K174. A tossed ring.

.12.13.16.21.-.23.25.27.29.-.32.34.

To sign their arrival, a person places, and often quietly throws a ring or other small piece of personal jewelry into the maid or servant's jug, or toilet items. Upon discovering it, another person realizes that the first one is nearby.

Tangale, Sudanese Arabs, Western Sahara, Germans (Pomerania, Swabia), Tibetans, Mustang, Mikir, Viet, Thai, Lao, Khmer, Sindhi, Tamils, Taosug, Western Subanon, Albanians, Serbs, Crimean Tatars, Adygs, Abakhazes, Abazans, Balkarians, Nogais, Dargins, Lezgins, Rutultsy, Svans, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Persians, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Kafirs (Kati), Chuvash, Bashkirs, Tuvans, sirongols.

West Africa. Tangale [a woman comes to marry Daniya; his father, chief, thinks she is too good for him; on the way she asks for water, D. goes down to the well, he is stoned; D. escapes (not it is said how), climbs a tree; the children below say that the chief is preparing the wedding, but the bride is silent; gives her ring, tells the bride to be thrown in a jar of milk; she recognizes the ring; with her entourage comes to tree; D. returns, kills father]: Jungraithmayr 2002:160-179.

Sudan - East Africa. Sudanese Arabs [Mohammed Othman is the son of a sultan; he raised him in a closed courtyard, looked after by a slave; when he went out into the world, he fell in love with a nomadic daughter, his father married him; he fell in a jug with a stone old woman; she took revenge by telling his wife's relatives that MO was an idiot; they migrated; his wife wrote to him that she would be given to another in a week; MO bought a dead debtor who was not allowed to be buried; he they gave the daughter of the ransom; then two roads, MO chose the difficult one; there is a woman who cut off the heads of 99 men; Moe fights her, wins, marries her; through a maid, hands the ring off to her first wife, putting him in a jug of water, she returned to him; the sultan envied that his son had three wives and decided to destroy him; but the nomadic daughter knew everything in advance; ordered not to go to her father barefoot (poisoned nails), not sits on a poisoned chair, not drinking coffee from the proposed cup; but then he was dazzled and thrown under a tree; two birds say it can be cured by mixing the liver with one's lungs with the other; he grabs birds, vision returns; he comes when the Sultan is preparing the wedding; his robber wife was the first to recognize him, cut off the Sultan's head herself; the vizier was torn by camels; MO became a sultan]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920 , NO. 31:151-155.

North Africa. Western Sahara [two sisters are married to two brothers; when they leave, they say that if children of different sexes are born, one family should go east and the other west; one sister has a boy Nehry Bugam, they decide to dress him as a girl; NB has grown up, the truth is revealed; NB has grown up, goes looking for his cousin Dayesmus, with him an ostrich, a camel and a horse, a young camel with a camel, a dog and a raven ; the snakes pulling the mountains allowed him to pass, the mountains only cut off the tip of the young camel's tail; the NB gives the shepherd a ring to throw into a bowl of milk that the chief's daughter (i.e. D.) will take; the shepherd says that the seven-headed serpent demands girls, the last one is the leader's daughter; the NB tells the snake that he has come to see such a glorious creature, asks for permission to take one of his heads as a keepsake; then the other; the rest cuts off five in battle, hides him under a huge rock; no one else can pick him up, the NB gets D. as his wife; foreign warriors injure the NB, take his wife; animals care for him; he defeats enemies brings his wife back, the mountains and the snakes miss them again; everything is fine]: Aris, Cladellas 1999:65-73.

Western Europe. The Germans (Pomerania) [father and son went to sea to fish; the storm overturned the boat; the father was carried to their native shore, and the son to a stranger; a hunter approached him and signed an agreement; all week he he will hunt for him and on Sundays for himself; but he must return before the priest starts preaching in the church; two Sundays in a row, the young man does not see a single animal in the forest except a white deer, which also escapes him; on the third day, the deer turns into a lady in black, leaves it in its palace and asks him to remain silent for three nights; he is cut into pieces, minced meat, but at midnight everything ends and the lady revives him; after the third night she is disgraced; she is Queen of Tiefenthal; the young man wants to visit his parents; promises not to tell about his wife; she gives a ring, it instantly takes you where necessary; he brags about his wife's beauty, the local gentleman is insulted, throws the young man in prison; the wife appears and helps him out, disappears, leaving his iron shoes and staff; they should be worn out; he comes to In the east wind, it sends to the South, South to the West; only the North knows where Tiefenthal is; he dries clothes there, he is washed for the Queen's wedding; takes the young man to the newlyweds door; he asked for a servant give him bread and wine, threw a ring into his glass, the Queen found out; said that he had broken his promise, but since he found her again, she would marry him again; courtiers: the former king has more right than new; the couple were separated for so long, they celebrated their wedding again; if they didn't die, they still live]: Jahn 1891, No. 55:298-304.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [the ruler of the southern country is told that things will go well if the dragons of the northern country are settled here; the sorcerer throws mud into the lake, the dragons must leave, but the hunter kills the sorcerer; the dragon rewards a treasure that provides wealth; he goes to the hermit, sees seven heavenly maidens bathe in the lake, fly away "like white cranes"; the hermit teaches you to ask the dragon for magic rope; the sorcerer gives the treasure, receives the rope, catches the eldest of the seven sisters, takes her necklace that allows her to fly; gives the maiden to the prince; he forgets his 500 concubines; the courtier and concubines They persuade the king to send the prince to war, kill his wife; the prince's mother returns her necklace; when she flies away, she teaches her where her husband should look for her; overcoming obstacles with the help of a ring given by the hermit, the prince goes to heaven; throws his wife's ring into the maids' vessel; the wife recognizes him; her father does not want to give it to the mortal; demands victory in archery; and let the arrow fired into the sky fall to at the feet of a virgin; prince wins, gets a wife, returns to earth with her]: Yao 1986:42-72; Mustang: Kretschmar 1985, No. 17 [Nyawa Ngömba guards King Norsang's lake; one day people else the villages decided to take the lake for themselves, their sorcerer threw corpses into the water; NN killed the sorcerer, returned the lake; three doves fly there, shed their feathers, become girls, swim; NN wants to get them for the king N.; llama: they can only be caught with the mother-of-pearl force that underwater king Lu has; NN threatens to throw corpses at the lake again, he gives a snare, NN catches the younger fairy Lhamo Yitok at him, brings him; three years later, he goes to kill three demons; demon wife: shoot the little finger, the middle finger, the middle finger, the middle finger; then the demons fall dead; the older 2500 wives they want to lime the king, they persuade the king's sick mother to say that only LY's heart will heal her; before her husband left, LY persuaded him to return her feather clothes; now she flies away; when fermented by her the yogurt will be ready, the husband can go look for it; N. asks the river, she replies that she did not see LY, N. tells her to leak while winding; the wild sheep is the same (let him live not on the plain, but only in the mountains); the tree says what he saw (let it be evergreen); N. comes to the country of LY; a maid comes to the stream, says that she has come to clean LI from the filth of being among people; N. throws a ring into her jug; LY finds out, her parents N. liked it, the couple happily return to earth], 24 [Men Dremu is a young wife, her husband Bu Atsung left for business; a year later, a man from the north wanted to marry MD; she sent the fox to BA to return as soon as possible; BA told her horse to throw off her fiancé when he wanted to ride it; came to the wedding unrecognized, his wife recognized him, told him to sit in the center; the groom got on a horse, he threw him into the abyss, MD and BA continued to live well], 36 [the king will give his daughter to someone whose arrow hits a tree from afar; two prince brothers win, take the girl together; along the way the youngest goes hunting, walks into the old woman's house; she asks about the brothers and their wife; finds out that the princess never takes off the clothes that cover her upper body; says she's doing the spouses will be better if the wife takes off these clothes; the younger brother asks to take them off, the princess tells me to repair all the cracks in the house first; the old woman manages to put a pin into the crack; through this gap she takes the princess to the land of demons; the younger brother goes in search, stops under a banyan, hears a monkey saying that her wife was stolen by a yeti, and the brothers' wife was stolen by a demon; invites the monkey to join forces in finding wives; comes to his yeti wife, who has two children; a yeti came, a goldfish is moving on his forehead, the young man shot her, the yeti fell dead; the monkey's wife took the children with her, but the young man threw them off bridge, brought his wife to the monkey, who went with him to the land of demons; they made the princess queen; the monkey met the maid who came to fetch water, threw the ring into the young man's vessel; when the demons gathered at holiday, the princess gave the top of her clothes to the monkey, ran after the monkey; the princess remembered that she forgot the ring, the monkey came back for it, caught; says that she finally has time for meditating; she was let go; when the young man brought the princess back, the dying older brother recovered, the grass turned green, the women conceived children]: 111-114, 206-209; mikir [each of the five older brothers promises his father to become a worthy person (village chief, blacksmith, farmer, etc.); younger Harata Kunwar promises to marry the daughter of the Sun, become king; his brothers and father send him to spend the night in the hut to guard the field, they come to kill him; his daughter-in-law warned him; he put the leaves of a tree with red juice on the couch, lay down at a distance; the brothers refused, the father pierced the couch with a spear; HC went to his poor grandmother, she gives him advice; he replaces the clothes of the youngest of the six daughters of the Sun, who come to swim, the bride of the son of the Wind; marries her, they have a son; contrary to his grandmother's advice, he goes to visit the family; the brothers' wives want to see his wife in all her jewelry; she puts on her outfit, flies away; the grandmother tells her to hide by the river in the sand; there on the wedding day of HC's wife and son of the Wind, the elephant of the Sun will come to swim; grab his tail, go to heaven, ask the servants for water, throw the ring into the vessel, the wife recognizes the ring; the little son will go to his mother; seeing that a stranger's son sucks his bride's chest, the son of the Wind refused to marry, HC married his wife; returns to earth with his wife and son, reigns]: Stack, Lyall 1908, No. 3:55-70.

