K18D. By pike's command, ATU 675. .15.16.27.-.32.34.
Theyoung man lets go or save a fish (a frog, a snake, a supernatural creature), it fulfills his wishes and he marries a princess. {ATU links are not entirely reliable. In particular, Uther 2004 includes a Corsican version (Massignon 1984, No. 66), in which the main part of the plot is missing. References to the Balkan versions probably fit the plot's definition, since Bulgarians do have one}.
Spaniards, Portuguese, Basques (?) , Italians (Tuscany, Umbria, Rome, Lazio, Campania, Abruzzo, Calabria), Sardinians, Sicilians, Ladins, French, Irish, Frisians, Germans (Austria {and northern Germany too?}) , Bulgarians, Macedonians, Hungarians, Slovenes, Serbs, Croats, Albanians, Greeks, Czechs, Poles, Russians (Murmansk, Karelia, Vologda, Novgorod, Pskov, Tverskaya, Orlovskaya), Ukrainians (Galicia, Volyn, Podolia, Pokutye, Kievskaya), Belarusians, Ossetians, Terek Cossacks, Georgians, Armenians, Turks, Bartangans, Norwegians, Faroese, Icelanders, Danes, Swedes, Western Sami, Finns, Karelians, Veps, Estonians, Lutsi, Latvians, Lithuanians, Mari, Mordovians, Udmurts, Chuvash, Kazan Tatars, Siberian Tatars (Baraba).
Southern Europe. Spaniards (Extremadura) [Maria de Ornero has a loafer and lazy son, Juan lazy; he was hardly persuaded to go for firewood; a fish on the shore asks to be dumped into the water, X. reluctantly does; for this, the fish promises to fulfill all his wishes; he asks that he not carry firewood, but his firewood; the king sees it from the palace; H. remembered that the king has a daughter and wished her from him became pregnant and for a boy to be born holding a letter addressed to him; when the baby was born, all the men were summoned; H. was the last to come; the letter was addressed to him; the king kicked out his daughter, she began to live in Juan's mother's house, cries all the time; Maria asks her son to comfort the poor thing; he tells the fish to create a palace, the princess is happy; the king was called for christening; H. asks for fish to be in the king's pocket turned out to be a golden pear; after the feast, H. announced that there was not enough golden pear; it was found with the king; H. told everything; the wedding; H. and the princess are happy]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 675:689-691; Portuguese: Cardigos 2006, No. 675 [lazy guy sent for firewood; caught a fish; she asks her to let go, for which all his wishes will come true; he tries: he saws himself, a woodpile of firewood brings him home; when the princess laughed at him, he wished her to become pregnant; she gave birth to a son, the boy identifies his father in a crowd of men who come; they are imprisoned together (thrown in a barrel in sea; expelled); they create a palace next to the royal palace, there is a golden tree in the garden; the guy tells a magic table to appear; asks for wealth and beauty; invites the king to visit, mocks above him; golden fruit falls into the king's pocket, the king is accused of stealing; the boy or princess shows that they are as innocent as the king who did not intend to steal]: 152; Braga 2002 [{ text on this story}]: 158-160; Pedroso, No. 17 []: 72-74; Basques: Barandiarán, Navarra, p. 63-65 in Camarena, Chevalier 1995:691; Italians (Tuscany, Umbria, Rome, Lazio, Campania, Abruzzo, Calabria, Sardinians, Sicilians): Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 675:146-147; Italians: Basile 2018 (Naples) []: 69-79; D'Aronco 1953, No. 675 (Tuscany) [fish promises the guy fulfills all his wishes; if he wishes, the princess becomes pregnant and gives birth to a boy; he points out three times who his father is; the first time the groom is rejected because of his poverty, the second because of the insignificant 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 is poor again and expelled]: 86; Calvino 1980, No. 34 (Veneto) [pregnant woman steals parsley in the witch's garden; she catches her and promises to take half of the child when he is 7 years old; when the deadline is over, the witch cut the boy lengthways; one half is left with her, the other returned to her mother; Half grew up, began to fish, caught an eel; he asked him to let go, for which he sent him a full net of fish; half caught him again and let him go, the eel made him all wishes would come true; the princess saw the Half and began to laugh; he wished her to conceive a child