K24. The hidden clothes of a supernatural woman, (ATU 413). F202.4.2 .11.-.27.29.-.43.45.47.49.50.52.55.59.61.62.65.72.

Women who have magical powers and usually come from another world (from the sky, from under the water, they are winged creatures, bird people, animal people) take off their clothes (feather cover) etc.) or part of it. The character hides one of them's clothes, forcing him to fulfill his wish; rarely (atna): a woman hides the clothes of a supernatural character to kill him.

Ndau [heavenly maiden], lanje [heavenly maiden], Swahili [bird], baule [earthly woman], yoruba [antelope], mande [antelope], kissy [crocodile], von [buffalo], hausa [terrestrial] woman], kirri [buffalo], sarah [buffalo; elephant], ngambaye [elephant], nzakara [heavenly maiden], kabila [heavenly maiden bird], Algerian Arabs [dove], Tunisia [dove], Arabs of Egypt [virgin (she is a witch- cannibal)], Tuaregs [donkey], Spanish [dove], Basques [dove], Catalans (Majorca) [heavenly maiden], Portuguese [heavenly maiden; dove], Italians (Ticino, Lombardy) [dove, daughter of the Sun], Sicilians [dove], Corsicans [sorcerer's daughter], Sardinians [dove], Ladins [swan; heavenly maiden], French (Upper Brittany) [duck], French (neighborhood?) [fairies from the castle between earth and sky], walloons [sorcerer's daughter/devil], Bretons [swan], Irish [swan; mermaid, seal], Scots [seal], Germans [earthly woman; dove; swabia, Austria); heavenly (?) deva (Swabia)], Arab literary tradition [bird; dove], Iraqi Arabs [peri-bird], mehri [jinny girl], yualayi [stars], arapesh (ilahita and upper) [cassowary], vatut [cassowar], valman [earthly woman], Motu [Moon], Banks Islands [gorlinka], Oba [heavenly maiden], Maewo [heavenly maiden], Efate [heavenly maiden], Uliti [dolphin], Losap [dolphin], Palau [fish], Yap [dolphin], Taumako [dolphin], Tibetans [ virgin bird], Tibetans Amdo [dove], kaike [heavenly maiden], lepcha [Chinese princess], mikir [daughter of the Sun], garo [heavenly maiden], mishmi [star], mizo [heavenly maiden], rengma [heavenly maiden], vieti [ heavenly maiden; bird daughter of a star], mona [heavenly maiden keinari], lao [heavenly maiden], Thais [peacock; heavenly maidens], Vietnamese white tai [heavenly maiden], khmu [heavenly maiden; parrot], chrau [daughter of spirits], meo [daughter of the Sky Star], Burma [heavenly maiden], zhuang [heavenly maiden], Kashmiris [heavenly maiden], Kashmir [heavenly maiden], sindhi [peri], northern India [peri, heavenly maidens], konkani (Goa) [heavenly maiden] ], Bengalis [peri], Telugu [heavenly maidens], Kannada [heavenly maiden], kuruba [heavenly maidens], Tamils [heavenly maiden], Sinhala [earthly woman; nag girl], Santals [daughter of the Sun], Birkhor [daughter of the sun] deities], baiga [heavenly maiden], gondas [heavenly maiden], condas [heavenly maiden], kota [heavenly maiden], murut [heavenly maiden], dayaki [earthly woman], Brunei [heavenly maiden], kayan [heavenly maiden], tombonuvo [rhino bird], Java [heavenly maiden], Madura [heavenly maiden], Bali [heavenly maiden], Malays [heavenly maiden], Bataki [heavenly maiden], minangkabau [heavenly maiden?] , mentawai [dolphin], eastern toraja [parrot], western toraja [heavenly maiden], minahasa [swans], bow [dove], loinang [heavenly maiden], loda [heavenly maiden], tabaru [fish], Tidore [heavenly maiden] ], Sangihe [heavenly maiden], Solor [dove], tetum [bird], Timor [parrot], Roti [fish; pig], Kai Islands [fish], Numphor [heavenly maiden], apayao [heavenly maiden], callahan [heavenly maiden]; kasiguran agta [ heavenly maiden], kalinga-apayao [heavenly maiden], tingian [star], nabaloi [star], igorot [star], kankanai [star; heavenly maiden], bontok [star], sindangan [star], visaia [star], ilianen manobo [ heavenly maiden], sarangani manobo [heavenly maiden - kite], dibabawon manobo [heavenly maiden], ata manobo [heavenly maiden], agusan manobo [duck], binukid [heavenly maiden], central subanen [heavenly maiden; crow], western subanon [heavenly maiden], taosug [heavenly maiden], magindanao [heavenly maiden], romblomanon [heavenly maiden], ifugao [star; duck=star], ibaloi [stars] , Chinese (Hubei) [ladybug], Ancient China [crane], Chinese [bird; dove is daughter of a deity; heavenly fairy], fox [heavenly fairy], namuzi [heavenly maiden], Chuan miao [star], Koreans [heavenly maiden], Hungarians [swan], Moldovans [maiden bird], Romanians [Beauty of the World], Greeks [flying maiden; nereid], Bulgarians [heavenly maiden (samovila, samovila); bird], Macedonians [fairy {samovila?}] , Albanians [heavenly maiden; Beauty of the Earth], Croats [she-wolf], Slovaks [virgin, her friends are doves], Czechs [swan; beauty of the world], Poles [duck; goose], Luzhitans [swan], Russians (Terek coast) [sorcerer's daughter], Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelian Pomorie, Olonetskaya) [swan], Russians (Olonetskaya) [marten], Russians (Vologda) [winged maiden], Russians (Pskov) [winged maiden], Russians (Vyatka) [pigeon - daughter sorcerer], Russians (Ryazan) [sorcerer's daughter], Russians (Voronezh, Tambov) [dove; swan; spoonbill; Koshchei's daughter], Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Hutsulshchina, Pokuty+ not localized.) [devil's daughter; demon's daughter; duck; winged maiden], Eastern Ukrainians (Kharkiv) [dove], northern Ukrainians (Chernigov) [dove], Kalmyks [daughter of the sun; swan], Abkhazians [daughter of the sun; swan] Suns; eagle; daughter of the Sea Tsar; chamois; dove], Abazins [dove; heavenly maiden], Kabardian people [dove], Karachays [she-wolf], Karachays and Balkarians [swan], Balkarians [eagle; dove], Ossetians [ dove], Ingush [virgin bird], Nogais [heavenly maiden; dove - maiden of paradise; swan], Kumyks [swan], Avars [dove; heavenly maiden], Georgians [dove; eagle; daughter of a deva], Armenians [heavenly (?) maiden; dove], Azerbaijanis [peri; dove], Turks [dove; swan], Kurds [dove], Lurs [dove], Persians [dove], Baluchi [heavenly maiden], Pashtuns [fairies], Shugnans [heavenly maiden], Burish [dove], Uzbeks [dove], Turkmens [dove], Scandinavians [swan], Swedes (Blekinge) [swan], Danes [swans; princesses], Norwegians [swans; doves; crows], Faroese [seal], Western Sami [winged maiden; sea maiden], seto [daughter of the Sun; swan; dove], Estonians [swan; winged maiden], Karelians [swan; duck], Finns [swan; goose; duck; demon daughter], Lithuanians [swan], Latvians [duck], Komi [swan], Udmurts [dove], Chuvash [swan; dove], Marie [swan; duck; dove], Mordovians [duck; dove], Kazan Tatars [dove], Bashkirs [swan; dove], Kazakhs [swan], Kyrgyz [dove], Karakalpaks [ swan], Uighurs [dove], salars [heavenly maidens Star, Moon, Sun], Buryats (Khorin) [swan], Oirats (durbuts) [heavenly maidens], Oirats [swan], Mongols (halkha) [dove], Dagurs [heavenly maidens], Tuvans [swan], Baraba Tatars [dove], Tobolsk Tatars [swan], Chulym Turks [swan; duck], Khakas [?] , Mansi [swan], Ents [earthly woman], Nenets (Gydan) [swan], dolgans [white crane], northeastern (Verkhoyan) Yakuts [white crane], Evenks Podkamennaya Tunguska [swan], Baikal [swan; dove], Far Eastern (Zeisky, Uchursky, Amur) [swan; goose], Evens [sterkh, swan], nivkhs [terrestrial (?) woman; seal], Nanai [swan], Orochi [swan], Manchus [swan], Udege [duck; one of the Pleiades], Ainu [heavenly maiden], Japanese [swan; wonderful maiden; Vega], Ryukyu Islands [bird], Chukchi [duck; seagull; goose; swan], tundra yukaghirs [swan], central yupik [bird], Kodiak [goose], Bering Strait inupiate [goose; crane], Northern Alaska inupiate [goose, partridge and squirrel], copper [goose], caribou [goose], netsilic [goose], igloolik [goose], polar [goose], Baffin Land [goose], Labrador Eskimos [goose], West Greenland [goose], atna [woman hides dwarf clothes], Tlingit [goose], haida [goose], thompson [heavenly maiden (Heb.?)] , malesit [elf], mikmaq [elf; weasel], passamaquoddy [elf], koasati [earthly woman], natchez [woman in a faraway land], biloxi [deer], wintah uute [bird], tiva (Isleta) [dove], Veracruz Nahuatl [dove], mountain groves [heron], guajiro [daughter of Rain (Heb.?)] , carinha na Orinoco [dove], cofan [vulture], ziona [vulture], coreguahe [vulture], vakuenai [vulture], quechua of southern mountainous Peru [star], mocovi [duck; karau waterfowl].

Bantu-speaking Africa. Ndau [heavenly maidens go down to swim in the lake; after swimming, each takes her feather and flies back; many noble young men tried to grab the pen; they succeeded, but the girl walked behind, singing She rattled with a rattle, and as soon as the young man looked around, the pen flew to the girl, she returned to heaven; the poor young man did not look back; the girl promised to be his wife; flew to heaven with him]: Boas, Simango 1922, No. 19:200-201; Swahili [when dying, the healer tells his pregnant wife to give her son the name Hassib Karimaddini; he reads his father's books; neighbors ask him to let the boy go to help them carry firewood; finds a deep well of honey; when almost all the honey is taken out, the other boys refused to pull out the HC, share the money among themselves; mothers say that the son was eaten by a lion, they take care of her; HC sees a scorpion, finds a hole through which he got into a hole, goes out into the light; a palace, gold, pearls everywhere; the sultan of the serpent came tells stories; one about a man to whom the other offers a job: wrap himself in leather A dead camel, a bird raises him to a rock, it is necessary to throw off precious stones; after receiving the stones, the owner leaves; the man goes and sees the old man's house; he allows him to enter all rooms except one; a man went in, there was a garden and a river; three birds flew in, took off their clothes, became girls, bathed; the old man advises to hide the clothes he liked best, marry; hid the clothes in a hole, but the wife finds them flies away, telling through a slave that her husband can follow her; he finds his wife; soon she dies; he dug a hole near her grave and stayed there; the sultan of the serpent sends HC home to his mother, warning that he will return and kill him; in order for the sultan (people) to recover, it is necessary to eat the meat of the sultan of snakes; the vizier beat HC, forced the snakes to show the way to the Sultan; he orders to give the vizier the first foam when he is cooked, take a second one for yourself, give the Sultan a third; the sultan has recovered, HC became a doctor, the vizier died]: Okhotina 1962:112-122; Lenje [the young man sets traps, sees how the heavenly maidens took off their feather and steel outfits swim in the river; hides one of them's feathers; (apparently gives it back); the next day she hides the other's feathers; she follows him, becomes his wife]: Earthy 1937:319.

West Africa. Baule [the chief promises to give Maii's daughter to someone whose neck can withstand two blows of a sword; many suitors are killed; Kofi sees girls bathing, takes the dress alone; this is M.; 1) she tells me to give her name when her father brings his sword; 2) her father tells me to grow beans overnight, cook beans; M.: say her name three times; 3) distinguish M.'s finger, stuck into one of the holes in the wall of the house, from the fingers of the other girls (M. warns that she will cut his finger); the young run away, the mother catches up; M. throws an egg on the ground for the goddess Assie to help; M. has three eggs with her, her mother has two, the last word for M., they run away; K. goes to prepare a meeting at home, M. climbs a tree; two women see her reflection, take it for their own, throw their jugs, because such beauties should not work; one M. notices in a tree; she warns that the comb is dangerous for her; the old woman sticks a comb into her hair, M. flies away as a bird; the old woman claims that she is M.; brother K. catches a bird, the comb falls out, M. takes shape; an old woman was beaten to death]: Himmelheber 1951b: 127-134 (translated into Himmelheber 1960:169-180); Yoruba: Fuja 1969 [the hunter sees a doe taking off his skin in the forest, turning into woman, leaves; he hides his skin, the woman has to marry him; she gives birth to a son; wants to return, searches, finds a skin, runs away; the other two wives of the hunter see this, are offended that the husband brought his wife- Doe; chief drives the hunter and his son into the forest]: 66-69; Walker, Walker 1980 [the hunter sees a deer skinning in the forest, turning into a woman, leaving; he hides his skin, the woman has to go out for him; he already has a wife; she notices the new wife secretly eating leftovers; solders her husband, who talks about the origin of his new wife; when the new wife accidentally put sugar in her food instead of salt, reproached her animal origin; the new wife started fighting, the first threw her deer skin at her, the deer wife ran away; the husband, seeing her, is going to shoot, the deer reproaches him for breaking his word; the husband died soon]: 11-16; manden [the hunter sees the girl swimming, then puts on antelope skin, runs away; next time he hides her skin, the girl agrees to marry him if he never threaten her with fire (var.: reproach her for her origin); they have children; one day the husband violates the condition, the wife takes her skin, runs away with an antelope; the husband hunts, once kills an antelope; var.: antelope shows who she is, they put up, the wife comes home]: Belcher 2005:40-41; background [the hunter saw Agbo (buffalo) take off her skin, became a girl, went to the bazaar; the hunter hid his skin, the girl had to marry him, she stipulates that he will not name her Agbo; the first wife quarrels with her, says that her buffalo skin is hidden under the roof; Agbo finds the skin, turns into buffalo, kills the hunter's first wife and her children, runs into the forest, tries to cut down the tree on which the hunter puts on an amulet that makes him invisible; the buffalo leaves; since then, animals have not turn into people]: Herskovits, Herskovits 1958, No. 49:235-236; kissy [sitting in a boat, a young fisherman Wana dreams of having a wife; the water spirit hears him; removes the crocodile's skin, comes to him in in the image of a young girl; says he can only spend one day a week with him; he looks after her, finds hidden crocodile skin, hides it; she stays with him; says that if anyone finds and takes this skin to the city, it will die; if he finds it, let him throw it into the river]: Pinney 1973:62-66; hausa [the chief's daughter wants to marry her brother; to do this, he observes the prohibition to call him by name (groom you can't call it by name); brother hides the clothes of bathing girls, climbs a tree; gives it to everyone who calls him by name; his sister remains; she has to name it too, incest is not carried out]: Casajus 1982:19; kirri [the hunter sees buffaloes take off their skins, become women, bathe in the lake; hides one of the skins, takes a woman as his wife; she gives birth to a son; the boy finds a skin returns to mothers, both go to the forest]: Frobenius, p. 223 in Dermenghem 1945:200.

Sudan - East Africa. Sarah: Knappert 1997 (Sara River) [the hunter sees women bathing and buffalo skins on the shore; takes one skin; women go out, put on their skins, turn into buffaloes; one stays becomes a hunter's wife; he comes with her to her parents, asks her to make him a buffalo, he doesn't want to live among evil people]: 69; Pinguilly 1997, No. 10 [elephants came to swim, shed their elephant skins and became human; the hunter hid the skin of the most beautiful girl, she had to become his wife; they have four children; when the father was gone, the eldest son went to get the grains and accidentally found the skin; the wife put it on and became the elephant and ran away; the elephants surrounded the hunter, but since he had made the elephant his first and only wife, they let him go; he was happy to be alive]: 123-129; ngambaye [the hunter saw bathing girls; they went out, put on their skins and became elephants; next time the young man hid the clothes he liked best; brought them to the village, hid their skin in the barn under corn; he always gave it to his wife corn to grind it; one day she forgot to do it, she sent her eldest son, he found the skin; when her husband went hunting, the wife fed the children and neighbors, made a trunk out of a log, four legs out of a slab, ran into the forest, trampled on her husband]: Ruelland, Caprille 1993:29-35; Chad (ethnicity not specified) [the hunter found an elephant skin, took it for himself; the girl, crying, asked for her clothes back; he gave her a new one, married a girl; she gave birth to children, all large; found her skin, put it on, became an elephant, returned to the forest; her children became the ancestors of the Elephant family, they are not afraid of elephants]: Knappert 1997:93; nzakara [the king's son is a virgin; he wants to marry only one of the daughters of heaven; he sees an old woman at the border of heaven; lions appear, then snakes, he asks the old woman to save him, snuggles against her copulates; in the morning she turns into a beauty, smears him with perfume so that the inhabitants of the sky do not smell an earthly man; teaches one of the bathing girls ("angels") to hide the wings; she agrees take him to his father, because he assured her that he did not know other women; his wife works in the fields and around the house, but would not join him until 8 years later, unless he was angry with her during that time; before the end of his term An old woman comes; a young man drives her away, but his wife says that everyone in heaven is friendly to each other; the old woman says she was in agreement with him; his wife accuses him of lying, takes her wings, flies away; her parents upset; the old woman is missing somewhere]: Retel-Laurentin 1986:57-63.

North Africa. Kabila [young man Ahmed accidentally entered the garden of seven gennias; the gardener hid it, but the jinnias sensed the man; allowed him to enter all rooms of the palace (which contain treasures) except the seventh; he went in , there are 7 naked beauties swimming in the pool; then they put on feather clothes, flew to heaven; the youngest of the jinnias guessed; said A. that they were the daughters of the king of jinns; advised them to hide their clothes the youngest; gave it for the promise to become his wife; they lived in the jinniah's palace for a year; after the birth of the child, they came to live with mother A.; the wife created a beautiful home there; A. went to visit Jinny, giving his mother the key from the place where he hid his feathers; the Sultan arranged a party, A.'s wife also came there to dance; the Sultan's son is delighted; the woman says that if she wore her clothes, it would be even better, yes mother-in-law does not give; the Sultan's son forced her mother-in-law to return her clothes; taking the child, Jinnia flew away, saying that her husband would be able to find her on Mount Wâk Wâk; A. went in search; three are arguing over a hat- invisible, a bag that is filled with whatever you want, a baton that hits itself; A. invites them to race, the winner will get things; A. leaves invisible, taking wonderful objects; enters invisible to the palace on Mount Wak-Wak; Jinnie's father punished her for her relationship with a mortal: she is constantly beaten, fed with garbage, and not allowed to wash; A. puts a baton first on his wife's evil sister, then on her father; he allows daughter and grandson to eat normally and bathe; they run away with A.; the king of jinns sends his son to chase; the wife turns herself into a garden, her husband into a gardener, the child into a watermelon; the gardener replies that no one I haven't seen it, he offers to buy watermelons and melons; next time a spring, water, a water cup on a chain; when the father himself chases, the fugitives turn into a pomegranate tree with one fruit on it; the father into a knife, cuts a pomegranate with one seed in it; the fruit turns into a bird, it rushes to bite the seed; the father, a knife, cuts off the bird's head; but the bird has already become a fish; the father is a fishing line with a hook; once on the shore, fish became barley grain; hook - rooster, grain - fox, twisted the rooster's neck; all is well]: Dermenghem 1945:129-136; Algerian Arabs: Aceval 2005, No. 81 (Tiaret Plateau) [merchant's son pushes at the spring an old woman; she wants him to fall in love with the beautiful Waq-Waq country; he asks his father to invite her to lunch, puts her hand in hot broth, tells him to say who the beautiful Wak-Wak country is; she says she the youngest of seven virgin birds; her clothes must be stolen when the virgin birds swim in the river; the young man does so, the girl tells her to keep her clothes because her life is in them; they have two children; while her husband is away, the wife asks her mother-in-law to allow her to go to the bathhouse; everyone is amazed at her beauty, the Sultan demands her; she promises to give in to his demands if he allows her to wear her feather clothes; the sultan orders her to bring a chest of clothes, she puts them on, grabs her children and flies to the country of Wak-Wak]: 76-81; Belamri 1990 [the poor widow's son agreed to sell his soul to a Jew; bought food, she and his mother ate; in the morning a Jew took away The young man to the top of a steep cliff and left there; he came to the palace; there three fairies called him brother, allowed him to unlock all rooms except the hundredth; he looked into it, there was a pool with three girls, he fell in love with the youngest; when they saw the young man, the girls put on pigeon plumage, flew away; the fairies advised me to wait a year: the girls will arrive again, you have to hide the robe you like; he did so, maiden- the dove has been living with him for three years, they have two children; the young man misses his mother; the fairies tell him to close his eyes, he finds himself at home with his wife, children and camels, who are loaded with gold; this is gold he built a palace; gave his wife's plumage to his mother; despite his son's prohibition to let his daughter-in-law out of the house, his mother agreed to take her to the bathhouse; she was seen by the servant of the Sultan's wife; she wanted to see for herself beautiful, arranged a party; everyone must dance; dove wife: for this I need my clothes; my mother went and brought it; my wife put it on, flew away, capturing both children; my husband went in search; Troy is arguing at the crossroads; they found an invisible spoon; a rod that directs where they should go; a flying carpet that immediately moves to the right place; the man offered to race, flew away himself invisible across the seven seas; found his wife and children tied to a tree: her genie father punished her for staying on earth; her husband untied them; first the children recognized their father, then his wife; they all returned to land to his home]: 31-43; Certeux, Carnoy 1884, No. 4 (told 1880 in a cafe in Algiers) [righteous and chaste Ahmed ben Abdullah went to the saint's grave; saw a swimming in a pond beautiful, hid her pigeon robe; returns, making a promise from Jeannie to return in half a month; she came back and became his wife; one day her children found their mother's skin, she put it on and flew away; I returned several times to see the children, but flew away again]: 87-89; Tunisia [after his father's death, Hassan squandered his savings and then started a shop; the magician Imbrahim came and turned iron into gold, stayed overnight, put H. sleeping pills and carried it away in the chest; ordered the assistant spirit to deliver three camels; H. and I. came to the foot of the mountain; I. ordered H. to climb into the skin of the dead camel; the vultures took him to the mountain; there he found a sign; refused to give it to I. until he brought him home; I. left; H. weaved a rope out of the grass, went down; came to the castle of seven daughters the lord of the spirits, became their brother; the sisters leave for a month, the youngest tells them not to go into the same room; H. broke the ban, there are flowers and a pond, 10 doves went down, dropped their feathers, became girls; H. fell in love to the youngest, they flew away, he returned to the palace; the returning fairies taught me how to hide the turtledot feathers; the fairies persuaded the captive to marry H.; 3 years later, I. brought a young man again; the fairy gave H. a magical a sword, H. cut off I.'s head; telling the helper spirit to give three camels, returned with his wife to his mother, and then moved from Basra to Baghdad; the wife gave birth to sons named Nasr and Mansour; H. went for six months to visit the fairy sisters; showed his mother where he hid his wife's feather outfit, ordered her not to give it to her or let her daughter-in-law out of the house; she persuaded her to let her go to the bathhouse; the ruler's wife saw her and called her to her; all women show how they dance; wife H. says she would dance better if she had her feather outfit; the eunuch brought a chest full of her dress; wife H. put on feathers, took both children, flew away shouting: let H. look for her on Wakwak Island; H.'s mother dug three graves, told the returning H. that his wife and children were dead; but H. dug up the graves, the mother was forced to tell everything; H. returned to the fairy sisters ; the youngest advised them to ask their father's brother; he took H., flew to the mountain on a flying elephant; then ride a horse to the cave; if there is a man in red, return, if in white, you will get a wife; a man in white leads him further; after his adventures, H. goes to the queen of the heavenly maidens; his sons recognize his father; the queen orders his wife X. to be beaten and thrown into prison, and he ends up in the desert; two sons wizards are fighting for their father's inheritance: a magic wand and an invisible hat; H. threw a stone: whoever brings it faster will give him wonderful items; takes them himself; frees his wife and sons, flies away from with them on winged horses; his army defeated the queen's army; H.'s wife forgave the queen; H. returned to Baghdad with his family, Harun Arrashid appointed him a vizier]: Stumme 1893, No. 2:13-39; the Arabs of Egypt [ the woman takes off her feather clothes, bathes in the spring, then flies away; the king sees this, steals clothes, asks his wife for an article; the woman agrees provided that the king blinds his former 40 wives; from They are one princess, the rest are slaves; the blinded are kept in the basement under the kitchen; each has given birth, the children have been eaten, the princess has kept her children; the boy steals food from the kitchen, feeds the blinded; the king meets a young man, He calls himself Kitchen Bear, but his real name is Mohammed the Intelligent; his new wife has guessed who this young man is; pretended to be sick, asking the king to send M. for medicine - the heart of a black valley bull; he fell to the guli's chest; she gave a ball to follow and a dagger to slaughter the bull; if asked to hit again, do not hit; next time, the heart of a red valley bull (same); the new wife decides send M. to his sister to kill him; sends him to bring a heavy white valley grenade (weighing about 50 kg); Guli's son teaches him to find a grenade, he is from the sister of the king's wife; throw the ring, follow him; throw it bread with meat for dogs, then cannibals, they will miss, grab a pomegranate and run without looking back; the wife tells you to bring a flying castle from Mount Kaf; the cannibal teaches you to give the maid incense, she will take it to her a room; there is a bottle with the life of the king's wife and another with the eyes of blinded wives; and a wand that drives the castle; and a spear that hits orders left and right; when the maid fell asleep, M. killed the scarab in which her life is; M. ordered to kill everyone with a spear, carries the lock, opens to her father, breaks the bottle with the life of a witch wife, restores sight to blinded women, receives the throne from her father]: Spitta bey 1883, No. 12:12-29 (summary in Nowak 1969, No. 177:182-183); Tuaregs (northern Niger) [Teschewa always washes her hair in a bowl; her older brother washes his hair there too when he leaves, promises to marry everyone. whoever washes his hair in the same bowl, let it be his mother; T. continues to wash his hair in his bowl; when he returns, the brother notices his sister's hair in it, marries her; T. runs away, turns into a bird; (apparently taking its appearance again), combing his younger brother's grazing cattle; M. is found, noticed in a tree, a tree is cut down, M. is placed in the donkey's belly; the leader's son notices how she leaves the donkey to swim; he hides her clothes; returns one thing every night, takes M. with him; she returns, supposedly for a forgotten piece of jewelry, becomes a donkey again; the chief's son marries donkey, that night goes out as a girl; the leader himself, in the absence of his son, sees T., decides to kill his son; asks him to go down to the well, leaves it there; the son finds dates in his hair put there by his wife, from A palm tree grows, he crawls out of it; lures his father into a decked well, a fire at the bottom; the father dies]: Casajus 1982:15-17.

Southern Europe. Spaniards: Malinovskaya 2002:102-109 [the father consistently warns his three sons not to go to the service of the red-bearded man; he paints his beard black; makes a fire in the forest, opens the abyss, the sorcerer lowers the servant on a rope to get the treasure, cuts off the rope after the treasures are picked up, the servant breaks; Ricardo's younger brother does not sit in the last basket he picks up the sorcerer does not break; finds the bones of the brothers; asks the giant not to kill him; he does not tell him to enter the same room; R. comes in, sees three doves turn into girls, bathe; the giant knows about this one tells you to hide clothes you like; allows you to marry the White Dove (BG), gives a box with its plumage, warns you not to open it; returns to parents, gives the box to his mother; wife persuades her to open it, flies away with his plumage on; R. returns to the giant, who gives a nut, refers him to another giant, the Giant Master; his wife turns R. into an ant so that he can overhear how the husband tells us where BG is; gives an acorn; R. overcomes the sea, the fire wall, the thorns; the walnut turns into a palace, he gives them to sorcerers for their help; they solder it with a potion, BG cannot wake him up; warns not to drink potions during the day; R. does not sleep, breaks the lantern, thus disrupting BG; lives with her in the castle], 268-276 [the childless king and queen want a child, even if the Devil gets it in 20 years; the young man grows up, loses his soul to the Devil, goes to him; the old woman advises to hide the clothes of Blancaflor, the youngest of the Devil's three bathing daughters, pigeon girls; another old woman, the mistress of the birds, sends to her Moon Sister, she to Brother the Sun; only the Lame Eagle is called to take her to the Castle Where There Is No Return, tells her to feed her meat on the way; the meat runs out, the Queen is ready to cut off from himself, but the Eagle is all but it flies; The devil tells 1) to cultivate the site in a day, bake bread from the harvest; 2) grow grapes; B. does everything; 3) bring the ring dropped by the grandmother into the sea; B. tells her to kill her, collect blood in a jug, throw her body into the sea; a young man sheds a drop of blood; B. leaves the sea carrying a ring, she lacks the edge of her little finger; 4) recognize B. among the sisters; the girls put his little finger in the crack, B. has a scar; B. tells the Queen to take a bad horse, a rusty sword, run; leaves saliva responsible for himself, puts two wineskins on the bed; the devil pierces them, thinks he has killed his daughter and son-in-law; the Queen has taken a good horse, a steel sword, the Devil catches up with them; B. throws a comb (forest), salt (mountain); the horse becomes a chapel, B. becomes a statue, the husband a hermit; the devil does not recognize them, at home the wife explains that they were fugitives; the Queen leaves B. at the source, comes home, is hugged by an old nanny, he forgets B.; prepares to marry another; B. is hired as a maid, asks for a stone of sorrow, a dagger of love; the devil sells them Queen; B. asks them if she helped the Queen; they confirm that the Queen remembers B.; the dagger tells B. to plunge it into her heart, the Queen stops him; the wedding]; the Basques [poor the young man leaves home, is hired by Tartaro; he tells one of the three pigeon girls who will fly to the lake to hide the feather clothes; return for promising to help; the dove maiden tells me to go hire her father; he demands 1) uproot the oak grove, sow, harvest, bake bread; the dove maiden tells her crest to do everything; 2) get the lost ring out of the river; the dove maiden tells ask her father for a rusty sword, chop it to pieces, throw it into the river, comes out whole and with a ring; the young man has lost her little finger, she pretends to slam his door; 3) tame the horse with three foals (this is a master with three daughters, you have to beat them with a club and just pretend to beat her); in the morning, the owner and daughters look beaten; 4) choose a wife with her eyes closed (she does not have a little finger and she will give her hand twice); young man gets a wife, she tells her to run, leaves the spit responsible for herself; the father chases, the daughter throws the comb (fog, hail), throws again - the river, the father drowns; on the border of the land of Christians, the wife tells me to go after Baptize her a priest, do not kiss anyone, otherwise her husband will forget her; an old aunt kisses him; his wife creates an inn, her husband and two friends come in; she promises to spend the night with everyone; asks the first first, comb his hair, otherwise he has powder in his hair since childhood, she does not like the smell; the guy combs his hair until the morning; tells his comrades that it was great; the second wife asks to wash his feet first; the third - her husband, she tells him to turn off the lights and he tries to do it unsuccessfully until morning; her comb gives magic power to a woman; she opens up to her husband; he brings a priest; everything is fine]: Webster 1879:120-130; Catalans (Majorca) [the hero sees three girls flying in with a cloud and swimming in a lake; following the advice of a guardian, steals one of them's clothes and takes them as his wife]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 413:92 ; Catalans [young man hides the feather clothes of a bird girl named Joanescas; several feathers have fallen out so J. is missing the phalanx of his finger]: Hartland 1891:294; Portuguese: Braga 2002 [ The prince goes on a journey; on the way he meets a man with whom he plays cards and loses everything; he keeps him on bread and water for three years; after that, under the terms of the contract, he must go to him (i.e. to the king) and be a servant there for another three years; on the way, the young man gives his bread to a woman with a child; she teaches one of the pigeon girls who come to swim and take off her clothes to hide her clothes; let the girl will give him a ring, a necklace and a feather; when the young man came to the king, he ordered 1) to sow three types of grain, and in the morning to have bread; with the help of a pen, the young man calls the dove, she does everything; 2) get it a ring from the bottom of the sea; they got into a boat, swam, the girl tells her to cut off her head and throw her into the sea, but so that not a drop of blood is lost; the girl takes out a ring; 3) tame the stallion; this is the king himself, the saddle is the girl's mother, she herself is a bit, her sisters are stirrups; by evening they are a little alive; the girl tells me to take advantage of it and run; tells you to take the thinnest horse (jumps like a thought), and the young man took the fattest ( jumps like the wind); the girl's mother sends her father in pursuit; the girl turns the horse into a chapel, herself into a saint, a young man into a hermit; next time she is a garden and a gardener; when her mother chases, a lake, eiró ( duck?) , turtle; mother told her daughter that the young man would forget her; so it happened, but the dove showed him a ring, necklace and feather, he remembered everything; wedding]: 171-175; Cardigos 2006, No. 400 [the hero gets magic wife, hiding her feather clothes; she persuades her mother-in-law to return her clothes and flies away; husband goes in search]: 86-87; Italians: Keller 1981 (Ticino) [someone tramples the meadow at night; peasant tells the eldest son to guard, he falls asleep; the middle son is the same; the youngest Vittorino sees three white doves at dawn; they take off their clothes from their feathers, turn into girls, dance in the meadow; V. hid his clothes the most beautiful; she promises to love him; they live in Sun Castle, where none of the people have been; V. gives her clothes, says at home that he slept all night; the fairy comes back, the wedding; but in the morning she must return to lock; there she is guarded by the monster Orco; she leaves V.'s ring; he goes looking for her; two giants fight for speedboat boots, an invisibility cloak, a sword (her touch revives the dead); agree to give this is V. to return his wife; V. comes to the old woman, she calls the animals, but no one knows where the Sun Castle is; she sends her sister, she asks the fish - the same thing; she calls the birds ; the phoenix is late because he lives far away, in Suncastle; the old woman tells him to take V. there; he meets his wife, kills Orco with his magic sword; revives his wife's father and brother, whom O. killed; remains living with his wife in a castle]: 298-308; Calvino 1980, No. 22 (Milan) [a brief retelling of the beginning in Crane 1885:72-76; a young man wins billiards against a man who calls himself the Sun King, the bet is the daughter of that; a young man goes in search; the old man says that the three daughters of the Sun King come to swim in the lake; the young man hides one of them's clothes, promises to return him for promising to bring him to their father; the young fall in love The girl also taught each other: when the father demands to identify the bride with his eyes closed, you have to feel your hands: she will not have one finger; on the night after the wedding, the wife tells the young man that her father is going kill him; they run, father-in-law chases soldiers; wife throws a comb; he turns into a forest where a man and a woman make stumps; when asked if they saw the fugitives, the workers say that as soon as they will uproot a full cart, go home; the Sun King tells the returnees that they were the fugitives; the next crest abandoned turns into a vegetable garden where a man and a woman dig radishes (same); third the crest is a church and two servants; {apparently there was a sequel; p. 720: The aborted ending is my own}]: 65-67; Sicilians (Palermo) [{=Gozenbach 1870.1, No. 6:29-30?} ; the poor young man is starving; the Greek promises to support him well, and he will have to work only once a year; once a Greek brought a young man to a steep mountain; stabbed a horse and told him to climb into its skin; the eagle raised his skin together with the young man on the mountain; the young man was supposed to throw stones to the Greek, but when he saw that they were diamonds and gold, he guessed the trap, collected stones and went to look for a place to go down; found a hatch and found himself in the palace of the Sorcerer Savino; he was going to kill and fry the young man: he does this to everyone the Greek sends for jewelry; the young man convinced S. that he had not thrown a single stone to the Greek; then he took him into service: each time to hit each of the 12 horses 99 times with a baton; one of the horses says that they were all human too, but S. bewitched them; let the young man hit the ground with a truncheon so that S. could hear blows, and horses will laugh; the horse says that in the morning 12 turtles fly to the pond, take off their clothes, become girls and swim; you have to hide the most beautiful clothes; the young man did so, ran and ran to his mother's house, the girl after him; the young man warned his mother not to let his daughter-in-law leave the house; but when he went to sell the jewels she had brought from the mountain, the wife begged her mother-in-law to give her hidden clothes, put it on and flew away with her throat; the young man went in search; three robbers ask to share the items they had stolen: an inexhaustible purse, speeding boots, an invisible cloak; the young man pretends to want to check if the objects are really like this, everything takes and disappears; finds himself again on the same pond and steals and immediately burns his wife's pigeon clothes; the wife promises to stay with him, but he must kill a sorcerer and restore a human form to horses - snatch three hairs from everyone; he does; it turns out that his wife is the daughter of the King of Spain]: Calvino 1980, No. 164:591-594; Sardinians [Prince Ginó lost everything, including himself; after a year, 3 months, 3 days and 3 minutes he must appear to the winner; on the eve of the expiration of the term, he leaves; comes to the old man, asks him for gold; he refers to his elder brother, and brother to their older sister; she shows the lake where 10 doves fly to swim; you have to wait for the eleventh and hide le chiavi, return it when she agrees to become a wife; prince everything performs, comes to the sorcerer (orco); he demands to raze the valley, demolish the mountain, build a palace in the middle of the sea; the dove maiden (she is the sorcerer's daughter) does everything - the third task, dismembering himself; the prince must identify his wife among doves, finds out on a predetermined basis; the spouses flee; turning into a church and a sakristan, a vegetable garden and a gardener; without catching up with the fugitives, the sorcerer's wife tells the prince to forget his wife, when someone kisses him; that's what happened; a prince and two friends come to his forgotten wife's house; hoping to spend the night with a woman, everyone spends her hard work; prince remembers his wife]: Aprile 2000:274; Corsicans [the orphan left the village, friends gave him a piece of bread; three argue over an invisible cloak; the young man asks to be allowed to try it on, disappears; shared bread with an old man; he advised one of the three girls who come to the pond to swim to hide the clothes, return her promise to marry him; wearing his cloak, the young man follows the girl; she raises the alarm three times, father and her mother runs into her room, but does not see anyone; the father promises to give her daughter, let the young man appear; he takes off his invisibility cloak, crawls out from under the bed; but the sorcerer demands that the work be done: to divide five types of grain; level the mountain; clear the bush in a day and have a vineyard with ripe bunches on this site; the girl does everything; tells you to run, take the stable not fat, but thin a horse; a young man took a well-fed man; when the father catches up, the daughter turns herself, the horse and the young man into a chapel and a priest; he answers all questions only by Dominus vobiscum; then into a vineyard and a worker; for the third time The mother is chasing, but she is all scratched, making her way through the bushes; the young reached the village of the young man; the wedding; the girl creates a castle]: Massignon 1984, No. 44:104-107; frets: Uffer 1973, No. 3 [= Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 30:91-93; the merchant's son set off on a ship carrying goods; a black ship under a red flag sailed in the sea; the captain offered to play cards; the young man lost goods, the ship and himself; the captain returned everything, but demanded that the young man come to America by a certain day; when he learned about this, the merchant sent his son to the hermit; he advised him to sail to the island, where swans arrive; when they throw off their swan clothes and become girls, you have to hide one of them's clothes; he chose the most beautiful one; she promised to be his wife and help; gave him a wand; when he touched it the sea, it retreated and he went dry; the black man showed 60 boxes; 59 on the human head, and the 6th for the young man's head; 1) gave a glass ax to cut down the forest; the ax immediately broke; the swan girl told me to go to bed, and when the young man woke up, the forest was felled down; 2) remove the mountain and set up a vineyard in this place (the same); 3) get a ring from the sea, which they put on a paper boat and let it go on the waves; the girl tells her to be cut off; the severed head rolled into the sea, three drops of blood rose out of the water and a ring with them, followed by a revived girl more beautiful than before; they both came to the black captain - to the girl's father; he greets them with a smile, gives them a lot of gold; they returned to the boy's father; wedding], 44 [=Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, No. 33:207-219; the widow's son goes to work; sees how to the lake 10 winged maidens flew in, took off their wings, began swimming, then flew back to the mountain peaks; the next time the young man hid, took the youngest's wings; she became his wife; he put his wings in the chest and told the mother did not leave the key in the lock; she left it, the wife found her wings, flew away, telling her to look for her on the glass mountain; the young man went in search; the young man directs him to the old man; he sent him to his sister To the moon to the top of the mountain; the moon sends the Sun to its older brother; he sends the Sun to his older brother; he gives a ball that rolls to the glass mountain; the wind lifted the young man up the mountain; there is a mother in the house bird girls offer tasks; 1) cut down the forest with a lead ax (the bride tells me to go to bed, the job is done); 2) scoop out the lake with a scoop of holes (the same); 3) recognize the bride among her sisters (she tied a red ribbon to her leg); the bride tells me to run, throw three red lice behind one another; each turns into a mountain, one taller than the other; the mother cannot overcome the third mountain, stops the persecution; a young man brings his wife to him; wedding]: 9-11, 211-220.

Western Europe. Irish: Curtin 1975 [The young son of the King of Ireland meets Lake Léin, a giant in the forest; he offers to play cards, the young man wins two estates; next time, a hundred bulls in golden horns and silver hooves; on the third day she loses her head; comes to an old woman with her teeth sticking out of her mouth; she washes his feet, feeds him, gives him a rolling ball, he will lead to her middle her sister, she sends to her elder; she says that there are 700 iron stakes around the giant's castle with their heads set, the latter is free, telling the giant's three bathing daughters to hide the clothes of the giant's three bathing daughters, who has there will be a yellow lily on his chest (others are white and blue); the young man returns his clothes for promising to save him; the giant will invite the young man to sleep in a pool of water, the Yellow Lily (ML) takes it out every time puts it back before the giant wakes up; feeds, the young man should not eat the meat that the giant gives him; the giant suggests 1) finding the pin lost by the giant's great-grandmother in a 500-horse stable, which has not been cleaned for 700 years (JL cleans, finds); 2) make a roof of bird feathers over the stable so that everyone is different (JL does); 3) get an egg from a crow's nest at the top of a giant tree more precisely a smooth pole; the JL tells her to kill, peel the bones from the meat, make a ladder out of the bones, then collect all the bones back; the young man does everything, but forgets to take the last bone, the JL revives, but she lacks the little finger of her leg; the giant lets the young man go; at home, the soothsayer advises the king to marry her son to the daughter of the King of Denmark; they come to the wedding, the giant with the JL also comes; the JL turns two grains into a pair of pigeons; a male bites a female, pushes her off the table, she says he did not do this when she helped him clean the stable; the same about other episodes; the young man remembers JL, takes her as his wife, King of Denmark with his daughter - guests at this wedding]: 1-14; McManus 1915 [the queen plays cards with an old man who puts a spell on him not to eat twice at the same table, not to sleep twice in the same bed; wise man explains that the old man lives at the bottom of the sea, says where his four swan daughters will fly; the Queen hides his youngest's clothes; gives it for a promise to help; she sticks a sleep pin in her father so that he does not hacked a young man at the entrance; the young man comes in, says, Save all God here; this phrase broke the spell, but the old man gives instructions; 1) build a house; 2) clean the house of garbage; 3) build a roof; 4) cover it with the peace of wild birds; the old man's daughter does everything for the young man, tells him to take the horse and run; the father and the army are chasing, the wife orders him to splash after him, then the horse, taken from his ear, the sea appears; the old man drains after taking three plates of water; the daughter pulls a duck out of a tree, an egg from a duck, hits her father in his left leg with an egg, he dies; the wife tells the Queen to come home first; he will forget her if he kisses anyone; he was kissed by a greyhound, he forgot his wife, married a princess; the old man's daughter is hired as a laundress; the princess enters the laundry room, falls dead; the laundress tells the rooster and chicken to tell a story about her and about forgetting her; the Queen remembers everything, calling the old man's daughter his wife]: 191-195; Muller 2006, No. 87 (Western 1929) [an O'Shea man in Kerry County saw a mermaid, fell in love, managed to grab her clothes, run home, hide clothes, lock the door; the mermaid promised to marry him; in 7 years she gave birth to two daughters and two sons; one day, during a storm, her husband climbed to repair the roof, hidden clothes by accident fell down; the wife put it on, took her two children, ran and disappeared into the sea; the other two descended from the Mermaid family]: 134-135; Smith 1935 ["this legend offers an.. instance of the universal Swan-Maiden motif "]: 1053; Waugh 1960 [if a man takes possession of a mermaid's hat (cohuleen druith), she must marry him and give birth to him children; the same with a seal woman who threw off her seal outfit; parallels in Asian and European tales of the swan maiden]: 81; Westropp 1913 (South West Ireland): 378-379 [as in p. 380, but the wife has no swan nature; the hero grabs her hood after a violation the ban she finds it, disappears], 379 [as in p. 380, the hero catches one of the swans (not specified how); after breaking the ban, the wife finds her swan robe, dives into the lake], 380 [O'Quin, young the leader of the Ifearnain clan hunted deer, saw five swans come to the lake shore, threw off their birds' clothes and became girls; O. hid one of them's clothes, brought them to his castle; he agreed for he went out on condition that the marriage remained secret and no one from O'Brian appeared in the castle; she gave birth to two children; after 7 years he brought a man from the O'Brien family, lost everything to him, saw his wife find his clothes, in the form of a swan with two swans under her wings, flies away]; Scots: Klyagina-Kondratyeva 1967 (Hebrides) [the sea king's wife is dead, he took a new one - a sea witch, that turned the children of her first wife into seals; once a year they took human form; fisherman McCodran hid the skin of one of the girls, who had to agree to become his wife; during the storm she found a skin put on, sailed away; McCodram's descendants never hunted seals]: 229-235 (=Kharitonov 2008:458-462); Loseva et al. 1959 (Orkney Islands) [on Ivanov's Eve, fishermen saw people dancing nearby seal skins; a man hid one, married a seal girl; they have a child; one day she found a skin and swam away]: 62-65; the French (Haute-Brittany) [the man lost cards to Bluebeard; that said that now he must serve with him for 7 years and until he finds him, he will not fall asleep day or night; the man goes in search; meets three old women consistently; the first has not seen people for 100 years, the second is 40, the third knows where the SB lives: you have to cross three seas: red, white and blue; when three SB daughters arrive to swim, you have to steal the garter; three ducks have arrived and become girls; the man hid one garter, she promised to deliver it to her father, but did not keep her promise; the same with the second; the old woman teaches her to take an oath; the third swore and took the man to her father's kingdom; the Security Council commands scoop out the pond with a thimble; hide a monstrous amount of wool; get eggs from the bird's nest on a tall tree without stairs; the SB daughter tells you to cut it into pieces to make a ladder; then the little finger was not enough; the SB orders the bride to be identified among her sisters; the man identified by the missing little finger; the wife's sisters want to kill the man out of jealousy; the wife tells him to break an egg on the SB's chest, who his life is concluded]: Sébillot 1894, No. 1:167-168; French: Grimm 1883 (1) [1) a man sees three maidens bathing in a spring, putting clothes on branches, stealing clothes, maidens forced to stay; 2) the knight sees a swan girl in the forest taking off her robe]: 430; Michelson 1976 [the Menou shepherd saw three snow-white birds go down to swim, took off their clothes from feathers and steel girls; mother M.: these are the daughters of a prince from a castle hanging on chains between heaven and earth; we must hide their clothes, give them back on the condition that they take the one who hid it with them; M. hides the youngest's clothes; gives a bird girl carries it, leaves it in the garden; the sisters are locked in a castle, the maid picks up a basket of grapes and fruits on a rope; M. hides in a basket, has fun with the girls; like this every day; his older sisters are jealous of his youngest, promise to tell his father; the youngest puts M. back on his back, they fly to the ground to Mother M.; their children are always fascinated by the sight of birds flying in the sky]: 3-6; Walloons [the young man lost cards, decided to drown himself; someone helps him recoup on the condition that in a year and 6 weeks the young man will come to Mille de Plomb Castle; the young man comes to the old man, they obey him animals; the pig carried him, he violated the ban on speaking, fell into the sea, swam to the shore; the giant is subordinate to the bird; he tells the eagle to take the young man; on the way, the supply of food runs out, the young man cut off a piece from his caviar; by the pond he sees the three daughters of the castle owner bathing, steals the youngest's clothes, returning him for promising to become his wife; the owner says that the young man must redeem his soul, and for this purpose 1) get the ring from the bottom of the well; to do this, he cuts that girl in half, the upper part dives and brings the ring, connects to the bottom; because a drop of blood has been lost, one finger is missing; 2) per day squeeze and grind wheat from a vast field; 3) create a sea with all types of fish (the girl helps to perform); you need to recognize the bride three times under the veil among her sisters; the young man recognizes by the missing finger; wedding; young people flee; turn into peasants; into a chapel and St. A virgin; a girl creates the sea, her father drowns in it; the young man's family does not recognize his wife, she disappears, he forgets her; she serves in a cabaret; the first person who wants to stay with her asks for a glass of water, he remains in this position and is released only in the morning; the same with the second; the third is her husband, he recognizes his wife; their wedding again]: Laport 1932, No. 313:43-44; Bretons [Pipi Menu shepherd sees how swans fly to the lake, take off their feather clothes, swim; his grandmother explains that they are the daughters of a sorcerer whose castle hangs high above the sea; we must hide the virgin's clothes, let them take them to her castle and will become a wife; the PM hid the youngest's clothes; the maidens took him to the castle, leaving him in the garden; when the gardener loaded the basket of vegetables and fruits, the PM hid there, the maiden picked it up, he stayed with her overnight; two sisters are envious, threatened to open everything; PM's wife put him on his back, they went down to the ground and stayed there; they have many children]: Luzel 1887 (2), No. 7:347-354; Germans: Hatto 1961 [14th century," Friedrich von Schwaben"; the princess has a spell; she must find a lover who will sleep with her for several nights but will not break her virginity or see her; when the deadline comes to an end, angry the magician makes a young man turn on the lights and looks at the girl; she flies to the cleanest pond in the world; the prince sees three turtledoves fly to the pond, leave clothes on the shore, swim; he hides one of them's clothes; makes her marry him (the princess doesn't recognize her lover), breaking the spell]: 346; Grimm, Grimm 1987, No. 193 [the drummer sees three pieces of white on the lake shore canvases, puts one in her pocket; at night, a girl invisible in the dark asks for her clothes back; she is the king's daughter, magically imprisoned on top of a glass mountain; she must swim in the lake every day and fly away back; he cannot fly without clothes; the drummer promises to rescue her; tells the giant that the army will soon come to kill him; the giant is frightened, agrees to take the drummer to the glass mountain; transmits another giant, the third, leaves the third at the foot of the mountain; two fight over a saddle that takes them anywhere; the drummer invites them to race, flies on the saddle to the mountain; there the old woman demands 1) to scoop out the pond with a thimble in a day; the girl tells him to sleep, magically extracts water; the fish lie in a row in size, one to the side; the girl teaches him to throw this fish in the witch's face; 2) cut down the forest in a day, lay down logs (the same, whip the witch in the face with the last branch); 3) burn everything in one fire; on the girl's advice, the drummer throws the witch into the fire, taking out the unburned one before a log, it turns into that girl; she warns not to kiss her parents at home, he kisses, forgets her; the drummer marries another; the magical wife agrees to give that dress like the sun for permission to spend the first night at the bedroom door; but the drummer does not wake up; on the second night, the dress is like the moon; on the third night, like stars; this time the drummer did not drink wine, hears his wife, remembers her; another woman received these dresses as compensation]: 558-565; Hubrich-Messow 1988, No. 18 (Black Forest) [a soldier sees three girls bathing, hides one of them's clothes; she is forced to marry him, has given birth two children; once she found the key, unlocked the closet, found her shirt there, returned to the glass city where her father ruled; leaving the children in care, the husband went to look for his wife; in the forest a lion, a worm and a raven they argue over a fallen horse; he gave flesh to a lion, (something else) to a worm (Du tust gern bagen), veins (Geäder) to a crow; they give fur, a feather, a leg so that a person can become strong as a lion, tiny like a worm, flying like a bird; he flew to the glass city, climbed through a tiny hole, sat on his wife's shoulder like a crow, she understood who it was, took it into the bedroom; the sisters told his father they had heard from there croaking; the wife allowed her father to appear as a man; he showed him the city, his son-in-law asked for permission to build a tower, became strong as a lion, made a hole; when asked what he wanted to take with him, said that his wife]: 32-34; Meier 1852, No. 7 (Swabia) [the hunter's wife died; the old man advises to hide the clothes of one of the swan girls coming to swim in the lake; the wife gives birth to several children; after 15 He finds a swan robe for years, flies away; the old man sends her husband to a miller who loads flour on donkeys that take it to the castle where the swan maiden lives; the husband persuaded the miller to hide it in a bag; the wife tells the husband should be silent when three dragons arrive for three days for an hour and torment him; on the first day they are snakes, then turtles, then snakes again; the husband is silent; the dragons turn into three noble women, this is there were swans; they and the couple remain in the castle]: 39-42 (=Ashliman 2002); Germans (Austria) [the young man sees three girls swimming in the forest on the lake, putting on swan clothes, flying away; the mother tells build a hut near the lake and guard; a young man hides an average girl's clothes, brings her to the hut; goes after his mother, forgetting to lock the chest; the girl finds her clothes, flies away, telling her to look for them on a mountain of glass; an old man calls animals, only a three-legged hare knows the way to a glass mountain; a young man divides a horse's carcass between a bear, a wolf, a crow and an ant; each gives his own hair (ant - paw) allowing you to take the form of this animal; a young man flies up the mountain to the girl as a crow; she warns that her mother is a witch; she sets wedding conditions; 1) drink an egg without breaking the shell (young man an ant makes a tiny hole); 2) cut down the forest in three days, turn it into piles of firewood (the wife does everything); 3) set fire to firewood and jump into the fire; he jumps, there is a palace on the site of the fire; a young man began to live there with his wife and her sisters]: Cerf 1992:123-128.

