treasure is buried under the tree; the carrier must hand the oars to someone else; the queen will recover when they find a swirka that the rat dragged away; the stone must be removed from the source; the missing queen is the wife of the trait; in conclusion, the devil tells what his life is; the hero returns, getting hairs and receiving a reward from those , whose questions he received answers to; in particular, tells the father of the kidnapped queen what to do to get her back; the hero gets the princess; her father follows his path, becomes a transporter] : 143-145; Shcherbakov 1980 [in winter, a pan in a fur coat freezes, but a soldier in tattered clothes does not; pan tells him to change clothes; freezes completely; having received his fur coat back, promises an estate to the soldier; sends a letter to his wife drive the giver with a stick; forgives for promising to bring two gold feathers from a glass mountain; on the way, the king asks to know where his missing daughter is; citizens - why the water was gone; in another city - why the apple tree no longer brings golden apples; two people standing in shallow water and overgrown with algae - how long can they stand; the soldier climbed the mountain, in the palace, madam; promises to do everything; hides soldier under the bed; the serpent flew in and fell asleep; his wife wakes him up, pulling out a golden pen each time; says she had a dream, asks one of the questions; snake: the missing queen is you; water it will go if you remove the stone; a dog is buried under an apple tree; thieves are standing in the water, standing for another thousand years; a soldier hacked a snake, they took treasures from the royal, went to their country; received an award from the townspeople; wedding; the narrator hid from the rain in a gun, began to shoot, they were shot, now he has arrived here]: 55-59; Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [the king is lost, spends the night in the attic of a coal miner, a wife gives birth; hears angels predict a boy to marry the king's daughter, who was born at the same hour; the coal miner's wife died during childbirth, the husband gave the baby to the king, who threw him into the river, his caught by a fisherman, called him the Swimmer; the king found out; the king gives P. a letter ordering him to kill the giver, tells him to take it to the Queen; on the way, the Mother of the Sun replaces the letter with an order to marry P. to their daughter; the king tells his son-in-law to bring three golden hair from his grandfather Vseved; on the way 1) people ask to know why there is no water in the well, 2) the carrier - how long does he have to be a carrier, 3) people - why not will give birth to an apple tree; the mother of the Sun hides P., her fiery son enters; she pulls him by the hair three times, asking questions; it is necessary to remove the frog that has closed the water, the carrier must put another in his place , remove the stone from the root of the apple tree; the owners of the apple tree and the well give gold and silver, the carrier P. tells lime after he has transported it; the king also goes to Grandfather Vseved in hope of getting rich; the carrier throws him an oar, reserves it for himself]: Verkhovyna's Tales 1970:272-277; Russians (Teresky Bereg) [two peasants agreed that if children are born of different sexes, let them marry; poor son, rich daughter; bride: I will go if I find out that there is a happy day, the night is not happy; on the way, the king asks to know where his daughter went three years ago; the other, why his daughter is three years old sick; the third is why the gardens do not grow; the guy came to the girl; she turned him into a pin, let him listen, and the missing princess is her; the husband flew in, fell asleep; the girl wakes him up, supposedly she has dreams, asks explain; husband: gold and silver under the gardens; the princess will recover if you take raw milk from three cows and wash it; happy day and night with us: you fight all night you don't let me sleep; they are together they leave, because the husband will now sleep for three days; he has set up wells, tables, beds - you can't drink, eat, go to bed; they reached the garden owner, who rewarded him with a cane that creates the fleet; the queen was cured; that girl's father married her boyfriend; at home, the daughter of a wealthy peasant was married to a tavern gol; the guy took his parents and went to his wife to be king]: Balashov 1970, No. 45:151-155; Russians (Arkhangelsk or northern Karelia) [a childless old man caught a box, a boy in it; called it a Water Finder; the tsar hunted, stayed overnight in the same house; two women came: grandmother and godmother; she says to V. that he will marry the princess and sit on the royal throne; the tsar bought V. from the elderly, raised him; he wants to marry the royal daughter; Tsar: go to Grandfather Vseved, bring three golden hair; on the way, the carrier asks what needs to be done to stop being a carrier; gardener why the garden has dried up; the man at the well, why it no longer has living and dead water; V. came to to the godmother, she lives with Grandfather Vseved, and this Grandfather is the sun; she consistently pulls out the hair and asks questions; let the carrier jump out when someone gets on the boat; under the roots in the garden frog; the well should be deepened; V. received an award from the owners of the well and garden; when he returned and told the tsar, he went himself; became a carrier, and V. married his daughter and became tsar]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:50-54; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, year of recording? Lapin volost, now Karelia, is a peasant woman) [Poor parents had a son, they named Poor Boy. The mother does not know how to feed him and wants to sell it. A visiting wanderer orders not to sell his son, because he becomes the princess's husband, but this cannot be talked about. The mother tells her neighbors and the king learns about the prediction. He offers his parents two hundred rubles, they can't resist and agree. The king puts the boy in a bag and throws him into the water. The bag is nailed to the miller's doorstep, who pulls out the boy and raises him to the age of 19. The king comes to the miller and asks where he, an unmarried man, has a son. He talks. The king writes a note to his wife and asks the boy to carry her. In a note, the king orders the boy to be killed The boy loses his way and goes to the robbers's hut, they feed him, give him a new note saying that the boy should marry a princess. In the morning they escort the boy to the road. The queen marries him to his daughter. The king is angry with the queen and orders the boy to snatch three golden hair from the cannibal hero. On the way, the boy meets a man who asks why the well is empty, a woman who asks why apples dry, and a man who asks why he can't transport people across the river step ashore. The boy promises to answer on his way back. He comes to the hero's house, he is met by a hero, he asks her to answer questions from people he meets, she hides her husband in a chest. The hero returns and senses the Russian spirit, the hero replies that after flying across Russia, he brought his spirit with him. He asks to "look in his head," she looks for and pulls out three hairs, each time she says she fell asleep, that's why she pulled it out, three times she dreamed of a man with an empty well, a woman with dried apples, and a man not setting foot on the ground. The hero explains that in the first case you need to kill a frog, in the second case, a mouse, and in the third, give another man a ruble and a steering wheel. The hero gives the boy his hair, he tells the people he meets what to do, they promise to thank him. The boy gives his hair to the king, refuses to continue serving him and refuses his daughter. The man and the woman give the boy a cart of money, the tsar and the princess beg him to return and the boy returns to them]: Tseitlin 1911, No. 16:17-19 (=Azadovsky 1947, No. 19:117-120); Russians (Pskov) [boy was born wearing a shirt saying that he would be happy with Mark Bogatov; MB found out, bought a baby, left him in the snow; he was picked up by peddlers and brought to the same MB; he forgave them their debt, took the baby and let him go to sea in a barrel; she sailed to the mill, the miller raised the boy; when he was 15 years old, MB found himself at the miller, understood from a conversation who the young man was; sent him to his wife ("to the nobleman", "to the elmozhi") with ordering to throw the giver into the cauldron at the distillery; the young man stayed with the old woman, the robbers came there, replaced the letter with an order to marry the giver to the daughter of MB; when he returned, MB sends a son-in-law bring three hair of an ogre snake; on the way, a person asks to know why water has disappeared in the well, the carrier asks how long it takes to transport him; in the cannibal snake, the old woman turned the young man into an ant, hid it in a fold clothes and told him to listen; when the serpent came and fell asleep, the old woman consistently wakes him up and asks him to solve the dreams she supposedly had; the snake explains; there is a toad in the well; the carrier must give the oars to another; the old woman also pulled out three hair, gave it to the young man; the owner of the well took out the toads, rewarded the young man; he answers MB that he took the gold across the river; he hurried there, the carrier gave him the oars; MB still has been working as a carrier since]: Chernyshev 1950, No. 15:32-36; Belarusians (Mogilevskaya, zap. 1888-1891, d. Novaya Bych, Bykhov. u., from kr. Pavel Ivanova, 45 years old, illiterate) [The wife gets lost in