with him; when she gave birth, the witch doctor advised to gather all the noble men in a year - a boy he will name his father himself; no one was found; then the poor were gathered and the boy gave the apple to Polovinka; after the wedding, the young, together with his son, were placed in a barrel and thrown into the sea; the half wants the barrel to be carried out to the shore to have plenty of food, it would become whole, a palace appeared - all named after an eel; the former Half called kings to a feast, warning not to take silver and golden apples; two apples are not enough, they ended up in the pockets of your ex-Half's father-in-law; he explains: as you don't know why you had apples, your daughter did not know why she got pregnant; everyone forgave each other, everything is fine; they're up to still alive if they don't die]: 99-102; ladins [hell promises to fulfill a woman's wish if she gives him half of what she has under her apron; she peeled the beets and thought it was her; when she gave birth to a boy, the devil asked if she wanted to keep the top or bottom; the top is the soul, so she chose the top; the hell took the bottom, the boy was without legs; one day he crawled to the miller and he mockingly offered him to bring water with a sieve; trout fell into the sieve, asked her to let her go, promised to fulfill his wishes; the half asked him to be able to bring water with a sieve; the miller gave him a bag of flour, knowing that he would not be able to pick it up, but the Half asked the trout again for help; when he saw the flour, the mother thought that Half had stolen it; he was offended and left; when he saw the princess, he asked for trout for the princess became pregnant; when the baby was born and the king found out who the father was, he ordered his daughter, Half and baby to be put in a barrel, thrown into the sea; the half wished his legs to grow and throw the barrel on the island, knocked out the bottom, ordered a garden and a palace to appear; the king decided to look for his daughter, came to the island, did not recognize the young; when he was sleeping, his hand hung out of bed and the princess told his son to put his grandfather's hand in bed; the king heard and recognized his daughter, handed the throne to Half]: Uffer 1983, No. 5:12-14 (=Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 53:143-145).
Western Europe. The French: Belmont 2005:11-12 [a young man nicknamed Jean Bête catches an eel, he asks him to let it go, promises to fulfill his wishes; Zhd asks for a horse, drives past the princess, wants her to become pregnant with him (var.: in response to her ridicule); she gives birth to a boy, the king summons all the men of the kingdom to identify the father; the boy hands out a rose to the railway; the king marries him daughter, but puts both with the child in a barrel, throws them into the sea; the wife asks the railway to ask for intelligence; this is what happens; the railway asks for a palace richer than the royal one; at the reception, the king recognizes his daughter and son-in-law, admits railway superiority], 14 [(Dardy 1891:69); (the beginning and end are omitted in the paraphrase); the princess gives birth to a boy; the king gathers princes and princes to identify his father by giving him a golden apple; the boy does not give no one; same with merchants, with everyone else; Bernanoueille comes last, receives an apple from the boy; the king puts his daughter, B. and the child in a barrel, throws it into the sea]; Delarue, Tenèze 1964, No. 675 ( Upper Brittany, but there are many texts from mainland France) [his mother sent Jean the Fool to buy firewood; he saw an eel in the sand, caught it; he asked to let it into the water, for which he would sing any wishes; J. wanted him not to carry firewood, but firewood to him; they drive past the palace, J. sees the princess and wants her to be pregnant with it; the princess gave birth to a son; the fairy gave birth to a rose, let the boy give it to her father; of all the men, the boy chose J.; the king placed his daughter and child and J. in a barrel and let them go to sea; first J. asked the eel for food, then ordered them to be transferred to the palace next to the king's palace; J. became wiser; the king invited them to visit; all is well]: 584-587; Friezes, Germans (Austria {and northern Germany too?}) , Irish people: Uther 2004 (1), No. 675:371-372.