Western Asia. Arabic written tradition (One Thousand and One Nights): Salye 2010 (2), nights 499-530 [start see H55; further false story; King Taigamus had no sons; stargazers said he had a son will appear only from King Khorasan's daughter; King Khorasan agreed to marry; stargazers predicted misfortunes for his son after 15 years; his name is Janshah; at the age of 15, D. chased the gazelle, the gazelle jumped into the boat, her they were caught, but D. and his servants went by boat to the island at sea; the father sent letters about his son to all the islands; D. went to land on the wrong island to which he sailed; sent half of the servants deep into the island, left in the boat; he was taken to the palace; the island belonged to monkeys; the monkeys sank the boat, made D. king; he ordered his servants to help the monkeys defeat enemies; found a stove with a prophecy: who became the king of the monkeys, will be able to get off the island only by going to a city where there is no true believer; the monkeys chased the prince, but they were destroyed by ants; in the city of infidels, D. was hired to the merchant, received a payment in advance; he was sewn into the donkey's belly and the bird carried the carcass to the nest; precious stones around; D. threw stones to the merchant, and he left without showing how to go down; D. went to look for a way out, came to the palace; the owner forbids opening one door; D. opened and saw three girls in the form of cabbage rolls flying to swim; a year later they flew again; on the advice of the owner of the castle, D. hid the clothes of one of girls; this is Sitt Samsha, she agreed to become the prince's wife, he returned her feather clothes and they flew to the prince's country; Tigamus built a palace for D. and the secondary school; the secondary school smelled her clothes, hidden under the floor of the palace, told D. to look for her in Takni's jewelry fortress and flew away; D. came to a man with whom he already lived, hired the same job, was sewn into a horse's skin; refused to throw her off to the merchant stones from the nest; he came again to the owner of the palace; he does not know about the fortress T.; one of the birds took D. to the king of animals; he called on the animals to ask about T.; the animals do not know; he sends D. to his elder brother; brother does not know, sends to the sorcerer, to whom animals and mountains are subordinate, he called animals and genies; one bird said that he knew where T. took D. there; the king of jinns, i.e. the father of the SS, ordered bring everyone to his place; wedding; the couple was taken to the kingdom of D.], 778-831 [{very close to the Tunisian text}; a Persian praises the jeweler Hassan's jewelry, offers to adopt him, promises to teach him a better craft; mother H. does not trust a foreigner; the next morning, a stranger makes a gold bar out of copper, H. asks him to teach him how to create gold; this can only be learned in a Persian's house; they they go to H.'s house, the Persian drinks it, puts it in a chest, puts money and jewelry in another, sends the chests to the ship; the ship sails away; mother H. builds it in a tomb with the name of her son and lives in it; H. will be killed in the thousandth if he does not betray his faith, but H. refuses to worship fire, the Persian tortures him while they are on the ship; during the storm, the sailors blame the Persian, they want to kill him, he asks X. apologizes, the storm subsides; the Persian and H. go down to land, ride camels; the Persian sews H. into the camel's skin, the bird lifts the skin up the mountain; there is firewood and human bones; the Persian asks dump firewood, it is needed for alchemy; H. dumps firewood, the Persian leaves, leaving H. on the mountain; H. rushes into the sea, takes him ashore, where the palace of the enemies of the Persian, there are seven daughters of the genie; H. stays with them; a year later, a Persian appears with a prisoner, whom he is going to send to the mountain; H. kills a Persian, throws his head into the fire; frees the prisoner; the girls leave for two months; H. opens the forbidden door; 10 birds fly in; H. hides; birds turn into girls; bathe; H. falls in love with the elder; female birds fly away; H. withers from love; jeennias come back, H. says about everything younger, she promises to help; the older gennias go hunting, the youngest advises H. to hide the feathers of the bird girl; the jeennias arrange their wedding; H. dreams of his mother, he goes to her; in case difficulties he must hit the drum of a Persian and camels will take him to the gennias; to mother H.'s house, his wife gives birth to two sons; H. decides to visit a genny, punishes his mother not to go with his wife to city; the wife violates the ban, goes to the bathhouse, the Caliph's slave sees her, tells her wife; she demands that his wife H. calls her wife to her, dresses her up; H.'s wife says that she has feather clothes, let her mother-in-law give them back; the servant brings clothes, wife H. turns into a bird, takes the children and flies away - let her husband look for her on the Wak Islands; H. goes to the genies for help; Uncle Jinny takes the horse out of the mountain, gives a letter; horse X. reaches the mountain, where the mighty sheikh gives a letter; he is allowed into the mountain; he is given a new letter and a case with firefighting supplies that can be used to summon the sheikh to in case of trouble; H. flies on the back of the efreet, gives a letter to the king; the king explains how to proceed; Hasan is secretly put on the ship; after getting off the ship, H. hides under a bench; at night asks for protection from a warrior girl, she brings him armor; H. mixes with warriors; a warrior girl takes off her clothes, turns out to be an old woman; an old warrior commands an army of women, ready to help; tells how to get to Wack Islands; H. goes with his army through the island of birds; through the island of animals; through the island of genies; H. describes his wife to the warrior, the old woman recognizes the king's eldest daughter; H. must recognize his wife among other girls ; he does not know if the queen is going to cut his head; the old woman intercedes; says that there is not a single woman left in the city but the queen herself; she must also appear to H.; he sees that the queen is like to his wife; she is her sister; the queen orders her sister with children to be brought; children are brought before their mother; the queen is convinced that the boys are the sons of H.; the queen beats her sister; talks about everything to her husband, father bird girls; the sorcerer's two children quarrel over a copper stick, which genies and an invisible cap obey; H. invites them to race, picks up wonderful objects; invisible, goes to his wife, she crucified and tied by her hair; H. opens to her children, unties his wife, the old woman opens the gate, the efreets give X. three horses; genie sticks defeat the queen's army, she is captured; wife X. intercedes for her, reconciles her; the queen and the old woman go to their city; on the way they thank the king who put H. on the ship and both sheikhs; the sheikhs ask to give them their wand and hat for their help; H. s visits the jinnias with his family, thanks the youngest, returns home]: 64-101, 594-702; Iraqi Arabs [Hassan from Basra sees 10 birds arrive, take off their clothes from their feathers, become girls, swim; hides one of them's clothes; takes her as his wife; when she leaves, leaves her mother in care; she finds out where the clothes are, flies with her children to Wak-Wak Island; her husband comes there for her]: Clouston 1887:186 (briefly in Hatto 196:334); mehri [when the dates are almost ripe, someone ripped them off; soothsayer to the owner: these are three Ginny girls, they come to swim, we have to hide their clothes; the man hides, two returns, takes the third, takes him as wives; gives three sisters to marry three genies who came for them; leaves, leaving his wife in the care of his mother; it was a holiday, people asked that this man's wife too danced; she says she needs her clothes for this; people persuaded her mother-in-law to give clothes; the woman danced and flew away; people buried the lamb, told the returning husband that his wife was dead; but he opened the grave, made the mother tell everything; soothsayer: feed brown, black, white camels for three years; then do not let them eat; the one who jumped over the fence will take them; the brown one jumped over; on it go to the sunrise until he is exhausted; then three days on foot; stays with his sisters every day, three genies give a hair to help; he sees his wife, she opens it to her father after as he promised not to cause harm; his wife's father demands: drink a stream, run from a bowl of water to the mountain and back without splashing, eat two camels; genies do everything, man gets a wife]: Stroomer 1999, No. 37:99-104.

Australia. Yualayi: Parker 1965:109-111 [Wurrunah met seven well-received female sisters; walked away, hid, stole two digging sticks; these two girls stayed looking for them, W. grabbed them, married them; one day, against their will, he sent them to tear the bark; the wives stuck their hatchets in the trunks, climbed trees, they grew to the sky, they joined their sisters; now all seven are visible like the Pleiades] (=Parker 1896:43-46 in Lessa 196:141, 154; in Dixon 1916:294-295; (cf. jauan [the hunter noticed the Rainbow Serpent's daughters sleeping on the shore; grabbed one, after a long struggle, pacified him; for several days she refuses to eat him, then begins to eat; by the fire he warms her genitals, but only a few days later he manages to have sex; after that she no longer resists; one day he sends her for water, her sisters see her, calls her, she hides in the water , the man no longer finds her]: Robinson 1956:64-66; murinbata [Ngalmin saw water girls (daughters of the Rainbow Serpent) on the shore; wounded one with a spear in the thigh, dragged it away, gave honey; he asked for water, he sent her to get water herself, she returned to the river; he came, grabbed her again, she bit, then Rainbow Serpent appeared, N. ran away; next time the Rainbow Serpent drowned him]: Robinson 1956:35-37).

Melanesia. Ilahita arapesh [The First Man heard laughter; saw several cassowaries; beauties swam in the pond, taking off their feather skins; the man hid the most beautiful skin, brought it to him, arranged it like this, for her to make a hole in her genitals; her name is Nambweapav; the couple gave birth to sons and daughters for many years, these couples became ancestors of different nations; the eldest son is the ancestor of ilachite arapesh; the father took the children to the garden, the mother stayed at home with the youngest, they alternated duties day by day; the father put on a cassowary skin to scare the younger one so that he would not be capricious; at the age of six, the boy found the skin, gave his mother for promising pieces of coconut; N. flew away, telling the children how to find it; a few months later they went to her, taking their father; N. asked them to go down from the trees and take theirs spears; one spear was left untaken; N. found her husband under the leaf, broke his head; under N. there was no death or pain, everything was easy; her children, except the youngest, broke the food taboo, grace was over; N. turned into a wallaby, arranged for the youngest to kill him; when she died, she ordered people to die hard; the youngest sailed away with streams of water, became the ancestor of whites; one day he would return]: Tuzin 1980:1-8 in Gregor, Tuzin 2001:325-326; the upper arapes [the cassouarichs went down to the pond, took off their clothes from their feathers, began to swim; the man hid the clothes alone, brought them to the village, hid them in a hut for menstruating; she does not have a vagina; he placed her female where she relieves her need, she pierced her vagina, she began to menstruate; gave birth to four sons, a daughter, and another son; when he was five years old, the elders went to the forest, the mother told the youngest to find her hidden clothes, put it on and flew away; after a while, three brothers came to the tree, beat drums, blew flutes; the mother flew in and invited her, but they returned to their father]: Mead 1040, No. 32:376-377; cotton wool [the young man hides the jewelry of one of the girls bathing; she is looking for them, he takes her to his village, gets married; the wife hears her husband complaining that after the birth of a child, there is no peace; when left alone at home, the wife finds hidden jewelry, turns into a cassowary, leaves; the husband finds her, she turns into a woman again, agrees to give the baby a breast]: Fischer 1963, No. 20c: 161-162; (cf. varope [the young man sailed in a boat to the island; there the old woman said that the girls would come to swim, take off their aprons; he hid one, married the girl; later the wife left, thinking that her husband was dead, old woman helped her get her back]: Held MS in Lessa 196:147); Valman [two women wear men's guises; when they go fishing, they take them off; a man watches, finds and destroys men's guises, meets women they go with him]; Banks Islands (Meralawa) [heavenly maidens go down to fish, leave their wings under the pandanus; the man hides one wing, makes the heavenly maiden go with him to the village; hides in man's house; tells earthly wife she likes heaven; husband and earthly wife work in the garden, and heavenly cook at home; gives birth to a son, then a second; she and her children are not allowed to leave the village; boys they chase the lizard, it climbs under the stone, the mother helps to move it, finds her wing; flies away; the brothers shoot the throat, it does not fall; the elder rises, the throat says that she is their mother mother, let the youngest rise; brings pigeons into the house; the mother took her eldest son, and the youngest was left with his grandmother's throat]: Coombe 1911:50-53; motu [the man dug the ground deeper, found the moon, took it out, she grew up, shone, rose to the sky; said in a woman's voice that she had to stay in her Mother Earth for a long time before she was born; then she would shine constantly, and now she would appear , then disappeared; went down to sea; the man took a net, dogs, spears, went to look for the moon to marry her; found a woman bathing, sat on her clothes, said he would marry her; Luna replied that he was through she will die for two days because she touched her clothes and she is an immortal spirit; she agreed to marry him for one day, then sent him home so that he could prepare for death; she would also become the wife of the Sun, who is already now dissatisfied; the Sun is jealous because the moon doesn't go the same way as it does and that it shines brightest just when it's not there; they've decided to break up]: Romilly 1889:134-142; Aoba: Codrington 1891:160-171 and Aurora, Codrington, p. 168 in Dixon 1916 [Tagaro saw heavenly winged maidens go swimming; hid one pair of wings at the base of his house's pillar, took this girl as a wife; touching the yam plants, she made the tubers ripe; the T. brothers thought that she was pulling yams instead of weeds, scolded her; when she returned to the house, she began to cry, tears made a hole, she found her wings, flew away; var. (Whitsuntide, Codrington, p.169): When the wife flew away, she took her son with her; T. asked the bird to find them; she sat on a tree under which T.'s wife was, scratched a portrait of T. on the fetus, threw it to her; the boy found out portrait of her father; the woman asked to tell me what T. would take back if he reached the sky; he started shooting, made a chain of arrows; the root of the banyan descended from the sky, wrapped around arrows, took root in the ground; T. and the bird climbed into the sky; T.'s wife agreed to go down, but after him; cut off the root; T. fell, his wife and son returned to heaven]: 139; Suas 1912, No. 10a [Sun wives go down to swim; Takaro hides her wings Baniha Mamata, takes her as his wife; she has a young son with him; he turns yam leaves into tubers; mother-in-law swears, thinking that the boy is digging up unripe tubers; BM and her son find wings, fly away; T. asks Stork to draw figures of event participants on a sheet, throw it in front of the BM; he makes a chain of arrows himself, the root of a pandanus winds along it, T. rises to heaven; BM sends it back, cuts off the root], 10b [When planting yams, Muehu Catekale notices small footprints; sees two men and a woman with a child hiding their wings on a plantation to swim; MK takes the woman's wings, takes her as his wife; working with their son on the site, they hear the rain on their wings, find them, fly away; MK makes a chain of arrows, hides in the sky in a tree above his wife, drops her a leaf on which he drew his figure; son says it's a father's figure; she sends MK back, asks him to cut off the chain; he tries to do it again, but it fails anymore]: 54-57, 57-60; Maevo (New Hebrides) [heavenly women came to swim, left their wings on the shore; Qat hid one pair, married the woman; when she touched the sweet potato leaf, all yams were dug up; bananas, all bananas, all bananas matured; mother K. began to scold her; the wife cried, tears washed the hole, she saw her husband's wings buried, flew away; K. began to shoot arrows into the sky one in the tail of the other, forming a chain; the root of the fig tree wrapped around her, reached for the sky; K. got up, took his wife, began to descend; a man in the sky dug up the root of a fig tree, a chain of arrows collapsed; K. crashed, his wife returned to heaven]: Codrington 1891:397-398 in Lessa 1961:129 (translated to Permyakov 1970, No. 54:137-138); Efate (New Hebrides) [heavenly maidens went down to fish, a man stole the wings of one of them, she gave birth to Maka Tafaki and Karisi Bum; her husband became ill to treat her; her sons found her wings, she flew away; her sons made a chain of arrows, climbed into heaven; a blind old woman was cooking six tubers of yam, the brothers slowly hid one; the old woman realized that these are her grandchildren, named them; they found their mother]: MacDonald 1898:765-767 in Lessa 196:129-130, in Frazer 1939:221.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Ulithi (West Carolina) [every night, two dolphins leave their tails under a palm tree, turn into girls, go dancing; the man who collected juice from these palm trees hid one of tails, took the girl as his wife; she gave birth to a son and a daughter, found her tail, told her daughter not to eat dolphins, sail away]: Lessa 1961, No. 6:38-39; Losap (Truk County) [the chief's son sailed with others in the boat, the dolphin girls liked it, they pushed him into the water, the companions did not notice; the young man sank under the water to the island; the dolphins came to swim in the fresh pond, took off their skins, turned into girls; the young man hid the most beautiful skin; the others sailed away; the young man explained who he was, the girl said she pushed him out of the boat; hides him under mats; shows others after as they promised not to harm him; spent time with him one by one; he taught them how to cook without eating raw; when it was the turn of that first girl, the young man said he wanted to go home; they brought him to Losap, giving him the means to revive dead whales (whales or dolphins are not clear from the story)]: Mitchell 1973, No. 70:203-206; Palau [Akapekemek left vessels tied to palm trees overnight , collecting juice in them; someone empties blood vessels; he guards, a fish woman comes out of the water, leaves her tail, climbs a palm tree; A. carries her tail; the next day he sees a naked woman under a palm tree, she asks for a skirt; he gives her, takes a woman as his wife, they have a beautiful daughter; her mother sends her to bring a pestle, she accidentally finds a fish tail, swims away; the grandson of a sea woman, Athmolokoth, grows up, catches fish, loses the hook, goes down to sea for him; his grandmother swallowed it, he returns it; Fraser and Frobenius retell different parts of the text in varying detail]: Kubary, vol.1:60-65 in Frazer 1924: 263-264 and Frobenius 1904:263-264; Yap [Tholoor sees two dolphins take off their tails, become girls, go to watch dances; T. finds in the sand, brings home one of their tails; gets married, a wife gives birth to two daughters; finds her tail, sails into the sea; her daughters are the ancestors of the dolphin family; (quoted in Lessa 196:142-143)]: Müller 1918, No. 76:618-619; Taumako [dolphin girls leave their dolphin skins, come to dance; one young man spied, hid the skin, the dolphin had to become his wife; once he scolded her, she cried, looked for her skin, found it where her husband kept it my money, feathers, put it on, swam away]: Hovdhaugen, Næss 2006:124.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Nepalese Tibetans (Tichurong dialect) [enemies kill everyone, a pregnant woman leaves, gives birth to a son; he sees seven birds fly to the lake, turn into seven women, bathe; twice forgets to tell his mother about this; for the third time she says, the mother teaches her to drip cow's blood into the lake; when six birds fly away, the young man drips, the seventh remains human, he brings her home, takes her wives; (var.: young man hides the seventh girl's clothes); first the wife is silent, finally laughs when she sees her mother-in-law cook; this couple gives birth]: Jest 1971:72-74 in Allen 2011:94-95; Tibetans (Amdo) [a mare gave birth to a boy, an old woman adopted him; with two friends he hides from the rain in a cave; they see three turtles fly in, become girls, pray, fly away again; the same on the same day, August 15, the following year; two years later, the young men seized and destroyed the pigeon bodies, took the girls as wives; the wives withered; the young men watched the kite fly in and became a copper-beaked witch, she drank the girls' blood, flew away, the mare's son managed to injure her with an arrow; the young men are following a bloody trail, the companions let the mare's son go missing, cut off the rope, the garuda picked him up; a local shepherd says that a witch is wounded by an arrow; another shepherd herds many goats; this is the son of a witch; replies that in order to tie goats, you must tell them to "Contact"; to transport them across the river, you have to tell the river step up and down, go dry; after bringing the goats, he will lick the wound on his mother's back caused by the mare's son; the mare's son offers to remove his lice; the son of a witch: I have a black mole around my neck, in it my mother's strength, be careful; the second part of my mother's life is at home in a needle in a salt bag; the mare's son crushed a mole {and apparently killed the shepherd}, put on his clothes, took his yak tongue with him; told the waters part, contact the goats; the witch takes him for a son, asks him to lick the wound; he explains that his tongue is hard because he did not drink water today; breaks the needle, the witch dies; leaving the witch's house, the son of a mare killed a snake that was about to eat a garuda chick; the chick explains to its mother that the man saved him; the mare's son asks to be brought to the ground; the garuda asks to prepare 100 bird carcasses and 100 wineskins of water ; carries a mare's son across the sea; he forgives companions, reigns, everything is fine]: Kajihama 2004, No. 28:117-123; lepcha [brother and sister are orphans, brother catches birds in snare; sees a black squirrel takes the bird; catches it, wants to kill it, the squirrel promises to serve it; tells it to go east, the Chinese princess swims in the river, the squirrel takes its clothes; after vows that the princess will marry the owner squirrels; tells them both to follow her; tells the shepherd the cows that the king is coming, the shepherd cleans the barn, the squirrel tells the princess that this is her master's cowshed; in the palace of the seven cannibal demons tells them that the king goes with his army to destroy them, promises to save them; they dig a hole, boil water, hide in a hole, the squirrel pours boiling water on them; tells the princess that the palace is her master, the princess is happy; the squirrel brings them to live the owner's sister; asks them to let her go; after 17 years he flies to heaven; the owner, his wife and sister cry; then live on]: Stocks 1925:377-380; kaike [fleeing enemies, a pregnant woman fled to the possession of a neighboring Raja; a son was born and grew up, began to herd cows; saw 7 beauties swimming in the lake; mother: these are apsars, catch the youngest; if you touch her tail cows, she will not fly away again; the young man hid the Apsar's clothes, gave it to six, touched the seventh with the cow's tail, brought his wife; Apsara did not understand the language of people (their ethnonym is Tarali Magar), asked Kai ke nan? ("What are you doing?") ; so the Tarali-Magar language became known as kaike; they formed three clans; once a shepherd noticed one of the goats going somewhere; he found a baby in the hollow to be fed by a goat; his descendants formed jhakri group]: Shrestha 2019:449-450; mikir [each of the five older brothers promises their 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 the hut for the night to guard the field, come to kill him; his daughter-in-law warned him; he put red tree leaves on the couch juice, he lay down at a distance; the brothers refused, the father pierced the couch with a spear; HC went to his poor grandmother, who gives him advice; he replaces the clothes of the youngest of the six daughters of the Sun coming to swim - the bride of the son of the Wind; marries her, they have a son; contrary to the advice of the grandmother, she 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 with rivers in the sand; on the wedding day of HC's wife and son of the Wind, the elephant of the Sun will come to swim; you have to grab its 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 someone else's son sucks his fiancée's chest, Vetra's son refused to marry, HC married his wife; with his wife and son he returns to earth, reigns]: Stack, Lyall 1908 , No. 3:55-70; garo [Daran young man saw Juge Balje's apsara swimming in the pond, hid her clothes; she called herself the daughter of heaven and agreed to marriage; Apsara gave a white scarf, with the help of who can take off, and a remedy for thirst and hunger; after 7 years, D. wanted to visit his parents and relatives; his wife lowered him to the ground, promising to return for him in 3 years; relatives are surprised that D. did not have children in 7 years; it turns out that the relationship was platonic; D. succumbed to persuasion and married, they have a child; then an apsara appeared; D. was desperate, cried out and died; remained invisible to his wife and household apsar]: Rongmuthu 1960:48-53; Mishmi (taraon) [people cleared the forest on the site; a star girl flew in; a young man cut off her wings, hid them in drum; he started hitting him with joy, the drum burst, the Star grabbed her wings, flew back; Chin offered to follow her into the sky, made a ladder, climbed up; The star lowered a thin rope, Chin grabbed her, she cut short, he fell, became a rooster; the young man made him a scallop out of a flower, wings out of leaves]: Elwin 1958a, No. 11:350; miso [the young man sees the fairies who have arrived throw off their clothes and went swimming in the lake; hid one of them's clothes; returned him for promising to give him the ability to kill countless game, but not to kill white-faced creatures, because they are fairy mounts; in in the end he was tired of being such a successful hunter and returned her gift to the fairy]: Borgohain, Roy Chaudhury 1975:85-87; rengma [heavenly maidens went down to the lake, took off their bird tails and wings, they swam; one man came early, hid the bird outfit of one of the maidens, she is forced to become his wife; they have a son and daughter; when they are with their mother, they are always capricious, when their father is not; they answered the mother that the father allows them to play with their wings; wings in bamboo under the roof; their mother dressed them, promised to lower the ropes for the children, flew to heaven, took the children; the husband is looking for her unsuccessfully; the white raven asks to paint him black color; for this he leads a person, leads to a house in the land of spirits, his wife in the house; she warns not to go out; he goes out, stumbles upon a cannibal; the wife hides him under 7 copper vessels, but the cannibal finds she opens her head with a weaving sword, sucks her juices; the wife stayed in heaven, the daughter went down to earth, taught people the song (lyrics quoted)]: Mills 1937:180-182.

Burma - Indochina. Mona [spouses adopt various forest animals; the last is a goby; then a son Kunhadi is born; the mother dies, becomes a natom, protects her son; the forest animals disperse; the father takes the stepmother, she hates the bull; having conspired with the fortuneteller, pretends to be sick, asks for goby meat; the goby and K. run away, the late mother is with them; tells them to go to the lake, where seven Keinari sisters fly at noon, we must To steal the jewelry of one of them, she will not be able to return to heaven; K. hides the jewelry, returns six keinari, leaves the youngest's jewelry, takes her as his wife; the king sees K.'s wife, decides to lime it, to take the beauty for yourself; tells 1) to get a golden bowl from the bottom of the sea; the wife advises sending the named brother K., a crocodile, for the bowl, who brings the bowl; 2) collect scattered sesame seeds (pigeons collect); 3) bring the tigress's milk (the tiger brings); 4) a piece of wool from the lion's mane (the lion brings); 5) seven nat flowers; the wife sends to the hermit, one to the other, to the third, to the fourth, to the fifth; the fifth sends to the lake, where the remaining six Keinari sisters bathe; K. brings flowers and gifts to hermits and Keinari sisters; the king sends warriors, K. ties them with a magic rope; scissors justice is killed by the king, K. reigns]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 147:340-350; Viets: Landes 1886, No. 47 [=Coyaud 2011, No. 3A: 12-14; a young woodcutter sees heavenly fairies swimming in at the 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 son her comb, flies away; taking the boy, the husband comes to the spring; the fairy maids also came there for water, the boy throws his comb into their jug; the wife recognizes the comb, tells her husband to hand the handkerchief, with its help he flies to his wife; through for a while, she sends her husband and son to the ground in a drum tied by a rope, promising to ask Buddha for permission to marry a mortal; in the middle between earth and sky, the windows began to peck grains of rice on the drum; the fairy maids took this as a sign that those who descended had reached the ground cut off the rope; father and son fell into the sea, died; as punishment, Phat Ba turned the fairy into The morning star; the husband became the Evening Star; every year, on the 15th day of the 7th month, the maids make a sacrifice, and the vórons form a chain so that the couple and their son can meet and meet; therefore, crows have a bald head; a funeral ceremony is always performed somewhere on this day; The Morning and Evening Stars are always eager to meet]: 123-126; Vietnamese tales 1992 [orphan mother turns into a buffalo in the sky; helping his son, tells him to go to the lake, where red, golden and multicolored birds - the wife, bride and daughter of the Sky Star - will go down to swim; you must hide your daughter's wings Stars, marry her; he first takes the wings of red, golden birds, they turn into a rooster, into a rock, he is afraid, gives wings; multicolored did not give up, married; wife gives birth to two boys, father allows them to play with their mother's wings; mother takes wings, children, flies to heaven; husband calls buffalo mother to hit the drum, she brings him to heaven; wife warns 1) not to drink tea from a cup , which her father will offer; distracts the father's attention, becoming a hawk, the husband splashes out tea; 2) the same, do not drink wine; 3) father-in-law tells me to bring a monkey drum; the husband gives the monkeys a bag of nuts, plays flutes, brings a drum; father-in-law decides that his poison is harmless, drinks it himself, crumbles into pieces; these are shooting stars]: 126-128; Vietnam's white tai [poor orphan cuts firewood for sale; Sees seven heavenly maidens descend to the lake, 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 , giving him his mother's wings to play; once the mother was 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 wanted; the husband put his son on his back, went to look for his wife; the way through the mouth in a rock that closes and opens; the fox advises throwing sour fruits and teeth there the mouths are sick, its 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 if riders will not laugh in the middle of the river; in the middle of each channel, 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 mouth with a handkerchief, they reach the shore; since then, all dogs have one head and one tail, before they were nine; the phoenix offers to spend the night under his wing, and in the morning he and his mother will bring them to where celebrate the princess's return from land; the phoenix's mother 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 who have come; her father suggests 1) tying 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; birds they collected them, but the king noticed that several grains were missing; one bird swallowed them, the king twisted her neck, and since then the birds of this species have goiter on the back of their heads; 3) find a princess in a palace of one hundred thousand overnight rooms; the rat promises to bring a dry leaf under the right door, but halfway it was eaten by a cat; then the firefly leads to the right room; the king arranges a wedding, then sends the young to the ground, where the son-in-law also becomes king]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 11:311-316; lao [hero hides the wings and tail of a heavenly maiden]: Le May 1924:20-26 in Lessa 196:144 (note); Thais [Prince Chau Nedi came to the lake, there are 7 peacock girls there, he hid his youngest's clothes, brought her into the house by 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 dissolved 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 bracelet to the hermit, ordered tell her husband and tell him about the road; the hermit gave a tame monkey as his companions; the snake lay down as a bridge over a hot river, in which even a sword melted; an arrow fired pushed the mountains apart, the travelers had time 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; ES threw a ring into the bucket of maid N .; she is happy, but her father offers tests: 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 into the holes (a firefly sat on her finger); emergency with N. returned home]: Kornev 1963:35-51; Lao (northern Thailand) [a lazy young man was sent to work for a community elder, he does nothing, the elder drove him into the forest; the king executes him if he would not bring a deer; the young man found the dead deer and the elephant's tusk, the king let him go; the young man began to collect and sell myant leaves; someone was cooking in his hut, he waited for the girl an elephant coming out of the tusk; the king wants to take her away, gives her husband difficult errands to get rid of him; 1) bring the mythical flowers to Chant Ti; the wife sent to the abbot of the monastery, who is 100 years old, to 200-year-old, etc. (300, 400, 500 years old); the young man sees seven daughters Pai Ying (Indra) coming down from the sky to swim, hid their wings and tails, returned them for promising to bring flowers, they pledged an arrow, which, if shot, makes them come back; they bring flowers, he does not return the arrow; the 500-year-old abbot exchanged a bow for a drum that can steal everything, sent him back the bow; in the same way, a 400-year-old staff that hits everyone, a 300-year-old rope that will tie anyone, a 200-year-old pole that carries baskets himself, a 100-year-old cauldron filled with any utensils; He bears everything he received; the young man married all 7 virgins, their father and first wife agree; the king came, beaten, bound, the young man receives the kingdom]: Le May 1924:20-26 (translated to Kornev 1903:52-57); Burmese [the silver mountain is protected from the mortal world by thorny reeds, a river of liquid copper and demons of white; surrounded by a magic belt, 9 princesses from this mountain are able to fly like birds; they have flown to the ground, began to swim; the hunter caught the youngest Mananhurree in a snare {and hid her belt}; brought the maiden to the prince, who immediately made her the main wife; the astrologer's daughter used to be the main one; the prince left, and the king ordered the dream to be interpreted; the astrologer interpreted it as if M. should be sacrificed; the Queen Mother heard this, gave M. her belt, which the prince entrusted to the Queen; M. gives the old hermit a ring and drugs to avoid obstacles on the way to the Silver Mountain; the returning prince goes in search of his wife, meets a hermit, receives a ring and potions from him; in the city on the mountain he throws up a ring in a jug of a maid who has come to fetch water for the princess; the ruler of the Silver Mountain is dissatisfied with the appearance of a mortal; he is ready to give him his daughter if he can shoot a bow in his palace; the prince did it easily; recognize his wife among her sisters when each shows only her little finger (the natov king helped do it); {this ends the text}]: Blundell 1839:536-551; zhuang [dying, mother Ha-dao says that rich Huang-mo turned his hunter father into a half-animal after demanding payment for the killed wild animals, but the hunter failed to pay; A. finds a horned, shaggy man in the forest father; leads home, but dogs rush at him; he runs away, breaks his horn; A. drags the horn on a rope; where he pierces the ground, makes a field; compressed rice immediately grows again there; seven heavenly maidens they offer help; their rice does not grow; A. hides the wings of the youngest, takes her as his wife; A. demands a woman for herself; she asks for her wings to be returned, flies to heaven, lowers A. the rope; heavenly father-in-law demands 1) bring a gong and a drum from the monstrous Xiashanpo (her eye incisions are vertical) from South Mountain; the wife gives three needles, A. leaves them responsible for herself while S. sharpens his teeth, runs away with a gong and a drum; 2) a tiger from West Mountain; the wife gives an iron umbrella to stick it into the tiger's mouth; the wife sends A. from home; he calls S. to fight, she licks her wounds; A. overhears S. telling her children what is for her a knife rubbed with human or dog feces is fatal; A. kills S., comes to her sons; they say that their mother's staff kills at one end, revives them at the other; A. kills them, revives the killed S. people, goes down with his wife to the ground, kills H., finds his father]: Cherkasova 196:319-327; ahem: Lindell et al. 1977, No. 15 [(=Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 9:299-300); the hunter saw how they went down to the pond seven parrot girls swim; hid the youngest's clothes; she agreed to become his wife; after 10 years she asked permission to go to her mother for 7 days, left the ring and the monkey; after 7 days, the hunter He went to look for his wife; the monkey jumped over the river with him; there were cliffs at the edges of the path; the young man threw sour fruits at them until they stopped; he came when his wife was being married; threw her ring, it sat on her finger; she rushed to her husband, fell on a knife, died]: 71-73; Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 8 [an orphan young man lived with an old man, hunted birds, saw them coming down to swim bird girls, 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 the quiver; at first he could not defeat the girl, he found strength by chewing on the old man's betel, tied this old man 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 it just jumped and fell; it flew away altogether; the domestic monkey put a wand in the dog's paw to show the owner which way the wife had flown; the dog had seven tails, it led the owner and a monkey to the river; the young man put his sword in the jets, the river parted, forming two channels; there were seven in total; the dog told me to hold on to its tail, not to laugh, otherwise the tail would come off; a young man with a monkey every time they laugh when the dog makes an indecent sound, the next tail comes off; when there is only one tail left, the dog went home, but the young man and the monkey stayed; the last stream passed through the body of the lying across the river dragon; came to the foot of Heaven rock, where the door opens and closes; the 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 rock to banana (ficus), where the monkey said he did not know beyond the road, returned; the young man saw two big birds, one said to the other that she would fly to peck for buffalo meat at the festival in honor of the return of the maiden- birds; the young man carved the feather of one bird, hid in the hole with his child, the 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 for water to bathe a bird girl; the young man threw bracelets and necklaces into the jug, asked to pour the jug over the girl's head; she recognized her things; at the festival, the young man pinched the child, the wife recognized his son's scream; all three returned to the ground, the house there was overgrown with vines during this time]: 294-298; chrau [the hunter sees in the forest how six sisters, daughters of spirits, take off their sarongs, swim in the pond; hides the youngest's clothes; she asks how he will go with her, since he walks through the excrement of earthworms; but he goes, lives with her by the spirits; asks people to go with her to the feast; they go down to the sacrificial table; food for the spirits does not satisfy him, he He jumps to the ground, his family is happy to see him; his wife warns that she will call him; but when he calls at midnight, he is drunk and does not hear; she flies away; he follows her, but she refuses to throw him off a ladder; his wife's brothers gave him a mortar and pestle, warned him not to break them; then he agreed to return to his family; (unclear part of the text); but the mortar broke, he died, the wife took her husband's soul to her; An elephant was killed at his burial, she sent an elephant to her husband's relatives to celebrate; she lowered the stairs, his soul went up to her, became her husband]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 10:301-310; meo [ the father is dead; the mother has gone to heaven, incarnated into a buffalo; descends into the herd herded by her Orphan son; teaches: three birds will come to swim in the lake, turn beautiful: wife, daughter-in-law and daughter Sky Star; you have to hide his daughter's multicolored wings; he hides red wives, then golden daughters-in-law; wife, then daughter-in-law turns into a rooster, buffalo, rock, Orphan returns her wings; the daughter turns into different animals, the Orphan does not give up her wings, takes her as his wife; the mother returns to heaven, leaving the drum to summon her; the couple has two sons; the father allows them to play with their mother's wings; after learning about This, the wife asks the children, they give her wings, flies away with the children; the husband beats the drum, the mother takes him to heaven; he sees the son, hits her, he cries, the wife comes, teaches him how to behave with his father-in-law; he offers poisoned tea, Orphan pours out quietly; the same with wine; tells them to bring a drum from monkeys; wife's brother: give the monkeys a bag of nuts, play their flute (their flute is poisoned); Orphan brings a drum; does not drink or eat poison again; the Sky Star thinks that the poison is exhausted, drinks it itself, breaks into small pieces, they still fall (shooting stars)]: Nikulin 1976:233-236.

South Asia. North India (Hindi): Crooke 1892-1893, No. 574 (Mirzapur) [six princes are married; the youngest seventh says he is marrying one of Indra's heavenly maidens; goes in search; in the village the untouchables (Chamar) sees a girl who remains dry in the rain; realizes that she is a fairy; the king thinks that the son has really found a heavenly maiden; is outraged to learn that the bride is from an untouchable village; wife demands to get her ring across the 7 seas from the fakir; he sleeps for six months, overgrown with grass; the young man gently shakes off the ground from him; the fakir did not kill him, but gave him a ring; warned not to give it to his wife immediately returning; the young man did not give it back, but his wife quietly took the ring when the young man was sleeping, flew to heaven; the young man returned to the fakir; he teaches him to go to the river where the fairies swim, pick up their clothes and come to him; fairies they will come and agree to return what belongs to the young man; he must guess three times; the first time let him grab the eldest, the second time the youngest, do not let go; the fairies will shout, "He forgot!" ; grab the leper for the third time; the young man brought his wife back; she lets the flute call her; if Indra finds out about their marriage, kills both; the prince comes to a group of people, calls his wife, asks for a fairy dance, that he does it; those people change their stick that hits whoever you want; the prince tells the stick to beat those people, takes the flute back; the same with the pot he cooks himself; with the goat that litters gold; the prince returned to his brothers; one day he left the flute at home, and his older daughter-in-law found the flute; the fairy appeared, took the flute and flew away; fakir: a laundress brings fairy clothes on a cart to wash in this world; on this the cart can get to the fairies; the laundress agreed to take the prince; wife: we will dance to the drum; I must say that the drummer is no good and start playing himself; Indra will like it, he will allow marriage; prince lived well with his wife]: 153-155; 1895, No. 539 (Etah County) [a Banya man went broke; dreams of having a couple of cakes and salt every day; the eldest son would like to have a pair of oxen, the youngest four wounds; one would wash his feet, the other would fan him, the third would bring water and the fourth would cook; his father and brother beat and drive the young man away; by the pond, the young man saw Indra's maidens bathing, hid them clothes, gave him for a promise to help him; came to the palace; there the banker's son and the princess read together; they allowed him to stand next to him and he learned to read; the princess wrote to him, offering him to run; they ran away, the young man was hired by the Raja, his name was Lakhtaki; Raja's wife was ready to give L. her daughter if he forced Indra's maidens to dance in front of her; L. summoned the maidens, got the princess; her necklace turned into a snake, it bit him; a Bengal woman cured him; so the young man got four wives (princess, daughter of Raja, Bengali - who else?}] : 193; Kashmiris [ahun (religious teacher) asks four sons what they would like to do; three want to follow in their father's footsteps, the fourth wants to be a thief; sneaks into the palace, where the vizier and the princess is preparing to escape; the vizier sends the princess with the thief, he must stay; in the morning the princess sees that she is not the vizier with her, becomes the young man's wife; he is hired by the king as a groom; the jeweler brings two ruby, the young man says that the wormhole is right in one; he is appointed gem keeper; the vizier wants to take possession of the young man's wife, persuades the king's daughter to ask the second one for the same ruby as brought by a jeweler (not defective, but expensive), and send a young man for him; a month later, the wife gives the young man a ruby, which she picked up in the river, he brings it to the king; the vizier suggests demanding a ruby necklace; the wife tells the young man to hide by the river, 6 heavenly fairies will arrive, and then the seventh; her clothes must be hidden; the fairy Lalmal is forced to go with the young man, when she speaks, rubies fall from her lips; he brings it to the king rubies; the barber tells the vizier that the young man has a second wife; let the vizier take one and he, the barber, the other; the vizier offers to send the young man for the bracelet; L. sends her husband with a letter to to the source where he met her; the young man takes the bracelet, taking off the hand that held it out; the vizier: the second bracelet; L. sends her husband with the ring, it opens the entrance to the lower world; the girl to whom a young man speaks, there is a daughter of a woman whose hand he tore off; to save him, the girl turned him into a pebble, took an oath from his mother; the mother sent a letter to her sons ordering him to kill him ; the daughter ordered her to come to her wedding; gave edible peas, you just have to pretend that he was eating inedible; gave iron claws - the brothers will ask them to scratch their backs; he did everything, demons they said that Salomon was calling them, did not come; the young man takes the demoness's daughter as his wife, asks for a flying skin (i.e. a flying carpet) as a gift; brings a bracelet; barber: he has a third wife, the king should receive it ; the king tells the young man to bring news from the deceased king father and the fruit of paradise; the young man tells him to make a fire, flies off it on a flying carpet; the fairy wife makes a fruit from seven metals, writes a letter on behalf of the deceased king: come with the vizier and the barber; they burned down; the first vizier came, the young man gave him his bride, sent the fairy into her world, stayed with his third wife; that vizier became king, the young man became a vizier]: Stein, Grierson 1923, No. 12:85-105; Kashmir (translated from Hindi) [orphan Akhun meets Fairy Lalmal; she promises to help him if he doesn't seek her love; teaches how to distinguish a fake a pearl; the king appoints him treasurer, the former persuades him to give difficult assignments, L. teaches him what to do; 1) get a necklace of paradise; heavenly peri will go down to the spring, you must hide your clothes , she will bring a necklace in return; 2) go from the funeral fire to heaven, give a message to the late king; L. tells the king to ask half of the treasury for expenses, sit on the carpet at the stake, he quietly will take L. to the hut; she tells him to take the letter and the golden and silver apples to the king; in the letter, the king's late father asks for a former treasurer and chief adviser to be sent; both die in the fire; A. becomes chief adviser; after that L. agrees to become A.'s wife]: Zograf 1964:262-267 (=197:94-97); Sindhi: Kincaid 1922, No. 8 [the fakir gives the childless king Lalu ash: let him give his beloved wife a drink with water ; 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 help marry her; the Saiphal vizier comes to King G. to marry his daughter; H. makes it a condition to live with her husband in separate palaces; the fakir gives AM an invisible hat, says that H. loves a virgin named Supped; every Thursday she and her maids enter the banyan, who takes her across the seas to the maiden's garden; the fakir teaches her to eat food brought for H. unnoticed, hide in a banyan; dev will ask H. to dance, she will give jewelry and clothes, they must be stolen and hidden, at home pretending to be sleeping; she will come to look for jewelry, she must jump up, pick up her wings; instead, AM tells H., she grabs her own clothes and jewelry, flies away; the fakir tells him to follow H. on a winged horse; on the way he takes out a splinter from the lioness, she gives him two adult lion cubs as assistants; sister H. teaches when H. and other peri comes to swim in the lake, we have to hide her clothes; the lion sits on her clothes; H. gives AM his nose ring, tells him to come with him and throw it in the jug to the maid, she 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 tried three times, H. attached the ring for the third time, dev gave X. 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], 13 [at night, Peri transferred Prince Kamsen to Princess Kamrup and then returned home; the prince withers from love; the king sends to search for Kamrup, enemies attack him; Camsen defeats enemies, gains the throne, kidnaps Kamrup; Rakshas kills him while he bathes, but Kamrup kills Rakshasa, and Mahadev and Parvati revive Kamsen; another Raja gives him her daughter Waso; she wears men's clothes pretends to have Kamrup's lover; Camsen tells him to take Kamrup out into the desert and pull out his eyes; the servants bring him the eyes of a deer; the peri take care of Kamrup; Kamsen kills Vaso, goes to look for Kamrup; hears how the birds tell his story and Kamrup; Peri from Kamprup will soon arrive, they will swim, they must hide the clothes of the queen of the fairies, ask him to give Kamrup in return; peri complies with the request, but Kamrupa seized the throne another king; turning into giants, the Peri defeated the army, killed the king, Kamprup regained his throne]: 75-78, 117-130; Schimmel 1995, No. 22 [the prince pursues a gazelle with golden horns, she hides in lake; a voice tells him that this is Lake Peri, they will appear in a year; in a year, the prince hides in an iron cage, the Peri bathe, he hides their clothes, demands the one whose name is Sedyan; makes his wife; but She does not speak to her husband; a year later she sends him hunting, tells the maid to bring those clothes by closing the doors; puts it on and flies away through the chimney, saying that the prince will be able to return them within a year; The prince comes to the cannibal shepherd, who throws him into his goat pen, where there are already many people; every evening he puts one on a skewer, leaves him to fry, falls asleep himself; prisoners drink milk; peri S. in The poisoned milk that the prince was going to drink pours out in the form of a whirlwind; that night he heated his skewer, burned the ogre's eyes; stabbed the ram, put on his horns, the cannibal let it pass; on the other side of the pit called out the ogre, he rushed, failed, the prince finished him off; he came into the house, hid, three witches came there, killed, cooked and ate a goat, collected bones, cast a spell, but the goat did not revive; this it means that the cannibal shepherd is dead; the witches led to the hyenas, went to the shepherd, but the prince shouted that he had killed the shepherd; the witches rushed back, but Peri S., with the help of her friends, caused wind and rain, the hyenas were washed away by stream; at the request of his daughter, Peri's father sent a horse to the prince; he arrived, the wedding; a son was born; S. flew away, telling him not to look into one of the rooms; the old woman said that there was sister S., who was more beautiful than her; but there was a parrot; it was a demon who fell in love with S. but was cunningly caught; he took the prince and his son, S. saw it, her 12 friends beat them off, and S. put the parrot back in the locked room; father Peri sent his son-in-law, wife and son back to their homeland; there the vizier seized power, but his army was defeated with a magic club; the prince put his father on the throne again]: 140-147; the Bengalis [at the king many songbirds; he hears a voice: the golden parrot will overshadow everyone; six sons go in search, told the youngest seventh to watch the milk: if it turns red, they are in trouble; they stopped at at the inn, they were robbed by robbers; the owner demanded payment, made them workers; the younger brother saw that the milk turned red; came to the hermit; he advised them to steal the wings of one of the peri, which they come to swim, fly into the world of peri and bring a parrot from there; while the young man was flying, the hermit pretended to look for the missing wings with Peri; when he arrived, the young man threw up his wings, peri took them, gave them summon the golden flute if necessary; the younger prince bought the brothers, who pushed him into the well and took the bird; the prince played the flute, Peri flew in and took him to the palace park, where His parents took a walk; when the brothers brought the bird, they had to show the stamps burned on their bodies by the owner of the inn; the king expelled them and stayed with their youngest son]: Devi 1915:29-36; konkani (Goa) [the king has seven sons; the youngest replies that he fears God more than his father; the king drives him away; he herds the old woman's sheep; hides the clothes of one of the two princesses who have come to bathe; people they choose a king, an elephant points to a young man three times, he is made king; the wife finds clothes, flies away; on the way, the young king buys frogs, mongooses, flies from the people that kill them; two princesses demand 1) fill the room with water (frogs filled), 2) identify which of them is his wife (flies indicate), 3) dig an underground passage (mongooses have dug); the young man and wife fly away, the wife's sister kills both out of jealousy]: Davidson, Phelps 1937, No. 4:22-24; Telugu [poor woman's son became a lumberjack; distributed candy canes to boys to call him king; saw a purse on the side of the road, but did not take it, but asked a merchant passing by take it as a gift to the king on behalf of Karischchandra Raju; he responded by sending candies containing precious stones; the young man asked for them (to another?) to the king, the king sent horses; the young man sent them to the queen, and she had just lost her horses; decided to visit the generous donor; he saw seven fairies bathing in the spring, hid their clothes, returned them for their promise to fulfill his wishes; they gave their hairs to summon him; by the arrival of the Queen, the palace was ready; then the young man himself arrived at the queen in a luxurious outfit; wedding and celebration]: Venkataswami 1923, No. 65:130-134; Kannada: Ramanujan 1997, No. 3 [the mighty king asks his four sons what they will do after his death; elder: I will continue my father's work on the throne; second: I will help my brother rule the state; third: I will lead the army; fourth: I will become king of kings, build my own city and marry four heavenly maidens; the king expelled his youngest son; once in the forest, he came to the old woman's house; she is a daughter a wise hermit who lost control and raped a girl; after that, he was torn to pieces by a tiger and his daughter born was ugly; her mother died and she became a hermit in the forest; as a result, she became powerful; the young man began to herd her cows; she told them not to take them north; he went, hid by the pond; Indra's four daughters came down, took off their sarees, began to swim; he stole one sari; the maiden ran after him, promised to be a wife, he looked around in amazement, she took the sari and turned the young man into stone; the old woman found him and revived him; told him to take the sari and run to her house and not look back; he never looked back I did; the old woman turned him into a baby, and hid the saree inside his thigh so that the seam was not visible; when the maiden came running, the old woman advised her to cover herself with a cotton sari; then promised to return the sari, if the virgin agreed to marry a young man; the young man and his wife came to the city; the king's servants saw the virgin, told the king; he pretended to be sick, sent the young man to extract the venom of the Karkotak snake; the wife sent him to the mountains to snake hole and gave a letter for the snake; on the way he saved a worm from the web; threw a letter into a hole; four snakes took him to the lower world to the king of snakes; the letter asked him to marry the giver's daughter and Fulfill his request for poison; returning with his second wife and poison, the young man gave the poison to the king's servants; when they opened the bottle, the tamarind next to him broke out and burned; the king ordered that the poison be buried deeper; sent a young man to bring crocodile bile; on the way, the young man let a young crocodile on land into the water; the young man sent letters from his wife to the crocodiles; the king of the seas gave him a daughter, diamonds and bile; now the king asks him to go to heaven to Indra and find out how his late parents and brothers are doing; the wives wrote many letters, the young man jumped into the fire, the god of fire took him to heaven, where Indra gave him a daughter, letters to the king and the minister and returned them to earth; on the way, the young man saved ants when the anthill was flooded with water; the young man gave letters; inviting them to heavenly paradise - you must also jump into the fire; the king and minister with their families burned down; the young man made a poor brahman king; he and his four wives built a new city; at this time his father lost his kingdom and became a firewood seller; he came with his family to the young man's city; he sheltered them; gave them sarees the first wife for the custody of his mother; the wife asked her for it, put it on and all four wives flew to heaven, and the city turned into a jungle again; the young man brought his brothers and mother to the city, where he made a brahmana king, and himself went to look for wives; his wives met him, and the first said that he must be tested by Indra to recognize him as his son-in-law; his wives took him to heaven, turning him into a fish in a vessel of water, and left; I. tells 1) to collect the scattered sesame in 3 hours (the young man called the ants - they perform); 2) get the ring thrown there from the well (the frog took it out; when meeting the hero with the frog, the informant is lowered; to do this, the frog threw a tadpole to be eaten by snakes at the bottom of the well, and found the ring himself); 3) cut the banana tree into three parts with one blow (the crocodile cut it); 4) get to know the first wife among three identical girls (the worm, now a flying insect, sat on her sari); I. arranged a wedding; on earth, the young man conquered kingdoms; his father admitted that he was right], 71 [the king and minister asked Shiva for they have children; wives became pregnant; the king and the minister agreed to marry children if one had a boy and the other had a girl; the minister's wife gave birth to a girl and Rani a turtle; when the turtle son grew up, he told his father to marry him the minister's daughter; the daughter agrees, but let the groom bring her the parijata heavenly flower; the turtle ordered him to be taken to the sea, swam to the mountains, turned to the Sun, became a young man; the sun said that in a previous life, the turtle was a prince and, out of mischief, threw a turtle at the hermit; but immediately repented; so the hermit told him to remain a turtle in his new life until he he will turn to the Sun in the same place; now the prince has gone to look for a flower; the first hermit refers to his guru, he refers to his own; this last one has indicated the lake where heavenly maidens come to swim; it must grab one sari and run without looking back at Ganesha's temple; the prince did so; returned the sari to the maiden, and she brought a flower from heaven; they met; she gave the prince a flute to summon her when necessary; one of the hermits offered to change the flute to a stick that makes you give anything; the prince changed and then told the wand to take the flute back; the prince took the bag from the second hermit in the same way , where everything goes, if you order, and the third has speeding sandals; the prince returned in the form of a turtle and gave a flower; the minister's two eldest daughters married normal men, the youngest married a turtle; sons-in-law go hunting; the turtle was also put on an oath; left alone, he turned into a prince; older sons-in-law ran away from the tigers; the prince killed the tigers, gave them to his sons-in-law, for which he cut off their mustache on their left; at night, the prince slept with his wife in his true form; in the morning he appeared to people, showed his severed mustache; the king handed him the throne]: 5-15, 193-198; kuruba [the male bird saw 7 heavenly maidens who took off their feathers and became to swim in the pond; they invited him to swim with them, and then reproached him for being indiscreet; then he took the form of a prince, hid their clothes and returned them after vowing to become his wives; God He found them and told this bird and its descendants to be called the thief bird]: Kapp 1982:243-244; Tamils [the king asks his seven sons what everyone would like to do on this cool night; one wants invade neighbors at the head of the army, the other to irrigate, the third to hunt, etc.; the seventh to have 4 wives, daughters of Indra, Agni, Varuna and Adishesha by his side; his father is furious to execute son, the mother warns him to flee; the torturers brought the king the blood of an animal; the prince lives with an old woman and herds cattle; contrary to the ban, he goes north, climbs a fruit tree and sees her swimming in Indra's daughter steals her clothes, runs, she asks him to look back, he turns into stone, Indra's daughter returns to heaven with four other maidens; the old woman revived the prince, ordered Next time, do not look back, but bring clothes to her; turned the prince into a three-year-old child, sewing clothes into his thigh; gave Indra's daughter her clothes, she stayed with the old woman; she convinced her to marry the prince, turning him back into a young man; six months later he sends them to live alone, telling the prince not to give his wife her heavenly clothes; they come to town, the vizier advises the king to select his wife, for this purpose pretend to be sick, send the prince for snake venom; the wife gives a note to his uncle, tells him to put him in any anthill; he sends the prince the necessary poison 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; in 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; Tamils [when 7 sons are older, father asks how they are going to help the family; starting with the eldest; harvest and sell firewood like a father; grind rice like a mother; fish; herd goats; herd oxen; sculpt and sell cow cakes ; younger: marry the 7 heavenly maidens of Cannimar and provide for them all, as well as you; his father drove him out furiously; he settled in the mountains with an old woman; 7 maidens came down from the sky to swim, he grabbed the robe alone and rushed to the house; 7 maidens tell the old woman to unlock; she turned the young man into a five-year-old child and sings him a lullaby; the maidens did not find the young man left without clothes; began to play a game with the young man panti; he lost the second game and fell asleep, she took her robe and returned to her sisters; old lady to a young man: before you go looking, make a fire in the hole and burn me; he did; reached the sky; tells the Raja in the golden throne room that he has come for the bride; the Raja tells 4 in the morning 1) harness 7 pairs of oxen, plow the field 7 times, sow 12 bushels of sesame seeds, harvest and bring them to the bins; 2) fill there is a deep well on the edges; 3) bring lots from the lake, where snakes are teeming, and tigers and lions around; the young man plowed the field and sowed sesame, and then asked Shiva and Parvati to tell the ants to complete the first task; after that, the Raja gave the throne to the young man for 7 days; on the eighth he filled the well, turning to the frogs; the third performed, asking for help, to the 4 turtles on which the world rests; the young man received a wife; Raja sent him to earth on a magic horse with gifts; the young man and wife fell asleep and woke up in a luxurious palace; that old woman (came to life and) grazed oxen, he called her to him; his parents and brothers too]: Blackburn 2005, No. 31; Sinhales: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 78 [two sons of one tsar and the daughter of another came to swim from opposite sides of the river; the elder hid the princess's clothes and brought her to the palace; the tsar drove her away he and his wife; they stayed with the widow, the prince told her to hide his wife's clothes, who persuaded her to return them to her; said that the prince would not see her until the elephant's chicks (et kanda lehini); the prince came to the forest, killed the cobra that crawled to the elephant's nest, fed the chicks; they asked their mother not to kill their savior; she took him to the princess's palace (he grabbed the branch, the bird held it in beak); the prince buys and releases elephants, pigeons, fireflies; women carry water to wash the princess's hair, the prince throws a ring into the jug; the princess calls him, agrees to return if he fulfills tasks 1) clear a plot in the forest for peas (elephants have completed), 2) sow (pigs), 3) collect peas (pigeons); the king orders 4) to identify the daughter in a dark room among eight girls (fireflies); prince gets a wife], 126 [parents are dead; the younger prince returned from the monastery and prays; the eldest is married; his wife's pestle fell on a pot of water; she told her husband that his brother had attempted on her; the elder called the youngest went to the forest, cut off his arms and legs; the youngest asked him to leave the holy book; seven widows heard him read sacred texts; 6 left, the youngest brought him home; told the king that she was in her house holy man, he finds out who is stealing flowers from the royal garden; 5 naked girls flew in to pick flowers, heard the cripple read; four returned his arms and legs, he hid the fifth dress, married her; the king made the young man the chief gardener, gave the province], 169-173, 307-309; Santals [Toria herds goats by the river; sees the daughters of the Sun go down to swim; steals one of them's clothes, takes them in wives]: Cole 1875 in Clouston 1887:187; birkhor [the Raja has 7 wives; a gasi woman (gardeners caste) brings them flower garlands; once she found an unusually beautiful flower in the river at the top, brought the eldest wound; the rest demanded the same; the woman sends her son to the hill; this is her brother; Rakshas comes out, but does not eat the young man when he calls him his maternal uncle; sends him to another uncle, he to third; the third went for flowers, telling them to herd the cattle for 4 days, but not to drive them in a certain direction; the young man drove; there the daughters of the sun deity Sing Bong swim in the pond; one of the neighbors somehow told the young man that if they hid their clothes, they would bring flowers; the girls first demanded that the young man swim and brush his teeth; when he ran, carrying his clothes, they shouted that they would give him the youngest in wives; he turned around and turned into a cotton tree (Bombax malabaricum); the uncle went to look, cut down the tree, the young man reappeared; the uncle told him not to look back this time; the girls ran to his uncle's house and them I had to keep my promise; at night the wife goes to dance with her sisters, and the young man, incognito, comes to them to beat the beat on the drum; each time he returns faster than his wife; he confessed to his wife, he wanted to return to his mother; the wife gave a flute: as soon as he plays it, the wife is next to him; once a young man lost his flute, it was picked up by a stranger, the wife returned to his father in heaven; on advice Uncle, the young man sent his pet parrot to her; she came back and they decided not to part anymore and live in their own hut on the outskirts of town; the young man made a bed for sale, does not name the price; raja bought it, does not sleep; at night he hears one of the legs go to town, kill thieves who stole gold from the Raja's treasury, comes back, tells the other legs; the other leg tells how she killed a man hugging someone else's wife, and so did the wife herself; the Raja understood the value of the bed; the young man did not ask for money, but for the Raja to become a palace; kings used to have such power; the spouses are happy in the palace]: Roy 1925, No. 14:475-486; baiga [a peacock gives birth to a chick from one egg, a bull and a boy from the other; they grew up near a forest pond; five peri flew to swim, the young man hid their robes in the bull's mouth; peri agreed to give the youngest, the young man married her; the Raja wants to take this woman for himself; tells 1) to bring tiger milk; the bull advises the young man to bring sweets to the cubs; they suck their mother, regurgitate milk in pot, mother is killed, goes with a young man; 2) Raja fought between a bull and an elephant, both died; Raja killed a young man, took his wife, she returned to heaven]: Elwin 1944, No. 4. 9:151-152; (cf. baiga [the sparrow laid two eggs, asks what her children want to eat; eggs: father and mother; the sparrow was frightened, flew away and died; a young man came out of one egg, the other a bull; they went to look for the mother ; 21 Phulmoti Kaniya sisters are swimming in the lake; the young man hid their clothes; but they are all crooked crippled, incinerated him with a poisonous look; dewar revived him; raja young man: let your bull fight my elephant; bull killed an elephant, but the Raja killed the bull with a magic spear; when he dies, the bull tells the young man to bury his legs - a palace will appear; enemies can be killed with his tail, his eyes in hornets, his ears in a stone, thanks to which you can hear everything; the king sent an army to the young man's palace; half of the soldiers were killed with an abandoned tail, the other was killed by hornets; the Raja gave the young man a daughter and kingdom]: Elwin 1944, No. 8:127-128); gondas [seven daughters Bhagavan went swimming; Manna Deo took the form of a snotty boy, hid their clothes; promised to give him his younger sister; they still demand to play hide and seek; girls throw themselves into the water; MD three times hides in the guise of an eel, a lotus, a fly; his sisters do not find him, they admit defeat; the wife tries to swim away in the form of a fish; he catches up with her in the same way, seven Samduria sisters were born from them, and all of them were born gods; MD turned his wife's sisters into fish]: Elwin 1949, No. 3:176; condas [the widow has a son; he sees fabulous chittiga paggata flowers in the river, pulls out, decorates his hair; the king tells him to get flowers too, otherwise she will cut off her head; the mother asks not to lament, but to go up the river; there are three giants, they must be called "uncle", they will help; the first giant refers to the second, the second to the third; he tells you to go to the lake, where three fairies come to swim; we must take their clothes and run without looking back; but at the last moment the young man looked back and fell dead; the giant revived him, covered him with a banana leaf; next time the young man ran to the giant's house and gave his clothes only after promising to marry the youngest maiden; during the marriage ceremony, the girl laughed and the flowers began to fall from her lips; fairies cannot stay with people, so they gave the young man a zitra; if he started playing, the wife would come or the fairies would come to the rescue; on the way back, two giants gave a rope and a stick; when the young man returned to his mother, he played the zither and the maidens appeared; the king's servants saw them; the young man took the flowers to the king; he wanted to take his wife and ordered him to bring lion milk, hoping that the young man would die; the fairies told the lions to accompany the young man; he brought the herd lions to the king, he was frightened, the lions were released; the king orders to kill the poisonous snake; (the young man brought many snakes to the palace); now the king orders to catch the most ferocious lion (the young man brought the lion); the king summoned the young man to the palace; the fairies brought a mouse with them; the servants threw him into a deep crevice, but the mouse dug a way out to the ground and the young man returned to his mother; now the king sent the young man with a letter to another king to killed him; the young man told a rope and stick to tie and beat the king; he gave him his kingdom; the young man and the fairy began to rule there]: Schulze 1922, No. 10:57-64; cat [hero hides the clothes of a heavenly maiden]: Penzer 1924-1928 (8): 58-59 in Lessa 196:144 (note).

