K167. Children's king. 26.29.33.34.38.

The boy plays pretending to be king and is wiser than the real one.

Koreans, Armenians, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Buryats, Mongols of Ordos, Japanese.

China - Korea. Koreans [when in the picture it is round, when the letter is square, when the dragon is short, when the tiger is long; what is it? the minister himself went to find someone who could answer; he sees children playing adults, distributing roles; the "villager" asks the "elder": I lost a falcon in the mountains, help me find it;" the elder" tells the "scribe": write down: he has lost something belonging to the mountain; let him ask the mountain; if he does not receive an answer, arrest the mountain and bring him to me"; the minister asked to spend the night in the house where the boy came from, who played the role of an elder"; in the morning, the boy's mother asks him to bring a broom; the boy tells her to call the dog; she finally does, the broom is tied to the dog's tail; the next day, the minister with they go for a walk in the mountains as a boy; the minister seems to inadvertently talk about that riddle; boy: this is the sun (a circle in the picture, a square with a crossbar in hieroglyphics, in summer days, and the sun moves from Tiger to Dragon, on the contrary, in winter, from Dragon to Tiger]: Cho 2001, No. 33:60-62.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Armenians [the shepherd found the treasure, told the village chief; he sent another worker to kill the shepherd and pick up the treasure; before his death, the shepherd asked the worker to give 3 precious stone to his pregnant wife; if a boy is born, let him call Dad-Bedad, and if a girl, let him call him whatever he wants; the elder and the worker shared the treasures; DB has grown up, asks the mother what the father did; mother: was a blacksmith; DB asks to take him as an apprentice to a blacksmith; after a day he returned: scary and unpleasant; the same with a tailor, with a carpenter; mother admitted that his father was a shepherd; DB began to herd calves at the head, for summer earned quite a lot; asks the mother where the money his father earned in 30 years; mother: he was crazy, he spent everything; but gave one of the three stones that her husband's murderer gave her; the jeweler gave her for him a bag of gold; they moved closer to the king; with the money they received for the second stone, they built a palace like a king's; for the third DB they bought a royal dress and crown; in the afternoon, the boy herds his calves, at home in the evening He sits on the throne; advisers come to him, he solves difficult cases; once the king and vizier also came under the guise of dervishes; the adviser talks about a case that the king could not resolve; one merchant left money to my wife for 8 years, but was absent for 12; on the way home I met another; gave him 3 gems to give to his wife, and left again for 12 years; the second merchant stole stones; the first returned; wife: me received nothing; second: she spent everything; brought false witnesses; DB orders merchants and witnesses; DB asks witnesses separately, each answers differently about the size of the stones and the time the years when it all happened (spring, autumn, winter); witnesses confess that they lied; the next day the boy went to herd his calves; the king orders him to be brought to him; the DB asks for royal power for two hours; The DB again called witnesses, merchants and his mother; the murderer confessed everything; the king allowed the DB to cut off the head; {the text does not explain what Dad Bedad means; apparently, the name is significant}]: Harutyunyan 1986:146-157.

