K163. Aladin's lamp, ATU 561. .14.-.17.23.27.-.32.
Themagician tells the young man to get a magic object (often a lamp) from a remote place. The young man finds an item (but refuses to give it back). The spirit that appears from the object fulfills the young man's wishes.
TheKabiles and other Berbers of Algeria, Arabs of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Basques, Catalans, (Maltese), Corsicans, Sardinians, Sicilians, Italians (Veneto, Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Calabria, Puglia), Ladins, Dutch, Flemish, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Pomerania, Bavaria), Irish, Thousand and One Nights, Arabs of Iraq, Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen, Santals, Slovenes, Croats, Bosnians, Romanians, Albanians, Greeks, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Voronezh, Oryol, Ryazan), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Galicia), Belarusians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Abazins, Balkarians, Stavropol Turkmens, Ossetians, Ingush, Tatas, Georgians, Armenians, Turks, Ishkashim, Latvians, Lutsi, Lithuanians, Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, Western Sami, Estonians, Finns, Karelians, Mari.
{Uther 2004 refers to a Kalmyk text in Vatagin 1964; this story is not there}
North Africa. The Berbers of Algeria (Mzab) [the father died, leaving his son a dog, cat and bird {apparently a hunting falcon}; he hunted with them; the Jew invited the young man to go down somewhere, get the money and then share ; the young man saw a ring there, put it on; he offered to fulfill any wishes; the young man said to the Jew that he had found nothing; asked his horse's ring and good clothes, told his mother to marry him the princess; the king demands a golden palace, 40 blacks with burdens of gold and silver; the young man creates everything and gets a wife; while he is hunting, a Jew comes with a bunch of rings, asks the princess to show her his, replaces him, takes away the gold palace; the young man returns his wife to her father, goes in search himself; sends a bird to find the golden palace; then the bird brings a cat there, which tells the rats to enter the palace; they tickle the Jew's nose, he sneezes , the ring falls out of the nostril, the rats brought it to the cat; on the way back, the bird and the cat are arguing which of them will give the ring to the owner; the ring fell into the sea; on the shore, the cat rubs its tail against the sand; fish: what are you you doing it? cat: I want to dry the sea to kill the fish; the fish found the one on which the ring fell, brought the ring to the cat; after receiving the ring, the young man returned the palace, his wife, and after the death of the king he reigned]: Basset 1897, No. 116:138-144; the Arabs of Tunisia (the same as the Arabs of Iraq) [childless parents finally have a son; they keep him locked up; he goes out, meets a dervish, who leads him to fail with treasures, asks to get them; notice how interested the dervish is in the old lamp, the young man killed the dervish, took the lamp; it contains 7 wish-fulfilling spirits; the young man asks them for something valuable, for which he receives the princess; the wife, not knowing the value of the lamp, changes it to the one offered by the dervish who came; he carries the palace and the princess; the young man still has a magic ring; he meets his wife, agrees with her, she gave the dervish a drink, took the lamp, the young man killed the dervish; the lamp says that a third dervish is hunting for her; he penetrates the princess, but the young man kills him]: Nowak 1969, No. 217:214; kabila, Arabs of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt: El-Shamy 2004, No. 561:316-319
Southern Europe. Catalans (Mallorca included) [the hero finds a magic lamp; if rubbed, a spirit appears that fulfills wishes; the hero orders to create a castle, gets a princess; one of the relatives the hero offers the servant to change the {clay} lamp to a gold one, transfers the princess and the castle to a remote place; with the help of assistant animals and magic items, the hero returns everything]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, № 561:124 (one of the texts in Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 561 [the poor man has three sons; the gentleman promises a good reward, takes one of the young men, lowers him into the well, fills the buckets with treasures, then kills {it seems by throwing a stone}; the same happens to the second brother; the third remains alive, but the master leaves thinking that he is dead; the young man finds the ring, and the spirit doing the work appears out of it; (etc.)]: 552-558; {there are no Spanish and Portuguese versions}); the Basques [three soldiers were coming; they took out raw potatoes, others asked them to share them; he sent them to a place where they could dig potatoes, and he ran away; asked the woman to spend the night; in the morning, as a payment, she offered him to go to the castle, which was guarded by three dogs; let him bring her a black candle from there; the soldier gave the dogs bread, took a candle, but did not give it to the woman, but paid with money, which was also in the castle; stopped at the inn, began to count the money; the owner told the king; the king called the soldier to play for money; the soldier lit the candle, the spirit and the candles asked what was needed; the soldier asked for a constant win; the king threw the soldier into prison, sent servants to kill him; the spirit of the candle killed the royal servants; the king married the soldier to his daughter; after learning about a candle that summoned the spirit herself, returned