Malaysia-Indonesia. Murut: Rutter 1929:259-261 in Lessa 1961 [husband hides his magical wife's clothes, their 10-year-old son finds her]: 148; Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 5 (Keningau band) [(Brooks 1960:34-47); hunter Baiagong went to the watering hole to look for prey; sees seven girls bathing, hides the youngest's rainbow clothes; the elders could not pick her up, flew away; B. brings the maiden into the house, hides her clothes in a chest; wife gives birth to a son; feels that her mother-in-law does not love her and does not believe that she is a heavenly maiden; tells her son her story, he says he knows where her clothes are; when she flies away, the heavenly maiden teaches her son like he and his father they can find it; in the place where K. met her, the old man is fishing; you have to grab his hook, he will throw a fishing rod into the heavenly land of Kayangan; on the way, B. frees fish from the top, builds a bridge for ants across a stream, frees a squirrel from a trap, a deer entangled in vines, a firefly from a web; a fisherman throws B. and his son into heaven, his wife meets B.; her Raja father says that his daughter has a daughter in heaven there is also a prince groom; gives tasks; 1) get beads thrown into the river (they get the fish); 2) collect rice scattered in the grass (ants collect); 3) collect all the fruits from the chopped tree without breaking the branches ( the squirrel collects); 4) race with the local prince red leaves from a tree in the distance (prince flies, but B. rides a deer, returns first); 5) identify his wife's cup among many (firefly shows); Raja gives B. a wife, but does not tell him to return to earth; celestials want B. to swim in the pond, getting rid of the human smell; crocodiles in the pond, B. sticks his finger, he turns white, B. refuses to swim; he is dumped like garbage through a hole in the floor of the house, he finds himself on the ground, a drum, an ax, and a coconut fall nearby; a whole grove immediately grows out of coconut, the drum scares off enemies, the axe kills them, getting trophy heads; his son occasionally descends from the sky, then stops; after B.'s death, his white finger, ax and drum became murut relics], 6 (Timugon band) [the old man commands In a dream, the son of the Raja (elder) should go to the Grandmother, who will help get the youngest of the seven sisters; the young man comes there; seven maidens come down from the sky to swim; the young man hides the youngest's clothes, brings the girl to the Grandmother, marries her, hides her clothes in a rice barn; brings his wife to her father; he dies, the young man inherits his duties; does not pay attention to his wife, drinks and debauchery; the wife finds her clothes under the roof ; when her son has already begun to crawl, he flies away; the husband goes to Grandma, who sends a boat that brings him to heaven; the wife returns, the husband is now loyal to her]: 276-285, 286-289; tombonuvo [the young man remains overnight in the forest under a fruit tree, believing that birds are eating fruits; seven rhinoceroses arrive before dawn; they fly to swim, turn into girls; the young man turns into a lizard, grabs, carries the youngest's clothes; the elders cannot lift the youngest, fly away; the young man becomes human again, says he knows nothing about the clothes of the heavenly maiden, brings his wife into the house; when she is in the last month pregnancy, the husband leaves, supposedly, to fish, but goes to ask the Sultan's daughter for his wife; after giving birth and learning about her husband's infidelity, the heavenly wife leaves milk for the child, causes the wind, he takes her to heaven; husband, taking the child, he goes to look for her; there is a rock on the way; the child walks along it, leaving traces in stone, the father behind him; walks across the plain with spiders; with snakes; stop at the old woman Ombuinang; a noise is heard, this is a maiden passed off as Intuu nu Bugang; son comes there, his cock defeats all her roosters, he finds his mother, drinks her milk; brings his father; he kills I. in a duel; kills everyone who comes to fight him; returns his wife; revives the dead]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 4:268-275; dayaki [a man hides the clothes of one of the seven bathing girls, takes her as his wife; a young man who knows her origin threatens her with a knife, it turns into a plant]: Evans 1953:432-434 in Lessa 196:153; Brunei (inner region) [a man got one of the heavenly maidens who were bathing; one day he beat her, ripped off her clothes, other clothes fell from the sky, the wife flew away; their son became the ancestor of the tribe]: McDougall 1854:109-110 in Lessa 196:155-156; kayan [when making a boat, a person sees heavenly maidens flying in, hides one of them's winged clothes, marries; cries when she finds out that his wife is pregnant; the wife flies to heaven, brings night, tells me not to open the bag until everything is collected from the forest; the husband opens; those left in the forest Punan, Sihan (forest dwellers) become wild; chickens become wild, domestic pigs become wild; the husband grieves that he will have to slaughter his wife to extract the child; she has been saying the magic formula since then women give birth normally]: Guerreiro 1989 in Macdonald 2005:96; Java [a poor widow finds a baby in the forest, raises it like a son; he grows up, hunts, chases a bird, goes to a lake where they swim heavenly maidens; grabs one of them's clothes; takes her as his wife; one day she tells him to look after the rice pot on the fire, but not lift the lid; he looked under the lid, sees only one thing in the pot seed; the spell has broken, the wife has had to work hard since then to cook; in the empty, she finds her husband's hidden wings; tells her little daughter to be put on the roof, she will fly in and feed her; rose in the sky in a column of smoke from burning rice straw; husband raised his daughter beautiful]: Bezemer 1903:162-169 in Lessa 196:358 (=1904:46 f in Dixon 1916:208-209; retelling two options, apparently from the same source); Rassers 1959:264-265 [Devi Rasa Wulan became pregnant at the sight of hermit Seh Maulana Maribi, gave birth to a son through her hair, left him, ran to another country; the boy was raised by other people, he became a Jaka Tarub hunter; found widadaris heavenly maidens going down to the lake, hid the clothes of one of them named dewi Nawang Wulan; she promised become the daughter of the kidnapper, if he is old, or his wife, if young, on the condition that he returns her clothes; the daughter from this marriage is the ancestor of the Mataram family; NV found her clothes and returned to heaven; allowed her husband to call her, kindling a smoky fire every time her daughter wanted to eat; she was forbidden to live in heaven as a mortal's wife; Ratu Kidul, the goddess of the South Sea, took her home], 266-267 [at Kyai ag& #277; ng ING-Kudus three sons, the youngest (he is from another wife) refuses to marry, becomes an ascetic in the woods; comes to a pond whose owner's daughter refuses to marry; they unite, girl dies during childbirth; K. finds a baby, but leaves him chasing a deer; the boy is picked up and raised by a woman; while hunting, he sees heavenly maidens bathing, hides the clothes of one of them, Dewi Nawang Wulan; she gives birth to a daughter; forbids her husband to lift the lid from the rice vessel; he picks it up, there is only rice; she has been left alone, since then she has to cook a lot of rice; DNV finds her clothes returns to heaven; returns to feed his baby daughter; then rises to heaven again in a column of smoke from rice straw]); Knappert 1977, No. 7 [in Kembang-Lampir, a young man found a girl swimming in the woods, she became pregnant, her father drove her away, she gave birth in the forest, died, the boy was picked up by a hermit's widow; he grew up hunting, saw widadaris heavenly maidens bathing, hid the clothes of one of them named Nawang- Wulan ("moonlight"); she gave birth to his daughter Nawang-Sih ("light of love"); with more and more rice in the bins, only one grain should be put in the cauldron; contrary to the ban, my husband looked there, from then on we should cook a lot of rice; when the supply ran out, HB found her clothes at the bottom of the bins, flew away, telling her husband to take her daughter to the dovecote to fly to feed her; NS married a prince]: 35-37; Madura [ a young man Aryo Menak wandered into the forest, saw heavenly maidens swimming in the lake, took one of them's clothes; this is Ni Perri Tunjung Wulan, she became his wife; their son Aryo Kedot became the ancestor of Madura's leaders; AM with his wife got rich, but AM wonders why the wife does not break rice, but always serves it ready; forbids her husband to enter the kitchen; while his wife is away, AM looked into the pot, saw not rice there, but unpeeled rice stem; the wife came - the stem did not turn into rice; she realized that her husband had seen; since then, the wife began to work all day to break rice; a year later, the rice barn was empty and the wife found hers at the bottom robe; flew away, telling her husband to look for it on the moon; since then, men do not go into the kitchen and lovers look at the moon]: Kratz 1973, No. 21:132-136; Bali [poor orphan Lentir saves a fly from cobwebs, an eagle from a plexus of branches; by the lake she hides the clothes of one of the heavenly maidens who have come down to swim, her name is Nilotama (apsara); one day she finds her clothes, flies away; the eagle brings L. to heaven; the old man tells her to identify his wife among her sisters; a fly sits on her; L. and his wife return to earth on an eagle]: Hoikas-van Leeuwen Bomkamp 1983, No. 47:224-227; Malays [craftsmen make a dancer for the Raja a golden peacock; he takes his son Indraputra, drops old woman Nenek Kebayan into the garden; she makes him her grandson, gets rich, because everyone gives a gift to the boy; the local vizier takes him into his house; the local raja sends to the magician; on the seashore, I. hides the clothes of bathing peri; returns the amulet for his promise to give them, flies with them to their kingdom; (other episodes follow)]: Braginsky 1975:10-55 (=1988: 19-50); bataki [Raja dies, uncle puts his son Radja Urang mandopa in a box, throws him into the river; the widow catches him, adopts him; advises him to hide the wings of heavenly maidens coming to swim; he marries this girl]: Pleyte 1894a: 128-130 in Lessa 196:146; Minangkabau [in a story borrowed by the Bataks from Minangkabau, the heroine's son finds his mother's wings hidden by his father while he sleeps]: Niemann 1866:255-267 in Lessa 196:148; mentawai ["dolphin girl" motif]: Morris 1900:57-65, 65-77 in Lessa 196:166; Toraja: Dixon 1916:206 [(by Adriani 1898:368); woman gave birth seven crabs, threw them into the river; they went ashore, built a house; swimming, taking off their clothes with crabs, making them girls; seven men hid their clothes, married girls], 206-207 [(according to Adriani 1910:297) ; seven parrots flew to swim, took off their clothes, became girls; Magoenggoelota hid the youngest's clothes, Kapapitoe, and her sisters returned to heaven; M. returned the clothes when K. promised to be his wife; hiding it in a betel box, brought it home]; Western Toraja [the fisherman noticed that the water in the pond was muddy; he remained guarded, seven moon maidens came down in the morning and began to swim; the fisherman hid it clothes alone, married, the name of the virgin Topitoe, she gave birth to a son; she cooked red food, her husband said she was cooking blood; this was not the case, the wife was offended, asked her parents to lower the stairs for her, told her husband to take care of the child, climbed the rainbow; the husband took the child, climbed the banyan tree, which grew up to the moon; the wife allowed her husband to stay only overnight; when he woke up, he found himself on the ground; the child stayed , T. began to breastfeed him, he got dirty, his bowel movements were grasshoppers; T. took her breast away in fear, milk spilled across the sky, became the Milky Way; the banyan now grows on the moon, can be seen there]: Kruyt 1938, No. 40 : 390-391; the Eastern Toraja [Datoe's seven sons prevent him from sleeping; he sends them to an old woman overseas for magic water; only the youngest reaches the goal, violates the ban on looking out the window, sees the magic water in which seven girls who have removed the skins of parrots bathe; he hides the skin of one, the rest fly to heaven; he returns the skin for the girl's promise to become his wife; returns with her to father, brings water, revives brothers]: Adriani, Kruyt 1912-1914 (3): 401-402 in Lessa 196:146; bow [seven doves flew to swim, Kasimbaha hid one of them's clothes, got married; her name is Utahagi; she has white hairs on the top of her head and cannot be pulled out; he pulled out his hair, the storm took O. away, their son Tambaga remained; taking him, K. climbed into the sky along the vine (the rat gnawed the thorns from the vine), fell east; The sun is too hot, the Month has helped to reach the sky; the bird showed where W.'s house was; the firefly warned that the house had seven rooms, each with a sister; he would sit on the door behind which W.; brother W. says that K. is not one of the immortals and therefore cannot marry W.; offers trials; rice in 8 vessels, something else in the ninth; if K. touches the ninth, then he is the son of the earth women; husband: I will consistently climb into all vessels and cure him back; I will not cure him from the unclean, do not touch him; K. is recognized as the son of the immortals, he is allowed to marry W. and remain in heaven; but his son decided to return to earth; T. grows up, goes down, marries, comes from him a bow]: Spreeuwenberg 1845:25-28 in Backer 1874:98 -101, in Frobenius 1904:306-307 (a more brief retelling in Lessa 196:123- 124); minahasa [Mamanua dreams that she will find a spring under the stone; pulls out a stone, forms a lake, M. arranges a vegetable garden on the shore; someone steals sugar cane and fruits; M. guards, 9 girls in the form of swans (translated by Braginsky as geese} come to swim, take off their birds' clothes; M. hides the clothes of Lingkambene, the daughter of the supreme god Muntu-unta, takes L. as his wife, she gives birth to a son Wulansendow; contrary to warning, accidentally cuts off one of her hair; she must return to heaven to heal her wound; M. and V. sit on a falcon, which is unable to lift it; they climb the rattan, he it breaks down, they fall into the water, the fish takes them to the horizon, the dog takes them across the sky to the M.-U. Palace; he tells them to identify his wife among the nine girls (the dog sniffs her out, wags her tail); they remain in the sky; V. grows up, asks his grandfather to lower him to the ground; he gives him a nodule, an egg in it, a wife comes out of it for V.; in another nodule, the seeds of fruit trees; since then they have been growing on the ground]: Kratz 1973, No. 44: 212-216 (=Braginsky 1972:117-121; the same or very similar text in another translation in Bystrov et al. 1962:205-209, girls are swans, not geese); Loinang [Ade Banggai sees seven heavenly maidens who have come to swim in the pond; hides one of them's clothes; she is forced to marry him, gives birth to a daughter; he hides her clothes under the roof in a flute; the daughter cries, the mother breaks the roof to let in the sunny light, finds clothes, flies away; AB rises to heaven on a rattan that has grown to heaven, lives there with his wife and daughter; one person began to sweep, cut off the rattan, it fell, the table was a mountain; AB descends to the ground on the back of a large bird, falls on a banyan tree, turns into a monkey, becomes the ancestor of monkeys; the bird becomes small, now nests in rice crops without harming them]: Kruyt 1930:505-508 in Fischer 1932:213-214, in Lessa 196:148, 154; loda (Halmahera) [father begins to turn to stone, asks seven sons to find a cure; the youngest is covered in ulcers, goes the other way; the old woman makes him handsome, tells him to hide by the water, where five heavenly maidens will fly; hides the youngest's clothes, takes her as his wife; the wife brings him to the heavenly palace, where her father gives medicine; returning to father, son treats him; older brothers abuse the younger one, turn into dogs]: Van Baarda 1904, No. 22:465-466 (retelling in Dixon 1917:207-208); Tabaru (Halmahera) [someone is dancing on shore; a young man saw two fish shed their skin and become girls; hides the skin alone, takes a girl as a wife, she gives birth to three children; sees the shadow of his fish clothes hidden under the roof, promises the children catch a lot, swims away; the husband finds his wife with the help of birds and flies; her father Djini gives difficult assignments, including identifying his wife among her six sisters; fish, eels, ants help to do everything; spouses returning to earth]: Fortgens 1928:477-481 in Lessa 196:126; Tidore Island (off the west coast of Halmahera) [a sailor from a wrecked ship lives in an old woman's house on an island; 10 winged heavenly maidens go down to swim; the sailor hides the youngest's winged robe, takes her as his wife; she gives birth to two sons; finds hidden wings, flies away; the children tell their father about what happened; the husband asks for birds take him to heaven, only a honeybird can lift him up; a man in the sky gives him flies, they will sit on his wife (she will have to be identified, all women in heaven look the same); warns no one talk; the husband does not answer talking logs, bamboo; the king orders to identify the wife; then separate the millet seeds from the others (flies separate); the wife gives birth to a third son; the king allows them to go down by a silver rope ladder; on earth, a wife gives birth to a fourth; sons become chiefs of Tidore and three neighboring islands]: de Vries 1925 (1): 161-166 in Knappert 1999:299-301; Sangihe Islands [ a bird grabs a young man, throws him on a deserted island; a young man sees nine girls bathing, hides her clothes alone; she promises to be his wife if he never asks about her origin; he asks if she digs up his clothes, flies away; the husband dies in anguish, their children are the ancestors of the inhabitants of Siau]: Dinter 1899:388-389 in Lessa 196:148-149; Solor [Doni Bélen's seven daughters in the form of turtles they go down from the sky to the spring; the old woman Wae Bélek grabs one of them, taking her wings (it is not said how exactly); gives Pati Kopo Nama as his wife; she hides her name from him; he lies under a palm tree, pretends to fall and crash; mourning him, the wife calls herself Péni Buka Tapo Lolong; the imaginary dead man gets up; offended, the wife leaves their baby milk in a vessel from the shell, flies to heaven; the husband finds her sisters and asks him to be taken to heaven; animals help her father accomplish her father's difficult tasks; husband and wife return to earth, where his wife turns into stone]: Arndt 1938:7-8; tetum ( Lassiolat) [Liurai Suri Ikun saw seven heavenly maidens descend to the spring; sends his slaves Letti and Lamo to hide Buik Ikun's clothes; these clothes are the skins of beautiful birds; the maidens fly away, and the BI marries LSI, gives birth to a son; finds her clothes in a bamboo vessel, she is dusty; BM shakes it out, flies away; LSI tries in vain to climb into the sky from a tall tree; the bird suggests taking it from son to heaven; BI parents want to test it; 1) determine which of the bamboo vessels contains palm wine (the rest have water); the fly warns LSI that it will sit on this vessel; 2) cockfight, rooster, on who was put by LSI, wins; 3) separate the grains from the sand (rice birds separate); 3) identify BI among other girls; the dog flea warns that it will bite it, it will move; but these fleas they bit everyone, everyone moved; LSI now tells them not to bite people, but to crawl in the ashes of the hearth; another flea promises to bite only BI; LSI offers her a gold or silver ring, but she only agrees to be allowed to sleep with people; as it happened, LSI identified BI; parents send BI with her husband and son to earth; before that, she asks them and receives a wish-fulfilling ring; there is a holiday on earth] : Vroklage 1962:130-133; Timor [seven parrots dropped their feathers, became girls, bathed; the prince hid the youngest's feathers; returned for promising to return two days later and become his wife; the prince is awake, falls asleep, the heavenly maiden cannot wake him up, flies away; the awakened prince has time to grab one feather; kills and cuts the servant into pieces, believing that he has sedated him; goes to look for the heavenly maiden; the servant's spirit turns into a horse, carries an exhausted prince; advises to let fish on the shore into the sea; two eagles grabbed the snake by the ends, cannot divide it, the prince cuts it in half; goes to the festival, his mistaken for a thief, the local chief orders to get the bird whose pen he owns; the eagles bring the parrot princess, her ring falls into the sea; she demands it, the chief sends the prince for the ring, the fish brings it; the princess cuts the prince to pieces, revives him handsome; the chief wants the same, the princess turns him into a freak; he is overthrown, the prince reigns]: Correia 1973:119-125; Roti [the magical wife is going leave a spouse who revealed to their children that she was a fish (or pig); she boils water in a coconut, sits on it, (steamed) rises to the sky]: Jonker 1911:16-19, 19-21 in Lessa 196:369; islands Kai [a palm juice collector (to make wine) noticed two people working in the field; at dawn, one told the other that the sun was rising and it was time to go back; one put on the skin of a whale, the other a dolphin, both fled to sea; the next time 7 women came with them; the juice collector fell in love with the youngest, noticed where she left her fish clothes, hid her clothes the next morning, the girl had to become his his wife; they have a son; other children tease him with glutton; he complains to his mother, his mother reproaches his father, who does not pay attention; in a mug of water, a woman sees a reflection of her fish clothes hidden under the roof; leaves a gem in a bowl under rice to his son; says that she will go to work in the field herself; if the son finds something under rice, he will see it again, and if not, he will not see it; puts on fish clothes, hides at sea; after finding out what is going on, the husband takes his son and sails in a boat; they ask four fish successively if they have seen women; two say they did not see, they are given bad nuts and leaves, and the other two show the way, get the best nuts and leaves; a person sends an old man (fish?) to fish ask his wife to come back; she misses her and returns happily; the man tells other children not to tease his son anymore]: Kratz 1973, No. 61:161-166; Numfoor: Hasselt 1908:534-535 (in Lessa 1961: 154-155) [the fish swallowed the ship, the eagle picked up the fish, threw it on land, people came to the king, he had a giant melon, people ate a cave in it; one man swam to get water to Fr. Tidor hid the clothes and wings of one of the heavenly maidens who were bathing, married her; his wife made a fishing line and net out of her two hairs; gave birth to four sons; found wings hidden under the roof, flew away ; sons, depending on where they sat (on a stone, on a tree, on a rock, on a table), became rulers of four sultanates], 539-542 (in Lessa 196:155) [the Dutchman who escaped the shipwreck hid his clothes from heaven virgins, she gave birth to two sons, found wings under the roof, flew to heaven; her husband brought her back, she gave birth to two more; depending on where they sat, the sons became four sultans], 543-544 (in Lessa 196:155) [approximately as on p.539-542, but Meraksamana instead of Dutchman].

Taiwan - Philippines. Apayao [Ennoy notices that someone steals sugar cane from his field; guards a thief, sees five girls descend from the sky; after cutting cane, they go swimming, E. hides the younger one's wings , marries her; they have a son and daughter; the wife finds wings, flies up a tree; tells her husband to take the children and follow her; gives a knife to cut mountains; they come to the wife's father, who tells 1) to find out with which knife among many, he worked (the fly shows), 2) recognize his father-in-law's favorite spear (the same), 3) walk on pointed bamboo poles (the spider weaves the rope on which E. passes); father-in-law agrees to marry]: Wilson 1947b: 112-114; apayao (kalinga-apayao) [among Sinarugkawan's seven celestial sisters, the youngest; at noon they went down to the ground to swim in the river; they noticed a sugar cane field owned by him Dungkuwan, went to eat reeds there; D.'s blind mother told her son that the field was burning (so dazzling was the beauty of the girls); next time D. waited for the sisters to swim, took away S.'s wings; took her as his wife, hid her wings in bamboo; S. gave birth to a son; one day bamboo fell to the floor, she found her wings in it, flew away; D. and her son began to ask different birds to take them to heaven, but only the fastest, Chaetura gigantea dubea, sem. Apodidae, carried; husband, wife and son live happily in heaven]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 26:241-243; Tinghian [Aponitolau (A.) planted sugarcane, it grows in a few days; his Aponibolinaen's wife planted gold beans; from the sky, the woman Moon's daughter, the star Gaigayoma, sent stars for reeds and beans, then descends into the field herself; A. watches, frightens the stars, sits down on G.'s clothes; she tells him to go with her to heaven, otherwise the stars will eat him; a chair comes down from the sky for him; five months later, G. and A. have a son, Tabyen; he goes out between the fingers mother after being injected into the arm; G. lets A. go to his former wife; he wanted to stay, but the stars came for him; next time G. lets her husband and son go; T. plays with his son born Aponibolinaen; goes rain, these are G.'s tears; they later rose to heaven, but eventually T. stayed on earth and his mother G. in the sky]: Rybkin 1975, No. 38:105-111; Tinghian (bilongan itneg) [The stars came down to eat sugar reeds on a man's field; one hung her clothes on the fence; the owner woke up, found these clothes, the rest of the Stars flew away, the most beautiful remained; she gave birth to her husband a daughter; she found her mother's clothes in ash; she put it on, invited her husband to divide her daughter in half; the husband got a part above the waist, the wife the bottom; the star revived her part in the sky, so the stars look like legs; the top began to rot, the husband buried his head, out of it A coconut tree has grown; therefore, coconut has eyes and mouth, and there are rotten coconuts]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 25:237-239; nabaloi [women ask who broke off the tops of the tarot; Pig, Dog, The monkey says it's not them; men hide, see female stars go down to swim in the sky, hide their clothes, marry them; men are old and the Stars don't; they took their clothes, returned to sky; nabaloi come from marriages to stars]: Moss 1924, No. 26:259-261 (translated to Rybkin 1975, No. 16:48-49; retelling in Lessa 196:156); igorot [someone is ruining a rice field; the owner sees three female stars descending; they take off their wings, he hides the wings of one of them; the wife gives birth to a son; finds wings, flies away with a son; the god Lumawig lowers his rope; says his wife is the one who a bee will bite; eat the wings of one of them; a wife gives birth to a winged - The morning husband finds a wife and son; L. makes a rainbow bridge so they can descend to the ground]: Eugenio 1994, No. 142:256-257; kankanay [ The star steals sugar cane, the owner grabs it; she finds the clothes he has hidden, flies away; one of their children dies, the mother goes down to the other at night; argues with her husband who will get it; shares it in half, takes one to heaven; the father cannot revive his own, the mother does it herself, tells him to respond to the call of the other half, but his body has already been decayed, so his voice is weak; these two halves - big and small thunders]: Moss 1920:382 in Lessa 196:153-154; northern kanai [Lopi went to the pond from which his buffalo was drinking his buffalo in the morning to see if there were any wild ducks there; 7 girls were swimming there, he hid his youngest's feather clothes; her sisters flew away; L. brought her to his house with his wife, they have two boys; playing, they found their mother's clothes in the corner; she flew away, telling her sons to tell their father what to look for it must be "where the moon sets and the sun rises"; L. came to the chief of the birds, he sent him to the leader of buffaloes and lions; he to Dalag, the leader of the fish; only one fish knew the way, D. told her to take L. on his back; the king -the father of the heavenly virgins demands that L. identify his wife among her sisters; L. remembered that his wife had needle injections on her fingers when she was sewing; the king let L. and his wife go home]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 20:217-219; callahan [orphan Pedro comes to an old woman's house; she teaches you to hide the wings of a beauty with a star on her chest when she arrives for a swim; if she tells you to turn her head, you can't turn, otherwise you will turn to stone; P. hid his wings, but turned his head, became a stone; the old woman crushed her gold beads, rubbed P. with gold dust, he came to life; the next time he successfully took Doña Maria's wings, married her; they daughter; DM found her wings under a pile of rice, flew away; P. came to the king, DM's father; he gives difficult assignments, but P. has a magic ring; 1) build a house within an hour; 2) collect the dust grain (the birds and chickens collected); 3) wash and dry the king's clothes within an hour (the monkeys dried); 4) clean and tidy the house; the father allows DM to return to P. and her daughter]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 27: 245-251; bontok: Eugenio 1994, No. 7 [star girls come to swim in the lake; a young hunter hides the wings of one of them; takes her as his wife; she gives birth to a son, the placenta turns into a second a boy who is more powerful; while playing, the brothers turn the stone over, find wings, return to his mother; the placenta boy becomes his foot on the edge of the spear, pushes off, flies to heaven, becomes Evening Star; brother can't take off; mother flies away, promising him that he will be the ancestor of Europeans], 8 [someone ruins a sugar cane field; the owner finds female stars, some of them swimming in the lake; he hides clothes alone, marries the Star, they have three daughters; the wife sews new clothes, flies away with her daughters]: 15-16, 17-18; Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 23 [a widower is a good hunter; once not I met game, saw two women bathing on the pond; hid the wings and skirt of the more beautiful one; took her home, returning her skirt but not her wings; hid her wings in the garden in sugar cane; his wife gave birth five children; found the wings full of holes and half-rotted, fixed them, made wings for children; the youngest flew up and fell, the mother told him to stay with his father, four flew away with her; the rest showed which of the stars are his mother and siblings; the inhabitants of the village of Can-eo come from him; because their ancestor is the Star, they have sharp eyesight and shining eyes]: 231-233; Sindangan [seven sisters swim in the lake, the young man hides one's clothes in the flute, the others fly away; they have two children; the wife sees them playing with her dress, she flies away, missing her parents; the husband follows her and brings her back]: Frake MS in Lessa 1961:149; Visayas [Magbolotó hides the wings of the youngest of three goddesses who came to bathe in the stream; her name is Macaya; marries her without saying he hid her wings; after giving birth to a son, she cooked rice, noticed a parcel under the roof, put on her wings, flew away; her husband goes to look for her, the North Wind shows the way to the East, that to the South, that to the West, that to the Eagle, he brings his wife to her grandmother; she requires decomposing and harvesting grain (ants collect), peel rice (rats clean), cut down the entire forest on the mountain (wild boars uproot); M. and his wife return home]: Maxfield, Milington 1907:95 -98; ilianen manobo: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 1 [Beletamey hunted wild chickens, heard a noise in the sky by the pond, seven heavenly maidens took off their feathers, began to swim, B. hid the youngest's clothes; The eldest tried in vain to take her sister with her; B. brought the maiden home, married her; she gives birth to a girl; she cries, and when B. climbs under the roof behind the box in which he hid the clothes of the heavenly maiden, stops; he opens the drawer, the maiden takes her clothes, flies away; tells her to take care of the baby, leaves a bottle of her milk, goes down twice to feed her daughter, then flies away altogether], 2 [Itung does anklets, goes to look for suitable vines, lost his way, came to a woman's house (this is his father's sister), who says that at noon 7 heavenly maidens go down to the pond to swim; their hand monkeys they guard their clothes, the woman advises taking bananas to distract the monkeys; I. hides the youngest's clothes, others fly away, he marries the youngest, she warns that she will fly away if she finds her clothes; she gave birth a girl; she asks for a parcel hidden under the roof; I. is forced to get it and open it; the wife grabs her clothes, flies away; I. leaves her daughter to her parents, goes to look for his wife; meets an old man, this is the leader birds; birds do not know the way to the country "where the moon rises and the sun sets"; fish do not know either, but then the eel says to go west through 7 ridges and 7 valleys; the local leader promises to give I. his wife, if he identifies her among 7 identical ones; I. recognizes by the spot from the needle prick on his little finger; takes his wife, returns home], 3 [Yugung (the younger brother of the epic hero Agyu) sees seven heavenly bathing virgins, hid the youngest's feather clothes, returned her for promising to become his wife; she gave birth to a son, then a daughter; he hid her feather clothes in a basket under the roof; his wife accidentally found her, taking her children, flew away; Yu. found an empty basket], 4 [Terengati went to catch wild chickens; at noon he saw 7 heavenly maidens come to the pond to swim; hides one's clothes, six fly away; the rest says her father will pay ransom by cattle and slaves, but T. replies that he did not take the clothes; they got married, she gave birth to a daughter; the girl looked up, saw a banana stalk flute under the roof; the mother pulls it out, finds it inside the flute his clothes; after feeding the child, he flies away; taking his daughter, T. goes to look for his wife; the old man sends him over ten mountains; the leader, the father of the heavenly maidens, tells T. to identify his wife among her sisters; T. brings his daughter, she rushes to the woman in the middle, this is her mother; T. adds that she has needle marks on her fingers because she has been sewing all the time]: 21-29, 31-51, 53-57, 59-81; marangani manobo [Juan Mengengati ("The Birdcatcher") went to pick the birds, saw four heavenly maidens go down to the pond to swim, hid one of them's clothes, and she went with him; one day she found the key to the chest in which he hid them feather clothes; put it on, flew away like a kite, leaving her daughter; HM went to look for his wife; northern, southern, some other wind, some bird, crow replied that they would not be able to rise to the sky; he found the philodendron, rising to the sky, rose it to the moon; she said that on the way to her father, a rock that closes and opens; he slipped; in the golden palace was his wife and her elders sisters; her mother told her to go to her husband, advised her to take a skinny horse; on it, XM and his wife escaped the chase; on the seashore, the horse turned into a coconut tree, then into a rock, into grass; they returned safely home]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 5:85-93; dibabawon manobo [the hunter went to the lake for ducks; seven heavenly sisters flew in and began to swim; he hid one of them's clothes; she was forced to go with him, to become his wife; after three years they have a son and daughter; playing, they find their mother's clothes; she tells them to give them to their father to look for them "east of the sun, west of the moon"; the hunter went in search down along the river to the sea, where I asked the owner of the birds, who sent fish to the owner; one of the fish replies that their owner is the father of the hunter's wife; the husband identified his wife by injecting a needle on his fingers; they remarried, stayed "east of the sun, west of the moon", took their children off the ground]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 6:95-99; ata manobo [the bachelor began to watch the lake of heavenly maidens; each had a hand a monkey who guarded the hostess's clothes while she was swimming; the young man threw bananas into the river, the monkeys behind him, he stole one sarong; gave his shirt in return, brought his wife into the house; she said she could not dance without her sarong; having received it, flew away; the lizard said that the wife was in heaven, told her to hold on to her tail, lifted it to the top of the dry tree; jumped, and the man sat in the tree for a long time, then fell and crashed]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 7:101-105; Agusan Manobo [7 sisters lived in the sky, went down to swim in the form of ducks; Juan was the last to hide his clothes; gave her his shirt, brought her into the house by his wife; her the name is Maria; mother H. is rude to her; M. found a flute under the roof, her clothes were in; after saying goodbye to her husband, she flew away; Boa constrictor tells X. to bring 70 eggs, sit on his back; carried H. across the sky, he owes everything time to feed him eggs; Hugh jumped into the sky, Boa fell and crashed; people answer H. that the chief's youngest daughter returned, gave birth, they were going to determine who the child's father was; the mother asks the boy to give bethel to whoever his father is; the boy sat on H.'s lap, gave the betel to him; the chief says he will believe if H. finds where M. and her child are hidden at night; the firefly showed H. to M. (it's in the middle); the chief held a feast]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 8:107-115; (cf. binukid [{clearly European borrowings.}; the patron spirit tells Don Juan in a dream to marry Donya Mahal Maria, the king's youngest daughter; the six older sisters do not want to take her with them, but she is still lying then; the patron spirit in a dream directs DH to the heavenly sisters' bathing place; when the elders have already flown away, DMM descends, DH hides her clothes; she suggests that DH come to her father to arrange marriage; the king tells 1) to get the ring he dropped into the sea by morning; the swordfish (Xiphias gladius) pulls out; 2) kill a giant who eats cows; DMM says that the father will give tasks until he kills DH, tells you to run; in the morning, the king on horseback and his wife on a chrome skate catch up with the fugitives; DMM asks the gods (Diwata) to create behind 1) a wall of fire to the sky (pursuers rush through it), 2) a wide river ( swim across); 3) let DH become a river, DMM a crab; on the outskirts of the village, DH DMM asks him to go home alone first, not to kiss anyone; he kissed his mother, forgot about his wife; DMM asks the gods to turn her into white flower; then comes to DH, turns a pair of slippers into Big and Little DH, the little one hits the big one, says he forgot his wife; the real DH remembers everything; wedding]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 9: 117-131); mamanwa [seven heavenly sisters went down to the ground to swim, took off their clothes; the youngest was Ilya Manlangitnen ("living in heaven"); Tawtamisaá hid the youngest's feather clothes, took the maiden in wives; one day their little son saw a flute under the ceiling, began to cry, asked for it; the mother took it out, found her clothes in it, flew away with her son; The boa constrictor brought T. to heaven; the virgin's father demands 1) pull it out a piece of iron from the ground, 2) bring water in a basket of holes; the eel has completed these tasks; 3) find a wife in a dark room where she sleeps with her sisters; the firefly said he will sit on his wife; the father of heaven the virgins arranged a holiday, and mother T. also moved to heaven]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 10:133-137; central subanens: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 11 [man lived on a slave island; saw how to the river the heavenly maidens came to swim, stole the youngest's clothes, brought them into the house, hid them under the roof; the girl had to become his wife; their daughter climbed under the roof, her mother pulled her back, and her feather clothes fell out; she put it on, flew away, taking her daughter; her husband went to look for them; the eagle offered to carry him off the cliff, but was tired, left bamboo on the shoot; the rhino bird brought it to heaven to the spring, his wife was there, they again married; the king, the girl's father, demands 1) bring water in the basket (the eel curled up in rings, closed the holes in the basket), 2) find in the dark room the brass betel vessel that belongs to him to his wife; the firefly showed; the man brought the vessel to his father-in-law, he was happy, allowed the couple to live together], 12 [the man saw seven heavenly maidens bathing; hid the clothes of one of them; six flew away in an image raven (crows are not directly mentioned, but listeners know that crows are); the seventh stayed; when leaving, the husband does not tell me to look inside the flute; she looks in, finds her clothes there, but is pregnant and cannot take off; gave birth to a daughter, then flew with her; flew only to the waterfall; the eagle brought her husband there; the virgin's parents are happy that she has a child], 13 [seven crows come to swim every day; fisherman Don Juan sees them turning into girls; one went swimming when the others had already flown away, DH grabbed her clothes, gave her shirt, married her; a few days later, many crows flew and threatened kill DH if he did not return the stolen clothes; DH replied that he would kill the crows, made a fire, threw burning scraps of the vine, hit the crow, which became the mother of the kidnapped; asked for her in return her daughter's clothes; they agreed that the crows would allow the wedding, help organize it, and DH would give his wife's clothes to his mother-in-law; they did so], 14 [the son of poor widow Manumpit saw crows coming to swim, one of them is white; they turned into girls, he stole the clothes of the white, youngest; the sisters and their father think she drowned; the crow maiden married M., gave birth to a daughter; became a cloth, prepared clothes for her daughter; accidentally found her own, hidden inside the flute; flew away with her daughter]: 139-145, 147-149, 151-155, 157-169; 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 had descended the rainbow); the youngest Putli ("princess") was Last, LB hid her fan (the narrator knows that there is a version in which women take off their feather clothes; the fan is an Islamized version); the elders flew away, LB brought P. to his father, married her; was born boy; LB hid the fan in a flute under the roof; when cooking rice, you can't pour out excess water, it must be preserved, given to children, etc.; P. poured out the water, then saw the flute, found her fan; targeted milk to the child, told LB's parents that she was returning to her home, because her husband was away all the time, flew away; three days later, the LB returned; taking her son, went to look for his wife; at the foot of the dry tree, the Lizard told him tie yourself to her back, taking pieces of fern with her; on the seventh night she lifted herself to the top of the tree, ate one piece each time; left her forehead at the top; there are eagles in the nest; the sky darkened, flew in Cannibal eagle; ordered his forehead to tie himself and his son to his claws, brought him to the river 7 days later; there two maids came for water, the forehead quietly threw the ring into their vessel; the LB went up the river, there was an old woman Kobayan (Manobo has a female deity in the 7th tier sky); she says that LB's wife is now marrying someone she has been promised since childhood; you can hear the sounds of gongs; P. found a LB ring in the vessel, said she was the wife of the LB; he appeared in a golden dress given by old K.; after the heavenly wedding, P., LB and their son returned to earth, and to their first fiancé P. K. gave another sultan's daughter]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 15:171-189; Taosug: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 16 [parents tell Prince Jalilul Akbar to take his wife from heaven; he hides in the woods, sees 7 heavenly the maidens went down to swim; hid the wings of the younger Putli Intan ("diamond princess") in the wind tube; became a fish, swam to PI, she was tired of the fish, she got out of the water, began to dress, did not find wings, sisters flew away; Ja brought PI home, the sultan arranged a wedding, they had a boy; while the father was playing ball, the son cries, wanted his father's brass pipe to play, PI found wings in it, fed the child and flew away; appeared to her husband in a dream, told her to take care of her son], 3 [seven houri maidens came down from the sky to swim; the wings of the youngest named Julpa disappeared; the elders flew away for new ones; Prince Julamri brought Julpa to him, hid it wings under the stove; married Julpa, although she had a lover in the sky; Julpa gave birth to a son Jarries; when the boy is one year old, he still cries, points towards the kitchen; mother found her wings, boy was happy, the mother fixed them; left her son a ring, flew away; the father returned, 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 follows the maid to the Julpa wedding party; when the imam started pouring water on her, the ring fell out, she recognized him; Julampri defeated the new fiancé in a fight on Chris, got his wife back]: 191-197, 262-267; Maguindanao [Sulayman, son of King Sulayman, saw seven women bathing in a pond in the forest; the youngest of the Putri Anak sisters ("child princess") was the last to swim; the sisters went to mosque, S. hid PA clothes; she became his wife, gave birth to a son; the boy cries, wants a piece of bamboo hanging under the roof; the PA found her clothes in bamboo, put it on, returned to heaven; her son became a prince]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 17:199-203; romblomanon [Magbayutu sailed in the boat, saw three winged women go down to swim, fell in love with younger Maria; next time he hid her wings; brought her to the house is his wife, they have a son; while he was fishing, the wife was feeding the child, looked up, saw her wings under the roof; left the baby milk, put on her wings, flew away; the old woman blinked, the husband and son immediately found themselves in heaven; Tsar Father Mary tells 1) to dry the millet by sprinkling it in the sand, collect it again (the ants helped); 2) bring water in the basket (the eel curled up inside, closed the holes); the king allowed Magbayute to marry Maria]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 18:205-209; casiguran agta [the old man advises Juan to hide the clothes of the last heavenly maidens to fly to the spring to bathe; H. hides the youngest's clothes, the rest flew away; the youngest becomes H.'s wife, gives birth to a son; the wife asks to show her her clothes; contrary to the old man's warning, H. shows she puts it on, flies away; the old man sends H. to look for a wife, not tells you to look at the centipede on the way, H. looks and returns; the old man gives a handkerchief; holding it in front of him, H. passes the centipede, the fire, the mountains; comes to his wife's father; he demands 1) to identify his wife's clothes ( the fly says it will sit on clothes); 2) identify his wife's hand (same); 3) cut down a banyan tree (Ficus benjamina); ants gnaw on roots and branches; H. gets a wife]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 19:211-215; ifugao (Amganad band) [Tillay went to look for water, saw four star girls swimming in a stream; hid one of them's wing-skirt; brought them to his son; T. hid his skirt under rice, his wife took rice and found her; divided her son in half, took a part with her legs, flew to heaven; one part became a red bird (Blueheaded fantasy, Rhipidura cyaniceps, sem. Muscicapidae) and cockroaches, the other with a cuckoo (Centropus melanops, sem. Cuculidae) and bed bugs]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 21:221-223; ifugao (Banaue band) [a rich man hid the skirt of one of the Stars who came to swim; she could not fly away; he brought her home, she settled in the barn because she can't stand the smell of onions, snails and ginger; gave birth to a daughter; when she went to get rice, she found her clothes in the same barn; after separating the child, she took the lower half to heaven, finished it to the whole; three days later she smelled decay; when she returned, she reproached her husband for not warning her that he could not make half of the child full; she made parts of the upper half a red bird that will guide her husband along the way; a cockroach that will stay eating insects in the house; a mosquito for her husband to send mosquitoes to enemies; ants that will help the red one warn a bird about threats; if a person sees a column of ants instead of a red bird, this is a bad omen]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 2:260-261; ifugao (Batad band) [Tilay always brought a wild boar from hunting; one day his dog began to bark incessantly; at dusk he saw big ducks come down to the pond, took off their clothes from their feathers, turned into girls; T. hid the clothes herself beautiful; the others flew away, he brought this one to him, covering her nudity with a piece of his own loincloth; they have a daughter and two sons; playing, they found their mother's clothes; she put them on, cut one son in half, took the lower half and one child, left the other and the upper half, flew to heaven; the remaining half began to decay; T. said he was human and could not revive her; the wife said that she is a star, came down and revived; these children T. have many descendants]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 22:225-229; ibaloi [stars went down to swim, broke off the tops of the tarot planted on the field; pig, the dog answered the women that they were not to blame, advised that the women's husbands should cover the field; at midnight they saw stars come down from the sky, take off their clothes, start swimming; the men hid it, took it stars as wives; former wives either committed suicide out of jealousy or left; men grew old and weak, and women stayed strong and young; they took their clothes locked in the room, came back to heaven; their children became our ancestors]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 24:235.