Burma - Indochina. Vieta [=Coyaud 2011, No. 3A: 12-14; a young woodcutter sees heavenly fairies bathing in a spring; hides one of them's clothes, she has to go with him, he hides her clothes in a rice barn; when the child is three years old, the wife finds her clothes; leaving her comb to her son, she flies away; taking the boy, the husband comes to the spring; the fairy maids also came there for water, the boy throws his own into their jug comb; the wife recognizes the comb, tells her husband to hand over the handkerchief, with its help he flies to his wife; after a while she sends her husband and son to the ground in a drum tied to a rope, promising to ask Buddhas are allowed to marry a mortal; in the middle between earth and sky, rice grains on the drum began to bite; the fairy maids took this as a sign that those who descended had reached the ground, the rope was cut off; father and son fell into the sea, died; as punishment, Phat Ba turned the fairy into a Morning Star; the husband became an Evening Star; every year on the 15th day of the 7th month, maids arrange sacrifice, and the vórons form a chain so that spouses and their son can meet and meet; therefore, crows have a bald head; on this day, a funeral ceremony must take place somewhere; The Morning and Evening Stars are always eager to meet]: Landes 1886, No. 47:123-126; Thai (Vietnam) [After the father dies, two brothers find a huge egg; people roll it into the village, but it he rolls right to the brothers' house; when the brothers return from the field, the house is tidy and the food is cooked; the elder watches, sees a winged heavenly maiden and five maids with her come out of the egg; fears himself The next day, the younger brother is guarded, the maiden is grabbed; they have two sons; the mother finds out from them where her father hid her wings, flies away; the father beat them with a rod, went to look for a wife; left alone, brothers they plant a palm seed with fruits on it; the brothers ask the birds to take them to their mother, they fly away; then the rhinoceros bird takes them to the river; there a nine-tailed dog transports them to the other side; they ask the old woman gets drunk, throws her mother's gold ring into the vessel; the mother realizes that her sons have come; mother's father Po Then demands that a rope be tied to the horns of each of the 200 or 300 buffaloes that they tie it to him; the insect tells you to tie it to the buffalo it sits on every time; tells you to count the many needles (nieng Khim thinks); tells all women to stick out their hand, let sons recognize their mother's hand; an insect sits on it; Po Then lets their sons go to their mother; they return home, but a tree trunk blocks the woman's way; sons cut him with sabers, blood has flowed; mother to sons: you killed your father; left them, telling them to sit down to eat rice on a crooked stone, not enter the bubbling stream; the elder does everything wrong, marries different animals; the youngest kills a snake that descends from heaven and devours people and animals revives the dead, marries a heavenly maiden; comes to the youngest and kills his animals; the elder pushed the youngest into a hole; animals helped him get out; while hunting birds, he killed with an older arrow]: Degeorge 1924, No. 15:58-68; Vietnam's white thai [a poor orphan cuts wood for sale; sees seven heavenly maidens descend to the lake, they take off their clothes and wings, bathe; hides the youngest's wings; takes her as his wife; a year later she gives birth to a son; in the absence of his wife, the father calms the crying child by giving him the mother's wings to play; once a mother left alone with the child, he cried and pointed to where the woodcutter hid his wings; the mother finds them, after a while flies away, giving her son her ring and telling his father to come to her if they want; husband put his son on his back, went to look for his wife; the way through the mouth in the rock, which closes and then opens; the fox advises throwing sour fruits there, her teeth hurt, her movement will stop for a while; father and son pass; on the way there is a river with nine channels, even iron dissolves in it; a dog with nine tails and nine heads promises to transport it if the riders do not laugh in the middle of the river; in the middle of each the dog makes an indecent sound, father and son laugh, one head and one tail fall off; before the last crossing, a man ties himself and his son with a handkerchief, they reach the shore; since then, all dogs have one head and one tail, it used to be nine; the phoenix offers to spend the night under his wing, and in the morning he and his mother will bring them to the place where they celebrate the princess's return from land; the mother of the phoenix carried them to the river bordering the sky; the maids collect water to bathe the princess, the husband throws a ring into the jug; the wife recognizes him, tells him to call the visitors; her father suggests 1) tie each of the 300 buffaloes to the pole to which they are always tied; the firefly shows who to tie; 2) sow the grain and harvest it again; the birds collected it, but the king noticed that a few grains were missing ; one bird swallowed them, the king twisted her neck, since then birds of this species have goiter on the back of their heads; 3) find a princess in a palace of 100,000 rooms overnight; the rat promises to bring a dry leaf under the right door, but halfway through it was eaten by a cat; then a firefly leads to the right room; the king arranges a wedding, then sends the young to earth, where the son-in-law also becomes king]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 11:311-316; Thais: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 7 [in Sawan Nakol ("golden city") at the foot of the Himalayas lived the king of birds; the youngest of seven daughters, Ma Nora; on a full moon, they flew to swim in a pond near the hermit's cave; Forester Bun visited him, found out that a bird girl can only be caught with a "snake loop"; before that, he saved the king of snakes, he gave a noose; when the bird maidens took off their tails and wings, B. caught MN with a loop, gave Sutone - Prince of Pawnkala; while S. is at war, an evil adviser said that MN must be sacrificed or the king would die; MN asked for her tail and wings to dance a farewell dance; flew away; S. returned, threw the adviser into prison, went to look for MN; the hermit gave him the ring left by MN; gave him a guide monkey; after 7 years, 7 months and 7 days, S. reached the bird kingdom; heard how two women who came for water say that today is the end of the period after which MN will lose memories of what happened to her; S. threw the ring into the jug; MN recognized it; the king of birds sets a condition marriage that S. should identify his wife among her sisters; S. recognized her by his ring on her finger; S. and MN returned to Sawan Nakol, during their reign humans and birds were friends]: 290-293; Kornev 1963 [prince Chaw Neki came to the lake, there are 7 peacock girls, he hid his youngest's clothes, brought her into the house with his wife, her name is Namarona; the vizier wanted to pass off his daughter as an emergency, persuaded the neighboring king to attack, the emergency went to war; the vizier spread the rumor that the enemies have won, and the witch N. is to blame; before her execution, she asks for permission to dance in her clothes, flies away; the emergency returned victorious, went to look for his wife; she gave her the bracelet to the hermit, ordered him to give it to her husband and tell him about the road; the hermit gave his companions a tame monkey; the snake lay down a bridge over a hot river, in which even the sword melted; the arrow fired spread interpreting mountains, travelers managed to slip through; cannibal birds got into the hollow, they ate the monkey, did not notice the emergency; he hid in the pen of one of them, the bird brought him to the kingdom, where the peacock sisters; emergency threw a ring into the bucket of maid N.; she is happy, but her father offers challenges: 1) break the stone that dammed the river with an arrow (the emergency broke; 2) recognize his wife's finger when 7 sisters put their fingers in holes (a firefly sat on his finger); Emergency and N. returned home]: 35-51; lao: Fleeson 1899 [the young man sees seven nymphs bathing, one agrees to go with him; his mother asks to give her for storage wings; the chief prince was jealous, sent the prince to war; the wife asked her mother-in-law to return her wings; she tied a rope to her daughter-in-law, but she cut it off; returning victorious, the prince went to look wife; when he heard his story, the monkey went with him; died; the fly began to eat the corpse, promised to help if the prince allowed her to do so; he allowed it; hid under the wing of one of the two eagles that were ready to fly across the sea to the country of Kow Kilat, whose ruler is celebrating the return of his daughter; there, the prince threw a ring into the jug of a maid who came for water; the wife asks her father to allow her to return to her husband; he orders the prince 1) to identify her table among her sisters' tables; the prince called a fly, she sat on his wife's table; 2) let each of the princesses stick her finger out from behind the curtain (the same, the husband sits on his wife's finger