the forest, she is carried away by a bear, after 3 years she gives birth to her son Ivashka a bear ear; after 3 years he grows up and leaves, meets Duba-Dubovik and Gora- Gorovik, three of them go; they find a house, leave Goro-Gorovik to cook dinner, go hunting themselves, Kashchei ("Koschey") appears, demands to bring him into the house, put him at the table and serve food, eats the ox, flies away, Gora-Gorovik cuts another ox, puts it to cook, comrades come, the meat is raw, Gora-Gorovka does not talk about Kashchei; the same is repeated with Dubo-Dubovik; Ivashka remains to cook dinner on the third day, Kashchei arrives, Ivashka refuses to obey his orders (does not bring him into the house or sit down at the table), drags Kashchei into the forest and pinches Kashcheev's beard in the oak crevice, his comrades return, Ivashka feeds they follow Kashchei, but he flew away; the three of them go after Kashchei, come to the forest, Dub-Dubovik clears the road, Gora-Gorovik digs up a mountain, find a huge stone and a hole under it, make cowhides belt, Ivashka goes down, agrees that in a year his comrades will be in the same place; Ivashka goes underground, finds a copper house, where the girl says that they have not seen a Russian person here, they live behind Kashchei the Immortal, the girl offers to marry, but Ivashka spends the night and goes to look for Kashchei; she reaches the silver house, there is also a girl sitting there, the story repeats; Ivashka reaches the golden house, there the girl warns Ivashka that Kashchei is stronger; Kashchei arrives, senses the Russian spirit, the girl calms him down and finds out where Kashcheev's death is hidden (there is a casket in the sea, a hare in the casket, a duck in a hare, an egg in the duck, Hit Kashchei on the forehead with that egg); Kashchei flies away, the girl tells Ivashka, he takes a gun, wants to kill a wolf and a kite (and eat it) on the way, but the animals ask for mercy and promise that they will be useful, Ivashka sees sea cancer on the shore, does not kill, but helps him sail into the sea; in gratitude, the cancer brings Ivashka a casket from the sea, Ivashka breaks the lid, the hare runs away, the wolf catches the hare and tears it, the duck flies away, a kite catches her, tears her apart, Ivashka carries an egg to wash in the sea, but drops it, the cancer returns the egg; Ivashka comes to Kashchei, hits the forehead with an egg, Kashchei dies; Ivashka takes the girl, regrets leaving her a golden house, a girl takes an egg, rolls it around and the house gathers in an egg, Ivashka puts the egg in her pocket, the second girl collects a silver house into an egg in the same way, the third a copper house; they come to going upstairs (exactly a year has passed), comrades pick up the girl from the copper house, argue who will marry her, she assures that she is "more beautiful" than her, raise girls from silver and gold houses, decide marry them, and the first as servants, and Ivashka cut off his belt on the rise so that he breaks; Ivashka ties a stone instead of himself, his comrades cut off his belt, the stone falls back, Ivashka grieves and leaves; hides from the cloud under the oak tree, birds scream, he climbs an oak tree, covers the chicks from the rain, then gets off and hides, the bird Half-Gritsa arrives, promises to thank his chicks for saving his chicks deliver it upstairs, Ivashka must prepare 2 barrels of any meat; Ivashka collects 2 barrels of snakes, frogs, mice, ties the barrels under the wings, they fly, Ivashka throws meat from barrels, meat into the bird's mouth ends, Ivashka cuts off his caviar; the bird takes him out into this world, finds out what kind of meat was at the end, expectorates, caviar grows; Ivashka comes to town, is declared a shoemaker ("Ivanichka Drunkard"), She does not know how to sew, she lives with a Jew; a girl from the golden house promises to marry someone who sews the shoes she had in her golden house, Ivashka takes an order through a Jew, drinks for two days, on the third day, she rolls a golden house out of the egg, pulls out her skulls, the Jew takes her skulls; the girl asks for the same dress - the story repeats, the third condition is the same crown; Ivashka goes into service to to the blacksmith, pulls out a wreath in the same way; the girl comes to the blacksmith, finds out who made the wreath; they get married; Dub-Dubovik and Gora-Gorovik marry two other girls, each living in their own house]: Romanov 1901, No. 36:340-347; Belarusians [Vasily Pepelyshka (VP) asks his father to order him an iron club; threw him over the clouds, put his knee up, the club crumbled into pieces; VP orders to make a club out of him iron, happy; leaves, meets Goryn the hero (throws mountains with a pitchfork), a heroic oak tree (pulls oaks), a hero boulder (throws boulders), takes him as companions; they live in a hut, opposite the bathhouse; there 4 doves arrive, throw off as girls; each of the heroes takes turns trying to prop up the door; the girls kill each easily; the VP found the dead in the corner of the bathhouse, blew, revived, beat the girls with a wire whip , they agreed to become wives; their father is born of Tsmok, is immortal; Tsmok expels an army, the heroes beat him three times, fell asleep; the VP fights with Tsmok himself, the severed grows, Tsmok killed everyone, daughters in He took him home in chains; the mare from above was golden, from below the silver one revived the VP, and he revived the companions; the VP came to his wife, told him to find out what her father's death was; first he replies that he was in a goat; in a pig; she was theirs decorates and dresses; Tsmok admits that there is a stupa in the mountain, a hare under it, a duck under a hare, an egg is under a duck, there is death in it; the VP broke an egg, married that princess]: Vasilenok et al. 1958:154-162.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [Akhmet-Achay Ozenbashsky came to the padishah of the devas; there Elmaz Khanum kidnapped by deva; AA tells her to find out what the deva's soul is in; in a fly, a bubble, in a pot, in a tin, in an iron chest at the bottom of the sea; AA took out and killed a fly, did not show up again]: Mirer 1940:236-239; Kalmyks (Orenburg merchants) [Zalta-Mergen-Baatr is vulnerable only in sleep, sleeps three days a month; copper-billed a goat-toed witch and Ak-Sakal have been guarding his sleep for 377 years; Alachi Khan persuaded them to let him go to Z.; horse Z. Zol-Tsookhor saved him by taking him to bed; Z. took the form of a 15-year-old boy, instead comes to Khan's daughter to lick her heels before going to bed, uses a severed dog tongue; while sleeping, accidentally time takes on its true form, the princess decides to marry Z.; the father settles them on the edge of the ulus; tells her sons-in-law to find out who is kidnapping foals; sons-in-law see how the born is carried away by a haruda bird, Z. (all in the guise of a shepherdess) cuts off the foal's tail with an arrow; the khan sends his sons-in-law to find the kidnapper; in the guise of a hero, Z. promises his older sons-in-law to get the foal from across the sea, for which he cuts off his hand from his pair thumb and forefinger, cuts off the belt from the back; Z.'s winged horse flies across the outer ocean; a white serpent eats Garuda's chicks, which she hatches every three years; Z. kills him, Garuda spits Z. in her mouth, making her mouth three times stronger; she kidnapped foals so that a hero would come to pick them up one day; carries Z. with his horse and foal back across the sea, the herd follows; sons-in-law throw Z. into a hole; the horse Zol-Tsookhor tells the dogs Khasyr and Basyr to drive animals into the pit, the owner's two talking parrots to drive fresh air into the pit; resorts to Nomin Khan, allows herself to be locked; the khan's daughter finds out about the horse, asks for permission it seems that the horse is taking her away; she has a braid of 99 fathoms, only it can be used to get out of the pit; Z. takes the girl as his second wife; for the holiday, when her sons-in-law with a herd return, Z. is in true form; at the feast, he tells what happened, shows the cut off tail of the foal, fingers and skin of his sons-in-law; tells them to shoot up, the arrows of his sons-in-law kill them; Z. returns home with his wives, it's empty; comes to Alachi- Khan, takes his stolen wife and property; persuades his wife (now A.'s wife) to cry, asks the father to tell him where his soul is; a deer goes to the spring, with three sparrows in it; Z. rips open a deer (he is grateful that he relieved him of the burden), kills sparrows; unites uluses; finds his son who fled from A. in the steppe, who becomes a hero]: Vatagin 1964:39-60; Adygi [Thagoledge , the god of fertility, says he is old, gives the sledges millet, one grain of which is enough to cook a cauldron of pasta; sledges hide the seeds in a copper barn; Yemynyzh with the body of a dragon and the face of a giant broke the barn, took away the seeds; Satan tells us who the thief is and how to get to E. (from sunrise across the sky to sunset); Aryksha was the first to go, did not return; Sosruko was the next; Sataney explains that E. settled in the west to devour the sun; at the gate of the fortress E. huge swords converge and disperse; S. cuts them with the sword of sledge blacksmith Tlepsh; the girl kidnapped by E. says that E. went to plow to the top of the mountain, taking a bag of seeds with him; S. jumps up on the mountain, the bag grabs, but E. on a three-legged horse easily catches up with him and takes the bag away; the girl asks E. to tell him where his soul is; he replies that it is in the door frame; S. takes the bag again, E. takes it away again; the girl gilded the frame; E. says that the soul is in