China - Korea. Namuzi [three brothers cultivate the land, the ground is untouched again in the morning; they find an old man turning back layers of land with a hoe; two older ones want to kill him, the youngest wants to listen to him ; the old man says that there will be a flood, there is no point in working; tells the older brother to make a boat out of metal, the middle one made of wood, the youngest takes his younger sister into his boat, the boats of the older brothers drowned; the water came down, the rest of the people drowned; brother and sister see two columns of smoke; sister takes a flute, goes one way, brother takes a knife, goes to the other; enters the house, there are human bones; children cannibals are explained that the parents have gone to catch the corpses of brother and sister, the rest of the corpses have already been taken out; the brother runs away; comes to where the sister married; she tells me to eat little, the brother does not listen; he is killed; but only he knew how to light a fire, carry water, grind grain, herd goats (crows, frogs, dragons, peacocks know, but not everyone can); so his brother has to be revived; his father's seven daughters come to swim- Sky, wings are removed, the young man hides the youngest's wings; says that they were gnawed by mice; the maiden promises to marry the one who will return her wings; she found her wings, returned to heaven; he climbed after her; father-in-law and the mother-in-law began to scald his hair, because people's bodies used to be covered with wool; the wife intervened, the hair remained only on the head; the father-in-law demands 1) to dig up nine fields (the wife orders to leave each field on the hoe, they work themselves); 2) burn the felled vegetation (leave nine torches); 3) dig up again with a hoe (the same); 4) sow buckwheat (leave the seed vessels at the edge of the fields); 5) again collect the seeds (leave the bags by the field); but three seeds are not enough; they were taken away by a turtle, his wife tells her to shoot her in the morning, he takes the seeds out of the goiter, brings them to his father-in-law; 6) recognize the mother-in-law as an animal, bring (the wife tells you to grab the first sheep); 7) get to know the father-in-law (this will be yak); the young man gets a wife, cattle, they are sent to the ground; the mother-in-law tells not to sing, the young man sang, the cattle ran away, the wife managed to cover part with their skirt, these animals became domestic, the rest became wild; the couple can't do anything, poor, sent Crow with nine bowls of tears to heaven to his wife's parents; The raven felt on the way thirsty, drank tears, told father-in-law and mother-in-law that their daughter and son-in-law were rich and prosperous, that they were drowning the hearth with pork, wiping themselves with grain; father-in-law was angry, sent tigers and boars to the ground, they ruined a few the fields that the young had; the Bat offered to bring 9 tears to heavenly parents; but the heavenly father-in-law and mother-in-law did not answer what to do to live normally on earth; the Bat said that she will sleep outside, and hid behind the bed herself; I heard my mother-in-law say: don't they know that three stones should be placed on the hearth, then children will be born; put the roof of the house on poles; lead irrigation ditches to the fields; when mother-in-law finished, the father-in-law noticed the Bat, threw a pestle at her, and since then her nose has been flattened; the Bat brought these three news to earth, people began to live normal]: Lakhi 2009 (1): 67-152; fox (Yunnani-Burma border) [Abep's older brother and younger Alep live together; gayal (=mitan, half-wild buffalo) tells younger that the eldest and his wife they will demand the division of property - let Alepa take only him, gayala, and leave in it; 7 fairies go down to swim in the lake, gayal tell him to hide the clothes he likes; Alepa chose the youngest, married her; Gayal explains how to call him, tells him not to give clothes to his wife until his third child is born, disappears; Alepa agrees to return the clothes earlier; the wife flies away, taking both children; Alepa called the gayala, flew into heaven on it, he tells him to hit his son and daughter with the back of his hand; children say you should not offend orphans; Alepa's wife: this is your father; fairy parents 1) tell your son-in-law to sleep at their feet; wife tells put pumpkins instead; at night, father-in-law and mother-in-law push them into the hole from which the wind is blowing; 2) offer to hide; wife teach them to put their fingers in two burrows of a dung beetle and call father-in-law and mother-in-law; those are there hid; the wife hid her husband in her hair, turning it into a pin; next time father-in-law and mother-in-law hid in two vines; the wife teaches them to cut, blood has flowed; since then, red juice has flowed in this vine; father-in-law and mother-in-law became two adjacent stars high above the horizon]: Dessaint, Ngwâma 1994:440-445; Ancient China: Gan Bao 2004, No. XIV.354 (Jiangxi, early 4th century AD) [In Xinyu County, Yuzhang County, a guy saw 6 or 7 maidens wearing feather dresses, hid one of them's clothes; married her, they had three daughters; the wife sent one of the daughters, who found out what the clothes were hidden under a ricks of rice straw; the mother put it on, flew away; returned for her daughters, they flew away with her]: 185-186; Ivanov 1957 [in the collection "Soushenzi" we read: a man, while in the field, saw 6 or 7 women dressed in dresses made from bird feathers; he crawled up to one of them and, when he saw that she had thrown off her dress, hid it; then he went to the women, but they took off and flew away; the same , whose dress was hidden, could not fly away and became the man's wife (Lin Chun-sheng. Lower Sungari golds, w 2. Nanjing, 1934, appendix 4, in Chinese)]: 137-138; Waley 1959:1-5 [Tun-huang Pien-wen Chi 1957:882-885; a 9th century AD manuscript from the Dunhuang cave complex (Gansu, near the border with Xinjiang), discovered in 1899-1900; poor T'ien K'un-lun saw three crane girls swimming in the pond; two flew away, the third hesitated in the pond, he took her clothes; she agreed to go out when he let her cover his shirt nudity; she gave birth to his son T'ien Chang; K. was sent to the West, his wife persuaded her mother-in-law to show her clothes, flew away; when her son is five years old, the mother and her sisters go down to the pond again, take boy to heaven; after 15 years, God sends him to earth, giving him an eight-volume book; he was called by the emperor, but sent him west for adultery; returns him when T. finds explanations for unusual things; 1) in the mouth of the killed crane turned out to be a living dwarf warrior (this is someone Li Tzu-ao, swallowed by a crane); 2) a giant's tooth was found (this is someone Ku Yen, his tooth was knocked out in the battle with the Lu people); 4) the loudest sound is thunder, the quietest when the others do not hear the whisper of one of the three walking side by side; 6) the largest bird is Rukh, the smallest chao-liao, its seven chicks fit on the mustache of a fly; the emperor makes T. chief Chancellery (High Chamberlain)], 5 (Jiangxi, ca. 300 AD?) [a man from Yü-chang (Jiangxi capital) saw seven bird girls in the field; tried to steal their feather clothes, six flew away, made the seventh his wife; she gave birth to him three daughters; from them I found out that her clothes were under a pile of rice straw; she put them on, flew away, came back with clothes for her daughters, they flew away with her]; the Chinese (Hubei) [the man married a lady bird; they are two daughters; one day all three women put on feather clothes and flew away; this is one of several cases where the Swan maiden motif was combined with that of an evil bird]: Eberhard 1968:167; Chinese [Nyu-lan's younger single brother works hard, the older married man eats hearty; the ox suggests N. break the plow, plough, plough handle, return home early, eat what is cooked; the elder suggests to share, the ox tells N. to take only him, the ox, to go south; says that on the seventh day of the seventh moon, the Southern Gates of Heaven will open, Wan-mu's granddaughters will fly to wash clothes; the seventh from the western edge - Ji-nyu; N. hides her clothes, C. becomes his wife, her sisters fly away as doves; when her daughter is 6 years old and her son is 3, C. offers N. to return her clothes; N. returns, C. flies away; the ox tells him slaughter, burn bones, put on his skin, take his son and daughter in baskets; tell the guards of the sky's gates (gold, silver lions, hell), I'm the husband of your seventh aunt, and these are her children; in the house needs to identify the wife among the seven girls; the son must be let in, he will rush to suck his mother's breast; the father-in-law suggests 1) hiding; C. says that her father will first become a bug, then an apple in the chest; when it's N.'s turn to hide, C. turns him into a needle, his father-in-law does not find it; 2) race; you have to throw red seeds and chopsticks behind, father-in-law picks them up; at the end throw the hairpin in front of you ; N. throws behind, a heavenly river appears; wife, children, mother-in-law remain on the other side; on the seventh day of the seventh moon, all birds rise into the sky, mother-in-law pulls a feather from each, builds a bridge out of feathers - The Milky Way; N. (Volopas) and C. (Weaver); on the sixteenth day, C. returns, during which time he washes all the dishes (each item numbered 360), washes, darns the sky, an-mu's granddaughters will arrive to wash clothes; gray from the West]: Riftin 1972:294-303; Chinese: Eberhard 1937, No. 34 (Gansu, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Manchuria, Guangxi, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Hunan, Shandong, Fujian) [a poor young man sees fairies bathing, steals one of them, takes the fairy as his wife; after many years she finds her clothes and flies to heaven; the husband comes for her; God separates them, allowing them to meet only once a year; {the motive for difficult tasks and trials is not included in the definition of the plot, but given the detailed retelling of the texts, Riftin probably occurs in most cases}]: 55-56; 1941, No. 21 [(comments on the story "Boopas and the Weaver")]: 60-62; Wilhelm 1921, № 16 [The shepherd (Kuhhirt) always has well-fed cows; in the mountains, a cow tells him that nine daughters of the Jade Emperor are swimming in the sky lake this evening; the seventh is spinning cloud silk for Heavenly The Lord and his wives, so she is the Weaver (die Spinnerin); the one who hides her clothes will become her husband; the cow brings the Shepherd to heaven, there are jade trees, jasper grass; the Shepherd hides the Weaver's red robe; She agrees when, on the advice of a cow, asks willow if she can marry; willow replies that yes, it is the seventh evening; seven days later, the Weaver runs away to prepare clothes for the Heavenly Lord; Shepherd pursues, but she draws a line across the sky with a hairpin (Haarpfeile), and a heavenly River, the Milky Way, appears; every seventh night they meet again, at which time there are no crows on earth, they are all form a bridge across the heavenly river; the rain at this time is the tears of the Shepherd and the Weaver; once the Shepherd was angry at the Tkachikha that she did not cross him, threw a yoke at her; it can be seen in the form of stars under her feet Weavers; she also threw a spindle at him, it's under his feet]: 31-34; Chuan Miao: Graham 1954:249-250 [an orphan married a star girl; a Chinese man painted a portrait of her, gave it to the emperor; wife advises to agree to the emperor's offer to swap wives, take his throne; an orphan finds the emperor dead in the hut, and the Star has returned to heaven; lowers from heaven into the nest of a magpie born from his son's orphans; old people raise him, children tease that he has no parents; Ye Seo advises the young man to spy on seven heavenly maidens coming to swim, hide one of them's clothes, ask her to be his mother; show her the embroidered fabric that his mother put in his hand when she lowered him to the ground; The star recognizes the son, returns to her husband, who became emperor], 278-280 [an orphan steals the pen of one of the seven Duck women who have come to swim; first colorful, it turns out to be an old woman, then a white woman, a girl; she gives birth to an orphan two sons; when they are 7 years old, they tell their mother that the father has a feather; mother takes him, flies away; brothers find his mother; her father promises to let them go and her if they 1) collect peaches for him; put them back on branches (mother puts them); 2) cultivate the plot, sow it, then harvest it the sown grain (the mother causes the wind, the grain is collected in a heap; one seed was pecked by a bird, the mother caught it, took a seed out of her stomach); 3) find the hidden one (the mother tells me to tickle the white horse, this is there is a grandfather; the same with turning into a pig); the brothers themselves are turned into sticks inside bamboo by their mother, the grandfather cannot find them); 4) sends them to the site, sets it on fire, the mother turns them into fish, they hide in clay; the grandfather lets them go with their mother; says that if black bubbles are seen in the river, they should be scooped up (dip up), if white bubbles are not; the mother says that black is demons, white bubbles are gold; the elder is not listened to his mother, scooped up black, the demon took his mother home; the grandfather promises to free his mother if the eldest grandson marries Tiger's daughter, the youngest marries the Monkey; the eldest calls the Tiger's daughter, is afraid, climbs a tree, Tiger's daughter did not find him; the youngest brought his wife; she went to get water, met the elder, he killed her; the youngest has to be accused of killing the Monkey Grasshoppers; the Monkeys go to kill them, the Grasshoppers sit down for them on their heads, the Monkeys killed each other with clubs; the latter ate grasshoppers when they could not take off in the morning, ate, died]; Koreans: Choi 1979, No. 205 [(=Ząng 1952, No. 11:21-25); the lumberjack saved the deer from the hunter; he indicated the place where the heavenly maidens were swimming; the lumberjack hid his clothes alone, married; the rest of the fairies returned to heaven by rainbow; the deer warned the logger not to give up his clothes to his wife until she gave birth to four children; the husband gave up the third after the birth; the wife and the children flew away; the husband on a pumpkin for her to heaven; after living with his wife, he wanted to visit his mother; the wife gave a dragon horse, told You can't get off him; the husband spilled porridge on his back, the horse was frightened, flew away; the husband died of grief, turned into a rooster; var.: do not return until the birth of the third child; in heaven, the wife's parents give difficult tasks ; he did not do the last thing - to descend on a dragon horse]: 62-63; Cho 2001, No. 81 [=Pack 1991:42-46; the lumberjack saved the deer from the hunter; he indicated the place where heavenly maidens descend from the sky on the rainbow and bathe; the lumberjack hid the clothes alone, got married; the deer warned not to give up clothes until the wife had four children; the husband gave it after the birth of the third; the wife and children flew away; the deer says that now fairies are not they go down to the pond, and collect water with a bucket on a rope; advises to sit in a bucket, he will be taken to heaven; after living with his wife, he wanted to visit his mother; the wife gives a winged horse, ordered not to get off it; the husband spilled The soup served by his mother on his back, the horse rushed, threw off the rider, flew away; the husband died of grief, turned into a rooster, still screams, calling his wife and children]: 127-130; Koreans [young Park is an orphan, cut and sold marsh grass for fuel; once a deer asked him to hide it from hunters; for this he said that 8 heavenly maidens go down to the lake once a year; you should hide the skirt of the larger one I will like it and not give it back until he has three children; Park hid the youngest's skirt; his wife created a tiled fanza, a barn, a bull; Park gave the skirt when there were only two children; everything was gone; the deer gave three pumpkin seeds: if planted, they will grow to the sky, but you can't look back; Park looked, fell; the deer gave again - the last one; in the sky, the children recognized Park; the wife said that she was forced to do it for her father asking for her skirt, but she wanted to live on earth; the old father of the virgins tells me to find him, becomes a rooster, a hog (the wife suggests); the elder son-in-law fired an arrow: let Park not let her fall on ground, not to heaven; the wife turned to the gyrfalcon, picked up an arrow; the son-in-law went to the eagle, went after the gyrfalcon; he dropped the arrow, she fell on the son of the leader of the nobility; the son-in-law demands that the arrow be delivered to him; the wife Paku: Ask for a horse and take a poor foal; he immediately brought Park to the house of the leader of the nobility; they cry for his dead son; the arrow is so thin that people can't see it in the young man's body; Park he pulled out an arrow quietly, the young man came to life; Park got a wife, but he was persuaded to stay with her in heaven at the Conshante service; they rode to him on a dragon, his wife poured rain from a marble bottle; Park asked poured more, snatched out the bottle, began to pour himself, dropped it; he fell into the mouth of a volcano, which went out, and Lake of the Great Dragon formed in the crater, from which three rivers have since flowed: Amnock, Tumangang and Sungari; the great Okonshante was not angry with his wife Park, but he suspended her from business and did not give any service to her husband; they remained in heaven]: Garin-Mikhailovsky 1958:.

The Balkans. Croats [the soldier spent the night in a mill where everyone was afraid to go; from above he saw a she-wolf come in, took off her skin, became a girl; the soldier stole the skin and nailed it to the mill wheel; married to a girl; they have two sons; the eldest began to ask his mother if she was a she-wolf; mother: what nonsense; and the father confessed and said where the skin was; mother's boy: you are still a she-wolf, but the skin is in the mill; the woman found skin and gone forever]: Wratislaw 1890, No. 55:290-291; Hungarians [a farmhand's son grew up, went on a journey; people are carrying 12 carts of reeds, he asked for a reed, did not find what he needed; he found two by the sea a reed bush, made a gun and saber out of reeds; now his name is Maly with the Reeds (K.); came to the king; it turned out that he was indistinguishable from the queen; tells him that he met the girl who met her the father will give only for someone who is just as rich; the king also does not marry his son to someone who has less money than the king; K. brings the queen to the girl, they lured her to the ship, took her away; K. hears at night vulture conversation; the horse will throw off the queen, he will kill; a faithful servant will shoot a hare, hit the queen; the 12-headed dragon will carry the bride on the wedding night; whoever tells, will petrify; K. shot the horse, servant; asked permission to remain in marriage; cut off the dragon's heads; he is asked to explain; he told and petrified; two sons were born; the beggar orders that the stone be sprinkled with the blood of these children; K. came to life; the king gave him the keys to 99 rooms, did not give him back the hundredth; K. spies through the keyhole; there are three baths, swan maidens arrive, take off their clothes, swim; they say that if you hide the clothes, they can't go back return; K. made the key, hid the youngest's clothes, gave her another, married her; the wife warns not to give her her old clothes if others ask; they are invited to the wedding, everyone asks for his wife danced in her old clothes, because she would dance even better; K. brought it, his wife put it on and flew away, ordered her to look for her in a fortress on a high mountain, a star above her; K. comes to the mother of the Sun; the Sun has returned, does not know about the mountain, advises Uncle Wind to ask him; The wind tells him to follow the blackthorn bush {tumbleweed?} ; at the mountain, the miller put K. in a barrel of flour, which the neck raises to the top of the mountain every day; he picked it up, he opened it to his wife, stayed with her on the mountain]: Ortutai 1974, No. 11:251-264; Moldovans: Botezat 1981:105-117 [orphaned, Ion sowed wheat; birds pecked the harvest; buckwheat was beaten by frost; went to work, got a foal, was eaten by wolves; for the second time he asked for a millstone - he was shattered by lightning; left home, getting a rooster for his work; came with him to the king - he was driven away; the hermit ordered him to take his wife; says that three birds are flying to the milk lake- fairies, take off their wings, bathe; let Jonah hide the youngest's wings and give it back only after the third promise to become his wife; Jonah received a fairy, but the Sun saw her and carried her away; the king has a tree to heaven, who will reach the peaks are fruits, received half the kingdom; the tree is divided into three branches, into oriental apples, on southern pears, on western nuts; the Sun invited to watch the rays; the Lord of the Birds, Frost, will bring food, Wolf Iron Mouth, Serpent Golden Scales; after questioning everyone, Ion hits everyone for the destroyed wheat, buckwheat, foal, millstone; when he sees that the Sun leads down the aisle to the fairy, Ion cuts down the golden trees and throws on the way; explains to the Sun why he punished his servants and himself; the Sun returns Jonah's wife, sends them peacefully to earth; Jonah bears fruit to the king; advisers command not to cut Jonah's head, but to give impossible assignments, then take away the wife; 1) let the vineyard be around the palace to the horizon; the wife summoned her servants, the vineyard is ready; 2) get a self-playing flood (flute genus) from the bottom of the sea; wife He gives a ring, Ion comes to the sea, sighs, Oh appears, says that the devils at the bottom will floer for 7 years, you can't sleep all this time; at the bottom of the sea, Ion gives the hell tasks, while he sleeps himself; count what is more - blades of grass or leaves; Jonah brought the flood to the king, fell asleep himself; they began to dance, cannot stop the flood, died; Jonah received the kingdom and married], 293-300 [the hermit gives The childless queen has grapes, she conceives a son; the king hunts, falls into the fortress of the line; he releases the king when the king promises to give what he does not know at home; son Daphin has grown up, the hell takes him away; D. learns from he was in the language of birds; overheard the birds talking, they say that the unfortunate Arap, 180 years old, draws water from a bottomless well, where the devil of Vestra bathes; old man A. teaches D. to steal the clothes of bathing V. run without looking back; A. blesses their marriage, gets rid of the punishment, the devil disappears; hell agrees to let D. and V. go, if D. 1) will plow the field to the horizon in a day, harvest, bake bread (V. orders the demons); 2) shoot a hare in the garden a feature (this is the devil himself, V. drives him in the form of a hound, D. hits him, his wife asks to give the devil to fry, in the evening the devil is bruised); 3) identify among hundreds of girls (tears in V.'s eyes); the devil puts D. and V. in prison, they fly away in midges, the devil sends demons in pursuit, V. turns 1) himself into a garden, D. into a gardener; 2) a wheat field and a reaper; 3) a duck and a river; hell tries to drink water, bursts; D. and V. come to live with D.'s parents], 276-284 [=Moldavian tales 1968^ 434-450; mother tells Fat Frumos that his father was eaten by wolves; but he still became a hunter; saw bird maidens coming down to swim in the lake, hid their wings; fairies follow him, singing; FF looks around twice, two pairs of wings fly away; FF brings the third fairy home without looking back; at the wedding, people admire the bride's dance; she promises to dance even better if the groom gives her wings; FF reluctantly gives her back, his wife flies away; FF wanted to shoot her, but she turned into a cuckoo and you can't shoot the cuckoo; she tells me to look for her in a golden palace in the golden forest; FF goes in search; the old man calls animals and birds; the goat comes last, she knows the places, but now there is a terrible drought; the man says that the owner of the palace was stolen by snakes; people milk sheep in nutshells, milk drops; FF leads sheep to the snake's pastures; watchmen wolves and bears are fascinated by FF playing on the pipe; he says that a pipe is needed fix it with wood from the middle of the oak, splits it, wolves and bears stick their paws, FF takes out the wedge, burns the clamped wolves, one charred one escaped; pulls out the heart of the bears, one escapes; the shepherd tore off his tail, since then the bears have no tail; the Vyzh-Surviil guard cuts off FF's arms and legs; he grabs the vein of the spring with his teeth, tells him to return his limbs, gives him strong water, FF killed BV; the snake opened its mouth from earth to heaven, but FF killed him and brought his wife back]; Albanians [the peasant's son agrees to sit on a magic bird, climb Crystal Mountain; drops jewelry from there, but people are below they refuse to let him down; the young man finds a goat pen, cleans it; the three-eyed goat who returns tells one goat, then the other goat to guard, one goes to graze, the other falls asleep, the young man both times again quietly cleans the pen; for the third time the goat himself remains, takes him to his blind master; he lets the young man herd, does not tell the goats to the edge of the cliff; there peri dance, the young man plays the pipe, peri the first gets tired, the young man ties her up, makes the owner's eyes return; after seeing the light, the owner gives the young man the keys, tells her not to unlock the twelfth room; three Beauties of the Earth fly into it, the young man hides his belt the youngest, on a heroic horse, brings his wife home, gives the key 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 away through a smoke hole; the young man arrives again up the mountain, the old man sends him to his older brother, who 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 they come to him, turn an apple so that their cannibal brothers do not eat it; they smell it, agree to give it to their sister if their son-in-law 1) brings an armful of firewood, 2) a barrel of water larger than them (the young man pretends that ties 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; Albanians [the king spent the night with a rich man a Wallachian shepherd; that night the mistress gave birth; the king ordered the boy to learn tongues and gave a cross; when the young man was 15, let him come to him and show him the cross; the young man grew up and went to the king, went down to the spring; the servant, threatening to throw a stone at him, forced him to change his clothes and status; swore that the young man would not expose him; he promised that he would free himself from his oath only by dying and When he was resurrected, the king kindly received the deceiver, and the young man was among the servants; the deceiver pretended to be sick, asked his servant (i.e. the young man) to be sent for cabbage, which Lubi would guard; in a dream, an old man appeared to the young man; He ordered to take 14 measures of honey, 14 milk and come at noon, when Luby is not at home; on the way, the young man met that old man; he teaches: clean the walls of the tone in Luby's house, hide, leave honey and milk; Luby will eat and ask the person who brought such a dish to appear; ask for cabbage; eat three legs, and he, the old man, will give a head of cabbage for the deceiver on the way back; that's what happened; the deceiver pretended to be sick again: we must get the Beauty of the Earth; the old man tells us to ask the king to give him a thousand lambs, rams, a hundred measures of wheat and honey, and 10 brooms; we must throw lambs to eagles, wheat to ants, honey to bees, rams to lions, clean the walls and door to the chambers of the Beauty of the Earth with brooms; animals will ask what reward the young man would like; ask lions, bees, ants and catch by fur, feather, etc.; if you burn hair, etc., animals will come to the rescue; the Beauty of the Earth asks the guards why they did not stop the young man; guards: you did not feed us like this, did not clean us; she tells the young man to separate the mixture of wheat, barley, rye and land overnight ( ants divided); bring live water from behind the crushing mountains (eagles: at noon, the mountains stop for half an hour; they brought a young man, he collected water and they brought it back); identify her among 12 girls (on a bee sat down on her); the deceiver asks the king to kill the young man, he did it himself; the Beauty of the Earth sent a servant to bring the victim, revived him with living water; the young man was able to tell the king everything; the deceiver was torn by four trees; the young man went to visit his parents, leaving the king's wife the robe he had bought for the Beauty of the Earth; ordered not to give it to her until he returned; there were dances and the Beauty of the Earth refused to participate without it robes; the king's youngest daughter secretly handed it to her; she tells the young man that he will find her, wearing out three pairs of iron shoes; after wearing out his shoes, he stopped in a tavern, where they feed for free: it is necessary Just tell us what he saw along the way; one man described how he dropped a bottle of water, went down into the ravine and saw 12 girls bathing; the young man went to the ravine, grabbed his wife's clothes and threw it into the fire; the beautiful woman stayed with the young man forever]: Dozon 1991, No. 12:83-96; Romanians [one hundred widow's sons went to plow; damn dragons first stole the older sister, then the rest 99, making a furrow (not to the field brothers, a) to their house; the brothers went in search; came to the cow shepherds; they warned that the brothers would defeat the dragon if they could eat 99 roasted oxen, 99 bread ovens and 99 barrels of wine; they failed; the horse shepherd said that they would defeat the dragons only if they tamed a stallion with 99 hearts - they could not; the dragon killed them all; their mother swallowed a pea, gave birth to Pea Veselice; playing with as children, he learned about the fate of his siblings; to make his mother confess, he put {something hot on her chest? Grundbalken; on the way he ate 99 roasted oxen, 99 bread ovens, drank 99 barrels of wine, drove to death a stallion with 99 hearts; his older sister recognized him when he saw his scarves and beads; before killing him the dragon, learned from him how to revive his siblings; on the way home, the brothers tied Pea to a tree; he escaped, got home and then went to see the world; saw a man at his bedside dying sisters; he indicated where to look for the Beauty of the World; Pea forced the owl to return the stolen hearts and killed him, returned his hearts; crossed the bloody river; saw the Beauty of the World swimming in a milk lake; he stole her clothes, but broke the advice not to look back and turned into a deer with 99 horns; with an old man hit him with a sword and he became human again; next time he did everything right, but did not give way to Titicot and he killed him]: Bîrlea 1966:404-406; Greeks: Hahn 1864 (1), No. 15 (Epirus) [the king finally had an heir; he put the boy in a glass castle with his teachers; one day he they brought meat and bone, he had not seen bones before; throwing a bone, the young man broke through the wall and saw peace; his father agreed to let him go, he became a passionate hunter; after chasing the deer, the prince disappeared, king declared mourning; but the prince was found by a Jew, promised to take him to his father if he threw gold off a high cliff; to do this, he placed him in the skin of a buffalo, the eagle raised his skin with the young man, who got out and He threw off the gold to the Jew; he took the gold, sat on his horse and rode away; the young man found an underground passage with a staircase, went to the palace; an old man with a long beard was chained to the wall; the young man said that he could not free without eating; he ordered him to take 40 keys out of his pocket, unlock the rooms, and he would find a rod in one; if you hit the ground with them, there would be food; the young man did so, ate, freed the old man, began to live in his castle; he began to mourn that the old man allowed him to enter 39 rooms but did not allow him in the fortieth; the old man explained that many young men had died there; in that room, the lake where three fairies fly was being rented winged robe and bathe; first the elders, then the youngest; you must take her clothes and not give it back, otherwise you will die; the young man did so, brought the fairy to the old man; he gave a winged horse and the young man and the fairy went to his father; the old man gave a golden rod; a fairy brother in the guise of a dervish came up on the way and asked for food; the young man promised if he explained what kind of stick he had in his hand; dervish: she would kill whoever the master wanted ; the young man asked for her, looked at her, told her to kill the dervish; the second brother came in the guise of a Jew, he had an invisible hat; the young man told the stick to kill him, took possession of his hat; came to his father; gave his wife's clothes to storage to his aunt; the fairy begged her to let her go dance; the prince returned, rushed after his wife, who flew out the window and told her to look for her in the glass castle; on a winged horse, taking wonderful objects, the prince returned to the old man; he sent him to his father - maybe he knows about the glass castle; the old man's father sent him to his mother; she collected birds, only Schnapphahn knows; the old woman told him to take it prince to the glass castle; the local king is at war with another; the prince promised him to kill all enemies; thanks to an invisible hat and a stick, he killed enemies, captured their king; the king married him his youngest daughter; when she met the prince, she was happy; wedding]: 79-90; Kretschmer 1919, No. 61 (Epirus) [when the childless king finally had a son, he placed him in a glass castle with his teachers; once a young man they brought meat and bone, he threw it, broke through the wall; the father had to let the young man go; he became a hunter; he chased a deer, got lost, ate roots; a Jew appeared, brought him to the mountain, asked him to throw it off he had gold from it; to do this, he placed the young man in buffalo's skin, the birds lifted him up the mountain, he threw gold to the Jew; the Jew took the gold, leaving the young man; digging the roots, the young man found a passage, a ladder in it; she brought to the palace, in which an old man with a beard to his knees is chained; he teaches him to take 40 keys from his pocket, open one of the rooms, its wand; if you hit, any food will appear; the young man is full His strength returned and he freed the old man; the old man took the key to the 40th room; said that behind him the lake, where three fairies were flying, they had already killed many; the young man persuaded him to give the key; the old man: the youngest the most beautiful of all, she bathes after her sisters, we must take her clothes; you can't let her touch the edge of her clothes; he allowed her, she tried to pull out her clothes, but failed; the young man asked for a horse, the old man gave a flyer; on the way they stopped to eat; a dervish came up, asked for food, said that his stick hit the head on orders and killed anyone; the young man asked to hold the stick, told her to kill the dervish , took the stick; this dervish was the brother of a winged maiden; the second brother came in the form of a Jew; he appeared and disappeared; the young man asked to see the invisible hat, sent a stick to kill a Jew; the fairy says that no one will help her now; the king is happy that her son has returned; he gave his wife's clothes to his aunt for preservation; the wife asked her for clothes to dance; after receiving and dancing, she flew out the window telling her to look for her in the glass city; the prince returned to the old man, who gave a letter to his father, and he gave a letter to his mother; the mother gathered the birds, and the old Schnapphahn was the last to be delivered, who knew about the glass city ; when the prince was carried, the supplies ran out, the prince cut off the meat from his own leg; in the city of Haji he said that the local king was at war with another; the young man promised to defeat the enemy alone; the prince's stick killed everyone enemy warriors; the king gave off her youngest daughter as the winner; she did not want to, but when she found out that it was her husband, she was happy; they returned to the prince's land]: 287-296; Schmidt 1877, No. 5 (Zakynthos) [the young man wanted marry only a Nereid; the old woman advised her to grab and hide her handkerchief; the young man grabbed it, the rest of the Nereids flew away; they had children; once his wife begged her to return her handkerchief to dance at the festival; when the people gathered, she began to dance, amazed with her beauty, sang, and then flew away forever]: 133-135; Bulgarians: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 400 [young man (prince, shepherd) sees how self-divers swim in the lake; hides the wings or clothes of one of them, brings his wife into the house; accidentally finding wings or convincing her husband to give them to her (play at the party), he flies away; the husband (wearing iron shoes) ) goes after her; on the way he receives advice from the elders (kings of animals, fish, birds); the husband finds out (through the king of birds) from the old eagle (magpie) where to fly, the eagle brings him to the village of self-diva, husband returns his wife]: 137-138; Marinov 2003:297-298 [samovils (pitchforks) are winged maidens, live in high mountains, swim in lakes, have intercourse with shepherds; a yunak named Rabro saw bathers, hid clothes alone, refuses to return when she offers to be his mother, sister, brings home wife], 298 [the shepherd hid the clothes of one of the three dump trucks who bathed; married, brought home, her name Radka; during the feast on the occasion of her son's baptism, the guests ask R. to play a "self-made game"; R. says she must put on her own clothes for this purpose; her husband believes that she will not leave the child, gives clothes, R. plays and flies away]; Klyagina-Kondratyeva 1951 [the prince tells his parents that he dreams that his father is pouring water on his hands, his mother is holding a towel; the tsar expels his son; he comes to the forest to a house where a blind old man eats food with him unnoticed; he realizes that someone is nearby; the young man stays with the elder; he does not tell him to go to two trees; the young man walks, sees two birds, they go down to spring, become girls; the young man hides his clothes alone, the girl agrees to marry him; washes the elder's eyes, he sees the light; shows his treasures, gives a magic horse; the prince flies to his home, where his sister's wedding is; but his sister now wants to marry only an unknown handsome man; yet, a feast is held, where the prince opens after his father has poured water on his hands and his mother held towel; after the death of the elder, the prince takes his father's throne]: 100-104; Macedonians [a young shepherd saw three fairies bathing, hid their clothes, returned them to two, and the third agreed to become him wife; fairies warned not to give clothes to his wife - she would fly away; a year later, at the festival, the women asked the shepherd's wife to dance in magical clothes; the husband reluctantly gave the clothes, the wife danced, flew away through the chimney; said that it was necessary to look for her in Kushkundalevo; in search of a wife, a shepherd comes to an old man, who sends him to another, the owner of animals; animals do not know such a village; the owner of animals sends birds to the owner; there too no one knows, but then a beaten magpie arrives; explains that she is late because she lives furthest, in K., where an evil fairy hit her leg; the old man tells the eagle to take the shepherd to K.; the shepherd enters fairy house; they tie their sleeping sister to a flying saddle, put a shepherd with her, tell her to fly across three mountains; the shepherd's wife wakes up, calls the winged horse; he flies to help, but beyond his third mountain Power ends, the wife stays with the shepherd; he burned her clothes; she gave birth to many daughters, all the beauties in the world are their descendants]: Martin 1955:111-120.

