K161. Dragon Released, (ATU 302C*).

.16.17.23.27.-.33.35.36.38.

A character who has imprisoned a dragon (demon, thunder) tells others not to unlock the dungeon (not to enter a specific room, not to let a chained person drink, etc.). The ban has been violated, the chained person is released, which entails disasters. Cf. K100f1 motif.

Germans (Pomerania), Iraqi Arabs, Sindhi, Sinhales, Serbs, Bosnians, Bulgarians, Hungarians, Romanians, Moldovans, Albanians, Greeks, Russians (Pskov, Gorkovskaya, Voronezh, Tomsk), Ukrainians (Galicia, Kharkiv), Belarusians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Ossetians, Ingush, Avars, Georgians, Armenians, Persians, Bartangans, Estonians, Mari, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Kyrgyz, Northern Khanty, North Eastern Yakuts, Evens, Japanese.

Western Europe. Germans (Pomerania) [young man herding pigs in the forest from year to year; once he came across a tree whose top went into the clouds; climbed the day, spent the night tied to a thick branch, then reached the forks where the village was; when he learned that the tree continued, he reached the castle; there was an enchanted girl: she must live in this castle forever; the young man stayed with her; she warns not to unlock one from the rooms; the young man unlocked, there is a raven nailed to the wall with three nails; asks for a drink; the young man gave a few drops, the nails fell out the window; the girl says that this was the one who bewitched her the devil; now he will carry her away; in the morning she is gone; the young man came down from the tree and went in search; met a wolf; he gave three hairs to call him for help; the same bear; a lion; a young man comes to the princess; she says that she is being guarded by an old hunter (i.e. that sorcerer); he has a three-legged horse that knows everything and can easily catch up with the fugitives; they run away, the three-legged screams, the sorcerer has come running: are they far away? - Not far away, sit on me and catch up; sorcerer young man: this time I forgive because I gave me water, but next time I'll kill me; the young man teaches the princess: I'll come, get under the bed, and you ask where the sorcerer got it a three-legged stallion; the sorcerer and the princess call each other "daughter" and "dad"; the sorcerer replies that he got a three-legged three-day service; a witch nearby, she tells those who come to herd her foals; who she can, can choose a foal to her liking; sometimes she also lets 12 lambs throw them to 12 wolves to let them through the forest; but she did not give him, the sorcerer, so the wolves caught up with the foal and tore one off leg; whoever fails to herd, head off shoulders and stake; it's time to put around the house for the ninth time; the young man makes the witch a condition that, in addition to the foal, she also gives lambs; the witch gave supplies; the young man drank vodka and fell asleep; when he woke up, he remembered the wolf's hairs; he told him to sit on it, and after catching up with those who had run away, hit them three times, making the sign of the cross; the foals stood up as if dug in; the young man brought them the witch in time; she started beating the foals, but they talked about the wolf; the next day the witch gave the young man more vodka; he woke up later, but called the bear and he brought the foals back; on the third day the witch poured a full flask; the lion brought the foals; the witch had to let the young man choose his foal, who chose the most inconspicuous one; he barely jumps: the witch put the pies in her bag, leaving the foal hungry; the young man gave them to him, he found strength; the young man threw lambs to the wolves; when the sorcerer chased the young man on a three-legged foal, his four-legged did not run away, but advised his foal sister to throw off the sorcerer; she threw him off and the foals trampled him to death; then the princess drove a three-legged and the young man a four-legged one; the wedding; the king died and the young man received the throne; the four-legged tells him to cut off the heads of him and his sister; he did this and the horses became prince and princess; they were bewitched by the same sorcerer; the forest turned into a flourishing country with villages and cities; if the king and his wife did not die, still alive]: Jahn 1891, No. 3:19-29; Germans (Pomerania) [the poor widow's son does not want to herd pigs; shear his sheep; she leads him to seek service; the lord takes over; leaves for a year, at this time the young man must keep order in the house, but not enter the 12th room; he fulfills the condition twice, the owner is happy; on the last day of the third year he opens a room; there the black raven is nailed to the wall with nails; asks for a drink; the young man gives him water, the nails fall out, the raven flies away; immediately a book falls off the shelf; the young man tries to put it in place, but it falls again and again; the young man picks it up; the owner returns, but says that when the young man released the crow, his service had just ended; so he generously rewarded the young man and let him go; he opened the book, the Moor appeared and asked what the owner wanted; soon The young man had a magnificent palace, and the king married him a daughter; but the general is dissatisfied; when he got to the young man's wife, he persuaded her to find out what caused the young man's sudden enrichment; the young man tells his wife; general grabs a book and tells the Moor to move the palace to where there is no moon or sun; the young man goes in search; the East wind carries him to the West, that to the South, the South to the North, the North to the mother of the water, that to her own daughters are the mother of the earth; the mother of the earth summons all the creatures of earth; one mouse knows about the palace; gets into it, pulls out a book from under the general's pillow; he wants to kill the mouse, but the wife says it their son's favorite toy; the young man tells the Moor to put the inhabitants of the palace to sleep and move them back; shows the king his daughter in the arms of the general; forgives his wife, and Genetal was torn apart by four bulls]: Jahn 1891, No. 58:317-224.

Western Asia. The Arabs of Iraq (southern Iraq) [the Sultan has a son Hamdan from his unloved wife, two sons from his beloved; the Sultan is blind, he will be cured by the leaves of the Sindh tree from Sindh; the eldest son reaches the island, the old man invites to the palace, gives him wine, calls two girls; when the young man became intoxicated, the old man left him naked against the city wall, he hired a job; the same with his middle brother; H. only pretends to drink; the old man falls asleep; the girls explain that it is the monster that kidnapped them, H. kills him; in Sindh he collects leaves; sees a sleeping beauty in a tree, changes rings with her; taking those two girls, finds brothers; they let them down they throw him into the well, throw him there; but first H. stamps them with the ring of that beauty; the caravans raise H.; at home he changes clothes with the shepherd; at the wedding of brothers and girls, the sultan (he saw the light from the leaves) offers to tell a fairy tale; H. tells his story, shows the stigma, the sultan promises him a throne; some big man turns into an eagle, takes H.; that beautiful sister three eagles; the elder eagle forgives H. for the stolen ring, the sisters of eagles and H. are preparing the wedding; H. leaves the keys, not telling her to open one room; he opens, there is a pile of meat tied there; he hits her, she turns into a huge eagle, takes the bride H.; H. asks the eagles to take him to the kidnapper's palace; asks the bride to ask the kidnapper where his soul is; in the brush; they burn it; the kidnapper returns, the bride explains that she wanted to drain his soul with hers; in a bottle in the hoof of a lame gazelle on the island; H. kills the gazelle; they hold the bottle, force the kidnapper to take him and the bride first to the eagles, then to his Sultan father, where he breaks the bottle; wedding and accession; H. forgives his brothers, marries those girls]: Yaremenko 1900, No. 15:81-93.

South Asia. Sindhi [the prince is chasing a gazelle with golden horns, she hides in the lake; a voice tells him that this is Lake Peri, they will appear in a year; in a year the prince hides in an iron cage, peri they bathe, he hides their clothes, demands the one whose name is Sedyan; makes him his wife; but she does not talk to her husband; a year later he sends him hunting, tells the maid to bring those clothes with the doors closed; puts on and flies through the chimney, saying that the prince will be able to return it within a year; the prince comes to the cannibal shepherd, who throws him into his goat pen, where there are already many people; every evening he puts one on the skewer, leaves it to fry, falls asleep himself; the prisoners drink milk; Peri S., in the form of a whirlwind, pours out the poisoned milk that the prince was going to drink; that night he heated his skewer, burned the ogre's eyes; he stabbed the ram, put on his horns, the ogre let him in; on the other side of the pit, the ogre called out, he rushed, failed, the prince finished him off; he came into the house, hid, three witches came there, killed him, cooked and they ate the goat, collected the bones, cast a spell, but the goat did not revive; this means that the cannibal shepherd was dead; the witches brought hyenas, went to the shepherd, the prince shouted that he had killed the shepherd; the witches rushed back, but Peri S., with the help of her friends, caused wind and rain, the hyenas were washed away by a stream; at the request of her daughter, Peri's father sent a horse to the prince; he arrived, the wedding; a son was born; S. flew away, telling him not to look to one of the rooms; the old woman said that there was sister S., who was more beautiful than her; but there was a parrot; he was a demon who fell in love with S. but was cunningly caught; he took the prince and his son, S. saw it, her Twelve friends repulsed them, and S. put the parrot back in the locked room; Peri's father sent his son-in-law, wife and son back to their homeland; there the vizier seized power, but his army was defeated with a magic club; the prince put his father back on the throne]: Schimmel 1995, No. 22:140-147.