The Balkans. Bulgarians [a young lazy woodcutter gets a wonderful ability from the fish: whatever he wants is fulfilled by himself; they cut firewood themselves, come to his house; the princess laughs at him, he wants her get pregnant with him; when the boy born is a little older, the princess tells him to throw an apple at his father; he throws it at the lumberjack; the king tells all three to let them go to sea in a barrel; the hero tells her to stick to the shore, creates a palace; the king visits it; the hero tells the golden bowl, the spoon, to be in the king's pocket; says that just as the king does not know why he had the bowl, the princess did not know the reason pregnancies; the king forgives the young, they all return to his palace together]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 675:234; Macedonians, Hungarians, Slovenes, Serbs, Croats, Albanians, Greeks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 675:371-372.
Central Europe. Poles [a fool sees fish on the shore, lets it into the water, for which she promises to fulfill all his wishes; he wants the cart to move by himself without horses; the princess laughs at him, he wants her get pregnant; her son points to him as a father; the king puts his daughter, boy and their child in a barrel, lets them go to sea, or drives them into the mountains; the guy tells the castle to appear; helps the king in war]: Krzy żanowski 1962, No. 675:210-211; Russians (Murmansk, Karelia, Vologda, Novgorod, Pskov, Tverskaya, Orlovskaya), Ukrainians (Galicia, Volyn, Podolia, Pokutye, Kievskaya), Belarusians ["By pike's command": a fool spares pike; "by pike's command" everything he orders is done (firewood is cut, the stove moves, etc.); according to him, the princess becomes pregnant; the fool and the princess are thrown into the sea in a barrel; they escape, build a palace, recognize the fool as the royal son-in-law]: SUS 1979, No. 675:174; Russians (Teresky Bereg) [Omelka scooped up pike with a bucket, she promises fulfill his wishes; he wants accordions to play on the stove; the king's daughter is not laughing, everything is crying; O. came to the king on the stove, the princess hung up, the king gave her to O.; {more: O. was a worker, so he did not take it princess}]: Balashov 1970, 146:397-398; Russians (Vologda) [third brother is stupid, Yemelyan; the elders went to town, promised to bring him a red caftan; daughters-in-law persuaded him to go fetch water; E. caught a pike in the ice-hole; she asks her to let go, promises to fulfill all her wishes; "By pike's command, at my request, go, buckets, to the mountain yourself!" ; then the axes cut the firewood themselves, and the firewood is folded into a woodpile; the sleigh is taken to the forest; the people are surrounded, E. tells everyone to beat the baton; I agree to go to the king only for the promise of a red caftan; came to stoves; saw the royal daughter: let him fall in love with me; E. returned home; he was drunk, tied up, brought back to the king; together with the princess they were pitched in a barrel, thrown into the sea; at the request of the princess, E. tells the barrel to be washed ashore of the beautiful island and crumble; a palace was built; E. tells it to become beautiful and smart; the king arrived, at first did not recognize E., and then asked for forgiveness]: Burtsev 1897:195-215; Russians (no place of recording) [the poor man caught a pike; she asks to let her go, promises to fulfill any wishes; on Easter, the princess gave alms to everyone she met, and the man went around; he wanted her to become pregnant and have a son; the king ordered the boy to be carried to all homes to point to his father; he held out his hands to the poor man; the king married him to his daughter, planted them everyone in a barrel, let everyone go to sea; the man first wants the barrel to be carried ashore, then for a palace and a garden to appear; the son grew up, went far away to look for a bride, defeated his opponent, married Queen, invited kings to visit his parents; the king, the father of his mother, also came; when the guests left, they were searched because the duck was missing; that ex-man orders that, by pike's command, under A duck turned out to be the king's hollow; the daughter told everything: her father was not guilty, but she was innocent then; everything is fine]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 167:411-414; Belarusians (Bokhotskaya V., Mstislavsky District, 1888-1891, from peasant Nikita Alekseev, 45 years old, illiterate). [A father has three sons: two are smart and the third is a fool. The smart ones go to the woods, the fool stays at home. Two daughters-in-law ask a fool to bring water. A