Central Europe. Slovaks [two pilgrims spend the night in the prince's house, where his wife gives birth; the elder says the stars are favorable; the prince makes him the godfather of the newborn; he promises the boy that he marries the most beautiful girl in the world; the son grows up, goes to look for his betrothed; the Sun King sends him to the King of the Wind, the King of the Month; the King of the Month helps to cross the bridge, leads to the forest, where they are already waiting those pilgrims; they bring the young man down on a rope to another world; he leaves them a handkerchief - if he turns red, he is in trouble; in the lower world, a woman teaches them to quietly steal the crown that a beautiful woman will put on the grass, who comes to swim with her friends; grabbing the crown, the young man runs away; for the first time he turns around, turns into a deer, pilgrims restore his appearance; the second time he turns into a bear; the third time he becomes an ant, hides in a horse's skull, the girls do not find it, the pilgrims raise it to the ground, the beauty and her girls follow, agrees to become his wife; at night the pilgrim hears how the beautiful friends who have become pigeons say that the young man's father is preparing a carriage for him, sitting in which he will fall and crash, and whoever tells will become dumb; for the second night, the father will give poisoned wine; three times, a dragon will crawl into the newlyweds bedroom; without explaining why, the pilgrim does not allow the young to get into the carriage, pours out the wine, demands that it be left in the bedroom; kills the dragon; everyone is happy, the pilgrim leaves]: Nmcová 1970:186-199; Czechs [poor Tonda hired a master for a hundred gold a month; there is no job; at the end of his term, the master takes him to the sea, hits the water with a twig, the waters part, they go dry to the castle, T. climbs through the window, the master tells them to throw money, T. refuses, the window shrinks, closes; someone black shows 99 corpses of those whom the master lured earlier; because T. did not take the money, the black one leaves him to watch a pair of horses and a goat; T. asks for cards, then his wife; tells him to snatch three feathers from one of the three swans who come to swim; the swan turns into girl; T. asks permission to see her parents, the owner allows but does not advise; at home T. opens the chest he brought, the wife grabs her feathers, flies away; T. returns, the goat takes him to the pond, where swans bathe; the witch sends her daughter Amalka, that T. puts her to sleep every time, the swans do not wake up, fly further; in the last castle, the princess (this is T.'s wife) throws a ring, T. catches him three times with a sword, leaves every time; the princess finds, the spouses unite; T. cuts off the heads of the black lord and the goat, who turn into king and queen]: Bogolyubova, Talova 2000:307-317; Czechs [two magi ask allow me to spend the night when the princess gives birth; until midnight they look at the stars - only gallows flash; after midnight everything is fine; the princess gives birth to a handsome boy with a golden star in his forehead; the prince called travelers to cronies; they married the prince Worldly beauty; the young man grew up, saw the book with this record and went for his betrothed; he came to the Sun - he does not know, sends to the Wind, the Wind - by the Month; that leads to the bridge and tells a horse to cross it; a dragon appeared from under the bridge, ate the horse and fell asleep; after that, the young man crossed the bridge; in the forest hut his godchildren; descend the young man into a hole in the ground; he left they have a handkerchief: if he turns blood, they must hurry to help; the young man came to the sorcerer; she says that Worldly beauty is on the top of the mountain in a glass castle; with 12 maids goes down to the lake to swim; puts it in grass is your golden crown; you have to shoot one of the maids; worldly beauty will lean towards her, at which time you have to grab the crown and run without looking back; but he looked around and turned into a deer; handkerchief stained with blood; the godchildren came to the sorcerer; she says to shoot a golden bullet at the star on the deer's forehead; he grazes among the others, they were also young men; the godchildren shot, the young man became man; the sorcerer again tells you not to look back; he looked back and became a bear; (same); sorceress: become a beetle and hide in a horse's skull; the young man grabbed the crown, did not look back, the godchildren pulled him upstairs; Worldly beauty, with 12 maids next, agreed to marry the young man; while they sleep, the maids became doves, the godchildren hear what they were talking about; the prince father would send the young a golden carriage, by the will of the dragon she will fall into the abyss; next time: the father sends wine, the dragon will poison him; on the third night, when the young people go to bed in the upper room, the dragon will get to them and kill the young man; whoever tells will become petrified; The godson tells us not to sit in the carriage, not to drink wine; he stayed at the newlyweds bed in the castle, hacked the dragon; did not say anything and left]: Nemtsova 1978:140-152; Poles: Lifshits-Artemyeva 2017 [childless the king returned to the castle, wanted to drink; the scoop at the well was not handed over; the king leaned to the water, Koschey grabbed his beard, let him give what he did not know at home, and when he returned he would immediately find; the king promised, the well disappeared, the king caught up with the squad; found his newborn son at home; his name was Nenadalek ("unexpected"); when he grew up, he met an old man with green eyes, he reminded of the promise; N. went, I found 12 girlish shirts by the sea, and saw 12 jaws in the water; hid one shirt; the jaws became girls, dressed and flew away; the 12th asked to return the shirt, promised to help; she is Koshchei's youngest daughter; ordered K. to crawl to the throne on their knees; they fell into the underworld; K. laughed, did not kill N., promised to give tasks; 1) create a palace with a garden overnight (the girl created it); get to know the youngest daughter (girl: you will notice the sun under your right eyebrow); in the presence of K., sew a pair of shoes while the straw is burning; the girl tells you to run, leaves the spit responsible for herself; K. sends servants; the girl turned herself into a river, N. into a bridge, a horse into a crow; into a forest with many paths; into a church, a priest, a bell tower; K. did not recognize, returned; the girl tells me not to enter the city: if R. kisses the one who came out there towards the child, he will forget her; and so it happened; the girl became a cornflower in the field; the old man found it, transplanted it, brought it to him; someone cooks and cleans; the fortune teller advised to guard, the old man found the girl ; on this day, the Queen gets married; the girl speckled the cake, asked the cook to serve; two doves jumped out from there, began to tell how N. forgot the girl; the Queen remembered everything, came with the girl to his father's country; wedding]: 209-221; Shcherbakov 1980 [retelling in Kozlov 2006:330; a golden life has grown in the shepherd's field; he tells his three sons to guard him; when the youngest's turn, the bird took the sheaf away; the young man behind her; there is a house in the forest, an old man lies on that sheaf by the fire; the young man invited him to be his son; the old man's blind wife agrees; the old man gives sheep to herd, does not tell them to let them into the dry pond - the Rock Spirit will take away; gives a violin; the spirit drove the sheep; the young man gave him the violin to play, he broke the string; the young man promises to teach him to play, first he must straighten his fingers; the spirit put them in the split trunk; the young man let him go for a promise not to touch sheep; the spirit points to grass that will restore blind vision; old people promise to get a girl for their adopted son; a goat must ride to the sea; three ducks will arrive, take off their clothes, and become girls; you have to hide the shirt with the one you like; the guy succumbed to persuasion, gave the shirt, the duck flew away; a year later the old man sends the guy again; bringing the girl home, the guy again took pity and returned shirt; the third time is the last; the goat (this is the old man) is carrying to another sea; the young man did not give his shirt, the old man gave the maiden a cape; the young man, his wife and newborn daughter went to visit his real father; having a golden life, the shepherd became a prince; at a feast, the daughter-in-law asks his father-in-law to get her best outfit - her husband hides it in the chest; she became a duck and flew away with her duckling daughter; that old man gives the young man ointment to become a hare, fish, fly; the young man reached the top of the glass mountain; overheard that his wife was grieving without him, became human again; his wife's parents handed him the throne; he sent for his real father and for that old man, made them ministers]: 115-125; the Luzhitans [the drummer soldier came out of the fortress and saw three swans fall into the water in the moat, took off their feather clothes, became girls and started to swim; he quietly hid one of them's clothes; married her; once forgot the key in the chest lock; the wife opened the chest, put on her feather clothes, left a note and flew away; the note said that you need to look for it on a certain mountain; the drummer must go into a cave, pick three flowers, hammer it into a drum; a castle appeared on the site of the mountain and three princesses came out, who, because of witchcraft, were swans; the drummer stayed with them]: Veckenstedt 1880, No. 13.2:120-122; Russians (Teresky Bereg) [Ivan the peasant son went hunting; the bird Pavá is sitting on land, asking not to shoot, but feed a year, collecting sheep from all over the world; a year later, Pavá sat on an oak tree, the oak did not sway: feed for another year; the oak swayed; three years later it shattered into chips; Pavá put I. on his back, they fly; in front the sun is not burning - my brother's house; ask for a rotten box; "Give me the rotten box, then I'll talk about the PAVA bird. - Don't tell us surfactant birds, and we don't give us a rotten box!" ; at my father's house: take it, take a rotten box, just tell me about the PAVA bird! Pavá turned out to be a red girl: do not open it until you come home, but if you come, go out into a big meadow; on the way, the bird does not tell you to open it, but I. could not stand it and opened it; there was a house and gardens, food and drink enough, but nowhere to go; three days later, outside the window: give me what you don't know at home, I'll collect a rotten box; at home my wife gave birth to a son; once she caught it, thundered - give it back, man, promised! on the way, 40 girls are swimming, the boy hid the belt alone; gave it when she went out to him; their father is Cosó Kolesó, let I. hire him; KK only has this daughter, others stolen; KK: choose a bride from 40 sisters; girl: I'll brush my face off my face; next time I'll wave my handkerchief; third, fly again; wedding; mother was Christian, tells me to run; three days later father chased a braid wheel; the girl threw a lash: dark forests from earth to sky; father went to make a road for a shovel; kresack: a stone mountain from earth to sky; the same; flint: a river of fire; KK could not move; I. and his wife reached home]: Balashov 1970, No. 44:146-151; Russians (Arkhangelskaya: Pinega, Sura, 1927) [The old woman becomes pregnant and asks her husband to go hunting and bring her meat. In the forest, a man drinks from the lake, his beard is enough for his beard, demands to promise what he does not know at home, the man agrees. At home, he finds out about his son, but his wife does not admit that he promised him. When the boy is 5 years old, the hell comes, demands to bring the child to the lake, the man does it. The boy (actually a young man, although he is 5 years old} enters a hut by the lake, the old woman advises to wait for 12 swans. They'll sit by the water and turn into girls, and they should be the last to hide the outfit. The girl does not find her dress, asks for her back; then promises to become the young man's bride, complete all her father's tasks for him. 1) On a hundred tithes of the forest, plow the field on a hundred horses and grow bread by morning. The girl sends the young man to bed, calls the demon, they do everything. 2) Choosing a wife from 12 daughters is a trait: she will see a handkerchief on her left hand from under her sleeve. The young man chooses the right thing, but the devil orders him to guess again. This time, the young man recognizes the bride by a pin in a braid. The devil promises to give her daughter if the groom digs up clay, burns bricks, and builds a house for the wedding. The girl again orders the hell to complete the task, her father is happy, but orders to once again identify the bride among the 12 sisters. The girl says that a fly will fly to her nose. The devil sends the newlyweds to a new home to feast, the girl warns that they have to run at night, orders to find the worst horse in the field (the hell is the opposite), the young man does not obey, takes a good one. They run, drool on the table, and she's responsible for them. The fugitives hear the chase, the wife turns her husband into a hut ("flip over your head"), the horse into a swamp, she becomes an old woman herself. The chase comes back, damn it explains what they actually saw. Next time, a girl turns her horse into night, herself and her husband into stars, they won't be recognized. For the third time, the devil himself chases them, the girl throws a button, a river appears, a whip appears, and a bridge appears. When the hell's on the bridge, he falls through, the hell curses his daughter - she'll be a star for three years. The devil returns to his realm, the young man goes to his aged parents, they don't recognize him, but he talks about himself. She has not been able to choose a bride for three years, he is forcibly married, on her wedding day, his daughter falls from the sky and marries a young man]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 49:117-123; Russians (Karelian Pomorie, Sumy Posad) [the ship sank in the middle of the sea; the king of the sea tells the merchant that he does not know at home; there the wife gave birth to a son Ivan; the boy grew up, went to the king of the sea; 12 swans flew in, became maidens, they are daughters sea king; I. hid clothes from one, this is Vasilisa Premudraya, she agreed to be betrothed to Ivan; went down to sea; the sea king orders to build an airy crystal palace; the VP calls the servants, those overnight built; crystal air ship (same); tame the stallion; VP: this is the king himself; you have to beat him with iron hammers and bars, pour ash into his eyes; the horse had to descend from heaven; now the king tells choose a wife among her 12 daughters; VP: I will have a mosquito on my nose; again (a fly); a third time (the mouse will run between my legs); VP: I have to run in the evening, he will eat us in the morning; she wrapped I. in a church, herself watchman; lake and duck; for the third time, the VP threw a "raft", became a river of fire; the sea king asked for a towel, walked on it, the VM cut off the towel, the king burned down; I. left the VP, went forward; VP: forget me; he met his parents and forgot, they picked up a bride for him; VP sent his backyard grandmother with a pie; two doves flew out of him, started talking; I. remembered everything, married VP]: Razumova, Senkina 1974, No. 48:238-243; Russians (Karelian Pomorie) [contrary to the owner's order, the workers left a few grains in the field; the mouse and the bird argued over them, and the war between birds and animals began, everyone died, the eagle remained wounded; the prince pointed his gun at him three times, the eagle asked him not to shoot, but ordered him to feed him for three months; tried to fly - three more; then more; ordered him to sit on it, carried to get reward; on the way he threw it and picked it up three times so that the prince would feel the same fear as he himself when the prince pointed his gun; ordered him to take a multi-colored box from his worn sister, and the middle sister had a self-shaking purse, the youngest has the key to the multi-colored box; the eagle tells me not to open it along the way; he opened it, everything flew up, the road became difficult; a tall man: I'll return everything back if you give it back what you don't know at home; he was a magic king; people came out of the box at home, began to uproot, harrow, etc.; his wife gave birth to a son during this time; Ivan Tsarevich grew up, shot, hit his grandmother's window; grandmother: it won't take long for you to break windows , in a year the magic king will pick you up; your father denies; the second time the same; your grandmother gave you a cup of water to drink, I. became a mighty handsome man; tells you to hide the dress of the most beautiful of the 12 swans when they will arrive and become girls; she promises to be faithful to Ivan; the king orders to rebuild the palace overnight; Elena the Queen flew in like a bee, tells I. to go to bed, orders the spirits to do everything; work a ship made of a gun that is 30 years old under the window; E. gives a lash, I. hit the head, soon she returned with a ship; cut down the forest, etc., and bake pancakes out of flour by morning; the same, everyone performs the spirits; choose E. of 12 mares (one hair on the face is slightly longer); the same from 12 pigs (a red speck in the ear); out of 12 girls (a fly above the right eye); E. and I. are running, E. left saliva in the bath; chase; What can you see? - The cloud is high behind; turned into a chapel and an old man; two pigeons on a pile of manure; himself with a ruff, I. - a ring, swallowed the ring, dived into the lake; the king became a pike, but he could not catch the ruff; drank water, but the ruff became a duck, the duck flew away; the king followed, hit the rock, burst with the water he had drunk; E.: I'll stay in the field as a pebble, and you go to the house, don't forget to say hello to your older sister, otherwise you'll forget me; I. did not say hello, forgot, a new wedding is being prepared; two pigeons came out of the cake, talking about the forgotten E.; at first E. does not want to get up: I. has already been blessed; but he persuaded her, she came out of the pebble, I. became live with E.]: Nechaev 1938:85-110; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) []: Razumova, Senkina 1987:123-128; Russians (Karelia) [well done went fishing, saw three swans, they took off skins, became girls, began to swim, he hid one skin, the girl agreed to be his wife; after getting into the boat, well done, gave his wife a skin so that she would not get wet; she put it on and flew away; told me to look for her through three years on Lake Ilmen, ask a port lady; she brought him into the house; his wife's father greeted his son-in-law, his wife took her son out; they began to live well]: Azadovsky 1947, No. 44:186-187; Russian ( Olonetskaya, Zaonezhye, d. Shunga-Bor, 1926) [The Tsar goes hunting. Tired, leans down to drink from the well, grabbed by the beard: let him give someone he does not know at home. At home, the king is greeted by his wife and child, whom she gave birth while the king was hunting. After 15 years, the Tsar sends his son Ivan to the water. The old woman asks I. where he is going. I. is rude to her, then he is ashamed and comes back to apologize. The old woman tells me to go to the lake, there will be 12 pigeons and a marten. You need to take the skin from the marten, then he will be happy. I. comes to the lake, where cabbage rolls threw off their feathers, marten skin, turned into girls, went swimming. I. hides the marten skin. The girls go out, the marten (her name is Vasilisa), cries and asks for her skin to be returned, promises to become a daughter or wife if the thief is an old/old man or a young man. I. and V. go to the underwater kingdom. There are far away spokes: for all but one head, it is for Ivan Tsarevich. The waterman tells us to build a wax church overnight. I. sends I. to sleep, calls on the servants, they build a church. The second task is to plow the field, grow crops and bake bread from it. V. helps again. The water tells you to choose a wife from 12 sisters. Q: you need to go through all 3 times and choose the one with which the fly will sit on your left cheek. He did so, chose his V. The waterman is angry, crowns them. After a few months, they decide to run away from the water. V. spits on the stove, the servant knocks, saliva answers him twice. The waterman breaks the door, sets off in pursuit. V. lies down on the ground with his ear, hears the chase, draws himself to the lake, and I. to the chapel. The servants are returning to the waterman. The water chases himself. V. wraps I. with a drake, himself with a duck, a water one flies in an eagle. V. wraps himself in a ruff, I. wraps himself in catfish, and the water one chases pike. The sun came out, the pike warmed up, and she fell asleep. I. and V. came to their kingdom. V. tells you not to kiss anyone on the right cheek. I. kissed his mother, forgot everything, and marries another princess. At the feast, V. serves the cake she baked, and a dove and a dove fly out of it. The dove talks about Vasilisa, I. recalls. Wedding]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 1:52-55; Russians (Pskov) [the old man hired Ivan Sinilnik to work; he brought him to the mountain on a ship, killed a lion, took out his intestines, ordered him to climb inside, the bird lifted the carcass on mountain, the old man asked to throw down the jewelry; left, and I. stayed on the mountain; came to the castle, there were three girls; they gave the keys to 12 rooms, but you don't have to enter the 12th; he went in; there was a garden and a pond, 12 girls flew in to swim; the first three girls advise you to hide the dress of the one you liked; he did so, married the girl, her name was Annushka; Ivan brought her home; the cooks told the princess; she praises beauty A.; A.: it would be even more beautiful if in her dress; the princess told the cook to bring a dress; A. put it on and flew away - let I. search; two argue over a flying carpet and an invisible hat; I. asks let him test, puts on a hat and flies on the carpet to where A. is; she is in a hole for marrying an Orthodox; I. took her and returned home]: Chernyshev 1950, No. 18:41-44; Russians (Olonetskaya) [ the chicken and the mouse quarreled over the grain, the mouse called the animals, and the chicken called the birds; the eagle's wing was torn off; he asks the man to feed him for three years; he wants to throw it away, then feeds him again; the eagle planted the man on their back, they fly to the eagle sisters; tin, silver did not give the box, but gave gold; ordered not to open it on the way; he opened, Koschey the Immortal put the good back for promising to give that that he does not know at home; the son returned at home; once broke the window; grandmother: oh, you, mother-born, fatherly promised; said that he was given to Koshchei; gave a ball; 12 swans - daughters - flew to the lake Koshchei; the guy took the youngest's clothes; the girl promised to marry; Koschei tells me to go around the horse; bride: hit me between my ears; this is Koschey himself; tells me to choose a bride among 12 sisters; bride: a fly will sit on me; they ran away; threw flint (mountains), flint (fiery river); the bride made the guy a lake, a duck herself; Koschey shot, missed, left; swore not to pursue anymore]: Vlasova 2011, No. 51:86-88; Russians (Ryazanskaya) [the merchant leaned to the water for a drink, grabbed by the beard, must give what he does not know at home; son Ivan; at the age of 18 he went to the sorcerer; his 12 daughters are swimming, the young man hid Maria's clothes- princesses; the sorcerer tells you to recognize her among her sisters (her husband will sit on her face); collect scattered grain (the birds have collected); build a golden palace by morning; the palace is ready, M. tells me to run; chase; she chipped off as a goat, and I. a shepherd; an apple tree and a watchman; when the father himself is chasing, M. tells Ivan to cross the river, it will grow there as a flower, you must pick it up; and if you don't pick it up, you'll forget it; and not take home what you don't know, you'll completely forget; M . became a crucian carp, and my father a pike; he chased for three years, retreated; I. took his newborn brother in his arms at home, forgot M., did not come to pick a flower; the shepherd cut off the flower to make a pipe; pipe: I. forgot me; M . became a teacher, I. met her (the informant does not remember)]: Samodelova 2013, No. 69:78-80; Russians (Vyatskaya, Sarapulsky U., d. Bygi) [The glorious Tsar Rakit Timofeyevich and his wife Tykva Timofeyevna live in the Sabur Kingdom; they have no children. In another realm, a famous magician. King Rakit goes to him for an apple, which his wife will eat. The magician tells him to give half an apple to his wife and hold the other. Two sons will be born, the first one must be given to him. The queen gives birth to a son, a year later she gives birth to her second. The first one grows for 15 years and is called Falcon (S.). His father sends him to a magician. In the forest, S. stumbles, falls, falls asleep until morning; so three times. He comes to the hut on chicken legs, tells him to stand in front of him, and back to the forest. In the hut, a beautiful woman (taken by the wizard from the king, trained in magic) warns that the wizard will bring a glass of rum. You can't drink, otherwise you'll eat it, I must say: "I'm not here to walk or feast, but to work." There'll be a lake on the way Twelve cabbage rolls will arrive, undress, become girls, they look the same, including her - she will begin to spread her wings on the shore. When the girls start swimming, let her sit on her dress. S. does it all. Eleven girls put on their dresses and fly away, the twelfth stays. S. kisses her and gives her dress. Girl: If the magician gives errands, let him turn to her; turn into a pigeon, fly away. S. comes to the magician, who sits in a chair. "Lackey servants! Lift my eyelids out of my eyes with an iron pitchfork: I need to see who's here." The servants raise their eyelids, the thorn opens. The magician recognizes S., tells him to bring rum, S. refuses. The magician tells us to build a bridge across the sea overnight. The girl tells her to take off her pants before going to bed. The bridge is ready in the morning The magician tells us to ride around his horse, he is fierce and ferocious. The girl gives S. an iron rod, tells him to go to bed with his pants off, and quilt the horse with a rod in the morning. The falcon hits the horse, he kneels, S. continues to beat, locks him in the stable, and goes to spend the night with the girl. The horse is a magician himself. In the morning S. comes to him, he groans in pain. His servants lift his eyelids with an iron pitchfork. He says he will now marry S. and he has 12 pigeon brides. Girl: A fly will sit on her forehead. The next day, a mare (she will throw back her back leg). The magician invites S. and his fiancée to celebrate their wedding the next day. Girl: He'll eat us, we gotta run. They spit in all corners in the hut and go out. In the morning, the servants tell them to get ready for the wedding, drool that they are going to; they dress; etc. The magician looks at the black book: S. and the bride ran away. Sends a chase. The girl wraps herself in a well, S. wraps herself in a scoop. Those sent drink water and come back. For the second time, a cow and a shepherd, the shepherd replies that he just woke up and did not see anyone. The magician goes by himself, the earth trembles. The girl by the lake makes herself a duck, and S. makes herself a drake. The wizard raises his eyelids, recognizes them, drinks all the water, the duck and the drake fly away. The magician throws thick smoke on them, the girl disperses him with a headwind. The wizard gnashes his teeth like Satan in the underworld, stays at the bottom of the lake, the duck and the drake fly to Father S., become human, get married]: Vereshchagin 2002, No. 12:36-40; Russians (Voronezhskaya): Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 130 [the queen was taken away by an evil spirit; the eldest, middle son went to search, disappeared; the youngest sees 33 spoonbills flying to the sea, became girls, began to swim; Ivan hid the sashes herself beautiful; returns when she tells him that his mother lives with her father Raven Voronovich; goes after the bird, meets brothers, they let him down into the underworld; there are three spoonbill girls; there are three spoonbill girls; the copper princess gives a ball of kingdom, it leads to the princess of silver, she gives another to the princess of the golden kingdom, she to the pearl where her mother and father live; ordered to replace barrels of living and dead water; from the Raven Voronovich Ivan receives a feather road; kingdoms roll into a ball, roll after him; the brothers pull out the princesses and their mother, cut off the rope, pulling Ivan out; the feather patch helps him return to land; there his father is going to marry the princess of the golden kingdom; she demands that her shoes be sewn without a measure; Ivan dissolved the golden kingdom, took his shoes from there; the same is a dress without a measure; the princess tells cook Ivan in milk, he comes out handsome; his father rushes into the cauldron, cooked; Ivan reigns]: 239-243; 1958 (2), No. 224 [the mouse quarreled with V No. 224:197-204. wait for him to eat bread, drink milk, etc., stealing grain from the barn, the animals began to fight birds; the wounded Eagle asks the merchant three times not to kill him, but to care for him; three years later he carries him to back; throws three times over the sea and catches the merchant to feel like he, the Eagle, was afraid of being shot by him; the Eagle's sisters in the copper and silver kingdoms refuse to give the merchant a casket, sister in He gives it to the golden kingdom; the Eagle orders not to open it along the way, the merchant opens it, a palace and servants appear from it; the Unbaptized Forehead collects everything in a casket for promising to give what he does not know at home; a merchant his wife meets her newborn son; Ivan grows up and goes to NL; Baba Yaga advises to hide the wings of a colorful cabbage roll when three cabbage rolls arrive for a swim; this is Vasilisa Premudraya, NL's beloved daughter; cook Chumichka lies as if Ivan promised 1) to cut down the forest in a day, harvest, bake pies out of flour; 2) make a flying ship; VP does everything, Chumichka is thrown off the ship; 3) NL tells me to go around the stallion; this is NL himself, Ivan hits him with a hammer; 4) choose a bride among three mares, three pigeons, three girls (the VP has a dull sequin on the bridle; he will wave his wing; a handkerchief); after the wedding, the young run, the VP turns Ivan into the garden, himself into a head of cabbage; a well and a falcon; when NL himself is chasing, VP throws a brush (forest), a comb (mountain), a towel (sea); Ivan is the first to come home, kisses his godmother, forgets VP; she is hired as an employee, Ivan is ready to marry; VP comes to the wedding with a pie, a dove with a dove comes out of it, the dove says that the dove will forget her, how Ivan forgot the VP; Ivan recalls]: 197-204; Korolkova 1969 [Ivan hunts for his master; sees twelve swans; they throw off their birds' clothes, become girls, bathe; he hides his shoe alone, she agrees to become his wife; cleans it up poor house; the master demands either Ivan's wife or 1) bring all the animals a menagerie; the wife tells him to follow the rolling ball; the beast rushes at I., but gets stuck with its horn in the oak; I. leads him for this wife leash; the master is frightened, asks to take the beast away; 2) get the self-playing harp; the ball rolls to the wife's mother, she gives harp; 3) bring neither; the wife asks, only the frog knows how to get it; in the lake Crystal Palace, Orlets there; I. tells him to have a feast at his master, then drive his master and his men out]: 130-140; Pukhova 2006, No. 11 [One person wanted to drink water from the pond, could not get the bucket, he drank it like this. Immortal Koschey grabbed him by the beard and ordered him to give "what you don't know". In his absence, his son Vanyusha was born, whom his father sent to Koshchei when he was 17 years old. Immortal Koshchei's relatives gave him a ball that led him to the pond where Koshchei's 12 daughters bathed. He hid one of them's dress and told them to move it to the other side of the pond in exchange for it. She moved Vanyusha, and they went to Koshchei together. Koshchei liked the boy, stayed with him for a week, then he began to test him, giving him three hours to rest before each task. Vanyusha easily picked up the oak tree after drinking drops given to him by Koshchei's daughter. Then Koschey ordered him to build a church - Vanyusha was helped by 12 daughters of Koshchei. Koschey told him to choose a wife from his daughters. The youngest waved her hand and he chose her. After 3 hours, Koschey ordered the horse to be split into 12 chains, but Vanyusha and his wife managed to escape, and instead of them Koshchei was answered by an unclean spirit. Koschei and the rest of his daughters chase them, the fugitives turn into a pond. Next time they go to church, they leave the chase, live happily ever after and make good money]; Russians (Tambov) [an unclean spirit stole Anastasia the Beautiful from Tsar Pea; three sons go in search; the youngest Ivan sees how three spoonbills became girls, began to swim; I. hid the sash as the most beautiful; she replies that his mother was kidnapped by her father Raven Voronovich; tells him to follow the bird with the golden tuft; I. goes with her brothers, they bring him down to the lower world; 33 spoonbill girls in the copper, silver, gold kingdoms send I. to go for the ball; the princess of gold gives a ball to go to the pearl kingdom, where the mother I.; orders to rearrange the vats with strong and low-power water there; I. grabs BB, makes him give him a feather road; princesses and mother I. turned the four kingdoms into balls, the I. brothers pulled everyone out, cut off the rope, lifting I.; 12 fellows carried him to the ground; Father I. executed his wife, wants to marry the princess of the golden kingdom; she demands to sew boots, then a dress without a measure; I. does everything, hiring a artisans and revealing hidden kingdoms; the princess tells I. to cook in milk, he becomes handsome; his father jumped, cooked; I. marries, reigns]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 130:239-243; Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [the poor man's horse stops; an important man says that the horse will go if the poor man promises to give him what he does not know at home; at this time his wife gave birth; three months later, son Ivan grows up, leaves; the old man explains that he has been sold to the Devil; you have to hide by the sea in a hollow, Devil's three daughters will come to swim, we must take the third ring; she will take the form of water, fire, snakes, but the ring you must pay for the promise to become I.'s wife; so it happened, the wife takes I. to his father; he demands 1) to arrange a field on the site of the forest in a day, harvest, bake bread; 2) build a bridge to the kingdom of far away (according to The devils do everything to the order of the wife); 3) kill a green hare; the wife enters the sea, passes by, father, mother I.; it was the hare; for the third time - grandmother I., I. shoots, the grandmother turns into a hare; The devil says the eldest daughters will turn into mares, but I.'s wife promises to give them for his brothers; I. and his wife run away, turn into a monastery and a monk, wheat and a boy, the devil does not recognize them; chases them for the third time The devil, recognizes her daughter and son-in-law in the form of a lake and a gander, takes away I.'s eyes; her daughter becomes a spring, Chertikha leans down to drink, drops her eyes, his wife returns them to I.; wedding]: Verkhovyna's Tales 1970:196-202; Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Khust Oblast, p. Gorinchevo) [The tsar has one son Ivan, it's time for him to get married, he only wants a native girl (SD). She takes a warrior with him and goes looking for her. He turns right, drives through the wasteland, sees a lonely mill. There's an old woman with knee-length lashes. He says hello and calls his mother sweet. She raises her eyelashes. I haven't seen a living soul in ages. She suggests taking a break and going to see her middle sister tomorrow. It gives a horse and a ball of thread, you have to hold on to the thread. A year later, I. reaches his middle sister. She has eyelashes down to the ground. The Tsarevich also greets her and calls her mother sweet. She raises her lashes and explains that she hadn't seen a living soul in 200 years. She suggests going to see her older sister in the morning. It gives a horse and a ball of thread. A year later, I. reaches his oldest sister. She says hello, calls her mother sweet. The woman barely lifts her eyelashes - so long. In the morning, he gives three wheat grains, tells you to go to the sandbank to the sea, put wheat under your tongue and turn into a hare. Eleven pigeons will arrive, but there will be no diabetes among them. The cabbage rolls will swim in the sea, rejoice and sing, then they will fly away, and only then will she arrive. This is what happens. When SD arrives, she sheds her feathers and goes swimming. The prince takes her clothes, wraps her in a handkerchief, runs to the woman, who tells her to sit on her horse and go on the road without looking back, although SD will run after him and ask for clothes. As soon as he looks back, the clothes will fall out of his hands, the CD will catch up, hit his mouth and go away. We should keep quiet. When you're at home, you should give SD regular clothes and then talk and hide your feathers. I. rides, the girl follows him, persuades him to return her clothes, she will be ashamed to walk naked around the city, she will not leave him anymore. He looks around, feathers fly out of his hands, SD hits I. on the mouth, flies away. The woman gives three other grains, turns him into a deer, he steals clothes, sits on a horse and rushes without looking back or talking. At the palace, SD wears home clothes, gives the feathers to her mother, who sews them into her retinue, which she wears once a year. They live happily, they give birth to a boy with five golden hairs on his head. I. goes hunting, the mother asks her daughter-in-law why she is so beautiful and does not have parents. She replies that her clothes are even more beautiful, and her mother-in-law did not see them in them. The queen rips off her retinue, the feathers fly up on the girl themselves, she flies away through the window. Ivan goes looking, and three years later he gets to the woman who helped him. She explains that his wife is overseas with her demon mother will need to be cunning. A wolf is serving in the mill. Baba will hide it at the bottom of the barrel, and the wolf will carry it to the other side of the sea. The barrel is heavy, the wolf decides not to serve anymore on the way and throws it into the sea. The barrel breaks on the shore, I. gets out of the sea, goes out onto a glass road, comes to the palace to an old demon, and is hired. She tells you to dig up the mountain, level it, plow it, and sow wheat. Wheat must ripen by tomorrow, he must harvest it, grind it, grind flour, bake rolls and give it to it early in the morning, otherwise he will be headless. I.'s pickaxe and shovel break, he sits down and cries. The demon tells his daughter to bring him food, he doesn't recognize SD, and she recognizes him. She tells me to eat, she pulls out a squeaker from under her right hand, squeaks, all the devils run away. The SD tells them to do whatever I. The next year, the demon gives a wooden trough, leads to the lake without end and edge, tells you to scoop out water, plant grapes, hand over three large bowls of wine in the morning, otherwise he will lose his head. The wife brings food, calls the devils together with a squeaker, and they complete the task. So I. served his second year. The devil says she'll give him more work in the morning. I. sees a prisoner who has already served in an iron furnace, on fire, on seven chains, who cannot warm up. He sits down and cries. A demon sends her daughter to find out what happened. She calls the devils with a squeaker, tells them to obey her husband's order. Ivan orders the hell to get him and his wife home by morning. The devils spread the red fly, Ivan and the SD sit on it, fly away. On the way, I. burns from behind a blue flame. This is a demon. He turns around, a demon grabs his eye. He is blind. The wife leaves him with his handkerchief in place, turns into a pigeon, overtakes the demon and, picking up two lumps of manure from the road, turns into a well under two sycamores. A heated demon bends down to get drunk, and the girl replaces I.'s eyes in her sinus with dung. He flies to Ivan, regains his eyes, and finally recognizes her as his wife. The demon rushes home, the prisoner from the furnace asks if she brought him a partner, who says she took his eyes, climbs into her bosom, finds manure. The prisoner laughs so much that he warms up. The demon flies back, flies to the border, bursts with anger. I. and SD get home, live happily]: Lintur 1979:5-11; Western Ukrainians (Hutsulshchyna): Zinchuk 2006a, No. 54 [the guy goes looking for the most beautiful bride; old man: Baba Yaga has three daughters, they will come swim, you have to hide the younger one's clothes, do not give it back, despite requests that she is naked; the girl went after the guy, begged her to give her a sleeve, grabbed her clothes, disappeared; old man: now it will take a year wait; this time the guy did not give the girl clothes, brought him home with his wife; joined the army; at this time the wife shows people all sorts of tricks; I would also show if my husband's sister gave my dress; she gave it back, wife flew away; the husband came back, went to look for her; another old man: the wife behind glass mountains; around Baba Yaga's house, on each stamen with her head severed off, one empty; the wife gave a twig and a pipe; if you hang down, will come to help; Baba Yaga demands to cut down the forest, plow the field, etc., collect and bake bread; his wife's servants did everything; standing in place of the valley (what is this?) with fish; we must pull out the one that is his wife; wife: I will wave my tail; my husband pulled her out; choose from three mares (the wife is middle); let my husband hit her lightly with that twig; Baba Yaga gave him her daughter], 122 [guy found a pair of wings in the forest, hid it; the girl asks for return; agrees to go with him if they don't ask her anything; their child is dead, she sings and has fun; his mother is dead, she cries and cries; husband asks why; wife: the child was taken by angels, and your mother was dragged by the devils with a rake; ordered her wings to be returned and disappeared]: 150-155, 376-377; Western Ukrainians (Galicia, Sambir District) [rich man begged God for a son, but went to the forest, the baby was lost; the forester raised him; when the boy was 20 years old, he told him to tie his club (the first one was too light, told him to bind him harder), went to wander; three pannas they swim, he stole her middle dress and wings; got married; once she asked for a return - she flies around the hut; flew out the window, told her to look for her on Oatmeal Mountain; the hermit whistled animals - no one knows Oatmeal Mountain; he sent to his older brother; the same thing there; to the oldest; the lion came last, the hermit tells him to take the guy; he drove him, but threw him into failure; the guy got out; stopped the mill; promised to let him go again if the miller brought him to the princess; he hid the guy in a barrel of flour; she was brought to the palace; there he was not told to open the doors tied with bast; he came in; someone black asks for bread and water; the guy gave it, he took off and took the princess away; the guy came to the widow, hired to herd horses; the girl warned not to eat food, what they would offer is poison; he herds horses for three days hits his club, drives him safe, the widow offers to choose whichever one he wants, he chose a skate; he twice asks for permission to be caught with the mother mare first; then brings him to the rock on which princess and black; the guy threw it at a black club and it was gone]: M. Dragomanov in Pankeev 1992:124-130; Western Ukrainians (Pokutye) [pan bent over to the well to drink water; the underground king grabbed him by the beard: give him what you don't know at home; when Pan returned, it turned out that the wife gave birth to a son; he grew up, went to the forest at the age of 15; a voice came out of the fire: remind my father of his promise; the guy went to look for the underground king; there were 12 white shirts by the river and 12 ducks in the water; he hid one shirt; ducks went ashore, became girls; the one whose clothes he hid says they are 12 daughters of an underground king; stomped, a passage to the lower world opened; teaches her father to approach her father on his knees; he gives 3 tasks; 1) build a castle overnight; the girl tells me to go to bed, the castle is ready in the morning; 2) identify my youngest daughter among 12, otherwise she will be given to live pigs to eat; girl: my ear will feel dizzy fly; 3) sew boots; the girl cannot, they run, her spit is responsible for the young man; the chase; the girl has turned herself into a field, the young man into a sower; the lake and the fisherman; the tavern and the tavern; now the girl throws the comb - thick forest; they have almost reached; the young man goes forward, the girl tells him not to kiss the child, otherwise she will forget her; he kissed; a wedding is being prepared with a girl; the girl has hired a cook, baked a loaf and two doves; a dove and a dove exchange phrases about how the young man forgot everything; pan is glad that his son is back, and with the bride; the cook became a dove, flew after the young man; {it is unclear, he still married daughters of an underground king or on an earthly girl}]: Zinchuk 2005b, No. 88:392-401; northern Ukrainians (Chernigov, Nezhinsky district) [the hunter saw a well on the mountain, started drinking, someone grabbed his beard; he had to promise what he did not know at home; when he returned home, it turned out that his son was born; when Ivan is 7 years old, he went to the snake; woman towards: 12 doves will fly to the river; we must wait for another one, hide the shirt; the girl promises to call the one who took it father; brother; when she said that her husband, I. came out from behind the bushes; she is the daughter of a snake, they came to him; serpent: in order to cut down the forest in a day, harvest crops, bake bread; the girl called her servants, did everything; teach the horse to fly (done); the bridge over the wide river (done); the girl tells him to run, ask for cherries be responsible for her; the serpent sent 12 doves in pursuit; the girl became a lamb, I. a shepherd; church and pop (I. each time pretends not to understand the questions of the pursuers and answers inadvertently); the serpent flies by itself; river and ruff; the snake became a pike, did not catch up with the ruff; I. and the girl reached Ivan's father, got married, began to live happily ever after]: Malinka 1902, No. 17:282-286; Ukrainians (the place of recording is not a decree ., according to M. Wozniak, vol.3) [the sea grandfather stopped the merchant's ship, tells him to give him that he does not know at home; while he was not at home, his wife gave birth and raised a son; at 12 he went to his sea grandfather; 12 ducks turn into girls they take off their clothes, bathe; the young man hides his youngest's clothes, gives him for a promise to become his wife; tells him to go without turning to vipers and animals in a hut on a chicken leg; the betrothed waits for him there; teaches him to answer boldly lions, break the gate, recognize her among 12 identical girls; so three times; the merchant's son gets a wife]: Pankeev 1992:151-160; Eastern Ukrainians (Kharkiv) [Baba asks her husband to make a son out of a stick, he does it, they go to work in the fields, they leave the child at home. Three elders come to the house, give the boy an apple, it rolls after the elders, the boy follows him. He finds himself in the woods, steals the dress from the most beautiful bathing pigeon, the girl asks for her dress back, he gives it back when she agrees to marry him. He hides his dress in a chest, parents are surprised at the girl's appearance. She asks her husband to show her dress, then hold it in her hands, flies out the window like a dove. Parents promise to marry their son again]: Ivanov 1894, No. 4:143-144.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks: Badmayev 1899 [a poor boy sees the daughters of the sun flying to the lake, hides one of them's clothes; she now lives in his hut, light comes from there; Khan demands to talk about because of the light, or bring an object that the khan did not see; the youngest of the sisters tells me to hide by the river, look at the lame cancer; the hermit comes, says Murza, put food, eats; after The boy himself orders Murza to leave the hermit, asks him to eat with him; the grateful invisible M. goes with him; on the way he agrees to be exchanged for magic items, returns to the boy each time; with Khan's army was destroyed with the help of objects, the boy lives with his wife]: 11-15; Vatagin 1964 [shooter Heeche-Mergen hides the clothes of one of the three swan girls who have come to swim; marries; Tsarkin Khan wants her the adviser suggests sending H. to the Ganges for the tigress's milk; the tigress is H.'s wife's livestock, he brings milk; a lame and crooked drunkard offers to bring an invisible thing from an unknown country; the wife gives ball; H. follows, shows his wife's crest to the woman, this is his wife's sister; she gives another ball, it leads to her older sister; she asks all the creatures, knows only cancer with an iron claw; it's in the forest beyond the outer sea; H. hides, sees his father telling Murza to serve food; when he leaves, H. asks Murza to join the meal; on the way back, H. exchanges Murza for a folding palace, a cane with an army, Murza returns every time; H. drives the khan away, reigns]: 115-128; Abkhazians: Bgazhba 1983:9-15 [(=2002:12-18); hail destroyed his younger brother's harvest; the elders dissuade him, but he leaves; 30 people are hired by the prince before sunset; asks the sun to wait a couple of minutes, but it sets; the prince wants to reward him, the hero replies that he has not fulfilled his promise, leaves; hired a shepherd to herd sheep for ten years; sheep multiply, the shepherd wants to reward the worker, he refuses, because on the last day the wolf slaughtered one sheep; hides the clothes of a bathing girl; this is Amra's daughter ( Sun); she brings him to her father; Amra is an ogre; allows him to marry his daughter if a person can perform his duties; you must greet Afa (Thunder), raise the floors of the cloak so as not to burn trees, treat the wolf gently; the man knocked out A.'s eye, burned down the garden, hit the wolf (now his neck does not turn); explains to angry A. that he acted as irresponsibly as others did to him; A. allows him to marry], 172-182; 2002 [a stranger gives a childless king to eat an apple in half with his wife for promising to send him one of his three sons to be born; younger Safa agrees to go Saaja; traces lead to the bottom of the sea; the rider puts the SS on his mule, transports him; the old woman tells him to rush to another, call him mother; the other can't eat him now; when the six daughters of that ajnysh (the devil) ) they will arrive to swim with doves, and the seventh eagle will throw off her feathers, hide the eagle's clothes; Ajnysh tells 1) to eat the bull (the wife gives a handkerchief to run over her lips - she is hungry again); 2) grow a plane tree out of a stick ( teaches how to water); a young man and his wife run away on a black and white horse, Ajnysh chases on a fiery horse; she turns into a chapel, a prince into a fence; Ajnysh does not recognize them; the girl's mother rides, she throws it with her 1) water from a flask (river), 2) cobs (thick corn) 3) nuts (mountains); the mother tells her daughter to turn into a frog; she tells the prince to wait for her for three years; he is wrong for three days, he is married to another girl; the frog lives with the old woman, gives her gold, the rumor spreads; the new wife pretends to be sick, tells her to kill the frog; she was burned, the bone remained, fell into the water, became a goldfish; she was caught, eaten, the fin fell, a tree grew; it was cut down, burned, the sliver hit the old woman, she brought it home, the sliver became a girl; the new wife is expelled, the real one is returned]: 186-197; Mikawa 1960 [Dzhanchyk sees a huge an eagle; he asks him for food; D. cut 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 him from his neck a basket with a hundred bulls, sit on your back, throw meat down your throat with every scream; the elder, middle sisters of the eagle refuse to give a ring, a handkerchief; the youngest gives a box; D. finds himself in the forest, with him a box; red-haired man (this is a 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, went to the 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 clothes; girl explains that the forest 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 bride, married; prince orders 1) to build a city overnight; wife teaches her father to tame Rashi (magic horse), go around the site, a city will appear; the wife tells her to run, because the judges slander her father against AO; 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 in word, boxwood forest, sea; the princess's horse 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, daughter the prince threw her ring into the jug; AO remembered everything, brought his wife, the former one was held honorably]: 18-26; Hvartsky 1994 [Jomlat sees 12 girls on the seashore; nurse: these are the daughters of the Sea King, it is necessary steal and burn the veil of 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, son became the ancestor of Princes Shervashidze]: 232-234; Shakryl 1975, No. 38 [=Bgazhba 2002:186-197; a stranger gives the childless king an apple to eat in half with his wife for promising to send him one of the three sons who will be born; younger Safa Saaja agrees to go; traces lead to the bottom of the sea; the rider puts the SS on his mule, transports; the old woman tells me to rush to another, call him mother; the other can't eat him now; when six daughters of that Ajnysh (devil) arrive to swim in doves, and the seventh is an eagle and throw off their feathers, hide their clothes eagles; ajnysh tells 1) to eat a bull (the wife gives a handkerchief to run over her lips - hungry again); 2) grow a plane tree out of a stick (teaches how to water); a young man and his wife run away on a black and white horse, Ajnysh pursues fiery; she turns into a chapel, a prince into a fence; Ajnysh did not recognize them; the girl's mother jumps, she throws water from a flask (river), 2) cobs (thick corn) 3) nuts (mountains); mother tells her daughter turn into a frog; she tells the prince to wait three years for her; he is wrong for three days, he is married to another girl; the frog lives with an old woman, gives her gold, the rumor spreads; the new wife pretends sick, tells me to kill the frog; it was burned, the bone remained, fell into the water, became a goldfish; it was caught, eaten, the fin fell, a tree grew; it was cut down, burned, the sliver fell to the old woman, she brought it home , the sliver became a girl; the new wife is expelled, the real one is returned], 69 [in order not to pay the shepherd, the prince called the birds - who can take him away; the vulture carried him to the ground located between heaven and our land, on the way, a shepherd threw him meat; there Ajweipsch tells the shepherd that the chamois in the clearing are his daughter; advises him to take the youngest's dress hidden under the bushes, then she will become his wife; (cuts a tura, a goat and a hare, after a feast she collects bones in their skins, the animals come to life; this episode is only in Bgazhba 2002); the wife gives birth to a girl, gives birth to a mermaid, the boy to a deer, and another to a roe deer; Three years later, A. lets his son-in-law go home on condition that he does not curse his wife; he returns drunk, scolds his wife, she shows him the children, tells them to tell his father that she has gone to her older sister Huny-Huna Gadlabad; the shepherd flew to A. on a vulture, begged for help, who called the birds, turned the shepherd into a flea, the crow brought him to the HCC, she persuaded his wife to forgive him, both went down to the ground to children; (=about the same in Bgazhba 2002:24-28)]: 189-204, 316-321; Abaza people: Kapiyeva 1991 [the father asks three sons to get a sea horse; the youngest comes to the old woman Kart, falls his lips to her breasts, after that she cannot eat it, shows the way, teaches how to catch a horse; the young man picks up a golden pen, the shah orders to bring the bird itself; the horse says that the three daughters of the Shah of the Sea turn into pigeons, swim in the lake; the young man hides the youngest's feathers, the girl agrees to go with him; tells the Shah that he will marry him if he jumps into a well with milk from red cows; calls cows, the Shah drowns, the young man gets the girl; he meets the brothers, they throw him into the abyss, they themselves want the daughter of the Shah of the Sea; she calls the horse, ties her braid, the horse by the braid pulls the owner out of the abyss; brothers run away]: 28-35; Tugov 1985, No. 30 [the old woman's son studies with a goldsmith; he descends him into the abyss for gold; but there is no gold below, the master throws the rope, fearing that the student will be better than him; eagle takes the young man upstairs; three sisters make him a brother; they don't tell him to unlock the seventh room; the young man unlocks, goes down to another world; 30 girls in white, one in green fly in to swim; next time The named sisters tell him to hide his green dress; this is the daughter of an underground khan, the young man marries her; his mother visits his wife and children; his mother-in-law gives the dress to his daughter-in-law, she disappears; the older sister again steals the dress, the wife returns to her husband]: 66-69; the Kabardian people [Ismel, not the prince, kills the boar; the prince sends him to the gorge for the goat, he disappears; the same with his son named Overmes; O. descends into the abyss, sees goats at the top of the cliff; wraps himself in the skin of a fallow deer, the Eagle brings him to the rock; O. kills the Eagle, keeps the eagles; someone has taken the meat supply, O. follows the trail to the hole, through it into valley, remains with the old man; he does not tell you to go to the tower; near the lake, the dove takes off its feathers, turns into a girl, swims; O. hides her clothes; Mezytlynyko, a forest man with a sharp bone, comes up with a protrusion on his chest; about to pierce the edge, he stumbles, O. kills him; gives his clothes in exchange for a ring; takes the girl as his wife; the wife feeds the eagles; O. flies in one, kills a goat, flies home, puts a goatskin with horns on the prince, he runs away into the forest, remains a goat; flies for his wife and wealth, brings them]: Huth 1987:160-168; Karachays [young shepherd sees three old women undress, turn into wolves, slaughter a sheep; he hides their clothes; returns them for promising to give him good clothes, a horse, marry the best girl; they fulfilled their promise, the shepherd got married]: Dzhurtubayev 2007: 177-178; Karachays or Balkarians [Aladin asks his father to get him a good horse; he brings a plain horse; the horse got stronger, rushed further at the races, found himself on the seashore, disappeared into sea; A. sees three girls bathing, hides their swan clothes; promises to give it back if they help get the prince's daughter to talk; you have to touch the fur coat with a wand, she will tell a fairy tale, the fairy tale will be an argument, it is necessary to resolve the dispute incorrectly, then the girl will begin to speak; the brothers have one bull for three; the eldest pass the head, the middle one - the belly, the youngest - the hind legs; the youngest thought that the bull was sick, I went to my middle brother for advice; late in the evening I reached the belly of the bull, both went to the elder, reached the bull's head late at night; the brothers took the bull to a watering hole, he drained the sea with a sip; brothers decided to leave the bull on the island, it turned out to be the back of the fish; the fish swallowed the bull; the eagle took the fish; in the steppe, the shepherd sat down to rest in the shade of his goat's beard; the eagle fell on the goat's horns, ate the fish and grass and the trees that grew on it; a bull's shoulder fell out of his beak, fell into the old man's eye; he asked his daughter to take it out; she drove her father's eye up and down in the boat, picked up the shoulder blade with her little finger, threw it out the window; the shovel fell at the well where a caravan of ninety camels had stopped; the caravans spread fire on the bull's shoulder blade, and a fox ran past, smelled, began to gnaw on the shoulder blade, the caravans thought that an earthquake had begun; a woman hit the fox with a rocker arm, killed; the caravans took off half of the skin and half did not - 90 people could not turn the fox to the other side; half the skins decided to sew 90 fur coats; the woman pushed the fox with the dude's toe, turned it over, wondered if half the skin would be enough for a hat for her newborn son; which of them is bigger? ; Aladin: fish; silence could not stand it: more and more children; A. got a wife]: Aliyeva, Kholaev 1983:90-97; Balkarians (Western 1958) [Arabian, his young wife Ariu; he chased and wounded a deer; he reproached him: why did he ruin his life? there are black clouds in the sky, Arabian does not return for a long time; when he returns, Ariu looks at his ring, but it is still black; women in the country do not give birth; finally, the ring has brightened, the clouds have cleared, the women have become to give birth; Arabia has a son, Zharykbiy ("hot" means "joy"); he grew up with six peers born on the same day; the same deer is being chased, driven into the sea, dragged into a boat, the boat was carried away; some of the companions died; J. and the rest entered the land of monkeys and are forced to fight against lions; they are fleeing, monkeys and lions are chasing; A. crossed the river, his companions drowned; the merchant adopted A., told his youngest daughter not to leave him alone; despite the merchant's warning and his daughter's pleas, A. hired a merchant who promised gold and a daughter; his daughter was immediately given a choice; she says that those who left with her father did not return ; the merchant orders to slaughter the horse and get into the skin, the eagle will bring it to the rock, let J. drop the gold; after receiving the gold, the merchant left; J. killed the eagle, ate its meat; found the path, came to the forest, then to the tower, an old man in it; he went out; said that he was the leader of the birds, would go to the meeting, try to find out how J. could return home; while he was away, three eagles flew in to swim, shed their skins, and began girls; J. hid his youngest's clothes; the girls spoke to him, put him to sleep, took his clothes and fled; the same again; for the third time, the old man tells him not to give up his feather clothes until he returns; J. did not give the youngest's clothes, married her; homesick; his wife in the glare of an eagle brought J. to his native land; the rider says that he is one of those who have been looking for the missing J. for 40 years; J.'s wife tells his story ; the sun was in the sky, the ring brightened; J. began to live with his wife in the tower, hid her clothes under the foundation; the wife found her clothes and flew away; he found them and returned them; his wife herself ordered her clothes to be burned in the fire]: Malkonduev 2017:179-198; Balkarians (Western 1955) [the khan's son has three friends; they decided to travel; there is a forest and a mountain across the river; two disappeared during the crossing; the khan's son and a friend killed two tours, captured, the local ruler (wild animals are his cattle), threw them in prison, wants to execute them; his youngest son released them; the Khan's son's companion was shot dead while fleeing; the Khan's son himself met a girl; married; met a man who offered a job: slaughter the horse, climb into the carcass, the eagle will lift it to the rock, we must throw off the gold; the khan's son saw the bones, did not throw gold; he hardly got out of the cave; the man takes him to him; when leaving, forbids to unlock one room; the young man unlocked; there was a milk lake and a golden tree; three pigeons flew in, took off their clothes, became girls, bathed in a milk lake; the owner of the house explained that they were three daughters of the king of jinns; advises to hide clothes with whatever you like; the girl fell in love with him; when the young man asked, she transferred him to his father's kingdom; enemies attacked; the girl turned enemy warriors into gravestones; revived a promise not to come again; the young man hid his pigeon clothes in a chest on the roof; his wife was offended that he did not trust her, easily took her clothes and flew away; the young man went in search; her father was the king of jinns ordered a young man to be brought to him, scolded his daughter; the young man and wife returned to their homes]: Malkonduev 2017:179-218; Ossetians [the eagle asks the hunter not to kill him; says that three people fly to the lake from heaven to swim doves; you must hide the clothes of the one who undresses later than others; the hunter returns the clothes when a woman calls him husband; she creates a palace, the king is jealous; tells 1) to bring the bear from the end of the world; wife gives a golden ball, he rolls to her older sister; her daughter recognizes her younger sister's towel; the ball rolls back, the bear is behind him; the king asks to send the bear back; 2) bring what no one saw; the hunter again goes for the ball to his wife's sister, the mistress of the animals; the fox gives Rochka, an invisible animal; the hunter changes it for an accordion with troops, Rochka also returns to him; also exchanges the rolling one iron stick; destroys the tsar and the army]: Britaev, Kaloev 1959:296-301; Ingush [poor young man dreams: on the left and right there are two golden towers, two doves flew to his knees, telling him to take what destined; he ran to look for the old man to tell him a dream, but the hunter persuaded him to tell him and bought a dream; he was going to spend the night under a tree; a rider drove up on a beautiful horse, with him the second without a rider; the rider turned out to be the daughter of a pachchaha, who was told by an old man in a dream to marry a young man sleeping under this tree; they came to the city and lived well; Pacci greeted the young man; he invited him to visit , although the wife is against it; the owner of the pacci recognized the wife of the neighboring paccah, whom he used to marry; the old man invited the paccah to pretend to be sick and send the young man for a healing flower; the wife teaches to hide clothes of a red-headed bird - she will swim in the lake undressed, and bald and black-headed dressed; the bird will fulfill wishes; the wife gave a ring, the bird saw, put it on, became a girl, she is a sister the young man's wife must be his second wife; the young man brought his second wife and flower; the pacci demands a date with his deceased father; two birds took the young man and the paccia to heaven; the bald boy lowered back, and the black-headed woman came back alone and said that his father threw his pachchah's body into the sea, and God sent his soul to hell; the young man became a pacchah of two countries, the husband of two wives; the dream came true]: Tankieva 2003:314-321; Chechens [elderly parents have a son; they often say that he is marrying Chingaz; the young man has grown up, his parents replied that they do not know where to look for C.; Zhara-Baba's old widow orders to give the young man a horse and let C. look for weapons; he sees three pigeons fly by the lake, shed their wings, become girls; he hides their wings, promises to give them back if they tell us about themselves; one of them is C., asks the young man for time get to know each other, tells them to return home, and after 7 days 3 am to come to an oak tree; the witch wants to marry her daughter as a young man; sends a servant, tells him to stick a needle into the Circassian young man every night; he falls asleep when C. arrives; C. tells the servant to tell: only a worthy person will find C.; a young man cuts off the servant's head; saves an eagle whose claws are stuck in a snag, lets fish into the water, pulls the wolf out of the hole; meets the servant of the 9-headed Black Khoja, who kidnapped C., brings him to her; the young man tells C. to find out where his fast horse comes from; such foals are given birth to 3 mares, which Zhery-Baba looks after; she tells them herds, the heads of those who failed (there are already 82) are put on stakes; an eagle, a fish, a wolf drive the runaway; the young man receives and tames the foal; he asks to let him drink mother's milk for the last time, after that he is immensely strong; the young man takes C., jumps away, the horse CH catches up, but the young man's horse tells him (this is his older brother) to throw off CH, the young man cuts off his heads; wedding]: Kibiev, Malsagov 1981:48 -71; Nogais: Bagriy 1930 (1) [(from A.E. Gren's report, from L.G. Lopatinsky's materials); a slave and a khan's daughter fall in love, marry; the wife dies, tells her husband to kill a goat, put on a skin, walk along the road; birds grab him, bring him to the gorge; the old man tells him to wait at the well; three girls arrive, undress, swim, the hero grabs his wife's leg; on a flying carpet they fly to her mother; she gives birth to three sons, she suffocates them herself; the old man warned not to scold his wife, the husband scolds, she disappears; the shoe remains, the hero comes to the witch with him; she takes her shoe, finds and returns the hero's wife]: 59-61; Kapaev 2012 [the legend about the origin of the founder of the Nogai rulers, Aegis; the shepherd found a skull with the inscription in the steppe; grinded it into flour, hid it in a chest; his daughter found a parcel, licked it, and gave birth to a boy Bar-kaya ; living away from people and hunting, B. marries a swan maiden; she gives birth to his son Kutla-Kai (Edige's father) and leaves; in another version, three swans flew to the lake shore, took off their clothes, became girls, swam; Kutly-kaya hid his youngest's clothes, married her]: 257-258; Nogai 1979, No. 18 [Batyrbek, the son of poor Bolat, is ashamed that his horse is worse than others; Bolat finds a trail of tulpara, exchanges him from a beggar (tulpar looks like a thin nag); the khan gives grain to feed the tulpara; Batyrbek wins it at the races, but, contrary to his father's warning, unties the last knot on the reins, the horse rushes, dives into the sea, Batyrbek goes ashore; finds the clothes of three girls; promises to return them if the girls help make Khan Olmes's daughter Soleimes ("the enduring Khan's non-speaking daughter") speak; the girls take Batyrbek to the khan, the eldest hides in S.'s fur coat, tells a fairy tale, at the end we must give an answer, Batyrbek must deliberately answer incorrectly, then S. will speak; then the same: the speaker kumgan; talking golden bowl; fur coat story: three brothers take turns herding sheep; the elder carves the girl out of wood, the middle one dresses her, the younger sprinkles her with herbal infusion, revives her; Batyrbek replies that the girl should be taken by the one who revived her, S. objects: the younger brother should not marry before the elder; Kumgan's story: one brother herds his head, the other belly, the third the back legs of the bull; the elder brother goes to the middle brother all day, they both go to the youngest to find out if the bull is sick; the bull is healthy; they lead him to a watering hole; the bull drank the sea, the island remains, he turned out to be a fish, she swallowed the bull, the eagle took the fish, sat on the goat's horns, an old man was sitting in the shade of his beard, the bull's shoulder blade hit his eye, the old man's daughter swam in a boat in her father's eye, pulled out her shoulder blade, threw it away door; caravans stopped on their shoulder blade, the ground under them trembled - it was the fox who began to gnaw on its shoulder blade; the woman killed the fox with a rocker arm, left; 99 caravans ripped off the fox's skin from one side, but could not turn the fox over; the woman returned, turned the fox over with her toe, but doubted whether half the skin would be enough for a hat for her newborn son; Batyrbek replies that the eagle was the most, S. was a child; the story of the bowl: the mother of nine sons sews a skullcap, answers everyone what is for him; tells them to go to the khan, let him judge who the skullcap is; everyone tells the khan about his abilities; all one finds, the other sees everything, the third shoots accurately, etc. (makes a bow from a chip; a boat out of a chip; a house made of one brick; feeds everyone; digs an underground passage; a thief); the khan asks the brothers to find his missing daughter; the brothers find out that Azaa took her away, hit him with an arrow in the eye, return the girl; Batyrbek replies that his younger brother, S., who is the eldest, should receive the skullcap; Batyrbek marries Soleimas], 23 [orphan dreams: the moon is at the head, the sun is at his feet, the star is on the sides; he sells a dream to a shepherd for a flock; the shepherd sees how the rider drove up to the house, fell asleep; the girl called out, the shepherd answered, told him to ride after her ; in the morning, the girl sees a mistake, but decides that it is fate; tells him to take a golden spoon as a gift to the khan and ask them to build a house on a pile of ash; tells them to invite Khan to visit, but enter first; the young man forgot instruction, the khan was the first to enter, fell in love; the viziers advise not to kill the shepherd, but 1) send him for milk from an Arab mare; the wife teaches to lure the mare with salt; the young man brings milk and brings herself a mare; 2) bring an apple to a girl of paradise; the wife tells me to go to the lake, three doves will arrive, turn into heavenly girls, you must hide the clothes alone; the young man brings an apple to the khan, takes a heavenly girl second wife; 3) bring the gold ring to the khan's late mother and find out where she buried the gold; a heavenly girl throws her husband into the fire, he goes out with a ring, says where the gold is; the khan asks him to leave him too, burns down, a young man is made a khan; two wives and two children of a young man - a dream come true]: 86-102, 120-125; Kumyks [the dervish took Ibrahim to the top of an egg-shaped rock; he managed to go down to the garden of the Jin king's daughters; for one month a year, they must return to their father; when they fly away, they tell them not to look into one room; he enters there, the garden is even better, three beauties come to swim, throw off their swan robe; I. fell in love with a black woman; when the first girls arrived, the youngest promised to help get her; teaches her to hide, tie her hair to a tree while she dives, beat her until she put up with it; I. hides a swan that girl's cover, the other two flew away; the black woman is forced to agree to become I.'s wife; he decides to return to his mother; the first girls tell I. to give his mother his wife's swan clothes for storage; while I. no, Khan's mother sees a black woman in the bathhouse; asks her to sing; she says that for this purpose, let the khan's mother dig up a chest in which the swan outfit is hidden; after receiving it, she flies away, taking the children; I. calls the first three girls; they explain that his wife and the other two - from those genies who do not have men, they kill men; the youngest sends I. to the border of the genie kingdom; then other genies help; I. gets to giants, they put him in a cage; he runs, meets female warriors, agrees to help alone; eventually he gets to those genies who have his wife; him, his wife, and the genie girl who helped they want to execute; the guard lets them go; I. and the black cat return to their mother I.]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 17:201-208; Avars: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 11 [Patah dreams of a sea horse, three sons are leaving get it; at the fork, a table with the inscription, whoever goes right or left has nothing to fear, and whoever is straight will die or find happiness; the youngest goes straight, gets to the giantess, around a steel palisade with with his heads fixed; because the young man sticks to the giantess's chest, she cannot kill him, vomits and swallows the cat out of anger; hides the young man, asks the seven sart sons who have returned about the horse, the youngest points the path; the young man tames the horse, rides it, picks up a golden pen; the city sees a feather, demands to get the one who owned it; the horse explains that the three daughters of the sea king come to swim at lake, pigeon plumage is removed, the youngest's plumage must be hidden; the young man brings the girl to the pachah, she promises to go beyond if he swims in a hole of milk and gets younger; the pathah drowns; the young man takes a girl, finds brothers, they push him into a well, the girl makes a rope out of her braids, gives a horse, he pulls out the young man, his brothers run away in fear, the young man marries]: 155-166; Saidov, Dalgat 1965:198- 207 [the son refuses to lie down with Halun, his chosen father, promises to marry Queen Gunzari, whose portrait his father showed; beauties in bird clothes fly to swim in the lake, the young man sits on his clothes G.; she promises to marry him, but must first fly home; when the young man arrives at the appointed place, H. tells the servant to stick a needle in his clothes, the young man falls asleep, G. flies away, telling the servant that let his master will cut the stake and bolt; this is the servant and H., the young man kills the servant, drives H. away; goes with the vizier to look for G.; they stay in the house; the young man sleeps, the vizier hears the conversation between the old master and the girl; the seashore under a brushwood stone, you must hit the water with it, the sea part, drive to G.'s palace; whoever gives the story to another will become petrified; on the way back, the young man will die from a stallion and a snake; The vizier kills the stallion, the snake, licks the blood stain from G.'s cheek; the young man thinks that the vizier kisses her, promising to execute the vizier, makes her tell the truth, the vizier becomes stony; G. gives birth to a son, kills, smears him with the blood of a petrified vizier, both come to life], 254-263 [Khan wanders looking for a cure for his wife's infertility; the old man gives an apple, tells him to send him a son when the young man grows up; the widow tells the young man that they will arrive to swim the old man's daughter, 40 black and 1 white dove, you need to hide the clothes white; the old man brings the young man to the underground city; tells 1) to create a thousand sets of dishes in the meadow overnight (Dove performs); 2) silver lock (same); 3) horse with golden harness (same); Dove tells the young man to ask the old man to marry him one of his daughters, the old man will blindfold him, the Dove will not have one earring; the young man receives wife, she tells me to run; the room is responsible for the fugitives; the wife turns her husband into a cart, herself into a driver; into a gardener and a cucumber; the mother chases for the third time; the wife turns into the sea, the husband into a diver for shells, the wife tells the shells to become gold, the mother tells her daughter to be the sea for seven years; the young man forgets the Dove, marries, they have a son and daughter; seven years later, the Dove sells talking crows at the bazaar, husband recognizes her, goes to her from another wife] (=Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (1): 100-106; =Khalilov 1965, No. 41:94-99), 311-323 [the tsar dreams of a sea horse; the elder and middle brothers go right and left; the youngest - forward (it is written that the giantess will die or find happiness); puts on the giantess's chest, she hides it from her sons; asks her sons, the youngest knows the way to the horse; the prince hears, catches the horse; picks up golden fluff; falls asleep near the city; the king of the city demands to bring the creature from which the fluff is; the horse says that these are three doves, the daughters of the sea king, come to swim; tells you to take the shot the youngest's plumage; the prince brings her to the king, she fills the hole with cow's milk; the elderly spouses rejuvenate in it, the king drowns; the prince takes his wife home, the brothers push him into a hole, keep his wife in the castle ; the wife gives the horse a rope out of her hair, he pulls the prince out; the brothers run away]; Georgians: Epiphany 1894a, No. 2 (Imereti) [the hunter sees a wounded nine-headed eagle, he asks not to shoot, heal; brings rewards to their sisters, they are married to the kings of the white, red, blue seas; the older two refuse to give the box, the youngest gives it; the eagle warns not to open it the road; the man opens, the city appears from the box; the Eagle in anger tells us to collect everything back, for this is his land; agrees to lay it down himself for a promise to give what he did not leave at home; the man has a son at home; he grows up, goes looking for the Eagle; the old man says that three eagles with copper, silver, gold feathers will come to swim, tells him to hide the gold ones; the young man returns for his promise to marry him; wearing feathers, the eagle carries it to his father; the 9-headed Eagle orders to build 1) a church, 2) a garden, 3) a bridge, the bride creates everything; 4) identify which of the three eggs the bride is in; she says that the egg will move; the eagle is still going kill young people; they flee to the kingdom of the young man's father, everything is fine]: 8-19; Kurdovanidze 1988 (1), No. 44 [the young man has been working for a merchant for a year, receives a cane, a beautiful woman comes out of it; the prince wants to take it away; the merchant promises his best wife; tells him to pull the feather out of the clothes of one of the doves who will arrive, undress and swim; the wife finds a feather, flies away; the merchant tells the elephant to carry the prince through three hot seas; an elephant carries; scalded, dies, telling him to wait for a peacock to carry flour to heaven once a year; three quarrel over a flying carpet, a magic tablecloth, an invisible hat, a stick that hits itself; The prince tells them to move away, takes objects, flies to the miller, who hides him among bags of flour, brings the peacock to heaven; the prince flies back with his wife; her father pursues, his wife tells them to throw in the towel, turns her husband into an old man, himself into a sheep; her husband into a swineherd, himself a pig; the third time the towel turns into a boiling sea, the father stops persecuting]: 169-175; Chikovani 1954, No. 7 [two elder They decided to get rid of the younger one; let everyone shoot an arrow and follow it; the youngest comes to another kingdom, the old woman let them into the house; says that three cabbage rolls will fly to the lake, we must hide it the youngest's wing, let him become a wife; the young man is silent when the girl promises to become a sister; goes out when he is a wife; the young man works for the king, asks for one of the nine rooms for him and his wife; the advisers suggest so that the king would tell the young man to cut down trees in a day and take him to the palace, and not be able to take his wife away; the wife turned the ring, the warriors of her older sisters appeared, did everything; decided to kill the young man while hunting; the wife gave ring: throw it up, it will become a golden ball, give it to the king; taking gold, the king did not dare to kill the young man; a new task: plow the field in a day, grow crops, bring bags of flour; the warriors of the sisters fulfilled; advisers to the king: they led to bring "neither you know nor I know"; the wife called the warriors of the sisters, the last to come a lame frog, sent it to the old woman; the old woman gave a wheel, it will lie across the sea as a bridge, across the sea temple, at the temple I must say, "Trust me, sister!" , the doors will open; the old man came out, gave Tarumbala, although he is not visible; on the way back, the young man meets a merchant, whose organ, if you turn the handle, comes out; the young man tells T. to supply water and food; changed, and T. also returned to the young man; he came when the tsar wanted to marry his wife; ordered T. to cause a downpour, sent an army, destroyed the tsar, reigned himself], 31 (Kartli) [(=Kurdovanidze 1988.1, No. 37: 136-141); the eagle spread out on three oaks, asks the hunter not to kill him, cure him; carries him to his parents, tells them to ask them for treatment only a box; on the way, the hunter feeds the eagle, the last piece cuts him off from his leg; when he reaches, the eagle heals him; the eagle's mother tells him not to open the box on the way; the man opens, the whole city comes out of it; dev puts him back for promising to give what you don't know at home; this newborn son; he grows up, goes to the maiden to be eaten; the old woman tells the youngest of the deva daughters to hide the dress when they swim; she becomes his wife; dev tells him to cover the house and yard with gold with cloth; put a palace in the morning; the wife's people perform; to drive around the horse, this is the dev himself, the wife gives a bit and a hammer; the spouses run; the wife turns into a field, the husband into a reaper; into the forests and the old man; into the lake and the duck; the first The mother pursues the hunter twice, both the third; they drink the lake, they burst], 269-272 [Kaji takes the chamois from the hunter; returns for a promise to give what he did not see; at this time a son was born at home; the boy goes in the footsteps of the kaji; by the river hides the dress of one of the three doves who have come to swim; these are Kaji's daughters; for the returned dress, the girl promises to help; Kaji tells 1) to put a golden bridge (devas across the river put); 2) catch a black horse (this is the girl's mother, the girl gives a whip with steel teeth); the young are running, in the girl's room the voice continues to answer, I'm sick; Kaji is chasing a boar; the girl turns herself into an old woman, her husband into an old man, they work in the garden; Kaji did not recognize, the wife says they were fugitives, and the garden was a flying carpet; the carpet was a temple, wearing a monk and a nun (the same); the wife is chased kaji; young man fish, girl sea foam; mother cannot collect all the foam, tells her daughter to stay foam for three years, three months and three days; three days before the deadline, three girls come to the boy and ask him to take it any wife; a true bride sends two birds to the wedding, one tells how the groom forgot the bride; the young man remembers marrying his betrothed], 52 (Lechkhumi, Tsagersky district) [kaji takes chamois from the hunter ; returns for promising to give what he did not see; at this time a son was born at home; the boy follows in the footsteps of the kaji; by the river hides the dress of one of the three doves who came to swim; these are the daughters of Kaji; for the girl promises to help the returned dress; Kaji tells 1) to put a golden bridge across the river (the devas put it); 2) catch a black horse (this is the girl's mother, the girl gives a whip with steel teeth); the young run, in the girl's room, the voice continues to answer, I'm sick; Kaji is chasing a boar; the girl turns herself into an old woman, her husband into an old man, they work in the garden; Kaji did not recognize, the wife says it there were fugitives, and the garden was a flying carpet; the carpet was a temple, with a monk and a nun in it (the same); the Kaji's wife was chasing; the young man was a fish, the girl was sea foam; the mother cannot collect all the foam, tells her daughter to remain foam three years, three months and three days; three days before the deadline, three girls come to the boy, asking him to marry anyone; a true bride sends two birds to the wedding, one tells how the groom forgot the bride; the young man remembers marrying his betrothed]: 54-58, 167-172, 269-272; 1986 [the young man cries over the grave; tells the peasant that he is Tsarevich Dzhigan; he sailed with his comrades in a boat, she was brought to the coast of the country monkeys; they broke the boat; there were no horses, they rode dogs; only D. reached the country where merchants from India come every two years; the merchant offers a thousand gold coins and a girl for work; brings to at the foot of the mountain, tells him to climb into the womb of a refreshed horse; the eagles raised the carcass on the rock; the merchant orders to throw down precious stones; D. managed to go down, came to the old man, the king of birds; he leaves D. to guard the house, tells us not to open the door behind which the predators; D. opens, there is a garden, three doves flew in, became girls, began to swim; the old man returned, D. asks to marry one of them; he tells steal the youngest's shirt - Shemsibano; the doves arrived a year later, D. took the shirt, married S.; the old man advises wearing the shirt until his wife gives birth to a child; D. hides it in the chest, the wife finds it flies away, tells me to look for her in the city of Gevher; D. comes to that merchant again, but climbs into the horse's carcass without taking off his clothes or giving the merchant "for storage" gold; finds the king of birds again; only one bird knew about the city of Gevher; D. came to Father Sh, he is king there; two years later, D. and S. go to see his relatives; the wolf killed Sh., now D. cries at the grave; dug another one, lay down in it, died; violets grew up and spread stems]: 495-502; Armenians: Bunyatov et al. 1900, No. 6 [the poor man dreams of the sun on his head, the moon in his legs, two stars on his chest; the shepherd buys sleep, giving the whole herd for it; at night he comes to the city; a young man arrives with two horses, falls asleep; the princess takes him for her cousin, with whom she was going to run; they leave, she takes a shepherd as her husband, dresses him in a shah-zade costume, now his name Teymur Shah; the local shah receives him honorably, falls in love with his wife, orders him to get 1) sea mare milk (his wife teaches her how to drink her by pouring wine into the pit); 2) heavenly apples; his wife tells me to go to a sea mare mare, hide the clothes of the youngest of the three bathing sisters, who became the second wife, brought apples of paradise; 3) visit the king's parents; the second wife orders T. to ask the king to throw him into the fire, takes them out of the fire, T. comes to the king with imaginary news; the king and the courtiers order them to be burned, T. reigns; the sun and moon in his sleep are his wives, sons are stars]: 115-124; Nazinyan 1969 [mouse and falcon sowed wheat , and when they collected it, they began to divide one seed, they turned to the eagle; the eagle to the falcon: you knock it down; the mouse: well, let's not quarrel; and at night I hit the sleeping falcon with a sword, he hardly had time fly away; the hunter saw a falcon on the tree, pointed his gun three times, the falcon asked him not to kill, to heal him; the hunter's wife went out; the falcon put the hunter on his back, carried it, threw it three times into the sea, picking it up above the water itself; ordered to ask his father for a silk pouch; the falcon's father gives a pouch, does not tell him to open it before reaching home; the hunter opened it, found himself in the middle of a noisy bazaar; the lame man asks to give him something that he does not know at home; the hunter promised to be at home; wife: that our son is not going home; it turned out that the son was born, but now he has taken him lame; left the boy lame on the island at sea; he caught for 16 years fish, grew up; three heads flew to the island, threw off their birds' clothes, became girls, went swimming; a young man stole one girl's feathers; she promised to be his wife; gave a ball, he rolled off the island to the shore, there was a road, they came to the city; the husband was hired as a laborer; the owner decided to lime him in order to take possession of his wife; one lame guest offered 1) send a man for two storks, one golden beak, the other has silver wings; the wife calls the Arab and orders the storks to be reached, he brings them; the wife warned: if the owner says that storks are not needed, they must be released (as it happened); 2) bring a lion from Mount Aragats (same); 3) bring the invisible worker Murza; the wife gives a ball, it will lead to her sister's house; she calls the frogs, they do not know the way; the sister tells them to go for the ball to their mother's house; she collected the snakes, they answer that M. was hired by the snake king; the mother tells me to go to the snake king's house and hide behind the stove; the king will come and say, "Murza, gather on the table"; when the king leaves, call M. for with himself; he is glad, the king has already tortured him; the boatman offers M. a horn in which a foot army and a cavalry detachment; when the man received a horn, M. also returned to him; the owner wants to cut off the man's head, he blows into the horn, the warriors cut off the owner's head; M. brought the spouses to her husband's parents]: 33-42; Azerbaijanis: Akhundov 1955:92-95 [the wife of a dying poor man eats an egg of a strange bird, gives birth hero Gel-Hasan; Peri-khanum is kidnapped by the son of diva Kashkash; G. kills him, falls asleep, P. is kidnapped by brother K. Belg; two gazelles take off their skins, turn into girls, talk about the kidnapping; G. hides the skin of one, gives it as a promise to show the way to B.; G. kills B., frees the daughter of the King of the Frangs on the way, kills her kidnapper; the shah and vizier poisoned G., the Simurg bird cured him, he killed the shah, the vizier, married P.], 106-125 [=Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:20-46; the old man had a dream, told the old woman to pack for the road and went to look for food; I came to the shepherd, he fed him and bought him a dream in exchange for his herd; they exchanged names; the shepherd became Bakhtiyar, and the old man Melik-Mamed; B., i.e. a former shepherd, went to the city, but the gate was already closed; fell asleep behind his back; before dawn he heard a voice; someone let his horse down and they galloped; in the morning he saw that he was with a girl; she, Perizad Khanum, the king's daughter, was about to flee with Vekila's son, who is also named B.; after jumping to the possessions of another king, P. ordered B. to sell the horses and buy a house, ordered the cadia to marry them; they began to live on the gold that P. took with them; the barber saw the beauty of his wife B., told the king; the king summoned B. and promised to come to him with a vizier; P. ordered her husband to prepare everything for the guests; the king deliberately came earlier, saw P. simple-haired, fell in love; the vizier advised him to send B. from paradise for an apple; P. gives her husband a letter to his sister, the wife of the king of divas; tells him not to bring women with him; the divas led to the plane tree by the spring: the peri will come to swim, we must To steal the shell alone, they will comply with the request; B. stole the youngest's dress, the eldest brought him an apple; the younger Gurizat said that since a man touched her, she would not be able to return to the peri; turned B. into a stick, took it in her beak, flew to P.; she did not become angry; G. ordered ordinary apples to be taken to the king, and keep the paradise, which turned into a 15-year-old boy, for herself; the barber told the king that B. is now two wives; the king demands a rose from the Gulistan Garden; G. moved B. to Gulistan, where the girls were dancing, B. forgot why she came; G. moved him back, Gully Gah Gah Khanum is sitting next to her, laughed, with her Roses fell down on his lips; the barber again tells the king, he sends mares with 40 foals for milk; G. takes him to the old man, who was wrapped in cotton wool and put in a cradle; cotton wool must be changed; the old man tells you to take sulfur from your ear, spread it on cotton wool; hide in a hole on the shore, throw cotton wool, the water will foam, the mare and foals will be frightened; then play the flute, the horses will ask you to play more; let them eat not to touch the foal Garib with the name; the mare explains to B. that the king wants to destroy him; brings him to the king - let him milk her himself; at night the horses ran away; the vizier advises to tell B. to bring news from the king's late parents; YYG-khanum teaches to tell the king to make a fire, she will take B. away from him; tells B. to find an old man who remembers the genealogies of the king, vizier and vekil; on their behalf and on behalf of his parents The barber writes letters: B. visited us, and you? B. jumped out of the ash; the king and the others ordered themselves to be burned with their wives and children; B. was chosen as king; tells the wives the dream he bought: the sun rose on the right side, the moon on the left, the stars above his head were three wives ]; Bagriy, Zeynally 1935 [Techmuz Shah has a son, Jagan Shah; once he and his seven friends went boating, the storm took her to unknown lands; D. was the king of monkeys who fought against half-humans (they split in half, then merge into one); his companions were captured and eaten; finally, D. ended up in the copper land of Miss; there a man promised clothes, gold and a beautiful daughter for a small job; he gave off a slave as a daughter; brought D. to the forest, ordered the horse to be slaughtered, to climb into its insides; the birds carried the carcass to the rock; in the morning the man ordered him to throw off his precious stones loaded him on the arba and left; D. came to an old man who was guarding King Solomon's birds; he forbids him to enter the same room; there was a swimming pool; three doves flew in, threw off their blankets, became girls, they swam, flew away; the youngest Gulzar felt that there was a person nearby; the old man explained that the next time the Peri would arrive in seven years; we needed to watch and pick up his clothes; G. moved D. to his country father, had a wedding; G. hid his shirt in a hole, a building was built above it; but G. found a shirt, flew away, ordered to look for it in the country of Peri Shah in the Gavgariham fortress; D. returned to Miss's country, got to the old man in the same way as the first time; he sent to his brother, who has not 300 but 600 birds, and the latter to another with 900 birds; only the oldest one, who can no longer fly or walk, knew where this fortress was; the old man fed it, she brought D. to the throne of peri Shah; for leaving D., her father hung her by the braids twice a day; D. and G. married, they returned to earth; D. destroyed the attacking army of the Shah of China, took his father's throne]: 355-372; Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 9 [younger Tsarevich Ibrahim dreams how the moon descended on his herd; tells Brother Rustam and others; having given his share of the inheritance and taking a heavy staff, he goes on a journey; in another city, the vizier's son Ibrahim agrees to flee with Princess Kul-Shad; at the last moment he changes his mind, and the imaginary shepherd I. accidentally finds himself in his place, the KSH runs with him; they tell each other about themselves; I. picks up a stone, the KSH says he is expensive; builds a palace; the KSH gives a stone to King Melik-Aslan; the vizier Mamed-Ali envies, offers to demand new stones; I. returns to the spring, where he found the stone, descends under water, where Princess Shah-Sanam ("queen of beauties"), kidnapped by the diva; stones are formed from her blood; I. the diva kills, takes the SS as his wife; when she hits her nose, drops of blood form gems; the king orders to get an atri-lala rose; I. kills a snake that is about to eat the chicks; the chicks tell the mother not drop millstones on I., he is their savior; the bird teaches how to get a rose; two girls in the form of doves fly to a tree by the lake, throw off their clothes, swim; you have to climb a tree, take clothes, change them to a rose; one girl laughed, her laughter formed a bouquet of roses, the girls gave their hair; if burned, they would come to the rescue; I. brought roses to the king, the vizier advises sending him for pears from across the blue sea; the bird carries across the sea; there are apples that form the tail and the pears from which it disappears; the king declares war on I., he kills him, the vizier and the warriors, reigns himself]: 71-81; Turks: Dmitriev 1967, No. 10 [the prince dreams of a girl; the teacher leads him to the garden; forty doves fly to swim in the pool, throw off their clothes; the teacher hides her clothes alone, disappears; the girl goes with prince; says that the teacher who took the clothes himself has now become one of 40 (peri, non-humans) instead of her; the girl maid arrives with the teacher, they throw off the clothes of non-humans, shahzade them burns; arrivals remain human, the teacher marries the maid]: 84-87; Stebleva 1986, No. 71 [the young shepherd dug a pond to water the cattle and drink himself; a dove flew there, threw off the feather clothes, became a girl; the young man hid the clothes in a chest, brought the girl to his wife; she creates a palace, a bridge to the pond; the padishah wants to lime the young man, tells him to bring 1) a bunch of grapes that can be fed army and residents; the wife tells me to go to the pond, ask her older sister for such a brush; 2) a newborn baby who would talk (the younger sister just gave birth, the young man brought a talking the baby, the padishah is frightened, tells me to take it back); 3) the ring from the finger of a padishah who died half a century ago; the wife sends her middle brother to get this ring; the dove leads the young man across the bridge; there a man drags straw, the other carries doors; during his lifetime, one stole bags of straw, the other two doors; the young man brought a ring, but during this time his wife found her clothes in the chest, flew away, taking the palace with her, property and mother-in-law; the dove carries the young man to his wife, who just gave birth; they return, with them the palace, the boy's mother, etc.; the torturers are ready to execute the padishah, but the young man forgave him]: 288-292; Eberhard, Boratav 1953, № 187 [man (prince) went broke; hired a merchant; he tells him to climb into the animal's carcass, birds lift it up the mountain; the man drops diamonds from there; the owner leaves, but the worker manages to get out of the trap; comes to another country and marries a princess (this is the country of the padishah of birds; swan maidens arrive once a year, he hides her feather clothes); after the wedding, she runs away (finds clothes and flies away); he returns to Diamond Mountain; only the oldest bird knows where his wife is; after adventures, he helps his father defeat enemies and becomes a padishah]: 233-235; Kurds [(end long story); Padishah's son Mirza Mahmood was hired by a rich man; he takes him to the seashore, tells him to slaughter his mule, gives him sleeping pills, sews him in his skin, the eagle takes him to the island; the rich man tells him to throw precious stones - then he will show him the way; tells him to look back; there is a hole and bones of people, one person is barely alive; MM made his way down the fox hole, came to the old man; saw a portrait of a beauty, fell in love; the old man : I am also young, but I have grown old because I love her; explains that there is a lake on the mountain, three doves will fly, throw off their feathers, become Gurias; I need to hide medium clothes; MM returned clothes after Guria promised to be his wife; he comes to her father's town; guria: if (another) person's hand touches me, I'll fly away; wedding; once MM's wife was taken to a party; as soon as her hand touched another's hand dancer, she became a dove and flew away; MM hired that rich man again; asked him to come closer and killed him with a stone; MM hid Guria's clothes again and burned them; returned home with her]: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 14: 167-185.