the tree; again the same episodes; E. admits that his soul is in a three-legged horse, the son of a mare Tozh, she is from an old woman's herd; S. goes to her, causing frost to during his absence, E. did not have time to finish plowing; on the way he helps the wolf, falcon, fish; broke through tigers, eagles and dogs that attacked him; fell to the old woman's chest; she tells her herd to herd for 3 days; wolf, falcon, fish collect scattered horses; S. receives as a reward a foal that the mare also gave birth at sea; the foal asks to let him go to his mother so that he can drink her milk and become stronger brother; S. takes the bag, E. cannot catch up with him, the foal S. tells his brother to throw E., he threw it into the abyss, E. crashed; S. returned the seeds to the sledges, gave the girl to the sledge]: Lipkin 1951:59-75; Kabardian people [wives Mysyr Pasha and Efendyko Ismela see a floating apple, eat, give birth to sons named Safyl and Mylyga; both are brought up by the EI; he gives M. a horse, S. a bundle with a portrait of a girl; S. and M. they go to look for her, three old men consistently tell how their brothers died looking for Bartey Janos; S. and M. with their companions sail across the sea, one S. swims out; comes to the beauty kidnapped by another, asks find out where the other's life is; he lies twice (the wife decorates the door leaf, the peg with flowers); life in three flies, they are in bone gas in a brass box in a steel chest in black stone that guards lion; S. catches and crushes flies, returns with a woman and treasures; in the village, a BJ woman in a golden chair descends from the sky; S. plays the reeds, BJ is fascinated, marries S.; she saved M. and his companions, M. marries the one S. brought from a frost]: Khut 1987:143-154; Abkhazians: Inal-ipa 1977:38-40 [Uahsit defeated the giant, became friends with him; he said that seven Azhvaeishaa brothers (hunting gods) there is a sister; there are petrified suitors around their house; it is Kalaur who is hung on chains between heaven and earth for molesting girls; he insults passers-by, and when they swear back, they become stony; W. defeats the bride, wins and takes K., takes them back; K. kidnaps the bride; she finds out where his soul is, reports W.; W. kills a bull, a chamois in a bull, a hare in a chamois, a hare in a hare, there are three swallows in a hare, two of them = eyes, the third is the soul of K.; W. kills them]; Inal-ipa et al. 1988, No. 12 [in the steppe, Wahsit defeats the hero, he becomes his sister; his six brothers died striving for a distant fire in the east; W. rides, does as his brother told him; the giant is chained to the sky, he molested the sister of the hunting god Ajveipshaa; W. does not respond to his praise and swearing; sister A. cannot defeat W., marries him; hers The brothers again tell him not to answer the hanging giant; W. hits the chain with a sword, the giant takes his wife away; the swineherd lets W. wear his skin; W. comes to the kidnapped wife, she recognizes him by her eyes, finds out where the soul of the kidnapper; W. kills a bison, there is a chamois, a hare in the chamois, a pot in a hare, there are three birds in the pot - the soul and two eyes of a giant; W. returns his wife]: 73-81; Ossetians [voice from a childless source Aldar: slaughter a black chicken and let your wife eat boiled goiter; the crawler was eaten by a dog, she had a golden-haired boy, and his wife Aldar had an ordinary boy; they came to the Waigs to marry their sister for their son Aldar; waigi: go up from a full bowl to the tree and go down without splashing; the son of the suki fulfilled; get an apple from a tall apple tree (the son of the female cut the tree); Aldar's son was given a wife; the son of the suki and the son of the waiga hunt, and Aldar's son and his wife are at home; he was forbidden to unlock the eighth room, he unlocked, there is a seven-headed waig on hot iron chains; Aldar's son poured water on him; waig broke his chains, took away the wife of his son Aldar; son of a female I went in search; met and accompanied 1) a priest carrying a church on his head; 2) running after a hare with millstones on his legs; 3) drinking the sea; there is a hole in the ground, the companions ordered them to be raised back - it's hot; suki's son came down, there's Aldar's son's wife; he teaches Waig to find out where his soul is; waig: in the middle pole of the house; under the hearth; a woman decorates these places; in a boar for which a hundred mowers mow hay; in a roe deer, there is a hare in it, there is a casket with three swallows; the son of a female killed a boar, tore off the heads of two swallows, and when he came to the Waig, he tore off the last one; sent the woman up; then tied a block of companions they cut off the rope; in the corner of the house, the son of the female sees the mother of the Waiga, one fang above the sky, the other in the underworld; she tells him to grab the right horn of the ram, which accidentally grabs the left one, does not rise to the ground, and falls into the seventh lower world; there the dragon locked the water, once a year he is given a girl, it is the turn of Aldar's daughter; the son of the female dresses as a girl, cuts down the dragon; refuses the daughter of Aldar, asks for an indication way to earth; kills the Zaliaga snake, which regularly devoured eagle chicks; it rained (eagle's tear), the sizzling sun sparkled (the mother saw that the chicks were alive, the light from her eyes), the wind (from wings); the eagle orders to prepare the meat of bulls and wineskins with beer; the female's son cut off the last piece from his leg, the eagle put it back; the herdsmen say that the priest who wore the church is marrying; the son of a female asked to give the bride the ring, she recognized it; the suki's son cut down the companions, brought the Waig sister to Aldar's son; on the way home, the devils put a bed for the couple, they petrified; the female's son returned behind the whip Waigs and revived the couple; Aldara and his wife also rejuvenated with it]: Dzagurov 1973, No. 45:162-177; Avars [to marry, the Khan's 49 sons go to look for 49 sisters, disappear; Sulaiman is born, from him they hide that he had brothers; he offends other children, breaks the widow's jugs; the old man, the widow advise him to look for brothers better; he meets them in the forest, fears them, then they recognize him by the ring ; someone steals horses, S. remains guarded, kills seven sledge giants, finds wealth and 50 girls in their cave; on the way back, the one-eyed father of sledges and girls grabs S.; the brothers are afraid and they leave; the cyclops tells the white horse to be fed with flint, black wheat, S. does the opposite; the cyclops tells them to bring the khan's daughter; S. rides a white horse, takes people with different abilities as companions (1) runs fast, 2) sees well, 3) hears well, 4) drinks the sea, 5) splits and connects rocks); without recognizing S., everyone replies that the real strongman is S.; Khan promises to give his daughter for the winner in competitions, companions help win them; 1) horse racing, 2) defeat a bull, 3) running (the runner is put to sleep, but he is woken up with an arrow); they try to burn satellites in the copper room, the drinking sea spews water; S. brings a girl to the Cyclops, tells her to find out where the Cyclops's soul is; he first replies that there is only a white horse in a stick (his wife adorns her), then three eggs in a chest under a pile of garbage in a hut in the desert knows the way; S. kills the Cyclops, brings his wife home]: Saidov, Dalgat 1965:184-197; Georgians: Kurdovanidze 1988 (1), No. 32 [the prince breaks the old woman's jug with an arrow; she tells him to fall in love with his sister nine devas; his peer son of an old woman (SS) walks with him; the mother of the devas asks to raise the millstones, wants to run over the SS, he himself seems to accidentally knock out her millstone teeth; one of her fang pierced the underworld, the other rests on the sky; the devas give their sister to the prince; he takes her key, finds the locked Kremen-deva; he grabs the prince's wife, flies away; the SS takes water bread as his companions (drinks river), rumor (listens to ant war), eyed (watching the arrow fly for a year), tearing mountains, running with turf on his feet; they find Kremen-deva, descend the SS underground; kidnapped finds out where he keeps his soul (a deer, a roe deer, a hare, a casket, three chicks); the SS kills a deva, frees horses and women, devas feast at a wedding, the prince reigns], 63 [the prince buys a beautiful handkerchief, goes to look for a craftswoman; buys, feeds a shackled maiden, whom people mercilessly beat; he brings him to the craftswoman's castle, tames the devas who almost killed the prince; the craftswoman becomes a wife prince; gives water to the shackled maiden, who shackles, carries her away; she finds out that his life is in a deer, in a box, in three chicks; the prince's assistant deva catches chicks, kills them; the prince and his wife returns to his father; feast; dev sees that an army is coming at the prince, smashing him; leaves, but promises to always help]: 83-94, 266-274; Chikovani 1963 [when the king's wife gave birth to her third son, she was carried away by a 12-headed dev; the boy grew up, went with his brothers to look for his mother; from the fork, the eldest went along the road "will go - easily return", the middle one - "will go - maybe return", the youngest - "will go - not return"; with one city An ogre boar comes out of the sea every day; a tower to the sky is in the sea, it is beautiful, its light refreshes the whole sea; the young man came to her, this is his mother; he teaches her to know where the deva's