pike got stuck at the bridge, a fool helps her, she promises to do whatever he wants. The fool says buckets of water should go home by themselves. The next day, the brothers take him with them for firewood. A fool harnesses his father's horse, a horse kicks, a fool kills it. He says that the sleigh should go by themselves, then cut the firewood themselves and put them into the sleigh. They go home, drive past the lake. A fool sees one fish caught, says who will eat the fish, suck the bones and eat the bones, get pregnant and give birth to a son. All three sons will be heroes. The queen eats the fish, her daughter sucks her bones, and the little girl eats her bones. All three give birth to a son. At the age of 17, sons ask their father to make them three 15-pound swords. They want to go kill snakes with three, six and 12 heads. The father complies with their request. The brothers decide who will be their boss. They hit a stone the size of a house with swords. The female son is just planning, the Tsaritsyn cuts half, the girl's son splits in half. He's becoming the main one. They come to the thirtieth kingdom. The sparkle of sailboats The girl's son (I.) sends a branch son to the bridge to defeat Yuda with three heads. He falls asleep. I. flies an arrow to the bridge, fights a snake, cuts off one head. The serpent asks for a break, asks what the power of a sailboat is. They show each other strength (the sailboat has a pen, Yuda has a bean), I. catches Yuda's strength and swallows it. The snake wins. The next night, I. sends Tsaritsyn's son to the bridge to defeat Yuda with six heads. He falls asleep. I. flies an arrow to the bridge, fights with a snake, cuts off three heads. The serpent asks for a break, asks what the power of a sailboat is. They show each other strength (the sailboat has a feather, Yuda has a nut), I. catches Yuda's strength and swallows it. The snake wins. On the third night, I. goes to the bridge himself to defeat Yudu with 12 heads. He leaves an empty glass for the brothers: if they are filled with blood, they must run to help. The brothers are falling asleep. I. fights with a snake, cuts off two heads. The serpent asks for a break, asks what the power of a sailboat is. They show each other strength (the sailboat has a pen, Yuda has an apple), I. catches Yuda's strength and swallows it. The serpent is angry. I. throws his boot into the room where the brothers sleep. The brothers wake up and run to help. The snake wins. I. asks the brothers to rest for three days. On the first night, I. turns into a dove and flies to Yudina's wife with three heads, the second with six, and the third with 12 heads. He finds out how they are going to destroy it (turn into a well, an apple tree and a huge snake, 25 versts wide and 45 miles long). The brothers are going home and are thirsty. They see a well, I. cuts it with a sword, blood flows from it. They go on, they see an apple tree, they want to eat apples, I. cuts it, it bleeds. They go on and see a mountain that shouldn't be there. This is a snake. I. jumps into her mouth and cuts through a passageway through which her brothers and horses pass. I. does not have time to pass, the snake pursues him. He hides in the forge, the snake sheds the roof, the blacksmith grabs the snake with forceps, I. cuts the snake from tail to head. They melt the snake into a mare. During this, I. served as a blacksmith for three years. The blacksmith lets him go and tells him not to stop. I. stops by and serves for another blacksmith for three years. He forbids going to Usiyanskaya Mountain and looking at your native side. I. violates the ban, lies to the blacksmith. The blacksmith lets him go, I. reaches the royal house. The king orders him to marry the girl, otherwise he will not let him go home. He orders to gather 12 fellows, I. collects (Obivala, Obivala, Gunka, Dovgoshost, Lysa Mukha and others). They come to the king to marry the girl. The king gives them 12 barrels of wine and 12 pounds of bread, and tells them to drink and eat overnight. Drinks everything, Oats up and eats. The next night, the king tells me to sleep in a pit with burning coals. Gunka extinguishes everything with her body. The daughter walks in the garden with I., makes him sleep, tries to fly away as a dove. The Bald Fly bites him for the w... Dovgosost takes I. on his tail and catches up with his daughter. They take her on their own way without letting her go to their father. They come to see the king. The king surrounded his house with burning ditches. He tells I. to cross the fire on the bylinka to prove that he did not live with the girl on the way. The girl sticks a thick wire into the bylinka, I. goes over. He invites the king to cross the bylinka to prove that he did not ride his mare. The girl pulls out the wire, the king falls down. I. marries a girl, they go to their kingdom]: Romanov 1901, No. 29:254-262.