The Balkans. Serbs: Karadzic 1856 in Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956 [when dying, the father tells his three sons to give three sisters as the first to come for them; the elders are against, the youngest gives the sisters to the Unknown each time strength; brothers go to look for them; every night the younger one kills a dragon coming out of the lake, cuts off his ears, hides his ears; the youngest goes to look for fire, nine giants eat human meat by the fire; the young man pretends to eat too; pretends to help them enter the city, kills one at a time; stabbed a snake crawling to bite the princess; marries her; the king does not order to unlock the ninth room, the young man unlocks, there is Bash Celik shackled , promises another life three times for water, breaks chains, takes the prince's wife; he goes to look for her, comes to his sisters, they are married to Tsar Zmeev, Sokolov, Orlov; everyone gives a pen (if you burn it, he will come to the rescue); the prince takes his wife three times, the warhead catches up with him each time, takes away the gift of three lives; for the fourth time, the sisters' husbands revive him; the kidnapped finds out where the life of the warhead (a bird in the fox's verd , she is in the mountain); snakes, eagles, falcons catch poultry, warhead dies, prince returns his wife]: 145-164; Mijatovies 1874 [the king's apple tree blooms in one night, bears fruit, but the fruits disappear; two sons guard, fall asleep; the youngest sees 8 pav go down to peck apples, the ninth turns into a girl; gives the young man two apples; like this every night; envious older brothers send the old woman, she cuts off a lock of hair pava girls; pavas fly away; the prince orders the old woman to be tied to the horse's tail; goes to look for a girl; in the castle, the old woman offers him her daughter; gives the fur servant to blow over the prince's ear; that's why the prince falls asleep; his pava wife cannot wake him up three times; the prince cuts off the servant's head, the hermit sends him to the dragon city, the prince finds his wife; she tells him not to unlock the twelfth room; there is a barrel in it, someone then she asks for a drink; the prince gives, the dragon flies out, takes the prince's wife; the prince saves the fish, the fox, the wolf on the way; finds and takes his wife away, the dragon on his horse easily catches up with them, spares the prince, takes his wife away; she learns from the dragon that his horse's brother is a black foal from an old woman; she gives the task of herding her mare and with the foal for three nights; from this herd there is a dragon horse; the prince comes to the old woman, only one cola does not have a head yet; fish, fox, wolf help find a mare with a foal that turned into fish, foxes, wolves; the prince chooses a black foal, takes his wife away; the dragon horse says that they cannot catch up with the prince, throws him off, the dragon crashes, the prince's wife sits on this horse]: 43-58 (=Ashliman 2002); Bosnians [when dying, the father tells three sons to pass their three sisters off as the first who comes for them; the elders do not go to give sisters to strangers, the younger Mula-Mustafa gives them; the brothers go to look for them; spend the night by the lake, the older brother guards the first night, crawls out of the lake a dragon, a young man cuts off his head, cuts off his ears, throws his head and body into the lake; on the second night, the same middle brother is a two-headed dragon; on the third MM, a three-headed dragon; when he threw his body into the lake, a wave flooded fire; MM sees fire in the distance, giants come to the fire; they will fire if MM kills the Sultan in Istanbul; 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, to arrange inns where to ask visitors about their adventures; three brothers meet in such a courtyard, say that they were, they recognize each other; the Sultan passes his daughter off as MM; after leaving, orders not to unlock the room where Atesch Perischa; MM unlocks, AP takes his wife (i.e. the daughter of the Sultan); MM goes in search; comes to the tower, where the older sister is married to the king of ravens; the raven sends to the middle sister, she sends to the king of dragons, the youngest to the king of eagles; the king of eagles convenes eagles, only one old sick person can deliver MM to the AP, but first must swim in living water, it is between rocks that open once a year; MM feeds the eagle with rams, the eagle has time to rejuvenate before the rocks slam shut; AP comes to three-legged horse; in his absence, MM negotiates with his wife to find out what AP's life is; he says he's in a broom, in a tube, in a mug; MM tells his wife to decorate them every time; AP admits that three-legged horse; whoever kills a mare coming out of the lake once a year and takes its foal will defeat him; he himself did not kill a mare, but wounded a foal, so he is three-legged; MM killed, took a foal, his wife gave him a drink with his cow's milk, he 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; Bulgarians: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 302 [hero , contrary to the ban, opens the fortieth room, frees the snake (black wind, arap) imprisoned in it; he takes the hero's wife; the hero finds her, the wife cunningly finds out from the kidnapper where he is life (in an egg; in a dove, that in a boar); the hero destroys the egg (pigeon) himself or with the help of grateful animals, the kidnapper dies], *550** [see version in Wratislaw 1890, No. 38:186-198; nine pav steal by apples in the royal garden at night; only the youngest of the three princes does not fall asleep on guard, falls in love with the younger pava, who becomes a girl; flying away with the others, she leaves him a golden apple (feather) tells us where to look for her; the prince comes to the lake (pond, spring), where pavas come to swim; when the pavas have arrived, his companion puts him to sleep; with the help of an elder (grateful animals), he penetrates to the palace, marries the youngest; in the absence of his wife, he unlocks the door to the forbidden (9th, 12th, 40th) room, involuntarily releasing the snake (lamia, challah) imprisoned there; he takes the prince's wife; grateful animals (fox, eagle or raven) promise to help; the prince takes his wife twice, but the kidnapper catches up with him on his horse each time; he learns that the only way to escape from the chase is riding the horse's brother kidnapper; grateful animals help the prince herd the old woman's horses for three nights in a row; the prince receives a horse from her, on which he escapes the chase, the kidnapper dies]: 101, 204; Hungarians [apple tree the king blooms in the morning, apples by night, but someone steals them; the king will recover if he eats an apple; promises a daughter to marry; Janosh swineherd undertakes to guard; climbs an apple tree into the sky; there Queen Etelka plucked apples; I married her; she tells me not to open the 12th room; I opened it, there is a seven-headed dragon chained there; promises three kingdoms if I give him water; he freed himself and took away E.; I consistently takes three horses, finds E. and takes them away; for the first time, a dragon horse says that he will have time to eat, drink, chop a bag of nuts - we will still catch up; each time the dragon takes one kingdom from Y.; for the fourth time tears it to pieces, puts them in a bag, ties it to the horse, lets him go; the horse sees the snake dragging a blade of grass to revive a snake that the cart has run over; asks for half a blade of grass, revives I.; he asks E. so that she can find out where the dragon got its horse; the dragon first hits E., but the third time replies that the old woman Iron Nose asks her horses to herd three days a year; whoever can do it will give him a horse; along the way I . makes fish, duck, fox healthy, they promise to help; the old woman makes horses fish (fish brought), white crows (birds brought), eggs (the fox grabbed the rooster, the old woman chased her, I broke it. eggs; the best horse warns that he will be a lousy foal, you must choose it; teaches you how to avoid death when the old woman gets up to cut the bed at night. Teaches you to ask for a foal as a reward, a dirty saddle, bridle, old sword; the dragon can't catch up, his horse, the horse's uncle Y., threw off the dragon; wedding; I brought apples to the king and a guy like himself, whom I married the queen of earth]: Ortutai 1974, No. 8:164 -189; Romanians [The king has a son, Ionita, nicknamed Fat-Frumos (FF). He rides with the royal herd to herd horses at Lake Fairy. When she falls asleep, a girl comes out of the lake, hugs him and asks: "Wake up, dear friend!" The herdsman tells FF. He tries to stay awake, but falls asleep the next and third day. The sorceress cries, says she will not come again, takes off the FF ring from her finger and wears her personalized ring with the inscription "Ilyana Kosynzyan (IK), the braid is golden, the flowers in the braid are melodious, they sing wonderfully, at nine kingdoms can be heard." FF puts on his iron shoes, takes a steel staff and goes looking for it. He visits three of his sons-in-law, none of them know about IC. He comes to the mountain, sees a cave on the other side of it, goes down into it, walks for a long time, turning into the light, and goes to the mill, which stands on a river with black water. He sees an old miller so ancient that his eyelids hadn't been raised anymore, and he raised them with hooks. The old man says that so far not a single resident who owns it has been to the mill, nine mighty birds come here every day, each carrying four bags of grain, and he needs everything by morning grind the grain. FF helps the old man, hides in one of the bags, the birds take him to the IC cook. FF shows the cook an IR ring and stays in his house. The cook bakes bread for IK, she doesn't take anything else in her mouth. FF helps him. IK likes lush bread, the next one turns out to be twice as good, the third time FF bakes his ring in a loaf, the cook tells IK about FF, she tells him to bring him in, orders him to be given a gold-sewn dress, they're getting married in two weeks. After the feast, FF receives IR keys to all rooms except the basement. Finally, he begs for this key, unlocks the basement. The voice from the barrel tells you to open the door wider. FF listens, opens the door, hoops fly off the barrel, the snake flies out, takes IR away ten lands. FF puts on iron shoes, takes a steel staff, and goes in search. She comes to Holy Friday and asks if he is a kind person. He gives him a bow. FF comes to a house where crows are flying over and wolves howl around. There's a witch with horse legs, steel teeth and curved fingers. When asked by her, FF says that he has come to work to hire a horse and earn a horse. Grandma tells him to herd his mare every night. On the way to pasture, FF sees a bird with a broken paw, aims, asks not to destroy it, but to bandage its paw, and promises to be useful. FF does this, goes on, does not get off the mare to pasture, but falls asleep on horseback. The mare puts him on a rock, turns herself into a bird, flies into the forest with other birds and sings there. The bird he saved tells all birds to look for a vagrant bird among them, and it is brought to the FF. He quilts her head with a bridle and orders her to turn into a mare. The witch gets angry, hits the mare. On the second evening, FF meets a hare with a broken paw (still the same). When FF falls asleep, the mare leaves him with a bridle on the rock, turns into a hare, and jumps through the woods with other hares. The lame hare collects all the hares and finds a mare by the horse's teeth. The witch is already preparing to cook FF in the cauldron, angrily hits the mare with an iron bar. On the third evening, the mare turns into an old oak tree among the trees. A hare and a bird are advised to knock on each tree with a staff. When hit, the old oak tree starts to jump, and FF orders it to turn into a mare. From the witch, FF, on the advice of a rescued bird, chooses the seediest horse. He turns into a magic horse. He has 14 spleens so he doesn't know if he's tired. FF finds himself at the snake palace and takes the IC. The serpent jumps on the horse and sets off in pursuit. IK shouts to the horse to throw them off, for which he will bathe him in milk, feed him oats and sugar. FF shouts to the snake horse that he will feed him with clover and bathe him in dew, which will throw off and trample the snake with its hooves. FF on a snake horse, and IK on a FF horse arrive at the IK Palace and celebrate their wedding]: Ilyana Kosynzyan 1989:11-38; Moldovans [Tsarevich Fat-Frumos; dying, the king orders him to pass three sisters off as snakes, who will come for them; FF gave 3, 6, 12 heads from the snakes; FF finds a portrait of Ilyana Rozolyana in one of the rooms; took it, after going through a copper forest, came to his older sister's copper palace; her snake husband gave him strength; the same with the middle, older sister (silver, golden forest and palace); the eldest's husband tells me to go to Och; he gave two cornflowers to turn into a fly and back; 24 IR brothers must be passed; FF penetrated twice moved, turned off the lamps for the third time, took an oath with IR to become her husband with three horses; she gave the keys to all rooms, forbid her to enter one; FF unlocked the lock, where a snake chained with 24 heads; asks for hay and water; ate, drank, fell off the chain, then ate a herd of oxen and 12 barns of bread, tells FF to get out; the horse asks the snake whether to jump as a thought or like the wind; as a thought; by the silver forest of snakes took IR; next time from copper; this time, the older sister's husband gave FF 25 snake powers and the snake 24; FF won and killed the snake; during the struggle, IR gave FF wine and bread, not a snake; wedding]: Botezat 1981:209-217; Albanians [the sister's three brothers are married to the Sun, Month and South; they decide to visit them; they spend three nights, each time one brother guards the others; the elder killed a lamia, did not say brothers about it; the same middle; the youngest too, but the lamia managed to extinguish the fire with her tail; the young man sees the light in the distance, goes there; on the way he meets the mother of the night, asks her to prolong the darkness; she promises to do so, but he does not believe and binds it; when he goes to a light source, he sees a huge cauldron with 12 ears standing on fire; picked it up, lit the torch, and put it in place; the 12 robbers are amazed by this force: they can lift it up the cauldron only together; they led the young man to rob the king; breaking through the wall, they climbed into the stable; the young man stayed outside; raised the alarm, cut off the thieves as they got out; left it there his knife; on the way back he freed the mother of the night; the king found the dead robbers and a knife; ordered a tavern where food is free, but let everyone tell us what they did; older and middle the brothers told how each killed a lamia, the youngest also about robbers; the king gave his daughter for him; on the occasion of the royal wedding, prisoners were released; half of them were made of iron; the young man persuaded the king free him too; as soon as the king broke his shackles, the monster swallowed the princess and flew away; the young man asks the king to give iron shoes and a staff, promises to return the princess in a year; comes to his sister, whose husband is the Sun; she hid her brother, the Sun senses a man, but promises not to touch her brother-in-law; advises to ask the Month; he sends to the South; the South also does not know where the Iron Man is, directs him to a huge falcon, tells him to approach he is behind and threatened to slaughter him if he does not tell him where the Iron Man is; the falcon tells him to prepare meat and fix his wings - he is too old; they are flying to a high mountain, the young man cut off the last piece of meat from his thigh; when he reached, the falcon regurgitated this piece and grew it back; the wife hid the young man, but the iron found him, drank blood, and spit out his skin and bones; the falcon saw, flew between the crushing mountains, picked up the beak of the swallow's milk, revived the young man with it; he taught his wife to pretend to be dead and ask her husband where his strength is; iron; in a broom; the wife burned the broom, but nothing happened; pretended to be sick again; iron: there is a boar on the mountain, he has a silver fang, a hare in his fang, there are three pigeons in the hare, they are strong; the young man came to the shepherd, began to ask about the boar, he heard, the young man began to fight with him; boar: I would like racine de gouet sharpen his fangs; young man: I would have flour, fried fish and wine; the shepherd brought everything, the young man killed the boar, took out pigeons; turning two heads, the young man came to the Iron Man, killed the third, iron died; the falcon brought the young man and princess to the king; everyone is happy]: Dozon 1991, No. 15:121-134; the Greeks [the father tells his three sons to pray at his grave for three nights and pass their three sisters off as their first marries; after reprimanding a prayer, the elder returns to the house; at this time a strange-looking man comes, almost a freak; only the younger brother insists on giving him his sister; the same with the middle brother and middle brother sister; a woman comes to the youngest with two balls of thread, black and white; it depends on her whether it is night or day; the young man asks to unwind the black thread more slowly so that he can finish reading before dawn prayer; she refused; then he tied it to a tree and went where the light could be seen; there are 40 dragons around a huge boiling pot; the young man picked it up and put it back; they ask for help to steal them princess; going up to the tower, the young man tells the dragons to go up one at a time and kills everyone; kissed the princess in bed and exchanged rings with her; returned home, untying the mistress of night and day; to identify the hero who killed dragons, the king tells everyone to come and talk about his life; the princess recognizes the young man and her ring; the wedding; the young man noticed a golden key in his wife's hair; opened the locked one with them the door, pulled the ring, a dark figure fell off it and took the princess away; the young man went in search; came to his older sister's castle; her husband called the birds, but only the lame eagle knew where the sorcerer's castle was, and carried the young man there; taking the princess, they flew back, but the sorcerer, to whom his flying horse tells everything, caught up with them, took the princess and cut the young man in half; the eagle brought halves, the sister's husband revived him alive with water; the young man came to his middle sister; her husband explains that it is necessary to get the same winged horse as the sorcerer's; the young man came to the mountain, tamed the horse, took his wife home; the sorcerer's horse could not catch up with them]: Legrand 1881:145-160.