Iran - Central Asia. Lura [Hasan did an excellent job at school; when he learns that his classmates are going to come to his feast, he runs with his parents to avoid shame: they do not have the means to receive guests; H. a clairvoyant, he knows when a person will die; knowing that a shepherd will die in 14 days, he makes an agreement with him; the shepherd dies, his 6 sheep go to Hassan; his flock multiplies; he buys sleep from the thorn collector, giving 20 sheep; goes on a journey; at night he sees a rider in the ruins; a woman's voice calls: Hasan! H. goes with a woman, in the morning she realizes that she is a stranger; they have settled in the city; the barber told the king that H. has a beautiful wife; the vizier advises to send him for the leaves of the magic tree; H. killed the dragon, the local king (obviously king peri} married him a daughter, H. picked up tree leaves and returned with his second wife; now the king sends X. to bring water from a certain place; the second wife H. is a fairy; teaches you to come to the pond in the middle of the thickets; three doves will arrive, throw off their clothes, bathe; you must hide the youngest's clothes, take an oath from her; when you hear that Hasan knows about her abduction, a peri-dove stays with him because her reputation has already been damaged; they have collected water from a spring; the barber tells the king that H. has a third wife; the vizier advises to demand that H. make a bridge of gold and silver bricks from his house to the palace; daughter of King Peri: there will be a bridge; the vizier advises to lure H. to the bridge and push him into the river; wives: ask the king and all those close to him to gather on the bridge; we will overturn him, you let's save and the rest will drown; after that, the Peri told H. to marry the one he fled with first, and marry them after her]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 5:29-34; Persians: Ottomans 1987:131-146 [the older sister promises to dress the army if she is presented as a vizier, the middle sister promises to feed the army, the younger sister promises to give birth to the Shah a gold-haired son, who, if she laughs, roses fall from his mouth, tears are pearls and gems; sisters put the puppy, the baby is put in the oven in the bathhouse; the Shah lodged his wife in the kennel like a dog; the bathhouse attendant picks up the baby, gets rich; the Shah's new wife pretends to be sick, asks to bring lion's milk in a lion's skin on the back of another lion; the shah sends the adopted son of a bathhouse attendant; the mother of the divas teaches that the main lion has a pain in his leg; the young man heals him, he is satisfied with everything; bring a mare with 40 foals; bring a self-swinging cradle; a diva tells his mother about two girls bathing, they must hide their dress, they will give a cradle; the shah asks the bathhouse attendant, returns his wife and her son, her sisters, ties her sisters by their hair to the tails of horses], 243-250 [Wolf, Leo, Eagle marry three daughters of the deceased Shah; their brother Malek-Ahmad is hired by a Jew; he feeds him for 39 days, in the fortieth tells him to slaughter the camel, get inside; birds carry MA to the mountain; the Jew tells him to drop the gems, leaves; MA comes to the dirty old woman, washes her; this is the mother of divas, she asks his sons not kill; he opens the forbidden forty-first door; there Yusuf Shah Peri is thirsty; MA gives him water, he breaks his chains, gives his seal, flies to Mount Kof; behind the forty-second door there is a garden and a stream, MA kidnaps the clothes of one of the three pigeon girls; the wife gives birth to two boys, the divas bring them down to the ground; the wife asks for her clothes, tells them to come for her to Mount Kof; MA again hires a Jew unrecognized, kills him, throwing a stone at his head from the mountain; the divas forgive him, but do not know the way to Kof; among the husbands of the MA sisters, only Orel can help: the mother of the bird knows the way in his subordination; asks him to take fat tails with her and wineskins; the meat runs out, the MA cuts off a piece of the thigh; when the goal is reached, the bird puts the meat back; the MA shows Yusuf the seal, who sends his sister, her husband and sons to the ground with gifts; without MA, there is drought, hunger; MA shahm, abundance sets in]; Shah-name [Bahrám Ghúr is carried by the White Div to Mount Kaf; finds himself in the palace; when he wakes up, he sees four large ones (the size of a sheep) emerald colored doves; peri came out of the bodies of the doves, took off their clothes, began to swim in the lake; steals the youngest's clothes, hides behind a rose bush; the other peri fly away, he takes the youngest as his wife, returns with her home, happily married]: Clouston 1887:183-185; Baluchi: Zarubin 1932, No. 8 [pearies bathe, Prince Sha-Kalandar hollows out a log, hides in it, hides peary Shan-Sharu's clothes who put her clothes on a log; agrees to give her for marriage, but does not give her wings; in the absence of her husband, the wife says that she can go to the wedding with her husband's sisters only wearing wings; mother and sister give them away, The peary flies away; the mother cuts, buries the red goat, tells the returning son that his wife is dead; he hears another woman talking, finds out that the peary has flown away; comes to the well where the maid to Shar-Shar takes water; she refuses to give him water three times, he turns water into blood, pus, dirt; the ball tells the maid to give him water, leave some of it at the bottom of his wineskin, he drinks, throws it into his wineskin ring; S. recognizes him, turns her husband into a needle, hiding him from other peers, flies with him to his house], 15 [brothers cut off lamb horns stuck in the snake's mouth; he calls them to him, the younger one is afraid, the eldest marries the daughter of a snake; the youngest and his father decide to kill him, give his wife to the youngest; 1) fill three jugs with marvelous milk (the wife calls the divas, they bring milk); 2) bring a flower from the dead; the wife orders to sow sesame seeds at the spring; three pearies came to swim, he hid medium clothes; she brings a flower, becomes his wife; 3) bring the key to the vessels of gold from the deceased mother; wives they send him to the grave, he goes down, brings the key from his mother; sees the suffering, finds out why (dogs attack the owner, who fed only one of them during his lifetime, etc.); 4) pearies and angels build a castle made of gold and silver bricks; king, vizier, close associates rise, pearies and angels carry bricks away, those that have risen die]: 97-104, 190-198; 1949, No. 11, 11 [the prince and the vizier's son fell asleep in the garden under a tree ; two peers arrived; one gave the prince a letter: her name is Badur-Jamal, she lives in Chin-Machin, if the prince wants to see her, let him anoint his eyes with the antimony she left; the vizier's son too found such a letter; the prince fell ill with love; he is shown all the girls, he does not like any; he is going to look for a peary; the king is better ready to execute him, but the prince also smears his eyes with antimony; when he sees such beauty, the king lets his son go; the ship sank, the prince escaped, was captured by monkeys; their king is a man; he tells how the monkeys captured him and keep him king, this fate awaits the prince; explains how to escape; the prince's boat reached the shore, where the one-eyed buzlangi locked him in his barn, where there are sheep and people; people: when the buzlangs eat sheep, he will take on people; the prince burned the sleeping buzlangi his eye, stabbed the goat and put on his skin and horns; ran to the cliff, called the buzlangi, who rushed to his voice, fell off the cliff, died; the prince sailed again on his boat, got to the old buzlanga woman; replied that he would choose her, not Badur Jamal; asked for water with a sieve and sailed away; the old woman asked how he swam; the prince: undressed and threw himself into the sea; she drowned; the prince came to the city of peary; those came to swim, the prince hid the clothes, returned them, but did not return the wings of the BD; brought them to his home; wedding]: 85-98; Pashtuns: Ali 1969 [the son of King Saiful Muluk of Egypt wanders in a mountainous country, He falls asleep; he is laughed at by fairies from the Caucasus who have come to swim in a mountain lake; he falls in love with Badrul Jamal, their queen's foxglove; finds a lake; another fairy advises hiding BD's clothes; she agrees to go with him; forgets his blue wings by the lake; the giant Oanda rushed to look for the DB, found wings, thought she drowned, crushed the mountain into the lake, the water flowed out; SM with DB 16 hid in a cave, until they found out that O. died of grief; then returned to Egypt, SM inherited his father's throne]: 133-138; Lebedev 1958 [the Shah's daughter hears a conversation between a myna (pink starling) and a parrot: a fairy named Zabzibana a jug of magic oil is kept; the shah promises his daughter to whoever gets it; the shepherd convinced the vizier's son to return home, and went to buy oil himself; the diva shoemaker sent him to his older brother, who sent him to the oldest; the eldest took her to the mountain to the fairy fortress; there is an old woman, she was kidnapped as a baby, she has a daughter, the fairy Gulkhandana, she serves as a vizier for the Shah {i.e. Z.?} ; G. tells her mother that someone who kills a camel diva will marry her, this requires her handkerchief; the old woman stole her daughter's handkerchief, gave it to the shepherd, he killed the diva; pretended to jump over the ditch three times ( this is also a condition for marriage); married G.; t a gave an invisible hat and a flying carpet; the shepherd flew to the pool; doves flew in, threw off their clothes, became fairies, began to swim; the shepherd gave his clothes for Z. promised to marry him too; when the shepherd missed his homeland, G. and Z. gave a violin: play and we will come with an army; the divas carried the shepherd; when hungry, the shepherd played the violin, G. and Z. killed a lot of cattle, fed a diva; the diva offers to change the magic baton, chain, flying carpet to a violin; the shepherd changed and then ordered the diva to tie the chains, beat the baton; he gave everything; the same with the second diva : his handkerchief, no matter how much you put in it, will not be filled; the shepherd gave the Shah a bottle of Z. oil; the shah gave him the princess, and she drove the shepherd away; the shah sent the vizier's son to him; the shepherd and the vizier's son flew to the island; G. and Z. were offended, threw all the magic things into the sea, leaving only a handkerchief and an invisible hat; on the log, the shepherd and the son of the vizier sailed home; the shepherd decided to sell the ring he gave Z.; the Shah liked it so much that he gave his daughter for the son of the vizier; he complains to the shepherd that as soon as he lies down with his wife, he loses consciousness and does not remember anything until morning; the shepherd in an invisible hat follows at night a friend's wife; she and the diva are flying on a flying carpet, dancing with fairies, throwing jewelry on the floor; the shepherd picked up everything in a handkerchief; one day the shepherd took off his hat, liked the fairy lady, who took it as her husband; he asked her for a stick that would absorb all the water in any body of water; so he found and returned the items thrown by the fairies into the sea; summoning G. and Z., told them to eat the Shah's daughter, which had deceived him, and the vizier's wife, that flew to the diva; went forever to the kingdom of Zabzibana]: 121-126; Shugnans [Jumak gives his goats to a stranger to return his daughter, pledged by the bay; his wife kicks D. out of the house; he goes to bed sleep with the royal horse riding; the king's daughter decides to flee with the vizier's son; he overslept, the princess takes D. for the son of the vizier, leaves with him; the vizier of another city invites the king to lime D. in order to seize him a beautiful wife; D. mistakenly gives the vizier's son a ruby picked up along the way, and the king's son a grandmother; the king wants to execute him; the wife teaches him to explain that in their places grandmothers are more expensive than rubies; this is blood from Peri's cut throat; she is in a tree, tormented by diva; D. teaches peri to ask where the diva's soul is at night; there is a chest in the plane tree, a bottle in it, a shirt in it; D. kills a diva, brings peri with his second wife; the king commands bring the Laughing Flower; when Sister Peri laughs at Mount Kaf, these flowers fall from her lips; D. hides the clothes of the bathing peri, brings Peri to her sister (her second wife), she laughs, D. brings flowers to the king; the king tells him to bring the sword placed in his father's grave; this sword at the peri; D. orders him to be burned, the wives quietly remove it from the fire; D. brings a sword and a letter to the king; the king and the vizier command to burn themselves; D. Reigns]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 2:60-73; Burishi [The White Virgo (Dēu, BD) is hired by the noble king Shahzad Bahram (B.) to see him; but he does not go out to the people; DB takes the form of a vizier, advises B. to go out; takes the form of a beautiful horse; when B. sits on him, takes him to heaven; calls him a son; leaves, leaving many peri in care, forbiding B. to let B. into one garden; B. threatens to kill himself, the peri are forced to let him in; 7 doves fly to the milk pond, leave their clothes, bathe; then Shahri Bānu arrives, the DB himself is in love with her; B. hides, fumigates SB's clothes with smoke from cow manure; returns when the SB calls him not father, uncle, son, but husband; SB puts them on but cannot take off; when DB returns, B. hides the SB in the room; in He confesses to everyone; although BD is upset, he marries lovers; one day B. dreams that on earth his Pipe Keeper (HT, Pipe Bearer) has seized power, tyrannizing his (B.) former wife and sons; DB lets B. and SB go, gives hair from his armpit to cause it in case of trouble; they settle in the poor man's house; while B. is hunting, HT comes, demands SB for himself; sends servants, they don't return first, for they faint with the beauty of the SB; the SB promises to become the wife of HT if he allows her to wear her clothes; flies to Shahr-i-Shaskin (SHSH), throwing the ground in the face of HT; B. calls DB, subjects recognize B. as king, he appoints the poor man he lived with to replace HT, goes to look for SB; only one old maiden knows the way to school; wearing an invisible hat, B. overhears the girl telling the boy that her sister is SB today they want to marry, but she does not want to; B. eats food unnoticed, a boy and a girl fight blaming each other; B. finds SB, her mother tells them to flee, but B. first defeats the army of the king, the groom of the SB ( invisible, he makes warriors kill each other); SB father recognizes B. as a son-in-law; B. and SB return home, the poor man is made a vizier]: Lorimer 1935, No. 1:3-33 (=Felmy 1986, No. 6:33-43); Uzbeks [Rafik studied to be a carpenter; saw a beautiful woman in a dream, fell ill with love; his father and carpenter made him a flying wooden horse; he flew to the house; old woman: turtles come here, take off their clothes, they turn into girls and swim - if you hide the dress, the girl will stay; R. timidly took the dress, the girl took it away, flew away; R. flew to her valley, found her sleeping, exchanged rings, she agreed fly away with him; in one place they went down to spend the night; R. got on his horse to fly for fire; on the way back, the horse caught fire, R. stayed in the desert; his wife gave birth to a son named Rasuljan, settled in kind people; when the son grew up, hung his portrait on the street and told her son to see if anyone grabbed his head when he saw the portrait; one day R. came, recognized his wife in the portrait; made a new a flying horse and brought his wife and son to his father]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (2): 164-166; Turkmens: Korogly 1991 [Shah Shabehram sits on the caught feather, who turns out to be the White Dev, promises to be his servant ; four feathers dressed as doves fly to swim, S. steals the youngest's clothes, Balakhusn; returns home with her; the vizier tries to make B. his wife, she gets her clothes and flies to the country Shakhrisabz; with the help of devas, S. kills the vizier, flies to B. in an invisible hat; the Deva earthquake wins the battle]: 225-245; Stebleva 1969, No. 19 [the old man dreams nightingales sitting on his shoulders; sells a dream for a shepherd; he comes to the garden, takes an excuse from the hands of a sleeping young man; a girl sits on a horse, he brings her to town; she makes skullcaps; a padishah takes a shepherd to the service to destroy him and lure him wife; 1) get the milk of a black mare; the piebald horse defeats her, brings the padishah; 2) bring flowers falling from Peri Gulkahkas's mouth; this is one of the peri coming in the form of doves to swim; the mother of the devas tells her clothes to be hidden, the shepherd brings flowers to the padishah, leaves G. as his second wife; 3) bring a letter from the dead from the padishah's parents; the Peri pick up the shepherd from the fire, then hide it in ash; The padishah thinks that he actually burned down and returned; orders himself to be burned, the shepherd becomes Shah]: 47-54.

Baltoscandia. The Scandinavians (Song of Wölund) [Slagfid, Egil and Wölund, sons of the king of the Finns, build a house, hunt by the lake; see three Valkyries taking off their swan clothes and spinning linen; take them away they get married; after 8 years, the Valkyries flew away, leaving their husbands; the brothers go to look for them, V. remains to wait for his wife; King Nidud ties him up, tells him to cut B. tendons under his knees, settle him on a deserted island far from people, where he must create metal jewelry for N., his wife and children; V. made wings from the feathers of birds that Egil killed for him (this is explained in Norwegian Tidrexage of the late 13th century). E. is the first to try to fly and dies. V. flew away, decapitating N.'s two sons and raping his daughter. V. - ruler of the Alvas]: Elder Edda 1963:68-72 (retelling Andreev 1989:45, Meletinsky 1968:272-273); Swedes (Blekinge County) [a young peasant sees three swans flying in swim, take off clothes, become girls; mother advises her son to hide the clothes he likes; after 7 years she shows clothes to his wife; she immediately puts them on, flies away; a year later her husband died of grief]: Hofberg 1893:35-38 (=Ashliman 2002); Danes: Grundtvig 1920 [=Grundtvig 1879:23-44; older sons Peter and Paul are smart, younger Esbeen lazy; the elders decide to develop a rocky plot on the farm; but every year, on Ivanov's day, the sown is trampled; Peter, then Paul, guard, run away in horror; E. sees three swan maidens descending; while they are dancing, he hides their robes; returns when the youngest Lena, Zondervand's maiden agrees to marry him; they are three princesses kidnapped by a witch and released once a year; L. teaches to build a castle by hitting a stone with a tree branch; tells not to invite the king; but the father The brothers invited him; when he learns that the king is coming, L. flies away, tells them to come to her castle, which is north of the sun, west of the moon; E. goes in search; two fight over an invisible hat, E. suggests , in order for the winner to get it, he wears it himself; the other two because of the speeding boots; E. invites them to race, takes their boots; two more fall dead because of the knife you point at; E. takes a knife, points at the fighting; E. comes to the old woman, she is the owner of the animals, they do not know about the castle; sends the same thing to her sister, the mistress of the fish; she comes to another sister, the mistress of the birds; the lame eagle arrives the last he flew from this castle; the hostess tells him to take E. there; they fly through a hole in the ground, then in the water, in the fire; E. throws a ring into the goblet brought by the maid, which gave him L.; puts on an invisible hat, kills a witch with his magic knife; wedding]: 27-41; Holbek 1987 [grass does not even grow on the field; the eldest son guards, is frightened of a hurricane; the same average; younger waited for the wind to subside; three girls came down, took off their hats and started dancing; the young man hid one hat; returned the girl's promise to marry him and return a year later; under the stone in the field, let the young man will build a castle and invite everyone but the king to the wedding; but he invited the king; the king recognizes the magical bride as his daughter, tells the young man to bring gold coins from the top of the glass mountain; the girl gives a mare and teaches you what to do; if it fails, he must look for it in a castle in the middle of the world south of the sun, north of the moon; it does not work, the mare is gone, the young man goes in search of the castle; the two argue over father's inheritance; these are speed boots; the young man throws a stone: whoever gets first will inherit; puts on boots himself; in the same way he receives a magic tablecloth and a sword that kills and revives; in the animal lord's house is a terrible famine; the young man has fed everyone, the lord tells the animals to find out where the castle is located; they did not know, the animal lord sends the young man to his brother, the lord of the fish, who master of birds; the last to appear was the old eagle, only he knows whether he is carrying the young man to the castle, teaching how to kill animal guards; the princess promises to appear in six months and again asks not to invite her father; on the way back, a young man revives the murdered guards; invites the king to the wedding, kills him, then revives him; after that, the king is powerless to prevent marriage]: 572-573; Faroese [a man saw a female seal went ashore, took off her skin, became a girl; he hid her skin, married a girl; they have children; one day she found a skin, put it on, became a seal, went back to sea]: Clouston 1887:182-183; Seven folktales you can visit in the Faroe Islands [Selkies went ashore, threw off their seals and participated in festivals; one person stole clothes, put them in a chest at home and hid the key; the woman could not return to sea and became his wife; they have two children; one day he went fishing, leaving the key at home; his wife found him, became a seal and sailed away; at night she warned in a dream: when seal hunting would take place, not kill a male at the entrance to the cave, as well as two cubs: my husband and children; but my husband did not tell the other hunters about it and they killed all the seals; the night after that, selkie in the form of a troll broke into the house to to man: from now on, seals will take revenge and kill as many people as their hands can be placed along the island's coastline; since then, the islanders have been drowning in the sea and falling off the cliffs]: awaywewentblog.com/blog/2017/10/5/xx-magical-folklore-locations-you-can-actually-visit-in-the-faroe-islands; Norwegians [someone tramples the field at night; two older brothers didn't know anything, younger sees three swan girls (-doves, -ravens), steals one of them's clothes, she promises to marry him]: Christiansen 1959:128; Western Sami: Lagercrantz 1961, No. 294 (Varanger) [=Klaus 1995:31-38; someone steals turnips from the king's garden; the eldest, middle son is guarding, hearing a noise, running away; the youngest sees three maidens fly in, take off their winged robes, start digging turnips, he hid his clothes alone, she agrees to marry him on the condition that he goes with her; the young man went to say goodbye to his father, the king does not let him in, demands that he 1) cut down the entire forest, 2) cut off branches on the felled ones trees, 3) would restore the forest; each time the wife orders to do this with one tree, the rest fall, lose branches, get up again; the king let his son go, but the heavenly maiden has already flown away, the young man went to look for her; meets an old woman, she gives speeding boots, sends her to her middle sister, the middle woman gives an invisible hat, sends her to the elder, she sends an eagle, the third time the eagle knows where to fly; the old woman gives a staff if you turn the end up, the dead will rise from the graves, if down, they will return to the graves; gives three pebbles; the eagle carries across the sea, gets tired, the pebble thrown every time turns into an island to rest; overseas the young man finds his wife and son; the father-in-law asks his son-in-law to return his dead warriors with a staff; they rush at the king, the young man turns his staff, the dead return to the graves]: 132-140; Kohl-Larsen 1982 [the young man hears on on the shore of her voice; the old woman says that these are sea maidens who come out of the water on the last day of the week; then advises to hide the clothes of the one who is more beautiful; the young man did so; waited for the maiden promised to name the husband who took the clothes; they have children; first the young man hid the clothes with the old woman, and when she died, in his chest; the eldest son accidentally noticed them and told their mother; the mother took the clothes and disappeared into the sea; another old woman advised me to steal clothes again when the mother came to feed her youngest son and take care of the others; as it happened, the wife stayed with her husband]: 78-83; Postelion 1886, No. 10 (Karasjok) [the young man sees three girls coming out of the sea, taking off their clothes, swimming; then returning to the sea; next time he hides the clothes of one of them; she became his wife, gave birth to a son; boy I saw unusual clothes in the chest, told my mother; she put them on and returned to sea; Gieddagätis-galgjo: the wife will return to see her son three more times; pretend to be asleep and grab it for the third night; the husband grabbed wife, her dress was given to G.; everything is fine]: 55-50; Karelians: Evseev 1981 [the old woman died, the old man married Xueétar; the son of an old man and an old woman saw the swan maidens come to swim; hid his clothes one of them, she became his fiancée; S. sent her daughter to pick him up, she stuck needles into him, he fell asleep when ships with gifts came; on the ninth he was supposed to see his wife; going for the third time, the guy does not kill a deer, duck, eagle; the eagle carries him on his back across the sea, along the way he feeds the eagle meat, bread, wine; the duck brings a stone egg, inside which the guy's mind; the deer brings him to to the bride; she hides in the water, the pike brings it]: 236-237; Concca 1959, No. 31 (Olonetskaya, 1886) [three girls took off their clothes, became ducks and swam; the guy saw, hid the clothes alone; he is silent when the girl promises to become a sister, gives clothes for the promise to become a wife; the girl promises to sail on three golden ships; a woman came out of the water, stuck sleepy needles in the guy's ears, he did not wake up; the same for 6 , on 9 ships; the girl leaves a note: to see her, you will have to wear out 3 pairs of iron boots and 3 iron staffs; the guy goes looking, the hut is spinning on cock spurs, she has a cannibal woman, her nose poker; she recognizes the boyfriend as her brother's son; overnight she worn out one pair of his iron boots and one staff; the same with two other women; the latter sends him to hunt, the guy hid the foxes from the cold, then the cubs, the cubs, threw a pike into the sea; the fox, the wolf, the bear, the pike promise to help; the guy comes to an old woman, who has 8 heads on the poles, the 9th is prepared for him; the old woman tells her 9 horses to herd, they run away; the fox, then the wolf, the bear are brought; the horse: at night we will give birth to foals, take the worst as a reward; the stallion tells us to go to the old widow; she says that his bride's love is in the egg inside blue stone on the island; the horse jumped to the island, the pike took out an egg that fell into the sea; the widow fed it to her goddaughter (i.e. that girl), the guy married her]: 142-148; Onegin 2010, No. 16 (Kalevalsky r -n) [the husband went to the forest, took aim at the vuoka bird; she asks not to shoot, but to bring and feed a year; so three times; explains that she was wounded when she fought with the capercaillie; when the bird recovered, she ordered to slaughter a cow, take meat with her, she will bear for a reward; over the sea she throws and picks up a person three times so that he feels the same fear as she did when he aimed at it; the bird consistently stays with her three sisters in a copper, silver, golden house; only a sister from the golden house agrees to give the box with the key; when she flies away, the veika hits her wings, the copper and silver houses burn down; the man opens the box on the way, countless things fall out; the giant demon puts everything back for promising to give what was born in his house during the man's absence; it turns out he was born and has already grown up a boy; a boy accidentally broke a pot of soup on an old woman's window; she says that he was promised to an Arab guest, let him go to him; the boy (now more like a young man) leaves; sees three swans flew in to swim, took off their clothes, became girls; he hides his clothes alone; the girl agrees to take him as a groom; says that she was cursed to be the daughter of an Arab guest; the swan took the young man under her wing and brought him to an Arab guest; the young man spent the night with the girl, in the morning she gave him a drink of live water, ordered him to break all the axes and saws that his father would give to harvest a huge amount of forest; after this devil gave his ax, the young man told the demons to do the job; the second task was to dig a giant field on the rock (the same is to break hoes and shovels); the devil tells you to choose a bride among three identical girls; chickens; mares; the girl teaches that she will have a longer tie on her apron; puts her finger aside; puts her back leg aside; the devil offers to ride a horse, this is himself; the girl teaches how to whip the horse and with a sledgehammer in the forehead; the beaten devil is sick, the girl tells me to run; they turned into a shepherd and a cow; the priest and the church; the demons did not understand, returned; when they became a lake and a ruff, the devil himself ran, tried drink the lake; the ruff ripped open his belly, the water has flowed out, the devil is dead; the girl sends the boy home, and she must be water for another three years; the young man has become a rich merchant, forgot his bride, is preparing a wedding with the princess; the girl comes and offers to buy buns from her; the buyer wants to sleep with her; she tells her to come in the evening; the girl sent her boyfriend to buy firewood, she stuck to the doorknob all night; the next evening But with the second one, who went out to bring a bag of flour; on the third evening, the merchant himself came; she lay down with him, said who she was; they stayed together]: 182-193; Finns: Concca 1993 [father has been plowing the field for 10 years shores, but each time the storm destroys crops; the attempts of the older and middle brothers are just as unsuccessful; the youngest (he is a soldier) sees swans descending from the cloud, turning into girls, dancing, trampling the field; the soldier hid one girl's swan robe, she had to marry him; she explained that the witch had turned her and her sisters into swans and only grass growing in this field could break the spell, so they trampled on crops; the king found out that the soldier had a beautiful wife; ordered all the creatures to be brought in pairs by tomorrow; the wife told them to wave a handkerchief - the animals had appeared; all the birds were the same; get the lost keys; wife: they are behind the altar in the church, we must take it and run without looking back; the soldier looked around, immediately fell from his horse to the stone and lost consciousness; the horse brought the keys to his wife, who gave it to the king; to avoid him harassment, the wife told her husband's parents that they should look for her across the black and white seas in a copper castle at the bottom of the Red Sea; put on swan plumage and flew away; when the soldier woke up, he saw three dead fighting over an invisible hat, leaps and bounds of boots and a self-cut sword; tells them to give him curiosities and go to the graves themselves; went east; stayed in a pagan house where he did not get baptized; the owner showed three barns with copper, silver, gold coins; the soldier took the gold coins; reached a spinning hut on a chicken leg; the soldier told her to stop; in the hut an old woman, a nose three cubits deep; she agreed to transport him across the Black Sea on the condition that he would then cut off the soldier's hand; when he reached the other side, the soldier put on an invisible hat and fled; there was another hut on a chicken leg, the mistress with his nose moves the coals in the oven; the same (transports across the White Sea); the third hut is spinning and does not want to stop; the soldier threw the net under the crane's feet, the hut stopped; the old woman collects birds, then fish ; only the whale knows about the copper lock, its tail is entangled in the teeth of the wall; the whale brought the soldier to the castle; the soldier cut the chains, the lock surfaced; the soldier threw a ring into his wife's bowl; she brought him to his house on his swan wings; the king sent an army, but the soldier sent a samob sword, the king and his army fell into the ground]: 17-28; Salmelainen 1947:19-25 [the young man is about to shoot at capercaillie, he asks not to do this; so three times; the young man agrees to take the capercaillie home and feed him for a year; the capercaillie grew a copper feather on his tail and when it fell out, he flew away; in the evening he returned, asked feed for another year; a silver feather has grown; after the third year, a golden one; the capercaillie ordered to sit on it; they fly across the sea, the capercaillie throws off three times and picks up the young man so that he would feel the same fear who experienced the capercaillie when they aimed at him; they fly into the copper castle of the capercaillie's younger sister; he tells me to ask her for a chest without a key, but she did not give it; the same from the middle sister in the silver castle; the eldest in the golden castle gave; on the way back, the capercaillie was tired and left the young man on the mountain; he did not want to drag the chest, he left it and a palace, a farm, people, etc. appeared; the old man promises to put everything back, if a young man promises to give him what was born at his home; the young man knows that his wife did not expect a child and promised; the old man allowed him to leave the baby for a year, told him to give his name Krummdreher; in a year, the boy grew up, became a young man, went to an old man; there was an oak tree between the sea and the lake, he climbed on it, saw girls coming on the ship; they began to swim, he hid the clothes of one of them; gave it for a promise to become a wife and help; this is the daughter of an old man; she gives her handkerchief, he makes him invisible and offers any food; before entering the castle, you must pull an iron stake out of the ground with a ring at the end; young man easily pulled it out; the young man knocked on their door, the old man went out but saw no one, and the invisible young man entered the bride's castle; the old man tells 1) to create a castle neither on earth nor in heaven; 2) in one night cultivate the field, harvest and bake bread; 3) bring three iron-billed capercaillies from across the sea; bride: bribe 7 out of 9 horses, and we can ride away on two; the old man is chasing; the girl waved her handkerchief, a mountain arose, the old man ran after the ax; cut through; the girl turned her horses into a church and a bell tower, herself into a priest, a young man into a clerk; they replied to the old man that the fugitives were already across the river; he was chasing again but the girl created a river with a handkerchief; the old man stopped pursuing; everything is fine], 33-39 [the hunter sees three ducks go ashore, throw off their feather clothes, become girls; hides the most beautiful clothes; returned it when she promised to be his wife; she is the most beautiful, the king wants to take her for his son, he is advised to give the duck girl's husband impossible errands; 1) make Tischplatte by morning, where the moon and stars (the wife drew); 2) bring nothing out of nowhere; the wife made a handkerchief by morning, sent her on the road; when the husband comes home, where he sees strange things, let him show the handkerchief and behave like your own; there are bones around the house, there is only one skull on each pole, only one empty; old woman: the man came by herself; when you saw the handkerchief: you are the husband of my aunt's daughter! asks the servants where to look for nothing and nowhere, they do not know; she sent to her sister, she sent to her third sister; there knew the old toad who came last; the old woman told them to follow her; the toad brought her to the houses, where they hid in a dark corner; a man came in, called Nichtda, told them to set the table; everything is done by itself, the servants are not visible; when the person who came left, the man decided to call Nobody himself; he agreed go with him; the man asks every now and then if No one is here; they sailed by ship, the man told Nobody to feed the sailors; they offered to exchange a table with food that they wanted (and which Nobody covered it) on an anvil: if you hit it with a hammer, 12 fellows will appear, fulfilling wishes; but No one stayed with him; the sailors, seeing that the magic table was gone, rushed after the man, but he told the fellows to drive them away; the man came when his wife was married to the king's son; he threw his ring into her cup, she recognized him and said that her husband was alive; well done beat the king to death, man reunited with his wife and became king himself]; Schreck 1887, No. 5 (Österboten) [when dying, the father tells his three sons to take turns guarding the geese on the bank for three nights; the elder and middle are afraid, leaving; the younger Cinderella He sees three geese flying in before dawn; they take off their clothes and turn into girls; the young man hid his youngest's clothes, she could not fly away; he gave her wings back for promising to become his wife; she flew away, telling her to look for her in her castle; he came there, she offered to run, but the young man decides to open up to her father and try to do what he requires; her father king tells 1) to cut down all the trees in the forest; wife: cut down one, say, "Let the whole forest fall"; 2) uproot all the stumps; wife: uproot one, lead everyone; 3) bring gold bread from the sky; his wife put a bag over his head, put him on his horse, where is the horse stop, you have to reach out your hands, you'll get what you need; but it turned out to be so heavy that the young man fell into the ground, only his hair outside; the duck made a nest in this place, began to incubate the ducklings; The fox came to eat the eggs, the young man grabbed his tail, but the fox only pulled him up a little bit; then the wolverine; the bear pulled it out; the young man came to the two cannibals, said he was too thin; they asked them Judge: the father has a stick left, if you take one end, enemies will die, the other will come to life; young man: whoever you give, everyone will be offended, give it to me; cannibals agreed; the other two are arguing over- for their mother's invisible hats; same; a third pair is arguing over his father's speeding boots - the same; the young man came to the house, where they were also going to eat him first and then fed himself; he asks if they don't know whether the locals called the animals, no one knows where to go; then they gave him a magic stone; all the same in another place; in the third place they also gave a stone, called birds; the eagle does not hear well, it was the last to fly; agreed to take the young man to the king; they flew over the sea for a week, the eagle ordered to throw a stone, a rock formed, the eagle rested on it; the same again.. {in pdf no pages 42-43}]: 35-44; Estonians (Rannu) [when he dies, the forester bequeaths his son to take care of the landlord's forest, but not to go to one place; he goes, where the devils fight over bast shoes (speeders) hats (he sees everything), a sheepskin coat (makes him invisible); the forester shoots, promises to award things to the one who brings the pellets that have flown earlier; six swans fly by, wearing bast shoes, behind them; they swim in the lake taking off his feather clothes; he hides her clothes alone, marries them; they have a son; the wife laughs; promises to tell you what if he shows where her clothes are; tells a funny story about the devil; the husband opens chest; the wife grabs her clothes, flies away; he comes to an empty house, there is food, drink, goes to bed; six Swans come in; each says that someone ate her bread, slept on her bed; the wife finds a husband in her bed; flies away for his son, tells her husband not to go into the same room; he comes in, there is a chained old devil; asks for water, the forester gives, the devil drinks three times, breaks the chains, waits for the forester's wife, takes her away; the forester finds, takes his wife, catches up with the hell, takes it away again; so twice, the third time he kills; previously, the forester picked up, saved a half-dead wolf; now the vorons and vorons have flocked to peck the forester's corpse, the wolf caught a crow; promised to return the crow if it brought live water; he brought it, the wolf revived the forester; the forester's mother sends him to a far clever old man; he says that a witch lives across the sea, her white mare brings 12 foals every year; there are human heads on stakes, one stake is empty; if you herd for 3 days, you get a foal, you must take the most inconspicuous one; the king of midges, the king will help you herd horseflies and Vähjäkuningas (?) ; the forester does everything, takes his wife away; the horse says he will not catch up because his brother is stronger than him; both horses kill the line, the forester and his wife come home with them]: Järv et al. 2009, No. 14:78-84 Estonians (Rannu) [the king saw a spring in the forest that did not exist; leaned down for a drink, captured; released, promising to give what he did not know at home; and then guessed that he had forgotten about his son; the hell took the boy away and left it in the forest, but so that as soon as you knock on the stump, the food appears; the young man has grown up; the old man teaches: three women will arrive, take off their clothes, swim; we must take the clothes that they put away from others; the guy takes clothes twice and the girl takes them twice; the third time the old man teaches not to show; the girl promised to stay; she is not a devil like others, but was kidnapped by them as a child; hell tells build a stone bridge across the lake; cut down the forest and make beer {apparently finish all the work: sow barley, etc.}; the girl does everything; tame the black stallion; girl: damn it, you have to put a hot crowbar down your throat and hit the head with a hammer; recognize the girl among others (the handkerchief will be beveled to the left; then one leg to the side); now you have to run, the girl left a spit to answer for her; the farmhand catches up with the line, the girl became a herd of geese, the guy became a goose herd; then she was an ox, the guy was a ploughman; the lake and the duck; hell to catch duck in the lake, but the shores came together and he was gone; the guy went home forward; girl: don't kiss anyone; but when you put your little brother to bed, kissed him and forgot everything; the girl came to the wedding with her new bride, the guy recognized her; asks the guests what is better - the old one gold ring or new; guests: old; guy told everything; wedding]: Mälk et al 1967, No. 51:121-126; setu: Järv et al. 2015 [mouse and sparrow shared grain in a peasant's barn, they quarreled over the last grain; because of this, the animals began to fight birds, the lion was left without hair, the eagle was without feathers; the eagle asks the man to feed him until the feathers grow; when he has recovered, put a man on his back, flew to his sisters; the first has a copper box, the second has a silver box, the third has a gold box; the first two did not give, the third gave as a reward for saving the eagle; the eagle tells not to open on the way home, the man opened, a golden estate appeared; the black man put back for receipt to give what he did not know at home; the man thinks it is a dog, and at home the wife gave birth to a son; he grew up, the dog brought him to the sea, they sailed in a boat to the island, hid in the bushes; two doves flew in, became girls, the young man hid his clothes alone, gave it as a promise to become his wife; she tells greet the old man loudly, he does not hear well; heard; promised the bride, if the young man leads the geese to swim, the eggshell in front, not to lose a single egg; to tame the stallion; the bride orders to do a nine-pound club and beat a stallion with it; in the morning the old man's head is bandaged; build a church out of wax; the bride created a church and a bridge; they ran away, leaving the bird responsible for them; she answers for three days; then the old man sends his son to catch up with the fugitives; the girl turned herself and the boy into a priest and a chapel; the pop replies that he has not seen anyone for three years; the other son; into a flower and a bee; the old man himself is chasing; the girl turned himself into the lake, the young man in the fish; the old man began to catch and fell into the water; the girl tells him not to greet his younger sister at home; he broke the ban, forgot his bride; went to marry the colonel's daughter, stabbed all night firewood, returned; to the general's daughter, he carried water; to the king; he ordered to carry water; the young man saw the girl's reflection in the water and remembered everything; gave the king a box, people came out of it; everything is fine]: 25-29; Looritz 2005 (village Lazareva, 1901) [the young man was left with only a foal; the young man was hired to herd horses, he was allowed to sow barley and beans as payment; barley was frozen, the beans were destroyed by fog; he undertook to squeeze rye on the condition that he finished before sunset; a little bit left, the Sun refused to slow down, the young man was not paid; wolves ask what they have, an angel from heaven replies that the white-nosed foal is a young man; the young man smears the foal's white nose with black , the angel tells the wolves to eat the black-nosed, then no matter what nose, if only the same foal; the wolves ate it; in the morning, the young man sees the daughter of Dawn, the daughter of the Month and the daughter of the Sun swimming in the river (king of the dawn, etc.); hides their clothes, does not give the daughter of the Sun, because her father refused his request to slow down; (var.: the clothes of the "mother of the moon" are too large for the young man, the "mother of the star" is small, the "mother of the sun" is small, the "mother of the sun" - just right); the young man became the Sun's son-in-law, began to live with him; Frost and Mist came, he beat them with a truncheon; the angel of the sun (var.: servant of the sun, that is, probably Mercury) went on a daily journey with the sun; was left without food all day, because the young man turned over the plates from which they ate (if the plate of food is standing, you can eat it by the Sun while far from it); the Sun called his son-in-law to account, but agreed that he correctly punished those who harmed him; the young man stayed with the Sun]: 228-230; Seto [the man was carrying a load of firewood from the forest, he overturned on the descent; the man called for help without much hope; from A black man came out of the woods: I will help if you give what you don't know at home; the man promised, the little man easily put the cart in place; promised to come in 15 years; the wife gave birth to a boy, 15 years later the little man behind him appeared; the man persuaded him to wait another year, then he would send his son himself; he went into the forest, saw three swans go down to the lake, took off their clothes, became girls; while they were swimming, the young man hid his clothes alone of them; the girl turns to the kidnapper: if she gives it, she will love like a father, or mother, or sister, or brother or groom; he gave it; he came to that black; black tells me to uproot the oak grove by morning, plow, sow, harvest barley, make beer out of it, otherwise she will kill; that girl called the people, everything is ready by morning; next time black tells me to bring a pig and piglets from the pasture; girl: this is his wife and her children; you have to throw the pig down the throat, grab the pig and run to the house; the pig with the other piglets will run after him; at home, once again put the pitchfork in the pig's throat, otherwise it would eat it; more: give food to the black stallion; the girl: this is black himself, let the crowbar beat him; told him to run: now the black one will lie for three days, my head hurts from the blows with a crowbar; the girl also turned the young man into a swan, they flew to his parents; those they ordered to get married immediately so that black would no longer have power over them]: Sandra 2004:236-240; Latvians: Aris 1971 [going around the royal horse, the servant finds himself in the forest to an old man; he orders not open the bast gate; outside the gate there is a lake, three ducks come to swim, throw off their clothes, turn into girls; the young man hides his clothes alone; returns, they turn him into a dove; when they return , the old man restores his human appearance; the same for the second time; the old man advises not to give up dresses, the young man takes the beautiful woman as his wife, returns to the king; the sorcerer advises the king of lime to make the servant difficult errands; 1) bring a lion; the wife gives a handkerchief, the girl in the hut recognizes her sister by it, tells the lion to put a handkerchief over his nose; 2) bring an apple tree; the wife's other sister rolls an apple tree into a handkerchief; 3) go I don't know where to bring something, I don't know what; the wife promises the king to marry him if her husband does not return in a year; the third sister tells me to kiss the knees of the dead Mother Earth; she comes to life, calls birds and animals only the lame Frog knows the way; the invisible I don't know what he tells me to feed the snake, ask for a box from it; an army leaves it, kills the king, the servant reigns]: 101-114; Grishina 1993 [hunter shot the hawk three times, missed it; the hawk grabbed it and carried it, let it go three times, but picked it up so that the hunter would feel the same fear; then the hawk ordered him to feed him for three years; then brought the hunter to one sister, asked to give the hunter Raichuk, she did not give it; the same to the second; the third gave it, it was something like an egg; the hawk carried the hunter almost home and ordered Raichuk not to open it on the way; he opened it; appeared city with food and drink; do not put it back; an old man came up, put the city back for promising that the house was new; at home, the wife gave birth to a son; he grew up and went to look for the devil; the old man he met told me to go to lake, 7 ducks will arrive to swim, they will become a girl, you need to steal clothes alone and return them when he calls them sweet brother; the young man did so; hell gives tasks; 1) plow the land in a day, grow, collect apples; 2) the same - wheat, bake bread; the girl does everything; 3) jump on the stallion of possession of the line; the stallion is the devil himself; the girl gave a silver, golden broom (to drive them), a hammer - to beat; hell put a young man and a girl in a barrel to burn; they turned into flies, flew away through a hole; a servant chases, a girl turned into sheep, a young man into a shepherd; next time a church and a pastor; hell chasing; the lake and the fish; the water is boiling, the hell is barely alive, gone; the girl sent the young man to ask for his father's blessing, did not tell him to say hello to his younger sister; he greeted, forgot everything; the girl climbed on willow above the spring; the younger sister went to get water, saw a reflection, decided that she was so beautiful, the mug slipped out; the same second sister; the mother did not believe that she was beautiful at her age, noticed the girl told at home; the young man ran to the girl, hugged her, and both died]: 214-226; Lithuanians: Lebite 1965:133-135 [while the old people are clearing the felling, the Swan arrives every day, turns into a girl, puts the house in order; the old man hides, burns his wings, the Swan remains with the old people; the king notices her, brings her to the palace, she gives birth to him a son; swans fly over her, offering to shed her wings; she refuses his father, mother, takes wings from his swan friend, flies away; her friend dies; the king marries Lauma; the Swan regularly flies to his son, the rest of the time the baby sleeps; the king spies, the old man advises to smear resin on the windowsill; the king catches the Swan, tears off his wings, executes Laume (translated in Zheleznova 1974:174-178)], 149-153 [the fisherman did not catch the fish, says, even if at least hell clings, Damn gives fish for promising to give what you don't know at home; a son was born at home when he grew up, his father sent him to the old man of Gray Mountain Kost (SGC); the young man comes to one, then to another old woman; the first calls birds, the second calls animals, no one knows the way to SGC; the old man sends three swans, the daughter of SGC, to the river, bathe, tells them to hide the wings of the youngest; he hides the wings of the eldest, middle swans they take away their wings, fly away; then the youngest, she asks for his wings to be returned, puts the young man on his back, brings him to SGC; he promises him a daughter if the young man 1) uproots the forest, plows the field, collects wheat, bakes wedding pies (by order of the Swan, the devils do everything); 2) go around one of the three stallions (this is SGC himself, the Swan tells him to stab him in the neck with a knife); 3) identify the bride among the crows (sit on the edge, scratch him beak); identified three times; 4) swim in boiling milk (the wife stabbed the vat, the husband is unharmed); the wife leaves drooling responsible for her, runs with her husband; 1) turns into rye, the husband is old, the devils come back; 2 ) church and priest (same); 3) lake and pike; SGC pursues itself, becomes a bull, tries to drink the lake, bursts].