Turkestan. Kazakhs []:; Kyrgyz [children played the game "The City and the Ruler". A boy named Jediger was chosen as ruler, others became a vizier, beck, guard, kadiem, surakchi (the person conducting the inquiry); the rest, having collected stones in a field of stones, built a palace for the ruler and named his "city of the ruler of Jediger". One day, the real ruler of the city named Abdyrakman came to the children. Having found out what the children were doing, A. asked to sell him this city for one gold coin. J. agreed - let's build another city. A. had a dream: he was walking through the garden, fragrant with flowers, among palaces decorated with gold and precious stones. The man in the white turban: You, Khan A. don't go here, go for a walk around the palace you bought from the boy ruler. A. was delighted with what he saw in his dream, gave alms to the poor, and went to the new city of Governor J. I bought it for 100 gold coins. The children built a third city elsewhere. (Same dream, third city bought for 1,000 gold). One day, two people came to A. with a lawsuit. Everyone has a black mare, and the foal is also a black mare, he sucked both milk. Both mareowners did not personally see the mare give birth. Vizier boy: J. will determine. He dripped the foal's blood into the cup. His mother's blood was merged with his blood, but that of a foreign mare did not. Next time, two people can't share one bare five-year-old camel. Both claimed that they had taken a camel from their camel with their own hands. J. told them both to bring a camel who should be considered a mother. He told me to twist the camel's thigh with a hair rope. When the pain became severe, he told me to let the camels go. Only one screamed and ran to the camel and covered it with her body. For the third time, a man brought two boys aged 10-11. He doesn't know who their son is. J.: Guys, whoever one of you can get into this bottle will be this man's real son. One jumped up and climbed into the bottle. J. clutched the bottle's throat with Satan in it. After that, A. handed over power to Jediger, although he was only seven years old. He is known as a wise and just ruler]: Sabyr uulu 2008:127-130.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Buryats (Kudinsky, Upper Angara) [Tsar An-Bogdor dreamed that his daughter had given birth to a son who became king; locked his daughter in an underground dungeon; young B found the magic stone Erdem, met a friend named Sun, asked him to give Erdem to his relatives, but Sun took him for himself; brought false witnesses to the king, who decided in his favor; seven sons of a rich man grazed calves on the hill; a son with them the poor man herded one calf; they played and whoever wins the run is the king and judges the others; once the children of a rich man beat the poor man's son; he walked and cried; met B, he also cried; told how his friend San appropriated him erdem, but the king did not protect him; the king called the boy named Taba Yarya to judge who owned Erdeni; Tya ordered both applicants and three witnesses brought by the deceiver to blind a ball of clay in the shape of a stone; the witnesses failed, the stone was awarded to the rightful owner; the king made TYA an adviser; he approved the king's decision to lock his daughter, but he began to go to her; she is pregnant, king He put the guards out, Tya gave the guards a drink, took the twins, left them in the forest; one lived with the cubs, the other somewhere else; he crept up and caught the one with the cubs, they lived together; the king sent an army the wolves warned the brothers, ran over the horses; so three times; the wolves ordered the magic stone to be removed from the body of a dead child who would swim along the river; with him, the brothers came to AB; TYA dug two thrones out of the ground , wooden soldiers around; they did not allow only two brothers to sit on thrones; Olot, who was found in the forest, sat on gold, Sholgu's wolf son on silver; TYA ordered the king to give his clothes to Olot, his own gave Sholga; Olot became Mongolian (Chinese) king, Sholgu became Russian]: Potanin 1883, No. 59:279-283; the Mongols of Ordos [near the city where Tsar Arji-Borji lived, children played: who would run up the hill, he became king that day; a man named Zu went to distant lands, found the Molor Erdeni jewel, met fellow countryman Lee and asked him to hand Erdeni over to his wife; he agreed with two nobles divide the Erdeni if they support him in court; meanwhile, Zu found the Chindamani-erdeni jewel and returned; Lee replied that he handed it over to his wife in front of two witnesses; A. recognized Lee as right; Zu walked and cried; the child king invited him to judge; the boy called Lee and the nobleman witnesses and told everyone to make a molor-erdeni shape out of clay; one false witness made it like a sheep's head, the other - in the genus of pork, only Zu and Lee's uniforms looked like the original; the boy told A. everything and offered to cede the throne to him; the next time one man left home, leaving his wife and boy; without him his wife had another boy, both similar; when he returned, the father does not know who his son is; King A.: a real son must remember 9 ancestors; the poor man's son could not know this, and the son who took the form of a son Chitkur (hell) them called it; A. handed the chitkura to his father, and the real son went and cried; the king boy offered to judge him; the real son would fit into the bottle; the chikur got in, the child king corked it and sent it to A. - once he decides wrong, let him cede the throne to him; A. took the soldier, dug up the hill on which the children played, exposed the throne on wooden soldiers; A. wanted to sit down, but one soldier stopped him: sit down if you feel as wise as the one who sat on this throne; and spoke about King Bairmagaste; his elder wife Checek-Bucyukchi has a child, the youngest is childless; at night the king went to heaven and repaired it there court or service; maliciously burned the human shell; {G.P.: originally drafted to marry Sholmo?} B. told C. and her son to flee to the kingdom of Li-Hagan, because his own would now take 500 sholmos; one of her 7 dear girls became pregnant and put the child in a wolf hole; L. took the widow and gave her a home; merchants saw the child at the wolf hole; he called the cubs brothers, and the wolf and the wolf and the she-wolf parents; the head of the merchants took the boy, named Shal; the merchants spent the night by the river; Amagasadekchi, the son of Queen C., hunted there; merchants hear a wolf howl; Shal explains: at night a dead body will float along the river, molor-erdeni in it; A. overheard, caught the body, carved out the erdeni; at the next night, the wolves report that the river will split and will flood the place; people moved half of the goods to a high place, went for the rest; A. put his father's seals on the abandoned goods, went to L. and said that the merchants had robbed his father's house; the king planted them to prison, but A. asked to be released and took only S.; they came to the former kingdom of B.; there people cry: sholmo eat 500 people a day; A. ordered to prepare 500 lonha of wine and put them in his father's palace; 500 got drunk, A. killed them]: Potanin 1893, No. 3:136-138.

Japan. The Japanese (including ancient Japan) [in a large family, the wife and mother-in-law give birth at the same time, the children are confused while bathing, each claims that she gave birth to the boy and the girl to another; the famous Judge Ooka does not know how to resolve the case; sees children playing in court; one seems to deal with a similar conflict; it is necessary to weigh the milk from both women; who has it heavier, that son; O. watches behind the children; they hide in a lonely house in the mountains, this is kami; in some versions, the action revolves around different characters; the plot is used in the Kabuki theater; there is in Konjaku (ca. 1050)]: Ikeda 1971, NO. 920A: 203-204.