prince)]: 51-56; ahem [an orphan young man lived with an old man, hunted birds, saw bird girls going down to swim, fell in love with the youngest, who was the last to arrive; the old man advised him to hide her wings; he hid them in a quiver; at first he could not defeat the girl, found strength by chewing on the betel given by the old man, tied them with a rope; took the heavenly maiden as his second wife, she gave birth to a child; looking up, she saw her wings hidden under the roof, put them on, flew away, returned to the child, invited her aunt to fly, but she just jumped and fell away; she flew away altogether; the domestic monkey put it in her paw the dog had a stick to show its owner which way his wife had flown; the dog had seven tails, it led the owner and the monkey to the river; the young man put his sword in the jets, the river parted, forming two channels; there are seven of them in total; the dog told me to hold on to its tail, not laugh, otherwise the tail will come off; the young man and the monkey laugh every time the dog makes an indecent sound, the next tail comes off; when left one tail, the dog went home, but the young man and the monkey stayed; the last stream crossed the body of the river dragon lying across the body; they came to the foot of Heaven rock, where the door opens and closes; monkey began to throw fruits from the tree, the young man threw them into the hole in the rock, the rock stopped; they climbed the cliff to the banyan (ficus), where the monkey said he did not know the road beyond, returned; the young man saw two big birds, one said to the other that she would fly to peck buffalo meat at the festival in honor of the return of the virgin bird; the young man carved the feather of one bird, hid in the hole with his child, birds flew to the field where buffalo bones were thrown away, the young man went out; there was a river, the women replied that they had come to bathe the bird girl for water; the young man threw bracelets and necklaces into the jug, asked to pour the jug on the girl's head; she recognized her things; at the party, the young man pinched the child, the wife recognized her son's scream; all three returned to earth, the house there was overgrown with vines during this time]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 8:294-298.

South Asia. Sindhi [the fakir gives ash to the childless king Lalu: let him give him a drink of water to his beloved wife; a son Amul Malik will be born, when he finishes his studies, let him come to the fakir; the fakir leads AM to another country, they see the radiance emanating from the body of King Gulasta's daughter Princess Husini, AM asks the fakir, then the father, to help marry her; the Saiphal vizier comes to King G. to marry his daughter; H. sets a condition to live with husband in separate palaces; the fakir gives AM an invisible hat, says that H. loves a deva named Suphed; every Thursday she and her maids enter the banyan, who takes her across the seas to the deva's garden; the fakir teaches you to eat food brought for H. unnoticed, hide in a banyan; dev will ask H. to dance, give jewelry and clothes, steal and hide them, pretend to be asleep at home; she will come to look jewelry, you have to jump up and pick up her wings; instead, AM tells H. everything, she grabs her clothes and jewelry, flies away; the fakir tells you to follow H. on a winged horse; on the way he takes out a splinter from lionesses, she gives him two adult lion cubs as his assistant; sister X. teaches when H. and other peri come to swim in the lake, hide her clothes; the lion sits on her clothes; X. gives AM his nose ring, tells him to come with him, throw him in the jug to the maid, who will give it back to H.; dev will say that if AM is H.'s legal husband, he must identify his wife among a hundred peri; she will have this ring; dev made three attempts, X . she attached the ring for the third time, Dev gave it to H. Amul Maliku; on the way back, H. kidnapped a deva who lived in a well; the lions went down there (there's a whole country, a palace), tore the deva, returned from X. to the ground on a winged horse; everyone returned to King L., lived happily]: Kinkaid 1922:75-88; Tamils [the king asks seven sons what everyone would like to do on this cool night; one wants to invade neighbors at the head of the army, the other wants to do irrigation, the third by hunting, etc.; the seventh - to have 4 wives, daughters of Indra, Agni, Varuna and Adishesha next to him; the father is furious to execute his son, the mother warns him to flee; the torturers brought animal blood to the king; the prince lives with an old woman and herds cattle; contrary to the ban, he goes north, climbs a fruit tree and sees Indra's daughter swimming in a pond; steals her clothes, runs, she runs asks him to look back, he turns into stone, Indra's daughter returns to heaven with four other virgins; the old woman revived the prince, told her not to look back next time, but to bring her clothes; turned the prince into a three-year-old child by sewing his clothes into his thigh; gave Indra's daughter her clothes, who stayed with the old woman; she convinced her to marry the prince, turning him back into a young man; six months later sends them to live alone, telling the prince not to give his wife her heavenly clothes; they come to the city, the vizier advises the king to take away his wife, to pretend to be sick, to send the prince for snake venom; the wife gives a note for his uncle, telling him to put it in any anthill; he sends the prince the poison he needs and another wife {Adishesha's daughter?} ; when the poison bag was slightly opened, he burned half of the forest; the vizier suggests sending the prince for whale fat; the wives wrote a note to their uncle Varuna, Mr. of the Seas, who sent a daughter and fat; the vizier: send the prince to convey messages to the dead; the wives write a letter to Agni, the prince throws it into the fire, jumps himself, returns to his wives, and then comes out of the fire unharmed, supposedly answering letters from the king and courtiers; the dead ask them to visit them; the king and all the others threw themselves into the fire and burned down; the prince and four wives go to their father; in the middle of the journey, the wives create a magnificent city; the prince's father was deprived of power enemies, collects firewood with the whole family; they come to the city, their son and daughters-in-law greet them; one day, the prince went hunting, taking the clothes of Indra's daughter sewn in it from his thigh and handed them over mother; she showed her daughters-in-law and they flew to heaven, and the city and all her possessions disappeared; the prince went to an old woman who helped get Indra's daughter; on the way he saved ants, a frog, a cricket from the river, dying without water; the old woman sent him to sit by the path that those heavenly maidens walked every day after bathing; on the 40th day they agreed to take him to Indra in heaven; moved him to heaven a frog; Indra agrees to give him his daughter, but he must complete three tasks to get her sisters; 1) reassemble the sown sesame (ants collected); 2) get the ring out of the snake well (frogs they dive into the well, most are eaten by snakes, but one pulls out a ring); 3) cut down 7 fused plane trees with one blow (Agni's daughter does it herself); 4) I. gave all four maidens the same appearance, ordered identify his daughter (the cricket jumped on her leg); the prince with four wives returns to earth, regains the city and power]: Natesa Sastri 1886:80-119; the Tamils [the king has only daughter, she is on seventh floor of the palace; every day he weighs it using lemons as weights; every day in the morning and evening the girl looks at the sun and laughs; Surya Bhagavan (the sun, aka Shiva) decides that she He mocks him, comes at night, in the morning, the room is in a mess; the king notices that his daughter has become heavier (i.e. she is pregnant); then Shiva opens, they are happy; Shiva gives her a ring and goes for gifts; but the warrior replaced the collected dishes with an iron brazier; when she saw her, the princess ordered no one to let anyone in; offended Shiva predicted that she would starve, work to exhaustion, and cut off her fingers with a sickle and only much later his well-being will return; her son asks who his father is; she gives him Shiva's ring; tells him to go to the river and help the old woman raise a jug of water; let him throw a ring into the jug; when the ring was in the jug, only a little water was immediately left; Shiva asked for a drink, the old woman began to pour it out of the jug, the ring fell, the old woman handed it to Shiva; the boy told him to be brought to him , took him to heaven; but wanted to see his mother, because she was starving; Shiva gave him a box, told him not to open it on the way; but the boy opened it, valuables, houses, land, cattle fell asleep from there; the snake promises to collect everything is back, but then he will bite on the wedding day; the boy agrees; now he and his mother are safe; the young man has grown up but postpones the wedding day; finally the day has come, the snake is ready to bite the groom; this is the snake which Shiva wears like a necklace; he can't let her bite his son, put his leg up and be bitten by a snake; it's a solar eclipse]: Blackburn 2005, No. 50.