soul is; dev: under the hearth; son teaches the mother to decorate the hearth; in a pole; decorate a pole; a soul in two pigeons under the tower, each with an egg; strength is in that boar; a sword hardened in the sweat of a deva can kill a boar; mother slowly collected deva's sweat; son He cut a wild boar with a sword, then pigeons; the young man forced the deva to bring his treasures to the king, let the brothers crush the pigeon testicles, the devil died]: 153-157; the Megrelians [attacked the Turks, one daughter-in-law left a baby in the forest, ran away; the king's son, who loved to hunt, saw Ndemi, on whose chest a boy his age was playing; asked the king for an army; ordered to cover the clearing with straw, burn it; Ndemi ran away, boy stayed; he was taught to live like a human being; he is smart and strong; the king forbid his son to enter the same room; Ndemi's pupil broke down the door, there is a portrait of the beautiful daughter of a black ndemi; the king had to let go son, Demi's pupil went with him; black ndemi gave his daughter, but warned that a white ndemi from the lower world could kidnap her; the prince sent the Ndemi pupil to inform his father about the wedding; at this time the white ndemi took the bride away; the Ndemi pupil ordered him to be lowered through the hole into the lower world; the swineherd said that the white ndemi had a wedding feast; disguised as a beggar, the Ndemi pupil approached the bride; advised me to find out what the soul of the black ndemi was; he first said that in the dog, the wife began to caress the dog; then: in a deer in the forest; the Ndemi pupil shot a deer, a hare jumped out of it, in a hare a box with two flies in it; the pupil of Ndemi blinded them; came to the black ndemi, tortured the flies, he died; the pupil of Ndemi sent the princess and gold to the ground in the basket; when the servants picked him up, they cut the rope; he clung to the stones, climbed to the ground; he and the young went to the prince's kingdom; at night, the Ndemi pupil does not sleep; three angels in the tree: the young father will give him a gun, it is in him will shoot; give a young dress, it will burn it; whoever reveals the secret will petrify; Ndemi's pupil ordered to give the gun and dress to the servant and maid - both died; the young had a son; the pupil of Ndemi exposed his sword, began to look; the boy shouted that he wanted to kill him; he told everything and petrified; old woman: weld a hundred ears of Ndemi and a son, pour it on a stone; Ndemi's pupil came to life, and the king's son too recovered]: Petrov 1890, No. 2:279-291; Azerbaijanis: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935 [returning late from the teahouse, fisherman Balkhudar met a dervish; he gave a golden knife and ordered him to give it to his royal daughter Ulker; W. took, brought the horses, told them to run; on the way, B. picked up a ruby in the stream; they bought a house; one day W. picked up a ruby, the local king saw and fell in love; the vizier advised to accuse B. of theft ruby; he promised to bring the same stones; W. tells him to find her sister, kidnapped by divas; B. went up the stream, saw the girl motionless, a ruby hanging above her head; a diva came, hit the ruby, that soared into the sky, the girl woke up, but refused to deal with the diva; he put her to sleep again and left; B. hit the ruby himself, the girl woke up; said that the diva's soul was a bird in a glass vessel; if lowered into the water Solomon's ring, the soul can be caught; W. just gave B. this ring; he lowered it into the stream, a vessel appeared, B. tore off the bird's head, the dead diva fell from the sky; they took the rubies, returned to W.; B. took 5 stones to the king; he demands gazelle milk; sister W. let the powder sprinkle in the forest; gazelles would become insensitive, they could be milked; ordered B. to invite the king; planted a ruby, the king and his entourage lost consciousness, their heads were cut off, the people made B. tsar]: 54-60; Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 8 [Para-Bash finds the diva's home and, while he sleeps, takes away treasures; when he went again, the diva swallowed him; son Shamil grew up, went to look for a deva; killed a snake that crawled to eat the chicks of the Zumrrud-gushi bird; Z. gives his pen; S. hit a rock with them, formed a passage to the diva's house, where he made his daughter say where the soul is her father; in the bank; S. broke the jar, the divas died, S. took his living father out of him; on the way home, the father pushed S. into a hole to take possession of everything; S. got out, cut his father, came to his mother; the king will give his daughter to someone who He will reach her on horseback; S. calls the horse with a pen, gets into his ear, becomes handsome, admits that he killed the terrible diva; wedding]: 65-71; Turks: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 125 [padishah finds out that his heir will be the son of poor people who live nearby; buys and throws away the baby, but finds it; the padishah meets and recognizes the young man, sends a letter ordering him to kill applicant; the robber's daughter replaced the letter with an order to marry the padishah's daughter as a young man; so it happened; the padishah adjusts the young man to be trampled on by horses; he escaped death, and the horses trampled on the padishah , who went to see if the young man is dead; var.: the padishah sends the young man to bring three golden hair to the trait; on the way, people ask why the wine has stopped flowing from the spring; why it has dried wood; why do those who sit on a chair stick to it; the wife pulls out her hairs and gets answers from the devil; the padishah sticks to the chair himself]: 141-143.
Iran - Central Asia. Persians (Isfahan, Fars, Hamadan, Khorasan) [the young man sees flowers and jewelry floating in the river; sells to the merchant, he asks for more, the young man goes in search; finds the captive diva, this is her blood; diva every day he kills and revives the princess; the young man asks her to find out what life is alive in; she finds out, the young man gets this item, kills the diva, sometimes forces him to carry it in advance and princess home]: Marzolph 1984, No. 467:100; Shugnans [poor shepherd Jumak fell asleep at the royal horse riding; the king's daughter was about to flee with the son of a vizier with the same name, rode off with J.; gave him royal clothes, on the way he accidentally picked up rubies on the bank; serves the king, he wants his wife; leads to hang, J. promises to bring a bag of rubies; collects them, this is blood dripping into the stream from his throat stabbed peri; J. revives her; she was kidnapped by divas and killed during his absence; J. persuades Peri to ask the diva where his soul is (in a plane tree, in a chest, in a bottle, in a shirt); J. kills a diva, brings a second wife; the vizier advises the king to ask for the Laughing Flower; this is the Green Pari from Mount Kof, when he laughs, flowers fall from his mouth; they fly to Lake Pari to swim, J. takes the Green Pari dress, brings her to his wives, this is the sister of his second wife; brings flowers to the king; he tells him to bring his late father's sword; wives give a sword, hide J. with an imaginary letter in the ashes of the fire; the king and the vizier agree to be burned, J. becomes king]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 2:60-73; Yagnobtsy [the bear stole the princess, she sucked thread, threw a ball out of the cave, the Grandfather Collector of Thorns found it, told the king that the princess was returned, she gave birth to a strongman; people complain about him because in games he maims other children; he goes on a journey, his name is Hirs al-Dean ("hirs" is a bear); meets, wins, takes companions of Chanor-ed-Din (wears plane trees), Sang-ed-din (rotates the millstones on her finger); they stole the girl, made her a maid, told her to always feed the cat, otherwise she would extinguish the fire; the cat was late for eating, flooded fire in urine, the girl saw smoke, came to the barzanga, she gave fire and a handful of grains; along the trail of the barzanga grains, she came, sucked the girl's blood; C., S. remained guarded, frightened, hid; H. cut off his head barzangas, but her head disappeared into failure, promised to harm; H. descends on a rope, there is a captured peri; she finds out that the soul of every diva is in a locked room, in a pair of pigeons, in two worms; drank the divas, H. took the keys, H. unlocked the rooms, killed the worms, the divas died; Peri warns that the companions will cut the rope; Peri agrees to marry the one who picks up the knife, gun and purse X., no one can; in the lower world H. tells the tigers not to touch the peasant's bulls, kills the fox that strangled the old woman's chickens; the old woman advises killing the dragon that ate the Simurg bird's chicks; during flight, H. feeds Simurg with the eggs she gave old woman, with lambs given by the peasant; Simurg bites off the last piece from H.'s leg, belches, puts it back; gives the white and black feather to become old or young; only H. picks up the knife, etc.; The brothers were tied to the tails of horses; a feast, the tsar awarded the Grandfather Collector of Thorns]: Andreev, Peschereva 1957, No. 27:131-138.