Central Europe. Russians (Pskov) [when he dies, the father tells his son Panteley to give three sisters as the first to marry; he gave it away, came to the copper kingdom, took his wife; his wife orders not to enter the building in in the garden; P. went in, there is a nine-headed snake boiling in the resin; asks for a drop of water; P. dripped, the snake flew out and carried away P.'s wife; he consistently comes to the sisters' husbands, this is Thunder, Lightning (Silver Kingdom) and a bird Agei is in charge of animals and fish (the golden kingdom); she gave a ball to follow him, and her pen to cause her if trouble happened; along the way, P. regretted two wolves, fish and cancer, bees, they promised to help; P. a snake reached the house, took his wife away; a westun blue reports this to the snake; he asks his horse if we will catch up; horse: if we sow wheat, squeeze it, bake bread, we will still have time; the snake took his wife, but forgave P. for releasing him; chopped him to pieces for the second time; the witch's grandmother burned the pen, the bird A. flew in, collected the pieces, sent two crows for living and dead water, revived P.; first you need Learn from the witch grandmother where to get the same horse as the snake; the witch's grandmother says that there is a witch more cunning than her; she turned her three daughters into mares; the witch's grandmother gave a ball that will lead to to the black girl, the shepherdess of Baba Ega; the girl explains that Baba Ega demands to herd her mares without losing; whoever can, will take any foal; the girl gave a pipe to lure horses in the evening; the pipe helped twice ; on the third day, Baba Ega threatens to kill horses if they return, but they were driven back by wolves, bees and pike with crayfish who promised T. their help; baba ega allows you to choose a foal; the girl teaches you to ask the thinnest and still wool pud; the girl teaches the snake to kill the West dove first; the foal quickly got enough to become, took P. away from his wife; the serpent caught up, but the horse killed him and his horse; P. and his wife returned home]: Smirnov 1917, No. 108:342-348; Russians: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 159 (no place of recording) [when dying, Ivan Tsarevich (I.)'s parents order his three sisters to be the first to marry; this is Sokol, Eagle, Raven; I. goes to visit his sisters, meets Marya Morevna (M.), gets married; she does not tell you to look into the closet; I. looks, there Koschey (K.) is in chains, asks for a drink; I. meets his sons-in-law, leaves them with a silver spoon, fork, snuffbox; I. takes M. away; K.'s horse tells him that we will have time to sow wheat, squeeze it, bake bread, we will still catch up; K. forgives I. twice, on the third cuts it into pieces, puts it in a barrel, throws it into the sea; the Eagle pulls it out, the Falcon and the Raven bring living and dead water, revive I.; M. learns that K.'s horse is from the mare on which Baba Yaga flies around the world every day; gives a handkerchief to cross the river of fire; I. does not touch chicks, honey, lion cubs; Baba Yaga tells mares to herd three times; birds, bees, lionesses drive scattered; the bee tells them to ride off on a lousy foal; I. makes a bridge with a handkerchief; Baba Yaga pursues, the bridge collapses, she dies; I.'s horse kills K., I. burns the body with his hoof; I. and M.'s wedding]: 376-382; Russians (Gorkovskaya) [{the storyteller does not understand the plot well}; Ivan's fire went out, he saw a light in the forest; that man gave matches, telling him to find an immortal man hanging on chains and tie her up with three more; this man kidnapped the princess; let I. take her and marry her; on the way, an old man: when you enter the palace, do not look into one room; I. opened it, where the man hanging on chains asked for a drink three times; after each bucket of water, he drops three chains and gives I. a hundred years of life; having been released, he offers I. to live with him; he will leave, at which time I. may try to leave his domain, but if he catches up, he will take a hundred years of his life; Ivan manages to leave for the third time]: Borovik, Mirer 1939, No. 94:238-240; Russians (Voronezh, Bobrovsky district) [The girl runs into a forest dwelling, enters rooms, and sees the Beast on a chain in the third. It asks for two vats of blood, drinks, gains strength, frees herself and makes the girl live with him ("or else I'll eat you"). Ivan hunts in the deep forest. He does not kill animals, but enhances his hunt - each animal gives its own cub. I. gathers a wolf cub, a bear cub, a lion cub, a crow, and a falcon. I. walks into the hut, meets a girl, finds out about the Beast. It sees the hunt and decides to put up. Three people live. I. takes care of the girl like a sister. The monster persuades her to pretend to be sick and send I. hunting to the mill for water and supplies so that the Beast can lock up loyal I. animals there. I. draws water, calls animals, but they're locked behind 12 doors. I. thinks the animals will catch up with him and returns home. The monster asks I. to heat the stove. A crow, a falcon, an eagle fly to I., tell him not to hurry, and report how many doors the hunt has gnawed through. The monster sends the girl several times to find out if the bath is ready. I. replies that one, two, three corners are flooded, delaying the moment when the Beast appears. She goes to the bathhouse, is going to grab I., a hunt appears, pushes the monster into the oven. I. leaves the girl on a chain, promises to forgive when she cries a vat of tears. She goes to another state, stays with an old woman. She is afraid of hunting, talks about a princess who cannot marry: a giant defeats grooms, but she does not want a giant. I. leaves the old woman hunting, tells her to watch his knife: if she is covered in blood, it's time to let the animals go. She comes to the capital city, invites the princess ("her height was heroic, her face was white as snow, her eyebrows were black as velvet, her cheeks were scarlet like cherry blossoms, her chest rises high") to marry him, she agrees. I. fights the giant, he grabs his hand, blood flows, the old woman starts hunting. Animals come running and tear the giant, I. cut off his head, marries a princess. She goes to visit her named sister (she sat on a chain for a year), finds an empty vat, lets her go, and invites her to go to her maid. The girl finds the Giant's tooth in the oven, sews it into a pillow and puts it in Ivan. The tooth gets into his ear, he dies. The princess buries him in a high tower (with the inscription "There is no stronger and braver than the Russian hero Ivan"). Hunting climbs into the tower, the bear removes the coffin lid, the hare pulls a tooth out of Ivan's ear, I. comes to life, plays the pipe, the animals dance, the princess rejoices]: Korolkova 1941, No. 8:45-49; Russians (Tomskaya , Biychsky u.) [The tsar has a little son, Neugomon Tsarevich, he is lulled in his cradle, saying that when he grows up, Rusuya Rusu, thirty brothers and sister, will marry him. She grows up, goes looking for her, comes to her palace. She knows that she is her betrothed, treats her and shows her wealth: the first closet contains silver, the second is gold, the third has precious stones, fruit trees grow in the garden, and birds of paradise sing. She flies away for thirty days to ask her brothers for permission to marry, and leaves the prince with the keys, except for one pantry covered with cow manure. Out of curiosity, the prince opens the pantry, where the gray-haired old man boils in resin, each vein is locked with a lock, the key is on the window. He says he doesn't know what he's suffering for and asks him to open at least one vein. N. took pity, the old man turned into Koshchei the Immortal and flew away. The mirror that the PP left is getting darker, which means that it is in trouble. The brothers who arrived explain that Koschey took her away. N. goes looking, comes to Koshchei, picks up the RR and drives him back. At this time, Koschey is walking in the field, asking his horse if everything is alive and well at home. Horse: It's all right, only N. took RR away. Koschey goes home, demands: "Seven children! Bring me seven pitchforks, raise my heavy eyebrows. I'll see how far the Rebellion Tsarevich is going." The children raise their eyebrows with a pitchfork, Koschey looks, announces that there is nothing to hurry, they must plow arable land, sow bread, reap, threshing, grind flour, bake bread, then he will go. After what has been done, Koschey goes, catches up with N., takes away the PP and does not order him to steal it anymore, otherwise he will severely punish her. N. takes RR away for the second time. The horse reports this to Koshchei. Koschey goes home, demands: "Seven children! Bring me seven pitchforks, raise my heavy eyebrows. I'll see if N is going far." The children raise their eyebrows with a pitchfork, Koschey looks, announces that they need to grind flour, bake bread, and then he will go. He catches up with N., whips him, does not tell him to return, otherwise he pulls one leg and tears him apart. N. takes RR away for the third time. The horse reports this to Koshchei. Koschey returns home, everything repeats itself, this time Koschey tears N. apart, throws, RR takes him away. The RR brothers see that the necklace left by N. has turned black, and one of them goes to look for it. A crow hit the body. He catches a crow, asks a crow to let him go, he tells it to bring alive and dead water, and ties bubbles to its wings so that it can collect from the dead sea and the living sea. Dead water makes the body grow together, N. gets up alive and says that he slept for a long time, but soon got up. The brothers persuade him not to save the RR, he does not agree, they teach him to go to the hero's widow, get her horses for three days, and get the worst foal. On the way, the Restless Prince stings the gadfly, asks him not to kill him, let him drink, then he will come in handy. N. wants to kill the wolf, catches pike, but releases them in exchange for a promise to come in handy. The widow has chained heroes who used to herd horses. She sends N. to watch 33 mares, who lie quietly in the field. N. falls asleep. When he wakes up, there are no mares. Gadflies, led by the one N. released, bring mares. He gives them back to her widow: her three daughters and 30 black girls. She scolds her daughters for not being able to escape, executes her eldest. The next day, N. falls asleep again, but wolves, led by the one he decided not to kill, bring mares, and the widow executes her middle daughter for this. On the third day, N. falls asleep, the mares disappear, but the pike causes a flood, horses float up and can only go ashore where N. The widow executes her third daughter, allows N. to choose from good stallions, he asks for a lousy foal, carries him on his shoulders, this is the elder brother of Koshcheev's horse. The foal asks him to let him go to his mother for a drink of milk to become stronger, and when he returns, throw his hat at him to stop him. The first time N. hits the neck with a hat, the second time the horse can walk by himself when he returns, N. hits his hat in the side, the third time he can already ride a horse, he rode from his mother, raising dust. N. takes N. to a cauldron with strong water, N. drinks, feels that there is no stronger hero, at the behest of the horse he drinks more, feels that he can pull the earth and sky into one place. The horse tells me to drink half more, N. says that he has lost half his strength, the horse says it's good, otherwise the earth would not wear it. The horse runs to the hero's widow, deceives her, saying that N. could not ride it, fell and died. She asks him to wear her husband's armor so that he can run in them, otherwise he will become a thin foal again, returns with them to N., who puts on armor and goes to Koshchei. On the advice of the horse, he sets a fire in the field, comes to Kashchei's house, takes the RR away. Koschey returns from the field, discovers the loss, and goes in pursuit. When N. comes to the fire, the horse rises high above it. Koschey makes his horse stand up. He says he can't get so high because his older brother is under N. Koschei tells him to rise, at this time N. attacks him, his horse also hits the rider with his hoof, Koschey falls right into the fire, burns]: Potanin 1902, No. 55:111-114; Western Ukrainians (Galicia, Sambir district) [the rich man begged God for his son, but went to the forest, the baby was lost; the forester raised him; when the guy was 20 years old, he ordered to tie the club (the first one was too light, ordered him to bind him harder), left wander; three pannas are swimming, he stole her middle dress and wings; married; once she asked for her back - she flies around the hut; flew out the window, told her to look for her on Oatmeal Mountain; the hermit whistled animals - no one knows Oatmeal Mountain; he sent him to his older brother; there - the same thing; to the oldest; the lion came last, the hermit tells him to take the guy; he drove, but threw him into failure; the guy got out; stopped the mill; promised to let him go again if the miller brought him to the princess; he hid the guy in a barrel of flour; she was brought to the palace; there he was not told to open the doors tied with bast; he came in; someone black asked for bread and water; the guy gave it, he took off and took the princess away; the guy came to the widow, hired to herd horses; the girl warned not to eat food, what they would offer was poison; he herds three of the day, he hits the horses with his club, brings him safe, the widow offers to choose whichever one he wants, he chose a skate; he twice asks for permission to be caught with the mother mare first; then brings him to the rock , on which the princess is black; the guy threw it at the black club and it disappeared]: M. Dragomanov in Pankeev 1992:124-130; Ukrainians (Kharkiv) [The princess gives birth to a son, her parents drive her away, cut off her arms, and tie the child to her back. She wants to get drunk at the well, her son asks her to put her hands in the water - she lowers her hands, her hands grow back. They live in an empty forest house. Ivan examines the house, finds a 12-headed snake on 12 chains in the barn ("tied with a bast, but covered with feces"), the snake asks him to drink - buckets of water and blood are next to him, Ivan refuses, forbids his mother enter the barn. In his absence, she comes in, gives water to the snake, he becomes handsome, convinces her to destroy her son - send her for rings, which can be obtained by driving between two shifting mountains. On the way, Ivan enters the hut, where the girl embroiders, she gives her horse so that Ivan can get to the mountains, and by the mountains, the horse orders him to fit into his right ear. Ivan takes out a bandura from there, puts it between the mountains, the mountains stopped playing bandura, picks up his rings. The mother pretends to be sick again, sends her son for snake fat, he gets the girl's horse again, who tells me to hit the snake when he wakes up (?) , she has been "cowardly" for 11 days and dies for 12 days. Ivan cuts out lard, brings his mother, she demands bear milk, he takes the girl's horse again, the horse advises to tie his sword "ear to ear", the bear asks not to kill her, and milks milk for Ivan. The horse jumps 12 miles in one jump, Ivan sees a mother with a dove in the house (a snake turned around), a bird flies out the window, Ivan chases her, his mother asks her son to throw his sword so as not to hurt himself, he listens, a snake takes on his form, kills Ivan, throws bones in the field. He is seen by three mermaids, the girl's sisters from the hut, each of them steps over Ivan's bones, heals, gets up, then speaks (the ability to speak as a stage in returning to life; then it's not clear - something cut off and made the biscuit and ate it). He marries a girl from a hut, kills a snake, puts his mother in front of two buckets - him and a snake - to see who she cries more about - him or a snake. He returns, sees that the bucket is full of snake, his mother leaves]: Grinchenko 1895, No. 1558:155-159; Belarusians: Vasilenok et al. 1958 [a matchmaker came for the elder, younger sister, they went out to the porch, blown away by the wind; brother Ivan the Peasant Son goes to look for them, enters the house, the hostess tells me to marry her; do not look through the door, which is tied with bast, covered with mud; he opened, there Kashchei is on chains; asked give him three buckets of wine and three breads, three alder logs and three aspen logs; ate and drank, broke the chains with logs, took Mary Krasa away; I. found M., took it; K. asks his three-legged horse if we will catch up; horse: have dinner and go to bed, we'll catch up in the morning; the old man returned M. twice; I. came to his sisters, alone married to the Sun in a copper house, his son-in-law gave a falcon; the second for Thunder in the silver house, gave a dog; I. for the third time took M., K. caught up with him and killed him; Thunder and the Sun grabbed the crows, ordered the crow to bring living and dead water, revived I.; he tells M. to find out where K.'s soul is; K.: island, oak, hollow, hare, duck, egg; Baba- Yagi must get a horse like K.'s; I. went for K.'s soul; let go of the queen of flies, she promised to help; the same crayfish king; sparrow; Baba Yaga tells mares to herd; flies, crayfish drive mares; they command choose a horse in a scab as a reward; Baba Yaga tells you to collect the sown poppy; sparrows collect; I. received a horse, he brought it to the island, I. got an egg with K.'s soul; I. took M., his horse told K.'s horse not approach; I. broke an egg, K. died]: 115-122; Romanov 1991, No. 23 [A landowner lived in a certain kingdom, he had a son and three daughters. When he died, he told his son to give his sisters to be the first to marry. Sisters and brother walk in the garden, it's raining, they hide in the house, and suddenly matchmakers arrive and pick up their older sister. This is repeated with middle and junior. Left alone, my brother (Ivan Ivanovich) takes a sword, saddles a horse and goes wherever his eyes look. He visits his younger sister, who first hides him from her husband (crow) in a chest, then, when she finds out that her husband would be happy with his brother-in-law, he lets him out, they feast for 3 days, when he leaves, he gives a "sign" - his handkerchief. Then he visits his middle sister, the falcon's wife, and the youngest, the eagle's wife. Each time the house is bigger, the oak is wider, the feast is longer; as an example, he gives a belt to a falcon and a clasp to an eagle. Ivan goes and sees the beaten force - it was Marya Mariana who fought with the snake Kostey. This is repeated three times. Ivan drives up to her palace, where he finds her asleep, decides not to cut off her head and lies down with her. When she wakes up, she also decides not to kill him, invites him to be her husband, and says that she does not want to marry Kostei. They're feasting for the wedding. Ivan goes to a cursed place in the garden, where he finds Kostey chained, who promises to get him three kingdoms if Ivan lets him go. Believing, Ivan cleans the snake, which is grabbed by Marya Mariana and flies with her to his kingdom. Ivan goes to Kostey's yard and his mother's hut, steals Marya Mariana while the serpent sleeps. The serpent catches up with Ivan on his horse in six races, brewing and drinking barley beer on her advice. He does not harm Ivan, takes Marya Mariana away from him ("stop the gift from tabe!"). This is repeated two more times (the distance increases), the third time the serpent takes off Ivan Ivanovich's head (this is the third hotel). According to the signs Ivan left to his brother-in-law, blood began to flow, and they rushed to look for him. The raven should have sniffed, the Falcon should fly fast, the Eagle should have looked closely. They find it and revive it with the help of "growing" and living water, and invite them to live. He refuses and goes again, this time on foot. I found a wedding in Kostey's yard. M. M. asks Kostey where to get a flying horse (in a certain kingdom and from an old woman). On the way, I. I. is hungry, trying to eat woodpeckers, bear cub, hive, crayfish, pike - fish, animals and insects promise to be useful to him if he is gone. The pike transports it to the other side of the lake. There are human heads sticking out on stakes. I.I. asks the old woman for a horse, she gives the task of herding her 12 horses (mares - her daughter) for three days, if I. I. will pay with his head. Woodpeckers (on the first day), bears (on the second) and bees (on the third) collect scattered horses. Crayfish drive horses out of the water. I. takes a foal covered with scab, the scab disappears, it becomes such a horse "what's scary to watch." Stealing M. M., Kostya rushes in pursuit, his stallion on the way decided that he would not serve "wrong blood", but would serve Christian blood. He rose high and threw off the snake, drove M. M. and remained in her possession]: 205-213; (cf. Belarusians [Vladyka allowed the widowed ass to marry the one who would have the dress of her deceased wife; she had a daughter; she went to the forest to her cell; food fell from the sky; the prince wandered there, took the popovna to wife; son Ivan was born; popovna saw his father, he asked for alms; invited him to the palace; he stabbed the child and put a knife in his daughter's pocket; she was expelled; she brought the body to her cell; 15 years later she saw how one snake revived another with grass; revived her son; I. found the devils' house, killed everyone, hung one on the hook; contrary to the ban, the mother went there; the devil asked for "a crack with his blood"; she filed he jumped off the hook; became her husband; ordered his son to be sent first to Fish Koshchei for the pig, then for golden and silver apples to the garden of the 12-headed serpent; I. took the princess out of the snake garden; they fled from the snake in monastery; the mother tests her son's strength: she wraps him in hemp, silk, then a copper "dart"; the devil began to beat him, blinded him, pinched him in a split pine tree; the cabbies released him, the "krinichnaya water" returned him eyesight; I. tortured the line to death; married that princess; ordered his mother to wear cast-iron shoes: when you tear it down, then your son will be]: Romanov 1887:66); Poles (Spish, Zdziar) [visiting the castle, The king treats a smock (dragon) chained to the wall with wine; the monster breaks its shackles and disappears, carrying the queen and warning that the king will find a wife if he fills the barrel with tears]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 422: 135; the Czechs [when leaving, the king and queen tell Janko's son to look after his three sisters; Sun, Wind, Month come successively, ask sister Y. to marry, all three agree, leave home; the king is pleased that his daughters have married kings; I go to visit them; the field is strewn with bones; the skull replies that everyone was defeated by the beautiful hero Ulyana; the same is in another field; I. enters the castle, changes her sword to one that hangs on the wall and jumps; W. wins, who offers to live with her; when she leaves, gives keys, forbids entering room 13; I discovered, where the fire dragon is chained to the wall with three hoops; says he is thirsty and asks for wine from the last barrel; after each jug he drinks, one hoop falls down; the dragon gives Y. life and takes W.; I. comes to the Sun, which is not knows where W. refers to the Month; the Month to the Wind; he replies that the dragon makes W. wash clothes for steep boiling water; he, the Wind, tries to cool the boiling water; I take W.; the dragon's winged horse raises the alarm, but says that there is nowhere to hurry - we will catch up; the dragon took W. and spared I., since he gave him one life; The wind reports that the witch has a dragon horse's brother overseas, who is faster him; the Sun, the Month and the Wind give Y. a peg (gold, silver, wooden) to call them for help; the wind brought me to the witch, who offers to herd three horses - her horse daughters turned into pigeons and they flew away, but the Wind drove them back and told them to put on their bridles; the next day they turned into ducks, the Month put a handkerchief into the lake, it was dry, I put on bridles again; on the third day, the horses turned into pine trees , The sun began to burn them, they had to become horses again; the Sun tells them to ask for a miserable oath as a reward; the witch tells them to milk the mares; the horse: call me before swimming in milk; the milk has boiled, but the skate drew in the heat, I became even more beautiful; the witch also decided to be beautiful, but the skate released the heat and it cooked; I washed the skate, it became mighty, winged; I took W., the dragon rides after , Y.'s horse tells his brother to throw off the dragon, the dragon fell into the abyss; I. brought his wife to his parents and received the throne from his father]: Nemtsova 1978:119-132; Slovaks [in the absence of the king and queen of their three daughters the Sun King, the Wind King and the King of the Month are married and taken away; when his parents return, Queen Janko goes to look for sisters; meets three times the place where people's bones lie, the skulls say that they have been beaten beautiful hero Uliana; I come to her palace, replaces the sword hanging on the wall, fights with W., who admits defeat, becomes his wife; when I leave, I allow me to open the doors of 12 rooms, forbids looking into the thirteenth; he breaks the ban, sees the Dragon chained, he gives him wine three times, each time the Dragon falls off another shackle; after the first time, the Dragon gives me a second life, then another one; after the third he flies away, taking W.; Y. finds sisters, the Sun King sends him to the King of the Month, that to the King of the Wind; he gives the horse that brings I. to the Dragon's Cave, I take W.; the horse The dragon tells him that he will have time to sleep for an hour and smoke for an hour, easily catches up with I., the Dragon takes one life from Me, takes W.; the same for the second time; the Dragon promises to tear the fugitives a third time; the king The wind tells you to get the brother of the magic horse that the Dragon rides; takes him across the sea to the witch; she tells three mares (this is her daughter) to herd three days, will kill him if he misses them; on the first day mares turn into cabbage rolls, fly away; the King of the Wind makes them go down, lets me throw the magic harness at them, the cabbage rolls become mares again; on the second day, the mares turn into ducks, The King of the Month dries the lake; on the third day, the mares turn into spruce trees, the Sun King sends heat, forcing them to regain their former appearance; advises the witch to reward a sick skate lying on a pile of manure; the witch tells me to milk mares, bathe in their milk; the milk boils, the skate cools it, I. becomes handsome; the witch wants to be beautiful, to become the wife of Y., the end brings the milk back the heat, the witch is cooked; on the way to the Dragon, the horse tells him to buy him, becomes a magnificent horse; I. takes W.; the horse Y. shouts to the Dragon's horse that the brother should not chase his brother; he throws the Dragon on the horse W. sits down, they will come to Y.'s parents; holiday, Y. gets the throne]: Nmcová 1970:150-163.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians: Byazirov 1971, No. 1 [the son of a witch from the Borata family (SK) with his son Malik (SK) go to marry the sister of seven giants, send their arrows as matchmakers; giants and the UK go hunting, tell their sister and SK does not open the seventh door; SM threatens to leave, the bride opens, the Waig from the Black Mountain (UCHG) is released, takes the girl; SK goes to look for her; meets, takes the Sea Drinker as a friend (he shoots after UCHG, tears off his leg), Zorky, Carrying mountains and valleys on his back, each in response says that he is not amazing, but SK and SM; UCHG goes underground; only the SK was able to push the stone, go down on a rope through the flame; sends the girl upstairs, the comrades remove the rope, fill the exit with a stone; the UK tells an old woman, whose fang touches the sky, the other rests on the ground, to tell her how to kill the UCHG (burn, he burns), get upstairs (grab the horn of a white ram); SK grabs the black horn, which takes it even lower to Donbettyr's world; there the dragon closed the water; swallows the SK, which cuts it from the inside, refuses to be belched, spit out, goes over her side, the dragon breathes out; Tsar Donbettyrov sends the UK to the Black Eagle; the UK hears one of her daughters singing (her snake will eat her the day after tomorrow), the other laughs (her tomorrow), the third cries (it will be eaten today); SK is killed by a snake; a downpour begins (eagle tears), the sun shines (the eagle sees that her daughters are alive), a whirlwind (flies); the eagle brings the UK to the ground, it feeds it the supplies given by the Donbettyrs; they are not enough, the UK cuts off the meat from the hips; the eagle puts it back; the swineherd says that three brought the sister of seven giants, the king took her away, marries; the UK changes with clothes with a swineherd, the eldest princess chooses him when she sees his golden curls under her hat; everyone tries the SK quiver and arrows; the SK takes them, puts on gold clothes, destroys guests with arrows, takes their wives himself and SM]: 5-19; Dzagurov 1973, No. 32 [Aldar has 3 daughters, he keeps them in an iron tower; later Soslanbek's son was born; the widow's daughter went to fetch water; S. fired an arrow and smashed her jugs; the widow teaches The next time the girl told S.: I would find it better than my sisters; the mother had to confess, S. came to the sisters, they asked him to beg his parents to let them go to church for the holiday; after the service three monsters kidnapped the girls; parents tell S. to find them; while S. was sleeping, an elephant came out of the river, swallowed S.'s horse and told him to sit on it; consistently brings him to his three sisters; they give a ring, a knife , the purse to call them if necessary; S. refuses to marry beauties whose portraits are shown and seeks to be shown the hidden portrait; the father-in-law of the S. sisters is the dragon Zaliag Kalm; he sleeps, surrounded by an iron fence with his body; S. cut the dragon, entered, to meet his daughter, beautiful Sugar; she gave him sleeping pills, ordered him to be thrown into the tower; S. summoned the horsemen from the ring, they released him, but when he saw Sahar, S. lost consciousness and Sahar took his ring; the same with a knife; the heroes came out of his purse, and S. hid him in advance; after that, Sahar agreed to become S.'s wife; ordered not to unlock the seventh room; S. unlocked, the giant Khatag-Barag and his horse are chained there; HB asks to throw them bread and hay, promises to provide three services; after being free, HB took Sugar; S. comes three times He takes him to her, but HB catches up every time; for the fourth time he chopped S. to pieces; his sisters caught a crow; told his mother to bring living water, otherwise they would tear the crow to shreds; reviving S., sisters they told him to get the half-brother of the horse HB; the owner of the herd tells him to herd him without loss: either he will give the horse or cut off the shepherd's head; on the way, S. wanted to kill, but let the wolf, the fox and the wasp go; each of A herd gathers them in the evening; the mare must give birth, the witch beat her; in revenge, the mare told S. that it is necessary to choose the foal she will give birth to, although he seems weak; the foal tells wait three days, becomes a heroic horse; tells you to get into one ear, get out of the other - S. became a hero in a golden robe; S. took Sugar away; when HB caught up and took off to hit S. from above, S.'s horse was taller and S. killed HB; everything is fine], 45 [voice from the source to a childless aldar: slaughter a black chicken and let his wife eat boiled goiter; the crawler was eaten by a dog, she was born a golden-haired a boy, and his wife's Aldar is an ordinary one; they came to the Waigs to marry their sister for their son Aldar; waigi: go up from a full bowl to a tree and go down without splashing; the son of the female fulfilled; get an apple from tall apple trees (suki's son cut a tree); Aldar's son was given a wife; son suki and son waigi hunt, and Aldar's son and his wife were 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 tore the chains, took away the wife of Aldar's son; the son of the female went in search; met and accompanied 1) a priest carrying a church on his head; 2) running for a hare with millstones on his legs; 3) drinking the sea; there is a hole in the ground, the companions ordered them to be lifted back - it's hot; the son of the female went down, there is the wife of Aldar's son; he teaches you to find out from Waig 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 the boar there is a roe deer, in it a casket, there are three swallows in it; the son of a female killed a boar, tore off his heads two swallows, and when he came to the Waig, he tore off the last one; sent the woman up; then tied a block of wood - the companions cut off the rope; in the corner of the house, the female's son sees the mother of the Waiga, one fang above the sky, the other in underworld; she tells him to grab the right horn of a ram, which accidentally grabs the left horn, does not rise to the ground, but falls into the seventh lower world; there the dragon locked the water, once a year he is given a girl , Aldar's daughter's turn; the son of a female dresses as a girl, cut down a dragon; refuses Aldar's daughter, asks for a way to earth; kills a Zaliaga snake, which regularly devoured eagle chicks; went heavy rain (eagle's tear), sizzling sun sparkled (mother saw that the chicks were alive, light from her eyes), wind (from her wings); eagle orders to cook bulls and wineskins with beer; the last piece is the son of a female cut off from his leg, the eagle put it back; the herdsmen say that the priest who wore the church is getting married; the female's son asked to give the bride the ring, she recognized it; the female's son cut down his companions, brought Waig sister to Aldar's son; on the way home, the devils put a bed for the couple, they petrified; the suki's son returned behind the Waig whip and revived the couple; he also rejuvenated Aldar and his wife with it]: 80-91, 162-177; Ingush [little Fusht-Bagh stops crying when his father promises to marry him to Jinagaz; F. grows up, goes looking for J.; catches a hare, he turns into a beautiful woman, that's J.; promises come to him a week later; stepmother sends a servant to put F. to sleep, J. cannot wake up; after the third time she leaves the ring, leaves for good; F. meets the maid J., throws J.'s ring into her jug, she recognizes him, keeps him; forbids him to enter the last room in the palace; F. comes in, there is a chained garbash (monster), F. agrees to free his hand, the garbash breaks out, now he is the master; F. and J. run, the three-legged harbash horse replies that after eating, we will catch up, and without eating we will catch up; easily catches up with the fugitives, the garbash forgives F.; J. tells how the harbash got the foal; three nights we must herd mares witches; in the end, one necklace, birds of prey rushed to the foal; the harbash held it with one hand, fought off the birds with the other sword, one eagle tore off the foal's front leg, but still grew out of his horse is the fastest; F. rides, saves an eagle, a fox, a fish; herds mares, they run away, an eagle, a fox, collect a fish, F. gets a four-legged foal; the three-legged cannot catch up with him; the horse brothers they agree to throw the harbash, he falls into a hole, covers him with earth; F. brings J. to his home]: Bulatova 1985:133-141; Avars [the guy lives with the girl; she goes to visit her father, does not tell open one room; he opens, there is a clad sledge, asks for a drink, the young man gives, the sledge frees up, flies away, taking the girl away; the young man comes for her, takes her away, the sledge on a wind horse easily catches up, takes away ; the third time he promises to kill; the young man asks the girl to find out where the soul of the sledge is; he says that she is wearing a broom; then he says that three eggs in a tree chest in the middle of the lake can get there only on a wind horse, and his sister has such a horse; the young man walks, saves ants, bees, fish along the way; the sledge's sister demands that her horses be herded; the horses go into the ground, but the ants drive them back; the second time bees drive; sledge's sister gives a wind horse, a young man destroys the soul of a sledge, takes his wife]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 26:269-271; Georgians [the prince breaks the old woman's jug with an arrow; she tells him fall in love with the sister of 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 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 Kremen-deva locked; he grabs the prince's wife, flies away; the SS takes the priest carrying the church as his companions, water bread (drinks the river), rumor (listens to ant war), eyed (watches the arrow fly for a year), tearing mountains, running with turf on his feet; they find Kremen-deva, descend the SS underground; The kidnapped person 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]: Kurdovanidze 1988, No. 32:83-94; Georgians [the vizier promises to find a boy indistinguishable from the prince; finds among the Tushin shepherds; the king's wife is afraid that the shepherd's son will get the throne, the king orders to weave an extra thread into her son's dress; the shepherd's son is offended, both young men are leaving; Gveleshapi surrounds them, tells them to bring an unborn girl, leaves the prince hostage; Tushin's son comes to the old woman, she throws a tree into the sea until the waves have poured off, tells him to grab a reed from the bottom, a girl in it; they are captivated by the virgins, the son of the carcass gouges out his only eye; gives food and water to a bearded dwarf chained by a maiden, who breaks his chains, takes him away a girl; a carcass's son kills a hanger, who once every seven years devoured the chicks of the Pascunji bird; a grateful bird brings him to the entrance to the underground forest; he raises a stone, a foal's bridle and a bottle under it with the soul of a dwarf; she breaks, a dwarf dies, a foal carries a boy and girl to the ground; Gveleshapi turns out to be a girl bewitched by a dwarf; to be disgraced, she had to see a miracle - an unborn girl]: Chikovani; 1986:88-94; Armenians (Ararat Valley) [the poor man and his wife were giving birth to the city of Turtamba, but it was too late and the gatekeeper did not let them in; the wife gave birth boy; the king had a dream: the one born at the city wall would tear his head off; the king ordered to buy and kill the baby, but the servant moistened the diapers with the blood of a bird, left the boy under the bush; the doe fed him; he became incredibly strong; the king's servants hardly managed to capture him; his name is Jeyran-ogly; he quickly learned science; the prince is not allowed into the 40th room, he entered, there is a portrait of a beautiful woman, he went in search , D. with him; the devas are amazed at D.'s strength, unquestioningly gave their sister to the prince; while she was sleeping, the prince took the keys tied to her braids, unlocked the rooms; in one white deva, pilaf and water in front of him, but not reach out; the prince tied the chain, the dev pulled up the cauldrons, ate and drank everything, broke the chains and took the prince's fiancée; D. went to take her away, and the devas chained the prince to a pole and put a lamp on his head ; D. cut off the white maiden's head, brought the girl, cut off the heads of five devas, spared two; the king realized that D. was the boy he had dreamed of; ordered the servant who had spared the boy to be beheaded; D. hears three pigeons talking; the king will send a horse for D. to sit on, you will burn; he will be locked in a room with a snake; if a drop of her blood touches his body, D. will petrify; D. tells the groom to sit on the horse; D. killed a snake, but petrified; the prince's wife dreamed that it was necessary to kill her two children and moisten the stone with their blood; she did so, D. came to life; cut off the king's legs first and then his head]: Ioannisian 1968:136-145.