Taiwan - Philippines. Taosug [seven houri maidens came down from the sky to swim; the wings of the youngest named Julpa were gone; the elders flew away for new ones; Prince Julamri brought Julpa to him, hid his wings under the stove; took Julpa as a wife, although she had a lover in heaven; Julpa gave birth to a son, Jarries; when the boy is one year old, he still cries, points towards the kitchen; the mother has found her wings, the boy is happy, the mother fixed them; left her son a ring, flew away; the father came back, took the son, went to look for his wife; the maid collects water in the river to bathe Julpa; Julamri asks for a drink, throws a ring into the jug; he and the son follow the maid on Julpa's wedding party; when the imam started pouring water on her, the ring fell out, she recognized him; Julampri defeated her new fiancé in a Chris duel, got his wife back]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 3:262-267; Western subanon {many Muslim borrowings} [the Sultan has a son LagyaBunsu; he heard a noise at dawn, found footprints in the sand; on the seventh morning he waited for women who went down to swim in the river ( listeners understand that they went down the rainbow); younger Putli ("princess") was the last, LB hid her fan (the narrator knows that there is a version in which women take off their feather clothes; fan - Islamized version); the elders flew away, the LB brought P. to his father, married her; a boy was born; the LB hid the fan in the flute under the roof; when cooking rice, you can not pour out excess water, it must be preserved, given children, etc.; P. poured water, then saw the flute, found her fan; put milk on the child, told the LB parents that she was returning to her home, because her husband was always absent, flew away; three days later, her forehead returned; taking his son, went to look for his wife; at the foot of a dry tree, the Lizard told him to tie himself to her back, taking pieces of fern with him; on the seventh night she lifted him to the top of the tree, each time ate one piece; left her forehead at the top; there were eagles in the nest; the sky turned dark, the ogre eagle flew in; ordered the forehead to tie himself and her son to their claws, seven days later brought them to the river; there two maids came for water, LB quietly threw a ring into their vessel; LB went up the river, where old Kobayan (Manobo has a female deity in the 7th tier sky); she says that LB's wife is now marrying someone she is promised to childhood; the sounds of the gongs can be heard; P. found a LB ring in the vessel, said that she was the wife of LB; he appeared in a gold outfit given by old K.; after the heavenly wedding, P., LB and their son returned to earth, and first to the fiance P. K. gave the daughter of another sultan]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 15:171-189.

The Balkans. Albanians [the peasant's son agrees to sit on a magic bird, climb the Crystal Mountain; drops his jewelry from there, but the people below refuse to let him down; the young man finds goat pen, cleans it; the three-eyed goat that returns tells one goat, then the other goat to guard, one goes to graze, the other falls asleep, the young man cleans the pen unnoticed again both times; the third time he stays alone a goat, takes him to his blind owner; he lets the young man herd, does not tell him to take the goats to the edge of the cliff; there the peri dance, the young man plays the pipe, the peri is the first to get tired, the young man ties her up, makes her return the owner's eyes; seeing the light, the owner gives the young man the keys, tells him not to unlock the twelfth room; three Beauties of the Earth fly into it to swim, the young man hides the youngest's belt, brings his wife home on a heroic horse, the key to She gives her belts to her mother; three years later she goes with her daughter-in-law to the wedding, gives her a belt, her daughter-in-law flies through a smoke hole; the young man flies back to the mountain, the old man sends him to his older brother, the oldest one, he sends him to the spring, where the maids of the Beauty of the Earth collect water, the young man throws a ring into the jug, the wife and her sisters come to him, turn an apple so that their brothers The cannibals did not eat it; they smell it, agree to give it to their sister if the son-in-law 1) brings an armful of firewood, 2) a barrel of water larger than them (the young man pretends to tie the forest with a rope, digs up the entire spring); 3) catch a hare, get a nut; a young man falls on a hare from a tree, gets a wife]: Serkova 1989:55-57; Serbs [the poor man's middle son married an ugly girl; left the day after the wedding travel; hired an employee; after 16-17 years, asked the owner to calculate it; he asked if he wanted 100 ducats with a curse or three with a blessing; the man chose a blessing; in the mountains he went to house where noise and loud conversations were heard; came in; everyone was talking and one was silent; the traveler asked why; he replied that every word (statement} he said was a dukat; the traveler gave the ducat, and then second; St. Thomas (it was him): Don't go into the muddy water; Don't do what you think; the traveler went to the river, but saw that it was muddy, and sat on the shore; three Turks rode up, another horse was loaded with money; they asked the traveler to hold her while they were looking for a ford; the water took them away, and the horse with the money went to the traveler; the next day the water came down and the traveler crossed the river; got home; his wife did not recognize him ; when my son returned from work, the man mistook him for an attacker and was going to hack him with an ax; the wife cried out: This is my son! The man remembered the advice he had bought, opened himself to his wife and son, stayed with them; the son asked for money to trade; the father gave; the son equipped and sent three ships with grain; met a robber ship; two grabbed to death trying to bite each other; two prisoners are barely alive from hunger; a man bought the girls, giving the robbers ships full of grain; at home, his father did not reproach him; the following year, ships with salt; man sailed to a kingdom where there was no salt; the king bought salt by giving ducat ships for them; while eating, the queen noticed a stranger wearing a handkerchief to her kidnapped daughters; promised three more ships with ducats, if a stranger brings her daughter; the man went home to bring the princesses to his parents; a naked corpse on the shore; people: this scoundrel was killed for the cause; the man dressed and buried the dead man; asked for it passenger; on the way back, he threw a man into the sea, telling the girls to call him their savior; the one thrown into the sea was picked up and brought ashore; demanded that when the rescued man became king, he He would have to give him what he wanted; the rescued man came to the palace when the king was passing his daughter off as a deceiver; in the kitchen he threw his ring into the bowl of soup that the bride had carried; she found out ring; the deceiver is hanged; the king married the eldest daughter to the savior and made him heir; they have a son; a man appeared demanding that the promise to give what they asked for (he was that eagle) should be fulfilled; I demanded a son; my father agrees; I came: it was just a test, I am that buried dead man; everything is fine, the man brought his parents to live with him as well]: Eschker 1992, No. 16:84-89.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [padishah has a son; when a daughter was born, he ordered her to be killed; son grew up; padishah: I don't want daughters; son: if another one is born, give it to me; the young man gave the girl to an old woman for upbringing, he wandered himself, defeated everyone; his sister grew up, he took her; in the palace of robbers he killed 16 while they were sleeping, threw the 17th into a well in room 31 and covered it with a stone; one day the girl entered room 41st, I saw the robber, offered to become her husband; he advised me to pretend to be sick, ask for grapes; the brother flew into the garden in his flying duldula; his owner was Azhdakha with 41 heads; drove the young man into the ground is knee-deep, and he is waist-deep; his ajdaha is waist-deep, the young man Azhdahu is up to his throat; he cut off 40 heads, left the last one to die in agony; a girl came out of the palace: you saved me; he took her to Istanbul to see her Padishah father, she gave him a ring; his sister invites her brother to tear the ropes with which she would tie him; he could not tear the rope out of his horsehair; cut out his eyes, the robber was frightened of him kill him, they threw him into a well in the forest, leaving his hands tied; the padishah's hunters pulled him out, sold him to a lame man; he left the blind man at the spring; the maid of the padishah's daughter came up, and the blind man asked for water, threw