Baltoscandia. Liwa [the king spends the night in a house; dreams that his wife has given birth to a daughter and the poor mistress of the house has a son, and that these children will get married; the king bought the baby for 300 rubles, put it in a box, lowered it down the river to the mill; the miller caught him, called Kaarel the foundling; he grew up quickly; the king started talking to the miller, understood everything, asked for permission to send the foundling to his wife with a letter; the young man was stopped in the forest robbers; the chieftain read that the letter ordered the boy to be executed; replaced it with a letter ordering the boy to raise and teach; 6 years later, the king returned, was surprised that the letter was like his handwriting; told the young man bring four hairs or scales from the devil's back; ask why one king has apples on one side of the tree and pears on the other; along the way, the young man goes through three kingdoms; the first the king asks the devil to ask why three castles fell into the ground and how to bring them back; second: during communion, his daughter's wafer fell to the floor, disappeared, and the daughter began to dry; the third king: wife gave birth, daughter was stolen, where is she; every king sends an army to help the young man; by the turbulent river, the young man finds paper, which instructs: call the shuttle, it will transport it; the shuttle transports, the army remains on the other shore; in the devil's house, the girl hides the young man; tells the devil that the smell is she who burned her hair; the sleeping devil consistently pulls out four hairs, each time replies that she supposedly dreamed a dream about castles that have gone into the ground, etc.; the devil gives an explanation and falls asleep again; 1) the keys are under the threshold, you have to get them, the locks will return; 2) the toad took the bread under the floor, we must get it, let the princess eat it wafer; 3) the girl herself is the kidnapped princess; 4) on the side where the pears are buried silver, where apples are gold; the young man and the girl ran away, crossed the shuttle, the devil could not; the third, second the kings promise the young man a daughter and half the kingdom, the third gives him the returned locks; the fourth, whose apples and pears, refused to dig himself; the young man took gold and silver almost everything for himself, abandoned the princess; married a woman kidnapped by the devil, gave the chieftain of the robbers the one who had lost her wafer, gave the robbers wealth and castles; the city of the king who tried to destroy him ruined]: Setälä in Kippar 2002:54-61; Latvians [Three beard hairs are a trait. By God's command, the poor man's son should marry the king's daughter. The king wants to kill the child, leaves him in the forest, throws him into the water, but the boy is saved every time. Finally, the king sends him to the palace with a letter demanding his execution. An old man who meets on the way replaces a letter, and the young man marries a princess. The king, trying to free himself from his unwanted son-in-law, sends him to hell for three hairs from the beard of the devil. On the way, the young man is asked questions: why there is no water in the city, why the apple tree does not bear fruit, and who will replace the eternal ferryman. The devil's wife pulls out three hairs at night and finds out the answers. The king, wanting wealth, also goes to hell but becomes a ferryman]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 461:288; Estonians (Tarvastu) [princess rejects prince grooms; king from time to time goes to the miller to chat; the miller has a young assistant; the king is told that he is destined to marry the king's daughter; the king writes a letter ordering the death of the giver and gives it to the young man; the robber replaces him with an order to marry a young man to a princess; when the king returned, he drove him away, but promised to recognize him if Satan brought three hairs; the young man set off; the sailor asks to know why his ship has not moved for 7 years; the owner of the birch tree - why juice does not flow from it anymore, although milk used to flow; the old man - why the water in the well disappeared; the damn mother tells the young man hide, and she pulls her son's hair three times and asks questions; the captain of the ship must lure the king at him, and jump ashore himself and ask the king to throw his rod to him; the king will remain on the ship, and the ship will sail away; the birch tree must extract a rotten root; there is a toad at the bottom of the well; the young man told the owners of the well and the birch tree what to do, returned, the king married him to his daughter; then he went to that to the ship; the ship sailed with the king, the young man reigned]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 65:176-181; Estonians (northern Estonia, Ambla) [girl and boy want to marry; girl rejected the sorcerer's son, sorcerer turned her into a snake under a stone; the young man went east; the healer: we must get the line ring (vanapagan); the young man came to the castle in the forest, where the princess, kidnapped by the devil; hid the young man; the hell tells her to scratch him head until he falls asleep; she asks how he flies without wings; if you put a ring on your right toe, you will fly, on your left finger you will become invisible, on your right finger you will break any stone; the princess takes the ring, the young man flies with her to her father, who gives her daughter and half the kingdom; the young man flies to the transformed bride, breaks the stone into dust, the bride takes on a human form, the young man brings it to princess; marries a princess and her first bride lives with them]: Järv et al. 2015:81-85; Finns: Uther 2004 (1), No. 460:271-272; Karelians [merchant meets priest who is going to baptize child; he says that the child will become the merchant's son-in-law; the merchant buys the child from his parents, descends the river in a trough; the miller picks him up; after 17 years, the merchant is visiting the miller; realizes that this is the same boy; buys it, sends it to his home with a letter to his wife to kill the applicant; halfway through, the old man asks the young man to show the letter, replaces it with another with an order to marry the giver with the merchant's daughter; merchant decides to lime his son-in-law; sends him to a distant city to ask if he has a lot of money; on the way, the young man is asked to find out why the oak tree is drying; where the keys to the barn have gone; when the carrier is free from his job; a woman hides the guy in a chest, asks her husband questions; he says that the merchant has only half of the money on earth; the oak dries because the girl gave birth and buried a child under him, we must serve prayer service, sketch out the land; the keys in his pocket at the very line (which gives answers); let the carrier say "In the name of the father and son and the holy spirit," push the boat away, that person will become a carrier instead of him; the soul is a feature in the egg, in the bird, in the box, in the chest, in the stone; the guy gets an egg, the devil dies; the transporter says that the guy is the first to return, learns from him how to get rid of his duties ; the guy gives the keys, tells how to revive an oak tree, returns rich; the merchant goes for his money, remains a carrier]: Evseev 1981:287-291; Western Sami [rich Piera learns from witches, that his daughter will marry his shepherdess when he grows up; P. lowers the boy in a barrel into the river, fishermen find him, he grows up; P. finds out about him, sends him to his home, gives him a letter; on the way the young man falls asleep in the robbers' house, they read a letter saying that the applicant should be killed, replaced by a letter asking him to marry the owner's daughter; the young man is married to daughter P., he goes to look for Stallo {from It is further clear that P. sent him to bring three C hairs. ); on the way, one king asks the young man to find out why he does not have clean water in his well, the second - where to find the keys lost by the Queen, the third - where his daughter went, the ferryman - how much more he has to transport people across the river; S.'s girl hides a young man, pretends to be dreaming, each time S. tells, asking an appropriate question; he replies that rotten driftwood and keys must be removed from the well under the bush where the Queen was with the king, the kidnapped queen is her, the ferryman must throw the one he is transporting into the water; the girl tells the young man to drink strong water, cut off the head of sleeping S., pulls out hairs; they give S.'s answer to the ferryman when they jump ashore; at home P. finds out that S. has a lot of gold left, goes there, the ferryman dumps it into the water]: Klaus 1995:47-54; Eastern Sami: Volkov 1995 [Taly (bear) marries Kichushka and Kochushka's sister; the brothers advise her to marry T. to find out where his death is; she finds out, tells her brothers; by saying the password, they pass the bear barriers, wolves, take a wonderful boat to the island, where the eagle gives them three eggs; in them the death of T.; after killing the Bear and his two workers, the brothers take his reindeer herd, marry his sister; Kochushka marries, Kichushka goes to heaven, promises to go down if necessary when they see the northern lights]: 65; Yermolov 1959 [Talla (the bear) came to marry the girl; she has brothers Kichkushka and Kochkushka; they told mothers put them in the cradle as if they were still babies; agreed with her sister that she would find out from T. where his death was; there are three paths under the big stone, you have to walk the middle one; bears, then wolves will not skip, I must say "Talushka ordered"; say the same to a boat that has neither an oar nor a plank - it will sail to the island by itself; there is a tree, an eagle on it, let it give three eggs; Kichkushka did everything; broke one egg, T. fell ill; Kichkushka tied the deer with horns, they began to fight; worker T. came out of the vezha to see, Kichkushka hacked him with an