Iran - Central Asia. The Persians [Wolf, Leo, Eagle marry three daughters of the deceased Shah; their brother Malek-Ahmad is hired by a Jew; he feeds him for 39 days, tells him to slaughter a camel on the fortieth, climb inside; birds they take MA to the mountain; a Jew tells her to drop gems, leaves; MA comes to a dirty old woman, washes her; this is the mother of divas, she asks her sons not to kill him; he opens the forbidden forty-first door; there Yusuf Shah Peri is thirsty; MA gives him water, he breaks his chains, gives his seal, flies to Mount Kof; outside the forty-second door there is a garden and a stream, MA steals the clothes of one of the three dove girls; the wife gives birth two boys, divas bring them down to the ground; the wife asks for her clothes, tells them to come to Mount Kof for them; MA again hires a Jew unrecognized, kills him by throwing a stone at his head from the mountain; divas forgive him , but do not know the way to Kof; asks his uncle; this is a wolf who married MA's older sister; the wolf does not know, sends a lion to his brother (middle sister's husband); the lion sends to the eagle (the husband of the younger sister) ; the eagle summons the birds; the small bird was the last to appear; says that her grandmother knows, but she can no longer fly; the eagle promises to send food to the grandmother; she eats for 40 days; then tells her to cook 40 lambs fat tails and 40 wineskins with sorbet; the meat runs out, MA cuts off a piece of the thigh; when the goal is reached, the bird puts the meat back; MA shows Yusuf the seal; Yu is the brother of MA's wife; sends his sister, her husband and sons to land with gifts; without MA, there is drought, hunger; MA is made a shah, abundance comes]: Osmanov 1987:243-250; the Bartangans [the king gave his son the keys to 40 treasuries, but did not give one; the prince stole keys, found a portrait in a chest, fainted; the king had to let his son go look for a beautiful woman; Vezirbach ("the vizier's son") caught up with him and went with him; they came to that girl's house; she has 12 brothers, they are not they can raise the cauldron, V. picked up alone; the diva brothers came, V. broke their arms; the prince and the divas ate a portion, and B. 12 carcasses of meat; the divas gave their sister to the prince; gave the keys to 40 rooms, and not one Dali; the prince broke the castle, there were divas on chains; asked for water; after drinking water, he tied the prince with his hair and took his wife to the next world; V. went in search, telling him to wait 110 days; as soon as V. left, the divas tied up the prince and left; but the lame divas untied and tied them again for their return; V. ate bread from that diva's sister, went down to the lake for the diva; there the prince's price is looking for a diva in his beard; V. killed a diva; sent the girl upstairs; when he was pulled out, when he saw that he was not a diva, he was thrown back; V. came to the old woman's house; at night he went out: laughter on one side, crying on the other; the dragon demands every morning a man, a jug of butter and two bags of bread; it was the turn of the king's daughter; V. fell asleep with his head on her lap; woke up from a fallen tear; cut down all 7 dragon heads; the dragon became a bridge over the river; the servant said that he killed the dragon, but only V. was able to raise his heads; the king gave V. the bird Simurg; V. sat on one wing himself, loaded a supply of meat on the other; Simurg carried it to the ground, gave a white feather and a black feather; so that to be an old man, you have to stick white in your head and black in your head; there was a fight for that girl, V. took her away; the prince did not complain about the diva brothers for tying him up; he returned home with V. and his wife; his father went blind; the prince rubbed his eyes with a handkerchief and he saw the light; everything is fine]: Sokolova 1960, No. 6:32-40.