up the ring; the padishah's daughter found it, ordered it to be brought; the fool saw in the forest how the wolf knocked out the fox's eye, chewed the leaves, put it on the eye socket, saw the light; the fool healed the young man, passed it off as his daughter; they achieved their goal; the young man asked permission to go to kill his sister - otherwise he would die; cut his sister's head into pieces, let the robber go]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 5; Adygi [Yesmuko Eskhot herds Psha horses (prince); the bastard (snake) cordones off the herd with his body; lets HER go for promising to come to him; gives him a daughter; tells him not to turn to the left road on the way to his father; turns HER; two died there his wife's sisters; Aliregu-Algoj (pshi devils) kidnapped the youngest, but he defeated him, nailed him to the ground with seven hooks; HER is weakened by one hook, AA jumps up, takes his wife; three men at the bridge say HER that a giant will now come on a boar; wins by driving him into the ground; the giant advises to tie his gut around his waist; HER throws his gut on a tree, which cuts the trunk; SHE cuts off the giant's head, that hides in a failure; three men lower HER in the basket; SHE finishes off her head, sends three girls upstairs; the youngest warns that the rope will be cut off, tells her to sit on a white ram, he will take it upstairs; the rope is cut off, SHE sees sheep fighting, jumps on black, he lowers him down into the AA world; SHE throws his wife's ring into the maid's jug, meets his wife, tells him to find out where AA's soul is; in willow ( wife decorates willow); in three flies in a box, she is in a hare, a hare in a fox, a fox in a boar in reeds; Tlepsh makes three arrows for HER; SHE kills a wild boar, a fox, a hare, presses one fly; AA asks to finish him off as soon as possible; SHE presses other flies after AA gives a flying carpet and a stone and towel that make old people young; on the carpet SHE and his wife rise to the ground; forgives companions, pretends to be rescued women; makes the mother young; frees his father from his pads, kills a psha tyrant]: Karashev 1957:131-141; Abkhazians [Dzhanchik sees a huge eagle; he asks him feed; D. carved a piece of flesh out of his thigh, then brought two bulls; the eagle still could not get up; D. brought him home on the arba, fed him; the eagle tells him to hang a basket of a hundred bulls from his neck, sit on your back, throw meat down her throat every time you scream; the elder, middle sisters of the eagle refuse to give a ring, a handkerchief; the youngest gives a box; D. ends up in the forest, with him a box; a red man (this is Forest Prince): if you give your child, who is now born, I will teach you how to open the box; D. promised; opened the box, found himself in the palace; closed it at home; his son Ahmet-Omar grew up and went to forest prince; venerated the giant's chest, her many-headed sons recognized him as a dairy brother; teach the 12th of the pigeon girls who will come to swim to hide the clothes; the girl explains that the forest the prince is her father; teaches her to go before dawn when the guardian animals sleep; in her room the lamp will be the last to go out; at the screenings she will raise her heel, a tear will drop from her eye; AO identified the bride, married; prince tells 1) to build a city overnight; the wife teaches you to tame Rashi (the magic horse), go around the site, a city will appear; the wife tells her to run, because the judges slander her father against AO; the wife leaves the pillows responsible for herself; the mother understands, tells her husband to chase; the wife turns horses into trees, saddles into vines, herself and AO into an old man and an old woman; now the mother is chasing; her daughter creates a thicket, a boxwood forest, a sea; a horse the princess drank it, galloped on; the fugitives flew away with falcons; the princess cursed her daughter: her husband would forget her; AO went ahead and forgot the bride, took another wife; she came for water, the prince's daughter threw her into the jug his ring; AO remembered everything, brought his wife, spent the former one with honor]: 18-26; Hvartskia 1994 [Jomlat sees 12 girls on the seashore; nurse: these are the daughters of the Sea King, we must steal and burn the veil one of them; he kidnaps, but does not burn the veil, takes the girl as his wife; after 3 years, having given birth to a son, she asks for her veil to dance; he does not give it, but the audience begs that the dance will be even better; wife flies away, visible among the clouds; D. died of grief, the son became the ancestor of Princes Shervashidze]: Mikava 1960:232-234; Abaza [a man named Shepherd comes to another named Son of the Sun, then both to Son of the Moon; the prince will give his daughter to someone who knocks down a needle suspended at the height of a bird's flight with one shot, catches fragments in the hem of a Circassian; P. performs the task, but gives the girl to the Son of the Sun; elsewhere the same goes to the Son of the Moon; comes to the old woman, she sends her to the giantess, telling her lips to touch her breasts; the giantess directs her to the hero who kills the grooms; first tells her to hide in a hole, lure dogs out heroes, she will get tired, she will beat them half to death; then the same with her horse; then find her sleeping, beat her with a bronze whip until she comes to terms; that's what happened; one day the wife washed her hair, her hair He sailed along the river, an old woman found him, showed him to the prince, promised to bring this woman; she became a maid to P.'s wife, persuaded him to ask what his soul was wearing; in the casket, the old woman threw him into the river, P. died; the old woman lured the woman into the boat, brought her to the prince; the Son of the Sun and the Son of the Moon fired arrows into the sky, they returned bloody; the Son of the Moon asked Keith to regurgitate what was in his stomach, who regurgitated the chest with the soul of P ., P. came to life; P. threw his ring into the vessel with which the maid of the prince's new bride came to fetch water; the twin brothers threw the prince off the high porch, tore the old woman with horses]: Tugov 1985, No. 43:110-117; Balkarians (western 1959) [the elder brother and his squad stopped for the night, the black fog approached, destroyed them; the middle brother was the same; the younger brother was careful, hid, escaped himself; came to Emegensha, fell to her breasts; her sons with they made friends with him; explained that the fog was a girl, she stole their horse; they had a piebald mare, her foals were dragged away by a wolf; the girl managed to take the foal, but the wolf gnawed off his leg, so her horse three-legged; fog is steam from his nostrils; tomorrow the mare will give birth again; the young man caught the foal without injury; emegens teach: hiding alternately so that the girl thinks that the horse is falsely raising the alarm, approach girl; she sleeps for a month, her hair must be tied; let her go when she swears a prayer book; a boy and a girl got married; she gave her husband her portrait; he lost it, water brought it to the khan; the witch promised to get a beauty; came to the young man's wife, while not, persuaded him to find out where that shower was; in a broom; burned a broom; in a bead in his hair; the young man got drunk, the witch tore off the bead, threw it into the corner, took the girl away; she demands to wait a year with the wedding; the emegens see that blood is dripping from the young man's arrow; they came, found a bead, put it, the young man came to life; asked the shepherd, threw a ring into his wife's maid's jug; during weddings, an unrecognized man stabbed a witch and took his wife on a four-legged horse; brought the groom's friend on a three-legged emegen to be eaten; along with his emegen brothers in that mentioned rock crack, if not probably died (and now) live]: Malkonduev 2017:229-240; Nogais [dying, biy told their sons not to go south; the eldest went with his people, they found an empty house where food and drinks, stayed overnight, everyone was killed; the same with the middle brother; the younger Kenzhebay did not fall asleep, hid in the yard in a barrel; a rider came on a six-legged horse, killed everyone; considered that the horses were 41, and the dead were 40, but did not find K. and left; K. followed the trail; came to the old woman Elmauyz, she has nose to door, she swallowed and regurgitated K., now he is her son; her real son does not know where the six-legged horse rode; the same her sisters (old women's sons fly in and are called karakus, but then they are not birds, but people); another sister's son explains that this is a rider Altynshash (gold-haired); we need to dig into her house, tie hair, beat with a kamcha until she agrees to give her horse and wealth; A. agreed and invited K. to become his wife; they live well; A. dropped the curl of her