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians [the younger brother spares the fish; at the behest of the fish, everything he wants is done: the buckets go by themselves, the sleigh carries firewood, took out the horse, removed the ring from the maiden's hand from the tower, defeated the enemies, got married]: Byazirov 1958, No. 124:345-346; (cf. Ossetians [Zivag ("The Sloth") was among Akhsartaggat; when there were no men, they ran out of firewood, the women put Z. on the arba, drove them into the forest; Z. asked God to load the arba, brought firewood; Agunda, daughter Burafarnyga from the Borat family, called Z. worthless; he ordered her to give birth without a husband; the father sewed her daughter, her son and Z. into the skin of a buffalo, threw her into the river; A. cut the skin; at the request of Z., God gave them a castle, cattle; sledges come to visit, plead guilty; according to Z., houses appear nearby in which Borat and Akhsartaggat settle]: Libedinsky 1978:460-466); Terek Cossacks (v. Naurskaya) [Mistletoe's fool draws water from the ice-hole, grabs the pike; she asks to let her go; says that his wishes will come true when he says the phrase "by pike's command, at my request"; O. agrees, lets go of pike; tells buckets of water to go home; the next day he rides a sleigh into the forest, makes the ax cut wood and add firewood to the cart; returning from the forest, tells the baton to beat people who threw stones at him; people complain to the king; O. comes to the palace on the stove; the princess falls in love with him; the king arranges a feast; the drunken O. and the princess are put in a barrel and thrown into the sea; O. tells roll out to the island; there, if he wishes, a palace with a crystal bridge leading to the king's palace appears; the king comes across the bridge to O. and the princess; rejoices and arranges their wedding]: Vostrikov 1907, No. 2:48-53; Georgians (Dusheti District, Western 1940) [Chakucha lives with her stepmother, she bullies him, he leaves; sees a black snake fighting a red snake, chasing her, she hides in jug; C. replies black that the red one is gone; the red one gives him a scale that makes wishes come true; in the village of C. wants the beauty to have a son, called him father; the beauty's father expels his daughter from newborns, they follow C.; C. wants an elm tree to rest on the way, garden, field, palace with servants; thrives with his wife (=1985, No. 16:61-62)]: Chikovani 1954, No. 16:96-98; Armenians [ the lazy man let go of the caught fish, she promised to fulfill all his wishes; according to him, the princess became pregnant, was expelled with the lazy man; the lazy man built a palace, the king came to them; if desired, the lazy man the golden spoon was under the king's hat - he was convinced that the princess could get pregnant by the word lazy]: Gullakian 1983, No. 675:34; Turks: Boratav 1990, No. 3 [the widow's son is idle and stubborn; other young men left him in the forest; the green snake wants to bite him; he tells her he doesn't care; then the snake gives him the ability to immediately receive whatever he wants by her name; he asks first food, then to make the padishah's daughter pregnant, then return home immediately; when the princess gave birth, the padishah imprisoned her waiting for the boy to grow up and indicate who his father was; 7 years later all the men were gathered, the last one was brought by a lazy man, the boy called him father; the padishah kicked out his daughter and her son, who began to live with a lazy man; persuaded him to ask him to create a palace; hiding his appearance, invited padishah; when he was leaving, the green snake said that his clothes had a golden bowl cover in his clothes; his daughter opened: you don't understand where you got this lid as I did not understand why I got pregnant; Princess wedding with a lazy man]: 27-31 (=Stebleva 1986, No. 18:54); Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 69 [the poor man regretted the fish; she promises to fulfill all his wishes; he wants the princess to become pregnant; born boy; all men are told to get together, let the boy throw the ball at his father; he threw it at that poor man; they are expelled; the poor man tells the palace to appear; the padishah come to visit; the owner orders that his There was a valuable item in my pocket - as if stolen; princess: you also don't understand where you got this thing from, as I didn't understand why I was pregnant]: 76-77; Dmitriev 1967, No. 63 []: 340-344.