Baltoscandia. Estonians (Rannu) [when he dies, the forester bequeaths his son to take care of the landlord's forest, but not to go to one place; he goes, there the devils are fighting over bast shoes (speeders), hats (he sees everything), a sheepskin coat ( makes him invisible); the forester shoots, promises to award things to the one who brings the pellets that have flown earlier; six swans fly by, he wears bast shoes behind them; they swim in the lake, taking off their feather clothes; he hides clothes alone, takes them as wives; they have a son; the wife laughs; promises to tell you what if he shows where her clothes are; tells a funny story about the devil; the husband opens the chest; the wife grabs clothes flies away; he comes to an empty house, there is food, drink, goes to bed; six Swans come in; each says that someone ate her bread, slept on her bed; the wife finds her husband in her bed; flies away for her son, tells the husband does not go into the same room; he comes in, there is an old devil chained; asks for water, the forester gives, the devil drinks three times, breaks the chains, waits for the forester's wife, takes her away; the forester finds, takes his wife, hell catches up, carries away again; so twice, the third time he kills; previously the forester picked up and saved a half-dead wolf; now the vorons and vorons have flocked to peck the forester's corpse, the wolf caught the crow; promised return the crow if he brings living water; he brought it, the wolf revived the forester; the forester's mother sends him to a far clever old man; he says that a witch lives overseas, her white mare every a year brings 12 foals; human heads on stakes, one stake is empty; if you herd for 3 days, you get a foal, you must take the most inconspicuous one; the king of midges, the king of horseflies and the king of crayfish will help to herd; the forester does everything, takes his wife away; the horse says he will not catch up, because his brother is stronger than him; both horses kill the devil, the forester and his wife come home to them]: Järv et al. 2009, No. 14:78-84.