Volga - Perm. Komi [The mouse quarreled with Sparrow, the birds began to fight the animals, killed each other, the Eagle with a broken wing remained by the sea of blood; the old man picked him up; the old woman tells the Eagle to be shot twice, Every time the eagle asks not to do this; when he recovers, he carries the old man, throws it twice, picks him up from the ground so that he will be afraid; Eagle's sister gives a box, does not tell him to open it on the way; the old man opens, gold falls asleep; another old man (this is an evil tun) puts gold back for promising to give back in three years what you don't know at home; the old man has been away for fifteen years and has a son; the old woman tells the young man to watch for the twelve swans, the daughters of Tun, to hide the youngest's clothes while they are swimming; she gives him her ring, flies away; Tun marries him, sets tasks, his wife teaches him how fulfill; 1) build a palace overnight (monsters are building); 2) create a river with fish, gardens on the banks (the same); 3) a crystal bridge (the same); the daughter steals her father's handkerchief, runs with her husband; the tun pursues them; she waves her handkerchief, creating a forest, then a river; a young man pierces tuna with an arrow, he turned into a pine tree]: Novikov 1938, No. 25:88-103 (another retelling in Bulatova 1985:92-102); Udmurts [Vumurt says to a fisherman who must give for fish in 18 years, what he will be born; this is a son; he hides the clothes of one of the 12 turtlenose girls who have come to swim; she teaches him that everyone will drink, she will not; he identifies her; in in the form of pigeons, they fly away together; turn into a mill and a miller, into a church and a priest, other doves did not identify them; V. himself flies after them, did not catch up; the girl became a red flower, the young man forgot about her; her ripped off another; at his wedding, he receives a note hidden in bread from her, recalls, gets married]: Klabukov 1948, No. 34:92-98; Chuvash: Rodionov 1982 [swan maidens swim in the lake every day; this is the hero of a fairy tale sees, falls in love with his youngest, hides her clothes left on the shore; older sisters fly away, the youngest becomes his wife; in some cases, instead of a lake, there is a millet field, there Not swans arrive, but pigeons]: 158; Chuvash tales 1938 [The eagle asked the man not to shoot at him, to heal his wing; he feeds him cows and sheep, his wife curses; raises him to the sky, throws him, picks up, now the person also feels afraid; he is lucky to his sisters, the middle one gives a casket, the person opens it along the way, the silver falls out; the old man puts back from his elbow for promising to give what you don't know; during this time, son Ivan was born and raised; comes to the lake, hides the dress of one of the three swan maidens swimming; I. gives it when she calls him not a brother, but a sweet one; gives a ball, I. comes to her father; 1) to give the stallion and the mare a drink (these are the girls' parents; I. beats them, gives them water); 2) to identify the youngest of the sisters (she will blink an eye); I., marries; when she comes to her parents, forgets his wife's request not kissing a child in the cradle (this is an old man with an elbow), forgets his wife; they want to marry him, the cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo turns into an old wife, he remembers, returns to her]: 89-94; Eisin 1993 [in man Seven wives die successively, cattle go missing; they see three pigeons fly in, take off their clothes, turn into girls, swim in the lake, they hide one of them's clothes; they give them back after she promises to leave a trace of pieces of bast on which he was found by her and her mother (maybe the mother is to blame for man's misfortunes); the man comes; the brother of the doves is the Sun; suggests going instead of him in the morning; tells you not to stop for breakfast and lunch at Pihambar (the owner of the wolves), Pulechse (distributing goods), at Thor, only before sunset you need to feed the horse; every time a person eats, knocks over an empty cup on God's head; the Torah is going to figure it out; P. is to blame for wolves to pick up cattle, Pulechse for his wives to die, the Torah for not intending a happy life; the gods give man the gift of theft, but not they complain to him; then they promise to marry a princess, teach her how to cure her from blindness; a man receives a princess and a throne]: 123-129; Marie (meadow) [the soldier returns home, leans over to the pond for a drink, hell grabs him by the beard, tells him to give him what he does not know at home; the son opens the door in the oak tree, goes down to the lower world; the old man says that the devil is his older brother; we must hide the clothes of the twelfth girl- pigeons that will come to swim in the lake; the girl promises to marry Ivan; her house with the ribbon will be the third out of eighteen; in three years I. comes there; father-in-law demands 1) to uproot the forest; 2) to plow there is a field, harvest, bake bread; 3) make bricks, build a church; every time the wife does everything; a pig comes to the church, I. hits her with a hammer, her father-in-law is blindfolded in the morning; 4) pacify the stallion (that's the devil himself, I. beats him); 5) identify his wife among 12 pigeons (she will go down and then rise); 6) 12 sheep (will be the third); 7) 12 dewdrops (the third on the edge, swings); I. gets a wife, they they run, tell the objects in the bathhouse to be responsible for them; the wife is the church, I. is the old woman; the husband is the lake, the wife is the ruff; the devil can't catch a ruff, says that let their whole century pass in the lake; but they come back are celebrating their wedding at Father I.'s house]: Sabitova 1992:102-109; Marie [Mouse and Sparrow were friends, shared food; The sparrow swallowed the seed alone, they quarreled, the Mouse called the animals, the Sparrow called the birds, the Leo broke the Eagle's wing; the hunter took aim at Orel, agreed to take him home and feed him; the Eagle ate all his cattle, flew away, came back, carried it for the reward; dropped it on purpose, then picked it up to show how afraid he was at gunpoint; the youngest, middle sisters of the eagle in the bronze and silver palaces answer that they love their father and mother more than their brother; the youngest in gold says that there is more brother; gives a parcel, tells him not to open on the way; the eagle carries the hunter back over the mountain; he opens the parcel, a golden palace appears, the sorcerer gathers the palace back for promising to give what he does not know at home; he was born at home son; goes to the sorcerer; the old woman gives a skein of thread, he leads to her older sister, who explains how to take the clothes of one of the twelve duck girls who come to swim; the girl tells her to hire her father (this is the sorcerer), identify among 12 doves (she will bite harder); in a hot bath, young people turn into flies, fly away, spit is responsible for them; the girl turns into a herd, the guy in shepherd; to the monastery and priest; to the lake and the goose; the sorcerer stops chasing]: Chetkarev 1948:19-36; Mordovians: Evseviev 1964, No. 13 [the old man is three years old in the forest, leaned over to the water, Vedyava grabbed him for the beard; refuses the stallion, the ricks, the beekeeper, demands what the old man does not know; at home to meet a three-year-old son; grew up, went to Vedyava; Baba Yaga sends to his older sister, she sends to herself the eldest; she says that her brother has 40 stakes, only the last one does not have a head yet; three ducks will come to swim, become girls, we must hide the youngest's dress; she promises to become a wife; she tells me not to eat her father will suggest; he tells 1) to do all the work overnight, from uprooting the forest to baking bread; the wife tells the servants to do everything; 2) an iron bridge from the porch to the church, on the sides of the apple tree with apples and birds (same); 3) tame the stallion (this is the girl's father, she became a man, she tamed him herself with a hammer and iron bars); he promises to marry the young, his wife tells him to run, otherwise the father will kill, leave spitting to answer for herself; turns himself into a cow, husband into a shepherd; church and pop; himself into a ruff, her husband into a lake; this time the father himself is chasing, telling his daughter to be 7 years old female; the wife says she will become a woman After 7 days, but at home, the husband should not kiss his younger sister; he kissed, forgot his wife; she flew a dove to her new bride, became a woman, the bride sees a reflection in the well, thinks she is beautiful, returns without taking water; the same younger sister; the young man came himself, saw his wife, remembered everything, the wedding with her], 17 [the mouse destroyed the sparrow's nest, the trial began, the great serpent bit the falcon, that sat on a tree; the hunter shot him three times, missed him, then brought him home, fed him for 9 years until the falcon could easily pull out and carry the oak tree; the falcon put the hunter on his back three times along the way threw it off and picked it up; the elder, middle sisters of the falcon do not want to give the chest, the youngest gives it away, it cannot be opened on the way; he discovered it, the city has appeared, he has begun to live in it, wants to go home; Saraidir promises to put everything back in the chest for promising to give what the hunter does not know at home; the son has grown up, goes to Saraidir; sister S. teaches: three pigeon girls will come to swim, we must hide their clothes in gray, give for promising to become a wife; tells the servants to do the work he offers her husband; 1) cut down the forest, etc. - up to baking bread; 2) an iron bridge with apple trees and birds; 3) tame the stallion ( this is S., his daughter hits him with an iron hammer herself); leaves spits to answer, tells him to run; turns herself and her husband into a cow and a shepherd, a church and a priest, a lake and a ruff; S. turned his daughter into a female for seven years; husband kissed his younger sister, forgot his wife; after 7 years he gets married; two pigeons tell everything at the wedding; the husband remembered everything, married his wife]: 77-87, 132-145; Samorodov 1972:83-95 [childless old man bends down]: 77-87, 132-145; Samorodov 1972:83-95 [childless old man bends to drink to the stream, Vedyava grabs him by the beard; he promises to give him that he does not know at home; when he returns, he finds out that he has been absent for three years, his son; three baba yagi consistently send a grown-up young man further; the latter tells the youngest of the duck girls to hide their clothes when they arrive to swim in the lake; they are her brother's daughters; her father tells 1) to carry out the entire cycle of work in a day from cutting the forest for arable land to baking bread; 2) an iron bridge, on the sides of the apple tree; the wife tells the forest men to do everything; 3) drive around the stallion (this is the father-in-law himself, the wife tells him to beat him with a hammer and an iron rod); the girl leaves her spit to answer, the young run; she becomes a cow, he is a shepherd; church and pop; servants do not recognize fugitives, father-in-law flies falcon himself; lake and ruff; father-in-law pike cannot swallow a ruff; tells daughter seven years old be a dog; the wife tells her husband at home not to kiss his younger sister; she chases the dog away, kisses her brother herself, he forgets everything; he is married, he sees a reflection in the well, remembers his real wife; he is married to a dog, seven days later she turns into a woman], 282-292 [(=Pomerantseva 1973:100-110); in the forest, old man Uncle Nai-Nai tells the old man to give what he does not know at home; he finds his son at home; he grows up, goes to D., greets Viriava in the hut; she sends to her older sister; she teaches the youngest of the three bathing daughters D. to hide the clothes; this is Marya the Beautiful; give it when she calls him not brother, but husband; D. orders to count millet in the barn, build a palace and a glass bridge (his wife performs), drive around the stallion; this is a seven-headed serpent; the guy cuts off his heads with an iron club; recognize his wife among three doves ( will bite others in the back); among three girls (wipes a fly off his face); M. leaves his ring to answer, runs with her husband, turns himself into a herd, him into a shepherd; both into two flowers; into a lake and a duck; this time It is not the servants who are chasing, but D. himself, unable to drink water; M. tells her husband not to kiss his younger sister at home; he kisses, forgets M., prepares for a new wedding; sees M.'s reflection in the well, recalls, marries her]; Mordovians [the old man promises poor young man Rav-Zholdyamo gold on top of the mountain; tells him to climb into the horse's carcass, the raven brings it to the top of the mountain, RJ scared him off, lowers him, lowers his bags of gold on a rope, the old man burned the rope, left; RJ kills a kite chasing three ducks; they picked up RJ, brought them to a forest hut, turned into girls; every day they fly away with ducks; RJ hides her dress the youngest, marries, brings her mother's wife; the wife brought gold with her, but misses; asks for a precious ring forgotten from the sisters; when RJ left, told his mother not to give her daughter-in-law's duck outfit; master calls for a visit, wants to know where they got the gold; the daughter-in-law asks her mother-in-law to give her a duck outfit to appear to the master; she gives it away, she flies away; RJ goes in search; the old man sends it to his older brother he to the oldest; each points the path of a flying duck; the eldest: a wife in a crevice on a golden mountain; a raven picks stones, tries to get to her; gives a plane felt and an invisible caftan; RJ throws at the crow is stones, he rushes at him, RJ puts on an invisible caftan, takes his wife, returns home with her]: Samorodov 1972:132; Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 1992 [poor young man is hired by old man, that month feeds him well, gives him a new girlfriend every day; leads him to grief, sews a dead horse in the stomach; birds lift the carcass up the mountain, the young man drops marble stones; the old man loads them on the cart, leaves; on the mountain, a young man meets a padishah of animals and birds; he forbids opening one door; the young man opens, sees the sea, three doves fly in, turn into girls; the padishah of animals promises that in a year they will arrive again, tell him to hide his beloved's clothes; the young man hides, brings her to his wife; the young man is sad around the house, the wife brings him there; finds his pigeon dress, flies away; the young man again unrecognized hires an old man, comes to the padishah of animals; he tells the old bird to take the young man across the river of fire to the city of divas; he finds a wife, stays with her]: 162-168; 2008b, No. 4 [the hunter is gone, the son is coming search; decides to shoot the owl several times, but she asks to do it next time; tells him to stab the bull, feed it, carries the young man across the sea, lowers it several times to the water and raises it again; tells you to kiss one of the two girls and then sleep only with her; ask her for the chest of the padishah of birds not to open it on the way; the young man decides to break the chest and carry only its contents; a city arises; the old man collects everything back for promising to work for him for three days; the man he meets teaches how to escape from the old man, for which he takes the chest for himself; red and two blue pigeons will come to swim, become girls, you must hide the red dress; she becomes his wife; teaches him to put chips in the mouth of a tiger and a lion; tells the divas to complete the task - in a day all the work from clearing the forest to baking bread; the same is to drain the swamp, plant a garden, build a bridge; tame horses; this is a diva and his daughters, the young man's wife will be red, we must sit on it; they run away; they turn into a mosque and a mullah; a woman and ears; a fish and a lake; the old man cannot drink it, tells her daughter not to be happy with the young man; she warns him not to say hello to his mother; he says hello, forgets her; he is married; after the wedding he cuts the whites, the girl jumps out, reproaches her who forgot; he remembered everything, stayed with his first wife], 5 [the horseman did not follow a good road, but along a narrow path; two doves flew in to swim, took off their clothes, he hid his clothes alone; returned for make a promise and make him a dove, bring him to his father; he gives difficult assignments, the wife fulfills; 1) uproot the forest in a day, do the rest of the work, including baking bread; 2) pave the way with trees around the edges; 3) tame the stallion (this is the diva himself, the wife teaches what to do); the wife tells the horseman to run; he flew away with a dove, the youngest daughter of the diva chased, the dzhigit became a mountain, she returned; the eldest daughter ( bottomless pool); wife (waterfall and downpour); flew by himself; the dzhigit became a fish, a diva became a pike; then a bull, tried to drink the lake, burst, died; the horseman returned home]: 43-50, 51-56; Bashkirs: Abramzon 1977 [in the epic Edigei, among Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, semi-nomadic Uzbeks, Bashkirs, Siberian Tatars, etc., the youngest of the virgin sisters, who arrive in the form of swans, agrees to become the wife of St. Baba Tuklas, provided that he does not look at her head when she combs, under her arms when she takes off her shirt, at her legs when she takes off her shoes; BT violates the ban, sees a transparent skull, lungs, translucent under her arms, bird paws or hooves; the wife flies away, telling me where she will leave the baby; BT finds Edigea there]: 159-160; Barag 1989, No. 10 [the gray crow threatens to drown the merchant's ship; will send a mare, whoever leaves the merchant's house first must drive it; a young worker comes out; an old woman teaches the last of the seven white swan girls who fly to swim in the milk lake to hide their clothes; a girl leads him to his father, he was a gray crow; six swans are his own daughters, the seventh is a kidnapped earthly girl; his father-in-law orders the stallion to drink (his wife teaches him to hit him with a wand), to give six mares to drink ( these are swan daughters, you have to click on their forehead), plow the field overnight, grow bread (the wife tells the genies); the wife tells the young man to run, they turn into a sheep and a shepherd, the servants have not identified; the father-in-law chases himself, does not believe that he is just an old man and an old woman in front of him; his daughter flew like a falcon, her father a falcon; a roach and a pike; the ring is in the girl's bucket, his father is a fisherman, asking for the ring to be returned; the girl threw it away - the grain; the rooster bites, one grain from under the girl's foot goes to the golden eagle, he killed the rooster; the fugitives got home safely], 21 [the father tells three sons to take their wives where everyone's arrow falls; the youngest's arrow falls into the swamp; the frog tells the young man to lie down; when he wakes up, next to the palace, the frog takes off his skin at night, becomes a girl; appears in the guise of a beautiful woman to the wives of his older brothers; they are jealous they persuade the younger brother-in-law to throw her skin into the fire, the palace disappears, the wife flies away as a dove; the young man comes to the old woman, she refers to his sister, she says how three doves fly to her, take off the plumage, one girl is sad; tells me to grab the plumage hidden in the chest; the young man returns home with his wife]: 71-74, 121-125.

Turkestan. Kazakhs, Karakalpaks [in the epic "Edigei" among Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, semi-nomadic Uzbeks, Bashkirs, Siberian Tatars, etc., the youngest of the virgins flying in the form of swans agrees to become the wife of St. Baba Tuklas, provided that he does not look at her head when she combs, under her arms when she takes off her shirt, at her legs when she takes off her shoes; BT violates the ban, sees a transparent skull, lungs, translucent under her arms, bird legs or hooves; wife flies away, telling me where she will leave the baby; BT finds Edigei there]: Abramzon 1977:159-160; Kyrgyz [thieves stole a flock of orphans, beat him up ; the golden eagle brought it to a nest on a rock, where there are gold and precious stones; the merchants ask to throw them off, refuse to help the orphan go down; the orphan managed to get out, has come to the possession of the peri; the old man commands do not unlock the seventh door; the orphan unlocks, there is a lake, a plane tree, three doves have arrived, shed their plumage, become girls, swim; the orphan hid her clothes alone, she became his wife; her father demands 1) separate black millet from white millet (the bride does); 2) build a glass palace, inside a lake of butter and a lake of milk, etc. (same); 3) recognize the bride among three doves (she trembles slightly); a girl and a young man fly away in the form of birds, the father's guard in the form of a gyrfalcon next; the fugitives are millet, the guard is a rooster, snake fugitives, they crawl into the lake, they became fish there, the guard returned; the father chased himself, but the fugitives in the form of butterflies had already crossed the border of the Peri's possessions; became human; the young man went to the ail, leaving the girl waiting; the boar fatally wounded a girl; the young man was supposed to stay awake at night, fell asleep, Peri's father killed him, took his daughter's flesh; residents found the body of a young man holding a butterfly's wings to his chest]: Ledenyov 1987:115-121; Uighurs [a young man catches a goldfish, contrary to his mother's advice, gives a khan; a vizier advises to reward a young man if he brings a second one; he brings; brings living water for fish from the sky, otherwise execute; in a dream the elder tells the young man to hide on the shore; five doves come to swim in the lake, undressed, turn into girls, the young man hides his clothes alone; returns for his promise to bring live water; she brings a nut , if you hit him on the ground, there will be a lake; the vizier demands the golden throne; the elder tells you to make a staff out of a plane tree, come to the cave of the sleeping dragon, take gold, when hit by a staff, it will turn into a throne; get it daughter of a khan who lives in a year's journey; an elder explains what to do; in the country of that khan, a young man builds a bridge, creates a garden, eats a cauldron of food (throwing plane seeds, they quietly turn into eaters); a young man explains to his wife that she must give it to her khan; she calls the khan for a walk, tells them to bend down, grab the khan, hold it until he dies; the young man becomes khan]: Kabirov, Shakhmatov 1951:18-24 (=Kabirov 1963:78-85); salars (Ullagyl, Xunhua-Salar Autonomous County) [on a deserted mountain, a mare gave birth to a child; he grew up, went looking for brothers; shot a bow at a stone from which smoke was coming; a man screamed inside the stone; both went on; they fired an arrow at the tree; from there a man screamed; the three of them lived; the one who came out of the stone was named Tash-gaga (brother Stone), and from the tree, Agash-gaga (brother) Tree), and the one born as a mare was Masembu; they went to look for wives, came to some dwelling; there was no one there, food was cooked in the cauldron; the next morning the brothers went hunting, returned in the evening; there were bread and tea cooked; in the morning they left T. in the house and went hunting together; T. hid, saw three pigeons fly in; they threw off their feathers, turned into girls; one cooked, the other lit a fire, and the third swept the yard; then they put on their raincoats and flew away; one of them was Kyung-ana (Sun Maiden), the other Ay-ana (maiden Moon), the third Yultus-ana (Star girl); in the evening T. spoke his brothers about what he saw; A. was left to guard the house the next morning; he saw and told his brothers the same thing; the next day M. stayed in the house himself; when the girls started cooking, he jumped out shelters and threw their feather cloaks into the fire; Kyung-ana smeared herself with dust and soot; her brothers came in the evening; T. chose Ai-ana, A. Yultus-ana; M. went to Kyung-ana; she washed her face in the morning and compared to the other two girls turned out to be beautiful; T. and A. did not like it; they threw M. into the abyss, took his bow and arrows, and Kyung-ahn gave him to herd his sheep into someone else's house; a bird that flew into the abyss told M. that she had a baby there; M. told her about her brothers who betrayed him; the bird promised to carry it on its back; then brought a hundred sparrows and said to M.: "Sit on my back, take it all sparrows. When I make a circle, open my mouth, you throw [there] one at a time!" ; M. did as she commanded; fed her all the sparrows and, when he was upstairs, set off; came to his wife, asked her to look in his head; the wife cried, said that her husband had a similar mole; M. admitted that he had escaped the abyss; they came to his brothers; they played with a bow and arrow; said to M.: "You will not be able to pull the bow. Masemba played with that bow and arrow!" ; M. replied that he would pull a bow, grabbed it, put an arrow and killed both brothers; his wives went to him]: Tenishev 1964, No. 53:104-105; salars [in a mountain village, a mare swallowed a flap of red fabrics, gave birth to a boy, he was named Atentsigen Masymu ("a child born by a horse"); he became a hunter; he was an excellent archery; one day in late spring and early summer he stopped on the river bank and became smoke came out of the crevice to sing. "Hey-hey-hey, what kind of little guy is this freaking out here? If a passer-by, then go your own way, if you are looking for relatives, let's get to know each other"; a young man in white clothes came out of white smoke; M. said he was looking for relatives, offered to become sister cities; the young man took the name Dashitentsigen Dashidagu ("a child born from a boulder"); young men came to the forest, saw fog come out of the grove; M. shot, a young man came out, also became a sister, his name was Agaishitentzigen Munigu ("child born from a tree trunk"); the brothers began to cook; three white doves sank to the lake shore, removed their plumage, turned into girls, threw themselves into the water to swim; these are the celestials of Guni Ana, Ie-ana and Yulutusa-ana. ("Sunny Maiden, Moon Maiden, and Star Maiden"); the brothers took their clothes; the girls agreed to marry them; three married couples returned home and began to enjoy life; but G., M.'s wife, suddenly she became gloomy and taciturn, and frowned, refused to explain why; one evening her fire went out; she saw smoke from the chimney in the distance, went to ask for fire; old woman Mansikhanyer was in her house ( nine-headed demon); gave fire, but put sesame seeds in her pocket so that they would fall through the hole on the road; began to come to G. to comb each other's hair; G. began to think how from her to get rid of it, told her husband; was the first to guard; Dashidag; he turned into a pillow and sat on the doorstep; Mansikhanyer came, sat on the pillow; when she left, D. complained that it was terribly heavy, he was nothing could not do it; the next day Munigu turned into a broom; Mansihaner swept the yard with it; G. told her husband that Mansihaner could only be defeated by cunning; Masymu hid and shot only when Mansihaner turned into a nine-headed six-armed blue-faced fanged monster; Masymu and Mansihanyer began to fight, Mansikhanyer went to a hole under the mill; Masymu ordered him to be lowered on a rope; G. broke the mirror and gave it half; in the lower world, M. met an old man who told him not to scream; M. shouted, a tiger appeared, M. killed him with a sword; elsewhere M. was attacked by a boa constrictor, he shot him and hacked him; they were two Mansihaner commanders; M. exchanged clothes with the shepherd, drove cows and sheep; Mansihanier: "Go faster, faster! Finish eating and go to lick your wounds faster"; M. 8 heads wounded with an arrow enjoyed being licked by shepherds; M. prepared cow tongues in advance and began to stroke Mansikhanyer's wounds with them; she screamed from The sword hurt, and M. hit her sword, but Mansihanyer slipped out and ran, and then rushed at M.; feeling that M. was stronger, she emitted a cloud of black smoke, rushed to run, but M. pointed a mirror at her light and killed with arrows; I heard a scream, an iron cage came up, inside the eagle, asking for release, around the bone; this is the real Mansikhanyer nest; an eagle flew in, the eagle first hid M. under the wing, then told his mother who saved him; the eagle agrees to take M. to the ground, tells him to harvest 100 sparrows; the last sparrow was not enough, M. cut off the meat from his leg; met his wife they recognized a friend a friend in half of the mirror, so changed from exhaustion; Dashidag and Muniga forced G. to work when she refused to be their mistress; under the guise of a beggar, M. offer to entertain them with archery; pierced both with one arrow; people were prosperous, M. and G. are happy until old age]: Chen, Wang 1989:420-439.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Buryats: Barannikova et al. 1973, No. 1 [=1993, No. 2:37-61; an orphan earned a horse, it was eaten by wolves; undertakes to cut four fathoms of firewood in a day; there is not much left, the orphan asks the Sun wait, but the Sun goes down; he works again for a year, gets seed grain, in the fall his harvest has been broken by hail; he goes to the sea to fish and catch animals in the snare; sees seven swans fly in, take off their clothes, became girls, started swimming; the poor man hides the most beautiful clothes; she asks for her back, promises to recognize the kidnapper as a father, if he is old, a husband if he is young; the orphan returns her dress, keeps her dress handkerchief; everyone admires his wife; so that her husband does not get bored, she paints his portrait for him; the wind blows him away, the soldiers bring it to Abaahai Khan, who tells him to find a woman; they go into the orphan's house to fry a bird; not they take their eyes off the hostess, the bird is burned; the hostess makes her unburnt, tells her not to tell what they saw; the bird satisfies the hunger of AH and three soldiers; AH tells her to stay in these places; the next day soldiers do not look at the woman, fry the bird, she tastes normal, AH beats them, making them tell everything; locks the orphan and his wife in an iron barn; tells the orphan 1) to bring an angry yellow dog from the east; the wife gives the hook, the orphan pacifies the dog with them; 2) clear the bottom of the hot hell; the wife gives a red thread to get out of hell; it is impossible to cleanse hell, but the orphan offers AH to check for himself, go down; 3) bring tribute from the son of the Star and the son of the Sun; the wife gives a thread to climb into heaven, show her handkerchief to her mother, she recognizes her as a matchmaker; then the guard climbs, the orphan shakes him off, he falls; after resting with his mother-in-law, an orphan comes to the wife of the son of the Star, she hides him in a hot cellar; when the son of the Star comes, everything cools down; the son of the Star sends him to the son of the Sun; on the way 1) two roosters ask him to know why he is fighting; 2) a woman - why is she sitting on the horns of a cow; 3) another woman - why is she lying, water flows into her mouth, flowing out from behind; the wife of the son of the Sun hides an orphan in a cold cellar; he begged the Sun's son to send him to the day's journey on Altan Sharga's horse instead of himself; at noon he must dine on an 88-legged silver table; the old man lying face down replies that he is looking at his seven dogs on the ground to point them out cattle they can eat; an orphan breaks his arm, knocks his eye out for giving wolves to eat his horse, for which he worked for a year; another old man replies that he is trying to blow back in stone hail and rain that pass through the heavenly doors; an orphan beats him, breaks his arm, knocks his eye out for destroying his crops; in the evening, the son of the Sun gives the orphan a golden cane for AH; speaks that a woman lying on the ground did not give mothers milk for newborns; another beat a cow that was milked in honor of the Eastern bunts; roosters should be swung at their cane, they would turn into gold and silver; AH wants to kill an orphan, he swings his cane at him and his warriors, they fall dead; the orphan was chosen khan, the daughter of Tanegeri is khansha]: 43-53; Zabanov 1929 (Khorin Buryats) [from the foamed Three boys, Bulagat, Ekhirit and Khorida, came out in the waters of Lake Baikal; they were raised by Asoy Khan Udagan; after her death, B. and E. divided their property and separated; H. was offended that they were divided without him; he saw on Olkhon a swimming swan girl, hid her clothes, got married; the wife gave birth to 11 sons; asked for clothes, flew away; H. tried to grab her with soot-smeared hands, since then the legs of the swans have been black]: 29-31; Pozdneev 1880 [(Khorin Buryats); Horidou saw Fr. Olkhon three swans; they turned into girls, began to swim; H. stole the clothes of one of them; had 11 sons from her, the ancestors of 11 Khorin families; when he was old, his wife asked for her back swan clothes, flew to the sky through a smoke hole]: 264-266 in Sharakshinov 1980:130-131; Mikhailov 1983 [(retelling the same text as in Sharakshinov); "according to the History of Asuikhan-Udagan, Bulagat and Ekhirit decided to separate and divide the property; their third brother, Horida, was deprived, left, hid the bird's vestments of the swan maiden; (other text): Galzut, the founder, married the swan maiden The Galzut family of the Lena Buryats, and Wuhan, another member of the same family]: 98-99; Potanin 1883:23-24 [the Khangin family of the Balagan Department honors the swan as its ancestor; three swans flew to lake, skinned, bathed in the form of girls; the man hid one skin, the girl had to marry it], 24-25 [(Alar Buryats); three daughters of Heaven flew to swim in the form of swans (sagan shibo) ); the crooked shaman Oduge stole the youngest's dress, hid in a stone box; the wife gave birth to a son and a daughter, three years later asked her husband to return her dress; while her husband followed him, she washed herself with water from clean spring and fumigated herself with juniper, washing away the earthly sewage; wearing feathers, she flew away; predicted that her son would come from the Kharyat family, and from her daughter - the Sharyat family]; Toroev 1941 in Eliasov 1973, No. 64 (Baikal region) [the poor man hides the clothes of the youngest of the 9 swan girls who are bathing, they are daughters of heavenly Usege-Malan; when 6 sons and 6 daughters have grown up, his father-in-law visits his son-in-law; returns; wife asks for her wings fly away; people come from the sons and daughters of this couple]: 312-317; Tugutov, Tugutov 1992, No. 46 [Horyodoy was offended by his two brothers that the prey was shared without him; left them; hid the clothes of one of the heavenly maidens swimming in the lake; got married], 47 [Horyody-Hubuun hid the plumage of one of the swan girls who were swimming in Lake Baikal; his wife gave birth to 11 children and asked for clothes flew away as a swan; H. managed to grab her paws with clay-smeared hands; now the swans have black legs; H.'s children gave birth 11], 48 [Horyody-Mergen lived on an island in the Angara; three girls- swans flew to the lake to swim. Osa-nur; H. turned into horse apples, hid his clothes alone; she gave birth to him a son and a daughter; after drinking, persuaded her to give her clothes, flew into the opening of the yurt; H. touched his swan's legs with hearth forceps, since then they have been black; when flying away, the swan ordered her son to be named Sharait (descendants in the Alar aimak), and daughter Hangin (descendants in Nukut aimak)], 49 [9 daughters of Esege Malaan-Tengeri went down to swim; H., turned into horse apples, hid her clothes alone; the daughter was named Hangin, Sharaid's son; after drinking her husband, the wife received clothes from him, flew away; before that, she smeared the lid of the cauldron, got her mouth and hands dirty ( swans are now black beaks and legs)]: 157-158, 158-160, 160-162, 162-163; Khangalov 1960, No. 99 [pp. 109-110: three hunters live on the northern side of Lake Baikal; they have six swan cervical vertebrae left; his comrades ate five, leaving only one with Choredoy; he was offended, went on the ice to the south side of Lake Baikal; saw women bathing, they flew away as swans; the next time he hid one of them's clothes, married a swan maiden; they have children; his wife gave H. wine, found her clothes and flew away] (retelling to Rumyantsev 1962:148-149; Sharakshinov 1980:131-132); 2) p. 110-111: Choredoy-Mergen on Lake Sadamtyn- Sagan (located far north or far south) hid the clothes of one of the three swan women who were swimming; his wife ordered them to move to the south side of Lake Baikal, only after that they began to be born children - 11 sons and 6 daughters; the wife asked for her clothes back, flew into the smoke hole in the yurt; the daughter grabbed her legs with dirty hands, now the swans have black legs (retelling in Rumyantsev 1962:149 -151)], 105 (Unga Buryats) [three daughters of Heaven swam in Lake Altan; a poor old man hid his youngest's clothes; Horedoy-Mergen married this girl; she gave birth to a son and a daughter; asked for her clothes; flew away, saying that the son would be Sharat (Sharat's family) and the daughter would be Khangin (Khangin family)]: 109-111, 379-380; Sharakshinova 1959 [(Khorin Buryats); the poor man's bread died due to frost, the foal was eaten by wolves; the poor man hid the dress of one of the swan girls who came to swim and married her; their 9 sons and 9 daughters became the ancestors of the Khorins]: 136; Nassen-Bayer, Stuart 1992 (Barguzin Range) [hunter Bargutai saw seven girls splashing in Lake Baikal; hid her youngest's clothes, others flew away as swans; Bargutai's wife gave birth to seven children, found her swan clothes, flew across the upper yurt hole; children became Buryat ancestors]: 327; (cf. Darhats [Nomtor Tugelter Num-Khan, the ruler of ten continents, went to look for a wife for his son Altan-Gerelte; he saw hunter Nugalt Hara from Mount Sumber; he told how people descend from the sky swim in the lake; at N.'s request, he threw a lasso over the finger of the heavenly maiden, the rest flew to heaven; she agreed to live only with A.; the hunter was awarded]: Sanzheev 1931, No. 5:94-95; Oirats (durbuts) [ The durbuts lived near Mount Nidu; the hunter found goddesses going down to swim on the lake, grabbed one; after living with him, the goddess returned to heaven; realizing that she was pregnant, she descended again, left her newborn son in cradle on a tree branch, left a yellow bird to protect the baby; the predictor sent durbuts there looking for a leader; the bird returned to heaven, the son of the goddess became the ancestor of the tribe]: Nassen-Bayer, Stuart 1992:326-327); the Oirats [Tulgaa 2005:233, in Mongolian; on a summer day, three sisters were swimming in the Bulgan River; the taboogman hid their clothes; the sisters said he would stay with them for a long time; turned into three mountains; the herd turned into a mountain 40 km from the Gurvan Hoohead Mountains]: Bakayeva et al. 2016:116; Mikhailov 1983 [the father of the first tsoros was a hunter, and his mother was a swan maiden who descended to a high the mountain to swim in a mountain lake, but fell into the arms of a hunter; this couple's baby was picked up by people who went to look for someone who could become noyon among the derbets; the Kalmyks on the Volga have this legend no longer recorded]: 100-101; Siberian Tatars (Barabinsky) [a man leaned to the river for a drink, peri grabbed his beard, ordered him to give what he does not know at home; at home, a person finds out what he has a son was born; at the age of 16, he went to look for peri, three old Peri sisters consistently give advice; first 37, then 3 more pigeon-daughters of Peri will come to swim, take off their clothes; the young man must take clothes middle of three; Peri demands to identify the bride among 40 girls, she warns that a fly will sit on her nose; the young man takes Peri's daughter as his wife; he orders to uproot the forest by morning, plow, sow, bake bread; Peri do it, then again; father-in-law locks the young in the bath; when he leaves his spit to answer, turns her husband and herself into a needle and thread, they go out through the gap; the father sends the chase; the daughter turns 1) husband into millet, herself a reaper; 2) husband to a mosque, himself to a grandfather; the father chases himself, she turns her husband into a lake, herself into a duck; the father tries to drink the lake, the duck pushes his stomach, the water flows out; the young go to her husband, his wife does not tell him to kiss his younger sister, she kisses him herself, he forgets his wife; at a new wedding, the peri-dressmaker creates pigeons, they kiss, remind the young man of his former wife; he reunites with peri]: Dmitrieva 1981, No. 6:111-115; Siberian Tatars (Tobolsk) [(excerpt); after her travels, Zyhanza stays with an old woman; she allows you to enter all rooms (they contain jewelry ), except one; he violates the ban, there is a plain and a lake; Z. hides by the poplar; three swans arrive; two throw off their feather clothes, become girls, swim; the third says he smells man; but still joins the first two; Z. takes her clothes, she goes with him to the old woman's houses; she praises Z., marries him to a swan girl]: Frobenius 1904:328-329; Chulym Turks: Abdrakhmanov 1952 [Kuchuk is the son of his middle brother, strong, went towards the sun, his father died in the war; Ochol is the elder's son, weak, went towards the moon; the elder brother was named Kodanochka, the youngest Solomochka; the widow of the deceased middle gave birth to a guy Ak Kobey, he does bad things to people; K. sees three girls bathing; hides the eldest's clothes, because after urinating, she made the deepest hole; they have a son Mangush; AK tells the blacksmith to make a sword, but it is heavy for him; blacksmith: you will die at the wrong hands; he tried unsuccessfully to kill Babai Khan; tells Sagai Khan that there is a man who enters the sea and freezes in it; S. froze, AK wanted to hit him with a sword, but could not kill him, he went out; AK asks Solomochka for a weapon, a horse, a harness, a dog and a falcon of his father; M. envies that AK is catching a lot of animals; got together with Mangush's wife; M. tells his falcon, dog to kill the falcon and the AK dog; then AK drunk M. and Kodanochka, tied Mangush with leather removed from the old man, cut off his head; but Kodanochka killed AK, his horse became a deer, Mangush's horse became a moose; AK Kuchui's brother cut off Kodanochka's head, put AK in the grave] : 65-69; Porotova 1980 [three swan maidens (aka ducks) fly in, clean the house three brothers; the elder, middle brothers see nothing, the younger hides the girls' clothes, the brothers get married; the devil comes out of the trumpet under the hearth to drink women's blood; the younger brother shoots, the devil, taking the youngest's wife, falls into the ground; the brothers lower the youngest on a rope; the woman gives the devil - the iron king vodka, he says that his soul is seven eggs in a box, a box in the stomachs of seven deer; the hero pulls out, breaks eggs, kills a devil born to a woman's son, the brothers pick up the woman, the elder cuts off the rope, picking up the youngest; he falls; sees how the mouse has recovered, gnawing on the grass, heals himself; the Kite cooks the meat raises the hero to the upper world, the meat runs out, the hero cuts off the flesh from his leg; the Kite regurgitates this piece, puts to the leg; the hero marries, kills his older brother]: 76-80 (=Lukina 2004, No. 5. 12:117-122); Khakas (Sagai people) [the motive seems to be present; swan (or other waterfowl)]: Radloff 1886 (Proben.., Bd 6:122) in Halto 196:327; (cf. Altai-kizhi [Böö-kan, son of Kaldan Khan, saw three swans on the lake; caught one who turned out to be the daughter of Uch-Kurbustan; became her husband and went up to heaven with her; One day he went down to earth, despite his wife's ban, went to his earthly wife; she sewed a red thread to his clothes; when he returned, his heavenly wife drove him away; said that she would soon give birth to a son Shuna , which BH will find on a full moon night under a birch tree wrapped in wolf skin, fed with milk from three maralukha]: Sherstova: 227, 232 in Sagalaev, Oktyabrskaya 1990:70); Tuvans (Bay- Taiginsky District) [poor orphan Ösküs0ool is hired by Khan to remove millet while the moon is in the sky; asks the moon not to go, it does not pay attention; khan beats an orphan; the same with the sun; three daughters Kurbustu Khan, in the form of swans, goes down to swim in the lake, throw off her feather clothes, an orphan hides her youngest's clothes; she gives it to her, she says that her wings now smell like human, they won't take her back, becomes O.'s wife; Karaty Khan demands 1) cause rain; 2) stop it; 3) build a palace out of glass; the wife puts on swan wings, ties it to a birch tree in the sky, and then unties it a piece of red silk, thereby causing and stopping the rain; tells you to tie a piece of yellow silk with a thread, throw it into the lake to her uncle Uzutu Khan, who sends a palace, O. brings it to the khan; 4) get an army , raging like the Kalchaa-Dalai Sea; his wife sends O. in her clothes to heaven, her mother stands up for O. in front of Kurbusta Khan; he says that the army is in a golden chest by the Sun and Moon; O. brings them with an arcana, half of the moon has worn off, the Sun is hot; O. tells how bad both once did to him; gets an army, it destroys the evil Karata Khan and his people, O. feasts]: Taube 1978, No. 35:175-186 (=Vatagin 1971, No. 14:130-139); Tuvans [the lake was dry; Surji Bakshi, who lived in the Aji cave, ordered Tung Karatta Khan's servants to watch; five ducks flew in, the lake was filled with water; one turned to Sambai-Dagin, she is caught with an arcana; she tells her to build a house out of calico; on the instructions of the AU, the servants threw a golden lasso over the mountains, caught goats to feed SD; TC enters the house, SD says she is the wife of seven Tayanji Kuls; TC trades her from them for his 108 wives and all the cattle; Jyusun Khan is at war; TC tells his wife to wear a winged coat, the second give it to his mother, fly away; TC became a rat, gnawed through the enemy's bows and armor; Jyusun Khan offers a fight; their powers are equal, they have become friends; SD flew to her father Ter-Khan, Tayanji-kula blew up her iron house; KH, becoming a thin boy, meets a huge Raven on the way, then a huge Wolf; they reply that they are going to peck the eyes of the horse X, there is a horse KX; Kh hits them, breaks off their legs and nose to its current value; Aza replies that he is going to kill and eat the TC itself; TC has powdered it, spiders, horseflies, mosquitoes have formed from it; TC pierces a giant rock with an arrow, makes a dry arrow path through the swamp; each time before that, he turns two hair torn from the horse into two crows, who report that there is no road, but the horse tells us to shoot; on the seashore two boys; they say they supply SD with water wash in two golden vessels; TC puts the ring and bracelet left to him in the vessels; seeing TC, Ter-Khan agrees to recognize him as his son-in-law; orders 1) to kill the snake Amyrga Mogus; that brings the lung of the killed snake that filled the whole house; 2) the Temir-Mogus snake; it used to eat people, and now stones; TC brings its lung, Ter-Khan himself cannot lift it; returning to earth, TC steals the sun and moon from his father-in-law, does not agree to give it for cattle; now the sun and moon are shining on earth, and Ter-Khan is dark]: Potanin 1883, No. 110:373-379; Khakas (Sagai people): Radloff 1886 (6): 122 in Hatto 196:327; Mongols: Arkhipova 2008 (translated from a Mongolian text recorded by Lorenz in the early 20th century in Ulan Bator) [three men argue over the golden belt; decide to tell stories about women, who is better, he has a belt; one tells the following story; he is the son of a blind singer; Khan adopted him when his father died at the khan's feast; the boy grew up, but missed his father, recalled the song "girl , born of a beautiful mountain"; decided to go looking for this girl; came to the lake, put his saddle under his head and fell asleep; when he woke up, he saw that three DOVES had arrived, took off their clothes, began to swim; he hid one plumage, put it under the saddle, fell asleep again; two girls flew away, one ran along the lake shore, asked him who he was and if he had hidden her clothes; replied that she was the daughter of Khan Lusov (i.e. the dragon) ; the young man promised to tell him who hid her clothes if she told him where a girl born of a beautiful mountain lives; the Pigeon Maiden said that such a girl does not exist, she only happens in fairy tales; but Her heart was filled with pity for the young man and she promised to be his wife for 8 years; he gave her clothes, she buried them, and placed a golden suburgan above this place (not further translated)]; dagurs: Bender, Su Huana 1984 [the younger brother fell ill and died; the eldest met a monster in the forest, who let him go for promising to bring him human eyes; he blinded his brother's widow, brought her eyes; little He lodged his nephew and niece in a hut; the servant takes care of them; the uncle tells them to leave the children in the forest, but the house has already been prepared there; the servant reports about the flying horse on which the father rode, calls the horse, burning wormwood stems; weapons with a horse; for the first time a boy (his name is Hareladi Mergen) cannot pull a bow, hold the horse; after two years he becomes strong, finds his father's horse and weapon; uncle's wife overhears the servant talks to the blinded; the uncle goes to XM, calls to hunt, kills by shooting in the back; the sister turns into a hare; the horse tells her to go to the lake where three heavenly fairies fly; we must steal them feather clothes, bring him a horse; fairies find the murdered young man, guess everything, revive him; they bring them into their house; the hare whispers that she is his sister, tells him to test fairies who have a heart kinder; when leaving, XM consistently leaves the hare with the older, middle, younger fairies; the hare spoils what they sewn; the first two scold and hit her, the third says that the seam on the boots was bad, strokes and cares hare; XM marries a younger fairy; wife gives XM magic wands, turns him into a golden hornet so that he can regain his mother's eyes; XM flies into the monster's ear, climbs into his chest, stings his heart; when he gets outside, he finds a pantry full of human eyes; takes his mother's eyes away, restores her vision; the uncle asks XM to catch a snake in the East Sea and a wild boar in the Northern Mountains; in the form of a hornet XM gets inside the boar (and, apparently, the snake), they are powerless to do anything, he brings them, ties them to the gate; uncle and wife go out, one is eaten by a boar, the other is eaten by a snake; HM lives well with his family]: 92-102: Stuart et al. 1994 [a father sends three sons to get a white horse: he dreamed that he disappeared into the waters of the East Sea; at the fork it is written that one is the way to prosperity, the other to fulfillment wishes, the third is to fulfill hopes after many difficulties, the younger brother rides it; catches and tames a horse by the sea; he wants to take one of his 10 sisters with him; 10 fairies descend ashore, they take off their clothes, they bathe, the young man hides the most beautiful clothes; the horse takes them, they meet older brothers, they dig a hole, the young man falls into it, they take the horse and the girl, give the horse to his father; the girl and the horse they come to the pit, get the young man; the older brothers hang themselves]: 119-120.

Western Siberia. Mansi: Kuzakova 1994 [as in Lukina 1990]: 165-172; Lukina 1990, No. 186 [sister tells her brother to drink wolf and pork milk, he gains strength; tells him to marry a swan in golden plumage; the old woman gives a handkerchief, a ball of thread, a cup, a ring; the young man sits in a cup, throws a ball, blindfolds, finds himself on the seashore; seven Swans bathe with their wings off, the young man steals one wing; gives when Swan calls him husband; she flies away, teaches how to get to her; her father tells him to tame the stallion (the young man tames him, following his wife's advice); father and mother want to eat them, send them after them worker; the wife turns her husband into a house, herself into an old man, the worker does not recognize them; parents and young people reconcile; the boy's sister's lover kills him, they take the corpse to the forest; the wife lets him down three dogs, they are his they find and revive; he kills his sister and her lover]: 477-482; Kannisto 1951, No. 5 (Upper Lozva) [three brothers hunt, take turns cooking; three swans fly into the smoke hole, throw them off feather clothes turn into girls; older brother hides a bowl and spoon, hides under the roof; girls cook bowls and spoons, scratch his hidden belly, steam burns him from food, they put on feathers, fly away; the same with the middle brother; the younger does not hide a bowl and spoon, puts a box next to him, hides feather clothes in it, marries girls to himself and his brothers; when husbands go hunting, wives secretly they moisten their flints; the older brother goes to the Frozen Old Woman (Gefrierhase Alte) for fire; she tells me to say 7 tales, the older brother does not know, grabs the smut, the old woman catches up with him, hits him with smut, he returns without fire; the same with the middle one; the younger one tells tales, the old woman runs away herself, he brings fire; the brothers returned home]: 47-51; (cf. Eastern Khanty on the Vakh River) [the old man's daughter and the old woman swallows everyone; the son asks the mother who she likes best; she replies that the daughter; the son put on a swan skin, came to the lake, where the daughters of the Sun woman flew to swim; they took him to their place, he Married one; cries, homesick; wife gave him a comb and a pebble; at home, his sister plays with the skulls of her parents and neighbors she ate; wanted to eat the horse's leg; brother rides away on horseback, throws a comb, a stone; they turn into a forest, into a rock; sister and wife grab it, the wife gets a part without a heart; the wife heals her husband, he dies and then comes to life; it's the Month]: Lukina 1990, No. 5:65; Ents [seven the girls left their clothes on the lake shore, went swimming; the Nganasanin sat on their clothes; the eldest agrees that he should come to her in the evening, others do not want to; by evening the girls went out and grabbed the nganasanin, the eldest stepped over him; a year later he died]: Sorokina, Bolina 2005, No. 88:311); Nenets (Gydan, West 1979) [the mare gives birth to a boy Yuno Nyu ("son of a horse", Yoon); he meets Iba-sei Nyu ("Warm Hearts Son", IN) and Pi-sei Nyu ("Heart-Night Son", PN), they live together; three girls Habei Ne (Khanty Women) they arrive in the guise of swans, shed their swan skins, enter the house to eat; PN turns into a wooden dish, the girls put hot meat on it, it is scalded; the next day, in a scoop, boiled; Yoon turns into fur, catches girls, everyone gets a wife; Shudba Wesako ("giant old man") comes three times in the absence of her husbands, draws in air, almost killing women; only Yun hits him with a hammer, he leaves (rides bears, wolverines, mammoths); Yun comes to his daughter, who offers to look in his head, throws it into a hole; Yun sends a bird to his mother; 9 years later, the mare comes, lowers her snot, it turns into a bronze rope; the first time the rope breaks because Yun broke the prohibition to think about anything; the second, Yun rises; the mare flies to heaven, screaming that she is the Mother of Seven Heaven, and he - Son of Seven Heaven; Yun cuts to pieces of the SV, and his wife is the daughter of the SV; a seventh of their hearts fall into the ground, becoming diseases; Yun - Num, his wife Haer (sun)]: Golovnev 1995:385-387 and 2004:277-285 ( paraphrases with various details).