golden hair into the river; the fisherman found it, the khan sent old woman Azazil to find an owner; K. greeted her; she persuaded A. to find out where K.'s soul was; he replied that A. cut the bowstring, but K. replaced it; then K. admitted that his soul was golden a box braided in a forelock on her head; the old woman untwisted her forelock unnoticed, threw away the box, K. died; the old woman brought A. Khan; Elmauyz looked at the spindle, blood was flowing from it; the son of the first elmauyz rules animals, the second birds, the third fish; one pike complained of pain; it turned out that she swallowed the box, it was removed, K. came to life; he came to Khan's country, threw the ring into the maid's jug, who came to the spring; A. recognized him, K. took her away from her wedding to Khan on a six-legged horse]: Kapaev 2012:53-64; Dargins [the snake demands that the ploughman give his daughter; only the youngest agrees; in her snake palace sheds her skin, turns into a handsome man; older sisters sweep, find skin, burn; husband disappears; wife goes down a hole into the lower world, where the boy came for water, she throws a ring into the jug ; Agaikhan's husband recognizes her; his bloodthirsty mother Vahig gives difficult errands; 1) clean the house using triangular needles (the wind cleans); 2) cover the house with feathers (birds do); 3) bring from behind the mountains Zurna with a drum for the wedding A.; A. teaches to praise, sip blood and bitterness from rivers, shift meat to dogs, hay to horses, open closed gates, open doors; the girl brings zurna and a drum, the guard orders her to stop in vain; V. passes A. off as a freak - the daughter of another V.; A. kills her, with a girl in the guise of pigeons they fly to the ground, V. chases an eagle; pigeons to oats, an eagle to a chicken with chickens, grains are pecking; I did not notice two grains, returned to the lower world, and A. and his wife became people, they live well]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 42:378-383; Lezgins [the snake asks the poor man to give him one of three daughters; the eldest, the middle refuse, the youngest Tavat Khanum agrees; the serpent asks him to step on his tail, turns into a young man named Sad-Eskander; the old woman persuades TX to ask her husband how to burn his skin; the third time he replies, TX burns it on the onion peel, SE disappears; three years later he comes to the spring, sister SE gives her water, she throws her ring into the jug, SE recognizes him; explains that the locals are Azhdaha, the old woman wants to marry him off as her daughter; on their wedding day, SE and TH run in the wind horse; throw razors (a mountain of razors), salt (salt mountains), barley (barley to the sky) behind; TX mistakenly pours water from the jug forward, the sea overflows in front of them; the horse is transferred to the other side, the old woman sinks; SE leaves TX in the cemetery, hires a merchant for two hours; he cuts the horse, plants SE inside, the parrot bird brings the horse's carcass to the rock where gold and yakhonts; SE scares the bird, does not throw gold to the merchant, comes to the old man; he tells the huge birds to take SE to his wife; SE finds TH, the tsar is amazed at his wisdom, gives him the throne]: Khalilov 1965, No. 63:185-192 (=Khalilov, Osmanov 1989:158-164); Rutultsy [a childless woman gives birth to a donkey; he asks his mother to marry the padishah's daughter; he demands to build a golden bridge, bring 7 pairs of clothes for the bride in one eggshell; everything is done; at night, the donkey sheds his skin, turns into a young man named Rizwan; the old woman persuades her daughter The padishah puts the skin at the door for the night, burns it; Z. flies away as a dove; the wife goes to look, throws the ring into the jug of the maid who collected water, R. recognizes the ring; Aunt R. gives them horses, they gallop away, azhdaha pursues, R. spills water, a sea forms, Azhdaha asks how they crossed, the fugitives answer that after hanging a stone around her neck, Azhdaha drowns; Azhdakhi's sister is chasing, R. throws salt, grows up salt hill; R. and his wife return home]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 60:523-526; swans [two brothers are married, the third is single; their three sisters are married to a diva, a falcon, a lion; the youngest went to marry princess; king: she is promised to a black man, if a young man defeats him, let him take him; let the wedding be 12 years old; the young man hunts to feed his guests, comes to the land of a black man; he orders to take a black man to the wedding and him; takes the bride away; the young man comes to the spring, where his sister's maid, who is married to a diva, collects water; asks for a drink, throws up her ring; the sister finds; hides his brother; the divas do not harm to him: he himself chased a black man, but he went across the sea; the same goes to his sister who is after the falcon; the lion says he visited a black man at the wedding; the young man went there - to the Kageti Tower in the middle of the sea; took him away wife, but the black man caught up, broke flesh and bones; the wife packed them in a bag, sent them on horseback, he came to the lion's wife, the lion revived the young man; the young man and the lion filled the game, all the animals came to eat her, young man detained his happy son Sagar (this is the name of a good horse) there; she asked him for a month and returned him again {i.e. the foal gained strength}; the young man took his wife away again and when the black man began to catch up, the horse the young man shouted to that horse that he had 4 legs, and that he had 3, the black man would be defeated; he was defeated and killed, the hunter returned his wife]: Nizheradze 1890, No. 3:184-195; Georgians (Kartli) [dying, the king orders three sons have three knives to guard his grave; the elders refuse, each time the youngest goes; at midnight a man on a white horse in white clothes rode, promises to kill the dead; the young man cut him down, a horse and hid his armor; the next night, the same (red horseman); then black; the king has three daughters in the tower; whoever jumps there on horseback and gets a beautiful woman marries her; the younger brother is unrecognized every time reaches the princess, takes all three; he took one for himself, gave the others to his brothers; when he dies, the father orders not to spend the night away from home if possible; once the youngest spent the night, and his wife was stolen by a bald jongurist; from the brothers three sisters for a deva, an eagle and a gveleshapi; the maid came for water, the prince quietly threw his ring into the jug, the sister found out; the devil is powerless, sends to the eagle; yet he sends to the gveleshapi; that says that the kidnapper rides a three-legged seahorse; we must get a four-legged one; once a year a mare comes out of the sea, gives birth to a foal; wolves eat him, they must leave the sheep in time; the chongurist did not have time so one leg was gnawed off; the prince got a four-legged man, took his wife away, the chongurist catches up, but the prince's horse kicked and killed him; the prince put his wife on his three-legged; everything is fine; three red grenades fell, three juicy apples]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (1), No. 70:317-328; Armenians [the old man brought firewood from the forest, there was a snake in them; demanded that the royal daughter be married to him; the king demands that a palace be built overnight, then garden, carpet from palace to palace, invisible musicians; every time the serpent tells the old man to go to the forest, shout into the hole "Big Khatun, Little Khatun, Habrmani wants this and that"; after the snakes marry at night becomes man X., tells his wife not to let it slip; participates incognito in the races; in response to the ridicule of the sisters, the wife says, H. falls, tells him to trample iron bast shoes and a steel staff in 7 years, then he will find him; disappears; H. is at the mercy of a witch, she wants to marry him off her daughter; the wife, having passed through an earthen, glass, copper fortress, reaches gold, her bast shoes and staff have worn off; she throws his ring into the maid's jug, H. finds it; the witch asks her to stroke her feet and fall asleep in her legs; H. tells me to put the deck instead, at night the witch gives her foot; the witch tells her to bring fluff for pillows, H. advises asking the birds to shed their fluff; H. and his wife run away, the witch's daughter is chasing, they turn into a mill and a miller; a vegetable garden with a gardener; for the third time the witch runs herself , H. tells his wife to throw the comb, forests appear; H. turns his wife into a twig, himself into a snake wrapped around a branch; the witch found them, but took pity and let them go; H. and the princess celebrate a new wedding in new palace]: Nazinyan 2014:106-116; Azerbaijanis [the daughters of the vizier and