Volga - Perm. Marie (meadow) [when dying, father tells Ivan to pass off three sisters as the first to marry them; they are taken by Raven, Kite, Hawk; I. finds a portrait of Maria Marievna in his father's chest, leaves her search; comes to her first sister; her husband arrives, sits on three oaks, they go into the ground, he turns into a man; gives him a magic towel, I. leaves his ring, if it turns black, he is in trouble; the same with the other two sons-in-law; the Kite gives a magic tablecloth, the Hawk gives a ring; teaches to feed the captured MM suitors first, she keeps them like pigs; locked with his suitors I. reveals the magic towel, everyone is feasting; gives it to MM for permission to touch her breasts; tablecloth for permission to touch her hair; ring: MM lies on the bed, I. kisses her {presumably not only}; MM leaves I. at home; MM goes to war, leaves the keys, allows the suitors to be released, forbids unlocking one door with 12 keys; I. unlocks, there is a 12-headed dragon on chains; asks for a bottle of green water; drinks, breaks chains, flies away, takes MM, giving I. three lives; I. arrives, takes MM, the horse answers the dragon that we will have time to sow rye, make beer, drink it, then we will catch up; the dragon catches up, takes one life (century) and MM; so three times; the fourth time the dragon kills I., descends into the sea in a barrel; the Raven, Kite, Hawk rings have turned black; The Hawk finds a barrel, splices pieces of I.'s body, the Raven revives him live water; The Hawk tells MM to find out from the dragon where he got such a fast horse; brings him to MM; I. overhears how the dragon explains: he herded 300 horses to Yaga the Lamb; MM gives I. a tablecloth to make a bridge across the sea; I. is a good shepherdess, daughters Y. persuade her mother to give I. a horse; I. takes MM away again, I.'s horse tells his brother to throw off the dragon, he dies, MM sits on his horse; wedding, I.'s son-in-law also feast on it]: Chetkarev 1941, No. 9:160-169; Kazan Tatars [the padishah has three daughters and a son; the son is lost; three horsemen consistently promise to take him home if he gives his sister; for the third time he agrees; in the morning the sisters were taken away; the brother goes in search; comes to the old mother of those horsemen; she shows the way; the sons-in-law are divas, everyone gives a pouch; the brother comes to the daughter of the padishah; who sees her, faints; he unties the first pouch, tables with food appear; the princess asks for a pouch; when the young man gives the third, he tells his friend to tie him to the princess; the padishah marries them; tells them not unlock the twelfth room; the young man unlocks, there is a 12-headed diva, asks for water, promises to save him from three deaths, breaks his chains and takes his wife; the young man finds his wife, tells him to know where the diva's soul is; meets twice a diva, who takes away three gifts of life from him; his wife decorates a broom; a poker; the third time, the diva admits that his soul is in an egg, in a duck, in a chest, on a bull's back in the sea; sons-in-law helps to grab a bull, get an egg; the young man broke the egg, the divas died, the young man took his wife; then killed his sons-in-law in the same way]: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 64:315-321; Bashkirs: Barag1988, No. 56 [the whirlwind consistently takes three daughters 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. answers, 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. took out his 6-winged horse from her; 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, cat pulls them out swallowed by 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 out a chest from under it, kills a duck that flew out of it takes three eggs from it, K.'s soul is in them; K. kills, returns home with LP]: 389-402; 1989, No. 11 [{confused text, the narrator confused the stories}; the mole and the crow sowed bread, did not share harvest, the war between birds and four-legged animals began; the tired bird Samrigush asked the man to feed her; the wife is dissatisfied, orders to shoot; the man took a gun three times, but did not shoot; three years later S. took the man to her home; dropped and picked him up three times so that he would also feel afraid; tells the old woman to ask for a copper bridle, a rusty sword and a carpet; you have to ring a bridle, a seedy horse will appear, Put the folded carpet like a saddle, do not turn it home; the man turned around, there is food, but he cannot turn and the horse no longer obeys; the old man turned, ordering to give what the person at home does not know; this son; became rich at home; the old man took his son; sewed a horse into a corpse; the beast took him to the river, the young man went out, 12 swan girls flew to swim, he hid the wings of the youngest Maysarwar; she brought him to the old woman; she tells 1) to uproot the forest overnight, sow, harvest, bake bread; 2) sew boots with one hand while the straw is burning (M. does everything); 3) tame the horse, tie it to a pole (the horse is an old woman); M. teaches what bridle to take than to beat; 4) distinguish M. among the 12 sisters (they write, M. one letter is red); the young man gets M.; she tells not to unlock the 41st room; he unlocked, there is a giant, asks for a drink, is free, said that he would take M.; M. and her husband were running, the giant caught up, took it away; they were running again, 11 sisters were chasing, M. was a haystack, her husband was a wattle fence, the sisters were back; the swineherd and the pig (the giant did not recognize, but the old woman caught up, I found out, took it away by M.); the husband goes to look for, feeds bears, wasps, snakes; the old woman tells them to herd horses, bears, wasps, snakes drive them back; for work, the young man asked for a bridle, a rusty sword, a carpet {as at the beginning}; the young man runs with M. again, the old woman and the giant have become big, M. and her husband have a chicken with a rooster, hid the cereal; the husband leaves M. at the edge of the village; she becomes an old woman, he does not want her; wants to take another one, but M. turned him into a monkey; then released him, beautiful herself, everything is fine], 42 [the young man is hired to work for a girl; she forbids unlocking one of the rooms; there is a devil asking for bread, water; the young man gives, the girl returns when the devil breaks the last chains, goes to bed; first replies that his soul is in a pole, in a broom in the bath; the girl tells me to bring them; dev admits that there are two pigeon eggs in a box at the bottom lakes, a spider weaved a web over them; a young man goes to search, saves a bear, wolf, bees along the way; hires to herd the sorcerer's horses; horses run away, bear, wolf, bees collect them every time; an inferior horse He tells him to ask for a reward; the horse dives, the lake is covered in blood, the young man pulls him out; next time the water turns white, the horse takes a box from the bottom; the young man breaks eggs on the deva's body, takes the girl as his wife]: 74-86, 194- 198.