ax; the same with the second worker; broke the second egg; the third broke it on the forehead T., he died; his brothers took his flock]: 54-56; Norwegians [the king loves his seven sons so much that he always keeps one with him; six leave, marry six sisters, on the way home, the giant turns them into stones; the seventh brother leaves on a nag; feeds the crow, saves the salmon, gives the wolf his horse to eat; for this he carries him instead of a horse; in the castle, a young man meets a giant the kidnapped princess hides; the princess asks where the giant's heart is; decorates the threshold, the closet with flowers; the third time the giant says that the soul is in an egg, in a duck, in a well, in a church on an island in the middle of the lake; the wolf brings them there; the keys to the church hang high, the raven pulls them out, the young man grabs the duck, the egg falls into the water, the salmon pulls it out; the young man tells the giant to revive the petrified, then breaks the egg, the giant bursts; wedding]: Dasent 1970:59-68; Norwegians [the rich man refuses his daughter's grooms; goes to the stargazers to find out who she will marry; they are responsible for the miller's son, who is now born; rich man buys a baby, puts him in a chest, descends him down the river; another miller finds him, adopts him; the rich man goes back to the stargazers, who confirm the previous prediction; the adopted child has already grown up, the rich man buys him; sends him to his wife with a letter asking him to burn the one who brings him; the young man spends the night in the house of the robbers, they replace the letter, the new one says that the wife must immediately marry her daughter to the young man, give young cattle and property; when the rich man returns, sends the young man to bring three feathers from the dragon's tail; he stays with the king, the king asks him to know why there is no clean water in his well; another king asks to know where his daughter went; in the third castle, the queen wants to know where the lost gold keys are; the hunchback transporter wants to carry travelers across the river on his back; the castle the dragon across the river; the princess in the castle gives a drink of strong water, tells him to hide under the bed; when she goes to bed with the dragon, asks him, saying that she dreamed of the question; the first king must pull out a rotten stump from the bottom of the well; the missing daughter of the second is the dragon's wife; the queen forgot her keys when she was lying in the bushes at her known hour; the carrier must throw another rider into the water, saying that he would now wear people until someone freed him; the dragon fell asleep, the young man cut off his head, took his feathers, jewelry and the princess; the transporter heard the story, asked about himself when the prince the bride and I were already on the other side; the Queen is grateful, but told me to remain silent; the princess's father gives her to the young man; the first king takes out the stump, rewards the young man; the rich man goes for the rest dragon treasures; the carrier drops it, since then he is the carrier himself]: Dasent 1970:199-213; Danes [the shoemaker's son goes wandering; divides the moose carcass between a bear, a dog, a falcon, an ant; for this they give him the ability to turn into these animals; in the form of a falcon, he lets a princess catch himself; in her bedroom he becomes a young man; flies away and returns as a prince, gets princess; if the sun falls on her before she reaches the age of 30, she will be kidnapped by a demon; it happens that the young man becomes a dog, follows the trail, finds his wife; she persuades the kidnapper to tell than his life; she is in a lake, in a dragon, in a hare, in a duck, in an egg; a young man in the form of an ant hears all this, flies a falcon to the lake; there the dragon requires 12 pigs a day; a young man in the form of a bear fights three times with dragon; kills when he was given wine and bread during the battle; when he returns, breaks the egg on the demon's forehead; the cave turns into a palace, the young man and princess remarry]: Grundtvig 1920:148- 165; Swedes [it is predicted that a poor baby will be the heir of a rich man; he buys a child and leaves him in the forest or descends the river in a box (or leaves herds on the way, on the road, etc.) ; the child is saved and brought up; after identifying the young man, the rich man sends him home with a letter ordering him to be killed, but the letter is replaced by an order to marry his master's daughter; then the father-in-law sends his son-in-law with by errand, hoping that he will be thrown into the oven; but by coincidence, the rich man himself or his son is thrown into the furnace; or the father-in-law sends his son-in-law to bring three hair from the beard of the devil; on the way, the young man promises to find answers to the questions he is asked; why does the tree not bear fruit, the water has disappeared in the well, when the suffering of a certain creature living in the water ends, how to cure the princess, when the carrier will be released from his duties; the woman in the house pulls out his hair and receives answers to questions asked; the father-in-law goes along the son-in-law's path and remains working as a carrier]: Liungman 1961, No. 461:107.
Volga - Perm. Marie [the son of a mare, son of a wolf and son of a bear came to the house where three girls cook pancakes; the skull will eat them when he comes; but the pancakes were eaten by the young men who came; the skull is furious, went to bring 300 warriors; young men prepared 300 arrows; all three were killed; the girls were taken underground by the skull; the mare has three souls; she found a son, gave him a soul, he came to life; asked two comrades to be revived; the mare gave them souls, herself died; her son wrapped her in birch bark, buried her; the comrades lowered the mare's son on a rope into a hole in the ground; below the house, in which an old woman, hid the mare's son under her hollow; her three sons came, each brought three deer; feel a man, promise not to harm him; in the morning they showed the way to the skull; the mare's son came to another woman; she has no water, a snake has been lying on the way to the river for three years; a young man killed him with a club, brought water; the woman shows the way to the house of the skull; do not enter, wait for the wife to leave; the wife says that she goes to fetch water and has a baby; the wife of the wolf's son herds the cows, and the son's wife the bear sleeps with a skull; promises to ask the skull where his soul is; the woman quietly stabs the baby with a needle, he cries, she explains that the baby wants to know where the soul of his skull father is; the skull: in the duck on pond in the middle of the forest; the woman stopped stabbing with a needle, the baby died; the mare's son went to the skull and killed the duck, he died; the mare's son led the women to the rope; his comrades picked up the women, and he was only up to half the height, they threw the rope; he fell on his feathers; came to the sons of the first old woman; two say they could not carry him to the ground; the third tells him to prepare meat and feed him when he flies upstairs; The mare's son cut off the last piece from his leg; the old woman's son blew on the wound, healed his leg; married his wife; confesses (alive?) mothers that his comrades were worse than he thought]: Beke 1938, No. 36:311-324; the Udmurts [a soldier's son offends other boys as a child; when he is 12 years old, he tells blacksmiths to forge a three-hundred-pound a club, carries the whole street with it, leaves; meets, takes Ivan Berezkin and Ivan Dubovkin as companions; they are the sons of a soldier whom she gave birth to when her husband was on duty, and threw him into the water; that is, they threw him brothers; one carried a thick birch tree, the other an oak tree; people are digging a mountain looking for copper; the heroes turned the mountain upside down, two blue pigeons, the mother of copper, flew out from under it; the same with the silver mountain (white pigeons are mothers silver); with gold (three red); came to the house where there was a bull in the oven; ate; three sisters wonder who they were; they went to the bathhouse; Berezkin, Dubovnik tried to prop up the door, the sisters easily knocked it out; when they supported her younger brother, did not knock out; three heroes married three heroes; the youngest's wife disappeared; he came to rescue, there were old women - their girls were carried away by a wind demon; his soul was under 20 oak barks, a chest in the oak, in there is a hare in the chest, a duck in the hare, there are 3 eggs in the duck, they contain the soul of a wind demon; the hero came to his wife, ordered him to hang brushes on the shoals and play as if she thought that the soul of a demon was in the jambs; he says that inside kid; wife adorns the kid; the demon tells us where the soul really is; the hero spares foxes, hawk chicks, crayfish along the way; the fox caught up with the hare, the hawk grabbed the duck, the cancer took out eggs that fell into the water; the hero broke three eggs on the floor, three demon heads fell down; the hero burned the demon's body, began to live in his house with his wife]: Aldan 1936:35-44 (=Kralina 1976:149-154); Komi [the wanderer tells the poor spouses that theirs the newborn Ivan will become king; the wife speaks to her neighbors, the king buys the child, puts it in a bag, throws it into the river; the baby is caught, raised by a bachelor miller; the king asks him, understands everything sends a young man with a letter to the queen, ordering I. to kill; in the forest, the robbers read the