Eastern Siberia. Dolgans [the horse gave birth to a boy, Atalamia, a hero; ordered her skin to be peeled off, quilted, the skin became a horse, the young man rode him; seven Siberian girls (white cranes) from the upper the world is swimming, A. steals clothes alone, friends pick up the unclothed one; A. arrives where the top of the sky rests; three daughters of the Ursa Major are trying in vain to roll him up, their belts they are eager; the three daughters of the Pleiades are trying to show the wrong way; the abaas takes that girl, A. comes in the guise of a beautiful woman, kills the abaas, but his soul escapes like a bird from a cut heart; A. brings his wife to the middle world, after a long struggle, defeats the abaasa who jumped out of the hearth]: Efremov 2000, No. 1:49-79; northeastern (Verkhoyan) Yakuts: Ergis 1967, No. 173 (summary of Khudyakov's record and archival text of unknown dialect) [older brothers are smart, younger is silly; the elder married a Siberian girl (crane) he caught swimming (or dancing); younger finds and returns her feathers to her; she flies away; the elder comes for her to the upper world; burns her feathers, she dies; with the help of heavenly shamans - daughters of the Sun, the Month and the Pleiades - revives his wife; returns home, lives happily; younger brother becomes a hero], 174 (the place of recording is not specified; since we are talking about Siberian Siberian, most likely northeastern) [the Siberian bird flies to the lake, takes pictures the skin; Erdigen Silik grabs it; she and the other girls are hostage to the sea spirit, they live on the island; ES is flying with her; seven girls are the daughters of Abaasa, ES chooses the eighth, whom he saved; Flies home with her, lives happily]: 204; 1974 [(=Ergis 1964, No. 55:188-191; Western in the 1860s Khudyakov: Verkhoyansky collection 1890:74-80); Older brother, hunter Uchugei Uduyeen ( Good Yudiyan), the youngest is homebody Ku h ae'an Khodugur (Khudugur); seven white cranes (Siberian cranes) began to fly to them and play since the XX; the older brother caught one- a Siberian bird and married her; soon she found her feathers, turned into a Siberian bird and flew away; HUGH flew to the cloud, found his wife, wiped off all her feathers and burned her, causing her to lose her hidden soul, died; then he flew to the heavenly shamans: to the daughter of the Pleiades, the Shy Shaman, to the daughter of the Sun, the shaman, the daughter of the Moon, to the Moonlight's daughter, a shaman with the Moonlight; promising to marry to the shaman and disguised his wife in their clothes, made them revive her; the shamans, seeing the resurrected woman and mistaking her for HUW himself, flew to the sky; HUW returned home with his wife, healed richly; XX became a strong hero; (retelling in Sivtsev, Efremov 1990:176-181)]: 224-225; Western Evenks (Podkamennaya Tunguska) [the man sold his fur and went home; leaned over to the ice-hole for a drink, someone grabbed beard; I had to promise a son, whom my wife was supposed to give birth to; the boy Goodey grew up instantly; the father brought an iron staff with him; came to the lake; three swans took off their outfit and became girls; G. hid his clothes one, gave it for a promise to become his wife; gave a ball that would lead to three plague; where white dresses are a witch with daughters, where black dresses are a waterman who kidnapped her, where red ones are herself; I must say, "Ayalik, open it"; the water tells the plague to have 1000 deer by morning (A. performs); go around the deer (this is the water himself, you have to hit with an iron hammer, he died from blows); A.: you have to run away from the witch; left to answer two thimbles with saliva are chasing them; the witch's daughters are chasing, A. turned G. into a wolf, herself into a bear; then an ant heap and a frog; a hunter and a hut; a witch is chasing, A. became a lake, G. became a perch; a witch became a bull, drank the lake with the perch; he pierced his belly with needles, went out with water, the witch died]: Suvorov 1956:7-14; Baikal Evenks (Baikal Region): Voskoboynikov 1967, No. 9 [Letylkack stays at home while her older brother hunts; swans fly in twice, throw off their feathers, tell them to feed them, scratch her face, fly away; L. lies to his brother as if he had been scratched; he hides, grabs the plumage of one of the swan girls, takes her as his wife; she gives birth to a son, finds her plumage, flies away with her son; the husband finds his wife and son; when the swans swim, he again steals his wife's clothes, she has to return to him; she finds her plumage again, flies away forever]: 33-35; (cf. Titov 1936, No. 60 (many unclear places; the text is clearly borrowed and not fully understood) [two guys learned to read and write, that bird was eaten; their younger sister's merchant husband ordered them to be brought in; she admitted that he wanted to carve a duck out of their bellies; they ran away; three doves became girls on the shore; one of the guys hid the youngest's skirt; she showed the way; the khan tells me to identify that girl among the three doves; she says will be middle, he will wave his wing; the khan gives him the girl, tells him to bake bread; they run away; the swan is chasing, they have become fish, the swan has returned, the khan sent the bear, he sees the house, they pray in it; the khan is chasing themselves; they returned to their land with a broken wing]: 205-207); Evenks {no affiliation specified to be exact} [Nivanikan hunts, Kukeki does the housework; three women go down from the sky, they comb K.'s hair; N. watches for women, hides a pair of silver wings; his wife asks K. to return them, for which she gives what K. did not eat; it turns out to be a deer stomach; N. kills K., goes to look wife; an old woman sends him to her sister; she tells him how to reach the place where his wife is now; he runs an ermine past a kite that covers the sun; after killing two deer, he throws them at two bears to the sides of the path; throws a comb on the rock, it becomes a ladder; after killing two goats, he throws them to two wolves, they let it through; a long-haired woman comes out, N. kills her; returns his wife; K. revives at home; he brings N. to the hole, N. falls into the underworld; two girls take each other's needle, N. breaks a needle, gives each half; the same with boys quarreling over an arrow; the old woman asks Whether he puts his pillow to the mountain or to the shore; N. replies that he is grief, wakes up at home; digs a hole under K.'s bed, he falls through, kills girls and boys, says that he does not return to the shore]: Voskoboynikov 1960a, No. 11:79-83; Far Eastern Evenks (Zeisky) [Torganay hunts, his younger brother Chanykoy is sitting at home, dirty; T. is surprised that he has become clean; C. confesses that two female swans wash and comb it; C. grabs one, T. hides her clothes, takes her as wives; three days later his wife with her clothes and C. disappear; the three-headed eagle tells him to go west, catch a wild deer with a broken horn, a silver bridle; on it, T. comes to the foot of the mountain, turns the deer into a stump, himself into a child; the eagle brings it to him; T. ties himself to his leg, so gets to the top of the mountain; finds his young son, he is nursed by Chirkumai; his mother and her sister go down, T. cuts his wife's plumage with an ax, his sister flies away; their son Huruguchon wants marry the daughter of the Sun; she is guarded by a one-legged, one-armed Avasi; he eats half a berry with half a spoon; H. flies in (the text breaks off)]: Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951:185-191 (similar text in Vasilevich 1966 , No. 15:263-267); Far Eastern Evenks (Uchursky or Amur) [every time Tenenge does not give roe deer to hunters; once they beat him terribly with twigs; he weakened, called a roe deer; she tells you to go to the lake, geese will fly, take off their wings, we must choose the best ones; geese are trying to take away their wings, T. she hardly overcame her, she gave birth to a boy, took her parents to the upper land; her father tells go to bring scattered flour; the roe deer shows where it is, tells squirrels, chipmunks, birds to collect; then the roe deer tells you to go to the lake, collect moss, give the elk that will come to the middle of the lake; T. gave, climbed the horns, they became earth; T. went, two boys shoot a bow; T. opened his mouth, caught an arrow with his mouth, and the other boy missed; T.: this is my son (whose arrow he caught); T. gave the flour old man; he does not give his wife, tells him to bring the lost prison; the roe deer brings, T. took the prison; made the raft, pierced a huge huchen with a jail, and when he hits him; T. fell into the water and died]: Myreeva 2009b : 150-154 (=Bulatova 1980:102-104 (=1987, No. 7:125-128); Far Eastern (?) Evenks [Erindia the hero is the elder, the fool Torganandya is the younger brother; in the absence of E., two female birds arrive, T. drives them away; E. hides, grabs one; E. asks T. to get her wings hidden in a tree, gives toys for it - dog feces; flies away; E. comes for her, where the jay makes baby E. and that woman cry for his mother to come; E. grabs his wife, hits, returns] : Varlamova 2004, No. 4:146-164; Evens: Danilov, Danilova 1991 [when the earth was born, the three brothers met the old man, he started coughing; younger Matthele laughed, the middle Oyine grinned, the elder Incanmel cried with pity; the old man told him to become the owner of the middle land, the ancestor of the Russians, O. the ancestor of the Yakuts, M. the Evens, they are the poorest and helpless; the horse tells the starving O. to put snare on partridges and hares, then put a fishing net; O. rode a horse down the river, the wolf began to eat the horse from behind, then ate everything, told him to ride it; M. and I. live together, I. leaves to hunt, at this time three women come, cook and clean; I. stayed on guard, saw white birds arrive, shed their plumage, became women, he hid the wing of one of them, Gevak; once she gives M. a golden ball, for which he gives her the wing hidden by her brother, she flies away; I. tells M. to bring poplar and bird cherry, tells them to become golden sticks and skis, goes to look for a wife; after a few years sees an iron bird lurking the cradle; I. became a mouse, crawled, grabbed the wing, all the dancing women disappeared, G. was left with the child; she tells I. to pour the mountain, make a clearing so that the child is pine nuts, berries, tells you to make a lake, I. does everything; the wife tells you to take a dry pit, jump over a hole so that I. pierces the dry trunk; and so it happened, she burned the body, was left alone; son grew up; father's head tells her to shoot, son shot, I. came to life, caught up with his wife, hung her on larch; shot into the sky, 20 swans and cranes descended, swans became deer, the first crane was Kholuk, Sister G., she began to live with I.; (the story ends)]: 6-18; Dutkin 1980a (Allaikhovsky District of Yakutia) [Umchegin is an older brother, hunts wild deer, Buyundya Jr., stays at home; sees how they arrive seven swans, take off their feathers, become girls, play ball; do not tell B. to tell his brother about them; B. knit knots on clothes, but still forgets; W. guards, swans notice him, fly away; When the swans arrived for the fourth time, W. hid well, hid one of the girls's skin and clothes; married her; she invites B. to play ball, gives him the ball for B. giving her her her clothes, hidden in a hollow driftwood; flies towards the midday sun, telling W. to tell W. that she is pregnant; W. goes in search; sits on the ground, digs a little, there is a plague, an old woman in him; gives water, meat, taking them out from his sleeping bag; W. does not drink, does not eat, hides under his clothes; the hidden one disappears, he is full; the old woman sends to her older sister, the same place; she gives a plaque, must be directed to the sea, it will freeze, You can cross the ice; W. ran over with an ermine; seven girls play there, a bird nurses one child, tells him that his father has come; the girls beat her, they don't believe her; W. found, burned his wife's skin; wife and bird became girls; they crossed the sea in one step; houses from B. were only bones; U. revived it with living water]: 111-117; Lavrilye, Matic 2013 (Tomponsky District of Yakutia, village. Poplar) [Irkanmel hunts, his younger brother Oyinde cuts prey at home; sees 7 Siberian birds go down, take off their wings, turn into girls, play, fix the chum, clean up, cut deer, they promise to return tomorrow; the same the next day; on the third day, I. hid, hid the wings of his older sister; she became I.'s wife; asks O. to find and give her wings, promises to make him various garments; he agrees only when she gives the yala; the girl puts on her wings and flies away; I. went in search, telling Julia not to take O. far from home; turned into an ermine to it is easier to run; having become a fish, he swam across the sea; on the other side, the Siberian birds are dancing, and the bird tells the baby that his father is I.; tells I. to become a mouse, grab his wife by the braid when she feeds the child; I. grabbed his wife, lives with her, then decides to return home; fires an arrow across the sea, the sea froze, they crossed with the deer; I. cut O. and yula in half, a handsome guy and a girl appeared, married]: 119-158; Lebedeva 1981 (Momsky District of Yakutia, 1963): 40 [Irkanmel is the elder brother, Sulerken is the youngest; S. sees three swans shed their wings and become girls; helps I. steal the wings alone; one day she deceives S., takes wings, flies away; a year later, the swans fly again; I. turns into an ermine, steals wings, returns his wife; throws wings into fire], 144-150 [Swan girls fly to Omcheni's yurt; O., with the help of his younger brother, steals the wings of one of them; she gives birth to him a son, persuades her younger brother to return her wings, flies away, carrying her son; O. in the form of an ermine, chases; finds his son's cradle; a wife appears, he throws his wife and son into the fire, two birds fly out of the fire; the wife reports that they are flying to Father Buscan Burai; "Omcheni quickly he made a bow and arrow for himself and shot up, and he sat on top of the arrow. The arrow flew to the sky and hit it and fell back near the fire. Omcheni broke two eight ribs. He was lying near the fire, poor man"; a bird (his wife's younger sister) flies up, raises O. to heaven through a hole; he meets his father-in-law, returns his wife and son]; Novikova 1958 (=1987:82-84) [Wyndya He sees three women bathing on the lake, taking off their golden wings; she creeps up with the mouse, hides her wings, does not return her younger sister; then she gives one wing, she flies away, but returns to W.; he comes to live with her on the seashore; men want to take possession of the beauty, tell W. bring 1) a bear, 2) a spotted bear, 3) a colorful seal; he does tasks; 4) build a house overnight; the wife says that we have to run now; floods the village with water, gives U. one of two wings, both fly to the lake and live there]: 48-50; 1987 [Buyundya sees seven swan girls playing ball on the lake; he ties knots on his clothes to remember and tell his older brother Umchegin at home, but forgets; for the third time W. hides himself, but the swans notice him, do not take off their wings; on the fourth W. hides the clothes of one Swan; takes the girl as his wife; she gives B. the ball, for which he says where her wings are hidden, she flies away; W. follows her; meets one, the flood to another, an old woman; the second gives a plaque freezing the sea; W. runs across to the other side with an ermine; seven girls play ball; a bird nurses a child, sings that his father has come; W. finds out from the bird where the bird's skins are hidden, burns the skin wives; the babysitter became a girl, all three returned home; W. revived B. from bones]: 51-58.

Amur-Sakhalin. Nivhi: Ostrovsky 1997 [a poor lonely hunter hides the beautiful animal kuhy from his human pursuers; he tells him to go to the lake; five women swim in it, the hunter hides her clothes beautiful, takes her as his wife; her father demands to get different animals; his wife teaches her to sail to an island, set fire to grass by a bare mountain; various animals come to him, he gets a wife], No. 18:96; Pilsudski 1991 [= Ostrovsky]: 38-40; Sangi 1989 [sister and brother grow up alone; brother sees two seals taking off their clothes (scales), turning into girls, washing themselves; he hides clothes, giving one only when she agrees become his wife; his sister tries to kill Nerpa with a jail, wounds her; she swims away, tells her to marry her brother herself; she braids like a woman; her brother goes to the sea, two girl seals tell him their words his older sister (his wife) make a loon bowl out of wood; they take him to the sea in it; two long-haired women catch him, tickle him; he causes thunder, they kill them; a sea lion brings him to the island; a slave shows the road; the young man puts on the clothes of a slave; turning into a water flea, jumps over two closing wolves, two bears; shamans try to cure the wounded Nerpa; the young man revives her, takes her home; his sister is barely alive there; he is a successful hunter]: 395-402; Nanais [Laterken is the younger brother, Mergan is the elder; M. has gone hunting, L. sees seven swans, invites them to go down; they took off the swans clothes, combed, washed L., told M. to answer that he did everything himself; M. does not believe, L. tells us how it happened, M. tells me to stick his finger in the hole on his younger sister's robe; M. hid her swan clothes; six pudines flew away, M. married the seventh]: Medvedev 1992:149-151; the Orochi [the ox tells the owner to go to the sea, 12 swans will arrive, throw off their clothes, become girls; we must hide the youngest's plumage; she clapped her hands, created a rich house, fed her, put her to sleep; he woke up, neither at home nor as a girl; the ox reproaches that the young man did not make her a wife; two sunflower seeds must be sown, they will grow to the sky; you have to climb them; the stars are the roots of the trees in the upper world; the ox also tells him to get into one ear, get out of the other, the young man is great and handsome; the young man hit his head against the sky, it parted he saw houses, one of them is beautiful; her father gives difficult tasks, the girl helps to solve; 1) recognize the bride among three chickens (she will raise her wing, there is a white feather); 2) find out among 12 girls with curtained faces in identical dresses (the bride sticks a needle to her clothes); 3) find and bring three arrows fired in different directions; the bride tells you to choose a frozen skate, he has wool in reverse side; gives a bottle of medicine to heal wounds; the first arrow in the side of the sturgeon; the young man took the arrow, healed the sturgeon; the second was brought by the mice to their queen; ate the young man's horse; the mouse returned the arrow and revived the horse; the young man helped the weaker army; after the victory, he found out that the princess was wounded by an arrow in their city; took out an arrow, put medicine, the princess recovered; the young man returned to his bride, her father gave it to him; one day the man decided to visit the land; his wife warned him not to eat chicken; he was greeted, given cock meat; he ate it and became a rooster, so the rooster meets the dawn of the morning]: Aurora, Lebedeva 1978, No. 82:133-135 , 150 [a borrowed fairy tale is probably of Manchu origin, but the motifs of swan girls and hidden clothes are "inherent in Oroch folklore"]; Udege people: Lebedeva et al. 1998, No. 25:197-203 [While her older brother is away, a bird girl flies to the younger Latige, takes off her wings and claws; he sews her clothes on his own, her older brother grabs them, hides the bird's clothes in a box; while her husband is away, her son cries, wanting his mother's clothes; she takes the clothes, flies away with her son, the husband shoots his son's little finger; sends a decoy duck (given by the old woman) to the bird wife, grabs the wife, tears it off, burns her birds' clothes; when they came back, L. stuck to the door (because he ate good meat, not bad meat as told); they revive it]; Nikolaeva 2003, No. 5 [Lektige lives with her younger sister; she can't sew; someone washes, sews, embroiders in L.'s absence; L. waits for a duck woman; grabs, hides her feathers; one day their son cries; sister L. says he is looking for his mother's duck clothes; mother takes her clothes, flies away with her son; L. goes in search; the old woman says that a woman with a child stayed with her, must be on the red lake; L. lures her with this old woman with a decoy duckling, catches her; she agrees to throw off his feathers, he burns them; at home, his sister stuck to the door; says that L.'s wife's seven sisters ate all the supplies]: 38-41; Podmaskin, Kireeva 2010 [seven twin girls flew to heaven, became Pleiades (Nada Aziga); the hunter saw the sisters go down, left their clothes on the rocks, sailed into the sea; hid her clothes alone, she had to marry him; children were born; one day the wife saw her sisters go up to the sky, flew after them; the husband followed them in the skin of a red deer; seven sisters dived into the sea and hid, the husband remained in the sky; then the sisters rose to heaven, and the cold fell on the ground]: 15 .

Japan. Ainu [the young man sees the goddesses bathing, hides the clothes of one of them; hears in a dream that she is the bride of Ripun-kando-koro-kamui; he is thrown down a ladder from the sky and summoned for testing; goddess gives him a fan that causes cold and heat; a young man 1) sits in a cold house; 2) rides a fiery horse; he is sent to earth with his wife; she gives birth to a son and daughter; returns to heaven with his daughter]: Etter 1949:156- 158; Japanese (including Okinawa and North Ryukyu) Ikeda 1971 [(59 versions); a man goes to the lake (1) after praying for a wife, (2) having received a divine revelation because he is honest and hardworking, (3) sent by a deer (badger) to save his life; sees girls bathing, hides clothes from one of them's feathers, she has to marry him; they have sons (from one until seven); she learns from the children where her clothes are; in some versions she understands a hint from a song that the child sings; flies away with her children; leaves her husband instructions on how to get to heaven: (1) making 1000 straw sandals or by collecting a thousand oxen, the plant will grow to the sky, (2) or by planting a magic seed; (1) the husband slightly violates his instructions, for example, by preparing only 999 sandals, but reaches the sky with the help of a dog or wife taking him with her looking out the window; (2) climbs a magical plant whose seed was left by his wife; (3) a rope (bucket, basket) descends from the sky to pick up the remaining child (and husband); father-in-law gives difficult assignments 1) cut down the forest under the field in a day, plow the field in a day, grow melons in a day, harvest them in a day; his wife helps do it all; (2) he must identify his wife among her sisters, who look the same; the bee he saved points to his wife; he is told not to eat melons; he cuts one, a stream gushes out of it, the husband and wife remain different sides of the Milky Way; can only meet once a year, on the eve of July 7, when the stars celebrate; some versions end with episode (1) marrying a heavenly girl, (2) her return to heaven, (3) reuniting a person with his wife and children in heaven; (4) if a father-in-law tests his son-in-law, he usually cannot stand the latter, so he and his wife remain separated by the Heavenly River (Milky River By way); but if a grateful animal helps him, he overcomes everything; the plot is recorded in many written monuments, the earliest is the 8th century fudoks]: 96-97; Markova 2000, No. 6 [(typical version) ]: 27-32; Baksheev 2004 (ancient fudoks): 447 [1) Omi-fudoki, cf. Miller 1987; 2) Tango-fudoki (Kyoto Prefecture); eight heavenly maidens went down to swim at Manai Spring in Hiji; an old man and an old woman hid one of them's clothes and she had to become their foster home daughter; she was a good sake brewer, the old people became rich, but then they kicked the girl out and she wandered; later she was revered as the goddess of food Toyouka-no-me], 446 [3) Hitachi-fudoki, 713-720; during the reign Emperor Suining, orphans ("white birds", swans) came down from the sky every morning, turned into girls, collected stones, and built a dam (for swimming?) , they flew away in the evening; but the dam was constantly falling apart, they sang a song, flew away forever; the village was named Shirotori; in ancient Japan, place names associated with swans are everywhere from Kanto to Kyushu]; Markova 1962 [ The Tale of Old Taketori, 10th century; old Taketori went to get bamboo, found a girl inside a bamboo trunk, brought her home; while she was growing up, T. found in every bamboo node returning from the forest gold coin; the priest gave it the name Kaguya-hime; she refuses grooms, 5 nobles remain; K. offers one of the challenges to each; 1) a stone bowl from India from which Buddha collected alms; 2) a tree with silver roots, a golden trunk, instead of pearl fruits; 3) a dress made of Fire Mouse wool; 4) a stone sparkling with five-color fire from the dragon's neck; 5) a swallow shell that helps to give birth without pain; everyone brings a fake; then mikado marries him; but K. regretfully refused him: she must return to the moon; sent the emperor the elixir of life; but he burned it, not wanting immortality far from K.; smoke above Fuji from the emperor's burnt message]; Miller 1987 [ancient fudoks (8th century); eight heavenly maidens flew like swans to swim in a lake in Omi Province; they were spotted by Ikatomi and sent his white dog Steal the youngest's feather clothes; built a Kami-no-ura house there, lived in it with his heavenly wife, her sisters returned to heaven; they had two boys and two girls; the mother found her clothes and returned to heaven]: 68; Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 1 [poor Mikeran goes swimming higher in the river than they usually swim; sees a kimono on a tree, picks it up; the maiden emerges, says it's her feather outfit for flying; she has to go to M.; after 7 years they have three children; suddenly coming to the house, the wife hears the elders singing, reassuring the younger one that his father will come, open a barn with feathers for rice and millet, he will get it for us; the wife took the children, flew to heaven, but dropped her youngest child, he fell from a height; the husband finds a note in the bamboo tube; he must bury a thousand pairs of wooden shoes and a thousand pairs of straw sandals, put bamboo on top, which will grow to the sky in two or three years; M. found only 999 pairs each; climbed to the top of the bamboo, but it was a little short of the sky; his wife held out the shuttle dragged her husband into heaven; heavenly father-in-law demands 1) to clear a field of a thousand choba in a day (the wife tells me to cut down one tree and go to bed, the field is ready); 2) dig up this field (the same is to dig and sleep); 3) sow melons (same); 4) collect them all the next day (same, the melons are already ripe); father-in-law is happy, but tells me to cut three melons lengthwise and go to bed on them; the wife orders to cut them across, but M. obeys his father-in-law; immediately all melons are cut lengthwise, water gushes from them, the stream carries M.; this stream is the Milky Way, M. is Altair, his wife Vega, two stars next to her are her children; the couple meet once a year on the seventh day seventh month; the fallen child survived, his mother left him three koku rice on the mountain once a year; some washed dirty clothes in the river, three koku shrunk to three faithful, and the child disappeared]: 255-259; Ryukyu (probably Okinawa; Chinese source 1801-1803) [the poor peasant noticed that a girl was swimming in his well and her dress was hanging on a pine tree; he hid the dress, the girl had to marry him; she gave birth to a son and a daughter; 10 days later, her term was fulfilled and she flew off the top of the tree, saying goodbye to the children]: Dennys 1876:140-141.

SV Asia. Chukchi: Baboshina 1958, No. 33 [Ememkut takes the clothes of ten Ducks swimming in Lake, returns nine, marries the youngest; she flies away with the Ducks with her daughter and son (the son does not have a son wings, his mother makes them out of branches); E. goes to look for his wife and children; the old man gives him arrows that freeze the sea; E. meets his children first; Duck is married to Drake; E. easily kills with a whip flocks of attacking birds, brings his wife and children back]: 90-92; Bogoras 1928, No. 48 (reindeer) [two options; 1) girls Geese and Seagulls take off their feather clothes, swim in the lake; a man steals clothes; returns them to everyone but the most beautiful Seagull; takes her as his wife; they have two sons; instead of edible roots, she collects unnecessary herbs, her mother-in-law scolds her; when the birds fly south, she asks them throw her feathers; flies away with the children; the husband goes in search; the Eagle sends him to the old woodcutter; a country of birds can be seen through his anus; an old man sends a man there in a self-propelled boat; a man comes to his wife; she has a new husband, the Bourgmeister seagull; birds attack a person, firing feathers instead of arrows; a man maims and kills birds with a club; splashes water, birds freeze to the ground; man brings his wife and children home; 2) like in (1); the wife is a Goose; the sun's rays penetrate the old man's mouth, shine from his ass; the man gets into the ass, jumps out of his mouth; the old man makes a boat out of the log, she rushes across the sea like a fish; a man's son in a birdland catches it on a hook; a man kills the Burgomaster with a club, the rest of the birds flee]: 429-432; tundra yukaghirs: Gogolev et al. 1975: 223-226 (p. Kolymskoye, Nizhnekolymsky District) [Ulegeradoite young man sees three swan girls on the lake taking off their clothes; the old man advises him to take the youngest's wings, they are closer to the shore; W. takes her as his wife; she says that her older brother will come for her, kill everyone, it is better to go to her house yourself; she gets wings, flies away; W. follows; overtakes his wife's younger brother; her father gives him his seat], 242 (probably tundra) [(resume); the eldest of two brothers steals the wings of the youngest of the seven swan girls; the youngest secretly returns her wings, she flies away; the eldest goes in search, two old women help he will go to the land of his wife's parents; he returns home with her, lives richly]; Kurilov, Varlamova 1986 (p. Kolymskoye, Nizhnekolymsky District) [=Kurilov 2005, No. 8:207-213; a young man named Uligral Oicha ("The Top of the Grass Stem") noticed three swans at the lake; they took off their wings and turned into girls and became to swim, then put on their wings and flew away; the young man consulted his father and set off again; met an old man who explained to him how to catch the swan girl; the young man took shelter by the lake and, when the swans who arrived turned into girls and went swimming, he stole the youngest of them's wings; she could not fly away and the young man took her home; a few days later, the girl said she needed to see parents; the young man went with her; she flew away, he followed the trail; the girl's brother came to meet the young man, said he would take him to his father, and ran along the treetops and grass; the young man ran after him; they ran for a long time; when they reached the camp, the girl's brother was out of breath, but the young man was not; the girl's father held celebrations and announced that the young man would be the new leader]: 31-43.

The Arctic. Central Yupik [a person steals the clothes of one of the bird girls swimming in the lake; the others fly away, one becomes his wife; usually the story of his wife's return to the bird world and her husband, following her]: Gillham 1955:79-85 in Sheppard 1998:158; Kodiak [the chief's son follows five geese; they turn into girls, bathe in the lake; he hides the youngest's clothes; she gives birth to him a son; his her sister calls her a goose; she puts on her feather outfit, takes her son and flies away; her husband comes to Bird Sky for her; she sees a tree splitter on the way; chips turn into salmon and trout; wife agrees to live with him if he does not leave the house; he looks into another house, where the birds dress up and paint; the Seagull and the Raven have not yet finished this procedure; in panic, she paints him entirely black, it is white; birds are reluctant to take a person back to the ground; a raven carries it, falls, turns into a floating log; a person turns into a beluga whale]: Golder 1903, No. 10:98-104; inupiat [a man asks his brother to bring the most beautiful girl; he sees four girls bathing, hides their clothes; does not return the most beautiful one]: Ostermann 1932:207-208; Bering's inupiate Strait: Curtis 1976 (20): 106 (Fr. King) [the hunter hides the clothes of five girls swimming in the lake; the fourth returns everything, the fifth does not return the waist jewelry, marries; the wife can't stand the smell of human home, eats only grass; hereinafter Russian fairy tale)]; 254-256 (Cape Prince of Wales) [a person sheltered an orphan, he works hard; hides the clothes of four bathing girls; returns three, they fly away in cranes; the fourth becomes his wife, creates a house far from the village; they have two children; they come to live in the village; stepfather wants to take possession of his wife; while playing, the young man is pushed off a cliff, he becomes affectionate, returns alive; during a whale hunt, a tench is tied to his leg; he swims to the whale, gets ashore, sees his wife and children in the guise of cranes fly out of the house; they bring him into the world of cranes, his wife's father gives he has his crane park, he stays with the cranes]; Northern Alaska Inupiate: Hall 1975, No. PM35 (Noatak) [McLoukik asks his brother to get him a girlfriend; he sees four bathers, from them radiance comes out; he hides one of them's clothes; he doesn't return the most beautiful one, leads to M.; he can't look at her at first, then his eyes get used to it; he marries]: 209; Spencer 1959 [Caveyluk wants to get water, she retreats; grabs a piece of wood, she jumps back; sees three naked girls playing; one has an old woman's face; he takes their clothes; returns the one with the old woman's face; she flies away geese; two remain, the Squirrel and the Partridge; they also pretended to be water and wood; the house and supplies appear by themselves; the goose joins them; the wives do not tell K. to hunt whales with others men; they want to take possession of his wives; they push him off a cliff, he falls with a feather; tie his legs to the line when he harpoons a whale; they resort to his wives, who turn into animals, the house disappears; a whale sails to an unknown country; K. builds a house; catches grayling, she turns into a woman; the first three wives find K., put a new one into the water, she turns into fish again; after many years, K. s returns to his uncle's village as wives]: 391-395; copper [a person sees a goose woman bathing; hides her clothes, marries her; forces her to eat meat, not grass; she flies away with her son]: Jenness 1924, No. 64:77; caribou [returning from hunting, a man finds food cooked; finds a Fox taking off her skin; grabs her skin = clothes, gives it for a promise to become his wife; Wolf offers swap wives, says that a man's wife smells like a fox; she runs away; a man follows in the footsteps - first human, then fox, comes to a hole; he is offered a she-wolf, wolverine, lemming and other animals; he rejects them all, returns them to the Fox Wife]: Rasmussen 1930b: 93-94; netsilicone [Kiviok hides the clothes of one of the bathing girls; others fly away as goose; wife gives birth two sons; teaches them to eat grass rather than meat; collects feathers, flies away with their sons; K. comes to a man who has a hole in his back; he cuts his fin, the chips turn into salmon; K. pretends not to see a hole; a man sends salmon to transport K. across the lake to the village of Geese; sons recognize their father; wife is married to Goose; K. returns his wife]: Rasmussen 1931:373-375; polar : Holtved 1951a, No. 36 [goose girls bathe with their feathers off; the man hides them, returns them, does not give them alone, takes her as his wife; she gives birth to two eggs, twins hatch from them; they collect feathers, fly away together with his mother; a man asks his mother to make him shoes with several soles; goes to look for his wife, avoiding monsters sent by Geese; meets a giant cutting willow; chips turn into salmon and trouts; a man lies that he came up to him from the front (which means he did not see his huge testicles); a giant turns his testicles into a boat, takes a man to the country of Geese; two sons recognize their father; he chases his wife's new husband, lives with her; she gives birth to two eggs, dies; he buries her; the giant gives him a whip; with them, a man kills many Geese attacking him; few are saved]: 55-59 (=1951b: 140-152; transl. Changers 1985, No. 204:412-415): 140-152; igloolik: Kroeber 1899, No. 7 (Smith Sound) [a man steals a feather outfit of Goose Girls; gives back to everyone but one, marries her; she finds the outfit hidden by her husband flies away with his sons; he follows her; comes to a giant woodworm; his chips turn into seals and walruses; he tells the man to close his eyes and carries him in a boat; sons tell their mother that the father has come, she does not believe; he comes in, she loses consciousness, dies; he buries her; she comes to life; he kills her with a spear; many geese arrive; he kills them, only two (his sons?) fly away]: 170-172; Rasmussen 1930a (hall. Fox) [like the Polar Eskimos; the husband stays with his wife in Birdland]: 265-267; Baffin's Land: Boas 1888 [the girl rejects the groom named Butt; he comes to Birdland, hides Goose girls bathing shoes; takes one of them as his wife; returns with her to the people; she refuses to eat kitten, flies away with her son; he goes looking for them; a man with a hole in his back cuts wood; chips that fall into the water turn into salmon; the woodcutter gives the hero a spine that turns into a kayak that takes him to his wife; the son recognizes him; the goose, son and new husband Goose wear feathers about to fly away; a man kills his wife]: 615-618; 1901-1907, No. 14 [the hunter hides the clothes of four bathing girls; one does not return, takes her as his wife; the other three wear their jackets, fly away geese; Goose wife accidentally stained with whale blood; makes feathers for herself and her son, flies away with him; the husband goes to look for them; passes between the crushing rocks, jumps over a boiling pot, over a fat pot; the human pelvis lets it through after he copulates with him; a man with a hole in his back cuts a tree; the hero pretends not to notice a hole; the man sends him to the birdland in self-propelled kayak; son recognizes his father; in the house, the hero sees an old man next to his wife; both his son and his son fly away like birds; the hero manages to rip his wife's belly, bird eggs fall out]: 179-182; Labrador Eskimos, West Greenland (1 entry from Labrador, 4 Greenlandic) [a bachelor sees women bathing, hides one of them's clothes; the rest turn into waterfowl, fly away; the wife gives birth to a son, then a second; from the collected feathers she makes wings for herself and her children, all three fly away; the husband swims in a kayak to look for them; comes behind a man with an ax, whose lower body is trembling; lies that he came up to him from the front and did not notice anything special (otherwise he would kill him); gives him a new ax, for which the man tells the salmon to sit on the tail, close his eyes; the husband finds himself in the place where he sons recognize him; looks into the house, where a man with his nose upturned asks his wife to marry him; the wife asks his wife with her nose to see (otherwise he would kill him); the birds fly away; the wife gives birth to a son, and other women turn into seagulls, that man into a duck, the house into a "charming hill" (turf guano mountain)]: Rink 1875, No. 12:143-148; (same in Egede 1788:55-57, Rasmussen 1921- 1925 (1) :364, (2) :12-14, (3) :74-76 in Hatt 1949:95; Rink 1866:91-93 in Hatt 1949:95); Greenland, Labrador [the lonely Asalok calls the skulls of slaughtered seals his children, plays with them; One day she sees goose women bathing, steals one of them's clothes, she becomes his wife, gives birth to three sons, teaches them to collect bird feathers and fluff, flies away with them; A. swims to look for her, old eagle says that his family lives on a rock; A. enters a house where there are many people, the house is immediately turned into a rock, people become seagulls, his wife and children look at him with hatred and fly away; A. returns home alone]: Millman 2004:143-144.

Subarctic. Atna [the chief made a potlach; the Bear came, looked into the steam room, there was only the chief's daughter, he dragged her away; said he would go for sticks to fry meat; the mouse gives the girl a needle and feathers, tells her to kill for a dwarf bear and a seal; a girl comes to bathing dwarfs, hides one of them's clothes, the others dress up and leave; giving the rest of the clothes, she kills him with a truncheon; comes to the seals kills a seal with a truncheon; brings meat to the Bear; he mumbles that the girl's left hand will be roasted on this stick, and so on; the girl gives him her prey, eats the seal herself, but not meat a dwarf; the bear invites her to walk on a barely frozen lake; she takes a feather amulet, light as a feather; the bear fails; she pulls him out for promising to take her home; the bear does not take it again offers to walk on the ice; stomps, telling the lake to become unfrozen; but the girl does not fail, and the Bear falls when she stomps; the Bear undertakes to take her home, but leaves her on the road leading to his nephews; the girl comes, there is a woman, telling her to run; the bear's nephews smell, kill their own mother, who let go of the prey, chase the girl; she flies away with a feather a needle pierces their hearts; comes to the Bear; he is afraid that she killed his nephews; takes her home]: Tansy 1982:51-58; {also check Rooth 1971:340}.

NW Coast. Tlingit: Swanton 1909, No. 24 [man sees two Goose girls bathing; steals their feathers, marries them; Goose sees relatives flying by; Goose father-in-law allows his son-in-law to wear feathers; they fly to the land of birds; Herons attack Goose; a man kills many herons with a bow, saves the Goose tribe; Goose and Herons reconcile; man stays with birds], 54 [episode of the battle as at No. 24, Cranes and Geese attack Goose; Goose leave a man on a rock; a bird takes him home]: 55-57, 206-208; Haida [two Geese take off their feathers, turn into women, swim in the lake; the chief's son hides their clothes; the eldest offers to marry her, he returns her feathers, takes the youngest; she does not eat people's food, puts on hidden feathers at night and stings the grass; when she is hungry, her father sends geese with edible roots; someone calls a woman a goose, she is offended, flies away; an old man, a mouse, a woman help her husband; in the form of a mouse, he climbs a pole to the sky; Half man ( Master-Hopper with one arm, one leg, etc.) harpoons salmon; the young man, turning into salmon, steals his harpoon; when he returns, he shows the way; the wife accepts her husband; he begins to miss home; The raven carries it, gets tired, dumps it, it turns into a seagull]: Swanton 1905:264-268.

The coast is the Plateau. Thompson: Hanna, Henry 1996 [(Hebrew, or contamination of local and European motives); a young man hides the clothes of one of the heavenly maidens who have descended into the clearing to pray; one day his mother returns her clothes, she flies away with her son; the young man comes to the upper world, returns with his wife and son]: 94-99; Teit 1917b, No. 18 [girl rejects grooms; Raven flies to the lake where she swims, turns into man, sits on her clothes; she has to marry him; later they visit her parents, stay with them]: 30-32.

Northeast. Malesit [Mekweisit ("little red man" (stories of people who painted their bodies red can preserve the memory of beotuk) sailed across the strait by boat, spotting two swimmers little men, hid one of them's clothes; he promised to give his sister if M. returned her clothes; brought a wife for M.; one day Brother M. began to comb her hair, M. was jealous, told his brother to leave; then repented went to look for a brother; found it from their grandfather; sailed to them with his wife; for this purpose, the wife made a small boat, when crossing it became real; the same with a pot, with a supply of meat; M. more did not fight with his brother]: Mechling 1914, No. 14:65-69; mikmaq, passamaquoddy [elf girls swim in the lake; Marten steals clothes from one, then the other, marries them; Moose wants one for herself, fights with Marten; sisters run away; go to heaven, stars marry them; see motif J12]: Leland 1968:140-166; mikmaq [Marten sees women bathing in the forest, hides one of them's clothes marries; Tia'm, who lives next to him, does the same, but at the entrance to his house he does not hit the woman lightly with a rod, but hits her in a big way, killing her; Marten gets a second wife, teaches T. how to do it do; T. envies that Marten has two wives and he has one; Marten's wives are leaving, they are Laska Sisters, the eldest has magical powers; they look at the stars, the eldest wants a bright husband, the youngest wants a red husband an asterisk; both wake up in the sky, the eldest husband is young, the youngest has an old man; he does not tell you to move a flat stone in front of the teepee; the sisters dig tubers, the youngest moves the stone, they see the ground, their house; their husbands let them return; they must cover themselves with a cape, lie down until they hear the voice of a chikadi, then a red squirrel, then a striped one; the youngest looked out when she heard a red squirrel, they were on top of a pine tree; Wolverine, Bear, Moose, Tia'm, Marten pass by; Wolverine returns; older sister leaves a hairlace on the tree; while Wolverine climbs after him, the sisters build a teepee; the elder leaves porcupine, flint flakes, wasp nest, thorny bushes are responsible for them; Wolverine is scratched, bitten; by the river, sisters praise the beauty of Heron's legs and neck, who stretches their neck like a bridge; Wolverine blasphemes his legs and his neck, the Heron shakes him off in the middle of the river; by the sea, the wigwam, with three cervical vertebrae of an elk, the youngest pees on them; someone approaches, the eldest hides the youngest in her hair, takes the form of a man; Blood Sucking enters; the imaginary man explains that he smells a woman because he slept with the woman himself; the sisters cross the river again down the Heron's neck; the cannibal could not, returned; then see motive M30]: Whitehead 1988:168-179; (cf. mikmaq [the young man sees girls coming out of the lake playing; hides, as a child, under a leaf, in a cane; the third time she grabs one; she says she is married, brings his younger sister; she gives birth to him a child; invites him to visit her father, chief under water; on the way back they are chased by a shark; a young man with a child reach the shore, his wife disappears]: Hagar 1895:38-40).

Southeast USA. Koasati [see motif K27; two sisters, one in red and the other in blue, bathe in a stream, a young man hides their clothes in a tree; they dive behind the reflection, then they see a young man; he returns their clothes after they call him not grandfather, brother, uncle, but husband; at night his mother-in-law gets up to kill him, but a snake, a crane, a clay pot guard his sleep; he leaves]: Swanton 1929, No. 12, 14:174-175, 177-178; natchez [a woman washes by the stream, her baby is carried away by the Puma; raises him with his wife; does not tell him to go downhill; he goes, sees people, his mother, she plays ball; the Puma refers him to people, decorates his hat with parrots, jays, small birds, gives a horn; if you blow into it, the birds sing; does not tell him to talk to whoever comes out on the way; this is the Rabbit, he calls the young man to the river catch turtles, steals his clothes; a young man covers himself with persimmon fruits, drags a turtle with him; only an old woman shelters him; he leaves a turtle in the pit, the old woman finds many turtles there; gives him granddaughter as his wife; when swimming, he becomes handsome again and puts the fish to sleep, people pick it up; The rabbit tries to do the same, but only gudgeon emerges, and not because of the Rabbit; the young man asks his wife parting her hair, cutting her with an ax; now he has two wives; The rabbit only kills his wife; the young man is told that he was the cause of the murder; 1) sent for arrow poles into the reeds, where they are teeming poisonous snakes; Puma gives him four balls, snakes rush after them; Puma also helps with advice in subsequent tasks; 2) get the ogre's beard to wrap the arrows; the ogre's wife cuts it off for the young man; 3) get clay from the bottom of the river; Kingfisher brings under his claws, there is a lot of clay; 4) the young man is left on the other side of the river, where cannibals live; he hides in a hollow; he hides the clothes of two bathers women, gives when they call themselves his wives; father-in-law offers a race in running, always pushes his sons-in-law to the tips; the young man pushes him, helps him get up; at night he covers himself with a mask, as if he had eyes are open; father-in-law sets fire to the house, but wives take the young man out; tell him to call a carrier by the river; the young man rejects various snakes, takes a snake with deer antlers as carriers; on the way he gives him four dogs to eat; closer shoots an arrow to the shore, rushing after it]: Swanton 1929, No. 9:234-239; biloxi [man finds deer skin; deer women ask for it back; agree to marry him if he returns it them; he descends with them to the lower world through a hole in the ground; he gets deer skin himself, climbs to the ground in the form of a deer; he is wounded by hunters; the chief of the Deer sends him back to people, gives amulets; he becomes a lucky hunter]: Dorsey, Swanton 1912, No. 27:83-84.

Big Pool. Wintah Utah: Kroeber 1901, No. 10 [two deer ask the hunter not to shoot; it is said that a bird will descend to the lake across the mountain, take off its feathers, become a girl in light red clothes, swim; she is bad, he must hide the second clothes, blue, marry her; the hunter acts as ordered; when she finds out that he is Mexican, the girl refuses to be with him, flies away]: 277; Mason 1910, No. 25 [man sees girls bathing, green and yellow; hides their clothes, then gives them away; goes to their countries, marries green first, then yellow; fathers of both and their people put him to the test; 1) get up in a boiling water cauldron (unharmed, the enemy is cooked), 2) run into a pitchfork (they pierce it without causing harm), 3) cut down the forest overnight (cuts with a magic ax), 4) climb a pole (rivals can't), 5) go through rope, 6) sit on a mule that usually kills riders]: 322-328.

The Great Southwest. Tiva (Isleta) [the girl rejects the grooms; her father locks her in the cellar; she conceives from the sun; kicked out of the house, comes to the old woman, gives birth to twins; a young man coming out of the lake tells them that their father is the Sun; one of them sends the other in an arrow to the center of the world, follows him; the Spider picks up the arrow; teaches the twins what to do; three doves fly to the lake at sunrise, take off their feathers, turn into girls; brothers take the youngest's clothes; return when she says where their father lives; the sun puts boys in the oven for the night; recognizes as their children]: Parsons 1932c, No. 13:392-393.

Mesoamerica Nahuatl Veracruz: Münch 1983a: 162-163 [A hunter sees two pigeons turning into girls, swimming in a river; hiding one of them's clothes; getting married; her cannibal father demands to be cleared the plot with a weaving sword; the wife does it, harvests the next day; the cannibal chases them; she throws a rag, a comb, salt; vines, thorns, the sea appear; the cannibal stops persecuting; the wife turns into a flower, the husband turns into the stem of plants that humans feed on (corn?)] , 283-284 [the hunter hides the clothes of one of the two girls who are bathing; she is a chaneko; they cut down and burn trees in the area in a gust of wind; the wife allows him to visit the children from his earthly wife, tells him not touch that one; earthly hugs him; chaneko agrees to accept him again when he gives her a gold ring; his son is covered with hair below the waist; warns his father that his mother is going to eat it; runs with father to people; there children throw stones into the tank; he returns to his mother; man dies]; mountain shelters [a man sees a woman bathing; this is a heron; he hides her clothes from feathers; marries, promising not to deceive her; they live well, but he could no longer catch fish in the lake]: Foster 1945a, No. 22:212-213.

The Northern Andes. Guajiro [a young man hides a girl's clothes; marries her; her father Rain loads him with work; the young run, the Rain chases them, riding the winds; the girl throws down and thread, then soap , oil, lipstick; prickly thickets, cacti, vines, then a quagmire appear on the way of the pursuer; throws a needle, it turns into a thicket; fugitives hide inside the mountain, Rain stops pursuing]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1986 (1), No. 105:297

Guiana. Carinha in Orinoco [the man is jealous of his wife, she leaves; he comes to her father, lies down in a hammock; his son finds him dead; tobacco grows on the grave; the young man hides the wings of pigeons that have arrived; doves take it to heaven; there the old man and the old woman tell me 1) make a stone bench decorated with copies of the heads of the old man and the old woman; 2) dry the pond; 3) make a bridge; everything is done by an assistant spirit; reports that these old man and old woman killed the young man's father; when the young man knocked down the trunk to make a bridge, the chips turned into piranhas; the old man and the old woman stepped on the bridge, he fell, they were eaten by piranhas, their heads remain; the old woman's head went up to heaven, became the Morning Star; telling her daughters to avenge her; they gave the young man a drink, lifted the sleeper high up a tree; the eagle asks how he got here; a vine appears from the eagle's bowel movements, a man descends it; the eagle wanted to kill him, but he hid in the water, returned to his mother, gave her an eagle chick; he grew up to bring deer and fish to the woman; she organized a party clearing the site; people came to help, one asked the eagle to bring him an old woman, the other a young woman; so the eagle began to drag people; in one village they made a trap, a bait girl into it, the eagle was caught, killed; a woman came, an avenger feather fell on her chest: all his fibers became diseases; the woman blew on them, they scattered around the world]: Civrieux 1974:104-108.

Western Amazon. Kofan [a kofan warrior kills many Waorani; vultures go down to peck for corpses, take off their birds' clothes; two young vultures (they are just a kofan) see two female birds (not vultures), come to swim, take off their kushmas (shirts); one of the boys hides the kushma of a more beautiful girl; the other does not want to marry a magical wife; the first wife gives birth to three children; asks the eldest daughter to bring her husband's hidden clothes; the daughter reluctantly brings it; the mother puts it on, flies away, taking her two youngest children; the eldest is bitten by a snake, she dies]: Calífano, Gonzalo 1995, No. 140:192- 196; Zion [a man kills a deer; vultures flock, throw off their clothes, turn out to be men, women and children; worms are fish for them; a man hides a girl's clothes, brings her to himself, marries; she hides her clothes under the roof; she magically cooks chicha and manioc cakes, in her field cassava grows on stems rather than rhizomes; every time her clothes get wet, she falls ill, her husband dries clothes in the sun; takes a mistress; she asks her son to bring her clothes, flies to heaven in the land of vultures with both sons]: Chaves 1958:148-150; coreguahe [the young man killed animals and left it to the vultures; one of the birds that arrived took off her clothes, turned out to be a girl, the young man hid her clothes; her father advised her daughter to stay on the ground, for the young man did a lot of good to the vultures; when the husband fell ill and died, wife and son returned to heaven]: Jiménez 1989, No. 42:93-94; (cf. aguaruna [a monkey and a spider bird live in the bachelor's hut (Cacicus cela, sem. Icteridae); returning from the site, finds the food cooked, the house is fine; went to bed, the bird stopped him from singing, he threw a stone at it, fell asleep; the bird sang again, the man continued to sleep, the bird moved him to a tall tree, from there he could not get off; the spider began to bring him bananas; the hunter asked him to bring one to plant; the tree grew, its roots reached the ground, the hunter descended on it the ground; he saw a woman washing by the river, a monkey's skin nearby, he threw it into the thicket; the woman asks if he took her clothes, the man denies everything; the woman agreed to live with him]: Chumap Luc& #237; a, García-Rendueles 1979, #67:598-599).

NW Amazon. Vakuenai [someone steals pepper in a mother's garden made of bones; the UK guards, sees the vultures take off their clothes, tear the peppers; he hides one of them's clothes, the rest fly away; the vulture woman becomes his wife; she wants to visit her relatives, he accompanies her; the wife warns her father to answer only the third time, otherwise she will eat it; the UK kills the deer, the father-in-law hides it; when worms start, he leads people to "fish", they bring worms; the wife lubricates her husband's eyes with a drug, now it's fish for him; father-in-law's father tells SK 1) to make a boat in a day; he does, but when father-in-law's father steps on her, she splits; his wife's younger brother fumigates a stone with tobacco, the boat is ready; 2) make a rope out of moriche palm leaves; the same young man burns leaves, sprinkles ash on the calebasa, drinks, takes the rope out of his nose; the UK can live with his wife; after the child is born, they return to his mother; the wife and son in the form of vultures fly away; the husband is left alone]: Hill 2009:42-48.

The Central Andes. Dep. Cuzco [star girls go down to steal potatoes or collect edible seaweed from the field; a young man hides his belt alone; without it she cannot return to heaven; she gives birth to a child; returns to heaven ; husband follows her; identifies among other stars]: Itier 1996, No. 1 (Wuxi, Prov. Kispicanchis) [two girls; seaweed; gives birth to a baby; cooks corn with only one grain in the pot; mother-in-law does not believe that there will be a lot of food; the star is insulted; learns from the child where the belt is; on the condor husband and child rise to heaven; the Lord of the Stars rises the sun, burns them], 2 (Scribe, prov. Tracing paper) [one girl; potatoes; two sons; the star learns from them where the belt is; husband and sons rise to heaven; husband does not believe that a handful of quinoa can feed everyone; flees from the anger of the heavenly family at land; children turn into birds], 3 (Marangani, prov. Canchis; = Arguedas 1949:105-114; Lira 1965:133-139; 1990:1-7) [several girls; potatoes; baby dies; husband rises to heaven on a condor, lives with the star for another year; puts too much to cook quinoa; the star is afraid of the anger of his parents, the Sun and the Moon; the condor brings a man down to earth; he is an old man, remains single]: 161-164; Murua in Itier 1996 (prov. Tracing paper) [the shepherd meets two daughters of the sun; the eldest falls in love with him; comes to his mother; she gives her a staff inside which her son hides; at night he turns into a man in the Sun Palace; people Suns reveal and haunt lovers; they turn into two mountains]: 173-174; Quechua (highland shepherds of the Ausangate massif south of Cusco) [shepherd sees female stars descending swim in the lake; hides the shining clothes of one of them; the Star has only one eye; the shepherd gives her a poncho, leads her to him, the others fly away; the wife gives birth to two children; when they are young, the father shows them shining clothes, telling them not to tell their mother, goes to the valley; the children show their clothes, the mother flies to heaven; the returning shepherd scolds the children, makes a flute, the flute advises giving the cow to the vulture, that will carry it to heaven; on Holy Saturday, the vulture leaves the shepherd in the sky in front of the church gate; says that all the Stars are the same, one-eyed, the wife will be the last to come out; when she goes out, the wife herself turns to the shepherd, promises to return tomorrow, sends home with a canyua (Chenopodium pallidicaule Aellen; at an altitude of about 5000 m, the main culture); a shepherd descends on another condor; lives with children, their The canyua stock never ends (apparently, we are talking about the first kanyuah, its heavenly origin; it does not say that the Star is back)]: Lanata 2004:260-261.

Chaco. Mocovi: Wilbert, Simoneau 1988, No. 155 [Two Ducks take off their clothes and bathe; the Owl and the Heron hide their clothes, marry Ducks; always come back late, don't let their wives see them; one day those they light a fire, see that the Owl has ugly eyes and the Heron has a neck; they go away from them], 164 [the waterfowl Karau takes off her clothes and bathes; the Vulture advises the Pigeon to hide his clothes; The pigeon hides, marries to K.: the wife leaves alone for the holiday, the Dove returns her]: 195, 202.