Turkestan. Kyrgyz [Khan named Garshas has only son; returning 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 jumped, jumped over the fortress wall; 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 Ethirmat and ran away; E. he 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. was killed; he took E. for himself; said that he was looking for a beautiful woman from Chungmagun city (apparently Chin-Machin); E. asks to leave him to sleep for 40 days, and then promises to get a girl; tells him to wait 40 days; on the way to Cinmagun, each bridge was guarded by 5 guards; on the bridge bells; E. turned into a child, took water in his mouth, 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 believed it; by evening he fell ill, he was taken to the mountains and left; 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 how to play with tying eye 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 his horses, they carried away the riders unknown where; 40 dogs, E. threw them bones; sycamore tree 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's 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 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 in trouble, E. woke up, he went to the house of the devas, 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, who asks him to untie; became a black deva and does not tell you to untie the redhead; she untied her, 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 the girl must pinch her son to cry; say she wants to know where the deva's soul is; dev: go all the land 7 times to get to a place where there are two mountains; at their foot there is a lake, grazes by the lake Capricorn, 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 man, tells the deva to let the prisoners go; dev let go , E. took him to his home in Kuikap (Mount Kaf); put a yurt to 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 bathed; 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 a scorpion hidden by Ethirmat's elder daughter-in-law; E. drove her 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.