letter, replace it; after reading the letter, the queen passes her daughter off as I.; the king tells her son-in-law to bring three hairs from her beard cannibal; on the way, a digging well asks why there has been no water for ten years; bird cherry - why it dries and does not bloom; the carrier - why he works as a carrier; his wife is in the ogre's house I. hides; consistently pulls out the hairs of his sleeping husband; he tells a dream about a digging well (you need to remove the frog from the well), bird cherry (kill mice under the roots), a carrier (you need a paddle and Give the whole thing to another, jump ashore himself); on the way back, I. sets up the merchant, who becomes a carrier; kills mice and a frog; these three were the brothers of an old woman; she is grateful, gives a ring; the king orders I. to be executed, he tells the ring to send an ax to kill the guilty; the ax kills the king, I. reigns]: Doronin 2004:27-32; Chuvash: Salmin 1989 [someone takes the queen; the two eldest sons are coming search, because of their squeamish attitude towards the old man, they turn into stones; the youngest finds the mother, she says that the soul of her kidnapper is in an egg, a duck on the egg, a duck in a chest, a chest under an oak tree, an oak for milk lake]: 89; Chuvash tales 1937:160-166 [=Eysin 1993:97-101; =Shurtakov 1984:87-92; Mamaldyk passes off his eldest daughter Soroka as Wolf, the middle Swallow for Fish, the youngest named The Last for Hawk; Arsyuri (Leshy) tells M. to marry his daughter; M. goes to look for her, goes to his sons-in-law on the way, everyone promises to help; M. marries daughter A., he dies, does not tell her to unlock the twelfth basement; M . unlocks, there is a dragon; he takes his wife and palace; the wife finds out where the dragon's soul is (there is an oak in the sea, there is a bull in a bull, a duck in a duck, three eggs in a duck); a wolf, a fish, a hawk help catch animals, M. kills a dragon], 255-264 [while hunting, the king wanted to shoot a fox, but saw that it was pregnant; he thought of his pregnant wife and decided to spare the fox; on the other side of the mountain, the king met the same fox the close associate also did not shoot, thinking about his pregnant wife; when they met, the king and his entourage agreed that if they had children of different sexes, they would marry them, and if alone, let they will be friends; both had sons; the young men grew up; the prince saw a portrait of the princess in the book, fell in love; the tsar says that 40 years ago he tried unsuccessfully to achieve this princess; gives the prince an army; it murmurs, the prince sends him home; sees 40 people beat one, and he laughs, buys the man lying for 40 camels loaded with gold; that man, Garambur, promises to get the princess; Light fires all night so that he, G., takes out the princess and finds the prince; in the morning the prince sleeps, the last fire goes out; G. scolds him but continues to serve; the princess in the chest; G. orders the prince to tie and kicked himself to her hair until she went down to the ground, promised to become a wife and gave up hair from her right armpit; the same from her left armpit; from her pubis ("from her chest"); they came to the house; the prince came in, there 12 robbers were feasting, the prince was thrown into the cellar; G. slowly took 12 swords out of the house, put the point up, rolled the millstones over them; 11 swords bent, and the 12th cut the millstones in half; G. took this sword, hacked down the robbers; the prince and his wife and G. began to live in the house; they forbade the prince's wife to unlock the barn; she unlocked it, two wolves, white and gray, came out, took her away; G. became a fly, flew to the wolves, they did the prince's wife is a maid; G. tells her to find out where the souls of the wolves are; they first say that there is a jamb under the window; the princess decorated the joint; in the broom the same thing; the white wolf: there is a red bull in the sky, a ram in the bull, in the ram a hare, a duck in a hare, there are two eggs in the duck; to get eggs, you have to whistle through the royal ring; G. prince: you have a ring on your finger; G. whistled into the ring, a bull came down from the sky; wolves ask them not to destroy them; G. tells them to create a palace next to the royal and take the prince and his wife there to the bed to wake up in their bed; the wolves have done everything; the feast]; the Bashkirs [the whirlwind consistently takes three daughters away King Garif; his son Ahmet dreams of a beautiful woman, goes to look for her, consistently stays with the devas, the husbands of the sisters; one of them is the owner of birds, the other is animals, the third is aquatic creatures; each gives magic scarf; Lena Prekrasnaya (LP) sends A. to prison, where those who came to marry her are sitting; agrees with A. that she will marry him if four warriors cannot hold him and he kisses her; A. loses twice, each time he gives LP one of his handkerchiefs; the third time he kisses, marries; finds Deva Kasim Batyr behind a locked door, gives him a drink, he gives A. 150 years of life twice, flies away, takes him away LP; A. picks up LP three times, K. catches up each time, first takes away his gifts, then kills A.; deva-sons-in-law find out when they see blood in the tube left by A.; they look for a doctor, only a lame frog pulls out living and dead water, A. revives; LP hides A., stabs the girl, tells Kasim that she is crying, wanting to know where he got the six-winged stallion, where K.'s soul is hidden; K. replies, A. listens; first K. says that his soul is in a ram, in a broom, LP adorns them; A. spares a wolf, a hawk, an anthill, a pike, a cat; the cat distracts the dogs of an old woman who owns mares; K. got his 6- a winged horse; an old woman tells mares to herd, they run away, turning into foxes, pigeons, fish; wolf, hawk, pike bring them back; the old woman scatters and tells them to collect poppy seeds, ants collect, the cat pulls out what was swallowed with a mouse; A. chooses a thin foal as payment, this is a 12-winged horse; he carries A. to the island; on the way, A. takes a saw from the devils; cuts down a poplar on the island, pulls it out from under it a chest that kills a duck that has flown out of it, takes three eggs from it, in which K.'s soul is; kills K., returns home with LP]: Barag 1988, 56:389-402.
Turkestan. Kazakhs: Lin Lin, Ustin 1959 (Xinjiang) [Khan learns that a peasant's son is predicted to marry a khan's daughter; tells him to throw the boy in a box into the river; the box finds a miller; Ada reaches 18 years of age , Khan sees him, sends him with a letter, it says to kill the bearer; the robber replaces the letter with the command to marry A. to the khan's daughter; the khan demands three hairs from the head of the king of the jinns; the guard the city asks why the spring has dried up, another city asks why the apple tree has dried up; the boatman crossing the lake to the city of gins asks why he is not being replaced; the grandmother of the king of genies turns A. into an ant, hides it in his sleeve; pulls a hair from his sleeping grandson three times; says three times that he had a dream, in dreams the questions of those whom A. met; genie: under the source, a toad, a mouse under the apple tree, the boatman must pass on the steering wheel is a man in a red coat; A. kills a toad and a mouse, tells the khan to wear a red robe to take treasures across the lake; Khan becomes a boatman]: 299-305; Sidelnikov 1962 [Khan went around incognito khanate; in one village he was told that the boy who was born would become the khan's son-in-law; the khan persuaded the poor man to sell his son, ordered him to be thrown into the river in a box; the miller picked him up and raised him, his name was Ada; by accident Having arrived there, the khan understood who the young man was and sent a letter to his wife; in the letter an order to kill the messenger; at the night, the robbers replaced the letter with an order to marry the man sent to the khan's daughter; the khan returned and sent his son-in-law to bring three golden hairs from the head of the prince of giants; on the way, in one place, the guards ask to know why the spring has dried up; in another, why the apple tree no longer bears golden apples; the carrier on the lake - when he is on his shift; the old woman turned A. into an ant, hid it in her sleeve; wakes up the sleeping giant three times, each time pulling out her golden hair and asking a question; giant: at the bottom of the spring toad; the roots of the apple tree are gnawed by a mouse; the carrier must hand the paddle to the man in red clothes and leave; on the way back, Ada received an award from the owners of the spring and the apple tree; Khan said that the lake has a treasure, but You have to come for him in red clothes; Khan became a carrier]: 36-42; Kyrgyz [Khan Garshas has only one son; returning from hunting, he saw a roe deer at the entrance to the cave; she ran into the cave; the young man looked - she was beautiful in the cave; she became a roe deer again and pooped, jumped over the fortress wall; Khan G. orders to surround the fortress, promises to execute the one over whose head the roe deer jumps over; she a deva named Etimat jumped over her head and ran away; E. chased her, followed by the Khan's warriors; towards the caravan of another khan's son; he gives the caravan to the warrior leader and asks him to say that E. killed; took E. for himself; said that he was looking for a beautiful woman from the city of Cheungmagun (apparently Chin-Machin); E. asked him to leave him to sleep for 40 days, and then promises to get a girl; tells him to wait 40 days; on his way to Chynmagyn each of the bridges was guarded