to my father, married another, and sent a soldier to a distant and deserted country; eagle: you killed many people, I ate meat, ready to help; carried the soldier back to to the king's palace; on the way, the eagle left the soldier, flew to look for water, but returned; asked the maid to bring a candle; sent the princess to the east of the sun and her husband to the west]: Camarena, Chevallier 1995 , No. 590A: 426-428; Italians (Veneto, Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Calabria, Puglia), Sicilians, Sardinians: Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 561:131-132; Ladina [the widow's son herded goats, found himself at the old man's hut in the evening; he offered to spend the night with him, and in the morning asked him to go down to the hole and get a lamp; demanded that the boy first send up the lamp and only then he would pick it up himself; the boy refused and the old man left him downstairs; when he accidentally rubbed the lamp, three spirits appeared and asked what to do; the boy wished again to be in his mother's house; the old man made a new lamp and went to offer it in exchange for the old one; the boy's mother gladly changed; the son returned to an old man who was not at home, found a lamp under the bed and He told his mother not to touch her again; he grew up and told his mother to ask the king for his daughter as his wife; the king laughed; then the young man declared war on the king and brought an army; the king gave him a daughter; the young man created a castle; but the old man came and took the lamp, the young woke up lying in the meadow, the king took them home; but the young man again got the lamp and created an even more luxurious palace; he told the king everything and advised them to hide it a lamp; the king tied a stone to it and threw it into the water; the young man and the princess lived happily in their palace]: Uffer 1973, No. 25:100-103 (=Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, No. 82:369-372); Corsicans: Uther 2004 (1), No. 561:329-330; (cf. Italians (Tuscany) [the fish promises the guy all his wishes come true; if he wishes, the princess becomes pregnant and gives birth to a boy; he indicates three times who his father is; the first time the groom is rejected due to his poverty, the second because of his unknown origin; the third time a young man creates a palace; the fish gave the young man a magic lamp; his wife sells it, the young man becomes poor again and expelled]: D'Aronco 1953, No. 675: 86; Maltese [in a house on a golden mountain, a young man shoves off a lamp with his foot and hears a voice: Order! using the spirit of the lamp, he creates a castle of gold and silver bricks that appears in front of the royal one; a young man marries a princess and receives the throne; his former employee comes in the form of a beggar and changes a magic lamp for an ordinary one (the maid advised the young man's wife to do this); the young man goes in search; three giants are fighting for a magic tablecloth, speeders and an invisible cloak, objects go to the young man; the invisible, the young man comes to the mother of the winds (southwest, west, northwest); their mother promises them not to harm the young man; the west wind leads the young man to his wife; she offers the kidnapper compete to see who drinks more; they take the lamp, leaving the kidnapper chained, and the petrel bites his meat]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 561:194-195).
Western Europe. The French (quite a few versions) [a sorcerer comes to the poor young man, says he is his uncle; he brings him to the forest, there is a hole covered with a stove, at the bottom of a snake; the sorcerer tells the young man to get an old one from the bottom a lamp, two new ones are not needed; he is afraid; the sorcerer threw him into the hole and left; the young man rubbed the old lamp, the spirit appeared, offered to do everything; the king will give his daughter to someone who makes a cradle, a bed, a table that does not exist neither on earth nor in heaven; the spirit did everything, the young man received the princess, created a castle; the sorcerer came disguised as an old woman to change the old lamps to new ones; the wife gave the lamp, the sorcerer moved the castle and the princess overseas; the king ordered the capture of his son-in-law, but postponed the execution for a year and one day; (further in different versions, different episodes, but as a result, the young man returns everything)]: Delarue, Tenèze 1964: No. 561:402-407; Germans ( Bavaria) [for three nights in a row, a soldier dreams that he will be king of Prussia; went on a journey; an old woman in the woods: I can make you king; go down into the crevice and bring a lamp from there; it stands there Iron man, but don't be afraid of him; the soldier brought a lamp, but did not give it to the old woman, but went to town; lost money at cards and owed; lit a lamp, Iron Man appeared: what you need; soldier: money; paid the debt and won back what he lost; asked the iron violin; began to play, the princess asked to sell the violin; soldier: I'll give it away for free if you come; she sent a maid of honor; the same with the second violin; the third time the princess came by herself, and then gave birth; guards were sent for the soldier, but the iron man went out to meet and killed the messengers; then they took the soldier and were about to be executed, but he asked permission light a lamp; an iron man made a pogrom; a soldier received a princess and became king of Prussia]: Spiegel 1914, No. 7:10-13; Dutch, Flemish, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Pomerania), Irish: Uther 2004 (1), No. 561:329-330.