Iran - Central Asia. Bartangans [the old woman's grandson grew up but can't do anything; his grandmother sent him to the mill with a bag of grain; he does not know how to grind grain; at sunset, a black snake crawled into his bag, he is his tied; another black snake, larger, asks where the first one went, threatens to bite; the guy killed her; the first came out of a snake's face, turned out to be a peri chased by a diva in love with her; the guy refuses the award and does not want to go to Peri's house; then she teaches him to say "In the name of the Tsar White Dragon (the name of the mazar in Basida), let this happen"; the guy decided to try: grinded grain, cut down the forest, told the firewood to go to the house by itself; when he saw the princess in the window of the royal castle, he first ordered her to grow horns, and then that the horns should disappear, but she became pregnant; the princess gave birth; the viziers They advise to gather the people: the boy will find the father; the boy sat on the knees of the old woman's son; both he and the princess claim that they did not meet, the old woman's son talks about the spell; but the king ordered the daughter to be imprisoned, the boy and the child in the chest and leave them in the steppe; the old grandson opens the chest with his spell; tells the old man he meets to marry them; tells the palace to appear and that on opposite sides of him 4 different times of the year; the king came, met his daughter, returned and sent an army against his son-in-law; his son-in-law covered him with snow, the king and vizier remained; the king was frightened and left that steppe; the old woman's grandson and wife reached happiness]: Sokolova 1960, No. 1:14-20.
Baltoscandia. Norwegians {the child's motive for identifying his father is not mentioned, but most likely there is - the retelling is as brief as possible} [a fish or mermaid promises to fulfill any wishes of the young man; he tells the ax himself cut wood, etc.; the princess laughs at him and he tells her to get pregnant; she gives birth to a son, the boy points to his father; the young are punished; the young man creates a palace next to the royal; invites king and humiliates him]: Hodne 1984, No. 675:149; Swedes [the fish makes every young man's wishes come true; he rides in a trough, the princess sees it, laughs, the young man tells her becomes pregnant; young people are thrown into the sea, but the young man creates a castle next to the royal]: Liungman 1961, No. 675:191; Lutsie (West 1893) [the widow has a lazy son and a loafer; the old woman teaches: cook salty porridge , and so that there was no water in the house; the guy had to go get water, a pike got into the bucket; promises to fulfill all wishes if he lets go; just say Jumala meel, havi keel (God's wish, pike tongue); for the king it is necessary to prepare firewood; the guy got on a cart, came to the forest without a horse, brought back more firewood than others; the same when the hay was cooking; saw the princess: let her be pregnant from me; the king gathered people, left my ring; only that guy got hit; I had to marry him to a princess]: Annom et al. 2018:244-246; Latvians ["By pike's command". The third son spares the fish caught in a bucket of water, and she promises to help him. "By pike's command", buckets of water come, sledges with firewood arrive. The princess gives birth to a child at the behest of her son. To find his father, the king summons all the men of the kingdom: whoever of them the boy gives the apple will be his father. The boy gives the apple to his third son. By order of the king, the son, the princess and the child are put in a barrel and thrown into the sea. The son tells the barrel to arrive at the shore, if he wishes. A golden palace appears, from which there is a bridge to the royal palace. The king forgives the punished, everyone returns home; came to the castle; the princess began to laugh at the lazy L.;]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 675:310; Danes [Lars is lazy; reluctantly agreed to bring mother's bucket of water; a fish got into the bucket; asked her to let go - she would fulfill three wishes; first: bring him home and a bucket; flew in on a washing board; then came to the castle; the princess began to laugh over lazy L.; he wanted her to become pregnant; when she gave birth, the king told all men to gather so that the boy would choose his father and give him a golden apple; L. was the last to find; the king expelled his daughter for the borders of her state - the child and L. can take with her; they sat on the washing board and flew; the princess advised me to wish that as many wishes come true as she has pebbles in an apron; they wanted a lock and everything that was supposed to come with it; invited the king; they wanted silverware in his pocket; princess: I still don't know how I ended up with the child; but I love Lars and I don't want anyone else; when the courtiers left, the princess and L. wanted them to grow long noses; they stumbled