vekil teach the king's three daughters to send melons to their father: overripe, ripe, slightly unripe; the vizier explains that it is time to give their daughters away marry; the king tells everyone to fire an arrow; the eldest's arrow hits the roof of the vizier's house, the middle arrow hits the vekil's house, the youngest falls by the bush; the girl finds a snake there, she turns into a young man named Shamsi-Kamar, he tells her not to reveal secrets; otherwise she will find it again only when she wears out her iron shoes and her iron staff bends; the king invited her daughters; the elders put rice in their sleeves when they were dancing, he fell down; precious stones fell from the youngest's sleeves; the mother persuaded her daughter to reveal the secret, threw a snake skin into the fire; the husband disappeared with the house; the wife looked for him until she wore out her iron shoes and the staff bent; the SHK's slaves came for water, the wife threw a ring into the jug; the HK recognized her, but told her not to open; his father thinks that the princess is one of the maids, telling her to bring firewood from the forest; the HK teaches say in the forest that the ShK was dead; then the firewood gathered themselves; at night, the ShK poured boiling water on the bride, which his father had prepared for him, rode off with the princess; wedding; the bride's relatives did not catch up with them]: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:216-221.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [a childless woman promises a stump that if she becomes pregnant, her son or daughter will serve him; the girl Bibinegar was born and raised; walks past a stump with two others; a stump tells her to stop; her mother sends her to the stump, a young man Maisaskabar comes out of it; with him carpets and a wheel from which emeralds and yakhonts fall; M. gives B. a fur coat - if he disappears, they will part; her aunt overheard; hopes pass B. off as her daughter; put B. to sleep and burned her fur coat; B. had only a turquoise ring; B. goes in search; the shepherds answer her rude: these are herds of M., a ransom for B.; the boy did not let her drink, she told the water turn into blood and pus; M.: what is it? ordered to let me get drunk; B. threw a ring into the jug, M. realized that she was nearby; M.: everything around the diva; B. was hired as a maid in the house of M., whom Aunt B. married to her daughter; at night M. cut off his wife's head, rode away with B.; aunt chases, M. threw a piece of sheepskin (mountain); a piece of iron (iron mountain); salt (salt sea); aunt: how did you swim across; M.: stand on that pebble (it's a sunny glare); aunt drowned; a few drops of her blood splashed ashore, became a gazelle; M. brought her home; in her absence, she butts B.; when everyone was sleeping, the gazelle became an aunt, gathered everyone in the house to sleep, gathered throw B. into boiling water; B. asks for permission to pray; a virgin appeared, taught her to break a bottle; M. appeared, threw the gazelle into boiling water; gives B. a bottle of her aunt's life, tells her to go to her house, pick up those lying in front of her give bones to the dog with a camel, and straw on the contrary; praise the dried garden, which the aunt calls thorns; clean the dusty carpet and bed; agree to comb your aunt, and when she falls asleep, hit her ground your head and run; the bed and everyone else refuse to hold B., the dog tore his aunt; B. ran to M., he ceased to be a diva, became human, everything is fine]: Osmanov 1987:250-256; Persians [ a childless woodcutter wants to kill a snake, which promises to become his son Sabzkaba ("green caftan"); orders the ruler's daughter Shakarhava ("sweet wish") to be married; he requires 70 bags of jewelry, etc., S. sends, receives his wife, takes off her snakeskin at night; warns her not to burn; otherwise, in order to return him, seven iron dresses, shoes, staffs will have to be worn out; Sister Sh. skin into the fire; S. goes in search; meets women, girls, everyone says that their father S. went to S. and disappeared, they would kill her; one girl carries water S., S. throws a ring into the jug; S. meets Sh., tells his diva mother to venerate his breast; mother-in-law tells him to pour tears on the floor (S. performs); wash the black bag white (dip it in water when white water flows); bring a sieve from her sister- diva, she must break Sh.; S.: there are bones in front of the horse, straw in front of the dog, must be shifted; put cotton wool in every bell on the door; S. grabbed a sieve and ran away; at the wedding of divas in the arms of S. and Sh. put hot candles, but they did not throw the candles; at night S. killed the bride and groom, ran with Sh.; brother S. chases, S. became a broom, S. became a rope; uncle (garden and gardener); father (mill and miller); mother (cypress and dragon); S. killed his mother, everything is fine]: Osmanov 1987:301-306; Romaskevich 1934a, No. 34 [the king has 6 sons with 6 wives, but not from his beloved seventh; the dervish gave an apple to eat with his wife, a son was born; he chrome, grew up quickly; all the brothers took a hundred mists and went to trade, the youngest too, his name was "native of Iran" (TI); a servant with him; the fire went out in the morning; TI came to the old woman; his lower lip hung on his chest, the upper one comes under her eyes; she asks to get the princess, with whom her 6 sons are in love, then she will give all the riches; TI went up to the castle, kissed the girl, bit off the prepared dishes, called out to the divas, cut off everyone's head as they went up the wall; brought the head of one of the divas to the old woman, who also cut off her head; came to the princess's father, showed the heads of the divas; the king will give his daughter if TI will get a mare with 40 foals; the princess teaches you to take sugar and dates with her; give dates to ants that are the size of a goat; pour sugar into a bitter spring, the mare will come to drink; TI did so saddled a mare, followed by 40 foals; the king gave his daughter; TI sees a man draining the river with a cauldron; won, became his branded slave; a man with millstones on his legs (same); eating trees and stones ( the same); in one place people are hanged by their forelocks - they fell in love with the king's daughter; TI goes to ask the princess, the king orders; 1) eat a lot of pilaf and drink a pond of salt water (Opivalo and Obedalo fulfilled); 2) break the pole in two (the man with the millstones made the pole thin and broke it); the king gave his daughter; on the way, the White Div took both wives and disappeared into the mountains; TI came when the divas were hunting, tells his wives to find out where he is bubble of life; divas: it's a bush (wives play around the bush); diva: at noon, a yellow bull comes to the spring, a bubble in his left thigh; TI got a bottle, told the diva to bring wives and all the riches, then broke a bottle; at night, three pigeons say: with a stick made of this tree you will heal a madman and only a healthy mind; a leaf will make a blind person sighted and vice versa; sprinkle bark into the sea and it will dry; into the mosque Sister TI came and did not recognize him; he threw a ring on the plate, ordered him to give it to his parents, they recognized their son's ring; he made them sighted with leaves; wedding; no information about the brothers]: 255-266; Tajiks [the old man's eldest son Sitorashinos is a stargazer, the middle son is Darieband (directs the flow of rivers), the youngest Shamshirboz (brave with a sword); the brothers decided to marry on the same day; S. moves a stone, but does not press ants, they give a wing, promise to help; whoever cuts a strip of iron will give his daughter to the padishah; S. cut it, but went on with his brothers; the city has a dragon in the lake, every day demands a girl, 40 rams and 10 dastarkhans, the turn of two daughters of the padishah; S. found out where the dragon, D. took the water, S. hacked him with a sword; the padishah offers to choose a bride, but S. wants three for himself and his brothers; the padishah asks collect crumbling grains from the field (ants collect); the padishah gives his daughters for S. and D.; at their wedding, S. finds a third girl hidden by the padishah in the garden - insignificant but beautiful; S. says that his power in the saber; the old woman hears, grabs her sword, tells him to throw it into the river; S. finds out everything, D. takes the water, returns Sh.; he sends the girl's maid, putting his ring in the jug; the padishah has to let the brothers and their brides go]: Ulug-zade 1967:115-129; Uzbeks [chasing a pheasant, the youngest of the old man's three sons enters a cave and spends 40 days there with peri; when the young man returns home, Peri tells him to ask his father to build a house for him, build a yurt; when he comes to his son, the old man sees only a cat next to him; secretly peeks, sees a beautiful woman; before