Western Asia. A thousand and one nights [the tailor's son, Ala al-Din, does not bring money into the house; the tailor dies; the Maghrebin sorcerer appears to be the brother of the deceased, gives money to A.; promises wealth; brings A. to the mountain ; witches over fire; a door appears out of the ground; according to the horoscope, the sorcerer will not be able to get the treasure without A.; the treasure lies in the name of A.; A. calls his name above the stove; the stove opens; the sorcerer forbids touch things except the lamp in the last room; to take the lamp, it must be extinguished; gives a charm ring; in the dungeon A. collects stones from trees; cannot go out; sorcerer demands a lamp; A. refuses to give it until he comes out; the sorcerer closes the exit; A. accidentally rubs the ring; efreet appears; A. asks to bring it to the surface; returns to his mother; there is no food in the house; the son decides to sell the lamp; the mother cleans it; efreet appears, brings the table and meals with food; A. and his mother sell food and table for a low price to a Jew, spend money; A. rubs the lamp again; repeats request; efreet brings the same table with food, A. sells it to a Muslim for a real price; gets rich; learns about the value of her stones; all shops in the city are closed because King Badr's daughter goes to the bathhouse Al-Budur; A. hides and watches her, falls in love; he believed that all women are ugly like his mother; demands that his mother ask B. for gems from trees; 6 days the old woman does not dare talk to the king; on the seventh, the king orders the vizier to bring her; accepts the gift; promises to marry A. to B. in three months; two months later he passes her off as the son of a vizier; on the night of their wedding, A. orders efrita from lamps bring the newlyweds as soon as they go to bed; efreet brings the girl to bed A. and the young man to the toilet; A. puts a sword together; in the morning, efreet returns them to the palace; B. does not answer his father, tells the mother everything, she does not believe, asks the vizier's son, he denies everything; the next night the same; the next morning B. tells his father; the king divorces; agrees to his daughter's marriage to A.; efreet overnight builds a palace for A.; the king points to the unfinished grille, orders the jewelers to complete it, there are not enough stones; efreet finishes the work; A. defeats an army of enemies; the sorcerer finds out about A, comes change old lamps to new ones, B. does not know anything, changes the lamp with efreet; the sorcerer orders to move A.'s palace to the Maghreb; the king orders the execution of A.; A. rubs the ring; demands the return of the palace; efreet the rings are unable to do so, but takes A. to his palace; B. lets her husband in; refuses the sorcerer every night, drinks him; A. takes the lamp, returns King B.; the sorcerer's brother finds out what happened, kills a righteous woman, in her guise demands an egg of the bird Rukh to the palace; A. demands an egg from efreet; Ifrit is indignant (Rukh is his mistress), but forgives A., because the sorcerer's brother in the guise of an old woman asked for this; A. invites to cure an old woman's headache, kills her]: Salye 2010:1111-1167; Iraqi Arabs: Nowak 1969, No. 217 [childless parents finally have a son; they keep him locked up; he's the way out, meets a dervish, who leads him to fail with the treasures, asks him to get them; notice how interested the dervish is in the old lamp, the young man killed the dervish, takes the lamp; it contains 7 wish-fulfilling spirits; the young man asks them for something valuable, for which he receives the princess; the wife, not knowing the value of the lamp, changes it to the one offered by the dervish who has come; he carries the palace and the princess; the young man remains magic ring; he met his wife, made an agreement with her, she gave the dervish a drink, took the lamp, the young man killed the dervish; the lamp says that another third dervish is hunting for her; he penetrates the princess, but the young man kills him]: 214; Stevens 2006, No. 32 [a dervish gives a childless merchant to eat an apple in half with his wife and give the peel to the mare; the wife gives birth to a son, the mare to eat a foal; the merchant sent gifts to the dervish and his two brothers; the horoscope showed that the merchant's son would find the treasure underground; the father died, the mother kept her son locked; one day the door was open, he came to the bazaar, the dervish called himself his father's brother, gave money, young man He started his own business; the dervish took him to the desert, magically opened the entrance to the ground; there was a garden with gems on the trees, but let the young man get only an old lamp; and if he was in trouble, here's the ring; because The young man tore off the jewels, the ground closed, but he rubbed the ring and found a way out; gave the jewels to the dervish, but he only wanted a lamp; the young man said he had forgotten about it, the dervish died of grief; the young man became rich; the mother accidentally rubbed the lamp, the genies came out; the mother brought her son, he asked for a gold tray with jewelry, sent his mother to marry the princess; the sultan promised, but forgot and gave her daughter to another prince; however The genies fixed the matter: in the bedroom, the groom loses consciousness; the young man got a princess and created a palace; the brother of the deceased dervish was a lamp seller and exchanged the old lamp from the young man's wife for a new one; while the young man hunted, the palace and the princess disappeared; the young man promised the Sultan to find his daughter in 40 days; accidentally rubbed the ring, a spirit appeared; the young man ordered him to be transferred to the palace, which is now a dervish; the spirits of the ring did it , but warned that the perfume of the lamp was stronger than them; the wife said that the dervish was wearing a lamp on his body; they agreed that the wife would give the dervish wine and sleeping pills; the young man stabbed the dervish; returned his wife and palace to Baghdad; the perfume of the lamp warned that in three days the third dervish would try to kill him; he killed the nun, his wife's friend, came with her clothes on; the wife ran to meet her, but the young man got ahead of her and cut off the dervish head; all is well]: 145-146; Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen: El-Shamy 2004, No. 561:316-319.