and broke their legs]: Grundtvig 1878:114-124; Faroese, Icelanders , Lithuanians, Estonians, Finns: Uther 2004 (1), No. 675:; Karelians []: Konkka, Tupitsyn 1967:274-278; Western Sami: Kohl-Larsen 1982, No. 4 [young hunter sees how a bear-sized cat fights a mountain troll; everyone asks him for help; a young man shot and killed a cat; the troll put it in his pocket, moved it to his father's home; as a reward, he offers two boxes: gold and speckled; the troll's son tells you to take the specked one; takes the young man back to his countries; one day a young man went to buy firewood, dragging firewood; opened the box; the voice asks what he needs ; he asked for an ox, who dragged a sleigh with firewood and a young man; he met: something he left; the same princess; the young man tells the spirit to make the princess pregnant with him; she gave birth to a son; the king called everyone men, the boy did not smile at anyone; when the young man came, the boy immediately laughed; the king ordered the daughter with the child and the young man to be put in two compartments inside the barrel and thrown into the water; the young man told the spirit turn his part of the barrel into a room with enough food; the same with part of the princess when she promises to be the wife of a young man; the barrel has been thrown onto land; on the other side of the fjord, so that his house could be moved here and become better than the royal one; it turns out that the king recognized his son-in-law, the wedding; but the young man went to the sea, his box disappeared somewhere, and a mermaid appeared at that place; she she demanded him as her husband; took him to her castle; but the young man saw his box on the table, opened it and carried himself back; the king moved to his son-in-law, everything was fine], 21 [the old woman lived alone and carried buckets water; once a pike got into the bucket; asked her not to kill; for this she made sure that the old woman's ax is always sharper than a razor, she herself will be incredibly strong, the buckets themselves will go to fetch water; everything went well , but she happily clapped her hands on her hips and both legs fell off; she took her nose and he stretched out; a passerby brought the old woman to her house, where she soon died]: 39-47, 136-138; Veps (1- 3 M100:1-2, 520-522; Vlasyeva 1944:91-94): Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 675:234.
Volga - Perm. Marie [the plot is known {there is no retelling of the Mari versions, only the definition of the plot from SUS 1979}]: Sabitov 1989, No. 675:40; Udmurts [two smart brothers trade, fool sits on the stove; his daughters-in-law ask him to go get water; after the third reminder, he went to the river and scooped up the pike; she asks him to let her go; let him say, "The pike says, I say, done as you wish" - everything will come true; the fool tells the buckets to go home by themselves; daughters-in-law ask to open the pipe, the fool does it, remembering the pike; daughters-in-law are frightened, they hope to get rid of the fool, they send them to the state forest for firewood; fool: the sleigh will come, lie down the straw, lie down the ax, the sleigh go to the forest; driving through the city, the sleigh crushed several people; on the way back, the soldiers were already waiting for a fool; the fool tells the lever to beat the soldiers; then tells the furnace to go to the king; he did nothing to the fool, let him go]: Potanin 1884, No. 11:235-236; Mordovians (Shakhmatov 1910:288-303), Chuvash (Paasonen 1949:107-115): Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 675:234; Kazan Tatars [retelling the Udmurt text, Potanin provided it with a note: in Tatar versions, the fool says: by the command of one God, the tail of a white serpent ( reported by Priest Fr. Gavrilov; therefore, the Tatar version existed]: Potanin 1884:235.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Baraba Tatars [the old man has three sons, the youngest is a fool; his father tells him not to lie around all day, but to go fishing in the ice-hole; he caught a chetak (Siberian roach, Rutilus rutilus lacustris) with with golden fins; he asked him to let him go: he would fulfill any wishes; the older brothers went to the khan for a feast; the youngest got into a sleigh without a horse, told them to lead him "by God's command, thanks to his tail chebak"; told the haystack to jump on the sleigh, sat on the hay himself; the khan's daughter looked out the window, the fool told her to get pregnant with him; she gave birth to a boy; two years later, the khan gathered all the men, told the boy bring a bowl of food to his father; he replied that his father was not here; then they brought a fool, the boy called him father; his entourage advised the khan not to kill his daughter, but to put him with the fool and the child in a box and let it go to sea; a fool ordered the box to be washed ashore and split; a fool ordered a palace to appear; they began to live luxuriously]: Radloff (?) in Frobenius 1904:242-245.