a relative's wedding, the old man tells his daughters-in-law sew dresses, bake cakes; other peri do everything on the orders of the young man's wife; Peri replies to other daughters-in-law that he will make clothes out of paper; they also make paper dresses, peri sends rain, dresses get wet; the old man asks his son where he keeps the cat's skin; when he finds out, he throws it into the fire; peri flies away, telling his husband to wear his iron boots and staff; the young man comes to Almauz Kempir (AK)'s house, where he is wife and boy; the boy asks the boy for water, he does not give it, the water in the jug turns into blood for the first time, pus the second time; peri tells the boy to give water to a stranger; the young man throws it into a jug the ring, peri recognizes it, goes to her husband; when AK is at home, turns it into a flower, hides it in his hair; then passes her husband off as a younger brother; AK tells her to look in her hair, sucks the young man's blood; peri orders give the dog meat, the camel hay (AK did the opposite); when the AK falls asleep, tie her hair to a pole, take a comb, scissors, a mirror, run; the doors, the camel and the dog refuse to detain the fugitives; those they throw a comb, answer AK that it is necessary to pull out two teeth, make axes out of them, cut the road; the same is scissors; the AK has only four teeth; they throw a mirror, it turns into a river; the fugitives reply that you need to tie stones to your neck and put stones in your sleeves, walk along the bottom; AK sinks; young man and peri live in their home]: Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:166-178; kafirs (kati; west in 1968 in Kabul from a native of villages. Kulem) [the man had three daughters and a son; daughters married diva brothers; the man fell ill, gave his son all the keys to the house and did not give the key to one room alone; when the father fell asleep, the young man pulled out from the key to that room was out of his pocket and opened it; there was a millstone; the young man looked through his hole and saw a beautiful woman; she said: "At one time, your father missed [me], now you're in in turn, you will miss me"; the young man came to his father, who sent him in search; the young man met his sister's maid at the spring; threw a ring into her jug; when the maid poured water on her hands to the hostess, the ring fell into the pelvis; the sister, recognizing his brother's ring, sent him for him; fed him and hid him under the house; the divas returned in the evening; the children began to repeat that the mother's brother was in the basement; the mother was angry, pulled her brother by the hair; the divas stabbed a goat for him; the next day the young man left; met his second sister's maid at the spring; the situation repeated; the same: with the third sister; the young man met a witch who was the sister of the divas; gave her a note from one of her brothers; she recognized the handwriting, let the young man go; the situation repeated with the second and third witches; the young man met the shepherd and asked him where Paradise is the shadow of the sun {the name of the beauty}; the shepherd gave him a staff: "When you reach the river, raise your staff and point to the water; [water] will part and you will go to the other side. You'll get out of there and you'll be in front of the gate. Dice are thrown in front of the donkey and hay is placed in front of the wolf. You throw the hay to the donkey and the dice to the wolf. There are two poles there. Put the one on the right to the left, the one on the left to the right. When you enter the house, pick up the beds spread out, and spread out the collected beds. This house is the house of Paradise - the shadow of the sun"; the young man did as the shepherd told him; R. saw the young man, he asked her where the diva's soul was; R. replied that he did not know; in the evening the diva came and fell asleep; R., on the advice of the young man, took it children in the thicket of thorns; the divas asked why the children were crying; R. said they were asking where their father's soul was; unable to withstand crying, the diva said: "My soul is in one parrot, and the parrot is in cage. This cage is in a large cauldron, and the cauldron is buried in a hut on the summer"; in the morning, the divas flew away, and R. and the young man went to the summer and began to dig; they pulled out the cauldron, it had a cage, and a parrot in the cage; the young man tore off his legs, wings and head; the diva fell apart; the young man took R. to his home, his father had a feast]: Grunberg 1980, No. 4:141-145.

Volga - Perm. Chuvashi [when dying, the priest's wife gives him her ring, tells him to marry the one she suits; does not suit anyone, the daughter accidentally wore it, the pop wants to marry her, she runs away; the royal son marries her, a son is born; when the prince left, the pop came unrecognized, stabbed the baby; the king father tells his son, the son writes in response, the pop replaced both letters - allegedly the prince orders to cut off wife hands, tie the dead baby to her and drive her away; the woman leaned to the river, the baby fell out, her hands grew, the voice said how to revive the baby with plant juice; he grew up, killed the youngest, middle son old woman; only maimed the elder; the old woman arranged that the mother of the prince's son took the old woman's son as a lover; pretending to be sick, gives her son difficult tasks; he defeats the heroes who guarded the garden and source; the old woman's son steals the cross in which the strength of the prince's son is; drives him away; he meets the princess, she promises to marry him; meets the blind and legless; in the palace throws the princess's ring into a bucket of water; she recognizes the ring, the king allows marriage, but the prince's son must return his cross; he steals the cross, kills his mother's lover, and tied her, two barrels next to each other: to cry on it and to cry for her lover; gathers people, tells everything; mother cried for her son, he released her]: Chuvash tales 1937:237-247; Bashkirs [=Zelenin 1991, No. 101 (107): 436-441, the name of the hero Aleuk; Zhin- Peri puts a ring on the young man Alukey's finger; he becomes numb; the old man tells him where to go; sister J. says she is getting married; A. tells her to plant J. her ring; A. and J. run, A. kills with arrows pursuers - Kubykty-Kara and his army; J. gives birth to a child; A. takes her and the child home, leaves her by the river; J. swims, the nanny takes her clothes, J. flies away as a goose; everyone at home is disappointed that A. ugly (a real wife has a month in one cheek, the sun spits gold and silver in the other); travelers talk about an unusual goose; old people advise you to hide in a hole, put a child next to him; J. comes to feed the baby, takes off birds' clothes, both fall asleep; A. returns his wife]: Barag 1988, No. 50:360-365.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans [the lama suggests that the khan poison the lake, extract the wealth of the water khan from it; he asks poor old man Har-Goryochi to prevent this; the old man threatens the lama, the lama leaves, the khan torments him ticks; sent by the water khan advise HG to ask for sums outside the door as a reward, not to put them on the ground; after receiving the bags, HG goes to the wise lama, he sends to another; the other indicates the source of youth, HG bathes, becomes young; 8 heavenly maidens come to the spring to swim once a month; they can be caught, because the bag received by HG contains a golden rope that is tied to the sun and a month; HG catches the daughter of the horse-headed Geniryn Khan, takes her to Mani Vetyr Khan, to whom she is promised; for this, MB gives him her daughter; the former 180 wives of MB want to get rid of their daughter-in-law; they persuade MV's father to kill her - the only way he supposedly will escape danger; his daughter-in-law flies away; MB follows the llama into the sky, throws the ring into his wife's sister's jug (she came to get water to wash her sister, who was dirty on the ground); wife finds a ring, MB is recognized as husband, they return to earth; the conspiratorial adviser was torn with ticks, 180 wives were tied to horses, MV's father was expelled to the desert]: Potanin 1883, No. 155:523-527; sirongolas [{the scan does not contain page 223}; the old man gave the young man a trap to catch a heavenly maiden on the lake for her gold bracelet; he gave it to Prince Yamantaka; the nobleman advises the king to take her; the king orders to kill her son; the girl she put on the crown she was wearing on the lake, left Ya on the lake, giving her bracelet, and flew away herself; I went to look for her; went to two butting rocks, followed by a spring where Y.'s wife's maid had come; he threw a bracelet in her jug; his wife recognized him, her father allowed her to live with Y.; out of 20 gifts, this is a real Nogon-Darikha]: Potanin 1893, No. 30:223-224.