South Asia. Santaly [a merchant came to the widow and called his brother; the widow said that her husband was dead; then the merchant took her son to get gold flowers; on the way, the young man was terribly tired; the merchant ordered him to blow on the brushwood to make him light it; after many attempts, the brushwood really caught fire and the door opened down at this place; the merchant told the young men to go down, pick up a simple lamp and golden flowers; the young man could not get up - his hands were full ; the merchant closed the door and left; the young man accidentally touched the lamp with the ring he had on his finger, a fairy appeared; he ordered him to be taken to the ground, give him rice at home, then give him a horse; sent his mother to marry him princess; the king demanded gold, the palace everything was done; the wedding; while the young man and the king were hunting, the merchant came, exchanged the young man's wife's old lamp for a new one, moved the palace and the princess to him; Raja gave his son-in-law 13 days to find his wife - otherwise he executes; at the last moment, the young man accidentally rubbed his ring against a stone, a fairy appeared, carried the merchant to the palace; the young man became a dog and got inside; the wife said that the merchant wears the lamp with him; she poisoned him, the young man returned everything; the Raja gave half the kingdom to his son-in-law]: Campbell 1891:1-5; (cf. Singals [a fragment of text - possibly for this story]: Parker 1914b, No. 257:355-358).
The Balkans. Slovenes, Croats, Romanians, Albanians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 561:329-330; Greeks (Crete) [the poor widow does not have bread for the dervish, he fed her children himself; took one to study; brought him to the mountains, the door opened in the rock, the dervish asked the boy to come in and pick up a lamp; girls play musical instruments in the cave; an hour later the door closed; the boy came to the place where there are bones in front of the horse and hay in front of the dog; shifted them; they say that the dervish is torturing them; let the boy ask the girls for a candle; the horse lit a candle lamp, a lion appeared, asked what was needed ; boy: get out of here; lion: take the board out of the closet, throw it, it will be in the river, sit down and swim downstream; the horse and the dog hit the hair: if burned, they will come to the rescue; when they come somewhere, the boy called a horse and a dog; the horse brought him to his mother, and the dog protected him from predators; the boy asked the lion for valuables, who delivered gold and diamonds; in order not to meet the dervish, the family moved to Constantinople; the robbers took gold along the way, but did not take the lamp; in K. they hired a house from a dervish; the gold taken ended up in the basement of the house, because the dervish was one of the robbers; when the dervish came for with a fee, the boy, on the advice of a lion, lowered his dog on him and it tore him apart; in the city, the king and the minister agreed to marry the princess with the minister's son; the young man wants to marry her himself; the king demanded slaves, precious clothes, etc.; everything was delivered; the ministers decided that the young man was of royal blood; but let him still be able to herd 14 birds with one stone without losing three days; the maidens give a pipe to lure the hares back; the minister changed his clothes, in order not to recognize him, he came to buy a hare; but the young man recognized him, sold the hare for three slaps in the face, bought a new one from the hunter; the next day the king himself went the same; the queen for a kiss; now the king commands to build a palace - done; now we have to fill three bags with tales; the young man began to tell, he was interrupted - the bags are full; he got a princess]: Kretschmer 1919, No. 34:128-142; Bosnians [in the forest the master and the servant boy saw the door closed; the master told the boy to come in; he promised to divide everything he would bring in half; there were three blocks of gold in the basement; an eagle sits on one, a three-headed serpent on the other, on third line; the boy could not take their gold; picked up the box; the wind immediately carried him into an unfamiliar forest; he came to an unfamiliar city; opened the box with 9 candlesticks; hired him for 9 days, received 9 candles, lit it; 9 girls flew in; danced until midnight, left them on their wallet with gold; the boy became rich; the king found out; when the boy showed him a miracle, the king decided to take away the candlestick; came with retinue; but this time nine araps flew in and began to beat everyone with batons; when the king promised not to try to steal the candlestick, the boy blew out the candles, the araps disappeared; returned to his city, where he still lives, if not dead]: Vazhaev 1962:441-444.