Western Siberia. Northern Khanty (Kazim dialect) [Little Man-Power lives with three sisters on the holy cape; at night someone orders his older sister to be taken out; the next night the middle sister; the youngest; he comes to the royal city, stays with a woman with a seven-planted braid; the wife leaves the keys, tells not to unlock the eighth barn; he unlocked, there a one-eyed kul is nailed to the beam; asks for water; drinks, breaks down, takes his wife MMM; MMM goes looking, consistently comes to his sisters; they are married to Wolverine, Bear, Wolf; The wolf gives a ball of thread, followed by the sea, on the island the house of a one-eyed kul; when he falls asleep, he must cut him with a sword; his wife turns MMM into a needle; MMM cut the cake; but he still chases them, cut MMM into pieces, threw them down; sons-in-law caught pieces in the water, revived them; that She comes to his wife again, she turns him into a thimble; Kul sleeps like a snake; MMM cut him, returned home with his wife on a winged horse]: Steinitz 2014, No. 15:110-122.

Eastern Siberia. Northeastern Yakuts (materials from the Srednekolyma Expedition of 1964) [Labanchachaan Labanha has three sisters; Execu demanded an older sister, then middle and younger; LL came to the mound, from there was smoke, there was an older sister; Mongus came, smashed the house, LL ran away; came to the middle one, to younger sister; met a woman and got married; wife gives keys, forbids him to enter the eighth barn; LL opens it, there is a man nailed to the wall; LL decided to release him, but could not; out of anger hit him on the head, everything is gone; LL ended his life as a wanderer]: Ergis 1967b, No. 91:178-179; Evens [someone demands that a man marry his older sister; he refuses, someone hides on three days of sun, you have to give it away; the same with middle and younger; a man goes looking for them, marries a girl; she forbids entering the barn; a man comes in; one-legged Cholare, chained to a pole, asks him release; the man frees, he takes his wife; the man finds sisters, each says that C. was chained by their husbands; the man helps a deer, a burbot, a cowshed builder; they help him, he kills C. and his mother]: Kozlov 1956:286-296.

Japan. The Japanese (Tohoku) [the maiden in heaven hears the young man playing the flute and goes down to it; the local ruler wants to take her away; to do this, she gives her husband difficult assignments, he does them with help wives; they go to visit his wife's heavenly parents; the husband receives magic rice as a gift; sees the ogre in chains and gives him rice; he breaks his chains and takes the wife of his liberator; the husband goes in search; his wife hears the sound of his flute, hides it in the house; as in No. 312C]: Ikeda 1971, No. 312D: 77.