by 5 guards; bells on the bridge; E. turned into a child, took water in his mouth, began to pour water into the bells; then turned into a fly and flew across the bridge; then 40 elders; E. pretended to be a dervish named Majurup; one elder did not believe it; by evening he fell ill, he was taken to the mountains and abandoned; then 40 girls; E. pretended to be an orphan girl; she was taken to watch the fire in the hearth; the girls got used to her; she taught them blindfolded and tied to each other; E. went on, 40 horsemen on the road; E. pretended to be an orphan boy; he was taken to look after horses; E. developed timidity in horses, they took the riders to nowhere; 40 dogs, E. threw their bones; sycamore tree leaves branches into the sky, at the foot there is a seven-headed dragon, at the top in a golden cage a girl, guards the golden cage of Dev Semuruk {from the Simurg bird}; E. turned into a dragon with 15 heads; when he saw him, the 7-headed dragon left; E. flew to the sycamore tree as a bird, persuaded Deva Semuruk to take the girl to the khan son; then Dev Semuruk left, and Dev E. fell asleep for 40 days, telling the khan's son and girlfriend to follow the dog; but they fell behind and went to the deva brothers; the girl hid in the thickets, and the Khan's son they threw it into a bucket of salt water; but the dog realized that the Khan's son was in trouble, woke E. up, who went to the devas' house, called, they went out one by one, he tore off their heads; E. fought with the seventh deva for a long time , the girl helped E. win by throwing a lasso over another deva; E. asks the girl not to open one door in the caravanserai; she opened it, there are two calves tied there: black and red, black asks him to untie; became a black deva and does not tell her to untie the redhead; she untied, both devas took her away; she gave birth to a boy out of fear; E. came to her, teaches her to tell the deva that her teeth hurt, let her bring a dental remedy; then a girl must pinch her son to cry; say that she wants to know where the deva's soul is; dev: go all over the land 7 times to get to a place where there are two mountains; at their foot there is a lake, a capricorn grazes by the lake, Capricorn's stomach has a heavy key to the cave, it has two pigeons: black and red; these are the souls of two devas; E. overheard it, killed a black dove, brought a red one, tells the deva to let the prisoners go; dev let go, E. took him to his home in Kuykap (Mount Kaf); put a yurt for the khan's son and his wife; but E.'s elder daughter-in-law harbored envy of people; threw the scorpion into the pond where Khan's son and wife were swimming; E. saw and knocked down a scorpion with a click, but at the bottom a drop of scorpion blood fell on the girl's face; E. began to suck blood; Semuruk descended from heaven and showed a scorpion hidden by Ethirmat's elder daughter-in-law; E. her drove him away; Semuruk took the khan's son and his wife to him; when he was flying, some stars collided and fell down; so we see shooting stars]: Sabyr uulu 2008:331-335; Kyrgyz [at a khan named Garshas is the only son; on his way back from hunting, he saw a roe deer at the entrance to the cave; she ran into the cave; the young man looked in - the cave was beautiful; she became a roe deer again and pooped, jumped over the wall fortresses; Khan G. orders to surround the fortress, promises to execute the one whose head the roe deer will jump over; she jumped over the head of a deva named Echermat and ran away; E. chased her, and the Khan's warriors followed him ; towards the caravan of the son of another khan; he gives the caravan to the leader of the soldiers and asks him to say that E. was killed; he took E. himself; said that he was looking for a beautiful woman from the city of Chynmagyn (apparently, Chin-Machin); E. asks him to leave him to sleep for 40 days, and then promises to get the girl; tells him to wait 40 days; on the way to Cinmagyn, each of the bridges was guarded by 5 guards; bells on the bridge; E. turned into a child, put it in his mouth water, began to pour water into bells; then turned into a fly and flew across the bridge; then 40 elders; E. pretended to be a dervish named Majurup; one elder did not believe it; by evening he fell ill, he was taken to mountains and abandoned; then 40 girls; E. pretended to be an orphan girl; she was taken to watch the fire in the hearth; the girls got used to her; she taught them blindfolded and blindfolded games; E. went then, there are 40 horsemen on the road; E. pretended to be an orphan boy; he was taken to look after his horses; E. developed timidity in his horses, they took the riders to nowhere; 40 dogs, E. threw bones to them; sycamore branches into the sky, at the foot there is a seven-headed dragon, at the top in a golden cage a girl, guarding the golden cage of Dev Semuruk {from the Simurg bird}; E. turned into a dragon with 15 heads; when he saw him, 7- the head dragon left; E. flew to the sycamore tree as a bird, persuaded Deva Semuruk to take the girl to the khan's son; then Dev Semuruk left, and Dev E. fell asleep for 40 days, telling the khan's son and girlfriend to follow behind the dog; but they fell behind, got to the deva brothers; the girl hid in the thickets, and the khan's son was thrown into a bucket of salt water; but the dog realized that the Khan's son was in trouble, woke E. up, who went to the deva house, began to call, they went out one by one, he tore off their heads; E. fought with the seventh deva for a long time, the girl helped E. win by throwing a lasso over another deva; E. asks the girl not to open one door in the caravanserai; she opened, there are two calves tied there: black and red, black asks him to untie; became a black deva and does not tell you to untie the redhead; she untied, both devas took her away; she gave birth in fear boy; E. broke into her, teaches her to tell the deva that her teeth hurt, let her bring a dental remedy; then the girl must pinch her son to cry; say she wants to know where the deva's soul is; dev: 7 times go all the land to get to a place where there are two mountains; at their foot there is a lake, a capricorn grazes by the lake, Capricorn's stomach has a heavy key to the cave, it has two pigeons: black and red; these are the souls of two devas; E. I overheard this, killed a black pigeon, brought a redhead, tells the deva to let the prisoners go; Dev let go, E. brought him to his home in Kuykap (Mount Kaf); put a yurt to the khan's son and his wife; but the elder daughter-in-law E. harbored envy of people; threw the scorpion into the pond where the Khan's son and wife were swimming; E. saw and knocked down the scorpion with a click, but at the bottom a drop of scorpion blood fell on the girl's face; E. began to suck blood; Semuruk descended from heaven and showed the scorpion hidden by Ehirmat's elder daughter-in-law; E. drove her away; Semuruk took the khan's son and wife to him; when flying, some stars collided and fell down; so we see shooting stars]: Sabyr uulu 2008:331-335; Uighurs [a girl is kidnapped by a bear, she gives birth to a hero's son, he kills a bear, returns with his mother to people; his name is Tugluk Batur; Khan is afraid of his strength, the vizier offers to give difficult tasks; 1) kill the dragon; T. rushes with a sword into the dragon's mouth, cuts it from the inside; 2) kill the diva; along the way, T. consistently wins and takes companions of heroes named Er (earth), Chol (desert), Su (water), Tag (mountain), Ashlyanpu (cold noodles), Muz (ice), (Uighur name is not given) (millstone), Tomir (iron) -batur; without recognizing T., A. brags that he will run easily, he is defeated himself; the diva remains guarded in the house while others hunt; the diva ties him with a snake hair, sucks his blood; next time T. remains guarded, the diva injures, walks along on a bloody trail to the well, descends on his belt; frees the two daughters of the diva, whom he was ready to kill for pity for his victims; they explain where their father's soul is (green beans kill two roosters; go down to the basement, a fish swims in the chest, an egg in it, a box in it); T. burns the box, the diva dies; T. sends treasures, the diva's daughters, four more women; A. cuts off his belt, T. falls, The divas treat him; T. kills a snake that devours the Simurg chicks; she brings it to the surface, cutting off the last piece of meat for Simurg T. from her leg; the diva's daughters turned four women into cats, they scratched A.; T. married the diva's daughters]: Kabirov 1963:125-153.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Siberian Tatars (Tarsky District, Omsk Region, Irtysh) [Seyfulmulyuk found a portrait of a beautiful woman in his father's pantry, went to look for her; his father gave a ring to help; he came to an empty city, with help the ring opened the doors of the palace, where the beautiful Malika, kidnapped by the diva; S. hides, and M. asks the returning diva where he keeps his soul; in the middle of the river there is a chest, in which there is another chest with two pigeons; S. killed them, the divas died; M. recognized the portrait: this is Peri Fatheljemal's daughter; S. and M. found her; she agrees to become S.'s wife, but sets three conditions {not named}; S. brought his wife to his father's house; a son was born; once his was bitten by a dog, but F. did not even pay attention; S. was angry; F.: violated the first condition; a daughter was born, grew up, F. pushed her into a flaming oven; S. scolds his wife again, and the daughter plays with hot with coals; F.: violated the second condition, I will not wait for the third mistake; a trough came down from the sky, F. took her daughter and flew away spinning among the stars]: Prelovsky 2003:43-54.