Eastern Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Orel, Ryazan), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Galicia), Belarusians [Aladin's lamp: the hero, with the help of a sorcerer, obtains a lamp that gives he has power over the spirit, the fulfillment of all desires, as well as a ring that subdues another spirit to him; gets the princess's hand and becomes the owner of the castle; the magician steals the lamp and disappears with princess and castle; thanks to a different spirit caused by the magic ring, she gets out of trouble - she kills the sorcerer and regains the magic lamp, the princess's wife and the castle]: SUS 1979, No. 561:160; Russians ( Pinega, 1927, d. Hill) [An old passer-by spends the night in a peasant family and asks him to take the owners' son with him for a walk. They go out of town and the old man invites the boy to go down the hole under the stone, lowers him on a rope, forbids him to enter the first and second doors, says to go to the third. The boy sees a lamp in the third room, the old man says he will lift the lamp first, the boy asks to be picked up first. The old man fills the hole with a rock. The boy sees women, men, lying on their backs in the first and second rooms, and removes the ring from one of them's hand. He cleans the lamp with sand, the Giant appears and asks what he needs. The boy says nothing. Then he asks me to take him upstairs. Vasya returned to his mother and didn't tell her anything. Three times, when life became especially difficult, Vaska asked Giant a "gem stone" the size of an egg, he sold it, bought bread and clothes. Vasya wants to marry a princess, gets a slide of gems from the Giant, and presents it to the king as an indicator of prosperity along with other applicants for grooms. The Tsar is pleased and invites Vaska to the palace to marry. The giant brings a nice shawl, coat, carriage and horses for Vaska's mother, she comes to marry her son and gives the king a slide of gems. The bride asks for a day to think, and the next day her mother arrives in an even more luxurious carriage. The bride promises to get married if Vasya builds a palace and a crystal bridge from it to the royal palace in a week. On Saturday, Vasya is building a palace and a bridge, and the princess agrees to marry a peasant son. Vasya goes hunting, the princess hears how the old man offers to change the old lamps for new ones and gives her husband the lamp. The old man summons the Giant, orders the palace to be moved from the princess to a "secluded place". The Tsar accuses Vasya of kidnapping the king's daughter. Vasya walks through the forest, leans his ring on the ground, a little Giant jumps out of him, saying that his palace, mother and wife are in the middle of the world, far away from the land and seas. The giant takes Vasya to them, finds a lamp in the palace, and asks the big Giant to move the palace back. The magician could not catch up with them after they crossed the border]: Karnaukhova 1934, No. 126:237-242; Russians (Voronezh) [Boy Alexey is growing incredibly fast. His father is dying. A magician appears, introduces himself as Alexey's uncle, leads him through the forest to a clearing, gives Alexey a ring, orders him to put on and pick up a stone. Alexey goes down the hole under the stone, meets the old man "as tall as a fingernail", who gives the boy an egg that can be turned anywhere. Alexey returns to his mother (finds out that he has not been at home for a year). He wants to sell an egg to buy bread, rolls an egg in his hand, and an old man with a fingernail appears, offering to fulfill any wish. Alexey asks for bread, then asks the old man to help him look at the king's daughter. Alexey looks at the princess in the bathhouse and sends her mother to marry her. It is inconvenient for her to ask the princess to be her daughter-in-law; only on the third day she tells the king why she has come. He announces a contest for the best gift for the princess, in which the winner will get her hand. Alexey puts the muffins, pancakes and apples in a bundle and gives it to his mother, the king sees the apples and says that they cost more than his state. He demands that Alexey build a palace for the bride. The old man fulfills the request. Alexey marries a princess]: Novikova, Ossovetsky 1940, No. 8:193-196; Poles [the hero finds two magic objects; the spirits that come out of them fulfill wishes; the hero marries the queen after fulfilling her father's demands (to create a castle, a wonderful garden, etc.); the magician steals or lures items from the hero's wife, moves the castle and queen to another location; using a second magic item or animals the hero returns lost items and his wife]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 561:183; Czechs, Slovaks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 561:329-330.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abazins [father died; the beggar told the boy that he was his father, brought him to the bazaar, dressed well, opened a stone on the hill, told him to go down; you must be the first to touch the old woman, the bear, then they will petrify; do not touch the golden fruits on the trees; we must take the old lamp and come back; but the young man also took fruit; refused to send the lamp to the beggar and wait himself; the beggar closed the exit; the boy accidentally rubbed the ring given to him by the beggar; in it diamonds are a beggar; she talked about the properties of a lamp; at home, a young man sends his mother to drop him a princess; the king demands 12 horsemen and 12 horsemen with gold plates, demands to build a palace; wedding; everything is fine]: Tugov 1985, No. 54:165-167; Balkarians (zap. 1968) [The king found his wife with her lover twice, killed both; his brother killed his own; the king decided that all women were wrong; when he brought the girl, he cut off her head in the morning; one girl went instead of her older sister, said Khan about Aladin and Khan did not kill her; she gave birth to a daughter; the story is as follows; an Arab sorcerer saw a boy named A. and called himself his father's brother; began to feed and dress; led to a stone, A. pulled the ring, the door opened; the Arab told A. to come in and take only the rusty lamp, killing the lion and the dog, running away from the woman; taking the lamp, A. refused to give it back, then the Arab closed the door; (pass in the text); A. got out, the lamp created 5 gold dishes, A. ordered her mother to take one to the king and ask him to give her daughter; the king took the dish, but demanded 10 dishes and 10 slaves; A. sent and received the princess; created a palace next to the royal; an Arab pretended to sell lamps, exchanged the old magic from his wife A. for a new one; moved the palace and princess to the middle of the sea; the princess asks the Arab not to approach her for a month; gave a drink to an Arab who came to A. killed him to palace; returned everything; the tsar handed him the throne]: Malkonduev 2017:494-497; Stavropol Turkmens [khan is childless; his wife orders to go to the steppe; there the dervish gives an apple to eat in half with his wife: two sons will be born, the youngest, when the boys are 14 years old, they must be sent to him; after 14 years, the dervish took the boy away; sent him to the golden palace, where he should take the box and bring it to him; temptations and threats are not react; if the young man takes something else or talks to someone, they will both die; but on the way back, the young man picked up a golden apple and immediately found himself in a dungeon full of human bones; in that box the candle, he lit it, 12 girls appeared; they fulfilled their wishes; one gave an inexhaustible purse; the young man began to live richly in the city; went to the forbidden royal garden, where he had fun with the girls; the vizier spied; gave him wine, took the box, ordered the nukers to take the young man to the steppe and kill him; they felt sorry for him, brought his shirt soaked in eagle blood; the vizier decided to show the box to the king; the nukers came out, beat everyone, some were killed; when they left, they put out the candle; the king ordered to find the prince, gave the box and purse, gave him a daughter; but the young man did not need a princess; 12 girls gave a golden apple, told them to go after him; it led to golden palace; the princess was sent back to her father (the apple rolled again, she followed him); 12 peri, the former maidens of their maid, came out; they said that the young man's brother died soon, and the dervish drowned out of grief; to the young man the youngest peri was intended to be married, it was her maid who helped him; the diva took the young man and wife to his father, who handed him the throne]: A. K. 1875, No. 6:33-40; Ossetians [one entry]: Sokayeva 2004, No. 561:86; Ingush [the widow's son hunts; the prince's daughter, dressed in men's clothes, offered to steal a herd; they stole stolen horses They gave it to poor people; a lot of gold must be given for the prince's daughter; the man says he knows where to get it; he lowered the boy into the hole; he refused to send gold upstairs first, the man left him in the dungeon; there is a girl who teaches to kill a witch with her own sword, as well as to kill the witch's mother and the dog that guarded her; then the dragon; they went to earth, the girl gave a ring to call her; the guy began to marry the prince's daughter, with he built gold towers with the help of a ring; that man came, stole the ring, moved the towers from the princess to a distant place; the guy called the underground girl, she moved him to this place; the boy's wife called him when the hacker fell asleep; he cut off his finger and ring, returned everything, and ordered the kidnapper to be neither on earth nor in the sky]: Tankieva 2003:164-167; tatas []: Miller 2013:591-598; Georgians [after The son squandered the merchant's death; the magician pretended to be his father's brother, bought the guy clothes, brought him to the forest, ordered him to light a fire, a hole formed under the fire, the stairs were down; the magician tells him to go down and take a lamp, but do not take gold fruits, put a ring on the guy's finger; the guy took it, there are no stairs, the magician tells him to send him a lamp (on a rope); the guy refused, the exit closed; the guy accidentally rubbed the ring, the kaji took it out; the guy lives selling gold fruits; they are over, the mother decided to clean the lamp, Kaji has appeared; the guy wants a princess, but she has already been given to another; he tells Kaji to bring him the newlywed, and send the groom to another room; he abandoned the princess; the king demands 40 riders in different clothes on different horses, the guy did everything; the wedding; the guy created a palace; the magician pretended to be a lamp seller, exchanged the princess's magic lamp for a new one; the princess and the house were gone; the guy asks the king for 3 days; the kaji brought the rings to his wife, the guy took the lamp; ordered the kaji to bring a potion that turns a wolf into a toothless wolf, his wife threw him away to the wizard, the wolf was driven away with sticks; the boy returned his wife and palace; the wizard's brother came wearing crazy Fatima's clothes; came to the boy's wife ; advised me to ask the spirits for a lamp for a Rocky egg; they were indignant - this is our older brother; then the wizard's brother was also turned into a wolf; after the death of his father-in-law, the guy reigned]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 83:77- 86; Armenians [the dervish gives the childless king to eat an apple in half with his wife, two boys were born; the dervish came and ordered them to be named Nazar and Kazar, one of them for him; the dervish took N.; leads to rock: it will open, you have to leave the money alone, take an old candlestick; but N., taking a candlestick, raked up a handful of gold, the rock overturned and crushed the dervish; N. stopped in the caravanserai; realized that a candlestick produces gold; the owner of the caravanserai advises you to look at the girl Beauty; she shows her face for a thousand coins; wants to marry her; she tells you to first find out why Abraham-Aga's horse is eating not grain, but flints; N. comes to Istanbul; A. soon arrived from Izmir, poured flint horses, the horse travels a month in a day; A. does not want to tell his story, but once promised..; he says when she returns, she hears a conversation between his wife and her lover; she promises to put flints on her husband's plate; A. killed her lover, but his wife turned him into a dog; the priest's daughter recognized A. by the eyes, stole it from his wife the magic pipe, restored her human appearance; gave the phone to A., he used it to turn his wife into a horse and feeds flints; now the girl demands that N. find out why Majrum Hoja says, thank God, arrived when they go up to the minaret and when they go down, they grab their head; he says that once three doves carried him from the minaret to King Peri; he married his daughter to him; warns that if Peri will breathe heavily, then die; children were born; one day M. sighed, thinking about home; he was moved back to the minaret; he told his secret to the teacher; his wife found out, left him forever; third task girls; a man in Kars makes a sword to order, and when a customer comes, he breaks it; a man told me how he was a shepherd, went to work, came back after a long time, hacked his wife and a young man, and then found out that it was his son; after learning that after three such stories N. still wanted to marry her, the girl Beauty agreed]: Nazinyan 1969:106-117; Turks (many different options) [the sorcerer sends the young man to the cave for a lamp; he realizes that the sorcerer wants to take possession of the lamp and leave it in the cave; does not give the lamp; the sorcerer closes the cave, leaves; with the help of a magic ring and the young man goes out, gets rich, marries the princess; an unrecognized sorcerer comes and exchanges the young man's wife's magic lamp for an ordinary one; carries the palace and the princess; the young man finds a ring palace, the wife poisoned the sorcerer; the young man took possession of the lamp again and moved the palace and wife back]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 180:204-207.
Iran - Central Asia. Ishkashim [an old woman's grandson and another young man killed two partridges, came to another old woman to cook them; one of them sees a girl, his partridge burned down; then he made a partridge out of dough and cooked it so that it tasted better than the real one; they return to their grandmother; then that young man tells her to marry him the king's daughter; the mullah asks him to go with him; witches, the earth is open; the mullah asks go down and get a candle for him, and the young man can take the gems for himself; the young man did not give a candle, the mullah closed the ground, the young man was clamped, only his head was outside; he pulled out the candle he had taken, spat, appeared witch, he told her to release him; bring him home; the king demands 40 identical saddled horses for his daughter, a house made of gold and silver, a spring at the gate of the house; the witch does everything; the young man deliberately did not install one column; the royal people tried it themselves - they could not; wedding]: Pakhalina 1959, No. 2:117-121.
Baltoscandia. The Norwegians [the robber (a ruffian) tells the young man to use a magic ring to get a lamp out of the mountain; the young man does not give up the lamp and is locked inside the mountain; he stepped on the gun with a ring and lured him uphill the robber himself; uses a lamp to extract the palace and the princess, but the robber comes again and takes possession of the lamp; the princess killed him and the young man returned everything]: Hodne 1984, No. 561:133; Swedes [sorcerer wants to use the young man to take possession of the wish-fulfilling lamp and ring, but the items remain with the young man himself; he creates a palace, gets a princess; the sorcerer takes possession of the lamp again, takes over the palace and princess; with the help of a ring, a young man takes possession of the lamp again, he kills the sorcerer and returns everything; the sorcerer's brothers who tried to take revenge are also killed]: Liungman 1961, No. 561:163; Western Sami ( Koutokeino, Finland): Friis 1856 in Quigstad 1925, No. 561:20; Latvians [the wizard tells the boy to get a lantern out of the cave; the boy does not give the lantern and the wizard does not let it out of the cave; rubbing a lantern, a boy summons a spirit that fulfills his wishes; a young man fulfills the king's tasks and marries a princess; a magician lures a lantern from the princess, the castle with the princess is carried far away ; after rubbing the ring received from the spirit, the young man is transferred to the princess; she takes away the magician's lantern and kills him]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 561:302; Lutsie (West 1934) [two farmer brothers; they read in the book that there is a stone behind the pasture, there is a hole under it, two dogs are guarding the lock, there is a lamp in it that fulfills wishes; only someone who does not have a patronymic and surname, but only the name given at baptism, will get it; The elder brother was in town, met a boy whose mother and father were found with a note, the name Osman; brought him to him; the brothers told him to go down to that castle and take out the lamp; O. found a rusty lamp went out with her; the dogs were bewitched people, disappeared, only the chains were left; when he left, there was no one, he came to town to sell the lamp; began to clean it, the dwarf jumped out: what do you need? O. wished food; when he grew up to the age of 16, he ordered the dwarf to move him to the island and build a castle there; then an army; hunting grounds; books; he read in the book that Maria Krakovna lived in the kingdom of far away, kings pay 5,000 rubles each to look at her; beauty - not to describe with a pen; O. told the dwarf to deliver her to him; began to kiss her, she fell in love with him; the king asks the sorceress to find out where her daughter is, promises reward; she summons animals, birds, fish - no one knows; the old frog was the last to appear: it sailed on a ruff, and he sailed across the seas; MK on the island; the witch sat in a stupa, flew to the island; tells Mary that escaped from the deceased ship; persuaded M. to ask her husband what his secret was; after receiving the lamp, the witch sent O. to the island, where there was only sand, and M. brought it back to his father; a cat sailed out of the sea to O.; teaches call the ship for help, the cook died there, they will take it to its place; the cat tells you to boil water, add ash and coals, creates 12 changes of dishes, no one has eaten so tasty before; the ship sailed to Maria's country (in Krakovi); the king calls the captain for lunch, he does not eat: my cook is better; the next day O. cooks; the cat tells me to kill the bottles of wine, pour the fragments into boiling water; M. went to his place, O. brought food there , she kissed him, the soldier saw O. thrown into a well with mice; there the cat began to catch them; ordered him to bring a lamp from the witch's room; appeared with M. in the guise of a prince; awarded the ministers who condemned him to those the executions they came up with for him; the king handed him the Kingdom of Krakow; the wedding; it flowed down his mustache but did not fall into his mouth; at the wedding, O. kissed the cat, she became a princess, was bewitched; the surname O. was Bogdanov and there was no middle name]: Annom et al. 2018:259-271; Lithuanians, Estonians, Finns, Danes: Uther 2004 (2), No. 351:229-230; Karelians: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 561:232.
Volga - Perm. Marie [an important gentleman hired a teacher for her daughter; she asks someone else to be taught with her; the teacher finds a poor boy named Mikesh, who lives with his grandmother; the teacher takes M. to the forest, where house; asks M. to come in and bring one of the pillows from home, but not to lie down on them; M. lay down and slept for three years; when he wakes up, he sees a big cat, he tells him to take it with him and gives him a ring; they come to grandmother M.; the cat teaches him to turn the ring, three devils will appear, they will fulfill any wish; M. sends his grandmother to marry him the girl he studied with; her father tells him to build a manor by morning 1) three times better than him (the devils from the ring perform), 2) to create a pond with fish and geese in the yard (the same); gives a daughter for M.; they settled in that house created by M.; M.'s wife used to have another, rich, groom; when M. was sleeping, his wife took off the ring from his finger, ordered M. to be covered with a stove, and moved to another city to her lover; while she was living with M., she got used to the cat and told the hell to carry him to her; at night, the cat took the ring, returned to M., scratched a hole in the oven, stuck M.'s ring; he returned his wife, did not take revenge, left his wife; when he later told his father-in-law, he scolded his daughter; the couple have children, all good]: Beke 1938, No. 26:170-189.